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The Nome nugget., 1938-02-28

Pilot Jefferd of the Mirow Air Service returned to Nome from Fairbanks late Friday afternoon, with first class mail and Sam w. Taggart, Ruth Johansen and MT. Forsgren as passengers. the latter is enroute to Deering where he is interested in mining.
The Nome nugget., 1938-02-28

The Ladies Aid Society of the Federated Church will meet at the home of Mrs. Conrad Yenney Friday, March 4th, at 2 P. M Mrs. Yenney will be hostess.
The Nome nugget., 1938-02-28

Ballot boxes for the conven- fence of the public have been in. stalled at the following places: Mayfair Tavern Board of Trade North Pole Bakery Polets Branch Store Polet's Main Store Bon Marche Store Lehmann's Stores Nome Drug Store Nevada Grill Nevada Bar
 Lincoln Hotel
 Arctic Beer Parlor
The Nome nugget., 1938-02-28

Nenana Ice Pool tickets, it is reported, are now going rapidly at the B of T., and as is usually in this Alaska classic much inter- est is being taken in the depth of the ice and etc. at Nenana.
The Nome nugget., 1938-02-28

A native reindeer herder who was supposed to be lost for sev- eral days from the Salmon Lake camp, is reported to have finally shown up at the camp.
The Nome nugget., 1938-02-28
POLET'S STORES
ATTENTION PIONEERS

Igloo No. 1 Pioneers of Alaska will hold it's regular meeting at Odd Fellows hall, Monday, Feb. 18th, at 8 P. M. Followed by a card party at g p. m. Refresh ments will be served.
 Dave Gray, Secretary. Publish 2t Feb. 25-28.
The Nome nugget., 1938-02-28
NEWS ITEMS
Nome city council meets tonite

The Pioneers will give another of their enjoyable card parties this evening at 9 o'clock.
The Nome nugget., 1938-02-28

SPECIAL VOTE OFFER
 The Nome Nugget is offering 200 votes for each dollar paid on paid-up subscriptions and also on new subscription. On six months paid in advance subscriptions the Nugget is giving 300 votes on each dollar paid in advance.
The Nome nugget., 1938-02-28

POEMS WANTED For New Poetry Anthology. Plays and Fiction also considered. Address: Dept. BK, Editor-62 Grand Gen. tral Annex, New York, N. Y. 3t
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
CORR|GAN TO Get
CROSS OF HONOR
AT GIANT FEAST
Over 1000 to Attend
Fete Wednesday

Plans for entertaining Douglas
In Again Out Again" Corrigan
neared completion today with the
announcement the United States
Flag Association will present the
coveted Cross Of Honor to the
California flier at a giant lunch
con Wednesday noon at the Will
lard Hotel under auspices of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians.
Others who have received the
cross are Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, Amelia Earhart and How
ard Hughes.
NOTABLES TO Attend
More than 1000 admirers Of
the wrong way" airman will at
tend and Acting Minister Robert
Brennan, of Fire, is expected to
be among them. Patrick ]. Hur.
ley, Secretary of War under the
Hoover administration, will pre-
sent the cross to Corrigan.
An added feature of the parade
which will take Corrigan from
ceremonies at the Lincoln Me
mortal to the Capitol-then up
Pennsylvania Avenue-Will be a
group of outstanding women fliers.
Headed by Mrs. Jack Stearns
Gray. of the Pioneer Women of
the Air, the group will include
Viola Gentry, famous for her air
exploits during the past decade;
Mrs. Victor Bruce, founder of the
Women'S Aeronautical Associa-
ton Of America, and Miss Clara
Adams, a passenger on the ILL
fated Hindenberg's flight and on
the first flight Of the DO-X to
Rio de Janeiro and return.
FETE TO BE BROADCAST
From the time Corrigan arrives
in Washington Airport at 1880
until the closing ceremonies late
Wednesday, Station WJSV will
broadcast all angles of the Cor
rigan reception with what was
described as probably the most
elaborate technica lsetup since
the inauguration" of President
Roosevelt.
A last minute addition to the
reception committee was named
yesterday. She is Susan Cornelia
Jones, IA, of 1910 Thirty-fourth
st. N. w., daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry LIE Roy Jones. Susan
asked for the honor in a letter to
Chairman Fairfax Naulty in which
she expressed her enthusiasm for
the young fier and requested she
be allowed to do her part in en-.
tertaining him.
The Washington times., 1938-08-08

the garment to the boys mother,
Mrs. Jessie Dwyer, who said she
wanted to clean it.
Car "Turned in"
Defense Attorney Chapman
wanted to know what happened
to the Littlefield car in which
Mrs. Littlefield was riding the
night she was slain-some 36
hours after the murder of her
husband. The sheriff said he
himself had turned it in"
Asked if there mad been blood
stains on the front seat, where
Mrs. Littlefield had been placed
after she was hit over the head
with a gun, he said, Yes"
The significance of Sheriff
Francis statement that Carroll's
gun was missing from his (the
sherff's) desk the night the doc
The Washington times., 1938-08-08

