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Volume 36. Number 226. NOME. ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Joe Louis Anxious to Fight Champion
ETHIOPIAN SITUATION GROWING MORE TENSE
Daughter W A Castleton,Sunset Dredge Man,Dies Seattle
Rex Beach And
Robert Frothing
ham Tell Stories
Fascinating Accounts Give Oposite
Angles on "The Spoilers"
The fascinating story of the birth
and introduction to the public of
“The Spoilers”, first Alaskan novel
written by Rex Beach, was told re
cently by the author himself and by
Robert Frothingham, an executive of
the magazine “Everybodys”, which
published the story in serial form.
“I had no intention of writing
when I left Alaska, Mr. Beach said.
“I had never been trained to write,
and knew nothing of the mechanics
of the game.’
Mr. Beach told of his fears and
apprehensions in connection with
the novel and at the sametime Mr.
Frothingham who was advertising
manager for the magazine, told the
inside story of the magazine's fears
and apprehensions.
The stories were told at a dinner
given in honor of Mr. Beach and
Mr. Frothingham by Frank I. Reed
at the Hotel Anchorage.
Mr. Beach said that when he left
Alaska in 1904 and went East for
a job a friend with whom he was
in Alaska wrote a short story about
the Northland and sold it for $10.
“I had never earned $10 without
carrying something awfully heavy,'
Ilcach said. “Whon my friend told
me he had gotten $10 for something
he had written it seemed to me
that I ought to be able to do the
same. Pushing a lead pencil instead
of carrying a great weight seem
ed to me an easy task to earn mon
ey.
It took no capital to enter the bus
iness. I borrowed pencil and paper
and went to work. My first stories
were submitted to McClure’s Maga
zine and were accepted. It is strange
but I never experienced what oth
er budding authors experience so
much— the receipt of rejection !
slips. All my stuff was accepted
immediately by the publishers. I i
don’t know why, but my stories j
seemed to click.
Mr. Beach said that after he had
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No Women In High
Seats In Oklahoma
Results of Election
(By The Associated Press)
OKLAHOMA. Sept. 25, — Unoffi
cial and incomplete returns of the j
special election indicated that this
state would retain its unique posi
tion as the only state in the un
ion where no woman can be gover
nor or can occupy any of the seven j
next important elective offices. The
womans party is starting another
campaign immediately.
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SITUATION NOW MORE
TENSE WITH SOLDIERS
MARCHING TO BORDER
Italy Charges League Did Not Consider
Her Allegations Against Ethiopia
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 25, — With the end of the rainy seas
on close at hand the Ethiopian situation grew more tense
on the border between the Black Empire and the Italian col
onies.
Rome advises said that Ethiopia had closed to com
merce, its frontier with Eritrea. All able-bodied warriers
of Emperor Selassie’s northern provinces are concentrated
in a mass movement and have advanced toward the Eritrean
front.
The League made public charges by Italy that the Leag
ue committee failed to take into consideration Italian alle
gations against Ethiopia. Officials at Rome adopted a pol
icy of patience. The government today asserted that the
next move was up to the League. It is felt that there will
not be any immediate revival of tension with Great Britain
or any other League members over the Ethiopian impasse,
since the cabinet communique indicated Italy’s willingness
to give the League a chance.
Billings To Help
Mooney In Fight
For His Freedom
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25, -
Billings prepared to testify today
on behalf of Thomas Mooney. They
met in a .tearful embrace in the
city jail for the 1st time in nine
teen years, after Billings had been
brought from prison to aid Mooney
in his fight for freedom, through
a habeas corpus move.
Billings is expected to help Moon
ey prove that he was convicted on
perjured testimony.
Soft Coal Miners
Are Still On Strike
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, —Soft
coal miners and operators remain
ed deadlocked today over wage ne
gotiations, as the workers continued
their widespread strike. No indica
tions were visible of any immed
iate break in the impasse.
Arbiter Will Make
Decision In Week
Over Arguments
(By The Associated Press')
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25, —
For three hours today M C Sloss,
federal arbiter heard arguments
from representatives of ship owners
and longshoremen and then took
the controversy under advisement.
He indicated that he would render
a decision within a week.
Both parties agreed to abide by
his decision. The argument is over
the refusal of longshoremen to hand
le certain cargoes.
Daughter Of W. A.
Castleton Is Dead
In Seattle Today
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Sept, 25, — Miss Rhea
Castleton aged 18, died here this
morning without regaining con
sciousness long enough to recognize
her father W. A. Castleton who flew
ere from Nome.
He started the flight when he
learned his daughter was suffering
from a ruptured appendix. He was
at he bedside when she succumb
ed.
Mr. Castleton is manager of the
Alaska Sunset Mines, operating a
dredge on Sunset Creek ten miles
from Nome. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Castleton were in Nome this sum
mer—Mr. Castleton to take care of
his duties here during the summer
mining season, and Mrs. Castleton
to visit Nome for the first time.
