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Volume 36. Number 215. NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
P O Department Makes Call For Tests
SMALLER NATIONS STICK TO GREAT BRITAIN
Belief Expressed Assassin Ring Cause Long’s Death
SMALLER NATIONS ARE
STANDING PAT BESIDE
BRITAIN ON ITS POLICY
Smaller Nations Of Europe Announce At
Leaufue Council Policies For Peace
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 12—A group of smaller nations led
by the Netherlands and Belgium came to the support today
of Great Britain in her opposition to the military conquest
of Ethiopia by Italy.
These countries’ representatives told the League Assem
bly decried armed invasion and announced that they stood
firmly for the maintenance of the League’s principle of non
aggression.
Their speeches were considered affirmations of the Brit
ish stand as expressed by Hoare.
Favorable reports on the progress of negotiations by
which the threat of war could be averted, were noticeably
lacking today. Great Britain ordered three more battalions
of soldiers to Malta. Italy sent five thousand more troops
from Naples to East Africa, and Ethiopia is telling her peo
ple to pray for peace, but is preparing for war. She con
centrated troops at Auda, historic battlefield where the Ital
ian expeditionary force was decimated in 1896.
Hiller Raps 14
Points Of Wilson
Address To Nazis
(by The Associated Press)
BPiRLIN, St'pt. 11 —Hitler in a
proclamation read to the Nazi Party
Convention, rapped Woodrow Wil
son’s 14 Points.
Delegates from all over Germany
burst into a bedlam of applause.
Hitler said: “Where are the 14
Points of former President of the
United States of America, Woodrow
Wilson? Where is the world today?
The Reich is no longer a football—
no longer an object of foreign man
euvering. but is now in its own se
curity, not by foreign pacts, but
by the real power of the nation and
by the firm will of its leadership!”
Laura Ingalls Hops
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12, —Laura
Ingalls hopped off from here on a
projected nonstop flight to New York
in an attempt to lower Amelia Ear
hart’s transcontinental record.
Pioneer Woman
Alaska Died At
Anchorage Wed.
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE Sept. 12, — Mrs.
Harry Cribb, 59, a native of Astoria
Oregon, and a pioneer in the gold
rush to Fairbanks and other early
camps, died here yesterday after a
lung illness. She has lived in Anch
orage since 1920 and was promin
ent socially. Mrs Cribb was a past
president of the Federated Women's
Clubs of Alaska. She is survived
by her husband.
Making Of Jobs
Quickly Purpose
At Present Time
(By The Associated Press)
HYDE PARK, Sept. 12, — The
president late today remapped the
gigantic works relief program to
meet declared recovery conditions,
at a conference with his principal
lieutenants, in which said he was
ready to state the prime necessity
i of the fund—which is just now, the
making of jobs quickly through the
four billion dollar fund, with the
constant idea of turning over work
ers to private industry as business
picks up. Therefore it looked like
relief administrator Hopkiqs, advo
cate of temporary work had edged
over to Ickes, champion of perman
ent public works.
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Enforcement Of
Peace Ethiopian
Dispute Is Vital
(By The Associated Pressl
UNDATED, Sept. 12, — British
foreign secretary Samuel Hoare, said
that the League must enforce a
peaceful settlement of the Ethiopian
dispute. He stated that a failure
by the League would wreck “the
main bridge” binding England to
the continent.
Great Britain will back the Leag
ue Covenant “in its entirety and
suggested that advanced peoples
should lend a helping hand to back
1 -yard nations.”
Guns Blaze To End
Disorder In Strike
Area Minneapolis
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(By Tne Associated Press)
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept, 12, —Guns
blazing through a tear gas-laden
area left two dead and thirty in
jured seriously enough to require
hospital treatment, after the third
successive night of disorder in con
nection with an iron workers
strike.
A crowd of four thousand milling
men, women and children (led after
authorities were forced to use tear
gar to restore order.
Pelting of rocks and smashing of
windows, suddenly converted into a
scene of violence, what shortly be
fore, had started out as a peaceful
picketing campaign.
Eugene Casper 18, and Melvin
Bjorklund 21, were killed by the
police gunfire, when the crowd re
treated up an alley. The police
followed with shouts of "let 'em
have it". Many were beaten and sev
eral were shot.
Public* Requested
To Call At Post
Office For Mail
Postmaster Guy E. .Ylish of the
Nome Post Oflice, requests that rent
ers of post office boxes, and others,
call for their mail and help relieve
the conjected condition, when mail
can not be handled quickly and
with dispatch, due to the confined
quarters of the present Post Office.
