The Washington
News-Letter
OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
Last week the House of Rep
resentatives reached another
high note in quicklime harmony
it has been playing on Alaska
legislation'—passing four of the
bills introduced by Delegate Di
mond during the current session
of Congress.
The first of these to be ap
proved were two measures to
amend the Act for retirement of
employees of the Alaska Railroad
One of which is to provide au
thority for employees or annuit
ants under the retirement sys
tem to designate the beneficiary
they wish to receive the paid-in
value of their retirement ac
counts in the event of death.
The other will extend the bene
fits of the Act to employees of
tihe Alaska Railroad who work
ion the river boats.
iNext passed by the House was
the bill authorizing postmasters
within the Territory of Alaska
to administer oaths, affirmations
and acknowledgements, whenev
er itihey are permitted ©,r requir
ed by any Act of Congress. Un
der this the postmasters would
be authorized to charge and re
ceive the fees prescribed by law
for a notary public for similar,
services in the Territory.
The fourth bill approved by
the House would amend the law
reserving certain lands for the
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I territory for educational purposes
(to the extent that timber and
minerals on the reserved school
lands may be sold and the mon
ey received credited to the ter
ritory.
Existing law reserves sections
numbered 16 and 36 in each town
ship in Alaska for the support
of the public schools, and sec
tions numbered 33 in the town
ships in the Tanana Valley for
the use of the agricultural col
lege and school of mines in the
University of Alaska. In conform
ity with the general policy of
Congress in dealing with Terri
tories, the title to the reserved
school lands and those specified
sections reserved for the Uni
versity of Alaska is retained in
the Federal Government until
the Territories are admitted to
statehood. Neither the Territory
nor the Government may dis
pose of minerals in these reserv
ed sections, no.r has the Territory
authority to sell .the timber on
its reserved sections.
Enactment of the bill will au
thorize the Secretary if the In
terior to dispose of such lands un
dar the mining laws of the Unit
ed States and to sell the timber
thereon, and the proceeds from
such leases or sales will be set
apart as “permanent funds” in
the Territorial Treasury, “to be
invested and the income expend
ed” for the purpose for which the
lands were reserved.
Don’t forget to leave your nam*
and address for the Nugget to be
sent to you via airplane at your
mining camps, from now on.
SHE WAITS IN VAIN FOR DADDY
All ready for a week-end trip, Roberta Raby, 6, of Detroit, waited
for her father, a policeman, to come home, so they could get started;
but her plans were in vain, a bandit’s bullet killed Raby in a street
battle. The bandit also was killed.
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Predicts President Will
Refuse Run for Third Term
At a recent meeting of the
Fairbanks Chamber of Com
merce, Harry O. Arend, assist
ant district attorney at Fair
banks, who recently returned
i from a tour of the States, spoke
on the political situation in the
States, ventured the prediction
that President Roosevelt will not
seek a third term, but will sup
port some one of his choice for
the presidency and that the ad
ministration will adopt a change1
of policy.
“Closed factories and broken
windows means industry must
see confidence restored before it
will venture on new activities,”
said the speaker, “and I am con
fident we shall never see a dictat |
orship in America. The Ameri- j
can people as a mass oppose i
such a form of government and
are too democratic to toerate it.” i
Mr. Arend said the New York
fair is perhaps three times as j
large as the San Francisco Fair
but the San Francisco Fair, be
ing compact and more pictur- j
esque offers all the average per
son desires to see and to his |
mind is preferable.
After visiting Salt Lake City, I
and conferring with officials of1
the Mormon Church there, he’
said he earned that the Moir-1
mons do not contemplate estab-!
lishing a colony in Alaska, but
will encourage such members of
their church as care to come to
the country individually to en
gage in farming to do so.
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j Roving Camera Man
“Shoots” Life Pictures
Pointing his camera at Fair
banks personalities, buildings,
and nearby scenic 'and mining
areas is Herbert Gehr, roving
photographer for Life Magazine.
