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VOL. 41. No. 88. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1939 Price per copy 15*
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Japanese Claim Diplomatic Victory
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Denies Report Britain Attempt Buy German Peace
Avalanche On Mount Baker Claims Six Hikers
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MURDKR WILL OUT, especially at the N. Y. City police department’s exhibit at the world's
fair, where ft 25-minute play is staged to illustrate ihe detection cf crime. The drama begins when a
maid, played by Policewoman Clara Callahan, finds her mistress, otherwise Policewoman Katherine
Lee, dead. A strand of hair, a broken Hutton are rluas leading to the criminal.
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Licensed Passenger
* Planes Required
Install 2-way Radio
JUNEAU, July 22 {IP) — All
licensed passenger planes in Al
aska will be required to install
two-way radio communication
^ equipment in the near future ac
cording to regulations decided
on at a meeting of the Alaska
Aeronautical Commission with
Governor Troy, at Bell Island.
It was also decided to draw up
preventative regulations govern
ing blocking of facilities for
marine airplanes.
The Governor appointed Thom
as Donohoe of Cordova as a mem
0 ber of the commission taking the
vacancy created by the recent
death of flier M. D. Kirkpatrick.
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ROYAL EARS will hoar
the sound of Jean Tennyson’s
voice when above lovely Chi
cago Opera soprano sings for
visiting Crown Prince Olaf and
V." Princess Martha of Norway.
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Germany Denies
Report Impending
Peace Deal
UNDATED, July 22 UP) — Per
sistent reports of an impending
peace deal with Germany was
denied indignantly by Germany
while in Berlin officials credited
I themselves with another victory
I in the European “battle -of nerv
| as.”
| “All talk of a large loan to
i Germany in return for partial
dis armament is absolutely un
official and purely academic,”
said the British foreign office
spokesman.
Speculation of a possible set
tlement through an international
loan to change German economy
from a wartime to a peacetime
basis, centered around the visit
to London by Dr, Helmugh Whol
that, German trade ambassador
who returned to Berlin today.
A British foreign office spokes
[ man said “Before -any scheme
for a general settlement can be
considered by the British govern
ment there must be some evi
dence of Germany’s willingness
to change her policy.”
Poland is still standing firm
against German pressure.
In Tokyo, British and Japan
ese representatives agreed on the
form of the subjects for discus
sion at the impending parley.
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Widow Obtains Permission
To Sell Gold Brick
PASADENA, July—Mrs. Clara
McDonald received permission
from Superior Judge Coldwier to
sell a gold brick given to her
husband, the late Joseph McDon
ald. in 1904, by the ebployes of
an Alaska gold mining company.
The judge ruled retention of
the brick did not constitute gold
hoarding. The brick is worth
$1,800,
NORTH POLE BAKERY
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
Avalanche On
Mount Baker
Claims 6 Lives
GLACIER, Wash., July 24 </P)
—Workers dug in the snow of the
precipitous^ face of lofty Mount
Baker, 150 miles north of Seattle
in search of the bodies of four of
six teachers and college students
who were trapped Saturday by
an avalanche.
Two victim’s bodies were re
covered, those of Alice James of
Arlington and Julius Dornblutt
of Belli ngham. The missing are
Viene Fisher of Coupe Ville;
Maynard Howat of Seattle; Hope
Weitman of Thornton; and Beu
lah Lindberg of Great Falls,
Montana.
Members of the searching par
ty who returned to Glacier at the
foot of the mountain last night
for rest after an all-day search
held little hope of finding any of
the missing alive.
Members of the party at “Ro
man Wall” the rugged cliff only
400 feet from the summit, were
preparing to scale the cliff when
an avalanche of snow came roar
ing down on them. The hikers
scampered to safety but when
they gathered beyond in a group
6 were missing out of the group
of 25.
Guides Don Cox and Chester
Ullin escaped and they are as
sisting in the search for surviv
ors. They said the slide was
about a hundi'ed yards wide
when it started the plunge but
was more than three hundred
yards wide when it subsided.
The majority of those in the
party were teachers attending ;
the summer session of the West
ern Washington College of Edu
cation at Bellingham, sixty miles
away.
The Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce Board of
Directors meet tomorrow at a;
noon luncheon at the North Pole!
