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VOL. 36. Number 252. NOME, ALASKA, Saturday, OCT. 26th, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
PACIFIC NORTHWEST DEFENSES WILL BE ISSUE
Premier Baldwin Not Proceed Without U. S. Sanction
MELVIN J MAAS SAYS
PACIFIC COAST HAS
REALLY NO DEFENSE
Republican Representative To Make Issue
Of West Coast Defense Next Congress
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, Oct. 25, — Repre
sentative Melvin J. Maas Min
nesota republican declared in
an interview that he “was a
larmed and astonished at the
complete defenselessness” of
the Pacific Coast, and that he
would make adequate west
ern defense a vital issue in
the next Congress.
Maas is a member of the
House Naval Affairs Commit
tee. He left last night for
Portland to survey coast de
fense needs there and will
carry his survey as far south
as Los Angeles.
“We need coast defenses,
he said, “on the coast that
can engage the enemy a thou
sand miles at sea instead of
waiting until our cities are
under fire and the enemy has
landed.”
He added that he would de
mand a joint army and navy
(Continued on Page Three)
Dutch Schultz Of
Gangland Fame
Dies in Hospital
(By The Associated Press)
Newark, Oct. 25, —Dutch
Schultz died Thursday night,
after gangland bullets had
poured into him and several
of his henchmen in a cafe
here Wednesday night.
Two others, Otto Bieder
man and Abraham Landau,
died early Friday.
Schultz’s real name is Arth
American Sailors
Insult Japanese
Flaw In Tsinw Tao
(By The Associated Press)
Tsing Tao, China—October
25, —The Japanese consul
here is reported to have re
quested the American consul
ate, that early action be tak
en on the Japanese protest
against the alleged insult of
the Japanese flag by two Am
erican sailors in a Japanese
community.
They further request that
action be taken before the
American ship, the submar
ine tender Canopus, leaves
port, otherwise they threaten
to call a mass meeting to con
sider steps against the sail
ors, who they charged pull
ed down the Japanese flag in
front of a restaurant.
The American sailors were
arrested by the Japanese con
sular police, and saved from
an angry Japanese mob.
ur Flegenheimer. He was a
beer baron in Manhattan dur
ing prohibition days, and lat
er turned to the slot machine
and money lending policy, in
addition to lesser rackets.
The police are still search
ing for his assailants. Two
others were also critically
wounded and may die.
FOUND—One Yale Key—Dropped
near the Native School House on D
street. Inquire at Nugget Office.
Prince Rupert Is Without Water And
Canadian National R. R. Service Stop
Prince Rupert Is
Without A Water
Supply Due Rain
(By The Associated Press)
Prince Rupert, B. C., Oct.
26, —This city is without wa
ter as a result of torrential
rains crippling the city’s main
emergency lines.
A washout damaged both
mains. The Skeena River rose
five feet in 12 hours to reach
a maximum height of twenty
feet. The Canadian National
Railway service was paralyz
ed by washouts on the Yayex
River and also along the low
er Skeena. Service is not ex
pected to be resumed for sev
eral days.
A bridge across the Copper
River above Terrace, B. C.,
and a number of smaller brid
ges in the district were also
washed out.i
24 Below Zero Is
Recorded Break
Record Fairbanks
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, Oct. 25, —With
a temperature of 24 degrees
below zero Thursday night,
all October records in the 20
years history of the Weather
Bureau in this city, were
broken.
While twenty-four below
was taken on a thermometer
in the shelter of the Chena
river bank as the official read
ing, another Weather Bureau
thermometer properly ex
posed from shelter in the
heart of the town indicated
29 below.
The present temperature
approaches the most severe
winter weather of last year.
The coldest previous October
weather was 21 degrees be
low in 1908.
Orderly Advance
Being Made By
Northern Armies
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Oct. 25, —Italy’s
Somaliland army is moving
forward up the Webbe Shib
eli valley in the direction of
Harar.
Two additional villages in
the Sciaveli region, Callafo
and Celedi were captured yes
terday. Several tribal chief
tains presented themselves to
the Italian commander to
make acts of submission.
The Eritrean front is quiet
except for a gradual infila
tion by the Italian advance
guards, into scattered dist
ricts of Tigre province, and
no resistance is being offered
by Ethiopian troops.
Present Indications
Disclose No Early
Chance For Peace
(By The Associated Press)
London, Oct. 26—Authori
tative sources said a stalemate
had been reached in efforts to
end the Ethiopian war and
that no hopes for an early
cessation of hostilities was in
sight.
