THE NOME NUGGET
VTHRKK S O MR, ALASKA. SATVROAY, JANUARY IfHh, 1034. 9eliv.r«l by C.rrior or M.,l«.
SENATOR ATTACKS DAUGHERTY
NORTH mi MUGBIE USVTIN TERRIFIC GALE
SENATOR CARAWAY
MAKES SWEEPIN6
CHARGE IN SENATE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—Senator Caraway assailed Secretary Deuby |
of the Navy and the Assistant Secretary Roosevelt in connection with .
their approval of Fall’s Teapot Dome Lease to the Sinclair Oil interests, j
and then attacked Attorney General Daugherty declaring that as long as i
Daugherty "remains at the helm of the Department of Justice they may j
cell the White House and be absolutely immune from prosecution in !
the Federal Courts.”
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 19—Former Secretary of the Interior Fall j
rigorously denied the accusations of Senator Caraway that there were |
any irregularities in the leasing of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserves
•to the Sinclair interests, and said that he did not receive any comp**nsa- [
tion from anyone.
FALL CHARGED WITH CORRUPT CONDUCT
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19—Fall, the former secretary of the Interior
was charged flatly with accepting a corrupt consideration in connection
with the Teapot Dome Oil lease, by Caraway in a speech on the floor
•of the Senate Wednesday afternoon. caraway said that it was the
first time in the history of the nation, anil he hoped it was the last that
m Cabinet Officer has betrayed the confidence and trust t-1 the American
people for a corrupt consideration.
DEMOCRATS AND a
PRO. REPUBLICANS
FORM COALITION
WASHINGTON, Jan. IS—The House Democrats and Republican in
surgents coalitioned for the first time in this session and routed the
Republican organization and repealed the Underwood rule which prae- |
tically made Jt impossible t>> offer from the floor the importnnt amend- j
ments of the Revenue Tariff Hills.
ASKS CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE WOODS ACTIVITIES
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19—In a resolution introduced by Senator
Ladd yesterday afternoon Congress was asked to .investigate the activities
of Governor General Wood in relation to the Philippine Government, its
Legislature. Banks, Railways, Sugar Control and the efforts to exploit the
island by American commercial interest, he also asked that a separate
investigation of the depositing of $31,449,219 in Philippine Government
funds in American banks and of the stock transaction by Wood's or his
eons who were associated with him be made.
ENGLAND WILL
COMPETE IN
WORLD FLIGHT
ENGLAND WELL COMPETE IN FLIGHT AROUND WORLD
IXJNDON, Jan. 19—English aviators will attempt a flight around
the world next April, they will hop off in the opposite direction from the
American Army aviators. The British Air Minister is backing the flight
and A. S. MacLaren, a distinguished Engitsn pilot will be the probable
commander of the flight.
VENIZELOS AGAINST BANISHMENT KING GEORGE
ATHENS. Jan. 19—Premier Venlselos has announced that he is
arranging a plebiscite on the banishment of King George. Venlselos Is
against the banishment of the King.
GIANT AIRSHIP
MOORING MAST
LAKEHITRST. N. J., Jan. 19—The Shenadoah, the largest airship,
in the world poked her nose into her hangar at the Naval Air Station at
Lakehurst at 4:24 o’clock Thursday morning after completing the most
remarkable flight an airship of her type ever made.
Trie flight was a fight against n wind wh.i-h was raging at a velocity ;
of 72 miles per hour. The terrific gale wrested the giant craft from her j
mooring mast at 6:52 Wednesday evening and swept her up the Atlantic
Coast on a mad chase to Staten Island where Captain Anton Heines, the {
German Zeppelin expert who was in command when she broke loose turn
ed her nose into the teeth of the raging storm and after fighting for
hours, succeeded in manueveuring the Dirigible back to her home port.
The Shenandoah had been hanging .it her mooring mast for a seven
day test for the purpose of testing mooring qualities before her
Polar flight this summer, when the storm wrested her from her masts
j and the wild dash up the cast resulted.
j LAKEHURST, Jan. 19 - Captain Hines. The Zeppelin expert declared
| that the flight of the Shenandoa-h during the storm when she broke
i loose from her hangar at Lakehurst. N. .1 . has given proof that the giant
; ship will complete the North Pole flight this summer. Captain McCreary
received from President Coolidge and many others messages of con
I gratulations for the officers and men’s action in saving the ship
McCreary said. "1 consider th< work of the crew in making a land
| ing with the nose of the ship collapsed and rhe rear rudder destroyed as
1 the most' remarkable feat in the history . r Aviation.
LAKEHURST. Jan. 19—The D rigild. Shenandoah was stored up
' yesterday for repairs that will fit hoi for the flight to the North Pol. via
! Nome. Alaska, at Nome it is planned to anchor her to a mast where the
j big ship will take on fuel and other supplies before hopping off on her j
| final trip over the North Pole and on to Spitsbergen.
