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VOLUME 85. NO. «4!* NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1034. P*r Copy: ]• <*«*».
FURTHER VIOLENCE EXPECTED SEATTLE STRIKE
REPORTS 60L0
SHIP ISLANDER
NEAR SHORE
SCHOONER “ISLANDER” NRAR
SHORR EXPECT FIND GOLD
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JUNEAU, July 21, The Cutter
Tallapoosa, which returned here
Friday from the scene of the sal*
the scKooher “Islander,” reported
that the upper structure of the
craft was risible at low tide and
that the superstructure had been
washed away. •
The stern was reported to be in
shallow water during low tide.
The people handling the salvage
operations expect to get the wreck
close to shore on high tide. Jlily
27XK *»4 fchoo begin the quest tor
the huge amount of gold which is
supposed to be In the hold of the
vessel.
DISCOVERS MURDERER OF
WOMAN WHO 1>KAF, MUTE
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 21, Captain or
the Detectires, Ernest Yoris, an
nounced last night he had obtain
ed a eo.nfesslou from J. H.< Hen
dricks, a Tacoma carpenter, that
he had killed Mrs. Ruby Sarah
Barton, middle-aged deaf mute,
whose battered body was found In
his apartments here Thursday
night.
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The woman had been his house
keep for some lime pervious, it'
was reported1.
“I got terribly mad and killed
her,” Captain Yoris quoted Hen
dricks as saying, following a
lengthy questioning.
Captain Yoris said tlie slaying
was committed with a fiat iron.
Shortly after Hendricks rented the
apartment Monday officers said
that he*had forced Mrs. Harton to
marry him, although she was le
gally married to another man.
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FIRE LAST NIGHT IN
MIROW APARTMENTS
CAUSES DAMAGE
FIRE SERIOUSLY DAMAGES
MIROW APARTMENTS
A Are last evening in the apart
ments of Mr. and Mrs. Hang Ml*
row, in the Chas. Lewis Building,
neat door to what was formerly
Farnk Martin’s fur store, did con
siderable damage, both to the fur
nishings and the building.
The exact origin of the Are is
unknown. The Are department re
sponded to a demand for help and
waa on the Job in record time.
With a steady south wind blowing
it was nip and tuck with them,
trying to keep the Are confined,
but they Anally got it out.
Several times Aames burst thru
the roof and it looked like the Are
might get away from the firemen,
.but valient work on their part
quickly smothered it. This was
sons of the buildings which has
been a fixture in Nome for many
years, and the wood was very dry.
It Is understood that Mr. and
Mrs. Mirow were in the apartment
when the fire broke out and that
Mrs. Mirow and her baby were
rushed out of the house and across
the street to the NAT offices., The
alarm was sent In and the depart
ment arrived. It was a consider
able time before the water arrived,
but action with the chemical kept
the flames pretty much under con
trol.
The front room and kitchen of
the Mlrow apartment were ruined
and all of the furnishings. Some
of the furniture In the rear of
the building was damaged alao, it
was reported.
A huge crowd immediately as
sembled In the street below and
watched the flames. Helpers
climbed onto the root and across
to Lehmann's storehouse root and
two lines of hose were put Into op
eration, thus trupplng the Are,
which was quickly extinguished.
Presence of mind evidently saved
the entire building from going, as
with the south wind blowing, If a
rear door or wlndws In the back
end of the bpilding had been open
It would have provided a real forc
ed draft.
The downstairs, of course, was
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QUIETNESS TODAY
MAY BE BROKEN
BY VIOLENCE
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| ARTHUR VIOUFNCK IS
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STRIKK SITUATION
1B> The Associated Press)
BEATTL.K, July 21, Further vio
lence is anticipated as the police
and strike pickets strengthened
their lines, while steamship com
panies extended their operations
of loading with non-union long
shoremen.
Thirty-live more truckloads ofj
pickets were expected to be placed
along the waterfront before 11
a.m. today, the deadline for ex
tending efforts to reopen the port
of Seattle.
(By The Associated Press)
san Francisco, July si,
Hopes of peace stirred, anew along
the strike-torn coast, threats of
martial law at Portland, and the
disorders iti Seattle. Federal
agencies pressed more strongly
than ever for an early settlement
9f ih*» strike.
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mouths, trucks driven by union
men rolled along the waterfront
here, us the last line ^of the
general strike collapsed--with the
unconditional return to work of
teamsters.
Industrial leaders here publicly
pledged a policy of co-operatioa
towards organized labor, in an ef
fort to smooth away the bitterness
left in .the wake of the massed
£: i W .
walkout.
General Johnson in Gos Angeles
said he believed the maritime dis
pute would go before the i Media
tion Board appointed by the Presi
dent, within twenty-four hours.
The board has asked both the em
ployers and the maritime men to
submit to 'arbitration.
•Portland is" admittedly the dan
ger point to the revived hopes for
peace. Union leaders whp' prom
ised Senator Wagner to withhold
drastic action talked of a general
strike, while movements of cargo j
by non-union workers went, for
ward behind police lines.
