THE NOME NUGGET
o shlcrtt * NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, A I* IS I L 10, 1924 OHiverad by Ca*-nar or Mai!<>d 11.00 p«?r Mo.ith
Nome is the strategic Air Base for the United States and Europe via the North Pole
HOOF AND MOUTH DISEASE SPREAD
DEL SUTHERLAND FIGHTS PRES.COOUDGE ORDER
SUTHERLAND PROTEST
COOLIDGE ORDER
WASHINGTON, April 19—Alaska Delegate, Dan Sutherland m Con
gress at Washington, has forwarded to Secretary Work a vigorous protect
against making permanent President Coolidge’s recent temporary order
withdrawing the entire Glacier Hay region from the Settlement and
Homestead entry, “there can be no objection to the establishment of a
Muir Glacier National Monument, but I contend that the General Land
and Fish Laws should not be suspended,” Delegate Sutherland stated in
fein lette.r to Secretary Work.
HONDURAN OFFICIAL* DISPLEASED WITH AMERICA
SAN SALVADOR. April 19—Honduran politicians are reported not
pleased over the attitude of Sumner Wells, who was sent to Hondura
tj Prealdent Coolldge from Santa Domingo, in an endeavor to restore
peace in the former Republic. -
Mr. Wells has reached Tegucigalpa and the politicians predict a kind
of American intervention which they say is detrimental to the Honduran
nation. Revolutionary forces are reported to be victorious in the w***tern
potion of Hondura.
RKRKliS AGAIN ON THE RUN IN MEXICO
* MEXICO CITY. April 19—The complete dispersal of th*- Isthmian
Rebels, was officially reported by the Mexican War Department yesterday.
Generals Diegues and Vigil were reported to be fleeing with the remnants
of the Rebel troops.
JAPANESE EDITORIALS
ATTACK II.S. CONGRESS
X. .
TOKYO, Apiril 19—Japanese newspaper editorials in yesterday’s
editions declared that the adoption of America's Congress in pacing the
exclusion legislation amounts to a .challenge to Japan, they say that the
■atlon of Japan must prepare for whatever may come, even war. High
officials expressed their dissatisfaction with Ambassador Hanihara’s handl
ing of the immigration situation, according to the vernacular press, whose
editorials however, were markedly moderate in tone.
MASS MEETING I*K<►TESTS AGAINST IMMIGRATION BILL
TOKYO, April 19—A mass meeting in protest against the proposed
Japanese exclusion from the United States has been called by the Osaka,
Japan Chamber of Commerce.
, FATE OK IMMIGRATION BILL AGAIN INVOLVED
WASHINGTON, April 19 The fate of the immigration bill with the
Japanese exclusion provision was involved in another conference yester
day with President Coolidge and Senator Lodge prior, to the resumption
of the Senate debate.
ATTORNKV GENERAL WILL CONFER WITH COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON. April -19—Attorney General Stone has accepted an
invitation to confer with the Daugherty Investigation Committee on
questions before that body.
immigration quotas fixed in new bill
■WASHINGTON, April 19—The Senate yesterday arternoon fixed the
immigration quotns in the new bill at two percent of 1890 population.
RUSSIAN SOVIET MISSION MEET BRITISH DELEGATES
LONDON, April 19 The Russian Soviet Mission met the British
Delegatee headed by Premier MacDonald in the first conft retire since the
settlement of questions between the two countries, the furtherance of
Brttiah recognition of Russia Is the object of the Mission.
Removed president of bank arrested
KANSAS CITY,-April 19—John M. Moore who wn* recently remov
ed as President of the Fidelity National Bank for being short six hundred
thousand dollars was arrested yesterday afternoon.
ALASKAN SOURDOUGH
HAS FOOT REMOVED
SEATTLE, April id—Nature as typfieil by the great out of door, a
particularly rugged frontier which has been his life long joy and "Uly
love, has dealt John Nash, seventy four years of age and an Ala.-.’. u:i
sourdough, a cruel blow and is about to deal another, as the hardy Alas
kan is in Seattle now to have his one and remaining foot amputated and
further amputations of an already severed limb because of frost bite.
"Hut natrue, God bless her, I love her still,” Nash said.
This intrepid prospector of many thrilling experiences in Alaska
when life was rampant in the far North, went to Nome in 1901 from the
gold camps of Colorado and in 1905 he homesteaded at Seward.
GRAND .H KY INDICTS WOMAN FOR MURDER
LOS ANGELES, April 19—The Los Angeles County Grand Jury lias
indicted Mrs. Willis for the murder of Doctor Benjamin Baldwin, early
last Sunday, Mrs. Willis confessed to the police after slaying the doctor,
that the act was committed to defend h*r honor, and that she then
packed the body in a trunk and threw it over an embankment.
SPORTING NEWS
NEW YORK, April 16—The 1921 Pennant campaign opened April
16 as both Major league classes start the season for the world’s champion
ship. The Yankees are overwhelmingly the favorites to win another
American League Pennant with Detroit and Cleveland picked as their chief
rivals, while the New York Giants are picked to repeat their victory over
the National League, although not without a hard fight tropi t.he Cincin
nati Reds and the Pittsburg Pirat*-s.
