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Evening star., 1935-09-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Newton Thatcher
Compton of Great Cacapon. w. Va,
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16


 B D Stewart, Territorial Mining Engineer, recently married in New York, stop ped for two days in Wash ington, this week, enroute to Juneau. All of MT. Stew arts Washington friends were charmed on meeting Mrs. Stewart and agreed that Juneau will be forum ate indeed to have her per- manently.
 Gro Be Continued Tomorrow)
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16

The examiner of the Fed ral Communications Con- mission in charge of the hearing on the application of radio station KGBU, at Ketchikan, for an increase in power has recommend ed approval of the applica- ,tion. It is not likely that final decision will be made by the Commission until some time in December. However, because of the public service rendered by the station over such a
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16

The following appoint ments of postmasters in AL aska have been made by the Post office department for offices as named:
 Wallace P Macdonald Akiachak.
 Elmer E Stohl, Kasilof
 Carrol E. Black, Wales. J Lloyd Ripley, Buckland
 Thomas Nermo, Meehan.
 Mrs. Edna M. Watson, Cape Yakataga (Yakataga 
 Russell M Keith. Paxon.
 Frank James, KlaWock.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
Father Bernard,

Father Bernard, s. J.,
 who recently returned from his ninth trip to AL ask2, was in Washington, November 18th. F'a-her Hubbard is giving lectur- es, in many eastern cities, Illustrated by motion-p.c.- ures made on Taku Glac- fer during the past sum- mer.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
The Washington Newsletter
Continued From Page One

Continued From Page One Delegate believes such a course is the best to follow in order to assure lmmed- fate construction. The al- ternate course is that the architects revise the plans and specifications to bring them within the amount of the allotment-this would take several months beSid- eS additional time that would be required in call ing for new bids.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16

large area of Alaska, it is believed that the applica- tion will be approved with out objection.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16

Lorin T. Oldroyd left Washington last week to take up his duties as direct or of Agricultural Exten- sion at the University ct Alaska. MT. Oldroyd has been connected With agri- cultural extension work in Wyoming tor more than 10 years and was formerly Commissioner of Agricul- ture in Wyoming.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
The Washington
 News Letter
OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND Delegate from Alaska
 (By J. J. ECKLES)
Nov. Is, 1885


 Some uncertainty as to the likelihood of immediate construction of the ketch- ikan Federal Building has occurred because the low est construction bid is con- siderable in excess of the amount of funds available for actual construction. The gross amount of money available tor the project IS $40O,0OO this being the $300,000 set aside by the Emergency Act of 1884 plus an additional $100,- 900 that was included in the Emergency Act of 19- 35.
 Proposed allotments and reservations for amounts believed necessary for the seaWall, furniture and of ice equipment, jail equip ment, lighting fixtures, fin lShlng work, superintend- ence and other similar costs amount to $185,731 which, when added to $278,582- the amount of the low bid the estimated cost $64,313 in excess of the S4OO, 900 available. As it appears unlikely that addi- tional funds can be secured to increase the existing al- lotment for the building, Delegate Dimond has been cooperating with officials of the Treasury Depart ment in their efforts to el- intimate sufficient items of cost to bring the construc- ton within the amount available. Some progress has been made along this line and it appears probab- le that adjustments can be made to meet the cost limit without sacrificing any inn medately necessary featur- es in the building. The
 Continued on Page 3
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Japanese Parity
 Demand Snarls Naval lAgreement
(By The Associated Press)


 London, Dec. 16, Wis count Monsell, first Lord of the Admiralty summar- ized the naval conference situation to Premier Bald win, while the delegates sought to unravel the snarl resulting the Japanese eq- uality demands.
 Informed sources expect ed negotiators to attempt to dispose of or side-track the parity issue soon, in order to permit the confer ence to proceed with the discussion of limitations on submarines, tonnage, type of warships, and arma- ments.
 A secret session of just the chiefs of the American, British, Japanese, French, and Italian delegations, is slated for late today.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
Reinstatement
 Alaska Moneys
 Is Being Tried
(By The Associated Press)


