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VOL. 37. No. 62. NOME, ALASKA, Friday, March 13, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
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Powers May Issue Ultimatum Hitler
Bruno Hauptmann’s Last' Reprieve Deadline Ended
Selz Pleads Guilty Rice Murder and Sentenced Life
I
JEROME SELZ PLEADED GUILTY
TO FIRST DEGREE MURDER
OF MRS. ADA FRENCH RICE
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Immediately Sentenced Life Imprison
*
ment At San Quentin Prison
s'
(By The Associated Press)
Redwood City, Calif.,
March 13 — Ralph Jerome
Selz this morning, before a
district judge here, pleaded
guilty to first degree mur
der of Mrs. Ada French
Rice, ex-wife of the former
mayor of Nome, Charles
Rice.
He was immediately sen
tenced to life imprison
ment at San Quentin pri
son.
Officials are still seeking
the body of the man whom
Selz confessed he killed to
avoid blackmail entangle
ments over the death of
the woman
C G Cutter Haida
Discovers Scarlet
Fever on Unga Is.
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, March 13 — The
U. S. Coast Guard Cutter
Haida landed a medical par
ty yesterday on Unga Is
land, a wireless report to
their headquarters here de
clared this morning.
The party discovered sev
en cases of scarlet fever on
the island, all of them min
or, and not critical cases.
The doctors established a
quarantine and a register
ed nurse is now attending
and caring for the patients.
British Engineers
Working in Spain
Being Protected
(By The Associated Press)
Madrid, March 13— Of
ficials protecting British en
gineers against violence
threats to foreigners, trac
ed assassins’ arms, and stat
ed today that they were
made in Germany.
They assured the British
Embassy in Madrid, that
English engineers working
on the Huelva Province
railway are being protect
ed from extremists who
have been picketing the of
fices shouting: “Foreigners
work in Spain while Span
ish engineers starve.”
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Liberty League
Losing Duponts
To Rep. League
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, March 13 —
Reports submitted to the
House of Representatives
today, for the first two
months of the year, disclos
ed that the Republicans
have received $261,387 in
contributions, and the Dem
ocrats $49,053.
The Liberty League
which got $483,000 last
year, only received $64,702
this year.
The Republicans have
spent $165,599 so far leav
ing $356,288 in their treas
ury. The Democrats have1
spent $322,900 out of $550, (
000 and have a balance of
$227,000, of which $136,-;
410 is owed on loans or un-i
paid bills.
The reports further in
dicated that the Duponts
are swinging from the Lib
erty League to the Repub
lican League. The big Du
pont contributions are not
listed, although the GOP
National Committee has re
ceived five thousand dol
lars, and Lammont and Du
pont have donated $1,666
to the GOP congressional
committee.
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Hauptmann’s
Last Reprieve
Time Passes
(By The Associated Press 1
Trenton, March 13th —
Bruno Hauptmann’s last
reprieve deadline passed
last night at midnight.
He paced his cell until
morning today, still con
vinced that he would not
hang, for the abduction and
murder of Charles August
us Lindbergh, Jr.
Governor Hoffman of
New Jersey continued his
investigation into possible
further details of the pri
soners story 'that he was
innocent and others were
the guilty parties.
War Department
Appropriation for
Alaska Approved
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, March 13 —
The Senate Appropriations
Committee, in the War De
partment appropriation bill
approved for Alaska the fol
lowing amounts:
Dry Pass seventy-nine
thousand dollars; Wrangell
harbor fifty-six thousand;
Stikine River six hundred
dollars; Petersburg harbor
ninety-four thousand; Cor
dova harbor one hundred
and eighty thousand dol
lars and Nome Harbor ten
thousand dollars.
Your Income Tax
No. 13
Deduction For
Business Expenses
Deductions for business
expenses form a large item
in the returns of many tax
payers and must have cer
tain qualities to be allow
ed. Such deduction must
be for an expenditure in
connection with the main
tenance and operation of
the taxpayer’s business or
business properties; it must
be an ordinary expense and
it must be a necessary ex
pense. In insisting upon
the latter qualifications, the
Bureau of Internal Reven
ue is upheld by the Board
of Tax Appeals and the
courts. Ordinary and nec
( Continued On Page four )
The Washington
News-Letter
OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
(By J. J. ECKLES)
February 22
Delegate Dimond and Mr.
