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VOL. 41. No. 97. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 14, 1939 Price per copy is#
19 Die In S. P. Streamliner Wreck
Rails Show Evidence Of Being Tampered With
Plan Advanced for Peacful Settlement Danzig Issue
ORPHAN WINS BABY CONTEST
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Not at all hapyy over her victory was Suzanne Nez, five-months
old Navajo orphan, after she had won first prize in a better babies
contest at the Southwestern All-Indian pow-wow at Flagstaff. Ariz.
# Suzanne is held by Betty Burton, Hop! Indian nurse.
Advances Plan
For Settlement
Danzig Issue
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BERLIN, Aug. 14 1/P)—A Nazi1
source of unusually good con- ]
nections in high officialdom, said
that Professor Earl Burckhardt,
League of Nations Commissioner
from Danzig has a plan for the
peaceful settlement of the dis
pute between Germany and Po
land over the Free City.
<9 The plan according to this
source calls for the reunion of
Danzig with the Reich and also
“a direct guaranteed connection
between East Prussia, including
Danzig and Germany proper."
Hitler. Polish foreign minister
Beck, and Danzig Nazi leader A1
bert Forster were reported to be
acquainted with the plan and ac
f cepted it as a possible basis for
discussion.
The Nazi source said, Burck
hardt was making a secret trip
to London to present the plan to
Lord Halifax.
“Dud” Shell
. Kills Six
Natn’l Guards
f FORT KNOX, Ky., Aug. 14 </P)
—Six Indiana National Guards
men were killed Sunday in an
explosion of a supposedly dud
shell they were carrying from an
artillery range.
Danzig May Set
Off the European
Powder Barrel
BERLIN, Aug. 14 <PF) — Only
today, for the first tme author
tative quarters acknowledged that
Burckhardt was in Bercliestag
eden last week to see Hitler. The
disclosure came as officials weigh
ing the results of the week-end
conferences among Hitler. Ger
man and Italian foreign ministers
in which Germany and Italy
are reported to have set a joint
course of action. A declaration
on the Danzig issue said unless it
was speedily settled “the Europ
ean powder barrel may explode.”
The Deustche Diplomatisch Po
litisch Korrespondenz mouth
piece of the foreign office said:
“If the stubborness and insolence
of certain powers in regions
that do not in any way concern
their interests continues they
may be sure of the determination
of Germany and Italy will be
posed against them.”
In London, British official cir
cles observed that Burckhardt is
now in a position to make con
tact” with both the Polish gov
ernment and the Danzig Senate.
They saw in Burckhard’t talks
with Hitler a possible prelimin
ary move to negotiate the dis
pute.
In Warsaw, the view was also
expressed that Burckhardt dis
cussed with Hitler the possibility
of a “new solution”of the future
of Danzig, Germany’s before the
World War, and now within the
custom’s administration of Po
land.
Two Million
Dollar Train
Is Saboted
RENO, Aug. 14, (A1)— Officers
in the Southwest spread a drag-1
net hunting for the saboteur who
tampered with the rails in the
Nevada wastelands causing 20
deaths in one of the most spec
tacular wrecks in modern history
; Saturday night.
The two million dollars South
crn Pacific Streamliner crumpled
a bridge and hurtled into the
Humboldt after striking a mis
placed rail which the coroner’s
jury and railroad officials said
had been moved “by person or
persons unknown.” Officials said
that a rail section had been mov
ed four inches inward and spiked
there.
It was a scene of destruction
and horror. It was estimated the
train was going 50 miles an hour
and nearly 114 were injured. Six
' of the 17 cars were demolished.
The loss is estimated at about
a million dollars.
One uninjured passenger des
cribed the scene as ghastly and
that many of the victims were!
literally torn to pieces.
| RENO, Aug. 14 (yP)—The wreck
| ing of the two million dollar
streamliner train in which 19 and
possibly 20 perished, sent the
s'ate and federal railroad police
j across Nevada to lonely sage
j brush wastes in search of the
| suspected earless wrecker. A
j man with part of his ear missing
j whom Police Chief Andy Well
iver said “answers the descrip
tion of the earless man” was ar
rested in the railroad yards at
Sparks, Nevada.
An FBI agent joined the police
and railroad investigators and
| questioned the man who denied
any connection with the wreck.
He gave his name as Bob La
Duceur, aged 28, of Lewiston,
Montana. William Sked, railroad
investigator said he “is sore at
railroads” since a train cut off
part of his left foot two years
ago.
