Oldest JNev* spa per in Alaska. “The News of the Day In Pictures” Vletubcr of The Associated Press
DEVOTED TO THE BUILDING OF A BETTER NOME AND THE SECOND DIVISION.
NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY AVIATION
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 37. No. 307 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DEC. 29, 1936 Per Copy 15cts
All 12 Passengers Airliner Killed
TO EXPRESS ALASKA’S CRITICISM STRIKE
MASS MEETING AT
KETCHIKAN TIME
ARRIVAL OF BOAT
Presen1 Effects of Shutdown of Shipping To and From
Territory Serving to Retard Legitimate
And Deserving Development
(By The Associated Press )
KETCHIKAN. Doc. 29—Efforts to coordinate Alas
kan protests of the Maritime Strike was made by the
City Council at a special meeting last night when they
joined hand with the Pioneers of Alaska, calling for a
mass meeting for late tomorrow, when the Canadian
steamer Princess Norah docks here with a number of
Territorial legislators and others prominent in territor
ial affairs, who are enroute to Juneau.
Leaders pointed out that not only will a continuance
of the strike prevent shipment to Alaska of needed
mining and fishery equipment, but provision must be
made to ship South about five million pounds of fresh
fish, etc.
Appeals are planned, not only to the President and
Congress, but to shipowners and unions—complaints
will be made that government operation cannot-Tie ade
quate without the early chartering of many more boats,
which it is feared is unlikely. It was pointed out for
example that the steamer General Gorgas carried some
liquor cargo here, and while leaving the dock at Seattle
a wire for other materials, necessary to preserve Ket
chikan’s industrial payrolls, was not included in the
cargo.
yr Fraaklia D. BmsctsII
Widows Of Men
Who Murdered
Watch Hanging
(By The Asssciated Press)
FULTON, Mo., Dec. 29—In the
presence of the widows of two
murdered men, their slayer was
hanged in Fulton. He had been
convicted of killing Sergeant
Ben Booth of the Missouri High
way Patrol and Sheriff Roger
Wilson of Callaway County, of
which Fulton is the seat, when
they stopped to question him on
June 14, 1933, about a bank rob
bery.
Mrs. Alice Booth, widow of the
Annual Message
Congress To Be
Next Wednesday
■ -mmi
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 29
President Roosevelt’s annual mes
sage to Congress will be deliver
ed a week from Wednesday, Cap
itol officials having arranged for
a joint message of the House and
Senate on the afternoon of Jan
uary sixth, when they meet for
the dual purpose of counting the
presidential votes and hearing
the chief executive deliver his
message in person.
The President will speak about
two P.Ji. E.S.T., when his re
marks will be broadcast. It is
regarded as certain that the top
ics will include discussions on
neutrality, relief, crop insurance,
and farm tenancy.
highway patrolman, requested
that her two children might also
watch the execution, but this re
quest was denied by authorities.
“I feel justice has been served,”
Mrs. Booth commented immedi
ately after the hanging.
How Mining Claims can be
Staked in Alaska, length, Bread
th, how many, and the Associa
tion Claim, described in detail, in
j pamphlet form, for sale at The
| Nugget Office, for 10 cents.
German Vessel
Released After
Warship Comes
•'By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Dec. 29-—The Basque
radio station at Bilbao announc
ed the release of a German frei
ghter at Palos, which was alleged
to be a Spanish contraband war
prize, a short time after the six
thousand ton German cruiser
Koenigsberg steamed into the
harbor.
Arms Embargo
x4ct Was Held
To Be Legal
(By The Associated Press''
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 26
Constitutionality of the Arms
Embargo Act, which was enacted
by Congress in 1934 and which
authorized the President to for
bid the sale in the United States
of munitions for use in the re
cent Gran Chaco between Bolivia
and Paraguay, was upheld by the
United States Supreme Court.
The case came up from the
United States district court of
southern New York, which held
the act unconstitutional, saying it
was illegal delegation of legisla
tive power to the President. Be
for the supreme court, the gov-1
ernment attorneys contended that;
a decision holding the act uncon- i
stitutional would operate to nul
I
lify a large part of the congres- ]
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sional legislation designed to pre
serve United States neutrality.
