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VOL. 37. No. 74. NOME, ALASKA, Saturday, March 28, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
3 Youths Confess to Murder Doctor
France Closes Eastern Border to Foreign Air Craft
Governor Wants Give Hauptmann Second Reprieve
THREE 19-YEAR-OLD BOYS
ADMIT ROBBERIES, DEATH
PROMINENT CHICAGO DR.
(By T he Associated Press'
Chicago, March 28—Three
youths, seized for routine
questioning in connection
with a series of robberies,
suddenly confessed Friday
night.
Police Captain Harry O’
Connoll said they admitted
to the killing of Dr. Silber
C. Peacock, widely known
pediatrician, after luring
him from his home Janu
ary 2nd, on a spurious mer
cy mission.
The police officials declar
ed that the youths were all
about 19 years old, and that
they had revealed they
shot the physician when he
resisted a holdup attempt.
The officers said the boys
admitted they had perpetra
ted some two hundred rob
beries, automobile larcen
ies, and house burglaries
during the last few months,
and that one of their spec
ialties was the waylaying
of physicians.
The youths were booked
as Emil Reick, Robert Goe
the alias Mitchel Didich,
and Durland Nash alias Joe
Dziedzic. Captain O’Con
noll said that a 4th youth,
the identity of whom was
not revealed, is being sou
ght also for questioning.
Borah Filed In
Oregon Attempt
Get Ten Votes
(By The Associateo Press)
Washington, March 28—
Senator Borah today an
nounced that he was enter
ing the Oregon State prim
ary election for the repub
lican presidential nomina
tion, seeking the state’s ten
delegates to the Republican
National Convention to be
held in Cleveland.
The primary election in
Oregon takes place May 15.
He declared that he would
be unable to make a speak
ing campaign in the inter
ests of his nomination.
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Another (dash
Border Soviet
jap. Territory
(By The Associated Press]
Moscow, March 28—Sov
iet advices early today re
ported that Japanese cav
alrymen made new incur
sions in Soviet Far Eastern
territory, ^nd that three ol
the alleged invaders were
killed in a clash with Rus
sian border guards.
M. Stomanyakoff, Soviet
Vice-Commissar of foreign
affairs,immediately protest
ed against the aggression
on Soviet territory to Jap
anese Ambassador Tame
kichi Ota.
Reports state, that the
encounter which occurred
Friday, came after the Jap
anese government rejected
the Soviet suggestion of the
appointment of a mixed
commission to probe into
the causes of disputes along
the entire Soviet-Manchou
kuoan border.
Matanuskans Are
Giving Red Cross
Funds For Relief
(By The Associated Press)
San Francisco, March 28.
—The colonists of Matanu
ska, Alaska, contributed
fifty one dollars to the Pa
cific Coast Fund in aiding
the Eastern flood sufferers,
Red Cross officials announ
ced yesterday. When the
appeal for funds was broad
cast the colonists collected
the sum quickly and for
warded it immediately.
The coast fund now totals
$171,498.00 on their quota
of four hundred and twelve
thousand dollars. Alaska
points, however, are all ov
er the top.
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Hoffman Trying
Save Hauptmann
From Execution
(By The Associated Press)
Trenton, N. J., March 28.
—Governor Hoffman, push
ing his efforts to halt the
execution of Bruno Haupt
mann until the case is solv
ed to his satisfaction, called
today for the Court of Par
dons to meet Monday morn
ing to consider his new
clemency plea.
Hauptmann, the convict
ed kidnaper and slayer of
the Lindbergh child, is to
die next Tuesday. The
Court of Mercy turned
down a previous appeal,
but defense counsel declare
they possess new evidence,
warranting a new trial.
Governor Hoffman sought
legal advice giving him the
power to issue a second re
prieve, despite the reiterat
ed opinion of attorney gen
eral Wilentz, the prosecu
tor in the Hauptmann trial,
that no such authority ex
ists.
Hoffman today asked Sec
retary of the Interior Har
old Ickes to permit Archie
Lonev, PWA wood tester,
to continue investigations
in the Lindbergh case. Sec
retary Ickes said he would
be given leave of official
duties if it were asked for.
i Prosecutor Wilentz, who
I
irkes considerably under
the recent determined ef
forts of Gov. Hoffman to
find loo-holes for Haupt
mann, said he was “as guil
ty today as the day he was
1 convicted.”
He declined to publicize
his stand regarding anoth
er gubernatorial reprieve,
referring to the “findings
of the court of errors & ap
peals, which appear in a
-formal statement.”
