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THE NOME NUGGET
VO!>. 2<*. No. 44. NOME, A L A 8 K A. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1924. Oeliver«d by Carr.tr or M.,tod.$1 00 per Mo.it*
NOME NAMED ON AIR MAIL ROUTE
CMSERTATIVES DEFEAT BRITISH LABOR PARTY
NEW YORK TO
PEKING AIR MAIL j
LINE VIA NOME!
DAYTON, Ohio. Oct. 31. <AP)—Special—Lieuten
ant Carl Eilson of the Army Air Service who tried
out the air mail route for Alaska with much success,
conferred with the officers at McCook Field today
concerning plans that he had perfected to establish j
a four-stop air mail route from New York to Peking,!
China, which he declared is under consideration of
the Postal officials in Washington
NOME NAMED AS SECOND STOP
DAYTON. O.. Nov. 1, (AP)—Special—Lieuten
ant Eilson in his .conference with the Dayton Air
Field officers stated that the stops recommended by
him for the four-stop New York to Peking mail lino
were Reno. Nevada, .Nome. Alaska, Manchuria and
Peking. He declared that air mail officials approv
ed of his plan for the establishment of this service.
Dayton airport officials said that the air service has
no equipment at this time that is capable of success
ful use for the enterprise but that machines could be
built at any tim** for covering the route regularly
and that the plan was feasible aad commendable.
The object of coming aR far north as Nome would be
that eld give this town a service that is sorely
needed and also do away with thp necessity of having
to cross a broad expanse of water to reach the main
land of Asia.
POLITICAL OBSERVERS
AGREE LA FOLLETTE
RUN SECOND
Seattle. Nov. J, (AP)—The Associated Press ad
vance matter showed the states of Washington and
Michigan tied for leadership in the number of meas
ures going before the people for voting on next
Tuesday, with eight measures each. These states
and no others are voting on anti-private school
bills. Political observers generally agreed that La
Follette would run second in the presidential vote
in the state of Washington but that President Cool
idge would have a considerable margin. Next to
Washington und Michigan in direct legislation meas-,
ures Massachusetts leads with five measures. Miss- <
issippi has four and three are reported in Califor
DRAG TWO
HOODED ‘DEVILS’
FROM AUTO
YOUNG LAD WOUNDED WHEN
TROUBLE STARTS OVER KLAN
NILES, Ohio, Nov. 1, (AP)—A man in an auto
mobile fired into a crowd holding a meeting on
Main Street today and wounded ten-year old Frank
McDermott, son of John McDermott, chairman of i
meeting that bad been held to request Governor Don
ahy to send troopB to preserve order in view of a
meeting of the Ku Klux Klan and Knights >f the
Flaming Circle in case of a second clash. A crowd
near the headquarters of the Circle dragged • wo
robed Klansmen from an automobile and nfie, giv.
in.* them a severe beating, ordered then: out of
the neighborhood. Sheriff Thomas and Chief of
Poltoe Rounds renewed the appeal for the troops.
BRITISH LABOR
PARTY LOST OUT
IN ELECTION
LONDON, Oct. 31, (AP)—Special—Returns on
the genera! election here up to four o’clock this af
ternoon give the conservatives 359 seats; the labor
party 137, the liberals 37 and other parties 12. mak
ing 545 out of the total number of 615 to be elected.
Lloyd George, former Premier, was re-elected over
MacDonald and former Premier Asquith was defeated
by two votes Lady Astor and Miss Wilkenson were
elected among the women candidates and among the
women defeated is Miss Margaret Bonefiold. a mem
ber of tb- MacDonald Government.
LONDON Oct 31. (API According to late re
ports among ladies running for office in the House,
Lady Astor Duchess At hell and Mrs. Hilton Phillip
son were elected for the conservatives and Miss Wil
kenson of the Labor party was assured victory.
