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VOLUME S3. No. 14 * O M K. ALASKA. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1934 Per Copy 35ete. Per BS»tl fl.25
UKKMKRTON MURDER
CLUES UNCOVERED
(By The Associated Press)
Bremerton, Wlash., April 3—*AU
ciues believed to be important in
obtaining the identity of the slay
ers of six persons in Bremerton
wre being studied while Jack
Flieder of Seattle, a brother of
■one of the victims, remained un
shaken in his belief that robbery
was the motive.
One of the slayers was un
doubtedly wounded in the battle,
Luke May said, after examining
the hlocxl stains in determining
that some of them came from a
person other than the victims.
Sheriff D, L. Blankenship called
on all physicians in Bremerton
and in Seattle to report their at
tendance on any persons with un
explained wounds. Finger prints
ir the house would identify them,
he said.
Meanwhile the Seattle under
world is the subject of a search,
on reports tfiaf the bartender and
one of the victims. ..and -also both
Mr. and Mrs. Flfeder had had al
tercations with Fred Bttlcnm
there..
Jack Flieder, who had been at
the scene of the crime, said that
he believed the robbers were j
known to his brother. When his
brother Frank came home Thurs- '
day night, they rang the bell. |
and when Frank went to the door |
he recognized at least one of I
them. He knew they were after (
'bis money. They forced their
way in and fired shots to iutimi
date the guests and members of
the party, then tied everyone up
* at tho point of a pistol and taped
their mouths.
rhenevert, a former prize fight
er, became furious. broke his
bonds and began to ilght. In the
struggle one of the members was :
killed. The robbers, knowing
• 4hat everyone in the .house knew
their identity, proceeded to s’a
wftbter the entire party.
Luke May described the crinri
as that of a fiend. probably a
large men with others of gr«at
•trength, who was infuriated by'
jbis lust for blood. •
A blood-soaked coat turned out
to belong to a navy yard worker
who explained be had been in a
bad fight.
Reports said that Mrs. Flieder
bad been receiving a hundred
ami twenl.y-ifive dollars monthly
income from a trust fund left by
her first husband. She and her
husband had quarreled with aa
unnamed Seattle man. a would*be
partner in the beer parlor, ahe
is also being investigated.
i Bremerton Mystery Slaying
fBy The Associated Press)
Bremerton. April 2—'Attempts
are being made here and in Seat
I . .
j tie to untangle the clues to the
j v isly slaying of six i< u ons who
were found dead in the blood
spattered home of Frank Flieder
jin the summer colony on Erlands
Point, Saturday nigh.. It is said
that they had been dead a couple
of days.
j The victims are: Frank Flieder,
aged 45, owner of the home; his
j wife, 50; Eugene €henevert, 38,
better known as Bert Vincent,
the "siuging bartender,” a former
vaudeville player; his wife Peggy,
.30; Magnus Jordon, 50, retired
navy man and caretaker of the
.summer homes; Fred Balcom, a
J bartender of a Bremerton beer
parlor.
Th ree imprisoned clogs in ;i
I Packard sedan drew the attention
jof neighbors and Tom Sanders,
jlate Saturday, peered thru win
jdows of the house and saw two:
j bodies. He, then notified the po- i
lice. The only silent witness to j
Ihe killings was a white cat.
It is believed that robbery of !
FUeder was the motive,' as :
her two diamond rings and one
dinner ling valnod at fifteen' hun
dred dollars are missing.. ' i.
The bodies were strewn all j
about the house, battered or shot
to death. Two throats were cut j
and the place was ransacked.
The bodies were removed by j
mortuaries last night after evi- !
dence had been taken by Luke i
May who is working with Sheriff!
D. L. Blankenship. They said
the deed was so ghastly that it
appeared that the killers blight
have been dope crazed or anxious
to remove the last chance of 1
being identified. May said that
he believed that Chen evert, FI te
ller and Balcom had made a grim j
ftght for their lives. All victims
were either first tied up or had .
their tboutns^amS^ eyes "taped.
