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Volume 36. Number 143. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Washington J-V Crew Win Race Today
LONGSHORE STRIKE TIES UP MORE VESSELS
Sup. Court Calif. Issues Writ Habeas Corpus T. Mooney
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Strike Vancouver
B. C. Ties Up Un
ion Steamship Co.
(By The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, B. C. June 18 —
Vessels of the Union Steamship Co, j
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operating in coastwise service, are
tied up and all services suspended :
until further notice, as the company .
announced that the seamen, firemen,
' waiters and waterfront workers
had broken the three weeks old
agreement and walked out in sym
pathy with striking longshoremen.
Another service is operating the
Prince Rupert which sailed at mid
nglit for Skagway with a full cargo
and a large passengers list to inaug
urate its first Alaskan trip this
season.
Final Agreement
Announced by Of
ficials navy Ratio
Final Agreement Officially
AnnouncedNaval Treaty
England And Germany
LONDON, June 18, —The final
agreement between Germany and
Great Britain on all important
points of the treaty to maintain the
German Navy at thirty-five per
cent of the British strength, was an
nounced officially today.
Germany will be allowed some
latitude in building submarines be
cause the French and Italian un
dersea fleets are larger than the
British.
Negotiations Are
Being Hurried In
Connection PWA
Immediate attention was given by
city officials last week to the sign
ing of the agreement with the fed
eral government in connection with
securing the loan of $70,000 and a
grant of $30,000 under the Public
Works Administration program, and
in conformity with the authoriza
ton by congress of Nome’s applica
ton to issue bonds.
Work started also on engineering
plans and specifications for the act
ual work to be done in Nome when
the final arrangements are complet
ed. At present specifications are
being drawn for the municipal
building, and engineering data as
sembled for the designing and carry
ing out of work on the streets, sew
ers, fire mains, and sidewalks, call
ed for in the plan to rehabilitate the
municipal functions of the City of
Nome.
With negotiations progressing as
rapidly as possible, and if no serious
delays occur, a fair estimate might
place the time at about early in
WRIT HABEAS CORPUS
ISSUED FOR THOMAS
MOONEY CALIFORNIA
Tom Mooney Wins One Legal Step In 19
Year Old Fight For Freedom From Pri
son On Grounds Perjured Witness
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18— The Supreme Court of
the State of California today issued a writ of habeas corpus
for Tom Mooney returnable June 27th, when, court attaches
said, the procedure will be determined and a date fixed for
a hearing of Mooney’s charge that was imprisoned because
of perjured testimony in connection with the 1916 Prepar
edness Day Parade bombing in San Francisco.
The decree handed down today marked another step
in Mooney’s nineteen legal struggles for freedom.
Charges of perjury were raised by Mooney’s defenders
aimed principally at the trial of Frank C. Oxman, Oregon
cattleman who testified regarding the events in the vicinity
of the bombing. While Mooney alleged that he was actual
ly ninety miles away at the time that ten were killed and
forty injured by the bomb explosion.
Mooney has endeavored in many ways to obtain this
writ. He enlisted at different times the assistance of for
mer Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City; the federal
government; and prominent politicians of early and late
years. The late Governor Rolph was the last to refuse
Mooney a pardon.
Expect Waleys To
Be Serving Life
Sentences by Sat.
District Attorney Expects To
Have Indictment Thurs
Against the Waleys
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, June 18, —The Wal
eys may be enroute to prisons Sat
urday to start serving life sentenc
es, it was made known today, as
the federal authorities laid plans to
clean up the kidnap case as quickly
as possible.
The grand jury will sit tomorrow.
Both the district attorney and his
assistant refuse to comment but it
is known they hope to have the
Lindbergh law kidnap indictments
returned within a day, and then
motions will be argued by Satur
day. It is believed by those in in
formed circles that the Waleys will
plead guilty and then be sentenced.
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August, for actual work to be be
gun, said one report.
City authorities, it was also stat
ed, are endeavoring in every way
possible to speed the program thru
so that the work may commence as
soon as possible.
Washington J-V
Crew Wins Race
At Poughkeepsie
(By The Associated Press)
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 18, —
The University of Washington’s
great Junior Varsity crew made it
two straight wins for the Huskies
n the murk and rain on the Hud
son river today winning over three
others by one and a half lengths
ahead of the nearest—Navy. Cor
nell was third, three lengths back
of Navy. Syracuse was last, a doz
en lengths behind.
The Huskies were the same crew
which headed the California crew
earlier in the season. They won
as they pleased, with only Navy
threatening. The last strength
came within a few lengths of the
finish when Washington put on
steam and pulled away with every
stroke in the final eighth of a mile
and got an open wafer advantage,
as they tore over the finish line in
fourteen minutes, fifty-eight and
four-fifths seconds. The Navy time
was 15:04 and four-fifths seconds.
