The Nome nugget., March 21, 1931, Image 1

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THE NOME NUGGET
( UKO. 8. MAYNARD, I >n bibber. )
* O M B . ALASKA SATURDAY, MARCH iilht, 1931
Single copy 25 eta Per month $1
SEN. DUNN DIES SUDDENLY
PILOT FRED MOLLER IS HEARD FROM
PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT IS NEEDED
WKKKIit NEVVwS LETTKK
JUNEAU IjBGlSIiATtrRK
'■'••Hator lyuan Die« from stroke
Doubtful if special Election fro
Called to Fill bifl Seat. Gailn
Bill 1‘as^fxl SHulc—Phono Sub
sidy bill Introduced in Hooee-—
\om«ite» Passing thru Here.
Juneau. Alaska. March 19-20.
Nome Nugget, Nome.
(By Alfred J. Lomen)
Senator John Dunn of the Fourth
Division, suffered a severe stroke
»f paralysis last Saturday and died
from its effect this afternoon, and
thru his death >th,e legislature and
the Territory' o£ Alaska as a whole
^ has losj. a very valuable member.
It is d ubtiu! if a special election
will be called to elect a member
to fill his ««at.
Speaker Hass was made a mem
ber of all oonvmiLtees on which
Senator Dunn formerly served, and
Senator Alfred J. Lumen taken
Dunn's place as Chairman of the
I’emmittee o-n. Education.
The Harry (ravin bill Cor remun
eration for services rendered in
* the burial of a Kougaroker. as re
ferred to- in last week's Nugget.
,»nd introduced by Lomen. has
passed the Senate.
The Harloa Bill has passed the
House.
A bill authorizing the payment
(>f ? 15.00 as a bounty on wolves
and coyotes, has passed the House.
The Seward Peninsula telephone
subsidy bill has been introduced in
the House.
Also a bill extending aid to the
fur farmers, was- introduced.
G. Ft. Jackson and wife and Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. Miller, of Nome,
who recently flew to Fairbanks by
plane, passed thru Juneau.
President Jackson of the Nome
Chamber of Commerce, met with
the entire Second Division delega
tion and presented and explained
the Chamber's resolutions for the
* benefit of the Second Division, and
will receive our most earnest and
4 sincere consideration.
All well here.
TWO WOMEN MISSIONARIES
IN CHINA, MVRDKHRD
PEIPING. China, March 20. (£>)
Mrs. Vera White, of Battleground.
Washington. and Mrs. Victoria
Miller of Spokane. Wash., were
slain in sleep Sunday last at Yun
nanfu, China. They were mission
aries and Seventh Day Adven
ti«Us. The crime was attributed
to the discharge of a Chinese, ser
vant at the mission. Both o.f the
$ husbands were on a business trip
to Talifu, 150 miles away. The
women’s skulls were fractured by
hatchets, but the two white child
ren were unhurt.
LICENSED GAMBLING OK.
CARSON CITY Nevada. March
21, (/P)—Governor F. B Bateear
signed the bill for licensed gambl
ing and the 'bill goes into effect
immediately.
I BOULDER DAM PROJECT
TO iRK H’OMSTKl <*TEI>
WAS H LN'CrTON, March 19. (/^)
j—Secretary Wilbur accepted the
i bid of the .six companies incorpor
ated at S*iu Francisco. f< • the
'buildin-; of the Hoover dam \ower
i house and other w-<rks in i anec
tioc with the Boulder Canyon pro
I Sect. The bid waa forty eight
nullion eighp. niue nauttfbrt,. nine
nine five dollars. The company
wil! be notified immediately and
instructed to start work when
ready. The signing of the con
tract will be delayed several days
as it must be accepted by the com
p&ay and a- surety bond of five
•million dollars posted and tprov
ed by secretary Wu*
Th© specifications requ. that
work start within 'thirty days and
he completed in six and a half
yeans, with a penalty of three
thousand dollar** daily for each,
day longer.
IMG SLAUGHTER OK WHALES
CHICAGO, March. 19, (£>|—'The
terrific slaughter of whaies ha* re-1
suited in an immense increase in !
oil production, said Royal W. B. :
liell, prominent member of the i
Chicago Board of Trade. Tne.
making of butter subs'itutes in j
Europe by hydromen-tatiou pro
cesses, thereby eliminating che
fishy taste ha.-, added to the pro
duction. but there is no market !
for it in the United Stare-.
