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VOL. 42. No. 156. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JAN. 1, Ht939^ } W®* Per copy 18<
Harassed World Greets New Year
California Whips Tennessee 14 to 0 In Rose Bowl
World of Unrest
Greets New-born
Year of 1940
UNDATED. Jan. 1 </P)—A new
year roundup of a dolorous heri
tage of unrest around the world
greeted the newborn year of
1940.
Germany and the British and
French allies are locked in a ti
tanic struggle now nearly four
month old and both agreed that
the year will be a momentous
one and vied with each other in
predictions of victory.
In the grim, cold north Finland
reported that an entire division
of Russian invaders were cut to
pieces. Finland girder herself to
continue the warfare.
Japan now in her third year of
undeclared war with China re
ported that 21 Chinese planes
weer shot down in a great aerial
battle over L u c h o w while
China’s Chiang Kai Shek began
the year exhorting his National
ists to further vigorous defense.
Civil strife loomed on Ireland’s
iiirizon and India's restless mil
lions seethed with demands for
indepedance from Great Britain.
Turkey counted her thousands
of dead from natural calamities
of earthquake, blizzar dand flood.
Nations not yet touched by vio
lence trod paths of peace with
trepidation as Secretary of State
Cordell Hull expressed the hope
that year 1940 will see the re
turn of peaceful relations among
all nations but he warned that
intensified warfare will affect
America more heavily.
The telegraphic special publish
ed today is for the purpose of
keeping our readers informed on j
all the latest war and other dev
elopments, happening throughout
the world.
The regular local coverage of
human events will appear in
Wednesday’s issue, including the
accounts of the funerals of the
late Hans Mirow and James
Haughey and the Pioneer Roof
Garden.
Business houses, civic offices
and territorial and federal offices
observed a holiday today.
Finds CIO Leader,
Is Not Member of
Communist Party
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (JP) —
James M. Landis, dean of the
Harvard law school, and acting
as a special labor department ex
aminer submitted to Secretary
Frances Perkins a finding, that
Harry Bridges, the West Coast
CIO leader, was neither a mem
ber nor affiliated with the Com
munist party. He made no spec
ific recommendations as to whe
ther Bridges should be deported
although his finding was negat
ive on the principal grounds for
deportation. Bridges denied that
he was a Communist.
Representative Dempsey of
New Mexico, a Dies Committee
man, said that Bridges should be
deported despite the examiner’s
conclusions, on the grounds that
the Dies hearing testimony in
dicated “rather conclusively”
that Bridges had been a Com- j
munist. j
Senator Capper of Kansas, im-1
migration committeeman, said:
to “*<: a It’tie doubtful” of TjUiv
dis’ conclusions.
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G 0 P S Invited
To Deni. Jackson
Day Dinner
WASHINGTON, iDec. 30 </P) — j
With President Roosevelt’s ap-i
provai, the Jackson Day dinner
committee broke a precedent
through ex-Attorney General
Cummings, when they invited
Republican congressional lead
ers as honor guests to that trad
itional Democratic love feast
here on January eighth. The in
vitations stated that President
Roosevelt’s dinner speech would
be “nonpartisan in character.”
Republicans known to have
been invited were Senators Mc
Nary of Oregon: Austin of Ver
mont, party leader and assistant;
plus Representative Martin of
Massachussets. the House minor
ity leader.
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Alaska Reindeer Round-up
Of White-Owned Deer To
Be Held January To April
The first mass round-up of Al
aska reindeer will be held this
winter under the aerial super
vision of Charles G. Burdick.
Negotiator for the federal gov
ernment Mr. Burdick is empow
ered to spend $720,000 for the ac
quisition of reindeer from non
native owners conducting opera
tions by chartered plane. A num
her of bids have been submitted
for the flights which will be
made out of Nome from January
1 to April 30.
■Accompanied by Mrs. Burdick
and by Mr and Mrs Walter J
Clark, Mr Burdick arrived in An
chorage. They left Thursday by
Mirow Air Service to set up an
office in Nome. Transferred from
a position as auditor in the Office
of Indian Affairs Mr Clark will
be employed as fiscal agent for
the reindeer acquisition unit.
Mr Burdick told the Anchor
age Chamber of Commerce the
United States government had a;
ranger the transfer in an attempt
to set up a self-sustaining indus
try for the natives of Alaska, and
not, as some reports stated to
“bail out white owners who have
gone broke in the reindeer busi
ness.”
“The white owners cannot hope
to receive anywhere near what
they have put into the industry”
Mr Burdick said. “The Lomen
brothers, the owners of the great
est herds, will probably receive
more than 15 or 20 percent of
the amount they have spent.” He
said the reindeer business proved
unprofitable operated by both na
tives and white men. but with all ]
the herds owned by natives and j
the industry supervised by the j
government there was a good
chance of it becoming self-sus
taining.
Mr. Burdick is authorized to
purchase an estimated 130,000
reindeer at a maximum average
of $4 a head. His problem will he
to reconcile the 180,000 figure sub
mitted by the Rachford commit
tee federal reindeer appraisal
group with a total of 500,000 deer
claimed by white owners.
Mass round-ups, held concur
rently from the Alaska Peninsula
to the Noatak River in Kotzebue
Sound will be used in determin
ing ownership. Only about one
third of the deer are ear-mark
ed Mr Burdick said. Round-ups
will be held between January
and the last of April.
