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VO^. 36. NO. 28. NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Pirates Seize Ship 7 5 Child Passengers
MORROW MAID AND
FISCH ENTER TRIAL
OF B R HAUPTMANN
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(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Feb. 2 — The shadowy figure of Violet
Sharpe and Isadore Fisch, long since dead, were projected
once more in an uncertain outline against the background of
Hauptmann’s defense, as the week-end recess cut short the
testimony from the stand.
It is wondered into what part of the kidnaping puzzle
the defense will place them. Previously, the state exon
erated Violet Sharpe, the Morrow maid, who suicided short
ly after the kidnaping.
Defense attorney Reilly earlier declared that he would
not attempt to link Fisch with the kidnaping but through
a surprise witness, Peter Sommer, a former fingerprint man
of the New York City magistrate’s court, the defense ad
duced testimony vaguely linking to the crime, the Morrow
maid and the fur-dealer.
Sommer related how he saw a-woman resembling Vio
let Sharpe, and a man who looked like Fisch, board a cross
towri car in New Yoik City, at the Jersey ferry terminal,
bearing a blonde baby dressed in a one-piece sleeping suit.
He further said that a second man assisted them. He said
that he saw this on the night of the kidnapping, March 1st,
1932.
His«tory is due for a sharp attack Monday when court
takes up again, by prosecuting attorney Wilentz. In a
cross-examination of a witness yesterday, he produced
what he considered damaging conflicts with Sommer’s testi
mony and ordered that a full investigation be made into the
witness’s background, over the week-end.
RUN DOWN BY
TRUCK MAY BE
HURT SERIOUS
(By The Associated Press)
OLYMPIA, Feb. 2, — Struck by
a CCC truck, Colonel W. B. Greel
ey, aged 51, of Seattle, Secretary
Manager of the West Coast Lumber
men’s Association, was seriously in
jured here Friday night.
j’7 He was taken to St. Peters Hos
pital with a fractured skull, severe
cuts on the face, and possible inter
nal injuries.
The truck failed to take a sharp
turn and struck a curb hitting Greel
ey who had gotten out of his car to
change a tire. Owen Cole, aged 21,
the driver of the truck was not held.
He was driving CCC workers from
Matlock Camp near Shelton, on their
way to Seattle for the week-end.
Greeley was a former Chief of the
U. S. Forest Service. No one else was
injured in the accident.
ATTENTION PIONEERS
Memorial Services for oar deceas
ed Brother Capt. Fred Jensen will
be held Sunday next at 2 p.m. at the
Federated Church. All old friends
are invited to attend.
Thos. Gaffney, Vice Pres.
If loo No. 1
Duty Before Love
Law of the Range
On the range, love is always sec
ond to duty and that adage is well
born out as the main theme of Tim
McCoy’s latest western melodrama,
“Silent men” due at the Dream The
atre tonight.
McCoy gets so involved with beat
ing cattle rustlers to the draw and
solving a maze of double-crossing
plots in this typical and hard-rid
ing picture of the west, that he finds
little time to devote to his charm
ing leading woman, Florence Brit
ton, considered one pf the most tal
ented of Hollywood’s younger act
resses.
He is especially handicapped in
winning her love by the fact that
the very rustlers whom he is em
ployed to arrest are the brothers of
Miss Britton. Tim has to decide be
tween prosecuting them and losing
all chance for her love, or taking the
girl and being unfaithful to his boss,
a problem he decides with furtunate
results to all.
A fine cast including some of the
most prominent character names on
the screen support McCoy’s starring
role. J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Ingra
ham, William V. Mong, Wheeler
Oakman, Joseph Brennan and Ste
phan Clark form the almost all
male cast, D. Ross Lederman direct
ed. It’s a Columbia picture.
SESSION NEWS
LEGISLATURE
YESTERDAY
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Feb. 2, — The senate, in
a brife session yesterday, approved
the memorial asking that federal
aid and the road act extension in
clude Alaska.
It passed a joint resolution approv
ing the fisheries bills introduced in
Congress by Delegate Dimond.
The House approved the Lyng
memorial calling for the abolishment
of the Alaska Ganje Commission
and the extension of the powers to
the Legislature.
It unanimously approved Repre
sentative Baronovich’s memorial that
no fishing gear or boats be seized un
til the suspicious violator had been
convicted.
. Four new bills, three of them in
1 treduced by Rep. Lyng regarding re
vision of measurements, and one by
| Rep. Chamberlain, representing a
(proposal for local self-government
I in Indian and Eskimo villages with
out a Marshal or Deputy Marshal,
were introduced yesterday.
A hearing on the educational bill
was held and it is understood that
a majority report by the committee
will favor the retention for the last
two years of the school law passed in
1933.
Big Smoker Lists
Boxers For Bouts
For Wed. Night
The card of the Big Smoker to
be given by the Nome Athletic Club
is included in this edition of the
Nome Daily Nugget, listing .some of
the famous fisticuff masters <Jf Nome.
After considerable training and
work, a stable of boxers has been
organized and will go through sev
eral bouts at the Dream Theatre
next Wednesday evening.
The smoker is being given under
the auspices of the Nome Athletic
Club which is promoting—athletics
generally in Nome this winter. Re
serve tickets will be on sale in a day
or two for the bouts and it will pay
to have your tickets in advance, as
a capacity house is expected, accord
ing to all indications of interest to
day.
