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KIDNAPPINGS, LYNCHINGS, HOLD-UPS
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ANOTHER LYNCHING
. COLUMBIA, Town. Dec. 10,
<AP) —The body of Cord Cheek,
a twenty year old negro, whom the
grand Jury refused to indict after
his arrest for an attempted at
tack on an elevenyear old girl, was
found hanging to the limb of a
tree near here tonight.
Sheriff Claude Goodwin said the
lynching was handled very quietly
No one knew anything'about it.
The sheriff said that he received
on anonymous telephone call to
the (effect that “He could find a
dead nigger at the forks of the
road in the Glandale section, come
and get him.” The sheriff arrived
and found the body, which had
apparently been dead only a short
time.
COLD WEATHER IS ABATING
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UNDATED. Dec. 15, (API—The
cold wave which combined with
heavy storms, caused more* than
two score deaths in Europe, is abat
iiig. The United States had warm
er weather propects for the East
and some parts of the Middle west.
O'her sections faced fresh cold
«naps.
will KkkCenP TAX IK)IM;INT1
Washington. Dec. i«. (aim
Morgenthau took to Congress re
commendations for tightening the
r< venue laws against tax dodgers.
< AXZOXKRKI WINK
FROM LtM'ATKLLl
NEW YORK, Dec. 16, (AP) —
Tony Canzonerri, New York’s
lightweight idol kept the winning
streak intact Friday night when he
gave Cleo Locatelll. the European
champion, a fierce lacing in ten
rounds, although he was unable
to put over a knockout.
MARRIAGE LICENSE ISHCKD
PORTLAND, Dec. 16. (AP) —
A marriage license was issued for
Severn S. Johnson, oi Fairbanks,
and Ruth F. Secortauverstraw, of
New York. Both were of legal
age.
WILL HARMONIZE
MOLD POLICY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, (AP)
- 'Moderate exercise of Roosevelt's
gold policy in harmony with com
modity price trends. apparently
constitutes the Administration’s
Immediate monetary program. Ob
servers believe that the President
rwtts his chief hope of raising
commodity levels on the domestic
recovery program and regards the
gold plan as a hip ready to crack
if the prices lag. RFC gold prices
are unchanged.
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THIEVES ROB POST OFFICE
.. DETROIT, Der. 14, (AP) —
Registered mail of undetermined
value and nineteen thousand in
postage stamps was stolen from
a branch post office by thieves who
entered through the skylight and
tunneled throught brick and mor
tar into the vault.
I BUSINESS TREND
DECIDEDLY UPWARD
NJPW YORK, Dec. 14, (AP) —
The en ire’’ aspect of trade move
ments was brightened this week
by the expansion of retail sales
land a further rise iu employment,
j according to the Dun-Bradstreet
' Weekly Trade Review. It said
that reports from all parts of the
coutry reveal that more progress
is now being made than at any
time in the last months. “With a
complete reversal of the attitude
of this period last year, business
trends are not only upward, but
the betterment is resting on a more
stable basis than in mid-summer.
The upswing as the result of
j Christmas distributing shows that
(the largest proportions In the last
three years.’’ The gold price re
! inained the same at thirty four
naught one dollars per ounce.
| PILED PETITION
FOR RK-HKARING
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MINNEAPOLIS,,. Dec. 15, (AP)
— H. H. Henly former Foshay
executive, announced that, he had
filed In the Circuit Court of Ap
peals a petition for a re-liearing
i»n his appeal from a conviction
<>n mail fjrau,d charges.
COPPER RAISED IN PRICE
NEW YORK. Dec. 15. (AP) —
IJomestic copper sold at eight and
one fourth cents a pound, a raise
of one-fourth of 4 cent.
Stocks were dull and feature
less. Most of the leaders follow
ed the narrow grove until the
last hour when the selling brought
loss from one to three. The list
rallied however from the extreme
deeline. The sales ivere a little
ovr a million. Bonds turned
heavy late.
gJARV COOPER MARRIED
NEW YOU. Dec. la. '(AP) —
Gary Cooper married Sandra Shaw
a soc'ety girl and film actress.
