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VOL. 36. No. 268. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. NOV. loth, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Fed. Judge Rules On Guffey Coal Act
NEW PHILIPPINE GOVT INAUGURATED TODAY
Two Witnesses Say No Vote Taken Juneau Mine Strike
Youth Shoots Self
Infatuated With
16-year-old Girl
CBy The Associated Press)
Kelso, Wn., Nov. 14, — A
coroner’s investigation was
held today over Arthur Young
aged 16, who shot himself
through the head after flour
ishing a pistol in a junior
high school classroom this
morning.
Police Chief Pritchard said
the shooting and suicide was
motivated by the youth’s in
fatuation for an eleven yea*
old girl.
Dead After Quarrel
(By The Associated Press)
Baltimore, Nov. 14, —Mrs.
Ann Young, 42, and her hus
band 41, were shot and kill
ed after a family quarrel at
their home last night.
The woman was found ly
ing in an upstairs room, shot
twice in the back by a shot
gun. Her husband’s body was
in another room with a shot
gun wound in the head.
(By The Associated Press)
Shanghai, Nov. 15, — In
formed quarters stated that
the U. S. Treasury Depart
ment and the Chinese Minist
ry of Finance were in nego
tiation of an agreement pro
viding for American coopera
tion for the enforcement of
China’s silver nationalization
program. The plan involves
the American purchase of
specified amounts of silver.
JUDGE RULES GUFFEY
COAL ACT CONSTITU
TIONAL IN BIG TRIAL
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Guffey Coal Act Regarded As The “Little
NR A” Coal Industry Withstands Attack
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 15, —
(Copyright by AP) —Feder
al judge Elwood Hamilton to
day held the Guffey Coal Act
constitutional.
He declared that congress
had the power to regulate
wages and prices in any in
dustry which congress may
conclude bears on interstate
commerce.
He pronounced that the
courts were powerless to re
view such a conclusion if
there were any facts to sup
port.
Federal authority under
the constitutional, interstate
commerce, and general wel
fare clauses, the Judge held,
would sustain the legislation
whenever the states failed or
were helpless to act.
“People and states are in
tended to surrender all the
rights they had to promote
the general welfare. That
could not be done by the stat
es acting independently” the
Judge said.
Nineteen coal companies,
with sales totalling nearly
seven hundred thousand dol
lars a month, challenged the
act, which has been called the
“Little NRA” of the coal in
dustry.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Departs
From Customs Of His Father
New York, Nov. 15, (Copy
right AP) — Forsaking the
traditional practice of- his
father, John D. Rockefeller
Jr., has terminated his an
nual monetary gifts to the
Northern Baptist Church, in
the belief that inter-denom
ination is the best servitor of
the Christian religion.
In the future his gifts will
be only to specific agencies
of the church.
He said “I have long felt
that this denominational em
phasis is a divisive force in
the progress of organized
Christian work, and an obsta
cle to the development of the
spirit of the life of Christ
among men.”
He wrote a letter March
7th to the Northern Baptist
convention, but it was reveal
ed only Thursday night.
Rockefeller’s previous don
ations were generally to bud
get the Baptist Church, and
ranged from two hundred and
fifty thousand, to one million
dollars annually.
Girl Trapper Lost
Day And A Night
Found Exhausted
Barrhead, Alberta, Nov. 13
—A girl trapper, Mary Shee
han by name, aged 17, lost
her way while tending her
trap line and wandered for a
day and a night in the forest,
until found by a searching
party, exhausted by the cold,
exposure and lack of food.
She is now recovering at her
home here.
Fire Does $20,000
■
Damages Forces
People To Flee
(By The Associated Press)
Iowa City, Nov. 14, — Offi
cials estimated that twenty
thousand dollars damages
were caused by a fire which
threatened Mercy Hospital,
housing seventy patients, last
night.
Flames forced more than a I
hundred nurses and other em
ployees to flee in their night
clothes. Several patients suff
red from shock.
Train Wreck Kills
2 And Injures One
(By The Associated Press')
Jewett, Nov. 14, — A Pen
nsylvania railroad freight
train struck an automobile at
a grade crossing today, kill
ing engineer J F Burke, fire
man Nea E Brewer and the
driver of the car Edward
Prather was injured. Eight
een cars were derailed.
Corp. President Is
Opposed To Taxes
(By The Associated Press)
New Orleans, Nov. 13, —
Lewis H. Brown, president of
the John Manville Corpora
tion launched a crusade today
against taxation with the bat
tle-cry: “The cost of govern
ment must be reduced!” He
also sought the aid of the Am
erican Bankers Association in
his drive.
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Philippine Gov t.