Flieder was a member of oue
of Bremerton’s oldest families,
having been married the third
time. - '
A blood-stained gray suit cume
before the authorities when Isa
dore Laschhin, a tailor, reported
it brought to his place Friday,
after another cleaner had turned
down the job. It was a large
sized suit and had three clean
ing marks on It which are being
traced in an attempt to find the
Owner, Three men have been
questioned as part of the roundup
of underworld characters taking
place.
NAVAL RR8KRVK OFFK HRS
J ' TO CRIT8K ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
SAIN DIEGO, April 1 Future
naval reserve officers of the Uni
versity of California and Wash
ington will visit Alaska the later
part of June aboard the Destroy
ed Buchanan and Crowinshleld
under prospect ve Itineraries an
nounced here.
ROOSEVELT WILL SIGN
REPEAL FOR ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, April 5th—The
House of Representatives adopted
'the Senate resolution In an amend
| rr.eut measure which was recently
| approved by congress for repeal
I ing prohibition laws in Alaska,
! striking out provisions which give
j the Governor powers to pardon
[ prohibition law violators. The
provision was stricken bemuse it
was held that it made the act
u Tifonstitulioa'a-l. Delegate Diin
ond said that with 'the adoption
I by the Senate of tilt? resolution,
the President would sign the re
peal law.
Alaskan Mining and Fishing Bills
(Jo To White House
Washington. April 5 -The House
of Representatives passed and
sent to the Senate a lull hy Dele
gate Dimond permitting the ter
ritorial legislature to make its
own regal,a ions op placer mining
in Alaska Hy repealing the United
States mining laws insofar as
their application there is concern
ed..
The House also sent to the
White House another Dimond bill
which passed the senate to per
mit Indians and bonafide perman
ent white residents along the
Kuskokwitn and Yukon Rivers to
fish commercially king salmon un
der the regulations made by the
Secretary of Commerce.
The House also passed and
sent to the Senate a Dimond bill
granting citizenship to the Metla
katna indians who emigrated
front British Columbia in IRS'?
and who were denied certain'
hunting and fishing^ privileges be
cause of alien birth.
The House passed and sent to,
the senate another Hill permitt
ing rertain persons occupying '
small tracts of laud in Alaska as j
home sites to purchase five acres
of same at two and a half dollars
an acre for homesites.
A bill by Delegate Dimond an- ;
thorizing the Secretary of the In-j
tcrior to sell to the occupants 13 ,
houses and lots In Anchorage
held by the Alaska Railroad and
now rented to the employees of
the railroad, was also passed.
The House passed and sent to
the Senate a bill to amend the i
Alaska Coal Heaaing Act of 1 ft 14 i
'by adding the provision that all
cases in which operation or pro
duction has Keen suspended un
der the coai leases shall be direct
ed or assented to by the Secre
tary of the Interior. The an
nual rental also shall be suspend
ed and the term of the lease ex
tended by adding to the suspen
sion period.
To save wiling letters, mail a
ropy of The Nome Nugget on plane
' ALASKA PILOT AND
PASSENGKH KILLED
Fairbanks, April 6—Pilot Kd.
Fageros, dying a |pur place Stin
son plane of the Wein Airways,
and his passenger, Michael Takoff
were instantly killed while land
ing at McGrath, Thursday.
Fageros was a new pilot here
and is survived by his mother
and sister in Chicago. Takoff
was interested in mining at Flat
and returned from thf; States last
Monday. As soon as weatlioi
clears a BAA plane will leave to
bring the bodies to Fairbanks,
There are no other details.
25 I'KlIfiO.VS |)I K |\
OKLAHOMA I LOOPS
(ily Tile Associated Press)
Cnduled, April 5 • At least
persons are believed to lie dead
and a number missing, with a
property damage ot tjeuriy u, mU
iioji ‘ (toll.ni s, ;fs 'Ti ♦- ult*of floods
in Oklahoma. Wisconsin. Ohi i
and Kansas. Snow held up file
traffic in the Rocky .Mountain re
gion, being fifteen inches deep in
the Dakota Hills.