JOHNSON APPROVED
HOSIER V code;
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 15, (AP) I
— A three day week for hosiery j
knitting mills all over the country ^
as decreed by the * hosiery code
authority with Johnson’s Approval, j
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WILL HOLD HITLER
RESPONSIBLE
PAjBI«, Dec. 15, (AP)—France
and four of her allies, Routnania,
'Yugoslavia, Oaechoslovakia an<J
jPoland, agreed to confront Hitler
with a definite disarmament con
vention through _ the League. It
is intended to make Hitler take
the responsibility if he refuses to
sign.
TRADE RESUMES
FORWARD STRIDE
NEJW YORK, Dec. 11, (AP) —
Trade and business resumed for
ard strides following the lull at
the closing of the week, according
to the Duu-Bradstreet Review. It
said that the seasons' volume was
at the best level in two years.
NAVY WILL STOP
HUM RUNNERS
i WASHINGTON. l!)oc. 16, (AP)
j— Roosevelt said that the navy
j would co-operate with the coast
[guard to stop runt running off the
Pacific. The step was taken in
[ reply to what the government ro
'garded as a challenge to its law
! enforcement facilities, by a
J freighter lying off the California
j coast with a cargo of liquor. The
President declared that it was the
administration's intention to plug
any loopholes, but to hamper as
little as possible. Morgenthau re
commended drastic revision of .the
income tax laws before the House
ways and means committee.
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1 KIDNAPPER GIVEN TRI E NAME
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SEATTLE. Dec. It;. (AP) —
Officers said that the man who is
held in the Von Herberg plot as
serfed that his true name is
George E. Powell, former manag
ing ed tor of Seattle, Kansas City
and Norfolk, Virginia newspapers.
He was arrested under the name
of Logan. No charges were filed
yet.
IN HULL MINT LEAVE GREECE
ATHENS, Dec. 1(5, (APt— In
sull was granted extehtion to Jan
uary thirty-first, as the length of
time that he can remain in Greece.
COMMITS MURDER
DURING HOLDUP
TALOGA, Okla., Dee. 14. (AP) ;
— Fred Overstreet, aged twenty- i
one, and his girl friend, Cleo j
Owens, were sezed after slaying 1
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weiser, mid
dle aged, and Tom Turnice, a ped
estrian. during the holdup of
Weiser's store. Sheriff G. C. Jones |
said that they admitted it.
They were removed to a secret
pbaee of impAsomneni, afifer,
threat at P'ay, near here, where
the robbery was -> committed
Ralph Gilcherist. i/ged twenty-sev
en. county attorney, captured the j
couple from a plum thicket after
tracing their footprints through
the sapdy soil, A posse was
searching near by.
WILL HULK OX RELIEF FLAX
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (AP)
— Roosevelt will rule soon on
Harry Hopkihs plan for the ex
pend!. ures of more than a billion
dollars on federal unemployment
rel'ef activities. .Hopkins, the re
lief chief, completed a program
calling for that sum, outside of
public works or farm relief.
CHARGES NINE
REPRESENTATIVES INELEGIBLE
OLYMPIA, Dec. H, (AP) —
[Written charges of inelegibiiity to
[hold their Jobs in the house be
cause they hold other jobs under
the state or federal government
■were filed against nine represent
atives, including speaker George"
Yantis, by representative Frank
Anderson, of Spokane.
. To save writing letters, mail a
ropy of The Nome Nugget on plane
CHILtMtEN KILLED
IN TRAIN CRASH
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I HBRLIN, Dor. 16. (AP> —Six
children were killed and fourteen
ik
injured when a train plowed into
a stand ng train filled with child
ren Pozeman, Poland.
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DCS CRASH KILLS (CHILDREN
I CRESCENT CITY. Fla., Dec. 16,
j(AP)—A coronoer’s jury was call
ed to fix the responsibility for the
bus crash which killed ten child
ren and injured th'rty others, nine
seriously.
PLOT INSTIGATED BY
DERANGED SCIENTIST
SEATTLE, Dec. 1(1, i API— De
fective captain, Luke May, said
| that the plot to kidnap Von Her
| berg was concieved by a brill'ant
j scientist. "deranged by- - years of
j lonely research who wanted fifty
'thousand. He is, a well known
jniHn using the alias of J. B. Logan
iHe was arrested with E-d Brown,
.also an assumed name. The real
| names were not given for publtea
jtion. Logan's ca-bin is near Ev
erett. where Von Herberg was be
ing hdld and contained a fine
1 sc'entific library May said that
Logan has a great intellect, which
was undermined h.v years of sol
itary toll in writing a monumental
scientific work. Ho was thirteen
years alone. Among his writings
was a treatise on the atomic com
position of ether, which permeates
empty space. May said that his
mind was upset by, the San Jose
kidnapping.
