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VOL. 37. No. 121 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
Dr. Townsend Is Put On The Spot
DILL TO APPEAL ALIENATION SUIT VERDICT
Soviet Aviator Flies Within 450 Miles North Pole
DILL TO APPEAL
VERDICTS JURY
IN DAMAGE SUIT
Judge Refused To Accept First Verdict
Because Jury Failed Connect Dill But
Changed Mind Accepted Second
(By The Associated Press')
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio, May 22, — Five thous
and dollars, was the verdict for Marfie Heaton Dill, in
the $25,000 alienation of affections suit brought again
st former senator Dill, by Mrs. Grace Dill, who immed
iately headed the case toward a higher court.
Dill said: “I will appeal to the highest state courts
before I pay a penny”, when interviewed before leav
ing Washington yesterday.
The jury was forced to bring in a second verdict.
Judge Phillip Wilkins accepted the verdict a half hour
after refusing a similar one on the grounds that the
jury had failed adequately to connect Dill with the
case. The second decision “finds that Dill did counsel
and advise his nephew Wendell Dill against continu
ing further marital relations”.
The two were married a day after a high school
graduation two years ago. An illegal operation was
alleged to have been committed a month later._
Post Office Dept.
Announced New
Addition Service
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 22, —
Delegate Dimond again champ
ioned the government’s Matanu
ska project, when he extolled
the farming possibilities in the
valley and “described the oppor-j
tunities offered by the coloniza
tion project as ample.
Dimond today said that the
Post Office Department had in
formed him that the steamship 1
mail service between Seward
and Bristol Bay is to be improv
ed by the addition of an extra
trip annually.
Four communities on Kodiak'
Island—-Shearwater Bay, Port
Hobron, McCord, and Old Har-:
bor will be added to the list of
stopping place under the new
schedules.
GEORGE ANDERSON
Expert Piano Tuner
Kohler, Brumback Pianos; Grand
and Upright for Sale and rent.
Expects to be in Nome this
Summer.
Rebuilt Pianos, New Tom Thumb
and Grands.
Radio your Piano wants, price
you can afford to pay, styles, etc.,
To
George Anderson Music Shoppe,
Juneau, Alaska.
Prompt Shipment and Satisfac
tion Guaranteed.
WASHINGTON
CURRENT
COMMENT
Poland is the latest country to
join the company of nations
that are “off”, not a little off but
completely off Holland, Switzer
land and France remaining as
exceptions, witli France waver
ing. The gravity of the situation
is relieved somewhat when it is
added that“off refers” to the gold
standard only. Throughout the
centuries, gold has had a high
standing ascribed to no other
metal. Aside from commercial
value, it has given dignity t-.
every object of which it formed
a part. Solomon’s temple would
be robbed of much of its glory
and the scriptural description of
it would be no more than an un
interesting architect’s specifica
tion if it were not for the splen
did picture formed in the mind
by the frequent mention of gold
as a structural material. Accord
ing to the present trend for a
side of bacon, and if imagination
needs the stimulation of a glitt
ering object, a chromium plated
auto lamp has to answer the pur
pose. In the days of Queen El
izabeth, Sir Thomas More des
cribed an ideal civilization.
In it. gold was used only to
make cuspidors and the like, lest
the people value it too highly.
Gold advocates today can point
(Continued on Page Three)
Soviet Aviator
Made A Flight
(Bv The Associated Press')
MOSCOW, Russia, May 22, —
Mikhael Vodopyanoff. on a flight
yesterday, declared his trip took
him within four hundred and
fifty miles of the North Pole
He said he believed there were
natural landing fields on the ice
fl >es on top of the world, wh^jh
would permit Arctic flights ac
ross the top of the world with a
stop at the pole.
He said he did not land but
thought that through flights from
Franz Josef Land were possible
in the near future.
Zep Hindenbnrg
Over England
(By Tne Associated Press)
Barrow In Furness, England
May 22—Zeppelin flying very
low. passed over here at 7:30 to
night.
Commencement
Exercises Nome
Hfch S. Held
c
The largest class of the Nome
High School to graduate for a
number of years was the center
of the ceremonies at the Com
mencement Exercises held last
night at the Dream Theatre.
They were Pearse Walsh Dor
othy Nelson, Evelyn Wallace. I
Gertrude Johansen. Milton O’
Farrell, and Walter Slack. They
received the congratulations of a
crowded auditorium.
The Commencement exercises
consisted of Invocation by Rev. j
Norman McCay; Girls’ Glee Club]
in two songs; Address by C. C. j
Tanner; Presentation of Awards]
by Supt. W. II. Bloom; Presenta
tion of Diplomas by Mrs. A. T.
McLain a member of the School
Board, and Benediction by Fath
er Cunningham.
The various features of the ex
ercises were interesting thruout i
and with the presentation of j
awards the departing graduates,
received much applause, undoub |
tedly a time which they have
been waiting for a long time.
CALL FOR BIDS.
Bids will be received at the
office of the City Clerk until five
P. M. on May 25th, 1936, for fur
nishing to the City four dozen
Simmons steel folding chairs No.
22977, or steel folding chairs of
equal quality, and delivering
them to the City Hall on or be
fore July 20, 1936. Illustration
and description of above number
ed Simmons chair can be seen at
the City Clerk’s office on request.
Publish May 16, 18, 20, 23.
