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VOL. 41. NO. 141._ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1938. * Price per copy l*
Train Hits Bus Load School Children
German Espionage Agents Convicted, Sentenced
Loaded School
’ Bus & Freight
Train Collide
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 1 (A*)
—A fast freight train crashed in
to a loaded school bus near here
•- killing twenty-six and seriously
injuring at least a dozen of the
ethers. W. E. Sleak.man, chief
clerk for the Rio Grande West
ern Railway said that he had
counted twenty six dead bodies
".akeri to mortuaries throughout
the city.
Attempts were made to locate
relatives to assist in the identi
fications. Mrs. Sarah Bergstrom,
business superintendent of the
♦ .Salt Lake General Hospital said
•she personally aided in the re
covery of eighteen bodies and es
timates that the number of per
sons in the bus ranged from 40
to 60.
The dead and injured were
scattered along the right of way!
for a hundred feet. The acci-!
dent occurred at 8:56 a.m. at
rural crossing about ten miles
south of here. The bus was
bound for Jordan High School.!
The victims ranged in age
from twelve to sixteen years, but1
toe condition of the bodies and
the inaccessibility of the crossing
-made a definite check of the
casualties difficult.
“It was the awful lest thing I
ever saw, none of them seemed!
to die right away, but one by one
They stopped screaming," said
David Wittier, aged 'twenty two, j
who was riding on the oil tankj
•- near the engine. He told the i
sheriff that a sleet storm had re-!
duced the visibility and had de-,
layed the schedule of the freight, i
The young man said that Engin-'
eer Reahrmir told him to stay on;
tlie right side of the cab. The bus,
was coming from the left. The;
fireman screamed at the engineer
to stop. He said the freight train
normally went about sixty miles
an hour at that crossing.
Tfce sheriff said that apparent
ly the bus driver had stopped at
the crossing then had started up
again so that the engine hit it
broadside bending the big bus
around the front of it.
21! Dead Result
Sehool Bus &
, Train Crash
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 2 </P)
—With many youthful dead, the
toll today, of the nation’s worst
school bus and train disaster rose
to twenty three, with sixteen of
the victims identified, all occu
p ants of the crowded bus, hit
ten miles south oif here by a,
speeding freight train. Three
were critically injured, and some
dead and so badly mangled, that
the parents were not allowed to
see the bodies.
* The bus apparently stopped at,
« crossing, then started up again j
when the train hit it. Snow and '■
A sleet made the vision difficult.
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Nazi Spy Trial
Concluded 4
Are Convicted
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 UP)— Pri
son terms ranging from two to
six years were imposed on three
convicted of espionage in the fed
eral court here. The fourth plead
ed guilty and testified for the
government.
Johanna Hofmann, twenty six,
was sentenced to fouT years for
her part in the so-called Nazi
German spy plot. Otto Voss, aged
thirty eight, an airplane mech-i
anic got six years. Erish Glaser,
twenty eight, a U. S. army pri
vate stationed at Mitchell Field
on Long Island, specilcally accus
ed of turning over code to Guen
thern Rumrich, thirty two, con-,
fessed spy, was sentenced to two'
years. Rumrich pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to two years.
Judge Knox, presiding at the
trail said “Had these defendants
been apprehende in the confines
of Germanw their fate wo-uld
have been much more fearful." i
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STONE AGE HOUSE
FOUND IN SWEDEN
STOCKHOLM-- A Stone Age
dwelling found in the community
of Munkarp, south Sweden, is be-j
lieved to be a clue to a prehis
toric civilization.
Prof. J. E. Forssander, distin
guished Swedish archeologist,
predicted that very rare finds
will be made near the dwellings,!
which he dated at not less than
7,000 B. C.
Don’t forget to leave your name j
and address for the Nugget to be
sent to you via airplane at yourj
mining camps, from no-' on.
. Vr PICTURE is promptly displayed by German brides
to-be. Nazis boast that under their regime the birthrate has risen j
from 971,000 in 1933 to 1,276,000 in 1937.
Spanish Flyers
Take Last Shot
At Americans
LATOUR, Decarol, France, Dec.1
2 —The Spanish insurgent air
force either by chance or design
took a parting shot at the govern
ment’s Lincoln and Washington
battalion by bombing the rail-!
way at the Franco-Spanish fron
tier when more than three hun-!
dred demobilized American vol
unteers left Spain. Five insur
gent planes plunged eighteen
bombs at the railway, outside of
the Spanish border town of Al
ho, shortly after the Americans
crossed into France. This is the
largest exodus of American fight
ers since the Barcelona govern
ment decided to release all for
eigners in its international brig
ades.
