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THE NOME NUGGET
xo 4,_ NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, OETT.MItEK «, 1021 Oi’liv.r.d by C»rr,.r or Ma.Ud.$1.00 nrr Mo:ith
COOLIDGE URGES MORE ECONOMY
GOVERNOR PREDICTS ROMiSSHM OF RUSK*
CARRIER TELLS
OF SICKNESS AT
POINT barrow;
Kyskpuk Johnson, mail carrier, arrived in Kotze- I
bue on the thirtieth af November, reporting heavy
going most of itihe way from Point Barrow at which
place he says there is an epidemic of smallpox. The
fur indications north of Point Hope are good, he says.
The weather in general for all this territory has been
good with little snow and tom-cod hookers ar e mak-,
ing big catches.
REPORTS HAITI* TRIP NOME TO KOTZEBUE j
KO'TV.BLBTJE. Dec.. 5, (By Special Correspondent)
c Harris arrived **■ Ket-r^bue this morning,
caving left Nome on November 18th. Harris re
ports an extremely hard trip on account of the scar
■city of dog feed. He traveled from Nome
across country to Peering and claims that the
fur outlook for the sea so?, is the best in several years
but says hat 1 ■ nr»> on the job.
RAN IMMIGRANTS
UNTIL ARRIVALS
ARE SITUATED
RIO JANERJP, Brazil, Dec..' 6. (AP) — Brazil
has stopped the entry of immigrants from all the
foundries until the government is assured that all
persons arriving as immigrants are satisfactorily
placed, it was declared in explanation of the action
of the Brazilian Counsel in Tokio in suspending
immigrations of Japanese to his country.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. (AP)— The average
length of life of persons in the United States has
Increased 4 years since 1878, Surgeon General Cam
ming of the Public Health Service says in his an- i
nual report to Congress. Fifty-six years is now
the average span of life for the American, the sur
geon said.
PARIS, Dec. 5, (AP)—The new French Navy
program just published calls for complete recon
struction of the fleet at a cost of ten billion francs
to cover a period of twenty years.
WOULD REWARD
WORLD FLYERS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. (AP)—If the bill that
Representative Rathj>one of Illinois has drawn up
is passed in Congress, the Army World Flyers will
each receive promotions and be given a ten thous
and dollar purse each, besides having presented to
them the Congressional Medal of Honor, the high
est medal awarded *by the United States.
STORM IN WESTERN STATES
CAUSE TWO MILLION DAMAGE
CHICAGO. Dec. 5, (AP)—The first snow and
sleet storm of the winter, moving in a north and
easterly direction, caused interrupted telephone and
telegraph - communication in Nebraska and Iowa and
delayed trains throughout the middle west. The
storm is gradually moving on east and the loss
already incnrrud is' estimated a $2,000,000.
COOLIDSE URGES DEW STANDARD
DEALING WITH COUNTRIES
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5, (AP)—President Cool
idge's message to Congress yesterday was the typical
Coolidee type and in keeping with the principles on
which he has been working since his inauguration.
In the first part of the message the President ad
vised Congress tHat the most important work that
they co,uId do during the present session is to prac
tice such economy which made possible the reduc
tion of the taxes for the next fiscal year. He said
that if Congress keeps within the Budget that lie
has presented “it would then be possible to have
still another moderate amount of tax redaction.”
Other recommendations included the amplifica
tion, of those portions of the Transportation Act
contemplated for the consolidation of the railroads
into larger systems to promote more expenditures
in the nation by “affecting a period of voluntary
proposals Into tbe Interstate Commerce Commission,
supplying governmental pressure to secure action
after '.e expiration of such period.”
_ i''vunent of legislation changing the new
imhf$rr>7?u>n law to make the administrative
Hires a “little more humane for the purpose of per
mitting those already here greater latitude for the
admission of members of their families,” is sug
gested for the immigration question which has
caused more or less turmoil during the recent past.
Going on the development question he hits upon
the Muscle Shoals project. He favored the sale
or the long time lease of the property for nitrogen
production at reasonable prices for agricultural
uses. The placing of Muscle Shoals in the hands
of private interests should be done only under high
guarantees of “commercial nitrogen production at
reasonable prices," and urged that the agricultural
committee of the Senate and House Agricultural
•Committees be empowered to make negotiations
with th» private interests for the proper disposal of
lantic Oci
Other development
i were the development of flood contn
dssippi and the Colorado rivers and
erways. placing stress on the benefit <
of the St. Lawrence 1
The American Legion legislative progr:
handed to the President recently wa;
n favorably to the interests of that or;
a plea was made for the negro population, a
that, they be considered and accorded their f
stitutional rights and that they should be p
fv* from all imposition to which they fall pi
touched
'< siiko of >>nch inp»- -
The Around the World Flight
dwelt on considerably and those who made it pos
sible were lauded highly. President Coolidge ask
ed that suitable national recognition he given the
flyers by the session, and in conclusion definitely re
linquished “the old standard of dealing with other
countries by terror and committed, a new standard
of dealing with them through friendship and under
standing.”
