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VOL. 41. No. 72. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16. 1939 Price per copy is*
French Sub Sinks In Indo-China Sea
Japs, British Deadlocked Over Tientsin Blockade
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S. S. Columbia Departs and Cutter Itasca Arrives
Japs Compell
British to Strip
For Search
TIENTSIN, June 15 {JP)—While
British and Japanese troops fac
ed each other across barricades,
a strong British note bo Japanese
authorities insisted that “immed
iate steps” be taken to end stop
ping atnd searching of British sub
jects by Japanese soldiers, and
the blockading of the British and
French concessions.
Edgard Jamieson, British Con
sul General, in a vigorous pro
test to Japanese diplomatic au
thorities, also charged that Brit
ish shipping on the Hai River,
Tientsin’s outlet to the sea, was
bong stopped and searched by
Japanese. He demanded that this
cease.
Britons declared that Japanese
guards compelled them ,to strip
to the waist and submit to search
when crossing the concession
boundaries.
During the day British infan
trymen with fixed bayonets were
stationed at one entrance to their
concession, while tension increas
ed in the crisis which brought on
the Japanese blockade yesterday.
Fifty Million
Claimed In War
Sabotage Suit
WASHINGTON, June 15 UP)—
Tie Mixed Claims Commission
held Germany responsible for
the Black Tom and KingsLand,
New York, munitions disasters,
prior to the entry of the United
States into the World War.
International Tribunal Justice
Owen Roberts, umpire, reversed
the Hamburg decision of 1930
which accepted the “industrial
accident” theory of fires and ex
plosions which rocked the New
York metropolitan area in 1916
and 1917.
American claimants sought dam
British Sending
2 Naval Ships
To Tientsin
UNDATED, June 16 (JP) — The
British government declared Br;t
ain woulld take “immediate act
ive steps” against any attempts
to restrict British rights in China
■as the grave issue at Tientsin
threatened to develop into a
showdown for prestige and 'pow
er 'between Japan and other for
eign powers and for large stak
es in the Par East.
Japanese officials discussed the
'possibility of mediation thru the
United States.
The British Foreign Office took
an unusual step in issuing a com
munique that expressed concern
over statements made by Japan
ese spokesmen.
Japan demanded that “ British
authorities cooperate with the
the Japanese in the construction
of a new order in the Far East.”
Japanese dispatches from Tiant
sin said British authorities 'trad
ordered two naval vessels to
Tientsin, Where the Japanese
have blockaded the British con
cession. Ships with full cargoes
of food have to navigate 25 miles
up the Hai River, where the
Japanese naval forces have been
in control.
ages of $50,000,000 from the
Reich eon bender, throughout 12
years of litigation, for the des
truction of Leheigh Valley Rail
road terminal at Black Tom in
1916, and for the Kinsland as
sembly plant in early 1917. The
saboteurs were in the pay of the
imperial German government.
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- ,S^NC'INT HISTORY to the life of c»t
John Henry Towers, No. 1 naval aviator who’s newly named chief
or the navy’s aeronautics bureau. It was made in 1911 and shows
him in a rickety Curtiss pusher plane. During his four-year term,
hell have the rank of rear admiral; he’s the first of the naval
aviation pioneers to attain such rank.
Passenger List
S. S. Columbia
Sailed Yesterday
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The S. S. Columbia of the Al
aska Line sailed from Nome yes
terday afternoon, late, for Seat
tle via Dutch Harbor, with the
following passenger list, after
discharging all cargo at Nome.
Cargo shipped for Norton Bay
was transferred to the S. S. Suth
erland, which will visit those
ports following discharge of her
freight at Nome.
Rev. V C Widney
James Widney
Mrs V C Widney
David Widney
Mrs T O Givan
Mrs W A GJavinovich
Miss Florence E Kur
Mrs Ross J Kinney
Mrs Ralf Reat
Mrs Victor Page
Victor Page Jr
Ada May Page
Miss Alice Hopland
Mi™ C«rl Mlckelaoi
Charles W Deremer
Mrs Charles W Deremer
Mrs R W Roell
Mary' Roell
Phyllis Roell
Mary Lou Comer
Mrs Carl Anderson
Mrs M Kapelowitz
Jack Kapelowitz
Robert Kapelowitz
Miss Mary Cerutti
Mrs Ralph Kitzmiller
Mns Lavina Ketohin
Sam Maxwell
Mrs Sam Maxwell
Miss Ellen Mulvihill
Mrs H C Kimball
Miss Virginia Kimball
Mrs James Kimball
Geo S Maynard
Mrs Omer Nickols
L E Smith
E W Miller
J D Henney
Ed Norman
FOUR RUSSIAN WARSHIPS
TO VISIT ALASKA
Four minesweepers of the So
viet Navy are 'to touch at Dutch
Harbor, Alaska, in the course of
a cruise from Leningrad to Vlad
ivostok this summer, Gov. John
Troy was notified by the State
Department through the Depart
ment off the Interior.
The vessels are the Tros, Strela
Provodnik and Podeskatel and
left Leningrad May 15. Other
stops on the way are to be Nor
folk, Va., Cristobal and San
Francisco.
