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VOL. 36. Number 255. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, October 30, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
NEW ARMY BOMBER CRASHES ON TAKE-OFF
Mussolini Organizing Women of Italy to Fight Sanctions
NEW GIANT BOMBING
PLANE MADE BOEING
FOR ARMY IS BURNED
Deadliest Bombing Plane World Crashes
On Takeoff Burns. None Crew Killed
Jimmy Doolittle
Presents Plaque
Mrs. Will Rogers
(By The Associated Press)
Los Angeles, Oct. 30, Maj
or James H. Doolittle, noted
flyer, representing the Am
erican Society of Mechanical
Engineers, presented a plaq
ue honoring the late Will
Rogers for meritorious ser
vice in the advancement of
aviation, to the humorists
widow.
Rogers was selected for the
honor a month before he was
killed in the plane crash near
Point Barrow, in which Wil
ey Post, noted aviator also
lost his life.
Hollywood Stars 111
(By The Associated Press)
Hollywood, Oct. 30, —Mae
Marsh, star of the silent pic-,
tures, and Gordon Westcott
continued their desperate
fight today against death, in
hospitals here. Both are crit
ically ill.
Kidnaped Girl Is
Now Attending A
School Of Law
(By The Associated Press)
Lawrence, Kans., October
—Mary McElroy, daughter
of the city manager of Kan
sas City, Mo., enrolled in the
law school of the University
of Kansas here, recently. The
would-be Portia laughingly
remarked, ‘My mother has
hopes that I will be chief jus
tice of the supreme court.”
Miss McElroy has been in
Boeing Bomber
Crashes Burns
Crew Rescued
(By The Associated Press)
Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 30, —
Five men were injured, two
seriously when the new giant
Boeing bomber crashed on the
takeoff and caught fire here
today.
The injured were Major P.
P. Hill, chief of the firing div
ision was seriously injured;
Leslie Tower also seriously
injured he is chief pilot for
the Boeing Aircraft Com
pany; Lieut. Donald L. Putt,
John Cutting, test observer,
and Mark Koogler, Wright
Field attache.
Wright Field officials said
the lives of the plane’s occu
pants were probably saved
by the heroic action of Lieuts.
R. Giovannioli and L. F. Har
man who rushed inside the
burning plane and carried
the men out.
An army board of inquiry
began an immediate investi
gation into the cause of the
accident.
Japan Stands Prepared Force Through
Demand Removal Anti-Elements China
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the public eye for several
years. Three men are now
serving sentences of life im
prisonment for kidnaping
her. Following her release
by the kidnapers she suffered
a nervous breakdown and dis
appeared. Later she return
ed to her home on the verge
of collapse.
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“Property Already Taxed Deatir She Says
Mary Pickford Says
Taxes are Too High
(By The Associated Press)
Hollywood, Oct. 30, —Com
plaining against California’s
income taxes, Mary Pickford
assertedly is ready to join
William Randolph Hearst’s
plan to move out of the state.
She said that her property
in California “is taxed to
death already.”
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New Wing Of The
Fairbanks Hospit
al Dedicated Mon.
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, Oct. 30, — The
new wing of the Sisters Hospi
tal, increasing the capacity of
the institution to fifty beds,
was dedicated Monday, the
25th anniversary of the found
ing of the hospital by Father
Francis Monroe, now of Wran
gell.
In addition it gives Fair
banks a modern hospital in
every respect with adequate
X-ray laboratory, surgical
rooms, modern elevators, el
ectric lights, steam heating,
laundry and furnishings.
I wenty private rooms were
donated by leading citizens.
The expansion of the hospi
tal was urgently needed on ac
count of the development of
aviation which resulted in the
bring of many patients here
from outlying points.
Speakers at the dedication
included Mayor E B Collins,
U. S. District Judge Harry E.
Pratt, Dr. J A Sutherland and
Father Francis Eline, local
pastor.
The hospital is under the
direction of Sisters of Char
ity of Providence. The build
ing was designed by Sister
Josephine Anselm of Seattle,
who has been supervising
architect on fifteen similar in
stitutions.
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Japan Will Back
Demand Elimina
tion Anti-Element
(By The Associated Press)
I
Tiensin, Oct. 30, —A Jap
anese destroyer lay nearby,
at Tangku, ready for dispatch
to Tiensin if tension grew be
tween Tokyo and Chinese Na
tional government headquart
ers at Nanking, over the Jap
anese demands for the elim
ination of anti-Japanese ele
ments.
