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VOL. 37. No. 34. NOME, ALASKA, Monday, February 10, 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
Hawkesworth Says He Cannot Aid
LEAGUE MAY NOT IMPOSE OIL EMBARGO
Briton Sets Airplane Record England To Capetown
League May Not
Impose The Oil
Embargo on Italy
Diplomats Express Belief
That Oil Embargo Will
But Increase Feeling
(By The Associated Pr^ss)
Undated, Feb. 10, —The
probability that the Leag
ue will not impose an oil
embargo was seen in diplo
matic discussions in Gene
va today, where the oil
embargo is under study, as
a supplement to other sanc
tions.
Recent developments in
the Mediterranean area, in
eluding nationalist riots in
Egypt and Syria, have dem
onstrated what the British
have feared throughout
the Ethiopian struggle—
that the continuation of the
war between white and col
ored races is likely to have
repercussions against oth
er flags.
Another revealed indi
cation was that such sanc
tions as already have been
put into effect, have failed.
Oil experts say they are
not too Certain that the
supply of oil could be shut
off. Many diplomats have
declared that more League
sanctions directed against
Italy would do nothing but
cause more unfriendliness.
Gets Fast Response
Steps On An Alarm
(By The Associated Press)
Memphis, Feb. 10, — In
an expermental mood, Sen
ator Kenneth D. McKellar
stepped on a bank’s new
burglar-alarm button in
Memphis, Tennessee, the
other day. The constabul
ary proved its alertness by
filling the place with police
almost before the echoes of
the bell had ceased. The
senator was “arrested” and
.received a ride home in a
squad car.
The Nome City Council
meets tonight in regular
session at the City Clerk’s
Office in the City Hall at
8 P.M. to take up business
concerning administration
of city affairs.
Subscribe for the Nugget
Sets Record To
Capetown From
England, 3 Days
—
(By The Associated Press)
Capetown, Union of S.
Africa, Feb. 10, —Tommy
Ross, former flight lieuten
ant of the Royal Air Force1
set a new record from Eng
land to Capetown, on an
aerial jaunt in which he
completed a five thousand
miles solo hop in three days
seventeen hours and thir
teen hours and seven
ty-eight minutes, clipping
iteen minutes from the time
ot Mrs. Amy Johnson Mol
lison, which she set in Nov
ember 1932.
Airplane News
Nome Airport
Pilot Chester Brown of
the NorthernAir Transport
made a flight Saturday to
Candle returning withTom
Roust, prospector and min
er of that northern camp.
Walter German and Olaf
Lundberg.
Sunday Pilot Chet Brown
made a flight to Deering
and Candle with Father
Cunningham as a passen
ger fpr Kotzebue, and U. S.
Marshal Thomas Gaffney,
Mel Flora and Morris Kell
eher as round trip passen
gers. A native prisoner
was also brought back
from there.
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Hans Mirow, of the Mirow
Air Service, took off Sun
day morning for Anchor
age via McGrath, where he
stopped long enough to gas
up. On his return trip he
brought four passengers
from Anchorage as follows
C. O. Glass, Thor. Nelson,
Ed. Healy and L. Healy,
who are at present stopp
ing in Nome. The. round
trip was made in the re
markable time of 7 hours
and 30 minutes flying time.
Pilot Mirow took off this ;
morning for Fairbanks hav
ing as passengers Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Harlan and dau
ghter Carra. After a short
stay at Fairbanks, the Har
lans will, it is understood, i
make a trip to the States, j
Pilot Hans is expects to
return to Nome Tuesday or
Wednesday.
S
MIRES OFFICIALS JUNEAU THAT
ESKIMOS POINT- BARROW
FREEZING STARVING
Hawkesworth Replies It Impossible To
Transport Fuel To Barrow.
Suggests Reindeer
(By The Associated Press)
Barrow, Feb. 10, — Dr.:
Henry Greist, today charg
ed that Indian and Educa
tion bureau authorities at
Jhhea'u had refused to aid
starving and freezing Es
kimos, ravaged with mum
ps.
Several destitute and
sick families in igloos have
no heat except that of their
bodies, and with frozen and
rotten raw walrus meat as
their only food.
Greist said that the ter
ritorial school superinten
dent. Frank Daugherty, at
Barrow, had wired to Jun
e u for help and got a re
ply that the Eskimos there
“should go out and kill
whale and seal and burn
the biubber.”
Juneau, Feb. 10, —Char
les W. Hawkesworth, as
sistant director of the Bur
eau of Indian Affairs said
today that he had wired i
Dr. Greist at Barrow that
it was impossible for the
government to render as
sistance to the Eskimos.
He said: “Dr. Greist in
formed this office that the
Eskimos at Point Barrow
were cold and starving,
and had mumps. We answ
ered that it was impossible
to ship fuel there, and ask
ed why, some estimated
thirty thousand reindeer at
Point Barrow could not
supply the necessary food.”
