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VOLUME 36. NO. 17. _ NOME, ALASKA; MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935._ Per Copy Ten Cents
Investigating Hauptmann’s Accounts
BILL TO CHANGE DATE OF PRIMARY ELECTION
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A New But Warmer Storm Hits The Pacific Coast
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ONLY TWO BILLS ARE
INTRODUCED SENATE
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 21 — Notwithstanding the appeals by
both the Speaker of the House and the President of the Sen
ate to hurry up, only two bills have been introduced in the
Senate.
One was a joint resolution from the House introduced
Saturday, when both houses adjourned following short
sessions.
Senator Powers introduced both bills, one providing
that persons contributing to the delinquency of a minor be
found guilty of a felony and providing a penalty of from one
to two years in the penitentiary, or a month and a year in a
federal jail.
The other measure provided for a change in the date of
the Primary Election from the last Tuesday in April to the
last Tuesday in March. Representative Green’s memorial
urges that Congress give consideration to the Townsend
Plan, calling for a pension of two hundred dollars monthly
to persons over sixty years of age.
BREAK IN THE WEATHER
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21 — A new, but warmer
storm, hurried in from the Pacific and broke the grip of the
great white, cold wave, that virtually parallized wide reach
es of the far-west last week.
Temperatures are raising all along the coast and inland.
Ice is flowing down the rivers, threatening the destruction
of the construction of the bridge across the Columbia at
Grand Coulee Dam. ,
The temperature at Spokane reached eighteen below.
Trains and busses are halted. Montana is still cold. Seat
tle’s heavy snow is melting fast under a warm rain.
Farther East the cold still grips the country. Gales and
blizzards have left a growing death list. Helena, Montana
showed forty-eight degrees below zero.
Iowa had five deaths, three in traffic accidents and two
in falls. ^ Only the gulf states escaped zero readings. From
the mountain states east, heavy snows covered almost the
whole northern section of the United States. Traffic acci
dents mounted in the west and central west, sub-zero tem
peratures came with snow and ice pushing a pall of fog and
mist ahead.
ALVIN KARPIS
PUBLIC ENEMY
NO. 1 ESCAPES
(By The Associated Press)
ATLANTIC CITY, Jan. 21, — The
nation’s newest Pubic Enemy No. 1,
Alvin Karp is. wanted for a number
of kidnappings and robberies, accom
panied by Harry Campbell, today
shot their way out of a police trap
here, and escaped federal officers.
Captured were two women—Dol
ores Delaney alias Louise Graham,
and Winona Burdette also known as
Louise Campbell. The Delaney wo
man is said to be Karpis's moll, and
is about to have a child. She, was
shot in the leg, and was the only
person involved in the shooting to
be wounded, as far as is known.
JAPANESE SHIP
WITH BAD LIST
CUTTER TO AID
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21, —The
Globe wireless reported receipt of a
distress call from the Japanese sh<p
“Hokuman Maru”, bound from Van
couver, British Columbia, for Osaka,
Japan, saying that it had a starboard
list of seventeen degrees and was
taking water. Her position was sev
eral hundred miles west of Cape
Flattery.
She asked immediate aid and the
U. S. Coast Guard cutter Chelan left
Port Angeles, Washington for the
vessel. The Maru is a freighter with
a crew of thirty-five members.
• - LOCAL NEWS
A marriage license was obtained
Monday, today, from the United
States Commissioner’s Office, by Miss
Frances Nicholas and Harry Long
ley, Kougarok dog team mail driver.
Bob Larsen was arrested this morn
ing and charged with grand larceny,
accused of shooting and killing, and
transporting reindeer, on the range
near Nome. As yet no date for his
hearing before the U. S. Commis
sioner has been set.
The telephone line between Nome
and Golovin was reported to be
down somewhere in the vicinity of
j Spruce Creek and Topkok Hill. Ef
forts are being made today to lo
cate and repair the line, which is
! expected to be placed in condition
again tomorrow, according to the
local offices of the Alaska Telephone
and Telegraph Co.
