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Volume 30. Number 157. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
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195 Dead as Result of Fourth of July
DELLWOOD SAILS FOR NOME-ARCTIC CRUISE
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United States Is Drawn Into Italo-Ethiopian Dispute
Nation Counts 195
Dead Today: The
Result Of Fourth
195 Are Dead and Thousand
•Persons Are Injured As j
Result of Celebrating
l<).-> DEATHS 4th
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Majority of Lives Lost Were
Attributed to Automobile
Accidents, Drownings
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, July 5, The nation
counted at least a hundred and j
ninety five dead with a thousand in
jured, as the cost of celebrating the1
Fourth of July.
The total number of accidental
deaths this year, as compared with
1934 was 177: and four hundred and
83 in 1931. Only two deaths were
directly attributed to fireworks, an
Associated Press survey disclosed.
The majority of the lives lost
were due to auto accidents and
drownings. Automobiles killed 82;
and drowning accounted for 77.
Thirty-four deaths were caused
by airplane crashes, train-wrecks,
electric shocks, shootings; falls and
the heat.
Among the spectacular accidents
was one at St. Clair, on the shores
of Lake Michigan, in which a man
was carried two thousand feet into
the air as he held a guide rope
of a balloon, but becoming weaken
ed lost his grip, and plunged to
his death.
Shoots Sweetheart
Takes Body With
Him In A Taxicab
Kills Sweetheart and Escort.
Then Takes Girl’s Body
For Ride in Taxicab
(By The Associated Press)
EL DORADO, Arkansas July 5 —
A thirty-eight year-old father was
arrested here today as he drove
a confiscated taxicab through the
streets and in which was the body
of his old sweetheart—Clarice Moore
aged twenty-two.
He is Clyde Gulley, who is mar
ried and is the father of two child
ren. Officers said Gulley shot the
girl and her holiday companion, as
the climax to quarrels over her af- 1
fections. The shooting took place
in a sandwich shop, with Gulley ■
picking up the body of the dead
girl and driving off with her.
WASHINGTON, July 5—President
Roosevelt today signed the Wagner
Labor Bill, which guarantees labor j
the right to bargain collectively. I
TROUBLE MAKERS ARE
LEAVING PALMER FOR
SEWARD AND SEATTLE
(By The Associated Press)
PALMER, Matanuska, July 5—The rapid-re-organiza
tion of construction work at Matanuska is under way, with
Eugene Carr prepared to return to the states.
Eight superintendents will be put in charge of the build
ing program and “then things will move, with the help of
God and Man.” He said; “We don't want colonists who
don’t do their work.”
Carr said that an Army telephone system will be run
to outlying camps. Some colonists will leave here today
for Seward where they will board the North Star of the
Office of Indian Affairs, for Seattle. Those leaving still have
unpaid bills. They have government transportation to
Seattle and must pay for their meals and find their way
home from Seattle.
Frank U. Bliss, formerly in charge of the transient
workers on the Matanuska projects; seventy-five federal re
lief administration workers from California, and nine fam
ilies of colonists will leave here today. Bliss will be on a
thirty day furlough, vacation.
S. S. Dellwood Is
Again On Way To
Nome from Seattle
SEATTLE, July 5—The Steamship
Dellwood of the Alaska Line, sailed
from Seattle at 9 PM last night en
route to Nome and way points. This
is the 1935 sailing of the Arctic Ad
venturer’s Cruise, inaugurated by
the Alaska Steamship Company, a
year ago. What the plans are for
this year are unknown at this time.
The Dellwood carried 78 passen
gers, seven steerage—thirty-three
Nome passengers and twenty-seven
Arctic Cruise passengers. Follow
ing is the complete list of Nome pas
sengers:
Fred Lebe
Frank P Davis
Wilfrid Neilly
Carl Jepson
Mrs C O Roberts and son
Mister Druetzer
Charles Mitchell
J A Bell and wife
Marie Vigus
Lionnie Nelson
Dorothy Harper
Mrs Mabel Harper
Doctor Victor Levine
Roy Johnson
Joe Jefferson
Mrs R E Pherrin
Mrs Eugene V Lucas
Miss Frances Nehlers
Mrs C L Dodd
Mr. Kirkpatrick, wife, boy
S J Lasher
Thomas Gaffney
Kate Werner
Miss K Allen
C M Allen
Mister A L Carpenter
Mrs John Welsh
Fourth Of July Is
Success In Nome
With Ball Game
The Fourth of July Celebration
in Nome went off with BANG yes
terday, with a band concert, races
and athletic events, and a baseball
game in the afternoon. The only
things lacking this year which were
common practice before the fire were
a literary program and a big pub
lic dance in the evening.
The Nome Brass Band opened the
exercises with a concert of about
thirty minutes, which was followed
by the athletic program—both of
which features drew large crowds.
In the afternoon a baseball game
between the U. S. C. G. Northland
and City of "Nome, was played.
The Nome team drew away from
the Northland in score from the op
ening innings, but after the middle
of the game had passed the North
land worked the score up to even.
The ninth inning ended with the
score 5-5 and another inning was
played. The same result then. The
eleventh inning was begun and in
the last half of that inning Nome
pushed a run over to win the game.
Following are the names of those
who played. It was impossible to ob
tain the positions which the follow
ing men played for the Northland:
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Florence Jones
Grace M Anderson
Mrs E Reynolds
Arctic Cruise List
Gordon White
Edwards J Moore
William K White
H Ingraham
Ethiopia Asks U. S.