CANNERS WANT TO
WRITE CODE (
WASHINGTON’. Dec. 12. (APt
the Pacifil Coast at a hearing on J
the Pacific Coast at r hearing, on j
the proposed fisheries industry
code, asked that they tie divorced
from the fresh fish • industry and’be
allowed to write their own code.
H. Thomas Austern. a Washington
attorney, said he spoke for all the
Pac’flc Northwest and the Alaska
saltnon packers, when he said that
ire- believed Tt Was a separate in
dustry. with none of the fresh fish
industries problems in the preserv
ation of its catch or marketing the
same. He said that the Southern
California tuna canners were in the1
same position, but had gone fur
ther and presented a code as sub
sidary to the canners’ code. He
said that the prncipnl objection to
the inclusion of the salmon pack
ing industry under the omnibus
fresh fish code, was that they
would be forced t.o bear a sub
stantial part of the cost of admin
istering the code which would ben
efit the fresh fish industry only
and solve none of the canners pro
blems.
PADDY MADDEN FOUND DEAD
ANCHORAGE. Dec. 13. (AP)~
Pad-dy Madden, a pioneer flyure
around here was found dead in
bed.
WRITE TOUR FRIEND8 A
~ETTER ON SOURDOUGH STA
TIONARY. Oi Sale at Nugget Office
RANKS TURNED INTO
IlOOZE JOINTS
H1ARRISBURO, Dec. IB, (AP)
The ornate rooms of Pennsyl
vania's banks, born when times
were good but unable to withstand
the ravages of depression are be
ing converted into liquor stores
and drinking parlors. The new
liquor control board is casting
about for sites for state liquor
stores and found many vacated
banks ideal for the purpose. It
has discovered that many applic
ants for drinking parlor licenses
have the same idea.
l.l.NDYK LEAVE FOR MIAMI
SAX JUAN, Porto Rico,, Dec. 15,
j (AP) The Lind vs took off for
j .Miami,
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| WILL UJtEATE MORE CORKS
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. (AP)
- The NRA expects before the New
Year to put into effect from sev
enty-live to a hundred more code$
whirl) will bring the total to a
point where few industries of any
consequence will be outside.
FLOODS FAISK HEAVY DAM AUK
INDATKI), Doc. 1», (AI*) —
Below i,normal ‘temperature, snow,
ice and freezing w'nds combined
proved that the winter had a pre
mature grip on much ot the Unit
ed States. Nine dead were report
ed in the Pac tic Northwest. The
tlood waiters covering front the
coast of Idaho, withdrew in all
but one area, that in the Skagit
Snohoniish rivers valley. The tem
perature js in the sixties there
and now is fast disappearing,1 with
some rain ::ii 11 falling. Two mil
lion dollars damage was caused in
Puyallup valley and half a million
in Tacoma alone. The water in
King, County around Kent. Auburn
anti Cowlitz, is still at high level.
M en are forking on the dykes,
hong View 'and Cictle Hock re
port four dead. A Pensylvania
train was wrecked during a snow
storm and three were burned_to
death Maine during a blizzard,
swelling the weather death fifteen
oj more.
KIDNAPPING PliOT
FRUSTRATED
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SKATTDE. Dec. 14. ( A*P) —A plot
to kidnap John Von Herberg, th«
eighteen year old son of a North
west. theatre magnate, and hold
him for fifty thousand dollars ran
som, was frustrated with the ar
rest of one of the plotters. His
confession to Duke, S. May, chief
of detectives was announced Wed
nesday night. May made the an
nouncement In the midst of a con
ference of representatives of the
Department of Justice and Sno
homish county peace officers, all
of whom assistel in thwarting the
plot. More arrests are expected.
The name of the suspect who Is
held in custody and his secret hid
ing place is withheld. May said*
however, that he is a former news
paper managing editor, and came
from the Northwest recently. He
is about fifty years of age.
A.B. BARN DANCE A.B.HALL SAT. DEC. 30