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VOLUME 36 No. 93 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Accused of Axe-Murder By Paramour
COLONISTS TO EMBARK FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Nome PWA Loan And Grant Has Been Approved
Sect’y Ickes
Approves PWA
Loan for Nome
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 19—Secre
tary of the Interior Ickes, Thursday
approved the PWA loan and grant
of one hundred thousand dollars for
Nome.
PWA Loan And
Grant For Nome
Is Now Approved
The good news of the favorable
consideration of the Nome applica
tion for a PWA loan and grant was
received last night by Mayor Rex F.
Swartz. Following is the telegram
which he received from Juneau:
Juneau, April 18, 1935.
Swartz, Nome,
This office has been advised that the
Public Works Administration has ap
proved the Nome application for
loan and grant, Docket 9627, for
$100,000.00. Signed: Griffin, Acting
Gov.
Following is a telegram which he
received from Delegate Anthony J.
Dimond concerning the same mat
ter:
Washington, April 18, 1935
Swartz, Nome,
PWA has approved application for
loan and grant $100,000 for public
works Nome and has allotted funds
therefore, which will become avail
able upon passage legislation by
congress. While no definite state
ment can be made when bill will
pass, I hope to see it enacted within
two weeks from date. Bill intro
duced in senate by Senator Tydings
at my requst was reported favorably
to senate today.
Signed, Anthony J. Dimond Delegate
Bering Sea
Patrol Boats
At Ketchikan
(By The Associated Press)
KETCHIKAN, April 19—The first
alienation of affections suit was fil
ed in the district court here today.
Harold Hanson, fisherman, asked
ten thousand dollars from Martin
Enochsen, lighthouse service black
smith. The Hansons were married
at Finmarken, Norway, 14 years
ago. She sued for divorce recently.
Another telegram from Ketchikan
stated that the first of the Bering
Sea Patrol boats arrived there in
cluding the flagship Tahoe, and the
Aurora, and Calypso.
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ACCUSED BY HIS
PARAMOUR ALLEGED
AXE MURDER OF WIFE
Wife’s Body Exhumed From Secret Grave
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, April 19 — Accused by his paramour, police
said, Elmer McCune, aged thirty, a rabbit rancher, today
faced an intensive grilling into the alleged axe murded of
his wife.
They were led to the spot by Ruth Dunlap, aged thirty
six, formerly of Seattle, who was jailed with him two days
ago, on a morals charge Officers exhumed the body of Mc
Cune’s wife from a grave in back of his home near Puyallup,
where he is accused of burying her five months ago, after a
protracted questioning of McCune and Miss Dunlap who
admitted living with him since November.
Authorities said the woman would give a signed state
ment to the effect that he told her of the asserted slaying and
where the body would be found.
Tells Of Domestie Quarrel And How \\ ife
Was Hit Over Head With Axe
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, April 19 — Insisting that she believed Mc
Cune killed his wife in self defense, Miss Dunlap’s reputed
statement related how the man told of a domestic quarrel
and of striking her on the head with a small axe after she
hit him with a stick.
She said he told her he tried for hours to revive her and
then got scared and buried her.
The hunt for Mrs McCune began two days ago when
Mrs. May Bulger of Orting, her mother, asked that an in
vestigation be made. Authorities following the report by
an Orting youth that he saw her grandson, Leroy, aged seven
son of the McCunes near Puyallap, discovered that Mrs. Mc
Cune had been killed. Leroy and his mother were suppos
ed to be in Colorado.
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England, Italy To
Oppose Germany
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, April 19 — Warned by
Great Britain and Italy that they
would oppose any move to re-fortify
the de-militarized Rhineland Zone,
Hitler today deliberated on what
stand he would take in the face of
the international reproof of the Ger
man repudiations of treaty obliga
tions.
Ambassadors of great European
powers planned to stay in close prox
imity to Berlin during the week
end, awaiting what one described as
a colored Easter egg, containing a
serpent.
The British and Italian warning
that they would insist on the preser
vation of the status “in the demil
itarized Rhineland,” was presented
to the Reichstag by the ambassadors
of the two powers.
Nome Eskimo
Escapes Sentence
By Kindly Judge
(By The Associated Press)
MILWAUKEE, April 19—The fact
that Cheeket Ketuni Ucket, aged 30,
an Eskimo,drives dogteams up “near
the Santa Claus toy factory,” saved
him’ from a possible jail sentence.
He was ready to start back to
Nome when he tarried in a tavern.
He became boisterous and authori
ties who arrested him said he put on
a glorious exhibition.
“Well,” said Judge George Page,
“you've got a long way to go; you’d
better be getting back to help Santa,
so I’ll suspend sentence.”
The Eskimo told the court he
came here at Christmas time with
reindeer and a dog team.
The Nome Daily Nugget is prepar |
ed to do your Job printing.
Old Council
Goes Out, New
Council Goes In
The new council for the City of
Nome was inducted into office last
night at the Nevada Hall where the
1934 common council adjourned sine
die and the installation of the
1935 council took place.
