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Volume 3G. Number 214 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Great Britain Squarely Behind League
INNOCENT MAN FREED CHARGE OF MURDER
Baton Rouge Pay Tribute to Senator Huey Long’s Bier
Mighty Empire of
Prosperity To Be
Alaska In Future
GOVERNOR SULZER VISIONS
MILLIONS OF POPULATION
NORTHLAND FUTURE
Alaska with a population of from
25,000,000 to thirty million people,
and with Seward the greatest city
on the Pacific Coast, is the vision
that former Governor Wiliam Sulzer
of New York sees coming to pass
within the next 50 years.
Alaska just now looms larger in
the public eye than at any time in
its history, and people are begin
ning more and more to realize that
the incalcuable resources within its
vast borders have only been scratch
ed here and there.
Multitudes
They will be flocking into the
Territory, not only as successful
colonists, but as independent home
seekers, men seeking and finding
domains for investment.
This and more said Governor Sul
zer during his stay in Seward re
cently, enroute from his mining pro
perties in the Chandalar district to
the states.
In company with Colonel Otto F.
Olilson, general manager of the Al
aska Railroad, and Attorney L V
Ray of Seward, he came down from
Anchorage in Colonel Ohlson’s spec
ial car, made his headquarters at
the Van Gilder hotel while in the
city and departed on the S S Depere
for Seattle.
Governor Sulzer completed his
43rd trip to Alaska. He has been
coming North for 50 years, and in
1898 began copper mining in South
eastern Alaska on Prince of Wales
Island.
On these properties he installed
the first hydroelectric plant in Al
aska and erected the first aerial
tram. Because of the low market
the mines are not now in operation,
but some underground development
work is going on with the stage
being set in readiness for the time
when the price will justify produc
tion.
Price of Gold
The governor is well satisfied with
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Salmon Canneries
To Commence Fall
Season Is Reported
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(By The Associated Press) -
ASTORIA, Ore., Sept. 11, — Near-!
ly all Columbia river salmon can j
neries were preparing to open for i
the fall season today after fisher-1
men had voted to accept packers’ >
price offers. Process will begin at
2 cents per pound for ordinary1
Chinooks. |
CONVICT CONFESSES TO
MURDER AND ACCUSED
RELEASED AFTER TRIAL
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Convict Said He Probably Woidd Not Have
Said Anything If Had Not Been Forced
Innocent Man Is
Freed Of Charge
Murdering Man
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, Sept. 11, — John T.
MacGuire, 26-year old Seattle fish
erman was freed from a charge of
murdering Arthur Erickson, a Puya
llup service station operator in a
holdup last March, through the con
fession of Michael L. Mooney, 24, a
convict serving twenty years in
prison for bank robbery.
Mooney was brooght here when
MacGuire’s attorney became suspi
cious after being directed to him.
Mooney subsequently confessed.
MacGuire had been tried once for
the Puyallup murder but the jury
disagreed. He was awaiting a sec
ond trial when Mooney confessed.
Several witnesses had “positively”
identified MacGuire as the holdup
killer. Asked whether he would
have made any efiort to save Mac
Guire if the innocent man had been
convicted, Mooney sneered:
“I don't know'; I don’t think I'd
have said anything. This is my four
th rap—two in Oregon for auto
thefts; a stickup, and a bank rob
bery in this state. Now this is mur
der.”
Mooney was sentenced to life im
prisonment on the murder charge,
as soon as he had confessed.
Protest Made By
Germany On Flag
Incident 2nd Time
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, — The
German government, its national
pride hurt, yesterday formally pro
tested to the state department
against a New York magistrate’s
comparison of the German Nazi
banner with the skull and cross
bones of piracy.
The protest lodged formally but
orally with Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull by the German Ambassa
dor Dr. Hans Luther, established
something of a record in diplomatic
circles for this sort of action.
The remarks of magistrate Louis
Brodsky, in dismissing charges ag
ainst four alleged communists for
assault upon the flag aboard the
German liner Bremen oa July 25th,
were scarecly 12 hours old when
Luther arrived at the state depart
ment to protest.
American Vessel
Released Workers
Vancouver B. C.
—. ..
(By The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 11, —
The American freghter Point An
cha tied up here since last June by
a strike,, was released last Saturday,
a strike committee of the longshore
and water transport workers of
Canada, announced today.
The committee said terms were i
that Swayne and Hoyt, owners,
would pay a discharged crew in
full, and that the company would
remove the freighter from British
Columbia immediately and send no
more ships there while strike con
ditions prevailed.
Weather Bureau
To Expand Fore
casts To Aleutians
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10. —Plans
were announced by the U. S Weather
Bureau to blanket the entire North
Pacific for a complete weather fore
casting information service, through
Dr. E B Calvert, chief forecaster.
One of the features will be the
great increase in reports for trans
pacific ships.
The success of temporary weath
er observatories in the Aleutian Is
lands has proved so valuable that i
>
plans are being completed to esta-.
blish a permanent station at Kana-1
ga Island.
