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VOL. 37. No. 113 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Mav 13. 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
4 Dead 9 Injured In Night Club Fire
NOME DREDGE OPERATIONS TO BEGIN SOON
Pilot And Plane Disappear in to Flight Wash. Mine
DREDGING IN NOME
SECTION AND OTHER
ACTIVITY BE SOON
Hamilton Consolidated Gold Fields Has
Extensive Work To Be Done Season
1936 Including Dredging, Thawing
J. D. Harlan, general manager
of the Hammon Consolidated
Gold Fields of Nome, who arriv
ed here via plane today from
Fairbanks, when interviewed eon
cerning company activities in the
gold dredging operations for this
season listed numerous import
ant features of production.
The diesel power plant is al
most ready to commence work.
Steam-thawing has already been
completed in front of the three
large dredges, of the surface frost
preparatory to their commencing
digging. Extensive thawing op
erations are to be carried on this
season to the fullest extent possi
ble, depending upon the water
supply. Another pumping station
is to be installed on Snake River,
are only some of the activities
which will mark this year’s gold
mining season in the vicinity of
Nome.
No. 1 dredge, says Mr. Harlan,
will proceed with its digging pro
gram until it reaches the railroad
and then will turn easterly to
ward Flat Creek.
No. 2 dredge this year will
dredge the left limit oi Snake
River and the mouth of Center
Creek. As extensive thawing
program is laid out for the south
side of Snake River, opposite Cen
ter Creek.
No. 3 Dredge will continue
dredging as soon as operations
begin on Lake Creek and upper
Wonder Creek ground located to
the west of the Bessie claim.
Thawing has been going on for
her just above the third beach
line, west of Holyoke Creek.
New equipment on dredge No.
2 this year will include a sand
elevator to permit the proper
dredging of the silt in that sec
tion—Center Creek and Snake
River.
Repairs will also be made to
the Seward ditch.formerly known
as the Wild Goose ditch, it was
stated. Reconditioning and clean
ing of the big oil tank located
next to the power plant has been
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Gov. Martin Of
Washington Says
N. W. Coming Up
(By The Associated Press)
OLYMPIA, Wn„ May 12, —
Governor Martin in a state-wide
radio address today said he had
been assured after a recent east
ern trip, by capitalists, that the
state of Washington was regard
ed as the oustanding field for the
next great development and ex
pansion. ,
Zionchecks Get
Taste National
, Spirit 1st Hand
(By,The Associated Press)
PONCE, Puerto Rico, May 13,
Mrs. Zioncheck, a bride of a few
weeks, got a closeup of the nation
alistic movement, after more mot
oring mishaps, when they collid
ed with a truck, the driver of
which is threatening a damage
suit.
Zioncheck was invitel to fight,
-but refused. His hotel was sur
rounded by eight hundred nation
alistic demonstrators, who threw
rocks and broke windows.
Carl Almy Dies
New York Home
After Being 111
(By The Associated Press)
CORNELL, N. Y. May 13 Carl
Almy, aged 53, an attoney here,
and for many years, Territorial
commissioner at Seward, Alaska,
died at the Pleasant Valley Sani
tarium last night.
He was stricken at his post last
fall, and returned to his home
here.
Harry Campbell
Pleaded Guilty
In On Kidnaping
(By The Associated Press)
ST. PAUL, May 13, — Harry
Campbell pleaded guilty here to
participation in the two hundred
thousand dollar kidnaping of Ed
war Bremer.
Judige M. Joyce immediately
sentenced him to life imprison
meht.
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(Omening, Troy
Enroute U. Of
Alaska at Fair.
GOVERNOR TROY AND DR.
ERNEST GRUENING VISIT
PLACES ALONG ROUTE TO
CITY OF FAIRBANKS
(Bv The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, May 13, — Dr. Ern
est Gruening, Director of the U.
S. Division of Territories and Is
land Possession said upon his ar
rival here he was heartly in fav
or of the administration’s four
major projects in Alaska—
Direct air mail to the States:
construction of the international
Highway; encouraging tourist
travel; development of the resour
ces with particular stress on agri
culture with the aim of establish
ing a more permanent popula
tion.
In the company of Governor
John W. Troy, Gruening left Jun
eau yesterday, bound for Fair
banks.
He declared: “All departments
are back of the air program and
realize that transportation is the
real need and the frst step in
connecting up with Seattle.
Robinson, Stoll
Kidnaper Now
Ready for Trial
j
KIDNAPER RETURNED NASH
VILLE. DIST. ATTORNEY WILL
ASK DEATH PENALTY FOR
CRIME COMMITTED IN 1935.
(By The Associated Press)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 13,—
Robinson was returned here af
ter an all night flight by plane
from California.
District Attorney Bunk Gard
er announced he would demand
the death penalty if he was tried.
Mrs. Stoll, who was kidnaped
by Robinson last fall, w’hen inter
ed said “I’m very glad.”
The government forces are gird
ed against an expected insanity
plea, it was announced in Wash
ington, D. C.
