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VOL. 41. No. 48. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939 ^ ** 154
Mussolini Rejects 10 Year Proposal
Hungarians And Slovakians Skirmish At Border
Bodies of Kirkpatrick and Miller Were in Plane
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Duce Rejects
Pres. Roosevelt’s
Plea For Peace
ROME, April 20 </P) —Musso
lini rejected President Roose
velt’s plea for a decade of peace
by non-aggression guarantees, on
the grounds that they were un
necessary and failed to take in
to consideration “pyramidal er
jors in geography.”
But speaking in the shadow of
of the heroic statue of Julius
■Ceasar in the Roman capital, II
Duce cited Italy’s plans for a
world exposition in 1942 as “pro
mising induration, we do not in
tend to attack anyone.”
Hitler Celebrates
50th Birthday with
4 Hour Parade
BERLIN, April 20 (/P) —Adolf
Hitler, the World War corporal
who became the “augmentor of
, the Reich” paraded a cross sec
tion of the armed might which
gave him t{ie mastery of central
Europe before distinguished for
eign guests attending the celebra
lion of his 50th birthday.
It was the largest military pa
rade ever witnessed in Berlin,
-with 40,000 soldiers, tanks, mo
torized equipment and artillery
passed. The parade lasted four
and a half hours while air squad
tons roared overhead.
Shortly before the parade start
td, Hitler became an honorary
citizen of Danzig. There had been
rumors that Danzig, which was a
German territory before the war
might be a birthday present to
Hitler, but he received only an
honorary citiz-nship.
Brooding sullenly in his cell in
Keene, N. H., is Alfred VVojehick,
35, charged with the murder "by
mistake” of a man and woman
who drank poisoned liquor which
VVojehick confessed he intended
for his changed wife.
Sailors Threaten
To Strike
<h er Hiring
SEATTLE, April 20 (if) — The
Sailer’s Union of the Pacific
threatened to call a coastwise
strike if the Federal Maritime
Commission puts east coast crews
on "he four freighters of the new
Pac fie Northwest-Oriental Line,
of ‘he projected government
sponsored Puget Sound-Oriental
service.
Secretary - Treasurer Harry
Lu-ieterg said that union mem
bers voted 2.703 to 2 to strike and
also condemned the Maritime
Commission's reiterated pc’icy of
hiring men.
Bodies Of Pilot
Kirkpatrick and
Miller in Plane
CORDOVA. April 20 f/P) — A
diver found the bodies of Pilot
M. D. Kirkpatrick and his pas
senger Cor. Miller in the cabin of
Kirkpatrick’s wrecked p ane late
yesterday after dragging opera
tions located the missing craft
300 feet off-shore in Orca Inlet
district.
The pl ane disappeared Friday,
on a McCarthy to Cordova flight.
Otto Tiedman, operating the
boat drag said bubbles coming to
the surface off Humpback power
station site led to the discovery
of the plane.
He hooked the plane and drag
ged it within 100 feet of the
shore where a diver, L. G. Lag
2S3, made several trips below the
surface. Lagasa reported that the
babies were in the cabin which
he7 said was not badly broken.
William King, with a piledriv
ed outfit is attempting to raise
the plane.
Congress Approve
Navy Air Bases
For Alaska
WASHINGTON, April! 20 {/P)~
The House completed congres
sional action on the $66,800,000
bill authorizing a chain of new
navy air bases in Alaska, the
mid-Pacific and Puerto Rico. The
bill carries a million and a half
for Tongue Point, Oregon $8,275
000 for Kodiak; and $2,900,000
for Sitka. The bill now goes to
the White House.
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ATLANTIC CLIPPER OFF ON RECORD FLIGHT
With 38 passengers on board, the huge new Pan-American Airways flying boat, Atlantic Clipper,
took off from Port Washington, N. Y., on its maiden flight to Bermuda. With its crew of 14, the
craft carried the largest number of persons ever to travel in a heavier-than-air craft in ocean
service. Passengers are shown as they boarded the craft.
NEWEST QUADS GET SOME DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
A visit by two others sets of quadruplets to the Badgett girl quads (Joan. Jeraldine, Jeanetta
and Joyce) in Galveston, Tex., didn't get the babies very excited They slept through it all.
The distinguished visitors were the Key sisters (Leota, Mary, Mona, and Roberta) and the Perri
cone brothers (Anthony, Bernard. Carl and Donald).
Harry Bridges
Deportation
Hearing Be Held
WASHINGTON, April 21 {IP—
Secretary of Labor Frances Per
kins said she ordered the Immi
gration Service to proceed with
the hearing on deportation charg
es against Harry Bridges. The
charges include the one that
Bridges is a member of the Com
munist Party.
The Secretary told a press con
ference that the hearing is to de
termine whether Bridges is a
member of the Communist Party,
in the light of the Supreme Court
decision that previous member
ship is not grounds for deporta
tion & asked how the ruling
would affect the Brdges case she
said “We don't think it futile to
continue Bridge’s case but evi
dence has been examined at the
hearing.”
Anne Lindbergh,
And Two Sons
Enroute to U. S.
LE HAVRE, April 20 t/P> —
Mrs. Lindbergh and her two
small sons and their nurse board
ed the liner Champlain for the
United States to join the Colonel.
He sailed on the Aquitania, April
8th, and is now in Washington
where the war department call
ed him for active duty to make
a survey of U. S. aviation facil
ities.
Mrs. Lindbergh declined to
talik to reporters.
Yenney Appointed
Liquor Officer
Conrad F. Yenney, well known
water merchant of Nome, is in
receipt of a telegram from Jack
Cah'yle, Territorial Chief En
forcement Officer of the Alaska
Liquor Control Board, appoint
ing him as Liquor Enforcement
Officer for the Second Division.
The telegram, received late
Wednesday by Mr. Yenney, ad
vises that his appointment was
effective April 2<)th. Mr. Yenney
declares that he will receive his
instructions and particulars as to
enforcement duties, and the new
laws as soon as mail and wea
ther conditions permit.
PANAMA POST Is slated
for William Dawson, 53, the
minister to Uruguay named by
F.D.R. as ambassador to Panama.
With this appointment, Panama’s
diplomatic representation Is
raised to ambassadorial status.
(A.P.-IIarris & Ewing Photo.)
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Hungarians And
Slovaks Bombard
Each Other
UNDATED. April 21 (ff>) _ A
surprise border flareup on the
frontier between Hungary and
Slovakia is reported as Europe'*
anxious powers continued choos
ing sides.
Hungarian military authorities
in Budapest said Slovak artillery
bombarded a Hungarian border
village and said Hungarian artil
lerymen and infantry returned
the fire but neither side appar
ently crossed the new frontier.
In London, informed source*
said Russia demanded that Brit
ain and France pledge her their
ful-1 military support in return
for her cooperation.
Hitler is reported drafting a
speech to be made April 23 in the
Reichstag in response to Presi
dent Roosevelt’s plea for at least
ten years peace.
Part Of German
Fleet Is Sighted
Headed South
AMSTERDAM, April 20 (A») —
A pilot of the Royal Dutch Air
lines reported he sighted part of
the German fleet, southbound;
steaming off the Netherlands
coast 50 miles.north of West Am
sterdam.
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