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Volume 36. Number 198. NOME. ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Farewell Services To Rogers and Post
CONGRESS PLANNING EARLY ADJOURNMENT
Stenographer Mysteriously Murdered in Her Apartment
MEMORIAL SERVICES
HELD IN HONOR OF
WRITER AND PILOT
Hundred Thousand Passed By Rogers'
Bier Ami Planes Fly For Wiley Post
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 22—The nation said farewell to Rog
ers and Post hours before the simple private services for the
homespun humorist and world renowned aviator were to
be held.
At Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California,
thousands jammed the highways—all seeking to get a final
glimpse of the bier of the noted American, as the body lay
in state at the Park, where is was estimated that a hundred
thousand had filed past during the past day.
Memorial services were held at Claremore, Rogers home
town, and in other places all over the nation.
Meanwhile in Oklahoma City vast throngs in all walks
of life, paused to pay their respects to the memory of Wiley
Post, noted flier. Planes carrying mourning banners dron
ed over the state capitol where the body lay in state, while
hosts of sorrowing Oklahomans passed by his bier. Several
persons fainted in the crowd. The final rites at two P.M.
were order, simple and short. All Alaska stations of the U.
S. Signal Corps remained silent for five minutes beginning
at noon, in respect to the famous men.
WASHINGTON
CURRENT
COMMENT
Now and then the Comptroller
General of the United States steps
out of the shadow and puts his foot
down upon a payment of govern
ment money in a way that makes
everyone sit up and take notice.
Under such circumstances there
seems to be little room for come
back. To many he is merely some
body in Washington, and a brief ex
amination of his powers and dut
ies may not be out of order. As the
head of the General Accounting Of
fice, the law charges him with the
settlement aid adjustment, indepen
dently of the executive departments
of all claims by the Government or
against it, an all accounts in which
the government appears either as
debtor or creditor. He has the pow
er to investigate, at the seat of gov
ernment or elsewhere, all matters
relating to the disbursement, receipt
and use of public funds. It is not to
be wondered that when he opens his
mouth, his words are heard and ob
eyed.
It may be that a casual provision
regarding his tenure of office ex
plains why a Comptroller General
may speak right out in meeting,
whether or not others like it. He
holds office for fifteen years, and can
not be reappointed.
The navy has been practicing gun
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Anti-War Demon
stration Staged In
City Melbourne
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 22, —Three
thousand men, women and children
in Melbourne, Australia, including
Italians, today held an anti-war
demonstration, singing native songs
and crying “Shame upon Mossolini."
The children chanted we want
bread not mustard gas.
In London, acting premier Ram
say MacDonald said of the Ethio
pian crisis, prior to the cabinet
meeting, “It is the most serious
affair we have faced since 1914; it
is a very grave situation.’
Baron Muzzi Falconi, Italian con
sul at Debere Marcos, is in an Ad
dis Ababa hospital with a gunshot
wound in his chest. The Ethiopian
government announced that he had
been shot while hunting in the wilds
and ordered an inquiry to be made
immediately to determine the cir
cumstances of the wounding. His
serious condition, doctors declared
might result in death. He is Sir
Sidney Barton’s son in law. Barton
is the British minister to Ethiopia.
ATHENS, Aug. 22, —Admiral
Paul Coudouriotis, 80, first Presi
dent of the Greek Republic, died
here today. He retired from office in
1929 due to ill health.
The Nome Daily Nugget is prepur
ed to do your job printing.
Death Of Two Is
Confessed By 21
Year-Old Youth
(By The Associated Press)
AUBURN, Aug. 22, — The myst
erious disappearance of James C.
Kenneth Sr. retired Chicago con
tractor, and the death of an uniden
tified red-haired youth, were confess
ed as slayings by Earl Cramer here
today, it was announced by Sheriff
I Elmer Gum.
The twenty-one year old itinerant
prospector was arrested in a hunt
for cattle thieves, and he confessed
that he shot Kenneth in a quarrel
over food. He also said he shot the
red haired youth, when he attempt
ed to take a gun away from him.
May Be A Threat
Against British
Colonial Ground
fBy The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 22. — With fear
that Mussolini's aspirations for con
quest were a threat to British col
onial possessions the British Cabin
et held an emergency meeting to
day.
Emperor Sellasi at prayer today
promised not to draw first blood.
France feared that hasty British
cabinet action may heighten Italy's
determination for conquest in Spain.
She explained minimized military
movements toward the Mediterran
ian frontier as “normal precaution
ary.”
MYSTERIOUS SLAYING
OF WOMAN HAS POLICE
SEEKING FOR CALLER
I
(By The Associated Press')
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 22—Searching vainly for
clues, the police today sought a tall, well groomed man for
questioning in connection with the mystery slaying of Mrs.
