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The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14
OLD AI4AsKANs TO PRISON

Seattle, May g, @-Mrs. Ella O'Brien. lifelong resident of Sc. attle and Alaska. ffty-four years ot age. Saturday started to State Prison at Walla Walla to begin serving one year to thirteen months cn charge of running a bootleg ing joint. She and her husband, J"hn O'Brien. who is sixty four years of age, were convicted last month. O'Brien started his sen- tence two weeks ago. He is a vet eran Alaska prospector
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14
FRENCH AvIATORs ON WAY
 ACROSS ATLANTIC

New York. May 10. R-Two French aviators. Captains Nunses- scr and Coli hoped oR from the LeBourget flying deid near Paris a. midnight Saturday, eastern stan- dard time on . nonstop flight to New York The New York evening Post says Lieutenant Byrd will take on in the America for Paris next Saturday if Nungesser and Coli are unsuccessful. The paper says that Bert Acosta will replace Bennett who was injured seriously with Byrd some weeks ago. and is not able to take the air.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14
EMERGENCY LETTER MAIL
 WILL GO BY PLANE

Postmaster M. A. Winkler in- forms us that Emergency Letter Mail" will be dispatched by air rlane at all times whenever an emergency exists. The rate fixed by the Government is 76 cents per pound and any airplane leaving Nome, regardless of the Subsidy. can carry emergency mall at this rate. M
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Undated, May 10. At noon today the French aviators were 20 hours overdue. A steamship Is on the lookout for the plane. and the French Government has sent two naval tugs to SCOUT the waters be- tween Boston and Cape Sable. Fog blinded the lookouts on the French Destroyers and sub-chasers which are cautiously cruising around in tn English Channel in the belief that the flyers may have been fore ed down in that water way If they were forced down of the Grand Banks end picked up by the fishermen there. it may be three weeks or more before the news of the rescue is received.
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room in the heart of London. The trunk had been at the station Eve days awaiting identification. The victim had been dead at least mouth. and was evidently dismem- bered by some person not familiar with surgery The railroad porter says the trunk was broush: to the station in a taxi by a middle aged man.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14
VIRGINIA BOY KEPT ALIVE
 BY ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION

Roanoke. Va. May g. (R-Wal- ter Boothe, a farmer lad who has been kept alive for two weeks or rlore by artificial respiration. died Saturday. His friends had worked in relays raising and lowering his arms to force air into his lungs. which collapsed April twenty-hrst when he was about to undergo an operation.
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eTArEMeNT OF THE oWNERship
 MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION. ETC, REQUIRED DY ACT OF

AUGUST 2A 1912
 f THE NOME NUGGET puo- ished Weekly at Nome, Alaska. for April 1st. 1927.
 Publisher, Geo. $. Maynard Nome. Alaska.
 Editor. Geo. s. Maynard. Nome. Alaska.
 Managing Editor none.
 Business Manager. Geo. s. Maynard. Nome Alaska.
 Owners: of corporation. give its and the names and idresses of stock holders holding l per cent or more of total amount Of stock If not 8 cor poration. give names and addresses of individual owners) Geo. $. Maynard. owner. Nome Alaska.
 Known bondholders. mortgages. and other security holders. holding per cent or mors of total amount of bonds. or other securities. (If there arc none. 70 statA) None
 Average number of copies of each Issue of this publication sold or dis tributed. through the malls or other wise. to paid subscribers during the six months proceeding the date shown above is. (This information is required from daily publications only.) GEO. 8. MAYNARD. Managsr. Sworn to and subscribed bsfore nc this 9th day of April. 1927. B. GRIMM, Notary Public in and for the Territory of AaskA. My Commission expires AuSust 14th, 1897.
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NUNGEssER SIGHTED

New York. May g. R-The New York Times has received a report from their correspondent at Syd- Fey. Nova Scotia. saying that a Whitebird Nungesser plane was sighted on Cape Badge. Newfound- land at ten this morning. If this 1, true, Nungesser should arrive in New York at eight o'clock East ern Daylight time tonight.
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EDWARD WHITE,
 COMING TO ALASKA

Seattle. May 10. {P,-Stewart Ed arrived here yesterday to inspect motor boat being built for him for his Alaska cruise this summer The boat, which is big cruiser. will be called the "Simba." the name of book MT. White wrote in 1918 after his African big game hunt Simba is native African for lion.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14

New York. May 9, (P,-The Jury deliberated one hour and fifty nine dict of first degree murder against both Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray. and they are sentenced to die in the electric chair.
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TUESDAY tTEIecAApAicl
CRAIG MILLER PASSES ON

