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Oiliest [Newspaper in Alaska. Member of I be Assoc iated 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 MILIT \RY .AVIATION THE NOME DAILY NUGGET ■ . . 1 jij'il 'm” ' —“ — —— — ... - ' ' VOL. 37. No. 62. NOME, ALASKA, Friday, March 13, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents ... .. . , , . . .. . Powers May Issue Ultimatum Hitler Bruno Hauptmann’s Last' Reprieve Deadline Ended Selz Pleads Guilty Rice Murder and Sentenced Life I JEROME SELZ PLEADED GUILTY TO FIRST DEGREE MURDER OF MRS. ADA FRENCH RICE ✓ Immediately Sentenced Life Imprison * ment At San Quentin Prison s' (By The Associated Press) Redwood City, Calif., March 13 — Ralph Jerome Selz this morning, before a district judge here, pleaded guilty to first degree mur der of Mrs. Ada French Rice, ex-wife of the former mayor of Nome, Charles Rice. He was immediately sen tenced to life imprison ment at San Quentin pri son. Officials are still seeking the body of the man whom Selz confessed he killed to avoid blackmail entangle ments over the death of the woman C G Cutter Haida Discovers Scarlet Fever on Unga Is. (By The Associated Press) Seattle, March 13 — The U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Haida landed a medical par ty yesterday on Unga Is land, a wireless report to their headquarters here de clared this morning. The party discovered sev en cases of scarlet fever on the island, all of them min or, and not critical cases. The doctors established a quarantine and a register ed nurse is now attending and caring for the patients. British Engineers Working in Spain Being Protected (By The Associated Press) Madrid, March 13— Of ficials protecting British en gineers against violence threats to foreigners, trac ed assassins’ arms, and stat ed today that they were made in Germany. They assured the British Embassy in Madrid, that English engineers working on the Huelva Province railway are being protect ed from extremists who have been picketing the of fices shouting: “Foreigners work in Spain while Span ish engineers starve.” Subscribe for the Nugget Liberty League Losing Duponts To Rep. League (By The Associated Press) Washington, March 13 — Reports submitted to the House of Representatives today, for the first two months of the year, disclos ed that the Republicans have received $261,387 in contributions, and the Dem ocrats $49,053. The Liberty League which got $483,000 last year, only received $64,702 this year. The Republicans have spent $165,599 so far leav ing $356,288 in their treas ury. The Democrats have1 spent $322,900 out of $550, ( 000 and have a balance of $227,000, of which $136,-; 410 is owed on loans or un-i paid bills. The reports further in dicated that the Duponts are swinging from the Lib erty League to the Repub lican League. The big Du pont contributions are not listed, although the GOP National Committee has re ceived five thousand dol lars, and Lammont and Du pont have donated $1,666 to the GOP congressional committee. NOTICE You can save $2.00 by paying for your subscrip tion for six months in ad vance for the Nome Daily Nugget. Do it now ! ' Hauptmann’s Last Reprieve Time Passes (By The Associated Press 1 Trenton, March 13th — Bruno Hauptmann’s last reprieve deadline passed last night at midnight. He paced his cell until morning today, still con vinced that he would not hang, for the abduction and murder of Charles August us Lindbergh, Jr. Governor Hoffman of New Jersey continued his investigation into possible further details of the pri soners story 'that he was innocent and others were the guilty parties. War Department Appropriation for Alaska Approved (By The Associated Press) Washington, March 13 — The Senate Appropriations Committee, in the War De partment appropriation bill approved for Alaska the fol lowing amounts: Dry Pass seventy-nine thousand dollars; Wrangell harbor fifty-six thousand; Stikine River six hundred dollars; Petersburg harbor ninety-four thousand; Cor dova harbor one hundred and eighty thousand dol lars and Nome Harbor ten thousand dollars. Your Income Tax No. 13 Deduction For Business Expenses Deductions for business expenses form a large item in the returns of many tax payers and must have cer tain qualities to be allow ed. Such deduction must be for an expenditure in connection with the main tenance and operation of the taxpayer’s business or business properties; it must be an ordinary expense and it must be a necessary ex pense. In insisting upon the latter qualifications, the Bureau of Internal Reven ue is upheld by the Board of Tax Appeals and the courts. Ordinary and nec ( Continued On Page four ) The Washington