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Federals Are Hot on Trail Kidnapers
BABE RUTH AND ‘BOSTON BRAVES’ SEPARATE
Conferences To be Held on Tanker Settlement Issue
FEDERALS HOT AFTER
TRAIL OF KIDNAPERS
BUT NO TRACES YET
—
Federal Agents Distributing Pamphlets On
Which Are Numbers Of Bills Paid To
Kidnapers. Are Tracing Stolen Car
(By The Associated Press')
TACOMA, June 3, — Department of Justice agents re
ceived this morning, and began the distribution of pamph
lets listing the numbers of the bills with which George Wey
erhaeuser was ransomed. The federals refused to comment
on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s statement that the ran
som was paid near Elma. Washington, Thursday, by the
boy’s uncle, F. Rodman Titcomb, and that the kidnapers
stole his car. No one else would comment on this statement.
Meanwhile the city and the Northwest returned to its
work-a-day activities while the search for the kidnapers
was carried on hotly throughout the country. Two nights
and a day of search and vigil brought no further trace of
the tan sedan which thundered over western Washington
and Oregon, out-distancing police cars, and traveling at the
speed of ninety-one miles an hour.
A search in that section centered in the area where Ed
ward Hickman,, kidnaper and killer of Marion Parker of
Los Angeles, was captured.
The federals still maintained headquarters here and
the state patrol continued-to blockade all highways in Wash
ington and Oregon. The Weyerhaeusers remained seclud
ed, with Ann, Philip, Elizabeth and George spending a quiet
Sunday, except for an afternoon call at the Titcomb home
where belated newsreel men. succeeded in having the prin
cipals in the case talk and pose for moving pictures.
The Federal Agents clamped the lips of John Bonomi
shut and no information could be obtained from him. The
P. I. said that the car was found abandoned in Seattle Sat
urday, and was the one taken from Titcomb after he had
paid the ransom.
Amendment Fight
Sharpened With 2
Men Leading Issue
Borah and Norris Are Oppos
ing Each Other Over The
Amendment Controversy
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 3,*— While
the capital waited for President F.
D. Roosevelt's next move on the N
RA, it saw indications that he might
seek to make the question of fed
eral power over major economic and
social questions, a leading issue of
the 1936 campaign.
The fight over the idea of chang
ing the constitution, sharpened per
ceptibly today.
Senator Borah contended that the
constitution now gives the govern
ment enough power to cope with
the emergency. In effect, he dared
the Roosevelt administration to seek
j an amendment.
Senator Nortis, on the other hand,
is in favor of an amendment, depriv
ing the courts of all power to hold
that any law' was unconstitutional.
He expressed the belief that noth
I ing would be done in this congress
about the amendment. He said;
“This is the only civilized country j
in the world in which laws passed
by a parliament and approved by
the executive, can be overruled by
a supreme Court. It illustrates how i
government is conducted by injunc
tion”.
Round Trip to Solomon
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow Air
Service made a round trip flight to
Solomon today returning with a
party of sportsmen who went there
over the week-end.
According to word received sev
eral days ago, the Cutter Northland
is due to arrive on June 4th, tomor
row or later depending on ice con-1
ditions—the last report received.
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Navigation Open
On Yukon And
Kuskokwim Riv.
Steamer Tupper Arrives At
Bethel And Navigation Is
To Open up On Rivers
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, June 3, — Signal
ing the opening of navigation on the
Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers for
the summer, the Steamship Tupper
arrived at Bethel from Seattle with
the first cargo for river points.
The message said that the steamer
Nenana would be the first vessel
up the Kuskokwim.
The packet Nenana is to leave Ne
nana today for Marshal and Ruby,
and other lower Yukon river points.
Paddy McDonald, a miner was
crushed to death at the Denali Mine
in the Valdez Creek area while at
tempting to remove timbers. The
message said his brother William
dug him out of the cave-in, and was
also badly hurt.
Roy Kinsley youngest son of W. L.
Kinsley, Alaska Railroad official,
sailed from here for Seatte enroute
to West Point Military Academy. He
was a recent student of the Univer
sity of Alaska.
Law On Reckless
Driving As Passed
1935 Legislature
.Following is the text of the Sen
ate. Bill No. 12 passed by the legis
lature during the 1935 session per
taining to the operation of motor
vehicles by persons in an intoxicat
ed condition, and in an otherwise
reckless manner.
It has been brought to the atten
tion of The Nugget, that there is a
possibility that the majority of the
public is still not aware of this law.
although its effect was published
in telegraphic dispatches from Jun
eau, when the law passed.