Company officials listed the
known dead of the tragedy as
19 and said reports indicated that
another body may be in the
wreckage.
Ten employees of the train, 7
of them negroes, and Southern
Pacific officials, declare there is
no question that the train was
deliberately wrecked at a canyon
which cut through the hills in
central Nevada, by the winding
Humboldt River, which at this
season is little j frno^e than a
creek.
Later—By radio, it is learn
ed that the man with the missing
ear had nothing to do with the
wreck and was completed exon
! erated.
LEAVES FOR CRUISE
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HYDE PARK, Aug. 12 </P) —
President Roosevelt left for New
York to board the Cruiser Tus
caloosa for a cruise off the New
England coast.
Navy Lifts The
Suh Squalus 80 Ft.
PORTSMOUTH. Aug. 12 (JP) —:
The Navy lifted the submarine
Squalus. containing 26 dead, at 9
a.m.. from the ocean floor where
she sank May 23rd. Three stern I
pontoons broke water in a wild
Our.", f fo ;m indicating that the
wat.r-flilC'd end was 80 feet off
the ocean bed. j
Agree To Confer i
r
\\ ith France and
Great Britain
ROME, Aug. 14 (JP) —Italians,
outside of the government said
that Germany and Italy were ag
reeable to the holding of a con-■
ference with France and Great
Britain over the settlement of
German claims on Danzig.
The plan is reported to em
brace three points with the set
tlement of Europe’s other ec- i
onoirhc and colonial expansion;
problems as its ultimate aim and
including the Italian claims on
France.
Fourteen Die In
Clipper Crash
At Rio de Janerio
I
RIO DE JANERIO. Aug. 14 (JP)
— Fourteen persons, including
Professor James Rogers, noted
Yale economist and five other
Americans were killed Sunday
when the Pan American Clipper
crashed into a dock crane in Jan
erio harbor. Pilot A. G. Person,
million mile veteran and three
other American crewmen were
killed.
Film Actress, in
jured, Appears
Unclad in Street
L,OS ANGELES. Aug. 12 UP)—
Particia Knight, also known as
Patricia Ryan, blonde 32 year
old film actress and ex-Ziegfield
Follies beauty, created a sensa
tion when wearing a pair of
shorts and a loose bandage, early
today she appeared on Wilcox Av
enue, a principal thoroughfare.
She escaped from a Hoolywood po
lice hospital after being treated
for a jaw fracture and other in,
juries sustained in an automo
bile accident. She tore loose hy
sterically when stripped at the i
operating table.
—
Japanese Civilians
Against Alliance
UNDATED, Aug. 12 UP) — An
international Italian foreign min- j
ister drove to Berchtesgaden to!
carry an exhaustive survey to
Hitler where an Italian minister!
is already conferring with the
Leader.
What the ministers have been
discussing remained a secret, but
all Germany took it for granted
that all-important decisions will
be made and maybe Immediately
announced.
The possibility of Japan join
ing the alliance and the Danzig
question were believed on agen- j
da but Tokyo dispatches said i
that civilian leaders were taking,
a firmer stand versus the mil
itarists action for an alliance.
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TRAVELER—with a pols«
that belies her 15 years, Anne
Bullitt greets friends in Paris.
Daughter of the ambassador to
France, she has also lived in
Moscow, Russia.
Two Army Men
Use Parachutes
LANGLEY FIELD. Va„ Aug."
12 (/Pi —Pilot Lieutenant C. T.
Murrell, reservist and passenger
Private Amelio Lonzini. landed
uninjured in parachute^ when^
the attack plane in which they
were flying crashed and burned
near Fort Eustis, 15 miles away.
While a board of inquiry al
ready is probing the wreckage of
yesterday’s bomber crash in
which nine were killed, the causa
of today’s accident was undeter
mined.
For Meals Bring Your Friends
To The NORTH POLE BAKERY
UNCLE SAM S LEDGER IN BLACK ( AND RED)
When Uncle Sam closed his books for the fiscal year June 30, here’s the way the ledger stacked
up. Federal expenditures were approximately $9,250,000,000, leaving a delcit of $3,850,000,000, ac
cording to estimates. Chart shows comparative figures for past two years, each inkpot represents
a billion dlolars. National debt is now at an all-time high of over 40 billions, and this is the ninth
annual consecutive deficit.