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VOLUME 36. NO. 82. NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
President’s Work Relief Bill Passed
TEXAS DEATH HOUSE FUGITIVE CAPTURED
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Governor Troy Is
To Go Washington
Conference Heads
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, April G — Governor
John W. Troy will leave here Mon
day on the steamer Alaska for Wash
ington, D. C., where he will have
important conferences with Secre
tary Roper of the Department of
Commerce and Secretary Ickes of
the Department of the Interior, and
others relative to Alaskan affairs.
He expects to remain in Seattle
for several days and then fly East.
He plans on returning West via San
Diego.
15 Men Charged
With First Degree
Murder In South
(By The Associated Press)
GALLUP, New Mexico, April 6 —
Fifteen men charged with first de
gree murder, were lodged in the
county jail here after a coroner’s
jury investigated the slaying of
Sheriff M. R. Carmichel.
The sheriff was killed *vhile at
tempting to prevent a crowd from
freeing three prisoners who were
being held for trespassing in a house
and from which one of them was
evicted.
All of those facing murder charges
pleaded not guilty. Over a hundred
suspected radicals were rounded up
and herded into the crowded city
and county jails Many of those ar
rested are believed to be aliens.
Woman Sheriff
Innocent Victim
Of Circumstances
(By The Associated Press)
FORT WAYNE, April 5 — The De
partment of Justice revealed that
John Dillinger’s taunt to his jailers
“I did it with my wooden pistol,”
when he fled from the Crown Point,
Indiana jail March 3rd, 1934, was a
lie.
The Department said that outside
assistance, probably a woman slipp
ed him an automatic pistol. There
is no evidence to support the charg
es against Lillian Holley, woman
sheriff in whose custody Dillinger
was kept. “Sheriff Holley was the
innocent victim of circumstances, as
the evidence now indicates that
Dillinger's escape was a genuine
jailbreak,” said U. S. Attorney Jam
es Fleming.
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PUBLIC WORKS RELIEF
BILL PASSED NOW GOES
PRESIDENT SIGNATURE
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 6—The biggest peace time ap
propriation ever to be made in the United States was voted
through Friday by congress giving President Roosevelt al
most unlimited power in connection with its expenditure.
It is designed to end the dole and put men to work in
about two and a half months. It amounts to about four bil
lion eight hundred and eighty million and will be used to
carry out the already well-defined plans. Debate over the
bill ended with the final approval of the senate late Friday.
The house concurred on all amendments. The bill is
to be signed today by Speaker Byrns and then sent to the
President for his signature.
The final senate vote was 66 to 13 in favor of the bill.
The measure is designed to put three million, five hundred
thousand unemployables now on relief rolls, to work. The
president’s almost unlimitless powers will extend for the
next two years in connection with this bill. The measure
transfers eight hundred and eighty million dollars of unex
pended funds of existing agencies including the relief ad
ministration, to be used for tapering off the dole by next
November.
The four billion dollars is to be spent on federal, non
federal, public works, highways, housing, rural electrifica
tion, farm improvement, education and white collar work,
besides a number of other projects.
COMMITTEE DESIGNATES TIME
AND PLACE FOR REGISTRATION
SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABOR
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The special committee appointed
by Chairman Dr. Rex F. Swartz to
organise a registration bureau for
both skilled and unskilled labor in
Nome, announced today that E. F.
Surber will act as registration offic
er and his hours will be from nine
am to twelve noon and from one to
five pm, in the FERA offices on the
second floor of the Alaska Road
Commission building. He will also
be in charge of registration at the
fire hall from 7 to 9 pm in the even
ings. Registration will not be open
until April 10th, next Wednesday.
According to the statement the reg
istration will continue from the 10th
until the 13h of April, Saturday.
In regard to this registration, it
was stated that if the local labor is
desirous of helping itself, every
man. be he either skilled or unskill
ed, should register so that a count
may be obtained and an estimate
arrived at, in order to advise trans
portation companies, chambers of
commerce, and the public at large,
as to the labor situation in Nome
for this coming summer.
It was also stated that this regis
tration is not for the purpose of ar
ranging for workmen to take jobs,
but is only for the object of getting
a fair and impartial view of the la
bor situation ,
The City of Nome is standing any
expense incurred in taking this cen
sus of labor. Its object in going
about this work is to get that result
and be able to communicate with
outside agencies and inform them as
to the correct status of labor here.
Business houses and other agen
cies in Nome are particularly inter
ested in preventing an over abund
ance of labor in Nome, which might
result as an aftermath of the fire
last fall. This spring considerable
work is being carried forward and
undoubtedly there are numerous
concerns who will rebuild, but the
principal involved is the protection
of Nome’s labor and the general
conditions here at present Already,
it has been found, that there are no
accomodations for housing. A more
or less general survey is fairly con
vincing that no additional labor is
needed, but the city and other de
partments of civic betterment, are
not satisfied with that, but are at
tempting to get a detailed report on
the situation.
