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VOLUME 36. NO. 19. * _ NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935Per Copy Ten Cents
State Rests Case Against Hauptmann
Bill to Make Office Commissioner Education Elective
4S MEMBERS JAPANESE CREW ARE RESCUED
COMPROMISE ON
RELIEF PLANS
EFFECTED NOW
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—A com
promise over the four billion dollar
fund to transfer the destitute from
dole to public works was effected to
day in which both sides gained a
measure of success.
Foes of Secretary Ickes gained vie
tory after reports were received
that he would not administer the
fund.
Dissenting house democrats wrung
from the party leadership that the
relief measure would not be pushed
through under a full gag rule.
It was predicted that the measure
would go through tomorrow in a
lump sum with earmarking. Presi
dent Roosevelt was granted his wish
that he be given the discretion of
the spending of the money.
ROOSEVELT IN
FAVOR GARNER
RUNNING MATE
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21st—Word
was quietly passed around Sunday
that President Roosevelt wants Vice
President Garner to team up with
him again for the 1936 presidential
election.
This information dashed cold wa
ter on the aspirations of some half
a dozen prospective candidates, who
had been told that the feeling was
especially strong among liberal dem
ocrats to get ' Garner replaced by
either Secretary Ickes or Wallace.
French Soldiers
Sent Into Area
To Bring Peace
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Jan. 22nd—French forces
were ordered to the southwest fron
tier of French Somaliland to put
down a tribal uprising which cost
the lives of ninety-seven members
of the Colonial Administration.
Fast action followed the battle of
January 18th, news of which was
, just reported here, in which M. Ber
. nard, French Chief of the Gobad
region, sixteen native soldiers and
eighty natives were slain in the Ab
be region.
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STATE BELIEVES CASE
AGAINST HAUPTMANN
IS SURE CONVICT HIM
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 22 — The state drew to a close its
presentation of the kidnapping and killing of the Lindbergh
child, deeming its case against Hauptmann virtually com
plete.
The prosecution may finish the case soon enough to al
low Hauptmann to begin his testimony today but its hardly
believed that he will take the stand before tomorrow.
Through direct circumstantial evidence, the prosecut
ors said they linked Hauptmann to the ladder up which the
kidnapper climbed and down which he fell, killing the child.
They also connected him directly with the ransom notes, the
payment of the ransom and the disposal of the fifty thousand
dollars.
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 23 — The state played its trump
card today, giving the jury an account of how it traced the
kidnapping ladder directly into the attic of Hauptmann’s
home, and that “he came to trial hoping after his ‘acquittal’
that the world would forget about him and allow him to live
quietly with his family,” said the Prosecuting Attorney.
In jail, Hauptmann continues unshaken in his belief
that he will soon be free. Fisher said that Hauptmann was
confident that the state was failing to prove tl^gm* case
against him. He was composed and cheerful. H§ said
that he would have no fear of a cross-examination because
he would be telling the truth.
Corporal Frank Kelly, fingerprint expert, took the
stand for cross examination by the defense, which charged
that Kelly’s methods of taking the impression ruined them.
The defense made Kelly demonstrate the way in which he
took the prints.
The state announced that it would rest today._
JAPANESE CREW
RESCUED FROM
STRICKEN SHIP
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22—The
American Mail Liner President
Jackson radioed that she had rescu
ed all forty-five members of the
crew of the Japanese freighter Ho
kuman Maru, and left her in a sink
ing condition, with a heavy list to
starboard. The President Jackson
is proceeding toward Victoria, B.C.,
and reported fine weather.
Details of the rescue of the Hoku
man Maru crew are unknown as
yet. It is believed that the freight
er’s deck load of logs shifted caus
ing the ship to list sharply in the
rough seas. The Cutter Chelan is
expected to reach the ship’s side to
day. The Maru was in a sinking
condition when the President Jack
son left, and is now a ghost ship
relic, at the mercy of the open sea,
two hundred miles off the Washing
ton coast.
(By The Associated Press)
VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 23rd—The
President Jackson arrived here with
the crew of the Hokuman Maru,
which was abandoned in a sinking
] condition.
The Coast Guard cutter Chelan
was racing toward the derelic to
remove it from Ship Lane No. 2.
Two of the rescue crew and several'
Japanese fell overboard but were
rescued. The Jackson was forced
to abandon two of her own life
boats because the seas were too
heavy to lower the davits.
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 23—The Chelan
radioed that she had found nothing
at the scene where forty-five Japan
ese seamen were rescued from the
Hokuman Maru, a Jap freighter. It
is believed that the vessel sank. The
Chelan is returning to her base
here.
The Japanese crew and officers
were praised by the officers of the
President Jackson for the way in
which they handled themselves dur
ing the rescue. They emptied oil
on the ocean before the boats made
their way to the sinking craft.
