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VOL 36. NO. 30. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1935.__ __ -Per Copy Ten Cents
Many Letters Are Sent Hauptmann
Alaska Legislature To Hold Public Hearing On Labor.
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Refuses to Give Papers to Airmail Investigation Comm.
GIANT NEGRO
SENTENCED TO
DIE GALLOWS
(By The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, Miss., Feb. 5 —
James Coyner, giant negro, was
closely guarded today in the Jack
son jail after he had been sentenc
ed to die on the gallows March 5th
for the murder of Mrs. Aurelius
Turner, whose body he cut to piec
es, even to the extent of stripping
the flesh, one piece of which was
found in his pocket, and which was
introduced as evidence in his trial,
following his arrest.
Legislature
Public Hearing
Contract Labor
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Feb. 5 — The senate
yesterday approved two house mem
orials asking that Bristol Bay be
opened to fishing by residents, and
the second resolution re-establish
ing the closed signal corps stations
in the interior.
A decision was also reached yes
terday afternoon for a public hear
ing on fish traps to be held Friday
. night.
The house in a short and unim
portant session adjourned for a
public hearing on the eight hour day
contract labor for underground
hours, to be held today and then
another one Tuesday afternoon.
HAlOiTON AND
BROTHER FLEE
POLICE TRAP
(By The Associated Press)
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 5 — Ray
mond Hamilton, and his brother
orals asking that Bristol Bay be
and police trap at Raymond’s wife’s
apartment. He fled under a hail of
more than two hundred shots. Ray
mond escaped in a truck while his
brother fled on foot.
MEASURE TO
AUTHORIZE
HIGHWAY
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — Senator
Schwellenbach of Washington intro
duced a third measure authorizing
a highway connection with Alaska.
Similar measures were introduced
last week by Delegate Dimond and
Seastor McNary of Oregon.
'V
ASST. SECT Y. GET
TEN DAYS JAIL
FOR CONTEMPT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — The
Supreme Court ruled that Congress
can punish for contempt, and order
ed that William P. McCracken, form
er Assistant Secretary of Commerce
to ten days in jail for failure to give
the Senate air mail investigation
committee papers demanded by the
Senate Sergeant-at-arms, C. W. Jur
ney.
The law allows twenty-five days
as a period for which he can ask for
a reconsideration by the court, but
if not made within that time, Jur
ney, is to summon McCracken to
jail.
Meteorological
Summary For
January, 1935
With the exception of twelve days
the daily temperature for this month
was well above the average. The
mean monthly temperature for 6 de
grees, which is 2.5 degrees above
the normal. The warmest January
was that 1927 with a mean temper
ature of 22.8 degrees. The coldest
was that of 1917 with a mean of —11
degrees.
The warmest day of this month
was the eleventh on which a max
imum temperature of 33 and a min
imum of 30 degrees occurred, mak
ing a mean for the day of 32 degrees
which was twenty eight degrees
above the normal The coldest day
was that of the twenty-ninth with a
maximum fit —9 and a minimum of
—22 degrees, making a mean of —16
which was twenty degrees below
normal.
Precipitation for the montn was
1.53 inches or 43 inch above the av
erage. The greatest 24 hour precip
itation occurred on the 7-8th when
.65 inch was recorded. The total
snowfall was 16.7 inches. 7.7 inch
es was the greatest snowfall for any
24 hour period, occurred on the 8th.
The average depth of snow on the
ground at the end of the month was
14.4 inches. Measurable amounts of
precipitation occurred on ten days.
There were 16 clear, 2 partly
cloudy days. There were 12 consec
utive days with 100% sunshine.
There were 03.6 hours of sunshine
or 56% of the possible amount.
Auroras occurred on the 2, 3, 23,
24, 27, 28th; Lunar Halo on the 12th
Dense fog on the 16th.
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MORBID INTEREST TRIAL!
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Feb. 5—Sixty-two letters have been
sent to Hauptmann since he entered the Hunterdon jail.
Two of them were confessions and were sent on to him. The
remainder were kept by attorneys.
The confessions were investigated and found to be sent
by persons mentally irresponsible. Attorneys said that the
most numerous of the letters were those seeking his con
version. —
The second most common were seeking autographs.
The sheriff opens the letters and gives them to the lawyers.
Very few of them are of a condemnatory tone. Most of them
sympathize with him. Some of them contain toasts to his
success in his trial; some include notes from school girls,
predictions from astrologers.
His counsel said they may rest their testimony within
the next few days, making it probable that-the case may go
to the jury about a week from tomorrow.
Tuesday will be LincoJ&% Birthday and will Hae a corn;
holiday. Mrs. Morrow will probably be called to clear the
Sharpe girl’s name.
FLEMINGTON, Feb. 5 — The defense plans to call
Schwartzkopf as their first witness, was altered after the
failure by the defense to force the production in court of
his records.
Reilly, this morning called Phillip Moses, a Bronx taxi
driver as the first witness, who said he was employed in the
vicinity of Strymonds cemetery on the night of April 2, 1932.
One of Schwartzkopf’s press releases shortly after the
Sharpe girl’s suicide as printed in the newspapers at that
SCharpe girl’s suicide as printed in the newspapers at that
time said in part:
“The suicide of Violet Sharpe strongly tends to con
firm investigators’ suppositions concerning her guilty know
ledge of the crime against the Lindbergh baby.”
