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VOL. 36. No. 15. _NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1935.____Per Copy Ten Cents
Highlights of Gov. Troy’s Message
BILL CALLS FOR HIGHER TAX ON FISH-MINING
Prosecuting Attorney Says State May Rest Any Time
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BILLS ARE INTRODUCED I
LEGISLATURE OF MAJOR
IMPORTANCE IN ALASKA
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(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 18—The repeal of the bank stabilization
act; increased tax on fish traps; higher mining gross tax;
and a plan to make a universal six-day week-eight-hour day,
were major proposals introduced in the House in a short
session yesterday morning. *
Green’s bill would make the tax two and one-half per
cent on net incomes of ten thousand to one hundred thous
and; three percent on one hundred thousand to five hundred
thousand; and five percent on any above five hundred thous
and dollars.
Hours of labor were proposed by Nordale and applies to
mill, factory, manufacturing establishments, cannery, mine
or on mining claims.
Growden’s bill proposes to raise bounties on Wolves
and Coyotes from fifteen to twenty dollars.
Hofman introduced a fish trap bill and proposed a grad
ual scale. No bills were introduced in the senate.
ADDITIONAL DATA ON
SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN
AS CONGRESS DEBATES
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—After packing eight pro
posals for monetary reform into one omnibus resolution, in
flationists and expansionists moved on Congress with de
mands for a cheaper dollar. More and more of them have
adopted the arguments of the silver bloc.
The demands were prepared at a conference called by
Thomas of Oklahoma, and included the conversion of the
Federal Reserve system into a new government-owned
bank in control of currency, credits and demand deposits;
the creation of a sound and adequate currency, by detaching
the dollar from gold; remonetization of silver and the issu
ance of currency solely by a general bank; the payment of
the bonus by legal tender notes; the termination of public
borrowing by the government and the adoption of a policy
of issuing non-interest bearing notes retireable when neces
sary by taxation; the retirement for the present of govern
ment obligations when due by new currency; the return of
the purchasing value of the dollar to the level at least as
low as in 1926; and the congressional investigation to find
the holders of all government obligations with the object
“of determining and disclosing potential enemies of this
nation here, and abroad.” —.
Roosevelt Girl Wed
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 — Presi
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt announced
this morning the marriage of their
daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dali, to
John Boettiger, a former Chicago
newspaperman, in New York. Mrs.
Roosevelt and other members of the
family attended but not the presi
dent, because- of the press of busi
ness. Boettiger is now with the Mo
lten Pictures Producers Association.,
Soviets Sentenced
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Jan. 18 — Gregory Zin
ovieff, was sentenced to ten years,
and Leo Kameneff five years, in pri
son, for participating in the counter
revolutionary activities in connection
with the death fo Sergei Kiroff. Re
cognition of their services in con
nection with the launching the Bol
shevist regime, allowed them to es- !
cape the death penalty, the usual i
decree in such cases.* (
RUSSIAN WOMAN j
ADMITS KILLING
0. C. JOHANSON
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(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 18 — Detective
Captain Ernest Yoris announced that
Mary Kelly, aged forty-three who
said that she had been a captain in
Russia’s wartime “Battalion of
Death,” confessed to the killing of
Otto C. Johanson, aged firty-six for
whom she had been a housekeeper.
Johanson’s body, with the throat
cut and the head battered was found
bundled in sacks in a riverfront
shack Wednesday. The woman said
that her Russian name was Yermani)
but she maried a man by the name
of Guy E. Kelly in Vladivostok,
twelve years ago.
Traffic On Pacific j
Coast Halted By
Most Severe Storm
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(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18 — Tra
ffic moved haltingly and numerous
accidents were reported today. Many
schools are closed and the U. S. Mail
is being carried exclusively through
the air, in many places as the win
ter’s severest storm piled snow ov
er the Pacific Northwest and moun
tain reg' f northern California.
WIERD TALE OF
ADVENTURE IS
MOVIE TONIGHT
H. G. Wells’ “Island of Lost Souls”
showing tonight at the Dream The
atre, with Charles Laughton, Bela(
Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
and Jhe “Panther Woman” (Kath
leen Burke) in the leading roles, and
treats the audience to one of the
most unusual and thrilling adven
ture pictures shown in many months
It is a fantastic story of a scient
ist, Dr. Moreau, who has discovered
a means of converting beasts into
men. On an isolated island in the!
South Seas, he conducts his weird
experiments, and there has created
a strange race of beast-men and one
woman, his masterpiece, made from
a panther.. How Parker, a young
adventurer, wanders into the island
and is indirectly responsible for end
ing Dr. Moreau’s reign of terror, is
:old in the course of a tensely ex
iting narrative.
