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Volume 36. Number 191. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Nome Federal Bldg. Project Approved
ITALY CONTINUES PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
PAA Clipper Plane Establishes Record Midway Island
Notoe Post Office
Bfe Included New
Courthouse Nome
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, — The
construction of the post office in the
courthouse building at Nome, Alas
ka, was authorized today by the
Treasury and Post Office Depart
ments.
It has been called Project 13051,
and is to be financed under the sixty
million dollar emergency construc
tion fund, authorized under the
Second Deficiency Act.
Rising Retail Trade
Pacific Coast Area
Causes Comments
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14, —
Coastwiide comment on the Far
West’s rising retail trade, was indi
cated in the main, by stimulating in
fluences of higher farm incomes,
increased payrolls and generally
stronger confidence in the business
outlook.
The extent of the rise, reserve
banks reported, averaged 18.4 per
cent for department stores; 20 per
cent for furniture and department
stores combined, making the July
report one of the most favorable
of the recovery period, now about
two years old.
Increase Noted In
Movement Of War
Materials 2 Years
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, —World
wide gains in the international
• movement of arms, munitions and
raw war materials, were disclosed in
a survey of statistics of the United
States and other nations.
In most cases the movements
gained in 1934 over 1933 and the
first half of 1935 was a gain over the
same period in 1934.
Electric Plant Dam
Bursts: 250 Killed
And Many Injured
(By The Associated Press)
TURIN, Italy, Aug. 14, —Provin
cial officials said that two hundred
and fifty persons were killed by |
floods which followed the bursting
of the hydroelectric plant dam at
Ovada. Several hundred were in
jured and forty square miles of
territory covered by the waters,
which crushed homes and obliterated
whole families.
Republicans Move
Shunt Tax Bill To
The Next Session
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, — An
immediate move by GOPs to shunt
aside the tax measure until next
session today confronted the senate,
as it began debate on the quarter
billion dollar bill, drafted by the
finance committee.
Are Balloting Today
_
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14, —
Ballots are being cast by the Mari
i time Federation today on the ques
tion of working British Columbia
! cargoes, and will possibly be com
pleted tonight.
_
Moans And Groans
From A Morgue
Cause Of Chills
But Sandy and Fireman Brave Fun
eral Parlor and Solve Mystery
(Ketchikan Chronicle)
W. I. (Sandy) Levy is not ordinar
ily a superstitious man and is rarely
ever given to scares over ghoulish in
cidents.
Late one night, however, he was
not quite certain of his convictions.
Walking by the Graham Funeral
Parlors and morgue at midnight he
was startled to hear unearthly
sounds issuing from the establish
ment; noises that suspiciously re
sembled what might be taken for the
utterances of a ghost.
As he paused in his walking he list
ened more closely for a minute. His
first impressions were only height
ened.
Someone, or something, was in the
morgue and groaning. Levy decid-j
ed to investigate closer and, seeing
a light burning in the firemen’s
quarters across the street, he weat
there and told his story to two fire
men who accompanied him back
to the morgue.
They tried the door and found it
unlocked. Once the door was open
ed the unearthly noises came out
the louder. Each of the men hesi
tated a bit and then entered. They
found a switch and with lights
turned on saw the source of their
‘“ghostly sounds.”
A drunk had found his way into
the place and had made a bed on a
coffin. With his coat and shoes re
moved and a pipe carefully placed on
a nearby chair he lay there moaning
in a drunken stupor.
Friends of the man appeared on
the street about this time and claim
ed the “body” which was removed
to a boat on which he is a fisherman.
WAR FEVER REMAINS
HIGH DESPITE MOVES
BRING ABOUT PEACE
Ethiopia Objects Arms Embargoes Saying
She Fears Vlassaere Hv Italians. Italy
Ear In bebl For War Expenditures
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 14—Ethiopia today appealed to the
League against the arms embargoes saying that she feared
a massacre by the Italians sl.e was unable to defend herself,
and a restriction on the transportation of ai ms and ammu
nition to Ethiopia would bring this condition about, in the
event of war.
Meanwhile neutrals are seeking peace and suggested
in London that Italy may be offered increased extra-terri
torial rights in Ethiopia in permitting colonization of Ital
ians there.
The Ethiopian emperor today dispatched sixty thousand
troops to the Somaliland frontier. Italy today was indiffer
ent to the tri-parties conference in Paris, and continued pre
parations for its African campaign by calling more men and
officers to arms.
Italy’s mounting debt led British manufacturers to con
sider a curb on her credit. Three powers’ representatives
met in Paris to try and solve peacefully, the dispute which
has been going on for the past six months.
Two threats hung over the conversations in Paris; one
a war in Africa with its danger of arousing race hatreds
thruoughout the world; and the second, Captain Eden’s
rumored intention of announcing that Great Britain would
take into her own hands the formation of an European
peace system if Italy conquers Ethiopia.
Britain Launches
Plan For fEuge
Air Fleet Defense
$116,000,00 MAY BE SPENT BY
NATION IN ITS RACE WITH
GERMANY
(Copyright 1935 Associated Press)
LONDON, Aug. 15., — A high
British source, close to the air min
istry, said Great Britain must spend
£24,000,000 .$116,000,000) for fight
ing planes if it is to fulfill the gov
ernment’s pledge to maintain air
equality with Germany.
