davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03
~tt.-lIM.ARE.i' NEWS ITEMS
Especial Nugget Correspondence)
,++++%++++++++*++

,'r. an s,s. Virgil P. p!ck SC, of the .;i:adl f +. Ea,'atioh a:c enjoying the best of health and the native children as well as the grown ups are showing vast i'm provements under their teachings.
 The native children of the island have had remarkable season at fox trapping, catching great many reds whites and blues-showin thei. patriotism to their country with fox.
 The infant son of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph died Jan 22. Funeral ser vices were conducted by Mrs. V P Dickson.
 Mir Frank Henry. manager Of MaEids store at Shishmaref has excelled all buyers of fox skins
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

Recent arrivals from the west ward at Seward state that there is likelyhood of cold storage plant being established soon at Unga. Eastern capital, it is said. will be interested. It is claimed that the contemplated move is well comed by fishermen as the distance is too great to make the run to Seward, and that hundreds of pounds of fish are wasted for lack of facilities to take care of the pro- duct at the base of the catch.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

Mrs. Peter Peterson of Fairbanks formerly vice-president of the Am erican Legion Auxiliary in the De- partment of Alaska is now the president of that organization fol- lowing the resignation of Mrs. Bel le Simpson. Mrs. Simpson was el- ected to an alice in the national
 organization at the recent con- veution in Paris. Anchorage Times
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

The cod fishing season to the westward begins in April among the larger companies. but among the independents it is customary to begin operations at an earlier date. Among the large companies is that of the Alaska Goldfish Co.,, Ed Pear son and the Union Fish company. The latter company, however, have ceased their shore station work and are now sending their schooners into the Bering Sea after Cod-Se- ward Gateway.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

President Bulrell has announced the resienation of Clinton H. Nor gan. professor of agriculture at the Alaska College, effective at the close of the academic year. June. 1928. George w. G3sser has been appointed to fill this vacancy. Pro- lessor Morgan has been a member of the faculty since the opening of the college in 1922 and is now en- ga ged in his sixth year of service. Mr. Gasser was for more than 20 years with government experiment tai farms, first at Rampant and for the past six and q half years at Fairbanks Fairbanks News Miner
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

Summer continues to finger in the lap of winter at Kodiak, and the ideal weather conditions there causes the Seward Gateway to rhapsodize:
 The coldest in KodiaS to date is IS above The skies have not been darkened by cloud, almost perfect calm has prevailed. No snow has fallen, and cattle and horses are grazing lazily on the hills. This has continued for the last two weeks past and 1t be- gins to look like Old King Frost had forgotten that section of A. aska.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

The lot springs at Sea Level. in Porcupine harbor, at the mouth of Lisianski inlet, says the seward Gateway. are no longer hot, and it is thought that the change is due to the earthquake of about month ago.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

Arthurs G. Thompson. pioneer attorney of Anchorage, will direct the activities of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce during the ensuing year. having been elected president at the annual meeting of the organization with repre- sentive number of members in at tendance. E. R. Tarwater. of the Bank of Alaska, was the choice of the Chamber for vice-president and Lyle w. Larsen was reelected sec retary-trea surer. All of the cleo tions were unanimous s.--Anchorage.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

Pilot R. H. Merrill of the An chora aeeAir Transport. made a flight to the Nickolai camp near Point Possession last week with James Maude. trapper. and an outfit of supplies. Maude is return ing to the Moose Point section to resume his search for his partner, Warren Lucas. who disappeared a month ago. He will be assisted during the next ten days by the Nickolai brothers and after that will continue the search alone if er.--Anchorage Times.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03


 future home.-Juneau Empire.
 John Erskine of Wrangell has reason to feel that he has had the hardest luck of any man in losing his boats Less than year ago caught fire and was completely de stroyed. Last summer at Cape Om- aney fire destroyed his second boat. This week storms blew his boat ashore in Stone Island near the south point Of Etolin island. Three boats which were in his vicinity at the time he was wrecked, lowed his boat to Wrangell to undergo repairs. Sentinel,
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