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FUNERAL NOTICE
Pioneer Women, Auxiliary No. 1
will meet in a body to attend the
Funeral of Mrs. Peter Bloomberg,
Sunday, Jan. 20th, 2 p.m. Federat
id Church. ,
Rees B. Hagen. Secretary j
NEGRO KILLS 2
ROBS 5 GRAVES
DEAD WOMEN
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(By The Associated Press)
JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 18th—The
murder of two persons and the mut
ilation of their bodies, and the theft
of the bodies of five white women
from graves, was confessed^ today
by James Coyner, a giant negro,
who District Attorney Green Rice
said was abnormal.
He is a parolled convict from an
Indiana prison. He killed Mr. and
Mrs. A.B. Turner of Cleveland. Coy*
her said: “I just get an impulse to
£iill somebody.”
The theft of a girl's body from a
grave in Indiana and the desecra
tion of the burial places of four
other women of Ferndale, Michigan,
resulted in his arrest.
Sourdough Woman
Nome Found Dead
At 10 A. M. Today
Miss E. L. Howard, aged between
sixty and seventy years, was found
dead in her home this morning
about 10 a m., by Mrs. Jennie Poi
son.
According to Mrs. Poison, Miss
Howard was in the habit of arising
early in the morning. This morn
ing no sign of smoke was observed
coming from the smoke-stack, and
Mrs. Poison decided to investigate.
bhe found Miss Howard on the floor,
with her head and shoulders in a
packing box. According to appear
ances she had evidently been sitting
in a chair near the stove and a sud
len heart attack caused her to fall
aver into the box.
The body was still warm about
the neck when discovered, indieat
t
mg that death had taken place not
nany hours before. The bed was
made, but there was no sign of fire
in the stove, and it was believed
:hat she died before going to bed
ast night.
Miss Howard has been on the gov
irnment indigent roll for the past
lumber of years, and has been very
eeble. No suspicious circumstanc
:s were observed and it is believed
id that death occured from heart
dilure. Miss Howard came to Nome
n the early days of the gold rush
lere and has remained ever since.
>he resided for many years in the
Cast end of town along the beach, \
rnt lately, due to health has lived
text door to Albin Poison, on Sec
>nd Avenue.
No arrangements have been per
ected yet for her funeral.
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GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE
MADE PUBLIC TODAY
—RECOMMENDATIONS
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 18—The Governor’s mfl^ssage was plac
ed on the desks of senators and representatives this morn
ing. Highlights of the message are included:
He said only through fair treatment of both labor and
industry can we hope to work out of the depression and in
sure a future economic welfare. The market value of can
ned salmon can be increased, and sustained and through this
the people of the territory working in the industry can be
benefitted, resulting in an increase in raw fish and the abil
ity of the canner to pay better wages. In providing for tax
ation, on mines and other industries he said we must not
overburden them.
“If possible the liquor business ought to be kept in the
hands of individuals and to some extent groceries and other
businesses. Territorial stores would throw open the dpprs
for graft in connection with the sale and purchase of liq
uors,” he stated. 9
The Legislature ought to provide for some sort of
licensing'System that hard liquor and beer licenses could be
handled by the same authority.
Some complaints have been received in connection with
beer parlors, but have had to do with enforcement rather
than regulations.
EXCITING MOMENTS IN
HAUPTMANN CASE ARE
DAMAGING H’PTMANN
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 18—Hauptmann, accused in con
nection with the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh
child, was led into court this morning, tight-lipped and pale.
However, he was calm and composed. He was annoyed at
the photographers and his eyes looked tired.
With the drive started yesterday to connect the German
with all of the ransom money, a split came among the de
fense attorneys, Fisher, at one time stamping from the court
room only to return when Hauptmann shouted at the wit
ness who was testifying about his arrest and the finding of
the ransom money: “Mister, Mister! You stop lying ! ”
After a conference Reilly announced that the defense
concedes nothing yet and will make louder protests against
the prosecution’s testimony from now on. Fisher and Reilly
paid a nocturnal visit to Hauptmann’s cell.
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 18—Wilentiz, the prosecuting at
torney, stated late today that the State may rest its case
any time now, as the case is definitely in, before the jury.
Program Go Through
(By The Associated Press)
. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 —Despite
signs that strenuous efforts will be
made to change the major feature of
the social security program. Dem
ocratic leaders predicted that it
would go through promptly and 'es
sentially unaltered.
Captain Is Drowned
(By The Associated Press)
HALIFAX, Jan. 18—Captain Dun
ean Milne, the last man left aboard
the stranded British freighter Ken
kerry, as she broke up on Black
Rock Point, was drowned as he
climbed into the breeches buoy that
carried twenty-eight of his crew to
safety.
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