THE NOME NUGGET
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VOLUMK 24. No. A.
NOME. ALASKA SATURDAY, PEBKUAKY 24, 1028.
$1 00 per M
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL WILL HOT PASS
GIGANTIC COUNTERFEITING CORP. IS EXPOSED
MILLIONS COUNTERFEIT
MONEY BROADCASTED
OVER THE WORLD
New York, F«ib. 24—A gigantic counterfeiting corporation, with
manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of false bank notes, was exposed
yesterday afternoon following the arrest of twenty eight members of j
a gang, bringing the totla now under arrest of sixty fotrr. These arrests'
mash the culmination of a chase that led federal agent Joe Palma aod
operatives to all parts of the world anice laet August.
Notes broadcasted by the gang found their way to Europe, Cuba.
Alaska and Bahama, where they were circulated by bootlegger* and
NEW YORK, Fob. 24—Counterfeiter* being rounded up pat into
Sdrcalattoa ten millions worth of spurious money. Their headquarters
were maintained In a basement in the Italian quarter.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24—Secret Service men began the drawing in
a£ strings in a nation wide net that they expect will expose thousands of
membere of an international counterfeiting conspiracy that they believe
extends to every important city in the country.
FOREIGN CONTROL TO KK ELIMINATED
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24—The White House diacloeed that plane
are being shaped by the administration to free American iodUKirtee from
the foreign combination controlling certain raw materials.
CHARGES EXCESSIVE USE OF MONEY IN ELECTRON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—Excessive use of money in the late elec
tion iB alleged in charges against the Ku Kl'ux Klan in papers fifed with
the senate fn challenging the right of Earle H. Mayfield to take his seat
in the next Congress as Senator front Texas. The election contest has
been filed by George E. B. Paddy, who ran for Senator as a republican
and independent democrat.
HOUSE OBJECTS TO DIRECT ACTION TO COLLETT
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24—The House Foreign Relatione Committee
ordered an adverse report on the Herrick resolution, proposing the use
of'the army and navy to collect the three and one haJf billions owed the
United States by France.
PRESIDENT IMMUNE TO CIVIL PROSECUTION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—Declaring that the President of the Un
tied States is now immune to civil prosecution. Senator Caraway an noune
ed on the floor yesterday afternoo that suitB for malicious defamation of!
Character, filed against Harding by some employees of the Bureau of
flOffttiitg and Printing can not be tried. The employees bringing thfc I
chargss were recently discharged after an investigation of the Bureau.
AMERICAN GUNBOAT TO EXTERMINATE RABBITS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—The U. 8. government hu ordered the
Gunboat Den from Sen Francisco March flat, to exterminate rabbit* on
Laysan Island, la the Hawaiian group. The rabbits haw become ao
naaerons. that they oonattate a menace to bird life.
BARBER NOUGHT FOB HIGH FINANCING
CHICAGO, Feb. 24—Joseph M. Marcino, an immigrant from Italy,
and a doses years later a barber on the west aide of Chicago, is being
sought along the Mexican border. Bankers and State officiate of the
East and lflddle West disclose the fact that be has defrauded In-rectors tn
wild cat banking rent ores out of millions.
WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD STILL HAS HOPES
MADISON, Feb. 24—A crimp was yesterday pot into the plans
of the Upponwrts of the Wisconsin National Guard by the Senate Commit
tee. The Senate made a unanimous report recommending indefinite
postponement of the HiTech Bill, abolishing the 8tste’s military forces.
JOT RIDE ENDS DISASTROUSLY FOR TWO
SEATTLE, Feb. 24—-C. H. Cutter, real estate salesman, was killed.
had Frank Kalshaw, a sailor from the steamship Victoria, was danger
otfly Injured when the auto owned and driven by Cotter plunged over
da bridge balk hand on Admiral Way. A lug of moonshine and a
WM at taM lUtv wSa M to Ik* wriltol inUh
NOME COAL SITUATION
PROBABLE SOLUTION
LOOMING BRIGHTER
The Nugget is in receipt of another telegram from John Wilson and
Charles Brown, Jr., dated Nenana In which their constltuants are advised
that they are representing Nome’s best interests. They have investigated |
the coal situation and presented the situation to the manager of the mine '
at Nenana and his assurance has been given that every step will be taken j
to afford Nome cheaper fuel. We print the telegram received:
NENANA. ALASKA. Kab. 24. 1988.
NOME NUGGET.
We have investigated the Healy River Coal Mine and adjacent
properties and find immense deposits of sub bituminou scoot. We be-:
Have that the Nome fuel problem can be solved if the coal can be landed
at a total cost of fifteen dollars.
The manager of the Healy mine is working on the problem of ship
ping coal direct to Nome and he will wire you cost estimates as soon as
he gets data from Colonel Mears relative ro possible government trans
portation from Nenana to Nome.
We visited the Alaska Agricultural College in which we find en
rolled sixty three enthusiastic students
WILSON and BROWN
U. S. GOVERNMENT
TO CONSTRUCT OWN
POSTOFFICE .BUILDINGS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-—Recommendations have been made to
congress by a joint commission on Postal Service, for the adoption of a
program to construct and own postoftice buildings, with 20 millions to
be appropriated annually until the government owns its principle buildings
It is possible that different cities will be cared for in order of the
pressing character of their needs and their importance in the Postal system
TURKS DRAFT PEACE TREATY, IN SECRET
CONSTANTINOPLE Feb. 24—Turkey’s answer to the peace pro
posals of the allied powers, as set forth in a draft of the treaty presented
at Lausanne, has been framed in the Council of Ministers, after a protract
ed discussion in secret. '
RUSSIANS ESCAPE DEATH AT HANDS SOVIET
SEATTLE, Feb. 24—Colonel N. Alexeff, his brother V. Alexeff and
Colonel B. Haltlosky arrived here from the Far East and report a thrilling
escape from death.
