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VOLUME 36. NO. 77. NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Reilly Dismissed As H’ptmann Counsel
DROUGHT CONDITIONS SAME OVER N. PLAINS
Conservative-2 to 1
Progressive Badly
Beaten At Cordova
(By The Associated Press)
CORDOVA, April 4 —The conserv
ative ticket won by two to one and
Dr. W. N. Chase was re-elected May
or for the 12th time. John Rosswog,
I. D. Bogart, and Frank Kruger
were elected to the council; Marvin
Roark Treasurer and V. J. Swan
burg city clerk.
The progressive ticket which was
endorsed by all the unions was bad
ly beaten.
Anchorage Re
elects Mayor,
School Board
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, April 4 — Oscar
S. Gill was reelected Mayor Tues
day over Herbert E. Brown, and Dr.
C. A. Pollard.
Councilmen elected for two years
were Francis E. Larue, Isaac Bayles
and Emil Pfeil.
Out of a fight of eight, Mrs. Wanda
Gelles was re-elected to the school
board.
Mayor, Council
Re-elected At
Fairbanks Tues.
(By The Associated Press)
FAIP.BANKS, April 4 —Results of
the municipal election held yester
day were—Mayor E. B. Collins was
re-elected. P. J. McDonald, Andrew
Anderson and Irving Reed were all
re-elected to the council. John B.
Dixie Hall was elected member of
the school board.
Washington State
Football Coach
Fell Asleep Wheel
(By The Associated Press)
REDDING, Calif., April 4—Orin
Hollingberry, Washington State col
lege football coach, suffered a frac
tured right collar-bone and bruises
when his car crashed into a con
crete bridge near here. He was en
route back to Pullman, Washington
to begin spring practice. He said
he fell asleep at the wheel of his
car.
’ The Ladies Aid of the Federated
Church will meet Friday, April 5 at
the home of Mrs. Ed Nelson at 2
p.m. |
WIFE, AGED 64 IS
SHOT BY HUSBAND, 77
WIFE TORTURED HIM
(By The Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, April 4 — Mrs. Nellie Hurd, aged
sixty-four, died this morning as a result of bullet wounds
inflicted by her husband, aged seventy-seven, who said that
he had been tortured by his wife in an effort to make him
disclose the hiding place of hidden wealth.
She was operated on to remove four bullets from her
body but died as a result of the operation. In another ward
in the same hospital lay her husband, half-crazed by knife
and flame wounds which he said were inflicted by his wife:
“because spirits told her I’d hidden a fortune, which I was
giving to the woman next door.”
Detectives gasped when Hurd stripping off his clothes,
showed evidence of Mrs. Hurd’s alleged inquisition. De
tectives said his story was probably true.
Miss Nellie Hurd, adopted daughter denied that her
father had been tortured, and insisted that he had signed,
of his own free will, a confession of infidelity with a neigh
bor woman.
Fisher Succeeds
Reilly as Counsel
For Hauptmann
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 4th—Edward
Reilly’s dismissal as chief counsel
for Hauptmann is now in the mails,
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann announced
today. She said she sent the letter
yesterday.
She is campaigning in the middle
west to raise funds to wage Haupt
mann's appeal case. Reilly’s bill
was twenty-five thousand dollars,
which climaxed the month-long dis
cord. She said she had designated
Lloyd Fisher of Flemington. Reilly's
associate as his successor.
Sleeping Sickness
Causes One Leg
To Grow Shorter
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, April 4—One of the
legs of Patricia McGuire, victim of
sleeping sickness at suburban Oak
Park, has grown shorter than the
other during her long slumber
which started February 15th, 1932.
Physician Dr. Eugene Traut said
that despite all obstacles she was
waking up. Her eyes are now wide
alert. Her right leg is now a half
inch larger; the circumference of
the right thigh is a half-inch less
than the other.
Mail the Nome Daily Nugget to
your friends, and let them know
about the re-building of Nome.
Mrs. Jones Must
Pay Ex-Mrs. Jones
100,000 Heart Ease
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, April 4—“Heart balm”
to the tune of one hundred thousand
dollars was awarded by a federal
jury to Mrs. Helen Bedford Jones,
wife of Bedford Jones, writer. The
jury ordered the writer's present
wife, Mrs. Mary Bernard Bedford
Jones to pay.
Defense attorney Earle Ewins an
nounced he would seek a new trial
because the first and second wives
were residents of different states.
The award was one-half of what
was asked. Bedford Jones and his
first wife were divorced in 1928.
Reports Drought
Conditions Over
Northern Plains
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 4—Severe
dry conditions closely paralleling
those marking the beginning of last
summer’s drought, were reported by
the weather and crop bulletin. The
Weather Bureau said that precipita
tion is still deficient over most of
the northern great plains.
The High Cost of Language
“Your doctor’s out here with a
flat tire.”
“Diagnose the case as flatulency
of the permeter, and charge him ac
cordingly,” ordered the garage man.
“That’s the way he does.”
Notable Woman
On Her W ay To
Washington, I). C.
MRS. CORRINE CALI. ENROl'TE
TO I1ER HOME AFTER 35 YEARS
SERVICE IN ALASKA OCRING
WHICH SHE ADOPTED SEVEN
ESKIMO GIRLS—TAKING TWO
TO WASH.—ONE WINS FAME.