LONDON 31. (API- Late counts of the gen
eral election show that England has put a crushing
end to her first experience of labor government, re
turn;: _ ;h* mservative element to power by one of
the most overwhelming majorities of the last cen
tury. Tb* labor party sank to its lowest position
’•.**. r*^*.ijgnroent of the parties over ninety years
ago at the time of the reform bill. John Robert
dynes Ix*rd Privy of the Real is among the re
CARDIFK. Oct. 31. (AP) — Responding enrouto
to London when a speech was demanded, ex-Premier
MacDonald said that defeat was sometimes the finest
thing that could happen to a party. He declared
that he envies the conservatives their jobs with the
rre'*e*jt state of trade and the general outlook.
LONDOfy Oct. 31. (API- The Laborite cabinet is
understood after a two hours session to have decided
•to remain in office a few days and then resign before
the Parliament opens The delay of the retirement
Is attributed to the necessity to finish departmental
business A communique announced that the cabin
et appointed a committee to examine the authenticity
of Z’neoveifl
2 SEATTLE HI6H
SCHOOL BOYS
ELECTROCUTED
TWO HIGH SCHOOL ROYS ELECTROCUTED
WHILE PLAYING HALLOWE’EN PRANK j
SEATTLE, Nov. 1, (API—Tom Magee and Fred J
Vanderstay, West Seattle High School students were
killed last night by electricity. from an electric wire
which they were using to hoist a garbage can to !
a cross-arm of a light pole when it came in con- j
tact wJtb a live wire.
FOOTBALL RESULTS
SEATTLE, Non. 1, (AP)—Fridays football games
in the intercollegiate series resulted in Stanford win
ning over Santa Clara by 20 to 0. and the Univer
sity of Idaho winning from the favored Oregon
Aggies. 21 to 0.
CA BLESTUP * DELLWOOD ESTABLISHES
NEW’ MARITIME RKCOK1)
SEATTLE. Nov. 1, (AP)—The cableship Dell
wood arrived after repairing seven breaks in twenty
days on her third return from Seward.
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CAMPAIGN FUNDS
ARE MADE PUBLIC
BY CUMMITTEE
CHICAGO. Oct. 31. (API- Treasurer Hodges of
the Republican National Committee informed the
Senate Committee that the contributions to date tot
aled >3.Tod,ooo and that over $750,000 had been
| sent back to the State Campaign Funds, leaving al
i most $3,000,000 in the Presidential. Senatorial and
Congressional funds. The Democratic National Com
! mjjtee report to the Clerk of the House >i liepre
♦ sentatives showed total receipts of 8552.3*.' to Sut
1 urda> with expenditures of 8725.<'50.
j WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. iAI'i The In
I vesligatinp committee told Joseph R. Grundy Hristol
| manufacturer and chairman of the Pennsylvania Ile
! publican Ways and Means Committee whose letters
, LaFollette first quoted in charging a slush fund that
he “must appear.” Gilson Gardner, newspaper sup
potter of LuFollette testified yesterday that William
March of Washington approached him presenting a
J plan of subsidizing the Shubert Theatrical Corpora
• tion. offering to put on a campaign for $50,000 in
cluding favorable lines in vaudeville programs. He
said he rejected the offer and that A! Jolson. John
Drew, charlotte Greenwood ami other actors called
'*n Coolidge, he concluded that he had accepted the
proposition.
SCH. ACME
HITS WHISKEY
ROCK—IS LOST
, BANDON, Oregon. Oct. 31. <AP» The steam
j Schooner Acme was discovered at daybreak by a
i lighthouse keeper to be ashore on Whiskey Rock.
J miles north of Bandon. Two life saving crews from
j Bandon rushed to the scene with a boat on a motor
J truck which was ferried over the Co.piile river and
Ian appeal was sent to tin- Coos Bay Coast Guard Sta
tion for assistance. A heavy rain driven by the
[strong wind delayed the keeper from identifying the
j vessel which curried a crew of eighteen and was
j loaded with a hundred tons of rails front San Frau
j cisco for Bandon. The ship is 154 feet long and;
J two hundred sixty-nine tons, and is owned by tho |
; Moore Mill and Lumber Company of San Francisco
land Bandon. At last reports a heavy sea was run
ning and the crew was still aboard.
