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Volume 36. Number 208. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Liner Aground With 283 Passengers
BOARD IS TO DEVELOP NAVAL AIR INDUSTRY
Campbell Sets Land Record of 299.875 Miles per Hour
NAVY TO SET UP NEW
BOARD TO DEVELOP A
I
NAVAL AIR INDUSTRY
Purpose To Train Men In Developing The
Best Ecjuipment For U. S. Naval Use
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Sept. 4, — Naval officials disclosed
plans for a radical shift in air policy designed to increase the
efficiency of that fighting arm of the nation.
They will embrace a departure from the practice of in
terruption of specialized work to send expert officers on
periodical sea duty. The new proposal contemplated the
organization of a special aeronautical engineering section
to enable experts to devote their entire careers to the design
ing of airplane, and aircraft engines.
From its adoption officials expect a more rapid devel
opment of fighting craft in the continuous world contest for
superior air equipment.
The first step outlined is the appointment by Secretary
of the Navy Swanson, within a few days, of a special board
to decide the number of officers in line for the Naval Con
struction Corps, to be assigned to permanent duty in this
branch. The board is scheduled to meet some time this
month. The change in policy is authorized under an act
passed by the recent congress.
MAN WOMAN ARE CAPTURED IN
FLORIDA IN BREMER KIDNAPING
Captured, Indicted
Connection With
Bremer Kidnaping
(By The Associated Press)
ST. PAUL, Sept. 4, —Myrtle Eat
on and William Weaver were among
twenty two persons indicted by the
grand jury in connection with the
abduction of Edward C. Bremer a
year ago.
The pair were arrested at Allen
dale, Florida Sunday and brought
here by plane Monday. They were
met at the airport by several car
loads of officers and immediately
whisked to the federal building.
Federal officers said they would be
lodged in the county jail pending
arraignment.
E J Connelly special agent in
charge of the Cincinnati Bureau of
the Department of Justice announc
ed that Weaver and Eaton were ar
rested on a chicken ranch two miles
south of Allendale. With them was
a two-year old boy, who the couple,
posing as Mr. and Mrs. J W Osborn,
adopted several months ago.
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President Signed
The Neutrality Bill
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, — The
mandatory neutrality legislation de
signed to keep the United States
out of conflicts like that threatening
in Africa, was signed by President
Roosevelt.
Is Knocked Out
When Attempts
Escape From Cell
(By The Associated Press)
SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Spt. 3, —
William Bagley, 45. convict slated
to be hanged Friday for an unsuc
cessful attempt to escape last year
while serving a life sentence for
habitual criminalism, is now suff
ering from a fractured skull incur
red when he made another unsuc
cessful attempt to escape from his
cell yesterday.
He sawed three bars out of the
cell window, and used one of them
to down J F Vallee, a guard.
Trustee W H Sanders, serving life,
wrested the iron bar away from
Bagley and hit Bagley over the
head with it. He is still unconscious.
The guard recovered with only a
bruise left on his head, as an injury.
Survey Seems To
Indicate Labor To
Be For Roosevelt
I
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 4, —Labor of
the nation left its vacation pleas
ures behind yesterday, turning by
the millions from a three day holi
day, that terminated in Labor Day.
All travel agencies reported that
accomodations were taxed severely
over the week-end.
Political observers saw in Labor
Day speeches a promise by labor
leaders to support President Roose
velt.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor spoke
at Canton, Ohio, asserting: “Better
days are at hand.” He renewed
his demand for a thirty-hour week
in his Labor Day speech.
Sunday, John L. Lewis, president
of the United Mine Workers said
unqualifiedly: “Organized labor in j
tire contest that is to come, has no j
choice but to support President,
Roosevelt 'morally and with votes,
and with that support, frugal pen
nies. Of the result there can be no
doubt—A grateful people, in appre
ciation of faithful stewardship, will
re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Woman Is Killed
In Strike Rioting
In Factory Town
(By The Associated Press)
PELZER, South Carolina, Sept. 4,
—National Guard bayonets ringed
two manufacturing plants, to pre
vent a possible recurrence of yester-1
day’s strike rioting in which a wo
man was killed and a score were
wounded.
Participants are now being round
ed up. Hundreds of bullets were fil
ed by strike sympathizers at a crowd
desiring work.
G W Henson, 64, was jailed today
and charged with murder in con-!
nection with the killing of Mrs.
Bertha Kelly, the young mother of
two children.
37 Killed In Dyna
mite Explosion At
Tiny Mining Town
(By The Associated Press)
MATEHUALA, Mexico, Sept. 4,.
—Thirty-seven persons were killed j
and forty injured by a dynamite ex
plosion yesterday in the little min
ing town of Lapaz.
