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VOLUME 84. No. i». % O M K . ALASKA SATURDAYS APRIL 15, 19*1 Single copy 25cts. Per month $1.
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BEER BILL AT JUNEAU
GOVERNOR TROY
ADDRESSES MEETING
SEATTLE, April 14. (£>)—Gov
ernor Troy Addressed a large aud
ience a<t the Jeffenson-Roosevelt
dinner. He said: “We have a
?reat country up North, a child o*
the State of Washington—some
people say a -step child.” He in
vited all his auditors to visit Jun
eau, and promised that “during
the next four years the Governor's
house will be open to all of you.”
Referring to the President, the
new Governor said: "He is a think
tr and in his breast is a demo
cratic heart. He is in sympathy
with the toiling masses of the nat
ion. Ir we want to do our best
let’s follow Roosevelt with all .the
loyalty that the people of eighteen
hundred followed Jefferson.” Gov
ernor Clarence D. Martin was the
principal speaker of the evening.'
KELLY, MAYOR OF CHICAGO
CHICAGO, April 14 (/P)—A one
lime student undertaker who abau
doped the morticians for an engin
.e • , . ' >
ship to take up the pick and axe
start at the botton of an engin
eering career, is at the helm of
the country's second city. He is
Edward J. Kelly, whose Irish par
ents appretrlcto him to an under^
taker. He get out of that bus
iness and worked his way to the
top of the engineering .^profession
at fifty. He is six feet tall and a
democrat.
He was elected by the Ci!y Coun
oil as World Pair mayor to suc
ceed Cermak. '
JAPANESE CONTINUE ADVANCE
MUKDEN. April 14. (/P)—Contin
uing their advance South of the
Oread Wall, the Japanese army
occupied the important town of
Teienan a hundred miles North
east of Tientsin. With the cap
ture of this town, the Japanese
^ntrol more than . a thousand sq
uare miles o Chinese territory be
low the wall. It is evident that
they intend to expel all Chinese
troops from the region to the east
of the Lwan riter. This region
will be made a buffer zone be
tween the Manchukuo to the north
and China proper, and will he
under Japanese and Manchukuan
forces.
PROHPKI TORS IN IDAHO
^ PAN 9868,050
BOISE. April 11, (>P)-—Prospec
tors, both old timers and amatuers
•which the* depression sent to the
hills, have turned in $362,050 in
gold in the past nine months. It
is expected that the amount will
reach $500,000 by the end of the
ttscal year, June 30.
Last, year the yield of Idaho
creeks amounted to $247,000 for
the entire 12 months..
Gleanings per man this year
were in most cases small.
Of the gold that came in from
prospectors, 58 percent was in am
ounts of $100 at a time. Only 9
percent of It was brought in In
amounts of more than $1,000.
Oldtlmers washed out the most
hut amateurs succeeded in gather
ing a considerable amount.
' PANGMAN’B
Bummer Dog Kennels At
Fort Davis
Will be open April 15 for the rent
Ing ami care of dog*
, MAIDEN FLIGHT POSTPONED
O
AKRON. Ohio, April 15. (/P) —
Tlie maiden flight of the dirigible
: Mia con, tentatively aet for daybreak
Saturday, was postponed Friday
night on account of weather con
ditions. Captain H. Dresel said
that the flight might be made this
afternoon, but believed it will < be
delayed until Sunday.
DEATH WATCH PLACED
ON MBS. .HDD
—
| FRQRENCE. Aril.. April 11, (yp>
!—On Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, con
| demned to be hanged April 21 for
the killing at Phoenix last year of
! Mrs. Agnes Reroi, a nurse from
j Juneau, the death watch was plao
! ed today. She is unaware of the
j precautionary action taken by the
pententiary w'arden.
On account of her increasing
spells of nervousness as the day;
of her execution draws near, the
warden said he had decided not
| to move her from her present quar j
ters to the customary death cell j
near the place where the gallows !
; -will he erected.
i In her present cell she will be .
kept under constant surveillance j
of matrons und guards.
Mrs. Judd’s father said today
cXhat be would ask the warden to
walk up the thirteen steps to the
gallows platform with her if the
execution takes place.
Yesterday Judge Howard K. j
Speakman of the superior court at j
Phoenix denied the motion made
.by Mrs. Judd's attorney for a new j
trial. The judge held that a simil
ar motion had previously been de
nied by both him and the state
supreme court and that he was
now without jurisdiction in the
case.*
The next and last move *of the
attorneys will be to move for the
appoinment of a sanity commis
sion to inquire into Mrs. Judd's
mental condition.
