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Communications Addressed, to The Nome Nugget
New Law To Give To Alaska Owners Home
 Tracts Survey-Title

| A self-explanatory letter to Nome Daily Nugget, written at Washing ton, December 20, by Delegate Al Dimond, was received in the last mail, reading as follows,
 Herewith enclosed is copy of Pub 5lic No. 260-73rd Congress, relating to small homesteads or homesites and providing for survey thereof without expense to the applicants This Act was passed in it's present form and with limitation of resi- dence requirements to five months each year, at my insistence and over considerable opposition. This Act is of importance to many people of Alaska, both in the interior and on the coast, for many settlers who have their homes on small tracts would be entitled to survey and patent under this Act at very slight expense. Heretofore the applicant was obliged to pay the cost of sur vey himself and this cost was, in many cases, prohibitive
 Tt has come to my attention that very few people in Alaska know anything about this amendment to the law and therefore request that you publish the Act in full in your paper at some convenient time for the information of the public"
 The Act in full as passed and ap- proved, follows:
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MoJAvE STRIKE EXAMPLE TO ALASKA,

Spirited Aaskans will find inspiration in the new gold- silver strike in the Mojave
 Pacific Coast papers ringing with news o the most sensational strike in hard rock since the days of Godeds and Tonopah.
 Mining engineers from all the continent prospec tors and many who know nothing of the game have ocked into the region by thousands.
 Therein the state which the scene of the great California placer gold srke-what may prove the biggest find of the kind yet has just been made nearly century after California first became mining sensation And yet some will say all chances for finds past in the min ing areas of Amerca, Alaska included.
 The old story has gone the rounds that young men no longer know game and will not take the chance take to the game Yet this strikeonly 80 miles from Los Angeles made by only 32 years of age recent college student And the property he found and opened by intelligent application has lain there dormant for ages almost in the outskirts of city of nearly two million popu aton And his discovery reputed now to have changed hands for $3, ,5O0O00.
 Uncle Sam himself is turning prospector-and for the first time is backing the American mining industry with modern mining organization Millions to be advanced under the deal to aid mining Loans to be made to mining concerns Prospecors also to be assisted.
 Alakans should not fail to get in line for their share and every young with of ambition and odsers still blessed with health and activity will find great ncen tive in Californas strike.
 Alaska is not yet scratched and millions will be made of her latent minerals not yet discovered Who will get them. Not the who won't try, not the who won't take chance the lacking in to say he cant find way
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ACT IN FULL
(H. R. 7306

An Act to amend Section 10 of the
 Act entitled, "An Act extending
 the homestead laws and providing
 for right-of-way for railroads in
 the District of Alaska, and for ot-
 her purposes" approved May IA,
 1898, as amended:
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Un- ited States of America in Congress assembled, That the first paragraph of Sec. 10 of the Act entitled "An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for right-of-way for railroads in the DistriG of Alaska, and for other purposes" approved May IA, 1898, as amended (USC, title AS, Secs. 461, 462, 463, 464, anl 465; use, Supp. VI, title 48, Sec. 461), is amended by inserting after the first proviso in such paragraph
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 ADVERTISING NUGGET

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A Chamber of Commerce constitutes the machinery through which large and powerful influence wielded wards the promotion and industrial advancement for city
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should recognize opportunity and not have to look back respectfully the things that could have been done
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

