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VOL 36. No. 272. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Nov. 20th, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
School Teacher Convicted Of Murder
ITALIAN PRODUCTION UNDER FORCED DRAFT
Contraband Opium Is Seized By Police In Baltimore
GIRL CONVICTED OF
MURDERING FATHER
IS TO GET 25 YEARS
Defense Allowed Several Days Prepare
Motion For A New Trial
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(By The Associated Press)
West Virginia, Nov. 20th—
Edith Maxwell was convicted
of first degree murder of her
father, Trigg Maxwell by a
Cumberland Mountain jury
which fixed her punishment
at 25 years in the State pri
son.
Miss Maxwell, aged 21, a
school teacher, looked incre
dulous at her brother Earl
who bursted into tears.
Judge H. A. W. Skeen said
he would grant the defense
attorneys several days to put
in writing a motion to set the
verdict aside and grant a new
trial.
W. W. Dotson, her uncle,
and defense counsel, said he
would carry the appeal to
higher courts if the motion to
set aside the verdict was un
granted.
The mother, Mrs. Anne
Maxwell,who is under a joint
indictment for the murder, is
to be tried next March.
The girl testified that she
struck her father who was
drunk, with a woman’s high
heeled shoe when he attempt
ed to whip her for staying out
late.___
Japan Is Blaming
U. S. Policies For
Trouble In China
(By The Associated Press)
Toyko, Nov. 20—The cam
paign for a political indepen
dent North China was attri
buted in part by the Japan
ese foreign office which laid
its source to the American
British currency policies, in a
summary of Japan’s position,
and further said that the Un
ited States silver purchase
policy was intensifing China’s
economic trouble and that
British support of the Nan
king currency reform was
among the factors stimulating
the movement.
Ringo news dispatches said
that the declaration to be
made by the new nation may
be delayed because two pow
erful Chinese generals who
support the plan are still
wavering.
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MURDERERS KING ALEXANDER
ON TRIAL FOR THEIR LIVES
(By The Associated Press)
Aiken Province, France,Nov.
20—Three Croat terrorists on
trial for complicity in the ass
assination of King Alexander
of Yugoslavia, several months
ago, began a hunger strike of
protest against bringing law
yer Georges Desbons, hired
by the Croats of America, to
defend them.
As Desbons was dragged
from the court room he shout
ed “I am disbarred from
French justice in order to pre
vent damaging revelations as
to the responsibility of cer
tain foreign nations in the as
sassination.”
In a statement later he said
“six months ago a Balkan dip
lomat offered me four hun
dred thousand francs to in
sert three questions at the
trial, which the diplomat said
would start the next war in
Europe.” j
He didn’t disclose any infor
mation when asked questions
as to the death of Louis Bar
thou the French foreign min
ister, who was killed at the
time of the assassination and
struck down on the spot, by
the three Croats, Dimetrov
Kerie, Velitchkou, alias Pet
rus, and Kalemen.
Fire Burns Seven
Bldgs. Small City
(By The Associated Press)
Viking, Alberta, Nov 20 —
Fanned by a strong wind fire
destroyed seven Main Street
buildings including the Vik
ing Hotel early today, at an
estimated loss of a hundred
thousand dollars. The town
is 91 miles East of Edmon
ton. Seven persons escaped
from the hotel in their night
clothes.
President Going
To Warm Springs
To Work Budget
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Nov. 20, —
The President after saying
that the federal government
should allow no peson to
starve, placed next year’s
budget at the top of his work
schedule as he made ready to
leave on his annual visit to
Warm Springs, Georgia.
Daniel Bell, director of the
budget and Representative
Buchanan, chairman of the
House appropriations com
mittee have been asked to
meet President Roosevelt at
Warm Springs next Monday
to go over separately and men
tally, budget requests, and
pehaps relief needs after the
first of July.
Leslie Tower Is
Dead As Result
Of Bomber Crash
(By The Associated Press)
Dayton, Nov. 20th—Leslie
Tower, widely known test
pilot of the Boeing airplane
company, of Seattle, died in
the hospital here of injuries
received October 30th in a
crash in which he received
severe burns, when a Boeing
bomber was being tested for
the U. S. army.
Pilot Tower was formerly
a lanky Montana cowboy who
had graduated from the Uni
versity of Washington in an
engineering course before tak
ing up aviation. He had been
remarkably free of accidents
until the fatal crash. He was
not at the controls when the
huge bomber fell.
Lincoln Ellsworth
Hops In Antarctic
Mapping Regions
(By The Associated Press)
New York, Nov 20, —Wire
less reports today said that
Lincoln Ellsworth took off
this morning from Dundee Is!
land on a projected Antarctic
flight, with Herbert Holick
Kenyon piloting the plane.
