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VOL. 37. No. 75. NOME, ALASKA, Monday, March 30, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
L'l A CU TRENTON, N. J., March 30—The Court of Pardons
* IjiVJIT"" Refused Clemency to Bruno Hauptmann, Today.
99 Percent Voters Back Hitler’s Policies Rhineland
Italian Air Raid Virtually Destroys Town of Harar
COURT PARDONS CONVENED
HEAR HAUPTMANN’S FINAL
ATTEMPTS FOR CLEMENCY
False “Confessions” Repudiated As Last
Minute Attempt Save Bruno
(By The Associated Press)
Trenton, New Jersey.
March30,—The New Jersey
Court of Pardons convened
to consider Bruno Haupt
mann’s second appeal, just
thirty-three hours before
his scheduled execution,
for the slaying of the Lind
bergh baby.
The court’s action was
entirely unexpected, as it
had previously refused to
grant any more hearings,
and had already refused
clemency.
Paul H. Wendel, once dis
barred as a lawyer, today
repudiated his “confession”
of the crime, but is still
held under a murder char
ge, but the county prosecu
tor said he was convinced
there was nothing includ
ed in this surprise move to
warrant any prosecution.
Wendel said he was “tor
tured” into the confession.
Gaston B. Means, impris
oned in the Lindbergh case
as a hoaxer, also “confess
ed” to having kidnaped and
killed the baby.
The Department of Just
ice officials said both state
ments were worthless.
Hoffman is concededly
without power to again re
prieve Hauptmann, and he
issued a statement this A.
M. criticizing Bruno’s poss
ibilities of a new trial,
which subject has develop
ed into a discussion of the
case in the legislature to
night, with a view to an in
vestigation.
Mrs. Hauptmann today
prepared for what might be
her last visit to her hus
and in his death cell.
Passenger List S. S. Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, March 30, —The
S S Alaska of the Alaska
Line sailed at 9:10 Satur
day morning and carried
235 first class, 109 steerage;
117 Seward passengers as
follows:
Chester Skinner, E. D. Coch
rane, Oliver Jones, Knute Hed
lund, Lars Rynning, R H Chad
wick, A L Terrell T J Harvey,
A Dolhanyk, Dane Lachance, J
H Evets and wife, Alex Lundberg
E D Cochrane, Dan Gustafsen and
wife, Miss De Armend, M R Hol
liday, F M Fenten, Mary E Mill
er, G L Gadwaillader, Arthur Mc
Gevern, S Dowden, Alex Mc
Allister,
Reid Meran, A A Gurtiee, Har
ry E Jones, George Weatherell,
F Scherlener, Claude Stettler and
wife, A Lheraux, H W Miller, E
K Pedlar, Dan McDonald, J R
Lowden, Mrs. Ver L Linn, son &
daughter, David Myers and wife,
Sam Palmer, Joe Ringe, Jim Con
nelly, Mrs. Paul Stryken, Mre.
Robert Taylor, Mrs C B Walker,
! K Silkworth, L Wansted, Clyde
B Day, H L Budd, Mrs. Helen
Smith, Mrs. George Macek, Alice
(Continued on Page Two)
Three Municipal
Tickets In Field
Juneau Election
(By The Associated Press)
Juneau, March 30, —
There are three complete
municipal tickets in the
field with candidates for
mayor and three council
men, each having been fil
ed Saturday for the city el
ection to take place April
7th.
Mayor Isador Goldstein
is seeking re-election for a I
third term and other can
didates for mayor are N. G.
Nelson and Wallis S. Geo
rge. j
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Mary Joyce Is
Planning Make
Trip Nome 1937
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, March 30, —
Mary Joyce, who drove her
own dog team from Taku
near Juneau, to Fairbanks,
disclosed that she may at
tempt another drive next
winter from Fairbanks to
Nome. She said she hop
ed subsequently to own and
pilot her own plane over
the same route which she
followed with her dogs this
year.
The Fairbanks Igloo of
the Pioneer Women of Al
aska, gave Miss Joyce an
honorary membership on
account of her Taku-Fair
banks trip.
Former Alaskan
Minister Is Dead
^Bv The Associated Press)
Pasadena, March 30, —
While making funeral ar
rangements Reverend Thos.
Hanna, 76, a former Con
gregational pastor in Alas
ka, was found dead appar
ently from a heart attack,
in a garden yesterday.
PAROLED CONVICT
TRIES OWN CASE
Chicago, March 30th—A
paroled convict and law
student, Gilbert O’Brien,
stood acquitted of a car
theft charge here after he
had won his own case in
Judge Jos. Burke’s court.
