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VOL. 37 No. 170 NOME, ALASKA, Saturday JULY 18, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Russians Start for Nome Next Week
ALASKA SALMON PACK BREAKING RECORD
TELLS WHERE R ANSOMMONE Y WENT TO
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Witness Revealed
Where Money Was
Distributed Kid.
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(By The Associated Press)
ST. PAUL. J”v- 18, — Byron
Bolton, government witness in
the trial of John Peiefer on kid
naping charges, testified that
twenty-five thousand dollars of
the one hundred thousand doll
ars ransom money paid for the
release of William Hamm J)r.,
St. Paul brewer, was for Thomas
Brown, former St. Paul Chief of
Police, and ten thousand dollars
was for Peiefer.
A few months earlier Police
Chief Clinton Ha’cket ' suspend
ed Brown who had been head of
the police auto theft division.
Hackert acted on orders from
Public Safety Commissioner Gus
Barfus who referred to “rumors
of an association of the police
department with St. Paul kidnap
ings,” and “unfavorable mention
of” Brown in the trial.
Sharp Fighting
Occurs Camden
N. J. Factories
(By The Associated Press)
CAMDEN, N. J., July 18, —
Sharp fighting among milling
thousands took place as non-strik
ing employees tried to leave the
RCA manufacturing company
plant, and several were hurt.
Police overwhelmed a number
but were unable to quell the out
break immediately. Rioting con
tinued for two hours after a
Supreme Court Justice allowed
and demanded more than a half
million dollars bail for the release
of a hundred and one persons
held in connection with yester
day’s disorders.
Nine Lose Lives
Auto Wrecked
By Locomotive
(By The Associated Press)
DUNDEE, Michigan, July 18, —
Nine were killed when an auto
mobile in which they were en
route to their homes in Pennsyl
vania, was struck by an Ann Har
bor Railroad passenger locomo
tive, and hurled into the Raisin
River.
The car was dragged for sev
enty-five feet to a narrow trestle
where it was smashed into a gird
er and fell into the river.
FLIGHT THRU NOME
MAY BE PIONEER TO
SOVIET U. S. AIRLINE
Soviet Fliers To Hop Off From Los An
geles Enroute To Nome Next Week.
Will Then Fly Along Polar Rim.
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Britain Making
Plans Safeguard
Lives Royalty
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 17—The Brit-,
ish government last night made
elaborate plans to safeguard the,
lives of royalty and moved to
restrict the traditional freedom
of its fun-loving Sovereign, King
Edward 8th.
Numerous police guards and
plain clolhesmen will watch the
King’s every move to prevent a
recurrence of the unsuccessful
attempt on his life yesterday by
Andrew Mahon, a political crank.
Although monarch of the
world’s greatest empire, King
Edward will not be consulted in
the matter, for his life belongs
to his six hundred million sub
jects.
125 Men Women
Arrested Riot
N.J. Yesterday
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(By The Associated Press)
CAMDEN, N. J„ July 17—Ap
proximately 125 men and women
were arrested late yesterday dur
ing widespread disturbances here
between strikers from the RCA
manufacturing Company, strike
sympathizers and police. Sever
al persons were taken to hospi
tals, but the extent of their in
juries could not be determined
immediately.
The riots broke out in the en
tire business district shortly af
ter workers left the plant.
Strikers and sympathizers at
tacked both police and workers.
Most of those arrested were sym
pathizers from Philadelphia.
They were stopped at the Cam
den side of the Delaware River
bridge and taken immediately to
the police station.
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Will Fly Specially Built
Vultee Plane Pontoon
Equipped Over The
Arctic Route
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, July 18—Ten
thousand mile air journey thru
Polar latitudes which may be a
pioneer for regular flying be
tween the Soviet Union and the
United States, will start from
here some time next week.
Piloting a specially constructed
pontoon equipped monoplane,
Sigismund A. Levanevsky with a
navigator, will head for Moscow
via San Francisco, Seattle, thence
thru Alaska to Wrangell Island;
thence skirting the Arctic Ocean
shores of Northern Siberia.
The purpose of the flight, Leva
nevsky said, is to study Alask; n
Arctic aerological conditions,
and indicated that he also hoped
to determine plane equipment
needs for a possible regular hy
ing over the route in the future.
A plane piloted by Levanevsky
attempted the Moscow—Frisco
flight last August but was forced
to turn back near the North Pole
because of oil trouble.
The plane was built here un
der Russian pilots directions and
will bear the insignia USSR-H
208.
The fliers expect to stop at
San Francisco, Seattle, Juneau,
Fairbanks, Nome, before crossing
Bering Straits to Siberia.
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
. Cloudy and threatening weath
er prevails over the Seward Pen
insula and along the northern
part of Alaska to Barrow. Fair
weather prevails over the inter
ior and south along the coast to
San Francisco.
A storm of moderate intensity
is charted this morning off the
edst coast of Japan. An arc of
high pressure with accompaning
fair weather prevails from the
interior of Washington and Mon
tana thru western Canada and in
terior Alaska and dips south into
Heat Broken In
Few of Central
Sections Today
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(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, July 18, — The
record heat wave which has last
ed for fifteen consecutive days,
taking thousands of lives and
which boosted the drought dam
age into the hundreds of milli ns
of dollars was announced ended
today in Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and probably North
Dakota by forecaster J R Lloyd.
