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VOL. 42. No. 41. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, April 3, 1940 Price per copy i*
Army Construction Program Is Cut
German Forces Massed For Decisive Blow In West
Rumania Rejects Plan Army Grow Grain for Reich
* Germany Proposes Rumania
Demobilize Half Million Army
To Grow Grain For Reich
UNDATED. April 2 (>T*) — Air
engagements between British
and German planes gave a spurt
to war action as the House of
Commons heard reports, chiefly
economic and diplomatic.
Chamberlain disclosed a series
of new trade agreements with
neutral nations surrounding Ger
many and promised intensifica
tion of the blockade.
Britain reported 2 German air
raiders, hunting ships in the
North Sea were dispersed in an
f engagement today. Planes bomb
ed German patrol vessels yester
day. Germany described yester
day’s raid as a failure saying
that none of the 25 bombs show
ered down found a mark on the
patrol boats protecting the Sylt
Island aviation base.
■Switzerland approached gener
al mobilization, calling tens of
thousands of soldiers to the col
ors.
Germany is reported on high
authority to have proposed to Ru
mania that haif a million of that
country’s million six hundred
thousand soldiers be demobilized
to raise grain for the Reich, and
that 6,000 German agricultural
experts be sent there to help or
ganize production. The Ruman
ian’s argued, however, that the
relaxation of their defenses was
unsafe and they doubted if King
Carol would agree to it.
The British reported the Ger
man freighter Mimi Horn, 4,000
tons, was scuttled when intercep
ted in northern waters on a run
from the Dutch East Indies.
In Congress Democratic lead
ers opposed the Republican-spon
sored proposal that the senate for
eign relations committee ascer
tain if ambassadors Kennedy and
Bullitt made unneutral state
ments in connection with the Ger
man publication of Polish docu
ments.
To five million northern Chin
ese, starvation is more imminent
a specter than the Japanese in
vaders. Reports reaching Peiping
said famine conditions are the
worst in 40 years.
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HITLER PLEDGES FIGHT TO VICTORY
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Fuehrer Adolf Hitler (right foreground) his hands clasped, is
shown in this radio picture as he visited a group of wounded Ger
f man soldier in Berlin. The wheel chairs are lined up by the un
known soldier’s memorial. Earlier Hitler had sounded a war cry of
“on to victory” in a brief address to observe Germany’s Memorial
Day. Picture radioed from Berlin to New York.
House Rejects 12 Millions For
Anchorage Air Base. Cuts Military
Construction Down 15 Million
WASHINGTON, April 3 (&) —
The House appropriations com
mittee rejected the army’s re
quest for $12,734,060 to construct
an airbase at Anchorage and cut
budget estimates for military
post construction from $29,461,
748 to $14,590,363.
The committee approved the
$848,404 for the southeast airbase
at Tampa. The appropriations for
Schofield Barracks at Hawaii,
Marshall Field. Kansas, Fort Me
Arthur, California, Selfridge
Field Michigan, and March Field
California were entirely elimin
ated.
The $1,350,000 for Albrook
Field in the Canal Zone; $1,200,
000 for Boringuen Field at Porto
Rico; $1,840,000 for Wright Field,
Ohio; the $134,000 for McCord
Field at Tacoma, and numerous
other large post construction pro
grams were cut.
Results Elections
Alaska Cities
KETCHIKAN
KETCHKAN, April 3 (Special
to Tiie Nugget) — Election re
sults: Mayor Barry McCain was
reelected, unopposed. Council
men elected were J. F. Van Gil
der, Hanford Henning, and Lem
McKay, defeating Fred Chapman
and J. E. Johnson, incumbents.
E. B. Houghtaling was reelect
ed as school board member, de
feating Mrs. Margaret Wikstrom.
Henry Erwick was reelected on
| the Utilities Board Control un
j opposed.
1,089 voes were cast despite the
| apparent pre-election indifferen
■ ce due to lack of issues.
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JUNEAU
JUNEAU, April 3 (Special to
The Nugget) —Harry Lucas was
reelected mayor three to one ov
er Edmund Krause as Juneau
cast 1400 votes in the municipal
; election. R. H. Beisline, G. Emil
Krause, and Harry Lea were el
ected councilmen.
An upset came when Grover
C. Winn, attorney, member of
j .he school board since 1915, with
the exception of one year, was
defeated by Russell Hermann,
a druggist, by 58 votes.
Juneau voted to advance the
clocks one hour and remain per
manontly on Pacific Coast time
after April 30th.
