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VOlT^ No. 155. NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934 *1 Per Copy: 10 Cents.
13 Men Killed Another Train Wreck
DOLLAR INFLATIONISTS PREPARE PROGRAM
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U.S. Has 900 Planes in One Unit Ready For Attack
CENTRALIZED U S AIR,
FORCE IS ESTABLISHED
FORDEFENSE—ATTACK
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 — A centralized Army Air
Force, of approximately nine hundred fighting planes which
are available almost instantly as a unit of attack or of de
fense, was organized Wednesday by the War Department,
as an establishment which was termed by Secretary of War
Dern, as “the most important revolutionary step toward
modernization” of cumbat units since the World War.
The new organization is to be known as General Head
quarters Air Force, and its commander with be Lieutenant
Colonel Frank M. Andrews. Fighting planes will be plac
ed under the Chief of Staff and subject to his orders.
One result of the establishment of a General Head
quarters force may be the silence of some demands for a
separate Air Force Service. In order to obtain the greatest
mobility the General Headquarters Force will be grouped
under three sub-commands or wings. The First Wing will
be based at Hamilton Field, California; the Second Wing at
Langley Field, Virginia, and the Third Wing will have
temporary headquarters at Fort Crockett, Texas.
The General Headquarters plan will be given a year’s
test, after which it may be revised to eliminate any weak
nesses which might have developed.
CONGRESS WILL MEET
A WEEK FROM TODAY
FOR THE 1935 SESSION
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—Congress is due to go into
session next Thursday, and in the opinion of Democratic
leaders there will be three major debates over Relief, Bonus
and the NR A.
They see other headline disputes in the making, notably
inflation, methods of handling unemployment insurance,
and other social security measures, with also the possibility
of a World Court.
They stated however, that the first three are upper
most in their minds. President Roosevelt is busy working
on his message to Congress, which he will deliver personally
January 4th./ Some authorities close to the White House
described it largely to be a “middle ground” document.
Many believe that Relief and the future of the National
Relief Administration will be included, and probably the
bonus in a later message.___
TWO CHINESE
ARE CHARGED
SPYING SIBERIA
(By The Associated Press)
KHABAROVSK, Russia, Dec. 28
Two Chinese from Manchukuo were
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arrested at Turirog, one hundred
and fifty miles north of Vladivostok
on Soviet territory.
They confessed, the Soviet news
agency reports said, that they were
carrying out orders from Japanese
officials to investigate the district
Bast of the city. They admitted that
they were ordered to make reports
on roads, barracks and troop move
ments. »
Mindashfa, commander of the Fif
teenth regiment of the third indus
try brigade of Manchukuo, was the
name given for one of the prison
ers. Both of them are now being
held on charges of spying.
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TWO BROTHERS
WANT BE JIOSS
SHOOT IT OUT
(By The Associated Press)
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California,
Dec. 27—Two brothers settled an ar
gument over who was the boss of the
home, when the parents were away,
by shooting it out.
Ivan Apple, aged 17, police said, 1
shot and killed his twenty year old1
brother Edgar, while Mr. and Mrs. I
John C. Apple were absent.
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U. S. GRIPPED
SEVERE COLD
WAVES LATELY
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Dec. 27th—The Arctic
blast which swept the country, struck
this morning again with renewed
fury in many points, leaving behind
a steadily mounting list of fatalities.
Shipping along the North Atlantic
has been endangered, as the storm
whipped across the Eastern States.
San Francisco felt the tail-end of
the storm in the form of a hard rain.
The Pacific Northwest was raked by
gales up to 70 miles an hour, jeopar
dizing shipping.
An airplane hangar at Portland,
Oregon, was demolished. Blizzards
are raging in the Cascades with snow
flurries in Seattle and Bellingham,
with ice forming in the lakes. The
Middle West also had sub-zero tem
peratures. The total deaths have now
reached a total of about two hun
dred.
ANTARCTIC HOP
DID NOT TAKE
PLACE TUESDAY
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 27th—The New
York Times, member of the North
American Newspaper Alliance, in
copyright dispatches from Snow Hill
Islap(|_in the Wendell Sea, said that
Lincoln Ellsworth’s proposed flight
across the Antarctic had been balked
by low hanging clouds.
- The dispatches from Wellington,
New Zealand, previously reported
that Ellsworth and Bernt Balchen,
his pilot, flew from Deception Island
to the Bay of Whales, but the dis
patches proved unfounded.
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'“I haven’t any case but I have
some money,” said the criminal
when he called on the wealthy crim
inal lawyer.
“How much money have you?”
asked the lawyer.
“I can scare up $100,000.”
“Why, man, I will guarantee that
you will never go to prison with
that amount of money.”
And that was true. He went there
broke.
