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VOL. 37. No. 31. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, FEB. 6th, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
2 Doctors Are Charged Mayhem
Says GOP And Liberty League To Enslave People
DEVELOPMENT FASCISTS TO BE NECESSITY
FARLEY ATTACKS LIBERTY
LEAGUE AS ALLY OF G. 0. P
TO ENSLAVE U. S, PEOPLE
(By The Associated Press)
Miami, Feb. 6, — In a
direct, sharply worded at
tack on the American Lib
erty League, Chairman of
the Democratic National
Committee, James A. Far
ley, termed the group, the
“center and soul of preda
tory powers.”
Making not a single re
ference to Alfred A. Smith
who recently addressed a
Liberty League Dinner in
Washington, D. C., Farley
labelled the League as a
militant ally of the Repub
lican National Committee.
The League, Farley said,
would perpetuate the sorry
business of the Mellpns
and Morgans, in reducing
95 percent of the people of
this nation to the status of
serfs.”
Continuing, Farley de
clared “the American Lib
erty League speaks as con
clusively for the reaction
aries of their party as does
Herbert Hoover, the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce, the
National Manufacturer’s
Association. Indeed the or
ganization is composed to
a large extent, of represen
tatives of that big business
which brought the United
States to the outer rim of
ruin.”
Customers Wait
As Iceman Knits
Gifts Friends
(By The Associated Press)
Oklahoma City, Feb. 5, —
Earl Westover, of Okla
homa City gets “darned tir
ed” of having customers
roll up to his ice dock and
honk for service.
.“They make me drop
stitches”, explained the ice
man, in the midst of knitt
ing gayly colored gifts for
his friends.
“You see”, said the mid
dle aged bachelor, “some
fellows like, to cuss, some
chew tobacco and some of
us knit. They’re all dandy
pastimes. It just depends
on how you look at it.”
His grandmother taught
him to knit when he was a
boy. Now its a hobby.
Rushing Regular Season
Of Canning In Territory
Rushing the usual season
al salmon activities the ten
der Paradise of the Sar
Jaun Fishing and Packing
Company arrived in Ketch
ikan recently enroute tc
Cook Inlet to begin the ear
iest cannery activity in re
cent years.
Gross Return Alaska R. R
Shows 14.4% Increase
“Gross returns of Alaska
Railroad, from all sources
increased 14.4 per cent oi
$182,883 to $1,476,567 dur
ing the year ended June 30
1935, as compared with the
preceding year. The oper
ating ratio was reducec
from 117 in 1934 to 105 ir
1935. Gross expenses ol
the rail and water line were
$1,557,563, an increase o!
5.85 per cent and the total
deficit for rail and river
line operation and miscel
laneous operations was $73,
-674 a decrease of 58.83 per
cent.”
The N. W. Alaska
C. of C. Holds An
Election Of ficers
i
Last evening the North
western Alaska Chamber
of Commerce held its An
nual Meeting in the offices
of the Miners and Merch
ants Bank, the following
directors were elected:
G. R. Jackson, Thos. D.
. Jensen, A. Polet, O.S. Wea
ver, Guy Mish, W.A.Oliver
and Alfred J. Lomen.
According to Secretary
Polet, the following mat
ters were taken up at the
meeting and discussed:
In the matter of labor to
be employed in the con- j
struction of the new school!
building to be built this!
coming summer, steps have
been taken to use influence
and arguments to give the
local labor preference, and
offered cooperation if desir
ed to ascertain for the con
tractors the facts in rela
tion to the availability of
-'ufficiem skilled and com
mon labor in the commun
ity
Tiie Mail Committee re
ported that the schedule
now in force by which no
opportunity is given to the
(Continued on Page Three
Mrs. Anna Hall Strong To Come
To Alaska This Spring
Mrs. Anna Hall Strong
Alaska’s premier globe
trotter, is off again after i
short visit with Seattle
friends and relatives. Foi
years Mrs. Strong’s address
has been a forwarding ag
ency as she treks all ovei
the world, looking in on the
strange and interesting
spots of the globe.
This time, she left Seat
le bound for South Ameri
ca. She will take a steame:
at San Francisco, stopping
off for a brief once-over <
Southern Mexico, and thei
again down to the southern
most limits of the Wes
Coast. In her travels she
plans on visiting old Inc:
Empire, and will make ;
special study of old May
an temples and evidence:
of a former civilizatioi
which antedated the con
, ing of the Spaniards,
s From Chile after a trip
i through the lake regions
; she plans on taking a plane
• for a hop over the Andes
; to Rio de Janeiro and from
■ there on up the coast via
• Bahia, doing Santos and all
■ of the coffee raising sec
; tions.
