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TAYliOR LEAVES FOR JUNKAIT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, (AP) —
Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer of
the Alaska Road Commission, will
leave today for Juneau to prepare
a program of road and trail con
struction for 1934.
Taylor and Governor Troy were :
here more than a week seeking I
funds from the federal govern
ment for public works projects
and the relief of unemployment.
The Governor plans to remain here
a w«*ek or ten slays .before, return
ing to Juneau.
Delegate Ditnond said that be
tween two hundred and twojhun
dred fifty thousand dollars has
been assured the Territory tty the
Civil Works Administration, about
a third of which will be given to
the Bureau of Indian Affairs to
provide work for unemployed na
tives.
unit AH WANTS
SU.VKK HRMONITIZKl*
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. (AP)
- Disclosures that the government
used only a fraction of its fifty
million of its gold buying funds
in more than a month’s operation, i
was accompanied by a vigorous
new demand from Borah for the j
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y.emonitization of silver. The ex
act figures were with held on the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
t on’s outlay for newly mined dotn
cstic gold and that bought abroad,
but in official quarters the expen
ditures are described as not any
thing l!ke the amount set aside. (
It Is estimated that not one half ;
of it is used.
At the same time, the American !
Federation of Labor has added an- ■
other element to the situation with '
statements in its monthly review Ol
business, that “The uncertainty ;
over the dollar and future fears
of fiat money retards business ad
vance. ami the President's tneth
i
• ods of devaluing the dollar by ]
stating gold prices daily differs
greatly from Dilation by flat mon- j
ey. The federation also found the |
beginning of improvement in the
basic construction, steel and lum- I
her industries, wh'ch brightens the ;
horiion.
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WILL mSC’TKS CODES
FOB TERRITORIES i
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, (API
— In a pronouncement by NBA
•officials of their policy for Puerto
Ulco. described as equality applic
able to Alaska, Johnson disclosed
a formula for the extention of the
recovery movement to the terri
tories. The codes already approv
ed for continental United States
will be adopted in Alaska, but
other codes will be adopted exclus
ively for territorial and Industrial
trades that are local.
Three classes of public hearings
will be held, in each of which
management, labor and the con
suming public will be represented.
“The method of procedure at the
hearings will be announced in a
few days. The delay in carrying
. the NRA into the territories is
due to the desire for a precedent
here to teat bh models to be foll
owed with alterations for the poss
essions.
FOR SALE
Singer Portable Electric Sewing
machine and vacuum cleaner, both
practically new. Sell cheap for
cash. Inquire Nugget Office.
VERNE MILLER SLAIN
DETROIT. Dec. 2, (AP) - The
police are without clues or theor
ies as they sought the slayers of
Verne iMiller, the notorious Mid
western desperado, former sheriff
of North Dakota, and World War
hero, whose battered and nude
body was found in the outskirts
of the city, wrapped in a blanket.
He was wanted for machine gun
slaying at Union Station, -Kansas
City, on June 17th.
BACCHUS AGAIN ON THRONE
UNDATED, Dec. 2, (AP)
Bacchus, that old Roman diet.v of
drink, comes out of retirement
Tuesday in many states, and is
bustling to make his return a
gala event, but orderly and .legal
withal. The survey of the liquor
shows that many s ates are ready
with 'regulatory legislation on that
date, when the twenty-first amend
ment becomes effective. To other
commonwealths, the bl£ dam does
not mean anything.
CONFESSED HE
DYNAMITED HOUSE
TACOMA. Dec. 2, (AIM —James
Watson aged, forty-six. confessed
that he dynamied a house in Puy
allup in which h's estranged *ife
twenty-six and John Rough, forty,
were seriously injured. He was
held under ten thousand dollars
ba'l. She was Rough's house keep
er. In an action for divorce which
she filed, she alleged that she
married Watson under duress.
When Watson was arrested, he
had several sticks of dynamite, a
revolver and a pint of whisky on
him. The house was wrecked.
PRESIDENT SIGNED
LIQUOR < 'ODE
WlAiRM SPRINGS, Nov. 27. JAP)
— President Roosevelt signed a
code establishing federal conrol of
rlie liquor traffic after prohibition
and until Congress fixes a per
manent method. ....
