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VOLUME 36. NO. 41. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Hauptmann’s Legal Advisors Disagree
UNITED STATES MILITARY BUDGET GETS OKEH
Inflationists Start Move to Drive Dollar Value Lower
LARGEST MILITARY
SPENDING PROGRAM
IN FIFTEEN YEARS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — The largest military spend
ing program in fifteen years was started through Congress
with the House Appropriations Committee writing an
“Okeh” upon the expenditure of three hundred and eight
een million, thirty-two thousand, four hundred and eighty
two dollars by the Army during the fiscal year ending June
30,1936.
It also told the War Department that it might pledge
an additional seven and one-half million dollars for planes.
The total recommended was forty-eight million, eight hun
dred; fifteen million more than the 1935 appropriations.
The committee’s report said that the 1936 budget for
national defense was approximately one hundred million
dollars in excess of the largest regular annual appropria
tions made for national defense since the enactment of the
Budget Law in 1921.
25 Years Residence
Necessary Adm. To
Pioneers of Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Feb. 19 — The Grand
Igloo of the Pioneers of Alaska made
residents of Alaska for twenty-five
years, eligible to membership in the
Pioneers of Alaska. The residence
eligibility date was changed from
December 31, 1905 to December 31,
1910.
Ketchikan was awarded the 1937
convention. Sunday, the dedication
of the Pioneers Home at Sitka took
place with Andrew Norland of Fair
banks presiding.
Federals Move
In On Virginia
Moonshiners
OFFICIALS INDICTED ON
CHARGE OF GIVING PROTEC
TION TO ILLICIT LIQUOR RING
(By The Associated Press!
ROCKY MOUNTAIN, Va., Feb. —
To break up a gigantic whiskey dis
tilling ring, a squad of federal rev
enue agents who recently combed
the mountains of Franklin County
to gather evidence against the gang,
have re-entered the rugged area
temporarily clothed with the author
ity of Deputy U S marshals. They
will seek 34 individuals and will ser
ve warrants also on some corpora
tions in the county.
The warrants are based on indict
ments charging a conspiracy to vi
olate in various section of the county
the internal revenue law relating to
Military Head
In Japan Sees
Russian War
NIPPONESE LAWMAKERS AS
KED FOR LARGEST APPRO
PRIATION FOR ARMY IN EM
PIRE'S HISTORY
TOKYO, Feb. — Possibilities of a
war between Japan and Russia were
flaunted recently before the Finance
Committee of the House of the Jap
anese parliament in an effort to
whip its members in line in support
of the Military Department’s propos
al for the largest army appropria
tion in the history of the empire.
Threatens To Result In War
. Gen. SenjuryHayashi minister of
war, told the committee that Russ
ian military activities threatened to
result in war against Japan and
compelled Japan to arm regardless
of financial considerations.
Four-Year Air Program
He explained that it was neces
sary for Japan to carry out a four
year program for the expansion of
her air forces.
The war minister asserted that
Russia is still increasing her military
establishment along her Far Eastern
borders and that she is greatly im
proving the trans-Siberian railroad.
the distilling of whiskey.
Among the persons indicted are
Charles Carter Lee, the common
wealth’s attorney and a member of
a family long prominent in Virginia,
and Sheriff D Wilson Hodges of
Franklin County. Lee is accused of
having received “protection money”
from the handlers of illicitly distill
ed liquor. Wilson is charged with
having protected rum runners for
money. {
Sees New Deal
Court Decision
(By The Associated Press)
DENVER, Feb. 19 — The West's
metal mining industry is credited
with a new deal victory in the Su
preme Court, in removing the chief
obstacle "fear” to rich rewards for
the men who seek fortunes in sil
ver and gold. Leaders of the indus
try say that they expect the result
of the gold decision will be a re
stored confidence in mining and the
removal of uncertainty which has
been felt over its future.
Valdez Mining Man
Tells Of Airplane
Activities Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 10 — The re
pioneering of all of Alaska with air
planes replacing dog teams was des
cribed to the American Institute of
Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
by Clarence Poy, of Valdez. He told
a new story of flying which promis
es the industrial conquest of one of
nature’s last mountain strongholds,
where rich minerals are guarded by
glaciers.
He told of how a complete six
teen ton mill was flown by plane to
one mine, with supplies, a bunk
house and food weighing an addi
tional two tons. The total elapse of
time was one week and the flying
was done last season. The same
job would have taken an entire
season by any other form of trans
portation. ,
The cost of flying the sixty ton
mill, mining machinery and sup
ples wthout damage or loss, was
about four cents per pound, as
against twenty to thirty-five cents
by other means. An engine was
carried in two hours from the coast
to the mine and was running within
twenty-four hours. Dynamite was
also dropped successfully in snow
banks all summer.
