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VOL. 42. No. 37. ' NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, March 25, 1940 ^rice per copy is*
Japan May Abrogate Treaty Protecting Fur Seals
Cupboard Murderer Apprehended Alter 5 Days
, Britain Sinks '6'wo Nazi Freighters
Grounds Another !n Attempt Cut
Lifeline Scandinavian Countries
UNDATED, March 25, UP)—Ap:
parently ordered to throttle Ger-1
many’s Scandinavian lifeline of
merchant shipping lanes along
the shoring coasts of northern
neutrals the British navy counted
two Nazi freighters sunk and a
third chased aground. Germany
asserted they were the result of
territorial violations and Norway
protested to London against two
other alleged British encroach
ments.
The Pope in an Easter homily
from the throne besought the
world to return to principles of |
Christianity and said without
them there! will be no peace with
’’truth, jusiice and charity.”
On the Western Front, the
French reported scattered Ger
man patrols & that their patrols
took some prisoners.
The 2200-ton German freight
ers Edmund, Hugo, and Stinnes1
were shelled to the bottom by a
submarine a few miles off Skag
en. the northernmost point of
Denmark, near the spot where
the Hcddern.serlm was torpedoed
yesterday. The ore carrier Ost
preussen was harried aground
near Jutland after British war
ships dogged her desperate zig
zag course: for three days. The
British meanwhile counted 35 na
val losses in the war, a mine
sinking ihe 210-ton trawler Lock
Assater.
A press report charged Ger
many with scheming to get Rum
ania’s oil. Commenting on Ruman
ia's expulsion of a British news
paper correspondent ihe Daily
Mail said ‘‘ten thousand German
agents have begun a vast cam
paign to undermine and disinte
grate the Rumanian nation. ’
A diplomatic tug-of-war over
economic wealth in the Balkans
was reflected in Rome whelre
Hungarian fore gn minister Pal
Teleky and Italian foreign min
ister Count Galeszz Ciano con
ferred.
One of Inventors Wireless Dies
PARIS, March 24 f/P) — Ed
ouard Branly, aged 95, French
physicist who preceded Marconi
in experiments resulting in the
invention of wireless telograph
and radio died in h's Paris home.
In his latter years when the ra
d.o j-earne propagandized in Eu
rcue Braniy r fused to have a set
in his home saying: “To think I
had something to do with its in
vention.”
DYKES IN APARTMENT FOR FLOOD
Workmen hasilty constructed dykes in an apartment house at
Berkeley, California, when a second flash-flood in two days sent
water racing through the rooms. By dykes the “flood-control” crews
were able to shunt the waters from room to room and back outside.
Workmen are shown building a dyke.
Japanese Press Declares For
Termination, Revision Treaty
Protecting Fur Seals In Pacific
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WASHINGTON, March 22 (JP)
—Japan may soon ask for the re
vision or termination of the In
ternational Fur Seals Convention
of 1911 according to the Japanese
press. State department officials
said that nothing was known of
ficially in their department.
The press reported that the for
eign Minister told the lower
house that he was giving the
matter further study. The state
merit was made in response to a
complaint made by a member of
the lower house, that the protec
tion afforded by the Fur Seals
Convention so increased the num
ber of seals that the fisheries
were seriously affected. The
treaty provides a series of protec
tive measures in the north Pac
ific and Bering Sea to stop in
discriminate killing of fur seals.
Nazi Subs Soon
Be As Common
As Fishing Boats
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| UNDATED, March 23 IJP) —
Und rcurrents in the British and
German sea struggle, French gov
ernment uncertainty and diplo
matic maneuvers connected with
the Balkans marked the surface
calm of Europe on this Easter
I Eve.
Following up Monday’s Bren
ner Pass conference between Hit
! ier and Mussolini, from which
I Germany is reported to expect an
extension of the Rome-Berlin ax
is to Moscow, an early visit of
foreign commissar Molotoff to
Berlin is being brueted.
Mysterious activities during the
holiday week-end in Berlin were
interpreted by some quarters as
indication of preparations being
made for Molotoff’s arrival.
Italy meanwhile became the
host to the Hungarian premier,
Count Pal Teleky whose arrival
in Rome for conferences with
Mussolini and Italian foreign min
ister Ciano was linked with Ger
many’s desires for economic ex
[ pension in southeastern Europe
i and Italian anxiety to maintain
peace there.
