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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 37. No. 163. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Attention Called Nome Fed. Bldg.
C. C DILL GRANTED DIVORCE IN SPOKANE
Senator Wm. Borah Filed Renomination In Idaho
NOME FEDERAL BLDG.
HAVE ROOMS MANY
FEDERAL AGENCIES
Foundation Not Be Concrete But Posts
Sunk Permanent Frost Support Big
Structure House Fed. Divisions
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 10, — While the Cap
tal’s mercury soared to around one hundred degrees,
the government experts tackled the problem of con
structing the most northwesterly Federal Building on
the American continent, on ground frozen mast of the
time at Nome, with bids to be opened this month—such
is the present status of the building.
A handsome drawing of an “H shaped” structure
draped in icicles and surrounded by snow, is on review
WILL USE FORCE TO
EVICT STRIKERS IN
BUSINESS HOUSES
(By The Associated Press'
PARIS, July 10, — An armed
force will be used with care to
oust French strikers who refus
ed appeals to evacuate business
places, said Minister of the In
terior Roger Salengro today, who
said, explaining by armed force,
he meant policemen without bay
onets.
Mexican Killed
Wife 6 Children
& Steel Worker
(By The Associated Press)
INDIANA HARBOR, Indiana,
July 10, — Celestino Gonzales, a
Mexican, apparently killed his
wife and six children with an
axe and then shot and killed a
roomer in their home, Jose Aro,
and then committed suicide.
Aro was killed in a steel com
pany locker room where Gon
zales confronted him as Aro was
leaving his work for home. Gon
zales then turned the gun on him
self after firing twice at Aro.
Police went to notify Mrs. Gon
zales at her home only to find the
doors • locked. They broke in
and found scattered around the
house, the body of Mrs. Gonzal
es and the bodies of their six
children ranging in age from two
to seventeen, four boys and two
girls, all slain with the axe.
Lacking definite evidence to the
contrary, police listed Gonzales
as the murderer of his wife, child
ren and Aro.
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here. Officials of the Procure
ment Division of the Treasury
Department, admit that it is no
easy task to concentrate on the
frigid problems of the North.
While the hottest weatiTer in
six years torments the city, plan
ners determined that the ground
was too frozen for concrete.
The foundations will be of
huge wooden piles placed in hol
es dug out by steam. Left alone
they will freeze into the earth
more firmly than if cemented,
said designers.
The roof is designed so that
snow will crumble or blow off,
not bank up.
The building will contain ev
erything from a radio station on
the top floor to quarters for the
reindeer service on the first floor.
Another room will hold the post
office. Space on the roof has j
been left for the Weather Bureau j
and quarters are arranged for the I
jail in the basement.
Courtrooms, judicial chambers,!
marshal’s office and space for the
Home Owners Loan Corp., and
a miniature asylum make up the
rest of the building.
Mid-west Farmer j
On Alaska Trip
Comment Rain
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(By The Associated Press)
KETCHIKAN, July 10, — A'
million dollar rain greeted the
party of 135 mid-West farmers
on the Alaska cruise aboard the
S S Victoria.
They agreed “this rain would j
be worth a million dollars back |
home.”
The farmers are from Indiana,
Illinois, Tennessee, Michigan and
Iowa. 1
Midget Airplane
Ready For Tests
At Lon" Beach
c
(By The Associated Press)
LONG BEACH. Calif., July 10,
—A midget monoplane that may
open a new field of cheap Hying
is being groomed for test flights
in the next few days.
Several California Institute of
Technology engineers designed
the ship to average 17 miles on
a gallon of gasoline, and cruise
at a speed of 138 miles per hour.
The ship is declared to have a
Hying radius of 700 miles, all
descriptions, when fully loaded.
The all metal craft is of the
i low wing type and has a wing
spread of 32 feet 6 inches. Its
fuselage measures twenty-four
1 feet in length, and there is not
; a visible wire or strut on the
plane.
In appearance it resembles a
baby transport, and has seats for
two persons.
The ship is powered by a 125
horsepower motor, and its safety
devices include dual controls, a
robot pilot, and wind breaking
for strict economy has been re
duced to the minimum.
Tiie plane will be sold at a mod
crate cost when production starts,
designers said.
Salmon Packing
Under Way Now
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(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 10, — Bureau
of Fisheries figures prepared by
the Association of Pacific Fisher
ies and the Northwest Salmon
Canners Association show that
salmon packing for the 1936 sea
son is getting into stride, in a
weekly comparative pack prog
ress report.
The report declared 574,118
cases had been packed for the
weeks ending July 4 and June
27, these for the later date cov
ering three or more remote pack
ing areas in Bristol Bay with
90,445 in Copper River; 70,487 in
Cook Inlet.
For week ending July 4 district
standings were Alaska Peninsula
south side 328,294; Kodiak 78,
048 Chignik 66,012; South Prin-j
ce of Wales 10,302; Yakutat 8,-1
551. Alaska Peninsula north side
7,326.
Last year’s figures Chignik 29,
183; Kodiak 11,921, Copper River
8.439.
