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Volume 36. Number 123 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Italy Takes Stand Patriotic Attitude
ARMY OFFICER IS DISMISSED FROM SERVICE
Counting On Green And Johnson Help With NR A
Bonus Forces Are
Disorganized By
Defeat Of Bill
Bonus Forces Somewhat Dis
couraged and Disorganiz
Over Senate Victory
(by The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 24, — The
cash bonus forces were somewhat
discouraged and disorganzied by the
size of the senate vote sustaining
the President s veto. They counted
upon their strong majorities in both
houses for an eventual victory.
The decisive defeat of the Patman
Bill even by a minority vote took
the wind out of the bonus movement
temporarily iat least. Several new
proposals were advanced immediat
ely, but leaders waited to get their
breath before plunging into a new
drive.
Return From The
Alaska Maneuvers
Twelve Planes Make Nonstop
Flight From Sitka To Air
Station at Sand Point
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, May 24, — Twelve
Navy airplanes returned here from
the war game maneuvers along the
Alaskan coast, from Sitka, in a non
stop flight.
The planes left Sitka at 5:40 A M
Thursday and arrived at the Sand
Point Naval Air Station at 2:45 P. M.
Lieutenant Commander Henry P.
Stanley in charge of the squadron,
said they would start for San Diego
Saturday via Astoria and San Fran
cisco. The Aircraft tender U. S. S.
Wright is now enroute south from
Sitka.
Families To Join
Colonists Tonight
At New Homes
Drawings for Land Held Yes
terday and Wives and
Children Due Tonight
(By The Associated Press)
PALMER, Matanuska, May 24, —
The wives and children of the col
onists will rejoin their husbands
• and fathers this evening after a
train ride from Seward.
The drawings for land were held
yesterday. Col. Ohlson of the Alaska
Railroad told them “much hard work
lies ahead but brawn and courage
will do the task.”
COLONEL IS DISMISSED
FROM ARMY BY COURT
MARTI 4L WILL APPEAL
Colonel Williams Served Three Different
Army Campaigns Becomes Involved In
Bribery Charges And Is Dismissed
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, May 24—Thirty-seven years of army
khaki, including service in two wars. Colonel Alexander E.
Williams, Thursday was sentenced “to dismissal from the
military service,” by a court martial of brother officers.
His attorney immediately gave notice of appeal from
the finding of Williams guilty of soliciting and obtaining
“twenty-five hundred dollars from a representative of an;
automobile tube concern interested in war department con
tracts of giving false testimony by denying that the money
was received,” when before the house military sub-com
mittee.
The trial was conducted in strict secrecy. This is the
first court martial proceedings against any high ranking
officer since that of Brigadier General William Mitchel,
Assistant Chief of the Air Corps during the world war. who
was convicted of insubordination on December 25th and giv
en a suspended sentence. Mitchell later resigned.
Williams’ appeal will be taken before the statutory
board of review consisting of three officer judges, advocate
generals of the department. The board’s opinion goes be
fore Secretary Dern of the War Department and then to
President Roosevelt.
William’s was acquitted of another charge of accepting
two thousand dollars, on which there was no documentary
evidence. He is now sixty years old. He saw service in
Cuba, the Philippines and during the world war. Williams
won numerous decorations during the time he was in the
army. j
Doctors To Study
Flu Arrive Fair
banks Go Barrow
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS. May 23, — Enroute
to the Arctic from Pennsylvania the
two doctors who will study the in
fluenza germ, arrived here by plane
today. As soon as weather permits
they will leave by plane for Kot
zebue and continue to Barrow.
But in the event that unfavorable;
weather develops they will go no
further north than Kotzebue, as it
is believed they can obtain all the
data needed at that point.
The trip is made possible by the
interest of Colonel Lindbergh and
wife and the cooperation of the Pan
American Airways, which are fin
ancing the trip to a great extent.
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Fisherman Burned
Death Cas Boat
Burns At Sitka
One Man Burned Death When
Boat Explodes at Sitka
While Loading Fuel
(By The Associated Press)
SITKA. May 24, — Gust Tuftland
aged thirty-three, a fisherman, was
burned to death in the flaming hulk
of the halibut boat Augusta which
exploded while taking on fuel here
Thursday. Tuftland lived at Peters
burg but was out working during the
fishing season.
Captain Martin, Engineer Egil and
Mate Winter were taken to the hos
pital badly burned. Tuftland was
asleep at the time of the explosion, i
Another halibuter, the Happy of Kef
chikan, which was also loading gas,
narrowly escaped damage.