Section 1. Any person who drives
any automobile, motorcycle or other
motor vehicle upon any public street
or highway in this Territory, care
lessly, heedlessly or in wilful or
wanton disregard of the rights or
safety of others or without due cau
tion and circumspection, or at a
speed or in any manner so as to
endanger any person or property,
shall be guilty of reckless driving
and upon conviction thereof, shall
be punished by a fine of not less
than twenty-five dollars $25.00) nor
more than five hundred dollars
($500) or by imprisonment in the
federal jail for not less than five
days nor more than six months or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 2. Whoever, while under
the influence of intoxicating liquor |
BABE RUTH IS OUT OF
BASEBALL FOR AWHILE
AT LEAST: IS RELEASED
Personalities Expressed In Unconditional
Release Babe Ruth From Boston Braves
—(iives Inadequate Excuse Fight
(By The Associated Press')
BOSTON, June 3, — Babe Ruth and the Boston Braves
parted company last night in a fanfare of personalities as the
Club’s president, Emil Fuch hinted that the slugger was
“embecile” only a few hours after Ruth announced that he
would go onto the voluntary retired list, after character
izing Fuch as “a double crosser”.
His employer made public Ruth’s unconditional release
with the word “embecile” attached to the player’s name.
Ruth said: “I will never play another game for the Cubs
as long as Fuch remains; he double-crossed me”—was the
Babe’s hot-shot.
“Fuch said: “Nobody but an embecile would act as Ruth
did”—was one of Fueh’s retors to the Associated Press.
Trouble has been smoldering in the Braves’ camp with
Ruth almost since the season started. Ruth contended that
the trouble grew out of the refusal by Fuch to allow him to
go to New York to attend the ceremonies on the arrival of
the French liner “Normandie”, Monday.
Baseball writers however, refused to accept that ex
planation and believed the release of Ruth was due to dis
agreements over financial arrangements. Ruth contended
he couldn’t have played Monday any way, on account of
a sore leg.
In any event, Ruth is out of baseball for the time being,
at least, for the first time in twenty-one years.
or narcotic drugs, operates or drives
any automobile, motorcycle or other
vehicle, upon any of the public
streets or highways of this Territory
shall, upon conviction thereof, be
punished: for a first offense by a
fine of not less than twenty-five dol
lars nor more than one hundred dol
lars, or by imprisonment in the fed
eral jail for not less than five days
nor more than ninety days, or by
both such fine and imprisonment;
for a second offense by a fine of not
less than $100.00 nor more than
$500.00 or by imprisonment for not
less than thirty days nor more than
nine months or by both such fine
and imprisonment; for a third off
ense by imprisonment in the peni
tentiary for not less than one year
nor more than five years.
Section 3. Whenever any person
has been convicted or has pleaded
guilty to driving or operating an
automobile, motorcycle, or other ve
hicle on any public street or high
way of this Territory in violation of
the preceding section such person
shall not be permitted to operate or
drive any automobile, motorcycle or
motor vehicle upon any of the pub
lic streets or highways of this Terri
tory for the following periods of
(Continued on Page Four)
H. Hoover Warns
•
Be On Lookout
Safety Of Liberty
Former President Says Be
ware Freedom Not De
prived by Government
(By The Associated Press)
DES MOINES, Iowa, June 3 — '
Herbert Hoover returned to this
state today and sounded a warning
against what he termed a possible
"political bureaucracy”.
He addressed graduates of Drake
University and received an honorary
degree.
He said; "You should be suspicious
of any proposal that asks you to
forego the rightful exercise of your 1
muscles, then you also might, of any
governmental action which limits
your opportunities to work and pro
duce.
“Will the government permit you
to breathe the pure air of liberty in !
the spirit of the bill of rights? That |
is the thing you need look out for.”
—
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Federals Arrest
Yolney Davis Af
ter Shooting Bout
Federal Agents Catch One
More Former Kidnaper
After Gun Battle
(By The Associated Press)
ST. PAUL, June 3, — Volney Da
vis, convicted murderer, and one of
the alleged kidnapers of Edward
Bremer, was brought to the Twin
Cities todayby airplane, under heavy
federal guard.
In Washington, D. C., Hoover, the
young man in charge of the Depart
ment of Justice Bureau of Investiga
tion said that the arrest of Davis
refuted the suspicion that he had
been seen in Tacoma, Saturday.
Davis' arrest followed a shooting
affray which the federals refused to
explain.
Conferences to Be
Held Oil Tanker
Settlement Issue
Series of Conferences Are
Scheduled To Avert The
Failure Of Settlement
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3, A ser
ies of conferences aimed at averting
a threatened collapse of efforts to
settle the oil tanker strike, are plan
ned by Patrick Donohue, Federal
Labor Relations Board Conciliator,
beginning today.
So long as mediation efforts contin
ue. Maritime Federation officials
said there would be no further
steps taken toward a general coast
strike in support of the tanker sea
men.
Threat Of Floods
Worries Nebraska
Rivers on Run
Threat of Flooding Platte
Rivers Worries Nebraska
As Damages Increase
(By The Associated Press)
OXFORD, Nebraska, June 3, While
raging torrents of the Republican
river swept onward into Kansas,
leaving behind nearly a hundred
dead and thousands homeless, new
flood worries assailed western Ne
braska as the Platte Rivers plunged
toward their fearsome junction.
Damages over two hundred mile
areas, has been estimated at twelve
million dollars.
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