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VOLUME 36. NO. 84. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Improvements Nome Harbor Assured
ROBBER HURLS STINGING WORDS AT JUDGE
Ten Railway Workers Are Killed In Train Accident
I
Premiers Europe
Preparing For A
Big Conference
___
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, April 9—Premiers of
France, Italy, and Great Britain are
to join in diagnosing the afflictions
which have aggrevated European
unrest, when the Stresa peace clinic
opens Thursday..
Premier Flandin of France will
head his delegation; Musolini will
head Italy’s; MacDonald for Great
Britain. Official quarters in London
viewed the muddled international
situation and believed the affairs
were becoming clarified through a
collective security system within
the League of Nations, which will
probably remedy the European ail
ments, under the prescriptions made
by the Stresa conference
President Signed
Big Money Bill
While On Train
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 9—President
Roosevelt signed the huge work re
lief bill as he sped through South
Carolina enroute here. He also al
loted one hundred and twenty-five
million dollars immediately for the
use of direct relief, and thirty mil
lions to keep the CCC going.
Present City Council
Meets Once More
The last regular meeting of the
present city council took place last
night at which all councilmen were
present The minutes of the last pre
vious meeting were read and approv
ed. All bills approved by the fin
ance committee were ordered paid.
Mayor Swartz read communica
tions to and from Delegate Dimond
and Governor John W. Troy regard
ing the PWA loan and grant special
election held in Nome April 2nd.
The regular order of business was
to canvass the election ballots at the
last regular meeting, which was
done last night, and the results ap
proved.
Lyman S. Brewster, representing
Jas Frawley who arranged the pro
perty question in Nome last fall,
was present at the meeting with
several deeds to be signed by the
mayor, to the townsite trustee, J. S.
Stangroom.
Numerous questions regarding pro
perty came up at the meeting and
were discussed pTo and con. The
meeting adjourned until April 18th,
a special meeting, when the old coun
cil will adjourn sine die and the new j
ly elected officers installed for the
coining year. ,
BILL AUTHORIZES NOME
HARBOR PROJECT AND
OTHERS IN TERRITORY
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April !)—The Rivers and Harbors Bill
now before the House authorizes the following projects in
Alaska. The bill carries no appropriations but merely au
thorizations.
Nome Harbor channel, eight feet depth, turning basin,
two hundred fifty three thousand dollars, maintenance
twenty thousand. Extension turning basin two hundred
fifty feet wide, four hundred feet long, eight feet deep, six
teen thousand, five hundred dollars.
Wrangell Harbor dredged basin four hundred feet by
six hundred feet the cost to be fifty-six thousand dollars.
Wrangell Narrows Channel twenty-four feet deep, two
hundred and seventy feet wide, to cost one hundred and
forty-two thousand dollars.
Stikine River removal of snags and annual maintenance
six hundred dollars.
Kodiak Harbor channel twenty-two feet deep two hun
dred feet wide, seventy-seven thousand dollars.
Dry Pass Channel, 6 feet deep, sixty feet wide, seventy
nine thousand dollars.
Petersburgh Harbor improvement channels, basin, one
hundred thousand, annual maintenance fifteen hundred dol
lars.
Egegik River Channel, five feet deep one hundred feet
wide through rapids, “five thousand dollars.
Harbor refuge Seward, nine hundred fifty foot break
water seventy thousand dollars.
TEN MEN ARE KILLED TRAIN
ACCIDENT—RAINS DESTROY
PROPERTY—DAMAGE GREAT
(By The Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 9—Ten railway section
hands were killed in a train collision near Roseville last
night, said to be the worst of a series of accidents blamed on
California storms, which have already claimed twenty lives,
with swirling rush of flood water and record breaking rains
over the state which has caused uncounted property dam
age.
The ten men were repairing the Southern Pacific tracks
which had been swept away by rains, and were instantly
killed by a snow plow and buried under a slide near Lake
Tahoe. Threats of more serious flood hazards are believed
to be averted with the passing of the peak of the storm.
Houses, farms, crops, highways, stores, railroads, all sul
fered the effects of the storm, notably in the Sacramento and
San Jouquin valleys. Records of a half century standing at
Sacramento and twenty-two years at Los Angeles were
shattered by the rains.
Pays Tribute To
Ludendorff: His
Birthday Today
(By The Associated Press)
TUTZING, Germany, April 9th—
General Werner von Blomberg, min
ister of war paid a tribute to Gen-j
oral LudendorfT who is celebrating
his seventieth birthday today; as
“the greatest field commander of
the world war, and under whose
leadership Germany braved her
world enemies-”
The celebration centered at Lud
endorff’s home Because the old
soldier advocated anti-Christian doc
trines, no flags were flown in his
honor from Catholic or Protestant
synods..
