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VOL. 41. No. 35. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Mar. 22, 1939 Price t>er Copy id
Lithuania Forced Surrender Memel or Entire State
France Calls Reserves to Strengthen Maginot Line
Lithuania Is
Believed Next On
Germany’s List
UNDATED, March 21 <JP) —
Europe watched apprehensively
for same hint of Hitler’s next
.move to extend the borders of
expanding Germany.
Russia -announced a proposed
conference of “the six most in
terested powers'’ but Britain
found the suggestion “prema
ture.’
Lithuanian officials are report
ed to be moving out of Memel,
lending support to the belief that
the Baltic region is marked by
Hitler for his next territorial ad
vance. The Nazi leader in Mem
el, Dr. Ernest N. Umann auuonc
ed that he expected Lithuania to
surrender Memel “in the n:ar
future.”
In Italy, it is reported, tba'
the government called for fur
ther military reserves to supple
ment the 60,000 imen called to
Jhe colors in January.
The President of France ar
rived in England to visit the
King and Queen,and during his
three-day stay, France and Brit
ain are expected to formulate
additional measures designed tc
halt Hitler.
Premier Daiadier, wielding
new dictatorial powers started
reorganizing French defenses.
Through a series of decrees ard
law's the Premier extended the
60 hour week tc railways, mines,
and other industries.
Uneasiness was aroused in Ru
mania, when a Jew shot and
killed Dr. Hj aimer Krarzt, a Ger
man citizens after an argument
in the doorway of a Jewish com
Lithuania
Surrenders Memel
KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 22
1 R>—'The little republic of Lith
uania, surrendered Memel, the
Baltic seaport she had acquired
after the World War, advancing
the German Reich answer what
semi-official sources said was a
threat that her entire state would
be taken ever if she didn’t com
ply with Germany’s demand.
Germany got back the Baltic
.eaport she lest under the Treaty
f Versailles and Lituania is left
without its semi-official newspa
per Leituvos Aidas which said:
“In the face of dire necessity,
Lithuania was placed under the
cruel dilemma cf either transfer
ir.g Memel to Germany or endan
ger the independence of the en
t re state. The German demand
was based cn the force that Lith
uania must heroics lly submit.”
rnunify house at Brasov.
Rumania, fearful after the dis
appearance of Czechoslovakia,
which made her next on Ger
many’s march east, appeared to
have at least, temporarily put
a brake on the German advance,
by persuading Britain to buy
mere Rumanian products!
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The Poll Book for the registra
tion of voters for the forthcoming
Municipal and School Board elec
tion will close on Saturday, March
25th. 1939.
M. J. WALSH,
City Clerk
Publish March 17, 20. 22.
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When a vaudeville booking of Janies Gubitosi, former New Jersey
WPA blacksmith fell through in Los Angeles, his three youngsters
went to film studios and obtained film jobs. Michael, 5, (right),
landed a feature role. James, 7, and Jcvanni, 6, appeared in "Our
Gang" comedy. The happy family is shown.
EVIDENCE OF NAZI SEA POWER, these war craft gathered in Hamburg harbc- when the Reich’s 35,000-ton m^.».
•’war, the Bismarck, was launched with Hitler seeing in that ceremony ‘ a good omen for Germany's future.” Bismarck carries 20 guns.
Pres. Names
Associate Justice
Court Of Appeals
WASHINGTON. March 20 UP)
—President Roosevelt nominated
Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr., aged
44, Dean of the University of
Iowa Law School, as Associate
Justice of the U. S. Court of Ap
peals for the District of Col
umbia. It is a new position cre
ated by the last congress.
The Dean was prominently
mentioned for the vacancy in the
Supreme Court, for which Dou
glas was nominated Monday.
Attorney General Murphy said
he was “a man of outstanding
character and integrity, a legal
scholar of repute, and broad and
liberal in his viewpoint. The man
is eminently qualified” for this
court, one of the most important
in the judiciary system, handling
many cases involving govern
ment departments and the consti
tutionality of Federal laws.
Senate Approves
Government Re
organization Bill
WASHINGTON, March 22 (A*)
—The Senate approved the gov
ernment reorganization bill after
eliminating the amendment de
signed to curtail the President’s
powers and revamping federal
administrative machinery, by a
vote of 63 to 20. The legislation
now goes to a joint Senate and
House conference for adjustment
of the differences between the
separate measures passed by the
two chambers.
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your job printing needs for the
spring and summer. The Nug
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with you as to your wants and
prices on same.
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John L. Lewis
Declares Against
Dissolution of CIO
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NEW YORK, March 22 UP) —
| John L. Lewis finmly declared
j himself against any dissolution
of the CIO “as the price of labor
unity” in this country. Address
ing a tri-district anthracite con
ference he shouted: “CIO and its
many organizations don’t pro
pose to dissolve themselves or
cut themselves up into a multi
tude of pieces as Quid Pro Quo
or being associated with the A F,
of L.”
The dictionary translation of
Quid Pro Quo is “one thing for
1 another.”
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$200,000 For
Alaska Railroad
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WASHINGTON, March 22 (/P):
— The deficiency appropriation ;
bill was introduced and carried a I
$200,000 appropriation for the A1
aska Railroad.
Femininist Dies
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MENTON. France, March 22]
UP)—iMme. Avril de Sainte Croix
aged 83, French femininist lead-'
er died here.
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France Reinforces
Maginot Line
With Reserves
PARIS, March 21 (JP) —Dala
dier’s government called an un
disclosed number of reservists to
assume tiheir posts in the Magi
not line defense, near the Ger
man frontier. The call was made
shortly after new decrees were
issued, authorizing the govern
ment to call reservists and to
take other measures to strength
en the national defense.
French armament speedily be
came law and standards were set
up in the East Station of Paris
beating the legend: “This way j
all reservists.”
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U.S. Unrecognize
Germany’s
Protectorate
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WASHINGTON, March 21 </P>
—A U. S. note sent to Germany
said this government “doesn't
recognize any legal basis to ex
ist” on Germany’s protectorate ot
Bohemia and Moravia. Inclosed
with the note was a copy of the
statement of Acting Secretary o<
State Sumner Welles, made Fri
day, containing the United States
condemnation of what Welles
describes as Germany’s “acts of
wanton lawnessness and arbit
rary force."
The U. S. note also acknow
ledged receipt of the German
note informing this government
of Germany’s action in regard to
Czechoslovakia.
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