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The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21
ROAD COMMISSION ACTIVITIES

On account of wet weather the local road crew moved from the new work on Center creek to the Dexter road where improvements were necessary to guard against accidents. All bridge approaches were widened and sharp curves were banked.
 The bridge crew are now on a new bridge across Cooper Gulch. This improvement will eliminate dangerous curve and will allow for better freshet take-off.
 The paint crew is painting all bridges and mile posts.
 The Solomon crew is at Big Hur- rah and are on general read main tenance to the summit of Casade paga Divide.
 The tram crew is on tie replace ment and general maintenance be- tween Salmon Lake and Iron creek.
 Small crews are on general main tenance at Teller. Tin City. Deer ing. Candle, Council and Dime creek.
 Aviation field work is progressing at Candle. Kotzebue and Marshall. The Teller field is now completed. Work is to start on the improve ment of the Golovin. Council and Deering fields soon. Captain Walters has contract for the construction of combination shelter cabins and dog barns at Tissue. Agiaruk. New Igloo. Lopp Lagoon and Sinrazet. The cabin at New Igloo is now completed. The harbor crew has comnleted the clam shell dredging on the North side of the harbor and will now move over to the Sonth revet- ment for the driving of the new es- tension.
 Work is progressing on the erec- tion of mast for use in the high line dredging of the harbor.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Captain Tom Terry, we'll konwn mariner of the Cook Inlet country, left for the States this week. Cap tain Perry underwent a major op- eration in the government hospital at Anchorage a few days before his departure and Dr. Swartz re- commended that the patient be taken south immediately for spec ial treatment. Jack Mcvey, of the hospital staff and nurse accom- panied him.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Rev. E. P. Zeigler, former rec tor of the Episcopal church in Cor dova, but now resident of Seattle, ard an a.tist Of note, arrived in Anchorage recently enroute tU Me Einley Nationai Park, where he will spend the summer painting scenes in the park. and enc of Mount McKiniev.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21
VICTORIA ARRIVES WITH
 PASSENGERS FROM SEATTLE

 The steamer Victoria of the Alas "a S. S. Co.,, arrived at Nome last tuesday night at g o'clock with a uantity of mail, a cargo of freight nd the following passengers: A. Anderson Jeon Anderson c. E. Bryan Mrs. Bryan Miss N. Cox Mrs. G. J. Lomen Edison Marshall s. R. Morgan Mrs. Morgan Miss B. Morgan H. l.. Stull Mrs. H. L. Stull Irene Walker Mrs. l. Eschaeh Mrs. F. Gibson Mrs. NJ. Gillahoun Mrs. M. Hewlett Verne Hashagen Anna Olson W. J. Powers Miss Emily Polet Mrs. F. Pre:::,1 L. Stull
 Miss Pearl vauhn Mrs. Harshagen Miss V. Hasha gen F. Henley Miss Emily Ivanoff Mrs W. Richards Miss B. Sweet Miss NJ Stanley Sis:e- Anna Charles P. A. Sperry Miss R. Shaughne ssey Miss T Shaughnessey W. 4. He ss Ed Walker B. Shain Tom Anayak Dick Kugruzak N. C. Hendersall, for St. Michael.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Wallace Porter, prominent mer- chant and mining man of Dime creek, arrived here today. having made the trip on the steamer Vic toria from Golovin,
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Mrs. Gertrude Mazon, wife of the Bureau of Education teacher at Wales. is an outgoing passenger on the steamer Victoria. accompanied by her daughter Constance. Mrs. Mazon will return in the fall to join her husband.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Mrs. Geo. s. Maynard, wife of the Publisher of The Nome Nugget, accompanied by her son Russell and daughter Mildred, are outgoing passengers on the steamer Victoria enroute to Seattle. where Russell will commence -four years course in journalism at the University of Washington. Mildred will complete her high school education in Seat tie. Mrs. Maynard will set up housekeeping apartments for them during the winter in close proxim- ity to the University.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

