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VOL 36. No. 107 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY MAY 6, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Eleven Dead Five Dying Pt. Barrow
JACKIE COOGAN ESCAPES -FATHER 3 KILLED
Longshoremen’s Union Backs Up Lumber Workers
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American Tragedy
Slayer Dies In The
Chair This A. M.
CLUBBED PROSPECTIVE
MOTHER TO DEATH
GOES TO THE CHAIR i
(By The Associated Press)
BELLEFONTE, Pa., May C—Bobby
Edwards, a Don Juan of the hard
coal fields, died in the electric chair
this morning for the “American
tragedy" slaying of his sweetheart
Freda McKechnie.
The pale-faced youth went to his
death struggling bravely to “take it
like a man,” as he walked through
the rain-drenched rambling, fortlike
walls of the prison. He seated him
self in the death chair and a few
minutes later breathed his last.
It was raining that night last sum
mer when the state charged Ed
wards with the clubbing to death of
Freda, at Harvey's Lake. She was
soon to have become the mother of
his child.
Edwards wanted to marry his col
lege sweetheart Margaret Crain, a
New York State school teacher.
President Doesn’t
Object To Session
Even Till Summer
ROOSEVELT PROGRAM IS
SLOW BUT PRES. WILL
HOLD THE SESSION
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 5—The na
tional legislative bodies were pic
tured in terms of endurance as con
gress entered upon another week
with the Roosevelt program still
moving slowly.
Word was circulated that Presi
dent Roosevelt had indicated he had
no objection to congress staying in
session all summer if that was nec
essary to get his program passed.
School Program
Work representative of that done
during the present school term will
be on exhibit at the Nome Public
School on Friday, May 17. There
will be a brief program in the high
school assembly room at three o’
clock, and light refreshments will
be served. A rehearsal of the pro
gram will be given for all pupils on
Thursday, May 16 and only those
taking part in the program will re
main after three o’clock Friday.
The doors will be open and all
teachers will be in the building
from 7:30 to 9:00 o’clock that even
ing, in order that those who are un
able to come in the afternoon will
have an opportunity to see the work
on display. ]
ELEVEN DEAD AT POINT
BARROW AND FIVE ARE
NOW AT DEATH DOOR
’HOT JONES OF P. A. A. LANDS
AT WAINWRIGIJT_IS ELLJ THERE
(By The Associated Press')
POINT BARROW, May 6—(Special to The Nome Daily
Nugget by Pilot Jones of the Pacific Alaska Airways)—
Pilot Jerry Jones of the PAA reached Point Barrow from
Nome at 6 P.M. Saturday with medical supplies.
The death total is now ten with many critical cases ap
proaching a crisis. The hospital is overcrowded and with
present facilities are unable to cope with the emergency
so far.
Enroute to Barrow Jones landed at the settlement of
Wainwright and found it attacked by a similar epidemic but
so far it had not advanced to a critical stage as has the one
at Barrow which has been spreading since its first appear
ance three weeks ago.
It may be necessary to rush another plane with another
doctor and nurses to cope with the dangerous prospects in
this region.
YOUNG MEN IN BARROW DIGGING
GRAVES FOR DEAD AND DYING
(By The Associated Press)
POINT BARROW, May 6—Eleven deaths have result
ed from influenza and others appear almost certain, with
five critical cases in the hospital now. The plane arrived
Saturday to take out two polar bear hunters, but did not
have any influenza vaccine. There is no break in the ice
conditions and a storm is on.
The plane cannot leave with Messrs. McDonnell vice
president of the Pan American Airways, and Towers of
New York, on account of lack of visibility. The young men
are digging graves in the deeply frozen earth in anticipation
of the funerals to be held later.
The hospital staff is carrying on with the work well
in hand. No professional aid needed now but foodstuffs
are short generally. Children are impoverished with a
poor diet, said Dr. Griest in a report to the Associated Press.
PLANE LEAVE FROM STATES FOR
POINT BARROW WITH FLl SERUM
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, May 6—Pilot D. Kirkpatrick of the Cordova
Air Service hopped off from Renton Airport at 10:30 A. M.,
Sunday, carrying influenza vaccine, for Point Barrow.
The Post-Intelligencer and the Blumauer-Frank Drug
Company are sponsoring the flight and have furnished
serum for fifty persons.
Barrow reports that the worst is apparently over but
the epidemic is threatening nearby native villages. There
is no lumber at Barrow for coffins so they plan on tearing
down sheds to make burying cases. Eleven deaths and five
near death now was the short account of the ravages of the
flu. The bodies have been placed in the rear of the church,
awaiting the time when the sick and living can dig graves
and hold services for them.
Dr. Griest reported that all of his staff was going strong,
and that the worst handicap was the lack of facilities, lack
of eggs, milk and dried fruits for the convalescents.
