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VOL 36. No. 5. NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, 1935 Per Copy: 10 Cents.
President Delivers Budget Message
ALASKA APPROPRIATIONS ARE ANNOUNCED
Hauptmann Murder Trial Going On Second Week
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VEXACIOUS QUESTIONS
WILL BE SOLVED BY
TERRI, LEGISLATURE
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 7—The Territorial Legislature is due to
meet January 14th with as vexacious questions to be solved
as by the National Congress.
Seven of the eight senators are Democrats and one is
an Independent. Fifteen of the sixteen representatives are
Democrats and one Republican.
Liquor laws, the fishing industry relative to the propos
ed abolishment of fish traps and also further curtailment of
fishing privileges, together with taxation are the three chief
problems to be brought up.
Only two senators and two representatives are here
now for caucuses for the organization on the 14th. The
present liquor regulations were put into effect by the Liquor
Board which the last Legislature authorized pending repeal
and until the first legislature meets following repeal. The
Legislature must retain the present board and regulations
or make entirely new laws.
It is understood that various liquor suggestions are cer
tain. to be brought up relative to the handling of beer and
liquor. Some want Territorial stores and others want to
retain the present policies.
BETTY GOW ON
STAND IN THE
KIDNAP CASE
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON,' Jan. 7 — Haupt
mann was brought into the court
room this morning looking terribly
upset. His face was very pale, al
most ashen, while Lindbergh look
ed as boyish as ever.
Hauptmaan talked to his wife as
pictures were taken. Anthony
Huack Jr., Hunterdon County Pros
ecutor disclosed that both he and
Col. Lindbergh had received threat
ening letters since the trial started.
Guards have been stationed at the
Inglewood home of Mrs. Morrow,
Mrs. Anne Lindbergh’s mother to
protect John Lindbergh, the cele
brated flier’s son, while his father
carries a pistol.
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 7 — Haupt
mann began the second week of his
trial thjs morning with Betty Gow,
the Lindbergh nurse, talking on the
stand. She is telling her story of
the crime: The defendant rested
over the week-end and appeared in
good condition this afternoon for the
ordeal.
Betty Gow identified the under
shirt which she put on the baby, and
which was found with its body. She
said she made the shirt for the baby
the night of the kidnapping, as she
recounted the events of the after
noon preceding the crime. She said
that she and the baby had played
jnoat of the afternoon.
Noel Coward Story
On Film At Dream
Theatre Tomorrow
“KING OF SCREEN” ROMPS
THROUGH PARIS WITH CLAU
DETTE COLBERT IN “TONIGHT
IS OURS”
Fredric March, young star who
recently won the most distinguished
honor the motion picture industry'
can bestow, the aWard of the Acad-j
emy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences for the best performance of
the year, co-stars with Claudette
Colbert, dark-eyed, French-born
screen beauty, in “Tonight is Ours,”
screen adaptation of a play by Noel
Coward, which comes to the Dream
Theatre, Tuesday.
Like “Private Lives,” best known,
to the movie public, of all Coward’s
works, “Tonight is Ours” is a witty,
romantic story of clever, intelligent
people. It centers around a girl of
position who waives her responsibil
ities and sets out to have an amus
ing time in Paris, and a wealthy
young Parisian who insists on being
the source of the amusement. In
giddy, estatic fashion, they chase
about the French capital, but their
moments alone are moments of deep
flaming passion. A strange trick of
the fates almost upset their lives,
but a dramatic climax ultimately
sets everything to rights.
March is cast as the Parisian, with
Miss Colbert as the girl in the case.
Alison Skipworth, veteran trouper
who has achieved sensational suc
cess in character roles in “Madame
Racketeer,” “Night After Night,”
“If I Had a Million,” and other pic
tures, heads the supporting cast,
which also includes Arthur Byron
and Paul Cavanaugh. Stuart Walk
er, famed “star maker," directed. >
CAPT. H. ODSEN
OF S S VICTORIA
IS ROBBED SUN.
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 7 — A burglar
entered the home here of Captain
Hans Odsen of the liner Victoria of
the Alaska Line, which is now in
Alaska, and stole twenty dollars in
currency secreted between the leav
es of. a Bible, in addition to a cash
box containing an undetermined
amount of money, according to a po
lice report this morning.
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SHIP AGROUND
ON REEF OFF OF
FLORIDA COAST
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 7 —
The Ward liner “Havana” grounded
on Mantanilla Reef, sixty miles off
the Florida coast Sunday night.
Forty-three members of the crew
and the entire passenger list of fif
ty-one were rescued from lifeboats,
by other ships
One passenger, Robert Ritten
house of Brooklyn, died of apoplexy.
He was eighty three years old. Mem
bers of the crew remained on
board the ship and Coast Guards
men are standing by. It is expected
that tugs will be able to refloat the
vessel.
