THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 26. Xo. 52. NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1 f 124 Qeliverad by Carrier or Mailed *1.00 per Mo.it*
CHRISTMAS DEATH TOLL IS GREAT
HUBWE jjgg iUTTU COMITY WIILDWe
ALBANIAN TROOPS I
, CAPTURE SERBS 1
AND SOME ARMS
SOFIA, Dec. 27, (AP)—According to a statement
issued by the Albanian consulate here, Albanian
government troops have recaptured the town of
Krouma in the Kossovo district and have captured
a detachment of Serbian regular troops together '
with field and machine guns from the Serbian ar
MISSOIJNI SAYS HAS PLAN MAPPED OPT
ROME, Dec. 27, (AP)—Premier Mussolini de
clared yesterday to the Facisti deputies. “You who
know me best realize the absurdity of certain fairy
tales attributed to me stating that the elections will
be called when I think best. The idea that this be
at once is unfounded, but be sure that the Facisti
will be victorious in the new- elections. But whether
before or after the elections I shall continue thank
fully to execute my plan. If this be a thunderbolt,
then there will ba other thunderbolts from time to
time. I lieee- under consideration a pre
cise plan. I know what I shall do from today
through the whole year of 1925.” The present
chamber of deputies still has much work to do. but
are now at recess. Discussions will begin again on
the first of January.
$100,000 LOOT IN
XMAS ROBBERY
CHICACO HOTEL
CHICAGO, Dec. 26, (AP)—Two youths held up
the employees and guests of the Parkway Hotel
and rifled the boxes in the safe, escaping with over
a hundred thousand dollars according to a hurried
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26, (AP)—Stone today an
nounced that an investigation showed that • funds
had been sent to the capitol for use in behalf of
the Postal Pay Increase Bill and that it had not '
yet been determined how the money was used.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ^6, (AP)—The Depart-1
ment of Justice has begun an investigation upon ,
the legality of the recently completed $15,000,000
merger of banking companies.
HIGHT AND MRS. SWEETIN SENTENCED
MACON, 111., Dec. 26, (AP)—The jury convicted
Hight and Mrs. Sweetin of murder, fixing life im
prisonment upon Hight and thirty-five years upon
the woman after deliberating for eleven hours.
The jurors agreed from the first that both were
guilty but none voted for the death sentence. The
defendants received the jury's verdict silently and
ADMITS SENDING CANDY WHICH
ALLEGED TO HAVE KILLED WOMAN
JACKSON, Mo.. Dec. 26. (AP)—The first wife
of George E. Ensmlnger. professional golf player,
admitted having mailed a box of candy to which
the death of Harriet Mosler who was living with
Ensmlnger and h^s second wife was attributed but
declared It eonidn't contain poison, although there
was poison la the kitchen at the time the cook
'made the candy.
HIRTYSIX BURN TO DEATH
IN SMALL COUNTRY SCHOOL
THIRTEEN PERISH WHEN DAM RREAKS
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Roanoke. Deo. 26, (AP)—Two men were frozen
to feath. A policeman jailed Fall, a Chinese
launtiryman who is alleged to have taken part in
tongj wars in Chicago.
Bos Angeles—Sam Knezovich, 3 6, a Randsburg
minor said Christmas with bullets and is alleged to
have! shot arid killed John D. Palovich after trail*
ing him for over a year. Polivich is said to have
swindled Knezovich out of nine thousand three
hundred fifty dollars in August 1923 by tin charity
box scheme
New York—A Chinese was stabbed to death in
tong w'ar trouble,
Richmond. Virginia,—Four were killed in auto
mobile accidents.
Richmond. Va—Two were killed in a Christmas
Eve shooting scrape near here.
Birmingham. Ala.,—Two were killed in an auto
accident here yesterday.
Worcester. .Mass.—A young girl, aged three is
dead from the result of burns.
New Orleans—Bank robbers shot and killed a
policeman Christmas Eve.
Glendale, Cal..—Two were injured when a bomb
sent in the guise of a Christmas present exploded.
Saltville. Va.,—Search for dead continued at
Holston under masses of lime muck released when
the dam of the Mathieson Alkali Works burst. Many
are suffering with pneumonia caused by the immer
sion in the icy waters and by burns from the alkali
muck. Many of the rescuers are being treated
for burns.
Stanford, —Four are now known dead as a
result of the hotel fire.
BRISTOL. Va.. Dec. 26, (AP>—Five were
drowned and great damage was done to property
near Parmartown, Virginia, when a dam on the
north fork of the Solston river broke according to
telephone advice--. News of the flood was heralded
down the shores of the river by courier and tele
phone. the operators abandoning their switchboards
as the torrents approached.
HOBARK. Okla., Dec. 26. (AP)Thirty-six were
burned to death when fire starting from a candle
on a Christmas tree destroyed a country school
house seven miles south during a Christmas en
tertainment. The school room was crowded to
capacity and all tried to escape through the one
lone exit at the front of the building.
STANFORD Texas. Dec. 26. (AP)—Two chil
dren are known to be burned to death and sev
eral others are feared to be lost as a result of a
fire at the Stanford Inn. noted Panhandle hotel,
which also completely destroyed the building with
a loss of *75.000. f t
RICHMOND. Va., Dec. 26. (AP)—The bodies
of . four children were found on the lower Saltville.
making the known dead from the flood thirteen
and the missing seven.
INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 26. (AP)—The Knicker
bocker Special on the Big Four line hit an auto
mobile at a crossing near here and killed one mem
ber of the family of Mrs. Kenneth Clark, aged 18,
and hurt two. Mrs. Clark was caught by the pilot
or “cow-catcher” and given a wild ride for twelve
miles where it dropped her in a ditch. When she
was found she was unconscious but injured only
by the cold.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 26. (AP)—Fifty bandits
yesterday wrecked a train bound for Mexico City
at El Cobre, killing a woman passenger and the
guard of six soldiers who fought desperately over
the wrecked express car. Several of the other
passengers were wounded.
CONVINCED CHIEF
WATSON INNOCENT
NANIAMO ROBBERY
SEATTLE. >ec. 26, (AP)—Chief of Police
Severynes anno need Wednesday that former city
detective Watso had been identified as a parti
cipant in the Ni niamo bank robbery. Later, how
ever. Captain Cl is. Tennant, who had kept silence
stated that Wa son had established a thorough
alabi and convinced them that he was innocent.
Severyns stated that Mrs. Watson, different police
men and a taxicab inspector said that they had
seen Watson in Seattle the day of the robbery, two
witnesses of the hc>ld-m« identified him as a par
ticipant in the robbery and Tennant said that Wat
son proved that he had been in Bellingham on
business.
SEATTLE. Dec. 26,, (AP)—Eight witnesses to
the Bank robbery arrived from N’ani into to ;den
tify suspects. Five looked at Watson and two said
he was one, of the robbers while three were not
sure. James Stevenson, teller, of the bank identi
fied two Canadian five dollar bills which wrere among
the 14,748 found in the room of Harry Stone, one
of the six prisoners, by red pencil marks on their
face as bills that l^ad been in the bank. ....
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SEATTLE. Dec. 27. (AP)—Special—A Hazeltine,
Pacific Northwest Prohibition Director has raided
the County Building and found nine whiskey bot
tles in the paint room. The employees told him
the bottles were used for turpentine. He searched
the Janitor’s room in the building also, but found
nothing there. Justice Dalton refused to issue a
warrant to Hazeltine to search the telephone opera
tor’s room. The superintendent of the building
declared that if the policemen made a raid, he would
complain to Washington. Hazeltine then hurried
away to spend Christmas at his old home.
JUDGE GILMAN DENIES MANDUMUS FOR HAIL
SEATTLE. Dec. 27, fAP)—Special—Judge Gil
man has denied John Souda’s Writ of Mandamus to
require Justice of the Peace Dalton to accept a five
thousand property bond for hiS bail. Justice Dal
ton declared that the securities were insufficient.
NEW CHINESE GOVERNMENT RESPECT .TREATY
PEKING, Dec. 27, t AP)—The new Chinese Gov
ernment today declared its intention of respecting
all existing treaties, while expressing the hope that
the execution of the resolutions agreed to at the
Washington Conference would not be loi|c. delayed.
I
U. S. REFUSES TO
PAY RETURN FARE
OF WRANGEL PARTY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2G. (AP)— A request made
to the State Department through Delegate Dan A.
Sutherland and Carl Lomen, of Nome. Alaska, that
the Government provide transportation for the thir
teen Americans taken from Wrangel Island to Vlad
ivostok by Soviet officials on board the Red October,
late in October, was ment by Washington officials
with the statement that no funds could be expended
legally by the Government for that purpose, and that
Mr. Lomen is a member of a business concern that
employed the party to work the island and that the
Government feels that the party should be taken
care of by the commercial company which employed
them sonfe time ago. The department sent one
hundred dollars to the American Consul at Harbin
Manchuria for the relief or Chas. Wells, the head
of the party, who is reported to be destitute. The
balance of the party is reported to be comfortable.
S KATTI ,E * 8 fffcs < OLD EST
OF LAST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS
SEATTLE, Dec. 26, (AP) —-The Mercury stood
at 26 above Christmas morning, the coldest ever
recorded here in the thirty-flve years during which
the government records have been kept. The
coldest previous check on the 25th of December
was 28 above in 1891 and 29 in 1918.
VODKA PROMINENT
IN RUSSIA XMAS
DAY CELEDRATION
MOSCOW. Dec. 25. (AP) Special- Although the
Soviet Government ignores Christmas as a holiday,
official and commercial life paused to allow vodka
to flow most freely for the first time since the revo
lution. the Bolshevikis having found prohibition un
workable. However, most of the population in the
large cities went to the churches in honor of the
birth of Christ, the peasants waiting until January
seventh under the Georgian calendar. Fervent Rus
sians packed the diminutive Siberian chapel Virgin
at Moscow and prostrated themselves upon the ice
REUORD TEM BE HATCHES MAW STATES
SEATTLE. Dec. 27, (AP)—Special—During the
recent cold wave which swept the Middle States,
the records for forty years back were broken in
many parts of the country by extreme low tempera
air mail and radio out order from cold
WILLIAPA HARBOR, Dec. 27, (AP)—Special—
The temperature at Elko is forty-six below zero,
and so cold that the radio arc at the station here
has frozen up. putting the radio out of commission
as well as the air mail service.
HERRIOT GOVERNMENT PUT IN MINORITY
PARIS, Dec. 27. (AP)—Premier Herriot’s Gov
ernment was put in the minority when the French
Senate voted 143 to 153 to maintain a stand against
making the reintegration of railroad strikers com
pulsory upon railroad companies. The question of
confidence was not put, and an unexpected defeat
does not involve the resignation of the ministry.
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