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VOLUME 36. NO. 39. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY; FEBRUARY; 15, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
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Hauptmann Has No Confession Make
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STRANGE DEATH CALIF; TO BE INVESTIGATED
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ALASKA TRAPPER IS
FOUND DEAD STATES
HIS MONEY MISSING
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SANTA CRUZ, California, Feb. 15 — The circumstanc
es surrounding the death of Henry E. Bjorn, thirty-eight
years old, a former Alaska trapper and artist, are being in
vestigated by Sheriff Robert Devitt.
Bjorn’s body was found Wednesday after a week’s
search, a short distance from a cabin in the Redwoods. Al
though it had been raining, Bjorn’s clothes were dry and
his bare feet showed no signs of much walking.
Alfred Perry, resort owner at Woodwardia, told the
Sheriff that Bjorn had left his home without any hat or shoes
carrying with him a jug of wine and a rifle, which was
found shortly after the body was discovered. Perry said
that Bjorn told him he was going as far as twenty-eight
hundred dollars would carry him.
~ Although the body was discovered apparently only a!
short distance from where he left Perry, no sign of the
money could be found. He was born in this district but
spent a number of years in the Hudson^Bay country and
Alaska.
Housewives Are
Fearful Of The
Rising Prices
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Fear of
. rising food prices may turn the
if housewife against the AAA. In re
gard to its crop reduction programs,]
it was expressed by some AAA of
ficials, that with new crops four
months away, retail prices just at
the beginning will feel the full ef
fect of last year’s drought and cur
tailed farm acreage.
The labor bureau showed increases
in food costs ranging from one per
cent for wheat and cereals to forty
four percent for butter. Only po
tatoes onions, cabbage, and bananas
decreased.
Ernie Buckmaster
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To Enter Dog Race
Fairbanks in March
(By The Associated Press)
NULfATO, Feb. 14, — Ernie Buck
<* master of Nome and his team of fine
racing dogs left Nulato yesterday en
route to Fairbanks. He will enter '
his team In the Dog Derby to be held
during the Ice Carnival in the Inter- 1
ior metropolis.
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NOTICE I
During the absence of B. J. Me- 1
Conaghy, Ralph Kitimiller will act <
as my agent in Nome. I
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Marshal Gaffney
Calls Dispensaries
U. S. Marshal Thos. Gaffney paid
a visit to every licensed beer and
wine dispensary last night and in
formed the owners, that henceforth
he would enforce striltly the law
prohibiting the sale of beer or wine
after 1 a.m.
At the same time he stated: “There
will be no open gambling permitt
ed in Nome and I am going to go
down the line and close every place
in town up in which I discover gam
bling going on.”
Last night’s visitations, declared
the U. S. Marshal, were the result
of numerous complaints registered
in the Marshal’s office by citizens of
Nome, concerning the alleged dis
regard for the 1 a.m. closing hour
for dispensaries and the purport that
open gambling was going on.
New Mail Boxes
Added Post Office
The Nome Post Office is install
ng thirty new.^jost office boxes ob-'
ained during the past week, for the
:onvenience of the business houses
ind public of Nome. It has been
lecessary this winter to get along
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vith a limited number due to the
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act that not sufficient boxes could
>e obtained by Postmaster Mish for
he public. .The new boxes will be a
xeditable addition to the local of
ice, and facilitate the distribution
>f mail upon its arrival here.
To Make Mining
Commmunities
Self Supporting
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Dimond
introduced in the House, the bill of
Senator Pope, democrat of Idaho,
providing for the appropriation of
one hundred million dollars to make
mining communities self-supporting.
The bill would provide for the
government operation of mines and
stamp mills and give miners and
others connected with the industry,
employment. Miners would be paid
the prevailing wage in each locality.
Senator Pope and Delegate Dimond
joined in declaring that they believ
ed that the minerals produced,
would almost if not entirely equal
the cost to the government, and
would also practically solve the un
employment problems in mining dis
tricts.
Another advantage would be ip
the accumuulation of precious min
erals in the hands of the govern
ment. Dimond stated that the bill
held unusual significance to Alaska.
8 Hr. 6 Day Week
Bill Order Of
Business Monday
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Feb. 15 — By a vote of
nine to seven, the House killed the
contracting labor bill aimed at large
concerns which contract outside for
seasonal work. Prior to the vote,
Attorney General Truitt announced
that the measure was unconstitution
al.
The Green memorial asking a
change in the Jones shipping bill to
allow foreign ships to carry freight
in Alaska, was defeated by a vote
of ten to six.
The house approved the Powers
measure requesting the re-establish
ment of the signal corps stations
which had been discontinued.
The Hofman graduated fish trap
bill and the Nordale eight hour dayj
six day week bill were made special:
urder of business for Monday.
The senate yesterday held only a
short session so as to allow its mem
bers to attend the opening of the
Pioneers Grand Igloo meeting.
NOTICE
A program in celebration of Wash
ington’s Birthday, will be given by
the Bering Native Brotherhood and;
Sisterhood on February 22, 1935 at
the gymnasium of the Native School.
Doors open at 7:30. Program starts
it 8 o’clock.
