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VOL. 41. No. 98. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1939 Price Per C0Py
I Would Open Alaska to Immigration
Says Alaska Develop to Compare with Scandinavia
Eskimo Suffers Heart Attack in Sacramento, Cal.
Secretary Interior Ickes Suggests
That Refugee Europeon Artisans
Be Transplanted Here In Alaska
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (/Pi
Secretary of the Interior Harold
I. Ickes suggested that European
industries “broken up or divert
ed by current waves of intoler
ance be transplanted to Alaska
for the benefit of the United
States.” His proposal accompan
ied the publication of under-sec
retary Harry Slattery's report, re
commending that the bars on for
eign immigrants to the Territory
^ be let down because the present
restrictions were having “a dis
asterous effect” on the develop
ment and defense of Alaska.
Secretary Ickes said he was
convinced by the report that art
isans now fleeing Europe “could
play a key role in creating and
directing Alaska-ward various in
dustries which until now have
been undeveloped by the United
States.”
He said: “Slattery’s reports
show that Alaska has resources
of waterpower, timber, minerals,
fish, and fur upon which a sound
Alaskan economy can be based.
It’s a matter of serious na ional
concern that Alaska as a terri
tory with a climate and resources
which equal Scandinavian coun
tries, now has a static population
Wf of only about 60,000 as compared
with the population of 12,000.000
Scandinavians.
“I hope that Slattery's report
will serve as a powerful impetus
to practical thinking and ' intelii
gent action toward the develop
ment of Alaska. Patriotic capital
and men and women with spirits
of our pioneers have an oppor
tunity to enlist in the service of
a the nation, through the building
of cities in our last frontier.”
Ickes emphasized that indus
trial development, particularly in
the southern part of Alaska
“would mean a tremendous boom
to the Wes: Coast and the ship
ping of heavy industrial supplies,
consumer goods and sales Alas
ka-ward.”
He suggested that the indus
tries including the production of
various fur products, leather,
paper and wood products" which
now are imported from European
and Asiatic sources.”
Slattery's report said: “What
ever justification there may be
for the present quota laws with
respect to the settled ai'eas of
the United States, the application
of the same yardstick to the un
der-populated Territory, whose
future well-being depends upon
new immigration and new cap
ital is extremely questionable
from the standpoint of national
policy.”
Ickes' final statement said: "my
visit last summer to the Terri
tory convinced me that the dev
elopmen. of Alaska can be pro
portionately important to our
present ecomony as the building
of the West was in the 19th een
tury.”
L O S T
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NOTICE
There will be a meeting of all
members of the Arctic Club Aug
ust 16, at 8 p.m., City Hall.
Eileen Harris, Secty.
FOR SALE
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complete with safety flue; one
kitchen range with oil burner. In
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Stefansson Says
Alaska Would
Make Good Home
NEW YORK, Aug. 16 UP) —
Vilhjamar Stefansson said that
the problem of developing Alas
ka was “chiefly pvschological.
since we no longer are frontier
minded.”
He said that the Territory
would make a good home “in
general for the people of any na
tionality irrespective of the cli
matic conditions they have been
used to.”
It could easily be developed to
a point where it would stand com
parisor. with the Scandinavian
countries, commented Stefansson
in an interview on Secretary
lekes' advocacy of the idea of
transplanting refugees from Eu
rope to Alaska.
Stefansson said that most peo
pie's minds were burdened with
i misconceptions- about Alaska,
and don’t realize how easily the
Territory:s resources couid be de
veloped.
“Take newsprint as an exam
ple: If the Canadians can export
newsprint to America and makej
a profit even after paying the
tariff, think what Alaska could
do. It is nearer to the United
States and wouldn’t have to pay
the duty.”
"Of course that industry would j
require great capital but if Am
t rican newspapers are willing to
invest in Canadian properties,
why couldn’. some of the papers
especially those on the West
Coast, invest in an Alaskan enter
prise. There would be a market
also with Japan provided we stay
on good terms with that coun
try,” said Stefansson.
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I NEWLY BORN BABY BOY FOUND IN SHOPPING BAG
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This baby boy, weighting eight pounds and about 12 hours old, physicians said, was found in a
paper shopping bag under a tree in a South Side Chicago alley. Police said the infant, shown as
he slept in the county hospital, probably would be placed in an orphanage.
Eskimo From
Nome? Has Heart
Attack in Calif.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug.
15 (.4*) —A man who identified
himself as Edward La Plante,
aged sixty-four, and one of the
Eskimo guides who drove thru
the Arctic wastes to the wreck
age of the Post-Rogers plane 4
years ago today.- collapsed on the
highway near here yesterday.
A motorist brought the native
to the hospital, where attendants
said he was suffering from a
heart attack, after walking from
Vallejo.