Mrs. Corrine Call, one of the most
outstanding of Alaska’s pioneer wo
men, passed through Anchorage on
March 28th on the way from her
home at Eklutna to Washington. D.
C. , to visit her mother Mrs. Cogg
shall.
Mrs. Call is famous for having ad
opted seven Eskimo girls during her
long career of 35 years in Alaska.
The most of these girls she has given
college educations and now most of
them are married or engaged in ed
ucational work. The two youngest,
j whom she adopted only recently, and
are little tots three and six years of
age are with their adopted mother
on the way to Washington. Both
were born near Nushagak. The eld
est is Sazza, and was born at Salva
moska. The youngest, Tillie, was
born at Koggiung.
One of Mrs. Call’s adopted daught
ers is married and lives at Fort Yu
kon. and another is married and liv
ing at Nome. The most notable of
her adopted children is Miss Melba
Call, known as the Helen Keller of
the North. Melba was born blind,
and literally was rescued after be
ing thrown out after the Eskimo
fashion, to perish. She was nursed
back to strength, given a splendid
education in the states, and now is
instructor for the blind in the gov
ernment school at Eklutna, and not
ed for her musical and other accom
plishments and her ever sunny and
charming personality. Last year she
flew from Anchorage to Juneau on
her way to Seattle for a visit.
Mrs. Call was born in Washington
D. C., and this is her first trip home
in her 35 years in the North. She
came north in the educational ser
vice of the government, and from her
own earnings has carried on her
wonderful work, caring for her
adopted daughters and herself in her
unselfish services of more than a
third of a century.—The Anchorage
Daily Times.
Petersburg
Election Results
(By The Associated Press)
PETERSBURGH, April 4 — Ed.
Locken was elected mayor Tuesday
and Jacob Otness, Bob Allen and
James Wheeler were elected to the
city council. Mrs. Dean Hayler was
elected to the school board.
CONFLICTING VIEWS
FOR BEST METHODS
GUARANTEEING PEACE
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, April 4 — Conflicting views for the best
methods of guaranteeing peace, is apparent in the capitals
of Europe, as statesmen made out replies for the conference
of powers to take place at Stresa, April 11th.
French sources disclosed that Foreign Minister Pierre
Laval will seek a double-barreled agreement designed to
"frighten” Germany by the creation of a formidable united
front among France, Great Britain and Italy, at the same
time laying down a basis for a general security pact, to
which the Reich could adhere.
German participation in the Pan-European scheme was
described as unlikely by the Berlin spokesman who arrived
today at Praha to confer with Czechoslovakia. The Ger
man statesman found the Little Entente’s attitude as wait
ing and watching.
Two Men Stabbed
Several Injured
In Textile Strike
(By The Associated Press)
SAND SPRINGS, Oklahoma, April
4—Two men were stabbed and sev
eral others injured when strikers
and workers fought over working in
textile mills here.
The battle was brief and ended be
fore officers arrived, but opposing
lines of men and women, armed
with clubs and other weapons were
still standing in the road in front
of the mills.
Harvey Bradfield and Ed. Bruton,
strikers, were stabbed, although not
seriously. Most of the other injur
ies were cracked heads. Union
members charged the mill which
had violated a contract recently
signed with the union.
Engineer and Fire
man Killed lank
And Freight Wreck
c
(By The Associated Press)
OTTAWA, Illinois, April 4—Engi
neer Richard WofT, and fireman Wm
House, of a Rock Island freight
train were killed and three others
injured when a truck of a west
bound tank car broke hurling the
tank in the path of the oncoming
freight train, bound east. More than
a dozen cars were derailed and a
hundred yards of track torn up.
Ralph: “Before I was married i!
said I would be the boss or know
the reason why.”
Chester: “And now?”
Ralph: “I know the reason why.”*
Alaskan Indian
Social Welfare
Man In Jnneau
new appointee of bureau
ARRIVES IN JUNEAU TO
OPEN NEW OFFICE
To assume the newly-created pos
ition of supervisor of social welfare
of the Alaska school service, in the
United States bureau of Indian Af
fairs, Donald S. Hartzell arrived in
Juneau recently.
Hartzell comes from Oakland,
California, and has had considerable
experience with the United States
children’s bureau of the department
of labor as field representative with
headquarters in Washington, D. C.
He specialized in this type of work
at the graduate school of social ser
vice administration at the Univers
ity of Chicago and has continued in
it since,
On the way north Hartzell visited
the Indian schools in Ketchikan and
Saxman and he called at the Wran
gell institute. He was accompanied
to Juneau by Mrs Hartzell and their
son, John.
Though his headquarters will be
in Juneau, Hartzell will have charge
of the social welfare department of
the bureau throughout Alaska un
der the direction of the office in Jun
eau. Members of this department
of the bureau at the present time
include Mrs. Martha B. Refsland
and George Dale. He expects to re
main in Juneau for the present to
acquaint himself with the condi
tions and policies of the bureau, Mr.
Hartzell said.
Proud Mother: “Yes, he’s a year
old now, and he’s been walking
since he was eight months old.”
Bored Visitor: “Really, He must
be awfully tired.”
Hard Times Ball, Nevada Hall, Saturday April 6th--9:30
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