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VOL. 37. No. 124 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY. MAY 26, 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
Six Persons Killed In Plane Crash
NEW JERSEY FOREST FIRE CLAIMS 5 LIVES
Investigation Into Black Legion Deaths In Detroit
FOREST FIRE NEW
JERSEY IS RAGING
OUT OF CONTROL
Fire Nearly Under Control, Breaks Out
Again 15 Miles Distant. Brother Of
Fire Warden, 4 Others Meet Death
(By The Associated Press')
NEW GRETNA. New Jersey, May 26, — A forest
fire which took five lives already, broke into new fury
fifteen miles from the place where hundreds of weary
fire-fighters thought they had finally conquered it this
morning.
Division Fire Warden Alfred Morey, of Mount
Holly reported that the blaze was going fast again to
day away from Chathworth, where it started Saturday
and roared southeastward, trapping a party of CCC
fire-fighters last night.
Four bodies were found near Stafford Forge, and
the fifth person died on his way to the hospital. Eight
men were taken to the hospital, seriously burned, this
morning, as the fire swept eighty square miles of scrub
pines. Two victims were identified as Stanley Carr. 33
year old Waretown truck driver, and Ira Morey of West
Creek, brother of Fire Warden Morey.
Gruening For
More Fields In
Alaska, Planes
(By The Associated Press 1
JUNEAU, May 26, —Dr. Ern
est Henry Gruening, Director of
the Bureau of Territories and Is
land Possessions, said he consid
ered the airplane field construc
tion program extremely vital to
the progress of Alaska.
“I believe the airplane is more
important here than in any place
in the United States. It is essen
tial that the airfield program in
Alaska be pushed forward rapid
ly because the airplane provides
such an important link in the
chain of business and industrial
activity,” said the director.
His statements were made at
a chamber of commerce execu
tive committee meeting
Gruening said he planned to
leave Juneau Tuesday on an air
plane tour of southeastern Alas
ka, ending at Ketchikan where
he will board the steamer North
western Thursday enroute to the
states.
Most of Dr. Gruening’s inspec
tion tour of Alaska was made
by airplane.
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A Private Ford
Motor Company
Reports Profit
(By The Associated Press)
BOSTON, May 26, — A priv
ately owned Ford Motor Com
pany made an indicated profit of
three million, five hundred and
sixty-five htousand dollars in 19
35, their balance sheet filed with
the Massachusetts tax authori
ties showed.
Massachusetts, alone, among
the tates, compels the filing of
such a statement which affords
only a public indication of the
profits.
The Detroit company, the Can
adian Ford company, and also
the Public Stock Detroit com
pany are held entirely by Ford,
his wife, and their son Edsel B.
Ford.
Speaker Byrns
And Bankhead
Urging Action
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C., May 26
—Speaker Byrns of the House
of Representatives, and Repre
sentative Bankhead, dembcratic
leader, said today, that definite
action must be taken against Dr.
Townsend.
Bankhead declared: “his ac
tion has defied the power of con
gress to make investigations.”
Investigation In
To Black Legion
Is Carried Out
(By The Associated Press)
DETROIT, May 25. — Three
investigations are under way in
to the Black Legion, which State
Police Captain Marmon said he
had been informed, may have
been responsible for fifty deaths
in Michigan recently.
Police are seeking to link the
“order death” of Rudolph Ander
son. aged 40, who died of a gun
shot wound in December, with
the Black Legion. His body was
found in a parked automobile. A
rifle nearby recorded suicide.
Marmon said he had been told_
that the Legion made “execu
tions” appear as suicides.
Prosecutor McCrea, also in
vestigating death cases, said he
had been informed that the Le
gion has one hundred and thir
ty-five thousand members in
Michigan all armed, and that
they refuse to countenance any
withdrawals of members.
DETROIT, May 27. —Murder
and kidnaping warrants were ask
ed by Prosecutor McCrea against
thirteen members held in con
nection with the Poole slaying.
There are twelve “John Does”
warrants against others who may
attend any meeting planning
executions.
DETROIT. May 26. — Enlarg
ing the drive against the Black
I
Farmers Believe
Rain Dispelled
Big Dust Storms
(By The Associated Press)
GUYMON, Oklahoma, May 26,
—Farm officials believed that the
rains brought at least a temper
ary end to the “black blizzards”
in a large part of the nation's
“dust bowl” and Oklahoma pan
handle, where the dust was turn
ed to mud by the hardest rains
in three years.
Torrential rains in Texas sent
the Colorado River near Colum
bus out of its banks. Soaking
rains in widespread sections of
Kansas benefited the wheat crop
as also did the moisture in the
STexas panhandle.
H. C Syer, Texas county farm
agent said “the rain will start
I the vegetation growing even if
there is no moisture while it
grows, and as rapidly as the land
is worked properly. Dust storms
however, may be over for some
time'’.
Legion, Wayne County authori
ties raided five homes in the
down-river district and found,
what they claimed, was evidence
of two recent bombings in Ecor
se which the order inspired.