The wire from Barrow
said the Eskimos now live
in frame buildings and it
is impossible for them to
keep warm unless they use
deposits of crude petrol
eum, which they always
expected to gather when
they lived in igloos, where
their oil lamps kept them
warm. Lamps will not ke°p
a frame building warm,
said the wire.
R D. Peterman Construction Man
Arrives Inspect Ground School
Pilot Don Glass of the
Glass Flying Service based
at Anchorage, arrived at
Nome late Saturday from
Bethel, on the Kuskokwim
River, with R. D. Peterman
manager of the Peterman
Construction Co., -of Jun
eau, as the lone passenger.
Mr. Peterman was mak
ing a survey of the situa
tion at Bethel, where his
company has a contract for
the construction of a terri
torial school, and decided
to hop . over to Nome and
survey the ground here.
His company also obtained
the contract for the new
public school building at
Nome. Pilot Glass who is
stationed at Anchorage is
doing the flying for him.
Mr. Peterman when inter
viewed today commented
on the early construction
of the school here, saying •
that he was quite confident :
that the new school for *
Nome would be completed 1
well within the time requir
ed by the contract, namely j
by October 1st, 1936.
He stated: ‘‘I have con
tacted numerous dealers in
construction materials and
I feel confident that in
many cases my company
will be able to use consid- <
erable of the materials ,<
which are on hand here. <
“I do not expect to have
construction under way un 1
til the time of the arrival i
of the first boats, although
( Continued On Page Four ) (
Last 3 Convicts
Recaptured In
Kentucky* Sun.
w
(Bv The Associated Press) ]
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 10,
—Officers re-captured Sun
day, the last three of the
ten convicts, eight of which
were serving life imprison
ment, who broke out of ]
Kentucky’s state reforma- i
tory, Friday and Saturday. 1
The most notorious fug
itive was James C. Morris,
who ravaged the Blue
Grass region at the head of
a. gang for several weeks.
He was captured last year
and sentenced for life, for
armed robbery of the pris
on arsenal, following a
previous break.
Selassie Is Safe
After Italians
Bombed Bessy I
_ * i
(By The Associated Press)
Dessv, Ethiopia, Feb. 10,
—Emperor Selassie emerg
ed safely from another It
alian bombardment of his
field headquarters behind
the northern front.
For sixty-five minutes
Fascist planes dropped
quantities of incendiary
and high explosive bombs
an this town yesterday, as (
veil as on outlying villag- '
J.
The town was virtually .
ieserted except for a num- .
aer of members of the im- ^
aerial guard, the populace
laving been ordered into
he country, after earlier
fascist bombardments,
rhe Ethiopian government _
innounced that one person
lad been killed and only r
ive wounded in the bomb- J
ng
Hilaries Fisher Of
Ruby Died Sun.
— t
(By The Associated Press) £
Fairbanks, Feb. 10, — c
Charles Fisher, pioneer 1
[old rusher died here Sun- t
lay before his wife and P
daughter Dolly, being j
lown by pilot Jack Her
nann of the Northern Air c
fransport Inc., from Ruby \
:ould reach his bedside. e
falue Of Wife
!s Appraised In
Court’s Verdict
British Judge's Rulings and
Laymen's Estimates Are
Quoted in Paper
(Bv The Associated Press)
London, Feb. 10, — The
act that in the past 11
nonths to 10 aggreived hus
lands had been awarded a
:otal of more than $150,000
damages for the loss of
their wives by British di
vorce court judges inspir
ed the Daily Herald to
make inquiries among the
clergy and then among the
judges.
The former were senti
mental with such words as
the “value of a wife is
priceless,” or “it all de
aend.s on the wife”. As the
iudges wouldn’t talk the
laper’s representative had
o cite their most recent
*ases; then he called up
hree average husbands
Here is what Justice
-angton said when award
ng 4000 pounds to Mr.
Meyern-Hohenberg, form
er Austrian baron, and
vhat Justice Hilbery said
earlier, when awarding 10
lounds damages (instead «f
he 50 claimed) to A. E.
Hat hews of Widnes, Lanca
.hire:
Justice Langton—The
>etitioner, a man of refine
ment. has had his wife
aken from him in circum
tances of ignominy. A
nan of refinement would
eel that more keenly than
man of coarser fiber.
Justice Hilbery—I do not
alue this wife at anything
(Continued on Page Three,
[rain is Derailed
Fireman is Killed
(By Tne Associated Press)
Allendale, South Caro
na, Feb. 8, —A Southern
rain No. 24, enroute from
iavannah to Columbia, wa:
erailed here this mornint
illing the fireman tenta
ively identified as Charle
dcNeil of Columbia, and ir
uring several others.
The engine left the rail
[ragging the baggage ca
/ith it, and damaging oth
r cars behind it.