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VOLUME 32. No. 76. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
U. S. Cruiser Hit By “Dead” Torpedo
DECIDED VICTORY BONDING CITY OF NOME
Highlights -Of Elections In Various Parts Of Nation
SERVICE FROM
FRISCO-NOME
IS ANNOUNCED
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3—Ap
proximately thirty days travel time
between here and Nome was lopped
off old schedules in a new airplane
steamship service announced April
1st by United Air Lines.
The new routing takes four and
one-half days. The trip is for pas
sengers to fly to Seattle; from there
to Juneau by steamer; and from
Juneau fly by Pacific Alaska Air
ways via Skagway, Whitehorse,
, Fairbanks and into Nome.
RETURN FROM
ISLAND STATE
IN ERUPTION
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, April 3—Pilot Roy
Dickson and George L. Johnson re
turned here today from a ten day's
trip to Augustine Island, at the
mouth of Cook Inlet. They report
ed that it had erupted for the first
time in many years, three weeks
ago, and had been belching smoke,
ashes and lava ever since, ashes fall
ing seventy miles away in all direc
tions.
GERMANY HAS
BIC AIR FORCE
AS GR. BRITAIN
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, April 3—Sir John Si
mon, Foreign Minister, revealed in
the House of Commons today that
Hitler told him in Berlin that Ger
many already has an air force as
large as that of Great Britain.
Replying to a question, Simon
said “in the course of conversations,
the German chancellor stated in
general terms that Germany has
reached a parity with Great Britain
in the air.”
Crew Of Tanker
Co Home Aboard
Another Vessel
(By The Associated Press)
KETCHIKAN, April 3—Thirty-one
members of the crew of a Standard
Oil Co. tanker, Captain A. F. Lucas
in command, departed today for
Seattle aboard the Yukon. Their
passage was provided by the Inter
national Seamen's Union.
WAR VESSEL IS HIT BY
“DEAD” TORPEDO AND
FUEL TANK PUNCTURED
(By The Associated Press)
SAN PEDRO, April 3 — While towing a target for six
submarines in practice last Friday, the modern ten thousand
ton cruiser U. S. S. Northampton was struck and slightly
damaged by a “dead” torpedo, it was disclosed here today.
The accident occurred while the fleet was on drill in the
waters near San Clemente Island. The ship was struck by
a forty-five knot an hour torpedo with a range of five hun
dred yards. The torpedo was minus its warhead of TNT.
It hardly more than dented the cruiser’s hull, but it did cut
a small hole in one of the fuel tanks. The cruiser is on her
way to the Mare Island Navy Yard under her own power
where she will go into dry dock for repairs.
THE DIONNE
QUINTUPLETS
MISCHEVIOUS
CALLANDER, Ont., Feb. — Try
ing to define the seperate characters
of five eight-month-old babies is
somewhat of a task, but Louise de
Kiriline, head nurse at Dafoe hospit
al, where the Doinne quintuplets are
quartered, is at least brave enough
to make a stab at it.
You have read, perhaps, that the
babies have begun to develop per
sonalities. Very good. But what
are they?
It’s not easy, said Madam de Kiri
line (everyone calls her Madam) to
put it into words, but this will give
you an idea.
Annette is the mischief maker, al
ways looking for a scrap; Yvonne
developed vain little mannerisms
and bids fair to be a coquet; Marie,
says Madam de Kiriline, is the “Ma
donna,” more etheral than her heav
ier and stronger sisters; Cecile is
very good-natured and puts up with
a lot, especially from Annette; Em
elie is harder to define, but, with cer
tain differences, she seems to be
following Annette’s bent for mis
chief.
January 23, says Nurse de Kiriline
\ir marked down as a great mile
stone of progress in the quintuplets’
history, for on that day Annette,
seeing Cecile with a red rattle in
her hand, tried to grab it, failed and
then turned over on her tummy and
squawked for it.
What made the date a red-letter
one was that it was the first time
one of the babies had shown any
real sign of wanting something that
someone else had.
The writer is in a position to
testify that Madam de Kiriline was
accurate in her description of An
nette and Cecile, for during one of
the visits saw Annette open hostil
ities on her good-natured sister, and
for a minute or two it looked like
trouble.
Both had been placed in the same
bod temporarily, following their
baths, and Annette evidently want
ed to be some place else.
She began to yell and kick and
she started to give Cecile a thor
ough overhauling, but the good-rra
tured one took it all with a smile
and a most casual air.
From all of which it is not to be
gathered that Annette is consid
ered “bad.” On the contrary, if it is
possible to say that any of these
young ladies is more popular than
her sisters, the vote probably would
go to Annette for her liveliness.
Nurse Yvonne Leroux’s favorite
naturally, is little Yvonne, her name
sake. Patricia Mullin, the relief
nurse, is a bit partial to Marie, and
you gather that this is the Irish big
heartedness in Pat championing the
cause of the weakest.
Madam de Kiriline finds it difficult
to name a favorite, but you find in
the course of her conversation that
she has a weakness for the scrappy
Annette.
Among the items of interest that
impress the fumbling layman in an
inspection of the hospital layout are
such gadgets as nipples that screw
on the bottles instead of stretching
over them; screw caps of hard rub
ber which displace such old-fashion
ed things as corks, two kinds of high
chairs for each quintuplet, and an
assortment of beds, playpens, bug
gies and other accessories that would
knock your eye out.
Nurse Pat Mullin allowed me to
inspect the babies' locker, a vertib
ble treasure chest of gifts. An in
ventory would be longer than your
arm, but it may be said that in the
matter of dresses, jewelry, booties |
and even little dressing gowns the
quintuplets are all set for some time
to come.
