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VOLUME 36. NO.. 68.. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Hitler And British Statesmen Confer
DROUGHT DAMAGE WESTERN PLAINS GREAT
Huey Long Blasts Hoover, Roosevelt With Invectives
Makes Report On
Drought Effects
Western Plains
(Bv The Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY. Marh 25—South
western drought damage, embraced
in abandoned homes, half starved
herds, and dust covered crops, ran
high in the millions of dollars, as
the weather beaten farmers prayed
for a general rain to check the rav
ages of the sun and winds .
Collins, statistician for the Depart
ment of Agriculture said that thou
sands of acres in Southeastern Colo-j
rado would be useless in farming;
and grazing for the next one hun
dred years or more . Collins pre
dicted: “the most complete crop
failure in the history of the western
plains regions,” referring to eastern
Colorado, Wyoming, western Kan
sas, Nebraska and Texas..
Oklahoma panhandle farmers be
gan an exodus from several Colora
do counties..
x Ethiopians And
Italians Fighting
One Man Killed
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, March 25—A government
communique announced today that
a new combat between Italian and
Ethiopians took place Saturday, re
sulting in the death of one man
The skirmish was fought on the
frontier of the Italian colony .
Thos. W. Hunt’s -
. Death Is Attrib
uted To Suicide
Thomas W Hunt, 30 years old,
clerk in the Fairbanks postoffice,
was found dead recently as the re
sult of a bullet wound in his head. 1
His demise is attributed by the
United States marshal’s office to
suicide, he having been despondent
over his health for several days
Mr Hunt had lived in Fairbanks 1
since about 1926 . He was graduat- 1
ed from the Fairbanks high school 1
in 1927 and in the fall of that year I'
entered the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines.. He 1
attended the institution about a 1
year.. In 1922, he became an em- ‘
ploye of the postoffice. He was '
registry, stamp and COD clerk '
The young man was the son of Mr
and Mrs T M Hant of Fairbanks.
The elder Mr. Hunt is in charge of '
the United States Land Office in this *
city. '
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HITLER AND SIR SIMON
HAVE J 1ST TALK ON
EUROPEAN PROBLEMS
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED. March 25—The long awaited conference
between Great Britain and Germany started when Hitler at
Berlin talked personally with Sir John Simon. British for
eign secretary, and Captain Anthony Eden, British Lord of
the Privy Seal in Chancellory..
Hitler told his guests of Germany’s armament program,
but the conversation was not made public.. The conference
was described in diplomatic circles as “likely to determine
whether Europe turns back toward peace or continues on
toward war..”
Official Italian circles at Rome said that Italy was wil’
ing to participate in diplomatic negotiations with France
and Great Britain and Germany, provided, that the latter
was willing .
Hungarian circles said that the sentiment in their coun
try was growing stronger for a union with Germany..
Special Steamship
Service Alaska For
Coming Season 1935
The Alaska Steamship Company’s
liner Aleutian, largest and finest
Dassenger ship of the Seattle-North
liand fleets, will make six round
:rip cruises in the Skagway-Sitka
■oute during the 1935 tourist sea
son, it was announced recently .
In previous years the Aleutian has
operated in the Southeastern and
Southwestern Alaska route, going
hrough to Seward, but this year
>he will ply exclusively in the Seat
le-Skagway-Sitka service during
he pajik of the travel season.
Another unusual departure noted
n the 1935 schedule of the company
s the operation of the steamship
Victoria in the Southeastern Alaska
■oute after her first trip of the year
o Nome. The vessel will return to
he Bering Sea route in October to
)ring out the late travelers and car
50 from the Seward Peninsula dis
rict.
Will Carry Mining Men
The Victoria also will be sent to
Jeward, sailing August 20, to take
)art in the exodus of .mining men
rom the Yukon River district and
annery workers from Southwestern
Uaska.
While the Victoria is in other serv
ce, following her return from her
irst trip to Nome with the sailing
et for about June 1, the steamships
Jellwood ar.d Derblay will service
lering Sea ports.
Six Cruises Scheduled
The steamships Alaska and Yukon
/ill return to service in March, en
ering the Southeastern and South
western Alaska route. The Alaska
tarted this feature of the new
chedule, sailing at 9 am March 16 >
and will alternate with the Yukon
up to May 25. She will sail May 25
and June 8 for Seward, and upon
her return from these trips, will
enter' the Southeastern Alaska route.
In this special cruise service, she
will said June 25, July 8, July 29,
August 9 and August 19. The Al
aska will return to the Seward route
sailing June 22 and alternate with
the Yukon until the end of the sea
son.
Numerous Filings
For City Positions
Are Made Today
Only 267 voters registered for the
coming City Election, up to the clos
ing of the poll books Saturday night
at 10 o’clock. This is the smallest
number to register for the past four
or five years, but it is not any indica
tion that the voting population of
Nome has decreased.
Several petitions have been filed to
day with the City Clerk for elective
offices. J S Stangroom filed for trea
surer; Alvin Polet and Harry Hagen
for councilmen; Leroy Sullivan for
city attorney; Rex F Swartz for May
or; M J Walsh for city clerk and Mrs
Carrie McLain for member of the
school board.
Three councilmen are to be elected
this year—the terms of councilmen
Polet, Hagen and Balsiger, expiring.
