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Volume 36. No. 189. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 12. 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Hoover Questions Purposes Democrats
AUSTRIA DICKERING FOR RECOCIUATION NAZI
House and Senate May Deadlock Over New Tax Bill
Austria Dickering
For Reconciliation
Nazis In Germany
(By The Associated Press)
VIENNA, Aug. 12, —The possi
bility of a political and economic j
reconciliation between Austria and j
Germany without attempting to mit
igate anti-Semitism in the Reich, al
armed the Jewish element today in
Austria, some seeing a disposition
among the Catholics, as a result, to
“make a separate peace with Hit
ler.”
Austria, dispairing of getting eith
er friendship or security from the
proposed pact among the Danubian
states, is reported to have made two
conditions for the ending of the two
year quarrel beginning with the
Nazi Putch and bringing about the
death of former-Chancellor Edelburt
Dollfus.
They are: the dissolution of the
Austrian legion in Germany and
the disbanding of the organization
suspected and accused of support
ing secret Nazi corps in Austria.
Eva Coo Dies In
Electric Chair For
Murder Of Man
(By The Associated Press)
SING SING PRISON, Aug. 12, —
Mrs. Eva Coo, 43-year-old blonde
operator of a roadhouse, died in the
electric chair here last night in a
double electrocution. She was con
victed of murdering her handy man
Harry Wright, for his insurance
money.
The second prisoner to die was
Leonard Ccarnici, 29, who was exe
uted for the slaying of a detective.
Both went to their deaths calmly.
Her friend Martha Clift, who
turned state’s witness against her.
was permitted to plead guilty to se
cond degree murder and was sen
tenced to serve 20 years to life im
prisonment.'
Jury Out Two Hours
A jury of farmers gave its de
cision in Mrs. Coo’s case after two
hours of deliberation. Calm thru
out her lengthy trial, Mrs. Coo
showed emotion for the first time
during the four-weeks session when
the jury’s decision was announced.
She shuddered violently and walk
ed unsteadily when she was led be
before Judge Roley H. Heath to hear
the death sentence.
Mrs Clift faced a bitter attack
during the trial as the betrayer of
her friend. Spared from the pro
spect of the electric chair by an
agreement to testify for the state, in
her testimony she calmly accused
Mrs Coo of hitting Wright with a
mallet and throwing him under her
automobile.
The state proved that the mur
der was prompted by Mrs. Coo’s
desire to collect $10,000 insurance on
Government In
Come Estimated 5
Billion More 1933
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — The
government estimated that the na
tion's 1934 income would be forty
nine billion, four hundred and for
ty-four million dollars, which is a
five billion dollar jump over 1933.
Labor is reported to have receiv
ed a larger percentage of national
income in 1934 than in any six
years extending back as far as 1929,
“even with the work relief pay
ments excluded", said the depart
ment.
Colonists Palmer
Now Have Newly
Formed Council
FORMER WISCONSIN FARMER
SELECTED HEAD OF THE
SETTLER’S BODY
(By The Associated Press)
PALMER. Aug 12, —Still the
scene of excited activity Palmer
was booming again with a Mata
nuska colonists' council organized
to aid in community business. Har
ry Campbell, formerly of Abrams,
Wisconsin, heads the council.
Mrs. Neil Miller, formerly of Blair
Wisconsin, was elected council sec
retary at the organization meeting.
The initial business before the coun
cil was problems of sanitation, com
munity supplies, credits and mater
ials and equipment.
Over the wide stretch of the col
ony, building sites are now being
located and cleared, in preparation
for the building of log cabins. In
the woods crews of men are getting
out logs.
Authorities have also received
word that 80 more transient labor
ers, to be recruited from Washing
ton state woodsmen are to be sent
north shortly to be added to the con
struction division..
Traffic Hogs Is Low
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. Aug. 10, —Traffic in
hogs is the lowest it has been in 47
years. Prices for pork chops range
from 17 cents at DeMoines to 50cts
in Cleveland.
Ross J. Kinney, Superintendent of
the Alaska Road Commission, who
suffered a sprained back some time
ago, following an accident on the
Kougarok Tramroad, left the hospi
tal today and is now convalescing at
his home, in a much improved con
dition.
Wright, her shuffling, crippled handy
man.
HOOVER QUESTIONS
PURPOSES OF DEMO
CRATS ON AMENDING
Herbert Hoover Declares Nation Has A
Ri«lil To Know If Democratic Admini
stration Plans Amend Constitution
(By The Associated Press')
CHICAGO, Aug. 12—Former President Herbert Hoover
declared in a statement Sunday "The Nation of American
people has the right to know before this session of Congress
ends, what changes this Administration proposes in the
Constitution.”
“The Democratic Administration’s utterances since the
Supreme Court of the United States’ decision on the NRA
have,” Hoover said, “evidenced continuous intent to change
the Constitution so as to gain the authorized concentration
of power. The time has come when these full purposes
should be disclosed.
The former Republican president, who stopped over here
briefly enroute to New York City on business, passed over
all questions concerning his own personal political plans and
declined to comment on the republican congressional vic
tory in Rhode Island.
Statement Believed Be Bid Campaign
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Herbert Hoover’s statement
regarding the Constitution of the United States, was quickly
interpreted in both Democratic and Republican quarters as
a 1936 presidential bid. President Roosevelt was out of the
city over the week-end, and no statement could be obtained
from him, concerning this latest broadside against the New
Deal Administration.
One Democrat, representative Vinson of Kentucky,
said: “No constitutional amendment has been submitted
and nobody has said that one will be.”
Senator Nye, North Dakota, independent republican,
said that Hoover’s statement lent emphasis to his “perfect
willingness and desire to be the Republican candidate at
next year’s presidential election.”