O'Brien was formerly an
instructor in the Joliet pen
itentiary law school. He
had studied under Richard
Loeb, the co-partner of Na
than Leopold in the Bobby
Franks thrill murder of
1924.
Although the state offer
ed to supply him a lawyer,
O’Brien insisted on acting
in his own defense.
Surprised courtroom spec
tators murmured, prosecu
tors exclaimed and O’Brien
himself, gasped when the
jury returned a ‘not guilty”
verdict. However, the ama
teur lawyer is being held
for leaving the state in vio
lation of his parole.
99 PERCENT VOTERS BACK
UP HITLER’S POLICIES IN
OCCUPYING RHINELAND
I
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\ oters Cast Ballots For First Time In A
Dirigible While In Flight
(By The Associated Press')
Berlin. March 30, — Ger
many expressed in votes
Sunday an overwhelming
approval of Herr Hitler’s
policies, including the re
militarization of the Rhine
land and the denunciation
of the Locarno treaty.
A tabulation of the elec
tions showed that nearly
99 percent of the voters
marked an X in the sole
circle on the ballots. The re
maining one percent were
thrown out as “invalid!”
Hitler’s greatest previous
majority was in 1933 when
95 percent of the voters ap
proved Germany’s quitting
the League of Nations Dis
armament Conference.
For the first time in his
tory, votes were cast by
passengers in an airship.
German’s two giant air
ships, the Graf Zeppelin
and the new Von Hinden
burg, cruised over crucial
points in this election while
then passengers voted. The
ships floated majestically
over the Rhineland, a sym
bol of German progress.
Their cruises were part
of an unexampled propa
ganda drive put on by the
Nazis. The election was call
ed bv Hitler when he de
nounced the Locarno treaty
by sending troops into the
Rhineland.
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City Harar Bombed By Italian Planes
Say Official Communiques
(By The Associated Press)
Addis Ababa, March dU,
—An Italian air raid vir
tually destroyed the town
of Harar, the second city of
Ethiopia, it was disclosed
today when the Ethiopian
government charged that
several hospitals and Fren
ch centers had been wreck
ed.
The Fascist plane squad
ron plunged incendiary
bombs at the town for more
than two hours.
It was said that most of
the populace had been fore
warned by scouting planes
and fled the city in terror.
An official communique
said that fifteen bombs hit
the Egyptian Red Cross hos
pital, several hit the Eth
iopian Red Cross Hospital,
and two fell near the Swed
ish hospital.
It was officially reported
that the French mission
and consulate, the former
Italian consulate, and an
Ethiopian radio station and
prison had been ruined.
I he communique said
“Monsignor Jaroseau, in
charge of the mission re
fused to leave the altar dur
ing the bombardment. The
church was wrecked, but
he was uninjured.”
Flood Water Still
Rising; No Great
Damage Expected
(By The Associated Press)
Louisville, Ky., March 30
—The Ohio River contin
ued rising slowly across
the lowlands, as Damiljes
fled from the invading wat
ers.
The plan for the innocu
lation against typhoid of
residents in the flood areas
progressed rapidly.
Flood dangers along the
Tennessee and Cumberland
rivers appeared over today.
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Susan Niebaum
Former Alaskan
Died In Frisco
(By Trie Associated Press)
San Francisco, March 30
—The last rites are being
held here today for Mrs.
Susan Niebaum, 87, wid
ow of Captain Gustaf Nie
baum. founder of the hist
oric Alaska Commercial
Company.
They were married in
1853 here, when he, then
a captain for the Russian
American Fur Company,
contended that he was one
of a few citizens who had
acquired purchase of the
Alaska territory.
Later he spent two years
on Pribiloff Islands return
ing with a rich cargo of
seal furs. He interested oth
ers and started an import
ant chapter in western
commercial history.
Captain Niebaum died in
1908. His widow contracted
pneumonia last week and
died at her home Sunday.
Workman Sought
For Striking Rev.
Of Church Berlin
11 v The Associated Press)
Berlin, March 30. The
workman who struck the
acting pastor of Berlin’s
American church, Rev.
Stewart Herman of Harris
burg, Pennsylvania, is to
day the object of a police
hunt.
The spokesman for the
Ministry of Propaganda
said “if the culprit is dis
covered he will be severely
punished.”
The workman apparent
ly thought the pastor show
ed a lack of reverence for
the Nazi flag, and struck
him on the jaw last Friday.
Seward Day Is
Monday Mar. 30
'Bv The Associated Press)
Juneau, March 30, —
Federal and territorial offi
ces, schools and banks are
observing a holiday Mon
day, Seward Day, in com
memoration of the purchase
of Alaska.