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WASHINGTON
CURRENT
COMMENT
May 10, 1935
An April day of collar-wilting
heat turned the thoughts of the leg
islators on capitol hill to springtime
in the Rockies, the banks of the
Wabash and other subjects having
nothing to do with the swelter and
humidity of a Washington summer,
but the indications are that congress
ional noses wlil be close to the grind
stone for some time to come. The
lawmaking mill has slowed down
somewhat, the grist to be ground
i continuing to arrive in car load lots,
which is a bad com hi nation if knock
ing off is contemplated. Banking
requires attention. The NRA need
a new foundation, or at least some
props. Social security is a large
and pressing matter. The bonus
payment sleeps lightly and is far
from the snoring stage. The White
House pressure for action along
many' lines 'is strong. Upon the
whole, it looks as though Congress
were in for a protracted season of
face-mopping, illumination by means
of midnight oil and other badges of
hard and long-continued toil. Speak
ing of tcjil, constituents have some
thing to learn if they think that
their congressional representatives
have no business in Washington
more serious than picnics, beer bouts
and pleasure jaunts.
The move of a foreign government
to put a curb on submarine war
fare is based partly on an honest
desire to take some of the horror
out of war and partly on the cir
cumstance that in the last world
conflict the allies came off second
best so far as undersea activities
were concerned. The submarine has
an advantage over all other fighting
machines, in that it can remain
practically concealed until the mo
ment of attack. How far nations
having definite plans for defense or
aggression will be willing to go, al
ong the line of dropping the sub
marine, is something that remains
to be ascertained. A man-propell
ed vessel of that type was tried
during the Civil War with partial
success, and thereafter fifty years of
effort were spent in the perfecting
(Continued on Page Two)
Will Not Continue
Blocking Navy Bill
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, May 24, — The
senate munitions investigation com
mittee abandoned further attempts
to halt the naval appropriations
bill. It seemed certain to pass the
senate soon.
MUSSOLINI PATRIOTIC
SPEECH LAYS STRESS
INDEPENDENCE ITALY
Italian Premier \ oices Italy's Stand As The
Rest Of Europe Rearms. Italy Is To
Decide Her Own Course Of Action
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, May 24—Premier Mussolini told massed thous
ands of soldiers and civilians gathered together in observ
ance of the Twentieth Anniversary of It lay’s entrance in the
World war:
“Italy is now ready for any trial.” The ceremony in
cluded the presenting of battle flags to regiments which will
replace the units assigned to East Africa.
Mussolini said: “It is better to live one day as a lion
than a hundred days as a lamb. That is not merely an or
der, but is the gospel to us. We swear to respect this sacred
injunction everywhere and in spite of anyone. Let no one
in Italy or abroad delude themselves. Italy will consider
carefully before arriving at a decision, but when the decision
is reached she will then go forward without turning back.”
This patriotic address was delivered at a time when the
rest of Europe is massing its strength to increasing its arma
ments and shows clearly where Italy will stand in the event
of trouble.
Some Mills \«;ree
To Demands Of
Lumber Workers
Picket Leaders Sent Out Of
Town at Forest Grove
Demonstrators Broken
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, May 24, — Strikes
in the lumber, maritime and mining
industries spotted the Pacific North
west industrial map from Juneau, AI
aska to the California line.
Some lumber strike observers saw
an easing in the tense situation af
ter picket leaders at Forest Grove
Oregon were sent out of town, and
the demonstrators sent home, when
they were faced by state and county
armed guards who threatened to
call out the national guards, and
the reading of a riot act.
A scattering of mills bowed to
workers’ demands for more pay and
shorter hours together with a clos
ed shop, and were permitted to re
sume business.
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Attacks Wagner
Bill l»i emoting
Strife Industry
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 23, — At
tacking the Wagner Labor Relations
Bill, President Harper Sibley of the
United States Chamber, said it
would go beyond the lawful powers
j of government and breed ‘industrial
strife. It will promote and not allay
industrial conflicts,"
Neither the management nor the
workers could have any assurance of
stability in mutual ralations he as
serted.
Proposed Project
Seventy Thousand
WASHINGTON, May 24, Projects
proposed in the work relief applica
tions made public included a Seward
harbor breakwater, seventy thous
and dollars.
Now that the roads are opened to
Little Creek, and down to Ft Davis
from Nome, the Nome Motor Com
pany has started their summer taxi
service to outlying sections around
Nome. They are running trucks
and taxi serving mining operators
and passengers.,