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VOL 36. No 13 NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1935. ._Per Copy: 10 Cents.
Asks Federal Aid In Hauptmann Case
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SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN ADVANCED TODAY
Hess, President of Senate-Hoffman, Speaker of House
LEGISLATURE
PERMANENTLY
ORGANIZED
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 16—The perman
ent organization of the Alaska Leg
islature was effected yesterday af
ternoon with Luther C. Hess of Fair
banks, elected as president of the
Senate.
J. S. Hoffman of Seward was
elected Speaker of the House of Re
presentatives. Jane Farrelly of
Fairbanks, was chosen as Secretary
of the Senate and Margaret Otteson
of Ketchikan, was chosen as Clerk
of the House.
After other employees were cho
sen, both houses adjourned until 2
p.m. Wednesday afternoon, when
committees will probably be named.
Grade Crossings
Program Is To Be
Key To Relief
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—The half
billion dollar grade crossing elimin
ation program, was advanced in of
ficial quarters, as the key plan of
the administration’s effort to re
move three and one-half million
persons from relief rolls.
The plans call for the elimination
of five thousand crossings with the
money estimated. This sum was
worked out in detail by railroad en
gineers.
PLEAD GUILTY
IN CONNECTION
WITH KILLING
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Jan. 16—Leo Kamen
eff, Gregory Zinovieff, and seven
teen others associated with them,
who went to trial Monday in Lenin
grad for participation in the coun
ter-revolutionary group which in
spired the murder of Sergei Kiroff,
all pleaded guilty Tuesday.
As yet the court has not pro
nounced judgment.
SIX CONVICTS
ESCAPE FROM
CALIF. PRISON
(By The Associated Press)
SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Jan. 16 —
Six convicts escaped from the pri
son here today, injuring Warden
James Holohan critically.
They kidnapped four members of
the prison board and fired machine
guns at pursuing guards. ■
NEW WITNESSES BRING j
STARTLING FACTS TO
LIGHT ABOUT RANSOM
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 16 — Hastening to wind up the
handwriting expert testimony, the state called Casidy Rich
mond to the stand, who testified that Hauptmann wrote the
ransom notes.
The defense counsel disclosed that it has a witness to
testify that Isadore Fisch tried to sell Hauptmann “Hot
money.”
Henry Kress, a private investigator employed by the
defense, said that two other men were involved in an at
tempted transfer of the ransom wealth. He stated that he
believed that the prosecution’s witness Gustav Lukatis 6*
New York, holds the key to the solution of the crime.
Kress related that Lukatis came to his office after Haupt
mann had been arrested and said:
“My information shows that he, more than likely, was
n’t mixed up in the kidnapping.”
Kyjatus was quoted by Kress as saying that three men,
one of whom he identified as Fisch, tried to sell him some
good hot money at seventy-five cents on a dollar,” and that
they had about fifty thousand dollars. Kress further stated
that Lukatis returned later to the scene of the offer, with
two other fellows just to check up on their racket, but found
that they had suddenly moved.
The private detective asserted that he traced two of the
men. He said:
“If the Department of Justice will offer its cooperation,
in connection with the information I have, I feel certain
that we can put behind the bars, the principals in the kid
napping.”
Following the completion of the handwriting testi
mony, the next step will be by the State in re-acting the
drama which took place at the time of the discovery of the
baby’s body.
PRESIDENT’S PLAN FOR
SOCIAL SECURITY FOR
THE AMERICAN NATION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — From a thirty thousand
word report, embodying the plans of dealing with the soc
ial security problem, President Roosevelt drafted his own
orders to Congress, for a wide program of social legislation,
as outlined according to reports from authoritative sources.
Plans sent to the President by his cabinet committee
included unemployment insurance, financed partly at least
from payrolls and taxes. The federal government, accord
ing to the plan would handle the funds, and the states would
administer them.
Old age pensions were divided into two, and probably
three parts. The first will give federal and state aid and
finance monthly gifts to persons over sixty-five years old„
The Second part will compel the employer and the employ
ee to contribute funds which will give persons under six
ty-five, annuities when they reach that age. The third part
will permit persons to buy such insurance against a con
dition of want in old age.
Its benefits will include aid for dependent children
through funds given to mothers; the widening of the public
health service; provision for re-employment of persons able
to work, largely through Public works.
Some officials felt that the program would touch one
out pf every five persons in the United State, but no definite
figures are available. i
WINTER AGAIN
STRIKES WEST
HEAVY SNOWS
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16—The
far west buttoned its overcoats and
shook out--umbrellas as a new storm
boomed down from the Northwest.
