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VOL. 37 No. 153 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY JUNE 29. 1936. Per Copy 15cts
7-Year-Old Son Sees Mother Killed
REP. ZIONCHECK ESCAPES FROM HOSPITAL
Fourth Candidate For President Of United States
NEGRO MURDERED
YOUNG WIDOW AND
26-Year-Old Widow’s Boy Looked On As
V
Negro Throttled Her Life. Was Not
Able Realize Mother Murdered
(Bv The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, June 29—Before the terrified eyes of
the seven year old son, abed beside her, Mrs. Florence
Thompson Castle, aged 24, comely divorcee and enter
tainer- was choked and beaten to death by a huge negro
who invaded the small hotel room. On the mirrow of
the dresser the killer scrawled with the victims lipstick
the “Black Legion.” Beneath same was writing and a
crudely drawn skull and cross bones.
After questioning the son, police said they believed
the slayer had either assaulted or attempted to assault
the victim after slugging her; before leaving he looted
her purse and scattered its contents on the fire escape
of the fifth floor of a thirteen story building.
James Castle, the son, said that the invader con
versed 'with him while beating his mother to death.
The boy further said that after the killer had fled down
the fire escape he went back to sleep, unrealiaing that
his mother had been killed. When unable to arouse her
after awakening again, he called the management of
the hotel. The boy also stated that when I first woke
up I saw a man sitting over Mama, hitting- her with
something and kept on hitting her by the side of the ear
and I new he was hurting her; then he put his thumbs
on her neck and left them there. I asked the man what
he was doing and he said I am a good doctor and when
he left he said good bye to me.”
Police have taken into cutody for questioning, Rob
ert Taylor aged 30, a jobless salesman and resident at
the same hotel, and Sid Schaps, aged 35, a Tavern mas
ter of ceremonies- w'here the woman worked. Officers
said they believed that the killer may have been a
jealous suitor who blacked his face to indicate that the
crime was committed by a negro.
Pres. Roosevelt
Accepted Nom
ation Saturday
(By The Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, June 29, —
President Franklin D. Roose
velt Saturday night accepted the
renomination of the Democratic
party, and opened his campaign
for re-election with a scathing as
sault upon “economic royalists”,
who, he charged, fear the loss of
their power through the New
Deal.
“What the economic royalists
complain of is that we seek to
take away their power. Our alle
giance to American principles of
government requires the over
throw of this kind of power,” he
declared.
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PARIS, June 29, — France’s
General Confederation of Labor
it was stated officially today had
more than doubled its member
ship in the last few weeks, now
listing three million, five hundred
thousand names.
Stock Market
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, June 27, — Steels
steadied while telephone and a
number of other stock leaders
continued to drop. The turn
over was three hundred and fif
ty thousand. The close was irre
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JULIUS JENSEN VICTIM OF ASSAULT NATIVE
WITH SHARP EDGE OF SNOW SHOVEL. IIE
IS NOW IN HOSPITAL SERIOUS CONDITION
ANDREW McCAFFERTY NOW IN JAIL
Julius Jensen, who has suffered
a continued illness during the
past ten or twelve months in
Nome which has rendered him
sefiously incapable of defending
himself, was severely cut about
the head and bruised ab at the
arms and body Sunday ab ut 4
P.M., when attacked by a native
armed with a snow shovel, alleg
ed to be Andrew McCafferty.
Two others, namely—John and
Edward Horn—were also subject
ed to attacks just prior and at.
the time of the Jensen assault, it:
—*
was stated. Mr. Jensen was tak
en to the hospital last evening
early, suffering severe lacerations
about the scalp resulting from'
blows inflicted by the man who
assaulted him, and who beat him
with the blade of the snow sho
vel.
Numerous stitches were taken
in his scalp and today he was
described as being considerably
improved, over a serious condi
tion reported last night.
Some witnesses described the
(Continued on Page Two)
Alaska S. S. Co.
Boats All Busy
In Alaska Trade
FILTHY, SLOVENLY HABITS
CHARGED MRS. DILL BY
WITNESSES ON STAND
fBv The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, June 27, — Manned
by approximately 1.250 men, !!)
Alaska Steamship Company sh;u
in service, taking a major part
in the handling of perhaps the
greatest Alaska traffic sine: 1h
gi ld rush days, every vessel in
the fleet is going steadily, with the
exception of the little steamship
Kenai formerly the General M:f
fiin.
All are now in operation, with
that exception. The freighter
Nizina, last of the West Seattle
idle fleet is posted to sail Satur
day afternoon for False Pass lad
en with cans and cannery sup
plies.
The freighter Lakina which al
so was idle sails July 1 for the
West coast of Prince of Wales
Island with freight for salmon
plants.
The freighter Oduna sails Tues
day for southwestern Alaska with
sheep, horses and other freight.
The S S Dellwood arrived yes
terday from Bristol Bay with
passengers and cargo including
canned salmn and whale oil.
The S S Cordova arrived last |
night from southeastern Alaska'
with canned salmon, herring oil
and meal and other freight.
The gold ship Victoria from !
Nome is due from the Seward
Peninsula section late Sunday,
night or early Monday with 3G
passengers, frozen reindeer meat;
and canned salmon.