 Anchorage, Dec. 16, - Mayor Oscar Gill and the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce received tele- grams from Secretary Of Commerce Daniel C Roper, saying that he had asked Postmaster General Farley, Secretary of War Dern and Delegate Dimond to confer with Harry Hopkins, ad- ministrator of the Works Progress Administration, to press demands for the reinstatement of $2,900,000 in allocations for Alaskan airport improvements.
 Delegate Dimond had been previously informed that the funds had been withdrawn.
 Reinstatement is sought on the grounds that the projects are a benefit to commerce, the army and the navy.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
Report Survey
 Is Returned By
 Sect'y. H. Ickes
(By The Associated Press)

Washington, Dec. 16, - Secretary of the Interior Ickes returned the annual report of the Geological Survey which stated it had mapped more than 46,0O0 square miles in the Terri tory during the 1885 fiscal year.
 It said that in the Alaska Bureaus surveys of miner al resources including spec ial mapping, the service is indispensable to any en- terprise concerned with
 the development of the Territory"
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16

Counter Attacks Are Prepared By
 Premier Baldwin
(By The Associated Press)

tBy The Associated PreSS)
 Undated, Dec. 16, - A system of counter attacks on the critical Anglo-Fren- ch peace plan, is in prepara tion by the British govern ment.
 Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin is preparing mat erial for presentation to the House of Commc 'S
 The British cabinet, in token of the seriousness with which Britain receiv- ed a storm of criticism, met today in emergency session.
 On the southern front, Fascist took the defensive, braced for an attack ex- pected momentarily from 4c;300 Ethiopian. .9ndts Ras Desta Demtu. Italian airplane today bombed Ethiopian forces near Neg helli, on the southern front.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
Students Strike
 Opposition To
 Japanese Forces
tBv The Associated Press,

tBv The Associated Press,
 Peiping, Dec, Is, Defy ing police clubs and warn ing volleys of rihe-fire, and streams from fire hoses, Chinese student demonstra- tors stormed through the city in protest against the Japanese aggression.
 A huge mass meeting of seven thousand demonstra- tors decided to call a na- tion-Wide student strike.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
TWENTY-FOUR DEFENDANTS IN RIOT TRIAL IN AT JUNEAU
 FREED BY JURY SATURDAY
Defense Attorney Says Verdict Is A
 Victory For Working Glass
CBY The Associated Press)

tBY The Associated Press)
 Juneau, Dec. 16, - Foll- owing the acquittal Satur- day of tWenty-four defen- dants, charged with rioting in the Alaska Juneau mine strike last June, defense at- torney Irwin Goodman said
 "The International Labor Defense, which l represent, regards this as a tremen- dous victory for the work ing class
 District Attorney Will liam Holzheimer said: q feel the verdict clears the case of riot but that was a matter for the jury to de- eide. This office will con- tinue to vigorously prose- cute any further cases of rioting which might arise.' ,
 There are eight indict- ments remaining against men who have not been apprehended.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16

Have your name printed on Xmas cards at The Nugget
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
Member Society
 Family Philly Is
 Kidnapped N. Y
(By The Associated Press)

Nv York, Dec. 16, Cal eb J. Milne, fourth mem- Der of the socially promin- ent Philadelphia family, disappeared Saturday from his New York apartment, and Sunday night was re- ported to have been kid naped for ransom.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
Japanese Include Railroad Staiion
 In Military Coup
(By The Associated Press)

tBy The Associated Press)
 Kagan, Chahar province, China, Dee. IS, A swift military coup gave the Jap anese virtual con '1ol over Ie terminals Of the inn Dortant railroad running through Kalgan to the sea.
 Soldiers marched into <algan and threw a wall of machine guns, and bay onets around the railroad station.
 A few hours earlier sol diers in the Japanese-sup- ported station of East Hopei province, went into action for the first time and rout- ed nationalist forces, Seiz- ing the seaport terminus of the railway at Tangku.
 All gates to Kalgan were closed, as residents feared an extension of hostilities to thi strategic city.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16

ORDERS TAKEN FOR XMAS CARMELS UP TO DEC. 2O-Delivered Xmas Eve. Plain 75cts; With nuts Sl .OO lb.-Hank Miller.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
Alaska Students
 Organize Club
 U of Washington
(Ry The Associated Press)

NIy lllt ASSONldlCd itooJ
 Seattle, Dec. 16, Alas ka students at the UniVer- sity of Washington organ ized a club today, electing Robert Henning of Juneau it's first president, Frank Reed of Anchorage vice president, and Marian Fost- CT of Juneau secretary treasurer. There are twenty charter members. A name for the club is to be chosen later, it was announced.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16