He Is Appointed
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, March 28—
Secretary Ickes confirmed
the appointment of Doctor
Chas. Zeller Waymart, of
Pennsylvania, as medical
supervisor at Morningside
hospital, Portland, Oregon,
i the institution which is ad
| ministered by the Interior
Department and cares for
Alaska mental patients.
FRENCH AIR MINISTRY SAYS
NO MORE FLYING OVER THE
FORTIFIED AREAS FRONTIER
State Declares is
No “Kentucky
Col;* in ^orh
(Hv The Associated Press)
Frankfort, Kentucky,Ma
ch 28—Attorney Genera
Vincent, passing an infoi
mal opinion regarding th
popular phrase of a “Ken
tucky Colonel,” declarei
“no person has the righ
now to be designated as ,
Kentucky Colonel,either ii
Kentucky or elsewhere.”
The matter came befon
the Kentucky legislature
which declared that the ti
tie was appropriated by a
least seventeen thousanc
persons in all parts of th<
world, and further adder
that there was no offreia
designation of any persor
either in or out of Kentuc
ky as a “Kentucky Colon
el!”
Former Nome
Boy Achieved
A Real Diploma
Robert Ausley, son of Mr;
Sue L. Ausley, formerly o
the Nome section but now
a .resident of Fairbanks
whase only school training
has been from his mother
recently received a diplo
ma testifying to his bavins:
successfully passed exami
nations requiring the equi
valent of a four-year higl
school education from the
International Correspond
ence School of Scranton
Pa., says a recent issue o:
the Fairbanks News Miner
Mr. Ausley completed the
work before his 17th birth
day, doing all of it in his
spare time, after hours o!
employment.
He has been employed b>
the Economy Market anc
the Fairbanks Trading Co.
and is now an employee ol
the Pollack Flying Service
The youth intends to be
'By The Associated Prr-ss)
Paris, March 28—The
wide region of France’s
eastern frontier was closed
I today by the Air Ministry
* to all planes except mili
tary craft on official trips
as a result of “aerial indis
cretions” by foreign planes.
r A special Air Police Force
' has been created, said Fro
- nch government officials, to
- pursue any foreign planes
- crossing the border illegal
f ly, as a warning that aerial
1 spying on fortifications will
1 not be tolerated.
1 Under the new regulations
authorized planes will even
? be required to follow desig
; nated channels in their
- flights through the restrict
: ed territory.
I The Air Ministry’s an
> nouncement declared: "It
1 is regretable that Germany
1 is unwilling to follow the
l decisions of the internatioii
- al convention, which estab
- 1 ished regulations regard
ing the insignia on planes,
and indiscriminately uses
the hooked crosses on both
military and touring craft.”
Swift French planes will
pursue any airplanes sus
pected of carrying photo
graphic equipment, obtain
ing proof for diplomatic
protests.
Earlier, a French protest
• was registered against two
. German planes which flew
low over fortifications. It
’ brought from the German
1 Reich a reply that the
’ crafts were only student
. airplanes carrying no pho
’ tographic equipment.
come a student pilot, after
he receives a permit from
Washington, D.C.
From the correspondence
school he received nothing
less than “A” grades, ex
cept three “B’s” in college
subjects. He now intends
to take a mechanical engi
neering course with the
same school.
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Bank Of France
Raises Discount
On French Franc
i
—
(By The Associated Press)
Paris, March 28th—The
Bank of France is alarmed
today over the continued
weakness of the French
franc, said to have resulted
from international and in
ternal uneasiness.
The Bank of France, look
ing the situation over, rais
ed the discount rate from
three and a half to five per
cent.
As this decision was pub
lished, financial quarters
predicted huge withdrawals
of gold from central banks,
as the franc weakened on
the active foreign exchange
market.
The Bank’s gold deposits
total four thousand tons,
sufficient for an eighty per
cent coverage of every Fre
nch banknote. Theoretical
lv the gold is the property
of those holding paper
money.
Minister We!!s
Of Tacoma Dead
At A°e Of 94
O
'iv 'I fu> Associated Press)
Tacoma, March 23—Lem
uel H. Wells, aged 34. retir
ed minister of the Episco
pal Diocese of Spokane,
died at the Frank Tobey
Jones Home, here. Friday
night after several months
illness.
He was born in New York
state, served in the Civil
War, was ordained in 1866,
held the pastorate of sev
eral pulpits in the East be
fore taking up his work in
Eastern Washington.
Rev. Wells came to Taco
ma first in 1872, riding on
horseback from Walla Wal
la. He hired a boat and
rowed to Seattle, like many
another person did in the
early days of the west. He
retired from the ministry
in 1915. making his home
here; since the death of his
third wife he has lived at
the Jones Home.
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