Gladys Fair, 34. pretty Naval Board stenographer.
The attractive victim was found in her apartment. The
slayer had apparently fired the bullet into the back of her
head as he sat at her side on the arm of an overstuffed chair.
The body was clad in a simple house frock, and had
been dragged from the living room to the bathroom and
dropped over the rim of the bathtub. There was no evi
dence of any struggle.
Occupants of an adjoining apartment said they saw an
unknown man walking in the hallway near Mrs. Fair’s
apartment last night, and that he seemed startled at their
appearance, as he fled to the stairway and went out.
Death came the day after she parted in San Francisco
from her husband, who stated he planned to rejoin her as
soon as he could find employment here. She had spent her
vacation with him and then returned to Long Beach.
P. A. A. Electra
To Arrive From
Fairbanks At 7:30
The Pacific Alaska Airways El
ectra. took off from Fairbanks this
afternoon on its regular weekly,
scheduled flight to Nome. It is ex
pected to arrive Nome about 7:30
P. M. tonight.
As passengers aboard the plane are
Edward J Roberts, W A Bartholo
mae, and Phillip S. Smith. Mr. Ro
, bers is to be. a round trip passenger.
The plane will remain over tonight
! and return to Fairbanks tomorrow.
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Believes National
Youth Movement
Will Be Permanent
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, —Pres
ident Roosevelt expressed his belief
today that the National Youth Ad
ministration set-up, with its fifty
million dollars in work relief funds,
may become permanent, after Relief
Administrator Hopkins had told a
state directors organization that the
aim'was to provide economic secur
ity for young people.
The president said that if the ex
periment is a success there is not
much doubt in his his mind that
future congresses will continue the
work of youth building for the fu
ture. j
WITH DIFFICULTIES
OVER ADJOURNING
President Mentions Constitution In ICidio
Address, Ma\ He Hint llou He Stands
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—Said to work out a design to
avoid stirring up ill will abroad, prominent house members
were reported today seeking a compromise on the arms em
bargo law, instead of passing a senate measure especially
for the occasion.
Congress is all tangled up in such formidable difficulties
that guesses as to adjournment time ranged for many clays,
as leaders continued to seek speedy action of their program.
The capitol is eagerly following the constitutional ar
gument which is rapidly shaping up as one of the major de
bates for the 193b campaign.
President Roosevelt made a surprise reference to the
National Constitution in a radio address last night to Boy
Scout camps all over the country, in which he said:
“The individual who bv inaction or opposition, slows
honest, practical and far-seeing community effort is one who
is holding back civilization and the objectives of the Con
stitution.”
Observers thought they saw in the President’s speech a
hint of the strategy which the administration will follow in
fighting its critics of re-election, who assail the New Deal
on constitutional grounds.
Airplane Crashes
Claim Six Lives
In United States
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 22, — Six per
sons lost their lives yesterday—vic
tims of airplane crashes.
Tiie bodies of Burnside Smith, In
dianapolis business man, Dick Ar
nett pilot, airfield manager, and his
bride, the former Eleanor Smith are
to be brought down the mountain
side near Grendo, Wyoming today,
where the plane crashed. The men’s
bodies were badly burned but the
girl was thrown clear of the plane
when it hit against a single pinnac
le in its path over the mountain.
At Tulsa Oklahoma, (light in
structor Ward Crawford and stud
ent Fred Hill are dead, apparently
because they didn’t know which
one of them was doing the flying.
A. W. Meadows, Department of
Commerce inspector said that Hill's
hands were frozen on the controls,
which he found were still in work
ing order.
Lieutenant Robert Scherer, 25, of
deny, Illinois, Army Reserve Pilot,
attached to an observation squad
ron plunged to his death near Pine
Camp, New York. His mechanic
Private George White of Detroit,
bailed out when the engine failed,
in a mock warfare being conduct
ed.
Crowd (hit Against
Communists Santa
Rosa In A Big Way
(Bv The Associated Press)
SANTA ROSA, California, Aug.
22, -—Amid wild scenes of disorder,
including gun fire and tear gas, 300
self-style vigilantes tarred and feath
ered two alleged communists and
beat up three others, after an all
night county-wide raid against al
leged agitators among the hop har
vest workers.
The victims of the raid gave their
names as Jack Green and Solomon
Nitszburg, who were tarred and
feathered. Ed Wolf, George Ford,
and C. Meyer were beaten and ord
ered to leave the county by three
P. M.
Gunfire and tear gas were brought
into play when a crowd descended
upon the Nitzburg ranch home.
They were fired upon from the
house by a woman screaming:
'T will shoot to kill.”
Nitzburg staggered out gasping
and was seized by the crowd which
had tear gassed the house.
All of the men seized were forced
to kiss the flag during captivity. No
official action has been taken by
city officials.
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