San Francisco, Dec. Is, LUCIA upset the dope on football Sunday when it de- feated the St. Marys Gaels by a score of 13 to 2 in the final collegiate game of the season here, before a scant crowd of $500.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
SENATOR ME CLAIMS U.
 s. CITIZENS VICTIMS OF
 A JAPANESE WAR SCARE
Republican Senator Declares U. s. Is
 Setting Pace For Armaments
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 Seattle, Dec. 16, Am erica, which should set an example to the world in the war against war, instead was setting the pace for warlike prepara- tions, Senator Gerald P. Nye, republican of North Daktota, told a Seattle audience Sunday, follow ing his arrival with the
 congressional delegation
 headed by Vice President
 Garner, from the Orient.
 Nye left here Monday by plane for California to de- liver a series of addresses before returning to Wash ington to launch an investi- gation into how the United States became embroiled in the world war. Most of the others left by train Sunday night for the East.
 Launches Criticism
 "Just now Americans are victims of a war scare with Japan', Nye said, adding that America hasn't faced more dangerous days since the world war
 The plea for national de- fense was characterized by Nye as becoming too much of a market for profit.
 q have no cure for all of the diseases for which the war is responsible, but I can do much to greatly lessen the danger of our be- ing drawn into another war-first by enlarging our neutrality policy-and then by removing the profit it. self and preparation for it. y
 Government Ownership
 Nye advocated govern ment ownership of the mu- nitions industry, and said that the sentiment was growing stronger in favor of taxing incomes above ten thousand dollars, even as high as 99 percent in time of war.
 :. Townsend Plan Threat =
 The returning delegates were chary in discussing the coming session of con- gross, or the importance as
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The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16

Newspaper advertising will develop new business for you.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-16
Football Scores
(By The Associated Press)

Los Angeles, Dec. Is, - Pittsburgh defeated South ern California at football Sunday, before a crowd of thirty-five thousand fans.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

for 7Oaste land, peat bog and
other parcels of real estate.
And then order the barristers
who have been fortunate"
enough to secure Advance infor-
NATION as to the routes OF state
highways in time to secure power
of "attorney-in-fact" from these
land owners to stand trial in a
district court.
Slap some of these slippery
gents in jail and let's have an end
to exorbitant highaVay taxes and
expenditures!
Come on, senate committee.
Wake UP and nibble your oats!
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13
When you are driving over
any of the Minnetonka boule-

When you are driving over
kany of the Minnetonka boule-
wards and your car starts do
ing the BLACK Bottom" don't
blame the mechanic. It's the
natural reaction of your four
wheel contact with a series of
holes drilled by the Elsberg
regime in an effort to elevate
the "Babcock Plan"
Those holes are prima facie
evidence of the Rochefort
cheese system used on all Min
nesota highways. They lay the
foundation on the bed of faith
Cor peat bog) and when the
law of gravitation gets in its
work, they steam roller the
high spots and pump concrete
under the low. Both opera
tons have two tendencies:
One to debate the taxpay-
ers' pocket and the other to in
flate the tax rate-to say
nothing about keeping the pie
counter boys in good spirits
Cor moon).
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

d. .~f~-'s's -
been done! Tightfisted owners?
Why, the dodgers must even fur
nish their own vermin disinfect-
ant! One poor devil stayed up
all night fighting the tiny, smell
ly,- unhealthy creatures common
-ly known as ''bed, bugs.
The place is a fire trap, the
fire escape being almost inacces-
sible! When you ask the mana
ger about bringing children in to
live, he replies that he does not
permit children upstairs. He
does not say why, but the reason
is easy to- guess: he's conscien-
tious enough not to want children
,enmeshed in a trap should fire
ever break out. :. .I:E:.
Most of the tenants are poor,
some on city relief, some; on
transient relief. Nearly all bar
ter with the church with script,
and the church charges thirty
fi0e cents for fiUe pounds of sn-
qar, with similar exorbitant
price-rate on other goods!,A:
You are shown another room
in which an elderly; ailing55''and
INDECENT man had lived i'm squal-
or you'd associate only with Chi
ma and India. Barely able to
move about, his mind somewhat
deranged, the old fellow existed
amid growing pile of garbage
stacked against the wall of his
room. Reaches swarmed in, the
garbage, in the food he ate and
the milk he drank. The church,
which had placed him in the
room, left him there until shortly
before he died. They finally had
him moved to the general .hospi-
tai.
You've seen the misery, had
the stencil of unsanitary condi-
tions held to your nose. You, an
outsider, know all this. Why
doesn't the church, the tightfist-
ed element responsible for all
this, know about it ? Why doesn't
the Right Reverend George
Mecklenburg know about this ?
He does know about it! Misery
and need for reform right in the
backyard of the Wesley church,
while its pastor tours the city's
might life in search of misery
and need for reform!
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

