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THE NOME NUGGET
;|4 NOME, ALASKA. SATVRDAY, AlOl’HT 23. 1924 * 9<H,ver«d by Cs-r:.. OI M.d.-d.41 00 prr Mo
U. $. FLYERS ARRIVE GREENLAND
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AMERICAN FLYERS
REACH GREENLAND:
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REYKJAVIK, Auk. 23—The two American flyers, Smith and Nel- j
non, and the Italian, Locatelli. who is accompanying them left at ’
three o’clock yesterday, on schedule, for Frederick sdale and passed the j
Cruiser Richmond seventy miles off the coast with Locatelli leading. ,
Smith took off from the water a few minutes past eight o’clock in the i
morning and Nelson rose two minutes later. The weather was beau- J
tiful and the flying conditions excellent. Smith and N sod had j
worked all night on the planes, and the weather instruments and re- ,
ports, in order to meet any weather or mechanical condition which
might arise on their jump of eight hundred and twenty tj\. miles j
HALIFAX. Aug. 23- Smith and Nelson, the American world cir
cumnavigators, reached Greenland from Iceland almost simultaneously
at ten o’clock last night, but the Italian flyer. Locatelli was not
mentioned in the dispatches.
DAWES PLAN CAl’SES VIOLENT (OMMINIST DEMONSTRATION
PARIS, August 23 The presentation of the Hawes - Ian in the
Chamber of Deputies, occasioned violent demonstrations imoat the
Communists. They urged n debate to their motion to adjourn until
1 he Senate passes th eAmnesty Bill, and tin- afternoon passed without
a word of discussion on the I>awes Plan.
FAILURE IMSH HOMY ('HAKItT FAR ENOUGH EXPOSER H4> T
CHICAGO. Aug. 23- Joseph Savage. Assistant Prosecutor in the
Franks murder case, argued to Judge Caverly in the Chicago Court
today that the failure of Leopold to push the body of Robert Franks
far enough into the culvert, caused its discovery and the break of the
plot. Otherwise, he said. “they wouldn't have been apprehended
in a hundred thousand years."
THOMAS MARSHALL ARC CCS FOR DEATH SKNTENt E
CHICAGO. Aug. 22 Thomas Marshall. Deputy States Attorn. >
today argued to the Court that Leopold and Loeb had committed two
of the three crimes punishable by death in the State of Illinois, kid
napping and murder. He declared that their philosophy excuses them
no more than the ideas of the Mormons, or those of the Hayrnarket
anarchists, and pleaded that they he given the death sentence.
FIRST PHOTO OF MARS TAKEN WHEN NEAREST EARTH
SAN JOSE. Aug. 23 Associate Director Aitken of the Lick Ob
servatory announced today that the first photographs of the planet
Mars at the point •closest to the earth were taken Tuesday night and
were successful.
P. & R. TRAIN HITS TRUCK, TWO KILLKII. ONE HURT
WATERTOWN. N. J.. Aug. 23—-Two persons were reported killed
and one hurt when a Philadelphia and Reading Passenger train hit
a truck. The locomotive was derailed and turned backward, and
two coaches were overturned.
MrCOY REFUSES PLEAD WHEN ARRAIGNED
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 23—Kid McCoy, with (Hushing eyes, cried
“I do not!” when arraigned on the charge of murder and asked
if he wanted to change his plea of guilty, which was entered when he
admitted the killing. From the investigation of Monday, it is said
by the police that the alibi of Albert Moers. the divorced husband of
the murderd woman, is air-tight.
JUDGE ROSE PROBABLY NOMINATED FOR SENATOR
CHEYENNE. Aug. 22—Returns from yesterday’s primaries from
one hundred and two precincts out of six hundred and eighty five,
gave Judge Robert Rose of Casper, 1304 for the Democratic nomination
for United States Senator from Wyoming, and Jos. Mahoney, of Chey
enne, former secretary to Senator Kendrick, received 1462. The first
fifty three precincts heard from gave Mahoney 950 and Roee 054.
BOXER TO BRING i
WRECKED CREWS i
BACK TO NOME!
ABOARD BOXER. Auk 22 Tin- Arctic is a total wreck in the,
ice and was crushed August 10th., live miles south of Point Barrow
The crew is safe. Lady Kindersley is caught in the heavy ice pack j
twenty five miles off Tangent and the crew yesterday abandoned th*-j
vessel. The Boxer is standing by to take Kindersley crew of 10 j
the Ice. and the Boxer will then take both crews to Nome.
LATER Information received later than the above states that I
the crew of the Lady Kindersley abandoned the vessel and attempt* '.
to reach shore, but found open water between the vessel and shor* i
and were forred to turn back to the wrecked vessel.
