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VOL. 36. No. 304. NOME, ALASKA, Monday, DEC. 30th, 1935 Per Copy Ton Cents
Big Eth. Push Expected This Week
Speaker Byrns In Favor Support Alaska Air Bases
BYRNS FAVOR
ALASKAN AiR
BASS NEEDS
Will Support This
Proposal Base
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 30, —
Speaker Byrns said he was
in favor of, and would sup
port proposals in congress
for a stronger air force and
an Alaskan aviation base,
in addition to strengthened
fortifications for Hawaii.
He explained that he was
not familiar personally with
the details of the national
defense needs, but added:
“I do believe that we need
an air force and base in Al
askan and Hawaiian terri
tories as matters of defense.
The territories had been de
scribed in congressional
committees as possible cor
ridors for any potential at
tack from across the Paci
fic.”
Byrns recently returned
from a trip to the Philip
pines. The Wilcox Air Base
Act authorizes a huge Al
askan air base, but Byrns
believed, however, that it
would be difficult to get a
large appropriation through
congress for defense pur
poses.
Girl Undergoes
Barbaric Ordeal
To Break Troth
(By The Associated Press)
Melbourne, Australia,—
It is classic what a girl will
do for love, but an amaz
ing story is told of what a
girl did for a lack of it.
Priests at the Keats Port
mission station, helpless in
the hands of aborigines,
watched ayoung girlsubmit
to the ordeal by spears be
j cause she refused to marry
ian old man to whom she
had been promised at birth.
Standing 30 paces away,
E*1"! old warrior tried to hit
i girl with 10 spears, but
! writhed, ducked and
erved evading all of the
ows. Freedom was her
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Blizzard in East
Does Millions N
Damage Ct .< i
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(By The Associated Press)
New York, Dec. 3C —A
destructive blizzard swept
up the New England coast
after causing at least six
teen deaths and millions
dollars damage between
Georgia and New York.
i In Atlanta the damage
was estimated unofficially
at two million dollars.
Lights, heat and tele
phone service was off in
many homes. The street car
service was stopped during
the weekend. Forty-five
thouand men and a thous
and, three hundred snow
plows were called out
dawn in New York today,
to clear the streets of snow
which were covered to a
depth of more than three
inches.
I
Crawling, Cure
For StuUermg
Is Demonstrated
(By The Associated Press)
New York, Dec. 30th—
24 stutterers have showed
remarkable improvement,,
even to a complete cessa
tion of their disability,when
they spoke while walking
on all fours. This strange
new phenomenon,for which
jno explanation has so far
been discovered, is reporj
ed in the current issue of
Science, official organ of
I the American Association
for the Advancement of
Science.
The results, which may
throw new light on the me
chanism of stuttering, were
obtained in a series of two
dozen cases studied during
the past summer in the
laboratory of biolinguistics,
University of Michigan, by
Hazle Geniesse, author of
the report.
“When the stutterer as
sumed this position,” the
report states, “the absence
j of speech rhythm and lack
! of co-ordination decreas
ed.”
In an effort to explain the
| phenomenon the report pre
Isents a theory on the cause
jand mechanism of stutter
ing which, if corroborated
by supplementary research
Finds $ )re Deposits
In Endicott Mis.
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x >dnt Barrow, Dec. 30, —
G. Stanley Herbert, min
ing engineer brought word
here Saturday by dog
team of his discovery of
rich gold, and silver depos
its, as well as oil, in the
Endicott Mountains.
He has just completed
a several months’ stay in
that area, a hundred miles
above the Arctic Circle.
Herbert says his field as
says in numerous place ov
er an area of 24 miles
square, showed a high
grade of gold ore through
out. He also said he found
large galena deposits con
taining a rich vein of silver
which he traced for three
and a half miles, and pe
troleum deposits forty mil
es from the gold ore were
also discovered.
Herbert had to leave the
county on account of food
shortage. It was said here
that only prospecting that
was known to have been
done in this region, was by
one Ned Arey, placer min
er, who died years ago.
SHAKESPEARE AND
G. B. S. APPROVED
Rome, Dec. 30—Shake
speare and Bernard Shaw
are above Italy’s sanctions
reprisals, it was disclosed
recently.
Orders given by the pro
paganda ministry to bar
theatrical productions in
Italy from nations applying
sanctions made an excep
tion of these two noted Eng
lish dramatists.
Fascists aid they felt that
Shakespeare and Shaw be
longed “not to England,but
to the world.”
