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VOLUME 85. No. 77. NOME, AIjASKA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 108* ,*‘r ' °I»: 10 crntn.
MAN ADMITS TO DROWNING OF YOUNG GIRL
MEDIATION BOARD PREPARING TO ARBITRATE
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“GRAND OLD MAN” OF
GERMANY PASSES AWAY
CRITICAL TIME HISTORY
POLITICAL STRIFE
BRINGS ABOUT
PRESIDENT’S END
PRESIDENT VON HINDENlll'RO
DEAD: IRON CONSTITUTION
TAILS “OIJ> OAK" OK
GERMANY
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Auk. 1, President von
Hindenburg lapsed Into a coma
early Thursday.
FLASH: Aug. 2, Von Hinden
burg died at 9:00 a.m. Thursday.
HITLER ASSUMES PRESIDENCY
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Aug. 2, Hitler assum
ed the Presidency on the death of
President von Hindenburg. Hit
ler and the cabinet immediately
went into session.
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BERLIN, Aug. 1, An announce
ment Wednesday night said that
President von Hindenburg was
very low, and that the death
agony had set in. Death was ex
pected soon.
BERLIN, Aug. 2, Chancellor
Hitler became master of all Ger
many on the death of President
von Hindenburg.
Shortly after the word of Hln
denburg’s death was received, Hit
ler made the announcement v^that
he had assumed the Presidency.
Following the receipt of the
word that von Hindenburg was
dead, Hitler called a special ses
sion of his cabinet and in a* guard
ed manner adopted a decree re
voking the law of 1932 initiated
by Hindenburg, that the supreme
court, during the interim after
tile president's death would be
come the President.
Paul G-oebbels, Propaganda Min
ister rushed to the radio and an
nounced to the nation that the
two offices of Chancellor and Presi
-
[dent had been merged. Hitler
thus assumed ..i—absolute power
over the third Reich.
Germany went into mourning
for their dead President, today,
on the twentieth anniversary of
its conscription of troops lor the
world war.
A state funeral will be Ltld at
Neudeck Sunday. Presi?. nt vop
Hlndenburg’s wife died In 1921.
“OTSEGO” NOW AT
DUTCH HARBOR
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CANNERY boat save at
DUTCH HARBOR: VICTORIA
TAKING PASSENGERS
(By The Asaociated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 2, The cannery
boat "Otsego" arrived at Dutch
Harbor last night. The extent of
the damage to the vessel la un
known, (
Passenger and eannery work
ers will be returned south aboard
the liner Vinctorla of the Alaska
Steamship Co. The cargo of sal
mon will be transferred to an
othe* boat.
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CONDOiiKNI'ES GERMANY'
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 2, Italy receiv
ed the news of the death of Presi
dent von HindeuUurg of U^nminr1
caltnly.
France sent condolences to Ger
many on the death of her presi
dent. The German situation is
regarded by French officials as
dangerous. Vienna continued its
campaign • against the Nazi atvJ
kept attentive ears toward Ger
many. Sincere grief and consider
able apprehension was felt in Lon
don over the news from Germany.
DISCRIMINATION IN
LONGSHOREMEN FUEO
' TO DE ARDITRATED
(HAROK DlSt'H IM ATIO.V
lONt.SHOHKMKN TO
BK TAKKX VP
( By The Assoclatod Press!
SAX FRANCISCO, Aug. 2. The
tliarge of allied discrimination
jy*a)n«t longshoremen and other
maritime workers wilt be taken up
at once, the Federal .Mediation
Board announced today, as they
prepared to launch arbitration ar
rangements for thH settlement of
the disputes between the employ
ees and the employers.
The Board said that complaints
were received from practically ev
ery port on the Pacific Coast.
The waterfront at Portland, Ore
gon was quiet today after the
shooting last night of Richard
Farrar, a seaman who was serv
ing as a picket. The man was
shot in the legs liy Desmond
O'Harar a non-union seaman, who
stated that he shot Farrar because
-had been knocked down and - :-k
ed l>v hint.
HORDING IPPKK HANI>
I IX "Al'STKIA *
(By The Associated Press)
VIENNA, Aug. 2. Another Nazi
rebel. Frederich Wnrnig. who
shot and killed the police com
mandant at Innsbruck July 25th.
was banged today after being car
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[1'ietl to the gallows. Another al
leged Xazi trouble-maker, Chryst
iati .Mever, was convicted and sen
tenced to twenty years in prison.
