THE NOME NUGGET
VOLUME 25. No. 42. NOME, A L A 8 K A. SATURDAY, OCTOliEIl 20, 102.1. D«!iv*r«d by Cifn«r or Mailed $1 00 p#-r Month
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FEDERAL JUDGE
NARROWLY ESCAPES
FLYING BULLETS
SEATTLE, Oct. 20—At the time Hamburger was shot he was sitt
ing with Federal Judge Cushman who narrowly escaped being hit by
another bullet. Mrs. Davis who was shoit at the same time, was hold
ink the hands of her son and nelce who were walking, one on each side
of her. Hamburger who was Federal Judge Cushman’s secretary, spent
ten years in Alaska principally as Court Stenographer at Valdez.
The bullets which so narrowly missed striking Judge Cushman
and which laid low Hamburger and Mrs. Davis were fired by Policeman
Short of the Seattle Police Department in an attempt to stop a trio of
fleeing shoplifters. The streets were crowded at the time of the shoot
ing and the lives of many people were endangered by the flying bullets.
FEDERAL OFFICER FIRES FOUR SHOTS AT IIOOTLECMiERS
SEATTLE, Oct. 20—Scarcely three blocks from the place where
Patrolman Short wounded Hamburger and Mrs. Davis. Gordon B. Osarn.
a Federal Officer fired four shot.s at. fteeing bootleggers. One of the
fleeing men is suspected of being Fritz Shadwick.
AIR MAIL SERVICE
TOJDUCH NOME
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20—Sixty five hour air mail service from
New York to Pekin was the prediction yesterday afternoon by General
William Mitchell of the Army Air Forces. He said the trip could be
made in four hours from New York to Lake A-thabaska. Canada, thence
to Nome. Alaska, and then north along the Amoor River and Pekin
SAYS FORD PROBABLY GET NOMINATION FOR PRESIDES T
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20—-Henry Ford in all probability will net the
Presidential Nomination on the Prohibition Party Ticket according to
Virgil G. Henshaw, chairman of the Prohibition National Committee who
issued from here a call for a National Conference at Washington. I>. C.
FORMER -SECRETARY TO SENATOR ARRESTER
NEW YORK. Oct. 20—Nine men including Harry Foley who was
former secretary to Senator Edwards of New Jersey and now State Supt.
of Weights and Measures were arrested late yesterday by Federal Agents
and charged with bribing or attempting to bribe Prohibition Agents with
$80,000 not to report violations of the dry laws.
MELLON CALLS DEBT COOMMISSION TO MEET
WASHINGTON. Oct. 20—Secretary Mellon called the debt com
mission to meet today but declared he would not dtiscuss at this time
what subjects would be considered.
NO ONE BEEN DESIGNATED WRITE BIOGRAPHY HAKR1NG
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—No one has been designated by Mrs.
Harding to write the biography of the late President, Warren G. Harding,
according to a formal statement made by Attorney General Daugherty.
FISH COMMISSIONER AND PROHIBITION OFFICER FIGHT
REDDING, Oct. 20—James S. White. Deputy Fish and Game
Ccmmisatoner vesiding at Castella, Calif., is dead and John Viii of Oak
land a prohibition enfc.;cement officer is badly wounded as a result of a
pisto: fight between the 'wo men in a Castella Hotel which was being
raided yesterday afternoon by prohibition officers.
NO CLOSED SEASON FOR HALIBUT FISHING MW-*24
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—The State Department issued a notice
yesterday that there would be no closed season on Halibut Ashing during
the winters of 182S-'14.
SHERIFF AND CONSTABLE KILL EACH OTHER IN ROW
> JBFPEaW°N. Teua. Oct. *0—B. *. Rodger*, M yearn old and W.
B. Procter, 8beri«r.ai CoutoMe reoaeetteelj of ,*.rlro oeun«rSought
» Ptatol 4uel When .aw met « the .meet. «oth dead „ . reMlt,
row started over‘the mmtee <$t Owpt JWera.
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WOOD’S MESSAGE
TO LEGISLATURE
RECEIVED SILENTLY
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MANILA, Oct. 20—When Governor General Wood completed the
reading of his fifty thousand word annual message t<* the Legislature there
was no sound of approval or disapproval and he marched out of the
room amid deathly silence, according to a dispatch from Manila.
lilXJVD (IKOKtiK ILL, ( ANCKLS IHWKK K\(i.A(lFAIE\T
CHICAGO, Oct. lb Lloyd George cancelled a dinner engagement
at. the Chicago Club last night because of illness. The dinner was to have
been given by Charles G. Dawes.
ATTBMPT I lit FI A K WILL OF' LATFI \ KWSIWPFllt I'L'KLISHRK
CHICAGO. Oct. 1!*—Sixteen cousins of the late Deiavi-n Smith,
the millionaire newspaper publisher of Indianapolis, have brought suit
to break the will which disposed of $.1.rt(M».ft00 in bequests.
aiim'la\f:s ikf;d iiv him ihnnfiks.
BOSTON, Oct. 20- Airplanes are used extensively by Boston Kuril
Runners in ttansporting liquor from ships outside the three mile limit
to landing places on Cape Cod. This airplane whiskey is extensively sold
at twelve dollars per quart.
