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VOL 36 NO. 108 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NIAY 7, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Farmer Shoots and Kills Two Convicts
DR. G1LLESPI AND NURSE ENROUTE BARROW
House Passes PWA Loan and Grant For City of Nome
House Passes Bill
For Nome P W A
Loan, Grant App.
Gives Permission City Nome
Bond Itself—Senate Will
Have to Pass On it Yet
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 7, — Four
Alaska bills including the one hun
dred thousand dollar loan and grant
for the City of Nome Alaska, pass
ed the house yesterday afternoon.
The Nome issue is to finance the
reconstruction work necessary as a
result of the fire which took place
there in September 1934, and to car
ry on the city government. The
measure also confirms the corporate
existence of the city.
The other measures were, a forty
thousand dollar bond issue for Pet
ersburg for municipal improvements
—fifty thousand dollars for a new
school at Valdez. The fourth bill
would grant the right to appeal min
or criminal convictions.
Fire Destroys The
Home Of Artist
4 Persons Dead
Mother and Daughter Die in
Fire in Artists Home In
Boston 2 Leap Death
(By The Associated Press)
BOSTON, May 7, — Four per
sons, including the mother and a 14
year-old daughter of John LaSalle,
internationally known portrait paint
er, were burned to death or were
killed in leaps, as fire swept the art
ist’s home this morning.
Six others were injured. The dead
are Mrs. John LaSalle aged seventy
and who has been a cripple for many
years, Alice the daughter of John:
Miss Mary Dolan the maid, and Miss
Kathleen Costello. The latter two
were killed in a leap from a second
story window, when they discovered
they had been trapped by the flam
es.
WEATHER AT
NENANA TODAY
The Weather Bureau reported that
the weather at Nenana today was
cloudy, wind fifteen miles an hour
velocity and the temperature was 48
degrees above. Other weather re
ports from up the Yukon and on the
Kuskokwim said there was a light
rain at Tanana today; also light rain
at Fairbanks and Flat.
Boyd Yeden of Wrangell has been
appointed a PWA engineer, and will
represent government projects which
will l>e under way soon at Wrangell.
MAJOR GEN ALLISON
TALKS BY RADIO TO
21 STATIONS ALASKA
U. S. Navy Steaming To Maneuvers
As Signal Corps Chief Talks Stations
(By The Associated Press')
SEATTLE, May 7, — While the grand fleet of the U. S.
Navy steamed toward their maneuvers in the North Pacific
ocean, Major General James B. Allison, United States A ’rr y
Signal Corps Chief, mobilized his corps in Alaska via radio
telephone, in a demostration that the head of the communi
cations system could issue instant commands over a wide,
and far-away territory.
Twenty-one stations listened in and heard the General
say:
“When I was in Alaska in 1900 It took six months by dog
teams to carry the mail—now I can talk to you right away
via the radio—that’s progress!”
Among others who conversed with the general was
Robert Bender, editor of the Juneau Empire.
Kidnapee Pleads
Life Of Kidnaper
Sentenced Death
Mary McElroy Pleads for Life
Man who Kidnaped Her
Now Sentenced Death
(By The Associated Press)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 7.
—Governor Park of the State of Mis
souri granted Walter McGee, the
kidnaper of Miss Mary McElroy, who
was scheduled to be hanged Friday,
a stay of execution until May 31st,
in order to study the case.
Miss McElroy pleaded for the con
demned man and asked that the
death sentence be changed to life
imprisonment.
Gov. Troy Mayor
Seward Invited
Pres. To Alaska
Discuss Alaskan Affairs With
President Roosevelt And
Invite Him To Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 7, — Gover
nor John W. Troy, and Mayor Don
Carlos Brownell of Seward, today
personally on behalf of the residents
of Alaska, invited President Roose
velt to visit Alaska this summer.
They were reported to have also
discussed general Alaskan condi
tions and its future, with the presi
dent.
Six Are Dead In
Airplane Crash
Nine Are Injnml
TWA Fog-Bound Plane Falls
Six Lives Taken Crash
In State of Missouri
(Bv The Associated Press)
ATLANTA, Mo. May 7, — Sena
tor Bronson, and M. Cutting of New
Mexico, Pilot Harvey Bolton of Kan
sas, co-pilot Kenneth Greeson, Miss
Jeanette Anne Hillias, all of Kan
sas City, were killed when a fog
bound Transcontinental and Western
Air plane crashed near here.
Nine others, six of them members
of a motion picture production unit
bound for Annapolis, were injured
—some seriously.
Mrs. William Kaplan of Los An
geles died this morning of injuries
received in the plane crash. Two oth
ers are still in a critical condition.
