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VOLUME 36. NO. 21. * * NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Two Steamers Collide--44 Are Missing
GOVERNOR’S BALL TO LEGISLATORS TONITE
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Hauptmann States He Was Home Night Ransom Paid
HAUPTMANN ON STAND
DENIES EVER BEING ON
LINDBERGH GROUNDS
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 25 — Hauptmann went back on
the stand to tell the remainder of his story, which the world
has been waiting for since yesterday. His testimony was
interrupted to allow two defense witnesses to testify.
They were the employers of Mrs. Hauptmann, when
she worked in the bakery, but would not swear that Haupt
mann called for his wife the night of the kidnapping.
Hauptmann said that he was home on the night that
the ransom money was paid. His wife also testified that
he was home. She saw him in the jail after the court ses
sion was over this morning and told him she was proud
of him.
The defense said they would pick the state testimony
to pieces bit by bit. The state retaliated by announcing
that it was ready to refute any important alibi statement
put forth by the defense.
HAUPTMANN ON STAND
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 25 — The prosecution expected
that Hauptmann would bring in the dead Isador Fisch, his
' former business partner,thus accounting for the possession
of part of the ransom money, with the tale that Fisch en
trusted it to him before he sailed for Germany last year.
Expected also, was the testimony that Fisch had
enough of Hauptmann’s letters as handwriting specimens at
the time of the kidnapping, to enable him to imitate the
writing in the ransom notes.
Defense counsel Fisher referred to Ben Lupica, a stu
dent who saw a man carrying a ladder in an automobile
dear the Lindbergh home shortly before the kidnapping.
When Fisher said the man who last saw the kidnapper was
in the courtroom and had not been called he meant Lupica,
who was brought forward and testified that the man he saw
was “redfaced and fat.” Hauptmann is pale and lean, and
could not have been that man. Lupica is also lean.
Hauptmann was pale and grave when he was brought
in this morning. Mrs. Hauptmann came in and chatted
with him before he took the stand. He denied on the wit
ness stand that he was ever in Hopewell or on the Lind
bergh estate.
CHAIRMAN OF
AMERICAN RED
CROSS IS DEAD
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 — John
Barton Payne, a former Secretary ;
of the Interior, and Chairman of the ,
American Red Cross under four (
presidents died at 1:06 a.m. today, ,
Eastern Standard Time of pneumon- -
ia. j
He would have been eighty years
old on the twenty-sixth of this
month. He was taken to the hospit- (
al several days ago suffering from t
influenza. Appendicitis developed t
and he underwent an operation r
which was followed by pneumonia. ,
His wife died years ago. He had no (
children, his closest survivors be
ing nkw» nephews.
FAMOUS SHIP
TO BE USED AS
GOLD DREDGE
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 25 — The Motor
ihip Dorothy, once an Alaska trader
ind Arctic cruise ship, was sold by
Captain O. O. Hvatum, to the North
vest Marine Dredging Company of
?ortland to be used for gold dredg
ng off Gold Beach in southern Ore
gon.
Aside from various trading runs to
he Aleutians the “Dorothy” was
ised as a field museum in an expedi
ion in 1929 to collect walrus speci
lens in the Arctic, and was later
sed by the International Fisheries
lommissions.
Subscribe Far The Nugget
GOVERNOR’S
RECEPTION BE
HELD TONIGHT
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(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 25 — The second
! labor bill to make its appearance in
the legislature was offered to the
House by Representative Walker,
limiting the hours underground to
six, in any twenty-four hour period.
Rep. Martin’s memorial requesting
one hundred thousand dollars from
the PWA, was rushed through the
House and sent to the Senate.
The upper house held a short ses
sion yesterday. Senator Power’s
bill relative to polygamy and adult
ery was killed, as it duplicated the
present statute. Sen. Campbell at
I the request of Anchorage introduc
; ed a memorial asking that Califor-1
jnia lift the ban on reindeer meat,
j Both houses will meet in short
j sessions today. The Governor’s re
ception to the legislators will take
place tonight.
PRESIDENT’S
RELIEF BILL IS
GOING AHEAD
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 — Rally
ing to President Roosevelt’s ban
ner, reunited House democrats shov
ed the four billion, eight hundred
and eight million dollar relief bill
through the house and onto the door
step of the senate, where a new,:
stubborn contest is apparently wait
ing for it.
The vote in the House was 328 to!
78. Plans were made immediately,
for the senate to seek action on the
measure next week, after disposing
of the world court issue. Some mem
bers of both parties in the senate
are planning moves to curtail the:'
broad powers, which the measure
grants the President.
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Steele Knocks Out
Baby Joe Gans |
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(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, Jan. 25—Freddie Steele
ranking Pacific Northwest fighter, of 1
the one hundred fifty-five pound (
class, knocked out Baby Joe Gans {
of Los Angeles in the third round of 1
a bout here last night. 1
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NOME ATHLETIC CLUB £
BIG SMOKER j
FEBRUARY 6, 1935. l
DREAM THEATRE
OPEN TO PUBLIC c
Entries Made at Bon Marche }
Warpbon^p 1
Every Day—2:00 To 4:00 P.M.jl
NOMEITES TO
GIVE BIG SHOW
ON JANUARY 30
The committee appointed by Judge
J. H. S. Morison, for the purpose of
staging a President’s Birthday Enter
ta^pment in Nome this year, on Jan
uary 30th, met in the Judge’s Cham
bers last evening
The committee consisting of Mrs
Chas. Code, Mrs. Aimer Rydeen
Thos. Gaffney, Ed Seidenverg, Rich
ard Lee, Miss Mildred Maynard
M'iss Elizabeth Linaberry, Alvin Po
int, Rev. Norman McCay and Russel'
Maynard, after debating from everj
angle the most advantageous me
thod that woukTbring in the mos'
money, decided to accept the kind
ly offer of Mrs Code for the use ol
the Dream Theatre, in which to give
an Amateur Entertainment.
