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VOL. 41. No. 87. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1939 Price per copy 134
Arthur J. Baldwin Passes Away
Failure Neutrality Legislation Will Hurt Business
City Of Haines Experiences An Expensive Fire
Polish Soldier Is
Killed By Danzig
Customs Officer
UNDATED, July 20 (£>)— Ten
sion between the Free City of
>. Danzig and Poland suddenly in
creased when a Polish soldier
Vitold Budziiewicz, was killed
near Danzig, in a village on the
frontier, which is one of Eu
rope’s most troubled spots.
Poles said the soldier was shot
and killed by a Danzig customs
officer, Max Stein, who fired ac
cross the frontier without warn
* ing.
Officials of Nazi controlled
Danzig said the Polish soldier
fired after he aimed a rifle at the
Danzig customs man.
Germany’s army chief of staff
Colonel General Walter von
Brauchitsch spoke at Tanneberg,
which is ten miles from the Pol
ish frontier, warning Poland that
Germany does not “seek to fight
but we do not fear it."
In the far East, Tokyo police
kept a special protective guard
around British ambassador
Craigie as Japan’s -anti-British
campaign gained new bitterness
and a Japanese was found hiding
in the embassy grounds.
While the British and French
looked with mixed hopes and
fears on their chances for build
► ing effective alliances -in Eastern
Europe, other incidents troub'ed
Polish-Danzig relations.
A Warsaw official was sen tone
ed to 14 months imprisonment or,
an arms charge. Another Pole
Colonel Sofcceinski, is said t
have been arrested by the Free
City police.
Some British circles voiced
fears that Britain’s difference?
with Poland over credits for Po
lish armaments would delay the
reaching of the British-French
Soviet mutual assistance pact
and imperilled the psychologica1
effectiveness of the British
French front.
NOTICE
1 All persons wishing to be
come charter members of the
Arctic Club please see Wilfrec
Boucher or Eileen Harris on or
before July 31, 1939.
Big Fire In
City of Haines
Causes Damage
JUNEAU, July 20 (TP) — The
first authenticated reports from
Haines received tonight said that
flames starting early today when
a cigarette ignited some grass,
and spread to a storage shed of
the Haines Light and Power
Company and shot quickly over
the entire plant, cutting off the
city's water supply.
Before firemen could get the
water turned on again, the flames
spread to the Coliseum Theater
and the Postoffice building adjoin
ing the light plant.
The fire destroyed property for
an estimated loss of $30,000 to
the theater, and partly destroy
ed the $25,000 postoffice, but
from the postoffice, water-soaked
supplies were safely removed.
Electricity was provided Hain
es tonight b)‘ the Army.
\avy Starting
Recruiting Of
Enlisted Reserve
WASHINGTON, July 20 <TP) —
The Navy started recruiting "a
uinute man” force of several
.housand former sailors, corres
ponding to the army’s new en
listed reserve. The force will be
romposed of men who have just
completed their term of active
duty or have been out of Navy
for less than four years.
Most warships operate in peace
ime with only eighty percent of
heir full complement.
Famed Poetess,
Author Dies
SAN DIEGO, July 19 (TP) —
Hose Hartwick Thorpe, aged 89,
xoetess and famed as the author
of "The Curfew Shall Not Ring
Tonight," died tonight at her
'.ome here.
• * >
ONE-MAN CONTRO L—On a surprise visit to Flume
! and northern Italy, II Duce piloted his own tri-motored seaplane.
Arthur J. Baldwin
Passes Away In
New Jersey
EAST ORANGE, N. J., July 21
{IP)—Arthur J. Baldwin, aged 71,
millionaire corporation attorney,
died today at his home in East
Orange after a lingering illness,
having suffered a heart attack
while at Nome, Alaska, in July.
1938, and having been confined
to his home since his return.
Mr. Baldwin was actively as
sociated in the political and com
mercial life of New York and
numbered among his friends
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E
Smith, Jas. Farley and others
who have made recent political
and industrial history of the Unit
ed States.
In addition to being the senior
partner of the law firm of Griggs.
Baldwin and Baldwin, he was di
rector in numerous corporations
representing hotels, lumber,
glass, publishing, transportation,
contracting, etc. His Alaskan int
erests were in association with
the Lomen Brothers, of Nome, as
owners of the largest reindeer
herds in the world, lighterage,
stores and mining.
He As survived by one son,
Donald R. Baldwin, who flew
from New York to Nome in 1938
to join his father after his afflic
tion.
His lifelong associate in busi
ness was his brother, Leonard D.
Baldwin, who passed away sev
eral years ago.
Edtor’s Note: Mr. Baldwin will
be remembered by many in
Nome for his generous and kind
ly spirit and his enthusiasm for
Alaska and its possibilities.
While in Nome last season he
wrote the following which ex
presses his feeling about our coun
try: i
“Emerson wrote about the Law
of Compensation. The good Lord
deprived the Seward Peninsula
of trees, and there is lots of frost
in the earth, but when He
thought it over and saw that you
could not grow wheat and potat
oes and much of the foodstuff
necessary to sustain life. He just
compensated the Penisula by
making it the richest soil in the
world by sprinkling gold dust ev
erywhere, and endowing the
streams wtih fish.”
■The Nugget joins with a host
of others in Nome in expressions
of sympathy for those near and
dear to him who are left to
mourn.
$3,600,000 Is Avail
able For Air Base
In Alaska
WASHINGTON, July 21 (JP) —
The War Department announced
that $3,000,000 of relief money
had been appropriated for a new
air base in Alaska but the loca
tion was not announced.