I'm going to plead guilty and
get out of here where / can be
myself"
Odd he plead guilty?
Ayes.
ABBOTT said he told Sheriff
Francis what Dwyer had told him
and suggested the sheriff investi-
gate his deputy, Carroll.
Later, Abbott continued, he saw
Paul, his mother and several 9TH
erS, and Paul reiterated "he
couldn't go through with it" and
was going to plead guilty.
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
CARROLL'S Gun
CONE FROM DESK
NIGHT OF TRIAL
Sheriff Says He Long
Suspected Aide

courtroom when Abbott admitted
he might have talked a little to
his wife" about the Carroll angle
of the case.
The next witness was Dearborn
Pope, owner of a derelict truck
in which Paul said he cached a
revolver which he carried before
the murders as a protection"
against Carroll.
Pope testified he found that re-
volver. The gun was loaded, eV-
cry chamber full. Pope turned
the pistol over to someone else
and, after some trading, it found
it's way to Portland, Me-, where
the police located it.
Weapon Identified
The gun was shown to Pope and
he identified it.
Thelma Maxim, 17-year-old high
school student, was called next.
A fresh-faced girl, in a sum"
merry dress, she told Of walking
near the library with a girl friend
at about 7::30 p. m. the night DR..
Littlefield was slain.
She said she saw DR.. Littlefield
back out of the driveway OF his
home and start for the square.
She noticed Paul Dwyer sitting on
the steps of the Methodist Church,
nearby. She saw Paul chase after
the doctor, saw the doctor stop
his car and Paul get in. And
then they drove off," she said.
Paul has testified they drove to
the DWyer home.
Mrs. Jessie M. Simpson, for 30
years employed bv the New Eng
land Telephone Company as its
chief operator in the Norway
South Paris exchange, next took
the stand.
"At about GAS the night of
October 49," she related, Il re-
ceived a signal from a pay sta
ton. The call was passed sort OF
breathlessly and excitedly to %
% being the doctors line.
1--WE are asked to stay by in
case of emerg : ICY. The con-
versation started with the call
ing party saying: Mrs. Littlefield
I must see you Mrs. Littlefield
replied: I can't see you, I'm in
my nightclothes.'
W Took the Doctor"
"The calling party said, I
must 50, you, even through
closed DOORS He then said, I
must, I must! I'm the one who
took the doctor up the hill
II didn't think any more
about the call"
Dwyer has testified he phoned
Mrs. Littlefield shortly after the
doctor was slain and took her on 8
long ride which resulted in hel
being slain on lonely road.
Archie Smith, filling station
proprietor. testified he saw Dwye1
talking with Francis Carroll thu
night before the crime.
It was that night, Paul has teS
titled, that Carroll had said HI
was going to bring Barbara to thu
Dwyer home the following nigh
so she could be examined by
doctor to prove the fathers state
ment that "Babs" was pregnant.
Barbara to Testify
Barbara Carroll's appearance
as a witness for the defense prom
ises to be one of the high lights O.
the trial.
Miss Carroll, a pretty blonde O.
II, says she does not want to sa!
anything on the witness stand tt
hurt her father.
Barbara has become a rathe1
pathetic figure as this sensational
trial progresses. The spotlight i
full upon her as she attends cour
daily and sits among the spects
tors, most of them rural folks, VIII
know her well,
She does not seem to be great,
affected, however. She was no
overly disturbed when the arden
love letters she had written t
Buddy" were read to the jury
a Nor does she seem to mind tn
StareS Of strangers.
The Washington times., 1938-08-08

MAP SHOWS originally pro-
posed Jewish state in Palestine
(area in upper black lines)
from which Galilee, Haifa and
Acre (underlined) would be ex-
cluded in new proposal.
leaving out a score Of the largest
Jewish settlements to the north
and south and closing the door to
further prospects of Jewish devel-
opment Of the land.
This strip Is now occupied by
25O,000 out Of Palestine's 10000
Jews and could take at the most
another 10000. All the rest OF
Palestine would be put under a
revised British mandate and there
would be no Arab state.
Rejection Expected
Under both plans the British
would hold southern Palestine to
protect Suez and northern Pales
tine in order to possess Haifa as
an air base and a terminus of the
Irak pipe line, as well as sever
Palestine Arabs from the Syrians
Either plan Will be rejected by
both Jews and Arabs; hence, the
commission is considering the pos
Sibility of a temporary interim
under local self-government, but
with federal police in control tc
keep order.
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
Triunnphal Parade