Six Murderers
Meet Fates As
Law Takes Lives
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, July 10, — The
law in four states took the lives
of six murderers last night and
today by three different methods
—the firing squad, lethal gas
chamber and the electric chair.
After a six year fight to escape
the death penalty for the slay
ing of his wife, her mother and
his fosterfather, Delbert Green,
28. was trussed to a chair at Salt
Lake City and shot by a squad
of riflemen.
At Florence Arizona, Frank
Rascon, 20, died in the gas cham
ber, firmly contending his father,
not he, killed a fellow ranch
worker.
At Huntsville, Texas, the elec-1
trie chair claimed a white man
and two negro brothers—Grady
Warren maintained he was inno
cent of a holdup and slaying, and
Mack and Oscar Brown, the ne-j
groes, blamed each other for the
murder for which they were con
demned.
John Collins, 37, who was mar
ried after his conviction, was el
ectrocuted in Sing Sing Prison
at Ossining, New York, for a tav
ern holdup and slaying.
Fog Forced An
Airplane Back
Prince Rupert
(By The Associated Press)
PRINCE RUPERT, July 10, —
an airplane which left here at
10 A. M. today with Premier T.
D. Pattullo and his secretary en
route to Queen Charlotte Sound
cities and Alaskan points, ran in
to fog at Hecate Strait and was
forced to return.
The party is awaiting better
weather before resuming the
tour which will include Ketchi
kan, Juneau, Atlin, Whitehorse
and Dawson.
Year Moratorium
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 10, — A
year moratorium on rehabilitaiton
loans obtained by destitute farm
ers in officially designated
drought counties, was announced
by the resettlement administra
tion.
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C. C. DILL GRANTED DIVORCE
AFTER SPECTACULAR TRIAL
HELD SPOKANE WASHINGTON
Mrs. Dill, Former Rosalie Jones of New
York. Fought Case Billerlv. Replied
Charges Filth In Unique Manner
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKANE, July 10, — Super
ior Judge W. E. Huneke awarded
a divorce to former U. S. Sena
tor C. C. Dill of Washington, to
day.
He decided that Dill need not
pay back the $40,000 his wife,
the former Rosalie Gardner Jun
es of New York gave him during
their nine years of married life.
SPokane, July .3—Mrs. Rosalie
Jones Dill offered to introduce
her lingerie in evidence in Su
perior Judge A. Iluneke's court,
where she was contesting tire di
vorce suit brought by former U.
S. Senator Clarence C. Dill. But
her elderly attorney, Frank Gra
ves, hastily restrained her, assur
ing her that a verbal description
would be sufficient to refute the
charges of former domestics that
she was unclean in her personal
habits.
The millionaire feminist and
author was visibly disappointed.
“It would be so much easier
just to show you,” she protested,
and pointing to an open suitcase
beside the witness chair, added:
“I have it right here.”
Eut her lawyer was adamant
and she had to content herself
with oral testimony.
“I don’t wear much clothes,”
she said. “No woman does now
adays. I don’t wear anything
but a little gauzy thing and then
a slip, and that’s all. It’s so small
I’m really ashamed to have any
body look at it, so I used to dip
it myself, with my stockings,
every night. I never put on
stockings that haven’t at least
been dipped.”
In further defense of her per
sonal habits, she described her
self as “just a nut on baths.”
“I take one every day,” she de- j
Is New Chairman
i
(By The Associated tress)
WASHINGTON, July 9, — The
selection of Representative Sam
Rayburn of Texas, as chairman of
the Democratic Speakers Bur
eau was announced today by,
James A. Farley, Democratic cam
paign chieftain.
dared, “and sometimes twice or
three times. I like the feel of
water on my body."
Lost Track of Amounts
Commenting on the deposition
of Iola Washington, a colored
maid whom she had employed in
the national capital, who had tes
tified that her bathroom .as al
ways dirty, she observed:
“It was her own fault if the
bathtub was dirty, because ' was
her duty to clean it. But I don't
see how it could hove been dirty,
because I took so i”_ ..- s.
Mrs. Dill lavished so r.r tf. u
rands of dollars on her h., b.r-.d
; during the first three years of
her marriage that she completely
lost track of the amount. But,
d spite all the abase that has
been heaped on he in the divor
ce suit .die is ecu'i i::g, she still
thinks she g it her m ney's worth
end more.
This she made clear - hen she
played her highest trump card
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Borah files For
Henooiiration In
Idaho Primaries
(Hv The Associated Press)
BOISE, Idaho, July 10. — Sen
ator William E. Borah b ’came a
candidate for re-election for a
sixth term, when nom>qtion pe
titions for the August 11th pri
mary election were Hied with
the Secretary of State yesterday.
The seventy-one year old stat
esman and attorney in a recent
statement said he would not bolt
the Republican ticket anti pledged
his allegiance to the platform he
helped frame at Cleveland.
Borah did not issue any formal
announcement concerning his re
election plans but so. d that his fil
ing spoke for itself.
Borah has one opponent in the
primaries—Byron Defenbach, a
former state treasurer.
Defenbach claims that Town
send is backing candidates for
the democratic nomination, in
cluding Governor C. Cenn Ross
powerful campaigner and Leslie
Aker, Boise attorney.