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VOL. 37. No. 165 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936 Per Copy 15cts
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Heat Continues Mid-West Sections
Freddie steele Middleweight champ
Initials Carved On Woman Witness In Vice Case
Steele Is New
Middleweight
Title Holder
K (By The Associated Press 1
SEATTLE, July 12, — Fred
die Steele won a decision ovei
Babe Risko in a fifteen rounc
championship bout here Satur
day night.
SEATTLE, July 12, — Fredda
Steele of Tacoma won the work
middleweight championship Sat
urday night with a decisive fif
teen round decision over Eddi
• “Babe” Risko of Syracuse, Nev
York.
The Tacoma boy scored th
fight’s only knockdown, in th
first round when he put Risk
on the floor for the count of si>
Steele weighed 15G and three
quarters and Risko 158 pounds.
The nev/ champion scored th
f- knockdown with a vicious righ
to Risko’s jaw a few seconds be
fore the round ended.
Midway through the fight h
opened a cut over one of Risko'
eyes, and a couple of round
later he similarly damaged h:
other eye.
A crowd estimated at twent
five thousand saw the battle i
which the championship chan*
ed hands.
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Anarchist Leader
Spain Murdered
Political Trouble
(By The Associated Press)
MADRID, Julyl 3, — The body
of Jose Calvo Sotelo, anarchist
leader, was found in a cemetery
shortly after he had been taken
from his home by a group of men
dressed in the uniforms of the
Assault Guard and killed by be
ing beaten with clubs, cut badly
and shot several times.
Wide poitical repercussions are
feared. Members of his family
said they believed he had been
killed in vengeance for the ass
assination of an Assault Guard
► Captain last night, by alleged
fascists in a clash with the So
telo government.
The political leader was accus
ed by his enemies of leading
a Spain fascist movement.
A reliable authority said al
least three Assault Guards hac
been arrested on suspicions ir
connection with the affair.
I ROOMS FOR RENT—Inquin
' of Mrs. Charles Calkins, located
near the Nome Nugget Office.
RECORD HEAT WAVE !'
IS STILL BURNING UP
MID-WEST SECTIONS
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Extreme High Temperatures Recorded
Michigan, Illinois And Canada On
Sunday, Continuing On Monday
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(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, July 13, — The drought and record
' shattering heat clung to the long-suffering mid-West
and East and Northern half of the nation, while life-giv
ing rains in other sections fizzled.
Deaths from prostration and drowning now number '
1,412. Weather forecasts made it a “Blue Monday” 1
' I with predictions for more heat. What week-end pro- j]
Apache Indian
Hanged Arizona
Horrible Death
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(Bv The Associated Press)
SAN CARLOS, Arizona, July
. 13, —Boastful Karl Gardner, pint
! sized Apache Indian,thrice a kill
er, was hanged from the govern
ment gallows for thirty-three min
utes at dawn today while armed
men stood at guard as a warn
ing to tribesmen not to inter
fere.
Gardner, 31 years old, who in
sisted the government hang him
| for killing his wife and infant
j son and boasted that he would
! j take it like an Apache, met a hor
jrible death. His body struck the
side of the trap as the trigger
was sprung and dangled,while the
helpless victim groaned and
j kicked.
Those directing the execution
talked of dropping him again
and then decided against it.
Every minute, for fully twenty
minutes, the attending physician
made an examination and shook
his head.
: The trap was sprung at 5:0fl
A. M. and it was 5:39 A. M. when
I jhe was pronounced dead.
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To Draft Norris
For Fifth Terra
r
(By The Associated Press)
McCOOK, Nebraska, July 13, —
1 Senator George William Norris
1 observed his 75th birthday at his
Wisconsin summer home while
a bi-partisan committee of Ne
| braska circulated petitions tc
draft him for a fifth senate term
i cipitaiion was rceeivea was oi .»
untold benefit. Grain prices re- '
mained about the same. Wheat
is still 21 to 24 cents—higher :
than a year ago today. i'
Morning temperatures includ- I
ed Bay City, Michigan 97, Chic- :
ago 85, Indianapolis 99, Duluth i
100. '
Sunday’s highs were Grand >
Rapids, Michigan 10G, Detroit 100,:
Kewanee, Illinois 112.9, Ottawa. ,
Lllinois 109, Emerson, Manitoba j
112.
Death tolls for Michigan 315.
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al-;
berta combined total 26.
