Signs Bill
Liberalize
Social Security
J
HYDE PARK. Aug. 11 (/P) —
President Roosevelt signed a bill
making a board of liberalization
for the Social Security Act and
cutting a hundred million dollars
off the tax burden it imposes.
The President said: “These am
endments to the act represent an
other tremendous step forward
in providing greater security for
the people of this country. This
is especially true in the case of
the Federal old age insurance
system which is now converted
into a system of old age surviv
ors insurance, providing a life
time of family security instead of
only individual old age security
to workers in insured occupa
tions.”
Roosevelt Not To Come North
WASHINGTON. Aug—As pre
viously intimated, President
Roosevelt’s vacation plans will
not include a trip to Alaska. The
northern trip is cancelled be
cause of the late adjournment of
Congress.
PRESIDENT DEFERS
COAST TRIP OCT. 1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 <A>> —
President Roosevelt told his
press conference he intends to
defer his trip to the San Fran
cisco Fair until about October 1.
Government Ownership
Is Favored
SAN FRANCISCO —H. Bridg
es, Pacific Coast CIO chief, test
ified. “There is lots of room for
a lot more public ownership or
government ownership, and un
der those circumstances I cer
tainly believe in abolition of pri
vate property.”
He declared he did not believe
a “ handful of individuals ”
should control the land, public
utilities, railroads, oil wells, and
natural resources of the country.”
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Italian And
German Foreign
Ministers Confer
UNDATED, Aug. 10 UP)—Eu
ropean fevers rose a degree or
two over the impending meeting
of the Rome Berlin axis foreign
ministers; the speech by Danzig’s
Nazi leader Albert Forster; and
Yugoslavia’s precarious position
in central Europe.
Conflicting Polish and German
demands over Danzig shared the
! center of the stage with Yugo
slavia, who it is authoritatively
reported, turned down German
and Italian demands for the use
of Yugoslavia territory in war
time. Orders were issued in Bel
grade to speed the Yugoslav fort
l ifications on the German frontier.
The axis demands, which Yugo
slavia found incompatible with
her sovereignity, included war
time control of Yugoslav rail
ways, use of her war materials,
and the right to cross her terri
tory to Rumania or Bulgaria.
Britain and France promised to
support her stand, authoritative
reports said.
The meeting between Italian
and German foreign ministers
at Salzbarg “to consider ques
tions of common policy” was an
nounced after unconfirmed re
ports that such a meeting was
planned to discuss a project de
signed by Hitler, to solve the
Danzig problem.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 599
In the Probate Court in and for
the Cape Nome Precinct, Second
Division: Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of
JOHN GROSS. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that by
order of the Probate Court in
and for the Cape Nome Precinct
Alaska, the undersigned has been
appointed Administrator of the
estate of JOHN GROSS, deceas
ed. All persons having claims
against said estate shall present
them with proper vouchers at
tached, within six months from
the date of this notice at the
office of Leroy M. Sullivan, at
torney, at the City Hall in Nome,
Alaska.
Dated at Council, Alaska, Aug
ust 3, 1939.
Fred P. Durocher
Administrator
Publish Aug. 4, 11, 18, 25, 1939
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Mining in Alaska in 1938
Mines in Alaska produced min
erals worth $28,607,000 in 1938,
as against $26,989,000 in 1937, ac
cording to an announcement
made by the United States De
partment of the Interior through
j the Geological Survey. The total
j value of the mineral output of
the Territory since 1880 is $777,
818.000. or much more than one
hundred, times the $J7,2CO.OOO
paid to Russia for the entire ter
ritory at the time of purchase in
1867.
The most significant facts relat
ing to the mineral industry of
Alaska in 1938 may be summar
ized as follows:
The value of the total mineral
production from Alaska mines in
1938 was greater than in any
other year with the exception of
the 3 years, 1915. 1916 and 1917,
when the demand for copper cre
ated by the World War lifted the
output of that metal to unprec
edented heights.
The value of the output of
gold from Alaska mines in 1938
was more than a million dollars
greater than in any other year
in the entire history of gold min
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NOME LODGE NO. A-5
Meets second and fourth
Friday of each month 8 p.m.
Odd Fellows Building
L. O. O. M.
No. 1413
Meets fchird Monday
of each month
Odd Fellows Hall, 8 p. m.
Lyons & Orton
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Attorneys At Law
Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
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CHAS. CAVEY
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Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT ST. NOME.
Pioneer Water Co.
Water Delivery During Summer
Months — Tuesdays and Fridays.
Hauling Gravel, Oil, Etc.
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The U & I Dance Hall and Cafe
is run for the better class of
Eskimo trade but Whites are
welcome to attend—Open every
night 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.
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Yesterday
| ing in the Territory.
The quantity of platinum met
als recovered from Alaska mines
in 1938 was much greater than in
I any preceding year and amount
ed to more than 83 percent of
i the total quantity of all platinum
metals that have come from Al
aska mines in all preceding years
In comparison with 1937 there
was an increase in both the quan
tity and value of the production
of gold, platinum metals, and
coal, an increase in quantity,
but a decrease in value of the
production of lead: and a de
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crease both in quantity and val
ue of the production of silver,
copper, tin, and miscellaneous
mineral products.
Much of the decrease in the
value of the mineral commodities
is directly attributable to lower
prices, as the unit selling prices
of silver, lead, and copper, tin,
and platinum metals were lower
in 1938 than in 1937. Had the
prices that prevailed in 1937 held
for 1938 the value of Alaska's
mineral output in 1938 would
have been more than $1,500,000
larger than the total as stated.
General conditions affecting
the Alaska mining industry in
1938 seem to have been essential
ly normal, so that there is no rea
son to believe that the present
rate of production marks merely
a temporary high level that will
not be attained again soon. In
stead. except for a great falling
off in copper mining and reason
able fluctuations for the other
metals, it seems to be a lc ■'
that will be maintained or e'
bettered when some of the j
jects already under way come
to production.
BRIDGES EMBARKS FOR HEARING
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Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO leader, is shown with his daugh ter Jacqueline Betty Bridges, 14,
(left) and his counsel, Miss Carol King as they San Francisco by bc?at for Angel Island on the
opening day of Bridges’ deportation hearing at which he categor ically denied connection with the
Communist party.
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FOR HIS KING AND EMPIR E—No combination of muscles was too involved or difficult
for this spartan Britisher who used a sling to steady his rifle during recent imperial matches at
Bisley, England. Once in gear with his sling, arm and leg locks, the marksman, a Major McOow an,
drew a careful bead on a target. British Empire sharpshooters were competing.