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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 37. No. 14. NOME, ALASKA, Friday, January 17th, 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
Ellsworth-Kenyon Discovered Alive
Italians Claim Destroyed 4,000 Ethiopian Warriors
APPEAL PUBLIC HELP FIND NEEDY CASES
Albert H. Fish
Is Electrocuted
For Murder Girl
(By The Associated Press)
Ossining. New York, Jan.
16, Albert H. Fish. 66-year
old slayer of Grace Budd,
was electrocuted in Sing
Sing Prison Wednesday.
He was convicted of
strangling and hacking to
death, the ten-year-old
girl eight years ago at a
lonely Westchester cottage.
John Smith, 41, a one-leg
ged negro, former Harlem
restaurant owner went to
the chair bt-ftic Fiih, for
shooting and killing a man
during a quarrel.
Fish, old, and stoop
shouldered, shullled down
the corridor and went to his
death without uttering a
word.
ATTENTION
COMMUNITY CHORUS
Important meeting Fri
day, January 17, 8 P. M.,
at Harlan's Apartment.
Bring song books.
FUNERAL NOTICE
The funeral of the late C.
F. Smith, will be held at
2 P. M., Saturday, January
18, at the Federated church
NOME BOARD TRUSTEES OF
FUND START DRIVE USE IT
The President’s Birthday
Ball Committee, which is
in charge of the staging on
President Roosevelt’s birth
day, January 30th, a pro
gram of entertainment at
the Dream Theatre, funds
of which are to be divided
—70'-'1 to be kept in Nome,
and 30'< to be sent to
President Roosevelt for the
Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation to be used in
attempting to find a cure
for infantile paralysis-met
last evening and discussed
its plans and details of en
tertainment.
It was also brought out at
the meeting that the funds
from last year are still on
hand and have not been us
ed. Taking up a new sub
ject with the Board of Trus
tees of the fund, Chairman
Thomas Gaffney. Mrs. Ai
mer Rydeen and J. S Stan
groom, an appeal is being
made to the public in a
great humanitarian move.
The Board of Trustees
knowing that the fund was
subscribed to for the pur
pose of relief of any cases
of infantile paralysis in the
second division, have asked
the public to direct their
attention to the investiga
tion of needy cases among
children requiring medical
or surgical attention. The
National Committee of the
paralysis movement in late
information indicated that
in areas where infantile
paralysis has never been
experienced, or in only in
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LINCOLN ELLSWORTH AND
PILOT KENYON SAFE ANI)
WELL AT LITTLE AMERICA
British Relief Ship Penetrates The Bay
Of Whales Finds Explorers
By The Associated Press
London, Jan. 17, — The
British relief expedition
flashed back from the Ant
arctic word of the dramat
ic rescue of Lincoln Ells
worth and p.ilot Herbert
Hollick Kenyon, long lost
explorers, who were found
alive and well at the froz
en wastes of Little Ameri
ca.
After piercing the ice
locked Bay of Whales, the
British Royal research ship
located the pair at Com
mander Byrd’s former
base.
They had landed safely
there, having exhausted
their fuel supply on a bold
projected flight across the
South Polar regions.
Their long silence was
due to damage to the radio
transmitter in landing.
The rescue party found
them comfortably encamp
ed on the face of the great
ice barrier.
National Guard
Called in Kansas
Wage Troubles
(By The Associated Press)
Fort Scott, Kansas, Jan.
17, —State authorities step
ped into the Bourbon coun
ty relief situation inrespon
se to calls for the National
Guard, to prevent possible
violence.
Aljutant General Milton
R. McLean, of the Kansas
National Guard hurried
from Topeka hoping to
bring about a peaceful sol
ution without recourse to
the troops.
More than two hundred
women and children, de
manding high relief wages, j
were driven from the court
house with tear gas last
night.
I)r. Condon At
Cristobal, P. Z.
Issues Statement
(By The Associated Press)
Cristobal, Canal Zone,
Jan. 17. —Dr. John Con
jdon, key figure in the Lind
bergh case, arrived here
from the United States
aboard the liner Santa Rita.
He said “I don’t know if
I am returning. That might
depend on any authority”.
Governor Hoffman of New
Jersey has expressed the
| desire to question Condon
regarding his knowledge of
i certain phases of the kid
nap case.
ATTENTION MOOSE
A meeting of the members of
Moose Lodge No. 1412, will be
held Monday, Jan. 20th, eight pm.
at St. JosephHall. Business of
importance. A full attendance is
requested.