TRAIN LOAD OF MINERS
IN FATAL WRECK THREE
COACHES ARE CRUSHED
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(By The Associated Press)
MONTGOMERY, West Virginia, Dec. 27 — Thirteen
men were killed and at least twenty more injured in an ex
plosion of a boiler on a locomotive which was drawing a train
loaded with miners enroute to work at McDunn.
Approximately three hundred and fifty men were in the
train. All the men were killed in the first three coaches,
one of which was torn completely apart.
Bodies were hurled along the tracks. A building near
by was shattered by the blast. The locomotive was torn to
bits by the explosion which was caused by the buckling of
the fire box cover and the subsequent loosening of boiler
tubes. Included among the dead were Engineer Wm.
Blankenship and Firpman D. L. Oxley.
INFLATIONISTS ARE TO
GATHER TO PREPARE
FOR FIGHT CONGRESS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 — The shaving of thirty cents
more off of the value of the dollars, is the goal set by Senator
Thomas of Oklahoma, as he prepared for the January 16th
Conference designed to align the various inflationists groups
behind the common program.
The aim of the meeting, he said, is to arrive at an agree
ment on a proposal to Congress
“To finish what the President started to do.” It is
generally understood, he said that President Roosevelt in
tended to bring the dollar down to the 1926 level when he
quoted Department of Labor statistics to show the present
value of the dollar. His result was, figuring the 1926 dol
lar at one hundred cents, our present dollar would be 130
cents.
Thomas expressed the belief that the dollar must be
divorced from gold to bring about the desired parity.
“There are several means of getting the necessary cur
rency into circulation to bring about the inflation,” he stat
ed. He mentioned the refinancing of farm mortgages and
the payment of the bonus as two very likely possibilities.
GOV’T DID NOT
BUY QUOTA OF
SILVER IN 1934
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—The low
output and domestic prices are blam
ed by treasury officials for the gov
ernment’s failure to purchase the
amount of silver it agreed to ac
quire during the first year of the
London Silver Agreement.
At the same time it became known
that the United States’ holdings of
the white metal were approximate
ly one billion ounces short of the
quantity needed to establish a 25;
75 ratio with the gold monetary re
serve goal set by the last congress.
The present holdings were estimat
ed unofficially at one billion ounces.
TAX ON CHECKS
WILL EXPIRE ON
JANUARY FIRST
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—People
who pay by check will get a break
next Tuesday when the two cent
charge on checks expires. This tax
produced forty-one million dollars
during the last fiscal year. Many
quarters predicted that it will not
be revived. Others intimated that
Congress may be asked to levy new
taxes on other things.
More than a score of taxes expire
or change six months hence, unless
they are reenacted. These tempor
ary levies produced four hundred
and sixteen million dollars during
the present fiscal year.
SON TOBACCO
MILLIONS WILL
GET $7,000,000.00
(By The Associated Press)
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina,
Dec. 27—Counsel for Christopher
Reynolds, the post-humous son of
Smith Reynolds, who committed
suicide a couple years ago, filed for
mal notice of the acceptance of a
proposed settlement of the tobacco
fortune, under which the baby is
to re'ceive seven million dollars.
VALUE OF C C C
WORK TOTALS
NEARLY $3,000,000
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—An esti
mate of the value_of conservation
work done by the CCC up to Sep
tember 30th, 1934, totaled over two
hundred and ninety-one million dol
lars.
The estimate was made by Robert
Fechner, Director of the Corps.
Fechner recommended the continu
ance of the corps’ work, which in
cluded the construction of forty
thousand miles of roads; twenty-five
thousand miles of telephone lines,
and improvements to more than one
million acres of lands.
Peaches Browning
Wed In New York
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Mrs. Fran
ces “Peaches” Browning and Bern
ard J. Byrnes, Denver theatrical
manager, were married here today.
“Sherlock Holmes”
Appears In Films
Here Friday Nite
ADVENTURES OF MASTER DE
TECTIVE GROW OUT OF YOUNG
MEDICO’S USE OF SCIENTIFIC
ANALYSIS TO SOLVE CRIMES
Following his graduation from
medical school, Conan Doyle sat in
a dingy little surgery and waited
for patients. But none came.
It was because of his idleness that
his first detective story was born and
“Sherlock Holmes”, th^ most famous
character of detective fiction, was
created. In 1881, the master crim
inal hunter attained tremendous pop
ularity via “The Adventures of Sher
lock Holmes,” first published in the
Strand magazine. This was follow
ed by further exploits of the great
detective and Conan Doyle became
internationally popular for his works.
Doyle, made his actual literary de
but in 1887 when he wrote “A Study
in Scarlet” which detailed the ad
ventures of “Sherlock Holmes.”
Before his death, the popular au
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