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VOLUME 35. No. 143. NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934 Per Copy: 10 Cents.
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Evidence Points to Murder and Suicide
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COLD WEATHER IN EAST CAUSE OF DEATHS
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Trip To Russia May Result In Alaska Development
TELLS RESCUERS
HE IS DYING AS
THEY TRY SAVE
(By The Associated Press)
GREYSTONES, Dec. 11 — Joseph
O’Leary, a well digger, who was im
prisoned in a shaft since Saturday
died today. His body has not yet
been recovered.
“I’m dying,” he told those who
were attempting to rescue him. He
spoke through a speaking tube tell
ing them that his limbs had been
crushed by the earth slide which
imprisoned him.
CANVASSING OF
RETURNS NOT
ALLOWED N. M.
(By The Associated Press)
SANTA FE, N. M., Dec. 11 — The
election canvassing board received
an order today from the State Su
preme Court to issue a certificate of
election as U. S. Senator, to Con
gressman Chas. G. Dennis, on the
contention that the canvassing board
had no right to canvas the returns
from sixty-five San Miguel pre
cincts, because of the votes of non
registered voters, which gave Cut
ting a majority of more than four
thousand.
SAYS ARMY WILL
REVOLT DIRECT
ACTS ARE TAKEN
(By The Associated Press)
SHARON, Pa., Dec. 11 — Ante Ju
bak, President of the Croatian Na
tional Congress, said that if Yugo
slavia carries out her plans to deal
directly with Hungary, “more than
half of her army will revolt.”
The Hungarian spokesman in Gen
eva yesterday morning said that
Yugoslavia had threatened “to act
on her own,” if she failed to receive
satisfactory treatment from the Lea
*ue..
WILEY POST IS
TRY FAST HOP
L.A.JTO N.Y.
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 — Wiley
Post said he was making plans for
a high altitude flight from here to
New York, which he hoped to make
in six hours, in his plane the Win
nie Mat.
ANNOUNCEMENT
MADE OFFICE OF
INDIAN AFFAIRS
Before leaving Nome, enroute to
interior points and Juneau, N. Lest
er Troast, Architect and District
Superintendent of School, for the
Office of Indian Affairs announced
the appointment of several of the
teachers throughout the Second Div
ision, for this winter. All those ap
pointed were either local people or
residents of other parts of Alaska.
Tom Anoyah of Nome was ap
pointed to teach the school at Dio
mede Island. -He was educated at
Chemawa and Bellingham Normal.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brandt of
Nome were appointed to the Koyuk
district, Mrs. Brandt to be the teach
er and Mr. Brandt to act as the lo
cal reindeer superintendent and do
village work at that point.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Albee
of Fairbanks were appointed to the
school at Cape Prince of Wales.
Mrs. Ada Sprenger of Nome was
appointed as an additional teacher
in the Nome school of the Office of
Indian Affairs, making a total of
three teacherj, required due to tl>e
large enrollment.
Mrs. Elinor Benawa was transfer
red from the Industrial School at
Eklutna to be a teacher in the Nome
school.
A new school was established
at Solomon, the natives building a
school house and living quarters for
the teacher. Mrs. Mabel Nylen of
Solomon was appointed as the teach
er.
Samuel Anaruk, who was teacher
at Diomede Island, and who has
been a teacher in the service for the
past twenty-six years, was trans
ferred from that place to White
Mountain.
Of particular note is the fact that
all appointments were Alaskans this
year. This is but one more instance
where Alaskan postions have been
filled by Alaskans, either educated
in Alaska or in the States, and who
returned to this country to occupy
those positions.
The Office of Indian Affairs, carry
ing out the educational plans for
the natives of this Division, institut
ed a new proceedure last summer
when a teachers’ Demonstration
School session was held in Nome, to
which teachers of that department
came from all over the Second Divi
sion. The Office of Indian Affairs
has not only adopted a policy of
educating the natives along the lin
es of their own civilization and in
their natural habitat, but have start
ed a program for the education of
their teachers along lines of mod
ern teaching so that they will be
able to handle their various dut
ies as teachers in the many schools
throughout the Division.
Ready For Action
The Finance Committeeof the Com
munity Xmas Tree Celebration, chair
man Alvin Polet, announced the ap
pointment of Andrew Sather and
Aimer Fydeen to Serve on the com
mittee with him.
They expect to meet this after
noon and make arrangements for
the financing of this public celebra
tion of Christmas, an annual affair
in Nome for the past several years.
AMBASSADOR BULLITT
PRAISES LAVERY AND
ARMISTED IN THE USSR
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Dec. 12, America’s two unofficial Ambaassa
dors, Clyde Armisted and Bill Lavery of Fairbanks, made
a fine impression in Soviet Russia, declared America’s offi
cial Ambassador to Russia, William C. Bullitt, on his ar
rival here yesterday, from the land of the “walking bear.”
“America could have sent nothing finer to Russia at
this time than those two young men who did so much toward
the airplane rescue of Dr. Otto Schmidt, and the ice-maroon
ed scientific party from the Chelyuskyn. The government
feted them and treated them as heroes. They were decorat
ed with the Order of Lenin. They made a fine impression
over there”, said Mr. Bullitt. .
The two Alaskan mechanics aided the Russian fliers
who went to the aid of the Arctic-bound Russian expedition
last spring. As. a token of esteem, the/Soviet government
brought them to Russia to receive honors.