News-Letter OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND Delegate from Alaska (By J. J. ECKLES) February 22 Delegate Dimond and Mr. William L. Paul of Juneau, appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee this morning urging the adoption of an amendment to the Interior Department Appropriation Bill so as tg grant the sum of $25,000 for relief of destitution among the natives of Alas ka. The Delegate and Mr. Paul pointed out to the Committee the pressing and urgent need of this additional appropriation and furnished for the use of the Committee a list of approximately one hun dred children, nine blind persons and other disabled natives who had no other way of securing adequate relief. While it is too early to say what the action of the Committee will be from the questions asked it would appear that there is a fair chance of having the Senate increase the appro priation by the amount de sired. I he Delegate also request cd an increase of the ap propriation for the Geulog ical Survey Work in Alas ka. The bill as passed by the House carries $60,009 for this purpose. The Dele gate pointed out the need of making an adequate in vestigation of the really promising tin prospects in Alaska since the United States imports practically all of the tin used and in case of another World War the supply of tin might be cut off to the great dam age if not ruin, of many American industries. That the continuous ad vocacy by the Delegate of a proper measure of de fense for Alaska has result ed in a widespread interest in the subject is evidenced by an article appearing in The Wahington Herald, of February 16, written by Lieutenant-General Robert LCe Bullard, retired, form erly Commander of the Am erican Second Army in France. In this article, which deals with national SOVIET RUSSIA IS REPORTED TO HAVE GIVEN FULL SUPPORT TO FRANCE AG AINST GERMANY Powers Considerin'.! Issuing l liimaium Giving 24 sirs. For Reply to Demands (By The Associated Press') London, March 13—Au thoritative sources this af ternoon said that the So viet had thrown France her full support for the punish ment of Germany, with mil itary and economic sanc tions, for Germany’s re militarization of the Rhine land. It is believed that the powers are considering is suing a virtual ultimatum to Hitler, giving him twen ty-four hours to reply to their demands for the Ger man evacuation of this ter ritory, before the League council, meeting tomorrow proceeds on its course ag ainst the Reich’s policy of placing military agencies in the Rhineland, which should always be de-milit arized by the Locarno Pact. Card Party and Dance The Catholic Ladies will give a card party and dance including refreshments, March 17th. at Pioneer Hall, 5) p.m. General ad mission 75 cents. 4-t defense and is written by one of the greatest strateg ists of the time, is a para graph reading as follows: “A Congressman from Al aska publicly called atten tion to the fact that Alaska could be invaded by air via ihe Aleutian Islands; and that from Alaskan bases an enemy could launch attacks upon the northwestern ter ritory of the United States. Both the Army and Navy Departments immediately made aeronautical studies of this defense problem.” It must be borne in mind that General Bullard does not make statements light ly and when he says that “both the Army and the Navy Departments immed iately made studies of this defense problem" following the statements made by “a Congressman from Alaska" it is evidence that the work done has borne and is bear ing resultr February 20. The bill in troduced during the first session to authorize the city of Skagvvay to issue bonds for the raising of funds nec essary for the repair of the city's sidewalks, streets and the city hall passed the Sen atg today As introduced in the House and passed by (Continued on Page Three. Scientists (Haim Have Serum To Avert Influenza (By The Associated Press) Chicago, March 13th — Scientists completing stud ies carried on in the 1935 outbreak, announced today the control of the “last and greatest uncontrolled men ace”—influenza, as cited by Horace Pettit, Stuart Mudd and Sergeant Parmer. Uni versity of Pennsylvania bacteriologists. They reported that the virus from the Alaska epi demic “appears to be a sin gle immunologic entity.” Serums collected in the Alaskan epidemic were shown to be identical with others obtained when the disease struck Philadelphia the winter of 193-4 and 19 35, and the Britain and Puerto Rican outbreaks in 1934. “Both active and passive immunization of the ani mals is shown to be poss ible, and the facts should off er profound encourgemen and ultimate control,” said their report. Subscribe for the Nugget