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VOL. 41. No. 57. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939 price Per 154
Turkey Forms Alliance with Britain
Britain, France Declare Ready Fulfill Obligations
Bill Suspending Assesstment Work Is Disapproved
Vernon B. Browne (above), Glen
dale, Calif., police chief, unflinch
inly and with no apologies ad
mitted he had served 11 months
in Oklahoma State prison in 1925
for embezzlement and was par
doned by Gov. M. E. Trapp.
Townspeople, his own depart
ment and the city council, how
ever, voted confidence in him
and allowed him to continue in
his position.
When the International High
way is completed it Will be pos
sible to drive your car from the
Arctic Circle to Cape Horn, over
the longest highway in the world
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The U. S. Office cf Indian Af
fairs operates in A'aska a total of
99 schools with a combined en
rollment of 4,209 students.
Sen. Disapproves
Bill Suspending
Assessment Work
WASHINGTON. May 11, (£*' —
A bill to suspend assessment
work against unpatented mining
claims for the current fiscal year
was disapproved by the Senate
Mining Committee who advised
the Senate, if mineral activity is
to continue in the west. Congress
should forwith abandon its prac
tice of exempting holders of
such cla»ms from the require
ment of annual assessment wolk.
Similar legislation has been en
acted each year since 1932 when
Congress in recognition of de
i pressed conditions first exempted
prospectors in the United States
and Alaska.
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No Necessity For
Improvements In
Grantley Harbor
WASHINGTON, May LI </P) —
The War Department informed
i Congress that a survey by army
engineers showed no necessity
for additional flood protection on
1 the Skagway River near Skag
way. Engineers also rejected the
request, by local interests, for
improvements ;n Grantey Harbor
at Teller, by the construction of
a channel from Port Clarence to
the mooring base at Teller.
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
LINDBERGH TALKS WITH PRESIDENT
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Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was preceded by a White House
policeman as he left the executive mansion after conferring with
President Roosevelt for 25 minutes. The flying Colonel, who has
been called to active duty with the army air corps, had to wait
35 minutes in an ante room before seeing the President. Later he
refused to reveal the nature of their conversation.
WEIGHS 70 POUNDS AT 13 MONTHS
Baby Kenneth Johnson (above), who is on his way to become
efen larger than Robert Wadlow, the Alton, III., giant, already
weighs 70 punds and is only 13 months old. He is gaining at the
rate of four pounds and one inch in height each month. At birth
he weighed 10 Vi pounds. His abnormal growth, physicians say, is
due to an over-active thyroid gland. His home is at Morgantown. Ky
England, France
Ready Fulfill
Obligations
UNDATED, May 11, W)—Pre
miers Chamberlain and Daladier
both declared their nations were
in readiness to fulfill obligations.
As they spoke, diplomatic observ
ers in Rome reported a lessening ;
in the tension of the immediate j
foreign situation. An optimistic j
outlook for the future was dis
closed by moves by the Pope toj
achieve a peaceful settlement of
Europe’s most threatening prob
lems.
Chamberlain told the women
members of the British Conserv
ative.Party that any attempt “to
change the Danzig situation by
force so as to retain Polish inde
pendence would inevitably” start
a general war in which Britain
would be involved.
In Paris, Daladier again took
up the slogan “Domination or
Collaboration” and stressed the
French strength through collab
oration at home and abroad.
French uniitty, he declared was
unshakable ‘and the solidarity be
tween France and Britain is clos
er and more confident than ever.”
Daladier sipoke in parliament
as it reconvened after the Easter
recess.
Representatives of the Pope in
Berlin, Warsaw, Paris, London
and Rome are understood to
have advised him that Europe
will remain peaceful during the
next few weeks and there is hope
for the gradual settlement of the
potentially dangerous problems
including the German-Polish cor
rider.
Oliver Stablley, President of
the British Board of Trade told
the House of Commons that Brit
ain and Rumania have concluded
a trade agreement under which
Britain is to advance credit for
about $23,400,000 worth of Ru
mania purchases of United King
dom goods.
To Ask Congress
Remove Deterrents
From Tax Laws
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WASHINGTON, May 11 (JP) —;
Secretary Morgenthau asserted
the Treasury intends to ask Con
gress to remove business deter
rents from tax daws.
A reporter asked whether ]
the President virtually had for-;
bidden him to present his tax
revision program to Congress,
and Morgenthau replied “That’s
ridiculous. We’re living under a
democracy. Thank God.”
.Although declining to discuss
any details of his tax views, Mor
genthau said that he specifically
stood by his press conference
statement of a few months ago
when he showed Congress that to
clear the tax laws of business
risks would thus encourage busi
ness to take normal investment
risks.
Now is the time to look over
your job printing needs for the
spring and summer. The Nug
get Office will be glad to consult |
with you as to your wants and
prices on same.
The farthest south post office1
in Alaska is at Dutch Harbor.
Turkey Agrees
To Ally Self
With England
UNDATED. May 12 (/P> — Pre
| mier Chamberlain announced
; that Great Britain and Turkey
declared they will assist each
, other in the event of a war in
he Mediterranean arising out of
an act of aggression. Chamber
lain told the House of Commons
that the agreement is binding
until a definite pact is completed.
The announcement came as the
British security bloc apparently
gained strength in its efforts with
Poland an Soviet Russian for har
| mony between them and it is a
| virtual certainty that the French
parliament will give the British
government a vote of confidence
on its foreign policy.
Turkey would be a valuable
ally to Britain in war time be
cause of her strategic position in
the eastern Mediterranean, giv
ng Britain access to the Dardin
elles.
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The Alaska Road Commission
in the Nome district maintains
19 aviation fields, 288 miles of
automobile road, 165 miles of
tractor trails, and 2,558 miles of!
trail.
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There are 19 persons in each 2j
square miles of Alaska.
T. J. Pendergast, 66, Kansas City
political boss indicted by a grand
jury for evading income tax pay
ments on more than S315.000.
Grain Explosion
Kills o Hurts 23
CHICAGO, May 12 (iff*) — The
explosion of grain dust, the fine
particles of corn, rye, and wheat
are cited as probably the cans*
of blasts and fire which levelled
five grain elevators.
Searchers poked in the smok
ing debris for traces of eight
men believed to have perishes^.
Twenty-three men, including 18
firemen were injured, $[ost ojf
the estimates placed the loss at
four million doillars.
ARRESTED IN IDAHO CAMP
A search extending over much of the Pacific Northwest for three
alleged deserters from the army and their sweehearts ended with
their arrest in a tourist camp on the outskirts of Boise, Idaho. They
were sought for assault and robbery in California and Oregon.
The girls, all 17 and all of San Francisco, were Cleone Alyea (up.
per left); Jewel Smith (upper right), and Edna Mailspin (lower
left'. One of their companions, Donald Bailey (lower right), 27, had
been shot in the arm and his wound had been unattended when
he was arrested.