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VOL. 36 NO. 69 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Six Burned to Death, Score are Injured
PACIFIC N.W. SCHEDULED FOR BAD WEATHER
Wealthy Mining Man Found Frozen to Death, Canada
Wealthy Mining
Man Is Found
Frozen To Death
(Bv The Associated Press)
MONTREAL, March 26 — The
body of Stanley Siscoe, wealthy
Montreal mining executive, was
found frozen two miles from Lake
Matchimanitou, according to word
received here.
Siscoe and pilot Wrathall were
forced down last Tuesday in a rag
ing snowstorm. Siscoe left the pi
lot in search of aid and was never
seen again until his body was discov
ered yesterday. Whathall was found
tramping in the snow at Lake Des
Jardins, hungry but in good physic
al condition.
U S Signal Corps
Tests Wide Range
Equipment Terr.
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 23 — The U. S.
Signal Corps demonstrated the Ninth
Corps Area Commanding General's
new sytem of wireless telegraphy
which gives him instant radio con
trol of the entire strategic territory
of Alaska.
Whistling and ticking instruments
in a test performed for Major Gen
eral Paul Malone, hurled messages
at the rate or from two to four hun
dreds words a minute, thousands of
miles from Seattle across the Aleu
tians and as far as Point Barrow.
The General talked by wireless
telephone over the same system yes
terday to Governor Troy and prom
ised to visit if possible military and
airplane landing fields in the Terr
itory this coming summer.
Short Strike Is
Settled Only Few
Hours Afterward
(By The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, March 2 — Out
only a few hours, the crew of the
Border Line’s “Border Prince,” re
turned to work late Monday, their
wage demands having been met.
The new agreement gives winch
men and quartermasters two and a
half dollars a month increase. The
rest of the deck and engine room’s
personnel were granted fifty cents
an hour overtime, after eight hours,
and one full day oft in seven, with
pay. Messmen’s wages were in
creased from thirty-five to forty
dollars a month. The crew were all
members of the Seafarers Industrial
Union.
SIX PERSONS burned
TO DEATH IN FIRE AT
CLUB IN CITY CHICAGO
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, March 26 — Six persons were burned to
death and scores were injured when flames trapped them
early Sunday morning in the Club “Rendezvous.”
Encircled by swift and separating fire, panic-stricken
patrons fought for the one exit, many of them being, trampl
ed. A motorist made an ineffectual attempt to open another
exit by ramming his car against the outside of the building.
Smoke curling up from the cloakroom at 2:30 a.m.
started the stampede for the exit. The cause of the fire has.
not been determined. The club is one of several night
resorts clustered in the little town of Morton Grove, several
miles from Evanston, in the suburbs of Chicago, the scene
of the kidnapping several years ago of John Jake Barber, an
international speculator. The six victims apparently died
in efforts to get their wraps before fleeing from the build
ing.
Communications
Addressed to The Nome Nugget
FIELD AGENCY OF THE
Federal Housing Administration
Office of the
Territorial Director for Alaska
JUNEAU, ALASKA.
PRESS RELEASE
JUNEAU, Alaska, March 5, 1935.
In response to many inquiries which
have been received at the Juneau
office of the Federal Housing Ad
ministration, Director John E. Peg
ues has prepared a statement in the
form of questions and answers des
cribing how those desiring to build
homes may do so under the mutual
insurance system of the National
Housing Act. It is pointed out in
the statement that insured mortgag
es may mature over as long a period
as twenty years and that as much as
80 percent of the money needed for
construction purposes may be se
cured by means of the mortgage.
Provision is also made for refinanc
ing existing mortgages & for plac
ing insured mortgages on property
not now encumbered by indebtedness
The program is restricted to dwell
ings housing not more than four
families and not more than 25 per
cent of the floor space may be used
for business purposes.
The explanation of the program
as given by Mr. Pegues follows:
Question' What is the purpose of
Title II of the National Housing
Act?
Answer: Title II of the National
Housing Act has been devised to
provide a standardized method and
type of financing for new construc
tion and for the refinancing of many
present encumbrances. This plan
contemplates new construction and
i
building activity and the goneral im
provement of housing standards.
Question: Are there any restric
tions as to type of property; stand
ards of construction; location of pro
perty; condition of property?
Answer: Yes. The Act provides
certain property standards and rules
for location and construction which
are generally commensurate with
gool real estate practice in better
localities. The building must be con
structed of good material, be of a
generally modern type, conform sub
stantially to other structures in the
neighborhood, and the location must
be in a district approved for resi
dential purposes and which is not
likely to deteriorate or lose its char
acter as a good residential neighbor
hood during the life of the loan.
Question: Are there ny regula
tions covering the ground area of a
dwelling in relation to the area of
the lot?
Answer: Yes. The Act provides
that to assure adequate light and
air in all inhabited rooms the desir
able maximum coverage for single
family detached houses, including
the necessary buildings, is approxi
mately 20% of the lot exclusive of
area given to alleys, streets and
easements, and that in no case
should the coverage of a lot for this
type of property be greater than
30% for interior lots or 40% for
corner lots. The coverages may be
exceeded in cases of attached two
to four family buildings if the ap
plicant can demonstrate that all in
habited rooms shall have ample
light and air.