RAMS CAUSE FDlK DEAThH
 OMAHA, R)-D. D. Tucker, George Wilson. engine CTS and Jes- SC Davis and John Butts, hremen, were killed when a double-header Wabash freight train plunged in- to the rain swollen creek near Minoela. Torrential rains last ni- ght flooded the creek, washing out the central spans of the wood tres- tie. Six cars of the fifty four car train followed the locomotives in- to the creek.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21
STEAMER VICTORIA SAILS FOR SEATTLE TODAY

The Alaska Line steamer Victoria of the Alaska Steamship Company returned to Nome this morning from St. Michael and Golovin. Shortly after her arrival the bag gage. and freight were loaded and the following passengers took pas sage for Seattle:
 Robert Peterson
 Mrs. J. Silverman and child
 Mrs. A. D. Melvin and child
 Albert Peterson Miss Mildred Maynard Mrs. Geo. S. Maynard Russell Maynard Mrs. Suksdorf Mrs. Gertruda Mazon Miss Constance Mazon Miss c. Call Miss Olga Call H. F. Lind Miss M. Wilder Mrs. J. A. Bigelow Mrs. D. O. Hass Mrs. F. E. Harrison Francis Harrison Phyllis Harrison N. H. Howard L, D. Gray B. s. Anderson ". L. Gervais c. M. Fields John Gregor Chas. Berg Herman Wenzel E. <. Range and wife John Henning
 Earl Rossman
 Miss Ferguson
 Leonard Baldwin
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

C. l.. Peck and Mrs. Bernard were arriving passengers in Nome from Iron creek Sunday. MT. Peck plans on returning to the Kougarok section to inspect some mining ground.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21
WIEN GROS. ARRIVE
 FAIRBANKS TO-DAY

Pilot Noel Wien and Pilot Ralph Wien, flying two cabin planes from Nome. enroute to Anchorage. with Pilot Merrill and nurse Emily Morgan. arrived safely at Faibanks at noon today.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Miss Billy Ferguson, who has been associated with the Lomen Reindeer Corporation since the ar rival of the first Victoria, is an out going passenger on this Vic, en- route to the Seattle office of the company.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Jack Warren Deputy Marshal at St. Michael, returned to Nome on the Motorship Donaldson this week. Mr. Warren will remain at Nome for some time before returning to St. Michael.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Bobby Benson, the Iron creek up- orator, who, it is reported, has un- covered some rich gold bearing ground, had a larg shipment of supplies sent up over the tramroad by Mort Powell's "kougarok Linn ited car.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21
LOCAL NEWS

The reindeer ship Sierra, of the Arctic Transport Company is sched- uled to sail from Seattle for Nome today.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Mrs. N. W. Richards, formerly Miss Clara Mielke, and daughter of former Councilman Mielke and wife who were old sourdouhgs, was a re- turning passenger to Nome on the steamer Victoria. where she. will spend part of the summer. Mrs. Richards was graduated from the Nome High School and after the death of her father during the flu epidemic she made the trip to Se- attle with her mother and she mad her home there until the death of her mother about a year ago. Mrs. Richards is making her home with the Polets.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

Jake Overbaugh, mining man from Dime creek, arrived on the Victoria today from Golovin.
The Nome nugget., 1928-07-21

RAMS uAvsE r.,,K DEATHS
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30

the mythclogical deities of the Japanese.
 From the sacred rice crop will also be brewed about 80 gallons of black and white sake, which will be drunk by the guests at the thanksgiving banquet. The grain from which the sake is brewed will be transported to the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto, where it will be blessed by the priests.
 In addition to the 100 virgins who will tend the two fields, there will be 40 men, to do the heavy work. At the entrance to each field special ablution pavilions are being built, where the workers, both men and women, must bathe and purify themselves every morning before taking up their duties.
 The girls who will tend the sa- cred fiells have been selected from villages in the vicinity. They must wear special purple and bluc kimonos with broad ,brim- med sedge-hats, and must use a red "tasuki" or cord for girding
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
G. 0. P. Convention
 Beckons Motorists
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Jackson; Yahoo City and Clarks- dale to Memphis; U. s. 61 to St. Louis; IT. s. 40 to Kansas City.
 From Houston: U. s. Il to Dal- las; to Tulsa Nby way of Fort Scott; U. s. 66 and 73 to Kansas City.
 From Los Angeles: Santa Fe trail to Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Trinidad; Optional detour to Grand Canyon); U. s. 30 to Mo Emerson and north to Salina;. U. s. 40 to Kansas City.
 From Seattle: Yellowstone trail to Denver by way of Spokane, Missoula Butte, Billings. Chey- enne and Greedy; Optional detour to Cody and the Yellowstone or side trip to Rocky Mountain park; by way of U. s. 40 to Sa- lima, Topeka and Kansas City.
 From Chicago: State highway 1 (U. s. 6G) to Joliet, Bloomington, Springfield and St. Louis; U. s. 40 to Kansas City.
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 Ramona by Gunsky. Anderson Music Shoppe. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30

