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I EUROPE'S PROBLEM: PIECES AND PEAC E—Former President Herbert Hoover
I (left), who told a Circumnavigators club meeting in New York that he saw no danger of Germany try -
1 ing to extend her frontier to l\ S., studies a jigsaw map of Europe’s troubled countries. With him are
Hugh Gibson (right), former ambassador to Belgium and James B. Pond, president of the club.
PROPOSED NEW MEASURE FOR BEAUTY
Sc'-Sri" 3 H'nv i*' *h?» nro ~»< s', stem of measuring heaufy. Earl •:.•< U, ‘vow nrodticer, has in
vented a new method under v’ id: distances between various p Com of the body are measur
ed. A4- !«*'’* he demon ‘ret-s the method on Ma vln Stuart as (I ft to riaht) Mary Daniels, Har
riet Bennett and Caroline C-unley watch. At right is Marvin, tap ’d to indicate how the system
works.
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WHEN MEN AND PLANES RACE THE SUNRIS E-Dawn lights the eastern sky as huge PBY riving boats of the navy's Patrol Squadron 51 at Sen
Juan. Puerto Rioo. roll out for their vigil over the Caribbean sea and Uncle Sam's coastal waters. The planes carry a crew of nine men, have a cruising range ot 2, miles.
Indian Murderer
C aiming innocence to the last,
Nelson Charles, Indian who came
to Alaska from the South, went
unfalteringly to his death at Ju
neau in the early morning hours
of November 10. It was the first
hanging ever recorded at Ju
neau.
While the condemned man was
awaiting death, his Indian wife
I was languishing in the federal
i jail at Ketchikan, serving a sen
: tence of three months on a drunk
i ad disorderly charge.
i The following detailed account
1 of the execution is taken from
j the Alaska Daiiy Empire of Ju
| neau:
The Indian walked unaided to
: the gallows under a porch at the
] northwest end of the Federal Jail
j Building. A white web belt strap
j ped his arms to his side as he
I walked in between U S Marshal
i Wm T Mahoney and Deputy Mar
I ihal Walter Hellan.
| Spiritual advisors, the Rev. W
i G LeVasseur and Capt. Stanley
! Jackson, had entered the execu
tion chamber a moment before.
After Charles spoke his final
words, his ankles were strapped
together by another white belt.
With the two officers supporting
him, he then shuffled inch by
inch to tlie center of the trap.
Spine difficulty was experienced
in puJling the black cap over his
abundant black hair. Mahoney
lifted the noose from a peg at
the side of the scaffold and pull
ed it snugly around Charles’
neck. The hangman’s knot was
adjusted just back of his right
ear. The Deputy's hand on his
shoulder supported the erect pri
soner, who clasped his brown
hands before him.
At a signal from Mahoney, Hel
lan flipped a switch at his side,
evidently to turn on a light as a
signal to a Deputy in another
room who actually sprung the
trap.
Charles fell and swung at the
end of the rope, without a sound
and without a motion. He must
have died instantly. The floor of
the platform partially hid from
the witnesses the upper part of
the dead man’s body. Fifteen feet
below, a plank stand was set up
so that the doctor could examine
the body. Dr, E F Vollert made
the first examination then Dr. W
W Council pronounced the single
, word “dead” at 8:52.
The body was not cut down,
i but was hauled back up through
the traps and removed from the
noose.
MISSES APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH
Reichfuelierer Adolph Hitler (left), accompanied by smiling Field
Marshal Goering, is shown as he arrived in Berlin from Munich
after escaping an apparent bombing attempt on his life by but
fifteen minutes. This picture was radioed from Beilin to New York.
Nelson Charles was found guil
ty by a Ketchikan jury of killing
Mrs. Cecilia Johnson, 51, at
Ketchikan on September 3, 1933,
As the jury refused to recom
mend life imprisonment, the
tanging sentence was mandatory
upon Distrct Judge George F
; Alexander.
Mrs. Johnson’s murder was as
brutal as could be imagined. Her
son-in-law was drunk at the time
Those aequanted with Charles
and with the ease explained that
by claiming innocence he meant
merely that he killed Mrs. John
son while he was out of his mind.
He has never sought to disown
the actual deed of killing her.
Nelson Charles was 37 years
old and looked younger. He en
listed with the U S Army in 1918
by saying he was 18 when as a
matter of fact he was only l(j.
He saw service in France and
was wounded.
The Charles hanging, accord
ing to general belief, was the
seventh legal execution in Alas
ka. Three were held in Fair
banks, one at Nome, one at Sitka,
one at Valdez and finally one at
Juneau.
POLISH JEWS FACE
DEATH NEW DECREE
LODZ, Poland, Nov. 25 — The
German administration decreed
any Jew leaving home excepting
by special permit between the
hours of 5 pm and 8 am will be
punished by death or, in the case
of extenuating circumstances, a
money fine of unlimited size, or
imprisonment, or both.”
"Also, death if a Jew of any
sex or age fails to wear a broad
yellow armband.”
FUR RENDEZVOUS IS
GIVEN ENTHUSIASTIC
START AT MEETING
Plans for the 1940 Anchorage
Fur Rendezvous were given offic
ial and enthusiastic launching at
a largely attending meeting held
at the Anchorage Grill last Mon
I day evening, and the concensus
!,.r -—-ent was that efforts
forth to make this
vvinter’s show bigger and better
than any thus far held.
“ S O U R I) O U G H ”
STATIONER!
At Nugget Office
That unique and humorous,
and typical Alaskan stationery—
‘Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have been
brought strictly uptodate, and are
now available at the Nugget offi
ce.
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
•everal forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports.
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers.
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EDUCATOR —Mrs. Dwight
Morrow (above), n ' ar of
Mrs. Charles A. L! a loersh,
this fall took over her duties as
acting president of Smitu college
at Southampton, Mass. She is
th ' widow of Mr. Mcrro .v, the
late ambassador to Mexico. |