FORMER CHAIRMAN SHIPPING IlOARI) GETS APPOINTMENT
WASHINGTON, Tan. ’9—Hurley, the formar Chairman of the
Shipping Hoard lias been nominated :;s a member of the War Debt Fund
ing Commission. Christian secretary to the late President Warren G.
! Harding, will be appointed a member fit' the Federal Trade Commission, j
WIRE ATTEMPT TO CORRECT INSURANCE A I.EEGER Si'll ’IDE
SEATTLE, Jan. 19— Mrs. Haze! Fisce and Doctor M. H. Mattiee. j
fiancee and father respectively, yesterday morning began suit for the
collection of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars life insurance of
Doctor Albert F. Mattiee, their contention being that the latter accident
ly killed himself last Thanksgiving Day. while the insurance company
refuse to pay, claiming Dial it was a plain case of suicide as was first
announced.
WIRSON WIRR RE ACTIVE IV PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19—Having been assured that a resolution 1
had been adopted assuring Wilson that the Democrats were going to ap
proach him on the Presidential campaign, Shaughnossy said that Wilson f
resolved t.» uphold the political and people’s ideals for which he gave his j
health and nearly his life. Merab- rs of the Democratic National Com- ;
mittee and three hundred other admirers late Wednesday afternoon call- j
ed and were received by Woodrow Wilson who was seated in his home •
when the callers came in. The party of callers arrived at the Wilson ;
home in one hundred taxicabs and were shown into the library.
DAWES DERIVERS HARD HITTING SPEECH
PARIS. Jan. 19—Dawes delivered a straight forward hard hitting i
speech at the opening of the meeting of the Committee of Experts, he
said, that he could not speak for the American Government and the !
American people hut as an individual he made an earnest plea for !
common sense and practical cooperation among the Nations so that j
Germany’s productiveness would be restored so she might meet her oh- |
ligations. ,
CREW OF <'REISER TACOMA BEING TAKEN ASHORE
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19—The crew is being moved from the Cruiser
Tacoina which ran aground on the Branqueilla Reef off Vera Cruz while
enroute to Tampico to reestablish communication with the United States
and to protect American'Interests.
DILL IN PICKLE
OVER SPEECH
IN THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 Senator Dill, Junior Democrat from the
State of Washington, got into the limelight twice yesterday afternoon
but in a way which may send him to political oblivion, he introduced
:• Bill to change the name of Mount Ranier to Mount Tacoma, and then
followed that up with a speech in the Senate urging Congressional action
to prevent the Shenandoah from being sent to the North Pole on account
of the ship having broken from her mooting masts and made a wild
dash along the Atlantic Coast, this was not the extent of the Senator's
harangue but lie continued and urged the Senate Naval Affairs Committee
to prohibit the us.- of further appropriations to pay for experimental
dirigible flights.
VOLCANO ON THE
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
IN ERUPTION
SEATTLE, Jan. 19- The fright., LatoUche of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, wirelessed front Western Alaska to Seattle last Thursday
and stated that the Southern edge of the Pavoloff Vokano'Vus blown off
at 11 A. M. Tuesday during a seven minuto earthquake which was prob
ably the continuation of the tremblers that shock Japan the same date.
14000 MILES IN MINUTE WIN FORTY FIVE SECONDS
COLUMBIA. Mo.. Jan. 19—Travelling fourteen thousand miles by
telephone and radio in a minute and forty five seconds was ..ccomplished
last night when Manager Santnoff of the Radio Corporation of America
sent a message to Iwake, Japan and received his answer by telephone at
Columbia, Missouri.
ANOTHER SHIP FOR ALASKA SERVICE
SEATTLE. Jan. 19- The Alaska Steamship Company's steamer
Yukon, which was formerly known is the Colon, and which has been
operating between New York and the Cana!, is being brought from Balboa
to be reconditioned at either San Francisco or Seattle for Alaska service.
BILLS INTRODUCED
FOR PROVIDINB
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—Two measures providing revenue as ,i
means to provide for a soldiers bonus was introduced in the Senate by
Senator Cooeland of New York and Curtis of Kansas. The Copeland
Bill would give veterans one dollar and twenty five cents for every day
served nut to exceed six hundred and twenty five dollars and proposes
issuing bonds to the amount of one and one half billion dollars which
would run for sixty years at not more than five percent, redeeming
twenty five million annually. The Curtis Bill retains an amusement tax
on soldiers with increased taxes on certain amusements and devoting the
proceeds exclusively to the Bonus requirements. The Mellon Plan pro
poses the discontinuance of all amusement taxes.
AUTOMOBILE RUNS IM>WN AGED WOMAN
SEATTLE, Jan. 19—Run down by an automobile which was driven
by N. J. Foy, a mechanic, Mrs. Nellie White, a widow 6 2 years of age
sustained a broken back, a broken arm and broken leg. The last reports
from the hospital were that the aged woman was still alive.
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