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VOL. 41. No. 16. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEB. 6, 1939 Price per Copy lW
Spanish Govt Ready to Talk Peace
New Pioneer Pension Act is Introduced in House
Premier Negrin Is
Sue for Peace
PERPIGNAN, France, Feb. 4
# tJP) —Reliable sources said that
the British governmnet had been
requested by the Spanish govern
merit to open secret negotiations
with the insurgents, for peace to
be pursued on the basis of three
points which Premier Negrin
outlined to the Spanish parlia
ment on January 1st.
They were: a guarantee that
Spain be freed of all foreign in
* fluence, the establishment of a
government desired by all the
people and named through a pleb
escibe and the liquidation of the
war without persecution to per
mit "11 Spaniards to the join in
the reconstruction of Spain.
Alaska S. S. Co.
Close Yard and
Lays Off 300
SEATTLE, Feb. 4 (A*t — No
move apparently having been
made by either side for negotia
tion of a settlment of the Alaska
shipping tieup caused the Alaska
Steamship Company to close the
■* West Seattle yards and lay off
about 300 men. The Seattle Met
al Trades Council is prepared to
enter the controversy and said
they would picket the plant .
Proof of Labor Blanks car now
be had at the Home Nugget offloe.
Insurgents Terms
Are Unconditional
Surrender
UNDATED, Feb. 6 (JP) —Pre
mier Negrin of the government
of Spain called British and
French envoys to a conference j
at the French border town of
Perpegnan amid electric expect
ation that mediation of the 30
months oi.d Spanish Civil War
might be discussed.
Spanish government leaders,
after abandoning all of Catalonia
to the insurgents, are fleeing to
France and are believed to be
discussing the possibility of end
ing the civil war by surrender
ing Madrid and Valencia the “is
land” about one-fourth of Spain
which they still hold.
Insurgent authorities were re
liably reported to have informed
London that an “unconditional
surrender" was the only peace
terms they would accept.
The Spanish government's Pre
mier’s call for ia conference of
British and French envoys was
followed by reports that Britain
and France had begun new med
iation efforts.
Nenana Ice Pool Tickets
Tlie Board of Trade, The Nev
ada and the Arctic Beer Parlor
will handle Nenana Ice Pool
tickets this winter. Tickets will
be ready for distribution Tues
day, Feb. 7th. Indications point
to the largest pool being made
in the 1939 guessing contest.
Some state the amount will pro
bably go over $100,000.00
FRANKFURTER APROVED FOR COURT — Felix Frankfurter,
Harvard Law professor, went right ahead with his law class in
struction even though an envelope containing word of the Senate
approval of his appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court, had been
handed him. He is shown in the classrom. On the wall behind is a
portrait of the late Associate Justice Holmes
New Pension Act
Provide $45 Mo. or
Go Pioneer Home
—
JUNEAU. Feb. 5 (/P»— A new
Pioneer Pension Act introduced
in tihe House by Representative!
Walker would provide $45 a
month and would be optional
with a choice for free benefits at
the Pioneers Home at Sika. One:
of the requirements is 25 years
continuous residence, and any j
absence except for illness would
eliminate anyone from benefits.
Requirements place the age at
63 years for men and 60 years
for women.
Senator Rivers in a slashing at
tack on the 1937 report of the
Alaska Resources Committee,
made a memorial in the Senate
which alleged the committee fail
ed in its purposes and .asks that
the study be reopened. The mem
orial states the recommendation
of its policy “for restorictory con
servation and reservation’’ be ig
nored. That they did not plan for
the development of resources in
Alaska, but proposed a policy of
restrictions at variance with its
instructions and contrary to its
authorized purposes.
Further criticism was heaped
on the committee because its mem
bership allegedly “included no
bona fide Alaskans and no Al
askans not employed by Federal
Bureaus operating in Alaska.
That its .recommendations con
stitute pet schemes of particular
bureaus or agencies and not facts
and data as asked by Congress.”
