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VOL. 37. No. 72. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, March 26, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
ALLEGED SLAYER J. NILIMA IN JAIL NOME
Germany’s New Dirigible Damaged Start Of Flight
JIMMY RICHARDS ARRESTED:
SUSPECTED MURDER OF JOHN
NILIMA AT BUCKLAND MAR. 14
The Northern Air Trans
port plane piloted by Ches
ter Brown with mechanic
Hank Miller, and charter
ed by the federal govern
ment, with the following
officials from Nome who
toured the north country in
search of the murderer of
John Nilima, U.S. Attorney
Hugh O’Neill. U.S.Marshal
Thomas Gaffney and Depu
ty Marshal Joe Crabtree,
returned to Nome last even
ing.
In custody was Jimmy
Richards, full-blooded Es
kimo, arrested as a suspect
for the murder of John Nil
ima, Laplander; who hao
been the storekeeper for
the Lomen Commercial Co.
at Buckland Old Village.
Richards is 21 years old
and was arrested on the
trail between Buckland Old
and New Villages, after the
plane flew out along the
winter dog trail until sight
ing his team, then landing
and the officials taking him
in charge.
The federal party left here
last Thursday by plane for i
the north after word of the
murder of Nilima had been
received. Officials stated
that they flew every poss
ible hour of daylight in
searching the country and
determining evidence, al
leged to point to Richards
as the murderer.
While gone, the plane
with the investigating par
ty stopped at Candle, Ele
phant Point, Buckland Old
and NewVillages.and Dime
Creek. At Dime it was dis
covered that Richards, al
leged to have been without
any money most of the win
ter, had purchased a dog
sled with five dollar bills
and considerable currency.
From there he was traced
to Buckland New Village
and later the plane appre
hended him on the trail.
Authorities stated “here
that through various pro
cesses of elimination they
had fixed their suspicions
on Richards as the only pos
sible person who could
have committed the mur
der at Nilima’s, as the Lo
men Commercial Company
store there is 25 miles a
way from Elephant Point,
and further from Candle.
Nilima lived entirely alone,
as all of the Eskimos in
that vicinity had moved up
to Buckland New Village.
A coroner’s inquest was
held at Candle before Com
missioner Roland Gillis,
the investigation being con
ducted by Dist. Atty. O’
Neill. Dr. R. E. Smith and
Deputy Marshal Xavier of
Kotzebue were brought to
Candle by the NAT plane.
Dr. Smith was a witness.
His testimony, it was stat
ed, declared that Nilima
had been shot through t^e
left ear from behind, the
bullet emerging through
the right eye.
It was determined at the
inquest by the jury, that
Nilima met death by shoot
ing from a party unknown.
The Jury included: Fred
!
M. Ayer, John Murphy,
Fred Tippleman, Hank
Miller, Tom Roust, and a
Mr. Ripley, a school teach
er at Buckland New Vill
age.
Details brought out, mar
shal’s office officials declar
ed in Nome, showed that
Nilima was probably in the
act of retiring that Satur
day night and that the bull
et, which was fired through
the window possibly caught
him in the act of either re
moving his mukluks, or
turning down his bed cov
ers, as considerable blood
was discovered at the head
.of his bed, and the line of
fire from the window to the
point where the lead lodg
ed in a log of the building
would have passed over
this point.
His body was discovered
on the bed, but his head
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Chinese Troops
Massing Drive
On Communists
(By The Associated Press)
Peiping, March 25, —
Forty thousand nationalists
and provincial troops are
massing in southwestern
Shansi province for a con
certed offensive to oust five
thousand communist invad
ers from Hungtung and
neighboring districts.
Rev. and Mrs. Claude
Thomas and their two child
ren, and 26 British mission
workers in that vicinity are
believed isolated by com
munists.
Government troops are
thrusting deep into the rear
of the communists seeking
to cut off their retreat.
At Shanghai, several
combatants, including two
policemen, were wounded
in a fight between police
and students of the Fuhtan
University.
A police cordon surround
ed the campus and the stu
dents could not get out.
But they hold a policewom
an as hostage and are defy
ing efforts to oust them.
Townsend Club
Fairbanks is The
Farthest North
( Bv The Associated Press'
Fairbanks, March 25th—
The farthest-North Town
send Club was launched
here with twenty members
today, effecting a tempor
ary organization with F. S.
Gordon as president pro
tern; Mrs. F. J. McDonald
temporary secretary. A
permanent organization is
planned soon.
The charter roll, contain
ing already a hundred nam
es, is still being circulated.
Mr. Gordon, a former Fair
banks mayor of the early
days is now in the mercan
tile business. Mrs. McDon
aid is the wife of a member
of the city council.
