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VOL. 41. No. 20. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1939 P*fc« oer Copy 15*
Union Men Back At Work Seattle
$10,000 for Nome Field—Gold Tax to Get Hearing
Intensive Hunt Being Carried On For Lost Plane
BOX INC IS IT4 A REPRESSION, says Mushky Jackson (above), Promoter Mike
Jacobs’ No. 1 handyman who's been KO-ing the English language for years. The trouble is, thinks
Mushky: “Joe Louis is too good; he can moider anybody.” Of Max Baer, he says: "Better we give the
business back to the Indians than to have Baer around; he's a clown, sometimes lie’s a killer.”
Air, Land & Water
Hunt Reveals No
Trace Lost Plane
JUNEAU, Feb. 13 </P)—Mon
day night closed with absolutely
no clues of the missing Lon Cope
plane with four or five passen
gers aboard which mysteriously
disappeared while flying over
Grand Island Sunday afternoon
about 2:15 o’clock.
A party of fifteen skiiers ex
plored the southern section of
Douglas Island along the Gas
tineau Channel from Marmion Is
land to Nevada Creek, the area
where it was reported a drone of
motor was heard Sunday after
noon then suddenly stopped.
Captain Kinky Bayers, aboard
the gasboat Wanderer with
searchers aboard reported find
ing several patches of light oil
between Marmion Island and
Point Bishop but could not deter
mine whether they were from
the plane or not.
The Coast Guard Cutter Haida
after cruising on both sides of
Stephens Passage from Point Ar
den to Port Snettisham, landed a
party at Oliver Inlet on the up
per end of Glass Peninsula, but
with no results.
The Fisheries vessel Brant,
skimmed both sides of Seymour
Canal but found no traces.
Tuesday, a Haida land party,
according to plans will search
from Oliver Inlet to Point Arden
and a landing party from the
Brant will work along the shore
from Point Arden to Station
Point for the reason that if Cope
had been caught in a severe wind
from Taku Inlet he might have
been able to turn around and vol
plane to Grand Island or to the
shore of the Peninsula.
Unless flares or fire be display
ed it would be difficult to pick
up the plane from off shore or
the air as it has been snowing
heavily. No planes searched on
! Monday on account of the wea
: ther.
KETCHIKAN, Feb. 14 (#>) —
Pilot Sheldon Simons headed for
Juneau with two passengers at
11:30 a.m. PST. saying he intend
ed to watch for signs of Cope.
The weather is reported to be
clearing.
JUNEAU. Feb. 14 (/P) — Sim
mons arrived here but saw no
trace of Cepe. Alex Holden made
a search flight but saw nothing.
Tony Schwamm, flying up
from Petersburg also found no
trace of the missing plane.
JUNEAU, Feb. 14 UP) — Pilot
Sheldon Simmons flying in
search of the lost Cope plane,
Tuesday afternoon reported that
he had sighted some debris at
Point Arden which might be
parts of the plane. The Coast
Guard Cutter Haida investigated
but found nothing.
The Haida reports that her
; shore parties traveled the dis
tance from Oliver Inlet to Point
Arden, then along Glass Penin
i sula to Station Point. The shore
parties from the Fisheries boat
Brant went along Seymour Can
al but neither founding anything.
Navy plane from Sitka, using
I the Haida as a mother ship are
i likely to fly Wednesday, weather
I permitting, to make further in
! tensive search.
I United States Commissioner
i Felix Gray is considering send
! ing a shore party to Point Arden
to make a search into the woods.
Flier Tony Schwamm. return
ing to Petersburg from Juneau
saw no signs of the missing
plane. Neither did Alex Holden,
who made two flights Tuesday.
JUNEAU. Feb. 15 (/P) —Rain
and snow is prevailing off Oliver
Inlet where the Haida is anchor
ed this morning to search that
area for the missing Cope plane.
A low ceiling and snow is report
ed at various other sections be
tween Juneau and Sitka which i
, will probably forestall the navy
! plane from Sitka from joining
the search from the air.
Two parties of six members i
each, equipped with snowshoes, |
| left Juneau this morning for
i Port Arden to make a search in
i the woods.
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House To Hold
Open Hearing
Gold Tax Bill
—
j JUNEAU, Feb. 15 </P> — The!
House in the Committee of the
Whole is scheduled to hold a
public hearing Wednesday after
noon on Rep. Edward Coffee’s
proposed fish trap bill. Wednes
day night the House is scheduled
i to hold an open hearing on the
Gold Tax bill. Speaker Lyng in-1
■ vited mine operators, employees. |
land the public in general to air;
i their opinions.
