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VOL. 37 No. 112 NOME. ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
G-Men Capture Another Kidnaper
FORT YUKON FLOODED-6 DEAD FROM FLU
Bakery Strike at Tacoma—Loggers Strike Portland
ANOTHER KIDNAPER
CAPTURED-ON WAY
TRIAL IN KENTUCKY
Kidnuper of Mrs. Alice Speed Sloll Was
Caught Glendale California. Had $4,
000 In Ransom Money On Person
* (By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12, —Flash— Robin
son, the kidnaper of Mrs. Stoll was captured.
WASHINGTON, May 12, — A Bulletin from J.
Edgar Hoover, chief of department of justice investiga
tors, late last night, announced the arrest of Thomas H.
Robinson, Jr., sought for the kidnaping of Mrs. Alice
, Speed Stoll of Louisville, Kentucky.
He was captured at Glendale, California. Mrs.
Stoll was kidnaped October 10th last year. Hoover
said that Robinson admitted his identity. He was ar
rested at 10:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time, and was
immediately started for Louisville.
Robinson had on his person when caught, tour thou
sand, five hundred and sixty dollars, of which four
thousand, two hundred dollars was of the kidnap run
». som money.
Hoover said that no shots were fired, although Rob
inson was carrying a pistol, thirty-eight calibre. He
had been living in Glendale for the past two months as
“John Simons.”
GLENDALE, Calif., May 12, — The tip which led
to the capture of Robinson, a G Man disclosed to an air
port official, came from Alvin Karpis who recently was
caught at New Orleans.
Robinson was caught at a hotel. His recent visits to
a Pasadena drug store, wearing feminine apparel and
mumbling in a masculine voice, had also put police on
his trail, when an alert clerk got the license number of
his car. Within two hours of his quiet capture, Robin
son was in an airplane speeding East.
* GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
OF ALASKA
Just because he made his wife
dance at the point of a gun, Mrs.
Frank L. Bandy sued for divorce
in Seattle and got it. Mrs. Bandy
a blonde radio singer, met Bandy
in Juneau, while filling an en
gagement in the capital city. They
were married soon afterward and
tjr
separated in December. She said
soon after her marriage she and
her husband were walking thru
the woods near Juneau, and he
began practicing shooting. “He
•wanted me to hold a target in my
hand. I was afraid, and refused.
Then he made me dance. He
pointed the gun at me and-said
‘dance.’ I danced.” The judge
said he guessed she had gone thru
enough he-man stuff to warrant
a divorce.
Robert Herrick filed a divorce
suit against Marie Herrick in Las
Vegas, New Mexico, recently.
They were married in Juneau,
April 5, 1914, and have lived a
part for over five years.
Strike Occurs In
Portland Oregon
Threatens W orks
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Ore., May 12, —
Strikers kept nearly a thousand
workers away from their jobs as
another walkout was threatened,
after six hundred loggers and
three hundred and fifty automo
bile journeymen went out.
Gust Anderson, secretary of the
Central Labor Council said em
ployees of the Alaska Junk Com
pany would lay down their tools
next Monday.
MANCHESTER, England, May
i 12, —Dr. Buck Ruxton, 36, died on
l the gallows at Strangeways Jail
for the “Devil’s Beeftub” slaying
of his wife, and the dismember
ing of the maid’s body, May Jane
Rogerson, last September.
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City Council Of
INonie xWet For 4
Hrs. Last Niuht
c
From 8 P. M. to midnight last
night the city council was en
grossed in the business of caring
for numerous detailed subjects,
arguments and discussions requir
ing much time before completed.
All councilmen were present &
listened to the reading of the
minutes of the last meeting,which
were approved. All bills approv
ed by the finance committee were
ordered paid by action of the
council.
Under communications address
ed to the council were two tele
grams from Commissioner of Ed
ucation Anthony E. Karnes, urg
ing the appointment of an inspec
tor by the city for the new Nome
Public school, who should be qual
ified under the PWA Administra
tor.
A telegram from City Clerk
M. J. Walsh who was in Juneau
attending meetings of the Terri
torial Board of Education of
which he is the Second Division
member, advised that he had ob
tained information from Washing
ton, that there might be a possi
bility of obtaining an addiitional
$9,000 for the purpose of furnish
ing the new school complete.
Ed. Horn offered $15 for lot 1,
$10 for lot 2. $10 for lot 3 in block
93 on B Street for the purpose of
pi- ring a barn and correl on the
property. His proposition was
referred to a special committee
which is to report at the next
meeting.
Judge J. H. S. Morison of the
U. S. District Court at Nome, ad
vised the Nome city council by
letter that henceforth his office
would be unable to carry on any
further direct or work relief. Al
so that it would not be able to
purchase steamship fares for in
digents to be taken from Nome
during the summer or fall. Hence
forth, the letter stated, what re
lief is to be given would have to
be done by the city.
The council voted to send warn
ings to the Seattle newspapers,
the Alaska Steamship Co., the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
in reference to workingmen com
ing to Nome this spring, when
they might ultimately prove to
be a burden to the city, which
was in no position to administer
relief.
