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VOL. 41. No. 22. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, FEB. 20, 1939 Price oer Copy 154
Asks Alaska Placer Mining Industry Be Exempted
Peruvian Gen. Killed In Attempt Overthrow Govt.
• Lon Cope,-Missing
A Week And Still
■No Trace Found
JUNEAU, Feb. 20, (fP) — One
week ago Sunday, pilot Lon Cope
flying from Ketchikan via Wran
gell to Juneau with five passen
gers, reported at 2:15 in the after
noon that he was opposite Grand
Island in Stephens Passage. Since
then, and after, an extensive
search by land, air and water, no
trace of the plane or men has
■been seen and not one clue found.
Their fate remains one of the
lew aviation mysteries of the
Northland.
Sunday, two U. S. naval bomb
ers from the Sitka air base, made
an air search, taking pictures of
the entire section. Aviator Shel
don Simmons with a navy cam
era also took pictures. These
were all transferred to the Coast
Guard Cutter Haida, then brot
to Juneau for development and
study.
The aerial search will probab
ly be abandoned, but seventeen
members of snowshoe and ski
parties are quartered aboard the
Fisheries Bureau flagship Brant
and the gasboat Wanderer. They
will continue to cover the moun
tainous ground at the north end
of Glass Peninsula, between
Stephens Passage and Seymour
Canal, where Cope might have
. volplaned. Meanwhile there has
not been an hour, day or night,
^ that rumors of finding Cope’s
plane or passengers, have not
been circulated, all false of
course.
Oil Slick Came
From Gasboat
JUNEAU, Feb. 17 l/P) — The
Coast Guard Cutter Haida, mak
ing a thorough investigation of
the oil slick off Grand Island,
reported that the substance
came from bilge rags tossed ov
erboard by a gasboat enroute
from Juneau to Petersburg.
If the weather is favorable
Saturday, the navy bombers will
fly over the Cope disaster sec
tion and make photographs
which they will enlarge and
study.
BOO TO YOU! exclaims
Alyce Larrabee wearing: the last
word in skiing: attire at Ses
triere. Italian Aina
Asks Alaska Placer
Mining Be Exempt
Wages & Hour Act
JUNEAU, Feb. 19 (TP)—A mem
orial was introduced in the Sen
ate by Rivers citing the short
season and many other reasons,
and asks that the Alaska placer
mining industry be exempted
from the provisions of the Wages
and Hours Act.
A congressional investigation
into the administration of the
Bureau of Fisheries in Alaska is
asked in a House resolution by
Walker which also requests that
a five-man committee from the
Alaska legislature be appointed
with a $30,000 appropriation to
meet travel expenses with the
committee.
Reintroduces
Fish Trap Bill
JUNEAU. Feb. 18 (/Pi — Rep.
Walker reintroduced Rep Coffees
memorial providing for the elim
ination of fish traps by progres
sion. The measure was with
drawn when one providing for
: the immediate elimination was
; introduced.
Rep. Coffee introduced a bill
declaring that resident fishermen
would require one year contin
uous residence for application of
a fishing license and at least six
months thereafter.
I Will Add Tobacco
Soft Drinks Stock
In Liquor Stores
: JUNEAU, Feb. 19 I/P) —Sen
ator Cochran’s bill which in its
original form would add tobacco
products and non-alcoholic bever
ages to the stock in liquor stores,
I ran a guantlet of amendments to
j sell cigars, cigarettes' and soft
I drinks, then was indefinitely post
poned by a five to three vote.
The Senate passed the Hoff
| man bill regulating the carrying
of passengers on railroads, also
| the bill establishing a Pioneer’s
1 Home Trust Fund.
The Senate defeated the Gor
! don House joint memorial asking
for change of residence require
! ment for divorce, from two years
to one.
The Roden Nepotism bill was
doomed when the Senate divided
four to four on the proposed
amendments; also, action was
postponed indefinitely.
Spanish Govt.
Moved to Madrid
PERPIGNAN, France. Feb. 18
</P)—The Spanish government is
reported to be on the move again
from beseiged Madrid to safer
places. The capital his already
been moved four times. This
time the cabinet has decided to
install ministries in Valencia and
other Eastern cities.
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BAREFOOT BOSTONIAN Sally Clark and her hus
band, George Xavier McLanahan, shed their shoes and donned
play togs, honeymooning In Honolulu where the young couple
plans to remain another few months. Mrs. McLanahan, whose
wedding attracted Boston's exclusive Back Bay society, is a sister
of Mrs. John Roosevelt.
Bills Ask Repair
Completion Fields
In 2nd Division
JUNEAU, Feb. 19 </P)—As next
Wednesday is the forty-fifth day
of the session, and a holiday, it
is also the last day for the intro
duction of b; 11s without a two
j thirds majority vote. The Senate
; must get their-bills in Tuesday,
I and the House Thursday.
Bills introduced in the House
| Saturday were by Dowd and
Porter of a thousand dollars each
| for repairs and completion of
landing fields at Noorvik, Noa
j tak, Selawik and Haycock and
i $1700 for extending the runway
Ion the Kotzebue field; also $5000
! for roads and $500 to repair the
lair field at Candle.
The House passed the Senate
I memorial condemning the Nation
I al Resources Committee report,
land ask.ng federal assistance for
the elimination of wolves in
I McKinley park.