NORTH POLE BAKERY
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
Lack Neutrality
Legislation Will be
Hard on Business
WASHINGTON. July 21 UP) —
Pr sident Roosevelt contended
1 that the press conference de
Jcis on to defer action on neutral
1 ity legislation until the next con
I grt ss.onal session would hurt
' business.
The President said that a pro
mir.cnt businessman told him re
cently that the failure of Con
gress to act on the neutrality leg
islaticn was killing the nicest
little business boom you ever
saw. President Roosevelt assert
| ed that businessmen don’t want
to make commitments because
they don't know what form the
neutrality legislation may take
when Congress convenes next
year. They don't want to place
orders or take them he said,
i The President said it would
i take more than a mere crisis to
impel him to call Congress in a
special session if he comes to
grips with the neturality prob
lem.
He was told that Senate iso
lationists are predicting that he
will carry the neutrality issue to
the country on his prospective
trip to the West Coast. Roose
wanted to know what neutrality
issue existed. It is reported that
he remarked that arms embargo
was the issue. The President then
asked whether or not it was
closed till next January by ac
tion of the Senate.
There is and can be no immed
iate issue before the country, he
amplified, because certain groups
in the Senate precluded any ac
tion until January.
With reference to his trip to
the coast, the President said his
plans might be changed and he
might spend some time along the
Atlantic Coast and go to San
Francisco later to visit the Gold
on Gate Exposition. He didn't in
dicated whether he contemplated
any cruises along the Atlantic
seaboard.
However, the President is ex
pected to leave for the coast soon
after Congress adjourned to see
the Exposition, then go by the
inside passage to Juneau, but he
said it appeared that Congress
might be on the job until Aug
ust fifth. He has been advised
that he might arrive at the West
■Coast too late for a trip to Al
aska. because fog got bad on
the inside passage.
Student Nurse Is
Tarred, Feathered
CALGARY, Jcly 19 UP)—Charg
es of assault were filed against
Mrs. Ethel Allen, and daughter
Betty, by a 28-year-old student
nurse, Alice Knowles, who re
ported to the police she had been
tarred and feathered in her own
apartment.
The nurse is at a hospital, suf
fering from shock and burns.
The police found >a pail of roof
ing paint in the apartment. The
motive for the attack is un
known.
Commodious Liner S. S. Denali of Alaska Line, which arrived
Nome early this morning from Seattle. The Denali will make an
“Arctic Cruise” touching at Nome and Siberia in August
Denali Passengers
C
Are Now Ashore
The S. S. Denali of the Alaska
line arrived at Nome from Seat
tle after a 10-day voyage, with a 1
i capacity load of cargo, passen- i
gers and 25.rM)0 pounos of mail
for Nome. Due to the fact that a
strong southerly wind has been
blowing all day, no discharging
could be done, and passengers
remained aboard until about 5
I o’clock when the seas subsided
i and passengers were brought
1 ashore by lighter. Following is
the passenger list:
Mrs. R Sandstrom
Mrs Sally Hall
Miss Evelyn Komodias
H J Butler
William N Deady
Soviets Threaten
To Confiscate
Jap Coal and Oil
UNDATED. July 21 </P) — Far
Eastern conflicts drew attention j
from European troubles as Brit-j
ain and Russia became further
embroiled in the expanding Jap-j
anese empire.
At Tokyo, the Naval Ministry J
said a section of the Japanese
fleet was assembling in northern1
waters as a result of a Soviet
threat to confiscate Japanese coal
and oil concession in the Russian
half of Sakhalin Island off the
Siberian coast north of Japan.
Monday Russia rejected a Jap
anese demand in “ultimatum
form" concerning rights on the
island which is half Russian and
half Japanese. The immediate
cause of the dispute is the $190,
000 fine levied against Japanese
companies working concessions
in the Rustian territory. The
situation was reported at the To
kyo Naval Ministry as “extreme
ly grave” as Japan waited to see
if the Soviet threat of confisca
tion would be carried out.
Relations between the two pow!
ers are further embittered by the j
continued fighting on the front- j
ier between Manchukuou and
Outer Mongolia, the Asiatic stat- j
es supported respectively by Jap t
an and Russia.
Japan declared that 39 Soviet j
plane were shot down in their I
battle in the Lakebor region |
where intermittent fighting has1
been in progress since May 11. |
Mrs W J Castleton
William B Young
Harry Dobson
A Wicklund
Henry Milot
Mrs Mary Gabbard
Mrs Gertrude Mazen
Mrs A L StringfelLow
Paul McCarthy
Walter McCarthy
Miss Anna Hanson
Christine ’.leseke
Doris Herbert : *.
Mildred Herbert
Mrs. Herbert r
Miss Edith McVey -
Mre Laurence Meade
Frank McPherson
A P Brandt
Mr and Mrs A M Nylen.
Mr and Mrs L A Sandberg
Linda Sandberg
Eloise Mo zee
Yvonne Mozee
Sara Taylor
And six steerage
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FUNERAL NOTICE
Funeral services for the late
Harry Ewert will be held at the
Federated Church, Saturday
morning, July 22, at 10 a.m.
Subscribe for The Nome Nugget
WELCOME-a Mexican
schoolboy greeted the president
of his country, Lazaro Cardenas,
when the latter halted at Couer*
vos during a tour of the farm
regions. Cardenas was checking
up on the agricultural needs of
the Mexicali valley.