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VOL. 37. No. 49. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, FEB. 27, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cent
Japanese Loyalist Now In Control
18 YEAR-01^ GIRL ACQUITTED OF MURDER
About 50 Dawsonites To Fly Fairbanks Carnival
LOYALISTS STILL CONTROL AS
INSURGENTS FORCED RELEASE
HOLDINGS—A WAR IS FEARED
Dawson Plans
Attend Carnival
City Fairbanks
Miss Dawson, attended
by a cavalcade of hockey
players and enthusiastic
Klondikers, will attend the
Fairbanks Carnival and
will be winging their way
here in a fleet of planes
within a few days.
The goods news is brot
by pilots Vic Ross and John
Lynn of the Northern Air
Transport, who returned
to Fairbanks last evening
in their ships after a visit
to the Klondike metropolis.
A summary of the situation
in Dawson is given in a let
ter from Harold Malstrom,
editor and publisher of the
Dawson News.
Miss Dawson Named
“Vic Ross and John
Lynn dropped into the of
fice today to tell me that
they would leave for Fair
banks in the morning, so
I’ll just machine a few lin
es to tell you that, due to
no one starting a vote to
select a young lady to re
present Dawson, as “Miss
Dawson”, on “Dominion
Day” at your carnival, a
committee of the Yukon
International Highway As
sociation has selected a
beautiful, charming and in
telligent Dawson-born you
ng lady in the person of
Miss Bernice Kazinsky.
‘The queen’, is a decided
blonde, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Kazinsky
“The hockey boys are
itching to get away, and
quite a number of Dawson
ites and Bear Creek resi
dents, including Bennie
Gladwin, will arrive in
your hustling city.”
Hockey Team Coining ,
“A full team of nine hock
ey players is coming to the
Fairbanks Ice Carnival
from Dawson,” Pilot John
Lynn of the Northern Air
Transport said today, upon
his return from the Klon
dike capital.
“The Dawson players
Remaining Ministers Working To Form
New Government. Coup Was
Near To Success
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Feb. 26, — The
rebellious young army c*
fleers who killed four Jap
anese liberal statesmen in
an attempted coup d’ etat,
gave ground in Tokyo to
day while surviving mini
sters strove to form a new
government.
An official source told
the Domei news agency,
today, that the insurgents
had capitulated Thursday
night. The recalictrants
who held the police head
quarters and barracks again
st the tightening ring of
loyal troops, for the past 24
hours, were reported to
have started an evacuation
of the building occupied.
The original object of the
uprising was the removal
of those government figur
es they considered inimical
to Japan’s best interests
and the establishment of an
! ultra-patriotic nationalist
government. It was consid
ered near achievement last
night.
Anxious Europe antici
pated a form of army rule
in Japan on the heels of
the mass assassinations.
Diplomatic circles ech
oed the question “will war
eventuate from the conflict
between Japanese militar
its and the more conserva
tive liberals?’’
Speculation is rife over
the identity of the new
Premier. The most frequent
lv named person is Baron
Hiranuma, vice president of
the privy council. Next is
the head of the fascist or
ganizations, General Sadao
Araki, former minister of
war.
are engaged in hard pract
ice, and they look pretty
good”, Lynn declared. “It
was 25 degrees below zero
on their indoor rink when
I watched them practice.
Coach James Johnstone is
putting them through their
paces.
“I have reserved rooms
in Fairbanks for the hock
ey team. The players are
short of funds this year. A
benefit show was put on
February 18 to raise money
for the trip, and had good
success.
“Passengers are being re
cruited in Dawson by the
Northern Air Transport to
come to Fairbanks in the 12
passenger Ford plane of
the NAT, at $70 a head.
Noel Wien, chief pilot of
the company, who will ar
rive in Fairbanks on the
train Sunday, will pilot the
Ford.
Although there are few
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Trapping Poor
Point Barrow
Stated Report
(By Tne Associated Press)
Point Barrow, Feb. 26.—
The natives here report
poor trapping in most dist
ricts of this area, which
means that the natives and
trappers have to live al
most exclusively on meat,
as they have no furs to ex
change for flour, sugar, tea
milk and other white man’s
food, to which they have be
come accustomed.
Mumps are still some
what of an epidemic but
^ the cases are not serious.
The Office of Indian Af
fairs at Juneau sent $40
school superintendent F.
Daugherty for poor relief,
and authority to supply
coal from the school supply
if and when needed.
