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VOL. 38 No. 197 NOME. ALASKA. SATURDAY JUNE 26 1937 Per Copy lOcts
Town of Nenana Half Under Water
GOV. MERR’AM STAYED EXECUTION 2 MEN
Alaska Indians Are To Be Included CCC Program
HE'S DOG-GONE GOOD. Plaving cop and robber with a German shepherd is tun for
New Vork police. Here the dog holds a policeman “robber” until another member of the force arrive*
to complete the "capture."
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ATTORNEYS FIGHTING
NEW TRIAL FOR PAIR
(By The Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, June 26, —At
torneys began preparations in a
fight to win a new trial for Hugh
Smith and Alfred Paine after
Governor Merriam stayed the
date of their execution until Aug
ust 6th.
The pair were to have been
nanged Friday for the killing of
a policeman.
This action of the governor
marked the third delay in their
hanging. The governor said he
was turning the case over to the
' advisory prison board for a fur
: ther investigation.
Tlie policeman was killed last
j summer after the robbery of a
j grocery store.
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Takes Delivery Large Italian Seaplane
Which He Intends Bring Nome, Alaska
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(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES. June 26, —
George Schwamm, 34-year-old
pilot, went to San Diego today
to accept delivery of a huge twin
fuselaged Italian seaplane, which
he plans to fly to Nome, Alaska
tor use in passenger travel there.
He announced he had purchas
ed two of this type of airplane,
capable of a speed of 150 miles
per hour, and a cruising radius
of 800 miles.
He said he would return next
year for his second ship, which
is being reconditioned at San
Diego.
Schwamm will be accompanied
on his Alaska flight by T. O. Han
sen, another Alaska pilot.
Change is Made
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 26, —
President Roosevelt today desig
nated Raymond Bestvens as
chairman of the U. S. Tariff Com
mission for one year starting July
1st. He accepted the resignation of
Robert Lincoln O’Brien.
Inquest be Held
Death Butcher
In Altercation
(By The Associated Press 1
SEATTLE, June 26, — Fritz
Mueller, aged 61, longtime meat
market operator, died of injuries
here today, which he received
last Sunday in an altercation with
a federal alcohol tax unit agent
who said he had been investigat
ing bootlegger rumors, when he
became involved with Mueller.
Mueller’s son Walter said his
father was delivering a package
of meat to a needy family at the
time of the disturbance.
The coroner has ordered an in
quest, and also the questioning of
the federal agent, whom E. T.
Kelly a neighbor accused of strik
ing the blow which resulted in
Mueller’s death. The agent was
Leonard Regan.
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Insurgents March
Santander Effort
Complete Victory
(H\ Tne Associated Press)
PORTUGALETE, Spain, June
26, — The insurgent tide rolled
westward from Bilbao yesterday
toward Santander, last important
city held by the Basques, while ar
tillery thundered in the hills as
live columns of infantry moved
out of Bilbao on roads leading to
Santander.
So powerful was the insurgent
advance that officers expwted to
conquer Valmaseda, first object
ive, within two days.
The capture of this town of
PortugaJete was considered one
of the nghest prizes of the civil
war. Factories, smelters and min
es are in abundance and provide
many necessities for warfare.
Miss Alma Wretling
Was Appointed
Montana Post
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(By The Associated Press)
HELENA, Montana. June 26, —
Governor Roy E. Ayers today ap
pointed Miss Alma Wretling, for
mer Superintendent of the Nome
Alaska Hospital, secretary of the
Montana Bureau of Child and
Animal Protection.
For the past two years she has
been supervisor of nurses for
King County stationed at Seat
tle.
Nome friends of Miss Wretling
will remember her during the
period in which she was in char
ge of the Maynard Columbus Hos
pital at Nome.
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Indians Included
(XC Program Is
Report Forester
(B\ The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. June 26. -As
sistant Chief Forester Fred Mor
rell said today upon his return
from Alaska, that Indians would
be included in the expanded CCC
program now getting under way
in the Territory.
He stated he had made a thor
ugh study of conditions in Al
aska with a view to filling the
quota of six hundred set several
months ago by the Department of
Agriculture. Up to then there
were less than four hundred em
ployees.
“Finding the righ t kind of work
for Indians is going to be a pro
blem. They do not like to leave
their homes or families and en
ter camps. Therefore the work
must be of a nature where they
can remain at home”, he said.
Electric Storm
Detroit Takes
Seven Lives
(Bv The Associated Press'
DETROIT, June 26, —A severe
electric storm took a toll of sev
en lives and thousands of dollars
damage. The storm was accom
panied by high winds, which
swept across southern Michigan
yesterday.
The storm centered arnund
Jackson, Michigan and near Ad
dison and Brooklyn, but a 45-mile
an hour wind blowing across j
Lake Huron swamped a small
boat on Saginaw Bay, taking 3 j
lives.
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FLOOD CONDITION S
INTERIOR REMAIN
AT SERIOUS MARK
(By The Associated Press'#
FAIRBANKS, June 26, — The townsite of Nenana
is about half under water according to an observation
made at noon yesterday, and the Tanana river is ex
pected to reach its peak soon.
The people are going about in rowboats, although
warehouses are still dry and little damage has actually
been done by the high waters.
The Good Pastor landing field on Tibbs Creek was.
washed out by a cloudburst earlier in the week, accord
ing to pilot Lon Brennan of the Pollack Flying Service,
who flew over the field yesterday, arriving here from
Forty Mile.
He said the field was ruined and in worse shape
than when improvement was started. Some of the ho!
es are big enough to bury several planes.
Prospectors plan to ask fo? special funds for re
pairs. or prepare a new field.
The upper Tanana River Hood situation is improv
ing. Some cars are beginning to get over the Richardson
highway, along the area which was Hooded for three
days during the middle of the week. Two private cars
got through to Fairbanks from Valdez Thursday night
reporting going through water up to the hugs of th .*
car wheels, for a stretch of several miles north of the
26-mile-section.
Arrivals from another section report the Black
Rapids glacier is advancing about a foot an huur. al
though the movement is not spectacular.
J. G. Rivers, secretary of the Fairbanks Chamber
of Commerce said upon his arrival here yesterday that
he could not reach Big Delta, because the river is to)
close to the road, and that it might not be before Octob
er he could at the present rate of flood increase. The
Tanana dropped six inches at Big Della Thursday
night.
Murder Suspect Escaped Capture
(By The Associated Presa)
DENVER, June 25—Two men. one identified by De
tective George Miller as Walter Seelert, sought for slay
ing this spring of Deputy Sheriff S. R. Jackson of Lewis
County, Washington. Detectives were fired upon as
they entered a boarding house, here, to arrest Seelert,
who made his escape.
NO SILVtR LINING. Sweeping across farm lands like an earthen tidal wave, a dust stoma
rolls into Clayton. N. M., burying it beneath a cloud of swirling earth. . j