To Demand
x\pproval
Of Policies
PARIS, Dec. 1, </Pi —Premier
Dal&dter, having broken labor's
efforts to wreck his government
with a general strike, announced
that he intended to call a session
of Parliament for December 8 to
demand the approval of his pol
icies.
In government circles it is be
lieved the Premier can master
sufficient strength to override the
opposition communists and soc
ialists who backed yesterday’s
abortive Strike as a protest
against his economic decrees and
laws. Daladier had ordered a
three year state of “economic
mobilization.” The nation will
carry through the program for
his parliamentary support was
Kidnapers Re
turn 18-Year
Old Girl Unhurt
OXON HILL, Maryland. Dec. 2
{A'\ —William Brown, father of
Mary Brown, eighteen, who re
appeared at her home last night
after a thirty hour absence, said
she had been abducted by two
men who mistakenly thought she
could pay ransom. When the dau
ghter, a business school student,
convinced them that her father
was unable to pay, they releas
ed her. She arrived, haggard, in
tattered clothes at the Brown
home saying the men freed her
from an auto a short distance
from the house where she lives. J
The girl was in fairly good con
dition, and a doctor said she had
not been assaulted. The girl 3aid
i she twice became unconscious
an thought she had been struck
! in the stomach.
Her father is employed in the1
bureau of printing and engrav-1
ing.
Fire House Robber
ST. LOUIS. Nov. — Returning;
to the firehouse after answerirfg
a false alarm, members of fire
company No. 28 found that three;
lockers had been broken into by
theives who had apparently
turned in the false alarm. A to-1
tal of $84.70 in cash and a watch \
and diamond ring were missing.
There was no watchman at the
fire house. ,
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the IT:tne Nugget office.
counted as a majority and is com
posed of his own radical social
ists and party groups of the fur
ther rightists.
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NO GREATER HOPE HAVE ANY HITCH-HIKERS than has the John Weaver family hopefully waggling
thumbs Boston-ward. But "lifts” were few for so large a group and so Mr. Weaver, who expects to he with the American Rescue Workers
as a missionary, escorted his brood along the highways. From Baltimore, they walked most of the distance to Boston. With the parents
are, left to right: Charles, 12: Katherine, 1.7; John, jr., 15: Bertha. 13: Edith, 22; Helen, 19. In carriage are Alice. 7: and Allie, 4.
Mask Ball Is
To Be Held In
School Gym
Mask Rail To Be Held
In School Auditorium
Instead Odd Fellow Hall
The Mask Ball to be given. Sat
urday night under the auspices
of the Odd Fellowfc-iRebalcaih
Building Association, has creat
ed so much interest and enthus
iasm coupled with the advance
sale of admission tickets which
so far surpasses the expectations
of the committee, that it has been
decided to transfer the dance
from Odd Fellows Hall to the
High School Auditorium in order
to accomodate the large crowd of
Maskers as well as spectators.
Another reason for the change
is because the large number of
prizes which have been donated
by th business houses of Nome to
this unique affair has exceeded
the expectations of the sponsors
of the Mask Ball, and naturally
the spectators as well as the mask
ers will be more pleased in a
more roomy hall.
In making the change to Cha
High School Auditorium it be
came necessary to postpone the
card games until a later date, as
there is no place to accomodate
the card players, without ob
structing the dance floor, which
has been placed in readiness for
dancing.
Spectators wi 11 now have a
chance to sit down comfortably
in the balcony and watch the ev
er changing maskers on the floor,
and have the fun of picking out
their friends and acquaintances.
Besides dozens of prizes for
maskers, the spectators as well
as makers will have the same
chance of winning free, two val
uable door prizes.
The committee has decided
that no one will be allowed to
dance unless masked, up until
the time of masking. There will
be masks available at the hall for
those who may wish to dance be
fore the time of unmasking and an
nounoing the winners of prizes.
Spectators and children must stay
in the balcony. An ektra charge
wil be made if anyone of the spec
tators wish to be admitted to the
dance floor before the unmasking
time. Judges wit be selected from
the audience during the evening.
Doors will open at 9:30 p.m.
and dancing will commence
promptly at 10 o'clock. Admission
for maskers $1 00 each. Spectators
in the gallery 50 cents each. Child
ren under 12 years of age will be
charged 25 cents. Remember the
place—High School Auditorium,
Saturday night, December 3rd.
XMAS COMMITTEE NOTICE
All members of the Christmas
Tree Fund Committee are re
quested to meet Sunday, Dec. 4th
at 2:30 p.m., at City Hall. Busi
ness of importance.
A. M Hartford, Chairman
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Mask Ball Be Held School Gym Instead I OOF Hall
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