The minesweepers, diesel pow
ered, are to stop three days at
Dutch iHarbor to obtain fuel and
water.
Commander G. V. Pariysky is
in command of the detachment
and other commanders aTe Lieut.
Commander N. V. Makurkin, Sr.
Lieut. G. T. Karuno, Lieuit Com
mander V N Nikolaev and Lieut
Commander P M Velistov.
It was learned here today that
the minesweepers will possibly
call at Nome the latter part of
June or early July. Further de
tails are exeated in a few days.
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Cutter Itasca
In Nome Harbor
Leaves Tonight
The U. S. Coast Guard Cutter,
Itasca, Commander Roger Heim
er, anch :red in the roadstead last
evening after a two-day voyage
from Unalaska. Captain Stanley |
V. Parker, Commander of the j
Bering Sea Patrol stationed at
Unalaska, is aboard the vessel on
an inspection trip and While
ashore here was renewing friend
ships made during the time he
was in command of the cutter
Northland.
Commander M. P. Jensen was
also aboard the vessel and will
remain here during the next few
days to make a survey of the pas
sibilty of constructing a build
ing for ithe use of the local Coast
Guard and to make other investi
gations.
Aboard are Father Bernard
Hubbard, the famous “Glacier
Priest," his assistant Ed Levin
and Col. Do-ughur.- They are ern*
barking on an expedition which
will take them to the headwaters
of the Kobuk and Noatak rivers
this summer.
Both Father Hubbard and Ed
Levin expect to sail this evening
aboard the Itasca for King Is
land where they wiili stop for
two weeks, with their old friends
the King Islanders, with whom
they put in an entire winter two
years ago, after which they will
continue on to Kotzebue.
The Itasca will ithen continue
to Savoonga and Gamble on St.
Lawrence Island. Before the re
turn (to Nome, iit is expected that
| contact will be made with the
•Cutter Duane and the steamboat
inspectors transferred to the It
asca and brought to Nome. The
Cutter will make a trip to Nor
ton Sound and return again ito
pick up the inspectors and will
continue on to Unalaska again.
Japs Shoot Two
Chinese Bringing
Food To British
TIENTSIN, June 16 UP) —Two
Chinese, handling food in the
British concession were reported
to have been shot dead by Jap
anese guards blockading the for
eign area, and are pressing de
mands for full British coopera
tion.”
The China incident occurred
near (the United States Marine
barracks.
The informant who reported
the incident said the Chinese
were caught as they handed up
baskets of vegetables.
There is some lessening of ten
sion despite this first report of
fatalities since the Japanese es
tablished a guard about the Brit
ish and French concessions on
Wednesday morning.
The Japanese, however, contin
ued to search persons entering
and leaving the concessions.
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REMEMBER HIM? Autograph fans in Los Angeles did,
hurrying up to get the signature of A1 Smith, the former New
York governor and Democratic presidential candidate.
French Submarine
After Dive
PARIS, June 16 UP) — The
Navy ministry announced that
the French submarine Phenlx
with 4 officers and 59 men aboard
failed to reappear after a dive
Thursday, in the Bay of Camranh
in French Indo-China. ,
The communique read ‘There
is serious anxiety concerning the
fate of the first-class submarine
Phenix, at present attached to
Indo-China. After a dive, carried
out during exercises. It didn’t
reappear. Far eastern naval fore
es as well as unattached ships of
the Indo-China navy immediate
ly began searches which are
still continuing. Seaplanes are
also participating.”
The sub sank in deep water but
the depth was not given.
Tax Structure
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Be Broadened
WASHINGTON, June 16, {/Pi
President Roosevelt said the in
come tax structure would have
to be broadened at the base but
doubted that Congress would
take action this session.
Replying to questions at a
press conference, the President
said he believed the base should
be broadened a little to cover
more tax payers but added that
■this would not bring in much
additional revenue.
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Waterfront Tieup
In San Francisco
Is Threatened
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (fl»)
— A waterfront deadlock which
threatened to tie up the entire
port of San Francisco, spread to
the sugar Port Crockett.
Another American - Hawaiian
freighter Missourian berthed ait
Crockett was tied up white con
ciliators met here in an effort to
iron out difficulties between em
ployers and the ships’ clerks as
sociation, involving ten dock
checkers.
Five long-shore gangs were
halted as they left a S>an Fran*
Francisco hiring hall to go to
Crockett. Roger Laiphan of the
waterfront employers associa
tion said they were halted by
an extension of the ship’s clerks
picket line from the American
Hawaiian terminals here.
ANOTHER HITLER PURGE?
WASHINGTON — Chancellor
Hitler’s recent statement that he
would 'instantly dismiss any mild
tary leader who showed insuffic
ient sympathy toward the Nazi
regime, caused speculation on the
possibility of a new German
urge. British newspapers report
ed that Hitler intended to dis
miss a number of high defense of
ficials but the confirmation, was
not yet received in Washington.
Let’s declare for universal
peace and lick hell out of any
nation not favoring it. We have
dilly-dallied long enough—Hous
ton Post Dispatch.
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