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VOLUME35 No 148. NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934 ^_ “ Per Copy: 10 Cents.
War Clouds Gathering Power Issues
HITLER IS REPORTED SHOT BY YOUNG GIRL
POWER INTERESTS ARE
MASSING FOR ATTACK
ON ROOSEVELT POLICY
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18,—War clouds began to gather
again around the power issue after the Roosevelt Adminis
tration, turning thumbs down on the plea that it cooperate
in putting its power policies to a quick and final test in the
Supreme Court, demanded that the power industry “clean
house.”
An answer came within a few hours from Thomas Mc
Carter,* President of the Edison Electric Institute, and the
leader in the' attack on the Roosevelt plans to use power
experiments as a “yardstick” to force down rates.
McCarter called at the White House with a memorial
which spoke of “strangulation” of private enterprise by
government competition.
THIRTEEN ARE
QUARANTINED
IN A RAIL CAR
TRAVELERS BOUND FOR LON
DON MAY HAVE TO SPEND
CHRISTMAS IN LITTLE TOWN
IN CANADA
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HORNPAYNE, Ontario, Canada,
Dec. 17— Thirteen travelers, bound
London, Eng., are faced today with
the possibility of spending Christmas
in a railway car on a sidetrack at
the little town of Hornpayne instead
of in sumptuous hotels and cheerful
homes in the British capital. The
travelers now are held in a passen
ger coach because a man who, is
afflicted with smallpox rode as pass
enger in the car for half an hour.
Switched To Siding
The quarantined car, with its 13
occupants, was detached from its
train this forenoon and was switched
to a siding at the outskirts of Horn
payne.
Authorities To Decide
Health authorities of Ontario pro
vince will determine if and when the
travellers may proceed on their
journey. If any cases of small pox
should break forth among the
quarantined passengers they may
have to remain in the railway car
until after the approaching Christ
mas festival.
TOWNSEND SAYS
WILL LICK HIDE
OFF CONGRESS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — Dr. F.
E. Townsend threatened to “lick the
hide off Congress and send ’em home
for good,’’ if his old age pension plan
was not adopted.
Second Meeting Of
Board Equalization
Held Last Evening
The second meeting of the Board
of equalization took place last night
at 8 p.m The meeting was called
to order by Mayor Swartz with all
councilmen present excpet Ed. Seid
enverg and Albin Poison. Mr. Seid
enverg arrived within a very short
time.
Minutes of the preceding meeting
were read and approved and the
Mayor asked if there were any ques
tions or complaints to be registered
concerning the assessment roll pre
pared by M. J. Walsh, City Assessor.
Jake Bonner stated that he rep
resented Jack Seidenverg, who felt
that he was being assessed in an
amount excessive of what he poss
essed. Mr. Bonner said that Mr. Seid
enverg requested a committee of the
Council be appointed to call on him
and inspect his store. After consid
erable discussion Mr. Sather and Mr.
Polet were appointed to call .on Mr.
Jack Seidenverg.
No further complaints were made
last evening, and the meeting ad
journed to meet again Wednesday
evening at 8 p.m. sharp.
Arctic Brotherhood
Announces j Staging
New Year’s Dance
Arrangements are now being made
by the Arctic Brotherhood to stage
a big Barn Dance on New Year’s
Eve, a custom followed by that or
ganization for many years past.
The Are destroyed their club room
and hall and efforts are being made
to secure the warm storage build
ing owned by the Lomen Commer
cial Co., near the railroad tracks on
Stedman Avenue occupied by the
Bon Marche Stores temporarily af
ter the Are.
The Bam Dance is always set for
New Year’s Eve and this year the
A. B.’s expect to give another of
their succesful dances.
REPORT HITLER
SHOT WOUNDED
BY YOUNG GIRL
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LINZ, Austria, Dec. 18 News
papers carried a story today sayr
ing that Herf Hitler had been wound
ed in Berlin by a revolver shot, fir
ed by a girl at Hitler as he sat in his
automobile.
She was reported to have fired as
she drove by in a taxi. The story
said that the girl was the daughter
of Leader Brueckner of the Silesian
Provincial Nazi party, who went to
Berlin after her father’s arrest. The
story further stated that the taxi
driver and the girl were both killed
by Hitler’s guards.
FREIGHTER IS
BATTERED BY
HEAVY STORM
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 —Her bridge
and rudder and life-boats carried
away by a hurricane, the Norweg
ian freighter “Sisto”’ rolled helpr
lessly today in heavy seas, in mid
Atlantic.
The British tanker “Mobiloil”
stood by but is helpless herself. She
sent a wireless plea for more oil,
after her supply became exhausted,
attempting to smooth the heavy seas
which were battering the distressed
ship.
Emasculation Is
Advocated Head
Of Ohio Prison
(By The Associated Press)
COLUMBUS, D. Dec. 17 — “Em
asculation for ‘repeater’ criminals”
is advocated by Preston Thomas,
warden of the Ohio penitentiary He
declared himself at Columbus late
yesterday in favor pf a law to pro
vide emasculation for “repeaters.”
“Make such a law,” he declared,
“and you reduce crime by half I
would give every prisoner leaving
prison a copy of the law at the door.
