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VOL. 42. No. 43. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1940 Per C°P7 W
Norway Threatens To Enter War
Blockade Cause U.S. Ship Turn Back Mid-Pacific
Norway Threatens To Go To
War If Necessary To Protect
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Free Shipping In Her Waters
UNDATED,, April 6 </P>— Nor-;
way threatened to go to war if
necessary to prevent any onside
ed interference with free shipp
ing in her waters. The warning
was given before the Norwegian
parliament by foreign minister
Koht who directed pointedly that
the British and French allies who
protested that Germany is receiv
ing supplies from Scandinavian
territorial waters but also a slap
at Germany for sinking Norweg
ian merchantmen. The Norweg
ian stand is a strong one.
High spots of the day found
the Allies prosecuting the war
and economic blockade against
Germany without noteworthy de
velopments on the military front.
Authorized German sources
viewing the situation said anoth
er “decisive weekend in Europe
has arrived.”
Norwegian foreign minister j
Koht said: if the Allied powers j
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should ask us to stop free ship-1
ping which goes on according to
generally acknowledged interna
tional law which they themselves
acknowledge this will either be
a great damage to themselves or i
if suoh a hindrance to shipping
should be onesided against one
party therefore in open conflict
with the neutrality which we
pledged ourselves to maintain,
then Norway will at once be at
war.” The statement of the for
eign policy is in particular in re
lation to iron ore exports from
Narvik, Norway and took on a
deeper significance because it
came after the British foreign of
free yesterday handed to the Nor
wegian ministers at London not
es outlining the Allies views of
neutrality. Premier Reynaud al
so handed notes to the Norweg
ian and Swedish (ministers at
Paris.
Allies Announce
Mines Laid Off
Coast of Norway
LONDON, April 7 (IP) — Tie
British and French governments
announced that three areas of!
the Norwegian coast were mined
in the first move to deny Ger
many the use of territorial wat
ers for shipment of vital Scan-;
dinavian ore to Germany. The!
areas mined are olf Stadlandet j
Peninsula, Bud. and West Fjord.
The action, it was said is in re
prisal for Germany’s brutal il
legal campaign against the ship
ping of all nations in which 150
vessels and nearly 10CO neutral
lives were lost.
Case Of Chloe
Da\ is Turned Over
Juvenile Court j
LOS ANGELES, April 6 (/P> —'
The police investigation of the
claying of a mother and her 3 j
young children was officially ter
minated and it announced the
story that Chloe Davis, eleven,
declared that she witnessed the
killings and was accepted as ac
curate by Captain Edgar Ed- i
wards of the police homicide
squad who said “We believe that;
Chlce Davis is telling the truth, j
consequently we are turning , all
facts of our detailed reports over
to the juvenile court.”
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PICTURE OF DEATH APPROACHING
Thomas Dardis, 23, stood on the rails at Suisan, Calif., to take a
picture of the approaching streamliner City of San Francisco. He
got the above picture but the train struck and killed him.
Mining Short Course Tonight At City Hall, 7 P. M.
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German Submarine and British
Naval Vessel Sunk In Bailie
North Sea Off Coast Norway
OSLO. April 8 (/P) — A Nor
wegian schooner docked at Lille
sand with between forty and fif
ty German and British seamen
aboard and a half dozen bodies
on deck following a North Sea
battle in which a British vessel
and a German submarine were
sunk. According to the schoon
ers crew, two submarines attack
ed the vessel. The schooner was
so close to the battle that she'
was damaged slightly by a tor
pedo explosion.
It was reported from several
points along the west Norway
coast that bodies were being
washed ashore and are believed
to be from a German troop trans
port. Lillesand is on the south
eastern trip of Norway.
Meanwhile, between 19 and 100
German naval craft, mostly arm
ed trawlers coastal craft, and
minesweeprs are reported to be
on their way north from Ger
many in the direction of Skagar
rak.
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U. S. Freighter
Bound for Russia
Returns to Fort
TACOMA, April 8 (fP) — The
American freighter Wildwood
wnicii docked nere late Saturday,'
after turning iback in mid-Pacific
while headed for Russia with a
four and a half million dollar
cargo was “w'arned by embas
sies in Washington to proceed no
farther.”
F. R. Clark, president of the
American and Foreign Steamship
Company said the 8000-ton
freighter is believed to be the
first American ship directly af
fected by Britain’s war blockade.