diate. The senate committee investi-
eating the islands affairs was slow In
making up its mind about Cramer, and
the foes of the Pearson administration
there, together with a delegation from
ST. Croix, were protesting vigorously
against the Presidents selection of q
new governor.
The Emancipation, opposition paper,
said editorially:
1.-THE islanders would about as soon
have Pearson, for under Cramer no
change of policy can be expected. Poor
and unknown as the humble people of
the Virgin islands may be, they are en-
titled to an example of honor and cour-
age from the President of the Amer
lean Republic"
The disposal of Pearson and Wilson
also aroused criticism in Washington.
The former had been attacked stead
lily by Pat Harrison of Mississippi and
other Democratic senators, but Secre-
tary of the Interior Ickes had defended
him warmly, so he was given a job un-
der Ickes, being made assistant direc-
tor of housing in the PWA at $1,000 a
year, a place not previously filed
In order to provide job for Judge
Wilson, former congressman from
Mississippi and protege of Senator
Harrison, woman was forced off the
federal parole board. Attorney General
Cummings requested and obtained the
resignation of DR.. Amy A. Stannard,
a psychiatrist who has been In the gov
eminent service II years with a civil
service status and had been a member
of the parole board since 1890 Wilson
was sworn in as her successor. Since
Wilson's qualifications for the place APP
peared to be chiefly political, observ-
ers in Washington noted sadly that the
parole board was getting back into Do
utical hands.
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cisive. There was no demand for
roll call on the final vote, for the fate
met by the proposers of various amend
ments showed this procedure would be
futile. Senator La Toilette sought to
strike out a provision permitting COM
mercial banks to underwrite securities
and his proposal was beaten, 80 to %.
Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota,
another radical Republican, offered the
central bank plan of Rev. Charles E.
Coughlin. radio priest, which would set
up a government owned and wholly
dominated system. 1t was voted down,
80 to 10.
Other amendments were offered and
debated rather listlessly, for the record,
and then were withdrawn. Even Sen
ator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida,
chairman of the banking and currency
committee, who had sided rather with
Eccles, declined to push his amend
ments designed to cripple Glass plan.
The senate bill was sent to confer
ence, for the house passed the meas
ure drawn up on the advice of Eccles
and Tugwell.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

4 LONG the line of providing help
4 for white collar workers, Harry
L. Hopkins appointed four technical
assistants to direct the employment
of PAINTERS musicians. writer's and
actors. They are: Nikolai Sokoloff
for music, Halle Flanagan for the
theater. Holger Cahill for painters and
sculptors, and Henry G. Alseberg for
writer's.
With $3O0,OO0OO0 available for the
estimated 10000 white collar people
on relief, scores of surveys, censuses,
traffic studies, and similar projects
have been provided for those with no
particular skill.
Some scholars will get jobs from the
S200O0.0O0 worth of white collar prof.
ects already approved for New York
city, but other projects have awaited
appointment of the four directors.
Hopkins also announced that camps
for unemployed women, initiated last
year, would be revived this summer,
with suggested term of from six
weeks to two months. State relief adj
ministrations will be in charge. Educa-
tional programs will be offered, but all
but three of the camp staff must come
from relief rolls themselves.
New allotments by the President
from the work relief fund include an
additional S6,000.000 to the Fort Peck
dam in Montana, S2,500,000 to the agri-
culture department for control of the
Dutch elm disease in IA states, 100000
for flood control survey by army en-
gineers of the Willamette river valley
in Oregon, ST07.591 for New Jersey and
S30S, 0S9 to Florida for Works Progress
administration projects, and $4,000
TO the Navy department for admins
tration expenses.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

OPPONENTS of the AAA amend
~ ments designed to strengthen the
powers of Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace decided to let the basic act
go up to the Supreme court, so the ad-
ministration bill was passed by the
senate with only 10 adverse votes.
Both Republican and conservative
Democratic foes of the AAA are con-
fident that the Supreme court will hold
the basic act unconstitutional and an
early test is assured by a senate
amendment permitting suits to recover
processing taxes that have not been
passed on to producers or consumers
One of the major purposes of the
amendments was to close the courts,
but the senate rejected this scheme by
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