Admission adults 50 cents, child
ren 10 cents.
H’PTMANN DELEGATED
ATTY’S TASK OBTAIN
FUNDS FOR AN APPEAL
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FLEMINGTON, Feb. 15 — Hauptmann vigorously re
asserted his innocence in an interview Thursday night,
when he declared that his conscience was clear.
He said if he had to go to the electric chairYre' would
do so “like a man.”
When asked about a possible confession he said:
“If I had any confession to make I would have made it
months ago, and saved my wife and children all this worry.”
To the question whether he feared the death penalty
he said:
“No. I guess you would feel the same £5 I do if your
conscience was clear and your heart clean.”
It was also disclosed last night that he would not be per
mitted to write to his mother in Germany, but he said thal
he would ask his wife to write for him.
SAYS “STATE WANTS TAKE LIFE FOR NOTHING’
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FLEMINGTON, Feb. 15 — “As God is my Judge. J
cannot confess, for there is nothing to confess,” said Bruno
Hauptmann. “I told everything; on my word .of honor.
That is, I have not tried to cover up anyone.”
However, the New York Daily News said there were
not only two men involved in the ransom fraud, but that
the police knew of the identity of the second and sought to
;trap this man. The News said he was the one who hid his
face with a handkerchief and peered into Lindbergh’s auto
mobile as he awaited Condon at the cemetery. This man
may have moved on and dropped his handkerchief apparent
ly as a signal to the ransom collector.
Hauptmann delegated his attorneys to the task of ob
taining funds for an appeal.
“If they come to my cell now, and say ‘you can go free
if you tell the whole truth,’ I would say ‘I told everything
I know on the witness stand.”
The state, he complained bitterly tried to show only the
bad things about him. “The state wants to take my life
for nothing. The most ridiculous thing of the whole trial
was the board in the attic. Why should I go up there for a
board when I had a whole pile of lumber in my garage,” he
declared.
When asked if he thought the presence of Lindbergh
had any influence on the jury he replied:
“Naturally.” * • *
The New York News said that the second man’s part in
the ermie “was not mentioned in the trial because of the
anxiety of the prosecution that nothing be allowed to cloud
the issue of Hauptmann’s guilt,” but it continued with the
fact that Hauptmann had an accomplice long known to the
Justice Department, the New YorklPqlice and District Att
orney Foley of the Bronx. v >
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Engine Kills Alaska
Railroad Worker
At Curry Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Fefr. 12—Beneath
the wheels of a locomotive on the
Alaska Railroad at Curry yesterday
the life was crushed out of John
Patrick Gallagher, 63 years old. He
had been a mechanical engineer
with the railroad fifteen years. No
details of the accident otHfe# than1
that he fell beneath the locomotive i
have been giv^n out by the head
offices of the railroad in Anchorage.
Mr. Gallagher before coming to
Alaska was a mechQrrjifbl ehgineer!
on railroad construction work in the!
states.
He is survivedjoy a widow and a
son who live in Anchorage and by
three children who are in Seattle.
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Vets May Have
! To Relinquish
Pension Benefits
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15th—Con
gressional leaders said if the veter
ans press for a bonus payment im
mediately,President Roosevelt plans
to insist they give up all claims due
for pension benefits in the future.
It was also emphasized that the
president would unwillingly see
Congress pass the bonus even under
that agreement.
Leaders said that the president
had remarked that even though
such a bargain might not be bind
' ing, it would constitute at least a
moral deterrent to new demands.
The opinion of Congress as to
what will happen to the bonus bill
is still divided. Bonus, advocates
predict victory; some administra
tion leaders say the bill will be
beaten, and others foresee a possible
! compromise.
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LEGISLATION
AGAINST SOVIET
PROPAGANDA
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb 15—Legisla
tion to protect the United States
from foreign propaganda revolution
ary activity, was recommended to
Congress by the House Committee
which has spent more than a year
investigating un-American activities
In a unanimous report, the com
mittee charged, in effect, that the
Soviets had violated their pledge
against harboring groups which ad
vocate the overthrowing of this gov
ernment. It reported that tons of
Nazi propaganda had been smuggl
ed into this country, and compli
mented the twen|y-odd million Am
ericans of German birth and descent
for resisting the efforts to bring
them into the Nazi program.
SEPPALA DOGS’
WIN DOG DERBY
IN THE STATES
Leonhard Seppala of Fairbanks,
but formerly of Nome, received a
telegram this week from Laconia,
N. H., stating that Harry Wheeler
driving one of Seppala’s dog teams
consisting of “Seppala Siberians”
won the New England Dog Sled
Derby, the biggest dog racing event
in the United States,
The distance of the race is 90
miles, running 30('miles a day for
three days. Musher Martell, who
won the gruelling dog race at Que
bec last year ran second, and Alex
Bedford, driving another of Seppa
la’s Siberians placed third.
! toubleheader Basketball Sat., 7:30 P. M., Native Gym
ADM. APULTS 50cts. POLARITES vs. ALASKANS NOME ATHLETIC CLUB vs. NOME HIGH SCHOOL. SCHOOL CHILDREN 25 cts.
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