The biggest whaling fieri ever!
assembled, is active in the Ant
Arctic ocean, three hundred and
twenty five ship© have captured
electric harpoons, and p'»ues arn
used in finding the herd".
American begs, the ref ailing mar
ket price is remaining at 14 cents
per pound. Toe price in Great
^Britain is one to four cents less
due to the whale oils and mar
NEW VETERANS HOME
BE ON PAGIFI<» 4*0 AST
WASHINGTON. March 18. \JP)
— Veterans Administrate: Pine,
annoanced recommendation of the
Hospital Board for a now Pacific
Northwest Veterans Horn'* to be
located South o-f Portland and
■west of the Cascade Mountains.
Numerous towns and cities aagi
ed for the home, but it is believed
it will be built at Roseburg.
liAST OF WBNDKIiL SISTERS
DIES. AGED EIGHTY
NEW YORK. March 1$. l/P)—
Mise Elia Wendell, last of the
Wendell sisters, who inherited
vast John Gotitlieb Wendell for
tune. died in sleep'at the as*1
80. She finished ’her days in the
red brick mansion midst towering
office building*, which stood as
a monument to the family motto,
[“buy but never sal! the estate.”
SAYS COUNTRY NEEDS
PROG HESS 1Y K PRKSI1>KNT
WASHINGTON, March. 19,
cYmbitious democrats ^ j inde
! pendent Republican's are working
jtogether for political supremacy
ill the 19:12 election. Underground
courtship broke out again yevster
[day. Norris thinks that the coun
try ueedw a progressive prewiden:,
and further said that t'h*,, only
hope is thru the democrats. Sen
ator Hull, democrat from Tennes
see. agreed that the democrats
and independents had the same,
ideas, and both conceded that the
republican* would nominate Hoo- j
ver. Hull, however, uncommitted
himself on the presidential nomi
nation, but Norris wants “another
Roosevelt.’’ Senator Caraway |
said if trhe democrats unchov*p Sen- j
ator Robinson, then he will favor '
Governor Roosevedt
NEW METHODS FOR DISPOSING !
FIR SKAIaS N. PACIFIC;
—
SEATTLE, March 20, (/P)—'The I
United States government will ar- j
range for new' methods of disP"S-j
ing fur seals of the North Pacific, |
now that the contract, for turning
over all ,-eals killed to the FoukeI
& Co., of St- Louis, has expired, j
Other bidi, are expected to be
made in this new contract which
the government will have author-j
C. S. RENEWS CONTRA< 1
ST. LOUIS. March 21. (/P) -The S
United States will continue its)
present method for the disposal of j
fur seals from the North Pacific, |
the contract under which the pelt- !
from the herds in Alaska waters !
are turned over to the Fouke Furl
Co., here, for treatment, has been i
renewed for another ten years,
subject to discussion each year by I
either party. About 25.000 pelts j
are sold at auction here each year
for about one million dollars..
AMOUS ITALIAN AULMKN
MEET TRAGBTIO DEATH
PISA. Italy. March 20th. (/P»
Colonel Umberto Ma-ddalena. fam
ous Italian airman and finder of
the dirigible Italia survivors, and
Lieutenant Faust Cecconi and Lt.
Da monte, were killed when their
seaplane fell into the sea.
Col. Maddaleua discovered Col
onel Umiberto Nobile and other
survivors of the dirigible and drop
p^d supplies t" them on the ice.
He and Cececni had just return
ed from the South American flight
in seaplanes. He formerly held
the world’s distance duration flight
over closed circuits. Maddalena
was adjutant to General Balboa
?n the south American flight. The
?eaplane was up fifteen hundred
feet nnd 9hfi feet off shore when
the pilane went into a noee dive
tod crashed into the waiter. The
hodiee have not been recovered.
i
HALIBUT BOATS ICED JX>W\
KPiTCHlKANj, Mar.:h <>P)~
The ^kipperv, and owners of hali
but boats had a taste of real Alas
ka v ”ter weather las' week, when
the'1* i<*roury dropped to the lowest
level for the winter. The crew of
the schooner Superior, which land
ed here safely yesterday, reported
that the vessel is still hearing evi
dence of ice which weighed her
down and kept the wk- ‘per, owner
and crew busy chcpp r ice off
the deck and ringing. '■*-L :h*uft
and pounds of halibu: which ar
rived on the Superior, eft late
yesterday for Seattle.
ACCUSE© MURDER!1?