Hoover To Talk
(By The Associated Tress)
OAKLAND, Sept. 11, — Herbert
Hoover is to speak here October
5th before eleven state convention
groups of young republicans.
j
Funeral Of Huey
P. Lung To Take
Tomorrow
—
(By The Associated Press)
BATON ROUGE, Sept. 11 — This
city, stunned by his death death,
the scene of Long’s unprecedented
rise, the state in which his legisla
tive coups were effected which made
him dictator, the sene of his use of
the military to enforce his will, to
day turned out to pay homage to
hs bier and give him a leader’s
burial.
His body lay in state surrounded
by National Guardsmen. State uni
versity cadets will be a guard of
honor from 1 P M today until fun
eral time at 4 P M tomorrow. He
is to be buried in the state house
'awn. Long’s associates plan to
■ake his funeral one of the most
impressive in state history.
Soviet Icebreaker
Discovers Three
Islands Pole Area
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Sept. 11 —A party of
Sovet Arctic explorers after land
ing from the icebreaker Sadko,
claimed three small islands discover
ed in the North Polar regions, in the
name of the Soviet Union yesterday.
Professor George UshagofT, leader
of the expedition flew over the is
lands later and fixed their positions
for map markings. Crossing the 91st
meridian from the West a lookout
sighted a low narrow strip of land
shortly before midnight, September
7.
A radio message from the Sadko
said “our view was very hazy due
to fog. We approached prudently in
thirty meters of water and when the
fog lifted sufficiently we perceived
there, three islands, all separated
by a narrow strait.”
Old German Policy
Colonization Africa
Looms Background
(By The Associated Press)
GENEVA, Sept. 11 —The League
of Nations’ 16th assembly evoked
warnings Monday of the dangerous
nature of the Italo-Ethiopian con
flict and an assertion by an Italian
spokesman that it would do nothing
to complicate the crisis..
Behind Italy’s demand for colon
ial right there lurked the spectre
that soon Germany deprived of all
its colonies would proclaim its im
perious needs for territory outside
of Europe.
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HOW ENGLAND STANDS
ON ETHIOPIAN DISPUTE
Circa I Britain Officially Announced That
She Stood For Principles Of The League
(By The Associated Press')
UNDATED, Sept. 11—The eagerly debated question of
Britain’s position in the imbroglio between Italy and Ithio
pia, is officially no longer a question.
Great Britain stands firmly for the principles of the
League of Nations. This stand was expressed to the League
Assembly by Samuel Hoare, British Foreign Secretary.
Those who heard it interpreted it as a friendly warning to
Mussolini that Great Britain would be opposed to unprovo
cated war against Ethiopia.
Meanwhile Italian preparations for war went steadily
ahead. Ethiopian women took up colors and began the
mobilization of battalions of death for active service.
France, seeing hopes of a peaceful settlement of the dis
putes dwindle away, decreed new regulations tightening and
modernizing the control of the arms traffic. An Italian com
munique today denied that the government had suggested
a non-aggression pact with Germany
Joe Louis Working
Out Preparation
(By The Associated Press)
POMPTON LAKES, N. J„ Sept. 11
—Joe Louis scored one clean knock
out and three knockdowns yester
day in preparation for his 15 round
bout with Max Baer at Yankee Sta
dium September 24th.
The workout was witnessed by
promoter Mike Jacobs, New York
state athletic commissioner Walker
Wear and 200 delegates to the an
nual national colored baptists con
vention, who journeyed from New
York to see Louis in action.
Max Baer W orks
On Accuracy For
Bout With Louis
(By The Associated Press)
SPECULATOR, N. Y., Sept 11 -
Maxie Baer realizing that he will
be blazing away at a weaving tar
get when he meets Joe Louis Sept.
24th, is practicing to be a sharp
shooter with his fists and apparent
ly is doing quite well at it.
Critics watching him at his box
ing routine repeatedly remarked his
punching accuracy was improved
greatly from the time when he was
swinging at breezes in the fight in
which Braddock stripped him of the
heavyweight crown.
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This Prospector Is
Noi Stopped By A
New Wooden Lc<s
r
Courageous Old Timer To Tramp
Hills Despite Artificial Limb
If you would know what sort of
stuff the Alaska prospector is made
of talk for a few minutes to Frank
Walters, who, after ceaseless, and
often painful effort has learned to
use an artificial leg.
Despite a handicap which would
incapacitate a less zealous individ
ual, he is leaving soon for his be
loved interior, where he will tramp
the hills on one sound limb and one
wooden limb, back to his camp on
the Middle Fork.
Eighteen months ago, Walters was
coming back to his cabin one even
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Smoke ( amp Fire
Was Not From
Art Hines Party
< By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE. Sept. 11, — Land
ing at Ryone Lake, a hundred and
fifty miles northeast of here, Steve
Mills and Don Goodman determined
last night that the campfire which
was thought might prove a clue to
the missing Hines party, was start
ed by a native of the Lone Butte
region. Both pilots returned im
mediately to Anchorage.