TOWNSEND BOLTS
HEARING REFUSES
RETURN ANY MORE
Declared Committee Questions \\ ere To
Resmireh Him. Gerald Smith Goes
With Him And Suggest Action
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 22, — Dr. Townsend, who
bolted from the Investigation Committee’s hearings
amid a big uproar late yesterday, established emergen
cy headquarters at the Baltimore Hotel and hurled pro
tests in which he termed:
“This communistic dictatorship of the Washing
ton Committee is unfair and unfriendly. They have
asked only vicious question to besmirch me. I will
return only if I am arrested.”
Gerald Smith, leader of the Huey Long’s share
the-wealth movement joined him. Smith said:
“What the Townsend movement needs is a little
action a la Huey Long”.
RAGING PIGEONS WING THEIR
WAY HOMEWARD WITH AIONEY
ON BEAKS I CR THEIR OWNERS
(By The Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY. May—Here’s
a derby in which the owner may
have an entry in every race; he
gets more speed and mileage on
his oat-: and lie has no jockey &
trainer to board.
Fifty Kansas City business men
enjoy the racing of homing pig
eons. They have more than 1000
streamlined birds trained for the
airlanes—same breed that won
fame in war time as dispatch
carriers.
There's no pomp and ceremony
at the start of these keenly con
tested flights Owners crate and
ship 400 birds or more to an ex
press agent 50 to 1,000 miles
away.
The express agent may be the
only witness of the getaway,
moving about in the dawn’s ear
ly light, lifting open the doors of
the crates. He telegraphs the
time of release to the race secre
tary here.
Travel 40 to 50 M.P.H.
It’s then that the derby man
can retire close by the home
roost and chew his fingernails, i
scanning the sky.
Stout-winged veterans clip off
the 500 miles between Dallas,
Tex. and Kansas City at 40 miles
per hour, depending upon the
wind, says A. R. Whelan, a den-,
tist, and one of the leading fanc
iers.
Racing custom provides that
each bird flies against three com
petitors in pools” which range
from 25 cents to $26 on each
bird. Sometimes a bonnie blue
plummets onto his favorite land
ing post with as much as $103 on j
his beak--in addition to pirr.se
m< ney. Whclmi e.\pl;.ins.
A special clock is used to time
(he finish. In flight each bird
a s a stamped rubber leg
band. When it arrives at home
base, the band is removed with
alt speed and deposited in t1.-'
clock which records the time &
locks the band inside. The rac
ing secretary, who supervises the.
synchronization of the racing1
clocks, holds the master key. He
removes the bands to determine
the time winners on the basis of
elapsed time.
‘TL’s surprising how few birds
are lost in flight " says Whelan.
“Hawks get a few, but some get
lost or are just quitters that join
flocks of other pigeons. I have
known homers to come in after
a year’s absence.”
Traffic in homers is brisk. The
hobbyists are continually trading
and breeding new stock. Sturdi
ness is the principal objective.
Good birds sell from $50 to $75.
The highest known price for a
single bird was $1,080, in an Eng
lish transaction.
Best When Hungry
Homers are raced with an ap
petite. Whelan says they do bet
ter when taken off full feed, giv
en a light laxative and sent on
their way. They are inclined to
drop for water when racing on a
“full crop.”
Training begins 12 weeks after
hatching. It isn’t hunger or nos
talgia that brings the canny little
squabs back home. Whelan says
it's just the nature of the birds.
They take 2 and 3 mile hops to
Continued on Page Four
Wrange I Island
Ruler On Stand
Denied Charges
c
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW. Russia May 21, —
Administrator Semenchuk, pietur
ed as the “Tyrant of Wrangel Is
land", denied on the witness stand
that he conducted a reign of ter_
ror famine and murder.
lie talked for an hour and a
half, and said that there had
been no famine, and had not ev
en thought of murder concerning
the death of Wulson.
Semenchuk declared that the
only man who might clear up
the mystery was his assistant and
co-defendant, S. P. StartsefT. who
later took the stand and disclaim
ed any knowledge of he w Dr.
Wulfson met his fate on ins trip
in the Arctic wastes.
The prosecutor is expected to
sum up the charges tonight or
tomorrow.
Youn" Aviator
Altempting Set
Plane Record
'Bv The Associated Press)
VAN OUVER. 11 C v 22
Peter Dana, 20, U..M , ,L.
New Hampshire av ate t k ,11
at 4:01 A. \I. •, g new
1 anada to Mexico 12a lin a'pmv
r ai: pi tne rec rd. He . as thru
■ ■■ atoms and left Seattle at 5:04
A. M.
Dana landed at Eager: .1 7:50
\M. and took off again at 8:00
|).i sed i *’f. Medford a* 9:02.
felegraphie Briefs
(By The Associated Press)
HEAFFORD JUNCTION. Wis„
May 21. —Phi Deta Theta frater
nity brothers of the late Eugene
Field came to the rescue of his
widow when they wired from
New York offering to advance
the money needed.
SEATTLE, May 21. — The W.
M. Tupper is loading machinery
for the platinum mines at Good
News Bay and the Takotna dist_
rict, preparatory to sailing Fri
day or Saturday, as the first ship
out of here for Bering Sea.
PORTLAND, Ore., May 21 —
The drainage operation perform
ed on the leg of Lou Ann Mark.,
le, attendants said, was improv
ing gradually, but it would be
some time before she would be
able to walk again.
HYDE PARK, N. Y„ May 21,
—The condition of Mrs. Sara De
lano Roosevelt, who was injur
ed in a fall, “is excellent”, said
Dr. Scott Lord Smith of Pough
keepsie.