It was also agreed to wire Dele
gate Dimond in reference to ob
taining funds of some sort in case
of emergency relief needs.
A copy of the Grand Jury’s re
port was read as a communica
tion before the council.
Applications were received from
the following for the position of
Inspector for the school building:
Robert E. Lyle, J. C. Kennedy, R.
A. Stenersen, B. M. Buckley and
Art Brown.
Applications for the fire de
partment were received from the
following: W. W. Laws for chief;
Peter X Peterson and W. R. Gra
ham for engineer; Fay C Morrow,
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SIX DEATHS FROM i
1 U FORT YUKON |
WHICH FLOODED
Kreaup of Slough At Fort ^ ukon Moods
Ton 11 and Field: Airplanes Unable To
Land With Aid. Flu Attacks All
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(By The Associated Press')
FAIRBANKS, May 12, — A radio dispatch to the
Fairbanks News-Miner said that influenza, claiming the
lives of six persons, had ravaged the white and native
populations at Fort Yukon, while a flood swept the city
located at the junction of the Yukon and Porcupine Riv
ers.
Fairbanks, May 12, —The News-Miner correspon
dent at Fort Yukon, Mrs. Emily Randall, wife of the U.
S. Deputy Marshall said that no one had been drown
ed in the flood which swept over the town when the ice
broke in the slough there early this morning.
Food ammunition and household goods were ruin
ed by the water. The condition of the influenza patients
was expressed as critical.
There is three feet of water in the church, and
one cabin floated away down main street in the rush
in;, torrent of ice blocks which scattered throughout
town.
The entire population is suffering from influenza,
and the native situation is particularly serious. The
airplane landing field is under water, and plans to send
aic are impracticable in view of the water on the land
ing field. The News-Miner is trying its best to obtain
the names of the dead, and other information.
Italians Walked
Out Of League
Meeting Today
(By The Associated Press)
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 12,
•Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Italy’s
envoy walked out of the League’s
private council session, announc
ing he could not negotiate in the
presence of the “so-called dele
gate from Ethiopia,”
Later at a public meeting, when
only a minor question was up, he
returned. Members said later
they were facing a most delicate
problem in the private meeting,
when he walked out.
GENEVA, May 12. — Baron
Aloisi, chief Italian delegate at
the League announced through J.
A. C. Avenol, secretary general,
that he and his colleagues had
been instructed to leave Geneva.
It was indicated that the orders
came direct from Mussolini.
The action came shortly after
leading members of the council
had drafted a resolution which,
in effect condemned the annexa
tion of Ethopia. The action threw
all delegations into a tumult.
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School Feathers
Mast Get Hours
R' The A n p> ■ s)
JUNEAU, May 12. — Rural
school teachers who go to sum
mer school, must complete the
required number of hours to re
ceive a salary increase of ten
dollars a month, the Territorial
Board of Education announced to
day.
(L5v The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 12,
Forces backing the three billion
dollar new currency Fraziet-Lem
ke farm debt refinancing bill,
scored two quick victories today
in the House of Representatives,
and assures action on the measure
there before the week is out.
One vote provides that the bill
will be taken up tomorrow for
six hours of general debate, prior
to the consideration of amend
ments, and the second is for the
amendment vote and actual pass
age.
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Col. Frank Knox
Assailed The New
Deal In Speeeli
(By The Associated Press')
PORTLAND, May 12, — Colon
el Frank Knox, of Chicago, Can
dida'.e for the republican nomina
tion for the presidency said that
the principles of the constitution
al division of powers and local
sovereignty, “are two great over
shadowing issues in this cam
paign."
The Chicago publisher, speak
ing at a republican rally here,
said:
“I challenge the New Deal as
an expression of reaction because
every major, policy it has produc
ed has sought to shear away the
powers of the states and to in
stitute bureaucratic control dom
inated by an arbitrary executive.
This campaign is the most cruc
ial which any of us have ever
participated in. V.'e can meet 'he
c.risi by no blind support of re
acti inary principles. The NBA
failed miserabh in ae’.ial pract
ice. The AAA did . >t cure the
ills of agriculture,"
Bakery St3 ?Le In
Tacoma PulsT '
Bread Prc. ‘ i
< Itv The Associated Pro i
TACOMA, M 12, Three
of the largest wholesale bakeries
: i tlie city, were cl e! today by
the strike of ap; • . . i• \ two
hundred bakers, and sale men.
Food stores repu t'd that ’he
•read was v! tua 1 i•• shsuste:!.
Several indep ■ ’ o' bake, ies
,' hi !i had agreed 'he five c nt
wage increase ar per ng. but
arc swamped and oJile to care
for the demand for 1?- d.
Game Goni,r-i Gen
To Send Expert ’* o
Exterminate \Te!f
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, May IT The Game
Commission announced today the
Biological Survey had notified
them of a tentative plan to aid
in wolf extermination.
Harlan Cubster will be sent to
teach trapping methods and give
demonstrations. His headquarters
will be at Kotzebue, and he will
probably arrive there the first of
September. He has worked in
southeastern Alaska for the past
three years.
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 12,
—Mitchell Palmer, a former At
torney General of the United Stat
ss, died here this morning, foll
owing a lengthy illness.
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