Asks Students In
U. S. Be Spies
—
BERLIN, Feb. 20 OP)—'The dis
missal of George Rettig, former
director of the American branch
of the German University Stu
dent Exchange system was dis
closed by General Von Massow,
head of the system, who said
Rettig acted without order in ask
ing German students be virtual
spies in the United States. No sue
cessor has been named.
Insurgents Demand
Unconditional
Surrender
PARIS, Feb. 20 i/Pi — France
and Britain sought a new ap
proach to Peace in Spain on the
basis of recognition of the Na
tionalist General Franco’s regime
as the legal Spanish government.
Senator Rerard, French emis
sary and Sir Robert Hodgeson,
British commercial agent from
Nationalist Spain conferred in
Burgos after talks with nation
alists but were snagged by the
persistent nationalist demands
for an unconditional surrender of
the Republican government.
Concern Biggest Incorp°rators
In Territory of Alaska
Largest corporation ever to
qualify to engage in business in
the territory has filed papers
with the territorial auditor’s of
fice at Juneau.
The corporation is the United
States Rubber Company, of New
Jersey. Capitalization is given as
$115,293,220.
H. E. Humphreys, Jr., presi
dent, and Eric Durham, secre
tary, both of New York City, sub
mitted the corporation’s applica
tion for approval to do business
here and paid the territory a fee
of $1,290.
Agents of the corporation in
the territory are listed as W. S.
George. Juneau; Lars E. Rynn-;
ing, Nome; Thomas M. Donohoe, i
Cordova, and Charles E. Taylor,;
Fairbanks.
Attempted Coup
D'etat In Peru
Is Failure
LIMA Peru, Feb. 20 (JP) —Gen
eral Rodriguez, was killed by
Sergeant Major Rizo, the patron
who challenged Rodriguez's as
sertions that he was chief exec
utive because President Bena
vides is sailing for Europe. One
police officer, two patrolmen, and
a Japanese pedestrian were re
ported killed and thirty-six
other persons wounded in the
brief fighting, following the at
tempted coup detat which occur
red about 2 a.m. yesterday when
General Rodriguez seized the
presidential palace and proclaim
ed himself head of the govern-,
ment.
He issued manifestos explain
ing his plan for far reaching mea
sures to replace Benavides ad
ministration.
Rodriguez ordered Captain Is
modes, chief of the machine gun
sect -'a whose quarters are in the,
palace to relinquish his command:
to a new chief and Ismodes pre
tending to follow orders, tele-;
phoned the presidential quarters;
then locked himself in the tower
and trained machine guns on the^
palace entrance until solili-ers ar-,
rived and assumed strategic posi-i
tions about the palace.
Italian to Send
30,000 Troops to
Libya, N. Africa
j
LONDON, Feb. 20 (JP)—‘The It
alian decision to send 30,000 more
troops to Libya in North Africa
was announced in the House of
Commons as the British govern-!
ment sought approval of the cost-'
ly rearmament program.
Undersecretary ;f Foreign Af
fairs Butler said t! at Italy told'
Lord Perth, Ambassador to Rome
that they were sending the
troops to provide security for the
territory.
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RAILROADIN' DAYS
were recalled by Gov. Harold
Stassen of Minnesota In Inau
gurating a new train. He earned
his way through law school
working for the Milwaukee.
Pres. Roosevelt
On Cruise Arrives
Off Coast Cuba
MIAMI, Feb. 20 uP) — The
Cruiser Houston with President
Roosevelt aboard arrived of?
Guantanamo, Cuba, as the con
tending black and white naval
forces assumed positions in one
of the most significant war gam
es in the history of the American
fleet.
McCall, Convicted
C i
HAIFORD, Florida. Feb. 20 f/P)
— Kranklin Pierce McCall with
his head shaved for the electric
chair, was granted a stay of ex
ecution until next Friday in or
der to permit time for an appeal
to the U. S. Supreme Court on
his conviction for the death of
James Bailey Cash, aged five,
who was kidnapped and killed
last May.
McCall was to die in the state
prison farm today. Superintend
ent Chaman said he ordered the
postponement under authority
given a death warrant to hold
executions any day of the week
set by the governor. He said he
acted after a telephone call from
Governor Cone, that a stay of
execution was obtained after rel
atives had bade tearful goodbyes.
Golden Gate
Exposition
Opened Sat. A M
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 18 1/P)
— Miss Golden West, come-on
girl of the century, announced
her betrothal to the rest of the
world at the opening of a glit
tering ten-months long party call
ed the Golden Gate Internation
al Exposition, representing 13
States, 36 countries, and hun
dreds of commercial exhibitors,
plus the gateway, and with few
holds barred to bolster the lady’s
romance.
Sponsors estimated that fully
twenty milfions of persons will
view the spectacle by December
second. The premier unvieling at
8 a.m. this morning cost $50.
000.000.
The city went wild last night
as it witnessed a mass spectacle
of modern science, as a photo
electric cell set in Bombay, In
dia, nine thousand miles away,
picked up the noon-day sunlight,
changed it into a wireless signal
w’hich threw a switch on Treas
ure Island, and thirty six search
lights each having sixty million
candlepower, plus hundreds of
tubes emitting invisible rays,
gave the island dimensional il
lumination.
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