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VOL. 37. No. 135. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY. JUNE 8, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
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. Alaska Dispute be Decided Tuesday
14 INSANE INMATES ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM
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Confident Landon Will Be Nominated First Ballot
CRIMINALLY INSANE
♦ INMATES ARE BEING
PURSUED OFFICIALS
Ex-Member Karpis-Barker Gang is One
Grazed Men to Escape. Machine
- Gunners Searching the Country
(
(By The Associated Press')
ST. PETER, Minnesota, June 8, — Machine gun
ners today beat through brush, swamps, and old river
bottoms, searching for the crazed Karpis-Barker gang
ster, Lawrence De Vol, and thirteen other escaped in
# mates of the criminally insane war of the state asylum.
De Vole, convicted bank robber and murder sus
pect, engineered the break, slugging six unarmed
guards. Two of the inmates were quickly recaptured.
At least six more killers and robbers got away by com
“ mandeering an automobile and escaping pursuers, af
ter trapping five guards on the second floor of the asy
lum and beating them with chair legs.
Three-day Hun t
Ends In Arrest
Youthful Killer
19-YEAR-OLD BOY GIVES IN
AND ARREST MADE FOR
f KILLING OF OLD MAN
(By The Associated Press)
PRINEVILLE, Oregon. June 8.
—A three-day manhunt in cen
tral Oregon rangelands ended to
day with the capture of Darrel
Walker, aged 19, who was jailed
1 as the asserted fued slayer of
Merritt Peacock, 25, after evad
ing pursuers since the shooting
last Friday.
He rode a limping horse into
his father’s ranch and gave him
self up. His father telephoned
the officers and then father and
son set out in a car and met the
officers on the road toward Sup
plee. Sheriff Ben Groff said that
-v several members of a sheep
camp witnessed the slaying.
Declares Landon
Will Nominated
On First Ballot
(By The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, June 8, — Gov
ernor Alf M. Landon will win the
republican presidential nomina
tion on the first ballot, represenl
ative Joseph Martin of Massa
chusetts, the Landon floor man
ager, predicted today. If tht
people keep on thinking the waj
they do now, he said, it seems
inevitable.
ners
Co Osi Strike I:i
France Today
COAL MINERS STRIKE AFTER
OLD STRIKERS VICTORS
DEMANDS EMPLOYERS
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS. June 8. — A hundred
and fifty thousand coal miners in
northern France called a general
strike just a few hours after a
million other workers had won
a complete victory in their two
weeks’ “folded arms" strike un
der pressure from the new peop
le’s front government.
The employers signed an agree
ment granting five labor de
mands, although warning that
they made “all reserves regard
ing economic consequences.”
Haile Selassie
Lays Flowers
For War Dead
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, June 7, — Emper
or Haile Selassie, bare-headed,
placed a wreath on the base of
the Cenotaph, to world war dead,
in Whitehall Saturday.
Crown Prince Asfa Wosan and
Ras Kassa, the emperor’s chief
army advisor were with him.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Ed
en paid a courtesy visit on the
emperor Saturday. It is custo
mary to do so in the case of vis
iting sovereigns even when they
are incognito.
i
Conditions In
British Col. Are
Growing Worse
(Bv The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER. B. C„ June 8.
—Flood conditions continue to
grow rapidly worse through Yu
kon Territory and northern Brit
ish Columbia, where rampaging;
rivers swept over thousands of
acres of land, disrupting commun
ications and sending the tentative i
estimates of the entire flood dam
ages soaring near the million dol
lar mark.
Mayo, Yukon Territory, is en-!
tirely under four feet of water.
On the Stewart River, a river
steamer is tied up in front of a
Catholc church, four blocks in
land, giving refuge to citizens
forced from their homes.
Patients are beng cared for on
the top floor of the town's hospi
tal, because the water covers all
the lower floors.
Temperatures of 89 degrees are
blamed for melting the snow in
the mountains, causing unprece
dented flood conditions.
The Slikine river has rolled
over its banks at Telegraph Cr.
near the Yukon Boundary, and
the Skeena river is again rising
between Hazelton and Prince
' Rupert.
National Open
Golf Matches
Are Now On
PAR ON GOLF COURSES IS
BROKEN CONTESTANTS
HALF THRU SERIES
(By The Associated Press)
SPRINGFIELD. New Jersey.
June 8. —The battle for the Na- j
tional Open Golf Championship
today moved dramatically toward
.a record breaking all-star final as
I par again was riddled by dead
! ly second round barrage.
Pacemakers at the half way
mark in the wild scoring traffic
jam over the Baltusrol golf club;
links, were Victor Zhezzi, Deal.
N. Y. and Ray Mangrum, Pitts-j
burgh. They were tied at 140.
four under par for 36 holes.
Zhezzi, first off the toe this
morning, scorched the course
with a 70, a duplicate of his first
round
Mangrum, who shared the first (
day’s lead with Paul Runyan, cf
White Plains, N. Y., and Claren
ce Clark, Bloomfield, N. J. each,
with a 69, slipped a trifle today
but stroked out a 71 one under
par.