LaPlar.te said ho left Nome
three months ago to join an Am
erican delegation to Washing
ton to protest against the alleged
poaching by Japanese fishermen
in Alaskan waters. A heart at
tack caused him to miss the del
egation at Portland. La Plante
then said he planned to meet the
party at San Diego and make his
return voyage to Alaska aboard
a government transport ship.
The haggard traveler who said
he was also known as Dr. White
Elk. was reticent over the part
lie played in reaching the scene
of the Post-Rogers crash, but dis
cussed the poaching episodes free
Iv: "Tlie Japanese poaching in
Alaskan waters is far more ser
ious than people in the States
believe. That’s the sore point
which may lead to plenty of
trouble,” he said.
Committee To
Investigate Fisli
Sail Next Sunday
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (/Pi—
Japanese competition in the Al
askan fishing industry off Alaska
will be* investigated by a House
of Representatives committee
which sails Sunday.
Committee members 9aid that
Alaskan fishermen had complain
cd of Japanese boats invading
waters which Alaskans thought
should be reserved for their ex-!
elusive use. The committee will
also investigate the use of traps
in the taking of salmon, and the
advisability of changing the sal- j
men season; its effect on herring
fishing and the salmon fisheries; |
whether the traps set by the1
large companies encroach on the
rights of the individual fisher
men.
The committee will also hear I
testimony whether the control of1
Alaska’s resources should be j
turned over to the Alaskan Leg
islature instead of being handled I
by Congress as at present.
The committee plans a wide i
swing around the Gulf of Alaska
iwith hearings scheduled for Cor1
dova, Anchorage, Kodiak, Sitka,!
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell,
Craig, and Ketchikan, and upon i
their returning to the States, fur
ther hearings at Seattle and San
Francisco.
In addition to Chairman Bland,
the sub-committee members in
clude Representatives Kennedy,
PILOT ESCAPES BURNING PLANE
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C. B. 1 homasson. 27, escaped unharmed from his single-seated
rented plane after it crashed and hung on utility wires while coming
in for a landing at the San Diego, Calif., airport. Thomasson made
his way hand over hand along wires to the nearest pole, then
descended to the ground. The plane entangled in the wires, is
shown burning.
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Wallgren. Boykin, Welch, Seger, I
Oliver, and Delegate Dimond.
They sail from Seattle aboard
the Cutter Ingham. Sunday, Aug.
20, with the following itinerary:
August 22 arrive Ketchikan, ar
rive Cordova via Petersburg,
Wrangell, Taku Inlet, Juneau,
Aug. 27, with hearings on the 27
and 28. Aug. 29 arrive Anchor
age via College Jfjord, and Se
ward: trip to McKinley Park
September 1. Return to Anchor
age for hearings Sept. 2 and 3.
Auto trip to Matanuska Sept. 5.
Arirve Kodiak via Seward for
hearings September 6 and 7.
September 9 arrive Sitka, hear
ings 9 and 10. Sept. 11 arrive
Juneau, hearings Sept. 11 and 12.
Sept. 13 Petersburg, hearings set
for 13 and 14. Sept. 14 arrive
Wrangell with hearings on Sept.
15 and 16. Sept. 17, Craig for one
day hearing. Sept. 19 and 20 j
hearings at Ketchikan. Return to
Seattle Sept 13, with hearings at
Seattle scheduled for Sept. 25th,
and at San Francisco Sept. 28th.
It is the plan of the committee to
be back in Washington, Oct. 3rd.
Japanese Try
Cut Off Supplies
HONGKONG. Aug. 16 (/P) — j
The Japanese army established ,
control over two-thirds of the
20-mile stretch of the Kwang
tung Province paralleling Hong
kong border. The move was des
cribed by officials as designed to
cut off the Chinese supply lines
with this British crown colony.
The maneuver was accomplish
ed swiftly in less than twelve
hours. The Chinese forces fell
back without resistance and the
ferw Chinese peasants who gave
battle were reported to have
been wiped out.
Hundreds of Chinese refugees
streamed back across the border
to the temporary camps set up
when the Japanese captured Can
ton last October. Civilians said
the Japanese summarily execut
ed all Chinese found in the pos
session of arms.
Waterfowl Season
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Juneau, August 16
The Nome Nugget:
The Alaska waterfowl season
is set as follows: “That area in
Alaska, north of the Naknek Riv
or. Naknek Lake, and the Kat
mai monument and west of the
141st meridian, September 1st to
October 15th.
That area in southeastern Al
aska from 141st meridian south
to Dixon Entrance, October 1st
to November 15th.
In Alaska south and west of
the Naknek River, Naknek Lake
and the Katmai monument to the
western-most boundary of the
Aleutian Islands, November 16
to December 30.’’
The goose bag is limited to 4
a day and 8 in possession. Other
restrictions are the same as last
/ear except migratory birds may
:>e taken with bow and arrow.
Frank Dufrense