Japanese soldiers began a
sham battle along the Peiping
Tientsin Railway. A Peiping
military council was called in
to session to consider Japan
ese demands.'
MUSSOLINI CALLS ON j
WOMEN ITALY FIGHT i
LEAGUE SANCTIONS
Committees Appointed To Organize Italy’s
Battle Within To Defeat Sanctions
To Seek Missing
Flier Disappeared
Barnstorming 1927
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(By The Associated Press)
New York. Oct. 30, — The
start of a rescue expedition to
seek Paul Redfern. missing
American flier who is believ
ed to be alive in Dutch Guin
eau, appeared less than two
weeks distant.
Major Willis Taylor and
companions are ready to fly
from the Panama Canal Zone
soon. Leave of absence has
been granted them to take
planes and finance the expedi
tion.
Redfern disappeared on a
barnstorming trip in 1927.
Old Homestead
Reverted Baek
To Federal Gov’t.
(By The Associated Press)
Phoenix, Ariz., Oct.—More
than 16,200 acres of land in
the Verde River Irrigation
and Power district has been
withdrawn from county and
state tax rolls under orders
of the United States Interior
Department.
Because no final homestead
certificate ever was granted
in the area, it was held to be
federal land and therefore
not subject to taxation.
Under a contract between
the government and the dis
trict in 1921, the right to tax
the area was granted tempor
arily.
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Mussolini Creates
Committees Fight
Foreign Sanctions
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Oct. 30, —Thirty
six countries today announc
ed their readiness to apply fi
nancial sanctions cutting off
credit to Italy. Forty coun
tries have now accepted an
arms embargo, Canada hav
ing joined the list today.
Mussolini summoned the
women of Italy to fight ag
ainst economic sanctions,
creating committees of moth
ers and widows of soldiers
dead to organize every fam
ily in the kingdom for the ex
ecution of restrictions requir
ed under punitive measures.
Italian armies sent out ad
vance parties in preparation
for another general forward
movement, in Ethiopia.
Scouting forces met small
bands of Ethiopians ahead of
the lines. The Ethiopians
are reported today to be gatli
ering in the Makale and Gor
rahei regions for their first
real stand.
Impending Arrival F
Gulfs Ports Ma
Hot ( largo Dispute
Looming Again In
Pacific Coast Trade
(By The Associated Press)
San Francisco, Oct. 30, —
Trouble plagued Pacific Coast
ports as disputes between
Use Of Oleomargarine Governed By Rules
(By The Associated Press)
Mobile, Ala, Oct. 30, —If
you have a boarding house,
don’t serve oleomargarine.
But, if you do, don’t mix col
oring into it yourself. To do
so will subject you to a manu
facturer’s license—if Uncle
Sam finds it out. And such a
license costs $600.
These and other warnings
have been issued by the In
ternal Revenue department.
A grocer who sells oleo may
give the coloring for it, but
if he shows the buyer how to
mix it, he can be made to
pay the manufacturer’s lic
ense.i
Early Alaska Justice
Dealt Out In Olil
Style Pioneers
Authorities Too Busy To At
tend to Indian Murderer;
Agent Takes Matters
In Own Hands
The following story, the
author of which is unknown,
dealing with the conditions
in Alaska prior to the big
gold rush of “98", was recent
ly handed to the Valdez Min
er by an old Valdez resident,
and is reprinted from that
publication. The killing of
the storekeeper was a matter
of story in the early days of
Valdez but the details given
by the writer, while probably
correct are not personally
known to the editor.
On or about February, 1888
Mr. Holt the agent for the Al
aska Commercial Company at
Knik, was shot and killed by
an Indian named Nicolai, be
longing to the Matanuska
tribe of natives.
The cause of the shooting
was a dispute between Holt
and the native over some to
bacco, known as “Sheep Dip”
or natural leaf. Nicolai was
urged by one of the Knik
tribe of Indians by the name
of Afinacie for which killing
he (Afinacie) paid Nicolai
from plunder out of the A. C.
store.
The case was laid before
Governor Swineford, and he
was asked by the people of
Cook Inlet to take the matt
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reighter I rom
y Cause Port Trouble
maritime workers and em
ployers neared another crisis.
The impending arrival of a
ship at San Pedro with freight
from Gulf of Mexico ports,
caused ship operators to ex
press fear that another “hot
cargo” controversy might re
sult.
Officials of the Marine En
gineers, Master, Mates, Pilots
Association is opposed to the
new wages, hours and work
ing conditions set up by the
emergency fleet corporation,
and which are ordered to go
into effect Friday.
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