TOKYO, May 30-The sacred paddy fields. in which rice will be grown for use in the imperial coronation ceremonies next No yember. arc being prepared for the transplanting of the seedlings in June
 A hundred Japanese virgins be- tween the ages of IF and 20 have been selected for the honorable cultivation of the fields and are already busily engaged in fash ioning the costumes they must wear in this work.
 When the fields were selected, one at Suki and the other at Yuki, they were purified by Shin to priests. Further ceremonies will be held when the seedlings are transplanted.
 About 15 bushels of rice will be grown in each of the sacred fields. Some of the grain will be cooked and eaten only by the em- peror at the imperial banquet in kyoto after the ruler has person. ally offered helpings to the spirits of the imperial ancestors and to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
DOUGLAS NEVIS
A. 1. COAL co. OFFICIALS
 TALK AT COUNCIL MEET

At the regular monthly meet fng of the Douglas City Council (which was held last evening, busi- |ness of mora or less routine |nature prevailed.
 The bonds of the different city officials were approved and bills |amounting to S71715 were voted paid. City Marshal Grant was granted a commensurate raise in salary for extra work performed. . Arrangements were authorized Whereby John Mills, local trans Her man, may obtain the use of |the city truck for any jobs he has |Of hauling gravel Streets, sew |ers. fire and water, and wharf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
SHOWER FOR MISS HEWITT


 Misses Elizabeth and Mamie Fc,isi entertained a number of their friends at shower which was given in honor of Miss Helen Hewitt whose approaching mar risge wss announced very recent ly. A novel variety of games fur nished the amusement of the oc- casion. Miss Hewitt was the re- cipient Of many useful gifts for the kitchen.
 The guests included Mesdames o. c. Goss, F. Bach, H. c. Helmes, J. Feusi, Ada Hewitt, and the Misses Cecille -Cashen, Madeline Riedi, Elsie Edmiston, Elizabeth Eraser. Una Crowes Kathlcen Me Cornick, Martha asey, Impi Aalto, Ali Kromquist, Beth Anderson and Lucile Fox.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
First Division Proved
 Tank MeitIe in Drive
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 June, but gradually slowed down.
 When the Americans came out of the front lines they realized the horror of what they had been through. On May 30 funeral was held for some of the dead in picturesque little cemetery near the front. Aged French women and little children stripped their gardens of flowers to cover the graves of the American heroes
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
UNITED STATES LA.L OFFICE ANCHORAuE, ALASKA. U. s. NON MINERAL SURVEY
 No. 1857
SeriaI No. Uo6l9

