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VOL. 41. No. 26. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, March 1, 1939 Price oer Copy l<W
Senate and House Hold Late Business Sessions
First Queen Results Announced By Kennel Club
Bone Dry Law
Tabled in House
JUNEAU, Feb. 27 (A3)—.Senator
Walker’s Cocktail bill licensing
dr;nk dispensaries with the right
to sell hard liquor came out of
the House Committee today with
f the recommendation that it pass,
but many amendments were hint
ed. at including the reduction of
the proposed $1,500 annual li
cense.
In the Senate, all moves to
bring out House liquor bills from
the committee failed generally
by a vote of 4 to 4.
Thete are fifty bills on the
House calendar today and thirty
five on the Senate calendar.
The House will not accept any
Senate bills after Tuesday night
but the Senate will accept House
bills till Wednesday night.
The Bone Dry bill was tabled
late this afternoon by the House.
Sen. Passes Bill
Prohibit Sale
Liquor Indians
JUNEAU. Feb. 23 f/P) — Th
Senate by a vote of 6 to 2 pass
ed the Laboyteaux bill prohib
iting the sale of I qucr to In
dians. Roden and Walker voted
against the bill.
^ The Senate also passed the
bounty bill of $25 for both wol
ves and coyotes to be certified
bya wildlife agent. The trapper
is to keep the pelts.
YOSEMITE INDIAN GIRL
IS UN AMERICAN WITNESS
With documents and testimony
pled high before her Alice Lee
Jemison. a Yosemite Indian, testi
fieri at the hearing on I'nAmeri
can activities at Washington, that
Secretary Ickes, Indian Commis
sioner John Coilier and several
officials of the Indian Bureau
were members of the Civil Lib
erties Union or had expressed a
belief in its principles.
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms >t printing blank:
for your convenience — Dredgr
Logs, thawing and drill reports
Mining Deeds. Placer and Lodi
Location Notices. Vouchers,
snecial Power of Attorney form:
HE QUITS HIS JOB OF PRETENSE’
Raymond Kennedy, 37, shown with his wife and son, Raymond, 2,
quit his $2000-a-year job in Cleveland, 0„ as a government inspector
of navy materials because he was tired of “pretense” and writing
reports on material he “had never seen.” He said “I would have
to be in five factories at once” to do the job right He also indicated
he had no future job in immediate prospect.
Bunker Hill and
Dahl ( reek to
Get Airfields
JUNEAU, Feb. 27 <7P) — The
House passed the following mea
sures:
Creating a Department of La
bor and Mines.
That road funds for the Sec-1
ond Division be expended for
landing fields at Bunker Hill,'
Dahl Creek, and the repair of
the airfield at Deering.
That the Civil Aeronautics Au-;
thority set up a school of avia
tion at the University of Alaska.
And the memorial asking the
Bureau of Indian Affairs to make
a tuberculosis sanitarium in the
abandoned buildings at White
Mountain.
$7500 For Tele
graph Lines
Is Defeated
JUNEAU, Feb. 28 (ffi) — The
House ended its session at 11:30
las’‘night and passed important’
bills and earmarked the $15,000
Third Division Road fund: equip
ping the Griffin Hospital at Ko
diak; $12,000 for the school at
Levelock; lifting the pension lim
it to $60; defining habitual crim i
in a Is.
They earmarked the $25,0001
Fourth Division road funds for
a survey of the Alaska end of the
International Highway; graduat
ed chain store licenses; $8,000
for an Anchorage assay office; de
fining the size of placer claims;
and the memorial asking a con-!
gressional investigation of hali
but marketing.
The House defeated the bill,
for an appropriation of $7,500 for J
the rehabilitation of interion tele,
graph lines.
Porter Passes Bill
On Lighterage
JUNEAU. Feb. 28 f/P)—Repre
sentative Wallace Porter intro
duced and succeeded in passing
in the House, bill no. 80, insert- j
ing the word lighterage. This ‘
bill reached the Senate and came
out of the committee with the
recommendation that it pass.
Senator Sullivan withdrew his
bill because it is identical with
that of Porter's.
City Council and
Chamber Raise
$1000 Reward
I
JUNEAU. Feb. 28 (/P) — The
City Council and the Chamber
of Commerce raised the $1000 re
ward for the finding of the miss
ing Cope plane. Two parties have
already left to make a further
search.
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“LIFE BEGINS AT 89”
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Heber J. Grant (above), for 20
years president of the Latter
Day Saints, who at 18 was con
sidered a poor insurance risk,
says life begins at 80, not -10, and
further added: “Age is a quality
of mind.” as he observed bis
82nd birthday at Salt Lake City.
