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VOLUME 36. NO. 27. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Handwriting Experts Disagree N >tes
FED. AVIATION COM. TO PUT ALASKA ON MAP
"Give it to Him Joe; Do Anything You Want”--Kingfish
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A-P PHOTOGRAPHER
IS BEAT UP BY HUEY
tONG’S BODY GUARD
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(By The Associated Press)
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 1. — Huey Long arrived here
this morning from Washington, D. C. As he got off the train
he was surrounded by a throng of bodyguards, whose first act
was to beat up an Associated Press photographer and smash
his camera to pieces.
Leon Trice had just snapped a picture of Long as he
was stepping from the train. Joe Messina, one of Long’s
chief bodyguards struck Trice in the mouth. The photo
grapher could not escape the blow. He dropped the camera
as Long shouted
“Give it to him, Joe; do anything you want.”
Messina struck Trice with a blackjack on the back of
the head and knocked him down. He was taken immed
iately to the hospital. Others of the bodyguard destroyed
the camera, as Long walked away.
AIR DEFENSE
IS APPLICABLE
HAWAII-ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The
Presidential message recommending
that all civilian aviation be placed
under the control of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, was follow
ed Thursday by the senate approval
of the measure to extend existing
aiFman laws to September 1st.
The President’s special commis
sion asserted that the ’’romantic
dream” of trans-oceanic commercial
air service was approaching a real
ity. The Commission stated that
Amercia should prepare to claim its
share of this business particularly in
the Pacific. Hawaii was envisioned
by the commission as the cross-roads
for all trans-Pacific air service.
The Commission in citing defense
possibilities of aviation, declared
that air defense was particularly
applicable to Hawaii and Alaska.
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ATTENTION PIONEERS
Memorial Services for our deceas
ed Brother Capt. Fred Jensen will
be held Sunday next at 2 p.m. at the
Federated Church. All old friends
are invited to attend.
Thos. Gaffney, Vice Pres.
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NOME ATHLETIC CLUB
BIG SMOKER
FEBRUARY 6, 1935.
DREAM THEATRE
OPEN TO PUBLIC
Entries Made at Bon Marche
Warehouse
Every Day—2:00 To 4:00 PJL
Extension Of
Auto Code Made
To June 16th
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — Presi
dent Roosevelt Thursday night ex
tended the automobile code to ex
tend through to June 16th, with am
endments designed to spread em
ployment more evenly over the
year.
Relations between the administra
tion chiefs and the American Feder
ation of Labor were at the breaking
point this morning, following the ex
tension of the auto code, with chang
es designed to spread employment.
President Green of the A. F. L. de
clared that hte code imposed on la
bor without a hearing.
NRA officials pointed to the recent
government supervised elections in
Detroit. Green later announced that
organized labor “would not accept
the code extension.
He made his statement to the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee which is
considering the Black, thirty-hour
week bill, in these words:
“We protest against this code. We
will not accept it, not be regulated
by it, and not yield to it.”
Green further stated: “The code
has absolutely failed to spread work
because under it the workers are
compelled or required to work al
most unlimited hours at the discre
tion of the manufacturers.”
A recent ballot conducted among
auto workers by the National Auto
mobile Labor Board was reported to
have shown that ninety percent of
those voting were opposed to A. F.
L. affiliation.
FEATURE SECTION TOMORROW
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JEERS GREET JAPANESE ACTIVITIES
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Feb. 1 — Jeers greeted
the mention of Japan’s activities in
Manchuria, as delegates to the Sev
enth All-Union Soviet Congress,
heard Vyacheslaff Molotoff, Russia’s
virtual premier, reject the Japanese
suggestion that the Siberian and
Manchukuo frontier be de-militariz
ed.
Yesterday the Soviet leaders told
the delegates that the Red Army
had been increased in the last four
years from six hundred thousand to
nine hundred and forty thousand
men.
The speaker said he agreed with
Koki Hirota, Japanese Foreign Min
ister, who recently proposed the de
militarization of the frontiers but
changed his opinion, stating that he
believed that a non-aggresion agree
ment would not be sufficient to se
cure good-will relations between
Japan and Russia.
DEFENSE WITNESS’SAYS
HAUPTMANN DID NOT
4.
WRITE RANSOM NOTES
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Feb. 1 — Today’s session of the Haupt
mann trial began with John M. Trendley, handwriting ex
pert taking the stand for the defense as it opened its fight to
convince the jury that Hauptmann never wrote the ransom
notes.