An authority said that a man
named Mendoza had been taking
: dynamite from a nearby mine and
I storing it in his home. It exploded
destroying twenty-five houses. Men
! doza and his whole family were
| among those who were killed.
LEAGUE COUNCIL WILL
MEET TODAY IN A BIG
EFFORT BRING PEACE
Little Nations Fearful Should European
War l»reak Oul Over Ethiopian Dispute
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 4—Smaller nations are fearful of
their own fcture as the League of Nations Council prepar
ed to meet today.
The belief is growing throughout Europe that Premier
Laval of France has secretly guaranteed Mussolini a free
hand in East Africa, and has thus lost to Great Britain its
united action peace plan.
The Italian press today demanded a clarification of the
motive behind Ricketts plan in Africa regarding oil con
cessions in Ethiopia.
Emperor Selassie has equipped his troops with gas
masks, as more soldiers depart from the capital.
A reliable French Source said that the Italo-Ethiopian
Commission had reached a decision favorable to Ethiopia
concerning the incident last December.
Informed diplomats at Geneva said that the League’s
first step toward preserving peace would probably be to ask
Mussolini and Selassie to pledge themselves not to resort to
war to settle their dispute.
LINER IS AGROUND WITH 283
PASSENGERS ABOARD SENT SOS
Liner Is Aground
On Florida Reefs
275 Passengers
(Bv The Associated Press)
MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 3, —A Nav
al Reserve radio, reported that the
S S Dixie with 275 passengers on
board was aground at Carysfort
Reef, and had requested immediate
assistance. Heavy seas kicked up
by a tropical storm were pounding
the ship. Coast Guard cutters are
rushing to her assistance. The Dix
ie was bound for New York from
New Orleans.
Tropical Storm Is
Preventing Ships
Going To Resc ue
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 3, —While the
S S Dixie called for help, mountain
ous waves and angry winds checked
rescue ships and held some impris
oned behind breakwaters.
It was a tropical storm in a small
area, but of hurricane intensity
which raged across the tip of the
Florida peninsula, with winds as
high as eighty miles per hour in
velocity.
Large coast cities are expected to
escape the full force of the blow,
among them Key West, Miami, and
Palm Beach
Now Looks Serious
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 4, —Abandon
ing optimism, South Pacific Steam
ship Line official said that the pre
dicament of the stranded liner Dix
ie begins to look serious. ,
Some V essels Now
Standing By To
Help S. S. Diexie
(By The Associated Press)
MIAMI, Sept. 4. —While a rescue
ship stood helplessly by, sledge
hammer waves pounded the leaking
liner Dixie, as she lay aground on
a coral reef of the Florida keys, with
three hundred and fifty persons on
board.
The skipper of the imperiled ves
sel wirelessed “a few passengers
are bruised and several members of
the crew have received minor in
juries. The ship is taking some
water in her double bottom tanks
waiting for the weather to moderate
before transferring her passengers.”
Campbell Exceeds
Own Speed Record
In Run Salt
(By The Associated Press)
BONNEVILLE, Salt Flats. Utah,
Sept. 4, —Sir Malcolm Campbell,
England's man of superspeed belter
ed his own world's record for land
speed on the salt beach here with
an average of 299.875 miles per hour.
lie sent the mighty "Bluebird”
thundering through the measured
mile on the second lap, slightly
slower than his time on the first
lap.
On his opening dash he made a
mile in 11.83 seconds, for a speed
of 304.311 miles an hour. On his
second trip he clocked 12.18 seconds
for a speed of 295.566 miles an hour.
His averaged time for the mile
was 12.005. His former record last
February at Dayton Beach, Florida
was 13.005.
His average for the two trips just
made brought him a new record,
just a fraction under the goal of
three hundred miles an hour or five
miles per minutes, which he set for
himself.
Queen Astrid Goes
Last Resting Place
Thousands Watch
(By The Associated Press)
BRUSSELS. Sept. 4, —The body
of Queen Astrid of Belgium was in
terred in the royal crypt at Laeken
Tuesday.
Tens of thousands watched as As
trid's lonely King walked behind
her coffin with his right arm in a
sling and his side bandaged for
broken ribs. He followed the hear
se from the Palace to the St. Gud
ule Cathedral where the services
were held, and then to the burial
place
Woman Questioned
When Friend Shot
Trying Help Iler
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Sept. 4, —Mrs. Billie
Campbell, 37, of Renton, was ques
tioned today after the coroner re
ported that her friend George Se
quiam, 35, was fatally wounded
trying to prevent her shooting her
self, in grief over the loss of her
son, Staddon MacKenroth, who was
lost off the whaling ship West
port in an Alaska gale August 28.
Standing nearby, but reporting she
could not see the Dixie was the oil
tanker Reaper, and a fleet of oth
er vessels steamed through heavy
seas to the aid of the liner.