NOTICE oF APPLICATION | IN THE MATTER OF THE AP- PLICATION of the DEEP SEA SALMON COMPANY, a corpor-
 ation, for leave to enter and
 purchase tract of land, con
 sisting of 14.36 acres, as a
 trade and manufacturing site,
 located on Chichagoff Island,
 Territory of Alaska.
 Notice is hereby given that the Deep Sea Salmon Company, cor poration. duly organized and ex- isting under the laws of the State of Washington, and qualified to engage in business in the Terri tory of Alaska and in the State of Washington, and whose Alas kan post office address is Port Althorp, Alaska, and whose Washington post office address is Colman Building. Seattle. Wash ington, has filed it's application in the United States Land Office in Anchorage, Alaska, to purchase and en- 1T upon as a Trade and Manufacturing Site the lands em- braced in U. S. Mineral Sur vey No. 1857, which are situated on the west shore of Port AL thorp, Chichagoff Island, in the Territory of Alaska, une and fhree quarter miles southeast of Point Lucan, Latitude 5Ss z 50" North, Longitude 1869 20' 00" west, containing 14.36 acres. and more particularly described as follows, to-wit:
 Commcncing at Corner No.
 1, on mean high tide line on
 west shore of Port Althorp,
 Alaska, whence U. S. L. NJ.
 No. 1857 bears south 16'
 5S' 24" east 1924 chains dis
 tant; thence west 20.S0
 chains to Corner No. 9;
 thence North HIS chains to
 Corner No. 8; thence East
 0.S5 chains to Corner No. 4;
 thence, meanderipS the mean
 high tide line on west shore
 of Port Althorp. Alaska,
 south 26e 59' East 3.48
 chains, South 45' 3O' East
 3.25 chains, South 82e 45,
 East 3.33 chains, South 31e
 18' East 3.75 chains, North
 S60 56' East 3.1S chains;
 South 67o 04' East 1.05
 chains, South 13' 20' East
 LA chains. South 18' 30,
 West O5S chains, to Corner
 No 1, the place of beginning.
 Declination 31' 30' East.
 Any and all persons claiming any portion of the above described tract are required to file in the United States Land Office, at An chorage, Alaska, their adverse claim or claims during the period of publication, or within thirty. (30) days thereafter.
 DATED at Anchorage Alsska, this 7th day of April. 1928
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register, U. s. Land office. First publication, April 12. 1928. Last publication, June 14, 1928.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30

their sleeves. The virgins sing sacred songs and perform appro- priate dances during the planting
 When the rice planting oere- monies were performed for the coronation of the late Emperor Taisho 1t was estimated that 1S0.0o0 persons from the neigh. boring towns and villages jour neyed to the fields. Special trains were operated for the spec tators.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30

were each reported upon by the various committees ill charge.
 At the opening of the meeting, Robert s. Donaldson and Howard II. Lerch, officials of the Admiral ty Island Coal Company, who were present, described the operations and prospects on their mine and spoke for local patronage which they pointed out would not only benefit their company but busi- ness in general on the channel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
wEIsEL LEAVES

George F. Weisel. assistant manager of the Juneau Lumber Mills, left on the Yukon for a six weeks business trip in the interests of the company. He will visit the westward cities and will so inside to Fairbanks
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
JOHN MEGGITT SAILS

John Meggitt, loeal high school boy and speedy messenger of the United States Cable office force, left on the Yukon for Cordova. He will spend the summer at the westward. returning here to schoo, in the fall and also his messenger job which Tom Red lingshafer is holding down for him
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
DAY PASSES QUIETLY

A general holiday prevailed in Douglas today in commemoration of Memorial Day. No special ex- ercises or programs were he'd, but individuals went out in num- bers to the cemetery to decorate the graves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
SAM LEE SENTENCED

Sam Lee, of Petersburg. was sentenced to serve 60 days in jail On a charge of petit laDceny by U. s. Commissioner c. Clau- sen of that place, according to word received at the U. s. Mar shal's office here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
FLoRY LEAVES TODAY.

District Forester Charles H. Flory will leave on the Aleutian for Wrangell where he will be met by Ranger boat from Pet ersburg and taken to that place. He will return here later this week on the steamer Admiral Evans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30

Ramona by Gunsky. Anderson Music Shoppe. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
Q. F. D. MEETING
 THURSDAY NIGHT

A meeting of the Douglas fire department is called for tomor- row night to consider many i'm portant matters. All members are requested to attend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-30
MRS. THOMPSON HERE
 AFTER LONG ABSENCE

Mrs. H. J. Thompson, who has been in the States since her re- turn from the American Legion convention in Paris last year, re- turned tc Juneau on the steamer Yukon.
 During some time previous to her departure for the Pacific Coast Mrs. Thompson was resld- ing in Kansas City. She joined Dr. and Mrs. l.. P. Dawes there and motored west with them.
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THREE KILLED on BOAT

ALMUNECAR, Granada, Spain,
Nav ga gasoline engine exploded
today on board the fishing vessel
Felisa, killing three members
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-26