William L. Paul of Juneau,
appeared before the Senate
Appropriations Committee
this morning urging the
adoption of an amendment
to the Interior Department
Appropriation Bill so as tg
grant the sum of $25,000
for relief of destitution
among the natives of Alas
ka. The Delegate and Mr.
Paul pointed out to the
Committee the pressing
and urgent need of this
additional appropriation
and furnished for the use
of the Committee a list of
approximately one hun
dred children, nine blind
persons and other disabled
natives who had no other
way of securing adequate
relief. While it is too early
to say what the action of
the Committee will be from
the questions asked it
would appear that there is
a fair chance of having the
Senate increase the appro
priation by the amount de
sired.
I he Delegate also request
cd an increase of the ap
propriation for the Geulog
ical Survey Work in Alas
ka. The bill as passed by
the House carries $60,009
for this purpose. The Dele
gate pointed out the need
of making an adequate in
vestigation of the really
promising tin prospects in
Alaska since the United
States imports practically
all of the tin used and in
case of another World War
the supply of tin might be
cut off to the great dam
age if not ruin, of many
American industries.
That the continuous ad
vocacy by the Delegate of
a proper measure of de
fense for Alaska has result
ed in a widespread interest
in the subject is evidenced
by an article appearing in
The Wahington Herald, of
February 16, written by
Lieutenant-General Robert
LCe Bullard, retired, form
erly Commander of the Am
erican Second Army in
France. In this article,
which deals with national
SOVIET RUSSIA IS REPORTED
TO HAVE GIVEN FULL SUPPORT
TO FRANCE AG AINST GERMANY
Powers Considerin'.! Issuing l liimaium
Giving 24 sirs. For Reply to Demands
(By The Associated Press')
London, March 13—Au
thoritative sources this af
ternoon said that the So
viet had thrown France her
full support for the punish
ment of Germany, with mil
itary and economic sanc
tions, for Germany’s re
militarization of the Rhine
land.
It is believed that the
powers are considering is
suing a virtual ultimatum
to Hitler, giving him twen
ty-four hours to reply to
their demands for the Ger
man evacuation of this ter
ritory, before the League
council, meeting tomorrow
proceeds on its course ag
ainst the Reich’s policy of
placing military agencies
in the Rhineland, which
should always be de-milit
arized by the Locarno Pact.
Card Party and Dance
The Catholic Ladies will
give a card party and dance
including refreshments,
March 17th. at Pioneer
Hall, 5) p.m. General ad
mission 75 cents. 4-t
defense and is written by
one of the greatest strateg
ists of the time, is a para
graph reading as follows:
“A Congressman from Al
aska publicly called atten
tion to the fact that Alaska
could be invaded by air via
ihe Aleutian Islands; and
that from Alaskan bases an
enemy could launch attacks
upon the northwestern ter
ritory of the United States.
Both the Army and Navy
Departments immediately
made aeronautical studies
of this defense problem.”
It must be borne in mind
that General Bullard does
not make statements light
ly and when he says that
“both the Army and the
Navy Departments immed
iately made studies of this
defense problem" following
the statements made by “a
Congressman from Alaska"
it is evidence that the work
done has borne and is bear
ing resultr
February 20. The bill in
troduced during the first
session to authorize the city
of Skagvvay to issue bonds
for the raising of funds nec
essary for the repair of the
city's sidewalks, streets and
the city hall passed the Sen
atg today As introduced
in the House and passed by
(Continued on Page Three.
Scientists (Haim
Have Serum To
Avert Influenza
(By The Associated Press)
Chicago, March 13th —
Scientists completing stud
ies carried on in the 1935
outbreak, announced today
the control of the “last and
greatest uncontrolled men
ace”—influenza, as cited by
Horace Pettit, Stuart Mudd
and Sergeant Parmer. Uni
versity of Pennsylvania
bacteriologists.
They reported that the
virus from the Alaska epi
demic “appears to be a sin
gle immunologic entity.”
Serums collected in the
Alaskan epidemic were
shown to be identical with
others obtained when the
disease struck Philadelphia
the winter of 193-4 and 19
35, and the Britain and
Puerto Rican outbreaks in
1934.
“Both active and passive
immunization of the ani
mals is shown to be poss
ible, and the facts should off
er profound encourgemen
and ultimate control,” said
their report.
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