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V0L 4, No. 100 NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. AUG. 29 1938. _Single Copy 25ctt.
Man Barely Escapes Torso Slayer
Ex.Convict Found Stripped And Crucified on Cross
’ Will Ask Funds for C distraction Air Bases Alaska
Returns to Mash.
Strong for Base
* In Alaska
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29
iff)—It has been disclosed that
the Army high command intends
to ask President Roosevelt for
his active support for an appro
priation by the next Congress to
start work on an Alaskan air
base.
* The disclosure followed the re
4 turn of Assistant War Secretary
Louis Johnson from an aerial
survey trip which he inspected
for possible base sites, and alter
nate routes for two thousand two
hundred miles, and the all wea
ther — Seattle-Fairbanks road
across British Columbia. John
son was non-committail of his
finds and merely said he would
report to the President.
The projects would supplement
» defensive measures, already un
dertaken and proposed by the
Navy along the shortest route
between America and the Orient.
It is further revealed that the
discussion of a possible site cen
tered around Fairbanks, but of
ficials are known to be interested
in several alternate sites, such
as Juneau or Gustaffson’s Point.
It was said that Fairbanks was
p considered preferrable as a train
a ir.g base, because of the compar
ative absence of fog, but the dif
ficulty of penetrating the fog
around enclosing mountain pass
es, tends to isolate Fairbanks
from the sea.
Honeymoon Ended
BOSTON, Aug.29, (/P)-nHis two
months honeymoon at an end,
John Rooseveilt, youngest son of
President Roosevelt, settled down
to a business career with a job
as stock clerk at a salary of $18
per week in a Boston Depart
ment Store.
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SLOVAK party leader in
Czechoslovakia is centle Father
Andreas minks (above), who
directs demand for autonomy by
2,300,000 Slovaks. This move*
ment is separate from autonomy
demands by 3,500,000 Sudeten
Germans led by Henlein.
Claimed Soldiers
Advancing Again
Against Loyalists
HENDAYE, Aug. 26, (/Pi—Gov
ernment sources today claimed
that militia hum driving south
from Puebla de Alcocer to Cas
cuera, cut off an insurgent speaT
head which was threatening Al
maden, the section including five
small towns, the center of the
; mercury mines.
j Government troops held their
own on the Ebro front. Loyalists
claimed that ninety-two insur
gent planes had been shot down
in the past month, and fourteen
pilots captured.
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Cleveland Man
Barely Escaped
Torso Slaver
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 29, (/P>—
Police searched for a doctor’s
'office in which a volunteer told
|them he was drugged and barely
!escaped being a victim of Cleve
land's Torso Slayer
The queerest story thus far in
a trail of twelve killings by a
'surgical maniac, came from Emil
Fronek, a Chicago waterfront
worker, who formerly frequent
ed the district in Cleveland
where most of the butchered bod
ies have been found.
He said the ‘‘doctor invited me
in and said he would give me
som shoes; he told me first he
vvuuid give me something to eat.
I was hungry, but while I was
eating I got sick and all I could
see was the door, and I jumped
up and rapi out."
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Spanish Destroyer
Sunk by Insurgent
Navy at Gibraltar
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GIBRALTAR, Aug. 26, </T*l—
The Spanish loyalist destroyer
Jose Jius Diez was crpipled af
ter a two and a half hour battle
with four insurgent naval vess
els, and twenty men aboard the
Diez were killed.
, The ship had been recently re
paired at Havre, and was seek
ing to reach Valencia, but fail
ed to run the gauntlet of insur
gent ships. It put in here, appear
ing to be badly down by the bow
and in sinking condition.
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THEY k A D THE INDIAN SICN on Fiord I.Ronche of the Indian affairs offljrr te
Washington when Chief Elijah (left). 80. a Canadian Oneida, petitioned Uncle Sam for privileges like
those enjoyed by American Oneidas. Through Interpreter William Charles (second from left) Oneidaa
asked especially for permission to hunt in New York state without licenses. David Hill’s at right.
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Farmer Got Mad:
Blew up city Bank
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Aug
27, (JP) — Ar. explosion which
wrecked the Mountainview bran
ch of the Bank of America turn
ed out today to be nothing more
than the revenge-attempt of a
disgruntled, customer. The bank
front was blown to bits Thurs
day by a powder explosion. The
blast was heard for more than 10
miles. Parts of the bank were
blown more than two blocks and j
windows in most of the homes in
Mountainview were shattered.
Everyone thought that bandits
had used too much powder in an
attempt ot rob the bank. Today.
Sheriff' Lyle announced that he
had solved the case and got a con
fession from Lorenzo Cerutti.
The sheriff explained—“The
bank foreclossed a mortgage on
Lorenzo’s ranch several years
, ago. It made Lorenzo mad. He
' kept thinking about it, getting
madder ever diay. Yesterday he
just up and decided to g t oven.
,He blew the w'hole front out of
the bank. He says he is sorry he
damaged so many buildings and
he’s over his mad."
Man Crucified By
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Two Underworld
Acquaintances
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RENO, Nevada, Aug. 26 (IP)—
Ed Colins, 3ged twenty-seven,
an ex-convict, was found stripp
ed and crucified '.o a crudr cross
on the outskirts of town. Last
night.
He told officers that he met
two former underworld acquaint
ances known only as Joe and
Swede, and that they had de
manded h accompany them in
a series of robberies.
He refused, saying he was go
ing straight. They said:
“All rigjht. You want to be a
lit !_• Jesus Christ. Well, we’ll
make you one "
They forced Collins to go with
them, and then nailed h:s hands
and feet to 3 cross fashioned of
lumbar stolen from a yard
Collins is now recov.r ng. the
doctors declared. He was releas
ed August 3rd from S ■ Quen
tin prison.
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; lates your political ads in the
outlying station without extra cos*
Breaks Speed Mark
For New Record
BONNEVILLE FLATS, Utah,
Aug. 27, (/Pj—-Captain George E.
T. Eyeston, smashed the world’s
automobile speed record to
slireds today, and boosted his
own mark to 345.49 miles per
hour.
Eyeston’s previous speed mark
was 311.42 miles per hour, made
last November.
In Terrific Drive
SHANGHAI, Aug 23 (/P)-^Jaip
anese and Chinese were engag
ed today in a terrific artillery
duel in the Yangtze valley, ap
paran y presaging a renewed
Japan se drive ' ke Hankow
before winter.
Japanese mrcraf . warships,
and infantry joined in what one
observer called the D.ggest off
ensive of the war.
Terrific ti at hampered oppos
ing sides, with the mercury rang
mg u,p to a hundred and forty
degrees.
! STEADY RAIN AND MELTING ICE from mountains have given Switzerland worst I
I 5 “ Aflood* In10 rear* the area near Mnenehenstelo being worst hit Here’s S flooded road. I