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VOL. 37. No.. 97 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, April 24, 193.6 Per Copy Ten Cents
Will See If Indians Being Robbed
FIVE INDICTED IN CONNECTION KIDNAPING
Even Capital City Taken Warfare Will Continue
Ethiopians Will
Keep Fighting
If Capital Falls
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, April 24, —
With the Italian army drive
from Dcssye to the Ethio
pian capital, Addis Ababa,
in full swing, Marshal Ba
doglio reported that a body
of native Eritrean Askari,
part of the large force of
thirty thousand Italian
troops, had taken Worra
Uu, a town about thirty
eight miles south of Dess
ye. The native troops have
been operating ahead of
the main Italian army, in
the advance of all northern
contingents, who Italian re
ports declared, were placed
some seventy miles from
Addis Ababa. Badoglio de
dared the advance was pro
grossing in good form.
On the southern front,
Fascist airplanes continued
bombing Ethiopian defens
es around the second larg
est, city in the empire—
Harrar.
The Ethiopian govern
ment spokesman denied It
alian reports that no defen
se of the capital would be
made.
Even if the capital is tak
en, the spokesman said, the
war will go on, with the
Ethiopians starting a large
scale guerilla warfare ag
ainst the invaders.
OLD PAPERS!
Buy them by the bundle. Use
them for starting fires. For Sale
At the Nome Nugget.
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FIVE PERSONS INDICTED IN
CONNECTION KIDNAPING BY
GRAND JURY IN BROOKLYN
Paul H. Went'el Among Those \\ ho Are
Being Brought To AeeouiU
r c
High School Pluv
Was Big Success
Given Last 'Nighl
The Nome High School
presented the sprightly 3
Act comedy “The whole
Town’s Talking” at the
Dream Theatre last night
before a packed house.
With exceptional acting
ability and training the var
ious characters enacted
their parts with admirable
distinction. Their story cau
sed much mirth and laugh
ter as the numerous plots
were worked out, much to
the enjoyment of the large
audience.
The characters themsel
ves surprisedmany by their
ability to handle their parts
and each of them is to be
roundly applauded in turn
ing in an excellent charact
erization.
The Glee Club,under the
direction of Miss Mildred
Scott, composed of sixteen
girls from the school, ren
dered several songs includ
ing “Gypsy Trail,” ,‘Sleepy
Hollow Tune,” and “Twi
light on the Trail.”
Following is a list of the
Continued on Paye Four
(iij The; As'oeiati d Press)
New York, April 24, —
Five persons were Indicted
today by the Brooklyn, N.
Y. grand jury on charges ol'
kidnaping.
Foremost among them
was Paui H Wendel, form
er New Jersey attorney
whose repudiated “confes
sion" in the Lindbergh kid
naping, gave Bruno Haupt
mann a three day lease on
life, although he was later
executed.
Others were Allis Parker
Jr., son of a New Jersey de
tective, Martin Schlossman
Harry Bleefield now in oust
ody, and Harry Weiss Mur
ray.
Bleefield, whom the pol
ice were seeking for some
t'me past, is specifically
charged with kidnaping
and second degree assault.
Officials declined to com
ment on what consideration
if any, the Jury gave Ellis
Parker Sr., chief of the Bur
lington County detectives,
who played a prominent
part in investigating angles
of the Lindbergh case, dur
ing the attempt to save
Hauptmann.
Word was sent to New
Jersey to take the young
er Parker into custody.
MINING MEN SEWARD PENINSULA
RETURNING TO NOME AFTER
WINTER IN THE STATES
Chas. E. Kimball was an
arrival last night on the N
AT tri-motored plane, en
.route to Council. Mr Kim
ball will fly from Nome to
Council to prepare the Mel
sing Creek dredge for oper
ation this summer.
Melsing Creek is about 4
miles east of Council and is
a tributary of the Neukluk
river. Mr. Kimball states
that he will have seven
men employed and will
work a day and night shift
crew thruout the open sea
son.
Deputy Marshal Patrick
Sweeney of St. Michael,
who has been in attendance
at the sessions of the Unit
ed StatesDistrict Court will
leave for his official post at
St. Michael within the next
day or two. Mr. Sweeney
who with his brother Tom
have been carrying on pros
peoting and mining opera
tions on Sunset Creek and
also in the Kougarok sec
tion, for the past several
years, are of the opinion
that the Kougarok will be
one of the bigproducers of
the Seward Pensinsula sec
tion in the years to come.
Fred Jones, accompanied
by Mrs. Jones, arrived by
plane last evening from the
states, is another mining
operator to return to Nome
and this district after spend
ing the winter outside.
