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SERIOUS FLOODS IN EAST
WORK Of RESCUING RUSSIANS BEGUN
MRS. A. t. WYNEKOOP IS FOUNO GUILTY
ROOSEVELT-JOHNSON
ARE HARD AT IT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 5 ■— -
The President presented to an
* . assembly of NBA code authorities
a summons for further reduction
of working hours as a means of
spreading employment: ‘‘I give
io industry this challenge: It is
1he immediate task of industry to
re-employ more, people at pur
chasing wages, and to do it
row. Only thus, can we continue
i. recovery to restore the halanc©
seek. It is worthwhile to
keep in the front of our heads
the thought, that, people whose
incomes are less than two thou
sand a year, buy more than two
tidl'ds of all the goods sold In the
couHTTv. It is logical that it the
total ijinount thgt goes In wages to
this group is steadily increased,
merchants, employers and invest
ors will, in the long run, get
more incomes from the increased
volume of sales.”
■WASHINGTON, March 5— The
President said a year ago today
that the nation was "suffering and
r shrinking under econom'c pressur
es'a collapse
was at hand. We arrived at the
day to make our choice and we
made that choice. The American
people responded to the call for
action with eager enlistment In
the .struggle against ruthless, self
seeking, reckless greed and econ
omic anarchy. We -undertook, by
lawful constitutional processes
to reorganize the disintegration
system of production exchange for
fthe purpose of reorganization; not
only to bring back prosperity. It
1s far deeper than that. Reorgan
ization must l>e permanent for
all. We live in the hope that
never again will we have the soc
ial condition which permitted vast
sections of our population to ex
ist in the un-American way which
permitted maldistribution of
wealth and power. Let us consol
idate our gains with the resolve
that consolidation be for con
tinued progress, especially for the
greater happiness and. well-being
of the American people.”
JOHN HON TO SUMMARIZE
NRA SUGGESTIONS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 6—Gen
seal Johnson' is to have the Ins*
;v >rd to-night in an NRA grand
roundup of criticism and sugges
tions. There is an expectation
that there may possibly be an
: announcement of a presidential
order for cutting working hours
and increasing wage rates.
WASHINGTON, March 7 — Ad
ministrator Johnson felt that the
[coming NR A conference may re
sult in a detailed program of an
action designed to put more men
t to work, the immediate goal be
|.’ng a million more men. "Iit is
[clear that many arguments again:
at Roosevelt’s suggestions that
work hours be shortened left the
NRA chief unconvinced with the
exception of capital goods and In
dustry. He regards ii ten per
cent cut In hours accompanied by
proportionate boosts in wage rates
as feasible. Johnson has a three
fold task to secure the maximum
re-employment and protection for
public labor. The interests of
the majority to head off possible
congressional tinkering with indus
trial law this session. He hopes
to make both industry and labor
as ‘happy as possible bpt it is, a
s tuation which, it is said, per
mits neither to have its full de
sires.
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MRS. ROOHEVKI-T JIOl N
i-— FOR PURRfo RICO
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(By The Associated Press’!
WlASMIiNOTON, March 5-—Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is bound
for Puerto Rico to study its pro
blems of poverty. Tills wilj make
the first over ocean-flight by a
Pres’dent’s wife.
.MRS. KOOHEVKLT ARRIVES
PUERTO RICO
(By The Associated Press)
SAN JUAiN, March 7 — Mrs.
Roosevelt, who Is on an aerial
to-ur of the West Indies, arrived
at San Juan today.
MR8. ROOSEVELT MAKING
SPEEDY TOI lt
(By The Associated Press)
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands,
Murch 8 — Mrs. Roosevelt was
hailed by cheering crowds as she
continued enthusiastically her in
spection tour of the West Indies.
She arrived today from Port Au
Prince, Haiti, after making stops
at San Pedro, . Demacoris, Santc
Domingo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
making a total of 1,258 miles
flown since she left Florida. To
day’s program includes a hop tc
St. Croix and return thence t
flight to San Juan.
Su-t*x;ri!)e For the Nugget
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SFKIOIS FLOODS IV FAST
cj
(lJy The Associated Press)
| L’NI >ATFI), March ~> —- Roar,-.
ling streams -threatened serious
I *
I floods in the East as snow, melt
ed by ra'ns and climbing temper
| atures, swelled the rivers to dan
| v.erous points. Two hundred fam
j dies at Waterford, New York,
: hastily packed household goods
j and moved to higher mound a.i
; Mohawk River poured huge vol
Omes of water into the Hudson
River. Other iNew England towns
even some as far south as Wheel
ing, y. Ya„ were endangered by
the rising waters.
-MOKK K1,(M)IM> IN EAST
< P,v The Associated Press)
I’NDATKI), March H ^ Snow
and ice melted by two days of
sum mer- like weat her, swelled
Eastern rivers to dangerous
points; some streams leaving the (
banks and others near the flood |
dtage, carrying large hunks of ieo
which swept out bridges and j
caused many homes to .lie' a ban- .
doned.
CAN I* IAN SEA FISHERMEN
RESCUED
illy The Associated Press)
ASTRAKHAN, Russia, March 5
— -■ .-1
— Airplanes and icebreakers res
cued all but eighty-four of the
five hundred fisherman from ice
floes in the Caspian Sen.
