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VOL. 41. No. 71. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Juno 14, 1939 Price per copy is*
2 Steamers Arrive Nome Thru Ice
Body of Man Found in Cabin, Suicided Last Fall
Body of Missing
Baby is Found
CLYDE, Ohio, June 14 (/P) —
Sheriff Myers announced that the
body of Haldon Funk, aged ten
months, which was stolen from
its crib from its home at night,
was found in a creek on the
George Thomsen farm, seven
miles west of Clyde.
The sheriff said he enlisted the
aid of the FBI because it looked
like a kidnaping. Finding of the
body, ended an all-night search
after the baby was missing from
between 10 and 11 o’clock.
,Tlh'e body and mouth was slight
ly boody when recovered from
the creek by two deputy sheriffs
who sighted it downstream as
they stopped on a bridge.
Deputy Ted Paul theorized
that the body was thrown from
the bridge.
Landon Predicts
Roosevelt Will
Not Run 3rd Term
BOSTON, June 13 (JP) — Alf
Landon predicted that President
IRoosevelt would decline to be
come a candidate for a third
term.
At the same time, in a speech
prepared for delivery before the
Business and Professional Wo
men’s Club of Massachussetts, J
Landon . sharply criticized the
New Deal economics, and those1
who urge the President to run!
again in 1940.
He said: we are in the sixth
year of extraordinary govern
ment spending to save a policy, i
yet discouragement and chronic!
unemployenf is increasing. This I
is indeed “a Roosevelt depres
sion.”
In Mass Fights
CIO and AFL
Aulo Workers
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FLINT, June 13 f/P) — Police1
quelled three clashes between ri
val CIO and A F of L divisions
in the United Auto Workers Un
ion of the General Motors plants
were an A F of L group headed
by Homer Martin called a strike.
Martin, in the meantime, planned
to meet later with Governor Dick i
son in Lansing and discuss “the
wihole strike situation.”
Two mass flat fights occurred,
in' front of the No. 1 Fisher auto;
' body plant at South Saginaw
street. Later fighting broke out
at the. Atherton avenue entrance
of the plant, where the workers
were escorted to tlhie plant by
police. A F of L pickets were dis
persed by police when they at
tempted to halt the trucks at
this entrance.
Don’t forget to leave your naru
and address for the Nugget to b«
sent to you via airplane at your
mining camps, from now on.
Cheechacco Dance Tonight at School Gym Dancing 10 to 1
THREE ORCHESTRAS—BEST OF MUSIC—UNDER AUSPICES NOME VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. ADMISSION ADULTS $1.00
POLITICAL TALK
occupied the Hon. Miss Unity
Freeman-Mitford (above), 23,
on weekend visit with Hitler,
whom she admires. Her father is
British Lord Redesdaie.
Billion and Half
Is Asked For
Relief In 1940
WASHINGTON, June 14 (JP) —
The 1940 relief appropriation bill
carrying $1,477,000,000 asked by
President Roosevelt for the WPA
but recommending the substitu
tion of a three-man board for
the WPA administrator, went to
the House. The appropriation i
committee made the announce-'
rnent that this, and a handful of
other recommendations for major
changes in the relief set-up sig-:
nailed the opening of a major
fight over whether the federal
relief shall continue to be admin- \
istered along the lines followed
by the Roosevelt administration
3ince 1933.
The Committee axe, in its re
port to the House, showed to be
directed chiefly against the Na
tional Youth Administration. The
NYA appropriation was slashed
from $123,000,000 as asked by
Roosevelt, to $81,000,000
Alaskan Dies
PORiTLAND, June 13 (ff>) —
Anton Orsen aged 70, who went
to Nome in 1900 and became as
sociated with the Cyrus Noble
Diamond L mining claims, died
'here Sunday.
S. S. Columbia
Str. Sutherland
Arrive Nome
PASSENGER LIST
The S. S. Columbia of the A1
a ska Line, arrived Nome last
night at ab ut 10:30 o'clock, after
an extended trip from Seattle,
having left the latter port May
30. The vessel having been de
layed practically a week by
heavy ice in Bering Sea.
A Mirow Air Service plane
was dispatched from Nome for
three days in succession to assist
the Columbia and the freighter
Sutherland through t.he ice fields
which ~ times were shroud with
dense fog.
The Sutherland arrived in port
early this morning. Both steam
ers are heavily loaded with car
go. Passengers were immediately
unload d by the Lcmen Commer
cial Co. lighters and tugs, and
then mail and freight continues
to pour into Nome hourly.
The Nome Brass Band was
given a joy ride to the passen
ger steamer on one of the Lorn an
l.ghterage barges, and dispensed
music coming and going.
Owing to ice conditions at St.
Michael, the Columbia cargo for
that port, and Golovin, will be
placed aboard the fre;ghtcr Suth
erland. This will allow the Col
umbia 'to start back on its re
turn trip immediately after d:s
charg:ng at Nome.
Following is the complete list
of incoming passengers on the
S. S. Columbia.
Mrs B F Gillettee
Mrs B J McConaghy
Mrs. S Bayne
Howard Lyng
Mrs Rose Farland
(Continued on Page Three)
Columbia to Take
Passengers Aboard
At 9 p. m. Tonight
Agent Joe Harnish of the Al
aska Line, stated late this after
noon that passengers would be
taken aboard ship at 9 o’clock
tonight from the river dock of
the Lomen Commercial Co. It is
expected that there will be some
30 dd passengers enroute to the
states, names of which will be
pub! shed in cur next issue.