NO CHANCE THAT
MAUD WILL STAY
ON DRIFT CRUISE
CHICAGO, Dec. 5. (AP)—Amundsen said today j
to reporters that the idea of drifting across the ■
North Pole is abandoned as the schooner Maml is
out of lubricating oil and that she had not been
supplied by the Russian supply ship which annu
ally supplies the natives along the Kolyuma river in
Siberia as it had been planned.
MAT'D WILL KK SOLD AT AUCTION
IF RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO
CHICAGO. Dec. 5, (AP)—Amundsen, who plans
an airplane dash across the Arctic and the North
Pole for next spring said today that his ship Maud
which is now near the northern shores of Siberia,
having given up the attempt to drift across the
Pole, will be sold to the highest bidder when it
reaches San Francisco after the ice breaks up in
the summer.
NINE MINERS KILLED IN
EXPLOSION IN WALES
REDHAM. Wales, Dec. 5, (AP)—Nine men are
dead and many were injured in consequence of a
mine explosion which caused a fire. Eight of
the nine bodies have been recovered.
HOLD UP JEWELERS AS THEY \
SHOP FOR DAY j
CHICAGO, .Dec. 5, (AP)—Three robbers en
tered Rother and Ebann's Jewelry store when it
was opened this morning and holding up the man
ager and two femployees, escaped with jewelry val
ued at $150,000.
ENGLAND WILL NOT
ALLOW MEDDLING
IN SUDAN AFFAIR
f GENEVA. Dec. 5. «AP>- ('treat Britian notified
the League of Nations that the British Government
would not recognize the signature on the peace:
protocol by Egypt. They claim that the ■ ase has
no right to appear in League matters and stated 1
in the note that they would not accept interfer
ence from anybody on matters touching upon the i
Sudan question. 1
EGYPTIAN'S PLOT AGAINST
BRITISH LIVES AND PROPERTY j
LONDON, Dec. 5. iAP)— The alleged Egyptian!
plot to assassinate prominent members of the Brit- j
ish government and to destroy public buildings in i
London is reported in the Daily Mail. It is said '
that the government regards the situation seri- i
LONDON. Dec. 5, (AP)—British cabinet min
isters and other officials are accompanied by body
guards to lessen the danger of violence from the
Egyptian sympathizers.
JACK BI’RKE BEATS SIKI
NEW YORK. Dec. 5. (AP)—Jack Burke, of
Pittsburg, light heavyweight was awarded the de
cision over Battling Siki in a twelve round bout.
KORETZ SENTENCED
CHICAGO. Dec. 5. (AP)—Carl Koretz the two i
million dollar swindler who was apprehended in ■
Canada last week and brought here for trial was !
se ntenced today to 1 to 10 years for larceny on |
the first four charges to which he pleaded guilty.
ALASKA MAY ASK
ADMISSION IN
NEXT FOUR YEARS
NEW YORK. Dec. G, (A!•*> — That the Territory
of Alaska would probably demand statehood with
in the next four years is the prediction of (Jovernor
Bone who is here on a vacation and speaking be
fore an assemblage said last night that "we be
lieve ihat with the development of Alaska’s nat
ural resources an inward march of industry will
be incidental with a large jump in population dur
ing the next four years which may warrant the
demand for forming a state."
The ('.overnor spoke of the six hundred thous
and square miles within the confines of the terri
tory’s borders supporting only a comparatively few
thousand persons, perhaps half of whom have en
franchisement. He declared that the Indian and
natives were a serious problem to be dealt with
and said that, he believed that the territory might
be called upon to ask Congress for action on the
situation.
39 LAND OFFICES
INCLUDING NOME
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. (A P j —A section pro
posing the abolition of thirty-nine land offices elim
inated in the interior Transportation bill by a
House Measure and subject to another vote before
its final passage indicates that a tight looms. The
consolidations that would become effective July
1st it the measure passes include Anchorage, Fair
banks and Nome, and Seattle and Spokane.
DEVELOPMENT OP POWER ON
WVXOCX IIP RIVER STOPPED
OLYMPIA. Wash.. Dec. r. (API The State
supreme Court upheld the Grays Harbor Superior
"tirt ruling that he bond issue of two million dol
lars authorized by the voters of Aberdeen for the
construction of a municipal power plant was void
because it involved two projects. The ruling will
Jtop the development of the Wynooehe river for
jower purposes.
R. R. COMPANIES
FIGHT LOWIRATES
ST PAUL. Dec. 5. (AP)— Suits attacking an
>rder of. the Interstate Commerce Commission for
he reduction of express rates in January have been
lied in the U. S. District Court by fifty t’hree rail
MfORT LIVE TRAIN RAN THROUGH
BLOCK SAYS SUPERINTENDENT
OAKLAND. Dec. 5. (AP)—The responsibility for
die Sacramento Short Line-Key Route train rear
md collision in which nine were crushed to death
frith seven dying and forty severely injured and
scores slightly hurt was definitely placed by W. R.
\lberger. superintendent of the Key Route System
mto the crew of the Sacramento train who he de
clared passed through the block signals which had
irdered it to stop.