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VOL. 41. No. 32. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Mar. 15, 1939 Price oer Copy lW
Japan Warns Russia Against Refusal Fishing Rights
German Army Makes Deep Thrust Central Europe
Czechoslovakia
Disintegrates
UNDATED, March 14 UP) —
Czechoslovakia fell apart under
pressure from Nazi Germany.
The Prague government formal
ly dissolved the federal state a
few hours after Slovakia, with
Hitler’s support, withdrew from
ithe republic created by World
War treaties, out of the old Aus
tro-Hungarian Empire. Hunga.ria
sent an ultimatum demanding
that all Czech troops get out of
the disintegrating republic.
A third component, part of j
Carpatho-Ukraine is wedged be-i
tween Hungary and Poland. Hun
igary reported that her troops are
already nineteen miles inside the
Carpatho-Ukraine frontier. T’ght
.ng has broken out while more!
■troops, including (30,000 reservists |
are being rushed to the border. |
The Slovak parliament voted;
for independence as reliable Bor|
ilin reports said that German;
troops were ready to march to j
Czechoslovakia if the parliament j
failed to act.
The dissolution of the republic;
l^ft only Bohemia and Moravia
under the Prague government. j
The ration is apparently unable
to withstand the blows of the'
Munich and Vienna accords j
which lopped off sections for '■
Germany, Poland and Hungary, j
that those three nations may I
gain further territory now at |
Czechoslovakia’s expense.
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
To Attend Church Services
—
The Odd Feilows and Rebek
ahs have consented to attend div
ine services next Sunday even
ing March 19, 7:40 p.m. at the!
Federated Church. A special ser
mon, and special music by Mr.
and Mrs. Bjarne Olsen is prom-;
ised. The Rebekahs will assemble,
in the nurses home and !he Odd
Fellows !n their hall at 7:15 p.m. I
r-ud march to church in a body.
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BEE-KEEPER N. Alexeev,
shown in the reading room on a
collective farm in the Chuvash
republic along the Volga river,
is a typical peasant profiting
from Russia’s educational pro
gram for the masses—says a
Russian official.
GOVERNOR JOHN TROY’S
DAUGHTER ARRIVES NOME
Pilot John Cross returned to
Nome this afternoon from Fair
banks with Mrs. Cross who is re
turning to her home .at Deering
after spending a few months on
business in the States.
Accompanying Mrs. Cross was
Mrs. Helen Bender, daughter of
Governor John Troy, from Jun
eau. who will spend some time
visiting with Mr. and Mrs. John
Cross at their Deering home.
Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Bender are
remaining over at Nome for a
short time before proceeding fur
ther north. They are guests at
the Nome Hotel.
Shortly after arriving at the
Nome airport the plane was gass
ed up and took off for Kotzebue
wuh Deputy Marshal B. W.
Neily,_
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German Army
0e cupies
Czechoslovakia
UNDATED. March 15 (IP) —
Hitler with his grad-clad armies
! marched east, taking over the re
j mains of Czechoslovakia, in a
deep thrust into central Europe,
the German army poured across
j the borders of the vanished re- j
public and occupied Prague, Pil
sen and other principal cities'
I while the stunned Czechs stood
'■ by as their once proud nation
| came under full Nazi control.
German forces moved into Slo j
vkia, the new born republic, east
of Bohemia -and Moravia, Pra
gue’s old domain. Hungary’s
| army with German acquiescence
swept through the Carpatho Uk
' raine region, the farthest eastern .
section of o.ld Czechoslovakia.
At least a partial fulfillment of
the ancient German dream of ex
pansion eastward came after
Czechoslovakia’s President Emil
Hacha capitulated last -night to
Hitler’s demand that the Czech
army be broken up.
The Czech Foreign Affairs Min
1 istry surrendered to Nazi hands;
. Bohemia and Moravia which be
I c-ame provinces in the only cul
tural autonomy under the Ger
man dominions.
Cries of “Pfui, Pfui,” a contin
ual version of the Bronx cheer
greeted Hitler's marching legions:
at Prague and other cities, but
' there was no other resistance.
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JAP BOMBERS SPEW
DEATH IN WIDE AREA
SHANGHAI, March 15 — Jap
anese -planes ranged over the
northeasternmost corner of Kia
ngsu province bombing and ma
chine-gunning Chinese forces re
ported trapped in an area 60
miles square.
The only escape left for 1,000
Chinese regulars -and guerillas is
to slip through lines of a Jap
anese mop-up offensive, or to
take to the Yellow Sea in junks
and sampans.
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ON A MODERN 'TREASURE ISLAND’ the Golden Gate International exposition has
been built, with the waters of San Francisco bay framinf the fair, as shown In this air view.
