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VOL. 41 NO. 122. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1938. Price per Copy During Queen Contest 10 cent*.
Bert Ryan Arrested and Released
Passengers Escape Unscathed From Burning Plane
Speeding Rearmament to Fulfill Defense Proposals
War Dept. Spends
19 Million In 6
Weeks Rearming
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (A1)—
War Department orders for mun
itions, totalling $19,187,000.00 in
six weeks provided a hint that
the army is speeding up rearm
ament in anticipation of Roose
velt’s new defense proposals.
Ordinance officers worked day
and night to close contracts with
manufacturers. Without delay
some manufacturing arsenals
doubled their forces.
Arabs Protest
Migration Jews
Into Palestine
JERUSALEM, Oct. 18, —Brit
ish" troops were doubled and the
guards strengthened lest Arab
rebels attack the modern dist
ricts of Jerusalem, after a night
■of terrorist bombings in the old
section of the city.
Columns of British armored
cars and truck loads of police pa
trolled the streets outside of the
old city's walls.
The situation in the old city
■became so critical shortly before
midnight yesterday that authori
ses rushed military and police
reinforcements to protect the Jew
is'n and Armenian quarters, which
are today understood to be only
parts of the city under complete
government control.
Outlying garrisons have been
deployed to recapture insurgent
held towns, as a preliminary and
punitive offensive to be begun by
the full strength of twenty thou
sand British troops and police to
crush an estimated ten thousand
Arabs, who protest the Jewish
immigration sponsored by the
British under her League of Na
tions mandate to govern Palest
ine.
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CARROTS ARE USED, sometimes, allegedly to slow tho
favorite at a race track, the “slow pill" being inserted before the
carrot is fed *o horse. This and other drugging methods are subject
o inquiry bv N. Y. state racine rommlMinn
Denver P D Seek
Laverne Harding
Alaska Trader
DENVER. Oct. 16, —Raymond
Laverne Harding. Alaskan fur
trader, who met. wooed and wed
a Denver girl within 36 hours,
.is sought by police upon the Dis
trict Attorney’s order.
A detective captain said a war
rant charging Harding with ab
andonment and non-support was
issued 11 days ago.
Harding came to Denver sev
eral weeks ago and married Miss
Helen Ingram, University of Den
ver graduate and daughter of Tol
bert Ingram, deputy director of
the State Planning Commission.
After a honeymoon in the Col
orado Rockies, Harding said he
would take his wife to a Bering
Sea island to live.
LONDON. Oct. — Miss M. E.
Gifford of Orpington drove to
> the reception on a fire engine
after her wedding to Fireman
Allan Schofield, son of Orping
ton’s fire chief.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the ITcme Nugget office.
Over 2 Thousand
Americans Lost
in Spanish War
WASHINGTON. Oct. 17 MP>—
More than half of the four thou
sand Americans who took up
arms in the Spanish civil war
have apparently been lost in
action. A survey was undertaken
by the Spanish government after
they announced the withdrawal
of all foreign volunteers. They
failed to account for at least two
thousand men. State Depart
ment officials held out little hope
for anxious relatives, that their
fate might ever be learned.
SAN FRANCIScO, Oct. 16, —
Sacramento won the Pacific Coast
League playoff by taking a doub
le header from San Francisco.
In the finals the Senators took
; four games to the Seals’ one.
The series victory gave Sacra
mento the $500 President's trop
hy and $5,000 cash. San Fran
cisco took $2,500 playoff money
as its share of the spoils.
Los Angeles and Seattle, first
and second-place winners in the
regular season of play, each took
$500 for entering the playoffs.
WALKING THE PLANK wasn’t a pirates’ custom at Dedham, Mass., where the swollen
Charles river Inundated streets and forced construction of board brldses like this.
F. B. I. Cause
Arrest of Bert
Ryan at Nome
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 18, —The
Federal Bureau of Investigation
announced to the Associated
Press that Herbert Dudley Ryan,
ex-convict, had been arrested at
Nome, Alaska, by U. S. Marshal
B. B. Mozee, on a warrant charg
ing unlawful flight to escape pro
secution in connection with the
slaying here of George “Les”
Bruneman. Los Angeles gambler,
a year ago.
Authorities also seek Pete Pian
ezzi and Jackie Kane, indicted
with Ryan.
The indictment alleged that
the trio put Bruneman on the
spot in a shabby beer parlor and
killed him. They . e also charg
ed with the killing of Frankie
Greuzard, a bystander, who at
tempted to get their auto license
number.