Seasonal temperatures will pre
vail for the next three or four
days at least he said. Addition
al rains and cooling breezes will
bring relief over the weekend
to most of the other states in the
western and central drought ar
ea with the exception of South
Dakota and Nebraska.
Lloyd predicted showers to
night and Sunday in Illinois,
Indiana, northeastern Missouri,
and southeastern Iowa.
Rev. \. \\ id’tey
Of Nome Have
Service Sunday
Rev. Vincent C. Widney, new
pastor of the Federated church,
comes to Nome from the Monroe
Congregational Church, Monroe,
Wash., where he has been for the
last eight years. Prior to that,
he was pastor of a community
Baptist church at Loyalton,Calif.
He is a graduate of The Pacific
School of Religion, an interde
nominational theological semin
ary at Berkeley, Calif., under the
auspices of the Congregational
Board.
Mr. Widney’s entire ministry
has been at least in spirit inter
denominational with the empha
sis on the central facts of the
Christian religion, and he ex
presses his pleasure in serving a
community in which the denom
inations have buried their differ
ences and united in a common
cause. As this new pastorate be
gins, the loyalty of Nome’s entire
protestant population is earnest
ly solicited in order that the next
three years may see some real
advance in the social and person
al live of Christian people and
the entire community.
the Pacific at Dutch Harbor.
Nome temperature and precipi
tation data for 24 hours ending
at Noon today was:
Highest 53; the lowest 47; and
total rainfall 0.08 inch.
Sweeping Decrees
Passed At Danzig
Against Anti-Nazi
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(By The Associated press)
FREE CITY DANZIG, July 18.
—Sweeping decrees calculated to
crush opposition to the Nazi par
ty, were published today.
Any organization whose mem
bers with the knowledge of its
executive board, speak or pub
lish news “endangering the in
terests of the state” may be dis
solved by the police.
The orders are upon a polit
ical nature and include those af
fecting the rights of assembly,
press, and free speech, which are
declared unchallengable by the
courts.
Cust dv of property may be
imposed for three months on any
body considered to he endanger
ing the public peace. The editor
ship of newspapers is forbidden
to parliament deputies. The Jew
ish ritual ; slaughter is als)
forbidden.
Motorship is Ten
Days Overdue In
Arrival Tampa
(B.v The Associated Press)
TAMPA, Florida, July 18, -
Anxious owners asked addition
al aid in the search for the Brit
ish motorship Nunoca, ten days
overdue on a voyage from the
West Indies to Tampa, with 21
persons aboard.
It left Georgetown, Grand Cay
man July 4th and should have
been here July 8th. The vessel
carried only enough provisions
for the regular trip.
Coast Guard planes and boats
are searching for the missing
motorship.
Mormon Aboard
Vessel Coming
Alaska on Tour
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 18, — Heber
J.Grant,tall patriarchial president
of the Mormon Church is enroute
to Alaska aboard the S S Aleu
tian with his seven daughters.
Also in the tour party are a
hundred and five employees of
the Beneficial Life Insurance Co.
and their families, receiving an
Alaskan tour as prizes in a sell
ing contest.
Grant heads the company. His
Alaska Traffic
Siili Breaking
Records Seattle
fBy The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. July 18, — With
northbound Alaska traffic break
ing all records, word came that
the run was big of pink salmotl
in the Prince William Sound,
Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet
districts, which will aid in filling
the holds of ships in this trade
for their homeward voyages.
Answering call for cans from
southwestern Alaska salmon
plants, the Alaska Steamehip Co.
is sending a rush order of one
hundred and twenty thousand
cases on the S S Alaska rhed
uled to sail at 9 A. M. t- lay.
The can 1 irg
est sent this year in; north
ccdlapsed to return fill, g with
the “gold of the s i". T! Alas
ka will also have b u r- !-■ and
salt for Kodiak hcrr.ru r its
It will connect t Cwd ,v w:th
the feeder ship Curac. far Prin
ce William Sou:'I and Iv diak
ports.
The freighter Depere is sailing
Monday with a capacity cargo
for Southeastern red S uthwest
ern Alaska.
Townsendiles Do
Nothin" Comer
Smilh's (Iri^eism
'’By The Associated Fross)
CLEVELAND, Ju!y 18, —The
Townsend Board of Directors ad
journed early today after an all
night session, with the statement
that there was no censure to be
visited on Comer Smith,vice-pres
ident, for his criticism of its sug
gested alliance with the Third
Party movement.
Dr. Francis E. Townsend, the
founder of the pension plan walk
ed out on the board meeting
Friday night in protest of Smith’s
presence, but later issue l a state
ment “in view of the stress of
other business of the convention
no further action will be taken
regarding Mr. Gomer Smith re
maining upon the board of direc
tors, until after the convention.”
father Jedediah Grant, was one
of Brigham Young's counsellors
and the first mayor of Salt Lake
City. Heber Grant became the
hub of the Mormon Church in
1918.
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now on sale at
The Nugget Office.