THE NOME NUGGET
VOliUME 34. No. 18. NOME. ALASKA SATVJtllAY, Al'KII. Slat, 1933 Oolivarod by Carr,or or Mailrd $1 00 per Month
COURT PROPOSAL IS DAHGEROUS
WAR GRAFTERS UNDER FIRE OF FEDERAL CUNS
R. A. CARROLL NEW
S.S.C0. AGENT NOME!
SEATTLE, April 20. 1923.
NOME NUGGET, Nome.
Robert A. Carroll (Brother) became the Nome agent for tbq Aia&ka
Siberian Navigation Company, which will operate the eteamship Buford
on the Nome run, sailing for Nome Jane 3rd. Mr. Carroll has for a
number of yaatra been the Nome agent for the Alaska Steamship Company.
Indications are that the Steamer Buford will have several hundred pas
sengers on her first trip.
The following telegram was received by the Nome Chamber Commerce:
San Francisco, CaMf., April 19—Buford leaving San Francisco May
2Cth, Seattle June 3rd, expect to arrive in Nome, June 12th. Have (dosed
With the Hammon Company for all their freight and passengers and most
earneeflly MiUcit your support. R. A. Carroll, formerly Aiaaka Steamship ;
agent 1n Nome Is now with u<*. The vessel has been thoroughly over- *
handed, newly furnished and has the best passenger accomodations ever
la Bering Sea. Our wire of March 10th, referring to Kotzebue Sound |
should have read SECOND SAILING. Please telegraph at our expense j
the prospects and if we can be of any assistance to your members.
ALASKAN SIBERIAN NAVIGATION COMPANY j
NAVY HEADS RECEIVE NEW ASSIGNMENTS.
WASHINGTON, April 20—Following assignment/* have been ap
proved'by the Secretary of ;he Navy:
Admiral Jones to the general Board, relieved by Admiral Coorrtz.
Admiral Berle to Chief of Navafl Operations, relieved by Rear Ad
miral Robinson. Rear Admiral Hughes U> the War College, relieved by
Rear Admiral Pratt. Rear Admiral WiOliiams to Commandant of the
•th Naval District, Charleston. Rear Admiral KiftteJle to relieve Rear
Admiral Burrage. Vice Admiral McDonald to Commandant 14th Naval
District, relieved by Rear Admiral McCuBly. Rear Admiral Washington
to Commanderr in Chief Asiatic Division, relieved by Rear Admiral Long.
Rear Admiral Halstead to Board of Inspection and Washington
Survey, relieved by Rear Admiral! Simpson. Reair Admiral Welles to
Commandant 5th naval district, relieved by Rear Admiral A.H. Robins n.
Rear Admiral Dayton to Commander Special Service Squadrons, refieved .
by Rear Admiral Hutchinson. Rear Admiral Nultion to Command the
Battleship Division No. 3, relieved by Rear Admiral Scales. Rear Ad
miral Wfley to Commander Battleship Divisions Battle Fleet. Rear ad
miral Andrews to Command Navel Forces inEuropean waters. Rear
admfnfl W. C. Cole from Special Service Squadron to Chief of Staff of
•be U. S. fleet, effective In July. Rear Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor
ftntn Naval Examining Board to Control Forces, eective in June.
Captain L. A. Bostwick from Command of battleship California to
Chief ad Staff of the Battle Fleet, June 39th. Commandant of the First
Naval District and Navy Yard at Boston and of the Norfolk Navy Yard
bus not yet been selected. Rear Admiral Phillip Andrews, Commandant
at Norfolk Navy Yard to be command of the U. S. Naval Forces in Euro
pean waters under title of Vice Commander.
VETERAN MINERS LEAVE FOR SIBERIA
SEATTLE, April 20—Passengers on the President Madison. Balling
•or the Orient tomorrow, include a quartette of veteran Alaska, Canada
<Md Nevada mining men, outfitted for mining expedition Into Siberia.
Hbcpr are: Joe Vint of 8eattle, Wm. Hyt and John MdAHtoter of Saskat
abswaxi and Albert Daniel Multimate of Nevada. They are prepared to
gfttnd boo two' to five years in Siberia. In quest of paid.
NAVAL MIPRKMAOV RACK AGAIN ON.