SCHOONER ARCTK TOTAL WRECK. REPORTED
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 1’:: Liebes and Company has received i
word that their gas schooner Arctic was a total loss and her cargo <!*■ 1
stroyed when the schooner was crushed in the ice August lath. Cap
tain Bertoniei and his crew of twenty are safe at Point Barrow.
JACOBS. CALIFORNIA BEATS CARDNER OE BOSTON
BROOKLINE. Mass. Aug. L'T Helen Jacobs of Berkeley. Cali
fornia. fifteen years of are. defeated Katherine C.ardner of Boston for
the National woman's junior tennis title by a score of six to two; and
six to two. in the Longwood tournament her* today. Miss Jacobs
came East seeking this title, and expressed her gratideation that sin
had fulfilled her expectations.
iH Ys neak-iieer. it explodes. loses i:yk. hi: si ks
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 23—William Foster today sued the mak
ers of a barrel of near-beer for twenty-five thousand dollars because
he asserted that when lie went to open his purchase, it exploded and
put out his right eye.
PRINCESS MAISY CLAVE BIRTH SECOND SON
COLDSROKOlCH, Aug. 23 Princess Mary, the daughter of the
King of England and the wife of Viscount Lnsoelles. today gave birth
WARTIME SHIPBUILDER
DISAPPEARSFROM YACHT
SEATTLE. August 23 N. Seaborn. Wartitn shipbuilder of
Tacoma, disappeared from his private yacht Wednesday night off Mag
nolia Bluff. K. H. Scheel. the architect of the yacht wha was a
guest of Seaborn's, left Seaborn on the lower deck with a coil of rope
in his hand, and went to the upper deck to get a robe for him. Sea
born was gone when Scheel returned and there was no trace of him
anywhere. Seaborn had gone a two-day’s trip around the island with
the yacht to get supplies, because he was nervous and afraid to drive
an automobile, taking Scheel with him. Other friends of Seaborn’s
left the vessel while Scheel was phoning to the police at Salmon Bay
Lock. Scheel did not learn the names of the friends. Seaborn’s bro
ther Henry, was a Seattle war time ship builder.
SAMVEL CAHX, PIONEER OP ALASKA AND SKITTLE DEAD
TACOMA. August 23- -Samuel Cahn. pioneer Seattle hardware
man. and one of the first prospectors to reach Fairbanks in the gold
rush, dietl here last night of heart failure.
HiOtiLiOHTS OF DAWES
SPEACH OF ACCEPTANCE
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PARIS, August 23 The French Cabinet today approved the de- •
duration for Ilerriot to later make to both Chamber* of Parliament !
before tin- Deputies. Herriot said • I. for my part, have chosen, but
nothing tinal has been done in Parliament. It in its t'trn can choose."
He said the evacuation of the Ruhr dominated everything at the In- ’
ternationai Conference and lie had to ehoose between "the Interallied .
Entente and a continuane.- of isolation of action." He said this after
noon that evacuation was the great principle established sit London.
PARIS. Aug. 23 The ' i. ruber of Deputies late today rejected
by 302 to 2"*» the approval of Harriot's action before the International 1
HESSIAN BRITISH TREATY HAILED RED TRIUMPH
.MOSt'OW, August 23 Negotiation of the Treaty between Russia
and (ireat Britain was hailed here as a triumph of Red diplomacy
at the Plenary meeting last night in Moscow.
I.ARREST PCRLISIIER OF ORIENT WOl'NDHIl RY BANDITS
SHANGHAI, Aug. 23 Y ( Ban. Manager of the Commercial
Press Limited, andthe largest publisher in the Orient was wounded to
day when lie refused two bandits money on the street in broad day
light. He disarmed one of the bandits and the other shot him. and
they then threw him into an automobile and sped away, but the po
lice intercepted the automobile and a fight ensued in which one po
liceman was critically wounded, on.* bandit escaped and one committed
suicide.
GEN. HARBOR!) REVIEWS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
CHATAIJQCA, Mass.. Aug. 23 General Harbord. former Deputy
Chief of Staff of the Armies of the United States, gave to the Insti
tute of International Relations of Christians here today liis point of
view concerning present international relations. He cautioned Am
erica to be warned against a combination of the Germans. Russians.
Chinese and Japanese. He urged American armament to a sufficient
degree to place us as the tirst world power for either offense or de
fense. unless international co-operation could be had for the limitation
of armament. He declared that Russia and Germany would not long
remain content and exclude the Far East, and explained “Our unhappv
wav of doing things may have lost us the warm friendship of Japan."
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