Mr. and Mrs. c. T. Waldo, and baby daughter Mary. who have been residents of Juneau for the past year, have moved to Pasadena,
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

since the trapping season opened. William Allsckiuk is the next clos est buyer: the Native Corp store, third: and Geo. R. Goshaw being fourth.
 Geo. Goshaw returned to his fox farm via dog team Dec. 13, after spending two months in Nome Geo. should have chartered the airplane and returned sooner, as he states air travel is the only way to travel in Alaska.
 Mir and Mrs. Geo. F. HopeWell left Shishmaref via dog team Jar. for Teller where they will spend 2 few days then on to Nome.
 The natives of Shishmaref are doing very well this winter. ha vlps plenty Of food in their homes. There has been very little sick Less and no deaths so far this winter.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03
. FOR
 DELEGATE

Having completed extensive of Alaska covering the Judicial Divisions, having made thorough sudv of the political situation in the Territory convinced that the people desire change their They believe Territory can he accomplished by Delegate who is tratsoa who has policy and not one of continuous agitation opposition.
 therefore take this acy for the Republican the Primary Election to April 24th 1928
 was born in Kentucky and Alaska twen- y-four have a family at Anchorage During long residence devoted my time prospecting mining contracting building and with associates developing feis Having the Alaska Presden the Senate during the Last session) existing conditions tin osshout the Territory Delegate to Congress- will with the assistance of the carry constructive development policy upbuldns of .ilaska.
 HARTLEY HOWARD
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

Jake says his own candid op- infon is that We ought to have more people laying brick and less throwing them.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-03

Calif.. where they will make their future home.-Juneau Empire.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
PLANE DIVES
INTO CROWD
ONE
Bomb Tossed Out in Exhi-
bitiOn Explodes Prema-
tureIy; Wreck
ABANDON DERBY
Two Other Persons Believed
TO Have Been Fatally
Injured
ABANDON DERBY

MACON, Ga. Feb 18 oP-Running
wild after an ill-timed aerial bomb mad
killed its pilot and his aviator-pass
enger, an airplane participating in The
southeastern air derby here plunged
1000 feet into the heart of the busi-
ness district here today, killing a
pedestrian and seriously injuring two
others.
The weight of a noon-day crowd of
hundreds of persons who rushed to
the wreckage caused the collapse of q
concrete sidewalk and the injury of
six Of the more than score who were
thrown into the basement of drug
store
Buck Steele of Shreveport, La, vet
eran stunt flyer and pilot of the ill
fated craft, and Francis Ashcraft, STU
dent aviator of Towanda, Pa, who
were in the plane met death in mid
air when the third bomb they tossed
out in an exhibition as part of the
carnival, caught in the wings and ex-
ploded prematurely.
Spectators saw the plane suddenly
enveloped in flame and a moment later
waver into side slip. In an instant
it fell into tail spin gathering speed
by force of the still revolving pro-
peller.
1t crashed close by the car tracks in
Cherry street, near the Second street
crossing. Horror-stricken cries from
those who watched it fall, failed TO
clear the street entirely and four per-
sons, one negro woman, we're either
pinned down by the wreckage or struck
by the debris.
C.. E. Murphy, 81, local blacksmith,
was caught by the planes propeller as
it hit the ground 1t severed an arm
and leg and inflicted injuries which
caused his death in hospital a few
hours afterward.
Two otaer persons, unidentified,
were believed to have been fatally
hurt.
None of those who were plunged
into the drug store basement by the
sidewalk collapse was believed to have
been seriously hurt, most of them re-
porting only minor cuts and bruises.
Several planes were in the air when
the crash occurred butsonly one was
flying close enough for fellow airmen
to see what happened. Gardner Ragle.
its pilot, said the ill-fated planes first
two bombs had exploded without mis-
hap but that the third appeared to
have exploded within few feet of the
ship
He expressed the belief that both
Steele and Ashcraft were killed in
stantly, the former being decapitated
by the blast. Their bodies struck the
street some distance from the wreck
age, leading to the belief that they
had been catapulted out of the craft
by the explosion.
Events on today's derby program, in
which 80 or more fhers are participat-
ing, were abandoned and all social
features of the meet were cancelled.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
Younger Blackmer Sub
poenaed to Tell About
S3,OOO,OOO Bonds
CALLED
New York Bankers Also
Summoned in Effort to
Trace Balance