At the same time the Brit
ish Treasury Department or
dered that Britains financial
sanctions against Italy be
placed in operation next Tues
day, informed sources said.
Progress for peace negotia
tions between Mussolini and
(Continued on Page Two)
Government After
Chiselers in FHA
Projects in Nation
(By The Associated Press')
Washington, Oct. 25, —The
government emphasized that
it would be lenient with home
loan debtors if they are in
real distress, but would deal
severely with chiselers.
Already the government
has foreclosed and taken over
a number of properties own
ed by persons who obtained
federal financial aid to save
their homes and failed to
keep up the payments.
Mrs. Will Chase Is
Improving After
Serious Operation
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, Oet. 25, —Mrs. El
len Chase, wife of Dr. Will II
Chase of Cordova, who was
operated on ten days ago, is
improving rapidly. She was
placed in a plaster cast in
which she will remain for 3
months, later being placed in
a steel brace._
STANLEY BALDWIN IS
AGAINST BLOCKADES
UNLESS U S, SAYS 0 K
British Premier Says Too Many Risks To
Proceed W ithout Knowing Stand U. S.
Vote Takes Place
Union Choice In
Frisco Troubles
(Pv The Associated Press 1
San Francisco, Oct. 26, —
The nation’s first ballot und
er the new National Labor Re
lations Act was cast by em
ployees of the Simmons Com
pany, mattress manufacturers
who voted 408 to 98 in favor
of the American Federation
of Labor union as their sole
collective bargaining agency,
in a contest with the com
pany.
Union employees returned
to work after eight weeks of
strike over union recognition.
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BREMERTON MASS MURDERER
OF 1934 APPREHENDED TODAY
I -
Bremerton Mass
Murderer Caught
Confession Aide
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, Oct. 26, — Sheriff
William B. Severyns Thurs
day night told the Associated
Press that Mrs. Larry Poulos,
27, had signed a confession
implicating Leo Hall in the
mass killing of six persons at
Erlands Point near Bremer
ton in March 1934.
Severyns said that Hall was
arrested in Portland Wednes
day night and brought here
where he was being question
ed.
The woman said she accom
panied Hall to the Erlands
Point home of Frank Flieder
for the purpose of robbery.
She said she helped bind the
six persons found there but
fled when the fight started.
In addition to Flieder and
his wife, those killed were
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Chene
vert, Magnus Jordan, Ezra
M Balcom, intimate friends
of the Flieders. The victims
were beaten, shot and then
stabbed.
Foolha11 Scores
Army 14, Yale 8
Princeton 54, Cornell 0
Washington U. 13, Ohio 47
Colgate 0, Holy Cross 3
Dartmouth 14, Harvard 6
Carnegie Tech 7, Perdue 0.
Iowa 19, Illinois 0.
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(By The Associated Press)
Chequers, England. Oct. 26
Prime Minister Stanley Bald
win firing the first major shot
of the general election cam
paign in a broadcast address
Friday night, said.
“I would never sanction
this country going in for a
blockade unless assured be
forehand, the attitude of the
United States.”
Discussing the League’s ef
forts to halt the Italo-Ethio
pian war, and the fact that
the United States, Germany
and Japan are outside of the
League, Baldwin said:
“There are risks to peace.
You may ask, what risks? I
reply that the risks are in the
kind of sanctions imposed.
“If sanctions of the sever
est kind are imposed, that
will lead inevitably to block
(Continued on Page Three)
Awarded The Nobel
Prize For Medicine
(By The Associated Press)
Stockholm, Oct. 25, — Pro
fessor Hans Spemann of Ger
many was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Medicine, the award
carrying about forty-two
thousand dollars. It was in
recognition of his discoveries
in connection with embryon
ic evolution.
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Federal Grand Jury In Juneau Returns
33 Secret Indictments Against Rioters
Police Comb New
York Killer Schultz
(Hy The Associated Press)
Newark N. J., Oct. 26th—
Three specialized police
squads combed Newark for
Max Silverman, professional
bondsman, who is wanted for
questioning in connection
with the gangland killing of
Dutch Schultz and three oth
ers. Silverman recently ob
tained fifty thousand dollars
bail for Schultz.
33 Secret Indict
ments Returned
G. J. In Juneau
(By The Associated Press)
Juneau, Oct. 25, —Thirty
three secret indictments were
returned by a federal grand
jury here today, all believed
to involve those in the street
rioting trouble last June at
the time of the Alaska Juneau
mine walkout. At that time
more than thirty men were
arrested.
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