Seattle, May 10. B-Craig Mii- Ter, aged hfty-one. . pioneer Alas- kan and President of the Hopper Cannery Machinery Company. and the Swift Arthur Crosby Company. died here Saturday. He lived in Alaska thirty-four year.. Ths vl- lage of Craig, on Prince of Wales Island was named after him.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14
NEW ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
 GOES TO FAIRBANKS

Longview. Wash. May 10. R)- John c. Goats, electrical engineer for four years with the Longview Public Service Company, left to- day for Fairbanks to become Chief Electrical Engineer for the Amer ican Smelling and Refining Com pany.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14
NJ, S, CARPENTER SAILED
 FOR NOME MAY SEVENTH

A. Polet. the we'll known Nome merchant. today received tele- gram from Captain Alec Allen. stating that the NJ. S. Carpenter sailed for Nome from ketchikan.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14
ALASKA TO HAVE RADIO
 BROAN'ASTTNG STATIONS

Washington. May 10. R)-Radio Broadcasting stations today grant ed temporary permits. include kFIU. Juneau. and KFQD. Anchor age.
The Nome nugget., 1927-05-14
JURY FINDS VERDICT OF
 GUILTY IN SNYDER CASE.

New York. May g. R-The Snyder case went to the Jury at four fifty-nine this afternoon after Justice Scudder had delivered the charge to the Jury of over an hour during which dozens of wo- men were overcome with the heat.
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MONDAY
ANCHORAGE CONCERN 0uTB
 AIR MAIL SUBSIDY

Especial Nugget Corrsspondenee)
 Juneau. May S.-Govsrnor Geo. rge A. Parks. General Steese and R. J. somnsrs. Territorial Road In- spector. in charge of air landing fields. tho Federal oncials. the Chamber of Commerce and the peo- ple in general. are ali elated ever the initial trip of the subsidixed air nal from Nenana to Nome.. Wish Nome to write on the return plane an acknowledgment of its geod will. Representative Thomas GaKney Is the author of the bill and was paid many Hattering com- pliments. on his constructive fore eight, The bids were received late last night.
 The Anchorage Air Transport. Inc. was the lowest bidder. and re- ceived the contract. Anchorage bid seven hundred fifty dollars per trip and thirty cents per mile for through passengers. or one dol lar for passengers picked up be- tween points,. express per pound Fer mile, one seventh cent.
 The Fairbanks Airplane Com pany bid nine hundred dollars per trip, passenger rate seventy cents. express one sixth cent per mile per pound.
 Rodebough and Bennett bid el- even hundred fifty dollars per trip 6 dollar and half per mile for one passengers or one dollar each for two passengers, and two fifths cent per mile per pound for express. provid- ing a minimum weight of five hun dred pounds or less weight plus one passenger.
 Legislature DoinRs
 The Tom Ross Memorial was i'm troduced by Senator Thos. D. Jen- sen and passed both houses in the last hours of the session.
 The Publicity bill was emasculat- ed from the original ideas of Rep resentative Ganney. its author. and was killed in the Senate.
 The increase in pensions for Pio- neers wsa brutally murdered in the last gasps of the legislative life by tEe Paul forces Representatives Gaffney. Lomen and Rydeen of the Second Division tried hard to put the bill through Will try to get the Juneau papers in the next air plane mail Senator Jensen. and Representatives Rydeen and Lomen leave Tuesday for Seattle. Senator Chas. Brown left for Seattle last night. Representative Gafney may come back the interior route but Is not yet certain. Representative Sundquist plans to remain here the balance of the month.
 This session of the Legislature goes. down in history as increasing slightly all appropriations and not increasing taxation, and for leaving . surplus of more than a half mil lien dollars in the Territorial Treas ury. The Seward Peninsula sec tion is considered as having done well this session.
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Special extsa large Envelopes haNa beeA pe1nte1 for anyone who Wishes to mall the Nome NuGeet to friends h the States oa aiFpla1e mall.
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London. May Il. R-Scotland Yard has now a gruesome murder mystery to solve through the dis covery of the dismemebred body of . woman in a trunk in the baggage
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MRS. SNYDER COIL.APSES
 HYSTERICAL EPILEPSY

