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VOL. 41. No. 53. • NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, May 3, 1939 Price per copy is*
Poles Celebrate - “Down with Hitler”
Hitler Frying Form Neutral Bloc Northern Europe
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ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT for visiting President
and Mme. Albert Lebrun of France took England's King George
and Queen Elizabeth (above) to C'ovent Garden opera house in
London for a gala performance. The Britons will visit U. S. soon.
Alaskan Elopes
With Nurse
PITTSBURGH, May 3 <JP) —
Henry J. Mesta, wealthy indus
trialist and Alaska geld mine op
erator and Paula Tatcher, Uni
versity of Pittsburgh health
nurse eloped in a plane and were
married in ALbuquerque. *Tbe
couple surprised friends with the
announcements of their wedding
plans to fly from Aubuqurrque
to Ketchikan, whpre Mesta lives
with his brother. Henry J. and
Prank Mesta cf the Mesta Mach
ine Company have lived in Al
aska for the past ten vears.
House Kills
Reindeer Bill
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WASHINGTON, May 1, (/P) —
• The House rejected by a vote of
102 *o 64. the Senate amendment
o the Interior Department ap
oronriations bill providing one
mill:tn seventy thousand dollars
t purchase reindeer for Alaskan
Indians. They approved the
bulk of the bill with a total of
$4,923,328 .under recommendation
from the budget bureau, but the
$26,000,000 over the current ap
'V^pria Von bill goes to the Sen
ate for action over disputed sec
•'cns.
Poles Celebrate
UHth Anniversary
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of 1st Constitution
WARSAW, May 2, .(/P> —Gn'es
of “Down with I lit lei ” mingled
with cheers of Polish troops pa
rading in Warsaw, the capital’s
celebration of the 143th anniver
sary of Poland’s first constitu-j
tion. Other shouts of “Hurrah,
for Polish Danzig” and “Ease
Prussia must be Polish" were
heard.
Crowds jammed the sidewalks
along the eight mile route of the'
parade and threw flowers at the
clattering cavalry units and the
rumbling groups of mechanized
weapons. Sober defense prepara
tions in the face of tense rela
tions with Germany, otherwise
marked the anniversary.
Demands More
Voice In Govt.
Int. Settlement j
TOKYO, May 3 </P> — Renzo
Sawada, vice minister of foreign
affairs, presented the United Stat
es and British ambassadors with
demands that the Shanghai mun
j icipal council, the governing
i body of the Shanghai Internation
al settlement, be reorganized to
give the Japanese a larger voice
in its affairs and permit more
' complete control of “terrorism”
:n the settlement.
Sawada declared the structure
j of the council has been outmoded
j long ago and that “the Japanese
| community has not been given
its due fa r expression in the ad
ministration of the settlement.”
He added that some measures
must be taken immediately. Jap
an new has two members in the
council, the British have five and
the United States two. Before the
Japanese war, there were five
Chinese members.
CHINA CLIPPER USES TREASURE ISLAND BASE
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First regularly scheduled flight of clipper planes flying the Pacific, to land at Treasure Island, site
«f the Golden Gate International Exposition and new operations base of Pan American Airways,
was completed by the China Clipper (above) when it landed o n the island’s adjacent lagoon af
ter a flight from Honolulu. In the background is part of the S an Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
_ giving ready access to the centers of both cities.
Polar Bar & Grill Will Open Soon „~
HELP BY PAUL BUNYAN WANTED HERE
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Ihe fabulous strength of the mythical Paul Bunyan could be put to work with the hearty
thanks of these loggers, trying to pal key logs from the jam on the north fork of the Clearwater
River in North Idaho. Millions of feet of Idaho white pine logs are jammed in a narrow rocky de
file awaiting spring freshets about April 15. If these workmen succeed in freeing the key logs, %
high head of water back of the jam will be avoided when the waters rise.
Hitler Seeks Form
Neutral Bloe
Of Scandinavias
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BERLIN. May 3 </P) — Hitler
sought to form a neutral bloc of
at least six nations extending ac
ross northern Europe and offered
identical non-aggression pacts to
Denmark, Norway, Sweden and
Finland and made similar ap
proaches to Latvia and Estonia.
There is strong reason to believe
that proposals of a like nature
were submitted to a number of
other European countries. Lith- j
uania is not included in the pro- j
jected northern combination be
cause her relations with Ger
many are regulated by a separate
treaty which contains non-aggres
sion pledges.
The Germany government ag
reed to proposals by the Swed
ish and Finnish governments to
fortification of the southern
group of Aaland Islands but at-1
tached a condition of neutrality
by Sweden and Finland-in the
event “of possible warlike en
tanglements’’ involving the Bal
tic Sea area. The Aaland Is
lands dominate the entrance to
the Bothnia Gulf, the northern j
extension of the Baltic Sea.
Vote Showdown
WASHINGTON, May 2 (&) —
The House reorganization com
mittee voted to permit a House
showdown, probably tomorrow
on the Taber resolution on dis
approval of President Roosevelt’s
plan for government reoganiza
tion.
Old Papers For Sale
Buy them by the bundle, Use
them for starting fires. For Sale
at The Nome Nugget.
Expell Nazi Agents
LONDON, May 2 </P> —After
noon papers said it was learned
that the British Home Office in
ccnjunction with Scotland Yard
intended soon to expell “more
than 50 Nazi agents in England,
some of them, the London Star
said were newspaper men “but
it is not their newspaper work
but their activities in connection
with Nazi organizations that is
suspected."
The expulsion orders followed
extensive investigation of the
activities of Nazi organizations
in the United Kingdom.
Meanwhile Premier Chamber
lain told the House of Commons
that Britain wants “to conclude
her agreement with Russia but
we must discuss what’s the best
form.”
America's Volcano
Starts Erupting
MINERAL, Calif., May 2 <£»)■—
Reports that long-dormant Las
sen Peak, mainland America’s on
ly active volcano, was belching
steam and smoke, sent a national
parks naturalist hastening to the
scene. Alex Thatcher, veteran of
Lassen Peak’s violent eruptions
of 25 years ago, declared he saw
plumes of smoke and steam com
ing from the 10,453 foot summit
Sunday.
While steam issues from its
fissures at all time of the year,
it is much more noticeable at this
time of the year.
Carl Swartzlow, Lassen’s vol
canic national park naturalist,
placed credence in Thatcher’s ob
servations of smoke.
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THE 6 5 T H RUNNING of Kentucky's famous horse race,
the derby, has the name of Time Alone Included among the en
tries, This three-year-old bay colt owned by F. A. Carreaud
earned $16,715 last year, won 2 firsts in 6 starts.