At Douglas, A. E. Goetz, and
Robert Bonner, Junior, candidat
es for mayor, each polled 88 vot
es. A reelection will probably be
called. Douglas also voted to ad
vance their clocks one hour.
FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, April 3 (Special
to The Nugget) — William N.
Growden was elected mayor of
Fairbanks over J. C. Winter. The
vote for Growden was 470 & for
Winter 444. Growden has been a
member of the city council for
the last four years.
Three city councimen were el
ected. In the order of their stren
gth they are: Larry Rogge, Ike
Thompson and Earl Hausmann.
Rogge and Hausmaan ran on a
ticket with Growden. Thompson
was on the opposition ticket head
ed by Winter.
Charges Pel ley
Plotting Over
throw Govt.
WASHINGTON, April 2 (/Pi —
Representative Dickstein of New
York charged before the Dies
committee that William Dudley i
Pelley, head of the Legion of Sil-1
ver Shirts, was tied up with a
number of army officers in a Fas
cistic effort to overturn the gov
ernment. He appeared voluntar
ily before the group and said in i
a formal statement: “I have evi
dence and can prove it. I charge
him as being the motivating
force behind the Fascistic desir-l
es in the part of army men like
Genera Mosely. to lead a revolt
backed by army men against the
government.”
Eastern Hoodlums
Trying Muscle In
On Movie Extras
HOLLYWOOD, April 2 (JP) —
An autopsy surgeon decided that
Walter Miller, aged 47, veteran
screen picture player, and form
er leading man for Mary Pick
ford, died of heart trouble after
a camera fight scene Saturday,
but authorities ordered an in
quiry into reports that “Eastern
hoodlums” were trying “to mus
cle in” on the movie extras.
(Chief criminal deputy sheriff
William Bright said he had num
erous reports that they were
“shoving around” extras and bit
players.
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SEWARD
SEWARD, April 3 (Special to
The Nugget) — In the Seward
municipal election: Mayor John
W. Blase; councilmen Oscar Dahl
George L. Hollingshorth, and H.
H. Leonard; School Board Mrs.
Ella Amend.
The proposition favoring that
the city council grant a franchise
for the use of streets and alleys
by competing with privately <ywn
ed light and power companies
was voted down.
Goering Predicts Lightning
War in West to Compare
With 18-day Smashing Poland
UNDATED, April 3 </P) — A
flurry of air battles in the welter
of worlds contributed to Europe’s
waiting war of nerves. Ger
many's field marshal Goering de
clared "a decisive blow” would
be struck in the west when Hitler
decides to end the war.
A lone German raider was
shot down off the northwest Brit
ish coast in an air encounter with
a Royal Air Force plane.
DNB, the German news agency
reported successful raids on mer
chant ships under British convoy
m the North Sea without further
details.
The British Royal Air Force
headquarters in France announc
ed that two German planes were
"driven down” and one of our
own machines was shot down ov
er tiie Saar River sector.
Neutrals, particularly the Scan
dm avian states are fearful of Brit
ish and French efforts to sever
the German lifelines and in
crease the hazards of bystander
nations.
Marshal Goering made a pre
diction of lightning war in the
west by radio over all the Ger
man stations but gave no inkling
of when it might come .but said
it would compare with the 18
day smashing of Poland. “Hav
ing their rear and flanks secure,
the German armed forces in one
firm bloc, are facing Britain and
France in the west and here a de
clsive blow must be struck, and
for that the Fuehrer has mobil
ized all his resources,” he said.
At Moscow the Russian parlia
ment approved unanimously the
record defense appropriation of
57 billion rubles.
Sweden’s defense minis ter
Skold said “As long as the big
powers are involved in a war for
life or death our fate will be un
certain.”
In the United States the con
gressional proposal to question
ambassador Bullitt apparently
was halted when the State de
partment gave him permission to
return to his Paris post.
Lost Mountain Climber Found
MOUNT HOOD, Oregon, April
3 {/P)—Searchers found sunburn
ed, frostbitten James Lorenz, 19.
one of two mountain climbers
missing since Sunday. He was
alive and wandering aimlessly
near an improvised shelter <xrv
the southeast slope. He said he
became separated from his com
panion, Gerald Herrmann, in a
blizzard late Sunday. Lorenz was
weak from hunger and exposure
and in need of medical attention,
but “very much alive.”
DEMONSTRATES DETONATOR RAY
Before United States army men, Otto II. Mohr, Oakland, Calif., in
ventor, showed how he could explode gunpowder from a distance
without physical connections with his machine. He said his inven
tion may be a valuable war weapon and claimed solar energy
does the work. He is shown with his machine.