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VOLUME 36. No. 87. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Train Hits School Bus Kills 14 Students
151 U. S. SHIPS TO TAKE PART IN MANEUVERS
Premiers of Three Nations Discuss European Situation
Communism Is
Girl’s Reason
Quitting College
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, April 12—Lucille Nor
ton, aged eighteen of Seattle has
withdrawn as a student of the Uni
versity of Chicago. A request that
she do so was made by her uncle.
Charles Malgreen, president of a
drug store chain, because of alleg
ed prevalence of communistic doc
trines in the university class rooms.
Malgreen said the statement and
action was taken after “serious
thinking,” after his niece had told
him about the “new ideas” she was
acquiring. “Apparently she was be
ing taught that communism was the
only preventative of war,” he said.
President Hutchins of the Univer
sity of Chicago declined to com
ment. It is understood that the pres
ident and trustees of the university
will hold a meeting to discuss ac
tion.
Sharpest Rise In
Business In 25
Years Is Forecast
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 12 —The sharp
est business rise in twenty-five years
was forecast for the immediate fu
ture according to the business re
view of Dun Bradstreet.
The review added “The rise will
be fortified inadequately to prevent
interrupted business which follow
ed the spurts of the past two years.”
Wholesalers are rushed with orders
and retailers are losing sales be
cause of lack of goods.
PUNS BEING
MADE FLEET
MANEUVERS
(By The Associated Press)
SAN PEDRO, April 11 — Secret
plans for a six-week’s maneuvers of
the fleet in the North Pacific ocean
starting next month were the sub
ject of a conference of seventeen ad
mirals of fleet units, called yester
day aboard the U. S. S. Pennsylvan
ia by Admiral Reeves, Commander.
The maneuvers will witness one
hundred and fifty one vessels in ac
tion as the first phase with three
others joining later. Also there will
be four hundred and sixty-three nav
al planes. From the battle force
there will be twelve dreadnaughts,
six light cruisers, four aircraft car
riers, twenty-six destroyers and
twenty five submarines.
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14 HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS KILLED
TRAIN BUS CRASH
15 Ollier Occupants, Including Driver And
Teacher, Suffering From Various
Injuries. Eleven Uninjured
• (By The Associated Press)
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 12 — The bodies of the
fourteen high school students who met death when an ex
press train crashed into a bus last night lay in morgues and
funeral homes while anguished parents tried to identify
them.
Fifteen other occupants of the bus, including the driver
and the teacher in charge, are suffering from various injur
ies and shock, but with the exception of two students who
are in the hospital in Washington, all were able to go to their
homes at Williamsport.
The weather was wet and foggy as the bus bearing the
party from the chemistry exhibit at the University of Mary
land, approached a grade crossing of the through Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. Offcials of the company said that the
crossing is guarded by a bell and a red light. The driver
declared he didn’t see the train until the bus was on the
tracks.
The flyer hit the bus in the middle, shearing it in two.
It carried the rear half many yards down the track before
tossing it aside. Bodies were strewn along the track for
two hundred yards. Some were hurled into a cemetary
nearby . Amputated limbs and the decapitated body of a
girl were found in the cemetery.
The accident occurred outside the basement window of
the home resided in by Rev. Cecil McNeal, who hurried out
side and administered the last rites of the Catholic Church
to the dead and dying.
WILLIAMSPORT, Md., April 12 — Eleven uninjured
survivors of the Rockville train and bus tragedy, returned
to their homes here were greeted by parents who believed
them dead. The survivors list of the crash was received
here last night and thought to have been the list of dead.
GRANDEUR SEEN FROM AIR
ON TRIP AWE INSPIRING
BEAUTY GRACES UTILITY
By DOROTHY TROY MORGAN
(Staff Writer of Daily Alaska
Empire of Juneau)
Marking an epoch in aviation his
tory in Alaska, the Juneau-to-Fair
banks service which was inaugurat
ed last Tuesday, April 2nd, by the
Pacific Alaska Airways not only
miraculously brings the metropolis
of Interior Alaska within less than
five hours of the Capital City, but
also covers the most gorgeously
scenic route imaginable.
A few seconds after we bid good
bye to our friends and families on
the crowded airport at Juneau, the
commodious Lockheed Electra was
winging its way over the deep blue
of Mendenhall and Herbert Glac
iers. Gaining altitude steadily, we
soared up Lynn Canal with snow
buried mountain peaks towering on
either side, toward the historic town
of Skagway nestled at its head.