The memorial asks that in all
future planning for Alaska econ
umy “Alaska be equally repre
sented on any body organized for
that purpose.”
Bill To Require
Junk Dealers
Be Licensed
JUNEAU, Feb. 4 (/Pi- Repre
sentative Walker introduced a
bill in the House which requires
junk dealers and metal scrappers
to pay a license of $15.00 for
residents and $25.00 for nonresi
dents.
The House passed the bills re-]
quiring all civil aircraft in Al-|
aska to be licensed and the pre-,
venting of erecting obstructions,
near airfields.
The Senate passed the bill re
ducing undertakers’ licenses
from $100 to one of a graduated
scale. The Laboyteaux bill pro
hibiting the sale of liquor to In
dians was halted in its second
reading and referred back to the
Education Committee for amend
ments defining the terms “liquor”
and “Indians.”
Senator Walker introduced in
the Senate a resolution allowing
(the governor to spend $3,000 en
tertaining members of the Na
i tional Editorial Association when
I it comes nortih next summer.
HARD TIMES PARTY
SAT. FEB. 11th
i Cards !>:00 p.m. Dance 10:30
I O O F HALL
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DOUBLE HEADER BASEB ALL GAMES HIGH SCHOOL GYM WED. FEB. 8
FIRST GAME BEGINS 8 P. M. ALASKANS vs. NOME; COMMERCIALS vs. HAMMONS AMI. 25c & 50c
BOBBY APPEALS TO GOD
TO SEE DEAD PAL
Six year old Bobby Lewis
(right), was the protector of
Floydie Hjghstrom, 4, a cross
eyed pal teased by uncompre
hending playmates. Floydie died
under anaesthesia at an opera
tion for his ailment. Bobby
weeping at the funreal heard the
minister say Floydie would find
peace “upstairs in heaven.”
Minneapolis postal inspectors
found this litter to God about
the same time Bobby was pray
ing at his bedside.
Britain & France
Pledged To Help
Each Other
LONDON, Feb. 6 (IP) —Prime
Minister Chamberlain told the
House of Commons that “any
threat vital to the interests of
France, from whatever quarter
they come, must evoke the im
mediate cooperation of this coun
try.” The declaration followed
the statement made yesterday by
Virginio Gayda. Italian Facisims
newspaper spokesman who said
the Italian troops would stay in
Spain until Franco's political as
well as military victory was as
sured.
Chamberlain said the British
are in “complete accord” with
the statement made Jan. 26 by
the French Foreign Minister
Georges Bonnet that “All the
forces of Great Britain would be
at the disposal of France as all
of France’s would be at the dis
posal of Great Britain” in case
of a war in which the two coun
tries would be involved.
The statement came in reply
to questions of laborite Arthur
Henderson on Anglo-French re
lations and was greeted by ap
plause from all sections of the
house.
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Bal of $1,372,801.42
Largest In History
Of Territory
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JUNEAU. Feb. 4 (IP) — The
largest net balance in the Terri
tory’s histony was reported by
Treasurer Olson. The balance on
January 30 was $1,372,801.42 as
compared with $1, 0G4.507.04 on
the same dat^ a year ago.
The Senate passed the finger
print bill 5 to 3. d directs the
sJ
Attorney General to appoint a
director for the Territorial De
partment of Investigation and
Indentification. Stricken from the
bill by unanimous consent was
the provision tb-ti Ketchtk:.'.n be
made the headquarters of"the
Director.
A bill introduced in the House
by Representative Walker requir
es a residence of one year instead
of two to secure a divorce.
HARD TIMES PARTY
SAT. FEB. 11th
Cards 9:00 p.m. Dance 10:30
I O O F HALL
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j “DEAD" WOMAN RETURNED TO LIFE — Mrs. Bella Futtarman
j of New York City, who apparently had succumbed to an attack of
| asthma when Dr. Maurice R. Goodwin arrived, looks up gratefully
| at Dr. Goodwin, who said she appeared to be recovering. The doc
■ tor administered artificial respiration and said he believed she haii
I been revived ‘“from the dead.’’