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VOL. 41. No. 11. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1939 Price per Copy 154
City of 40,000 Destroyed by Quake
Louis Wins Technical KO over Lewis in 1st Round
THAT TURKISH INFLUENCE invaded Bermuda
v. hen slim Mrs. Walter W'ickes, jr., of Newtown Square. Pa., don
ned a turban of toweling. She was formerly Aimee DuPont of
\YiL„'”~ton, Del.
Ickes Favors In
* crease Terri.
Tax on Cold
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (At
tornment I ng on rumors that Sec
re ary Ickes was seeking an eight
j>e!c;nt tax n Alaska gold, Ickes
--efused to confirm the proposal.
♦ hut said, however, ‘hat £is depart
i-nen: favors the territory incrcas
.r.g th? tax in som,r* amount.
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Fire Sweeps The
Maritime Building
SEATTLE, Jan. 24 i/P)—A fire
of undetermined origin broke out
shortly after midmght and swept
four floors of the five story
Maritime Building in the whole
sale district. The fire was ex
tin,guished after a three-hour
fight and firemen estimated the
damage at between 75 and 100
thousand dollars.
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Planes Fly
Investigate
Earthquake
SANTIAGO, Chile. Jan. 25 (/P)
—Three Chilean military planes
sped south to check unconfirmed
reports that two thousand per
sons had been killed in the Con
cepcion area at midnight by an
earthquake which shook a four
hundred mi'e strip of Chile’s
coast and shattered normal com
municaf ions.
Conception is a city of 75,000
inhabitants, 250 miles south of
Santiago.
Concepcion
Completely
Destroyed
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SANTIAGO, Jan. 25 (jP)—The
army plane surveying the scene
of the disasterous Chilean earth-*
qu3ke flew low over the Chilean
dity, 220 miles south o>f San
tiago, reported that the city of
40,000 inhabitants had been
“completely destroyed.”
Insurgents Report
Barelona Eneirled
HENDAYE, Jan. 25 </P>— The
insurgent command reported
that their troops had penetrated
the southern section of Barcelona
at noon and had extended a
steel ring all around the city
except the northern coastal por
tion.
From emplacements along the
huge arc enclosing the third cap
ital of the Spanish Republic, ar
tillery >is reported to be shelling
the city while a steady stream of
refugees poured out northward
along the coastal road._
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DEATH WAS THE ONLY BIDDER »or this forlorn fellow—“a police dor around the
ears but I can’t vouch for the rest,” said the auctioneer—at a dog auction in Seattle The county hu
mane society held an auction for strays, and 70 some dogs were bid for, spiritedly, by youngsters and
adults. The dogs that drew no bidding, like this one. were put to death humanely.
Ickes Favors 8
Percent Tax
Alaska Gold
JUNEAU, Jan. 25 (JP) — A let-,
ter written to Governor Troy by.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes, j
dated October 3, reviewing the!
mining situation in Alaska was1
submitted to the Legislature to-;
day.
Ickes says the Territory has:
reaped little from the $300,000,000
worth of minerals mined in the
past half century, and that lit
tle revenue was obtained from
the 3 percent gold tax.
The letter ends with: “I;
strongly recommend and urge;
that you have a bill drafted
wihich will Ibedome a substan
tial rate of taxation on gold.
Frankly I believe that you should
proceed upon a basis of an ab
solute minimum of eight percent.
There should also be a graduat
ed tax based upon federal in
come tax returns. When this
legislation is drafted, please
transmit it to me so that the
Solicitor General of the depart
ment may consider it.”
Bill Prohibit Sale
Liquor To Indians
Aleuts & Eskimos
JUNEAU, Jan. 24 (IPs — The
House passed the joint memorial
asking Congress to convene the
Territorial Legislature on the 4th
Monday in January, also a 30
day session on even numbered
years.
In the Senate. Laboyteaux in
troduced a bill prohibiting the
sale of liquor ito Indians, Aleuts,
and Eskimos, also providing for
better enforcement officers and
agents with teachers of the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs appointed
as special officers without pay.
Roden asked appropriation of
$20,000 for a vessel and $5,000
for equipment for special agents
of the Treasurer's office use in
Bristol Bay.
Patterson introduced a bill
asking the Interior Department
appoint predatory animal officials
to protect game in the National
parks of Alaska against wolves
and coyotes.
Italy Calls Out
60,000 Reservists
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ROME, Jan. 25 (JP)—-Italy call
ed sixty thousand reservists, born
in 1901, to colors, for training [
and instruction and at the same |
time warned France anew against
helping the hard pressed Spanish ,
government.
Announcement of the ‘’first j
reservists” called, indicated that :
more might be called later. For
eign military observers remarked j
that it was unusual to call re
servists for periodic training in1
the winter.
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i* Insurgents Drop Bombs at American Refugees
JOE LOUIS
Joe Louis KO’s
John H. Lewis
In First Round
NEW YORK. RUSH, Jan. 25.
UP’\ —Joe Louis, world’s Heavy
weight dhampiom, defended his
crown tonight by defeating John
Henry Lewis, a contender, by a
technical knock out in the first
round.
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JUST ARRIVED
S HEE FISH
LEHMANN’S
American Refugees
F r « m Barcelona
Are Bombed At
ABOARD U. S. S. OMAHA,
Jan. 25 (/P)— Fifteen Americans
fleeing from the beleaguered Bar
celona area had run the gauntlet
of bombs before reaching safety
aboard the Omaha, and the UjS.
Destroyer Badger.
One bomb fell about a hundred
feet from the refugees as they
stood on a breakwater waiting
for a small boat to take them out
to the warships, anchored about
two miles off caldetas, approxi
mately t miles north of
Barcelona.
More bombs were dropped by
the insurgent planes while the
small boats were enroute to the
United States vessels but none
fell near the craft. ,
Pres. Nominates
Edward Bartlett
Secty. of Alaska
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 24 (/Pi
President Roosevelt nominated
Edward Bartlett of Alaska, as.
Secretary of the Territory, to>
succeed the late Edward Griffin.
Call “Fairgrounds 1939” any
where in the United States and
you will be connected with the
Treasure Island operator at the
1939 California World's Fair.
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aAFE FROM HARM f»y its jaguar mother, this five
month-ohl cub cuddles in the arms of Mrs. Slacii Heslop, at
Brookfield zoo, Chicago, taking milk from a bottle. Mrs. Heslop.
damrV *r of the zoo's night keeper, calls the baby "Lupe.”
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