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Volume 36. Number 183. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Japs May Supply Munitions Ethiopia
SOVIET PLANE TO MAKE SECOND ATTEMPT
Japanese Officials Aroused Over Vanity Fair Cartoon
Soviet Plane May
Make Second Try
In A Couple Days
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Aug. 5, —Oil trouble
over the icy Barents Sea thwarted
the ambitious attempt of three Rus
sians to fly nonstop from Moscow
to San Francisco across the North
Pole.
The disappointed fliers turned
abouit when over the southern part
of the sea and landed at Leningrad
at 10:30 PM Saturday night, which
was about 1:30 Pacific Standard
Time. A defective oil line spoiled
their dream of setting a new, worlds
nonstop record on the projected six
thousand mile hop.
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Aug. 5, —The polar
plane landed at an airfield in South
Leningrad where they rolled gently
to a stop after dumping five tons
of gasoline Saturday night.
It is believed the ship will take
off again in a few days on a second
try, after an official commission in
vestigates the source of the trouble.
Wiley Post Take
Off Probably Be
Tomorrow Is Said
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 5, —Wiley Post
is poised for his flight to Alaska.
Pontoons have been placed on the
plane and test flights have been
made. The take-off for the North
will probably be tomorrow.
Four Persons Dead
When Auto Goes
Over A Big Cliff
(By The Associated Press)
LEWISTON, Idaho, Aug. 5, —Mrs
H. E Graham, her father Alonzo
Gieger 50, and Mrs Earl Wells were
all killed when the auto in which
they were riding plunged over a
cliff. Mrs. C A Herold of Calgary,
also an occupant of the car died of
injuries received in the collision
which sent the automobile over the
cliff.
Publisher of Tucson
Daily Paper Dead
(By The Associated Press)
TUCSON, Arizona, Aug. 5, Frank
Harris Hitchcock, nationally prom
inent figure'-and publisher of the
Tucson Daily Citizen, died here to-;
day of pneumonia.
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Wants To Sharpen
Drive On Enemies
Of Nazi Movement
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Aug. 5, —An avowal
was made by Dr. Paul Joseph Goeb
bels to strike into ‘dust all hate
enemies” and sharpen the Nazi drive
against all who stood out against
party discipline.
The minister of propaganda also
turned on the Jews and political
Catholicism.
War Mystery Ends
Missing Germans
Slain Expedition
MEN SENT ON MISSION TO MON
GOLIA DURING WORLD WAR
DIED IN DESERT
BERLIN, Aug. 3—Another World
war mystery, which cost Germany
millions, has been solved with the
explanation of what happened to
the 1915 Pappenheim expedition,
which disappeared in Mongolia.
To Rabe von Pappenheim, the
German military attache in Peiping,
was given the mission of preventing
Russia from getting munition sup
plies from the United States and Ja
pan via Manchuria. His scheme was
to blow up the Nonni bridge and a
i tunnel on the trans-Siberian rail
way. This bridge figured heavily in
the news during the Japanese inva
sion of Manchuria a few years ago.
He set out on his important task
with two other Germans, five Aus
trians and a caravan of 50 camels to
cross Mongolia and the Gobi desert.
From that day to this no news of
Pappenheim reached Germany.
A Russian journalist recently un
covered the fate of the expedition
when in Harbin he chanced upon
a former secretary of the czarist
embassy in Peiping, now an exile
from Russia.
The whole party was murdered
one day, while resting, by Mongol
ians who were supposed to be pro
tecting them. Pappenheim took
along generous quantities of gifts
by which he hoped to win the favor
of tribes encountered enroute.
Among the things the 50 camels
carried were $50,000,000 in silver,
jewels and the explosives necessary
for dynamiting the bridge and tun
nel.
The silver and jewels immediately 1
won the ‘friendship’ of one Prince
Babusdab, who offered a guard of
50 men to accompany the expedi- i
tion. i
The Russians, so the ex-diplomat
said, knew about Pappenheim’s
plans even before the expedition
left Peiping.
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REPORTED JAPAN HAS
SIGNED CONTRACT TO
GIVE ARMS ETHIOPIA
Further Statement Says Kthiopia May Not
Mind Foreign Mandate lather French
Or British But Will Not Have Italy
(By The Associated Press')
LONDON, Aug. 5—An Exchange telegraph correspond
ent at Addis Ababa today reported that he had learned that
Japan had signed a contract Friday to supply “a very heavy
consignment of arms and amunition for the modernization
of the Ethiopian army.
The arrangements were said to be complete for the dis
patch of Japanese Military and Commercial mission to Eth
iopia.
The dispatch also said that a mandate for Ethiopia was
being considered with “important circles in the capital not
unfavorable to such a power being granted either to Britain
or France, but with every determination that Italy shall not
be the nation chosen.’'
UNDATED, Aug. 5—Italy, forseeing a snag for the con
ciliation commission, pushed her troops movements with
even more rapidity than during the past fortnight.
The conciliation commission meets to name the fifth
member and resume arbitration at Geneva, today. French
circles today evidenced pessimism for peace efforts of the
coming tri-power conference.
Expert Solves A
Mystery On Tiny
Island In Pacific
STATUES, STONE HOUSES ANI>
CARVINGS NOT PREHIST -
ORIC CURATOR SAYS
(By The Associate!! Press)
PARIS, Aug. 3, —Henri Lavachery
curator of the Museum of Art and
History at Brussels, believes that he
has solved one of the greatest eth
nological and archaeological myster
ies of the age. He has preceded the
return to Europe of the Franco-Bel
gian expedition which a few mon
ths ago set out for a 50-miles-square
island, in the south Pacific, 2300
miles west of Chile, the site of the
mystery.