NFINATOU JON FIS DF1PAHT F’Olt WASHINGTON
Seattle, Oct. 1!)-—Sen. Jones departed for Washington early be
cause he had a Senate Commerce Committee meeting which will he
charged with the duty of preparing a program dealing with the Alaska
Fisheries. He wants to be on the ground well before the Session of
Congress opehs.
VERBAL BATTLE
RABES AMERICA*
LEGION CONVENTION
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20 A terrific: verbal battle over the Ku
Klux Klan and Anti Klan resolutions, during which the Press of the cou-n- !
try was charged with trying to split the American Legion took place at 1
the American Legion Convention yesterday. The Klan Question raged
several hours during the session of the American Legion, resulting in the ’
adoption of the Michigan Anti Klan resolution which avoids using the
name “Hooded Order.''’ 933 delegates made it known that while the
Legion objects to the Klan order, it will not denounce it through resolu- •
tions which call a “Spade a Spade.” With equal force the Legion voted
down Pro Klan resolutions of the Oklahoma delegates.
MANY DELEGATES TO AMERICAN LEGION MEMBERS OF K. K. K.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2o—Developments of preliminary moves
on the eve of the formal opening of the American Legion Convention i
are members of the K. K. K. A purely American Immigration Bill i
administered solely by Americans is needed In the United States, Secre- !
tary of Labor Davis told the Delegates, and added that America must be i
for America against the whole world.
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AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VETERANS INVITED TO FRATERNIZE !
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20—The City of Victoria threw the Ameri- !
Can Legion National Convention into an uproar Tuesday afternoon by |
smashing all precedents and inviting on the platform that the coming j
National CSonvention be held on Caandian soil in order that the American j
veterans could fraternize with their old comrades tn arms.
WOULD 'HAVE SOMMER BONUS TOLL DEFEATED
WASHINGTON, Oct, 20—If Congress will refrain from paasing !
the Bonus Bill. Federal Tw»s can be. qqt .ftve hundred million dollars I
according to Brnnot who is Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. J
That statement was made by Smoot after be "had held a conference with j
Coolidge and'Mellon.
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100 MILES ALASKA
RAILROAD OAMAGEO
RY HEAVE RAINS
WASHINGTON, October 20- Secretary Work advised from An
chorage that the recent rainstorm combined with a tide six feet above
any record level, has crippled 100 miles of the Alaska Railroad between
Seward and Potter.
A VOTHKK STOKM IIKKWIXG AliONti AI*ASKA COAST
PORTLAND, Oct. 20—Warning of another storm brewing off the
Alaska Coast was sent out by the District Weather Office in Portland
,S OF :I7 STATUS ASSKMItLK IN WKST I’.APKV
WEST BADEN, lud.. Oct. 20—Governors of thirty seven States
and Territories moved on this city yesterday to participate in the Fifteen
th Annual Conference of Governors to discuss National and Regional pro-,
blems and to organize and prepare a program for the meeting in Wash
ington Saturday Oct. 2t»th with President CuoUdge t-> consider Prohibition
enforcement.
BIG ALASKA DAY
SPEECHES SEATTIE
PIHST RAISING .X>1 ERICA\ XT SITK.X OBSERVED SEATTLE
SEATTLE. Oct. 20—The Fifty-Sixth anniversary raising of the
j American Flag at Sitka was observed in Seattle on Oct. 1 sth. A pro
gram including speech making and an outdoor ceremonial which was
arranged by the Young Men’s Business Club which is sponsoring the
movement to make Alaska and her resources better known to the world,
was held. chief among the events of the day was an address on Alaska
and what tin- Northern Territory means tn the United States, by B. O.
ALASKA DAY <'KLKIillATED IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE. Oct. 2<i This year saw the largest and most impressive
Alaska Day celebration in Seattle since that city began the observance
of the anniversary of the purchaes of the Territory. W. T. Perkins
spoke at the monument in Volunteer Park, paying the highest tribute to
the Statesmanship of Seward. B. C. Forbes frankly confessed in Ms
speech on Alaska that he knew very little about Alaska, but observed
that the center of the world’s activities has crossed the Atlantic and are
now crossing the continent headed towards Alaska and Siberia. Making
the principal Alaska Day address. Falcon Joslin said that the Salmon
Packing Industry amounted to $30,000,000 and that this was only one
of several varieties of successful fishing industries. He said that the
Herring Pack had sprung from nothing to 130.000 barrels a year and
the United States uses one million barrels annually and gets most of the
supplies from Scandinavian countries. If Alaska should produce it all
the sale would amount to twenty million barrels of Halibut, the industry
would then be worth five billion dollars a year to Alaska.
BOV SCOUTS PLACE WREATH OX SEWARD’S STATUTE
SEATTLE, Oct. 20—Boy Scouts placed a wreatli on Seward’s statute
in Volunteer Park as a Special feature of the Alaska Day of Alaska Week
which is being observed under the auspices of the Young Men’s Business
Club. The attendance at the exhibition of Alaska Products was very
gratifying.
EUROPE IS LIKENED TO A “RAGGED MAN”
CHICAGO, Oct. 20—‘In an address at the International Amphi
theatre last night, Lloyd George said “Europe is like a ragged man stand
ing in a front plate glass window of a well stocked stoTO. his need of
clotbea la infinitely greater than that well dressed man who is making
extensive purchases inside, hie need o< food is more urgent than that
well fad gentleman .who is .ooming in after a good meal, for he ean buy
neither *food nor satisfy jbls.luinger, nor clothes to eover his nakedness.’*
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