Odds on the boxers stand pretty
even today but there is no telling
which way they will fluctuate be
fore the affair conies off. According
to the managers, their “boys” are in
fighting trim and some lively boots
are guaranteed.
BUSINESS MEETING
OF THE POLARITES
WEDNESDAY, 7:30 P. M.
At Frank Whaley’s Residence
COMMISSION IS
SUSPEND 47 OF
EXCHANGES U;S.
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — In or
der to safeguard investments run
ning into the billions, and possible
dangers of violent market fluctua
tions in securities, the Exchange
Commission considered today of in
volving its absolute autocratic pow
ers when the Supreme Court rule
on the gold cases is handed down.
The Commission’s members stud
ied the desirability of an order clos
ing all exchanges during the period,
possibly Monday, when the Court
may announce its decision.
Forty-seven exchanges from New
York to San Francisco will be involv
ed. The court will say whether Con
gress had the constitutional author
ity to declare invalid all contractual
promises to pay gold or its equival
ent in the present devalued currency.
By suspending trading entirely,
the thought of the commission is
that they could largely forestall dis
ruptive forces which will be at work
in the interum, however brief, be-[
tween the announcement of the de
cision and any action contemplated
by the administration
Committee Turns
In Report About
Children’s Benefit
t_
At a meeting last night of the
President-Children’s Benefit Com-;
mittee, $47.50 expenses were report
ed involved with the staging Of the
benefit show on President Roosevelt's
birthday, January 30th.
The total sum collected was $298.
00. It was agreed to retain seventy
percent of the net amount in Nome
and dispatch the other thirty per
cent to the President. A committee!
consisting of Thos. Gaffney, Mrs.
Aimer Rydeen and J. S. Stangroom
was appointed to have supervision
over the fund, which is to be used
for the care of needy children aff
licted by diseases in this section of
Alaska.
A report was read that $25.00 was
subscribed to a like fund in St. Mi
chael, and that $15.00 was also sub
scribed fn Kotzebue, the money now
being sent to Nome by mail. A fur
ther report said that a benefit was
held at Marshall and that a fund
was collected there which would be
sent to Nome.
The Nome Committee with Judge
J. H. S. Morison of the U. S. District
Court for the Second Division, as
chairman, will continue in its pre
sent capacity, according to a report
of the committee, until next year,
when it is believed another commit
tee will pursue this great purpose.
AIRPLANE DISPERSES
PIRATES WHO HELD
CHILDREN HOSTAGES
(By The Associated Press)
HONGKONG, Feb. 2 — A British airplane roared over
the coastal steamer “Tungchow” at noon yesterday while
her passengers, who are being held by pirates, cheered wild
ly, and the outlaws who seized the ship soon after she sail
ed from Shanghai Tuesday, fled for shore. The ship, with
seventy-five American, British and Scandinavian school
children, aboard, made for this port after being held for
thirty-six hours in the hands of the pirates.
The pirates, numbering twelve, boarded the ship out of
Shanghai and seized control of it at six p.m. Tuesday. A
radio report said that three guards employed to protect the
vessel from piracy, fought off the pirates until they were ;
finally shot down. The pirates also shot the second engin
eer, K. G. MacDonald in the chest.
They turned the boat south after her seizure and for
three days systematically looted her. The passengers how
ever, were not molested. The pirates drew near shore and
sent one junk load of loot ashore, but fled when the airplane
circled over them.__
Juneau Without Eggs
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Feb. 2 — Driving an
automobile through a barrier erect
ed on Willoughby Ave., several hun
dred men including striking long
shoremen and their sympathizers
rushed the Femer Dock warehouse,
sweeping aside a srhall force of U. S.
Deputy Marshals and City Police, to
prevent non-union men from un
loading the Motorship Northland,
except for the mail and a few tons
of perishables.
The Northland arrived Friday
night from' Seattle and sailed a few
hours la tel- for Sitka with 137 tons
of Juneau freight still aboard.
A gate was erected to prevent any
one by workers going to the docks.
It is not known what action Gov
ernor Troy will take regarding the
unloading of the S. S. Northwestern
which is diie here Sunday. Juneau
is without butter, eggs, perishables
and some other staple commodities.
The Northland is due to return
Southbound Sunday.
Basketball Scores
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(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2 — Basket
ball games played last night result
ed in the following scores: Californ
ia 37, Stanford 1; Southern Californ
ia 52, U. C. L A. 22
Federated Church
Norman McCay, Pastor
11 a.m. Sunday School.
7:40 p.m. Worship Message: “The
Gospel of the Worth of Man”
A most cordial invitation.
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Hot Weather Los
Angeles People
Co To Beaches
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2 — Thou
sands swarmed to the beaches as the
thermometer reached eighty-f}ve
degrees Friday, but freakish waves
drove them back again.- 1 -
Giant waves damaged beach struc
tures and small craft The weather
man blamed a low pressure area in
Pacific Northwest for the queer ac-<
tion of the water and the hot wea
ther.
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France, England
Worried Money
Stabilization U. S.
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb 2 — Anglo-French
conversations unexpectedly turned
today from armaments and Germany
to" a discussion of monetary stabiliz
ation.
It was revealed that England and
France are both worried, one over
the future of the pound, and the
other because of the uncertainty of
the position of the United States
dollar
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