The President ^said that lie did
not want the code to interfere with
state liquor control measures, but
did not want to prevent the “con
fusion and uncertainly that would
necessarily arise between the ac
tual legal repeal of the amendment
and the passage of appropriate
legislation by Congress in conse
quence thereof.” The distiller’s
code will be « pattern for other
codes for brewers, importers, rec
tifiers and blenders. The code
authorities actions are subject to
approval by the federal alcohol con
ftp! committee, . ,
FIRMAN *'EM IKK
DIKII HI' \ IIA V
PARIS, Nov. 27. (AP)—Firman
Cenvier, a theatrical producer and
actor, died Sunday of a heart at
tack.
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READ IN MORE TROUBLE
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29. (AP)
—Alfred Read Jr., an Oakland
broker, whose former wife won
seventy-five thousand heart balm
from Claire Windsor, a blonde
stage and screen actress, was con
victed by a municipal court Jury
of lifting eleven dollars from the
purse of the aetrebs last October.
DOR BANT LOSES LIBEL SUIT
! SEATTLE,. Dec. 1, (AP)—Dor
* bant, who was exonerated several
i months ago on smuggling charges,
j lost the suit connected with that
case. His plane was libelled on
J four counts. He failed to give
l advance notice of his coming to
I the United 'States. He failed to
hand at the des'gnated point oi
j entry. He failed to report inn
{mediately the plane’s arrival in the
{United States and failed to obtain
|a permit for unloading passengers.
{ Oite of San Juan’s passengers,
I Lyman Desteffany, a fur tradfer was
{exonerated. Whether the govern
1 ment or the Northwest Air Service
j
{will have the plane, will be dcter
I mined December 8th. Dorbant was
{'buying the plane from the company.
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{ACQUITTED OF MURDERING
HER HUSBAND
SPOKANE. Nov. 2!)rh. (AP)-—
'Lilv Banka (James was acquitted
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of murdering her husband, Doc
itor .James T. (Ja nes, by a jury of
{four women and eight men. after
{one hour and ten minutes deliber
iation, on the first ballot,
j The sanipraetor was shot on
'August 15th. The state sought to
I prove that she was jealous of his
{many women friends, find wanted
{his life insurance. Tiie defense
claimed that an unknown person
shot Caines as bo was arriving ,
home after visiting another woman
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! M \ltYI,AM) GOVERNOR
AFTER liYNFHERS 1
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! SAIilSIUIUY, Mdi Nov. 2S. ( VI')
|—WilUain H. Thompson, a mem
i ber of the coroners jury which*
opened a formal investigation of I
i the lynching of George Armwood,
a negro, at Princess Anne, was
'one of the first to be arrested bv
the National Guardsmen, on acgns
atlons of beiiijr one of the part
icipants in, the lynching. He is !
'hirty-three years old' and a drug- j
gist at Princess Anne. The others !
arrested are Irving Adkins, VVH- ,
liam I’. Hearne and S. McQuay.
The guardsmen were sent from j
Baltimore oil order of the govern
or. Nine men in all are named
as having been '•identified as mem
j bers of the mob. Their arresls *
v.rere sought. A cluster began to
: gather near the armory, critlelz
i ing the governor and attorney gen
jeral for the orders issued. The/
jsaw the guards heavily armed and
ready for trouble.
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I commission to aid power
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, (AP)
— Chairman of the Federal Power
Commission, Frank McNinch, said
in a statement that, it was the
commission's purpose “to do all it
can within the law to break the
holding company's stranglehold on
power."
CHARGED WITH VIOLATION
PEONAGE LAW
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SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 28,
(AP)— Four men charged with
violating the state peonage laws
by forcing Alaska fishery workers
to purchase clothes and other art
icles, to obtain Jobs, pleaded not
guilty, in-, the Superior Court. The
game four, who also face federul
Indictments, are Ey P. Mayer, A1
Mayer, Samuel Young and Ynn
cencio Lopez.
'ATTKMPTH TO
BLACKMAIL KING
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. LONDON, Nov. 29. (AP) —
Clarence Guy Gordon Hadtlorw'^tniri
dic aged, was charged wiflH at
tempted blackmail and kidnapping
| King George of England. He told
Scotland Yard: ‘‘I do not see why
11 should be hounded for being the
l illegitimate son of the Duke of
I Clarence, who was the eldest son
of King Edward, the Seventh."
The two charges were that he de
manded money from the King with
menaces and without reasonable or
probable causes. “ I deny that I
pleaded for a right to live, as my
letters to the King show,’’ said
Hadden. He will be held to Dec
ember Uli for hearing.
MAN KIDNAPPED IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO. Nov. 29 th. (AP) -
Two hours after George Graham,
chauffeur and reputed body-guard
of Thomas Maloy, business agent
of tile Hptibn Picture Operators
Union, was- abducted by two men,
a telephone call was received at
the Moley home demanding twen
ty thousand dollars ransom.
