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Vol. 38 No. 63 • NOME, ALASKA, Thursday March 18 1937 Per Copy 15cts
DESPONDENT TACOMAN MURDERS FAMILY
Earhart Completes Flight Honolulu In 15 Hours
AMELIA EARHART IS
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT
OAKLAND HONOLULU
(By The Associated Press'
HONOLULU, March 18, — Am
alia Earhart, landed here at 8:29
a.m. Pacific Standard Time, after
a 2400 mile flight from Oakland
California, which she completed
in 15 hours, and 51 minutes.
She took off from Oakland at
4:37 p.m. yesterday afternoon,
and during her flight passed two
slower Pan Airways Airways
planes which left Alameda near
Oakland a short time ahead of
her, one of which was bound for
New Zealand on a pioneering
flight, and the other is on regu
lar schedule to Manila.
Throughout the night she radio
ed occasional positions and fre
quent assurances that ‘she was
all right and well”.
Accompanying her was Paul
Mantz, technical advisor, who is
leaving the plane at Honolulu.
Fred Noonan, former Pan Am
erican Airways pilot, was also
aboard and is going as far as
Howland Island, Amelia’s next
stop. Captain Harry Manning who
is the navigator will accompany
her to Port Darwin, Australia.
Her eighty thousand dollar air
plane, which was partly outfitt
ed by funds supplied by Purdue
University, carries nearly eight
thousand stamp cachets, the pro
ceeds from which will help fin
ance her flight.
She used a separate airlines
radio beam from the PAA clipper
planes. Her speed caused her hus
band in Oakland to worry dur
ing the night, before she arriv
ed at Honolulu at dawn.
Talk Sending Miss
Alaska National
Contest
(By The Associated Press*
FAIRBANKS, March 18—Fair
banks Ice Carnival and Nome
Kennel Club officials are reported
as discussing the possibility of
sending Miss Marguerite Lee,
of Nome, who was recently select
ed as “Miss Alaska”, to Atlantic
City for competition to the Ijtle
as Miss America. She is said to
be of pure Nordic type.
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Two Plays Will
Be Presented
By Nome High
A pleasant evening of entertain
ment is offered by the High
School at the school auditorium
Saturday, March 20, at 8 p.m.,
when two one-act comedies are to
be given.
The Juniors and Senior, under
Mrs. Helen Bockman’s supervi
sion, will put on a skit, “The Ap
Iple Pie.” Dovey, a young hus
band,decides to convince his wife
that woman leads an easy life
with nothing to do, except for a
few simple matters such as keep
ing the house in order and cook
ing three meals a day. The effic
ient young business man, how
ever, finds himself totally at a loss
when it comes to coping with
petty household problems and
some of the situations that arise
j are—well, you’ll want to come &
see for yourself!
The cast follows:
Dovey, the young husband,
. Tom Martin
Lovey, his wife, Geraldine Rude
Junior, their six-year old son
.Harry Lewis
The Vacuum-Cleaner Salesman
.Norvin Lewis
I The Newspaper Salesman
.Charles Lewis
The Silk Stocking Saleslady
. Vesta Poison
The Brush Salesman .
. Eddie Shedley
:The Gossiping Neighbor
M ary Hood Chapman
The Borrowing Neighbor
.Audrey Dunham
Miss Bonatrom and a small and
well selected cast of Freshmen
are preparing a short play, “Nev
ertheless.” The plot, showing
the influence one word, in child
ren’s hands, had on the life of a
man, is unusual and attractive,
and the excellent work of the
cast make the play alive and vi
vid.
The members of the cast are:
The Girl .—. Edith Hoop
The Boy...Bob Scott
The Burglar,.. Fredrick Bockman
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Killed Wife And
Children Then
Murdered Self
fBy The Associated Press)
TACOMA, March 18—Apparent
ly despondent, James Merritt Ar
thur, aged 43, a Tacoma tire com
pany manager, shot and killed
his wife and two daughters, then
took his own life late Wednesday
after being relieved of his duties
at the company headquarters, on
Tuesday, at his own request.
The dead are: Mrs. Anna A.
Arthur, aged 40;Mary Ann Arthur j
aged 15; Janet Arthur aged 8.
They were all found carefully
laid in beds on the second floor
room of their spacious Lake Steil
acoom home.
The father who a few minutes
before telephoned an undertak
i ing establishment to send a hearst
was found slumped in the living
room chair with a twenty-five |
calibre pistol lying beside his
body. The victims having all
been shot with same weapon.
Deputy Sher. James A. Malone
said he believed Mrs. Arthur was
shot first, then the children were
shot when they returned home
from school.
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Pickets Watch Warily Any Attempts
Dislodge Sitdown Strikers
(By The Associated Press)
maicn 10, x-icK-eis
watched warily, during a drizzle
of snow and rain, for any attempt
to eject the six thousand strikers
now defying the court injuction
lay occupying the Chrysler mot
tor company plants, while a plan
for the curbing of Michigan’s
epiuemic oi suaown siriKers Dy
conciliation took form.