NEEDY teachers and students are
to get financial help from the
Works Progress administration accord
ing to plans being perfected by DR.. L.
r. Alderman. The two chief points in
his program are:
Establishment of summer schools for
1900 teachers who were among those
who taught reading and writing to
100000 illiterates last year.
Jobs to be provided for 125,0OO col
1ege students during the coming school
year.
twenty-five summer schools will be
conducted, the sessions lasting six
weeks, and the teachers attending
them will be paid from SIS to $1S
week out of the work relief funds.
These teachers will be taught to teach
adults in the fall.
Alderman said he already had sent
out field agents to aid in setting up
courses at New York university, Ohio
State university, Purdue university,
Olivet college Michigan), University
of Wisconsin, University of Chicago
and University of California. The
other training schools have not been
selected.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

adjournment of congress. Senator
Hastings of Delaware has introduced
a resolution setting August 10 as the
day for quitting and was trying to
have it brought up for consideration
before passage of the tax measure.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, often
mentioned as Presidential possibility,
also demanded postponement of the
tax legislation until January, and he
gave out a statement denouncing the
administrations plan as sterile po-
litical gesture" which would raise "only
a little extra pocket change" and de-
clared that I'VE chatter of taxes in
millions to offset known deficits in
billions"
1.-THE pending tax bill, as it is being
developed" said Senator Vandenberg,
will not produce appreciate revenue
for Uncle Sam. 1t will not pay the
Presidents deficit even for the period
while the bill is under consideration.
AS contribution to the public credit,
it is as grim a hoax as was ever per-
petrated on the country. AS a dis
tributor of wealth it is a mere vagrant
filtration with this left wing idea.'
Nevertheless, it appeared probable
that the tax measure would be enacted
before adjournment, for the admins
tration leaders had promised this to
Senator La Toilette and other "liber-
ais" and besides that, they have no
desire TO pass taxation bill in a
Presidential election year. AS pro-
duced by the house ways and means
committee after great travail the mea-
sure embodies an 81 per cent confisca-
ton of large fortunes and increased
levies on the rich which would produce
perhaps S250OO0,O00 of additional an
nual revenue.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

removed from office
the two chief battlers,
Gov. Paul M. Pearson
and Judge L. Weber
Wilson, had other jobs
found for them, and
nominated as Pear
sons successor Law
renee w. Cramer, who
was serving as lieu
tenant governor of st.
Croix island. Confir-
nation of this appoint
ment was not imme-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

DARTIAL investigation of the milk
industry by the federal trade COM
mission was said to have revealed de-
plorable conditions and the admins
tration asked for 100000 to continue
the inquiry. The senate committee in
considering the deficiency appropria-
ton bill cut out that item altogether,
but when the measure came before the
senate Duffy of Wisconsin moved an
amendment adding the sum asked. Aft
er hot debate this was approved by
vote of 81 to IS and the bill was then
passed. The numerous senate amend
ments had added total of more than
SSO,000,0OO to the house measure, so
the S3O60O0,OO0 bill was sent to con-
ference.
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them with equal de-
termination were a
number of the hardest
fighting Republicans
who insist that con-
sideration of taxation
be postponed until
next winter and that
meantime the question
be studied carefully in
connection with the
budget for the next
fiscal year. These Re
publicans are urgently
calling for an early
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

1885 banking act, re-
jecting t h e central
bank features urged
by Gov. Mariner S.
EccleS of the federal
reserve board and IA
vored by the admins
tration. The doughty
Virginian, who was
once secretary of the
treasury, had fought
desperately against
the Eccles scheme and
his triurDh WAS de-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

of Etpiopia. On his
behalf the demand
was telesraphed to
the league secretariat
at Geneva by Tacla
Hawariat, Ethiopian
minister to France
and delegate to the
league. He insisted
that the council pro-
coed to the eXamina-
ton of the situation
under article XIV of
the league covenant,
Ethiopia invoking this
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08
Mohammedan Year

The Mohammedan lunar year of
354 days is creation which CORE
spends to nothing In nature, says an
Psychologist. yet this limping calendar
system has been used for 1913 years
or, as a Mohammedan will count 1t.
1854 years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

WTltluS u Ouc VI
the professors"
Capitalism is a
tough old bird, that
will live a good
deal longer than
any of US will"
Capitalism, which
means government
by organized dol
lars and industry,
instead of organ
lied soldiers, will
last longer than the
present generation,
longer than this
century. Capitalism
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08