The island is called Easter, or
t
Waihu, and according to Lippincotts
New Gazette of the World,
i
It is remarkable for its ancient
gigantic statues, stone houses and
sculptured rocks, apparently the
work of a prehistoric people
«
Other encyclopaedias are more
convinced that the sculptures repre
sent the work of a vanished race— ‘
a race of rare culture and fine artist
ic imagination. ,
Reproduced photographs of the re
mains seem to bear out this theory.
To turn it into a scientific fact Lav- t
achery organized the expedition, 5
principally financed by members of
he French Academy of Inscriptions
ind their friends.
Lavachery will presently publish
in illustrated book on the discover
ies of the expedition, the contents
if which, he has admitted to Paris
lewspaper men, do not sustain the
orehistoric hypothesis, but one
nuch more modern.
He found the statues all right, he
old the Paris correspondent of The
3aily Telegraph, only these extra—
irdinary monuments, which vary in
leight from 15 feet to 30 feet and
lumber some hundreds, are not, ac
cording to M. Lavachery, 'the vest
ges of an extinct civilization, but
;he work of the Maori ancestors of
he present population who settled
in the island between the years
1000 and 1200 of our era.”
The statues, he holds, are the mem
irial stones of mass graves measur
ng about 250 feet by 30 feet. The
expedition located 15 of these grav
is, each of which apparently belong
ed to a separate village.
Lavachery says that, in conse
luence of the ravages of the weath
er and of the natives, who use the
tatues as quarries, it is to be feared
hat after the laps of two or three
enturies nothing will remain of
hese curious monuments but form
ess blocks of stone.
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The Washington
News-Letter
OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
(By J. J. ECKLES)
July 20, 1935
The subject of old age pension;
for Indians has engaged the atten
tion of many members of Congres;
of both Houses for several month,
past.
When the Social Security Bill vva,
first considered and reported to thi
House the Delegate was assurec
that Indians were included withii
the provisions of the bill, just th;
same as other citizens of the Unitei
States. There seemed to be n
doubt about this. The Social Se
curity Bill, however, is a Federa
Aid Bill, under which the govern
ment furnished one-half of the oh
age pensions provided by the stat
es and territories, up to $15 ;
month for the Federal contribution
So if a state or territory provide
an old age pension of $15 a month
the Federal Government will mate!
this, under the terms and provision
of the bill, so that beneficiary me;
receive a total pension of $30 pe
month. Of course there is noth!n|
in the Act to prevent the state
and territories from putting u]
more than $15 a months as thei
share, but the Federal contributioi
is limited to $15 per month.
When the bill was under consid
oration in the senate, Senator Nor
beck secured the inclusion of ai
amendment whereby the federa
government would pay all of th
pensions to Indians, not to exceei
$1 a day, thus relieving the state
and territories from making contri
butions unless it was desired t<
give a greater pension than $1 ;
day. This amendment was put ii
the bill for two reasons: first, be
cause it was thought that the bur
den of paying old age pensions t(
Indians should be borne by tht
Federal Government alone, and no
by contributions from the states
since the Indians have been consid
ered wards of the Federal Govern
ment and not of the states; am
second, because doubt had been ex
pressed as to whether the Social Se
curity Bill really took care of In
dians although they are citizens o
the United States. The bill passet
the senate with this amendmen
and went to conference. In confer
ence the amendment was stricker
out and so, as the bill came back t(
both house and senate no specia
provision was made for Indians.
When the conference report wa:
up for consideration in the House
Representative Samuel B. Hill, om
of the House conferees, referred tc
the Indian amendment whereupon
as shown by the Congressional Re
cord of July 17, pages 11,775 and 11,
(Continued on Page Two)
Walter Johnson Of
Cleveland Indians
Resigns Manager
(By The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, Aug. 5, —Steve
j O'Neill, coach of the Cleveland In- '
;dians, was named manager today
following the resignation of Walter
Johnson.
Johnson said ho will investigate
the progress being made by players
. in the minor leagues, in which the
.' Indians have been interested.
For years a masterful figure on
. the mound for the Washington Sen
, ators, said he had suggested resig
I nation to the owners of the club and
, they had accepted. In a statement
, he praised the ability of O’Neill
I 1 at great length, wiiouo tenure of
, office has not been immediately
| specified.
I -
Japan ln<li»natc Of
Cartoon In Vanity
Fair This Month
(By The Associated Press)
s WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, — Re
sentment in Japan about Vanity
[Fair's caricature of Emperor Hiro
! into engaged the earnest attention
' of officials of Japan and the United
> | States today.
. Herosi Saito, Japanese Ambassa
1 j dor hurried here from Connecticut!
i to prepare a report for his Home
■ Office and receive expected instruc
■ | tions from Tokyo.
1 | The magazine pictured the emper
I or pulling an old-fashioned jinrick
! isha in which reposed the Nobel
I Peace Prize.
; Japanese foreign office dispatches
■ last night feared there would be
1 severe public criticism as a result of
1 the cartoon.
1 The state department officials in
' Washington, D. C. indicated the be
lief that there would be no formal
1 protest filed because of the cartoon.
' Some other quarters believed that
Ambassador Saito would probably
■ take up the issue directly with the
' magazine’s editor Fran Crowni
’ shield, who said ‘there is certainly
1 no bitterness in our hearts. It is
' one of a series of caricatures which
have been running for months and
' j was meant only to be jocose.”
Thirty Wounded In
Rebellion In Crete
(By The Associated Press'
ATHENS, Aug. 5, —Thirty per
1 sons were wounded today as a re
bellion broke out in Crete. Martial
law was declared and destroyers
1 and soldiers were dispatched. The
rebellion originated from a labor
strike, said one report.
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