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RUSSIAN ICE BREAKER SINKS, ARCTIC
TH IUSANPS KILLED IVIL WAR AUSTRIA
HI'SSI A \ HE-BREAKER
WENT fr<) BOTTOM
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Feb, 15 — Sixty clog
teams carrying supplies and cloth
0 ing are racing through arctic
trig are racing through the Arctic
dTed members of Professor Otto
Schmidt's Arctic expedition, who
were stranded for two days on the
ice near Berirfg Straits.
The doK teams departed from
North Cape Thursday, while the
airplanes are awaiting the abate
ment of storms to take off. The
cpot where the expedition’s vessel
Ohelluskin, sank after being crush
• rt bv the ice, and the positt >n of
<110 Te«we!,’s crew and party is
#7.17 north latitude and 172.51
w st longitude. <
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CHARGES FRAUD IN
AIRMAIL (OXTKACTS
(By The Associated Press)
WASIUMOTON, Feb. 14 r
Whnlesale cancellation of airmail
contracts was publicly explained
Wednesday tight by Postmaster
General Farley as predicated on
his belief that “all present dom
estic carriers secured their con
tracts on conspiracy or collusion’'
with possibly one exception, the
National Park Always, operating
In tJtah and Montana. Tie charg
ed that the conspiracy was hatched
at a meeting of air-line repres
entatives in 1P3U, who entered in
to an agreement which “resulted
“in a division of all airmail con
tracts in the United States with
the practical elimination of eom
petlion in b dding.”
FORMER JPOHTMAHTKR
GENERA], DENIES COLLUSION
(.By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 15 — Deny
ing that airmail contracts award
ed under the Hoover administra
tion were through .collusion, form
er Postmaster General Whiter F.
Brown, declared Thursday nisht
that the only awards of major lm
portance were made “under the
provisions of the law. There Is
absolutely no jusiflcation for call*
ing any a'rrasil contracts being
awarded through collusion among
contractors or by any other illegal
practices.”
Brown said, "as former postal
head, that he issued the state
ment after asking the Senate com
mittee invesigating the awards
for permission to testify voluntar
ily at the earliest possible date.
He expressed willingness to waive
immunity from prosecution.
Brown’s statement was made in
reply to charges of Postmaster
General Farley.
"What caused the accident?
Was the road. In wet condition?”,
■ .‘‘NO, but the driver was.”
SENATE CONFIRMED
ALASKA OEFC1AI.S
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 :— The
Senate confirmed as United States
attorneys Hugh O'Neill for IMvi
l
sion number Two and Joseph Ke
hoe for Division Number Three of
Alaska. Chester J. Todd was also
confirmed as U." S. Marshall for
the Third Division.
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! GERMANS DISCUSS
AUSTRIAN TROUBLE
i By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Feb. 12 The na
tion-wide strike in Austria and
tile'battle at Linz were d seussed
animatedly here. The Germans
were .particularly interested’ in
what effect the disturbances
might have on the Nazi Party in
Austria.
DOUMKRGK CHARGES HITLER
WITH RE- ARMING
(By The Associated Press)
PARLS, Feb. 16 Doumerge,
armed with the b'g stick of pop
ular support showed a firm hand
toward Germany’s new minister.
With eyes on Austria’s trouble, he
openly charged Hitler with hav
ing re-armed Germany. Hence,
said a note to Berlin, one of the
cabinet’s first acts was to announ
ce that further Franco-German
talks on arms is useless.
GUERKIM.A WARFARE
SPREADS IN AMERICA
(By The Associated Preas)
VIENNA, Feb. 15 — Guerrilla
warfare is spreading and at the
aaine time 2,000 socialists
fighters entrenched at I.aaberg
near here hoisted the white flag
and surrendered. Vonstarhem
berg is reported being bottled up>
as socialists urmed with machine
guns are holding all the hills
surrounding the town and all
roads leading Into it.
Dollfuss is fighting for life of
the government and issued an off
er of radrcy, calling on all soolal
ists to lay down their arms thru
••*nt the nation and pur an end to i
civil war. ..Before noon the surr
ender of the socialist group at
Laaberg was apparently the first
compliance with the offer.
NOTICE
Notice in hereby Riven tlut the
Poll Book for the registration of
voters for the Municipal and
school board election will be
opened on Wednesday, February
91st, 1084 and will continue open
till March 94th, 1084.
M. J. Walsli,
City Clerk
SubtAtrlbe For the Nugget
AltMY MAIL PLANK CRASHES
( By The Associated Press).
! SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 17 - -
I The Army's first casualties. in the
preparation to carry mail was re
corded Friday night when Sec
t'Urt Lieut. Jean D. Grenier and
, Edwin 1). White crashed in n
blinding snow storm sixty nrHes
j east of here. They were enroute
I to Cheyenne in a speedy attack
1 type plane to assume air mail flv
] ing posts,
i
GOVERNMENT FLYER OF
| MAIL CRASHES
(By The Associated Press)
JBROMB.i. Idit' A Feb. 17
Second Lieutenant James Y. Eust
tna„ was burned to death when
he crashed six miles southeast of
here at 10:50 Friday night,. He
was enroute to Salt Lake City
| from Seattle in eonection with I
It Fie W. tr Department’s preparaions
| to fly the airmail.
i
NEW YORK. Feb. 17 — Fire
■
swept a five-story tenement build
ing today and burned to death
seven persons including two child
ren.
PARIS, Feb. 17 — England.
Prance and Italy drafted, accord
ing to reliable reports, warnings
to Germany to keep hands off
Austria.