Bakery.
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Tliore Oelson
Jury Selected
Case Begins
—
When the U. S. District Court i
convened this morning morel
thae forty jurors on a special
venir-. jr.swered roll call, and by
11 a.;-’ a jury in the case of the
U. S vs Thure Oelson had been1
accc p' 1 by Distr.ct Attorney
Clasby and defense attorneys O.
D. C elxran and Ira D. Irton.
Fuulowing is the jury:
Ole Bdhr, Jr.
Nels M. Boyne
Ernest Bcuianger i
Gunnar Bownvan
Thomas Chase
W. E. H. Cramer
Louis Heady
Keith Hedreen
Joe Mickel
Sam Mogg
Charles O’Leary
R. W. Silver
Court was adjourned until 2
p.m. when the introduction of
evidence and testimony comment
ed.
The government presented its
case this afternoon and court was
adjourned until 10 a.m.. when
the defense will open its side of
the case. In its opening argu
ment to the jury this afternoon,
the defense declared that Dr. \
Thomas Morcom would testify as,
to the sanity of the accused, re-1
guiding the commisson of the al
leged crimes.
Army War Games
Held New York
In August
NEW YORK, July — The larg
est peacetime concentration of
American troops in history will
be mobilized in the area about
Plattsburg, New York, next
month for the First Army man
euvers. it was announced today
by Major General Hugh A.
Drum, Commanding the Second
Corps area.
-More than 50,000 officers and
men of the Regular Army, Na-!
tional Guard and Organized Re
serves will participate in the
maneuvers trim August 13 to 27
under General Drum’s drection. I
For the first time since the Am |
erican Civil War a Field army i
will be concentrated for action!
on the American Continent un
der the immediate command of
a single officer.
The climax of the maneuvers
will coime when this Field Army
consisting principally of four Na
tional Guard Divisions from the
New England States, New York
and New Jersey, advances in bat
tle -array against a somewhat
smaller force of the Regular
Army armed and equipped with
the latest devices of modern high
speed warfare.
General Drum himself will
command the Field Army which
will be composed of two Corps
made up of two Divisions each.
The Second Corps will be com
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Britain Recognize
Jap Demands in
War on China
UNDATED, July 24 l/P<—Gra.u
Britain recognized Japan’s ‘ spec
ial requirements” .in her war on
China but disavowed any inten
: n to “buy" European peace,
through any deal with Germany.
On the far eastern issu°. Brit
ain agreed to refrain from pra
ting any obstacles in the way of;I
Japan in “safeguarding her own
security and maintaining pub!:,
order" in the occupied areas of
China. Premier Chamberlain de
clared however, that this didn't
constitute any change In the
British policy in China and assert
ed that the British-Japanese dis
pute over Tientsin would be con
fined to local issues there. He
disavowed opposition suggestions
that Britain had “definitely taken
sides with Japan against Chir.-."
Japanese in Tokyo, however,
hailed the British agreement as
virtually granting Japan their
long-desired belligerent rights
and declared it “a sweeping dip
lomatic victory for Japan."
Chamberlain also made a state
ment regarding Germany in an
swer to criticism of the talks last
week between E. S. Hudson, Brit
ish Secretary of Oversea Trade
and Dr Helmuth Wholthat, Ger
man trade expert.
~McNutt
lakes Over
Office
WASHINGTON, July — Paul
McNutt took over his new office
as Federal Security Administrat
or amid increasing speculation
ver his chances for obtaining
1 1940 Democratic nomination.
He was sworn in to office by
Surgeon General Patman, head of
the Public Health Service, one
of the Bureau's whose functions
it will be his task to coordinate.
Speculation over who will suc
ceed him. as High Commissioner
of the Philippines centered on
the name of Frances Sa me, as
sistant Secretary of Staite.
Men still die with their boots
on. but usually one boot is on
the accelerator.—Arkansas Gaz
ette.
The average good radio wears
hit popular songs faster than It
does batteries—Detroit News.
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PRETTY PINCH-HITTE R—Autograph fans anxious to
collect Joe DiMagglo’s signature were glad to get that of Dorothy
Arnold, instead, when this pretty fiancee of the Yankee outfielder
saw the boy friend perform at Yankee stadium, N. Y.'