If laborers in Nome have not
enough interest in their own protec
tion and betterment to register so
that this result may be obtained,
then there is little anyone can do for
them. Every laborer is urged to reg
ister and no laborer should overlook J
or forget to sign up.
Pulitzer \\ inner
Dead New York
Won Three Times
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 6 — Edwin
Arlington Robinson, aged sixty-five,
thrice winner of the Pulitzer Priz.e,
and honored as “America's fore
most living poet,” died here in the
hospital today.
Since January 17th he has been
receiving treatment for a chronic
ailment. He suffered a relapse Wed
nesdav after an operation. Rubinson
held various jobs in New York City.
He once worked in the customs
house and again as subway inspect
or.
No Trace Found
Of Missing Men
In Behm (lanal
COAST GUARD VESSEL CYANE
FAILS TO FIND TRACE OF
THREE ABOARD T-2305
The coast guard vessel C.vane is
i continuing her search for James H
Fraser and two others who left here
aboard his gas boat T-2305 several
weeks ago and have not been heard
from since.
I No trace has been found of the
men or boat, Lieutenant Command
, er W. R. Richards communicated to
Captain H. Ilansen of the Alert.
The Cyane sot out from here and
has been combing the shores of
Behm canal for evidence of the boat
or the men. but nothing has been
found to encourage them.
Fraser and his companions, Rob
ert Buchanan and D. J. Butler who
is better known as “Kentuck," left
here a week ago Saturday to go to
Bell Island hot springs. The boat in
which they traveled is believed to
be owned by Fraser.
All had been drinking heavily be
fore setting out on the trip which
was a “spur of the moment’ alfair.
it is reported. It is also considered
likely that little attention was paid
to the boat or food supply before set
ting out on the trip.
A brisk wind was blowing the
night they set out and may have
caused the boat to encounter trouble
It is believed that the T-2305 is the
same vessel from which Oscar Case,
a former local man, was lost last
fall. Fraser was running the boat
at that time. Case was washed ov
erboard near Cape Decision, Fraser
later reported to Juneau authorities.
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HAMILTON WHO PUBLIC
ENEMY NUMBER 1 WAS
CAPTURED LAST NIGHT
(By The Associated Press)
DALLAS, Texas, April 6—Raymond Hamilton, boast
tul fugitive from the Texas death house, was placed in a
Dallas county jail Friday night. He was brought here from
Fort Worth where he was captured without a fight, despite
his recent threat that he would never be caught alive again.
His capture was made by Sheriff Smooth Schmidt of
Dallas County and four of his deputies, aided by Fort Worth
officials, who surrendered him to the county officials in the
railroad yards where he was captured.
Chief Deputy E. B. Becker pushed the muzzle of his
gun into the ribs of the robber who gave up without an ef
fort at resistance.
Hamilton’s presence in Fort Worth was disclosed when
detectives picked up a known associate of Hamilton’s riding
in a taxi-cab. They found a note on him from Hamilton,
lie finally divulged the bandits whereabouts.
Hamilton was the most sought-after bandit outlaw in
the Southwest.
Many \r<k Knroute
Noim* l>\ Airplane
According to information received
in Nome, the following persons are
arriving in Fairbanks and are en
route to Nome, after being in the
states for several months, and in
some instances for the better part of
the winter:
B J McCONAGIlY
AL CAREY
K V LUCAS
l( E PH ERRIN
P II ERRIN
EDITH MORISON
LEONARD SMITH
DICK ROELL
MORT POWELL
O S STINER
B W VALLAT
EMIL LAURIN
BOB MITTEN
A G WHEELER
There are four other persons ac
companying B W Vallat, who is an
engineer for Mr. Bartholomae, who!
is interested in the development of
considerable mining ground in the1!
Teller section.
Others enroute to Nome have pri
vate mining interests and in some
cases are employees of mining com
panies.
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French Military Is
(Ceding Ready War.
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(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, April 6 — The Minister
ial Council today approved of the(
Extension Service’s order discharg
ing one hundred and twenty thou
sand Frenchmen who are due to
leave the army April 13th. This ex
tension will be effective for only a
few months.
Soviets Perfect A
Jittney Plane For
Ordinary Citizens
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, April 6 — Russian ex
perts announced the development of
an airplane powered by an ordin
ary light automobile engine, of the
type manufactured by the Gorky
Motor Factory.
It is expected to make (lying avail
able to a large number of civilians.
The new plane is of two seater type
and operates on ordinary gasoline.
It is capable of attaining a speed of
about seventy miles an hour.
Roosevelt To Co
BackW hi te House
After Fishing Trip
(By The Associated Press)
MIAMI, April 6—President Roose
velt is to go back tomorrow or Mon
day to his desk, after a fishing cruise
in southern waters.
There is no indication in his atti
tude of worry about the ultimate re
sults of actions going on in the Cap
itol He has been content so far to
let Congress do the job in its own
way.
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