The defense was allowed the right to argument con
cerning this, later.
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NOME ATHLETIC CLUB
Big Smoker
SEVEN SPEEDY BOUTS
Dream Theatre, Feb. 6th—7:30 P. M.
MAIN EVENTS
4 Rounds
“Battling” ROBERTS —VS— “K. O ” COMER
190 Lbs._ 210 Lbs.
“Kid” ROBERTS —VS— “Dynamite” WEBB
165 Lbs._ 160 Lbs. j
3 Rounds
“Speedy” JOHNSON —VS— “Red” SLACK
160 Lbs. 155 Lbs.
Gene ELMS —VS— “Lefty” WALLIN
145 Lbs._ 145 Lbs.
Eddie NELSON —VS— Mike BRANDON
70 Lbs. 70 Lbs.
“Lefty” NELSON —VS— Ole HAY, Jr.
50 Lbs.__ 50 Lbs.
BIG BATTLE ROYAL
Reserved Seats—$1.50
Ladies And Gentlemen—$1.00
CHILDREN 50 Cents—UNDER 12 YEARS
WEDDING fN
NOME WAS A
BIG SURPRISE
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The surprise wedding of the year
occurred last evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs.A. Polet, where Miss'
Lenore Peterson and Cameron New-'
man were united in the bonds of
matrimony by the Rev. Norman Me-'
Cay, of the Federated Church. The
wedding took place at 7 PM. last |
night and was a great surprise to!
their many friends, as the former]
Miss Peterson had only arrived in
Nome a few short hours before,
with Pilot Hans Mi^ow, f*pm Fair-i
hanks, after being detained over-]
night at Solomon.
With Rev. McCay performing the'
ceremony, David Livingston acted
as best man and Mrs. A. Polet was
the bride’s attendant Following the
wedding, light refreshments were
served before the terrible clamor of
a charivari party of the youngsters]
of Nome began.
Mrs. Newman is the daughter of
Mr and Mrs R. U. Peterson of Seat
tle, Mr Peterson is engaged in busi*
ness in the University District in
Seattle. Mrs. Newman was sixteen
days coming to Nome, being forced
once to return to Seattle to board
another ship when the vessel on
which she was a passenger, went
aground. Arriving at Juneau the
vessel was detained by a longshore
men’s strike, and as if that were not
enough, after taking off from Fair
banks by plane, bad weather forc
ed them to stay overnight at Solom
on, where accomodations were sup
plied in Pete Curran’s roadhouse.
However, the plane finally arrived
at Nome and the wedding took place
only a few short hours later.
Mr Newman, a recent Nomeite
since fall when the Are occurred at
Nome, is at present the acting man
ager of the new Nome Lumber Co.,
which took over the local business
of the Bolcom Canal Lumber Co., of
which Sam Taggart was agent. Mr.
and Mrs. NeWrrian will be at home
after today at their home located on
Front Street, to their many Nome
friends
A delightful wedding dinner is
being prepared for the newly mar
ried couple at the home of the Po
lets this evening.
Mid-Winter weddings are a rare
thing in Nome but from all reports
the surprise which took place last
night succeeded almost to the ex
tent of where the charivari party
nearly lost out. However, the hap
py couple are the recipients of the
well wishes of the community today
and henceforth.
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GERMANY MAY
FACE ISOLATION
OF THE WORLD ,
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 5 — Great Britain
informed all interested powers, in
cluding the United States, -that un
less Hitler’s response to the Anglo
French proposals was favorable, Ger
many would be isolated by the de
fensive air-alliances.
A check of the foreign embassies
in London disclosed that Britain had
communicated with them verbally,
removing any doubt that the Anglo
French air alliance had definitely
been agreed upon.
Even should Germany reject the
proposals the only part the United
States would bef expected to take in
carrying out the new formula, is to
join the disarmament convention.
PARIS, Feb. 5 — Satisfaction that
Germany had been maneuvered into
a position where she must either ac
cept real disarmament or face world
isolation, characterized France’s at
titude toward the recent London con
ferences.
Meeting On Eight
Hour 6 Day Week
At 8 P.M. Tonight
A public meeting is called to meet
at St. Joseph’s hall this evening at
B PM. for the purpose of discussing
and voting on the eight hour six day
bill which has been introduced in
the House of representatives of the
Territorial Legislature by Represen
tative Nordale of the Fourth Divi
sion.
A matter of conjecture proved to
be whether mining operators and
miners alike were to vote at the
meeting tonight. The question will
probably be brought up and decided
at that time, as there is considerable
comment concerning the situation.
Due to the difficutly of transport
ing thirty or forty men to town
from Little Creek, Roy Stump has
agreed to act as chairman at that
place where a meeting would be
held and a vote taken on the ques
tion, so as to afford the group at
Little Creek the opportunity of vot
ing.
The returns from Little Creek are
to be sent to Russell Maynard as
also are those of the meeting in
town this evening, and he is to for
ward the record of those in favor
and those opposed, to Senator John
F. Devine at Juneau.
Mail the Nome Daily Nugget to
row friends, and 1st thena know
about too re building of Nome.