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AMERICAN CAPITAL NEEDED IN ALASKA
A news dispatch from Russia indicates that the Japan
ese would like to own Alaska and have control of the vast
resources contained in the Territory. The Russian news
paper Pravda criticizes the United States for failure to de
velop the Alaskan territory and militarize it. Recent de
velopments indicate that the United States has awakened
to the necessity of air bases in Alaska and we may yet see
the government act to encourage the miners and prospectors
to develop the riches of that wonderful country.
There has never been a well-planned effort to colonize
and develop Alaska. Half-hearted efforts have been made
in the past and money has been spent on a railroad into the
Interior. The prospector who fights the cold and the wild
erness to open the latent wealth of that great country should
be grub-staked. The financier who undertakes the promo
tion of mining and oil development in Alaska should be
encouraged and not hampered by red tape legislation.
There i« plenty of idle capital in the States that would
patriotically develop the riches of Alaska if the United
States government would act to encourage such financing
and development. Industry will lag as long as the handi
cap of red tape is allowed tb interfere with the flow of capi
tal into mining development and into our Territory in the
Far North.
It is laughable to note how certain of our great Ameri
can daily newspapers laud certain foreign mining districts
to the skies and tell of the capital of this nation that is going
into the development of the mineral wealth of those nations.
They seem to forget that Alaska is part of the United States
and potentially has greater undeveloped wealth of gold, sil
ver and needed metals than any other country under the
sun. Some of these papers should turn patriotic for a
change and tell of the great mineral wealth of Colorado, the
West and Alaska. Financiers who have been raising
money in the United States and sending it into foreign lands
should also develop a little patriotism and help finance<tlje
development of the riches of Alaska. Such development
would build up the country and make it less of a prey for
Japan or some other foreign power.—Denver Mining Truth.
A BRAVE AND GALLANT PEOPLE
The stories of the people of Nome, carrying-on after
Nome’s disastrous fire in September, as told by N. Lester
Troast and B. D. Stewart, are heartening lessons in courage,
gallantry and grit. __
People who had lost everything they owned, the accu
mulation of years of treasures, small and large, started to
work with a smile as soon as cooling embers would allow
them to clear away the debris and start building over again.
There was no complaining at Nome. No tears were
shed over all that was lost. All went to work smilingly.
Everyone suffered alike, so why complain, the Nome
ites asked.
Most of us complain about our “bad lucfc” when our
misfortunes are trifling compared to those of the dauntless
people of Nome. If we could learn the lesson their cour
ages teaches, smile in the face of real disaster, the tragedy
oLJNpme would have accomplished another purpose beside
the rebuilding of a city—Juneau Empire.
• The Nazis have arrested a barber in a campaign against
gossip and scandalmongering. Trying to stop gossip in a
barber shop ought to give you a fair idea of how big a man
Hitler thinks he is.—New York Sun.
In the old (Jays she got a job because she couldn’t get a
husband—n<$v the husband is easy to get if she has the job.
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IN MURDER TRIAL OF
BRUNO HAUPTMANN
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Gaston B. Means, former depart
ment of justice operator, swindled
Mrs. Evalyn McLain of Washington,
out of $104,000, on the false repre
sentation that he had established
contact with the kidnapers. He was
found guilty of the swindle and
with a companion, known as “The
Fox,” was sent to Atlanta federal
penitentiary. The state, nation and
city of New York began cooperating
under the leadership of Col. Sch
wartzkopf.
Francis Fay, head of the New
York bureau of the division of inves
tigation of the department of jus
tice,
Thomas Sisk, his chief assistant
who had actual charge of the fed
eral work, and
Lieut. James Finn, of the New
York police force. In September,'
1034, they arrested
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, un
employed German carpenter, who
had passed one of the Lindbergh
ransom bills, and who had posses
sion of another. In his garage they1
found nearly $15,000 more in ran
som money, hidden securely be
neath the floor and in curiously con
structed hiding places. They ques
tioned Hauptmann and
Anna SchoefTler Hauptmann, the
suspect’s wife, and were told that
the money came to the prisoner
from one
ISIDOR FISCH, an impoverished
fur cutter, who died early this year
in Germany. Hauptmann engaged
as his first lawyer,
James M. Fawcett, who represent
ed him in the proceedings prelimin
ary to Hauptmann’s transfer to the
state of New Jersey, for trial at
Flemington on charges of murder
ing the kidnaped child. Fawcett
was succeeded by
Edward J. Reilly, of Brooklyn, not
ed criminal defense lawyer, and
Lloyd Fisher, of Flemington, who
had unsuccessfully defended John
Hughes Curtis of Norfolk. The New
Jersey prosecution was headed by
David T. Wlentz, attorney general,
former newspaper man who studied
law while he worked at his profes
sion, and
Anthony M. Hauck Jr., Hunterdon
County prosecutor, with
George K. Large, a former prose
cutor, joining the state’s legal forces
as special assistant. The case will
be tried, beginning January 2, 1935,
before
Supreme Court Justice Thomas W.
Trenchard, a jurist of long service
and experience, and one of excep
tionally high repute in the New
Jersey bar.
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