Only one member of the school board
is elected each year.
Conjecture is rife as to the extent
of city politics and during the next
few days several more petitions are
expected to be filed. The time for fil
ing petitions expires five days pre
vious to the date of the election,
which is to be held April 2nd.
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Silver Advocates
To Try And Force
House Acceptance
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 25—'Thirty
members of the silver bloc agreec
to attempt to force the immediate
House acceptance of all senate
amendments to the four billion dol
lars public works relief bill, includ
ing the silver rider
Representative Martin of Colora
do. said: “We should realize tha
this might be our last chance to de
anything about silver this session,’
Henrv Setli maim
*
Passes Away Sun.
Henry Sethmann, old time pio
neer and a former U S Commission
er at Haycock, passed away in the
Maynard Columbus hospital yester
day morning He had been ill foi
some time and when brought te
Nome by plane recently was in pool
health As yet no funeral arrange
ments have been made
Vic Ross Of NAT
Flies .“> To Nome
Pilot Vic Ross of the Northern
Air Transport arrived Nome Sun
day early from Fairbanks, after hav
ing spent Saturday night at Rub\
enroute to Nome, due to adverse
weather conditions As passenger
with the plane were Floyd Frazier
Lawrence Mead, George McAllister
Perry Moore and W Willet Pilot
Ross hopped off again this morning
on his return flight to Fairbanks
where he will pick up another load
of passengers for Nome and Seward
Peninsula
Clict Brown NAT
dies Council Six
Pilot Chester Brown of the North
ern Air Transport flew from Fair
banks to Council yesterday with
Chas Kimball, Clyde Glass, wife
and baby, Gus Rosen, and Thor
Nelson From Council he flew
here Pilot Brown took off this
morning for Koyuk with a passen
ger, and is to stop at Unalakleet on
his return flight and pick up two
witnesses to come to Nome, in the
Gottschalk case He is then sched
uled for a flight to Kotzebue and
Point Hope. ,
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HUEY LONG LAUGHS AT
HOOVER’S CALL FOR
REVIVAL OF 01 ) GOP
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 25—Huey Long gave the coun
try an idea of how he might talk if political events now
shaping toward the 1936 presidential election, would lead to
a third party campaign, in which he would take a hand .
Laughing over Herbert Hoover’s call for a militant re
vival of the Republican Party, Long said “Hoover is a hoot
owl and Roosevelt a screetch owl.”
“The hoot-owl bangs into the roost and knocks the hen
clean oil, and then catches her while she is falling, but the
screetch-owl slips in and talks softly to the hen which falls
in love with him and the next thing you know there ain’t
no hen .”
Some democratic leaders viewed Long’s sally as a series
of utterances designed to lay the foundation for a third
party presidential candidacy next year..
Stretching Of
SIviiSI Arteries
Brings Jitters
NEUROLOGISTS AT ANNUAL
MEETING DISCUSS CAUSE
OF ALCOHOL HEADACHE
NEW YORK, March—In discuss
ing headaches a group of neurolo
gists suggested the probable mechan
ism of “hangovers.”
An address by Dr Wilder G Pen
field, professor of neurosurgery at
the institute of neurology of McGill
University, Montreal, at the annual
meeting of the Association for Re
search in Nervous and Mental Dis
ease, on the causations of intercran
ial pain, gave rise to comments by
Dr Dean Clark of New York hospi-j
tal on the nature of cerebral “jit
ters '
Stimulation of the large surface
veins that drain the brain, by ten
sion or electricity under local anes
thesia, according to Dr Penfield,
causes headache on the side of the
skull under treatment Other por
tions of the brain, he said, not near
the big blood vessels, were not sen
sitive to operative treatment
“Headache accompanies dilation
or stretching of the arteries in the
skull," Dr Clark explained “Ex
perimentally such headaches have
been produced by intravenous in
jections of histamine ” These ex-,
periments were carried on in collab
oration with Dr Heloise Hough in
the laboratory of Dr Harold Wolff
“Alcohol has a similar action on
arteries," Dr Clark continued, “and
it may be that headaches following
the use of alcohol are associated
with the same mechanism, althou
no experiments have been done to
substantiate this..”
Borah Of Belief
Be No European
War Near Future
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 25—Sena
tor Borah predicted there would be
no European war within the near
future, and forecast that even if
there was an European conflict, Am
erica would keep out of it.
In an interview With the Associat
ed Press, Borah suggests that the re
arming of Germany might instead
of bringing war, lead to a more
peaceful Europe .
Mirow To And From
Fairbanks Two Davs
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
Air Service took off Sunday for
Fairbanks with C W Cash and Mrs
Parkins as passengers for that place.
He returned to Nome this morning
with Mrs Richard Lee and daughter
and Henry Gumm as incoming pas
sengers and a full load of express.
Pilot Mirow took off again today
[or Candle and Buckland and will
bring back Lyman S Brewster from
Buckland and Gus Bjornstead from
Bandle He expects to take off for
Fairbanks again tomorrow morning.
Monson of PAA In
Out Nome Mail
Pilot Monson of the Pacific Alas
ka Airways arrived Nome yesterday
-norning and took off again immed
ately on his return mail flight to
Fairbanks.. Art Nelson was a pas
senger from Fairbanks to Nome .
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