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VOL 36. No. 14. NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935. Per Copy 10 Cents
Four Prison-Break Convicts Capfured
ALASKA SENATE-HOUSE COMMITTEES NAMED
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Negro Witness Tells Story Of Finding Lindbergh Baby
DIES IN PRISON I
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SENTENCED TO
20 TO 60 YEARS
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 17th—Ahira E.
Pierce, aged 44, a former vice-presi
dent and manager of the defunct
Home Savings Loan Association,
died in the prison hospital at Walla
Walla, where he was serving a 20 to
60 year sentence following his con
viction on charges growing out of
the collapse of his financial enter
prises.
He died of angina pectoris. Pierce
had served less than a year of his
term in jail. He had been in the
prison hospital practically all the
time.
TOWNSEND PLAN
BEING BROUGHT
UP TO CONGRESS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—Repre
sentative John McGroarty of Cali
fornia, brought to the House, the
widely discussed Townsend Plan for
old age pensions. This will meet
the challenge of the machine.
He said: “Ninety-five members of
Congress are supporters of the
measure.” He predicted that suffic
ient additional members will be con
verted to enable its proponents to
force its consideration in the legis
lative program.
AGED GENERAL
PASSES AWAY
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 16—General Kuno
von Steuben, aged 79, who took an
active part in the world .war, died
of old age at his home here.
He was a descendant of the family
of General Baron von Steuben who
participated in the Revolutionary
war, with the army of George Wash
ington.
DR. DAFOE TO
BE COMMANDER
(By The Associated Press)
OTTAWA, Jan. 16—Dr. Allan Roy
Dafoe, the attending physician of
the Dionne quintuplets, will be
made a Commander in the Order of
the British Empire, it was reported
Joday.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
NAMED IN THE ALASKA
HOUSES LEGISLATURE
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 17 — Fisheries and the liquor questions
promise to be two of the outstanding matters before the Leg
islature. Both subjects made their initial appearance in
the House yesterday afternoon.
The transfer of the control of the fisheries from the De
partment of Commerce to the Alaska Legislature was made
in the from of a memorial introduced by Rep. Baronovich,
asking that Congress approve and pass Delegate Dimond’s
bill.
The first action on the liquor question was introduced
by Representative Lingo who moved that a committee of
eight be appointed to consider the problem and prepare a
proposed bill, a report to be ready for presentation within
thirty days. Speaker Hoffman named two Representatives
from each division to serve on this committee: Ziegler and
Gr&en for the First; Scott and Chamberlain for the Second.
McCutcheon and Murray for the Third; and Nerland and
Growden for the Fourth.
The House approved the appointment of Committee
Chairmen as follows: Banks, Joe Green; Election Laws, An
drew Nerland; Education, Nerland; Fisheries, F. J. Barono
vich; Judiciary, A. H. Ziegler; Labor, William Growden;
Municipal Affairs, Alton G. Nordale. Printing, Jas. H. Patt
erson; Rules, Garnet W. Martin; Roads, Howard Lyng; Trans
portation, Charles Murray; Territorial Institutions, Garnet
W. Martin; Ways and Means. Geo. A. Lingo.
The Governor’s message is in the hands of the printers
and may be released this afternoon or Friday.
The Senate in a short session yesterday aproved Com
mitttee chairmen as follows:: Finance, Henry Roden; Taxa
tion, including revenues, highways, powers and rules, Lu
ther C. Hesse; Education, M. E. S. Brunnell; Fisheries and
game, N. R. Walker; Judiciary, James Frawley; and Min
ing, manufacturing and labor, James R. Campbell.
RE ENACTS DRAMA OF
FINDING OF LINDBERGH
BABY’S BODY IN BRUSH
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 17 — William J. Allen, negro la
borer took the stand this morning and told of finding the
body of the Lindbergh baby, in the brush near the Hopewell
home of the Lindberghs.
He said that after he discovered the body he hurried to
Hopewell and notified the authorities.
He identified the picture showing the glade and the
body as it was when he found it. It was admitted as evi
dence over the objections of the defense.
Defense Counsel Reilly led him, under cross-examin
ation, over a faltering account of how the body looked when
he found it. He said that the body was lying on its face.
His testimony was corroborated by Orville Wilson, who add
ed that one of the feet lay at a little distance from the re
mainder of the skeletal. v
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PLAN FOR SOCIAL
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SECURITY SENT
HOUSES TODAY
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—Making
the long-heralded attack on prob
lems of social security, the adminis
tration sent to Congress this morn
ing the five point program designed
for protection against what is term
ed as the hazards of modern exist
ence.
