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VOL. 36. NO. 109 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
One Death Wainwright Aid Is Asked
STRANGLER DOES NOT REMEMBER ACTIONS
Upton Sinclair’s Epic Party Is Defeated Once More
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TWO HUNDRED CASES
FLU AT WAINWRIGHT
ONE DEATH RESULTED
Dr. Griest Wired Didn’t Need Doctor And
And Nurse Before Knew About Flu At
Wainwright— Plane Turned Back
(By The Associated Press')
POINT BARROW, May 8, — Thirteen are dead at Bar
row, victims of influenza, and one persons is dead at Wain
wright of the same cause. There are two hundred cases at
Wainwright now, according to the report, and there are no
nurses or a doctor at that place to take care of the epidemic.
Dr. Griest has called on the Public Health Commission
er at Nome—Dr. Rex F. Swartz—to rush needed aid to Wain
wright. Griest also has sent medical supplies down the
coast from Barrow to Wainwright by dog team.
A mercy plane which left Fairbanks two days ago with
pneumonia vaccine, and a doctor and a nurse, turned back
after Griest wired that they were not needed at Barrow.
He is now hoping that the plane will be able to bring
a doctor and nurse to Wainwright, as he did not know of
the outbreak of the epidemic at Wainwright when he wired
that they were not needed.
Patman Bill Is
Passed By Senate
Veto Is Expected
Roosevelt Followers Believe
They Can Sustain Veto
In Senate over Issue
(By The Associated Press)
.WASHINGTON, May 8, — The
senate passed the Patman inflation
ary bonus bill by a vote of 55 to 33.
It was noticeable that the vote was
two short of the necessary two-thirds
required to override a veto.
WASHINGTON, May 8, —Though
both houses passed the Patman bill
for an immediate cash payment of
the bonus, it is a question whether
the measure will finally become a
law. The possibility that it will
be, is held in high dispute at the
present time.
Roosevelt’s followers expect him
to veto it, and administration lead
ers said that enough votes would be
mustered to prevent the passage of
the measure over the veto.
The bonus spokesman said that
proponents of the Patman bill could
muster the two thirds necessary to
pass over a presidential veto. Thir
ty-two negative votes are required
to sustain the veto in the present
senate.
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Goverment Plans
Take Control Of
State Relief Units
To Take Control of State Re
lief Administrations So
Can Speed up Relief
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 8, — High
officials in the government service,
at press conferences this morning,
asserted that the government was
planning to take over the command
of relief administrations in the stat
es on July 1st, and thus provide a
more responsible organization to
speed the work relief drive.
Omnibus Banking
Bill Is In For It
.........
Banking Bill Headed For A
Storm of Amendments In
House This Week
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 8, — The
administration’s omnibus banking
bill is headed into a storm of am
endments, but democratic leaders
predicted that it would pass the
house unchanged by Friday night.
The Nome Daily Nugget is prepar
ed to do your job printing.
Workers Waiting
Result Balloting
Chevrolet and Fisher Body
Workers Waiting Learn
Result of Proposals
(By The Associated Press)
TOLEDO, May 8, — Crowds of
Chevrolet employees thronged the
federal building today to vote on a
series of company proposals, the ac
ceptance of which will probably
mean an end of the widespread
group of auto workers strikes.
Approximately thirty-three thous
and employees of the Chevrolet and
Fisher body works, who are on strik
es in several cities because of these
proposals, waited for the result of
the balloting today.
Epic Party Loses
In City Elections
Frisco, Oakland
Upton Sinclair Party Again
Defeated: This Time In
Municipal Elections
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, May 8, — The ap
parent defeat of most of his “Epic”
candidates in the municipal election
held here yesterday, failed to dis
courage Upton Sinclair in his plan
to spread his “End of Poverty in
Civilization" movement throughout
America.
Incomplete returns from yester
day’s election indicated that only
three Epic candidates named out of
the eleven councilmanic posts at
stake, were still in the running.
A lone Epic candidate for the
Oakland council post went down to
decisive defeat.
Ex-governor Will
Be Mayor City
Lincoln Nebraska
Ex-Governor of Nebraska Is
Elected as Mayor Lincoln
Brother Wm. Jennings
(Ry The Associated Press)
LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 8, —
Charles E. Bryan, thrice Governor
of the State fo Nebraska, was elect
ed to the position of mayor of Lin
coln in city elections held yesterday.
Unofficial returns gave him a de
cided majority over his opponent,
former councilman E. H. Blair.