—
Premier Hungary
Resigns Because
Is Part Jewish
1 * I
BUDAPEST, Feb. 15 (/Pi —
j Premier Bela Imredi resigned
because of parliamentary opposi
tion to his sweeping proposals
on regulating Jews. Afterwards
he startled members of his party
by announcing that he had dis
covered that he himself was part
Jewish. In a speech, before his!
: colleagues of the National Unity j
! Party whom he persuaded to ■
adopt his anti-Jewish program, j
which invisaged laws curtailing,
the political rights of Jews and j
barring them from certain types
of work and limiting the number I
in others, Imredi declared that!
one of his grandparents was born !
a Jew.
Members Masters
Mates Pilots Union
Return To Work
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 UP)—Mem
bers of the local union of Masters
Mates and Pilots voted to return
to work Tuesday morning, end
ing the strike and tie-up of dir
ect shipping to Alaska of the
last ten days.
Balloting in which the mem
bership concurred in recom
mendations made by their exec
utive committee in San Francisco
last week was followed by a con
ference between ship owners and
union representatives. After the
conference the ship operators an
nounced that their position was
unchanged—that the deck offic
ers must return to work before
any negotiations will be made
looking toward an adjustment of
their grievances.
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Entombed
In St. Peters
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 14 i/P)—
Pope Pius was carried to his
final resting place beneath the
floor of the great St. Peter cath
edral. His tomb is in the subter
ranean grotto basilica under the
great central alter where only
the Pope celebrates mass.
At. this altar, during his 17
year pontificate, Pope Pius offic
iated in some of the church’s
most solemn and moving cere
monies.
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Bill For $10,000
Cross Runway
For Nome Field
—
JUNEAU. Feb. 15 (/Pi — The
only measure introduced in the
Senate Tuesday was by Senator
Roden, to appropriate $5,000 for
repairing the public school at
Petersburg. A petition from the
Wiseman Community Service for
[the construction of a new ’md
;ng field was filed.
, New bills in the House were
I introduced by:
Rep. Leo Rogge, appropriating
$5,000 to pay bank examiners.
Rep. A. P. Walker, prohibiting
the issuance of fish trap licenses
without written permission from
the Bureau of Fisheries or the
: War Department.
Rep. Garnet Martin, appro
priating $10,000 for building a
cros runway on the landing field
af Nome.
Rep, Frank Gordon, providing
that while a divorce appeal is
pending, neither party may re
marry.
The controversial House mea
, sure removing the citizenship
[ requirement of the old age assist
i ance and benefits was killed 9 to
'7 and laid on the table,
j
A million volts of electricity
will be sent through the human
body in a novel scientific demon
I stratum in the Christian Business
men's exhibit at the California
World's Fair opening on Feb. 18.
LOST— Will party who took
hand knit gloves from man's
parka pocket at Odd Fellows
hall Saturday night, return them
to Nugget Otliee—They are val
ued as a gilt. No questions will
be asked.
Italian Consulate
Attacked By
Corsicans
AJACCIO, Corsica, Feb. 15 UP)
— A heavy police guard wa3
placed around the Italian consul
ate after a series of demonstra
tions against Facist demands for
a share of France’s colonial em
pire. The windows of the Italian
consulate were shattered during
the night when the building was
attacked by a bank of “young
Corsicans" singing French na
tional songs, carrying banners
■and slogans, and' shouted that
this was the answer to the latest
articles of Italian newspapers ex
pressing Italy’s “natural aspira
tions” against France and the
particular demands that Corsica
be handed over to tlaly.
Board Education
Ends Its Session
JUNEAU. Feb. 15 UP) — The
Territorial Board of Education
ended its session and submitted
recommendations to the Legisla
ture to pass House bill 17. estab
lishing a minimum salary scale
for teachers; to approve the ap
propriations for rural schools at
Snag Point, Haycock and Unga;
that the Territorial Health De
partment pay for the annual phy
sical examination of school pu
pils instead of city boards; and
disapproving the appropriation
for vocational training, but ap
propriating a $3,000 yearly sal
ary for a deputy Commissioner
of Education.
FURNISHED HOUSE FOR SALE
Inquire Nugget Office
NICE WORK — IF YOU CAN CALL IT W 0 R K ! has C'hoppy, an artist at the Lon*
don Casino. With deft, sure hands he draws a plump Cupid and lofty clouds on the bare back of
Everlle. a model. He adds a ‘‘question mark" but doesn’t five an answer for tills new fashion’s whim.
The art work was a feature at the hair and beauty show at Olvmpia. London