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VOLUME 36. NO. 41. - NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1935. Per Copy-Ten Cents
21 Convicts Break Thru Prison Gates
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TWO BEHEADED-TWO GET LIFE IN GERMANY
Supreme Court Upholds Federal Government’s Rights
TWO POLISH SPIES ARE j
BEHEADED 2 OTHERS
GET LIFE TERMS JAIL
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(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Feb. 18 — The Baroness Renate von Natgmer
and Frau Beita von Valkenhayen, were decapitated as spies,
it was officially announced this morning.
Strict secrecy was maintained until the announcement,
which said that Hitler declined to give mercy. They were
beheaded in the court-yard of the prison where they had
been held.
Baron George Sosnowski, former Polish Army Colonel
and Fraulein von Jent, daughter of a former General, were
both sentenced to life imprisonment. All were charged
with betraying military secrets and information.
It was indicated that the arrest of the young American
womari, Lillian Isobel Steele, several months ago, may have
been the -result of her social connection with the Polish
spies. She was released and expelled from Germany in
December, and returned to the United States. ^
Other women are involved by their asSerted acquaint
ance with Baron Sosnowski.
New Bonds To Be
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Issued Soon By
U. S. Government
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—The U.
S. Treasury revealed new baby
bonds which will yield 2.9 per cent
interest compounded semi-annually,
today. They will be issued for as
low as twenty-five dollars and will
be sold on a discount basis, which
means that the interest will be de
ducted from the purchase price.
For instance, a purchaser will pay
$18.75, for a twenty-five dollar bond
which will mature in ten years,
when the holder will get the face
value. They will be non-transfer
able. but may be turned into the
treasury for redemption in cash, at
the owners’ request, after sixty
days. The sale will begin about
March 1st, and the bonds will be on
sale in approximately 14.000 first,
second and third class postoffices,
and also fourth class postoffices lo
cated in county seats. A table
printed on the bond tells the redemp
tion value at all times.
Troops Leave Rome
Enroute Somaliland
Fight Ethiopians
(By The Associated Press)
ROME. Feb. 18—More than two
thousand blackshirts boarded a boat
here for Italian Somaliland, as part
~ of Italy’* reply to Ethiopia's defl
ance.
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Committee Favors
Pay As You Fight
Policy In Future
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—A “pay
as you fight” policy for any future
war. was urged upon Congress by
the House Committee on military
affairs, after studying a means of
taking profit out of war.
The committee urged the establish
ment of a level beyond which war
time prices might not go; a one hun
dred percent levy on excess profits
and higher prices for everyone. .The
report was submitted by Chairman
McSwain who said: “Outrageously
extravagant profiteering doubled
the cost of the world war.” Such
measures as are urged it is said will
prevent that happening in any fu
ture war, and there will be no stag
gering debt to consume the subsist
ence of the survivors ahd succeeding
generations. ,
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Gov’t Contends A.
W. Mellon Owes 3
Million Dollars
(By The Associated Press)
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 18—Andrew
Mellon’s income tax suit came be
fore the Tax Board of Appeals with
the government contending that the
former Secretary of the Treasury
owes more than three million dol
lars in income taxes for the year
1931.
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NOT NECESSARY TO PAY GOLD
BONDS IN GOLD IS DECISION OF j
THE SUPREME COURT OF U S.
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—The gov
ernment lost the federal bond gold
cases, as the Supreme Court of the
United States, upheld the govern
ments right to cancel “gold clauses”
in private bonds, but ruled that the
government obligations cannot be
paid off on a “dollar for dollar"
basis.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 18—Divid
ing five to four, the Supreme Court
of the United States, in effect swept
away any government or private
obligations to pay gold bonds in
gold.
Chief Justice Hughes, delivering
the majority opinion said, that Con
gress must be free to deal as it saw
fit with matter which would effect!
currency and the court must take
account of current economic condi-,
tions even in ruling on contracts.
Dissenting with three of his col
leagues. Justice McReynolds said:
"Conviction is gone.” His view was
that it should not be disclosed at this
time what would be the effect “of
what has been done here today.”
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While invalidating the law and
saying that the government obliga
tions need not be paid in gold, the
court simultaneously denied the
holder of federal bonds, the right to
sue for redress in court claims. This
right was also denied holders of old
gold certificates who sought a dol
lar and sixty-nine cents for each
dollar in their certificates.
Bill Introduced To
Stop Practice Of
Hiring Relatives
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Feb. 18—Slipped into
the legislative hopper late Friday
was the sounding of a clarion call
against the practice of hiring rela
tives in public offices.
Senator Roden introduced the bill,
which if enacted into a law would
mean a jail sentence or heavy fine
for offenders, and would cover
every legal subdivision of the Terri
tory.