(JIRRS TERR OF
HUMAN SACRIFICE
INEZ. Ky.. April 11, (/P) As
the trial fn Inez of seven relatives)
of Lu-cinda Miils, 67, on the char- j
ge of liaving olfere<l her as aj
human sacraflce to the Lord, nears
its end, four girls, all sisters,
who are involved in the case
as defendantts, testified that they
had been suggested as victims for
sacrifice 'too. * v
The girls are Nellie. Louills,
Alice and Allie Boyd. They de
clared that Or» Moore and Mrs.
Trixie Mills, two of the defendants,
arranged the improvised altar on
which Mrs, Mills is alleged to have
been slain.
The girls said that John Mills,
son Mrs. Mills and accused of act
ually killing her, suggested that
the four Boyd girls and another
sister of theirs “be given to the
Lord.”
The girls asserted that Mills
pushed his mother down on the
altar, knelt on her chest, shouted
“in an unknown tongue” at her
and then strangled her to death.
hridjogrooms tip
MARRIAGE CLERK JMM.OOO
NEW YORK April H. (£*)—
James McCormick, deputy city
clerk in charge of the marriage
license ibureau has been convicted
at failing to file Federal Income
Tax returns showing receipts of
$69,00 in tips from bridegroom*.
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TERRORISM IN HAVANA
HAVANA, April 14. (JP)—Troops
were called to stamp oat terror
ism jailer seventeen bomb explos
ions* in which one was killed and
three injured. The blasts came
on the heels of several anonymous
letters to the police warning that
yesterday would s art “Red week
in Havana.’’
The cavalry was called out after
the police started to round up
persons suspected of terrorism or
opposition to the rule of Presi
dent Maehado. Mounted police
patroled the streets throughout the
city, while automobiles were stop
ped at the point of u- gun and
searched.
POLK TO MAKE MAW ARRESTS
HAVANA. April 1-1 (/P) Til!
police seized a score of youth iti
'cluding three if&HLentified soldiers,
who are taken to A tares Castle
Police patrols armed with machine
guns guarded against fitr-ther--out
breaks. A bomb exploded not far
from the home of Orester Ferrara
former ambassador to ihc. United
Sates, and now Secretary of State
to the Machado government. It
was hidden in a fruit vendors wa
gon and it killed three.
Shooting started wtaen^he police
found Manuel flttrcia placing a
bomb at-a street corner]* He was
probably fatally wounded.
TRAVELS UNDER
HEAVY GUARD
MEXICO CITY. ,.Al>Hl 14. t/P)—
Amassador Josephus Daniels is
being carried toward the scene of
his post on a train with a special
guard of detectives. Reports also
said that a special armored car
would be added to ,the train as
further pro'eytion with a half co
mpany of Federal soldiers as an
escort.
RUSSIAN TESTIMONY
Kl'IM'OKTS CHARGES
MOSCOW April 14, </P)—The
Russian testimony presented at the
'rial of the six English engineers
support the charges of bribery ami
sabotage. One witness told of ta
king a bribe of. fifteen hundred
from L.C. Thornton, one of tile
defendants. Another said he was
paid five hunderd by W.H. Mac
Donald to deliver plans for a pow
er plant In the Urals. ia third
Russian said Charles Noi;dwell
paid him twenty-five hundred and
had given Mm a fur coat to dam
age the turbine at the Ivanovo
power plant. He said Nordwell
told him that if you want to im
prove conditions, you must act
now. You must cause important
damage so that Russia will have
to spend more gold. Albove all
you must be sure that* this power
plant is pa rail zed1 in case of war.
Nordwell denied all this.
LAST SURVIVING
GENERAL DIES
ORMONDE BEACH, Fla\ April
14 (jp)—General Adalbert Ames,'
the last surviving Union general of
tli*?civil war, died at his winter
home here Thursday.
General Ames was a crony of
John D. Rockefeller. Neighbors
said he was apparently In good
health until Thursday,
SOURDOUGH.. STATIONERY FOR
SALE AT THE NUGGET OFFICE.
KTIIjIj working on
JlVlKK BILL AT JI NKAl
(Special Nugget Correspondence)
J U'NK A.U, April 15 th. The
Radio Telephone Bill will be in
troduced in a few days.
A bill to require airplane com
panies to furnish insurance to pas
sengers in event of accident, was
in roduced in the Senate.
Senator Lomen’s Marriage Com
mission Bill passed the House. He
also introduced a memorial asking
Congress to create a prospector*
army, paying a small basic wage
and using Navy planes for trans
portation.
The Senate passed a hill giving
the Anchorage Radio Station, KF
QD, live thousand dollars. Anoth
er hill was introduced giving the
All Alaska Chamber of Commerce
three thousand dollars.