New York. May 10. lP,--Mrs
 Ruth Snyder suffered a second col
 lapse in her cell today. The doc
 tors attended her nearly an hour after she had tainted from hyster-
 icai epilepsy which the doctors say often proceeds insanity. She did not eat her breakfast and after weeping for some time, again pass- ec into hysteria. The physicians say it may be necessary to remove her to a hospital
 Henry Judd Gray ate his break fast in composure and showed no great emotion at the verdict of tha jury. apparently having expected it. and resigned himself to his fate.
 One of the jury said. "There was little doubt in any of our minds az to what the verdict would be. [ could tell by the way Mrs. Snyder answered questions on the witness stand that she was not telllny the truth, but We all bel'4r.i Gray"
 New York. May 10, LP,-"Mrs Ruth Brown Snyder anI H6nry Judd Gray. her corset salesman par amour, will pay with their lives for the crime which wade them in- ernationally known. Deliberat;ng  victed them Of the murder of AL bert snyder, Mrs. Snyders husband who was magazine art editor.
 The d-ath sentence is manda- tory for first degree murder. but the formalify of the sentence was postponed until Monday. Cheers greeted the verdict when it was flashed to the crowd outside the Long Island City Supreme Court. but inside the court. the verdict H as received in silence, neither de- fs ndant exhibiting any great emo ton. and they seemed to be either too dazed to fully comprehend it's importance or only hearing what hey expected to hear.
 Counsel for both defendants de- frrred the announcement of their mention to appeal the case
 Justice Scudder thenkcd the iur- cheers greeted them outsi&e the along with flashlights IS many photographers pressed ar ound them.
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The Washington times., 1927-09-01
SHACKLED SOULS By Elenor Meherin

THEY would be put in the nur-
i sery on that third floor he had
got ready for his son. Ola
great room with a roof garden
whers the sun beamed all day
long and where there were flow.
ers and all manner of bright
lightsome things to make glad a
little boy of IA months and the
sweet, blind woman who would
often sit with him; the blind girl
who would laugh in joy when
ne patted her cheek or pulled at
her big. dark glasses. She would
laugh and thank dear. gracious
God who had taken her eyes but
in his lordly return had given this
lovely ch9d.
Here Rooms baby would grow
mp. Here he should rOmp and
shout
And he would not miss her.
The loss was hers--the pain was
hers. All OF it.
The last day. Dressing him
paying with him-feeding him.
she fell into long, inert
pauses: a stricken emptiness of
thought. Now and then she
caught him to her, holding him
whispering brokenly against his
ear.
And the baby. perhaps be.
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costume again" Becky ragged.
Give it to me now! Don't you
dare put it on
st wouldn't want to doIling."
the blonde responded airily. I'd
be afraid of catching your bad
manners from it."
well anyhow you wouldn't
catch" the end of Becky's SEN
tence was cut off as a slim
dancing boy, pushed his way into
the packed room. Becky, flush
ing, clutched her costume before
her. The boy, without so much
as careless glance, said:
Boris Abelard, chap who wrote
our little show you know, IS
throwing a big studio party to-
night. All the girls are invited"
Well, won't be there. Trot
along now. I'm busy" At that
moment voice sounded behind
her-Scarlett's.
Get into that rig and come
outside for a minute" When she
Joined him in the wings, Not
going to tonight's party eitter?'
he asked. Becky shook her head
resolutely. Better change your
mind"
Threatening AGAIN." she flared.
mo. Promising this time. Want
to know what 1 mean?" Scarlet
smiled mysteriously., Becky h,
said, do you still think about
your ideal? This Estabrook fel.
love-"
Charge account number"
Yes, that's the guy"
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mother" and be glad and feel,
she had been braye-oh, very
brave.
But the baby now snuggled on
her breast. she would never know
again. He was asleep. He would
awaken in another's arms. She
laid him on her bed.
Now it was o'clock. Now IT
was nearing s. She sat in the
living room. No fire. No shad-
ows. No stir. All quiet.
Now it was 8. She said aloud:
ut Is s." And. getting up, she
went to her room and took a
blanket and wrapped her baby
in it.
She stopped over him and
traced softly his long, silky
brows; she pressed her lips
lightly on ~ his closed eyes. She
laid her cheek moment on his.
Then when her soul was de-
parting for pain and death was
now at, handn-the death Of her
heart and Of all joy and OF all
peace. she lifted him gently in
her arms-she went down the
hallway of the home where for
her so many things had died,
She went out in the darkness
OF that April night and carried
her little, sleeping baby with her.
A wind blew. The eucalyptus
trees bowed their long. graceful
branches. And the night swept
about her, murmuring-seeki
She hurried She crossed into
the park. He came toward her.
She hurried past. holding the
baby closer.
He opened the door OF the car
and pointed to the long basket
made up like bed.
Roen stepped in. She laid the
baby down. Softly she drew the
covers over him. And for a last,
swift moment gazed in the dear,
tanned face. She closed her eyes.
Mark had an arm about her.
Marks voice: "OnIy for a little
while. You give him up that he
may find himself for life. Oh.
Roen. beloved"
She gazed at him. unhearing.
She backed from him, mite
blanched-unsniiing 4
Go Be Continued Tomorrowl
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"THE PARTY IS OVER" ABELARD CRIED

