Nome is the Distributing Center and Gateway to Northern Alaska OIL FIELDS
8 Pages THE NOME NUGGET
VOLUME 28. No. 14.
NOME. ALASKA SATURDAY, APRIL 8. 1022
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CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT CRITICISED
REQUESTS RPPROPRUTMtS FOR NEW CABLE
JUSTICE TAFT HOBNOBS
TOO MUCH WITH
IDLE RICH SET
WASHINGTON, April 8—Chief Justice Taft was severely criticised
in the Senate yesterday by Senator Norris for hobnobbing at too many
social functions with idle rich. No man, Senator Norris said, can stick
his legs under the table of the idle rich every night and be fit to sit in
judgment the next day on those who toil.
Senator Norris continues his attack by saying that social activities
here are seriously affecting public business and men in high authority must
assume a different attitude if the confidence of the mass of people is to be
retained.
FREE STATE BARRACKS CAPTURED
LONDON, April 8—j-Irish Army Mutineers last nforht captured the
barracks at Rathtarhan, South of Dublin, which Free State troops occupied
MORE KILLED IN IRELAND
c -
, ijft LONiyS. .JP**' Ftw SWil+l «>«*•• K^.a«.U|W in the
counties Clare and Kerry last bight.
FRENCH BETRAYER
OF EDITH CAVELL
EXECUTED
LONDON. April 8—Annond Jeannes, a Frenchman, the betrayer of
Edith Cavell, martyred English nurse, was executed at Mons, Belgium .
Jeannes was condemned to death on April fifth for treason and
esponago during the war. He openly boasted that he had been instru
mental in bringing about the arrest and execution of Edith Cavell by the
Germans.
BUREAU OF MINES
OIRECTOR WILL
VISIT NOME
WASHINGTON, April 8—Bain, Director of the Bureau of Mines
and his Secretary E. B. Swanson, will sail from Seattle for Alaska May 1st.
to investigate Naval Coal restrves. They will proceed directly to Mata
nuaka to arrange for the transportation of coal from Chickaloon and Coal
Creek properties. The itinerary will include Nome and Fairbanks and
the party expects to spend two months in the Territory.
FACTIONS FIGHT IN JERUSALEM
LONDON, April 7—Seventeen were killed during a factional fight
between two Arab villages near Heberton, Palestine, says a Jerusalem
dispatch to the Times, ^
HOUSE REPUBLICANS WANT TO ADJOURN
WASHINGTON, April 8—House Republicans have started a quiet
movement for a six weeks rest beginning May 1st under a three day recess
plan. All sorts of estimates have been made as to when Congress might
be able to adjourn, most guesses run far into August.
PRESENT CABLE SYSTEM
MAY BREAK DOWN
WASHINGTON. April S—A request for tbe appropriation of one
million five hundred thousand dollars in the Army Supply Bill, for building
a new cable between the United States and Alaska, has been asked of the
Senate Appropriations Committee by the War Department.
Colonel Seoane asserted that the present system may no out anv
minute arid at the moment that break occurred all wire communication to
Alaska will be stopped. "Adding he said the only precaution that could be
taken was a new cable and that for private or confidential communication
if government dispatches the radio never could displace the cable.
ENGRAVING BUREAU
CLOSED INVENTORY
BEING TAKEN
WASHINGTON. April 8—The Bureau of Engraving an«l Printing
will be closed tonight for an indefinite period, for the purpose of taking an
inventory of the plant from which Wilmeth has been removed.
James L. Wilmeth. the deposed Director of the Bureau, has been
chief Superintendent of the plant for twenty years and his removal is
charged as a direct political move and is no reflection upon the efficiency or
integrity of Wilmeth.
XK\V CHARGES FILED AGAINST OLE LARSEN
TACOMA. April 8—Charging that he illegally borrowed funds from
the defunct Scandinavian American Bank of Tacoma, four new informations
have been field against Ole Larsen, President of the institution.
OKLAHOMA WIND STORM KILLS FIVE
LAWTON. Okla.. April 8—Five persons, including one woman,
were killed in a wind storm which swept over the Mountain and Hill sec
tion of Lawton this morning. *
MARTIAL LAW X. M. COAL FIELDS ' -
GALLUP. New Mexico. April 8—National Guard troops are ex
pected here this morning following the declaration of Martial Law in the
:oai mine fields, after serious rioting and disorders.
MERCHANT MARINE
EOUAL BRITISH
IS PROPOSED
WASHINGTON. April S—The Shipping Board and the Administra*
tion want to build up an American Merchant Marine comparable to that
of Great Britain, is the statement made by Chairman Lasker before the
joi'A Senate and House Committee on Legislation.
YUKON I IRKA K UP AT HAM)
^ DAWSON, April 7—The long winter siege has been raised and the
spring thaw on the Yukon is at hand. Last White Horse stage to travel1
on sleighs left here yesterday.
NEW GEODETIC SURVEY
BOATS ACQUIRES
FOG ALASKA
WASHINGTON'. April S—Tb“ Coast Geodetic Survey has acquired
the navy steel mine sweepers Auk and Osprey, which have been renamed
Pioneer and Discovery. Both boats are now being fitted for survey work
on the Pacific ocean and Alaska waters and will sail from Boston for
Seattle May first.
• With the acquisition of these new boats it is evident that charting
of Alaskan waters will be carried foreward with greater activities.
PORTO RICO GOVERNOR UNDER EIRE
SAN JUAN. April 8—E. .Monte Reily. Governor of Porto Rico, has
been charged in a grand jury presentment with the misuse of public funds.
(•A 1.1,1 CC RCI REGAINS I.OST JEWELS
SAN DIEGO. Calif.. April 8 - Jewels
Galli Curd lost at San Juan Capistrano,
at midnight.
valued at $45,u00.00 which
to her last night
were returned
FEDERAL JUDGESHIP
PASSES SESIATE
LIMITS ACTIVITY
WASHINGTON. April S—The Senate last night passed the Federal
Judgeship Bill, providing for 23 additional District Federal Judges and o*e
Circuit Judge. The bill tarries an amendment making It a misdemeanor
for a Federal Judge to accept any side employment for pay.
Differences in the Senate and House Bills providing for additional
Federal Judges, remain to be adjusted before the legislation goes to the
AERIAL EXPRESSES
COLLIDE MIDAIR
HEAVY FOR
PARIS, April 7—Friday the aerial expresses flying between Paris
and London collided in mid air over the village of Theiulloy, seventy
miles north of Paris.
Pilots of both aeroplanes, three passengers and one mechanic were
killed in wreckage that fell flaming to the ground. In another accident
one British and one French plane collided in the heavy fog that hung over
ONLY SURVIVOR OF AERIAL CRASH DIES
PARIS, April 8—R. E. Duke, pilot of the English plane which
crashed into the French Goliath on the Paris, London aerial express route
yesterday, died at Beauvais today. Duke never regained consciousness
and was the only person in either machine to survive the crash. His
death brought the total killed to seven.
GENOA CONFERENCE TO SHAPE RUSSIAN POLICY
WASHINGTON. April 8—This morning officials at the White House
indicated that the future policy of this Government toward Russia will be
shaped to meet the requirements of th»- results of the Genoa Conference.