Detachments At
Tientsin Clash |j
In Public Park s
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c
(By The Associated Press) c
TIENTSIN, July 13, — Japan- <
ese and Chinese detachments '
met in an armed clash as the
climax to an argument over the 11
use of a public park. There were I
no casualties. An early settle- 1
ment of the issue is expected. s
Japanese soldiers of Taku, east 1
of here sought to hold target '
practice in the park and met '
with objections from the Chin
ese troops. Soon both sides op- |
ened fire. :
Forces Price Down'
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, July 13, — A wild (
selling of wheat smashed the s
downward nickel limit in the i
board of trade, and carried corn
almost a seven cent loss from (i
early highs, on news that the;;
end of the heat wave was being 1i
predicted by the weather bureau.';
I
Soman Witness
\ ice Ring Case
Beaten, Carved
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13,
-Margaret Louis Bell, striking
ed-haircd, twenty-three year old
/itness against Charles “Lucky"
,uciano, convicted New York
ice lord, was found in an apart
nent here Sunday with the cryp ■
ic initial “CL 3-12“ carved on
icr thigh and abdomen.
The woman, also known as Jean
Mstello, told the police she had
>ecn beaten, bound and then
:arved by a man she said was a
nember of the Luciano ring, and
eft to die of gas fumes from 4
ets he had turned on after tor
uring her.
The police found the woman in
i semi-conscious condition and
deeding from the wound, on the
atchen floor in the apartment,
ifter a telephone operator hear
ng screams had notified the pol
ce. She was taken to an emer
gency hospital for treatment.
Relic! Drought
Areas Proving
u
Value Project
(By The Associated Press)
BISMARCK, North Dakota,
uly 13, —Washington, D. C. for
st service officials in this area
aid the WPA had approved of
six hundred thousand dollars
utlay to provide work for the
rought stricken farmers, in a
ontinued planting in the mid
zest shelter belt.
John C. Page, acting reclama
ion commissioner reported to
ekes that three million acres
i the drought area are green
nd growing, having almost a nor
tal crop as a result of being
zatered by federal reclamation
zorks.
Jelieves Germans
Work Heligoland
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 13, — Lord
Iranborne, undersecretary of
tate for foreign affairs, this
doming told the House of Com
mons he understood the Ger
nans were fortifying Heligoland
ind that as far as he knew it
vas being done without leave of
inyone.
PRESIDENT DRAWS COMPARISON
BRIDGE AND COVER'!ENT AT
DEDICATION CEREMONIES
Complex Nature Human Demands I or
Invention ami Improvement Same In
Creeling Bridge As Government
Roosevelt Present
Dedication Bridge
In New York (lily
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(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jul yl3, — Pres
ident Roosevelt cited the sixty
four million dollar Triborough
Bridge as a symbol of the chang
j ing human needs which is con
stantly making government more
complex, at the costly dedica
tion ceremonies held here Sat
urday,
Accompanied by Secretary of
the Interior Ickes, the President
is enroute for a short vacation
at sea.
In a brief address President
Roosevelt noted that in the old
er days there was no need for
such a bridge connecting Man
hattan with the Queens and
Bronx districts.
“Some of us are charged with
the responsibility of government
and we pause to ask ourselves
whether human needs and in
vention are going to change as
greatly in the coming generations
as they have in the past genera
tion. Government itself is of nee
essity more complex because all
life is more complex. The mach
inery of government and the cost
of government in New York in
1901 wouldn’t serve the essential
needs of the city’s peoples today.
“They require and are demand
ing an uptodate government in
place of an antiquated govern
ment, just as they are requiring
the new Triborough Bridge in
place of the ancient ferries.”
Breaks Record
(By The Associated Press)
BONNEVILLE Salt Flats, Utah
July 13, —Captain George Eye
son of England, noted automobile
racer, broke his twenty-four hour
world land speed record with
an unofficial average of 149.56
miles per hour.
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Fifteen Leaders
Feb. Rebellion
T; ere Executed
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, July' Id, — T e war
office here arm unced Sunday
night that the fifteen leaders in
the bloody rebellion of February
26th, had been executed.
No explanation was for hcey^r
ing as to why two others con
demned to death were m shot.
They are Yousiuka Nik.mi ra,
former communist and Asaichi
Isobe, former quartermaster cap
tain.
The fifteen were executed early
Sunday morning. An official,
laconic e.-nimuniquc ir nti >ned
meth
)d of execution.
Three of the Japanese Empire’s
most distinguished leaders were
assassinated in the February up
rising. Most of the well-inform
ed observers believed Sunday’s
executions were carried out in
the courtyard of the Shibuya
M.litary prison, and that death
was by shooting.
Spitz Dog Bluffs
Attacks Mistress
fBv The Associated Press)
SWEET HOME. Oregon, July 13
—A tiny Spitz dog, with the
heart of a mastiff, won a battle
with a huge cougar, worrying
the beast until it took to the
woods, instead of attacking the
Spitz’s mistress, Mrs. Bert Sim
mons.
Later the cougar paid with his
life at the hands of hunters.
Mrs. Simmons was seeking
three sheep. When she found
them they were dead with the
cougar hiding nearby. As the
cougar advanced the dog darted
back and forth our of reach of
its claws until the beast aban
doned the attack.