Their many friends in Nome ex
pressed their condolences, upon
hearing the sad news.
Ham Lewis Is Belter
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Sept 25, — Senator J.
Hamilton Lewis is distinctly im
proved today, doctors said, but is
not yet out of danger.
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WARDEN OF ALCATRAZ ISLAND
TELLS INTERESTING FEATURES
OF NEW FEDERAL PENITENTIARY
(By The Associated Tress)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25,
“They behave. Of course they don't
like it."
That is how James A. Johnston,
warden of the Alcatraz Island fed
eral penitentiary describes the atti
tude of his charges, Uncle Sam’s
hardest-boiled wards.
The prisoners—whose roll, if it
were called, would read like a
“who's who’ of public enemies and
includes A1 Capone, other former
big shots of the criminal world and
Harmon M. Waley, convicted kidnap
er of George Weyerhaeuser, one of
the island’s most recent arrivals—are
confined behind a wall of silence.
Warden Johnston, white haired
veteran penologist, however, un
bends sufficiently to give a general
description of the prison life:
Kept Busy
“They are kept under continual i
watch, and we always know where
they are. There is no chance of hid
ing under a barrel in an alley.
“We try to keep them always busy
but we don’t try to be cruel. The
men work at factory sorts of work
such as laundry, shoe repairing, j
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Trawler Pounded
Pieces By Storm
Crew 18 Are Lost
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Sept. 25. —Pieces of the
trawler Skegness, pounded by a
storm in the North Sea were discov
ered on Speeton Clilf, and all hope
has been abandoned for the crafts
crew of eleven men.
Coast Guardsmen tried in vain to
rescue the men from the trawler.
Rocket lines were used and they fin
ally got a line aboard from a high
cliff, but there were no signs of
life aboard the trawler by that
time.
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JOE LOUIS READY FOR
MORE BOLTS SO CAN
GET AT THE CHAMPION
Max Baer Was Outclassed, Outboxed And
Outspeeded. Joe Louis Says He Ready
Next Man So lie Get At Braddock
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 25. — The Joe Louis—Max Baer
fight grossed $932,944. promoter Mike Jacobs announced to
day. The net receipts after the deduction of taxes, amount
ed to $805,725 of which ten percent goes to the Milk Fund.
The fighters will take a thirty percent cut of the re
mainder. amounting to approximately two hundred and
fifteen thousand dollars each.
The paid attendance was 84.831, but the aggregate on
lookers including the holders of thousands of complimentary
tickets plus, nearly two thousand police and one thousand
emplyees, exceeded ninety thousand spectators.
Joe Louis announced after the fight that he was ready
to fight Max Schmelling or anyone else who would give
him a shot at World Champion Braddock, and the title.
Max Baer declared he was through with the fight game
forever. He says he has plenty of money and intends to
settle on a ranch in the far West and buy ten thousand head
of white-faced cattle.
NEW YORK. Sept. 25, — Max Baer promised to win
the fight as his wife’s birthday present, but she is not sorry
that he lost.
“I am satisfied if he had won he would have belonged
to the world. Now that he lost he belongs to me.”
Louis Demonstrated He Could Take Baer
NEW YORK. Sept. 25, — Baer, although withstanding
a terrific lacing until near the end of the third round, flash
ed only for a few moments, his own punching power.
Outclassed, outboxed and outspeeded, the Californian
launched one brief spurt, midway of the first round and then
was on the receiving end most of the time until he let go
with another two-fisted furious drive, near the end of the
second round.
I he Detroit negro, Joe Louis, took his time about finish
ing the job, from then on, in the fourth and last round, stalk
ing his opponent and pumping left to the head and body.
Baer, despite the beating he was getting, was still some
thing of his old showman self. As he sagged and went
down for the first time in the third round, he grinned thru
the blood, masking his face, and waved to the crowd.
Joe Louis never once indicated his knowledge of the
big crowd, watching him beat Baer down. He is not a show
man in the sense of appealing to the crowd by grandstand
ing. He settled himself to the job of beating Baer, and his
furious manner of doing it has marked him as a killer of
Jack Dempsey’s type—the money makers of the ring.
Joe Louis took home his greatest victory as a wedding
present to his wife Marva Trotter of Chicago, whom he
married shortly before the bout. She watched the battle in
a ring-side seat until the end of the fight.
Dempsey Said He Glad Was Restaurantuer
NEW YORK, Sept. 25, — Jack Dempsey, former heavy
weight champion of the world said there is no heavyweight
in sight at this time, with a chance of beating Louis. He
said he was glad he was in the restaurant business now.
When asked what he thought his own chances against
Louis would have been, if he (Dempsey) had been in his
prime, Dempsey grinned and said “Well! I'd have kept on
punching with him, doing the best I could.’’