MURDERERS; POLITICS AND THE QUESTION OF
MONEY OCCUPY ATTENTION OF OFFICIALS AS
BURIAL OF HUEY P. LONG IS CARRIED OUT
—
Believe Assassins
Drew Straws To
Choose The Killer
(By The Associated Press)
BATON ROUGE, Sept. 12, —
Leaders of thousands who loved
Huey Long proceeded to bury the
slain senator today and then deter
mine whether the assassination was
the result of a conspiracy. The fun
eral took place at four P. M. Central
Standard Time today. Reverend
Smith delivered the funeral oration.
He said he believed that to dis
close the facts behind the killing
would “shake the nation.”
Long’s secretary, Christenberry,
said that he believed the assassin
was chosen by lot and that they
drew straws—Weiss lost
The District Attorney .promised
that a thorough investigation would
be made of the shooting.
Long’s grave will be in a sunken
garden adjoining the skyscraper
capitol building.
Both political camps are awaiting
the funeral and burial before divulg
ing plans.
Speculation Rife
As To Wealth Of
Senator H P Long
(By The Associated Press)
BATON ROUGE, Sept. 12, —Spec
ulation is rife to learn the extent
of Huey Long's wealth, derived
mostly from a law practice. He had
contracts with the state tax com
mission giving him one third of all
the taxes collected by his efforts.
He also received fees from the pub
lic service commission for legal
work. These fees under the Louisi
ana law were being paid by utilit
ies investigated.
Some place his wealth as high as
five million dollars, but most inti
mates thought that it would not be
more than half that, and probably
far less even than the first. Positive
f
knowledge of his wealth will come
with the filing of his will for pro
bate.
Political Status
Unchanged Some
Say By Killing
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, —Wheth
er a strong threat to Roosevelt’s re
election, died with Huey Long, is
the subject of some disagreement
among political leaders here.
Senator Nye said that Long might
easily have held the balance of pow i
POST OFFICE MAKING
TESTS OF SPEEDS ON
SHIPS CARRYING MAIL
One \ esse I Already l)is<|iinlilied From Car
rying If. S. Mail Coveriimenl Contracts
(By The Associaled Press')
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—Speed tests of ships carry
ing ocean mail were disclosed Tuesday to have forced the
withdrawal of one vessel from service with the government,
which is now seeking four hundred thousand dollars as a
refund from its owner.
The speed and tonnage of vessels largely govverns the
rate of pay for carrying the mail. A long study of log books
and records of voyages, recently caused officials of the Post
office Department to doubt the ability of twenty-one ships
to make the speed called for in their contracts.
Tests* already conducted, officials said, demonstrated
that the Margaret Lykes, operated by the Lykes Brothers,
sailing between Galvaston and Port Arthur to Santo Domin
go, could not make the speed specified for Class Five vessels
in which it was listed.
The Margaret Yykes was tested over a measured mile,
and by the result of the test the government seeks to recover
four hundred thousand dollars paid over a period of four
years. Officials declined to say what other ships have been
marked for tests. They stated however, that there were
twenty such ships on the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Pa
cific coasts which were designated.
Postoffice officials said that no tests have ever been
made of the ability of vessels to fulfill mail contract speeds,
and that they had always been classified according to the
speed and tonnage described by the owner’s certificates.
er in 1936. His death however, less
ens the possibility of a division of
the democratic party to that extent,
and strengthens the administration.
Senators Thomas of Utah and Nor
ris of Nebraska, and a number of
others expressed the opinion that
the death of Huey Long would nut
affect the outcome of next year’s el
ection, to any material extent.
Wants Investigation
U. S. Navy To Find
How Money Spent
_* 4
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, —Ques
tioning its efficiency and accusing
it of meddling in internal and for
eign affairs, Representative Mav
erick of Texas wants a Congression
al investigation of the navy.
His demand was made after the
final edition of the congressional
record, which has just been released.
He said that an investigation
would disclose whether the half
billion dollars granted the Navy
Department yearly, was being wast
sd and was doing harm rather than
benefiting the navy.
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Roosevelt As A
Relief Program
(By The Associated Press)
HYDE PARK, Sept. 12, — Pres
idem Roosevelt went into the role of
a peacemaker and conciliator again,
with Harold Ickes Secretary of the
Interior coming here for a showdown
on the works relief program.
Ickes appears concerned over the
distribution of the four billion dollar
work relief funds.
Harry L. Hopkins at the other end
of the arrangements believes that
jobs should be supplied quickly. Ick
es believes that his program for
bridges and buildings should be en
couraged.
President Roosevelt is of the be
lief, favoring the proposition of mak
ing jobs quickly under the idea that
Congress stipulated the four billion
dollar fund should be spent during
this fiscal year.
Roosevelt is further determined to
keep his goal of getting three and
one-half million persons from relief
rolls to work by November, and end
the dole. He also is just as interested
it appears, to have private industry
take up the unemployment slack.