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THE NOME NUGGET [ Hg
VOL. 41. No. 54. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1939. Price per copy is«
Poland Rejects Hitler’s Demands
Germany Declares Poland Has Run Up Blind Alley
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Beck Rejects
Hitler’s Demands
on Polish Corridor
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WARSAW, May 5 W) — Po
land's Colonel Joseph Beck re
plied la Germany with a firm re
jection of Hitler’s demands for
Danzig and a wide German right
of way through the Polish cor
ridor. but left the doer open for
further “peaceful conversations.”
Speaking before the Polish par
J:ament, he was interrupted con
s-tantlv by thunderous applause.
The Foreign Minister declared
that the Polish corridor rights in
the free city of Danzig belonged
to Napoleon's Poland and they
would not give them up.
He called Germany’s claims,
one-sided demands in which the
element of reciprocity was lack
tag. Poland 'is willing to nego
tiate he declared, only on a basis
of “peaceful intentions and peace
foil methods of action,” and only
as regards matters not directly
■affecting the Polish sovereignity
over the corridor and her rights
in Danzig.
Among the diplomats applaud
eng Beck’s address was U. S. Am
oassadar Ant'rSny Drexel Biddle.
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layed at Nuiato due to bad wea-,
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plane will be kept on ski's and
transfer loads to Nome from Nu
lato, while wheel planes will be
used between . Fairbanks and
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‘PERFECT NAZI woman.’
Frau Gertrud Scholtz-Klink,
36. mother of four children, in*
spired protect rallies upon ar*
rival In London. Hitler calls her
“perfect woman.”
NOTICE
Written applications will be re
ceived by Chief Laws at the Fire
Department up to 5 o'clock p.m.
Monday, May 8, 1939, for the
positions of ENGINEER and
DRIVER at Nome Fire Depart
ment.
W. W. Laws.
Chief of Fire Dept.
Publish May 3, 5, and 8.
Germany Indicates
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No Further Basis
For Negotiations
UNDATED. May 5 (Ah —Brit
ain, it is reliably reported agreed
to form a military alliance with
the Russian and French govern
ments, as authoritative sources in
Berlin ind rated that Foreign Min
ister Beck’s stand on the Danzig
issue left no further basis for
negotiations. These developments
followed swiftly Beck’s speech to
Parliament, rejecting the Ger
man demands in the Danzig Pol
ish corridor.
Britain’s reported decision
came after their foreign affairs
committee and cabinet approved
what was called “an extremely
conciliatory” note to Moscow.
After Beck spoke, German For
eign Minister Von Ribbentrop dis
cussed the Polish stand with Hit
ler at the latter’s Bavarian re
treat. The authoritative comment
ary “Diesant Aus Deutschland”
observed in Berlin that Poland
has apparently “run into a blind
aliey from which there is no es
cape, but there is no reason for
Germany to renounce the neces
sity of a solution in the Danzig
question.”
Russia’s supreme Soviet and
her Congress were summoned to
meet on May 25th.
The Italian government an
nounced an increase of $85,000,
000 for the army air force esti
mate for the year beginning July
1, and announced that Italy, in
the event of a conflict wanted to
fight “a quick war with a cer
tainty of victory.”
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PARENTS VISIT SLUGGED HOLLYWOOD GIRL
While authorities believed pretty 17-year-old Delia Bogard, screen juvenile, was slugged by the
same person who recently attacked and fatally beat Anya Sosoyeva, Russian dancer, in Holly
wood, the grl was showing improvement in a hospital. Physicians expressed hope for her recov
ery. She was struck down by a man using a two-foot club. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bogard, parents
of the girl, are shown with her in the hospital.
Polar Bar & Grill Opens Saturday '
Europe Awaited
Outcome Beck’s
Answer to Hitler
UNDATED, May 4 (TP) —Pre-,
mier Chamberlain urged the
House of Commons to enact mil
itary training bill which would
give Britain’s army about 800,
000 men in the next three years. ;
As Europe's anxious attention
slrfted to the east, the questions
most asked were:
What change in Russia's for
eign policy might be followed by
the sudden resignation of Maxim
Litvinoff, and
What stand Poland’s Foreign
Minister Col. Joseph Beck might
take tomorrow in answering Hit
ler on the Danzig problem.
In Berlin, a diplomat with inti
mate knowledge of the German
situation expressed the convic
tion that if Beck leaves the door [
open for negotiation, the specter;
of war in Europe once more will
be banished, but if he slams it,
Hitler might take almost immed
iate action against the Danzig
Polish corridor.
Diplomatic quarters in Rome
expressed the belief that Musso
lini ' is exerting his influence in
Warsaw and Berlin to settle their
differences peaceably.
Ready Help Poles
And Rumania
LONDON, May 5 (fl3)—The Brit
ish cabinet and Foreign Affairs
committee approved a note to
Russia saying that Moscow’s pro
posals for broad British-French
Russian guarantee of the Baltic
and Black Sea states was “sound
in theory but not practical at the
present time.”
The British note which will pro
bably be telegraphed tonight to
the British ambassador in Mos
cow, informed eiroes said, will be
“extremely conciliatory.” It is I
understood that the note repeat-1
ed the British government’s will
ingness to support Poland and Ru
mania “if and when” those coun
tries ask for help.
Slack & Mahan
Moving Dredge
The small dredge near the
Standard Oil Company ware
houses at the east end of Nome,
is already for its journey over
land via tractors to its new loca
tion on California Creek near
Bluff. Messrs. Slack and Mahan,
the interested parties in the
dredge and mining property,
have staked out a winter trail
and are now within a short dis
tance of their destination with
two loads of equipment, which
is being hauled by tractors pull
ing go-devils. They expect to re
turn to Nome in a day or so and
commence the work of moving
the dredge.
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
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AMONG THE 3-YEAR-OLDS that'll help thrill Ken
tucky derby fans May 6 is this black colt with a curious name,
Xalapa Clown. He'll bear the hopes and colors of Mrs. B. Frauz
heim. He's out of Loma Linda by Eternal.
Defense Bill Ups
WASHINGTON, May 4 (TP) —
Uncle Sam’s mounting defense!
bill received another boost when
the House Appropriations Com
mittee recommended $770,473,000,
appropriation for the navy, in-j
eluding funds to start construc-j
tion of 23 new warships and 500
airplanes. Leaders arranged to
bring the measure up for debate
immedately but said that final
action would be deferred until
Monday. The bill carried almost
$143,000,000 more than the navy's
current appropriation.
The Navy’s new building pro
gram which will bring to 144, the
number of new ships under con
struction and calls for two 45,000
ton battleships; the fleets larg
est two cruisers; eight destroy
ers; eight submarines; two sea
plane tenders and one repair
ship. The Navy will have a total
of 340 surface ships in operation
in 1940.
65th Running of
Kentucky Derby
Held Tomorrow
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ May 5 <JP>
—A field of three year olds top
ped by Big Johnstown are enter
ed in tomorrow's 65th running;
of the Kentucky Derby.
Bureau Fisheries
May Be Shifted
WASHINGTON, May 5 (JP) —
President Roosevelt, it is report
ed by usually well informed leg
islators, is considering shifting1
the Bureau of Fisheries from the
Commerce to the Interior Depart
ment. The change may be includ
ed in the new reorganization plan
which Roosevelt is expected to
send to Congress next week.
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^ EL CHI
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LEADING MONEY WINNER among 1938 Juveniles.
El Chico is one of the favorites for the May 6 Kentucky derby at
Churchill Downs. The chestnut colt owned by Wm. Ziegler, Jr„
earned $84,100 last year, winning 7 firsts out of 7 starts.