Passing thru a reign of terror, captured by the Soviet army, con
demned to die and finally escaping, after they had been lined up against
a wadi to be executed, the trio finally reached the U. S.
NATIVE BORN AMERICANS PROTEST AGAINST RUHR INVASION
NEW YORK. Feb. 24—About fifteen thousand native born Ger
mans and Irish Americana held a Madison Square mass meeting' last night
in protest against the French invasion of the Ruhr.
FRENCH SOLDIERS KILL GERMAN WHILE SEARCHING BUILDING.
pOCKUM, Feb. 24—Two French soldiers yesterday afternoon
fired into a crowd of Germans in front of the Law Courts, killing one and
wounding two others. The trouble occurred while the French, with
tanks, were engaged in occupying the Law Courts building on the sus
picion that certain Frenchmen had been incarcerated as spies.
AMERICAN WOMAN PROTESTS AGAINST FRENCH TREATMENT
NEW YORK, Feb. 24—Mrs. Louise Geissele of Pittsburg arrived
from Bremen on the S. S. Seydlitz yesterday and declared her determina
tion to go at once to Washington, with a protest against treatment ac
corded her by French soldiers in the Ruhr.
Mrs. Gelasele declared that soldiers prodded her with bayonets.
Assorted Perns, Pemholdom, Lead Panels, Red and Blag* h* «d Tablets
(line or small) WifttiaK fapsr, Catling Carifc, Basiss. Cards,
«>»—»■» MMeoas, Tlieailgg and OM* Pnm am Sale NaggM age,
SHIP SUBSIOr Bill
WAS LAIB ASIBE
BY A6REEMENT
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23—By agreement among Senate republican
loaders, the administration Shipping Bill was temporarily laid aside in the
Senate, to allow consideration, of conference reports on the Army and
District of Columbia Appropriation Bills.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—Republican leaders privately admit that
there ts but the slightest hope for the passage of the Ship Subsidy Bill.
CX).\ORE88 REMAINED IN SKHSION THURSDAY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23-— Government activities in all branches
except Congress suspended yesterday for observance of Washington’s
Birthday. The Senate and House remained at the task of cleaning up
th<- legislative jam before adjourning March 4th.
Official celebration centered in ceremonies at Washington’s monu
ment. to which governors from all the States had been invited to listen
in by radio.
MOKE SEATTLE POLICEMEN ACCUSED BEING HIM Kl.WKHH
SEATTLE, Feb. 24—Richard Shively, and Charles .1. ('lark, dis
charged policemen were arrested by federal agents charged with direct
ing extensiv rum running efnteo’prte^
I to VAI/TV SUFFERS RELAPSE AGAIN UNDER KNIFE
"ONLON. Foi>. 2 4- Prince George, who recently was operated
iijkjii for appendicitis, again went under the surgeon’s knife yesterday in
HAMAH SEEKS ADMISSION AS STATE
HONOLULU, Feb. 24—The beginning of a drive to obtain admis
sion of Hawaii to the United States, as the forty-ninth state, marked the
opening of the twelfth biennial session of the Territorial legislature.
ATTEMITS LIFE OF LENINE—SENTENCED TO DEATH
RIGA, Feb. 24—The Supreme Court at Moscow, has sentenced to
death Colonel Svejevski for complicity in an attempt upon Lenlne’s life.
RUSSIA RELIEVES GERMAN SITUATION |*RESAGES WAR
LONDON. Feb. 24—Conditions in- the Ruhr district of Germany
makes war necessary, Trotzky declared in addressing an extraordinary
session of the Council of Russian Commissaries, according to a Central
News dispatch from Stockholm. The Council passed an order directing
curtailment of public expenditures and that Russia bind all efforts toward
production of wa rmaeriai. A Riga dispatch says Russians are mobilizing
on all frontiers.
I*<>LB8 BOMBARDED BY LITHUANIANS.
WARSAW, Feb. 24—A detachment of Lithuanian troops are
bombarding with heavy artillery the Polish frontier In the forest of
Podhamlen.
AUSTRIA GRAXTKD"MORATORIUM BY COMMISSION
LONDON, Fob. 24—Austria has been grante da twenty year mora
torium by the Reparations Commission.
JAPS WILL HOLD SAKHALIN UNTIL SATISFIED
TOKYO, Feb. 24—Premier Kato informed the Diet that the Jap
anese occupation of Sakahalin Island will continue until Russia gives
satisfaction for the Nikotaersk massacre.
JAPS AROUSE IRE OP HAWAIIAN'S
HONOLULU, Feb. 24—Charges that Japanese citizens of Hawaiian
Islands are not content with enjoying equal rights with others, and
thby nterpret “liberty as license,” were made by Governor Farrington o?
Hawaii. In his message at the opening session of the Territorial Leglsla
IJNOOLN’S PERSONAL TELEGRAPHER IS DEAD
PORTCHB8TER, N. Y., Feb. 24—Captain Robert H. Smith, who
sdnt the first cablegram across the Atlantic, is dead here. In Mb time ha
■erred as Lhmola's personal telegrapher.