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VOL. 37. No. 169 NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
He Said “Didn’t Want to Hurt King”
17-year-old New York Girl Ravaged and Murdered
French Government To Nationalize Arms Industry
17 YEAR OLD GIRL
HONOR STUDENT,
IS FOULLY KILLED
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Girl Was Going On Vacation. Face Was
Mutilated Attempt Made To Ravish
Her. Assailant Remains Unknown
(By The Associated Press)
ASHVILLE, North Carolina, July 17, — Blond,
Helen Clevenger, 19-year-old New York University hon
or student, was shot to death in her hotel room here
Thursday by an assailant who escaped after mutilat
ing her face with a sharp instrument and attempting
to ravish her.
Ashville and Buncombe County officers said that
they were without a clue to the slayer, but are seeking
an unidentified man, reported to
have been seen at the door of
the girl’s room about 1 A. M.,
when some of the other guests
heard a woman’s scream over
the noise of an electric storm.
Miss Clevenger is the only
child of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clev
enger of New York.
The young lady came here two
days ago for a vacation trip with
her uncle, Professor W. L,. Clev
enger of North Carolina State
College at Raleigh.
Professor Clevenger discovered
the tragedy when he went to call
his niece this morning. Coron
er authorities declared an in
quest would be held today.
“Trader” Returned
Captain Ira Rank of the schoon
er Trader, accompanied by Pete
Paulson, and Bill Besner returned
to Nome yesterday from a trad
ing cruise to St. Lawrence Is
land Little Diomede Island, and
points on the Alaskan coast nor
th of Nome. They reported the
Eskimos were not having much
success with there hunting.
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Cloudy skies with light rain
and light southerly winds have
• set in, during the night, over the
Seward Peninsula. All interior
and southeastern Alaska have
generally fair weather with Mt.
McKinley reported visible from
both Anchorage and Fairbanks.
A storm of moderate intensity
obtains south of the Gulf of Al
aska and a ridge of high pressure
extends from Aklavik, at the
mouth of the Mackenzie River
diagonally across the Territory
and into the North Pacific at
Dutch Harbor.
Highest 65; Lowest 40; Rain
fall a trace.
Headquarters Say
Instructions Not
Issued Bar Inds.
(3y The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 17, —The
Forest Service said no instruc
tions had been issued headquar
iters here barring Indians from
employment on Alaska CCC pro
jects.
The regional forester for Alas
ka, Chas. Flory told members of
the senate indian affairs com
mittee investigating Indian con
ditions in the Territory, that he
i had been instructed to employ
| no Indians.
Officials here said they “un
derstood there had been some
controversy over the question of
the selection of personnel for A1
aska forest camps, but handled
locally, the problem was one for
Governor Troy to work out,”
stated the spokesman.
3rd Transfusion
Blood Made To
Save Man’s Life
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, July 17, — A third
blood transfusion was given Don
Thompson, 29, carpenter, today,
who has been in the hospital suff
ering from a nose bleed, for a
month.
His condition was reported as
critical. His nose stops bleed
ing for a time, but begins again
yith any exertion.
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Quake Colorado
Destroys Town
Unknown Dead
(By The Associated Press)
TUQUERRES, Colo., July 17—
A disasterous earthquake virtual
ly destroyed this town, making
thousands homeless and the cas
ulities are still unknown. It is
feared that many have perished,
To pacify the inhabitants they
were crowded in the outskirts oi
the town while the shocks con
tinued. The main shock occurr
ed at noon and lasted two min
utes.
Licensed Liquor
Dealers Banded
War Illicit Sales
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, July 17, — Lie
ensed liquor dealers organizec
an association here yesterdaj
which will war on the bootleg
ger, thereby seeking to prohibi
the illicit sales of liquor.
John Hall, who has been Chie:
Deputy Marshal, was appointee
, to be Clerk of the U. S. Distric'
Court for the Third Division
succeeding Einar A. Tonseth
who in turn was named Depute
U. S. Marshall. John J. Bucklej
was promoted to the post oi
Chief Deputy Marshal.
Man and Woman
Electrocuted In
N. Y. Murder
(By The Associated Press)
OSSINING, N. Y„ July 17, -
Mrs. Francis Creighton and Ev
erett C. Appelgate were electro
cuted Thursday night for the
egg nog murder of Appelgate's
wife, Ada.
Mrs. Creighton preceded her
alleged lover to the electric chair.
Two matrons and three guards
wheeled her in a wheel chair to
the death house. She was appar
ently unconscious when she arriv
ed there. The guards and mat
rons quickly formed a protective
screen around her, linking arms.
She was pronounced dead after
the current had been on for two
minutes. Their screen was to pre
vent the horrid aspect being seen
by others in the death house,
of an unconscious person being
electrocuted.