Says Hauptmann
Never Rode Real
Horse In His Life
(Ry The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 9—Mrs. Anna
Hauptmann commenting on the
statement yesterday of Rev Michael
J.Kallok, Catholic priest of Cudahy,
Wisconsin, who asserted he had of
ten seen Hauptmann mounted on a
horse surveying the Lindbergh es
tate, said:
"The only horse Richard ever
rode was on a merry-go-round."
W orkers Threaten
Sympathy Strike
Rubber Industry
(By The Associated Press)
DETROIT, April !)—A threat of
sympathetic action by some auto
mobile workers if the united rubber
workers union calls a strike at Ak
ron, was injected as a new element
into the nation’s newest labor dis
pute.
Francis Dillon, general American
Federation of Labor, organizer, for
the automobile industry said that
any walkout of rubber workers
'‘will” mean that automobile work
ers will go out with them.” Dillon’s
assertion was made in connection
with a pledge of “one hundred per
cent operation" with the Akron rub
ber workers who are taking a vote
to see whether or not they will
strike.
North Atlantic Is
Hit By Storms
Worst In Years
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, April 9th—The worst
Northeaster in years raged along
the North Atlantic seaboard. Ram
pant rivers inland brought threats
of heavy flood conditions and dam
ages.
With tumultous seas running in
the North Atlantic, the British fre
ighter “Badagry” is wallowing two
hundred miles East of St. Johns, N
F She sent out an SOS call “hold
filling rapidly,” the message said.
Several ships are proceeding to her
aid.
The Long Island and Jersey coasts
are bearing the brunt of the seventy
mile wind. Johnes Bear and Fire
Island, favorite beaches of New
Yorkers are subjected to waves 40
feet high which come rolling into
the shore.
The Nome Daily Nugget is prepar
ed to do your job printing.
CONVICTED MAN SAYS
HARSH THINGS JUDGE
WHO SENTENCED HIM
(By The Associated Press)
HUNSTVILLE, Texas, April 9—Amazed spectators in
the court room here heard the banker robber Raymond
Hamilton hurl stinging words at the Judge who sentenced
him to die May tenth in the electric chair.
“If it's true that there is such a thing as haunting after
death, I’m going to come back and kick the whole bunch of
you out of bed, ’ sneered the slayer of Major Crowson, state
prison farm guard during his break for freedom.
He directed his words at District Judge S. W. Dean,
District Attorney Max Roger, Lee Simons, prison system
manager.
The judge attempted to cut Hamilton’s farewell speech
short, but not before Hamilton declared he had been convict
ed on perjured evidence.
“You’ve taken my life; you Simons; and if you enjoy it,
well, I hope you live to regret it later after I’m dead,” Ham
ilton shouted.
“What a life,” Hamilton said despondently on his way
back to the death cell.
President Attends
Funeral Services
Of Late Cousin
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April !) After at
tending funeral services of his Cou
sin Warren Delano Robbins, minis
ter to Canada, President Roosevelt
left for the capital today.
The Roosevelt special, speeding
northward the other day from Flor
ida, struck a stolen car which some
one abandoned on the railroad track
near Wilson, North Carolina. No
one was injured but the accident
caused a fifteen minute delay.
Board Directors
Announced Valley
Colonization Plan
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 9th- Dele
gate Dimond today received a list
of the board of directors of the Mat
anuska colonization project. They
are Governor Troy, Dr Chas Bun
nell, Colonel Ohlson, Attorney Gen
eral Truitt, E R Tarwater, William
Taylor, Mike Scriven, the latter
three are of Anchorage.
HOME COOKED FOOD
The women of the Federated church
are planning a pre-Easter Sale of
home cooked food. If you desire
some special or particular bread,
cake, pie or dish, place your order
with Mrs. Charles Code or Mrs Ai
mer Rydeen.
Brig.-Gen. Arnold
Gets Award 2nd
Firne: Alaska Hop
< By The Associated Press!
WASHINGTON. April 9—Brigad
ier General Henry H. Arnold, com
mander of the Pacific Coast wing.
General Headquarters Air Force, re
ceived for the second time, the Mac
Kay Trophy for the outstanding
flight of the Army’s bombers on
their nine thousand two hundred
and ninety mile hop to Alaska and
return last year.
In presenting the trophy in a cere
mony at Bolling Field, Major James
Doolittle described the flight as ”a
thrilling demonstration of the mo
bility of our national air defense,
and a practical demonstration that
America can lead in the air.”
Court Matters
In the trial of Max Gottschalk in
the U. S. District Court the govern
ment rested this morning and the
defense commenced its case, which
continued until about 11 a.m. when
daughters of the defendent v.cre
placed on the stand, but due to their
losing emotional control, court was
adjourned until 2 p.m. and shortly
thereafter the defense rested.
Arguments to the jury, and instruc
tions by the court were read and the
case turned over to the jury about
3:15.
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