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Volume 36. Number 171. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Congress May Not Adjourn Nov. First
EVIDENCES OF GRAFT OFF LABOR APPARENT
Confesses Killing Wife for Love of 16 Year Old Maiden
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ON LABOR CONDITIONS
ON FEDERAL PROJECTS
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Senate Committee Deplores Labor Condi
tions on Federal Projects. Evidences
Of Graft Off* Labor Easily Apparent
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON. July 22, — The Senate Committee on
Education and Labor reported “employment conditions ex
isting in government construction work were in a deplorable
state”, and recommended that new legislation be passed to
end the abuses.
The findings resulted from more than a year’s study.;
The report assailed the unscrupulous contractor and the
“kick-back” system. It recommended that a new law to sup
ercede the Bacon-Davis law prevailing wage law, be passed,
which would among other things guarantee the payment of
local prevailing wages to all labor and mechanics on feder
al construction in excess of two thousand dollars, where not,
in conflict with the existing law.
The Bacon-Davis law applied to federal building con
struction in excess of five thousand dollars. The committee
said that it had discovered numerous instances where con
tractors took advantage of the unfavorable financial condi
tions, such as the direct “kick-back” system, where the
laborers returned part of the wages, resulting in underpay
ment, and the letting of the work to patnerships of workers.,
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Hotel Destroyed By
Flames Aberdeen 3
Men Burned Death
Ancient Hotel Aberdeen, Wn.
Is Destroyed By Fire Sun
With 3 Burned Death
(By The Associated Press)
ABERDEEN, July 22, —Fire swept
the old, three-story frame Delmonte
Hotel Sunday morning, causing the
death of three, and injuring five
more men.
Thirty-two men were sleeping in
the building when fire broke out on
the second floor.
J. Joergon 40, and Joe Martin 40,
were trapped in their rooms and
burned almost beyond recognition,
when found.
Max Larson, longshoreman, fell
out of a third-story window where
he stood calling for help. He died
shortly afterward.
W. Paulson 40, and J. F. Cochran
both suffered fractured backs. Pet
er Astoe, aged 56, was severely
burned about the body, head and
arms. Hospital attendants pronounc
ed his condition, and that of the oth
er two as critical.
Frank E. Mitchell 73, and Frank
Thiery 71, are in the hospital, al
though less seriously injured.
The building was built 46 years
ago and is a total loss.
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Agua Caliente Re
sort Is Closed By
Decree President
Famous Gambling Resort At
Ague Caliente Padlocked
By Order of President
(By The Associated Press)
AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, July
22 —Picturesque Agua Caliente re
sort, largely paid for by American
dollars is lost in its own palatial
casino, formerly thronged by film
celebrities and thrill seeking tour-|
ists, as the place was padlocked on
a decree issued ‘ by the President
of Mexico, that all gambling be
forbidden at the resort after Sat-1
urday night.
The Hotel Spa, restaurant and bars
are closed of the world-famed resort
which was erected at a cost of from
six to ten million dollars.
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Expresses Sympathy
(By The Associated Press)
CAIRO, Egypt, July 22, —Emir
Abdullah of the Trans-Jordan was
quoted by newspapers today as ex
pressing sympathy toward Ethiopia
in its dispute with Italy.
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Confesses Killing
Wife For Love 16
Year Old Maiden
Confesses To Drowning Of
Twenty-three Year Old
Wife, Mother in Lake
(By The Associated Press)
WORCESTER, Massachusetts, July
22, —His love for a sixteen-year-old
girl, unnamed, was blamed by New
ell Sherman, for the confessed slay
ing of his young wife, the mother
of his two small children.
Officials said that Sherman confess
ed that he had deliberately ov
erturned the canoe in which he and
his twenty-three year old wife were
paddling about in the fog covered
lake. He said he thrust her away
when she frantically struggled to
grasp him as she sank from sight.
The young girl objected to running
around with married men, he said,
so he tried to impress her by becom
ing single.
Sherman was charged today with
first degree murder. He is a mem
ber of an old New England family.
To Seek Basis For
Peace Settlement
Between Nations
British Cabinet Directs Eng
lish Ambassador To Seek
Basis of Settlement
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 22, —The British
cabinet decided today to instruct
Sir Eric Drummond, Ambassador to
Italy, at Rome, to renew efforts to
find a basis for a solution of the It
alio-Ethiopian dispute.
The cabinet reaffirmed its previous
stand that both Italy and Ethiopia
should state their complete views at
Geneva.
Wiley Post Plane
Not Ready Until
Later In Week
Post and Wife in Seclusion
Waiting For Plane To Be
Made Ready Flight
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES. July 22 Although,
Wiley Post planned to leave today
on his Alaskan-Siberian flight, he
may not get away until later this
week. Both Post and his wife are1
in seclusion, it is said, at the Paci
fic Airmotive Corporation hangars.
His new' monoplane is not quite
ready today for the long flight, on
which he proposes to base at Nome,
Alaska for his extended flight along
jthe Arctic coast to Moscow.