Question: Must plans and spec
ifications be submitted when a loan
is applied for?
Answer: Yes. The applicant fur
nishes complete plans and specific
ations, preferably in three sets.
Question: Will properties with
one or two mortgages already ex
(Continued on Page Three)
PA A Flight To
San Diego May Be
Tomorrow If WP
(Bv The Associated Press)
MIAMI, March 26 — The flight of
the giant Pan American Airways
clipper plane from here to San
Diego, to inaugurate a new commer
cial air route from California to the
Orient, was postponed, when the
nineteen ton flying boat returned to
its base here for propeller adjust
ment, after proceeding a short dis
tance. The trip may start tomor
row.
Court Matters
A jury was obtained early lias
morning in the <■:, .• 01 the 1 niUd
States versus rummy Moms, eh.ag
ed with assault and battery on lie
person of Joe Hebert. The govern
ment introduced its testimony this
morning and el ised its case before
lunch. Court v.an adjourned ieit’1
2 PM at whici time tli ' Uefou.-e ■
presented by C W Thornton, coun
sel, started its ease.
The defense concluded its case to
day and the jury was out but a few
minutes and returned with a verdict
of not guilty.
Court was adjourned and will
convene again tomorrow morning at
10 o’clock, when the Bob I,arson
trial will start.
Council Mcclin^
The City Council met in regular
session last night and transact'-1 on
ly matters of routine business. All
councilmen were present except Ed
Seidenverg.
An application was received from
W. Slack for the purchase of some
lots adjoining his machine shop
The council took no action.
-'Councilman Polet recommended
the lowering of the assessed valua
tion on the property of Pete Daniel
son. Council approved such action.
Councilman Sather reported the
Finance Committee had engaged A
F. Wright to audit the books of the
city clerk and treasurer.
The council took action to pur
chase twenty-five feet of property
adjoining the hospital to keep it
free from buildings, and insure fire
protection for the hospital.
Walter Cavey reported his activ
ities to the council in regard to the
detection of radio interference
around Nome. The council instruct
ed him to continue his investiga
tion.
Leroy Sullivan as a member of
the Nome committee of the FERA,
reported the committee was discuss
ing the advisability of taking a cen
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WEATHER TURNS COLD
IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST
FOUR DEATHS ALRE ADY
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. March 26—With four dead, today, seasonal
cold was reported from many sections, rain and dust storms
vieing the snow to turn the calendar topsy turvy.
The Pacific Northwest is scheduled for even more cold
and unsettled weather. The deaths were attributed to
storms.
Fritz Johnson of Portland was killed when the wind
dropped a tree into a bunkhouse at Stayton, Oregon.
Wilbur Lyons, aged twenty-one, was killed when struck
by a tree while following his trapline near Kooskia, Idaho.
Mrs. M. A. Peterson of Yakima. Washington, was kill
ed near Vantage. Wn., when her car skidded and overturned
due to icy snow.
John Berge, of Aberdeen, was drowned when his troll
ing boat crashed against the Columbia River jetty.
A dust storm blew up east of Spokane and cast a pall
over the city. Many were marooned since Sunday at
Mount Baker Lodge, by snow-blocked highway, and reached
Bellingham late last night.
Dl awing In Grand
National Five Am.
Out Of Sixteen
(By The Associated Press)
DUBLIN, March 20 —Five Amer
icans were included in the sixteen
persons who drew on the winner in
the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes: Gol
den Miller is the favorite. The Grand
National is to be run Friday at Ain
tree, England.
The Americans were all from the
East. The Americans drew a hun
dred and sixty three of the four hun
dred and thirty-two tickets on the
winner. Each is certain to win ap
proximately four thousand dollars.
Tells Of More Of
Mutilating Bodies
Before Mis Death
(Bv Tne Associated Press)
OSSINING, New York, March 26
Albert H. Fish, sentenced to die in
the electric chair for the slaying of
ten-year-old Grace Budd, confessed
this morning to the mutilation and
probable murder of three other
children, and a young man.
The sixty-five year old man told
Warden George A. Casey, at the
Westchester County Jail, his story,
but was uncertain whether two of
them died as he said he fled from the
scene after mutilating them, and be
fore he was certain they had died.
IVIaii the Nome Daily Nugget to
vour friends, and let them know
about the re building of Nome.
Four Nazis Are
Sentenced Hang
Murder Fellow
(Bv The Associated Press)
KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 6—
Four of a hundred and twenty-six
Nazis tried on charges of conspiring
to seize Memei for Germany, were
sentenced to death.
Ten others were sentenced to pri
son; thirty were acquitted.
The four condemned to die were
convicted of murdering a fellow
Nazi whom they alleged of suspect
ing to betray them. Political cir
cles feared the unfortunate effect of
this on the German attitude toward
the proposed eastern security pact
which would have included Lithuan
ia. „
May l>e Appointed
Governor General
In Near Future
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, March 26 — Colonel
John Buchan, author and publicist,
will probably be the new Governor
General of Canada, authorities said
today. He will be the first common
er ever to be appointed to the post.
U S MAIL ARRIVES
Pilot Jerry Jones of the Pacific
Alaska Airways arrived today with
the U S Mail from Fairbanks. He
left again immediately on his return
flight with outgoing mail.