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FAMOUS CAR RACER DIES
(By The Associated Press)
IMPERIAL, Calif., March 5 —
Ernie Triplett, among the most j
famous of the nation’s racing '
drivers, died as a result of a skull i
fracture received in Sunday’s race. !
when his oar crashed at the Mid
way Fair.
NEW CLUES OX IIILLINOKR
(By The Associated Prese)
/V)HICACrO. March <5 — Fresh
Clues pointed to the probability of
DllUnger lurking near here when
the car he and a negro accom
plice used whs found in front of
•the North Side apartment. He
was also sighted Saturday and
pursued, but was lost in the tra
ffic. Although the police watch
ed the car day and night, he fail
ed to return for 1t. The car be
longed to Sheriff Holley and re
volvers found in the side pocket
by police were those of the wo
man sheriff from whom Dlllinger
had escaped. Another woman,
seen with Dilllnger when he was
pursued Is believed , to be John
Hamilton’s sweetheart who visit
ed Dlllinger at the Crown Point
Jail several times as Dillinger's
, wife. ..Hamilton was Dillinger's
henchman.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NUGGET
PLANES, DOG TEAMS,
RESCUING RUSSIANS
CKAt 'KIX< ■ ICE
IMPERILS RISSIANS
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW. .March 7 — Cracking
ice added new perils to the dan
gers confronting* eighty-nine men
on the ice floes in Bering Sea.
The wooden barracks have split
apart from the cracking ice. The
camp k tchen also split with one
part carried some distance away.
However, the group radioed thaf
they were not downhearted.
• MOSCOW. March 7 Accord
ing to radio reports it is said that
the Ice is font'tilling to pile up In
their camp, causing the recurren
ce of new crevices. The women
and children who slept in the
damaged barracks were rescued
Just in time. Planes, ships and a
number of dog teams are working
to save the others.
MOSCOW, March l> -Two Russ
ians Lepidevsky and Petroff, in an
airplane, the ANT-4, rescued ten
women and two ■ children among
the hundred and one marooned on
an ice floe in the Northern Arc
tic side of Bering Straits. They
flew U) t'mia Weiren at a TPnvjier
ature of forty below zero,
PlliOT UfLLAM RECOMMENDS
NOME AS BASE
(By The Associated Pleas)
.ANCHOR ABE. March <> -Pilot
Harold (Milam, discoverer with Joe
Or.-eson of the wrecked Bilson
Bordland plane, who is here from
his flying base at Copper Center,
said that it iR not difficult with
favorable weather to rescue the
stranded Russians if the planes
operated from Nome us the main
base with North Cape as the sec
ondary base from which to locate
the party.
SPRING CONSTRUCTION PRO
GRAM LAUNCHED FOR ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON March 9—Dele
gate Dimond said that a construc
tion program involving an expen
diture of sixty thousand dollars
is to be launched for Alaska as
soon as the weather permits. Tw
enty-live thousand of Public
Works funds has been set aside
for rebuilding the lighthouse at
Sentinel Island, and thirty-five
thousand for a similar purpose at
Tree Point. Sixteen thousand was
previously spent for minor auto
I matic lights along the Alaskan
' coast.
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WYNKKOOP SENTENCED
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
(B;. Tii* Associated Press)
CHICAGO. March 6—Dr. Alice
Lindsay W.vnekoop was convicted
today of murdering her daughter,
Uheta. and was sentenced to
twenty-five .years of imprisonment
The i rv deliberated Tor thirty
five '"minutes. The deheridaSSc
heard the verdict quietly in a
wheel chair. The penalty’ is re
garded tantamount to life ’lin
jprisonmeut for the sixtv^three
y ear-old physician who is in ill
[health.
GENERAL ELECTION
DATE ADVANCED
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. March 9"— A
bill to advance the date of the
general,. elections in Alaska from
November to the second Tuesday
jin September was reported fav
orably upon by the Senate Terr
itories Committee which had pre
viously passed the House.
I’KOHI REPEAL FOR
r-:~-- ALASKA READY' .
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, MatVh 9
Favorable reports of the repeal
of prohibition in Alaska and
Hawaii were delayed by the
House Territories Committee
again waiting a minority vote. It
is reported that Representative
Strong of Texas, a Democrat, was
strongly opposed to iho repeal of
the dry law> in the Territories.
Favorable reports, which have
been prepared by Delegate
Dimond of Alaska and Delegate
MOOandless of Hawaii, will be
ready Thursday.
TWO MOHR AIRMAIL OKATHH
(By The Associated Press)
CHEYENNE, March 9 — Two
army Lieutenants, F. K. Howard
as pilot and A. R. Kerwin, pas»
enger, were burned to death in
their plane when the ship devel
oped motor trouble and was de
molished as it struck power
lines near Cheyenne Airport late
Friday, bringing the airmail fat
alities during t ho day to
four. The motor sputtered soon
after taking off from Salt Lake
City. The fliers were returning
to the field to remedy the trouble
when the plane struck wires. No
I mail was aboard as the nien were
*on a trial run.