Besides, they said, Shaw
ranked among the intellec
tuals opposed to enforce
ment of league of nations
war penalties on Italy for
its invasion of Ethiopia.
may open up new avenues
in the treatment and elimi
nation of speech defects. j
POST OFFICE
DEFT. SAYS
BIG SURPLUS
J. Farley Describes
Reason Surplus
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 30, —
The first increase in postal
j revenues since 1930 helped
j Postmaster General Far
: ley claim a second success
jive annual surplus today,
; in the government opera
I tion of the mails.
Farley’s report for the
►fiscal year ended June 30
listed the post office depart
ment expenses at six hund
red and ninety-six million,
six hundred thousand doll
ars as compared to reven
ues of six hundred and thir
ty million, seven hundred
and ninetyfive thousand
dollars.
Explains Difference
Farley explained that
ship and aviation subsi
dies, free mail and other
non-postal and adjusted it
ems totaled seventy mill
ion seven hundred and sev
enty-two thousand dollars
for the twelve months. A
subtraction of that amount
left “a net surplus” of four
million, nine hundred and
sixty-four thousand dollars
as compared to twelve mil
lion one hundred and sixty
one thousand surplus claim
ed last year.
He said in explaining the
controverted bookkeeping
methods which caused such
a furore last year, that no
business could be expected
to provide money necessary
to maintain a gratuitous ser
vice and pay subsidies from
a normal business income,
so the Department drew on
the general fund in the
treasury to maintain those
items.
W. L. Slattery, post office
comptroller denied that the
surplus was “a bookkeep
ing job”, explaining that
“we inherited a formula
which congress had set up.
When we applied it we got
a surplus; when our pre
decessors applied the same
formula to the same opera
tions they go a deficit.’”
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21-Year-Old Boy
Charged Attempt
c I
Extortion Sums
(Hy The Associated Press)
Buffalo, Dec. 30. —Rol
and E. Marked, 21, of Roch
ester. New York, is in jail
today charged with at
tempting to extort $250,000
from Frank E. Gannett, pub
lisher of the Gannett news
papers, and from Louis A.
Wehle, president of the
Genessee Brewing Com
pany of Rochester.
Marked was a messen
ger employed by a Rochest
er Artists Supply House.
He was arrested Satur
day night by federal ag
ents.
It was revealed that he
had sent a series of letters
to the men demanding
sums of money ranging
from twenty-five to a hun
dred thousand dollars, on
the penalty of kidnaping
their children or death to
themselves. None of the de
mands were met by either
oi the two men.
3-Year-Old At
Colony Surned
A*kI Dies Later
Dixie Emberg, Whose Mo
ther Succumbed After
Fire, Also Dies
PALMER, Alaska, Dec. 12
—Dixie Emberg, 3 year old
daughter of George Em
berg, died here yesterday
from burns sustained in a
fire which fatally burned
her mother and destroyed
her parents home in Mata
nuska valley.
Mrs. Emberg died Mon
day from burns received in
the fire. The family came
to Matanuska Valley from
Proctor, Minnesota. The
blaze started when gasoline
was used to start a fire in
the kitchen stove.
Emberg said that he in
tends to remain with the
colonists and will rebuild
his home. There are two
other children in the fam
ily. They were at a neigh
bor’s home when the fire
occurred.
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'SELASSIT TO
BEGIN PUSH
THIS WEEK
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Lon<j An;iiU»<! Push
Msitiopiu Aon < )n
(Bv '1 he Associated Press)
Undated, Dec. 30, —Eth
iopia Hung itself into the
war with Italy, determined
to thrust back Mussolini’s
troops, in a large scale mili
tary maneuver.
Emperor Haile Selassie
ordered that his warriors
were to battle the invad
I ers on something more than
a skirmishing scale.
| Ethiopian officials esti
I mated they had four hun
dred thousand men on the
northern front under five
commanders, for the most
critical stage of the war.
Some of the bitterest
fighting in the three mon
ths’ old campaign, is pre
dicted for this coming
week.
Three Ethiopian armies
!are converging on the city
of Makale, the southern
most point to which the It
alians have penetrated, as
a prelude to the long defer
red Ethiopian counter-off
.usive.
The Italians lost fifty-two
soldiers in Sunday’s battle
at Ua.ieu, and 11 e Ethio
pian losses were reported
as heavy.
Lays Fresh Can
Mussolini laid fresh plans
for the pursuit of his cam
paign, today. At a cabinet
meeting he old hi-; minist
ers that the Fran .o-Er t
ish peace terms were now
defunct and were “very
far from satisfying the min
imurn requirements of It
aly, especially regarding
the security of frontiers,
and Italian civilians.
juror No. II Dead
Hauptmann Trial
(By The Associated Press)
Flemington, Dec. 30, —
Licom C. Case, Juror No.
11 in the trial of Bruno
Hauptmann, died here Sun
day of heart trouble, at
the age of 65.
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