NO NEED INFLATION
TO BALANCE BUDGET
SAID F D, ROOSEVELT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — A billion dollar relief fund
was asked of Congress today by President Roosevelt in his
message, forecasting a new peak for the public debt of thir
ty-four billion, two hundred and thirty-nine million dol
lars on June 30th, 1936.
Declaring that unemployment alone blocked a balanced
budget, the President envisaged last evening the reduction
of government expenditures, and the increase of revenues,
“as rapidly as private industry was able to re-employ those
who are now without work.”
This was the second financial accounting of the New
Deal, and allowed for the spending of seventeen billion, one;
hundred and one million dollars for a two year fiscal period,!
half of which is already past. The government plans to
spend eight billion, five hundred and eighty-one million dol
lars for the next fiscal year ending June 30, 1936. It also
plans to make this expenditure from the allottment of nine
billion eight hundred and forty-one million dollars for re
lief and recovery, the remainder being credited for general
expenditures necessary to run the government.
Of the money to be spent for recovery and relief, rough
ly five and a quarter billion dollars will be spent this yeari
and four and one-half billion dollars during 1936 fiscal
period.
The President’s request for four billions for work and
relief was coupled with recommendations that the money
“be in one sum subject to allocation” by himself. This
phase of the budget is expected to stir Congressional con
troversies. Congress was informed that the government’s
income would meet all expenditures except those which
would give work to the unemployed.
The President didn’t consider it advisable to propose
new tax levies, but asked the continuation of existing levies.
Receipts were estimated to be about half of the expenditur
es, the remainder to be obtained by borrowing money and
from the billion, three million dollars cash on hand, in the
Treasury.
President Roosevelt told newspaper men that there was
no need for inflation to finance the budget. He warned that
extra appropriations by Congress must be paid for with new
taxes. It was significant that there was no provision in
the budget for cashing the two billion, one hundred million
dollars in soldier’s bonus.
The President asked seven hundred and ninety-two ;
and one-half million dollars for the Army and Navy for the
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APPROPRIATIONS for
ALASKA ANNOUNCED
IN BUDGET MESSAGE
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — An increase of three hun
dred and twenty thousand, nine hundred and eighty-five
dollars in the budget appropriation for Alaska for 1936 as
compared with 1935, was recommended by President Roose
velt in his budget message to Congress.
The Territory of Alika’s appropriation for the fiscal
year of 1936 amounted to, according to his recommendation,
to $2,464,185. Estimates of money needed for territorial ,,
expenditures exclusive of the Alaska Railroad and special
and trust funds contributed, amount to one million one hun
dred and ninety-four thousand, one hundred and eighty-five
dollars; while in 1935 similar expenditures amounted to sev
en hundred and sixteen thousand, two hundred dollars.
The greater portion of the increase was in the estimat
ed needs of the railroad. For the maintenance of roads,
bridges, and trails a half-million, an increase of forty-eight
thousand over last year; for the support of reindeer stations
and management of herds thirty-two thousand nine hun
dred and forty dollars, an increase of two thousand, and
seven hundred and fifty-five dollars included for the buying
and distributing of reinde§£ to natives and schools, the esti
mate being placed at fifty thousand, the same as last year;
for the caring and holding of insane persons one hundred
and seventy-nine thousand dollars. Last year’s sum was
one hundred and sixty-one thousand, six hundred dollars.
Such were the estimated sums included in the budget mes
sage of the President to Congress today.
Ketchikan To Get
New Federal Bldg.
P. 0. Court House
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7—Build
ing projects planned by the govern
ment, were announced today by W.
A. Newman, U. S. Architect, and in
cluded a Post Office and Federal
Court House for Ketchikan, to cost
approximately three hundred thou
sand dollars.
Silver* Sets A New
High Record For
2nd Time 4 Months
(By The Associated Press)
DENVER, Jan. 5—Silver receipts
of the Denver mint boomed upward
in December and set a new high
record for the second time in four
months. The West’s silver miners
shipped four hundred and forty
seven thousand, seven hundred and
forty-seven ounces in silver, worth
two hundred and eighty-six thous
and, nine hundred and sixty-four
iollars, during December. This
npped the previous record of 426,
249 ounces of silver shipped into the
mint in September.
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Report Is Denied
Attempt Was Made
Kill Herr Hitler
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 7 — Responsible
'circles today denied unconfirmed re
I ports that two Nazi storm troopers
had attempted to assassinate Hit
ler, but succeeded in killing his.
chauffuer. The story was labeled
as an untruth.
Dramatic Professor
Died Today In N.Y.
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(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 7 — Professor
George Pierce Baker, of the Yale
drama School, died in the hospital
here where he had been a patient
for the past couple of weeks. He
was sixty-eight years old and was
greatly respected for his fine accom
plishments.
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