A band played lively. airs as
Corrigan looked over the airport
prior to a triumphal motor parade
through East Boston, Chelsea and
Charlestown to City Hall, the
State House and Boston Common,
for other official welcomes. Mayor
Maurice j. Tobin, President Sam
uel H. Wragg of the State senate
and other State and city digni-
taries were at the airport along
with delegation of 1877. includ.
ing As bearing the name of Corri
gan.
Assigned as guard Of honor ia
Corrigan were Patrolman John J
! lCorrigan and Joseph r. Corrigan
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
Death Gun?

International News Photo
TRIAL EXHIBIT
State Alleges Francis
Carroll Used This Auto
matte to Beat to Death
Dr.. James C. LittIefield
tor was slain is due to the fact the
State contends DR.. Littlefieh was
struck on the head with the butt
Of a pistol.
Tells of Suspicious
Sheriff Francis admitted he be-
came suspicious that Carroll might
be involved in the crime long be-
fore his deputy was accused of
murder. He said he had been
told months ago the story which
Paul Dwyer had related on the
stand last week, in which he &C.
cused Carroll Of committing both
crimes.
81 kept Carroll where could
watch him." Francis said.
Sheriff Francis admitted his
records showed that Carroll had
arrested a man named Farnham
on october 13 Cthe date Of the
physicians murder) and brought
the prisoner to Jail. He added
that the record showed the arrest
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
Tells Defense Plans

On croSs-examination Defense
Attorney Chapman asked At
torney Abbott what was his de-
fense for Paul when the trial came
up last December.
Well" said Abbott, "I'd gone
over Dryers previous stories
and I couldn't put much stock
in them. It was a very confusing
defense. was waiting for
break.
Il meant to contend Paul
couldn't have done it, that he
was incapable physically. That
was the first. The second was to
try and get away with man
slaughter, knowing the State
didn't have any motive. The
third was was trying to weave
in as much as I could of the
Carroll story when Carroll took
the stand as a witness"
Told Story in Full
Abbott related that Paul haC
told him about the Barbara Car
roll letters, the threats from
Francis Carroll" the meeting with
DIR. Littlefield and what happened
in the Dwyer home the night O.
the Staying.
Q.-You now have hopes Of
obtaining a pardon for your
client?
A.-No.
Q.-You allowed Dwyer to
plead guilty on his statement
that someone had threatened
his life. and that of his mother?
Ayes, sir I thought it was
the only thing for him to do.
Odd he tell you who
threatened him?
A.-Yes, Francis Carroll.
| Odd you tell the sheriff
that?
A.-No.
A chuckle swept through tn
The Washington times., 1938-08-08

SOUTH PARIS Me- Aug S-Barbara Carroll pathetic figure
of spotlight Dhich plays this little toDn Dent
dance Saturday night and found herself the center OF
lot of attention she didn't relish.
The dance Barbara American Legion
Hall Harrison, miles a0ay, and feature of "Old
Week."
When cameranen snapped her picture dancing Oih G
goodIooing she became somewhat uStered and sat the
be the OF tears
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
Barb Carroll to Take Witness Stand in Fathers Defense
Palestine Proposal:
Palestine Proposal:
Tiny Jewish Haven
Is Britain'S Plan
Room for Only Few in Holy Land
Saws KnickerbOcker

HoU aOorld JeUry 10hich has suffered many persecu
tions IN recent gears, faces still another bIow is
graphically described today By H. r. Kmickerbocker in
booker reveals the British commission o.. partition of
Palestine plans to reduce the Jewish national home
IN Palestine to token hone, capable of
dating only fraction of the Jewish refugees
By H. R. KNICKERB0CKER
JERUSALEM, Aug. NS.).-World Jewry, shaken fror
and prosecutions worse than any since biblical times
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
Boston GreetS
Doug Wildly

Continued from PAGE II
citizenry and assure you that no
error of compass, of place, or of
affection is in evidence, when
as one, united Massachusetts,
Says-welcome, Douglas Corri-
gan!"
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
GIRL IS BETWIxT|
F|LIAL DUTY AND.
LOVE OF DWYER|
Declares She doesn't
Wan to Hunt Dad"

