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VOL. 41. No. 130. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCT. 30, 1939 ***“ co**
Europe Waits Action On Embargo
Express Gratitude To U S Senate For Repeal Vote
Captain Dies at Wheel of Seattle Black Ball Ferry
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A PAIR OF LIGHTWEIGHTS
Nurse Verna Evans exhibits twin girls born at San Mateo, Calif.,
with a combined weight of less than sir pounds. Mother is Mrs.
Alexander Chernoff, 21, wife of a watchmaker. Physicians put
them in an incdbator in a futile attempt to keep them alive.
City Dwellers
See Aerial Fight
Nazis - British
LONDON, Oct. 28 (/P) —Two
German airmen were killed, one
was wounded and a Nazi pilot
was captured in an aerial drama
over Edinburgh which was wit
nessed by hundreds when British
fighters planes forced down a
German raider which the air min
istry said was making reconnais
sances east of Dalkeith.
The plane struck on a hillside
after a rare display of aerial ac
robatics by both sides. One wit
ness said the plane struck a
stone wall but even then the
pilot would not give up and tried
to get the machine into the air
and ran it along the rough
ground for baout half a mile be
foire he had to stop.
Airplane Killer
Is Apprehended
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 29 (/P)—
Twenty-nine year old Earnest P.
Pletch, barnstorming Hoosier av
iator is being returned by offic
ers to Missouri for the airplane
ride slaying of Carl Bivens,
Brookfield, Missouri, flying in
structor.
State Police Superintendent
Stover said Pletch confessed to
the shooting of Bivens during a
desperate struggle for an air
plane.
Dead Captain
Rams B B Terry
Into Warehouse
MANCHESTER, Wash., Oct. 29
CP)—Her controls in the hands
of ,a dead man the Black Ball
I ferry Croslie smashed into the
Manchester dock wrecking the
warehouse and damaging her
own superstructure and terrify
■ng the passengers. After the
crash, Captain Frank Clements
aged G9 was found dead on the
ferry's bridge.
WARREN BILLINGS IS FREED
FOLSOM PRISON, Calif., Oct.
24 — Warren Billings bid good
by to Folsom prison last Tues
day after announcing he was go
ing to marry. The partner of
Labor Leader Tom Mooney said
he would marry Miss Josephine
j Rudolph of San Mario, Californa.
Billings has received letters
from Miss Rudolph regularly for
18 years since they met at a
court hearing. The hearing was
part of one of the many in the
long fight to win freedom for
Mooney and Billings who were
given life sentences as a result
of the bombing of the San Fran
cisco Preparerness Day parade
in 191,6. The two claimed that
! they had been framed.
Billings’ sentence was com
j muted to “the time served” by
: Governor Olson when the state
! supreme court finally gave its ap
j proval for his release. He had
I served 23 years.
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Europe Watches
Next Action On
Embargo Repeal
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I UNDATED, Oct. 30 (/Pi — The;
j surface of Europes war was quiet
[without battles and went unruf-'
fled. Armies massed along the
western front were kept inactive
by Germany and the British and
French allies as they pursued the
conflict witii less dramatic wea
pons of propaganda, diplomacy
; and blockade. Europe showed
I particular interest in the neutral,
roles of the United States and
‘Soviet Russia,
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British and French newspapers
expressed gratitude to the Unit
i ed States Senate on its vote to
repeal the arms embargo but a
French deputy, Hanri De Kerillis
; urged wider production at home
as protection against draining of
French gold to the United States
irvTife eventuality that American
j industry be too busy filling Brit
ish orders.
Europe watched to see what
the House of Representatives
will do now with the neutrality
legislation and is anxious over
the Russian and Italian rivalry,
| for the leadership of the Balkan 1
j nations. Southeast Europe held
! hopes that a definite statement j
I of Russian aims might be made1
tomorrow when the Supreme So 1
viet meets at Moscow. Reports of
Russian - supported Bulgarian
claims against Rumania for the
return of the Dobruja district in
t ie Black Sea are the crux of the
situation. Italian influence it is
understood has the upper hand in
Yugoslavia and Hungary.
Air raids warnings were sound
e:l ;n London and East Kent but
no raiders appeared. The Inform
ation Ministry started an investi-1
gation in why the alarms were j
sounded.
Alice Brady Dies
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NEW YORK, Oct. 29 t/Pi —
Alice Brady celebrated star of
the stage and screen died Satur
day, a few days before her 47ih
birthday. She was the daughter
of the famous producer William
A. Brady. Her greatest triumph
w as as Mrs. O’Leary in Old Chic
ago.
Sets New Record
LONG BEACH. Oct. 29 (/P) —
Wes Carroll and Ciyde Schlieper •
landed their seaplane at 3:09 pm
Sunday concluding a month-long
endurance flight for a new re
cord of 720 hours.
Snhsrnbp for the Nuggpt
HE’S IN THE ARMY NOW
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His Royal Highness, Major General the Duke of Windsor is shown
here saluting briskly as he leaves the war office. This radio photo
is the first made of the Duke in uniform since he returned to
England. As a major general* he gets about -20 a day. His gas
mask strap is white, not khaki, as regulations require.
GERMAN SUB SINKS TANKERS, DIRECT RESCUE SHIP
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This series of pictures tell the story of how a German submarine torpedoed two British tankers,
Sept. 14, and then directed the Norwegian freighter Ida Bakke in a rescue of the crews. Picture
(1), shows the German submarine guiding the Ida Bakke to four lifeboats filled with 42 members
of one ship’s crew which had been sunk 4 hours earlier. Picture (2-, shows sailors on deck of
Ida Bakke leaning over rail asercw is hauled aboard. Picture (3), shows members of the crew
of tanker Cheyenne going ashore at Hinsdale, England, after hav ing been picked up by the Ida
Bakke, following directions from the submarine. The sub stood b y for seven hours until all the
men had been rescued, submerging finally to the accompaniment of three british cheers from the
two crew on the Ida Bakke’s deck.
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Football Scores
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October 28
Nebraska 25—Kansas State 9
Auburn 6—Georgia Tech 7
Iowa 19—Wisconsin 13
Illinois 0—Northwestern 13
Alabama 7—.Mississippi State
0
Tulane 18—Mississippa 6
Clemson 15—Navy 7
Notre Dame 7—Carnegie 6
North Carolina 30—Penn 6
Cornell 20—Ohio State 14
Yale 7—Michigan 27
Dartmouth 16—Harvard 0
Pitt 13—Fordham 27
Lake Forest 0—Duke 6
Stanford 5—Washington 8
Washington State 0 —.Oregon
State 13
Oregon 6— UCLA 16
Southern Cal 26—California 0
Purdue 6—Santa Clara 13
Montana 13—Idaho 0
Upsets St. Mary s
PORTLAND, Oct. 20 1/P) —
Portland University’s eleven de
feated St. Mary’s 14 to 12 in one
of the biggest upsets of the foot
ball season.
Ex-Chairman Dies
DUBUQUE. Oct. 23 1/P) _^John
Taylor Adams, aged 77, chairman
of the Republican National com
mittee in 1021 to 104 died here.
NOTICE
N. W. Alask Fair Association
prize checks are now ready for
distribution at Polei’s Store.