Ambassador Bullitt refused to discuss anything except
subjects off the record, saying he had to report to President
Roosevelt first. This is his second trip back to the United
States since* he became Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. His
unofficial discussions included hopes of the development of
Alaska through connections with Siberia and the Soviet
Government.
NOTED DOCTOR
AND WIFE ARE
FOUND DEAD
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 12 — Dr. Har
mon Smith, prominent Eastside
physician and former Vice-Presi
dent of the New York Academy of
Medicine, and his wife Jeanette,
were found dead from knife wounds
this morning in their apartment.
The police said the evidence indic
ated murder and suicide. Both the
Doctor and his wife were sixty-two
years of age.
Far West Is Now
Experiencing Big
Construction Boom
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12 — The
Far West’s construction boom is
moving at a clip hitherto unap
proached by man. More than one
hundred and fifty million dollars is
the basis for contracts awarded on
the coast thus far this year, which
so far is a total of more than two
lundred and fifty millions of the
:hirty millions more than last year,
rationally.
LOST—For two days, a black dog,
‘Blaekie” white feet, white breast,
iragging a chain. Return to Lin
soln Hotel to L I. Jensen. s
COLD WEATHER
EAST CAUSE OF
6 COLD DEATHS
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 12 — Slightly
warmer weather was forecasted in
various parts of the country where
frigid temperatures brought death
and suffering, during the past forty
eight hours.
The East is expected to get a little
relief. However, the bitter cold ex
tends from Maine to Florida this
morning, which reported an all time
record of low of 30.4 degrees.
Citrus crops were damaged by
frost. Six deaths resulted in New
York and ten thousand homeless
were cared for in armories. The
Northeast had freezing weather with
below zero readings. The midwest
was blanketed by snow.
Two Masked Men
Hold Up Married
Couple At Home
(By The Associated Press)
ELLENSBURG, WN., Dec. 12 —
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Grubesich were
held up in their home by two mask
ed men who obtained sixty-flve dol
lars and a revolver. The robbers
were believed to be the kidnappers
of Farrell. (
Mail the Name Daily Nugget to
your friends, and let them know
bout the re-building of Nome, —
SAYS BUSINESS
RECOVERY NOW
EQUALS 1931
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NEW YORK, Dec. 12 —(Copright)
Statisticians who calculated the pro
gress of business recovery, find in
most respects, this year is the best
since 1931, and in some respects the
best year since 1930.
In the final months of the year,
industriaal production seems to be
close to where it was at this time
last year.
The year’s totals in most lines
however, show substantial gains
over lost year. This' is due partly
to the extremely low levels to
which business fell early last year,
coincident with the banking crisis.
Perhaps the most striking gains
for the year have been in sales and
the consumption of goods, even in
semi-luxury products. This was at
tributed to the restoration of the
farm purchasing power.
22 Persons Are
| Listed As Victims
Of Hotel Fire
(By The Associated Press)
LANSING, Mich. ,Dec. 12 — As
the fire blackened, ice shrouded
ruins of the Kern Hotel began giv
ing up the dead, police announced
that twenty-two persons were list
ed as victims of the hotel, which
cost about one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
Firemen pulled down all the re
maining standing walls. The river
is being dragged for victims, as the
inquiry into the cause of the flames,
started.
One of the miracle escapes of the
fire was Walter Jeffery, aged fifty,
a blind man, who opened a window
and jumped into space. He landed
on another building only twelve feet
below the window.
45 SOVIETS ARE
TO BE TRIED
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(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Dec. 12 — The list of
dead from the firing squad bullets
following the assassination of a high
Soviet official on Dec. 1st, has now
mounted to seventy-five with nine
alleged enemies of the regime ex
ecuted yesterday, and forty-five oth
ers remaining yet to be tried.
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INSURAN BE
FINANCED BY
LABOR UNIONS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — Union
labor’s legislative drive for next
year opened ^Jlith a proposal by Pres
ident Green of the American Federa
tion of Labor, that unemployment
insurance be financed wholey by the
five percent tax on payrolls. He was
opposed to any direct levy on the
workers.
Green said they would pay most
of the cost anyway, as the employ
ers would ac^d their cost to the pric-j
es. The employee buys eighty-five
percent of all goods.
FOUR MONTHS
IMPRISONMENT
ENDS GERMANY
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Dec. 11 — Four months
of imprisonment were ended today
for Isobel Lillian Steele of Holly
wood, who was released from police
headquarters and taken to Hamburg
from where she will sail for home.
She would not speak on German
soil of her imprisonment, under Ger
man orders. The charges on which
she was held, were reported unof
ficially to involve her under the sus
picion of espionage.
Canadian Relief
Funds For Unem
ployed Are Cut
(By The Associated Press)
NANAIMO, Vancouver Is., Dec. 12
—Beseiged by sixty government re
let recipients, including women,
two government officials, J. F.
Edge (and J. E. Carrigan, are
;till holding out against the be
seigers, after food was sent them,
rhey said they would not be fright
;ned out.
The unemployed surrounded their
Dffices Monday after the relief allow
mces were cut from twenty-one to
sixteen dollars, monthly, because
they refused to work for relief mon
?y
FORT WORTH
CAPITALIST DIED
OF PARALYSIS
(By The Associated Press)
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 12 —
V. T. Waggoner, aged eighty-two,
rorth Worth capitalist, died here
ruesday night, as a result of a
stroke of paralysis, suffered Sun
lay evening.
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