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VOL. 36. No. 9 • . . NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1935 Per Copy: 10 Cents.
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Attempt Catch Hauptmann’s Writing
FAIRBANKS AND MARY PICKFORD DIVORCED
Enraged At Huey Long — Want Powers Removed
ATTEMPT TO BE
MADE REMOVE
DICTATORSHIP
(By The Associated Press)
BATON ROUGE, Jan. 11th—Hun
dreds of citizens are pledged to
march on the capitol here unless
Senator Huey Long’s dictatorial
laws are repealed.
At a mass meeting angry citizens
denounced the dictatorship as tak
ing from them “jobs, families, and
the independence to act, think and
even worship.’’
They demanded a special session
of the legislature to repeal the dic
tatorship laws under which Long
took the control of the State.
Thousands Of
Japanese Girls
Sold By Parents
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO—Reduced to a
their crops, farmers in the northern
state of starvation by failure of
districts of Japan are selling their
daughters at the rate of 30,000 year
ly to men who put them to work in
factories at small wages.
Girls of salable age range from 16
to 23, and prices for them vary from
$3 to $300. According to reports
from Akita, farmers in that vicinity
actually celebrate when a girl baby
is born, for she has a future cash
value.
Itinerant brokers visit all parts of
the northern province buying the
daughters and taking 30 per cent of
the sales prices for their commis
sion.
This is a picture of Japan never
shown to tourists—a picture of far
mers paying 60 per cent of their
earnings in taxes and either sitting
in hovels shivering in sub-zero wea
ther or lining the muddy streets of
small towns trying to dispose of po
tatoes, eggs, cabbages—and daugh
ters.
Of the 30,000 girls who are esti
mated to have been sold in the dis
trict in the past year, 13,000 have
gone into what the Japanese call
the “shameful professions" and 17,
000 in factories.
The usual period of the girls in
hands of their purchasers is six
years, but most of them become so
greatly burdened by debt that they
are destined virtually to a state of
- bondage for life.
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Tenseness Increasing In Hauptmann
Murder Trial—Prosecution Turns To
Handwriting On The Ransom Notes
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 11—Ransom notes with the cryp
tic symbol signature, absorbed the attention at the Haupt
mann murder trial, as the prosecution started out to prove
that they came from the pen of Hauptmann.
The session promised to be replete with the technical
testimony of handwriting experts. The court room was
filled long before the session was opened.
.The State laid the groundwork for its structure of the
handwriting evidence by introducing yesterday, over the
vigorous objections of the defense, sixteen specimens of
Hauptmann’s script. The samples are to be used for com
parison with the handwriting in the ransom notes.
The prosecution said that experts would tell the jury,
that in the penning of the fitst ransom notes, the kidnapper
made very obvious efforts to disguise his normal handwrit
ing and that later the writer’s efforts at disguise became
less pronounced until the final notes approximated his regu
lar writing.
The State contends that this is in line with the prosecu
tion’s contention that Hauptmann tried to disguise his pen
manship when he prepared the original ransom notes and
became more careless as he progressed due to increased con
fidence over his success in the crime, and that when he was
arrested and directed to write the number of a page, he
again sought to disguise his handwriting.
The State planned to show that he instinctively used
the same froms appearing in the ransom letters._
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 11—The first witness on the stand
this morning was Special Agent Frank Wilson, in charge of
the Intelligence Department of the Internal Revenue^ Ser
vice, who identified the money found in the Hauptmann
home, as part of the ransom money counted out in the J. P.
Morgan Company, where the serial numbers of each piece
of currency were noted.
The defense’s objection to the introduction of th’e
money as evidence caused the State to withdraw it for the
present. ✓
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 11—Attorney for the defense
Reilly stated that he does not intend to disclose the names
today of the four persons whom the defense contends did
the kidnapping, as he proposed last Saturday.
The defense sought to trip up Condon’s testimony on
the details of the story in which he named Hauptmann as
the mysterious “John,” who negotiated and collected the ran
som money.
Reilly suddenly switched to the ransom note which led
Condon to the woodland cemetery tryst with “John,” which
Condon acknowledged he did not have before as the kid
nap symbol. Reilly was sticking to minute details trying
to confuse Condon and muss him up with his previous testi
mony.
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 11 —Condon completed his dram
atic testimnoy late today, against Hauptmann, the defense
failing in the cross examination to show that a gang was in
volved in the kidnapping, and failing to shake his identifica
tion of Hauptmann as the “John” who collected the ransom.
C.C. TANNER IS
APPOINTED V. S.
COMMISSIONER
.. C. C. Tanner, well-known demo
crat and attorney in Nome, was ap
pointed to the position of U.S. Com
missioner for the Cape Nome Pre
cinct, to fill the position left vacant
by the resignation of C. W. Thorn
ton who has been Commissioner
since June 6th, 1921.