Mr Jones, who with his
brother Bill, .and Tolbert
Scott, operate the dredge at
Spruce Creek, expects to
be leaving soon for that
section to place the equip
ment in readiness for anot
(Continued on Page Three)
New (lily Council
Wen I Into Office
Meeting Last Nile
Mayor Seidenverg and New
Council men Assumed
Ollices
At ven o’clock last ev
ening the old council met
for it last session. Nome
has b . i without a m e. >r
for the p ist few months due
to the fact that Dr. Rex F.
Swart/ made a busin ss and
profe. ionai trip to the slat
es.
Cl; . Clerk Walsh called
the meeting to order and
asked for a motion to elect
a mayor pro tcm. Thereup
on. a motion being duly
made and seconded, Coun
cilman Andrew Sat her,
who is retiring from public
office, was elected mayor
pro tem of the last session
of i he 1935 council.
City Clerk Walsh read
the minutes of the last
m< -ting which were approv
ed is read. The clerk then
e i his annual financial
skoement as well as the re
,pn : of auditor Arthur F.
Wi ght. Upon motion they
were duly passed and ac
cepted.
City Attorney Leroy M.
Sullivan and city treasurer
J. S Stangroom were ab
sent from the meeting due
to illness and other reasons,
th( city clerk reported.
There being nothing fur
ther for the old council to
do, a motion was duly
made and passed that the
council adjourn sine die.
New Council Sworn In
City Clerk M. J. Walsh
then proceeded to swear in
the new council and may
or Edward Seidenverg,
c< • ioilmen Chas. Cavey,
Kenneth Rude, and “Duffy”
O'Connor took their oath of
office. When they took their
seats, they were joined by
three holdover members of
the old council as follows:
councilmen Hagen, Gross
and Polet who all answer
ed present when the roll
was called for the first time.
Mayor Ed Seidenverg,
stated that a motion would
be in order to adopt the
rules of proceedure of the
previous council and upon
motion being duly made, it
was unanimously decided.
The mayor then announ
(Continued on Page Two)
COMMITTEE COME
ALASKA SEE HOW
INDIANS GET BY
Senator Thomas Of Oklahoma Heads
Investigatin'! Committee. Sa^ s
V j
Reports Were Ignored
(By The Associated Pro; s)
Washington, Apt il 21. —
Senator Thoma-. Democrat
of Oklahoma, disclosed th it
he and four other members
>f the Senate Inch an com
mittee will go to .Alaska
this summer to investigate
repoi' of i ljusti
the Indians of the Territory.
“These are 25,000 Ind
ians up there whom, we
have heard, are gradually
being driven back from
their rivers by the whites,
and whose fishing and hunt
ing had gradually been re
duced.
“Delegate Dimond has
been complaining of these
conditions for several years.
A subcommittee was :v lin
ed several years ago. This
sub-committee named to in
vestigate conditions among
!. ms, h.:.i doc .(loci to
go up ;!'< :e and find nut for
' manse! ves. I' ’ ■! i take
gslimonx nd make a re
port to the sen ite next vnar
- nd p: obablv suggest rein
ed: d legislaflon."
The Sen at nr aid * ha' the
Indian office had paid litth*
attention to Dimond’s re
port that the Indians are
being deprived of their fur
bearing animal . ; nd their
fishing grounds . :v being
reduced.
“The whites are Inte;
feeing with their mere!1' -
dising business gen or
he said.
He and senators \Yk
Fruitier, Donahey, and
Follet e, will probubb
from Seattle on *h Bureau
»l F sheries boat in July &
be* gone for a hog' fi weeks.
Suspected Killer
Narrow ly Escapes
Enraged Crowds
t ’
(By The Associated Press)
Baton Rouge, April 24,
—Walter Johnson, 45, a
Louisianna farmer from
birth, twice spirited away
from threatening crowds af
ter having been wounded in
a gun battle that led to his
capture, denied tod ay that
he had killed two officers in
a cattle fued.
Johnson was slightly
wounded at his Colfax
home last night after he
had been hunted for two
days for the slaying of shcr
iff W. L. Nugent and de
puty D L Brunson
With the feeling running
hight since the slaying
Tuesday, a mob formed
quickly near the scene of
Johnson’s capture. The of
ficers hurried their prison
er to the hospital at Alex
andria, thirty miles away.
Another crowd gathered at
A | • p 9 • •
•till IFlU
r'
%11 »itH'v
f ram sip* ■* . I.
(By The Associateo Press)
Manila, April 1(4, — A.
record regist i at inn fov ‘ w n
ty-vear old Filipin -s for
compulsory militarv train
ing, caused Douglas McAr
thur, military advisor, Lo
day, to recommend to the
Philippine presi ' mt, Man
uel Quezon, that forty ihou
sand men be tr: v J this
year instead of only twen
i ; origin
ally planned. The total re
gistration was more than a.
hundred and forty-eight
thousand.
It pays to watch the bar
gains in the ads appearing
regularly in the Nome Dai
the hospital so Johnson was
carried from his bed to an
automobile and rushed to
this city, another hundred
miles southwest, for safe
keeping.