21 Mar 1935
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Newspaper
The Nome Daily Nugget
Location
Nome, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1935
Page
1
Officials in Washington oppose a seven hundred mile Pacific round trip to Hawaii using a Department of Commerce radio compass plane. Next test flight date undecided as officials weigh the venture in Oakland reported March 21 by AP.
The Nome Athletic Club and guests held a Nevada Hall dance to celebrate a temporary disbanding until next winter. Members praised the event as a winter social highlight as work drifts away from Nome, making continued cooperation unlikely.
March 21. Germany rejects French and Italian protests against abrogation of Versailles military clauses and warns against international opposition. France calls it a threat to peace and seeks League Council action. London and Moscow weigh the crisis as Soviet support rumored for France. Austria moves toward greater military preparedness amid new laws on civilian vehicle use and wartime powers.
Dust storms sweeping from eastern New Mexico to the Great Lakes disrupt travel and force school closures. Reports say more than a dozen deaths from suffocation and pneumonia risk, with accidents rising. The storm fringed Chicago and moved into Illinois, while livestock suffered as dust drifts blanketed fences in southeast Wyoming.
Washington March 21 leaders summoned the House members an hour early to finish debate on the bonus and move to voting on compromise amendments. A vote on Pattman and Vinson bills is expected tomorrow.
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London reports a new eight wheel motor truck intended for military use. The design features self adjusting suspension with each wheel bearing part of the load. Also notes surveys for a Palestine to Egypt railway with possible construction soon. A fragment states three keys found on a string and to inquire at Nugget Office.
William Denny Jones, a British seaman aboard the Danaeless from England, deserted during a West Indies fleet call at Juneau, Alaska. He lived in Juneau city, then was found by immigration officials and booked for deportation to England as a seaman or deportation case after sailing south on the Northwestern toward Seattle for travel arrangements.
On March 21 at a California Republican gathering in San Francisco proposals for consolidating independent party units and the firing of the opening guns of the 1936 campaign are planned. Col Theodore Roosevelt is expected to set the initial measures as he addresses the assembly on Saturday.
San Francisco March 21 Judge M C Sloss, Pacific Coast arbitrator, ruled that employers must not leave jobs during the dispute and workers should continue duties pending settlement. The decision notes each port’s labor relations board can appoint an arbitrator if needed. Employers complain tanker seamen struck without arbitration effort.
William Boyd, noted actor, dies as flood reports from Greenwood Mississippi describe a violent night with levee breaches. Guards with riot machine guns are deployed amid rising tensions along the Tallahatchie and Le Flore counties flood area.
Lawrence Chilberg, once a Nome customs officer, resumes duties with the U S customs service and plans to stay busy in Wrangell after a month in Seattle for medical care. Valuable pearls were found in oysters from Maine New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A rubber base paint is now available to combat moisture blistering on concrete.
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