The tentative scheme, accord
ing to Mr Burdick is to use white
men as unit managers in general
charge of round-ups on each
range and Eskimos for the re
maining work. The whites will
be hired under civil service spec
ifications and all tallying will be
done by a member of the Rein
deer Service. Mr Burdick plans
to visit each roundup by plane.
Because native and non-native
owned reindeer are freely mixed
it will be necessary to check the
animals by running them thru
a chute. The percentage of each
owner’s marked deer will be de
termined in relation to the to
al number of marked deer and
the percentage applied to the
number of mavericks. From the
air an estimate of the number of
deer missed will be made and
the same percentage applied to
the estimate.
During the round-up animals
will be splotched with paint to
prevent their being counted
twice. As they pass through the
chute a tabulation will be made
and paint applied on the withers
at the same instant. The paint
marking is expected is remain
until the deer shed in the spring.
Covering an area slightly larg
er than the state of Texas, Mr
Burdick expects to find the heav
iest body of his work on the Se-1
ward Peninsula at Unalakleet on
the head of Norton Sound, the
Buckland range on Kotzebue
Sound drainage and on the Sela
wick Range. About one-third of j
non-native owned deer belong to i
the Lomen ’oiothers at Nome. '
On his fight Thursday Mr. Bur
dick planned to stop at Takotna,;
Holy Cross, Bethel, Nunivak Is
land, Akulurak, St. Michael and
Unlakleet to contact non-native
owners. Except for pilots and
priests Mr Burdick believes that
he is the only white man to visit
Akulurak twice. The tiny vil
lage at the south sound of the
Yukon consists of a Catholic mis
sion with 150 Eskimo orphans
and 100 adults. Reindeer herds i
are owned by the mission.
There are about 800 deer for
purchase at Umnak Island in the
Alaska Peninsula it was learned.
In Bethel the Pioneer Reindeer
Company claims 70,000 head.
After establishing an office in
Nome Mr Burdick will begin his
flights returning to Anchorage in
February for a meeting of the A1
aska Game Commission and the
Fur Rendezvous. He has until
June 30 to make payment on the
reindeer and will leave for Wash
ington, the following month.
Acquisition of non-native own
ed reindeer and establishment of
the industry on a native basis
was approved by Congressional
act in September, 1937.
Although an appropriation of
$2,000,000 was authorized no mon
ey was appropriated that ses
sion. At the last regular session
Congress appropriated $795,000
for the work allotting $75,000
for administrative funds and the
remaining $720,000 for acquisi
tion of the deer.
As special representative of
the Secretary of the Interior, Mr
Burdick flew to Washington to
talk of Harold Ickes, Secretary
of the Interior and assistants in
the department.
Mr Burdick expects to encount
er temperatures of 60 below zero
during the course of his work
and commented on the difficulty
of packing for an Arctic expedi
tion of this nature.
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Waterfront Union
Signs Two-year
Working Contract
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 </P)
— The Pacific American Ship
owners Association signed an un
precedentedly long two-year
working agreement with the Mas
ters, Mates and Pilots of Ameri
ca Union, which has been operat
ing since September 31 on an ex
tension of the old pact. The
terms of the new one were not
announced.
President Names
Charles Edison
Secretary Navy
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (A>) —
The White House announced that
Charles Edison has been appoint
ed Secretary of the Navy. He has
been acting Secretary since the
death of Secretary Swanson.
. Roosevelt made the
tion which will be' seftZXo the
Senate when Congress convenes
next month.
HARRY NAKAMURA FOUND
HANGING IN WELL, DEERING
Word was received yesterday
morning that the body of Harry
Nakamura, Japanese cook of
Candle, was found hanging in a
well at Deering. Mrs John Cross
reported discovery of the dead
man via radio.
It was understood that U S
Commissioner Ronald L. Gillis
was awaiting arrival of a plane
to go to Deering to hold an in
quest into the cause of death,
which rumor said was brought
about by suicide.
German Steamer
To Be Ordered
Leave Montevideo
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 30 <£*) —
Foreign Minister Alberto Guani
said that the German merchant
man Tacoma would be ordered
to leave port within 24 hour#
or face internment by decree to
night or tomorrow. The announce
ment followed strong British
pressure.
RUSSIANS BOMB FINNS
BUT NO CASUALTIES
LONDON, Dec. 30 </P) — The
exchange of the Telegraph Com
pany News Agency said a Hel
sinki dispatch reported that the
Russians bombed the Tampere
munitions base site and several
other centers and again it is be
lieved that there were no cas
ualties.
FINNS PUSH RUSSIANS
BACK OVER OWN BORDER
HELSINKI, Dec. 30 £*>) — The
Finnish high commend reported
Ah** th»» .
the Russian troops back acx*oss
their own border north of Lieksa.
FINNS DISRUPT LEKINGRAD
MURMANSK RAILWAY IN 3
PLACES—FOOD SHORTAGE
LONDON, Dec. 30 (/P)—Reut
ers news agency said that the
Finn “Suicide Squads” on skiis,
had cut the Russian Leningrad
Murmansk railroad in three plac
es, causing a food shortage in the
latter Arctic port.
ATTENTION PIONEERS
A regular meeting will be
held Wednesday, Jan. 3 at 8 pm
at the IOOF Ilall. Joint installa
tion of officers and Card party
and social to follow meeting.
NEVER AGAIN, MATES—That hangdog (ouch!) look
on Mickey might be a hangover or a lesson to weekend celebrants.
But it isn’t! Mickey posed this way to please his camera-fan
master, C. E. Brock of Salina, Kas.
The Nugget Wishes You A Happy New Year