Guardsmen awaited '“‘‘‘tip
nearby shipping centers. All ports
announced plans for immediate re
sumption of fi'ejght and passen
ger service. Cargoes which have
been piled high on the docks be
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Kan to movp despite the siege by
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the strikers.
The Associated Press has esti- j
mated that the cost of the strike j
to the coast exceeds two hundred |
million dollars’. This docs not in-|
elude the general strike at San !
Francisco.
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drenched with water. It is under
stood that Charles Cavey has
been preparing to open a bakery
there and ail the furnishings and
new' wall paper which were being
put in have been ruined.
But for the rapid manner In
which the -fire was put out, it
might have developed into a really
dangerous blaze. The danger of
the Are was not alone to the one
building, but to' all buildings di
rectly adjacent to it. However, it
was put out with the least possi
ble damage and none of the build
ings next door wore touched.
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Mlrow wish
to thank the Fire Department and
everyone who so generously as
sisted in helping extinguish the
blaze.
MUNICIPALITIES WILL NOW
[HAVE POWER TO CONTROL
IXX’AL LIQUOR PROBLEM
tBy The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, July 21, The Terri
torial Liquor Board adopted a reg
ulation today empowering incor
porated municipalities to provide
additional rales and regulations
covering the liquor traffic within
their own incorporated limits, pro
vided that such new rules do not
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[conflict with the Territorial Rules
Und Regulations or provisions of
jChapter 71, Session Laws of 1933,
| which section applies to the sale
I within the Territory of beer and
J wines.
MAYOR SMITH
OF SEATTLE IS .
BREAKING STRIKE
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MAYOR SMITH OF SKATETK
BREAKING MARINE STRIKE
(By The Associated Press)
BEATTIjE, July 21, Mayor Smith
and three hundred special strike
police with tear gas, clubs, and
charging horses, routed two thou
sand striking longshoremen and
pickets from the waterfront.
Hundreds were hurt, although
none seriously. The strikers hurl
ed rocks, and sent back at the po
lice their own gas bombs before
they had exxploded. Virtually all
of the twenty-three hundred com
batants were affected to some ex
tent by the gas.
•Mayor Smith Ored Police Chief
Howard and took charge of the
docks himself. He was aided by
two captains. The Mayor got a
wrlff of tear gas and lied through
the white fumes to safety In a
dock building.* Mounted offiffeers
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swinging clubsb helped drive the
longshoremen back.
Strikers and officers tumbled to
the ground by scores, doubled up
by the gas. Other police hurled
tear gas bombs from the bridge
above the melee.
The police regained about a quar
ter of a mile of territory lost on j
Wednesday. A few minutes after (
the Injured were cleared from .the
ground, freight cars began mdv
ing onto Pier 40. .
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, July 21, Portland
began Its first real real attempt to
break the blockade, when non
union labor began loading several
vessels today with lumber.
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STRIKING TRUCK DRIVKRS
(By The Associated Press)
MINNEAPOLIS, July 21, Strik
ing truck drivers demanded a
QIIET TODAY IN' STRIKE
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(By The Associated Press)
HAN FRANCISCO. July 21. In
dustrial organization here and in
Seattle asserted that surveys in
dicated that each city had lost
one million dollars daily for sev
enty-four days. The strike loss to
Oregon was put at least at thir
ty millions of dollars.
! L»os Angeles a lnoe appeared to
profit from the vrelk-out, muoh
shipping going there from other
ports.
Eight men have been fatally
wounded: tn» in ■> Ij©s Angeles;
two in Seattle: three here: and
one in Portland. A hundred or
more have been shot or other
wise injured.
Undated, July 21. Quiet ruled to
day in Minneapolis with milk and
ice deliveries being made, . and as
sured by the long, strong arm o?
the law.
The movement of water-born®
cargo at Portland continued today.
Iaibor leaders expressed the hops
for a speedy settlement to the mar
ine strike but laid plans for a
possible general strike Monday,
with a decision to be made Sun
day. when the representatives of
each union meet.
' Commerce hummed along the
San Farneisco waterfront with
truck drivers returning to work
unconditionally. It is believed late
today that the maritime strike will
be submitted to arbitration.
ALASKA S. K. CO.
pilot sukidus
8BATTLK. July 21.''-Officials or
the Alaska Steamship Co. said
they had been advised that Cap
tain Carlton Hatch, aged sixty,
pilot of the S.4 S. . Cordova, had
commuted suicide with a pistol on
the ship Thursday night, enrouta
to Ketchikan. No reason for his
action was given.
MEAT KATAMTIKS ‘CONTINUE
INCKKASK DAILY
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, July 21, Heat fa
talities during the current hot
spell ha ye now passed the one hun
dred mark as the drought and
heat spell continued unabated over
a huge area.
ARMV BOMBERS ON
WAV TO REGINA
(By The Associated Press)
WINNIPEG, July 31, The ten
Army bombing planes took off
from here this morning on their
flight to Regina.
general strike after a day of tIo
lence in which sixty-eight persons
were wounded by shot-gun fire.
The National Guards haT0 been
called out.