One fairly sensible part of the
plan to increase the personnel of
the state bureau of criminal ap-
prehension is the broadcasting
station, which will give the S. B.
of c. A. the opportunity of send
ing crime bulletins to every cor
ner ofsthe state. However, all the
crime bills now before the legis-
lature are are just like other bills
on-say taxes. They'll hit only
the little fellows.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13
Jesse James, Small Town Bad Boy

Old esse Shade Must Envy the Opportunities of Present Day
Fountain Pen Bandit Jesse Slept Corn Shocks and Filled
Mcclellan Saddle Modern Jesses Sleep On Inner Spring
Mattresses and Ride Upholstered Chairs View Of
The Excelsior Blvd Track Project Who Got the Money?
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

The state legislature is on its
last full month of legislation.
Time enough to sing, Its time
for us to co.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

abandoned! New rights of way
were purchased at highly inflated
prices and new foundations laid
for traffic lanes sufficient to han
die traffic on New York's main
stem.
There has been no attempt
made by the highway department
since it fell into the hands of the
present administration, to do any
thing except sqnander the tax-
payers money. There isn't foot
of any boulevard between Min
neapolis and Lake Minnetonka
worth one-half the money it has
cost the taxpayers of Minnesota
one foot.
And the entire territory tribu-
tary to the city is networked with
glaring examples of highway de-
partment inefficiency or gross ig-
norance, to use the most mild of
words.
The so-called Wayzata boule-
vard-where the "attorney-in-
fact" scandal threatens to send
some enterprising gent to jail for
a long, long time, is a case in
point:
The hard surface was applied
before the bed settled. For sew
eral years it has been necessary
to pump up" the depressions-
something like the Roosevelt sys-
tenn of "pumping-up" the finan-
cial sag-by sinking good money
in an unfllable hole! The high
way departments system is slight
ly different. 1t starts a drilling
crew at work. A row of holes
that almost touch, are drilled at
intervals of few inches and
then a nozzle" of a concrete gun
inserted. The thin concrete is
forced, under high pressure to
and through the soft sub-founda-
ton. Eventually, and with suff-
cient pressure and expensive con-
crete, the road bed is raised to a
near-normal elevation-to later
sink to new low levels. The SEN
ate investigating committee can
verify my statement by merely
sending a few of his highly train
ed expert investigators" over
any state highway between this
city and the Minnetonka district.
The waste of money-the Grim
inal aVaste-is apparent. But the
committee prefers exercising its
LEG muscles in political log-rolling
contests-unfortunately.
Let that committee snap out OF
its trance, swing into real action
and forget politics and see how
quick the highway department
gang will start for the tall and
uncut.
Something's got to be done to
end this damnable waste of pub
lie money and there's just one
way to do it:
Get bMsy and demand books OF
record of the highauay depart.
ment. Subpoena the Gamers Of
land through (Which rights of at'd,
haze been purchased. Put them
andey oath and compel then, ia
disclose the price THEY yeeeivss
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