Farm Girl Freed
Murder, Defense
Temp. Insanity
( By The Associated Press)
Andarko, Oklahoma, Feb.
26, — Emma Willis, 18, a
farm girl, was acquitted
today of shooting her fath
er, by a jury which accept
ed her defense theory, that
she was driven insane by
cruelty and improper ad
vances bv her 51-year-old
father Eddis H. Willis.
Plans were launched im
mediately to obtain her
freedom through a hearing
on her present sanity.
Meanwhile she was sent
to an insane hospital for
observation. She shot her
father as he lay in bed, in
their farm house, Decem
ber 21st.
Cold Weather
Returns States
Fear Of Floods
(By The Associated Press)
Chicago, Feb. 26, —Sub
zero weather returned to
the north central states in
a new cold wave, with'the
forecast bringing heavy
precipitation and extreme
ly high winds.
Residents of the state are
threatened with floods
which have caused several
drownings and much prop
erty damaged. It is hoped
that the return of freezing
weather will be a brief re
lief from ice jams and ris
ing flood waters.
Ivan Pavaloff,
Scientist, Dead
Nobel \\ inner
(By The Associated Press)
Leningrad, Feb. 26, —
Ivan Petrovich Pavaloff, 86,
the physiologist who be
came famous for his “pure
ly materialist” theory, con
ditioned reflexes and re
searches into the mental
processes of animals, died
here today.
He won the Nobel prize
in 1904 for research work
on the activity of digestive
glands.
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HUGH BREWSTER TO MAKE
TRIP NOME IN OWN PLANE
FOR AIR BUREAU OF DEPT.
Tour Of Insure!ion Will Also inrliule
1
Ollier Points Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
Anchorage, Feb. 26, —
Hugh Brewster, Alaska
aeronautical inspector for
the Department of Com
merce, said he would leave
here next week on an ex
tensive inspection tour to
cover most of Alaska, in
his own plane.
His itinerary will include
Nome, Fairbanks, the Kus
kokwim country. He will
also visit Skagway and pro
bahly other points.
Myrtle Wendler was ap
pointed court reporter and
private secretary to Judge
Simon Hellenthal, succeed
ing Mrs. Nema Hofstede,
who recently married At
torney Clyde Ellis.
Finances March 15
For U S Treasury
w
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Feb. 26, —
Secretary Morgen!hau an
nounced that the Treas
ury’s March 15th financing
would aggregate one bill
ion, 8 hundred & 9 million,
of which eight hundred
million dollars will be new
money. The treasury will
ask in cash one billion two
hundred and fifty millon.
This supply of new mon
ey will also include four
hundred and fifty millkyi
to pay off in cash bills ma—
Turing March 15th, the re
mainder representing re
funding operation for all
items of expenditure. The
figures include the bonus.
Alaska Cruise
(By The Associated Press)
San Francisco, Feb 26,
Islam Temple of the Shrine
completed arrangements
today for an eighteen day
summer cruise to Alaska
in connection with the
Shrine Convention in' Seat
tle next July.
Electricity Fan
Be Produced
From Water
<I5v The A 'Kiat' il Press!
London, — Says a special
correspondent of “The Ex
press.”
Within the next few
days, some of the leading
scientists in Britain will
have an opportunity of rig
orously testing the Claim of
a young Dane to have ex
ploited a source of electric
ity which will revolution
ize the production of heat,
light, and power for dom
estic and industrial pur
poses.
The Dane is C W Epen
sen, a man in the middle
thirties, who for four years
has been carrying on ex
periments in the greatest
secrecy in a laboratory in
the suburban villa in West
London.
In Umimtled Quantities
Mr. Eoensen declares he
can produce electricity in
unlimited quantities from
ordinary tap water without
the aid of coal, oil or any
other known substance.
Mr. Epensen’s apparatus
is amazingly simple and
cheap. Once it is installed
the average home can be
supplied with electrical
light and power at less than
£ 1 a year.
It consists of a series of
metal plates and rods wir
ed together in a metal con
tainer. The apparatus wa
plunged in a tank of water
in an empyt room and wir
ed to electric points in oth
er parts of the house.
What Has Been Done
It lit ordinary electric
lamps, operated a smal
motor, and provided suff
cient heat to boil a kettl>
on an electric grill.
A fair description of th
stage which the inventio
has reached is that it i
nearer perfection than the
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