The measure is drastic and far
reaching, and provides that any pub
lie official who employs or causes to
be employed relatives, would be
guilty o£~a misdemeanor, and covers
any executive, legislative, judicial,
ministerial or other office in the
territory or any municipality, school
district, road division or other legal
sub-division.
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Troops Austrian
Frontier On Move
(Bv The Associated Press)
ROME, Feb. 18—The government
spokesmen for the Italian govern
ment refused to give any informa
tion on troop movements near the
Austrian frontier, but one of them
said “Germany of course, is still
continuing her propaganda in Aus
tria.”
(By The Associated Press)
INNESBRUCK, Austria, Feb. 18—
Italian troop movements in the vi
cinity of the Austrian frontier, ex-,
cited unusual interest. The pur
pose was not determined.
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Missing Plane And
2 Passengers Are
Found To Be Safe
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 18—Attracted
by the word “Help.” spelled out in
green bows, laid on the snow. Pilot
Estol Call and Mechanic Cecil Hig
gins, located the missing McGee air
plane Saturday, on the South Fork
'of the Kuskokwim River, Pilot Don
ald'Goodman, and passengers Paul
Keating and Bob Laurie,all of whom
were safe.
Goodman and Keating received
scratches and bruises on the face.
The plane had been missing for a
week, and encountered a down
draft in flying up the gulch heading
for Rainy Pass, in thick weather.
The plane was damaged in landing
but can be repaired.
After landing, the party found a
deserted cabin a short distance
down the river, with plenty of game
in the vicinity, so they suffered no
hardships. Goodman and Keating
were brought here Saturday, Laurie
will be brought out later. Good
man was flying from McGrath to
Anchorage.
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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21 DESPERADOS MAKE
GETAWAY BUT THREE
CAPTURED WOUNDED
(By The Associated Press')
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GRANITE, Oklahoma, Feb. 18, — Twenty-one desper
ate convicts swarmed out of the prison gates into parked
autos or stopped drivers on the highway, upon which the
reformatory faces, in the most wholesale and notorious jail
break in the history of this section.
Eighteen of them are now at large, three having been
recaptured before they could get very far away, in the south <
west, after a’wholesale break frorp the state reformatory,
in which women and children wefl^ used as shields.
One guard was shot to death In the back. Locked in
solitary confinement' are thirteen other convicts who at
tempted to join in the Sunday dash for liberty.
Mrs. George Waters, the nation’s|pnly feminine warden
of a male prison, shunned praise for-/heroism, as she today
is determined the find the source through which pistols were
supplied to the convict leaders.
The break followed an investigation into reports of
cruel treatment of inmates. Ring leaders poked pistols
against the ribs of a, trustee serving as the inside turnkey.
They got his keys ahd rounded up all the other turnkeys
and Day Sergeant Ford, locking them in a cell.
They then rushed upstairs to the visitors "room where
twenty visitors, mostly women and children, were, and herd
ed them out to keep the guards from shooting. They rush
ed down the corridors toward the front door. One of the
convicts grabbed a shotgun from the guards’s wallrack and
shot Peter Jones, veteran tower guard.
The warden rushed out and ordered the guards to shoot
but their shotguns were of no avail because of the host
ages which the convicts kept with them until they reached
the highway. Deputy Warden Mr. Gallion opened fire from
a flank, and eight women were wounded, as were three con
victs, the ones who were recaptured only a short distance
from the prison. They were held through the help of civ
ilians, when they discovered that the men were wounded.
Hauptmann Is Now
Just Another Man
. In State Prison
'i’v The Associated Press)
TREN.TON. Feb. 18—Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann, who has been in
the limelight for the past five
months, now sits in his cell in the
death house, in the New Jersey
State Prison: ‘ Just another prison
er.” He was reported to be acting
normal.
State officials including Governor
Harold G. Hoffman, sought to re
move “all dramatics” from the in
carceration of the man who was con
victed of the killing of the Lind
bergh baby. He said: “He’s like
every man who comes here. He’ll
be treated like anyone else.” The
board of managers is opposed to any
further publicity about the prison
and about Hauptmann, said Colonel
George L. Selby, acting principal
keeper. ,
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French Fliers Are
Forced Back By
Broken Oil Line
(By The Associated Press)
PORT UPAIA, Cape Verde Islands,
Feb. 18—Treatened with disaster in
mid-ocean. Paul Codos and Maurice
Rossi, enroute from Estress, France,
to Buenos Aires, were forced to turn
back when about half way across
the South Atlantic, on a flight, at
tempting to break the long distance
air record, which the pair ^holds.
Faulty oil pressure in the engine
caused the failure of the flight.
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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