A.VOTHKK LYNCHING
IN .MISSOIKI
. ..SAX JOHN. Mu., Nov. 29, (AP)
A moh of seven thousand stormed
the Buchanan county jail, over
powered the officers and dragged
Lloyd Warner, a 19 year old
negro, whom the police said con
fessed attacking a 2 2 year old
white girl, from the cell and hang
ed him to a tree near the court
house.
Nit A COOKS FOR ALASKA
WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. (API
Delegate Dimond said that a
special committee, composed of
Hugh Wade, of Washington, D.
James Connors arid David Housel.
both of Juneau, will consider the
application of NRA codes to Alas
ka needs. D'mond said that the
committee as approved !>y the NRA
officials. Wade, who was in the
territory for some time as a De
partment of Justice investigator,
leaves for Juneau shortly. He has
been with the NRA several months
He will be deputy administrator.
The committee will modify the
existing codes especially for the
Territory, Dimond said.
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STRATOSPHERE RESULTS
maim: fi ber
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. (AP)
— The first scientific results in
Settles stratosphere flight, showing
life in form of fungus, spores or
mouls can survive eleven miles
above the earth, where humans
would die if unprotected. Spores
of seven kinds of fungi of tiny
plants, which Settle carried on
the outside of the gondola, lived
through tho temperatures far be
low sero.
LIQUOR ADVERTISEMENTS
BANNED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, (AP) —
The Post Office Deportment listed
Alaska among the states and terr
itories into which liquor advertise
ments connot be mailed, or liquo.’
orders solicited under the Reed
law of 1917.
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SHU* MW BE ABANDONED
MOSCOW, Dec. 1, (AP)'—Ninety
men and women, aboard a ship
jammed and battered 'by the Arc
tic ice for two months, may Ifiye
to abandon their perilous refuge
and take to the ice floes in the
East Siberian Arctic sea, accord
ing to a wireless. The icebreaker
Cheliuskiu said everything was
being made ready to leave the
ship should further pounding ne
cessitate. the abandonment.
Icebreakers were sent to her
assistance. Five women and one
child are aboard the Cheliuskin,
which sailed from Murmansk. Aug.
10th, to relieve a little colony of
scientists who spent the previous
winter ^ut Davidoff Islands. Em
bedded in the ice. the Cheliuskin
is gradually being carried toward
Bering Straits.
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IN KANSAS
' TOPE.KA. Nov. 29, (AP) A
menacing crowd gathered outside
the jail, after a negro jailer, lien
Davidson, was slugged and fat
ally wounded with his own pistol,
by Cecil Thornbrugh, white, a
bank and post-office robber. Thorn
brush was removed to the state
pr son at Lansing. The officials
said he admitted shooting the ne
1 gro^yKc Kansas legislature
is now in session, approved a mea
sure to re urn capital punishment.
Davidson shouted for help before
he died. He tossed Thornibrugh
down the steps from the upper cell
tier, and knocked him unconscious.
Officers later found the pair.
KIDNAPPERS GET WRONG MAN
CHICAGO. Dec. 1. (AP) Kid
nappers had to be content with_
eleven dollars instead of twenty
thousand demanded, because, the
police said, tehy rnadeu mistake in
the identity of the victims and
grabbed his chauffeur. The affair
was over in two hours. Aside
from disturbing the slumbers of
Thomas E, .Vialov, the head of thb
.Motion Picture Operators Union,
and costing George Cram, his
chauffeur some anxious moments
‘and eleven dollars, no other harm
was done. He was released after
his money was taken and he was
found to be the w’fong man.
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HANGS SELF
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ST. Paul. Dec 1. (AP)—Willi®
Shurkie, alleged Chicago gangster,
hanged himself with a necktie " in
a odll in the Ramsey county jail.
He with eleven other members of
the Touhy gang. Including Roger
Touhy, their leader, were recently
acquitted In the Federal Court of
William Hamm. Jr„ millionaire
kidnapping. They are now held
on charges of abducting John, the
banber, Factor, in Chicago. Their
removal to Illinois was sent lor
tomorrow. Sharkie was believed
to bo mentally unsound.
ANDREW MEIJTjON'S
BROTHER DEAD
PITTS BUR, Dec. 1, (AP)—R.
B. Melon, aged seventy-five, presi
dent of the Mellon National Bank,
and brother of Andrew Mellon,
former Secretary of the Treasury,
'died after a month's illness.
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