DOUBLE HEADER BASEBALL GAME!
First Game Begins 8 P.M- Married Women vs. Alaskan
Pres. Describes
Relief Situation
*’\ery Serious”
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WASHINGTON, March 14 i/P)
— President Roosevelt described
the relief situation as “very ser
ious.” He told the law-making
branch that the responsibility of
appropriating sufficient money to
carry on the WPA until July 1,
“rests of necessity” on Congress.
While not recommending a spec
ific deficiency figure the Pres -
dent in a special message assert
ed that recent data furnished
showed a real and substantial
need for his previous proposal
for an additional appropriation
of $150,000,000. This was th
amount Congres cut out of his or
igioal January request of 875 m l
lion dollars to run the WPA for
the last five mon'hs of the fiscal
year and which be asked to be re
stored in his message of February
seventh.
President Roosevelt said today
that there is no substantial
change in c ndi’ ons of unem
ployment since than.
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CATHOLIC LADIES
CARD PARTY AND DANCE
Benefit Pilgrim Springs Mission
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
CELEBRATION
Saturday, March 18, 9 P.M.
ODD FELLOWS HALL
Refreshments Adm. Adults 75c
NOTICE
Due to persistent complaints
registered with city officials re
garding loose dogs on the streets
which are becoming a nuisance
and dangerous to children, dog
owners are hereby warned that
the provisions of the ordinance
prohibiting dogs running loose
on the streets will be rigidity
enforced.
W. W. Laws.
Chief of Police
Japan Vi arns
Russia She Vi ill
Act in Self Defense
TOKYO. March 15 UP) — The
Japanese Foreign Office disclos
ed that Russia had been warned
by Japan that it might “act in
self defense’’ to maintain the
bitterly contested fishing rights
of! the coast of eastern Siberia.
The statement said Russia must
bear the full responsibility cf
what ever might result.
The warning was given Max
im LitvinofT by Japanese Am
br -adoi Togo.
The Japanese spokesman said
the: Russia had refused the re
quest for a postponement of the
au>' ns of fisheries beds sched
uled to be held today at Vladiv
ost ck. It is during this annual
sale that the Japanese usually ob
tain control of certain fishing
areas.
S.VI.ORS- UNION PACIFIC
AC VN TAKES CONTROL
SEATTLE, March 15 UP) —
R uming its old jurisdiction the
Sad .rs Union of the Pacific is
sued n industrial charter to -the
Ca.nrery Tenderman’s Union of
Alas a and Puget Sound, eom
I prising several hundred Alaska
and Puget Sound cannery tend
- ers, which formerly was affiliat
j ed with the CIO and the Alaska
Fishermen’s Union.
It was announced by Harry
Lundeberg, Sailors Union secre
tary, that the charter covers mas
ters, mates, engineers, deckhands
and cooks employed on cannery
tenders in Alaska and Puget
Sound waters.
Cannery-men member of the A1
aska Fishermen’s Union had no
thing to say about their own
working conditions and agree
ments. Lundeberg declared he
had to accept agreements made
by fishermen.
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BIRD SEED’ lines Jimmy
Demers, 12, lias aren't much but
they’re enouch to put him in
“Louise" at Metropolitan Opera
in N. V He sines “Who’ll buy
my bird seed?"
RISING SI N DIPLOMATS
ARE VEXED
TOKYO, March 15 </P)—Japan
dispatched decisive instructions
to her Moscow ambassador in
connection with the fishery
rights dispute with the Soviet
Union.
At about the same time, an
other foreign office spokesman,
dealing with another of Japan’s
foreign problems, criticized the
British for their support of tire
Central Chinese government’s
currency and advised Britain to
throw her financial weight be
hind Japanese supported curren
cy in China.
Japanese newspapers said tire
Tokyo government would take
counter-action against Britain for
contributing $25,000,000 to a
Chinese .corporation for curren
cy stabilization.
It was believed Japan’s 'Mos
cow envoy was told to warn So
viet Russia that Japan would re
sort to free fishing unless Mos
cow renews the Japanese privil
ege of fishing in Siberian territor
ial waters.
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YOWSAH, THE MAESTRO had an “old home night” in a New York hotel when some of
nation's ace band leaders gathered to pay their respects to Ben Bernie and tap out a hot beat or two.
Note the uplifted shoes. Left to right: Bernie, Enrlc Madriguera, Sammy Kaye, Fred Waring, Carl
Hoff, Glen Gray, Organist Jess* Crawford, Bob Crosby. Sophie Tucker's at the “mike.”
f HIGH SCHOOL GYM WED MAR. 15
Women; Public School Boys vs. Native School Boys