LANDED r\T KETCHIKAN
OTJTCHIKAX. Matrch 19. (/P)—
More than five hundred people
were present at the docking of the
S. S. Alameda from Seattle :0 see
Bert ^McDonald, one of two men
accused of the murder of G. P.
Marshall, a Ketchikan fish, buyer,
last October. He was held on the
bout several hour.> before removal
to the federal ja;l to await, prelim
inary hearing. It is likely that
Federal .fudge Justin Harding will i
ca.ll a special grand jury. McDun
ild was spirited away from Por’-'
land by an Alaskan officer with an
wtradition warrant, charging him i
with first degree murder..
The Ketchikan high school quin f
et challenged the winner of thei
Oregon state high school tourna
ment to a short series here
rowtf OF CRAIG, ALASKA
VISITED BY EIRE I
CRAIG, Alaska. March. 20. <.4p> ‘
Fire of unknown origin starting
n the Brown Brothers general ,
'o^re at 12:30 A. M.. destroyed'
JroWu-s. the Craig Mercantile Co.,
office. Oogos store and dam-*
iged other stores The loss is es
imated at or.e hundred and fifty
housand dollars. The fire at one
imp threatened the whole busi
tess section but a favorable shift
if the wind and heroic work of
'olunteer**- saved the town.
AIKPIjAKK NRWS
P lot Alger Graham j-f the AAA
tiade a round trip to Unalakleet ;
Friday. He took L. K. Rynning i
f the Lomen Commercial Co..who !
s OQ his uuuual auditing trip of
he company's various stations,
rom Unal ikleet to Golovin and ;
hen ‘returned to Nome alone. j
Pilot Bill Graham of the NAT.
©turned to Nome Friday after
loon from a round about trip. He J
Irst took Mrs. Olson and son to,
lhatotoolik then hit across ;to '
)ime Creek, and on tu Deering. [
rhere he picked up Oeo. Motto's,
laughter and brought her to Nome
For other airplane activities look
nder the Telegraph Bulletin days
f the week
three planks return
NO TRACE OF MOliLEft
FAIRBANKS, March 19-20, i,T)
Three plane® returned after cover
inp more than two thousand mil?'
in two day® and found no trac**
of pilot Fred Muller or his passes -
fter, who disappeared Marc*: 9th
A conference will be heid ; day
It U extremely unlikely Mol
ler crashed on any of ii ■> ain
l routes to Eagile, Good " ure.
■Charley river, Chena or th jhi
^notion*. Fog prevented PIl fid
Young frcm reaching: the
waters of Seventy mile river
PHOT PBW> MOW
KVNDED AT RING iTTY
ON (HIS AN A, MARCH 9tt
CORDOVA. March 21, (/P)—Pilot
Harold Giilatn. president of the
Cillam airways wired that "Fred
Moller landed at King City on the
Chuana, March 9th. the same day
he took off from Fairbanks-. He
was out of gas and walked to
Chisana village and took fifteen
gallons of my gas and started back
for King City, intending to take off
for Nabosna, but never landed
there. Ho must be still at King
City. Lf nothing further is heard
from him. I will fly across. and
-•ee what i* the trouble. Pilot Gil
lum wired from McCarthy Hill.
STATE RESTED OASB
IN BOWIJtft IjOUCKS TRIAL
HILLSBORO. Oregon, March 21.
f/P>- The St.ite re*vted its case in
the Bowie® Loucks trial when a
final surprise witness was called
Miller, president of the Oregon
College of Dentistry, testified as to
'he bruises found on the arms of
the dead woman, demonstrating
how they mishit have been made
by rough handling. The attorney
rigorously protested for the de
fense and called Dr. Frank C
Vienne, a surgeon, as its first wit
less. who said that after au ex
imination the knife wound con
.'Inced him that it was self inflict
U IKiK DIRECTS JURY TO
FIND VERDICT ACQUITTAL
ROWLNK liOUOKS TRIAL
H ILLS BORO. Oregon, March 21
Circuit Judge Geo. Bagley. over
■ulf‘d the defense motion and di
ected the jury to return a verdict
>f acquittal in the Dow’.oh Loucks
uurder trial and reeerved the
•ight to take the case from the
ury at any future time without
urther counsel or argument.
I* SPECIAL CiHK/KBN DINNER
h SUNDAY
► Sci Vtd From 4 to 7:SO p.m.
► NORTH POIJ3 BAKERY
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