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FORMER EDITOR SAID DIDN'T
WANT TO HURT KING EDWARD
I HE JUST WANTED TO OBJECT
George Andrew McMahon, 34, Placed
In Jail. Wife Says She Stick to Him.
KinjI Receiv es Many Felicitations
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(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 17, — Mrs. George Andrew Mc
i Mahon, dark-eyed wife of King Edward’s alleged at
tacker, said: “Whatever it means to me, 1 shall stick
by him. My husband was always kind and good humor
ed. We have been happy. It is all beyond me. Why, he
| always stood up when the national anthem was played,
land always talked to me with afiection for the Royal
family”
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard continued its investiga
tion of reports that the woman in gray who knocked
the pistol from McMahon’s hand, was an American.
Her name is being withheld, if it is known, pending ar
Confirmation Of
Appointment Of
Dufresne Made
(By The Associated Press'
JUNEAU, July 17, — Formal
confirmation of the appointment
of Frank Dufresne as Executive
Officer of the Alaska Game Com
mission, was announced in a tel
egram from Stanley B. Young,
Chief of the division of Game
Management under the Biolog
ical Survey, at Washington.
The appointment is effective as
of July 1st. Dufresne succeeds
Hugh Terhune, now in charge
of the game reserve at St. Char
les, Arkansas. Dufresne is now
in the interior and expects to re
turn to Juneau in three weeks.
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Three Unite To
Defeat Landon
And Roosevelt
(By The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, July 17, — Dr.
Francis E. Townsend announced
that he, Rev. Father Charles E.
Coughlin, Rev. Gerald K. Smith,
and Representative William
Lemke, will participate in a tour
in support of Lemke, the new
Union Party’s candidate for pres
ident.
Townsend is the leader of the
two hundred dollars a month
old age pension; Coughlin heads
the National Union for Social
Justice; and Smith leads the
Share the Wealth Movement.
I raignment f McMahon. Messag
, es of felicitation poured in to
King Edward from all over the
. world, while the monarch re
mained calm and with no dis
play of emotions over his narrow
escape.
King Edward rode unharmed
into range of a loaded, levelled
pistol as he was returning from
Hyde Park to Buckingham Pal
ace. The pistol was taken from
the hands of its crippled owner
Andrew McMahon, 34. once an
editor, by a middle-aged heroine,
a woman in grey. It clattered
harmlessly to the roadway behind
the King’s horse on crowded Con
stitution Hill.
McMahon struggled with Lon
don Bobbies and wailed “I didn’t
want to hurt him. I only did it
as a protest,” words that were
not explained. He was charged
with unlawful possession of a:
firearm with intent to endanger:
life, and remanded to jail.
The King at Hyde Park had
just presented new colors to six i
battalions of troops. He was in
officer’s uniform. With him was
his brother, the Duke of York.
Jueen Mary had watched the pro
cession at the Park.
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Bigger Plan For
Defense
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, July 17, — A five year
naval program costing 88 mill
ion dollars was reported in two
Japanese newspapers today.
It includes the construction of
at least two capital ships and
extensive expansion of the naval
air force in 1937 and 1938. ^
GOVERNMENT
CONTROL OF
FRENCH ARMS
Chamber Passed Bill To
Control The Nation’s
Armament Industry
Republic France
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, July 17, —The French
Chamber of Deputies voted today
nationalization of the arms in
dustry by 484 to 85.
Back by Blum’s leftist gov
ernment the measure clamps
strict governmental gontrol on
the nation's large armament
plants.
Edouard Daladici', Mil .ster of
Defense, urged its pa.-.-.ige and
vigorously attacked wartime pro
fiteers. The U. S. Senate invest;.-,
gation of the arms inJu.s'iy was
cited as an example f th- inter
national importance of nation
alizing warfare equipmeu pro
duction.
“War must not be a source of
scandalous profit. We want ponce
of free men, and not one which
is suitable for slaves”, said he
Defense Minister.
The bill calls for the appro
priation of funds for Lorre plants
depending mainly on ord r- giv
en by the government vrhieh will
be paid for their property.
Exports and manipulation of
profits and securities wil! be con
trolled by cabinet decree.
In addition to about ten major
factories the program envisages
the limiting and ciutr 1 of other
companies whose production is
mainly designed for commercial
use, such as airplane manufact
urers.
Soviets Blow I p
Coal Fields Lay
Bare Many Tons
(Bv The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, July 17, — Soviet
engineers fired a blast today of
1,850 tons of high explosives to
expose rich deposits of coal in
the Ural mountains section for
surface mining.
The blast was set off near Che
liabinsk. The inhabitants retired
three miles from the scene in or
der to escape possible injury.
The blast opened up a ditch
five-eighths of a mile long by
seventy feet deep. The coal bed
is estimated to contain about
seven and a half million tons of
coal.