the Maryland Estabrooks. II was
written that Becky was to meet
him, and greet him as stranger.
although she had once looked
upon, his face across the heaped
up counter of Belongs depart
ment store. 1t happened several
months after the night Becky
learned from Scarlet that her
idol was friend OF Abelard.
Those months we can pass over
in a few minutes. Yet-because
in Abelard Becky found q sincere
admirer and a loyal friend-we
must pause for an instant on
that hot August night. before
passing on to the drama which
followed.
The air was sitting, and filled
with a sort of moisture. Although
there was no moon. 1t was light
enough. for the stars twinkled
with uncanny brilliance through
torn wells of thin cloud. The city,
especially the dusty great park
which stretched out below Abe
lard's apartment, had the rare
stiffness of Summer nights.
Becky found herself almost
naagically on the roof of a gtone
studio building on 59th Street.
Blaring. majestic sound ema.
mated therefrom: Abelard had
built a bower of green leaves and
striped awnings for the entertain
ment OF his guests.
Crowds OF girls. white-faced and
crimson.lipped when they passed
between the colored lights for an
instant. circulated, cut by the
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stark ebony and ivory Of mems
evening clothes.
On the raised wooden platform
built for dancing. gaily tinted
frockS, trimmed with silver and
gold, cascading fringe and scintil-
lating rhinstones, caught and. r,
turned and banded the light back
and forth. Bright mouths and
brilliant dark.rimmed eyes flashed
messages. Bare Threats and dar-
ingly uncovered backs spanked
with diamonds, dropped with the
weight of pearls. Slim. red-nailed
hands. lightly resting on broad
cloth shoulders. or caressins
eager faces, were alive with col.
ored stones. gems of every quail.
. ity false and real.
In the center of the roof,
water dripped into a marble bowl,
but its delicate sound was
drowned by the noise. Of saxo-
phone and drum. the blare of
jazz. In the marble bowl Violet
Vincent splaslled and noundered,
soaking her extravagant costume
In the water. and repeating joy.
ously. ITS the first time / been
cool in a week.
Other ladies followed suit; there
was a surge Of people toward the
fountain: gales of laughter rip
pied in the still as dripping fig.
ures emerged and were taken
again into the whirl of the dance.
"What're you beating it for?
Afraid you'll spoil that wonderful
creation?" Somebody pulled the
arm of a slim girl. duskily at
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II do, said Becky. But
what's that to you? i don't
ever expect to meet him. He's
not a stagedoor Johnny"
,"Well, 1t may interest you to
know, Miss independence, this
Abelard who's throwing the stu.
dio smash Is Estabrook's buddy.
Now what do you think about
going?"
Becky leaned against the wall.
her hands clenched behind her.
tI'm scared, Dam" she whis-
pered. "They say these parties
are something terrible. Terrible
rough. seer"
''Abelard's a gentleman"
Becky sneered. That means a
lot"
Scarlet flung up his hands
despairingly. God. do you want
to get on or not? Do YOU want
to meet this ideal or not?"
II do -. Oh. / do, Dan,
you heard the old saying
about opportunity knocking just
once7"
Becky lifted her head. you're
right, Dan. I'll do it,"
Good girl" he whispered tri.
umphantly. Then a hell rang
and Becky was off like a shot,
taking her place on the stage.
Now. it Is a fact that even
while Becky wriggled in the
chorus of the popular revue. it
was written in the pattern books
of the fates, or Norns, as some
call them, that Becky was to
meet John Carroll Estabrook of
The Washington times., 1927-09-01
IT NEVER PAYS : By Gilbert Rogers