To Invoke Kellogg
liriand Peace Pact
Ethiopia Delivers Note U. S.
Asking Invocation of Pact
Which Italy Joined
U. S. ON SPOT
Serious Consequences May
Result If United States
Insists on Adherence
(By The Associated Press)
ADDIS ABABA, July 5 — Ethiop
ia's hope of keeping peace with Italy
j is now in the hands of the United
States. A note was delivered to the
U. S. Charge D'Affaires here, which
asked the United States to invoke
the Kellogg-Briand Pact, under
which Italy renounced war as an
instrument of national policy.
The note has not been delivered
at Washington, D. C. yet and the
United States government was sil
ent on the subject this morning.
The spokesman for the Italian
government asserted at Rome, that
the appeal would not change Italy's
attitude toward her border contro
versy with Ethiopia.
Well-informed British sources said
that Ethiopia’s invocation of the
Kellogg Briand pact would be re
garded as a serious development.
Some sources felt that the United
States would be "put on the spot"
by the appeal.
May Broaden New
Tax Wealth Bill
To Include Others
New' Deal Circles Studying
Advisability Broadening
Tax Wealth Program
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON July 5 —Some
legislators and experts are known to
feel that if the new taxes are levied
only on the very wealthiest persons
the revenue resulting will not live
up to the governmental expectations.
This disclosure came after a
White House conference in which
plans were laid to push ahead on
the tax measure and enact it this
session, despite the Republicans de
mands that the whole question go
I over to a special session in the fall.
New Deal circles are studying the
advisability of broadening the tax
wealth program to include the mid
dle income brackets, as well as the
million dollars a year class.
Bayard Kiliani
Jack Eisner
John Fonda
Arthur J Barry
Rollo G Plumb and wife
(Continued on Page Four)
FARMER IS IN JAIL FOR
SWIMMING AWAY AND
LETTING NIECE DROWN
(By The Associated Press)
LAKEPORT, California, July 5—Rescued from an an
gry crowd by Policeman J. S. Murphy, aged forty, a farmer,
is now being held by authorities while they investigate the
strange drowning of his fourteen-year-old niece, Marie
Meyer.
He and his wife and their two small children, accom
panied by the niece went row-boating on Blue Lake, where
they dove into the water, Murphy telling Miss Meyer he was
going to duck here, which he did several times. She was
a poor swimmer and suddenly seized him.
boin of them went down, and after a struggle Murphy
broke free and was barely able to reach shore. Witnesses
of the struggle in the water threw rocks at him as he swam
away from the girl, letting her go down to her death. The
police hurried the farmer through the aroused crowd and
placed him in jail, to await further developments.
Search Is Hopeless
Body Ben Easley
Of Roust Airways
Indications Are Easley Might
Have Layed on Top Of
Wing For Awhile
Pilot Frank Whaley and Mechan
ician Harry Nelson of the Roust
Airways, who flew to Kotzebue the
morning of July 3rd, returned to
Nome yesterday morning early, af
ter putting in many hours of search
for the body of Ben Easley, lost in
a plane crash in the waters of Kotz
ebue Sound.
They reported that searches with
motor boats and by plane failed to
reveal any sign of the body. The
Curtis Robin airplane of the com
pany was dragged out on the beach
and a careful inspection made.
It was found that one wing tip
had been crushed presumably being
the first part of the plane to touch
the water, and supposedly causing
the crackup. An indentation on the
top of the wing near the fuselage
seemed to indicate that Pilot Easley
had probably crawled up there to
get out of the water.,
In the cabin the throttle was clos
ed, but the switch was still on. The
safety belt had been unhooked and
was lying free and open on the seat,
further testimonial that Easley had
extricated himself from the cabin,
when it is remembered that one
door and window were open.
It is believed that, if Easley climb
ed on the wing and got out of the
water, the cold weather and freez- \
ing condition of the water, finally
forced him to make an attempt to
swim ashore. Whether he swam in
the right direction is unknown. The
water was seven feet deep at the^
Dir. Pegues Of The
F. H. A. Due Via
P. A. A. Saturday
A telegram received today by Al
fred J. Lomen, general manager of
the Lomen Commercial Co.at Nome,
stated that John E. Pegues, Terri
torial Director of the Federal Hous
ing Administration, for Alaska, was
leaving Juneau today aboard the
Pacific Alaska Airways Electra and
would arrive at Nome Saturday.
His trip to Nome said Mr. Pegues
when here last, will be in the inter
ests of establishing active participa
tion by Nomeites in the Federal
Housing Administration work.
Empire Builder Off
Track 20 Are Hurt
(Bv The Associated Press)
BAINEVILLE, Montana July 5 —
Twenty were injured, some serious
ly, when the Empire Builder, trans
continental train of the Great North
ern, plunged into a washout near
here today.
point the plane was first discovered.
A strong current runs along the
coastline in that vicinity and all
hope of finding his body by search
ing at this time, was given up when
Messrs. Whaley and Nelson return
ed to Nome, although Eskimos and
residents of that section are remain
ing observant for any indications of
his body being washed ashore.
The plane will be salvaged, com
pany officials state, the only serious
damage being to the tail structure,
when Archie Ferguson hooked onto
the plane and towed it to within 50
feet of shore.