That authoritative estimate was
put forward shortly after receipt of
authentic information from Berlin
that Germany now has facilities for
builddng 100 planes monthly for re- i
placements, and may soon speed the
pace to 200 planes each month.
Draft “Air Locarno’’
Acting swiftly to convert into
safeguards against war its increasing
apprehension as to the extent of
'Germany’s rearmament, the govern
| ment prepared the draft of an air
' locarno—an alliance providing for
j immediate reprisals against aggres
sions from the skies—to be submitt
ed to France, Italy, Belgium and
Germany.
Other developments were:
1 The air ministry launched its
new program for substantial increas
es in British fighting planes, airdrom
es, and royal air force personnel.
2 Government departments were
instructed to keep close watch on
all phases of German re-armament,
in view of official admissions that
Britain still did not know' whether
it had full information concerning
Reichsfuehrer Hitler's objectives.
3 Informed quarters said they did
not think the Franco-Russian mut
ual assistance pact would impede
Germany’s entrance into non-aggres
sion agreements, since Hitler rec
ently indicated he would not con
sider such conventions as any bar
rier.
4 Naval circles voiced the opinion
(Continued on Page Three)
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Rogers, Post Stayed
Fairbanks Tuesday
Gassing Residents
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 14. —Rogers
' and Post still lingered here yester
day on their “bumming around Al
aska" trip. Rogers said that nobody
but Post knew when they would
go elsewhere, and Post wasn’t tell
ing.
Rogers was trailed by a gang of
, kids most of the time he walked
around town ‘'gassing" with all and
[ sundry.
j He said he was going to see Mata
I nuska colony sometime.
Clipper Plane Sets
New Record Mid
way Island Flight
' (By The Associated Press)
MIDWAY, ISLAND, Aug, 14. —
The Pan American Airways Clipper
plane arrived here at 3:00 P. M. yes
terday from Honolulu, or 8:30 P. M.
Eastern Standard Time Tuesday,
completing a flight of 1323 miles in
eight hours and 52 minutes.
Officials said the plane's record in
dicated that a regular nine hour
schedule will be established between
Honolulu and this Island. The ship
cut 28 minutes from its previous
record for the East to West crossing.
"Don’t Scratch*’ Is
Rule Giv en Out
I'or Bile Of Insects
WET CLOTH CALLED GREATER
RELIEF THAN PRACTICE RI B
BING TO REMOVE ITCH
(Rv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug, 14, —Vaca- *
tionists can avoid poison ivy—
thorns and thistles if they are seen
in time because they are “rooted”
and one has to get to them to get
into trouble, a recent bulletin issued
here says, and continues:
“But the many-legged, many
winged bearer of bites and stings
can and do pursue us, defy smudges
and ointments, and wriggle through
chinks in our screen armor. We
get bitten, as a rule, because some
creeping or flying thing wants a
meal at our expense.
“Mosquitos, deer flies, ticks, sand
fleas and their all too numerous ilk,
are simply hungry. We get stung
usually, because we have injured,
angered or unintentionally menaced
bees and hornets. Scorpions merely
strike in self-defense. But no matter
what the cause, the afflicted ones
and that includes pretty nearly all
of us, want a cure.
"Soothe, Don’t Scratch”
James A. Reed
Blames Parole For
Crimes kidnaping
WEAK PRISON SYSTEMS RE
SPONSIBLE FOR CRIMES
EX-SENATOR BELIE Y'ES
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Aug. 14, James A
Reed, former United States senator
from Missouri, believes .such crim
es as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping
are made possible by the action of
weak parole systems which turn
criminals and degenerates loose to
prey again on society.
The outspoken Missouri liberal
was here with Mrs. Reed. He was
the hero of one kidnaping—that of
Mrs. Nell Qinland Donnelly, whom
he later married.
Mrs. Donnelly was the victim of a
kidnaping gang in Kansas City in
December 1931. Senator Reed declar
ed then that if the woman was
harmed he would personally lead a
.campaign of vengeance that would
not end until all the kidnapers were
dead. Mrs. Donnelly was released
immediately without payment of
ransom.
Reed described the Weyerhaeus
er kidnaping as a brutal and horrib
le crime and said: “The kidnapers
were ex-convicts, released by some
sentimental parole board." He was
bitter in his condemnation of “maud
lin sentiment" in handling of convict
ed mobsters.
Sympathy and sentiment, he de
clared, should be reserved for the
victims of the crime, rather than for
its perpetrators.
For bites, the general rule may
be laid down: soothe, don’t scratch
as scratching a bite seldom brings
any relief and may set up infection.
A wet cloth, soaked in a mildly al
kaline solution, like ammonia or bak
ing soda, will do more to relieve
mosquito-bite itching than any
amount of rubbing.
“When you get stung the first thing
to do is to get the sting out of the
wound—for bees usually leave their
bayonets sheathed in their victim’s
flesh. It is better to lift the sting
out with the tip of a penknife than
to pull it out with fingers or tweez
ers. The latter method will squeeze
more poison into the wound, from
the still-adhering poison sacs.
“Treatment after stinging will de
pend on what stung you. If it was
a bee, the poison is acid, and should
be counteracted with an alkaline
solution, as in the case of a mos
quito bite. If the stinger was a
wasp or hornet, the poison is alka
line and acid treatment is called for.
Vinegar or lemon juice are ready
household remedies.
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