W. B. KOCH, Secretary
Quarantine To
Ke Lifted Today
City Fairbanks
(Bv The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, Jan. 16, —
Authorities announced that
since no new cases of scar
let fever had developed for
a week, the quarantine
would be lifed Friday again
st adults, who will be per
mitted to attend public
gatherings of every kind.
Classes at the University
of Alaska will be resumed.
School children will be
free of the quarantine Mon
day when schools will re
open.
Patients now isolated are
to be detained until the us
ual full period in such cases.
As Fairbanks has a lar
ge supply of small pox vac
cine, some has been sent
to Palmer, Anchorage and
Seward where the supply
is reported to be not so ab
undant. A fresh supply is
expected here soon from
Juneau. Vaccinations are
now going on, on a volun
tary basis. Inspection of in
coming trains and planes
continues.
Herbert Hoover
Talks On Farm
Problems Radio
(By The Associated Press)
Lincoln, Nebraska, Jan.
17, —Herbert Hoover, Re
publican, believes the re
storation of home markets
to the farmers, accompan
ied by a strengthening
of agriculture machinery,
would improve the “still
unsolved” farm situation.
He advocated these prin
ciples last night in the
fourth of a series of attacks
.on the Democratic admini
stration. He suggested to
restore home markets to
the American farmers, in
crease consumption of food
by the restoration of em
ployment, retire submarg
inal acres, retard reclama
tion projects, encourage co
operative marketing, and
further improve farm cred
it machinery.
FINN BATHS OPEN
From 2 P. M. On
Saturdays & Sundays, Only!
ITALIAN ADVANCES WERE A
COMPLETE SUCCESS SOLI’S I
OFFICIAL ADVICES STATE!)
Italian Armored Cars Advance Seventy
•/
Fives Some i iaees, From Bases
(By The Associated Press')
Undated, Jan. 17, — The
Fascist command in Africa
today claimed the slaught
er of four thousand Ethio
pians, in a great battle on
the southern front, but offi
cial Ethiopian sources ridi
culed the claims.
Marshal Badoglio announ
ced that the southern en
gagement had Jhnded in
“complete victory”. Ras
Desta Memtu’s troops are
reported to be fleeing along
caravan routes toward the
northwest, pursued by It
alians.
A later report said that
in some sections Italy’s arm
ored cars had advanced sev
enty-five miles from their
bases.
Italian losses were slight.
Many Ethiopian prisoners
were captured in the south
ern battle.
An Italian war plane and
its crew of four which made
a forced landing inside of
the Sudan frontier, were
in crned under neutra 1 itv
Mt. Tulik Sends
Out Li\ id I ire
With Sky Aflame
J
Unusual Eruption To West
Ward Viewed By Pas
sengers, and Crew of
S. S. STARR
The skv a golden glow
from a fiery eruption of Mt.
lulik was the awe-inspir
ing sight that greeted pas
sengers and crew' of the S.
S. Starr the evening of De
cember 20, as the veteran
mail ship in a welter of
weather plunged thru the
seas near Umnak Island.
While the mountain is re
ported to have been in erup
tion before, this is the first
time that Capt. C. E. Trond
sen, of the Starr, ever view
regulations, the British for
eign office was notified to
day.
Italy complained at Gen
eva of Ethiopian atrocities
and abuse of the Red Cross
emblem.
Nearly three thousand
British troops arrived in
Alexandria, reported to be
enroute to the strategic
Marsematrun base.
Roosevelt States
Confidence Plan
(By l'he Associated Press)
Washington, Jan. 17, —•
Confidence that the new
farm plan proposed under
•ho soil erosion conserva
*inn laws, would carry out
he purposes of the dead
AAA and bring about what
he considers a well round
d agri 'ultura! develop
ment o: tne n it ion, was ex
pressed by President Roose
.’elt *oday._
ed the spectacle; Lkened it
to a huge bon-fire. the sky
for miles about being light
en by the effects of 'he
flaming lava that poured
from the eratei.—Seward
Gateway.
Am. Liberty League
Dinner Be jan.25th
Oiy The Associated Pi ess)
Washington, Jan. 17, —■
The American Liberty Leag
ue announced today that it
has turned away four thou
sand who want to attend a
dinner here January 25th.
It was reported that the
two thousand available
seats were taken two weeks
ago. Applications continue
to pour in at the rate of 700
daily.