Judge J. H. S. Morison made the
appointment from the Bench, in
open court this morning. It is un
derstood that Mr. Tanner will file
his bond today and begin the mov
ing of the records from their pres
ent location to the office formerly
occupied by the U. S. Marshal’s of
fice on the ground floor of the Fed
eral Building, tomorrow.
The office of U. S. Commissioner
also carries with it the duties of
Justice of the Peace, Coroner, Re
corder, and Probate Judge. Due to
the length of time in preparing the
vault in the federal building, it was
reported, that Mr. Tanner’s appoint
ment would have taken place to be
come effective January 2nd instead
of January 11th, it being impossible
to obtain other quarters, Mr.
Thornton’s resignation was to have
become effective December 31, 1934.
President Asks For
$800,000,000 Relief
Funds By Feb. 10th
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—With re
lief funds dwindling away, the Pres
ident is asking for eight hundred
million dollars by February 10th,
when the funds run out. House
democratic leaders may invoke the
rule known as the “Gag Rule” to
rush through the bill giving him
that amount immediately. »
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Delegate Dimond
On Five Different
Comm. In Congress
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—Delegate
Anthony J. Dimond is on five House
Committees: Territories, Mines,
Public Lands, Agriculture and In
dian Affairs. This places him on
more committees than any other
Northwest congressional member.
iNOS BUSINESS
MEN URGE SNOW
LEVELLED IN ST.
Ninety p>Jh^-cent of the business
people of Nome have been urging
the levelling of snow drifts on the
main streets of the city, to permit
the use of m6tor equipment in the
course of business.
Today many of them were inquir
ing regarding the Federal Emerg
ency Relief Administration Nome
Committee and the City Council
getting together and obtaining auth
ority to proceed with such a project.
* Apparently the latest blizzard to
hit Nome has subsided as far as fur
ther snow is concerned, and it is
their belief that no better move
could be made as an aid and partial
assistance to business, than to keep
the streets open to automobile and
pedestrian traffic.
The question of fire protection,
being of such an important nature
nowadays, due to the temporary
equipment this winter, is another
feature expressed by numerous bus
iness leaders this morning, in re
gards to the leveling of snow drifts
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| and the keeping open of the main
streets to traffic.
The concensus of opinion among
these business people is that very
little expense would be incurred to
drag and grade the main streets,
! packing snow down to a level thor
! oughfare, on which automobiles
; could operate. They point to other
i Alaskan cities keeping their main
streets and thoroughfares open dur
ing the winter, and the effect such
increased activity as the operation
of automobiles has upon business.
Three Bombs Set
Off Cause Much
Damage In City
—
(By The Associated Press)
SOUTH BEND, Indiana, Jan. 11
Three bombs wrecked a restaurant
here causing wide-spread damage to
a dozen stores and a theatre, at the
principal intersection of the busi
ness district.
The explosion scattered debris all
over the street, rousing citizens
from their beds for blocks around.
It was apparently brought on by
labor troubles. No one was injured.
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FAIRBANKS AND
WIFE DIVORCED
IN 3 MINUTES
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11th—Mary
Pickford, once America's leading ac
tress, in tears yesterday, divorced
Douglas Fairbanks, in a three-min
ute court appearance, before Judge
Ben B. Lindsay who toolj office two
days ago.
There was no Contest of the decree
which was granted on the complaint
of mental cruelty, indifference and
neglect, which was filed December
8th, 1934, and which included thirty
three corroborating witnesses.
Mary’s secretary, Elizabeth Lewis
was the only , witness, to take the
stand.
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11—Douglas
Fairbanks was in Saint Moritz,
Switzerland, when the divorce was
both filed and granted. He is in the
company of Lady Ashley of Eng
land. Neither would say whether
they were to be married,
now that Fairbanks has his liberty
to wed.
From London came reports of the
romance between Mary Pickford
and Buddy Rogers, former orchestra
leader, and who is making pictures
there. However, when questioned,
-he denied there was any romance
between them.
STEEL ‘COFFINS’
IN NEXT WAR
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON—In future wars infan
try will be able to advance under
machine gun fire in “mechanical
coffins.”
This is the name given to an in
vention which .the war department
here is considering.
Actually it is an armored box, pro
pelled by a tiny motor. It will hold
a light machine gunner lying flat,
and will carry him much faster than
if he tried to crawl, and with far
less exposure than in the normal
advance, where he had to run or
walk forward upright.
Using an “armoured crawler" of
this kind he may have a far better
chance of getting within close range
of the defending machine gunner
enscounced behind cover.
It is only about seven feet long,
less than a yard wide, and stands
only knee-high. It is propelled by
a motor of about four h.p. Travel
ing along the road the occupant sits
comfortably in his “perambulator/'
but on reaching the battlefield he
changes to a prone position, with
his light machine gun pointing
ahead.
A slightly wider type is under con- -
sideration to accomodate two men.