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VOL. 41. No. 25. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEB. 27, 1939 Price oer Copy i!W
Fighting In Spain Expected to Cease In Few Hours
German Plane, 10 Aboard Lost in Mediterranean
Police Seek
Brutal Slayer
Of Young Dancer
LOS ANGELES, Feb 25 UP)—
Without .a single clue, the police
sought the brutal slugger who
fatally wounded attractive Anya
CSosayera, aged 27. Russian danc
t-r and dramatics student, then
criminally attacked her, on the
Los Angeles City College camp
us.
A fellow student, Wally Mey
ers said he found the girl on the
campus near midnight and that
she collapsed after gasping
“someone hit me on the head.”
Death was attributed to frac
tured skull. A medical examina
tion established the fact that she
had been assaulted.
German Plane
Carrying Ten Is
Down Medit. Sea
BERLIN. Feb. 25 (/P) — The
Lufthansa, a German aviation,
company announced that a plane
carrying ten persons, passengers
and crew, were lost somewhere
in the Mediterranean Sea on a
special flight from Germany. It
j was undetermined where they
went down but the Company
said they obtained first news of
the plane’s flight from Lands
End, England, from a radio sta
tion which picked up a message
from an Italian, station saying
that the plane had not reached its
destination..
The plane is actually believed
Ho have left the Balerics, a group
• of five islands some miles off the
Spanish coast, which was the
scene of much aviation activity
during the Spanish war and late
Friday.
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Adam Schasky (above), ex-con
vict, confessed, according to
Chicago police Captain Thomas
Connelly that he killed a “guy
working on the railroad’’ near
Minneapolis about 20 years ago.
“Now I keep seeing him in my
cell every night. I had to get it
off my mind,” Connolly quoted
Schaskf. The man was being
held on a charge of burglarl'y
after the fact.
Last Minute Bills
JUNEAU. Feb. 25 l/P)—Among
last minute bills introduced in
the House were:
By Frank Gordon to license
chain or branch stores on a grad
uated scale.
By James Davis. an appro
priation for $50,000 for the pur
chase or construction and main
tenance of a home for dependent
children.
Bv Karl Drager, to establish a
classification of Territorial cler
ical employees and fixing their
salaries.
By Leo Rogge, appropriating
$3,000 for the development of
Alaska recreational resources
and the stocking of barren lakes
and streams with game fish.
French Cabinet
\ otes Recognize
Franco’s Regime
PARIS. Feb. 27 UP) — The
French cabinet voted unanimous
ly for the recognition of Franco’s
government a§ the legal govern
ment of Spain.
The French action followed
| swiftly on the heels of Premier
- Chamberlain’s announcement in
j the House of Commons in Lon
don, that Britain had accorded
I the Franco regime with unc >ndi
! tional surrender
Both -actions were -taken in
concert and were fore-shadowed
| since Friday when Daladier won
!the support of the Chamber of
Deputies for recognition of Fran
! co.
Supreme Court
Condemns Action
Of Sit-downers
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27 (/P)—
The Supreme Court condemned
the action of employees who seiz
ed their employers plant in a sit
down strike. The decision was
handed down by Chief Justice
Hughes who upheld the right of
Fan Steel Metallurgical Corpor
ation to discharge employees who
seized two key buildings an the
19.37 sit-down strike.
This is t-he third major deci
sion delivered by the court today
against the National Labor Rela
tions Board. These three are the
first important defeats given the
Board since the enactment of the
Wagner Labor Law in 1935.
The decision asserted that “em
ployees had a right to strike but
had no license to commit acts of
violence or seize their employers
plant.”
WANTED TO BUY—An adding
machine, inquire at Nugget
office.
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Type of plane being constructed in .the United States for the French government
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RADIO was a stepping stone
toward opera for John Carter,
N. Y. tenor. He won the Metro
politan auditions of the air and
sang on a commercial program.