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SENATOR BORAH SAYS
CONGRESS WILL STILL
BE SESSION BY NOV I
Possibility Expressed As Almost Certain
Controversial Measures Be Tied In To
Malt President's IMnsI Program
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, July 22. — A powerful surging drive
for two measures involving five billion dollars currency in
flation was a new factor introduced today in congress to
worry them over a possible adjournment date, in addition
to several other major controversies.
Senator Borah made the announcement this morning
that the FTazier-Lemke farm refinancing and Patman Bonus
bills “are quite certain to be attached to the Roosevelt must
measures, and probably the new tax bill”.
His announcement immediately raised the question in
the minds of many observers “Will the Roosevelt tax pro
gram be scrapped for this session if the backers of the two
measures mentioned by Sen. Borah succeed in their at
tempt?"
No immediate comment was forthcoming from party
leaders on Borah’s declaration, and his added prediction that
Congress would still be in session by November 1st.
It is generally considered certain, that this latest devel
opment would spur efforts on the parts of those republicans
and democrats who have been trying to get congress to ad
journ now without acting on the tax bill and other contro
versial measures.
On the other hand Senator Borah’s statement was inter
preted as giving new force and attention to the drives for
the Frazier-Lemke plan to issue up to three billion dollars in
new money to refinance farm indebtedness at a low rate of
interest, and the Patman plan to pay the bonus in about two
billion dol lars worth of new currency.
Soviet Officials
Arriv e At Seattle
From New York
Soviet Officials Plan To Esta
blish Radio Communica
tion in the far North
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 22, — Two offi
cials of the Amtorg Incorporated,
Soviet trading company, arrived at
Seattle Saturday night by plane and
at once began final arrangements
for the guiding of the Russian plane
from Moscow to Oakland.
The officials are N. AskolofT, vice
president of Amtorg and A. A. Var
tanian, chief engineer.
They conferred with the U. S. Sig
nal Corps and airline officials in an
effort to make a hasty journey to
the McKenzie River country to es
tablish within three days, a farther
north post of communication to aid
the Soviet fliers.
Vartanian will stay in Seattle to
translate the Russian messages which
will be radioed from here to the
plane. He talked by radio phone
with Juneau Saturday night, in an
effort to find quick service to the
northern outposts of Fort Simpson
or Aklavik, where he planned to
establish communications. The offi
cial fiew to Seattle from New York.
Dellwood Is Due To
Return Nome Ear
ly Wednesday A. M.
Word received yesterday indicat
ed that the Arctic Cruise Liner S.S.
Dellwood of the Alaska Line was at
Teller yesterday morning, and pre
pared to sail for East Cape, Siberia,
where the “Vagabond Voyagers”
will go ashore on Asiatic soil in the
U. S. S. R.
Late word received by Agent Jas.
P. Daly this afternoon from the S.S.
Dellwood stated the vessel was fog
bound off East Cape, Siberia, today
and was due to arrive back at Nome
Wednesday morning early.
The first passenger lighter for the
vessel of outgoing passengers, is
scheduled to leave the Nohalico
dock at 9:00 A.M., Wednesday, wea
ther permitting, according to orders
posted by the local agent.
Efforts Failed To
Obtain News Of
Soviet Plane Now
Soviet Officials Refuse State
Plans of TakeofT At This
Time of Mystery Plane
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, July 21, —All efforts
to obtain information concerning
the projected take-off of tire Sov
iet mystery plane over the roof of
the world to San Francisco have
proven fruitless.
Not only the plans for the take-off
, but even the whereabouts of the
plane have been kept strictly secret.
Government officials asserted on
ly, that the details of the departure
will be announced at the proper
time.
Religious Riots In
Ireland Fanned By
Reigns Of Terror
(By The Associated Press)
BELFAST, July 22, A reign of
terror arising from anti-Catholic
riots in Northern Ireland, resulting
in violent anti-Protestant reprisals,
threatened to plunge all Ireland in
to religious strife, as the ninth per
son died today under snipers' fire.
A wave of incendiarism, bombing
and stone throwing swept the bor
der towns last night, where mobs
burned three Protestant halls and
one Masonic hall.
The many widespread anti-Pro
testant demonstrations in various
parts of the Irish Free State and to
the South, during the week-end, are
attributed directly to the Northern
Ireland anti-Catholic rioting and
terrorism.
LOCAL NEWS
Dan Camp is in receipt of a tele
gram from Fairbanks dated July 20,
which conveyed the information of
the birth of a baby boy born to Mr.
and Mrs. Noel Wien, formerly of
Nome but now residents of Fair
banks. The message also stated
that Pilot Wien had arrived from
Point Lav on the Arctic Coast, in
i
time for the great event.
Joe Dexter, Golovin Merchant, was
a passenger to Nome aboard the
tug Nohalico of the Nome Harbor
Lighterage Co., which returned Sun
day from there after doing lighter
ing work.
Jack Benjomin, a native boy,
aged 18, underwent a major opera
tion in the Maynard Columbus hos
pital this morning, at the hands of
Dr. Rex F. Swartz, and is now im
proving gradually. The native boy
was brought to the hospital aboard
'an NAT plane late Saturday.