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VOL. 37. No. 23. NOME, ALASKA, Tuesday, January 28, 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
King George V Was Buried Today
Dune Macdonald, Candleite, Died Monday P. M.
DUNC MACDONALD CANDLE
PASSED AWAY SEATTLE MON
--
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, Jan. 28—Duncan
Macdonald, aged 59, Can
dle mine operator, died at
the Seattle General hospi
tal Monday night. Funeral
services will be held here
Wednesday and burial will
be made at Hillsdale, Mich
igan. His daughter Mary,
aged 12, survives him, she
is attending school atGrand
Rapids, Michigan.
Macdonald came to Seat
tle from Nome for medical
treatment. During his short
period at the hospital be
fore death, L.A. Sundquist,
O.F. Weinart, Ira D. Orton,'
Jim Robbins, the Lomen
boys, Thos. A. Ross, Dr.
Geo. Shiley and several oth
er northern friends were
1 hospital visitors.
Another telegram receiv
ed this morning by the Nug
get, from the Alaska Week
ly, tells of Mr. Macdonald’s
death and requests that we
notify A. Polet and Char
ley Kennedy.
Uncle Of Pres.
Roosevelt Dead
Called Suicide
(By The Associated Press)
ElPaso, Texas, Jan. 28—
Paul R. Forbes, aged sev
enty-five, an uncle of Pres
► ident Roosevelt, was found
shot to death in the kitchen
of his six-room apartment.
A revolver bullet passed
thru the roof of his mouth.
Justice M. V. Ward said,
he would not hold an inqu
iry as it was a plain case of
suicide of Forbes shooting
himself.
I The widow from whom
he lived apart for fifteen
years, is believed to be in
Paris. Forbes it was learn
ed had been under a physi
cian’s care.
NOME KENNEL CLUB
# NOTICE OF MEETNG
Anyone interested in dog
racing is invited to attend
a meeting to be held at the
Board of Trade, 8 P. M.,
Wednesday, January 29th.
3t. Nome Kennel Club
Subscribe For The Nugget
Peter Marinoff
Sentenced Serve
Term in Prison
(By The Associated Press)
Tacoma, Jan. 28—Peter
Marinoff, former president
of the Northwest Brewing
Company, was sentenced to
serve twenty years in the
State penitentiary, as an
accessory before fact in the
slaying of William Usatalo,
a union picket last May.
The State contended that
Marinoff supplied the re
volverwith which the shoot
ing was done, and in addi
tion urged Brewery guards
to “get those men.”
H. H. Hiatt, one of the
guards who is alleged to
have hired others, was also
given twenty years.
j L,. lianlora, a tormer
police officer, received one
year in the county jail,with
suspended sentence.
Theo. Fergerson who ad
mittedly fired a shot, re
ceived one year sentence,
with time off for eight mon
ths spent in the county jail.
Superior Judge E. D.
Hodge who pronounced the
sentences, denounced Peter
Marinoff and H. H. Hiatt as
having inspired the shoot
ing. In letting Hanford off
on a light sentence, the
Judge remarked that the
man was financially desper
ate at the time; and the
Judge also characterized
Ferguson as “weak-mind
ed.”
Scott C. Bone Dead
(By The Associated Press)
Santa Barbara, Calif., Jan.
28—Scott C. Bone, aged 75,
former governor of Alaska
from 1921 to 1925, died at
his home here Monday
night of heart attack.
Bone has been in ill health
ever since the summer of
1928 when he went to the
Republican Convention at
Chicago as a supporter of
Hoover. He had a long
newspaper career before
being made Governor of A1
aska under the Harding ad
ministration. Two daugh
ters and five sons survive
him.
Regular Council
Meeting Held At
Nome Mon. P. M.
Driver of Fire Department
Subject Again Turned
Down by Council
The Nome City Council
met in regular session last
evening. In the absence of
Mayor Swartz, City Clerk
M.j. Walsh called the meet
ing to order. Those pres
ent were Councilmen, Ed
!g ross, Harry Hagen, Albin
I Poison, Andrew Sather.
■ Councilman Seidenverg ab
sent. Pplet moved that A.
Sather be elected mayor
iprotem, -and upon motion
[duly seconded was elected
'to fill the mayor’s chair.
Clerk Walsh read the min
utes of the preceding meet
ing which were approved :
Under the head ot com
munications,the offer of
$75 for lot 10, block H, by
Gus Cremidas, was taken
up under new business and
accepted, with the proviso
that the matter will have
to have the sanction of the
voters at the municipal
election in April, due to
D'-vi’t of the lot takes in a
small portion of the street.
A telegram from Governor
John Troy, in re-money sit
uation under the PWA loan
and grant, the telegram not
being clear as to details,
the council decided to wait
the arrival of a letter from
the Governor explaining in
detail the information in
the telegram.
Bills and accounts were
read and approved by the
finance committee and or
dered paid on motion duly
made.