A committee on management con
sisting of Mrs. Rydeen and Mrs,
Code was appointed. Another com
mittee consisting of Ed Seidenverg
Miss Linaberry, Miss Maynard, Riel
ard Lee, Alvin Polet, and Russel
Maynard, was appointed to tak<
care of the entertainment features
It was roughly outlined that an am
ateur show in wheih all of the tal
ent in Nome would be requested tc
participate would be the most suit
able and inexpensive method tc
stage the entertainment. It is pro
bable that a two or three reel com
edy will be shown on the night of
January 30th while preparing for
some of the acts.
The price of admission was set at
>ne dollar each for everyone over
twelve years of age, and fifty cents
;ach for children under that age.
You can buy one ticket or twenty
is you choose, or if you feel that
/ou can stretch yourself a little
nore in this humane cause your con
ribution will be accepted at the
jox office of the theatre, said the
:ommittee when questioned regard
ng the plans.
After the regular meeting the en
ainment committee went into a
huddle” and the funny stunts they
esurrected during the hour's con
erence, indicate that they intend to
>ut on a show that will satisfy the
nost exacting patrons of entertain
nent.
Let us get behind the endeavor of
he Twentieth Century to eradicate
his terrible menace. Nome has nejv
r lagged behind. She was always
leader. Let’s show the Nome spir
t on this occasion!
Another meeting of the committee
/ill be held Monday, January 28th
t 7:15 pm. for the purpose of hear
ng reports on the progress of the
Ians to stage this great Amateur
light, in conjunction with the Presi
ent’s Birthday Ball, in the interests
f the Warm Springs Georgia
'oundation for the purpose of re
ief of infantile paralysis in the na
ion and in Nome and vicinity.
FORTY FOUR PERSONS
ARE MISSING AS RESULT
LATEST SEA DISASTER
(By The Associated Press)
SEAGIRT, N. J., Jan. 25 — Two seamen were known
to have perished and more than forty persons are still un
accounted for after the collision between the Ward liner
Mohawk and the freighter Talisman in the icy waters off
| the Jersey coast. V
The vanguard of the hundred and seventeen survivors,
many of them in serious condition after struggling through
the frigid seas were taken to New York by the cutter
Champlain.
Coast guardsmen and other workers reported one of
the Mohawks lifeboats was missing. The Mohawk sank
soon after the crash. Whether the missing lifeboat held
the fourteen passengers and thirty members of the" crew
still remains a mystery which has not yet been accounted
| for.
Rescuers expressed the hope that some of the missing
were aboard the Talisman, which is limping toward Brook
lyn with her bow stove in. The two seamen known dead,
were crushed to death when the bow of the freighter knifed
into the two million dollar liner five miles from here.
All thirty-four of the Talisman crew were saved.
RESIDENTS ARE
TOLD TO LEAVE
DUE TO SLIDES
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Jan. 25—Cold Weath
er appeared to be breaking today
but the death list is still mounting
as the season’s worst storm spent it:
fury along the Atlantic coast.
Southern floods swirled destruc
tively through Mississippi. Tennes
see, Arkansas where twenty-five
have perished. Bitter cold still pre
vails in the East and New England
but some moderation is in sight. The
middle west was warmed by a chin
look wind bringing the temperature
up to sixty degrees in western Wash
ington, melting more snow. Rain:
have almost ceased in most places
Three members of the Canadian
| Pacific railway crew were buried ir
an avalanche from the mountain
■ side at Coryell, near Nelson, and
! died. Residents of the Coeur D’Al
ene district were ordered out be
cause of the danger of slides.
The Bellingham arear was flooded
and the Chehalis river is rising at
Montesano, with crest expected to
day, with much territory along the
river, already made into a sea.
Large areas in the southern part
of King County are tender water
from the White River. In the south
ern part of Washington where great
expanses of territory are flooded,
persons froze their hands and feet
and are clinging to housetops. Ba
bies were reported born on house
tops. Eighteen thousand people were
routed from their homes by the
floods. Sickness is prevalent and
food and clothing are badly in need
i by the refugees.
; Cold Standard
To Stay, Avers
Italian Chief
(By The Associated Press)
1 MILAN, Italy, Jan. 24—Italy’s lira
is on the gold standard to stay and
persons who pass rumors to the
contrary will be punished severly,
Premier Benito Mussolini's newspa
per, Popolo D’ltalia, assured the na
tion.
I
A rumored further 6 per cent cut
in government salaries, it said, is
untrue because “at the present time
costs of living are going up.”
A rumored tax on coupons for
| consolidated bonds and other emis
sions is “grotesque, because the
bond conversion last February brot
a 30 per cent reduction in the in
come of bondholders.”
The lira is on the gold standard
and will remain so, said II Duce’s
organ.
Pleads Guilty To
Assault-Battery
$100 And 60 Days
At an arraignment yesterday in
the U. S. Commissioner’s Court, An— —
drew Peterson pleaded guilty to a
charge of assault and battery, and
was fined $100.00 and sentenced to
sixty days in the local federal jail.