It would be the same as the electric
chair, which keeps many a robber
from carrying a gun. Seventy-five
percent of all robberies are committ
ed on account of women. We have
got to do something. Prisoners ag
ree that emasculation would stop
their careers of crime. We ought to
have sense enough to agrpe with
them.”
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BELIEVES BANKS ARE
TOO SEVERE SO URGES
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FEDERALS INTERVENE
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—A new freedom of priming
business with bank credit together with the creation of a
nationwide net work of direct federal lending agencies, was
urged Monday on Secretary Morgenthau by a group of
special investigators-. ~
• Credit conditions in a report ordered by the Treasury
chief himself, also flayed the bankers and bank examiners
for (he wave of “righteousness.”
The study was based on conditions in Chicago’s Seventh
Federal Reserve District, selected as typical of credit condi-!
tions existing throughout the country.
A continuance of federal loans to industry until banks
loosen their credit policies, was urged, but with a recom
mended alternative centralizing federal loan practice in
the RFC, or creating a new and intermediate credit system.
The inquiry was launched when feeling prevailed that
the banks were too severe in their credit requirements,
thereby deterring recovery. The inquiry found that while1
the banks were restating cash advances, there was not a
large demand for credit, as had been popularly believed.
ACQUITTED OF
RIOTING ENG.
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JURY ORDERED
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LEWIS, England, Dec 18 — Sir
Oswald Mosley, ardent leader of the
British fasism faction, and three
followers, were acquitted today of
charges of riotous assembly.
Without calling a witness in their
defense, the Judge agreed with the
contention of the defense attorney
“no case,” and made a direct verdict
to the jury of acquittal.
Judge Visits Mining
Ground In $100,000
Suit For Damages
Trial of the $100,000 damage suit
of Mike Erceg, administrator for the
estate of George Gartner, continues
on trial before Judge E. Coke Hill
in the United States district court
in Fairbanks.
The plaintiff alleges that the de
fendant in its mining operations on
Goldstream interfered with water
rights and caused silt to be deposit
ed on the Gartner ground.
Yesterday, Judge Hill made a trip
to Goldstream to view the property
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SENATOR DILL ,
IN FAVOR OF A
RADIO SERVICE
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKANE, Wash , Dec. 17—Es
tablishment of a radio news service!
interests Senator Clarence C. Dill,
democrat of Washington, whose
term of service in the upper branch
of Congress, will expire January 3.
The Senator in Spokane late yes
terday stated he had not fully deter
mined how active he would be in
connection with the promulgation
of news by radio but that he hoped
“to be able to assist in building up
a nation-wide and later world-wide
news service.”
- Will Open Law Office
He said he intends to open a law
office in Spokane.
Senator Dill is chairman of the
Senate’s Interstate Commerce Com
mittee, t6 which is referred propos
ed radio legislation, and he has
given close study to radio subjects.
In Newspaper Business
After graduation from college the
Senator was a newspaperman for a
while before he became a lawyer.
He served two terms in the House
of Representatives before his elec
tion to the Senate. He is complet
ing his second term in the upper
branch of Congress.
The senator was not' a candidate
in the Democratic primary for a re
nomination to succeed himself. He
will be succeeded by Lewis B. Sch
wellenbach, Democrat and lawyer
of Seattle.
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REICH HOLDS ITS WORKMEN
BERLIN —Because of alleged “ef-.
forts to lure skilled German work
ers out of the country,” passports
now are denied when “through the
exodus of skilled labor there is dan !
ger to German industry and the gen
eral economic structure.”
YUGOSLAVIAN
CABINET OUT
AFTER CRISIS
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(By The AssociatecKPress)
BELGRADE, Dec. 18 — The en
tire Yugoslavian cabinet resigned to
day after Bogolyub Yevtich, 'Foreign
Minister who conducted the settle
ment at Geneva of the recent crisis
with Hungary( made his report.
His political rivals were not en
thusiastic over his report on the
events at Geneva and this has caus
ed him to resign. The whole cab
inet body followed him
EXPORTS FOR
PACIFIC COAST
I HIGHER IN 1934
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 18
Pacific Coast exports this year are
running forty-four percent ahead of »
last year; showing a considerable
current of improvement,” E. Tilden
Mattox, Department of Commerce
officials said.
Exports for the first ten months
of this year were more than two
hundred and eleven million dollars
as compared with one hundred and
forty-nine million dollars for the
same period last year.
MAN, EARLY DAY
CARPENTER IS
DEAD ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
KETCHIKAN, Dec. 18 — Geo. E.
Brown, aged fifty-eight, died here
of paralysis He had been afflicted
for several years and was bed-ridd
en a month before his death.
He came to Alaska in 1899 as a car
penter, working in many northern
mining camps, and later in Juneau
and Douglass, before coming here
He is survived by a widow and bro
ther Fred here, and three sisters, one
in Seattle and two in Canada. He
was born in Ontario. •
Sale Is Postponed
The sale of car and tractor adver
tised to take place at the Federal
Court House at two o’clock p.m. to
day; was postponed until two o’clock
p.m. Thursday December 20th. Quite
a number of bidders were in attend
ance and it is expected the sale on
Thursday will draw a fair crowd of
prospective purchasers.
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