Mrs. A1 Capone
Near Jail Of
Her Husband
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. —Mrs. A1
Capone is living under an assumed
name in San Francisco, the San
Francisco Chronicle reported in a
recent issue. She wishes to be near
her husband who is a prisoner in
the United States penitentiary on A1
catraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
Hauptmann Wants
Public Donations
To Finance Appeal
(By The Associated Press)
TRENTON Feb. 19 — An emerg
ency conference with Hauptmann by
defense Attorney Fisher, resulted
in the publication of the prisoner's
note demanding an immediate ap
peal. Fisher favoring no delay, in
dicated that the break was clean
with Reilly, who announced an in
definite postponement of his ser
vices.
Hauptmann also wrote an endorse
ment of a campaign for public con
tributions to finance the appeal.
Appraised of Fisher's announce
ment Reilly said: "I am sick and
‘ired of this double crossing at Flem
ington. Before I go further in the
case I intend to see Hauptmann or
Mrs. Hauptmann and find out whom
they want to represent him at Tren
ton.”
Governor Replaces
Woman Warden In
Okla. With A Man
(By The Associated Press)
GRANITE, Oklahoma, Feb. 19 —
Governor Marland announced today
that he will replace the woman
warden with a man, as the result of
the prison break which took place
here yesterday.
Woman Sues Yeast
Maker For $100,000
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb 14 — One hun
dred thousand dollars in damages
are sought from Max C. Fleischmann
millionaire yeast manufacturer, by
Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday of
New York City.
In a suit in court in New York she
charges him with having slandered
her. She declares he wickedly, reck
lessly and maliciously made others
believe she was “unchaste and guil
ty of the crime of blackmail".
NOTICE
A program in celebration of Wash
ington's Birthday, will be given by
the Bering Native Brotherhood and
Sisterhood on February 22, 1935 at
the gymnasium of the Native School.
Doors open at 7:30. Program starts
at 8 o'clock.
Admission adults 50 cents, child
ren 10 cents.
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NEW DEAL JUBILATION
-WORLD EXCITEMENT
OVER GOLD DECISION
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — Amid new deal jubilation
and world excitement over the gold decision, under which
all debtors could continue to pay their gold clause obliga
tions with the present paper money on a dollar for dollar
basis, some developments arose.
Some experts saw potentialities for future legal battles
by holders of government gold bonds, who might go to
court seeking to show they had suffered losses in purchasing
power, by the government’s abrogation of the gold clauses.
Senate inflationists started a new move to drive the
dollar value still further down, while some others thought
the decision might be viewed as a brake on inflationary
tendencies.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — In the opinion of many, the
government might be called upon to pay huge damages to
holders of gold bonds, if the value of the dollars is sliced
drastically.
There is also a firm opinion that bond holders will find
it impossible to prove damages unless Congress later orders
that bonds be redeemed in gold. This permits a free mar
ket in that metal, expressed an administration spokesman.
He would give no reasons, but some others thought there
would be difficulty in proving how much of any change in
the purchasing power of the dollar, was due to the abroga
tion of the gold clause, and how much to other causes.
WASHINGTON’S
BIRTHDAY
P R 0 G R A M
1. Dancing in the Rain
2. Old Style Circle Dance
3. Two thrives from Siberia
4. Telling Stories to Each Other
5. Walrus Dance
6. First White Man Trading with
Natives
7. Hunting Polar Bear
8. Witch Doctor Dance with Drum
9. Knee dance
10. Old Fashioned Dance with
Drum
11. Tap Dance
12. Old Southron Song with Guitar
Accompaniment
13. Old Time Fire Making
The above program will be given
under the auspices of the Bering
Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood
organizations, Washington's Birthday
Friday February 22nd, at the gym
nasium of the native school The
public is invited. Admission for
adults will be 50 cents and child
ren ten cents.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fondahl and three
children, former residents of Ketch
ikan, have moved to Seldovia to
make their home. He will engage
in fishing and hauling coal.
BOYS-GIRLS. Ages 12 to 16.
Spare time work, write to P. O.
Box 801, Juneau, Alaska.
Quiet Session Is
Order Of The Day
The Legislature
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU Feb 19, — Resolving it
self into a committee meeting, the
House yesterday afternoon listened
to Carl Thiele begin the request of
49 canneries in an appeal for a fish
tax reduction rather than an increase
as was proposed in the Hoffman bill.
J. N Gilbert of the Alaska Pacific
Fisheries also urged there be no in
crease. „
Following this a discussion was
begun on Nordale’s eight hour six
day measure yesterday late.
Miss Mary Caulthorne, a trained
nurse from Seattle, has been station
ed at Hoonah. She will relieve Miss
Viola Franz, who was sent to that
community to assist in combatting
the pneumonia epidemic.
SHRINE-BALL
Members of Anvil Lodge, their
wives or lady friends—members of
the Eastern Star and their escorts—
all visiting Masons and visiting
Eastern Stars are cordially invited
to attend the Shrine Ball at the Ne
vada Hall. 9:30 P. M„ Saturday,
February 23rd.
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