The housekeeper, Laurence Clu
siaux, says there are 150 pieces of,
laundry each day for the babies.
And 80 of these are diapers.
“But,” she adds, “diapers are used
(Continued on Page Three)
CITY ELECTION
RESULTS IN 0 K
ON BOND ISSUE
The following results of the city
election were obtained as a copy of
the official count obtained last night
by the judges of election and give
Mayor Swartz re-election in addi
tion to councilmen Hagen and Polet.
A new councilman was elected, Ed
Gross. The first three were very
decisive with the remainder group
ed closely together except the last
two.
Following is the count:
FOR MAYOR
Rex F. Swartz . 205
Walter L. Slack 101
FOR COUNCILMEN
Harry Hagen 188
Alvin A. Polet 176
Edward Gross 145
C. O. Roberts 117
Harry Gerberg 114
ClifT Allyn 107
Ernest Balsiger 87
M. Jacobsgaard 36
FOR CITY CLERK
M. J. Walsh 288
FOR CITY ATTORNEY
Leroy M. Sullivan 283
FOR CITY TREASURER
J. S. Stangroom 276
FOR MEMBER SCHOOL BOARD
Carrie M. McLain 250
For: Ratification of ordinance No.
269 relative to vacating certain
streets and alleys. 194
Against: Ratification of ordinance
No. 269. 18
In the bond issue the following re
sults, gave a decided victory in fav
or of bonding the city for the five
individual propositions included on
the ballot. Following is the number
of ballots in favor and opposed:
178 votes were cast for—Construe
tion of sewers and drains, costing
$10,500; and 14 votes were cast
against it.
179 votes were cast For—Constru
ction and installation of a complete
permanent fire fighting system, cost
ing $24,500; and 7 votes were cast
against it.
175 votes were cast For—Construe
tion, grading, surfacing and drain
ing of streets and alleys, and provid
ing and installing a suitable light
ing system for proper illumination
of streets and alleys, costing $8,400;
and 11 votes were cast against it.
178 votes were cast For—Constru
ction of new and repair of some ex
isting sidewalks and accompanying
curbs and gutters, costing $14,539;
and 11 votes were cast against it.
169 votes were cast For—Construe
tion and equipping of an addition to
the existing temporary fire hall to
( Continued On Page Four )
POLITICAL NEWS FROM
STATES OF ELECTIONS
CAUSE NATIONAL VIEW
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, April 3 — Progressives strengthened their
positions in Wisconsin, and Sinclair’s epic party achieved
partial success in California, as highlights of the elections in
various parts of the nation.
Two more progressives were elected by Wisconsin to
the Senate to bring the LaFollette-sired party within one
vote of a democratic majority.
In Los Angeles the council was re-elected by Sinclair
forces apparently ten to fifteen. The epic council candi
dates are assured of a position in the run off May 7th.
A striking display of strength was exhibited when Chi
cago democrats rolled up seven hundred and ninety-eight
thousand ballots to retain Mayor Kelly, thereby snowing un
der the republican candidate Emil Wetten, who received
one hundred and sixty-six thousand votes.
A political figure for the past twenty-three years in a
dominant position fell when Zion, Illinois, voted yesterday
and elected a city council of officials opposed by Wilbur Vol
iva, overseer of a religious colony.
McGEE AIRWAYS
SELLS TO STAR
AIRWAYS TODAY
fRv T!io Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, April 3—The heav
ist deal in the history of Alaska
aviation was closed today when the
Star Air Service took over the en
tire fleet of eight planes, three radio
stations, and hangars and other
equipment of the McGee Airways.
The Star Air Service will con
tinue basing here, serving Bristol
Bay, the Kuskokwim and Aleutians.
The augmented Star line now has
ten pilots, ten mechanics. Linn Mc
Gee, head of the selling concern,
goes with the Star Air Service, as
operation manager. Steve Mills is
president; Jack Walerworth and
Chas. Ruttan as vice-presidents, and
the Star Line is the largest exclu
sive Alaska aviation organization in
the Territory.
FISHERY BOATS
TO LEAVE FOR
NORTH SOON
(By The Associated Press)
BELLINGHAM, April 3rd—Presi
dent Archie Sheilds of the Pacfiic
American Fisheries said that the
Steamship North King will sail on
April 8th for Squaw Harbor, King
Cove; the freighter Mary D will
sail April 15th taking three thous
and piles to Alitak, Squaw Harbor
and King Cove. The North King
will carry a hundred employees and
many tons of supplies for the fish
eries.
STATE FISHING
CAN BE DONE
IN BRISTOL BAY
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 3 -The De
partment of Commerce today an
nounced that salmon fishing in the
Bristol Bay area would be permitt
ed this year only if the conditions
would show that the fishing would
be consistent with the conservation
of fish.
It was said that the Relief Admin
istration has assured that residents
of the area would be protected if
the bay cannot be opened. “'This
seems a better government economy
than to permit the wholesale des
truction of the highly valuable run
of fish.”
AM. LEGION IS
BACK OF BONUS
PAYMENT NOW
(By The Associated Press)
INDIANAPOLIS. April 3rd—The
National Executive Committee of
the American Legion today voted
unanimously urging the passage by
congress of the bonus bill.
Their action “includes no other
question than immediate payment
of adjusted service certificates.”
The resolution made no reference
to the Vinson or Patman bills, but
leaders said it would mean that the
Legion would support the Vinson
bill.
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