JUST ARRIVED
On gas schooner Nanuk. from
Seattle, Fresh Oranges, Carrots,
Onions and Beets, at
P O L E T ’S
ALASKA DISPUTE TO
COME CREDENTIALS
COMM. TOMORROW
Frank Burns, W ashington Stale Nation
al Committeeman, Confident While
Delegation Be Seatted Tuesday.
(By The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 8, — Contesting Alaska
ielegations will have to wait until Tuesday for the
c redentials committee of the Republican National Con
vention, to decide which group is to be seated, when the
convention convenes to pick a republican nominee for
president tomorrow.
Frank Burns, of Seattle, National GOP Com
mittee man from Washington State, who argued for
the Albert White degelation before the national com
mittee, said he was convinced "the regulars” will be
seated.
Burns commented: “We proved to the national
committee that the H. L. Faulkner delegation is not
so much interested in the republican party as it is in
controlling politics in Alaska, whether democratic or
republican. The national committee voted 102 to 2 in
favor of the White delegates and 1 feel certain Albert
White of Juneau. Mrs. Florence Mafsted of Cordova,
.nd Henry Benson of Juneau will be seated.”
Faulkner has charged that the national committee
made its decision on a “personal issue” and not on the
merits of the dispute.
Head Murdered
Man Found And
Inquiry Mad
B\ The'Associated Press)
CL8VELAND, June 8. — Th
head of a murdered man w;
found late today near a gull
where the decapitated bodies <
two other men were discovere
last fall.
The head was wrapped in
pair of men’s dark trousers. Mj
stery of the double murder la:
fall never was solved.
Interest was revived last wee
when police reopened the ca:
on the possibility the Black L<
gion was responsible. An anon\
mous call to police headquartei
said “look into the murder c
these two men in the gully an
you'll find the Black Legion wi
to blame!”
NOTICE
Beginning June 9th. all pu
chases made for the city of Non
must be accompanied by a Pu
chase Order.
Signed: Finance Committe
Publish Monday, Wed. Sat.
FOR SPRING CLEANING
Work of all kinds, rugs and ca
pets, window washing, etc., ca
Billie Austin at the Nevada.
Opens His Files
In Connection
i Inquiry Project
ACCUSED OF GALLIVANTING
e AROFND WITH WOMEN
s BIT DENIES LETTERS
if
;1 (By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK June 8. — The
a Rev. Dr. Clinton L Wunder.
- eastern regional director of the
it Townsend old age pension organ
ization today opened his corres
pondence to the press in an at
tempt to disprove the assertion of
° James Sullivan, counsel for the
House investigating committee
that certain of Wunder’s letters
* were too obscene to put into the
record.
Mr. Sullivan has read infer
* ences into letters which passed
between me and Jack Kiefer, cen
_ tral regional director, that aren't
there he said.
“He infers that we are galli- i
u vanting around with a lot of wo-1
men and the old women's names;
mentioned are those of my wife.
e' Jack Kiefer’s wife and his secre
tary,” he said. ,
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Glacier Priest
To Hake Aerial
Pictures Alaska
(Rv The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. June 8. Father
Bernard R. Hubbard. Glacier
3riest, is to leave here June 27th,
jii another summer’s expi ration
if Alaska t was aim. .need to
il ay.
He is to meet Rev P . il Schul
te at Juneau, and together, they
will fly over the territ ry whole
Father Hubbard makes at ial mo
tion pictures.
Father Schulte is th; fam us
missionary aviator wh > celebrated
Mass daily aboard 1 e dirigible
Ilindenbu.g on its first flight to
the Uni'ed S'ates last month.
Found (/iiilfy
\ ire Fhar^es
New York City
NINE CONVICTED I'NDER (13
COl NTS VICE CHARGES
PROSTITCTION RING
(B\ The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. June 8, Char
les “Lucky" Luc! ,no. v - con
victed today on (>2 count- under
a vice ndietment. along with
eight other co-defendants, indict
• I alone with Lucia: • >. as iiver
lo ds of a twelve million dollar
compulsory prostitution syndicate
in New Ye: 1; City.
They we. all nvl ted on the
ana cou :s. The n e I.'fond
ants are f .ring maximum prison
terms of : a 1 :• A id years They
it e to 1. • '•enter:ced J we 13th.
Says No 1 i<jht
J c
fH' The Associated. Press)
ALCATRAZ PRISON. June 8.
-Warden James A. Ji hn ton to
day denied that A1 Capone, form
er king of Chicago racketeers had
been hit on the jaw in a fist fight,
with Harmon Waley. one of the
Weyerhauser kidnapers, as re
ported Saturday.
Information received by the
San Francisco News still insist
ed that ttie report was true and
that Capone was knocked down
by Waley because Cap ne called
Waley a lady chaser.
Two Executed
(By The Associated Press)
HUNTSVILLE. Texas, June 8,
—Two men were executed Satu
day in the electric chair for mur
ders committed during holdup;,
one of which netted only $2.30.
One of the men was a white;
man, James D MacAlister, the
other a negro, Richard Davis.
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