Charles E. Bryan was a brother
of the late William Jennings Bryan.
Local Agreements
. Allow WOrkers
Workers in Two Mills Back
At Work Today Account
Of Local Agreements
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Ore., May 8, — Lo
cal agreements sent strikers back to
work at two mills today, while con
ferees sought to model an agree
ment to end the strike which is in
volving more than fifteen thousand
Oregon and Washington lumber
workers.
The spokesman for the strikers
stated today that he was still opti
mistic over the negotiations.
Workers Leave
Seward Enroute
Matanuska Valley
Three Hundred Workers Left
Seward for Matanuska
Prepare Homes Ground
fBy The Associated Press)
SEWARD. May «, Another three
hundred workers left here this morn
ing for Matanuska to erect homes
and prepare things for the colonists
enroute from Minnesota.
The newcomers strolled about the
town awed by the mountain grand
eur and brilliant sunshine, which
replaced the foggy weather which
attended them on their arrival here.
It is reported that five children
are quarantined aboard the St. Mi
hiel with measles, but are doing well.
Organizers Will
Leave For Alaska
Coming Monday
Alaska Resettlement Group
Getting Ready To Sail For
Alaska About May 18
(By The Associated Press)
MADISON, Wisconsin, May 8, —
The Alaska resettlement group is
due to leave here next Monday or
Tuesday enroute to Seattle, where
they are to set sail for Alaska.
Colonel Clarence Tracy, Procure
ment Director of the WERA, said
they wuold sail from Seattle aboard
the St. Mihiel, which is tentatively
due to depart from there for Sew
ard, May 18th.
The St. Mihiel is a former army
transport ship and has aboard her
now the first delegation of colonists
who went to San Francisco.
WOMAN IS STRANGLED
DEATH HANDKERCHIEF
KILLER IS CAPTURED
Strangler Uses Kandkerchief To Kill
Woman But Doesn't Remember Any
Of Actions—Was Drunk Caught
(By The Associated Press')
PASCO, Wn„ May 8, — Insisting that he could remem
ber nothing of his actions, W. T. Williams, aged twenty-six,
a transient from Sparta, Illinois, is being held here, and ac
cused of strangling to death, Mrs. Jessie Rivard, thirty-five
years old.
Her husband Alex Rivard, identified Williams as the
man he found in his home bending over the body of his wife
which was lying on the floor. Rivard told his story of bat
tering down the front door of his own home to get in. He
said he fought unsuccessfully to subdue and hold on to the
prowler but the man escaped.
Rivard followed and summoning aid, finally managed
to capture Williams. Mrs. Rivard was strangled to death
with a handkerchief. Police said Williams was intoxicated
when captured. No indications are apparent, of the reason
for the strangling.
WASHINGTON
CURRENT
COM NT
Most documents that terminate
long conflicts are signed with con
siderable pomp and ceremony.. The
two and a half month contest over
the 4.8 relief bill camp to an end
quietly and without display. As
the president’s train was passing
through a southern state, he dipped
his pen, wrote his name, and that
was all that there was to it. The
largest appropriation of government
funds that anyone living can re
call. Some bankrupt or nearly clean
ed out federal agencies were taken
care of on the spot, if it can be said
correctly that a rapidly moving
train remains long enough in one
place so that it can be referred to
as a spot. Anyhow, government re
lief has been extended into a future'
the length of which will be measur
ed by the demands made upon the
fund supplied. Apportioning the
money will require some time. Clear
ing off the debt will take still long
er. That, however, is something for
posterity to handle. The present
generation will take care of the 4.8
expenditure somehow.
In a suit that is being reported in
the Washington papers, a lawyer
threatens to dispose of his' learned
opponent by knocking his block off.
Here is a form of legal procedure
which anyone can understand. There
was a time when legal controversies
were settled by hiring champions
who put on their armor, mounted
horses and went at the serious busi
ness of pushing spears through each
other. Of course that would not do
nowadays: yet who has not sat thru
a lawsuit, especially as a party to it.
without wishing that the whole per
plexing affair could be terminated
by trying to knock someone's block
off and abiding by the result? Such
a course of action would be quite
as likely to result in substantial just
ice as many a long-drawn jury trial
followed by a weary series of appeals
in which each court reverses the
one next below. The layman inclin
es to the cynical definition of law
which says that it is the last guess
of the highest son of a gun in pow
er.
The House has passed a bill by
the terms of which the President in
the event of war can keep pries
where they stood at the time war
was declared. The commonly ac
cepted view, whether right or w'rong,
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