Councilman Polet report
ed that work on Mrs. Ole
Hay’s well was commenced
and would soon be finished.
The fire committee report
ed that the extra HORSE
had been placed in a stall
under the city hall instead
of keeping the animal in a
rented barn.
In the matter of a new
location for a burial plot,
the committee suggested a
track of land imbraced in
block 100 adjoining the
present cemetery to the
south. Owing to .certain
legal phases it was decided
to lay the matter over for
some future meeting.
100,000 PERSONS ATTEND
FUNERAL OF KING GEORGE
VTH LONDON TUESDAY PM
-.
(By The Associated Press)
Windsor, England, Jan.
28—The long funeral jour
ney of King George V. end
ed in the Royal Vault of St.
George’s Chapel, the burial
crypt of Britain’s kings.
The service of pomp, cir
cumstance and sorrow, be
ginning with the removal
of the body from West Min
ister Hall in London, was
attended by a sifent tribute
of tens of thousands of spec
tators massed along the cor
tege route, ending with a
simple burial service,as the
nation paused for two min
utes of silence.
A hundred thousand mou
rners assembled along the
route from the railroad sta
tion to the Chapel. The
honor guard carried the
coffin from the train over a
scarlet carpet to the gun
carriage which was in wait
ing. The new king Edward
VIII and his brothers fell
in behind their fathers cof
fin and walked in the pro
cession, preceded in the cor
Roosevelt-Children’s Benefit Comm.
Making Determined Drive To Apply
Funds To Cases Of Needy Children
Determined Efforts Being
Made Unearth Cases
Of Needy Children
In an interview with Mar
shal Thomas Gaffney, who
is chairman of the Trustees
Fund of money raised a
year ago by the President’s
Birthday Entertainment in
the Nome and outlying sec
tions for the benefit of par
alysis victims, he states he
has diligently applied him
self to the task of looking
up children who might be
in need of medical assist
ance, that is worthy cases.
He has also written promin
ent citizens living in outly
ing districts informing them
that they could avail them
selves of the benefit of the
fund.
With the exception of a
few minor cases which
were reported previously,
there has been no malign
ant cases as yet reported.
Mr. Gaffney thinks we
ought to congratulate our
selves that our kiddies are
free from sickness. How
Councilman Hagen report
ed that Guy Boyd had been
and was working in an en
deavor to locate radio trou
bles thruout the city.
Councilman Poison mov
ed that the offer of Elmer
Anderson for a certain lot,
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ever, he added we have no
guarantee as to when there
would be a necessity for fin
ancial assistance: and as
long as there is money in
the fund the finance com
mittee will spend it for any
worthy cases.
He also expressed the op
ion that he thought the
coming entertainment on
Thursday evening at the
Dream Theatre, at 7:30. to
which the best talent of the
town are cheerfully giving
their services, will excell
last years contribution tor
the welfare of stamping
out paralysis.
Nome went over the top
for the old pioneers, recent
ly, which was heralded in
every paper in Alaska. We
will do the same for the
tege by the widowedQueen
Mary who rode in a carri
age drawn by the Windsor
greys.
Explosion On Submarine
Injures Eight Workers
During Repair Period
(By The Associated Press)
Manila, Jan. 28—Explo
sion on the U. S. Submar
ine S-40, injured 8 work
ers at the Cavite navy yard
where the ship was being
repaired. Five were seri
ously hurt, but none of the
navy personnel were injur
ed. The ship was badly
damaged.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank our friends
for their kind offerings of
beautiful flowers and sym
pathy at this sad time, in
the loss of my beloved son,
Howard. I also thank the
Pacific Alaska Airways who
did everything possible in
sickness and after, and who
paid their last respects in a
group to one who had al
ready proven himself.
AT.FRED PAWN.
victims of paralysis or oth
t diseases. Save the little
">nes—make ife happy and
bri'ht for them and their
parens.
Admission adults SI.00.
Children under 12 vears of
age, 50 cents. TNe biggest
and best show of the year
—be there and en oy it.
Telegraphic Breveties
Philadelphia, Jan. 28th—
Welterweight cham p i o n
Barney Ross scored a tech
nical knockout over Lou
Halper in the eighth round
of a scheduled ten round
non-titled bout, after being
being out in front all the
way. Ross floored Halper
once for a 9 second count
in the eighth, Halper going
down again when the ref
eree stopped the bout.
Ross scaled at 142, and Hal
per at 150 pounds.
Seattle, Jan. 28—The Al
aska Steamship Company
announced that the new
names of the ships bought
recently from the Grace
Line for Alaska service, the
Santa Ana, due here in two
weeks from New York, will
be renamed Iliarnnia; the
Santa Elisa, will be renam
ed Nabesna.
The ships will enter the
Alaska service next spring,
after being refitted and ov
jerhauled completely.
4- Roosevelt-Children’s Benefit, Thursday, Jan. 30th