Inaugurated lath
. ist
(By The Associatca Press)
Manila, Nov. 15, —Pledged
by its president to follow con
servative policies, the Phili
ppine Commonwealth was
launched Thursday amid col
orful ceremonies, bringing
self-government back to the
Filipinos after a four hundred
years absence.
Manuel Quezon took the
oath of office as the first Pres
ident of the new insular gov
ernment. He was surrounded
by American notables includ
irg Vice President John Nan
ce Garner, Secretary of War
George II. Dern, President
Roosevelt’s personal represen
tatives. Meanwhile in Wash
ington the President had for
mally proclaimed the com
monwealth gov’t, which is to
lead to full independence in
10 years.
TELEGRAPHIC
B R E VITIE S
ft’v The Associated Press)
Hollywood, Nov. 15, With
his temperament blamed as
the cause of a rift, Clark Gab
le and his second wife Mrs.
Rhea Lucas Gable, entered
upon an amicable separation,
still good friends. No immed
iate divorce is contemplated.
Seattle, Nov. 15, — James
Goodwin, 50, discarded his
clothing and swam to his
death in Green Lake today.
The body was recovered this
afternoon. The coroner claims
he met death by suicide.
Walla Walla, Nov. 15, —
Henry A Saxton, 53, Walla
Walla country merchant, was
killed in an automobile acci
dent near here today His son
Donald was injured slightly.
Hauptmann Appeals
To Supreme Court
fBv The Associated Press)
Washington, Nov. 12, —
Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
today appealed to the Sup
reme Court to save him from
the electric chair, the senten
ce imposed, following his con
viction of the charge of kid
naping and murder of Charl
es Augustus Lindbergh Jr.
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TWO TESTIFY TRIAL
25 RIOTERS JUNEAU
TIME MINE STRIKE
Two Witnesses On Stand Identify Pickets
In Spring Strike Alaska Juneau Mine
Juneau, Nov. 15, — Two
government witnesses testi
fied today at the trial of 25
men accused of rioting June
24t.h this year, as a group of
mine employees marched to
the mine to register for the
resumption of work.
i They are Ted Danielson
'and James Lynam. Both said
they were assaulted and in
jured in the melee. Both said
the strikers massed across the
street, threatened them, and
then attacked those marching
to the mine employment. Sev
oral of the defendants were
identified as those leading the
assault.
Danielson asserted under
direct testimony that no
strike vote had ever been tak
en at the time of the walkout.
The reason the majority did
n't return to work the next
morning was because all the
trails were picketed, keeping
those desiring to return to
work from doing so, he said.
Voters Return To
Power The Same
Gov’t. In Rnglanri
r
(liy The Associated Press)
London, Nov. 15, Returns
from yesterday’s general fl
ection showed that the nation
a! government had retained
its majority in the House of
Commons, although Ramsay
MacDonald, lord president of
the council and first leader
of the national government,
went down to defeat. He
was defeated with his father
Malcom MacDonald who ran
for colonial secretary.
The voters returned 308 na
tional gov’t, members, and
early reports said the num
ber constituted a majority in
the total of G15 seats.
Anthony Eden, Minister of
League Affairs was reelected
bv a huge majority.
War News From Africa, Europe
Comes Through Condensed Form
Undated, Nov. 15, —Gener
al Do Bono reported that Az
bi had been occupied after
lively fighting in which fif
ty-five Ethiopians had been
killed, and one hundred of
them wounded. Also 20 As
kari had been killed on the
Italian side and four Italian
officers and 50 Askari wound
ed.
The fall of Daggah Bur ap
peared imminent in the face
of the rapidly advanving Ital
ian columns. It was reported
that no resistance was being
offered by the defending Eth
iopians.
An airplane attack killed a
priest and destroyed a chur
ch yesterday. Planes bombed
the Ethiopian line of retreat
today south of Amba Alaji,
preceded by the encounter at
Azabi.
Rome, in its anti-sanction
campaign, continued today
with action directed toward
profiteering shop owners, as
the nation took its final stand
against sanctions.
In Paris, Premier Laval
prepared to resume diplomat
ic conversations toward a set
tlement of the war, after a
temporary truce had been
declared during the British
election.
Dredges Continue
Work In Spite Cold
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, Nov. 15, —De
spite a temperature of 30 de
gress below zero, five dredg
es of the Fairbanks Explora
tion Co., in this area, are still
digging steadily, twenty-four
hours a day.
The company also has some
of its outdoor crews engaged
in the preparation of equip
ment for thawing and strip
ping large placer areas in
readiness for next spring.
The company engaged 600
men at the height of their
activity this season. Most of
the seasonal employment is
now closed down. The com
pany reported its dredge op
erations as being satisfactory.