Lighterage Made
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JUNEAU, Feb. 25 (A1)—Unem
ployment compensation w:s giv
en boos when the House parsed
a measure m iking such compen
sation applicable to employees
where ther^ are three or more
working instead of eight as pre
viously.
The House passed the bill to
include lighterage in the public
utilities law. It also passed the
Concurrent resolution ask;ng far
a congressional investigation of
Alaska fisheries and calling for a
$10,000 appropriation to pay the
expenses of a five man board of
legislators from the First and
Third Divisions to confer with
the Congressmen should such!
an investigation be undertaken.
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Negrin Accepts
Armistice Plan
PARIS. Feb 25 (/Pi —Spanish
government officials said the gov j
eminent of Premier Negrin had
accepted the British proposal
for an a.imistice to end the
Spanish Civil War. At the same
time .they said that President
Azana had resigned, declaring
that the British and French re
cognition of Franco’s govern
ment, which seems a certainty,
had ended the legal life of the
republic of Spain.
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Plane Flies 575
MPH In Free Dive
During Test Flight
A Curtiss Hawk, 75, a pursuit
plane, one of 100 being construct
ed for the French government,
“substantialliy exdeeded all
known speed records" with a
free dive of more than 575 miles
per hour while undergoing tests
at the Buffalo, N. Y., Curtiss
plant. The plane is shown in
flight.
(See picture at left)
Hostilities Cease
In Spain But Flare
Up In Palestine
UNDATED, Feb. 27 </P)—The
and if the Spanish war appear
ed only a matter of hours. The
approach of peace came as Brit
ain made a seemingly momen
tous decision.
The future of Palestine was at
stake when a new flare-up occur
red between Jews and Arabs in
th Holy Land which brought
death of 26 and injuries to 49.
B >th Britain and France were
set to formally recognize Fran
co's Nationalists which become
supreme in Spain and he* legal
rulers.
Circles close to the tottering
Republican government said in
Paris that its premier Juan Neg
r;n had accepted the armistice
which is tantamount to uncondi
tional surrender The last one
fourth of Spain is still in the
control of the present Manual
Azam government of Spain with
headquarters in the little pro
v:ne:.al French town of C llongcs
Sous Salve. He left Spain’s Paris
embassy for the Nationalist am
bassador to occupy. His resigna
tion is already believed to have
been written.
U. S. Ambassador Kennedy
tc LI the British government that
the drastic restriction of Jewish
invr/gration to Palestine and the
abolition of the manddle over the
Holy Land would have a ‘‘dis
asterous effect on public opinion
in the United States.” His asser
tion followed the disclosure of a
British scheme submitted only in
outline with a discussion to end
Brita n's mandate over Palestine
and the restriction of Jewish im
migration there and to set up a
Palestine state with the Jews in
the minority.
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FROM THE BRONX
came Leonard Warren, baritone,
whose parents were Russian. He
also won a radio opera audition
of the air, and was in the chorus
at a N. Y. theater.
Senate Bill Sets
Minimum Wages
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JUNEAU, Feb. 25 <#) — The
Senate pas': I ‘he bill to protect
the lives, health and moral of
women workers by setting a mini
mum pay of $18.00 a week and
I prohibits women under sixteen
| years of age from employment.
Part time work must be paid at
the rate of 45 cents per hour
with a working week of not more
l than sink/' 1 r. All this is for
domestic household employees.
The Senate also approved the
appropriation of $4,000 for the
Territorial Chamber of Com
merce
The City Council and the
Chamber of Commerce started
Saturday to raise a reward of
not less than $1,000 to anyone
finding ,a clue to the missing Lon
Cope plane.
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RUNNINC A HOME would come easy to Mrs. Maria
Kramer of New York. She has the management of two hotels
on her hands, and so capable have those hands been that the $5,
000,000 Hotel Edison just elected her president. Here she Is dealing
with a fowl problem. Formerly Maria dc Ramirez of Tucson. Arlz.,
_Mrs. Kramer recently bought the §7,000,000 Hotel Lincoln.
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