Wheeler-Rayburn bill, and that he
himself had centered his efforts on
Texas congressman. But of the mys
terious box he could or would tell
nothing. Black probed and probed,
and finally asked:
"Do you still say that in the morn
ing (of the day before the vote on the
utilities bill death sentenceO you
didn't give a congressman box
wrapped up in newspaper"
Carpenter replied quietly: Il don't
think 1 did, unless it was a few CT
CARS"
Senate and house conferees met to
consider the utility control bill, but
there were small signs that they could
get together, and one session ended
abruptly in real row. Two admin
istration lobbyists, Benjamin Cohen
and DoZier A. De Vane, were brought
into the executive session by Senators
Wheeler and Barley and though Rep
resentative George Huddleston pro-
tested, their continued presence was
insisted upon. Whereupon the fiery
Alabama congressman and his fellows
from the house walked out and broke
up the meeting. Cohen is generally
given credit for writing the measure
and Wheeler has said he knows all
about it.
After leaving the committee ROOM
Huddleston said fatty that the house
conferees would not recede from the
position that the death sentence"
must be eliminated.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

ed to know. Before
the committee for
questioning was John
w. Carpenter of Dali
as, president of the
Texas p wer d
Light company. He ad-
mitted freely that he
and other utility men
had hotel conferences,
dinners and a trip
down Chesapeake bay
with congressman dur
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08
Why the
Agitation?

In the Caribbean sea, considerably out
Of the usual pathway of ships; they
are populated by about $4,000 indi-
viduals, 30 per cent of whom are
negroes and may generally be de-
scribed as backward" place.
They may have some military and
naval value. That has never been
fully demonstrated. But the fact re-
mains they are possessions of the
United States and if our government is
TO be their protector, it is responsible
for a sane administration of their
affairs.
The Washington fight may have had
its start in the Virgin islands, but it
has progressed beyond that point and
is a domestic battle now. 1t is safe
to say that for Is years. which is the
time the islands have been under
United States rule, there has been a
dire need for plan Of government
suited to those people. Each year con-
gress has been appropriating thou
sands of dollars for the island govern
menr and each year there has been
miserably little in the way of improve
ment to show for these funds.
Almost as frequently as congress has
appropriated money it has made
changes in the administration meth
DDS In use there. There has never
been a long term program laid out and
there has been nothing whatsoever
done showing the sympathy of a So
called intellectual people as we claim
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

IMMEDIATE convocation of the
L League of Nations council to deal
with the Ethiopian question was
demanded by Halle Selassie, emperor
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08
Soul SYMBOL

Among ancient peoples the soul has
been frequently and variously inn
agined as a butterfly, moth. bee. fire.
fly, as well as symbolized with sparks,
flames and stars.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08
CURRENT EVENTS
PASS IN REVIEW
DEMOCRATS ARE DETERMINED TO
PUSH ROOSEVELT TAX PLAN
TO PASSAGE.
BY EDWARD w. PlCkARD
G. Western Newspaper Union.

DEMOCRATIC congressman started
- the week briskly determined to
push through the Presidents soak the
rich" tax bill at this session. Opposing
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08
, Western Newspaper Uniol
Cause of Sun DOGS

The naval observatory says rings
around the sun are caused by meteor
illogical conditions, such as moisture,
dust, ice particles, etc., in the atmos
phere.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

vote of Al to %. AS a result, the
Hoosack Mills case, in which the Bos-
ton Circuit Court of Appeals held the
AAA unconstitutional, will not be
thrown out and the highest tribunal
will have chance to pass upon 1T.
Amid so much adverse criticism, the
action of the Midwest farm leaders
gathered in Chicago must have been
soothing to. Mr.. Wallace. Resolutions
were passed praising the secretary
and congressional leaders for their eff
forts in behalf of agricultural equal
ity."
The farm leaders urged senate ap-
prevail for the commodity exchange
bill, passed by the house, and asked
re-establishment of the Pacific North
west Wheat Export corporation under
the AAA to prevent wheat SURPRISES
in that area from competing with MID
west wheat and other grains.
The meeting voiced opposition to
the plans for transportation co-ordi-
nation, suggesting farmers would profit
more by competition among carriers.
CENATOR GLASS scored perhaps
- the greatest victory in his long
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