CONTINUED from Page II
rested in Moth Abingdon. N. j., in
q car containing the bodies Of the
slain doctor and Mrs. James G..
Littlefield.
The youth signed a confession
saying he committed the double
killing, but wanted Barbara S
name kept completely out of the
case"
The Washington times., 1938-08-08

and the mans appearance in court
as of the same date.
Zone entry was wrong" said
the Sheriff. 81 think the arrest
must have been made October
a."
The Washington times., 1938-08-08

has in store another blow.
The British commission on par
tition Of Palestine is taking back
to England plans which, it was
learned today, will reduce the Jew
ish national home in Palestine to
dimensions incapable Of accom-
modating more than an insignifi-
cant fraction of the Jewish refu-
gees, for whom Zionists hoped the
Holy Land would be a sanctuary.
Instead Of a great judah
whittier millions Of oppressed Jews
could flee, it will be proposed to
set up a tiny Jewish state which
would serve as a token home"
and fulfill the letter, though not
the spirit, of the Balfour declara-
ton.
Terror in Palestine, which in
July reached an all-time high, with
189 killed and 869 wounded, con-
vinced the British the Jews cannot
be given more.
To Hear Witnesses
Several variations are still being
debated by the commission, which
has yet to hear witnesses. England
has not yet formulated a report
and may yet change her mind.
However, it was learned the
most favorable project considered
possible by the commission is as
follows:
The Jews are to have for an in.
dependent ststa the territory out.
lined by the Peel Commission, but
without Galillee. Acre or Haifa.
The British will take over Call
lee, Acre and Haifa and the cor
ridor between Jerusalem and
Jaffa, also the entire southern
desert area o: Palestine on re
vised mandate.
The Arabs will receive the rest
Of the country for their state
perhaps to be united with Trans
Jordan under Abdullah.
This will sive the Jews ma
tional state about half the size OF
Rhode Island. capable of accom-
modating by excessive squeezing
and intensive induStrialization a
maximum of 100000 Jews more
than are now here.
The British inundated territory
would practically exclude Jewish
immigrants, while the Arab state
probably would attempt to eXpel
whatever jewish settlers were
caught within the new boundaries
An alternative to this project
however, far more unfavorable
now appears possible. The com
mission may decide to reduce the
Jewish state to the Sharon Val
ley maritime belt, 10 miles LONG
and 40 miles wide, running alont
the sea from Tel AviV to Atlit
The Washington times., 1938-08-08


has another blow
The Washington times., 1938-08-08

as of the same date.
Zone entry was wrong" said
the Sheriff. 81 think the arrest
must have been made October
IA"
Morals Charge Filed First
It was testified that Sheriff
Francis brought about the arrest
Of Carroll on a morals charge in
volving his daughter, Barbara, on
May 27 last-almoSt a month be-
fore the ex-deputy sheriff was
formerly charged with murder.
you didn't intend to try him
on the morals charge when you
arrested him on that allegation,
did you?" asked the Defense
Attorney Chapman.
"Oh, yes" replied the sheriff.
The sheriff said he had never
questioned Carroll regarding q
cigaret lighter he (the sheriff. had
found on the lawn in the rear OF
the Dwyer home. The State IN
tends to try to prove the lighter
belonged to Carroll.
buyers Counsel Heard
A Crucial witness, E. Walker
Abbott, Dwyer's counsel when he
pleaded guilty in court, next took
the stand.
Abbott testified he had q con
ference with Dwyer, in the judge :
chambers, two weeks before the
trial.
What did Paul say to you?"
he was asked.
For the first time, he broke
down and cried, and he told me
substantially the same story as
he told on the stand at this
trial." said Abbott.
The next day, Abbott said III
received a phone call from Pau
who told him not to believe thu
story he told in the judges cham
ber."
Abbott went on:
Paul said: I've got to plead
guilty to this murder. I can't
60 through with it. My life has
been threatened, my mothers
life has been threatened, and
The Washington times., 1938-08-08