WASHINGTON Feb 18 lP)-Unable
to obtain the testimony of H NJ
Blackmer, the moving spirit in the or
ganization of the Continental Trading
company of Canada, the senate Tea
pot Dome committee decided today to
subpoena his son, Myron F. Blackmer,
of Denver, an official of the Mid
West Refining company.
Young Blackmer will be asked what
he knows of any liberty bond trans
actions or other financial affairs of
his father, who is a voluntary exile III
France and twice had refused to obey
subpoena from the District of Col
umbia courts to testify in the Fall
Sinclair oil conspiracy case
The elder Blackmer negotiated with
the late A. E. Humphreys, of Denver,
for the purchase of the oil which the
Continental company bought and re-
sold to the Sinclair Crude Oil Pur-
chasing cGmpany and the Prairie Oil
and Gas company at a net profit of
ed into liberty bonds.
The younger Blackmer is to appear
before the committee at the re-opening
of the investigation next Thursday.
Three other witnesses have been sum-
mond for that time, all of them con-
nected with corporations in New York
The purpose of their examination
will be to trace the liberty bond prof
its of the Continental. Harold W.
Kenwell, secretary of the Hyva cor
poration, private company organized
by Harry F. Sinclair within his own
family, is commanded to produce books
and documents showing the receipts
by the Hyva corporation of liberty
bonds received between 1920 and 1925,
and also tlle disposition ofsSuch bonds.
Graham Young, treasurer of Blair
and company, private New York
banking house, has been directed to
bring all books of accounts showing
dealings in 3h per cent liberty bonds
by either the Hyva corporation or Sin
clair since Nov. 81, 1921.
Robert Rae, New York agent of the
Dominion Bank of Canada, also has
been summoned. He is to produce be-
fore the committee books of accounts
and correspondence showing any
transactions in liberty bonds with the
Continental Trading company and its
president, H. S. Osler from 1921 to
1925, inclusive.
Through the examination of these
witnesses the committee hopes to be
able to trace more of the Continental
bonds, $233,O0O of which were trans
ferred by Sinclair to Albert B. Fall
after the lease of Teapot Dome to Sin
clair Mammoth Oil company and $685.
900 of which have been found to have
reached the republican national COM
mittee in 1928
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
Congressional
ARE
H|NDERED BY BEES
Buzzing Is Caused How
ever by Those of Presi-
Dental Variety

WASHINGTON, Feb. IS (R.-The
five-day y-week-forweary- lawmakers
business-or the lack of it-per-
mitting, was again in vogue" the
hilT' today. Congressional activi-
ties were confined to the buzzing
of presidential bees and committee
drudgery.
The committee output was low.
In definite action it can be summed
up by decisions Joy a house rules
committee to hustle up the change
in laws demanded by Cuba under
penalty of the complete cessation
March 1 of parcel post traffic with
that country, by the senate inter
Estate commerce committee to send
a part of it's membership next week
into the bituminous coal regions OF
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia to size up conditions first
hand, and by the Teapot Dome com
mittee to issue subpoenas for jfouI
more witnesses.
Representative Burton, of Ohio, a
over-for-president stalwart in a
delegation in congress otherwise
marching under the Willis banner
istirred the pre-conYention tumult
with further blast in behalf of his
candidate.
A democratic move came also, in
the form of heated denial by Rep
iresentative Hull, OF tennessee, OF
iall rumors, reports, suspicious OF
conjectures that the democratic ma
! tional committee had shared in any
way in the Continental Trading
company liberty bonds which figure
so largely iG Athe Teapot Dome oil
lease legal aftermath
Senate committees dealt with rate
}making theories of the interstate
commerce commission, and th'
Shipstead bill to restrict fedora
courts in the granting Of labor
strike injunctions. Before the othel
senate committee Chairman Esch, o
1.-THE interstate commerce commits
sion. heatedly repudiated any sug
gestion that the commission wa
, guided by outside Influence OF AN.
kind in determining coal rates.
J, The house rules committee helt
up action on the Furlow resolution
for a commission study of an eX
press highway project. Officials o
Continued on Page Twelve)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
TO PAY MACKEY
Sl6O,OOO LOSS
D n HOTEL FIRE
Gadsden Owner Given 100
Cents on DOIlar-Har-
monious Adjustment