Awe Inspiring Spectacle
I believe all of the passengers
aboard the plane felt the awe that
I did as we flew up the White Pass,
comfortable in the heated plane in
our deeply upholstered seats, over
the treacherous trail where hundreds
of men and beasts lost their lives
and others turned back, broken
hearted, during the frenzied days of
the Klondike stampede.
Dazzling Scenery
The weather was beautiful from
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Nationalizing
Silver Causes
Discouragement
c
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 12 — The
treasury which enforced the exten
sive silver purchase program wants
to be free to force the surrender of
stocks and metal in the event the
owners refuse to sell.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen
thau outlined this view opposing the
bill by Senator McCarran to repeal
the government’s powers to "nation
alize" silver and impose a profits
tax and regulate silver trading. Ob
servers in the capital said the state
ment was discouraging to speculat
ors who like to hold silver for the
benefit of any further increase in
prices.
Reclining Dust
Storms Causing
Crop Concern
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, April 12 —Crop dam
ages of estimates exceeding thirty
million dollars, seriously alTceted an
area of more than fifteen million
acres. Relief rolls are now carry
ing more than twenty thousand per
sons of families whose land has been
damaged.
The major cause has been the dust
storms to come out of the West and
Southwest. Recurring dust storms
in western Kansas, southeastern Col
orado, all of the Oklahoma panhan
dle, southeastern corner of Wyom
ing, northern corner of New Mexico,
northern two thirds of the Texas pan
handle had practically wiped out
crops in those sections, largely
wheat.
John Barrymore
Dolores Costello
Divorce Rumors
(By The Associated Press)
BEVERLEY HILLS, Cal., April 12
— ‘‘Moving Day,” for John Barry
more and Dolores Costello, his wife,
of the household, brought reports of
impending divorce. Barrymore re
mained silent in New York, while
Dolores was equally uncommunicat
ive here.
It is believed she is prepared to
desert their palatial home to go
with her children to an apartment
nearer town.
Rumors between the Barrymores
were first heard following his long
absence in Europe on a film venture
and then a hunting expedition. I
BRAINS OF NAVY
DISCUSS SECRETLY
PACIFIC ACTIVITIES
(By The Associated Press)
SAN PEDRO, Calif., April 12 — Nineteen men, “com
mand brains” of the U. S. Navy, sat down Thursday in the
after suite of the U. S. S. Pennsylvania to discuss the big
things pertaining to the navy going next month to the North
Pacific.
Admiral J. M. Reeves, Commander in Chief of the Fleet
called the meeting which was veiled with secrecy. It is
known however, that aircraft will play a big part in the
naval exercises. Planes are expected to prove that the
Hawaiian Islands, Alaska and the Pacific Coast are only a few
hours apart, instead of days.
151 ships will begin the maneuvers and at least three
more will join in before the final phase. Innovations will
include two world cruising submarines, new heavy scout »
cruisers, new airplanes, new types of destroyers, new air
craft carrier, and newly modernized battleships of the pow
erful armada. 121 will be fighting ships and thirty-three
auxiliaries will form the base train and supply forces.
PREMIERS BRITAIN
FRANCE AND ITALY
GO INTO SECLUSION
(By The Associated Press')
UNDATED. April 12 — The Premiers of Great Britain,
France and Italy went into seclusion at Stresa to discuss
Europe’s peace problems, while the rest of the world looked
on with varying emotions. Not since the Paris Peace con
ference in 1918 had there been a meeting between the heads
of the three governments.
In Berlin, government officials are maintaining ironic
pessimism and expressed the view that the next move re
garding Germany’s rearmament is up to the conference.
Germany is demanding equality without strings attach
ed. The German spokesman said that unless equality is
granted “we can’t discuss further conferences.”
The first concrete problem taken up at the conference
will be France’s appeal to the League of Nations against
Germany’s repudiation of the military clauses of the Ver
sailles Treaty, as endangering the peace of Europe.
NAT Plane
Returns From
Northern Trip
Pilot Chester Brown of the North
ern Air Transport returned to Nome
about two p.m. today from Kotze
bue, Deering and Candle with Ly
man S. Brewster as a round trip
passenger. Enroute north Father
Menager was flown from Deering to
Kotzebue. Coming from Kotzebue
the plane made the flight in one
hour and twenty-five minutes accord
ing to the report from the NAT of
Pee which also stated that the wind a
was blowing close to 60 miles per
hour "upstairs.”
Owing to the srength of the wind,
the plane had difficulty in landing,
and when the wind would get on
one side of the ship it would go
skooting off with it at about a hun
dred and fifty miles per hour. Pilot
Brown finally landed the plane after
two or three attempts.
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