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Nome Marshal
Holding Ryan
Investigation
—
Marshal B. B. Mozee Friday
afternoon took into custody Her
bert Dudley Ryan, who is now
! being held under investigation
in connection with a change of
unlawfully fleeing the State of
California to avoid prosecution
in connection with the murder
of George Wesley Bruneman, on
October 25th, 1937.
Receipt of the information that i
Ryan was wanted by the Fed- j
: eral Bureau of Investigation led
to his arrest last Friday. Since
that time Marshal Mozee announc
; ed, he has been in communica
1 tion with the Federal Bureau of
i Investigation office at Seattle, and
is awaiting instructions before
anything more definite can be
announced.
Proceeding on a lead that Ry
an was in Nome at that time last
fall, private inquiry revealed he
was employed by the Mirow Air
Service of Nome, as bookkeeper,
from Sept. 13th to November 30.
“My books reveal that Ryan
signed his name on October 25
and 26, 1937, to entries on the
daily debit sheets’’, said Mana
ger Hans Mirow of the concern
yesterday.
Upon severing his connections'
with the Mirow Air Service Nov I
ember 30th, Ryan flew to Fair-;
banks, Dec. 1st, 1937, where he
is supposed to have remained all;
winter, returning to Nome this!
June, and going almost directly
to the Kougarok section where;
he was employed until just re
cently, when he came to Nome.
Further revealments are expect
ed soon, as to his status.
Ryan who is 31 years old, was!
born in Nome in 1907, and upon
coming here in the spring of 1937
was first employed by the Lom
en Commercial Company, later
by the Mirow Air Service.
THE KEGOAYAH KOZGA
Lending Library, is located at:
Polet’s Branch Store. Book ren
tal ten cents a week.
Marshal Mozee
Releases Ryan
Orders of F.B.L
U. S. Marshal Mozee announc
ed in an interview this after
noon:
"Telegraphic advises from the
F B. I. at Seattle, received by
me today, ordered the release of
Herbert Dudley Ryan.”
Ryan was released at 1 p m,
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Los Angeles
Police Dept.
Is Screwy
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19 {IP) — j
Instructions were given the U. S.
Marshal’s office to act at once in
the matter of returning fb Los,
Angeles Herbert Dudley Ryan, I
held in Nome as a suspect in the!
slaying a year ago of Les Brune
man. The action was taken after
Captain Wallis of the Los An
geles police homicide squad told
federal authorities "'We have pos
itive evidence to blast Ryan’s
alibi to shreds." Ryan contends
he was working in the north'
when Bruneman was shot down'
in a Los Angeles beer parlor.,
Captain Waliis wouldn't disclose
any further evidence. Federal au;
thorities estimated that it would
take three weeks to get Ryan
down from Nome by boat.
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Attention Republicans
fin th
A meeting of the members of
the Nome Republican Club will
be held Wednesday. Oct. 19, at
8 p.m. at City Hall.
J. C. Kennedy, Pres.
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Safely Lands
14 Passengers
Burning Plane
MONTGOMERY, Ala.. Oct 19
i/P)—A new herd of the airway*
was acclaimed as a mass of burn
ing wreckage marked the place
where Pilot Dave Hissong, with,
flames lapping about him, brot
eleven passengers and three crew
men safely to earth in his burn*
ing Eastern 'irways plane.
With one voice of gratitude,
the passengers testified ‘‘He sav
ed us."
The fourteen passenger, twin,
motored Houson to New YorX
ship burst into flames about mid*
night a few' miles from Mont*
gornery.
Though his hands were seared,
the fuselage burned, and one
motor dropped out, Hissonf
stuck to the controls and put the
ship down in a dark, strange,
field after which the passenger*
alighted and flames destroyed,
the ship.
STENOG SUICIDES
NAGARA FALLS, Ont. Oct.
Betty Wilson. 21, stenographer
of Cornwall, Ont.. chatted amiab
ly with tourists w-atching the
Canadian (Horseshoe) Falls.
A few- minutes later, she stroll
ed away, climbed over a guard'
rail in the forebay of the Can
adian National Power Company,
kicked off her shoes and wraded
into the treacherous Niagara
River.
Honeymooners and other sight
seers watched in horror as the
rapid current carried her to the
brink of the falls. Then she wa»
swept from view—another sui
cide victim of the cataract.
Her body has not been re
covered.
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HORSE-DOP! N C charges, which led to suspension of a
JSfgro groom alter toe poor showing of Alfred Gwynne Vander
bilts horse, Airdame, at Saratoga, are being investigated by the
N. Y. state racing commission. Above, a Saratoga attendant pre
pares to send saiiva to commission laboratory for analysis A simi
lar procedure disclosed the presence of morphine in Air flame.
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