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A-folks who know the joys of the open
~ road own a car of their own. And you
can enjoy these pleasures by selecting
car to suit your purse and taste
from the CITY WIDE" used car bar
gains listed for sale in today's-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-26
.HICKSON SALON
FOR CAPITAL
Times staff Photo

Washington's Fifth Avenue. AS
Connecticut Avenue is known, has
joined hands with the famous
Fifth Avenue, of New York in the
purchase by Hickson. Inc, Of New
York, of a new four-story building
here for a speciality shop and
dressmaking salon.
The Washington store of Hicl-
son will be at 1919 Connecticut
floor space, occupy all four floors
and noted French artists have been
selected to decorate and furnish the
establishment which will be open
September /.
The lower floor will be devoted
to millinery, hosiery, novelties,
handbags, jewelry, perfumes. lin
gerie and accessories. The second
floor will be devoted to the needs
of the ready-to-wear. furs and the
dressmaking salon. The two upper
floors will be used for workrooms.
and executive offices.
The Washington shop will handle
the same merchandise as that of
the Fifth Avenue shop of Hickson,
both as to character and variety.
The management of the local shop
will be in the hands of trained
members Of the Hickson staff.
Hickson. Inc. also is opening
two summer resort shops this sea-
son. One will be at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, Snd the other at
Hyannis, Mass. The organization
has another summer shop at
Southampton, Long Island.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-26
SLUSH PROBERS.
TO QUESTION.
WOMAN

Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
Assistant Attorney General, and an
ardent Hoover supporter, will be
the star witness before the Senate
Presidential Campaign Committee
when it resumes on Monday its probe
of campaign expenditures on behalf
Of Presidential aspirants.
The committee said Mrs. WILLIE
brandt had volunteered to testify
concerning Frank Hale, publisher
of politics" an anti Hoover weekly.
Hale testified that he was EN-
ployed in the prohibition unit for
five years, part of the time having
been stationed in New York. Mrs.
Willebrandt, in charge Of prohibit
ton matters for the Department of
Justice, it was said by the commit
tee. Is said to want to tstify con.
corning Hale's connection with pro-
hibition enforcement.
Hale has refused to give the COM
mittee details of the source of his
income which makes 1t possible for
him to publish at a weekly loss, the
magazine to attack Hoover.
Among the other witnesses sched.
uled for Monday is III. w. Weeks,
described by Hale as a former Sec
rotary to Gen. Lincoln Andrews,
when Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury, and who was said by Hale
to have transmitted a threat that
IL Hoover were elected President,
Washington would be made too
hot and too small for Hale unless
the Hoover attacks ceased.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-26
Society Chartered By
Those On Blacklist
OF D. A. R.

NEW YORK, May 26-Supreme
Court Justice Grain today APP
proved a certificate of incorpora-
ton for an organization to be
known as Sons and Daughters
Of Blacklists."
The organization Is composed of
persons blacklisted by the D. A. r.
Some of the reasons for the
organization follow:
ITO pay particular attention to
the First Amendment, and to make
all possible effort to keep it from
falling into the same disrepute as
the Eighteenth Amendment.
ITO oppose, by calm methods,
all forms of public hysteria,
acknowledging the right of any
single individual to carry out his
own hysteria in his own way.
ITO carry to the four corners
of the earth, the slogan: Red,
But Not Dictated
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-26
COMPANY BLOCKS TRIAL

ORANGE, N. j., May 26.-Delay
III the trial of the suits Of the five
Orange, N. J.. women who are 81.
ing the United States Radium Cor.
poration for damages totalling ST..
100000 for injuries resulting from
tho use of radium paint while in
the company's employ, has provoked
considerable discussion here. A
resolution protesting against the de.
lay was adopted by the East Orange
West Orange Kiwanis Clubs.
Attorneys for the corporation
made known in q letter to Vice
Chancellor John II. Backes Of New.
ark that they will not agree to a
hearing Of the actions in Chancery
court, a steJ suggested by the vice
chancellor in an effort to reach a
decision in the suits before death
robs the doomed girls of their last
c. - for damages.