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300 Convicts Are
On Strike Coal
Mine Of Prison
Seize 15 Officers and Go On
Strike in Prison Coal
Mine 7 This Morning
(By The Associated Press)
LANSING, Kansas, June 18, —
Holding fifteen mine officers as host
ages, more than three hundred Kan
sas state prison convicts mutinied
in the prison coal mine.
All communications with the
prison office were broken by the
strikers shortly after they went in
to the mine at seven o’clock this
morning.
j The warden’s office said that the
object of the mutiny was unknown.
No demands have yet been received
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from the self-entombed convict-min
ers.
Poughkeepsie Col
lege Crew Races
To Be Held Today
California is Favorite With
Washington and Navy
Running Close Second
(By The Associated Press)
POUGHKEEPSIE, June 18, —The
annual intercollegiate regatta will
be held here today with the Univer
sity of California crew, again the
favorite in the varsity event, with
the University of Washington and
Navy also strong.
The freshman race will take place
at one P. M.; 'the Junior Varsity an
hour later; and the Varsity at 3:00
P.M. Pacific Standard Time. A
steady rain was falling at 9 A, M.
Gr. Britain Will
Regulate Sizes of
Respective Navies
100 to 35 Is Ratio Between
Great Britain, Germany
On Respective Navies
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, June 17 — A reliable
authority said that Great Britain
alone would regulate the actual siz
es of both the British and German
navies, under the terms of the hith
erto secret provision of their one
hundred to thirty-five ratio agree
ment.
By this step of allowing Britain
to be the virtual dictator of the
new Nazi navy, Hitler, said this
authority, is to be regarded as hav
ing taken a bold move toward win
ning the confidence and support of
Great Britain.
DESCRIBES PL ANS FOR
SPENDING BIG WORK
RELIEF MONEY NOW
Roosevelt Talks To Work Relief Directors
Concerning Plans Spend Monev And
Return Workers To Private Industry
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 18—Personal orders were given
I by President Franklin D. Roosevelt today, to aid the return
'of relief workers to private payrolls, and stop relief projects,
[even at a loss, in connection with the mounting increase in
industrial employment.
The occasion was in his meeting with work relief of
ficials from two-score state works programs, to whom he
issued the orders.
With the directors gathered about his desk, the Presi
dent definitely set smaller and less expensive projects for
the bulk of the four billion dollars work relief funds, and
ordered that politics be outlawed in the program.
The President expressed the belief that “this year is
going to be the beginning of a picking up of a greater part
of this unemployment slack, from which we have been
suffering.
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Ball And Chain
Is Awaiting First
Drunk Ketchikan
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18 Pounds of Brass Attached To A
6-Foot Chain Equipped Anklet Lock
City authorities are ready now to
put habitual drunkenness offenders
to work on the city streets in a
chain gang, says a recent story in
the Ketchikan Chronicle.
Testifying mutely although earn
estly to the seriousness of the an
nouncement of city officers to esta
blish such a chain gang, the nec
essary balls and chain are now
ready and are reposing under the
desk of S. S. Daniels, chief of pol
ice.
They were made in Ketchikan
by the Ketchikan Foundry and were
delivered recently.
Each unit consists of an 18
pound brass ball attached to a 6
foot chain which is equipped with
an anklet lock. In making the eq
uipment the foundry provided each
ball with a handle so that it may
be picked up and carried from place
to place by the prisoner to whom it
is attached.
Ordinance Permits Gang
The announcement of the esta
blishing of the chain gang followed
police committee deliberations at
tempting to arrive at a means of
lessening drunkenness offenses in
Ketchikan. They finally unearthed
an old ordinance authorizing the
chain gang.
Charges Subsidies
Merchant Marine
Have been Abused
Will Require Drastic Steps
For Further Ships Sub
sidies merchant Marine
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 18, —Charg
ing that the ship subsidy policies led
to “saturnalia” by men bent on rob
bing the taxpayers, the senate ocean
mail committee denounced the past
operation of the merchant marine
subsidies and demanded drastic
terms for any future government
| aid.
It was written in to the city laws
in 1902 and has never been repeal
ed. Each of the balls in the ball
and chain units incidentally, bears
the inscription, “City of Ketchikan
—1902”.
Whether or not the announced in
tention of establishing the chain
gang had anything to do with less
ening cases of extreme and habitual
drunkenness in the city as authori
ties seem to think, there has been
a noticeable decrease in such cases
in past weeks, practically co-inci
dent with the announcement of the
chain gang.
At any event the threat is to be
carried out whenever a case or cas
es warrant, J. F. Van Gilder, muni
jcipal magistrate, declares.