IMUOSD INTRODUCES
PISH I.AW
(By The Associated Press) ,
WASHINGTON, Peb. 17 — l)i
mond introduced a bill Friday to
amend the law making unlawful
waste production of salmon and
other fish food in Alaskan waters
and provided that, nothing but the
offal could be used for oil or fer
tiliser.
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ENTIRE FAMILY
COMMITS SUICIDE
(By The Associated Press)
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 14
— With the Larwills, it was one
.for all and all for one even to
death. The relative® often com
mented 0,1 the family’s devotion.
Yesterday, Kenneth an attorney,
his wife, Mary, and a daughter,
Mary, committed suicide, because
baby Florence died of scarlet fev
er. A note said that 4n view of
the fact that we have nothing^
more to live for, "we will die to
gether.” Neither urged the other
to commit the act. Louise was
found in time and taken to the
hospital. It is believed she will
live.
Mask Ball Announcment
The Arctic1 Brotherhood announ
ces a mask ball at the A. B. Hall,
Saturday, Marctl 3rd.
i si: sew ers as
MEANS Ol ESCAPE
(My Tlie Associated Press)
I VLKXXA. Eeh. Iti —— Sewers be
came the last stronghold of the
soc'alim fighters agafyat the gov
ernment in their campaign of
guerilla warfare and sabotage. A
campaign against the facist Heim
wehr was also ordered by the soc
ialists. The country is in the
gr'p of political chaos. All was
(litiet today but for the under
ground army still working in the
sewers. Rumors were heard thru
out the capitol that the assassina
tion of Dollfuss, Vice-Chancelor
Emil Fey, Pirce Van Starhenvberg
and others leadei'R of the govern
ment, was attempted, and a Xazi.
.Putsch, was ' imm'nent. The ru-j
mors were not confirmed officially. j
Vienna, street passages info the*
roomy sewers which honey-comb!
under the ground of Vienna were I
ways of rsca, , " i: defeated gar
rlsons of munictiMtl apartment
blocks shelled by government ar
tillery last nigh* Social'st . flle
men emerged thrcugh man-holes ,
and terrified foreign reddeit's
who were kept awoke by the cm
tuor of gun-fire. Socialists -kir
mished with ‘he police, although
the four days of e vil war is ap-j
parentl.v at an end.
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ITALY MAY DEMAND
. . - WVK8TIOATION |
(By The Associated Press)
HOME. Ell). II) The possib
ility that Italy mO^ITi demand"' St
League investigation as to whe-!
(ther Czechoslovakia had any con- '
•lections with the socialist rebel
lion in Austria, was seen in some
circles. However, it was said
that such an investigation will be
asked only if l>ollfusH carries out
his announced determination to
place the Austrian question before
the League.
IT A] JAN T ROOi*S MORIU/KO
(By The Associated Press)
HOME, Feb. 15 - • Ready (or
any evenuality seventy-five thou
sand Italian troops were posted at
strategic points along the Aus
trian border. In addition to the
Facial frontier guard watching
the Austrian situation closely from
border points, the government of
ficials emphasized that the troops
had not been placed there as a
result of developments across the
line. They were moved up dur
ing the last live months as part
of the fundamental changes In
Italian military policies. It was
explained previously that the
troops were concentrated in cities
fjurther inland.
INSULL GIVEN' FURTHER STAY
ATHENS, Feb. 15 — Insull is
allowed to remain in Greece un
1111 his health improved.
I
WOMEN PARTICIPATE
IN' CIVIE WAR
1 Hy Th(> Associated Press)
\ I EXX A. Feb. 13—Women and
I children were fed to the flames of
civ 1 war as the govenmeftt art
illery smashed the Karl Marx
| apartment building, housing two
[thousand See a list s families. no
I one hows how many were killed.
.Howitzers apparently smashed the
(third and fourth floors of the
; creates, apartment building in
■ Europe. The middle arch collap
jsni. The shilling of the million
I dollar structure was only one cor
ner of the Austrian aspect. Whiter
i the forces of Doilfuss struggled
; through the bloodr stree’s to ant
; flow a the rebellion of socialists,
j the party apparently lost over two
(hundred killed outside Vienna.
(Rattles raged at Selr. (Jhiz, f,inr. ***
(and also at Stevr. Sharp lighting
i broke out again early today when
pW socialists stationed' machine
guns on top of a hill i-nmmand
ing the town
fighting* again breaks out
(By The Associated Press)
Vienna, fhj. i i — with »
thousand e*t limited dead, lighting
out again in sevei a< sections
or Vienna with the S>« iulists re
capturing some of tin* -tropgliolds
ti'tmi which they weiv ilriven last
••■flit by government troop*. Else
*vhere in the nation the situation
is believed coming under govern
ment control. The_government
outlawed thtfty-slx -ricietles and
association of -various descriptions
on the grounds that they contain
ed socialist memberships Spor
adic shooting was resumed in var- *
ious community apartment build
ing*, the socialists succeeding in
regaining some ground previously
lost. Adding to the confusion
here was a run started on a cen
tral savings bank. Crowds form
ed around all branches of the
'bank and police were assigned
there with fixed bayonets. Con
tributing to the panic of the de
positor* was the government's de
cree forbidding all banks to pay
money to socialist organizations.
MASK I1AJJ, ANNOUNCEMENT
The Archie Brotherhood announ
ces m nuwrit hall at the A. B. Hall,
Song-day, March 3rd.
Isn’t it funny that when aliens
learn to talk as we do they -think
they are speaking English?
SPECIAL
TURKEY DINNER
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18
NORTH POLE BAKERY