After doing the East
: Coast up as far as the en
- trance to the canal, she
’ plans on taking a steamer
; to Vera Cruz and then ac
> ross the Gulf of Mexico to
i New Orleans, coming home
• to Seattle in time to take
t one of the north-bound ves
• sels to have another look at
i Alaska some time in May
i or early in June.
Before she left Mrs.
> Strong said:
i “I have the time on my
! (Continued on Page Two)
ANN COOPER HEWITT CASE IS
LIMELIGHT AS TWO DOCTORS
ARE RELEASED UNDER BOND
Charged Mayhem
2 Doctors Freed
Bonds In S. F
(By The Associated Press)
San Francisco, Feb. 6. —
Two doctors, Samuel G
Boyd, who performed th<
operation, and Tilton E
Tillman, who was his assis
ant, were released on bom
today, following charges o
mayhem filed against then
in connection with the ster
ili/atinn of Ann Cooper
Hewitt, in August 1934.
Neither would make any
statements.
The twentv-one-vear old
heiress’ mother, Mrs. Mary
on Cooper Hewitt, did not
appear and no word was
. heard from her tonight.
Mrs. Hewitt, it was re
; vealed here last night thru
. her New Jersey attorney,
t William V. Breslin, desir
I ed to come here to disprove
’ the criminal charges, as
i well as those made against
■ her in a $500,000 damage
suit filed by her daught
er, against her.
Miss Hewitt charged in
the damage suit that her
mother tricked her into
the operation, as part of a
plot to benefit from the
girl’s inheritance.
Attorneys of Mrs. Hewitt
declare the operation was
performed because Ann
Hewitt was subnormal men
tally.
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SAILOR’S UNION BATTLE IS
BROUGHT HEAD AS JUDGE
GIVES THEM A DECISION
Notice To Any
Ba .ketl all Players
Any and all baskelba
players are requested to a:
semble at the Native Gyr
Thursday night at 7:30 F
M. to help organize tw
basketball teams to be er
tered in a series to cotr
mence in about two week:
to be played with the Alas
kans and the Nome Hig
School.
British Planning
Better Defenses
Empire Nation
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Feb. 5, — Th
Italian government state'
its forces in southern Eth
iopia had made further ad
vances in the Valley c
Webbe Gestro.
In London, the Britis
cabinet, it was said by aut
oritative sources, was con
sidering secret plans for th
expanding Britain’s syster
of defenses for the Empire
George Lansbury, labo
member of Parliament ha
drafted a peace resolutio
which would give opportu
ity for debate on all aspect
of the Ethiopian war an
British defenses.
Sailor* Fight Is
Brought Court
Decision Given
n
>
(h5v The Associated Press)
San Francisco, Feb. 6, —
The Sailors Union of the
Pacific won t he first legal
’’ round on the battlefield
against the International
1 Seamen's Union, and then
quickly asked the latter or
ganization to restore to it,
the recently revoked West
Coast I.S.U. charter.
The International Sea
men's Union, in an attempt
3 to tie up the Salor’s Un
ion funds failed at least
emporarily when Federal
Judge Michael J. Roche,
e dismissed a temporary re
i straining order, preventing
- the West Coast organiza
- tion from disposing of its
f assets, pending the adjudi
cation of a receivership
a suit.
a At the same time the I.
- S.U. revoked the sailor’s
e union charter in its fight to
a control seven thousand
!. westerh seamen, and then
r used the state court’s to
s fight ’’title of thirty thous
a, and dollars in cash secur
a ities held by the sailor’s
s union.”
i
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Development Of
Fascist Partv Vs
Military \ ision
(3y The Associated Press)
Undated, Feb. 6. — The
further development of the
Fascist party as a military
organization, was predict
ed today by high Fascist
sources in Rome, on the
theory that further militar
ization of the party will be
r.vessary to take care of
die interna! situation in
se a European war should
develop. Little military
ictiiy was reported today
in Africa.
The British Parliament
went on record today as op
posed to war, having a very
'grave concern over world
wide preparation for war.”
Statistics Show
Fine Increase In
Business in East
(By The Associated Press)
New York, Feb. 6, — In
a wide-swept industrial re
covery, as disclosed by an
impressive array of statist
ies, established recently b
business analysists, is seei
a strong foundation for .
further push toward nev
peaks of production an-!
consumption.
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