The Japanese captain went - back
up the bridge of his ship and pulled
a farewell blast on the whistle be
fore leaving the ship. He was the
last to leave, leaping into the water
where he was picked up by rescuers
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ADMITS THAT
SMUGGLING IS
STILL GOING ON
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23rd—The
House Appropriations Committee,
admitting the continued smuggling
of liquor, mostly one hundred and
ninety proof alcohol, added four
million dollars to the coast guard
appropriation, in the nine hundred
million dollar Treasury and Post
Oflicc Supply bill.
The estimated loss of customs and
internal revenue taxes due to smug
gling was between fifty and sixty
rp ill ion dollars annually.
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Accuses
Nation Of Arming
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 21—German news
papers accused Lithuania of saber
rattling as Lithuanian pfificials ad
mitted the concentration of troops
along the Memlid border. /
Dr. Jurgu Saulys, Lithuanian Min
ister in Berlin, readily acknowledg
ed the concentration but said how
ever, that Germany had increased
“her armed forces along the Ger
man-Lithuanian frontier.”
Tanker Reports
Flames Are Out
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 22—The British
tanker Valverda, twelve hundred
miles East of the Bahamas, radioed
their owners at Glasgow that the
fire had been extinguished, after the
engine room had been gutted. The
French ship “Petit Terre” is stand
ing by.
Giants Pro Team
Defeats The West
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21—The
New York Giants professional team
defeated the Pacific Coast All-Stars
21 to 0, before a post season crowd
of twenty thousand people, here
Sunday.
Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt
Speaks Women Clubs
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Mrs. F.j
D. Roosevelt spoke over NBC broad
cast at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time today, in Washington, before
the Chautauqua Women’s Clubs. '
SCOTT BILL CALLS FOR
$10,200 AID SHIPPING
ON SEWARD PENINSULA
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(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 23 — The repeal of the act which pass
ed the last legislature which would make the office of Com
missioner of Education appointive is sought in a House Bill
introduced by Growden. The present commissioner is el
ected but the legislative act now provides that in the future
he be appointed by the Territorial Board of Education which
is appointed by the Governor. The new bill also provides
for the election of school boards in rural districts.
The Senate yesterday passed the House memorial to
Congress requesting that there be no further suspension of
annual assessment work on unpatented claims, with an am
endment that economic conditions which brought that mea
sure into existence have passed, and that suspension abets
the wholesale,staking of mining ground and permits the
holding of mineral claims for purposes of speculation.
JUNEAU, Jan. 23—Representative Tolbert Scott intro
duced a bill calling for the appropriation of ten thousand,
two hundred dollars to carry out the provisions of the 1931
legislature, giving aid to shipping along Seward Peninsula
from St. Michael to Kotzebue touching at Unalakleet, Egav
ik, Golovin, Bluff, Solomon, Nome Teller, Wales, Shish
maref, Peering, Keewalik and Elephant Point.
WASHINGTON IS
GETTING FULL
FORCE FLOODS
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 23—Serious floods
and record rainfalls blocked roads
and communications with several
hundred marooned families. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars dam
ages are so far recorded, as a toll
of the latest Pacific Coast’s torren
tial storm, which still continues un
abated. Western Washington is the
worst hit.
At least seven deaths during the
past several days are attributed to
the stormy weather.
Upwards of a-dozen other vessels
besides the Kokuman Maru have
been damaged. Transcontinental
lines are blocked or are just barely
moving. A new storm was reported
approaching.
Central and Eastern Washington
and Northern Idaho were hit by un
precedented rains and thaws, after
a week’s bitter cold and heavy
snows. Serious snow slides threat
ened northern Idaho.
Tacoma, Aberdeen and all south
western Washington is in a flood
stage. British Columbia is isolated
both by rail and wire communica
tions to the south. Landslides have
wrecked many homes in Seattle
where a three-day rain was follow
ed by a heavy snow.
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Pilot Schooner Is
Weathering Storm
—
CBy The Associated Press)
ASTORIA, Jan. 23rd—The pilot
schooner Columbia was reported to
be stormbound off the mouth of the
Columbia River, and was running
low on fuel.
Gales ripped many channel buoys
loose during the night and pilotage
is impossible with the wind averag
ing sixty miles an hour for ten
hours and fifty-three miles an hour
for forty hours. It modified during
the night to forty miles an hour,
but another storm is forecast. —
Further Indications
Of Storms Coming
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Jan. 23—New cold
waves are reported sweeping down
frc&n -^he north or midwest parts of
the Rocky Mountain area, while
the nujgnber of fatalities grew.
Other sections of the nation are
beset by floods, fog and snow. The
south was hit by floods. Frost and
blizzards are reported in Manitoba.
Edmonton recorded sixty degrees
below zero; Prince Albert 46 below;
Winnipeg 41 below. Snow, sleet,
rain and fog continued in Eastern
states. There was a general snow
in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and
New York.