If the shade of Jesse James can
look down upon the opportunities
Of the present day, the noted out
Jaw must regret his too-early ap-
pearance on this planet. He must
contrast the n g hit he slept
in corn shocks with the present day
system of inner-spring mattresses
and the swivel chairs with up
holstered seat and luxurious back,
with the Mcclellan saddle of his
bandit days. But old Jesse took
a chance-give him credit for
that.
! am moved to these rumina-
tions by a drive over the broad
boulevard between this city and
the Minnetonka Lake district.
What snap that job would have
been for old Jesse. 1t wasn't
such a bad job for the present
day babies!
The Excelsior boulevard is one
Of the most inviting speedways in
the United States. 1t is as broad
as the Dayton beach where speed
tests are pulled-and it is paral-
leled by one of the most expen-
sive trunk highways in this or
,any other state. One can throw
an apple peel from the new trunk
highway to the center of the
.ssOld. and there~iSa,t a Hsseal foot
Of the neav road that zsusn't con-
strmcted because the people acre
too dumb to knozV they aVere be-
ing robbed. I'll retract and change
that statement
They acre robbed because mo
publication dared tell them they
WERE being robbed.
Just recently the stencil from
that rotten deal worked its way
to the surface. 1t broke through
an old abandoned street railway
road bed. The company had pull
ed up its tracks and everything
else except few of the badly
worn postholes years ago. 1t
didn't want the old road bed and
the farmers along the right of
way couldn't make use of it be-
cause of the depression and ele-
vations in it, so the highaVay de-
pertinent bought it for one hum
dYed and twenty-five thousand
dollars!
It was worth about half that
much in Confederate currency!
When the deal began to smell
real loud, some of the higher.
ups in the highway department
belched up the excuse that the
old road beds purchase was or.
iginally a part of the "Babcock
plan" That doesn't mean thing
The "Bacbcock plan" wasn't ex,
actly a lily-white proposition, but
no one squawked because Mr.
Babcock was acceptable to Mr.
Olson who must have been fully
satisfied with the "plan,' so that
excuse and alibi is out.
In the contraction of the Elk.
celsior boulevard-and dozens OF
others-there was no attempt
made to follow the lines or make
use of the existing road bed Of
paralleling highways. These scsr'
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13
By Seth

BY Seth
On the corner of Grant Street
and First Avenue stands an edi-
flee consecrated to the work of
the Christian God Jehovah. The
Wesley looms haughtily over its
more humble, secular neighbors.
One neighbor, specially humble
and disreputable in appearance,
practically. rubs elbows with the
affluent-appearing church. The
church has grown fat on the mis-
cry of its neighbor. And while
the Right Reverend George
Mecklenburg, paunchy- bafdish
pastor of Wesley church, tours
Minneapolis night life in search
of sin and vice, misery parks
next his door.
1926, 1927 lst Avenue South
are the identifying numbers OF
Wesley church's closest neighbor
and, incidentally, is the property
of the church. You open the
door and pass into the gloom of a
rancid hallway. To your right
is the office where you'll find
the custodian-or manager-ot
the building, an, honest-appearing
man in his forties who impresses
YOU as a man who has worked
hard all his life to no avail. He's
glad to show you rooms. You
follow him up stairways, and on
the way, notice that the walls are
dirty and badly patched in spots,
which bespeaks tightfistedness
on the part of the owners.
The manager opens the door
of one room, and you stand ap-
palled at its appearance, which
can only be likened to the slum-
| lest of tenement rooms of the
type supposed to be found only
in cities like Chicago and New
York, which don't give a dam
how they house their poor.
Large chunks of plaster fallen
from the ceiling; woodwork dir
fly and stained by the bodies of
ermin; a rusty bed with fair
ly good mattress 1.-THE former
mattress, you are to learn later,
was ordered thrown out by the
state Inspector because of the
vermin infesting it) a couple of
rickety chairs; and you easily
notice that the wall paper has
been recently removed and a
cheap paint used to- cover the
plaster (the tightfisted owners
againD The room was suppos-
ed to be light housekeeping
room. There is a dilapidated
gas range, disconnected. There
is no running water. The room
rents for three dollars a week.
The former occupant had died
there!
That is only one of the several
rooms you are shown, the others
being just as filthy, and even
worse! There are four floors,
and the walls and woodwork of
the. Railways are splotched and
dirty. In March the apartment
house was visited by the state in
spector, who ordered that all the
halls be washed, painted, and the
plaster patched by April g., and
as we go to press the date is the
eighth and this work has not
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13
A Church and Its SquaIor

Rev. Meckenbrg Shouting of Reform of Clean City and
Cleanliness Operates the Most Filthy Rooming House
This Side of Hongkong Thicker Than Grass Blades
on Lawn Swarm Over Food Clothing and Beds-And the
Dominic Prays On! ~
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-04-13

The rich may be getting richer,
the poor poorer, but springs
coming. nor shabby clothes
nor rundown shoes can erase
loves tender glow from youthful
faces when each discovers the
other is the one and only. /.
That | for your poverty and rags.