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VOL. 41. No. 79. NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, JULY 3, 1939 Price per copy iu
i Meteor Strikes Near Portland, Ore.
' France And Britain Fear Nazi Coup In Danzing
STUDENT IS BRANDED
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Eighteen bi^b crbnni students
were suspended bv Baltimore au
fhor:‘i«w who be?'”' investwition
who be^an investigation of the
^ alleged attack bv 40 youths on
Melvin Br-’dge (above), 14-vear
old Jewish youth, who accused
one of them of earning an “H”
on his neck.
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Father Hubbard
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Expedition h
On Way North
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The Father Hubbard Expedi-;
t/on departed from the King Is
and Village at the erst end of
town late last evening, i aund
for the Kobuk and No at ok Riv
ers. Father Bernard Hubbard,
S. J„ (the Glacier Priest) was
► accompanied by his field man
ager Ed Laven, and by Co'onel
Douglas. The Chief of the King
Islanders and several of his men
were also members of the party.
The yacht “Noparo." owned by
Search On For
Exploding Meteor
Near Portland
PORTLAND, Ore.. Julv 3 (J*)—
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Portland was jolted and terrified
by an exploding meteor, and join
j ed with science to search for
| fragments of the celestial visitor.
The Portland area and South
western Washington was rocked
at 7:58 a.m. Sunday by a mam
; moth explosion and blinding
flames flashing skyward. Reports
I of the blast came from as far
away as Arlington, 125 miles up
! the Columbia River.
J. Hugh Pruett, University of
Oregon astronomer sifted reports
of the meteor's trajectory as hun
dreds of amateurs took to the
field in ef? rts to find fragments
of the heavenly body.
Profess ■ Pruett said it would
probably be two weeks before
it could be determined just
where the explosion occurred.
Portland resident swear it was
right over the city.
Stone walls toppled, windows
were broken, store walls were
cracked, and rural mail boxes
were knocked .icose from posts
by the feux;** of the blast
Mr. Norman Woolwortli of New
York is transporting one of the
Expedition’s boats up the coast.
The members of the expedition
and their other boat will go
northward with Arneut Castel
and his boat, the “Nanuk" until
they contact the freighter “Su
therland" which is carryng sup
pl es for the expedition.
Father LL rente. S. J . will ac
company the party as far as Kot
zebue where he is located. The
expediton will return to Nome in
time to sail south aboard the
Arctic Cruise voyage of the “Den
ali." sometime in August.
STARVING BOY GETS A MEAL
Confined to a liquid diet because his father said he could not eat
solid food, Andrew Daly, 13-year-old Omaha, Neb., boy, virtually
was starving when juvenile authorities found hm. He weighed but
49 pounds. Andrew is shown in a hospital as he got a meal of solid
food. Te sad he had never seen nor eaten an egg. His case was
being investigated.
NO. 1 ATLANTIC FLIGHT PASSENGER
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W. J. Eck (above), a vice president of the Southern Railway, got
out his map of the airways over the Atlantic after being informed
he had drawn ticket No. 1 on the first passenger flight of the Pan
American Airways “clipper” plane which inaugurated service to
Europe June 28. Eck, a Washington. D. C., resident, said his inter
est in avation dates back to the early days when he saw the \\ right
brothers make one o! their first flights.
Senate Filibuster
Deals Admin.
Double Defeat
WASHINGTON, July 1 </P) —
A rip roaring Senate Republican
filibuster swept away the Presi
dent’s dollar devaluation powers
but Democratic leaders obtained
an agreement for a showdown
vote on Wednesday, on restoring
them in the House.
Rebellious Republicans and
Democrats passed the neutrality
bill, rejecting the President’s re
quest for a complete repeal of
the Arms and Embargo Act. This
stunning doube defeat threw the
: Administration forces into a state
| of bewilderment.
Democrats predicted an ulti
mate victory on the devaluation
question but were doubtful if
the repeal of the Arms and Em
bargo Act, asked by Roosevelt,
could be passed. Adjournment in
mid-July is predicted.
The President’s authority to
devalue the dollar further and
to maintain a $2,000,000,000 ex
change stabilization fund expir
ed at midnight.