The S S Northwestern arriv
ed today from southeastern Al
aska with 154 passengers and a
cargo of fresh and frozen fish.
The S S Baranoff direct from
Cordova is due tomorrow night
with 20 passengers and a cargo of
canned salmon and other freight..
The S S Yukon sailed today ;
with more than 400 passengers
including a hundred tourists, 501
of whom will make the round
trip on the vessel, bound for both
southeastern and southwestern
Alaska ports.
Further Details
Added to Lurid
C C Dill Divorce
SURPRISE MOVE ZIONCIIECK
CAULS ALL AUTHORITIES
INTO PLAY NOW
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKANE, June 2!), — Te-t -
mony about a doghouse in the!
living room of the space ■ S >o-;
kane home of former U. S. S„o
i ator C. C. Dill, was added 1 i the
mass of lurid domestic d !- i:
his divorce suit against the weal
thy former “general” R ..die
Gardner Jones of New York.
Walter Blackburn, fi r nine
years caretaker of the Dill h m \
said that .Mrs. Dill had a slat
wood pen built on ti.e living!
room oak tloor for three pups.
Frank Funkhouser, Spokane at
torney and Dill's political ally
testified “I wrote Dill he would
have to do something about the
dogs. They were messing up the
floors and ruining the home.!
There was a decided stencil and
odor about the place”.
Dill, in his divorce complaint,
charged his wife with filthy and
slovenly habits of housekeeping
and dress, and with hindering
him politically; calling him a pol
itical coward; and with burying
garbage and dead dogs in the
back yard.
Blackburn said he also tired of
Mrs. Dill sitting in the living
room whittling moldings for re
building her bathroom. “She
had cement, sand and lumber
stacked in the main reception
room. I rolled back the rugs and
stulY and piled it on the polished
oak floors,” he said.
Mrs. G. Lawson, a widow, told
of seeing Mrs. Dill often down
town at auction sales: “She wore
a little red turban with a feather
in it, and a coat and moccassins.
Other women wouldn’t believe
she was the senator’s wife. When
I told they said she couldn’t be;
look at the way she's dressed,”
she declared.
When asked by Mrs. Dill’s at
torney, Frank Graves, if she
thought Mrs. Dill might have had
sore feet, the witness admitted
she didn’t know if she had, and
hadn’t thought of that.
ZIONCHECK IS LOOSE
FROM HOSPITAL AM)
EVADING OFFICIALS
Lratie Washington Legislator Jumped
W all Disappeared. Thought He Mav
Attempt lo Return To Stale \\ it.
(By The Associated Press)
TOWSON, Maryland, June 29—Representative
Zioneheck baffled his pursuers in a wierd game of hide
and seek, beginning with his escape from a private
sanitarium here yesterday. Twenty-four hou.;; after
leaping over a wire fence and ducking into fne sur
rounding wood- his whereabouts remained a mystery.
Baltimore county police and hospital i”aches said
they unreceived definite information concerning his
whereabouts. On a general alarm broadcast by “sue
police, although patrolmen have been given a dc‘_ ,,,£c]
description of Zioneheck, wearing a blue r._, .y v>- ;-L,
shirt and tennis shoes when he escaped by levying from
a porch in the exercise yard of the dhep ...rci and Roch
Pratt Hospital to a wmuow ledge, and Rom tl ere over
a seven and half foot wire fence and gu. rds wise un
able to match his spe d.
Dr. Arthur E. Prattt 1 of t;' • .Russ rd
hospital, a specialist for mens 1 disorders, ■ ..
aided the escape as an “impulse of an c.ei d in
ual.” and said he uncon idered he congr .. m dan
gerous to the community.
Max Ammerman- Mrs. Zionchecks att >rney, ex
pressed the hope that Zs nencck was out of Marylan !
to stay away and rest; he “needs it ; nd I think you’ll
and him out there in Washington State battling in th ■
primaries for renomination pretty soon.” He added, if
Zioneheck should return to the District of Columbia
he will be safe from detention since the sanity hearing
has been dropped.
the Washington Post quoted Bernard Thompson,
chief of the detective bureau, as saying, that the Wash
ington police will unarrest Zioneheck if he appeared
there and abided by the law, but would arrest him if
he again went eighty miles an hour in an auto.
WASHINGTON, June 29—Kenneth Romney.
House sergeant at arms, conferred with Zioncheck ni
an effort to persuade the congressman to go home t )
Seattle- “I am going to try and protect him and get hii 1
to go back to Seattle, because if they take him to the
police court or Gallinger hospital it will ruin him.” Fe
told reporters that District of Columbia police wou’ 1
have “to lick my hundred and fifty men to arrest Zio'
check here,” in the congressman’s office, adding tlj ,t
the District officials had agreed to cooperate.
Earl Browder
Third Candidate
President U. S.
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, June 29, — In a
frenzied acclamation Earl W.
Browder of Kansas was nominat
ed Sunday as the Communist
Party’s candidate for president of
the United States. James •
Ford, a Harlem negro, simila. •
was chosen as the candidate f r
vice president.
Twenty thousand spectators i
Madison Square Garden join !
the Party’s 701 delegates in ere '
ing bedlam which rivaled reccS
demonstrations of the major p
itical parties.
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