A memorial asking Congress to
extend the Federal Highway Act
to Alaska passed; also one to open
the KosknkWlm and Yukon to com
'tntffrliti Hslilti'C""'^
The Beer Bill is still being con
sidered by the Senate. •
It is believed that a contract
will he let this year to build an
addition to the Pioneers Home at
Sitka. The bill to provide for the!
Pioneers Home surplus lias been
approved..,by1’ the Governor.
SOIRIHHGHN HONOR
GOVERNOR TROY ■
♦
S WATTLE. April 15th, pip)
Reminiscences of Nome, Dawson,'
Skagway. Fairbanks. and other j
points in the days when they were .
camps, were exchanged when som>‘
three score Sourdoughs paid a tri-!
bute at a banquet Friday night to j
Governor John Troy on the eve of}
his departure for Alaska.
t William T Perkins, former Daw
son and Nome gold seeker” said:
"It was no surprise to .me when
John W. Troy was named Gover
nor. He has been laying the foun
dation for it for 30 years."
Other speakers included Charles j
1). Garfield. John P. Hartman and
Judge Charles .Cla.vpool, all'former
!
Alaskans.
As usual. Troy let others do the
*r *
talking. In a terse response to
many speeches, he said. “I am
going to Alaska to do my best."
At other meetings Troy took an
almost speechless course, declaring
:had he never made a Speech in
his life and he wasn’t going to
change now.
AMELIA AWARDED
HARMON TROPHY
PARIS, April 15. (^£P>—Amelia Rr
hart Putman was awarded the .
1912 Harmon International Avia
trix Trophy. Friday night. Her
flight across the Atlantic last May
■was the first crossing ever accom
plished by a woman alone.
Professor Auguste Piccard, who
flew tf><Sthe stratosphere, was eward
ed the International Spherical Bal
loonist Award. _
Among the United States tuition
al awards. Lieutenant Colonel Ros
coe Turner received the aviators
trophy for cross-country flights.
Amelia was also awarded the Nat
ional Aviatrix Trophy f«r the
United States.
NOTICE
For other local news daring
the week d*y» look on page* 3
and 4 under day* of the week
with telegraphic news as publleh
©d le the dally bulletin.
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Ml KPHV’S NOMINATION
• IS < 'ON FI ItM KI>
j WASHINGTON. April 15 (/?)—
| President—Roosevelt.-'-*-nomination—
of Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit,
for Governor General of the Philip
pines, was confirmed by the Sen
jato. The Senate also confirmed
|the . nomination of Frank T. Bell,
j secretary of Senator Dill, as Com
missioner of Fisheries, to succeed
io, Mai ley.
Mayor James Curley, of Boston,
rejected the nomination of Ambas
sador to Poland, sayiug tha' he
(el that he was noro needed at
home. After a conference the
President said that Cutley was un
willing to leave his post “uutil
such times as conditions mater
ially./ improve." _v- "
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POLICE COME yo
% STRANGE COI.CLCSION
LOXO BEACH. Calif.. April 15.
i(A>i With a towel knotted around
her neck, and bruises upon the
biad and body, Mrs. Caroline F.
Home, axed 73. a wealthy widow,
was found by her son, Walter J.
Horne, a prominent yachtsman,
Friday, in the apartment of a pro-;’
mironi hotel, dead.
% .,‘ie was the widow of VpaB r,T.
Hwue. n 'i.BttrtiiJ figure. **ui the
early history of California. Two
purses belonging to the victim
were found open and empty. Pend
ing the autopsy, the police pro
nounced the death due to natural
causes, but started an investiga
tion .
Pioneer Trophy Series Ended
Last Saturday evening brought
to a close the Pioneer Trophy
Series and social activities of the
sinter season. A large attendance
ivas present and after cards a big
luncheon took place, followed by
lancing.
Winners of the evening's card
same were as follows: Ladies— "J
1st, Mrs. Peter Sat her'. 2nd, Mrs.
Jack Devine. 3rd, Mrs. Gunnar
Kansan. Gentlemen, 1st, Charles
H. Code 2nd S. L. St a ng room, 3rd
H. Roberts, all of whom receive#.#
Individual prizes as the best Pi** i
?rs for i he evening.
Trophy Winners ■.'$3
The following were declared to
be the winners of trophy pri*n#!
iue to the fact they received the
largest number of points during
:he trophy series of six game*:
First ladies prize. Mrs. Peter B.
father; consolation ladies pftge,
Mrs. Harvey Grant.
1st gents' prize Eddie Groan;
2nd. gent's consolation prise,
Harry Lomen.
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man avenue and Radio
t*r inquire at the Hard
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