RKTIKNS IMJKTMKXTS
\<«AIXST FATHER AND SOX
FOR LIQUOR SM( (KiliN'd
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Auk, 1, (Henry Field
and his son (Seorge were accused
of conspiracy to violate the Tariff
Acts of 1 f»22 and 19110, by sinuKR
litiK hug,, shipments of liquor*
into the F lilted States, in grand
jury indictments opened here to
day,
HINDENBURB FILLS
OUT EVENTFUL LIFE
AT AGE OF 87
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DETAILS OK HIXDKMUKGH'S
EAST FEW HOIKS
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NEODBCK, Aug. 2, (Copyright)
President von Hindenburg, Ger
many's great Field Marshall, died
at 9:00 a.m. today. ,
To the man who fought in his
eighty-siv years of life, thru ev
ery hell on earth, death came
quietly in the big castle on the
hill of his estate.
At his bedside were four state
HP
physicians; his son Colonel Oscar
Hindenburg; two daughters, Frau
Irimarde von Brockhusen and Frau
Marie von Bent*.
Infirmities of old age and pros
tate gland disorders brought
death. But .all Germany is aston
ished that tha strong, old heart
could stand oat against those com
plications for so long a time.
The Field Masrahl’s mind re
mained clear until just before the
end. Attaches lowered the blue
and white Hindenburg family flag
at the estate, which served as the
first Intimation to the world that
the “Sturdy Oak’' had withered.
The news of the President’s death
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placed a pall of .silence over Ger
many. Villagers stood silent, so
great was their sorrow.
The President is also survived
in addition to his immediate fam
ily, by ten grand children and two
great-grand children. Today the
flag of Germany flies at half mast
over hig 'castle. ft was run up
when the family banner was low
ered.
Emerging from retirement at
the age of 67, Paul von Hinden
burg. In tbe years that followed,
became one of the most conspic
uous,, figures in the military and
civic history of Germany.
He had earned his retirement by
long and notable service, which
Included two wars, In the army
of the former German Army. His
greatest work in behalf of the
Fatherland, however, was still to
be performed and the opportuni
ties for it came with the World
War and In the chaos that foll
owed when the great strife went
against his country.
Called from bis life of ease at
Hanover, von Hindenburg was as
signed to stem the Russian Invas
ion of Bast Prussia in 1914.
“I believe your old man is go
ing to be famous after all,’* he
wrote jokingly to his wife on the
eve of the battle of Tanneaberg.
ADMITS MURDER
OF 23 YEAR OLD
CHURCH WORKER
ADMITS TO MHItl'lKIt OK
< Til ID 'll WORKER
(By The Associated Press)
wr EK ESB A It K E, Pennsylvania,
Aug. 2, The District Attorney’s
office here today stated that Ro
bert Edward, aged twenty-three,
had admitted killing Freda Me
Kenchie, twenty-six years old
church worker, whose body was
round in a lake near her yester
day.
Kdwards said that he hit ths
Kiri over the head with u black
jaek and then pulled her - beneath
the water to the spot where the
body was found, about ‘two hun
dred feet off shore.
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Thus, what was the title of “Sav
ior of the Fatherland.” won for
him a field marshal's baton and as
many honors as a grateful ocun
try could bestow.
From that time on von Hlnden
burg continued to be a living re
futation of the fallacy that “a man
is too old at fotry.”
He rose to the supreme com
mand of the German armies dur
ing the World War and with the
conclusion of hostilities once more,
apparently with his life’s work
ended, sought the seclusion to
which be felt he was entitled.
Six years later another emerg
ency threatened the future of Ger
many, which in the meantime bad
become a republic. The death of
Friederich Ebert, first president of
the republic, caused grave concern
among the proponents of that form
of government. They, as well as
the conservatives, received with
consternation the announcement
that von Hindenburg had consent
ed to run for president.
The old warrior, upon taking
office and in a short time there
after, not only convinced the skep
tical that their fears were ground
less, but proved a disappoint
ment to (he monarchists and dle
hards.
As President von Hindenburg ha
was the type of man Who appealed
to Germanic virtues—verUe stren
gth combined with an unswerving
devotion to duty and great single
ness of purpose. It was said of
him that not since the days of
Bimark, the Iron Chancellor, had
there been in German public life
a personality so popular, respect
ed and dominating.
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