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VOL. 37. No. 91 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
Robbers $1,500,000 Arrested Paris
Seven Bandits Holdup Train, Escape With $58,000
Jimmy Richards, Eskimo Murderer, Gets 20 Years
JIMMY RICHARDS, 22-YEAR
OLD CONFESSED SLAYER OF
JOHN NILIMA GETS 20 YEARS
Eskimo Bov From Buckland Received
J
A Lightened Sentence
Jimmy Richards, confess
ed slayer of John Nilima of
Buckland, was sentenced to
20 years in the federal pen
itentiary at McNeil’s Is
land, by Judge J. R. S
Morison, this morning.
The indictment charged
him with first degree mur
der, and after considerable
negotiations by his attor
ney, O. D. Cochran, a plea
of'guilty of murder in the
second degree was accept
ed by the court, with no
objection from the govern
ment.
Defense attorney Coch
ran went to some length
this morning in pleading
clemency for Richards, by
pointing out the Eskimo
character and civilization
as compared with the life
of the white race, request
ing that consideration be
given to the fact that any
real, lengthy sentences in
cluding life imprisonment,
invariably meant death by
tuberculosis.
The District Attorney al
so joined with Attorney
Cochran in pointing out the
effect of lengthy sentences
and the circumstances' c.
the life of the Eskimo and
his breeding, in difference
wilh the white man.
Judge Morison in com
menting prior to the pass
ing of judgment, referred
to several conclusions he
had drawn concerning the
administration of justice
among the Eskimos. He
too concurred in the belief
that the same standards of
life, its rewards and penal
ties, of the white man,
could not be used as a yard
stick when' dealing with
the natives of Alaska. He
sentenced Richards, who is
about 21 years of age, to
20 years in the federal pen
itentiary.
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Yale Newspaper Credits Juneau As
Place Of Origin of the Organization
(By The Associated Press)
New Haven, Conn., April
17, —The Yale Daily News
a student publication, said
today that the Veterans of
Future Wars, widely publi
cized last month by nine
Princeton undergraduates,
was not organized on the
Princeton campus, but at
Juneau, Alaska, in May,
1934, by a group of college
graduates employed as min
ing engineers.
The News published let
ters from W. A Gallemore,
commander of the Juneau
unit in which he said:
“The organization of the
Veterans of Future Wars
owes its existence to a bull
session of college graduat
es. In the spring of 1934
we were all mining men,
have ever become rich by
working for someone else,
we decided to open a mine
of our own; and the Fed
eral Treasury seemed to be
one spot where there was
proven, high grade ore to
be found in quantities.”
The Yale News sees a
possible connection be
tween the Pinceton and A1
askan organizations in the
fact that Tom Riggs, vice
national commander of the
Princeton sponsored group
is the son of the former Al
aska governor.
The Associated Press re
quested its Juneau corres
pondent to contact Galle
more for a followup on the
story if available.
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Longshore Union
Backs Up Effort
Leaders Of I L A
| (By The Associated Press)
' San Francisco, April 17—
Longshoremen solidly back
ted leaders, increasing the
tenseness of the cities lat
est waterfront crisis, faced
with the employers refusal
to deal with the “radical
subversive communistic”
leadership.
The local union affiliated
with the Intern .tin n a 1
Longshoremen's Associa
tion. in a closely guarded
meeting last night, endors
ed its officers and agreed to
accept employment only
thru joint hiring halls.
Jerry Sullivan’s
Farewell Party
At Seattle, Wn.
The Alaska Weekly in its issue
of March 12th had tlie following
interesting article about our own
Jerry Sullivan of Nome and Kou
garok fame. Jerry having since
returned to Nome by airplane:
“JERRY’S FAREWELL PARTY.’’
“With the time coming when so
many Alaskans who have been
spending the winter season in
Seattle prepare to “mush” for
their Northern homes the social
life of this city is beginning to
take’on a more-or-less festive and
active air.
Last week just the evening be
>
fore the Victoria sailed for Sew
ard, Mr. Jerry Sullivan, probably
one of the most popular sour
dough bachelors that ever strung
a line of snow shoe tracks out
along the Kougarok River, was
the guest of honor at a little in
formal “going away” party stag
ed at the Hotel Ben Franklin.