Pilot Chester Brown of the North
ern Air Transport made a flight to
Solomon and White Mountain with
Samuel Anaruk and Hilma Douglas
as passengers. Mr Anaruk return
ed to White Mountain and Hilma
Douglas was for Solomon. Pilot
Brown is scheduled for a flgiht to
Fairbanks Tuesday or Wednesday,
weather permitting.
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
'Air Service took off this morning for
'Fairbanks with J. D. Harlan, mana
ger of the Hammon Consolidated
Gold Fields at Nome, and Mrs. Har
lan. Pilot Mirow is scheduled to re
turn to Nome tomorrow.
LATER—Word received by the of
|fice here said he was staying over
night at Ruby due to strong-head
winds and would return Wednesday.
Pilot Frank Whaley of the Roust
Airways returned to Nome Sunday,
from a flight to Fairbanks, Enroute to
Nome he was forced by weather
conditions to stop overnight at Nu
2ato for several days and then one
night at Golovin. Pilot Whaley is
due to hop off for Pilgrim Hot
Springs and Iron Creek tomorrow,
weather permitting.
Pilot Jerry Jones of the Pacific Al
aska Airways arrived at Nome Sun
day morning with the mail, having
been delayed by weather in arriving
here earlier. Pilot Monsen of the
same company, who arrived Satur
day, and Pilot Jones, took off again
Sunday on their return flight to
Fairbanks, with the U. S. Mail.
Pilot Robbins of the PA A arriv
ed Nome early this afternoon, from
Fairbanks, with a large quantity of
first class and other mail, in the
Fleetster plane of the company. He
is scheduled to return to Fairbanks
tomorrow with mail.
Pilot Robbins made the flight from
Fairbanks to Nome, a distance of
more than 550 miles mail route, in
the record breaking time of 2 hours
and 55 minutes flying time
The funeral of Mrs. Louise Bloom
berg was held yesterday at the Fed
erated Church. Services were con
ducted by Rev. Norman McCay, fol
lowing which the cortege proceed
ed to the Belmont Point Cemetery
where interment took place.
Mrs. Bloomberg was born in Nor
way sixty-nine years ago. She
came to the United States and in
1897 took part in the gold stamp
ede into Dawson via Skagway. From
Dawson she came to Nome where
she has lived ever since, making
one trip to the States on account of
her health
Chas. Code, manager of the Dream
Theatre, had the Paramount News
service ship him the weekly news
pictures including scenes of the
Nome fire. The film arrived Sunday
with Pilot Whaley’s plane, and will
be shown Tuesday evening at the
Dream Theatre.
Scenes of the Nome lire, have been
, shown in other Alaskan cities, but
| this is the first time it will be shown
in Nome. It is also believed that
this is the first time that film has
been shipped via airplane into Nome
to be shown to the public here.
The scenes include aerial and
ground shots of the fire in progress
here, and were taken by Frank
Whaley, pilot for the Roust Airways
for the Paramount News. According
I to the reports they are very inter
jesting and show the blaze consum
■ ing the entire business district of
the city. Two shows are to be giv
en Tuesday evening, one commenc
ing at 7 p.m and the other at 9:00
p.m.
Contained in a letter to the U. S.
Marshal, Thos. Gaffney, was the news
of the death December 27th, of A1
Kerr, formerly of Nome, from Sup
erintendent Eiler Hansen, of the
Pioneers Home at Sitka.
He reported that Mr. Kerr had been
in the hospital ever since his arriv
al there. Mr Kerr left Nome on
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(the last sailing of the S S Victoria
for the Pioneers Home.