Uonvicts Mutiny
Bet *ause Want
Silk Underwear
LANSING, Kansas, June 13 (/P)
-Warden M. F. A: mrine ordered
more than 20 guards armed with
ma hine guns and tear gas, to
break up the Kansas penitentiary
n ne mutiny of 229 prisoners
who refused to mine coal because
hey were denied silk underwear
brdt'me snacks, extra food, and
greater freedom.
Originally there were 251 con
v'cts who mutinied but 22 came
ta the surface voluntarily.
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Embargo on Arms
Is Repealed
WASHINGTON, June 13 (/Pi—
The administration’s neutrality
bill, providing for the re
peal of the embargo on arms
and ammuntion for nations at
w'ar, was approved in full by the
House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee.
CARRY ACCUSED SLAYER TO COURT
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Roy Murphy, 40, accused of slaying his brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Hart*y Murphy, was so w'eak from prolonged fasting,
that he had to be carried into an Enid, Okla., court. Glucose forced
in the man's veins gave him strength for a sanity hearing, and the
jury found him sane. Murphy explained his fasting by saying: “I’d
rather die than go on trial."
ADMIRAL’S U N IF OR M
was donned by General Fran
cisco Franco, commander of the
Spanish insurgents, in reviewing
his fleet off Tarragona, Spain.
The general, who’s most often
seen in army uniform, spent six
hours reviewing naval forces.
Japs Blockade
British ( Concession
In Tientsin
TIENTSIN, June 14 l/P) —Jap
anese officers /tonight rejected
British mediation attempts and
widened demands on the British
while Japanese gendarmes, aided
by Chinese police, blockaded the
British and French concessions,
whose approximately 120,000 pop
ulation is virtually cut off from
aLl supplies.
The Japanese military .took the
position that the dispute leading
to the blockade, was the British
refusal to hand over to the Jap
anese, four alleged Chinese slay
ers of a Tientsin official. They
said the affair could not now be
settled by merely relinquishing
the accused Chinese. The officers
advanced five broad demands
which they said would be nec
essary if the dispute is ito Be
settled.
A Japanese statement said:
“The British must first discontin
ue their protection of anti-Japan
ese Communistic elements; sec
ond, cease supporting Chinese
currency; third, cease hoarding
goods at Tientsin; fo/urth, cease
using unregistered radio stations
in Tientsin; and fifth, allow the
use of J'apanese-p repared school
books in the British concession.”
Takes Office
SEATTLE, June 13 (/P) —Sea
ton Thompson is to sail Saturday
on the Bureau of Fisheries ves
sel Brant for Juneau where he
will direct the activities of the
fisheries service during the sum
met months.
Thompson recently took over
the duties of L. G. WiBgard.
Subscribe for The Nugget.
Body Of Man
Found In Cabin
There Since Fall
I The body of a man believed
to be Frank Rudolph Krauskropf
aged about 54, was found in
small cabin near the W. J. Rowe
lumber yard.
Discovery was made by F D.
Schultz and Frank Miller, who
arrived on the S. S. Columbia.
They reported to Chief W. W
Laws, who notified Coroner C. C.
Tanner, and U. S. Marshal B. B
Mozee.
The officials paid a visit to the
I cabin immediately and then pre
pared to hold a coroner’s inquest.
A jury was selected this after*
{ noon and visited the scene.
The body was found in a semi
upright position with a 30-30 rifle
pointing into the mouth. The gun
j had been discharged, the bullet
I had entered the mouth, and
j death occurred instantaneously.
Death apparently occurred last
fall shortly after the departure
of the last boat. The jury’s ver
dict was death through suicide.
The Coru ier j JStP y was ccum
, posed of the following: Chas. H.
| Code, Harry Longley, Howard
Lyng, Walter “Doc" Hinckey,
Afred Best and Bert Noble.
Social Security
Amendments Sent
To The Senate
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WASHINGTON, June 10 (/P) —
The House passed and sent to t!he
Senate, far-reaching amendments
to the social security law designed
to extend benefits and lighten the
burden on business.
The House shouted down a
GOP attempt to re-corrumit to
the ways and means committee,
amendments which would freeze
the present payroll tax rate for
old-age insurance at one percent
for three years, instead of in
creasing a half percent next Jan
uary.
The bill as passed will extend
benefits to employees of national
banks and seamen and persons
over 66 years of age, meaning an
addition :.f about $1,100,000 to
the rolls.
Officials estimated tihe freez
ing etc., would mean a saving to
employers and workers of about
one billion, seven hundred ten
million dollars in the next three
years. ,
Staking of Claims
Under the law as changed a per
son may stake two claims for
himself and two under power of
attorney in any month. Under the
old law a person could stake two
for himself and 16 under power
if attorney in any month.
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HOW TO STAKE CLAIMS.
How Mining Claims can be
Staked in Alaska, length, Bread
th, how many, and the Associa
tion Claim, described in detail, In
pamphlet form, for sale at The
Nugget Office, for 10 cents.