Merger N.A.T. And
Wien Is Completed
Late Saturday PM
The Wien Airways of Alaska and
the Northern Air Transport Inc..two
of the oldest pioneering flying lines
in the Territory, completed business
arrangements late Saturday for a
merger of the two airplane con
cerns.
The new organization will con
tinue doing business under the
name of the Northern Air Transport
Inc., basing at both Nome and Fair
banks. Pilot Noel Wien will con
tinue flying, as a pilot for the NAT,
and will be based at Fairbanks.
Victor Ross will continue in the
capacity of General Manager of the
merged companies. One of Pilot
Wien's planes, possibly a Stinson
Reliant four-place plane will be brot
to Nome to work out of here in con
nection with the other equipment of
the company. The planes of the
former Wien Airways of Alaska will
be repainted the color design of the
Northern Air Transport, and the
NAT insignia inscribed.
Further details of the new concern
regarding flying plans and business
w'ere not announced at this time.
Both Mr. Wien and Mr. Ross left
Sunday to complete business arran
gements in Fairbanks, whereby
hangars and considerable other
equipment are to be taken over.
The City of Nome, Mayor Rex F.
Swartz has requested authority from
Project Engineer Steere to engage
the Alaska Road Commission equip
ment and organization at Nome for
the purpose of carrying out the
street project under the PWA loan
and grant proposal, including grav
eling, grading and levelling of the
streets throughout the city.
It was generally believed, said a
statement, that the permission might
be granted, and therefore work
might commence soon. However,
no definite assurance was made that
such would be the case.
Prospect Deadlock
If Senate \ otes In
elude Tiny Fellows
j
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, —Some
legislators predicted that if the sen
ate votes to bring the little fellows’
pocketbook within the scope of the
new tax bill, the house and the sen
ate will deadlock, which may furce
the administration to scrap the tax
bill this session.
Feeling is split between two not
ed senators—Independent Borah, and
Progressive LaFollette, on the am
I endment. to make the tax payers of
the lower region and lower standards
of living applicable. A storm of pro
test broke in the House over the
; Senate’s proposal for taxing those in
the lower brackets.
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l!i" Families Are
Advocated By A
Mother Of Ele\ en
WIFE OF AUSTRIAN PREMIER
TELLS BRITISH WOMEN OF
BETTER TRAINING
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON. Aug. 12, —While the
Canadian mother of five born at one
birth was complaining that the state
by scientifically nurturing them,1
had deprived her of half her family ;
: and for this reason: “I shall never
have another baby", another British
mother at Manchester, England,
was saying contrary things in true
Mussolini style.
She was Mrs. J. A. Lyons, wife
of the Austrian premier, and the
mother of 11, and she said to 2000
Lancashire mothers:
“About 30 years ago the idea be-,
gan to grow that a woman with a
large family was a lunatic Now she
has come to be regarded as a crimin
al lunatic. I
“People tell me. ‘It is all very well
to have a big family if you can sup
port them.’ They would be surpris
ed if they knew what small means
I had to bring up my family.
“I have known rather desperate
times. I have wondered not only
how to feed my children but where
I would get the ’physical strength
to care for them.
“You mothers who find it hard
to make ends meet—-I believe that
the blessing of God is on you. You
are the standard bearers of the
world. Children of large families
are often better trained spiritually
and socially than children of small I
families”.
Arriving from the Kougarok—
Shelton—Saturday aboard the Fix
Mullins' Kougarok Special were Mrs
Edna Christofferson, Jimmy Kelli-,
her, Jack Hoogendorn, Mrs. Wheel
er John Ross and Bud Slack.
Moscow Site Said
Feasible For Huge
Palace Of Sov iets
BEDROCK 90 FEET BELOW SUR
FACE TO SUPPORT LARGEST
BUILDING IN WORLD
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Aug. 12. —Plans for
tlie erection of the Palace of So
viets, which is to be 70 feet high
er than the Empire State Building
and thus will be the tallest, as well
as the largest structure in the wor
ld, have been found feasible, and
construction is to start soon, it was
learned here.
The delay in beginning construc
tion had caused rumors that the
building project had been abandon
ed because Moscow’s marshy soil
would not support such an enor
mous weight. Such rumors have
now been set at rest.
A series of consultations on the
project were concluded here by en
gineers and architects of the palace
with Carlton Proctor of the engin
eering firm of Moran and Proctor
of New York. That firm helped to
plan the San Francisco bay bridge,
now under construction, and many
buildings, power plants and other
large projects in America and also
was consultant on the Svir hydroel
ectric works, near Leningrad, five
years ago.
Japanese Army Of
ficer Is Killed In
Duel With Another
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Aug. 12, —Lieutenant
General Tetsuzan Nagata, Director
General of the Japanese Military Af
fairs, died today of sword wounds.
The War Office stated they were
inflicted by Lieut. Colonel Aizawa,
n a fight which grew out of the re
cent transfer of army officers. Gen
eral Senjuro Hayasi, Minister of
War, said he had prepared his resig
nation, as a result of the disgrace
ful fight.
S. S. Baldwin Sailed
Enroute To Nome
The local office of the Arctic Trans
sort Company is in receipt of a tele
gram to the effect that their S. S.
Arthur J. Baldwin left Nanaimo this
morning after taking on a large ship
ment of coal.
The vessel is contacting Seward
jn this voyake North. She carries a
capacity cargo, express, and the fol
owing passengers: Mrs. Lyle Nevins
2. M. Allyn, Julius Jensen and Dan
rones for Nome; Messrs Whitehead,
Pringle and Hill for Tin City, Mr
ind Mrs. Hanson for Golovin and
rtev. Larsen for Unalakleet.