Mr. Hansen also stated that they
expected to move into the new Pion
eers Home about January 10th. He
informed Mr. Gaffney that all of the
other pioneers from Nome and Nor
thwestern Alaska, were getting al
ong nicely, and wished the people of
Nome a Happy and Prosperous New
Year. i"
TANKER ON FIRE
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 21, — The tank
er “Valverde”, a thousand miles east
of the southern tip of Florida, report
ed that she was afire and that flam
es were raging from one end of the
vessel to the other.
She said she had only two lifeboats
left and was heading into the wind,
as the flames came back alorjg the
deck which is burning fast. ’*There
were no boats close to her, to as
sist in the rescue. ‘ ]
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS
HAUPTMANN ARE BIG
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 21 — William E. Frank, U. S.
Treasury agent w as placed on the witness stand by the State
to give detailed accounts of Hauptmann’s and his wife’s fin
ancial standings before and after the payment of the ransom
money.
He testified that from April 2, 1832, the day the ransom
was paid until September 19, 1934, the day of Hauptmann’s
arrest, that sixteen thousand, nine hundred and forty-two
dollars had been put into Hauptmann’s brokerage accounts.
Frank said that the total of all assets which came into
Hauptmann’s possession after April 2, 1932, was forty-four
thousand, four hundred and eighty-six dollars. The state
will also endeavor today to bring in the kidnap ladder as evi
dence and try to prove that Hauptmann was near the Lind
bergh home about the time of the crime.
Justice Trenchhaid showed great interest in the figures
produced, requesting that the stenographer read the answer
back to him saying “This might be of great importance f
to me.”
The state is apparently laying the groundwork for the
testimony concerning the seventy-five hundred dollar loan
the Bronx alien said he made Fisch, and whom he said left .
the ransom money in his care.
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 — Mrs. Curtis Schwartz, a Bronx
housewife said that Isadore Fisch was known as “John” dur
ing a trans-Atlantic crossing which she made after the Lind
bergh kidnapping. It is unknown if she will be called to
testify during the trial.
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
A Legislative program, adopted
by the Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce at Nome, Alaska,
last week includes such items as the
creation of a Territorial Bureau ol
Mines, Roads, the Public Works
Administration Loan and Grant tc
the City of Nome, a Federal Build
ing, an endorsement of the Alaska
Territorial Chamber of Commerce,
Industrial and Agricultural Fairs,
the stabilization of gold, an endorse
ment of a resolution by the Peters
burg Chamber calling for an increas
ed bounty on wolves and coyotes,
an endorsement of the Ketchikan
Chamber’s resolution for a protec
tive tariff on pulp products, a re
duction in Telegraph tolls, a revet
ment for the protection of the Town
of Nome, a Community Hall, and an
icebreaker.
Copies of this program were mail
ed to the Second Division delega
tion at Juneau, to the Alaska Terri
torial Legislature, asking their sup
port and consideration in the ses
sion for these measures.
In regard to the establishment of
! a Territorial Bureau of Mines the
Chamber has asked for an appropri
ation sufficient to engage a com
^ petent engineer for director, three
! field engineers, one clerk and the
' necessary traveling and office ex
penses, and that one engineer be
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[Stationed in each division and that
their duties be to assist in develop
ing the mining possibilities of each
section. A like bill was introduced
at the last'1 session and passed the
House but failed to get through the
Senate.
Appropriations for Roads
This Chamber urges further appro
priations for Roads in the Second
Division and an increase in the Fed
eral Road Fund. In view of the in
creased gold mining activity last
season and the increased value of
gold, it becomes necessary for the
■further construction of roads thru
out the Second Division to develop
(Continued on Page Four)
RED CROSS
Election of Officers, at Dr. Swarta’s
office, Wednesday evening, January
23rd, at 8 o’clock. . A good attend
ance is desired.
Come and help us conduct the
affairs of Nome Chapter as they
should be conducted.
C. W. THORNTON,
Chairman.
FUNERAL NOTICE
The funeral of Miss E. L. Howard
will take place at the Federated
Church at 2:00 P. M. Tuesday, Jan
uary 22, 1935.