Adjustment of the loss of the Gads-
den hotel building and contents, so
far as that loss was covered by the
insurance carried, was completed yes
terday about noon on the basis of 130
cents on the dollar of insurance. That
meant that the underwriting conpan-
les will pay, to the owner of the hotel,
F. 0. Mackey, the sum of $3.50 Nnn le
policies having called for $4,000 on
the contents and $145000 on the build
ing The adjustment was completed
within 10 working days from the time
the hotel was destroyed and it was
brought about along harmonious lines
at all times, it being the statement
both of the adjusters and Mr.. Mackey
that there was not dispute OF a
single fact from opening to the close
of the negotiations.
The adjustment was made by F. a.
Henderson of Los Angeles, Frank
Culin of Tucson, and L. M. Mckinley
of Phoenix, all representatives of the
Pacific adjustment bureau. Mckinney
was first on the ground and he lin
ished his part of the work and lett
after being here but four days. Culin
had been here most of the time since
the fire and Henderson arrived on
last Tuesday. Henderson brought with
him H. P. Sheridan, also from the Los
Angeles headquarters of his company,
to assist in the calculation.
The interests of Mr.. Mackey were
handled by Alex Baird, Jr., whose
agency also carried a large percentage
of the risk in the companies he rep
resents
1t is the statement of Mr., Mackey
that the payment of the full face OF
- policies will not recoup him for the
loss sustained by the fire by a good
many thousand dollars and that sin :
he has been checking over the actual
losses with the insurance men to ar-
rive at their liability, he has disco1-
Continued on Page Twelve)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
RELIGIOUS WAR
BREAKS AGAIN
IN GUANAJUATO

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10 CH9-Dis-
patches from Guanajuato state that
another religious uprising broke out
this morning in the district near chat
cit. Rebels shouting long live Christ
attempted to capture the city. 1t was
successfully defended by the police
aided by a large group of residents
The rebels were dispersed and forced
to flee, abandoning several dead.
Military authorities Immediately or
dered energetic measures and detach-
ed several columns to pursue the rebels
Two airplanes have been exploring the
region into which the rebels escaped
Military Commandant General Jaime
Carrillo returned to the state capita
to personally conduct the pursuit. The
city soon was restored to calm
which permitted resumption of the
carnival festivities which had beer
scheduled.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
|. c. c. MEMBER
INFLUENCE
IN RATE MAKING
John ]. Esch, Under Fire
In Senate, Explains Cargo
Coal Case
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is R-John

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is tP-John
j. Esch, of Wisconsin, whose reap
pointment to the Interstate Com
merce commission is under fire in
the senate, denied flatly today be-
fore the interstate commerce COM
mittee that he was influenced by
political pressure sn reversing his
vote in the Lake Cargo coal rate
case.
Il did not consider my chance
for re-appointment in forming my
opinion in the case" the former
chairman of the commission de-
clared.
Esch made this declaration in re-
ply to questions ny Senator Sackett,
republican, Kentucky, one of the
group of senators from the south
ern coal states which is opposing
the commissioners denomination
because the reversal of the former
decision in the lake rate case in
creased the differential in freight
tariffs in favor of Pennsylvania
and Ohio mines.
Asked why he ichanged his posi-
ton between 1925, when the com
mission denied the application OF
the Pennsylvania operators for a
change in differential, and 1927
when the rate decision was render
ed, Esch said he. did so because OF
changed circumstances in the coal
industry and because of the adop-
ton by congress OF the Hoch-Smith
resolution directing the commission
nge the whole freight
rate structure.
The commissioner, who, as a
member of the house, was co-authol
of the transportation act of 1920
also denied charges .often made in
the senate that the commission was
Continued on Page Twelve)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19

: SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1S (AP)
Responsibility for the nose dive"
which swept approximately 30 per-
sons off the forward deck of the
electric terry PeraIta IN San
Francisco bay last night, gravi-
tated to the engine room crew
of the craft today as federal in
vestigatOrs launched a searching
inquiry.
AS the investigation progressed,
police and officials of the Key
system company, owners of the
vessel, broadcast inquiries for
seven persons who were reported
missing after the "dip." OF -4ais-
number, two. w. Collins OF
Oaklard and Hugh Findlay OF
4Ser.ke-ey-- were believed defI-
i1iteIy to have been on the Pc
ralta. OF the other five there
was doubt as to whether they
were passengers.
Joseph p. DOlan, United States
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
Wickershan1 Urges
Court to Return
Oil Man to Senate

