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Oldest Newspaper in Alaska.___Member of Tlie Ahso< ialed Press DEVOTED TO THE BUILDING OF A BETTER NOME AND THE SECOND DIVISION. NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY AVIATION THE NOME DAILY NUGGET 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 ( FOR WHITES ONLY ) ADMISSION GENTS $1.00. LADIES FREE. THREE PRIZES TO BE GIVEN AWAY. ( FOR WHITES ONLY ).