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Union Is Behind
Lumber Workers
In Their Fight
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LONGSHOREMEN S ASSO.
BEHIND THE LUMBER
WORKERS IN FIGHT
(By The Associated Press)
POKlI.AND, Qiegun, May G- In
the first session of the coast division
of the International Longshoremen’s
Association, the delegates allied
themselves with the Timber Work
ers Union, in the pending labor dif
ficulties, adopting the following res
olution:
"We please to support to the full
est extent the timber workers union,
and will consider as unfair any luin
ber which is picketed by their or
ganization."
Today was the zero hour for the
lumber and sawmill operators in the
northwest states to negotiate with
the workers’ demands for shorter
hours and more pay, and better
working condition, in order to es
cape facing a gigantic walkout of
workers. Five thousand have al
ready reported to have walked out.
Conferences are under way at Long
view and Aberdeen which may help
improve the situation.
Emergency Relief
Occupies Time Of
Guv. Of Illinois
HUNDREDS THOUSANDS
MAY GO HUNGRY BUT
EFFORTS ARE MADE
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. May 6—Officials strove
desperately to end the stalemate
over relief funds as hundreds of
thousands faced the prospect of
going to bed hungry.
The governor expressed the con
fidence that enough opponents to
the sales tax increase plan for rais
ing the state's share of the relief
burden would compel the changing
of opposition to carry through the
state emergency measure tomorrow.
WEATHER AT
NENANA TODAY
The Weather Bureau reported to
day that the weather was cloudy
but calm at Nenana, and that the
temperature registered 50 degrees
above zero.
Pilot Mirow arriving last night
from there stated he took off from
along side the big stake in the ice
which connects with the time clock.
He said they do not figure it will
go out before the 12th of May now.
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JACKIE COOGAN HAS
NARROW ESCAPE BUT
FATHER IS KILLED
ELDER COOGAN THREE OTHERS
KILLED AND JACKIE IS INJURED
(By The Associated Press)
SAN DIEGO, May (i—Jackie Coogan lay in the hospital
here today, injured from a brush with death, so close, that
it took John Coogan his father, Junior Durkin aged 19, a
boy-hood friend and fellow screen player, Robert Horner,
25, an actor, and Charles Jones, foreman of the Coogan
ranch, in an automobile accident, as the live were return
ing from hunting doves just across the border in Mexico,
late vesterday.
The accident brought sudden tragedy to what was plan
ned as a gay week-end party at the Coogan ranch' in the
lulls East of here.
The elder Coogan was forty-nine years old and built
Jackie’s film earnings from a million to a million and a half,
before depression.
He was at the wheel of Jackie’s new coupe and while
rounding a curve, the car was suddenly forced off the high
way by an approaching automobile. Jackie and Durkin
were sitting in the rumble seat, and Jackie jumped from
the rumble seat, suffering two broken ribs. The coupe rip
ped away four guard rail posts and crashed over a rocky
abutment, bringing death to the other four.
Pneumonia W hich
Clause Death Was
Result Accident
FRIENDS SAD OVER THE
DEATH OF DORBANDT
OCCURRED ON SAT.
(Rv The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, May 6—Pilot Dor
bandt who died here Saturday, was
aged forty-one,and an aviator whose
name was written bright in daring
air adventures in the far North. He
died a victim of a minor airplane
accident. His bride of only a few
months was at his bedside.
Dorbandt’s hand was hurt three
weeks ago by a whirling p.opellor
at Takotna. The heavy loss of
blood brought about penumonia.
Friends expressing sorrow recalled
his numerous tilts with law and his
suicide hoax in which he bade
friends goodbye but turned up un
harmed later, and his piloting of
Father Hubbard, the Glacier Priest,
in the crater of the Aniachack vol
cano.
MAINS TESTED TODAY
The weekly test on the fire mains
was made today by the Nome Fire
Department. Water from the well
was pumped into the mains and hy
drants opened. The entire main was
found to be open and free from
ice conditions
Senate Appears
Determined Kill
The Harrison Bill
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
MAY PULL FAST ONE
TO SUPPORT VETO
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 6—With the
senate apparently determined to re
ject the Harrison bonus bill, in fav
or of a full and immediate cash pay
ment, democratic leaders are con
sidering a strategy which might
make it easier to kill resulting leg
islation by veto.
They debated the wisdom of quiet
ly throwing their strength to the
Putman bill, arguing that a veto of
the Patman measure could be sus
tained in the senate while it would
be difficult to uphold the veto, on
the Vinson bill.
Industrial Workers
Of Alaska
MEETS MAY 8—7:30 P. M.
NEVADA HALL
All Wage Earners Are Urged
To Attend