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is (R-
Urging the court to return Robert
w. Stewart, chairman of the board
OF the Standard Oil company of In
diana, to the custody of the senate,
George w. Wickersham, special
government counsel, sought today
to have the temporary writ of ha-
beas corpus by which Stewart Sc
cured his freedom set aside. In a
brief submitted to Justices Bailey in
the District of Columbia supreme
court, Wickersham contended that
the senate investigation into the
disposition of the $3,000,O00 in Lib
erty bonds purchased by the extinct
Continental Trading company with
profits from the purchase and re-
sale of oil was entirely legal; that
Stewart was not arrested to insure
his presence before the senate, but
50 he could be brought before the
bar of the senate to answer ques-
tions he had refused to answer be-
fore the oil investigating commit
tee.
Stewart refused to answer ques-
tions concerning the disposition of
Continental bonds and whether he
had discussed the bonds with Harry
T.. Sinclair, who, the government
charges, gave $23O,O00 to Albert
B. Fall, after Fall, as secretary of
the interior, granted him Elease
to the Teapot Dome naval oil lands.
"He was protecting Sinclair,
continued Wickersiham' bri EFF ,
(which was no business of his and
il was apparent from his attitude
toward the question that if conn
PEELED to answer he would have to
disclose information from Sinclair
which might be of great importance
in enabling the committee to obtain
the information required by the res
olution under which it twas acting.
Whatever excuse Sinclair might
have to his answering such ques-
tions, this petitioner did not plead
any privilege recognized by law to
protect him from answering the
questions"
The government brief contended
the proceeding was legislative and
not judicial as contended by Ste
wart and that in refusing to ans
wer questions the oil magnate dis
obeyed part of the requirement OF
the subpoena under which he ap-
peared.
Stewards plea that the inquiry
was into private affairs of an in
dividual and therefore beyond the
power of the senate was answered
by a review of the oil scandals that
followed the Continental deal which
said:
Can there be anything private
in the transactions between the rep
resentatives of two great oil com
panies which results in thei securing
of a profit of i$2,0O0,0O0 or $3,'
100000 to a paper corporation Gre
ated for the purpose, which profit
is then invested in government
bonds. some of which demonstrably
were used to corrupt a former cab
met officer of the United States
others apparently to pay the debts
of great political parties and the
petitioner risks the consequences
Continued on Page Twelve)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
CONAN DOYLE OFFERS PROOF TO
MR.. EDISON OF LIFE HEREAF TER

superficial and obvious flaws for
which our movement is not really
reSpnSible. But all the same he
is much to blame in lending
the weight of his name to such
statement concerning sub
ject which he has obviously not
examined. 1 could give him off
hand an hundred cases within
my own knowledge which would
show that there is no fifty-fifty
in the matter, but that on can
safely claim to be hundred per
cent believer in the life to come.
1 have just room to give one
case for his consideration, and
ask him, if he honestly faces 1t.
whether it does not cut the
ground under his feet. / will
use names, for / am by nature
downright person and 1 have no
use for stories which concern
Mr.. Blank or Mrs. X. This mat
(Continaed on Page Twelve)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-19
FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS START
PROBE OF FERRYBOAT DISASTER

steamboat inspector, while cross
examining Edward Dyson, chief
engineer of the PeraIta, stated
that the forward balancing tank
was full of water at the time
of the dip" when it should have
been emptied. Control of the
balancing tanks is in the engine
room of the Peralta and the
water should have been released
to the rear tank DOIan said.
Both Harry Hill, first assistant
engineer and Dyson, denied the
fOrws al tank was full, although
Dyson later admitted that he
was not certain whether the for
tank was empty.
Hill became somewhat confused
under questioning by the inspec-
tor. At the morning session he
testified the forward tank was
empty. in the afternoon ne
changd his testimony to deny
Continued on Page Twelve)