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Volume 36 Number 127 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Industry Stays Voluntarily With NRA
TENSENESS TODAY DEADLINE FOR RANSOM
American Federation Labor Strives To Help The NRA
CITY TACOMA TENSE AS
NEWS OF KIDNAPERS IS
EXPECTED—DEADLINE
Fifth Day Today—Was Deadline Set By
Kidnapers In Note To Have Ransom In
Readiness—No Word Been Heard Yet
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, May 29, — The whole atmosphere of the city
is tensed as the fifth and last day which the kidnapers gave
the Weyerhaeusers to raise the ransom, arrived at 6:35 P.
M.—the deadline allowed by the kidnapers for the family to
produce.
The ransom note did not specify that the ransom must
be paid in five days, or that young George Weyerhaeuser
would be killed at the end of that time, but it did specify
“You’ve got five days to raise the money. Better have it.
Just follow the rules and we will get along fine.’’
The distraught parents are reported to be near collapse.
There is another question today as the deadline approached
—“Is George dead or alive.” The note said a slip on your
part will be just too bad for someone else.”
Whether the fact that word of the kidnaping reached
the authorities and newspapers was considered such a slip,
only the kidnapers know. The note also said that if the offi
cers were notified “It would be all off,”
This leads to the terrorizing fear that the kidnapers
made fearful by all the hue and cry of the manhunt, decided
to kill the lad to rid themselves of an embarrassing impedi
ment to flight and hiding. Unless the Weyerhaeusers re
ceived a second ransom message and succeeded in keeping
it quiet, they have no means of knowing how, when or where
they are to pay the money. ,
Two men, believed to be the father and his brother-in
law, F. Rodman Titcomb, left home last night and have not
yet returned.
Exclusive of cameramen there are about fifty out-of
town newspaper men here. George’s grandmother, Mrs.
George Walker is critically ill of paralysis, and does not yet
know that George has been kidnaped.
CLASSIFIED AD DIDN’T RUN TODAY
TACOMA. May 29, — The note—“We are Ready; and
signed by Percy and Minnie” in the Seattle Post Intelli
gencer, was not run in today’s issue, indicating that some de
velopment has taken place which has not been made
known yet.
Half A Billion
Of Work Relief
Funds Available
President Signs Allotment of
Half Billion Dollars Under
Works Relief Program
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 29, — Act
ual funds for more than a half bil
lion dollars worth of projects un
der the new works relief program
were made available today as the
President signed an executive order
covering part of the approved plans
handed him by his advisory com
mittee on allotments, including four
hundred and forty-six thousand,
five hundred dollars for the construe
tion of a highway in Alaska. Also,
for clearing and building bridges
along a thirty mile route in Mata
nuska Valley. A hundred and twen
ty thousand dollars was requested al
so to carry out similar work on a
road from Anchorage; and the Mata
nuska department sought three hun
dred and twenty six thousand doll
ars.
FOUND—A key ring with keys on
it. Owner may have same by iden
tifying and paying for this adver
tisement. ,
Mine Strike Takes ,
Form As Collapse
Negotiations Near
Strike Machinery in Motion
Of United Mine Workers
One Conference Fails
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 29, — The
strike which the United Mine Work
ers said would paralyze the soft
coal fields and would involve half
a million workers is being chartAfl
by union leaders while managing
heads of the eleven billion dollar
industry, strove to whip regulatory
legislation into shape to avert a
walkout, and as a substitute for their
defunct NRA code.
The collapse of the Appalachian
Coal Wage Conference, was the sig
nal which threw the union's strike
machinery into gear. Although ex
pressing willingness to resume wage
negotiations if their' is any assurance 1
cf progress forthcoming Lewis, ti
inn president rejected the overtures
cl some of the operaco : to sign sep
arate agreements, as utterly futile.
Woman Is Hurt
As Pet Cat Chases
, i
Mouse In Garrett
(By The Associated Press)
GREEN BAY, Wis., May 28, —
Mrs. Joseph Janulawetz of Green
Bay, Wisconsin, did not become pen
ic-stricken recently when she dis
covered a mouse in the attic of her
house. She summoned her pet cat.
It saw its duty and began to do it
Th mouse ran through a labyrinth
of discarded articles in the garret.
The cat followed and knocked over
a ladder which felled Mrs. Janula
wetz, causing her to telephone for
aid A hospital attendant, carrying a
stretcher, walked a quarter of a mile
through snow to treat her.
Man Loses His
Leg In Jail-break
Is Now Dubious
(By The Associated Press)
SHERMAN, Texas, May — Jodie
T. Lloyd stood on his one leg, shiv
ered in his underclothes, and de
cided it wasn’t worth iit.