He said he was warned that
the British had already taken
two Russian ships into Hong
kong and that Wildwood might
be the next.
Seattle-Alaska Cannery
Man, E. B. Hanley, Having
Family, Company Trouble
SEATTLE. April 6 — A deposi
tion from Mrs. Betty Bevan, cig
ar store counter clerk at Medford
Oregon was read in Superior
Court which said the terms of af
fection in letters she wrote to E.
B. Hanley, Seattle and Alaska fin
ancier, were not meant seriously.
The deposition asserted Mrs.
Bevan asked Hanley to give her
money because she knew Mrs.
Hanley opened her letters. “I
want to hurt her,” and said she
wanted the money to aid in the
education o>f her daughter.
A few days previously Mrs.
Hanley testified in a court action
of how Joseph H. Most and his
brother E. G. Most conspired to
gain control of “Hanley’s Copper
River Packing Company.
Later Walter Horner, former
secretary of the Pleasant Creek
Mining Company near Medford
in which the Most brothers and
Hanley have major interests, test
ified that Joseph Most said to
him two years ago that when he
got through with them, “Mrs.
Hanley will be taking in washing
and Mrs. Heffernan would be
scrubbing office floors.” Mrs. Hef
fernan is Mrs. Hanley’s daughter.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the Nome Nugget office
Alaska Accountant
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Passes Away
VANCOUVER. B. C., April 8
UP) —Frank Holzafele, aged 55,
former 'accountant for the Gug
genheim Mining Company in Al
I csika died suddenly in a hotel
; room here. He had been in ill
health for three years.
Jewish Educator,
Publicist Dies
PHILADELPHIA, April 3, UP)
—Dr. Cyrus Adler, aged 76. fam
ous Jewish educator and public
ist died here.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
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Hitler, Mussolini Confer While World Wonders
Number one international puzzle was what Adolf Hitler (left), a id Benito Mussolini talked about
at their conference at Brennero, Italy. This picture, radioel from Berlin to New York. shows
them shaking hands at their dramatic meeting. Italian Foreign Mini iter Count Galea^zo Ciano
(right) stands just back of II Puce_ __
Germans Reveal Gigantic British
Plot to Make Danube Impassable,
Involve Danubian Countries in \fcar
BERLIN. April 8 WP>—Author
ized German sources revealed
to foreign correspondents the de
tail of what they described as a
gigantic British plot to make the
Danube River impassable and to
carry the war into the Dan-ubian
basin and southeastern Europe.
It was said the plotters planned
to send half a dozen barges load
ed with dynamite up the river to
blast the channel and blow up
bridges. More than 100 British
Army, Navy and Air force men
were arrested by the Rumanian
police before they had time to go
through with the plan. The Ger
mans said the chief plotter was
the English vice-consul at Burn
a rest who they said was actually
the chief of the British secret
service in Rumania.
Supreme Court To
Review Contempt
Conviction Bridges
WASHINGTON, April 8 UPi —
The Supreme Court granted ,a
petition by Harry Bridges, to re
view his contempt of court con
viction for sending a telegram to
Secretary of Labor Pefftins, in
which he criticized the decision
of the Los Angeles superior
court. He contended he was de
prived of the freedom of speech.
He was convicted in the Los An
geles court and given the alter
native of paying $125 fine or serv
ing 5 days in jail. The Califor
nia supreme court upheld the
conviction.
The Supreme Court also ref us
ed to review the labor board or
der, directing the Republic Steel
Corporation to reinstate 5,000 or
more Ohio employees who part
icipated in 1937 “little steel”
strike and left in effect the cir
cuit court order sustaining the
reinstatement of ail except the
forty persons who were guilty of
violence. The company is suing
the CIO and affiliates for seven
and one half millions dollars
damages in connection with the
1 strike.
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Army Makes 1st
All Blind Flight
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! LANGLEY FIELD. Va" April 6
(A3) — The first totally “blind”
flight in the history of aviation
was completed by the U. S. Army
Air Corps with a 22 and one-half
ton bomber which landed here at
Mitchell Field. New York.
Major Carl McDaniel took off
instrumentsi The giant four-mot
and flew and landed entirely by
ored plane touched its wheels on
the ground at the base here at
1.06 p.m. PST 2 hours and 2 min
utes after leaving Mitchell Field
on a 300 miles flight. The instru
ment landing was no bumpier
than a landing under normal con
ditios when the pilot can see the
ground in front of him.