“Present including naturally the
guest of honor were Messrs Shell
Wettach, W. Y. Fisher, Carl Hal
berg, Jerry Carroll, with Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Shaw, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Rutherford Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. St. Clair and Miss McKean.
“Most of the crowd were old
timer Alaskans and those who
were not promised to qualify as
sourdoughs just as soon as cir
cumstances would permit. The
evening was spent with music &
: song, interspersed with tales of
the North, and a constant stream
of refreshments available at all
Continued on Page Four
EMPHATIC DETERMINATION
TO SMASH ETHIOPIA. ITALY
WILL NOT STOP AT PRESENT
Fascists Declare Have No Time Now To
Talk Oil Peace Negotiations
L'
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, April 17—While
diplomats argued at Gene
va about peace, authorita
tive sources at Rome stated
that Italy intends to go
ahead with the scientific
military smashing of Ethio
pia.
At Geneva, the Italian
spokesman said that Italy
would be willing to declare
an armistice only, after the
High Command had the sit
uation so well in hand that
there will be no danger of
any further military reac
tion on the part of the Eth
iopians.
The Italian column mount
ed on trucks and tanks, is
believed moving southward
from Dessye towards _th_e
capital.
Tribal chieftains gather
ed together with cabinet
m misters in a secret session
in the Addis Ababa palace,
shortly after two Italian
planes flew over the capital
and fired light signals made
up of Italian colors but the
planes dropped no bombs.
The secret conference is
supposed to be concerned
with defense plans.
France addressed the Su
preme Appeal Committee
asking that Italy cease hos
tilities long enough so as
to make a peace discussion
possible.
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Fifty-Eighty Thousand Dollars
Stolen By Seven Men From Train
(By The Associated Press)
Nutley, N. J„ April 17
Seven men held up an Erie
railroad train at Walnut
Street station and escaped
with fifty eight thousand
dollars in silver and bills,
which was being transport
ed from the Paterson Bank
to the Federal Reserve in
New York.
The money was in the
baggage car safe, and New
ark detectives said that the
clerk in charge of the mon
ey, surrendered his revol
ver when four bandits car
rying guns suddenly con
fronted him and threatened
to kill him unless he open
ed the safe.
In two passenger cars be
hind the baggage car, were
crowded with commuters
and shoppers, none were
aware of the robbery tak
ing place.
Nutley is a suburb of New
ark, and when the engineer
saw seven men board the
train, he thought they were
passengers. A brakeman
said he saw one man pull
an air brake.
Capt. A. E. Lathrop
Predicts G. 0. P. In
Alaska Be Victors
fi?v The Associated Press)
Anchorage, April 17th—
Captain A. E. Lathrop pre
dicted that the split of the
Republican Party at Doug
las convention will be end
ed at the Cleveland conven
tion and that the party will
be again united in the terr
itory for the general elec
tion, and that it would
sweep all elective offices
including the delegate to
congress.
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Robbers Of U. S.
Bonds Arrested
In Paris Today
V
(Bv The Associated Press)
Paris. April 17, — Two
cousins, both of whom said
they did not know what it
is all about, are being held
by the Paris police charged
with being connected with
the one million, five hund
>•( :1 thousand dollar theft
of securities from a New
York bank runner on .Jan
uary 23th, 1933.
Bernard Klein, a Hangar
i:m, ,n 1 Jacob Schwartz, a
C/i chosluvukian, are the
two arrested.
The police, who have
been trailing the pair for
weeks, are said to have re
covered four hundred and
forty thousand dollars of U.
S. Treasury certificates,
from them.
New York police said that
a tip came from a beauti
ful woman owning a villa
at Monte Carlo, and a’
from the Prince of Me
Miners Are I'sin:,
Dynamite Effort
Get To Friends
i'v !'h(’ A. ten*- • “TC.-.S)
Moose River, N. • , April
17—Rescue worker- used
dynamite to blest ruc
tion and with the >id of a
giant steam shovel ,.;emot
ed to open a narrow shaft
wav tunnel which rv ;y ead
to the trio entombed since
last Sunday. The u .mond
drill which is boring thru
rock reached a depth of 30
feet. The men are tr rpped
at the one hundred and for
ty-one foot level.
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