Senate Almost Sure
To Back Up House
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 7, — Accord
ing to information this morning the
senate seemed sure to join the house
in routing full and immediate cash
payment of the bonus.
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Pilot Jones PAA
Waiting Kotzebue
For Doctor Nurse
KOTZEBUE,- May 7—(Special to
The Nugget from Pilot Jones of the
P. A. A.)—‘‘I returned here last
night and am awaiting Pilot S. E.
Robbins of the Pacific Alaska Air
ways from Nulato with Dr. Gillespi
and a nurse. Am ready to leave for
Point Lay, Wainwright and Barrow
as soon as Robbins arrives.
"I landed at Point Lay last even
ing and found flu there. There is
Lttle improvement and continued
deaths at Barrow. Wainwright has
been helpless other than resident
teachers acting as nurses.
“When 1 left Barrow reliable in
formation state there were twelve
deaths and still many critical cases."
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Attempt To Strip
Southern States
Of Voting Power
Young Republicans Active In
Move Strip Southern
States Voting Power
(P>v The Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, May 7, A de
termined movement to strip the
southern states of their historical
and present-day voting power in the
Republican National Conventions,
arose in the midwest, as the young
republicans looked toward the re
gional party conference to take place
at Springfield, Illinois, June 10th.
Opposition came however, from
Wisconsin where young republicans
argued that nothing must be done to
create any sectional ill feeling or
disruption.
Ambushes, kill's
Stepson Because
Played Baseball
—
Didn't Want Stepson to Play
Baseball So Ambushed
And Killed Youth
(By The Associated Press)
ABERDEEN, May 7, — Peter Voss,
aged fifty ambushed his stepson An
tone Masko, aged 21, slugging him on
the head with a club, as he teturn
ed from a twilight league baseball
game.
Young Masko died this morning
from a fractured skull. Voss was
found dead with a bullet thru his
head.
The killing was believed to have
been the result of Voss insisting that
jAntone should not play baseball.
FARMER KILLS TWO OF
SOUTH’S HAD MEN IN
GUN FIGHT LAST NIGHT
Men Wanted For Five Murders Kill
Two More But Are Killed Bv Farmer
(Bv The Associated Press')
SEARCY, Arkansas, May 7, — Freddie and Clarence
Busche, former Missouri convicts accused of five, quick-trig
ger murders in two states, met their match last night in Han
ford Russell, forty-year-old farmer, who shot and killed the
two of them in a brief gun battle.
The brothers were mortally wounded when Russel an
swered their fire last night in the woods near El Paso. They
have been sought since Saturday when Russell encounter
ed them in their stolen automobile. Russell shot out of the
windshield of his own car and forced them to abandon their
car.
The two Busche boys are accused of a series of kid
napings, robberies and other terroristic activities in this
state, which culminated last Wednesday night in the slay
ing of two men at a rural dance near Sheridan.
$600,000 Check To
IIJU I'ayincul
Colonists Kxpcnse
Didn't Know What Money
Was For At First—Now
It Is Explained Fully
(By The Associated Press!
SACRAMENTO. May 7, - For
luck it was considered, the Califor
nia governor’s office received for
the Federal Emergency Relief Ad
ministration a six hundred thousand
dollar check to cover the expense
of the resettlement of the coloniza
tion families in Alaska.
The governor anil the state repre
sentative did not know anything
about the project early this morn
ing except that they had the money.
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7. — Fred
Chase, FERA administrative assist
ant said this afternoon that the six
hundred thousand dollar check re
ceived by the governor is a refund
to the FERA for transportation ad
vances and other expenses of mov
ing the colonists to Alaska. He said
that the state had paid when the
federal had no funds ready.
Contest of \\ ill
The contest of the will of the late
Mrs. Louisa Bloomberg, in the pro
bate court, was decided today in
favor of the will, and the contestant
was ordered to pay the costs.
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Railroad Pension
Aet Is Held Be
Unconstitutional
Railroad Retirement Act Is
Deemed Unconstitutional
By Supreme Court
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 7, — The
entire railroad retirement act which
affects more than one million em
ployees, was held unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States, today.
WASHINGTON, May 7, — New
deal lawyers immediately embarked
on a detailed study of the Supreme
Court’s rail pension decision, to de
termine w hether it had dealt a body
blow to the NRA and the social se
curity program, some believing that
they had been indicted.
The court frowned on the relative
ly wide interpretation of the inter
state commerce laws on which the
NRA is based. The social security
bill might have to be re-vamped, it
was reported, in view of the new
ruling.
Industrial Workers
Of Alaska
MEETS MAY 8—7:30 P. M.
NEVADA HALL
All Wage Earners Are Urged
To Attend