The route is across the un
known portion of the Antarc
tic to Admiral Byrd’s form
er base at Little America.
Ellsworth hopes to com
plete maps of the region de
scribed as unknown.
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Poisoned Baking
Soda Has Killed
Three Already
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(By The Associated Press)
San Francisco, Nov. 20th—
Friscans have been warned
that eight hundred pounds of
baking soda which they had
recently bought at bargain
prices, contained deadly poi
son which already had killed
three persons.
Dr. J. C. Geiger, health di
rector, said he could not un
derstand how the soda be
came contaminated acciden
tally, and an investigation is
now underway.
Oldtimer Fairbanks
Section Passes On
At Pioneer Home
Known For Ardent Observ
ance St. Patrick’s Day
Daniel Callahan, 73, years
old, oldtime Fairbanksan, died
November 8th in the Pion
eer’s Home at Sitka, accord
ing to a telegram received by
the Fairbanks News-Miner
from Eiler C. Hansen, super
intendent of the Home.
A pioneer of Alaska of
early vintage, Mr, Callahan
landed at Juneau March 19,
1896. He came from Fort
Dodge, Iowa, his birthplace.
From Circle he joined the 1st
stampede to Fairbanks in 19
02 and opened the first road
house here.
Active in Politics
Active in poltics Mr Call
ahan served several terms on
the Fairbanks City Council
and represented this district
in the Territorial House of Re
presentatives. Mr. Callahan
was noted for his ardent sup
port of former Delegate to
Congress Dan Sutherland. He
was also known as a very
staunch Catholic.
Woodcutting was his occu
pation here in later years. A
picturesque character, on St.
Patrick’s Day Mr. Callahan
always helped make Fair
banks conscious of the occa
sion by strolling the streets
wearing a vivid green neck
tie and high silk hat.
Stricken By Paralysis
After suffering a stroke of
paralysis five years ago Mr.
Callahan made a trip to the
States to visit relatives. Upon
his return to Fairbanks he
soon afterward went to the
Pioneers’ Home where he re
mained until his death. He is
survived by a son Richard
Callahan of Fairbanks
MUSSOLINI WANTS TO
INCREASE PRODUCTS
FIGHT ON SANCTIONS
Summons Fruit An<l\ egetable Growers In
Order Plan For Increased Production
(Rv Tin- Associated Press)
Undated, Nov. 20, — Eth
iopians warriors were report
ed to be marching to attack
the Italians on the northern
front, between Dolo and Mak
ale.
After sharp battles on the
southern front, casualties
were more than four hundred
and fifty on both sides.
Italian headquarters at As
mara received word that a
strong column of Selassie’s
soldiers were advancing to
ward Selicot, eight miles be
low Makale, into the terri
tory where the Italians have
been consolidating their posi
tions.
Reports said that more
than 50 native Somali soldiers
were killed and wounded on
the Italian side in a southern
battle, and that Ethiopian efts
ualties were more than three
hundred.
Mussolini today called to
gether the nation’s fruit and
vegetable growers syndicate
leaders to plan for increased
production of these products
as part of the program to in
crease national production in
opposition to the league sanc
tions.
In Paris an authoritative
source stated that France now
feels that a settlement of the
war depends on the fighting
of a decisive battle between
the two forces.
In Cairo, officials announc
ed that five persons are now
dead from wounds received in
recent anti-British rioting in
Egypt.
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DILLINGHAM MOTION PICTURE
HOUSE OWNER IN HOLLYWOOD
(By The Associated Press)
Hollywood, Nov. 20th—The
fishing village of Dillingham
will probably see “Journey’s
End” and “Hells Angels,”
similar pictures were run else
where several years ago, says
Alec Bradford, picture exhib
otor of Dillingham, who is
here on a shopping tour. He
states he has to take pictures
three years old or more be
cause when he takes films in
they have to stay there until
the ice thaws late in the
spring, therefore the movie
exchanges won’t permit new
er films to be tied up that
long.
Bradford supplies picture
needs to about one hundred
and fifty people in his region,
and as they didn’t get to Dill
ingham on the last boat they
will probably have to wait un
til next May now.
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News and stories of develop
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45 Pounds Opium
Seized By Police
City of Baltimore
(By The Associated Press)
Baltimore, Nov. 20, —With
approximately forty-five lbs.
of contraband opium already
in the posses:|'on of the auth
orities, police today scoured
the Locust Point section for an
additional eighty pounds, re
ported to have been found by
an unidentified man.
The narcotics already seiz
ed are valued at one hun
dred thousand dollars. The
entire lot is equal to more
than a half million dollars,
and nearly equal to the total
legal importation in the Unit
ed States for 1933. It is be
ieved to have been smuggled
from ships anchored in the
harbor.
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