Gehr arrived in Fairbanks
Monday aboard a special car
from Mt. McKinley. He expects
to be in the city until the end
of the week ferreting out, with
his lenses, pictures to be used ‘
in combination with an article
in Life Magazine over possibil
ities for settlement and contin-1
ued development of the Terri- !
tory.
Gehr did not state how soon
the issue containing his photo
graphic study of Alaska is to ap-1
pear.
It is very probably that Mr.
Gehr will come to Nome soon.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
1. 0. O. F.
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 ttiird Monday
of each month
Odd Fellows Hall, 8 p. m.
Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Law
Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
j Thos. R. Lyons Ira D. Ortos
CHAS. CAVEY
Has Opened A Liquor Store
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors. Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT ST. NOME.
Pioneer Water Co.
Water Delivery During Summer
Months — Tuesdays and Fridays. I
Hauling Gravel, Oil, Etc.
ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE
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NELSON and BULLOCK
Phone Black 44
U & I DANCE U & I
The U & I Dance Hall and Cafe
is mn for the better class ofj
Eskimo trade but Whites are'
welcome to attend—Open every 1
night 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.
NO DRUNKS ALLOWED
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FILM WILL IJE
MADE IN FAIRBANKS
To make a ‘documentary" col
j ored motion picture of Alaskan
i institutions and activities in Al
| aska is the mission of Ir:. Genet
! producer-director from Warner
' Brothers’ New York studios, who
now is in Juneau. He and h:s
traveling associates will go to
Fairbanks.
Mr. Genet’s picture v.ll deal
with the Territory’s industries
and resources, and may be the
means, he says of attracting cap
ita 1 to the Territory by showing
investors exactly what the North
land has to offer.
Mr. Genet and his party have
already been at Ketchikan, Wran
gell, Petersburg, and Sitka. From
Juneau, within the next few days
they are expected to leave for
Seward and then travel over the
Alaska Railroad ito Anchorage,
Matanuska. Mount McKinley and
Fairbanks. From there they plan
to fly to Nome and Candle.
After their visit to the Sew-1
ard Peninsula they will return to
Fairbanks and go over the Rich
ardson Highway to Seward, and
then to fishery waters to the
Westward.
Accompanying Mr. Genet are i
Mrs. Genet, fonmer newspaper- j
woman, iand Gerald Marfleet, j
cameraman.
Scenes taken in Alaska will be
i interspersed with the theme of
> the picture in the New York stu
i dies. The picture has not yet
i been titled.
American Salmon Boosted
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 —The
! Commerce department said, a
j new British regulation will help
| American canned Salmon in
| Great Britain where there is Jap
anese competition.
U. S. Trade Commissioner E.
C. Squire, in London, advised
the department of a new British
rule required foreign canned sal
i mon to show the country of its
origin.
This is expected to improve
the sales of American Salmon be
1 cause Squire said U. S. Canned
foods have a high reputation for
quality among .‘he British.
Formerly an Englishman could
not distinguish between Ameri
can and Japanese Salmon be- j
cause the only labeling require
ment for foreign Salmon was
that it show iit as "foreign” with
out naming the country.
notV TO STAKE CLAIMS.
How Mining Claims can bf
Staked in Alaska, length, Bread
th, how many, and the Associa
tion Claim, described in detail, ir
pamphlet form, for sale at Thf
Nugget Office, for 10 cents
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at the
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Count Igor Cassin, Washington, D. C.. gisrip writer, is shown here
telling Austine McDonald how he was seized by three men, tarred,
leathered, and threatened with emasculation following a country cluh
dance at Warrenton, Va„ to which he had escorted Miss McDonald.
Cassini named three men in his charges. He said objections were
mde to p j )t items in his colums.
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WELL— LOOK WHO’S HERE {—Imagine the surprise of residents along this Baltimore
1 street when a small plane piloted by S. P. Tucker landed almost in their front yards. Bafried by rain
Mi fog. Tucker tried to land In a field he saw' through the haze, but In coming down one wine
grazed an auto and the plane landed right then and there. Tucker was not injured.