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I VOL. 41. No. 28. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, March 6, 1939 ^ Copy 15#
Juan Negrin, Ex-Premier of Spain Flees To France
Wants Alaska Legislature To Meet Every Year
Pope Pius XII
f: *
HEAD o£ the Roman Catholic
j church until a new pope is
named to succeed the late Pius
XI, Eugenio Cardinal Pacclii
<above), 62, Is an interim ruler
called “chamberlain.”
Republicans Spain
Declare Must
Have Peace j
PARTS. March G (iP) — Diego
Martinez Barrio, president of
the Spanish parliament, declared
the seizure of the power of Re
publican Spain’s national defense
council "must lead to peace.”
Barrie said he was fully in ac
cord with the six-tman council
which deposed Premier Negrin
and declared General Miaja "is
the man who can come to an
understanding" with Spanish na
tionalist Franco and “bring peace
back to Spain."
Informed quarters expressed
the belief that the way for Re- i
publican Spain's surrender to J
the Nationalists was paved by
the formal resignation which
ousted the Negrin government.
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Secretary Succeed!
Jimmy Roosevelt
Is Named
WASHINGTON. March « i/P)—
The White House announced that
Colonel Edwin M. Watson, the
President’s military aide will be
-appointed Presidential secretary!
to succeed James Roosevelt,
about April 1.
Watson is a soldier of 33 years J
service, and is promoted to brig- j
adier General effective March j
31st. He will retire on his own;
-application one or two days af
ter he receives his higher rank.
He has been a popular aide since i
the start of the administration.
Watson will be a brigadier gen
eral for only about 24 hours.
The secretary’s job pays about
$10,000 a year and officials said
that -is the maximum he will re
ceive. The White House will sup i
ply whatever is necessary to j
bring his retired pay figure up
to that sum.
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DOUBLE HEADER BASEBALL GAMES HIGH SCHOOL GYM WED. MAR. 8
First Game Begins 8 P.M. Single Girls vs. Alaskan Women; Public School Boys vs. Native School Boys.
President Flays
Totalitarian
Governments
WASHINGTON, March 4 —
President Roosevelt served not
ice that the United States will
not be passive and silent about
the persecution of religion in
lands where democracy has been
snuffed out. Instead, he told con
gress, plus a hast of foreign pow
er representatives, that the na
tion will seek by every peace
ful means to keep religious and
personal freedom alive.
die addressed a joint session of
the Senate and House in com
memoration of the first congres
sional session 150 years ago and
denounced the return to the
world in recent years, the forms
of government which for 2.000
years proved their tyranny and
instability.
President Roosevelt said: “A
representative democracy will
never tolerate the suppression of
true news at the behest of a
government where democracy
has been snuffed out, and the peo
pie’s right to worship God in
one’s own way abrogated.”
Busiest private radio • station in
the coui.' * is mat of United Air
Lanes at Chicago. Its two trans
mitters are never oil' the air.
United Mainliners fly the route
of the Old Overland Trail. Pilots
and passengers can see the signs
of the old trail that was rutted
by covered wagons in 1850.
CRUISER FOCH, seen at Algiers, Is part of French navy
planning joint naval display with Britain in the Mediterranean.
Asks Authorize
Legislature Meet
Every Year
WASHINGTON, March 6 (/Pi—
Delegate D rnnnd asked Congress
to authorize the Alaska legisla
ture to meet every year. He sa:d
the legislature now meets every
second year and there is consid
erable lag between the enact
ment -of legislation and its amend
j ment. The measure also would
change the opening of the ses
sion of the legislature of Alaska
from the second to the fourth
Monday in January,
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House Reconsiders
Accepts Senate
Cold Tax Bills
—
JUNEAU, March 3 </P) — The !
House which yesterday rejected
the Senate bills raising the gold
tax exemption to $20,000 also giv
ing the Territory a prior lien on:
mine property for unpaid lic
enses and taxes, this afternoon
reconsidered and accepted them.
The Senate, yesterday, passed
the $70,000 building fund for the
University of Alaska and sent it
to the House where it was ex
pected to be rejected but this af
ternoon the House accepted it.
Bills Passed By
Both Houses
JUNEAU, March 6 (/P> — The
following measures were acted
on by the Senate and House:
The House tabled the Senate
bill providing $4,000 for the
T; r-itorial Chamber of Com
merce.
The House passed Senator Ri
ot's bill providing for a board of
engineers and architects as ex
aminers.
The Senate passed the House
joint memorial asking that stu
dent airplane pilots be trained at
the University of Alaska.
Also the memorial for the
building of a steel revetment to
protect the Nome waterfront.
The Senate passed:
The resolution to provide mat
tresses on cots for all workmen
in the Alaska Road Commission.
The memorial urging the In
dian Affairs Bureau make a tu
berculosis sanitarium in the aban
doncd White Mountain School.
And the bill licensing collec
tion agencies $50.
The substitute for the House
habitual criminal bill goes into
its second reading and the An-;
dor son bill calling fo,r a refer
endum on the liquor question is
also in its second reading
Nome Hotel Arrivals
Sunday. Boris Magids of Deer
in g.
Sunday. Ralph Mayberry of
Dahl.
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MOURNERS GATHER IN SOLEMN DIGNITY AT DEAD POPE’S BEDSIDE
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Candles flickered beside Uie death bed of Pope Pius XI as prelates and Swiss guards filled the room after the Pontiff's death. A church
man stands with clasped hands beside a uniformed guard, similar to those who took up the death watch. The Pope’s hands were
folded peacefully in death. The Pope, later lying in state in the. Sistine Chapel, was dressed in a white soutane, or cassock, over
which was a crimson mozetta. or short crepe, edged with ermine. On his head was a camauro—a red velvet cap similarly edged
with ermine.
TO WHITE HOUSE
Obcrlin Carter, 82, Chicago, say*
he'll carry vindication fight. He
plan* to reopen records of 189$
army court martial that con*
Victcd him of fraud.
Goddard Springs
Made Supplement
Pioneer Home
JUNEAU. March 4 OP) — The
Senate passed the House bill
appropriating $20,000 for the pur
hhase nf the Goddard Hot
Springs as a supplemental Pio
neers H: me.
The House passed th» Senate
bill for minimum wages for wo
men but raised the ante from $18
to $22 f r a six-day forty-eight
hour week, and prohibiting girls
under sixteen years of age from
employment.
The Senate bill prohibiting the
sale of liquor to Indians was
made a special order of business
by the House on Monday even
ing.
Denies Appeal
To Gamblers
NEW YORK. March 6 </P) —„
The U. S. Court of Appeals af
firmed the conviction of William.
Graham and James McKay, Reno
gamblers and confidence men.
Each were sentenced to serve
9 years in prison and fined
Si 1,000 after they were convict
ed a year ago for mail fraud and
conspiracy.
Arrives France
TOULOUSE, France, March 6
A*)—Juan Negrin and Julio Del
/ayo. premier and foreign min
ster of the deposed Spanish re
publican cabinet arrived by air
plane accompanied by their secre
;aries.
Paris dispatches, earlier said
hat Negrin and his ministers
were reported to have been ar
'ested somewhere in Spain after
:he overthrow of the cabinet by
the six men of the national de
fense council headed by General
Dasado.
'Negrin, tired and worn, declin
'd to comment on the flight.
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