Gg0Hv' Car1otta looked relieved.
" I'VE want some breakfast. Of
course. Right away. viii you see
I 70 that. please?"
She went usatirs with Sally
.'come in here. darling. Use that
mirror Dan't been out
all night gambling probably. Or
else Adrian Martin has come back
and he's seen him. When ] think
81 Adrian Martin sometimes I'm
afraid.
what does he want with Adrian
Martini Sally asked. She remem.
bered the millionaire, the heavy
man with his heavy, clever eyes
and his slow drawl of ironic
speech.
What would he want--except
money. It's something about that
thing he learned from you-that
South American thing, Of course.
]. They breakfasted in the sunny
long room, Carlotta chatting now
as II she hadn't care in the
world,
But Sally was tense, uncertain.
IN the clear daylight what she
had come to do seemed harder,
more impossible She drew
iii her breath sharply as she
heard the front door open and
recognized Shevlin's tread.
His eyes were streaked and his
face looked swollen, as If the
night had been spent In q cloud
Of tobacco smoke. with chips
clicking under his ringed fingers,
and q decanter of brandy at his
elbow. But his usual insolence
had not deserted him. Sally had
begun to think that 1t was point
OF pride with ShevIin never to
display the least surprise at any.
thing.
IT It isn't sally" he exclaimed.
II knew you'd come straight to
mel knew it, You'd say: Poor
old Dan breaking his heart for
me. and then you'd realize how
cruel you had been to me and
come with tears in your eyes,
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cause he was tired or it might
be that he was the loveable angel
Roen thought him, squeezed her
face hard in his small palms.
looked at her and said softly:
Mama"
She thought aghast: HE will
never do this again." And she
held him fast-her little child
that in a few hours she would
give away--that her own arms
would yield up.
She pressed his small hands
against ner face, against her
throat, against her mind and
heart. They would be pressed
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s-someone? The g-g-girl has
tainted"
With an angry look at the re-
ceding crowd, suddenly grown
quiet, AbeIard kent down and
picked Betty's drenched still body
out OF the basin. stand clear,
he ordered furiously as he
stepped forward. And go home,
a-alI of you. This party's over. :"
When Becky came to she was
lying on a couch in studio. below.
Just a bump and a shock"
said kind voice beside her. As
soon az your clothes d-d-d-dry my
car will take you home. You'll
be all right by m-morning. Only
l can't apologize enough for b-pe.
ing responsible +"
Nobody was responsible but
me-. said Becky. Il shouldn't
of tried to hold out / didn't
have cold really. It was just
that it was my only evening
dress, see?"
ITO BE Continued Tomorrowl
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tired in a shapeless green thing,
unadorned by jewels. Nothing
like "a swim for your health. In
you 20"
"Lemme alone-I got a cold.
now. OUGHT Let go!''
Wonder of wonders. Put in a
nickel and see the lady that's
cold in New York in August.
More protests. A loud splash.
There she goes. Nice doggie.
playing dead" The figure in the
fountain was limp. "Hey-what's
the matter. Come out"
A man pushed his way through
the crowd about the marble
basin-Boris Abelard himself
tall, thin as a skeleton. dark hair
accentuating the white Of his
face. An ugly man. with a mon
acle screwed into his left eye. A
very ugly man. but distinguished
withal.
You stupid fools" he cried
out sharply. Can't you enjoy
vae--ever--withou hurting.
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there always-living and warm
and little
All her life and all her being
were in this little boy. All her
life and sil her being would 90
cut when he was taken.
Shs sang to him softly; she
sang to him tenderly.
Some day, perhaps, he would
claim her. A proud, tall lad--an.
other Jackie, he would come and
put fine sensitive hands. like his
fathers. on her shoulders. He
would look in her sorrowing eyes
and laugh softly and perhaps
say, yearning: "Mother-dearest
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"Alone-if you don't mind.
where-where we won't be over.
heard"
with pleasure. Wen lock our.
selves in the reception room. But
you'll be brief, I hope. Remem-
Der, haven't had much sleep"
He yawned, but his eyes had
grown more alert in spite of that.
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The knowledge Test For
Readers of The Times

Match Correctly
]. James Buchanan Pugilst
2.Algernon Swinburne Composer
8. Georges Carpenter Illustrator
& Wladyslaw Benda Statesman
5. Johann Sebastian Bach Poet s=sys
6. Henry Clay President
Do You Know
Z. What does the abbreviation S. r. o. mean?
9. What does the expression centre nousY mean?
g. What is campanle?
What Italian word meaning Lady" used as title for
paintings representing the Virgin Christ?
II. What is another for Society of Friends?
IL. Why is iron galvanized?
1S What the given welknown constellation in the
southern hemisphere?
One Answer is COrrec-ChOOse 1t
IA Jade is variation Of blues orange;
Is Larkspur flower; bird; machine; musical instrument
To- Orof the Of breed sheep; dogs horses fowl
See Tomorrow's Paper to Verify Your Results
Answers Yesterdays
George Ade Daniel Defoe; Walter Scott Charles
Dckens John Synge 49, No; z MOI g. Mo- g. No; No:
10 MOI 10 No; ID No; 1s ssuess 1s Pottery; ri Horses.