The vote of the supreme court;
was seven in favor of the consti
tutionality of the act to one aga- j
inst. Associate Justice George
Sutherland delivered the affirm- ■
I
ative opinion of the majority. As-■
soeiate Justice James C. Rey
nolds delivered the dissenting op
inion.
Associate Justice Harlan Stone
is ill and did not participate in
the case.
Electric Eye Foil
Escapes at Joliet
________
(Bv The Associated Press)
JOLIET, 111. (AP)—Since the
day two guards politely opened
the gates of Joliet prison permitt
ing Convict Henry "Midget” Fer
neke to walk out posing as a visi
tor, the State of Illinois has spent
more than $20,000 to make the
place more fool-proof. ^
Ferneke, accused of five gun
(Continued on Page Four)
DOCK STRIKE CLOSES WAREHOUSES
San Francisco’s warehouses were shut tight as warehousemen, affili
ated with the International Longshoremen’s Association, walked out
on strike in company with the maritime unions participating in the
Pacific Coast marine strike that paralyzed shipping and extended also
to the eastern coast. (Associated Press Photo)
FEARS FELT FOR SAFETY OF
MATTSON BOY AS EFFORTS
MADE TO CONTACT KIDNAPER
' By The Associated Pi ess i
TACOMA, Dec. 29—Apparent
fears for the safety of the Matt
son boy, who was kidnaped Sun
day evening, brought the search
to an abrupt standstill early to
day. A single electric light burn
ed in the house, and at dawn
none of the occupants had stirr
ed. . ,
Searching partle which scour
ed the Tacoma area for Charles,
his kidnapper, the newest public
enemy of the nation’s only un
solved kidnaping, returned to
headquarters, and guards around
the home were withdrawn.
Dr. Mat*son announced public
ly that he wou’d make an attem
pt to communicate with the kid
naper and until authorities ad
vises to do so, neither the Lr-men
who assumed full charge of the
investigation, nor the father,
would vouchsafe an explanation
nf the cause of cessation of activ
ities. However, unofficial obser
vers deduced that fears for his
safety was responsible for the
present situation.
'IV' Tnt Associated Press)
BURBANK, Dec. 29—It took
hours to bring the bodies from
the tangled wreckage down the
steep R.ce Canyon, twenty miles
north of here, to the nearest road
then to the mortuaries. All the
bodies were curshed in the fuse
lage met instatT death Depart
ment of Commerce inspectors
were aL4he scene of the wreck.
This is the first time a United
Air Lines plane has lost a passen
ger in their six years of opera
tion on the San Francisco—Los
Angeles route, dying seven mill
on miles.
Company officials ‘heorized that
Pilot B om suddenly lost his bear
Lags in attempt ng to turn back
to an emergency fieid at Saugus
when he crashed. Most of tire pas
sengers w ere hoi daying.
UNO COLLECTED PIONEER HOME
T! e Chr-'lmas Cheer Fund
Committee of Pioneer Igloo No. 1
. t Nome, reported back to the
lodge that it had collected $113.50
in cash donations and a year's
subscription of the Nome Daily
Nugget for inmates of the home.
President Rydeen announced
'.a! the money had been mailed
o Supt. Eiier Hansen on Decem
ber 23rd. and that a Xmas tele
gram of Greetings to the oldtim
crs there was sent on the 24th,
• „;vi--'na the home that Nome’*
.•aa '.on was in the mail enroute
to S tka.
12 WERE
KILLED IN
AIRPLANE
Completely Demolished
(Bv The Associated Press)
BURBANK, Calif., Dec. 29th—
The ground party which reached
the wreckage of the California
p'ane near Saugus, reported that
all twelve occupants were killed
and the plane scattered down the
slope of Oak Mountain, a dis
tance of a thousand yards. ,
* QUADRUPLETS BORN TO TENANT FARMER’S WIFE
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Mrs. Pearl Bridges, 35, wife of a tenant farmer of Senath, Mo., is pictured with the quadruplets, a boy
and three girls, born to her. Three of the four died, however, because necessary aids which might have
kept them alive were lacking in the Bridges’ log cabin home. (Associated Press Photo)
N. A. C. NEW YEAR’S EVE BARN DANCE
DECEMBER 31st 9:45 P. M. WHITES ONLY—LADIES FREE—GENTS $1.00 AT THE NOME AMU3ET.IENT HALL—9:45 P. M. NEW YEAR'S EVE.
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