NAVI-: < Iti:\\ W ITH IWKKCHKK-ltrOY
j
j BANDON. Ore.. Nov. 1. (AM) Special—The life j
j savers who went to the assistance of the Acme with j
a boat on a motor truck, struck a bad road and were!
j compelled to drag the dory for a mile to the beach, i
; Before they had arrived a member of the crew had f
struggled ashore through the breakers and math* a
line fast to a log attempting to take the remaining I
17 members of the crew and Captain Fred Miller off
by the hand-over-hand method. The life guards ar
rived in time to rig up the breeches-buoy and with
much difficulty managed to bring all safely to shore.
On acc6unt of the raging surf the vessel has been
given up for lost with its ckrgo valued at $450.000.
WARM WEATHER IN CHI
CHICAGO. Oct. 31. TAP)—A drop of twenty de
grees in temperature is expected today after yester
day's record for this time of the year, the thermom
eter showing 7fi degrees. It was the hottest of that
date for thirty years.
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CUTTER MOJAVE
FORCES WAY THRU
ARCTIC ICE FIELDS
1 The Coast Guard ( utter Mojave, (/apt. Ralph W
i Dempwolf left N'orne on the night of the 23rd on dual
j missions of mercy and returned to this port on Tues
day morning after having encountered conditions
' which made it impossible to cruiBe further.
The primary object of the late trip to the Aretii
.was to search tor the Schooner Silver Wave, of the
I-omen R^ndeer and Trading Corporation- which is
'drifting helplessly with five men aboard somewhere
-in the vicinity of Kotzebue Sound, and at the satn«
•time taking provisions to Teller where, owing to
(the failure of the Schooner Appolo to arrive, a state
| of want was beginning to be felt. The people of
. Teller were grateful for the provisions brought and
| voiced their praise of the Cutter for coming to their
I •' was necessary for the Mojave to break ice go
ing into Teller and while there, some time was spent
1 in overhauling the oil pumps which had become af
j fected by the cold, and Chief Engineer Wood is said
; to have been very efficient in his manner of handling
this work in jig time
Leaving Teller the Cutter headed for Cape Prince
i1,1 "*n'es where eight Eskimos with dogs and otniaks
. were taken aboard in case it was found possible to
i ceach the lost boat over the ice. Continuing on
i through the Straits they cruised along the north
roast ot Seward Peninsula to Kotzebue Sound, sig
nalling all nigln with the powerful searchlights which
sent great beams of light which could be seen for
miles. At 5 a. m. October 2f>. ice from four to six
inches thick was struck and the vessel was slowed
.down until daybreak when Captain Dempwolf forced
! ,u‘r ini° * be ice for the distance of ten miles inside
tin* mouth of the Sound and a short distance south
ot the Arctic Circl*-. At this point it was found
that the ice was becoming too thick and able to go
no further maneuvered to take a northwest course out
again \ good deal of new Ice was bucked most
of the wa> to a point, about tifteen miles northwest
or Cape Krusenstern That night they worked their
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LAtFOLLETTE SUES
SEATTLE TIMES
FOR $100,000
SEATTLE. Nov. 1, iAPi Alleging that the Se
attle Daily Times published on October nineteenth
"False, defamatory and libelous matter” suit has
been started against the publication for a hundred
thousand dollars in behalf of Robert LaFoilette.
ASKS ItlTtKAI TO SEND All!
TO FAMILY AT APOLAK
SEATTLE. Nov. 1. (AIM Howard Findley. At
torney for the Kuskokwim Fishing and Trading Co.,
received a telegram from Louis Knaflich. president
of the company asking the Bureau of Education
succur his wife and two small children at Apolak
Knaflich left the family there in May and came
to Seattle with the catch of fish shipped on the
Schooner Apollo. ^ He started to return with them
via Nome but the ice and storms caused the Apollo
to put back into Dutch Harbor after having landed
Knaflich at Good News Bay one hundred and twen
ty-five miles from Apolik ten days ago. Wagner.
Chief of the Bureau cabled to Earl Forest. Super
intendent at Akiak. to have G. Anderson. Bureau
teacher at Bethel to go with n dog team to the re
lief of Kaaflich’s family.