The program provides for compul
sory unemployment insurance to be
paid by .employers through a pay
roll tax; compulsory insurance
against poverty and old age for
(wage earners and small salaried
workers, to be paid by employers
and employees on a fifty-fifty basis;
old age pensions for needy and aged
to be paid by federal and state gov
ernments; a voluntary federal an
nuity system for those who are not
included in the compulsory plan;
large federal grants to states for the
aid of needy and ill mothers and
children; and the extension of the
public health service.
TRACING GANG
KIDNAPPERS OF
ST. PAUL MAN
(By The Associated Press)
OKLAWAHA, Florida, Jan. 17—
Federal officers succeeded in slay
ing Fred Barker and his mother
Kate, aged 55, after a six hour gun
battle at their rented home.
They are still searching for Alvin
Karpis, Arthur Barker and other
members of the gang accused of the
Bremner kidnapping in which they
collected two hundred thousand do!
lars from the St. Paul banker.
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Three Planes Held
At Nulato Enroute
Nome By Weather
According to word received today,
the Pacific Alaska Airways, mail
plane Pilot Jones, was still detain
ed by weather at Nulato.
Further advices stated that Pilot
Mirow of the Mirow Air Service
and Pilot Whaley of the Roust Air- J
ways, were also held at Nulato by
adverse weather conditions.
According to the present condi-;
tions Ijere all three planes will pro-1
bably be held there until the wea
ther clears, which may be for sever
al days.
ESCAPED CONVICTS ARE
CAPTURED & RETURNED
TO PRISOfC; ONE KILUED
(By The Associated Press)
SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Jan. 17 — Only four convicts
escaped yesterday from the prison, instead of six, after fell
ing Warden Holohan and kidnapping four high prison offic
ials and two guards. 3_ r
The four of tfTem were captured after a running fight in
which the leader was critically wounded and the remainder
rounded up in a desperate fight in Valley Ford, fifty-four
miles north of the prison.
The warden, dames B. Holohan was beaten so badly
that he is not expected to live. The prisoners were at lib
erty only two hours. The convicts were armed with forty
five automatic revolvers, said to have been furnished them
by one Clyde Stevens, a bank robber suspect who command
eered a state car for the getaway.
Rudolph Straight, thirty-five, a robber, was the convict'
leader. Others were Alexander MacKay, robber; Joe
Cristy, twenty-six, Los Angeles kidnapper; and Fred Alend
ers, twenty-seven serving a term for assault. The police
captured Stevens, a parol led convict, San Francisco bank
robbtjj^^day. The three other escaped convicts were tak
en into custody, two of them wounded under the police fire
at Antioch, fifty miles from here.
Late today it was reported that Warden Holohan had a
good chance for recovery. After the three convicts were
taken back to prison, Straight, their leader, died of gun
wounds received in the break, which was ended when the
tires of the prisoner’s car were shot. They abandoned the
car and took refuge in a creamery and started to shoot it out.
The remainder of the convicts gave up when Straight was
wounded.
The prison is quiet today. The three convicts declared
that the guns were brought in to the prison unknowingly by
a state employee.
Board members taken as hostages were Frank Steph
ens, a Sacramento banker, who was wounded in the hip, and
Mark Noon, secretary.
The three surviving convicts will face hanging as a re
sult of their break for liberty, which ended so disasterously
for their leader;
Comparison Of The
Temperatures Last
Year January 15th
The Board of Directors of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce met in special session
yesterday afternoon for the purpose
of passing on the report of the spec
ial legislative committee Appointed
some time ago, and which just re
cently completed its work.
A report of the proposed legisla
tion and matters to be brought be
fore the Legislature which is now in
session, by the Second Division del
egation of Senators and Representat
ives, is expected to be made public
within a day or two.
Changes of regular advertisements
will be accepted up to 4 PM of the
day preceding insertion. New ad
vertisements will be accepted for
Insertion in the paper up to 1:30
PM of the day of insertion—The
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Board Meeting Of
C. of C. Passes On
Report Committee
Tuesday’s temperature was fifty
two degrees warmer than that of a
year ago, according to the records
of the U. S. Weather Bureau Office.
Last year the coldest temperature
of the winter occurred on January
fifteenth, when a minimum temper
ature of —37 degrees was recorded.
On that day the highest tempera
ture was —28 degrees resulting in a
mean temperature of —32 degrees
for the day.
Tuesday, the lowest temperature
was fifteen above zero and the max
imum for the day was twenty-five,
giving a mean of twenty for the day.
The above interesting facts were
furnished the Nugget by G. L. Pru
cha, Assistant Meteorologist of the
Nome weather bureau station.
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