rested in Moth Abingdon. N. j.. IN
q car containing the bodies Of the
slain doctor and Mrs. James G.
Littlefield.
The youth signed a confession
saying he committed the double
killing. but wanted Barbara S
name kept completely out of the
case"
Prosecutor on Stand
Testimony to this effect was
given today by Prosecutor Johu
J. BreSlin, of Bergen county, at
the trial of Barbara's father, ex-
Deputy Sheriff Francis M. Car
roll, who is charged with the muir
der of DR.. Littlefield.
Barbara sat with her mother in
the courtroom listening to BreS-
Inns testimony. Carroll wa S
seated between two court officers.
Girls and boys of Barbara'S age
peered down from a balcony. 1t
looked as if the younger set" had
usurped this portion Of the court
room.
Breslin testified he met Dwyer
In the police station at North
Arlington. He identified Dryers
confession of the crime (Since re-
pudiated by the youth who is serv-
ing q life term in PRISON..
Repeats ConUersation
"He was greatly disturbed
about Barbara Carroll" said
BreSlin.
Q. CBy Special Prosecutor
Ralph M. 1ngalls) In what
Tespect?"
A. II remember distinctly, he
said to me: Now. Mr.. BreSlin,
If sign this confession and go
back to Maine, will the girl be
dropped out of the picture from
now on?' 1 told him I was quite
certain the girls name would
not come out in any newspaper
stories, nor would she receive
any publicity"
Netters from Barbara to young
Dwyer had been found in the
youths SuitcaseD
Breslin said Dwyer seemed tc
be perfectly normal-he wasn't
excited at ALL"
Given utmost Care"
when he came to Hacken-
sack, because he wasn't a hard
ened criminal, I ordered that he
be treated with the utmost
care"
Defense Attorney Clyde Chap
man asked Breslin if Dwyer ap-
peared to have been lying.
THE only way I can answer
that Breslin said, lis that he
was greatly concerned about
Barbara Carroll"
The defendants former SUI
perior, Sheriff Fernando F.
Francis. was recalled to the stand.
Sheriff Francis testified that
CAROLS gun was missing from its
usual place or the night of Octo.
Der 13 last when DR.. Littlefieid
was slain in the Dwyer home.
Kept in DraUer
THE gun usually was kept in
q drawer in my office" said the
sheriff. when / was sum-
moned to the Dwyer home that
might when it was learned a
crime had heen committed,
looked for the gun. It wasn't
In the desk So I went to the
Dwyer home without a gun and
conducted my investigation"
The sheriff said that when Pau
Dwyer was returned from New
Jersey, he examined the youth
effects and found a number O
detective magazines.
Asked what became Of Paul
bloody shirt. he said that afte
6al1l'S trial last nAcarOhay- ha GOV,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-04
Holding His Own

Through the columns of the Connecti- cut State Journal, which has apparently been official spokesman for the Republi- can party of this state for the past several years without any serious opposition or complaints from party members, comes a distinct warning in the current issue for recalcitrants to toe the line. Speaking of the Republican boys down in Fairfield County as Liberty Leaguers," the article, which is generally credited to Clarence G. Willard, secretary of the Republican State Central Committee, spanks the several Fairfield County G. O, P. organizations with vim and vigor.
 It certainly would indicate that Mr. Willard has no intention of relinquishing his State Central Committee job without making real serious effort to retain it. And if he is forced out by weight of pub- licity, more than anything else, he in- tends to put the Fairfield County "boys" right on the spot. Whether or not his charges, yelled as they seem to be, will force an investigation by the Waterbury grand jury, we don't know, but when the writer speaks of From these groups in Fairfield County have come contribu- tions and payments of money into other sections of the State when the Fairfield group was interested :"
 Whether that is thrust at the contri- button made to the Republican cause in Waterbury last fall, we don't know but it certainly would seem to fall right into alignment with it. Such claims are grand jury fodder it would seem and mayhap be- fore the present controversy in Water bury has been concluded, the Fairfield County Republicans, others than those already involved will have had to explain their sudden and financial interest in a Waterbury election
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-04
Such Is Fame

Bloomfield has just appointed a new superintendent of schools to replace the present incumbent, Elmer F. Davenport, who on July becomes head of the Thom- aston schools. Bloomfield is extremely fortunate in it's new school head, for It will have Dr. Ernest w. Butterfield in this position for the next three years. Dr. Butterfield has just resigned from the position of State Commissioner of Edu- cation, an office he held for the past eight years with considerable distinction
 In discussing this change of office, let me say at the outset that no aspersions are being cast on any of the officials con- cerned They are above reproach in every single instance. But we do like to point an accusing finger at system which relegates man who has spent practically the last quarter of century as director of state educational systems. Such is the case of Dr. Butterfeld. Prior to coming to Connecticut to take over the commits Sionership he held like office in New Hampshire for IS years.
 We can see only one good reason why Dr. Butterfield should have had to give up his position as head of the school system of Connecticut. And that is chiefly politi- cal. The same view has been ex- pressed by others We are not making any radical utterances. It's just plain state ment of facts. It's been claimed for many years that the affairs of the State Board of Education are too dependent on legis- lative approval to allow any one individ- ual to embark on progressive course of action. It eventually has an effect on the voting public and that's fatal.
 It is no discredit to either Dr. Butter field or to the Town of Bloomfield to point out that the formers return to a school superintendency after marked success, from an educational standpoint, in state direction does not reflect too much credit on the state. Bloomfield makes a Sub- stantial gain; the state loses