Lloyd, convicted burglar, along
with Lacy Wingfield, another inmate
attempted a jail break and was
oaugl’. Jailer Walter Enloe crush-,
ed Lloyd’s jail-breaking ambitions
by removing his artificial leg and
stripping him of all but undercloth
in* |
Barney Ross Wins
The Welterweight
Crown McLarnin
Ross Gets Decision of McLar
nin in Fifteen Rounds
No Knockdowns Fight
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. May 29, — Ross won
the decision and with it the welter
weight championship of the world,
from Jimmy McLarnin in a fifteen
round bout. McLarnin weighed 144
and three-quarters and Ross 141
pounds.
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, May 29, — Barney
Ross of Chicago regained the welter
weight championship from McLarn
in Tuesday night, winning the deci
sion after fifteen furious rounds, be
fore thirty five thousand in the Na
tional League ball park here. The
big throng booed the verdict lustily
because there were not even any
knockdowns.
French Cabinet Is
Insecure in Fight
Dictatorial Power
Cabinet Not Supported by Fi
nance Committee Is In A
Precarious Position
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, May 29, — The position
of Premier Pierre Etienne Flandins
cabinet is becoming increasingly pre
carious, as it became virtually cer
tain that the Chamber of Deputies
finance committee would oppose his
demands for dictatorial powers to
defend the franc.
Consideration Is
Being Given To
Con. Amendment
Possibility of Constitutional
Amendment Now Being
Seriously Considered
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 29, — An at
tempt to pass a constitutional amend
ment empowering the federal gov
ernment to regulate labor condi
tions in industry regardless of state
lines, is being seriously considered
in high, New Deal circles as a re
sult of the Suprmee Courts decision
smashing the NRA.
This proposal is being studied as
a long range program with indica
tions pointing to an effort to set up
a voluntary code structure to re
place the wreckage of the NRA tem
porarily.
BIG BUSINESS ADHERES
VOLUNTARILY TO CODE
OF NRA DESPITE COURT
Good Reports Heard From Business And
Industry Which W as Requested To Hold
lip Standard Of Hours And Wages
(By The Associated Press')
NEW YORK, May 29, — Business and industrial lead
ers throughout the nation strove to reassure themselves and
their employees that the NRA’s standard of hours and
wages and fair trade practices would be continued voluntar
ily, as threats of strikes and price wars began to rumble
against the confused economic horizon. The far-flung move
ment, for voluntary continuance got under way to discount
the tears of turmoil which might result from the Supreme
Court’s decision.
Declaring that the moment had come for the Ameri
can business man to prove his good faith, Harper Sibley,
the newly elected President of the United States Chamber
of commerce called upon all employers within the chamber’s
purview to “Make no immediate changes in the wages or
hours schedules. 1 am confident this will be the policy of
American business.”
Sibley said that throughout the country, large employ
ers began falling into line with the National Association of
Manufacturers which announced late last night that near
ly two hundred of the largest manufacturers in the nation
had informed their workers that no immediate changes in
hours, wages or working conditions need be feared.
AMERICAN FEDERATION LABOR SET
WASHINGTON, May 29, — A new NRA, rising out of
the ashes of the old was predicted by American Federation
of Labor chieftains. Already the Federations’ executive
council is considering presenting to President Roosevelt an
NRA bill drafted by the A. F. of L.’s counsel. It will be
based on the court's rulings of equity powers. Other de
tails would not be disclosed now, but it is understood that
the NRA to be proposed will be similar in some respects to
the old one.
Meantime, the federation plans to press congress for
the enactment of the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill and the
Connery thirty-hour-week measure. Countless thousands
of employees today received reassuring answer of “No” to
the question foremost in their minds—“Will our hours and
wages be disturbed by the court’s decision.”
From the country’s far-flung industrial fronts, reports
which poured into this cross-roads of the nation indicated
that numerous large industries were standing by their pre
sent standards of hours and wages, despite the ruling of the
highest court of the land.
Dep’ts. Apply For
More Money For
j
Proposed Pro jects
Army, Navy and Treasury De
partments Apply More
Funds For Projects
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 29, — The
works application division announc
ed that the war, navy, and treasury
departments had asked for an addi
tional eleven million dollars, which
included four hundred and five
thousand, five hundred dollars for
Alaska.
Cordova two hundred and ninety
five thousand for dredging and a
breakwater in Cordova harbor; Pet
ersburg, ninety four thousand for
dredging a ahannel in Petersburg
harbor, Nome sixteen thousand, five
hundred dollars for dredging the
Nome harbor.