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VOL 36 No. 6. NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8th, 1935. - Per Copy: 10 Cents.
Congress Now Working On Budget
LADDER IS BIG ISSUE IN HAUPTMANN CASE
Fed. Relief Job Plan Receives Some Party Criticism
DEFENSE WILL FIGHT
ALONG THREE LINES OF
ARGUMENT THIS TRIAL
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTOrTftfan. 8—The kidnap ladder, one of the
most important exhibits in the case, was the point of issue
on the fifth day of the trial.
It rested against the wall near the witness chair) above
which were the charts of the Lindbergh home and the Hope
well area. The State is fighting to have the ladder accepted
as evidence and the defense is determined to keep it out.
Hauptmann came in the court room this morning in the
most cheerful mood he has shown since the trial began.
After listening to the first testimony on the ladder he said
to the guard sitting next to him: “If I made that ladder, I’d
have to be a second-rate carpenter.” He smiled as the wit
nesses described the ladder.
Hauptmann ate heartily and slept soundly last night.
Reilly, the defense counsel, in announcing that he would
' attempt to connect several of the State witnesses with the
slaying of the baby said that he had divided the defense
case into three parts:
First, “We shall establish an alibi.”
Second, “Discount the handwriting on the ransom notes.”
Third, “The third part will have to do with the connect
ing of those who have testified and who will testify with
the theft of the baby.’*
MURDERER GETS
SPEEDY JUSTICE
VIENNA COURTS
(By The Associated Press)
VIENNA, Jan. 2, —With all the
speed it could summon, justice has
disposed of handsome Alois Gaidasch
twenty-one years old.
Three hours after a special light
ning court had sentenced Alois to
death for the murder cf his father,
he was hanged.
Even then, the proceedings might
have been quicker, but Aloi3 kept
fainting, and the Austrian law re
quires that the condemned man shall
be conscious when the. noose tight
ens. -
Gaidasch killed his father during a
quarrel in which his father forbade
him to continue a love affair with
a married woman. Gaidasch used a
crowbar, which, it w&3 established
he premeditatedly hid. in his home.
'When he had killed his father, he
hid the body in a loft, and invited
his woman friend to spend the eve
ning at his home. The next day he
told his neighbors that his father
had gone abroad. Eventually, when
the odor became noticeable, he sew
ed the body in a potato sack and bur
ied it.'
Before his execution Gaidasch be
, quethed all his possessions to the
woman.
PIONEERS ATTENTION
All members requested to attend
meeting In the U S. Marshall's of
- bee on Wednesday, January 9th, at
* • P M. THOS. GAFFNEY,
Vice President
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PRODUCTION OF
GOLD 1934 SET A
20 YEAR RECORD
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — Gold
production for 1934 of the United
States and her possessions was val
ued at one hundred and seven mil
lion, six hundred and thirty-one
thousand, seven hundred dollars, a
record. The previous record year
being 1915 with one hundred and
one million, thirty-five thousand,
seven hundred dollars.
The volume for 1915 was greater,
being four million eight hundred
and eighty-seven ounces compared
with three million, seventy-five thou
sand one hundred and ninety-two
ounces, last year.
Alaska’s production was placed at
five hundred and forty-one thousand
two hundred and thirty-eight ounc
es, valued at eighteen million, nine
hundred and forty-four thousand,
nine hundred dollars.
Father Mae West
Dead In Oakland
(By The Associated Press)
OAKLAND Jan. 7 — Jack West,
the father of the nation-wide famed
movie actress, Mae West, died here
of a sudden heart attack. He was
sixty-five years old.
WAR VETERAN
f r—--- .—~*f*-pL^j?4
PACKSPOUND&
HALF OF GOLD
MINING CAMP
(By The Associated Press)
PHOENIX, Jan. 8—Charles Wil
liams, aged forty-one, a world war
veteran, and an amateur prospector,
staggered in a camp, nine miles
from Apache Junction, carrying an
estimated pound and a half, of rich
“free gold.”
He said last night when question
ed, that he found it in an unnamed
deep canyon. The nuggets were
identified by prospectors, as almost
pure gold.
Capitol Hill Feels
Skeptical Over The
Sup. Court’s Act
— cJ
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—The belief
was expressed on Capitol Hill, that
the Supreme Court’s act of scrapp
ing the oil control provision in the
NRA yesterday, spelled the doom
of some other New Deal legislation,
especially some laws behind the ag
ricultural program.
MOVEMENT IS
UNDER WAY TO
STOP ANIMALS
T
The ravages of wolves and coyotes
in many parts of Alaska is being
called to attention of authorities and
a movement is now on foot in var
ious towns to revive interest at Jun
eau during the coming legislation
for further efforts to exterminate
the predetators.
Reports received here from the
McKinley Park and other areas tell
of many mountain sheep, caribou
and other fine animals being destroy
ed by the wolves.