First Tabulations
On Miss Nome
Queen Contest
The Kennel Club Carnival, Sat
ufday night will be an import
ant event in some Nome girl’s
life for at midnight the announ
cement will be made as to who
will go to the Fairbanks Ice Car
nival as Miss Nome.
As usual the lucky girl will
have all her expenses paid in
cluding a hundred dollar ward
robe. This year the contest is
strictly popularity, as each per
son will have only one vote.
These votes may be cast upon1
the purchase tickets for the $500
Poke of Gold which is also to be
given away at the Carnival.
While a person may buy unlim
ited chances on the Poke of Gold
he can still only vote once for
queen. Following is the standing
of the queens as of today:
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Contest Results
EDITH HOOP 26
VESTA POLSON 12 j
DOROTHY NELSON 8
GERTRUDE ARNOLD 6
RUTH JOHANSEN ....... 4
MARGARET SCOTT 21
LOIS OST .1
Many of the tickets already
purchased have not as yet been
put in the boxes.
Drawing will close Saturday
night, March 4th.
Admission to the Carnival, it
is declared by the Board, will be
50 cents each, for adults, and
children 25 cents. There will be
dancing, concessions, entertain
ment, amateur contests, and
many other things to fill out the
evening.
Admission tickets will also en
title the holder to a chance on a
door prize. ___
One-Third Can
nery Vt orkers
•>
Be Residents
JUNEAU, Feb. 27 (TP) — The
House passed the bill providing
for the election at a general el
ection of a Commissioner of Ed
ucation, instead of that position
being appointive, also for the el
ection at a general election of all
delegates ,to national party con
ventions.
The House defeated the mea
sure reducing the number of
years from four to two that a
party candidate must have voted
tha-', party’s ticket.
In the Senate this afternoon,
when up for discussion, Roden's
bill declared that the policy of
the Territory would be that at
least half of the Alaska cannery
employees should be residents.
Judge VV. C. Arnold, represent
ing the canned salmon industry,
was asked to appear, and he stat
ed that the industry was so re
stricted by union contracts that
this would be impossible, also
that of the 17.000 workers em
ployed in the canneries in the
First and Third Divisions, Alas
kans would be unable to supply
half those jobs. Senator Lruboy
teaux then made an amendment
that one-third of the cannery
employees bo residents of Alas
ka. This was accepted, and the
Reden b.il passed.
WAN! Eii TO Mi—An auuing
machine, inquire at Nugget
ollice.
Legislature Holds
Late Sessions
JUNEAU. March 1 UP) — In an
| effort to clean up bills on the last
day for transmission to the Sen
ate, the House continued in ses
sion until 11:45 last night and the
Senate until 12:30 this morning.
The Senate disposed of many
bills which were still in their
second reading by indefinitely
postponing them. The Senate
passed a bill setting up license
taxes for construction firms and
banks.
It also passed the joint mem
orial asking that Admiralty Is
land not be made into a Na
tional Park and that no other
parks be created in Alaska.
Previous to adjournment, Sen
ators Rivers and Laboyteaux of
the Fourth Division introduced
a bill f r an appropriation of
$70,000 for the University of Al
aska building program.
JUNEAU, Feb. 23 UP) — The
University of Alaska building
fund bill setting up $40,000 each
year for ten years wa3 killed hr
the House this afternoon.
The Coffee bill to'increase the
taxes on fish fertilizer and oil
|and meat was also kilied.
The House passed Rep. Coffe’s
reintroduced bill asking $15,000
for the purchase of a tax collect
i or boat for the Bristol Bay sec
tion. The Senate recently killed
the b:II which asked for $25,000.
The Joint mercurial asking the
adu.dun of an Alaska Delegate
to Congress and also for a four
year term passed the House.
WOMAN ADMITS AIDING HUSBAND SUICIDE
Mrs Marie Burckhater (center, hat), admitted, so White Plains,
N.Y., police said, that she helped her husband to commit suicide.
She is shown with a policeman and a police matron. According to
police, Mrs. Burckhalter took a picture of her husband as he pre
pared to die, and also had the maid supply him with an egg-nog.
The negative of the picture and the unwashed egg-nog glass were
being held as evidence.
DOUBLE HEADER BASEBALL GAMES HIGH SCHOOL GYM WED. MAR. I
SINGLE GIRLS vs. MARRIED WOMEN. NOME SCHOOL BOYS vs. NATIVE SCHOOL BOYS AND UNDECIDED V2 INNING ALASKANS vs. NOME TEAM
ALSO PRESENTATION OF TROPHIES. FIRST GAME STARTS 8 P. M. ADMISSION 25^ AND 50<