The meeting was called to order
with councilman Balsiger as the
only one absent. Before adjourning
the council listened to the report of
City Clerk M. J. Walsh for the past
year and the auditor’s report for the
five year period beginning April
22nd, 1930 and ending April 18th.
1935.
Upon motion both reports were
acceptde, affidavits as to their ver
acity also being filed. Before ad
journment of the old council, coun
cilmen expressed appreciation for
the manner in which the mayor and
city clerk had helped to conduct
city affairs during the past year. The
mayor also thanked the 1934 com
mon council for their work and as
sured them that in the coming year
their work would be probably just
as trying if not more so.
The new council was sworn in and
Mayor Swart/, announced the ap
pointment of new committees as
follows:
Streets, Lights and Alleys Poi
son and Gross.
Fire Department — Hagen and
Polet.
Finance — Sather and Seidenverg.
Law, Ordinance and Printing —
Gross and Sather.
Police and Jail—Polet and Hagen.
Health and Relief — Seidenverg
and Poison.
Motion was made that a notice be
advertised in The Nome Daily Nug
get calling for applications for pos
itions in the Nome Fire Department,
chief, driver and engineer. Monday
at five p.m. was set as the closing
time for applications.
The council then adjourned until
their next regular meeting, April
22nd, Monday, at 8 p.m.
Following are the reports of the
city clerk and auditor in summary
form, describing receipts, deposits
and disbursements during the past
five years, and the clerk’s report of
the last year.
Auditor’s Report 5 Years
A. F. Wright, filed the following
affidavit concerning the city books.
He was appointed by the council to
audit the books.
For year ending April 30, 1931,
Receipts were 30,190.64: deposits, 30,
182.53.
For year ending April 19, 1932, re
eipts were 21,841.18; deposits, 21,
849.29.
For year ending April 21, 1933, re
ceipts were 27,338.44; deposits, 27
338.44.
For year ending April 19, 1934, re
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ARMY TRANSPORT TO
BE USED TO BRING
ALASKAN COLONISTS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 19 — Senator Schvvellenbach,
Washington democrat said that the reported colonization of
the Matanuska Valley would be conducted solely from San
Francisco, because the army transport St. Mihiel is now at
San Francisco, and that it was decided by government offic
ials to use that ship because bids from private shipping com
panies were too high.
Families from Minnesota will embark for California,
as will those from Wisconsin and Michigan. All the equip
ment will be sent from Seattle. California transients will
be employed to lay out the colony ground work because that
stale has so many more than Washington.
The Senator said the Northwest cities were up in arms,
because reports said that all colonization work would be
done from San Francisco. They are not taking kindly to
the fact that California is included in this program, when
Washington and Oregon serve as gateways to Alaska.
Speculate Over
Intentions Of
Herbert Hoover
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 19—Specu
lation over the intentions of Herbert
Hoover who just ended his trans
country travels which coincided
with a burst of republican political
activity, drew from the GOP ranks
the judgment that the former presi
dent can do nothing to affect his
own political destiny. The feeling
prevailed that Hoover would either
remain outside of the picture or be
drawn into the spotlight, depending
upon the necessity of the party, as
convention time rolls around.
But Hoover himself could do noth
ing to further his own political des
tinies, according to party leaders.
James B. Brown
Former Nomeite
Dies In B. C.
(By The Associated Press)
QUESNEL, B. C. April 19—James
B. Brown, pioneer trader of the Kus
kokwim district and a former resi
dent of Nome, when he was associ
ated with the Ames Mercantile Co.,
and who has driven dogs all over
Seward Peninsula, and who was at
Montana Gulch in 1902, became in
volved in a brawl and suffered sev
ere injuries to his face, when a log
ger trampled him, last fall.
Infection in his injured nose set
it last fall, and this with other com
plications hastened death, which
came today.
Talks 45 Min.
To Crowd Before
He Is Hanged
(By The Associated Press)
SMITHLAND, Kentucky, April 19
—After talking for forty-five minu
tes to fifteen hundred citizens who
gathered to see him die,William De
boe was hanged for the rape of Mrs.
Marjorie Johnson, wife of a store
keeper.
He shouted to her in the crowd:
"If I had had five hundred dollars
I wouldn’t be here on this scaffold;
she would have taken it."
She replied; "Not if you had offer
ed me a thousand!”
Big Shots Are
On Polar Bear
Hunt To Barrow
Word was received late yesterday
that Pilot Jerry Jones of the Pacific
Alaska Airways in the Fleetster
plane of that company was at Nul
ato yesterday afternoon enroute to
Kotzebue and Point Barrow. In the
plane were Lyman S. Peck, manag
er of the Pacific Alaska Airways in
Alaska, T. B. Wilson, President of the
Alaska Steamship Co., and Mr. Mc
Donald, a representative of the Pan
American Airways.
The party is going to Point Bar
row to hunt polar bear and will pro
bably be in that section during the
next week or ten days. It is un
known whether they expect to re
turn via Nome, but in all probabil
ity will do so.