Snow is piled higher than ever in
the mountains in California. Rivers
have swelled but are being kept
below flood stages because of freez
ing temperatures. Washington had
a general snow. Yakima received
snow, as did Seattle, where there is
a good covering. Mount Ranier re
ceived a great deal of snow.
Seattle Man’s Body
Tied In Burlap Bag
Woman Frantic
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(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 16—Tied in a bur
lap bag, the body of Otto Johnson,
j aged forty-six, was found in a
shack on the Duwamish River. Mary
Kelly who lives in the shack, be
came hysterical when the sack was
opened.
She said that the two men who
visited her house must have done
it while she was asleep.
JEWS IN SAAR
ANXIOUS SINCE
THE ELECTION
(By The Associated Press!
SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 16—'Three
thousand Jews are anxiously wait
ing to leave the country, leading
Jewish residents said, as Saarland
ers continued their noisy celebra
tion over the decision to rejoin Ger
many.
Jewish business men reported that
they were being boycotted and that
their children had already reported
they felt their school-mates shunn
ing them.
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DR.GRUENING
IS TO VISIT
TERRITORY
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—Director
of the Bureau of Territories, Dr.
Gruening said, that he plans on mak
ing a trip to Alaska in Junfe of this
year to acquaint himself with the
conditions and problems there. He
stated also, that he will go to Ha
waii in the fall of 1939.
SETTLEMENT PLAN FOR
ALASKA GETS APPROVAL
IN OFFICIAL QUARTERS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—The settlement of the Mata
nuska Valley received a boost today when the inter-depart
mental committee on territories gave its unanimous ap
proval to the plan, although subject to the rulings of the
departmental officials.
The committee decided definitely to use the Matanuska
Valley in the experiment to send from one hundred to two
hundred families to the Territory next spring to establish
farms.
The organization of a government corporation to send
settlers north next spring was suggested by the FERA offic
ials. Dimond said that detailed plans have been ordered
prepared by that organization and Dr. Ernest Gruening
chief of the division for territories and island possessions of
the Interior Department.
Plans for the completing of the highway from Anchor
age to provide transportation were approved by the com
mittee. The committee also approved of Dimond’s sug
gestion that no interest or principal payments be required
from settlers or that any money be advanced for their aid
by the government for five years.
The settlement of the Matanuska Valley is the first step
in a program which contemplates similar settlemehts in
other regions of the Territory suitable for agricultural de
velopment
CAST OF CHARACTERS
IN MURDER TRIAI OF
BRUNO HAUPTMANN
(By The Associated Press)
TRENTON, Jan. 15—In the Lind
bergh drama the cast of characters
follows:
Charles A. Lindberg, Jr., twenty
months-old son, stolen from his crib
on the night of March 1, 1932, and
found murdered near a lonely road
in the Sourlands Mountains, a few
miles from the home of
Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh,
national hero and first man to fly
direct from Now York to Paris, and
his wife,
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, daugh
ter of the late Senator Dwight W.
Morrow.
Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, the
head of the New Jersey State police,
and i
Capt. John J. Lamb, his chief as
sistant, conducted a widespread in
vestigation into the mystery, center
ing their work for a time upon the
activities of
Oliver Khately, butler at the
Lindbergh home, since dead.
Betty Gow, the child’s nursemaid
and
Violet Sharpe, domestic employed
by Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, who
committed suicide in June, after the
kidnaping, while undergoing police
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I questioning. Among the early ar
rests was that of
Henry (Red) Johnson, a Scandina
vian seaman, friend of Betty Gow,
but completely exonerated of com
plicity in the crime.
John Hughes Curtis, boat builder
of Norfolk, Va., claimed to have es
tablished contacts with the kidnap
ers, and took Col. Lindbergh on a
wild goose chase along the Atlantic
coast. He confessed the hoax, and
was convicted of obstructing justice.
A jail sentence was suspended and
he was fined $1,000.00. Meanwhile,
Dr. John F. Condon, Bronx school
master, later to become internation
ally known as Jafsie, established
contact with the kidnapers through
a series of ransom notes establish
ing the authenticity of the kidnap
ers through their return to Col.
Lindbergh of a sleeping suit worn
by his child on the night of the kid
naping. Jafsie gave $50,000 of Lind
bergh’s money to the professed kid
naper in St. Raymond’s cemetery,
the Bronx, but the child’s body was
discovered several days later in a
shallow grave, and no further trace
could be found of the extortioner.
During the negotiations
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