WAAHINOTON, April 21—The forthcoming cabinet eomlerenoe, to
*•••*• whether the mnin batteries of thirteen American hMtleahipe shall
ho eleven inohno to dbtein an Increased battle ‘range, may develop Into a
■*l°r Nani Coming, to tNncona the haala of nnvnH pot Icier of extreme
Dttt, Bleat re tint an international race for supremacy in naval
aufUerlai. Which baa tolBowed the Washington Arms Conference. wfU
ha laid before Handing vrttb a formal expression, from ho naval sdvfcore
.S to the orrnmity- sf an American program, if the agreed balance is to
be maintained.
NNTW ALASKAN PA88BNGKR BOAT UUINCHW
TAOOMA, April 20—Christened by Mies Frances Nowell, of Jonoan
in the presence of many prominent mom ben, of hminees nnd social life
la the aoattweat, the ION tost steel passenger liner "Alaska" Which the
Alaska SteemaUp Company Wgl operate os the Puget Seand-Alasha ran.
was eanimefllly teeacbeg last sight g • o'clock. The lannehbc-took
FORTY-FIVE DAYS DELIBERATION RESULTS
INTRODUCTION MASS OF LEGISLATION
NOME DELEGATION ACTIVE WORKERS
(Special Juneau Correspondent.)
On the forty-fifth day of the present session of the Territorial
Legislature the number of MMs introduced in the Senate now total! 113
while in the House 55 have been introduced.
A bill foir electing an Educational Commissioner and Treasurer
for a four year term was presented by H. H. Jtoas of the Fourth division.
E. Raeison of the Second has a bill for four Fish Hatcheries, carry
ing an appropriation of $125,000.
John Wilson introduced a bifl asking for $3,000 for a preliminary
survey of the linalakleet portage for a tramway or Road.
Decker'vS eight per cent interest biU was de.feate<i. Decker, Wilson.
Haulson and Grant voted for the bill while James Daly voted against it.
The Museuf Bill passed the House and carries an appropriation of
$40,000 for a new building at Juneau.
Frank H. Foster’s Literacy Memorial passed the House, l>ecker.
Wilson, Ross and Callahan voting against the mejmorral.
In the Senate Pension Act with no changes, the Nome Ship
Subsidy and Municipal Corporations bills passed.
The Contro/Oer BUI was hotly contested and defeated by tMs
vole. Ayer made a fight against the btti while Brawn supported it.’
Senator Ayer objected to Attorney General Rustgard being beard
and takes the stand that Rustgard has no right to take sides and takes
exception to Rustgard’s Interest in the Bill. At the request of Ayer
I Secretary Karl Thiele testified to the v ad tie of Rustgard's tentative bud
get on the cost of ad minim ration of the Controller Home Rule Bill. Ks
tLmates vary greatly.
A senate resolution providing for test eases of validity of Fish
| Reserves by the Attorney General, carrying an appropriation of $3,000,
j passed after a spirited contest. Ttaiw is a resolutibn of vital importance
Ito all Alaska, and the only solution to relief. The Third Division dele
gation and Fred Ayer voted against the Rill. Delegates from the First
Division heartily supported the measure.
The Compensation Bill is under fire and is being given public hear
ings. Supporters of the measure regret the introduction of a bill by Ayer
j of the Second, providing for amendments to the present antiquated Com
; pensation. Act. The Ayer Bill provides for a per cent increase in the
I present act. It is felt here that the Ayer bill seriously jeopardizes the
j passage of the Decker, Wilson, Brown bill.
Thu Nome delegation is working hard to get the Fur Tax repealed,
j but thero seems to be little chance for success.
! The Ways and Means Committee propose a tentative schedule
! entiling the present pelt tax about one half. Stationary buyers will he
taxed $15.00 and Itinerant buyers $50.00.
j The new Probate Code ■will be .tabled, the reasons given for this
j delay being thajt it is extremely lengthy and of great importance and there
i is not enough time left to consider the measure properly.
wool I OF INDIANA WARNS PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, April 21—Expressing tJhe belief that Republican
opposition -to the administration Worfld Court Membership proposal was
even stronger than that against entrance into the League of Nattons,
Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana, Uhaarman of the Republican
Congressional campaign committee, told President Harding he believed it
was a mistake on his part to urge the proposition.