The Petersburg Chamber of Com
merce recently started a movement
for fighting the wolves and coyotes,
and adopted the following resolu
tions, which have been received by
the Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce:
Resolution
Whereas from the best informa
tion obtainable we believe that the
number of wolves in this locality are
increasing and the number of deer
and other game animals and birds
are decreasing, and
Whereas we believe that the ex
termination of wolves would rev
NOTED BRITISH
ECONOMIST IS
BELIEVER THAT
MONEY IS HIGH
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 8—Sir Henry Stra
kosch, noted economist, declared to
day that the gold block nations
must devalue their currency and
[establish a new international gold
standard, assuring the gold reserves
■adequacy, thereby avoiding a vio
i lent fluctuation in gold purchasing
power. He said that a sixty percent
devaluation would increase the
'worth of the United States mone
tary gold ninety percent and in
crease the gold group nations three
hundred and seventeen percent; the
rest of the world forty-five percent.
WILL ADVERTISE
ON A BIG SCALE
IN NEXT 3 YEARS
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 8—The Associated
Pacific Fisheries Board of Trustees
announced today, a seven hundred
^and fifty thousand dollar, three year
canned salmon advertising campaign
to start the first week of Lent, coin
cident with National Canned Sal
mon week. It will be financed by
the canners.
Internal Revenue
Jumps 42 Percent
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—A jump
of forty-two percent in Internal Re
venue taxes collected by the govern
ment during the fiscal year ended
last June 30th, was announced by
the Treasury Department.
erse this condition, and
Whereas we believe that many
more wolves would be taken if trap
pers had expert advice on the best
methods of trapping them.
Therefore be it resolved that the
Bureau of Biological Survey be re
quested to assign as many expert
predatory animal hunters as poss
ible where wolves and coyotes are
prevalent in Alaska to trap wolves
and also to instruct Alaska trappers.
Passed and approved this 5th day
of December, 1934.
PETERSBURG CHAMBER
COMMERCE,
By Earl N. Ohmer,
President,
Attest:
A. B. Holt, Secretary.
PREDICT JOB PLAN WILL
GO THROUGH RAPIDLY
DESPITE SOME CRITICS
(By The Associated Press) *
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—As Congress went to work on
the eight billion dollar budget submitted by President Roose
velt yesterday, Democratic leaders predicted that his four
billion dollar plan to swing from a dole to jobs, would go
through quickly, despite some stirring criticism, in two
sections.
There is still some talk atnong some Democrats as well
as Republicans, that Congress should choose specific pro
jects on which the money should be spent, instead of giving
it to the President in a lump sum to allot as he sees fit.
Meanwhile, some Progressives expressed the belief
that four billion dollars would not be enough. They said
they believed that wages now prevailing in industry should
be paid relief workers instead of the President’s plan to pay
less.
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COAST GUARD
BOAT REPORTS
RESCUING PAIR
—
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 8th—The Coast
I
Guard Cutter Morris, reported that
it had rescued Jack McCord, Aiaska
cattleman and miner, and Emil Ol
son, both of whom had been lost
for several days, while hunting on
the uninhabited island of Ushagat,
near Kodiak.
The Morris was enroute to Seldo
via with five hundred sacks of flour
to relieve a serious food shortage,
when it picked up the two men.
. , I
AMERICA FACES
SHORTAGE SKII
JUMPERS IN 1936
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO — America today faces
an almost unprecedented shortage
of ski jumpers and the shortage is a
real problem for the Olympic Ski
Games committee and the National
Ski association.
According to the National Ski
Association, A good ski jumper must
learn to jump when young enough
not to know the meaning of fear.”
“The American boy, unlike his
Scandinavian and Norwegian cou
sins, doesn’t take his skiing serious
ly. And when he gets to college,
assuming the college is in the north
ern part of the country and spon
sors winter sports, it’s too late to
gain the confidence necessary for
first-rank competition.
“The downhill and slalom, how
FLU EPIDEMIC
500 RESIDENTS
BE TREATED
| ' _*
(By The Associated Press)
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 8—A third of
! Metlakatlas five hundred residents,
j are under medical treatment for in
| fiuenza, one hundred new cases of
which developed over the week-end
Doctor George E. Dickinson left
here for Metlakatla which has been
without medical care since last
summer. The funeral took place
yesterday of Edward Usher, aged
twenty-six, who died from pneu
monia.
ever, are making rapid advances in
the play curricula of winter recrea
tionists. This is especially true in
the New England section and in the
Pacific Northwest.”
Among top-rank American ski
jumpers, Deyo said, are Caspar Oi
meon, Minot, N. D., Roy Mikelson,
Auburn, Cal., Carl Holmstrom, Gear
Mountain, N. Y.. and John Steele,
Denver, Col. All are members of
the 1932 Oylmpic ski jumping team.
In addition two outstanding Scan
dinavian jumpers have become Am
erican citizens since the last Olym
pics. These are Gunner Oman,
Chicago, and Harold Sorenson ( Nor
folk, Va.
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