The Republicans, aided by a
lone Democrat, Senator Tydings
of Maryland, whom President
Roosevelt tried to purge in this
year’s election, talked the Senate
and House conference into an ag
reement extending them for two
years and pegging the price for
domestic silver at 71.1 cents to
the death.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Alex Ashenfelter
Jailed for Murder
Of Jack Gross
A telephone call Saturday
morning from Council, brought
news that Jack Gross, about 60
years of age, had been found
dead in his cabin and that it
appeared that he had been mur
dered.
Coroner C. C. Tanner, accom
panied by U. S. District Attorney
Charles J. Casby and Deputy
Marshal Walter J. Dowd flew to
Council. Saturday morning and ,
he'd an inquest.
The Coroner’s jury brought in
a verdict of - death due to vio
lence and that he appeared to
have been killed by blows in the
face and on the head from some
blunt instrument, at the hands I
of Alex Ashenfelter.
Commissioner Tanner immed
iately issued a warrant for Ash
enfelter, who was arrested by
Deputy Dowd and brought to
Nome late Saturday evening.
Monday morning he was ar
raigned, before Commissioner
Tanner, and upon waiving of pre
'liiminary examination was bound
over to the Grand Jury.
NOTICE
The Pioneers will hold their1
regular monthly meeting Wed
nesday, July 5th, 8 p.m. at the
Odd Fellows Hall. Meeting to be
followed by a social.
FOUND —Two Yale keys on a
safety pin. Owner may have
same by identifying and pay
ing for this advertisment.
Germans Sifting
Into Danzig
Form Corps
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UNDATED, July 3 (JP) — The
diplomatic curtains covering the
specific reasons for the British i
and French official fears of a
Nazi coup in Danzig, were part
, ly drawn aside, when Premier j
Chamberlain told the House of;
Commons that his government'
had received reliable reports
of “intensive measures of a mili-!
tary character” in the free city.
Furthermore, Chamb e r 1 a i n
said “a large and increasing num
ber of German nationals have re
cently arrived in Danzig osten
sibly as tourists and a local de
fense corps is beng farmed under
the name of Heimwehr.”
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Dead—Fourth of
July Holiday
UNDATED, July 3 (JP) — The
nation’s celebration of Independ
ence Day, the holiday interval
which began Saturday in many
localities, has already cost at
least 211 lives, more than half of
which were taken in traffic ac
cidents.
Last year’s total, reported for
the three-day week-end, was 546
deaths, from all causes. The year
before there were 563 deaths.
Automobile and motorcycle
accidents claimed 110 lives; 64
; were drowned; 8 were fatally
wounded and LI ktiled in a train
accident; and 3 died in an air
plane mishap. New York led
with 18 deaths.
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
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MAY MARRY PUTNAM
Los Angeles friends of George
Palmer Putnam, publisher hus
band of the late Amelia Earhart
who vanished on a round-world
flight in 1937, expected he would
marry Mrs. Jean-Marie Consigny
James (above-, of Beverly Hills,
Calif. Miss Earhart recently was
declared legally deal. .. _
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The thunder storms and heavy
rain squalls Nome has experienc
ed today are not inappropriate
for tomorrow is the Fourth of
July and perhaps nature is doing
this by way of celebrating. Rain,
does hold the dust down but let’s
hope Nature shows more re
straint for tomorrow.
We note where nobody ever
has been able to determine what
causes seasickness. Well, it’s a
cinch that standing on dry land
doesh’t.
A prominent psychiatrist de
clares that we are sending as
many people to mental institu
tions as we are graduating from,
college.
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YOUTH LOOKS AT WAR as Georgia Sons of the
Legion visit Fort Benning to get a mild taste of what their father;:
experienced in the World War. Astride the tank is J. R. Mills of
Macon, while Gene Grant of Macon is helneH up by » private.
Fourth Of July Celebration And Dance Tuesday
BAND CONCERT 10:30 A.M. LITERARY PROGRA M 11:00 A.M. SPORTS 1:00 P.M. DANCE AT PUB LIC SCHOOL GYM 10:30 P.M.
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