NHAT was in the cigar box
w wrapped in newspaper? That
is what Senator Hugo Black, chairman
of the senate lobby committee, want
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

rRAY SILVER, who throughout
~ most of his life was active in the
interests of agriculture, died quite sud
denly at his home in Martinsburg, w.
Va, at the age of sixty-five years.
Among the offices he held at various
times were president of the United
States Grain Market corporation of
Chicago; president of the Inwood
Fruit Growers cooperative corpora
ton; president Berkeley Fruit Crow
ers; head of the Casters Credit asso-
citation; director United Growers of
America, head of the Federated Grow
ers Credit association; member of the
National Bureau of Economic Re-
search, member of the commission ap-
nointed by President Taft to study
tariff relations to the wool industry,
member of the farm bureau federation
visiting Europe In 1924, and a mem
Der of the commission investigating
national unemployment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
A Tough Old Bird
Five Billions More?
News of Hogs
Submarines Wanted

Amos r. E. Pinchot, who has lei
sure and thinks, utters profound truth
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

A CCORDING to the Daily Herald
4 of London, the British admiralty
intends to build an entire new battle
fleet, to be finished by 1912 and to cost
S75O,O00,0O0. This laborite newspaper
asserted that the admiralty has devel-
Oped a secret seven-year plan, calling
for the construction of u new capital
ships and SO new cruisers. In addition,
there would be GO new f1Otilla leader
destroyers, q new submarines and
three new aircraft carriers.
This is said to be the "hush-hush
PLAN of the admiralty which Sir Bolton
Eyres-Monsell, first lord of the adj
miralty, had declined to make public
but which had already been cOmmuni-
Gated to the United States, France,
Italy, Germany and Japan. Sir Bolton
recently informed the house of COM
mons that England was abandoning the
principle of naval ratios in the Wash
ington treaty, considering other means
of accomplishing naval limitation I'M
der a system of programs providing
adequate defensive navies.
Under the reported program, the
comparative strength of the British
fleet in sin date ships as of 1885 and
1912, allowing for ships which would
become outdated under the Washing
ton and London treaty rules, would be:
In 1885, Is capital ships. 80 cruisers,
"a fiotilla eader-destroyers, 80 subma-
rines, eight aircraft carriers; in 1912,
IA capital ships, Y cruisers, 142 fiotilla-
leader destrOyers, 81 submarines and
10 aircraft carriers.
THAT row over the administration
of the Virgin islands was so I'M
pleasant that President Roosevelt felt
imnelled TO settle ii himself So he
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

article because of the threat to her
independence from Italy,"
British dispatches said Prime Minis
ter Stanley Baldwin and leading men,
bers of his cabinet were believed to
favor full league action, if other ma
tons agreed, as a last resort to avert
the threatened conflict. Diplomatic
quarters in London heard that the
British government probably would al
ter its policy and permit the export
of arms to Ethiopia. The emperor's
new minister there, w. c. Martin, had
a conference at the foreign office and
came out smiling happily but saying
nothing.
Previously Mr.. Martin had admitted
that Ethiopia was short not only Of
arms but also of money.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

Rome reports Fascist excitement be-
cause Japan assumes the role Of
Abyssinian champion"
Mussolini's press says Japan sets
herself up as leader of Asiatic and
African peoples, against the civiliza-
ton and culture of the white race"
A Fascist newspaper calls Japan
"the enemy of Europe and America,
dreaming of world conquest" That
seems to be keg of powder with only
spark lacking.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-08-08

CENATOR GLASS scored perhaps
- the greatest victory in his long
public career when the senate, without
a record vote, passed his draft of the