IMMIGRATION RAW ( HA.NGHS PRESAGE t IIRAJ* RUM>11
NEW YORK, April 21 Frank Morrison. American Federation of
Labor Secretary, teflls the convention of United States that any change
in Immigration Laws as suggested is a move for cheaper labor.
PEACE MAKERS MUST USE CAUTION IN 1RE1A.NI>
DUBLIN, April 21—It is generally recognized that the armed op
position to the Free State te almost at an end, but the prospedts of a per
manent peace, many influential persons believe, depends upon the man
ner in which the resistance Is terminated.
DUBLIN, April 21—Conmerry, one of the most prominent remain
ing leaders of Itiie Irregulars, was arrested yesterday by a party of Na
tional army troops at Guaraneduff, near Mills Street, East Killarney.
GOVERNMENT MAY. PROSECUTE SUGAR PROFITEERS
WASHINGTON, AprH 21—Criminal prosecutions may follow khe
injunction suit filed i-n New York yesterday by the federal government,
Lo protect the public against exorbitant sugar prices.
VICTIM OF DANCE CRAZE DIES FROM m'BtTS
NORTH TONAWANDA. N. Y., April 20—Homer Morehouse, 27
rears old, dropped dead as he walked off the floor, having danced 87 con
tinuous hours.
RJTTKR ELECTION CONTEST ENDS
WASHINGTON, April 21—Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of Pennsyl
vania was declared ejected President General of the Daughters of the
American Revolution yesterday. This closed one of the bitterest elec
don contests in the history of the society.
CANAL DEFENSES BE STRENGTHENED
WASHINGTON, April 21—Army and Navy officials have planned
» strengthen the defenses of Panama Canal, including erection of a
number of 16 inch naval rifles near She approaches of the waterway.
PANAMA, April 21—-Soundings made at Culebra Cut show the
lepth at the canal to be only 25 lete near the spot where tin British
teamer Harrison Smith wan d—iinfl hat Ssadsor
SmKN IIONIW ASD SKCIIIUTWM KR(X)VK1WI)
ST. LOUIS, April 21—Two million dollars worth of bonds and
other securities, taken in a hold up from an armoured mail truck here
on April 2nd. were recovered late yesterday in the hoane of Win. P. Doer
iuj,, who was later arrestecL
< KLMJMMD FACTORY ENTOMBS WORKMEN
BUDAHPEST, April 21—One hundred workmen were buried alive
in. the collar of a celluloid factory by an explosion. Forty one bodies
were recovered.
IltlSH LKAPKIi AGAIN KM'OKS IMRHCKKS
DUBLIN. April 2! The long siege of Kerry Cave, in which De
Va'leira was supposed to be hiding, ended yesterday morning. The cave
was flooded with the result that three- Irregular soldiers and Walter
Stevens, a London Englishman, were drowned.
<X>MMUNISTS TERRORIZE MIKLHKI.M
MUBLHEIM, April 21—After being; terrorized for three days by a
Communist mob, which held it, Muethein to now under control of the
constituted German authorities. A force of 300 police and city officials,
which had been detained in the Rat ha us, made a sortie from this great
fortress li'ke building this morning, cut thru the lines of the beseigers and
caught them in the rear, arresting many ami a*rain took control of the
MUliHRIM STILL IN THROES OP RIOTING
BERLIN, April 21— Bight persons are so far reported dead and
more than, thirty wounded as a result of disturbances in Mulheim, accord
ing to dispatches this noon, which state that aJtho the city has been
freed from the Communist grip armed bands are causing trouble in the
outskirts.
BERLIN. April 21—The government ordered reinforcements of
Security Police to the city of Mulheim, which the Communists and trade
unionists have occupied, barricading all exits.
ENGLISH HOUSE COMMONS REJECTS PROHIBITION
LONDON. April 21—For the first time in the history of the House
of Commons that body today defeated a liquor prohibition bill and at the
expiration o< the argument on it, killed the measure by rejecting Its
second reading by a vote of 236 to 140.
FRENCH POLICY OF LDUNATTON
COBLENZ. April 21—Approximately 32,000 Germans bars left the
I Rhineland thus far under the deportation orders at the Fran co-Belgian
Oocupattoaal authoittfes, according to figures eompfled In German quar
ts**.