Britain braced herself in expec
tation of a greater wave of Ger
man submarine attacks on her
vital sea commerce and sought to
uetp her food supplies flowing
by coaxing neutrals into her con
voys. The British also noted anx
'ously the large concentration of
ubmarine just outside of Nor
wegian waters. The commander
of one of the submarine told Nor
wegian fishermen that subs
would soon “be as common as
fishing boats.”
Notice All Arctic Club Members
—
Make your reservation by Wed
nesday noon for yourself and
guests with Walter Glavinovich
for the Arctic Club Dinner Dance
to be held at the Nevada, March
27 at 7 o’clock.
ATTENTION
Pioneer meeting & Card Party
at I O O F Hall Monday, March
25th.
Save $2.00 by paying in ad
vance for your subscription.
Wintry W inds,
Drifts of Snow
On This Easter
UNDATED, March 25 (Py) —,
| Wintry weather chilled the east
ern promenade'rs from Montreal
to Dixie and held over with lit
tle relief sighted.
At Washington, D. C„ only a
few score of children braved the,
19 above temperature, the cold
est Easter Monday in years, to
be the first to roll eggs on the
frosty White House lawn.
Eighteen below zero weather
and a screaming 125 miles-per
hour wind marooned three tele
vision engineers atop a peak near
Lake Placid, New York, where
they went to received a broad
cast from a New’ York express
train enroute from Montreal to
New York. They were freed after
9 hours.
Snowdrifts in Quebec to snow
one to eight inches deep extefid
ed to Arkansas across Tennessee
into the Carolinas down into
northern Georgia and Alabama.
Save $2.00 by paying in ad
/ance for your subscriotion.
NAZI PRISON SHIP AGROUND OFF NORWAY
The German prison ship Al'mark (in cirr> s, is shown among the snowcapped hills at I'osing
Fjord, Norway, where she was chased r/ co l l by British warships. Aa British boardin c t if
ter a short fight, released 300pri oners ?rom the vessel’s hold.
Denzil Davis, Cupboard Slayer,
Of Ifis 45-Year-Old Mother Asks
Capital Punishment, Get It Over
SEATTLE, March 25 (/P) — Re
pudia.ing all gifts of food to sup
plement jail fare “because ev
erything I eat tastes like powder
anyway” Denzil Davis rejected
his wife's suggestion that he
plead insanity as a defense for
the slaying of his mother Mrs.
Harriet Arnold, 45, department
store clerk. He was captured Sat
urriay afternoon at a close friends
apartment near the downtown
district, haggard, hungry and un
shaved, five days after the slay
ing. He hid in a basement for
two days.
Deputy Sheriff Bodia said he
confessed to the slaying giving as
his motive that “she had been
calling by wife names and I
couldn’t stand it any longer.” He
told reporters “I’d rather they
give me capital punishment and
get it over with.”
His wife said he was injured in
an automobile accident when he
was 14 and wore a silver plate in
his skull but Davis denied tell
ing her that.
Search on I or
Slayer Of Two
Californians
EVERETT. Washington, March |
25 (A*) — A 1936 model auto
mobile was sought throughout
the Pacific Northwest as officers j
investigated the double slaying j
last fall of Cyril Abels, aged 23,
and Elfred Ellinson. aged 33, two
California workers who were
strangled with ropes wound
around their necks, EUinson’s
skull was crushed. Abells body
was found Thursday.
Three brothers came north
doubting at first the theory that
lie was a suicide. Eilinson’s body
was found a hundred yards away
from Ab i's body yesterday.
N O T I C E
Pioneer Card Party and Dance
at School Auditorium, Saturday,
March 30th. Music by Nevada Or
chestra. Refreshments served
Cards 9:00 to 10:30 p.m. Dancing!
!0:"0 12:30 n.m.
Speculation Is
Rife Over New
“War Cabinet”
LONDON, March 25 <JP) —
Chamberlain kept his own coun
sel over the week-end concern
ing expected changes in the cab
inet but some speculation pre
dicted the “war cabinet” of five
members were named by the Lon
don Star and quoted well in
formed political- circles as saying
it 'would be composed by him of
foreign secretary Lord Halifax,
chancellor of the Exchequer Sir
John Simon, Lord of the Privy
Seal Sir Samuel Hoare and first
lord of the admiralty Winston
Churchill.
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