Frank Short, 57 years old,
a miner here since the ear
ly days, and a native of
Missouri, died yesterday of
silicosis. He is survived by
his widow who lives in
Farbanks.
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New Dirigible
Damaged First
Try-out Today
(By The Associated Press)
Friedricbshafen, Germany
March 26—Accident marr
ed the start of the spectac
ular proposed double air
tour this morning by Ger
many’s two mammoth Zep
pelins, which was schedul
ed to distribute propagan
da for next Sunday’s Reich
stag election over the Rhin
eland crisis.
A sudden descending air
current struck the new zep
pelin LZ—129 named Hin
denburg, for the first time
as it was being removed
' from its hangar, and forced
the vertical stabilizer to
the ground, seriously dam
aging it.
Captain Lehmann never
theless gave the signal for
the mooring lines to be east
off and cruised for two
hours, while the Graf Zep
pelin headed for Stuttzgart
Although the facilities of
the new ship for maneuver
ing seemed unaffected Leh
mann decided to descent.
Later, a closer examination
of the damage disclosed
that it may be repaired in
very quick order, and it
will resume its trip as soon
as ready.
Bill For 40 Hour
Week Introduced
(By The Associated Pressi
Washington, March 26—
Senator Thomas, democrat
of Oklahoma, introduced a
bill today in the senate to
extend the forty hour week
of federal employees, to
those employees of the Al
aska Railroad.
The measure is identical
with one introduced in the
house recently by Delegate
Dimond.
In an interview with Di
mond today he said that
the house Indian Affairs
Committee had agreed to
report favorably on the bill
to extend the benefits of
the Wheeler-Howard Act
to Alaska Indians.
The Act extends financial
assistance to Indians engag
ed in the operations of co
operative stores, canneries
and similar enterprises.
20 KILLED: 60 INJURED WHEN
DYNAMITE CAR EXPLODED IN
RAILROAD STATION MEXICO
(By The Associated Press)
Mexico City, March 26—
Twenty are known to be
dead and nearly sixty are
injured as a result of an ex
plosion of a dynamite car
at the railroad station at
Tultenango, state of Mex
ico.
A water tank, ten freight
cars and several houses
were destroyed; the rail
road track for several hun
dred yards were torn up,
and traffic in both direc
tions has been interrupted.
Employees and towns peo
ple were among the victims
The explosion was caused
when a coal car in which a
fire had started,broke loose
and rolled along a siding,
crashing into the dynamite
car which was awaiting
shipment to a mining com
pany near that place.
French \ essel
EJoree Sunk: 9
Lost Their Lives
(By The Associated Press!
Skegness, Lincolnshire,
England, March 26th—The
French steamship Boree
sunk twenty miles off the
coast of the British Isles
last night with a probable
loss of nine lives, after col
liding with an unidentified
ship.
Rescue vessels picked up
thirteen survivors of the
crew of 22. The captain,
among those rescued, said
that there wras a dense fog
at the time of the collision.
The Boree was of 1882
tons register, and was car
rying a cargo of coal from
Tyne to Caen, France.
Girls Snubbed
Hollywood
Goodwill Tour
(By The Associated Press/
Los Angeles and Holly
wood, March 26, —Snub
bed by a group of sightsee
ing girls, who expressed
superb indifference to the
lure of the cinema capital,
forty winners of personal
ity contests in Alaska Wash
ington and Oregon, arrived
here on a tour of California.
In answering a question
naire upon which to base
their. itinerary, only six of
them listed Hollywood as a
place they wanted to see.
One girl thought she’d
like to get a glimpse of a
“he-man actor”.
Wolves Slaving
J e
Hundreds Deer
Barrow Section
(By The Associated Press')
Point Barrow, March 25.
— Government Keindeer
Superintendent Frank J.
Daugherty said that more
than five hundred reindeer
had been slain by wolves
during the winter season,
in this area “just for the
sport of it”, the wolves eat
ing out only the tongues of
the deer.
Daugherty is preparing
to leave for Barter Island,
about three hundred miles
to the eastward, near the
Canadian border, where it
has unofficially been report
ed that nine hundred rein
deer have died of foot dis
ease.
Must Have 53 Per
Cent Margin Buy
'Hv The Associated Press)
Washington, March 26,
—55 percent minimum
margin for purchases of
stocks through either brok
ers or banks, was prescrib
ed today bv the Federal
Reserve Board, to become
effective May 1st.
This was done in confor
mity with the Securities
Exchanges Act to make
uniform credit values on
securities as handled by
banks and brokers.
It was explained that
for three-fourths of all the
trading thru brokers, at
present, no change would
result.
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