The defense counsel charged that intimidations were
being made against Hauptmann’s alibi backers, Reilly say
ing:
SEVEN WITNESSES INTIMIDATED BY “PUG-UGLIES”
“Seven of my witnesses have already been subjected to
intimidation efforts by pug-uglies who came to their homes,
claiming they represented the state, but having no creden
tials, and warned our witnesses that they had better stay out
of New Jersey if they knew what was good for them.”
Reilly also said that he understood that the police re
port on the structure of the kidnapping ladder might clear
Hauptmann and that the defense was going to ask for it.
DEFENSE HANDWRITING EXPERT ON STAND
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Feb. 1 — Trendley testifying on the
stand, said that Hauptmann did not write the kidnapping
notes.
Reilly directed his attention to the handwriting charts
prepared by A. S. Osborn, the first handwriting authority
to testify, for the state. Trendley’s response to a question,
said that his examination of the charts of all the state ex
perts showed they had not used the same characters or
words as OsborfF, as a basis for comparison.
He added that some of the experts used some of the
same letters and words, but not all. Reilly asked Trendly
to pick out from the charts of Osborn the “D” in “Dear Sir,”
of the first ransom note. Trendley said that neither the
letter nor the entire word ^Dear” were among the Osborn
exhibits.
Trendley examined Osborn’s charts further and assert
ed that the word “Sir” of “Dear Sir” and the exclamation
point following were not depicted.
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Feb. 1 — Reilly took the nursery note
and letter by letter, had Trendley tell the jury that Osborn
had not included characters pointed out in his photograph
ic chart which is already in evidence.
Trendley continued his recital of like similarities in
certain words of Hauptmann’s writing and foot-notes.
Reilly said: “Did you examine the writing of others;
particularly Isadore Fisch?”
Trendley said: “Yes.”
This is the first implication that the defense will seek
to prove that Isadore Fisch wrote the ransom notes.
ALASKAN AVIATION IS
RECEIVING IMPORTANT
CONSIDERATION NOW
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — An airways communica
I tions system and weather reports service in Alaska “compar
|able with systems used in the United States”, was recom
mended in a report of the Federal Aviation Commission to
Congress.
“Plainly, Alaska has urgent need for air transportation
service”, the Commission report read. “The commercial
development of Alaska will be enormously assisted by the
availability of swift, sure, year-round transportation, and
we accordingly recommend that the work of the Airways
Division of the Department of Commerce be extended to cov
er Alaska and that main routes in the Territory be given
communication weather reports systems comparable with
that in standard use,” said the Commission,
j It is evident that Alaskan aviation is bearing a more
l important consideration in this session of the national Con
i' gressthane^erbefore. —
RFC Authorized
To Make Loans
Mining Properties
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — The Re
construction Finance Corporation
under the bill passed yesterday has
an exterision of life for the next two
years, and is authorized to make
loans to miners and partially dev
eloped properties bearing either
gold, silver or tin, with a view to
ward developing them into commer
cial enterpnfdtes.
Ten million dollars was made
available with loans not to exceed
twenty thousand dollars, to any in
dividual property on reasonable as
surance that a paying mining ven
ture will be developed.
SOVIET DEBT
NEGOTIATIONS
COLLAPSED
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — Soviet
and American negotiations for the
settlement of the sixteen-year-old
debt of five hundred million dollars
collapsed last night.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
and Ambassador Troyanovsky met
last evening to renew negotiations,
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but the conference was almost over
as soon as it started.
Secretary Hull announced that in
view of the present attitude of the
Soviet Government and the terms
demanded by the U. S. S. R., he
could not “encourage nor hope that
any agreement was now possible.”
The Nome Dally Nugget is p re par
ed to do your Job priathg.
NEW MINING
TAX MEASURE
INTRODUCED
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Feb. 1 — The Senate
wrote defeat to the one-house leg
islature proposal by a vote of six to
two, only Senators Walker and Ro
den voting in favor of the measure.
A new mining tax measure was
introduced by senator Campbell, the
second of its kind, since the legisla- 1
ture convened, which provides for a
one percent tax on gross production
from twenty-thousand to one hun
dred thousand dollars with a grad
uating scale up to five hundred
thousand and one and one-half per
cent from there up to one million
dollars, and one and three-quarters
percent on net incomes over one
million.
The House held a brief session
yesterday. The highlight of today’s
session will be a public hearing this
afternoon on the education bill, re
pealing the act of the legislature of
1933, which requires that the com
missioner of education be appoint
ive instead ot- elective.
CHAIRMAN GOP
IS ACTING PART
OF “PROPHET” (
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 — John P.
Fletcher, Chairman of the Republic
an National Committee said that he
sees the Administration’s relief ap
propriation, as aiding President
Roosevelt “not only in securing the
legislation he desires, but in influenc
ing the election to be held in 1998.”