Vigilance ‘union patrols” were
redubled. No indication was forth
coming when or if Chrysler would
take the final legal step, prelim
inary to the forcible ejection of
the strikers, including the peti
tioning of writs of attachment.
Believe Justices
Should Present
Their Opinions
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 18, —
Senatorial opponents of the
Roosevelt Judiciary plan declar
ed today that it would be entire
ly proper for members of the
Supreme Court to express their
views at senate hearings now
being conducted.
Senator Wheeler who contends
that the constitutional amend
ment is the only way to limit the
court’s power said “the president
and others have quoted from
chief justice Hughes and well as
justices Brandeis and Stone that
‘why shouldn’t the country have
the benefit of the opinions of the
justices themselves about the pro
blems confronting us, and how
they should be met.”
Black Rapids Glacier Awakened—Now
Moving Forward With Much
Noise—Little Danger
| LABORING GIANT GROANS
AND MOANS LIKE HUGE
DREDGE, DECLARES OTTO
GEIST, AFTER VISIT.
“Suffering agonies, and groan
ing, moaning in her rocky bed of
ages, the giant Black Rapids Gla
cier, 130 miles southeasterly from
Fairbanks, goes thundering and
booming down her thirty-mile
course, presenting one of the most
; unusual spectacles of modern
I times, a sight seldom witnessed
! by any,” declares Otto William
! Geist of the University of Alaska,
who returned recently from a 3
day trip to the glacier with Pilot
Jack Hermann of the Central Al
aska Transport Company.
Geist and Hermann approached
as near as possible to the face of
the glacier, and took a number of
photographs during the spell of
sub-zero temperatures, during
which they suffered intensely at
times from the extreme cold, em
bittered by strong winds.
The unusual speed at which the
| ice sheet is traveling and the way
I it is breaking up has attracted at
tention far and near. Some 40
Fairbanksans who planned to
visit the glacier by plane were
prevented from getting away be
cause of thick weather, but many
of them may go later.
Roadhouse Safe
“Rapids Roadhouse, where we
put up at nights,” says Mr. Geist,
“is in no apparent immediate
danger, and as the glacier seems
headed toward the Big Delta riv
er considerable distance above
the roadhouse and on the oppos
ite side of the river, the road
house likely will not be damag
ed. However, the roadhouse vi
brates perceptibly during the
still hours of night, and one can
Workers Paralyze
Industries in Paris
Following Riots
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, March 18, —Millions of
workers paralyzed the capitol in
a half day general strike, in pro
test against the ‘fascist assass
ins” whom they charged were
responsible for the killing of
five workers, in the bloody street
rioting of the past two days.
All factories and most of the
shops and offices were closed to
day. All transportation was halt
ed.
This morning's session of the
Chamber of Deputies was post
poned on account of the general
disturbances.
Pope Condemned
Communism, Has
Fought Against it
(By The Associated Press)
VATICAN CITY, March 18. —
The Pope condemned communism
as ‘the ruin of family society” in
a lengthy encyclical issued today.
Th e Holy Father, in a vigorous
attack on the forces which he
has fought even throughout his
recent illness, declared that only
the Catholic Church could effect
ively oppose the disintegrating
effects of communism.
hear the distant moaning of the
glacier then.
“As we approached the glacier
on foot it moaned and groaned
i for all the world like a giant gold
dredge in operation. The move
’ ment of the glacier is not notice
able to the naked eye, but it is
progressing irresistably toward
the mouth of the great moraine,
and approaching the edge of the
river,two miles wide at the point.
“The glacier is bifurcated or
forked, and the glaciered mass of
one fork is now crashing into the
other at the junction, crunching
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Juneau-Fair.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON D C March 18
—Saying that the development of
Alaska 'depends on more adequate
communication and transportation
service" the senate commerce
committee recommended an ap
propriation for what it termed
‘foreign" air mail between Jun
eau and Fairbanks.
‘The post office department
might well request an amendment
to the Alaska star route law,
which would permit the post
master genera! to provide for
reasonable surcharges on mail
carried by air over those air lin
'es," said the committee.
On the basis of the 1935 report
by Governor Troy, two million
nine hundred thousand dollars
are needed for navigation aids.
The committe invited special at
tention to that problem, advocat
ing a generous appropriation to
meet it.
The committee said the aids
needed ‘not only cover the needs
of national defense, but to make
it possible that the only feasible
transportation system can be in
stalled to develop this great
country.
Austin Chamberlin
Died London Home
-Came As Surprise
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, March 16—Sir Aus
ten Chamberlain, former foreign
secretary, aged 73, died last night
at his London home. As foreign
secretary he brought about the
negotiation for the treaty of Lo
carno. He was a son of the fam
ous Joseph Chamberlain, and a
brother, Neville Chamberlain,
chancellor-exchequer.
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The Poll Book for the registra
tion of voters for the forthcoming
Municipal and School Board el
ection has been open since Feb
ruary 17th, and will close on Sat
urday, March 27th, 1027. Elec
tion takes place April 6th.
M. J. WALSH,
City Clerk
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
! Logs, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
1 Location Notices. Vouchers, and
I Special Power of Attorney forms.
“The Apple Pie”, “Nevertheless”—Saturday Night
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