Hoover said he had confessed
to hitting his victim with a lead
pipe and must “pay for the deed”.
May Sixteenth
Set Celebration
Date Matanuska
(By The Associated Press)
PALMER, May 13, — The Col
onists anniversary celebration
date was changed to May 16th, it i
was announced today, at which
time Governor John W. Troy will
speak to them.
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TORCH DANCER KICKS
TORCH OVER CAUSE
DEATH TO FOUR
Two Men and Two Women Killed In
Stampede Escape Flames In Night
Club In San Francisco Last Night
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, — Two men and two
women were killed when a torch dancer kicked one of
the torches into the draperies in a night club here and
started a fire in the Shamrock Club, in the down-town
district.
Jo Dickinson, a hat check girl was trampled to
death and Mrs. Elsie Miller 32 of Petaluma, Robert
Pattison of Berkeley, and John Mason of San Francisco
died of suffocation.
Nine were injured, three seriously, in the stam
pede to the one and only exit.
Betty Blossom, the dancer managed lo escape safe
ly. Some of the other guests hid in the dressing rooms
and several in the ice box until the fire was out.
Col. Frank Knox
Attacks Roose
velt in Speech
CHICAGO PUBLISHER SAYS
JUDGE ROOSEVELT WIIAT
HE HAS DONE NOT WHAT
HE SAYS.
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, Wn, May 13, — As
serting Republican principles are
necessary to protect the United
States against the coercive system
Colonel Frank Knox, presidential
aspirant, oharged President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt with reckless ex
penditures, despicable deceit and
the legalizing of monopolies—
“One may judge the man's
trustworthiness, not in what he
says alone, but how his subse
quent acts conform to wrhat he
has said.’’
Knox is to speak again in Seat
tle tonight. ,
United States Had
Planed Send War
Vessel to Ethiopia
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12,
—Secretary of State Hull disclos
ed today that the United States
Government had studied the pro
blem before the outbreak of the
Italo-Ethiopian fighting, of the
advisability of sending a U. S.
war vessel there to protect Am
erican nationals.
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s i lot and Plane
Disappeared on
Flight to \Iine
(Us 1 he Associated Press I
SEATTLE, May 13, — Pilot Jay
Graybill anti Arne Wells are the
object of an aerial and ground
search in the Cascades, after their
plane failed to return yesterday
from an eighty mile flight to a
mine east of here. They had not
arrived there it was revealed.
Plot Jack Peterson and Mrs.
Graybill flew over the mine but
were unable to land. There were
no signs of them there nor else
where. The plane was heavily
loaded with supplies.
Italians Walked
Out Of League
Sessions Ocneva
(By The Associated Press)
GENEVA, May 13, — The Ital
ian delegation left here by night
train yesterday for Rome, it was
announced by officials last night.
The League Council, which met
without their attendance decid
ed: “There is no reason or cause”!
to modify the sanctions against ■
Italy.
A high Fascist official in Rome
said the departure of the Italan!
delegation meant an undeclared
policy of non-cooperation with
Rome until Italy’s new empire is
recognized.
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Hindenburg Now
Enroute Back To
Home Country
TWO IT. S. NAVAL MEN ARE
ABOARD HINDENBURG AS
BEGUN RETURN FLIGHT TO
HOME FORT IN GERMANY
(By The Associated Press)
LAKEHURST, N. J„ May 13,
—The record-breaking German
dirigible “Hindervburgf”, visitor
| to the United States for two and
a half days, headed homeward,
with a colorful setting.
A half minute after the com
mand of “Up Snip", the Zeppel
in’s motors sputtered and took
I hold, a moment later .she head
1 ed northward, being sighted over
New York City’s Battery Squire
about one hour later, heading
north over the Atlantic Ocean, in
■ the dusk.
| Before her departure. Dr. Hugo
Eckner, veteran commander of
Germany’s Graf Zeppelin pre
dicted the Hindenburg would
reach Europe in 4f! hours, smash
ing all records.
He was very hopeful of a Ger
man-American commercial dirig
ible service soon.
Captain Ernest A. Lehmann,
the ship's commanding office
dared the weather look ' d
ahead. Two U. S. Naval T-e -
were aboard on the tm t
of the Hindenburg io Eu:
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CANNED SALMON INCLUDED
QUOTAS PERMUTED
i'By Tne Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D C„ May 13,
-Tariff cuts in the United States
and liberalization of French quot
as on American goods, under the
new reciprocal trade treaty sign
ed May 6th. were terms just dis
closed today.
Tiie United States agreed to
cut tariffs up to fifty percent on
seventy-seven item .
France agreed to allow increas
ed new quotas on forty-four pro
ducts including canned salmon.
Freddie Miller
Loses Crown In
15-Round Bout
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 13,
—Petey Sarron, a Syrian, whip
ped Champion Freddie Miller to
win the world’s featherweight
crown, recuring a fifteen round
decision. Sarron swarmed all ov
er Miller, and the judgment was
unanimous.