As high water receded in the
Klk City. Oklahoma section one is
Known dead and fifteen are miss
ing, with a property damage of
half a million. The Wisconsin
death list includes nine, and of-'
ficials have mapped relief plans
for victims in eight counties
which were swamped bv rains
and melting snow. The Ohio
flood damage amounts to about
a (hundred,. tlimistand dollars, and
one man was killed by lightning.
The overflow in Kansas ma> do
moge good than damage.
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CAVA AU/ITTKI) fttt&OOO
WORK HM? AC)SKA
(By Tile Associated Press).
WASHINGTON, April 1 !>el
e^att Dimond said that the Civil
Works Administration allotted >ui
additional eighty-two thousand
dollars to Alaska to complete the
projects started under the civil
works program. This makes a
total allottruept to the Territory
of Alaska of $502,000 wilder the
present program,
CIVIL WORKS PROGRAM
TO KXTRXl) TO 1IAY
i Ey The Associate! °res»)
Washihgt ., rj*. 3. fi'e fee
leral Emergency Heller Administra
■tlon allotted relief funds to Al
aska in the amount of forty-two
j thousand to <*over the cost of
lo^al project payrolls ^frtmi Mar ,*h
26th to April Bth, and forty
thousand dollars from April 5th
to May 1st.
i SOURDOUGH.. STATIONERY FOR
ISALE AT THE NUGGET OFFICF
TURKU OTHER RUSSIAN
AVIATORS MISS IN <;
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lUy The Associate 1 Press)
Moscow, April 2—'Experts fear
ed that three Russian aviators
met disaster in their attempts to
rescue the S9 men on the ice
floes off the northern capes in the
Arctic Ocean. They are Pilots
Katnang;, Molokoff and Pivenstein.
No word has been received from
them since March 29th when they
hopped with three ships from An
adyr for Cape Vankarein, the res
cue base on the Siberian coast.
Aviator Reaches Klee.
Advices received in Moscow Apr
3Tii are to |:h(> effect that Russian
I Avidior liahadibit), who took off
troni Anadyr, H,hi ria, landed nti
the ice line yesterday, and then
ji.prvpf (| off from Uih ici* flop to
f’apf* Vunkamn for supplies. He.
did not lake from the floe any of
Hie stranded Uussin\y<. . plan
ned'”to return to ihh bye With sup
plies. and then tct a i "-ferry some
of its marooned members to- fund
KIN.41. ORIIKKS ISSlK.li
FOR INSHil.S AKKFST
(By The Associated Press)
Istanibul. April 2 Final orders
have been issued %for the formal
arrest of Insull. He Is to bo
detained for American authorities
who are seeking to extradite him.
The United States- arrest is ex
pected at any moment.
Ml>lttAAXTHAl' ( <IXSIDKRS
RRTIRIXO HRKKTl ItOMM
• (By The Associated Press)
Washington? April 2 Morgan
that; -Has .•itutiitH'* T!fi“ )'>!:•!)«. * for'" ’ —"
retiring a billion dollmrs worth of
Fourth Liberty Loan Minds on
April 15th which have been call
ed. Tti ere has been no hint of
any but orthodox borrowing met
hods.
asks lease suspension
ON UNOPKRATED MINKS,
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. March BO -
The House Public. Lauda Commit
tee Friday voted to report favor
ably on a bill’ijy Dint on cl which
isuspends the last payments on
coal mines im the Territory which
are inoperative. The bill was an
amendment to the Leasing Act of
1914 which allowed mining cora
!panics to lease coal claims for 5ft
years. Secretary Ickes, who re
commended the amendment. said
that while many leases- were is
sued. only four are now operat
ive. Ickes further said that other
payments on leases of luoperative
mines have been suspended and
he saw n« reason why the privilege
should not he extended to Alask
an operators.
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