They seized firearms and lit
erature in two homes of former
Ecorse councilmen.
Twelve men stood mute dur
ing their arraignments yesterday
on murder and kidnaping charg
es. They all entered pleas of
not guilty.
QUESTION LIQUOR REGULATIONS
OCCUPIES ATTENTION OF
NOME CITY COUNCIL
Re-licensing of retail and beverage dispensary Busi
ness Establishments in Nome Brought Forcefully
To Attention of Nome City Council. Addition Of
Extra Fireman to allow Chief Police Time Patrol.
With a large attendance of
citizens present, the city council,
all members of which were in
attendance met last night to
transact various items of im
portant business. Minutes of the
previous meeting were read and
approved, and all lylls approved
by the finance committee ordered
paid.
Under communications a letter
signed by city attorney Sullivan
was read advising the council of
plans of the Office of Indian Af
fairs in attempting to secure pro
perty upon which to install*play
ground equipment. V.R. Farrell,
local supervisor for the bureau
spoke at some length on the
plans and what such installation
would mean to the native child
ren here in relieving a danger
ous situation which has arisen
through the fact that they must
need play in the streets where
they are a menace to traffic and
where traffic is likewise a men
ace to them. Councilman O’Con
nor spoke somewhat in opposi
tion to the idea but later voted
in favor of a motion designating
Mr. Sullivan as a third party in
to whose hands the property
would be turned to, for sale to
the federal government. The
city appropriated not to exceed
$225 for purchase of the lots in
question across the street from
the native school, on the north
side of west second avenue.
Recommendations for positions
in the fire department were re
ceived from Chief W. W. Laws,
in compliance with the new ord
inance, recommending Fay Mor
row for driver and Peter X Pet
erson for engineer Objection
was raised in the council to Mr.
Morrow’s application stating he
was not a bona fide resident of
the territory and of Nome and
therefore automatically ineligi
ble. The name of Carl Hansen
was brought up and voted on
favorably for the position. Pet
(Continued on Page Two)
CANADIAN PLANE
CRASHED KILLED
ALL SIX PERSONS
Veteran Canadian Flier \\. II. Clark Is
One of Dead, Also Head of Ceres Ex
ploration Ltd., Meehanie. .‘1 < fillers
(By The Associated Press)
AMOS, Quebec, Canada, May 26, — A Canadian
passenger ,plan crash Sunday cost the lives of six per
sons, who died when the plane fell to the ground a half
mile from Chiboughamau 1 ake about one hundred
miles northeast of this mining town, and about two
hundred and fifty miles north of Quebec.
The seriousness of the crash has drawn an official
investigation. Pilot Gath Edwards, searching for the
missing plane, found the wreckage. It was understood
the passengers on the ill-fated ship, were returning to
Rouyn, a mining center about 50 miles from here, after
an inspection tour of other mining properties.
W. H. Clark, General Airways pilot, veteran,flier,
and pioneer in aviation in the province, mechanic Geor
ge Millhan, and Leo Springer head of the Ceres Explor
ations Ltd., were three of those killed. The other
three victims were prospectors, the names of whom
have not been obtained yet.
Aral) Girl Ami
British Officer
Faring Badly
C J
(By Tne Associated Press)
JERUSALEM, May 26, — An
Arab girl was fatally injured
and a British constable was ser
iously hurt in the persisting dis
orders arising from the Arab po
position to the Jewish influx of
the Holy Land. Tension mounted
higher over the continued banish
ment, Arab agitators spurring
fresh resistance to the British
military control. Sporadic gun
shots and bombs arc to be heard
at numerous times during the
day and night.
Wild Geese lie
Banded Are To
Carry Scripture
(By The Associated Press')
KINGSVILLE. Ont., May 26—
Swift-flying Canadian geese are
carrying a verse of the Holy Writ
into the great north country.
Jack Miners, naturalist, caught,
tagged and then liberated 225
geese to study their route of mi
gration. There is a verse of
scripture stamped on the reverse
side of each tag. Hunters who
! shoot the geese are directed by
the tag to communicate with Mi
ner, telling where the birds were
shot.
$. T. \ andcrpool
Disappeared The
Kuskokwim Vea
'Mv The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, May 21, — A
‘a v cl dog a I ;.n al an -
doned sled, found on the trail in
the upper Kuskokwim region,
gave the only clue to the disa
ppearance of W. T. Vanderpool,
aged 70. former U. S. Commis
sioner at McGrath, said Deputy
Marshal B. Berry at McGrath, in
a message to Judge Ilarry Piatt
of Fairbanks.
The message declared that the
searchers had been out for the
past month. The discovery was
made on Nixon Fork of the Kus
kokwim. where two dogs were
found dead and the others barely
alive. There was no trace of Van
derpool.
Governor John W. Troy auth
orized Berry to continue the sear
ch at the expense of the Terri
tory.
Vanderpool had been prospect
i ing and trapping in the Nixon
Fork region, and was presum
I ably returning to his family
' when he disappeared. The dogs
and sled were found about 15 mil
i es from McGrath.
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