Wednesday’s games which were the first of the season resulted in
as followsl
AMERK AN LEAGUE.
St. Louis 7. Chicago 3.
New York 2. Boston 1.
Washington 4, Philadelphia 0.
Detroit 4, Cleveland 3.
The game between Boston and
went to 11 innings and was called on
The second games of the season
[in as follows;
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 6, Pittsburg
St. Louis 6, Chicago 5
Brooklyn 3. New York 2.
Boston 6. Philadelphia 6.
Philadelphia in the National league
vhicb were played Thursday resulted
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
New York 3, Brooklyn 2.
Philadelphia and Boston rain.
Cincinnati and Pittsburg rain.
St. Louis 4, Chicago 7.
Salt Lake and Seattle no game
Vernon (S, Los Angeles 3; Oakland
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit and Cleveland rain.
Boston 9. New York 1.
Washington 3. Philadelphia 4
•count wet grounds.
4, Portland 3.
WASHINGTON WILL NOT KNTKH < REW IN OLYMPIC Tit
SEATTLE, April 19 The University of Washington will not enter
a crew in the Olympic tryouts which are scheduled for .iune 13 and 14.
but will enter two crews in Poughkeepsie Meet as decided by th«■ Hoard
of Control a*nd announced by Coach ‘'Rusty*' Callow, who also issued a
challenge to the Naval Academy to race over any distance before the
Poughkeepsie Meet. Letters were awarded to nine* varsity freshmen of
the crew, four freshmen of the wrestling class and ten members of the
Rifle Squad.
STR1IILING MATCHED WITH NEW YORK K. O. SENSATION
NEW’ YORK, April 19—Young Stribling, the whirl wind slugger
from Georgia, and Paul Berlenbach,. the New York knockout sensation
have been matched in a bout planned as a feature of the New York Milk
Fu-nd Show in June, It was learned in the latter city yesterday.
YOUNG STRIBLING STORKS K. O. OVER MoEWAN
NEW YORK, April 19—Young Stribling, the young Georgia giant
from Macon who is classed as a light heavyweight, scored a technical
knockout over Tex McEwan of Canada In the seventh round of their
scheduled teo round bout In New "York last Thursday evening.
800 AOTO’S HELD
OP 8Y QUARANTINE
NEEDLES, California, Apriil 19—Sixteen hundred people and 809
automobiles returning to various parts of the east are being held up at
Needles, California, by the quarantine law of Arizona, which was placed
against California because of the Hoof and Mouth Disease.
FIVE ENLISTED MEN OF U. S. ARMY MEET DE VIII
RALSTON SAYS WILL PLAY PART OF PATRON
BEACH CITY, Iowa, April 19 If what seems to be the impossible
happens 1 will play the part of patron. Senator Samuel M. Ralston of
Indiana wrote A. B. Wingate, the former’s boyhood chum regarding the
prospects of hi* being nominat'd President by the Democrats.
IMMIGRATION BILL PROBABLY PASSED SENATE
j WASHINGTON. April 19—The Senate yesterday morning began ^
I concluding phrases of the debate on the immigration bill wit’^ prospects
J that the measure would bo passed before tin adjour^fnonl of tLat
ITALY ReWdY ACCEPT REPORT REPARATION EXPERTS
WASHINGTON, April 19—The Italian Embassy at Washington. 1).
it’., has announced that Italy is ready to accept the report of f‘«e Ropava
f tions Experts.
DESTROYER FORD REACHES HI RILE ISLAND
COD BAY. Shimshu Island. Kurile Group. April 19—The American
destroyer John D. Ford, with supplies for the American round the world
flyers anchored at the desolate island of Shimshu yesterday.
FLYERS AWAIT
MIRTH) UNALASKA
WASHINGTON. April 19 The War Department instructed the
! round the world flyers to await Major Martin at Dutch Harbor, who is ar.
present in Kanatak awaiting the arrival of a new engine for the flag plane
[Seattle, after being forced down near Portage Bay. enroute to Ch«gi:ik
CHIGN1K. April 18—With early weather reports favorable iudica
jtion.s were that the round the world flyers piloting the Chicago, Boston
and New Orleans would hop off yesterday for Dutch Harbor.
DANISH CABINET RESIGNS
COPENHAGEN. April IS* The Danish Cabinet of Premier Neer
guard, has resigned as a result of the defeat of the government party iu
last weeks election which was won by the Laborites.
BRITISH AVIATOR REACHES CAIRO
CAIRO, April 18—McLaren the British aviator who is making an
attempt to circle the globe in a Junker plane for the British Army, ar
rived in Cairo late Thursday evening from Athens.
pupils Ron dancing master of diamonds
SEATTLE. April 19—J. H. Dohoney. a dancing master, was bound
and robbed of fifteen hundred dollars in cash and some diamonds by two
of his pupils at the close of a lesson yesterday afternoon in Seattle.
MEXICAN REBEL GENERALS CAPTURED AND EXECUTED
MEXICO JMTY, April 19- Three Mexican Rebel Generals wer? cap
tured. courtmartialeH and executed by Federal troops after the defeat
of Rebel troops at Palmar. Tampulipas recently.
NOME FIRE PREVENTION WEEK FROM APRIL 2II1T0 APRIL 26