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VOL. 41. No. 75. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1939. Price per copy im
Would Colonize Alaska Refugees
American Navy Announces Firm Stand In China
Propose Colonize
Alaska With
1st Class Refugees
WASHINGTON, June 22 (de
colonization of Alaska with
“a highly trained, desirable class
of citizens who are refugees from
foreign persecution” was propos
ed by Chairman May. Democrat
of Kentucky, of the House Mili
tary Affairs Committee.
The resolution, as introduced
by May, said the colonization
would serve the four-fold pur
pose of furnishing a haven for
oppressed minorities from abroad
provide adequate manpower for
the defense of the Territory of
Alaska “from foreign aggression”
facilitate the development in A1
aska of strategic minerals for use
“in the event of war;” and it
would furnish a market for sur
plus production.
The resolution would permit
the entry into Alaska, all accept
able colonists up to a figure equal
to the total of all unused im
migration quotas from foreign na
tions. May did not estimate this
total.
Turkey, France
Sign Mutual
Assistance Pact
PARIS. June 23 (/P> — France
and Turkey signed a mutual as
sistance agreement to help each
other “in case of an act of ag
gression which might lead to a
war in the Mediterranean.”
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Admiral Yarnell
Tells Off
Japanese Navy
UNDATED, June 22 -(/P) — The
United States Navy informed the
Japanese Navy that American
ships would remain in Chinese
waters “as long as American cit
izens need protection and assist
ance.”
This frank message was con
veyed to the senior Japanese
naval authorities by Commander
in Chief of the U. S. Asiatic fleet
Admiral Harry Yarnell, after the
Japanese move to either order or
suggestion aimed at getting for
eign warships of nationals out of
Swatow, the south China port,
just captured by the Japanese.
Yarnell said American vessels
would "go wherever it is neces
sary at any time” to protect Am
ericans, when the destroyer Pope
arrived at Swatow to join the
Pilsbury, the only American war
ship there.
When the Japanese made
known their desire for foreign
ships to clear the port, the Brit
ish, with the destroyers. Scout,
and Thanet at Swatow, adopted a
similar attitude.
These developments at Swatow
switched the world’s interest
from Tientsin, where the Japan
ese blockade of the British and
French concessions is in its 9th
day. The sudden appearance of
British bluejackets there halted
a Japanese cargo being discharg
ed by a British lighter. The be
seiged Britons were heartened
by a mesage of sympathy and
hope from the London govern
i ment.
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A NAZI NEIGHBOR. Holland, watches anxiously the
Fuehrer’s rapid expansion eastward, and notes that the 1914 Ger
many measured 208,780 square miles and that the 1939 Germany
of Hitler measures 244,263 square miles. This Is a typical view of
Amsterdam fishermen going to work. Holland’s dairy products
and tulips are famous.
KING GEORGE AND QUEEN BACK HOME
King and Queen
Of England
Return Home
SOUTHAMPTON, June 22 UP)
_The King and Queen returned
to British shores from their glit
tering North American tour amid
cheers from thousands of proud
subjects.
The liner Empress of Britain
tied up at her pier at 2:30 p.m.
Two children, Princess Eliza
beth, 13, and Margaret Rose, 8,
who earlier rejoined their par
ents at sea, were on the bridge,
tugging with excitement on their
father's arm.
British Not Yet
Ready For
Retaliation
LONDON. June 23 UP) — Jap
anese ambassador Mamoru Shig
emitsu called at the British For
eign Office for consultations on
what Premier Chamberlain told
thp House of Commons that For
eign Secretary Halifax had ask
ed the Japanese ambassador to
see him about.
He said Halifax would “make it
very clear” what he though of
(the new incidents.
When asked if the British
would put retaliatory measures
into operation at once, Chamber
lain said “1 don’t think we’ve got
to that stage yet.”
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
Pres. Proposes
Program To
Stimulate Business
—
WASHINGTON, June 22 l/P) —
Roosevelt proposed to Congress
a $3,860,000,000 program stimulat1
ing business through self-liquid
ating projects and low cost hous
ing developments. He estimated
that at least $870,000,000 would
be disbursed in federal loans dur
ing the year starting July one.
The remainder of the program j
would be split into six types of j
self-liquidating projects <a n d j
would continue for two to seven
years,
The President said in the long
run the program wouldn’t cost
the tax-payers a cent as far asi
the self-liquidating projects were
concerned.
He outlined his proposals in a
letter to Senator Byrnes, Chair
man of the Senate Unemploy
ment Committee.
The projects divided into six
groups are: the federal works
agency; Bureau of Public Roads;
Railroad equipment projects; ru
ral electrification; farm security
administration; and foreign loans
to promote American foreign
trade.
BKADDOCK WILL
FIGHT TOMMY FARR
NEW YORK, June — James J.
Braddock accepted terms to fight
Tommy Farr a 15-round fight in
London on July 5.
When American hoboes met in
convention at Cleveland, rail
roads running into the city re
ported heavy traffic, little busi
ness. _
Japs Slap And
Undress New
Zealand Agent
TIENTSIN. June 23 UP)—Cecil
Davis Honary, agent at Tientsin
for the New Zealand government
asserted he was slapped and fore
ed to undress by Japanese gend
armes who are continuing the
searching practice begun ten
days ago with the blockade of
the British and French conces
sions.
United States Consul Frederick
■Hinke. earlier made formal rep
resentations which consulate at
taches emphasized were not for
mal protests against inconven
iences suffered by Americans at
the concession barricades.
Davis, a British subject, was
not molested yesterday when two
companions were forced to strip.
Gendarmes said today, however, j
that he had to stand naked for
15 minutes while a dozen foreign J
women passed the barrier and |
walked through the shed where |
he was detained.
At the British consulate, it was
said that no reply was received j
from the series of protests to the
Japanese, since the otockade j
started.
Two Nominations
WASHINGTON, June 23 UP)—
President Roosevelt nominated
John M. Carmody of New York,
to head the new federal works
agency; and Jesse Jones of Texas
to head the Consolidated Feder
al Loan agencies.
Carmody is now head of the
rural electrification administra
tion and Jones is chairman of
the Reconstruction Finance £Sbr
poration.
Both appointments are subject
to Senate confirmation and are
effective July 1, when the Presi
dent’s two government reorganiz
ation orders become effective.
Carmody as Federal Works Ad
ministrator will supervise the fol
lowing consolidated agencies:
PWA, WPA, U. S. Housing Au
thority, Bureau of Public Roads,
Public Buildings Branch of the
Treasury, and the Building Man
agement Branch of the National
Park Service.
M.S. Kasiloff
Arrives Nome
The Motorship Kasiloff belong
ing to Heinie Berger of the Berg
er Lighterage Co. and which is
under charter to the Standard
Oil Co. dropped anchor in the
Nome readstead early this morn
ing.
The Standard Oil men aboard
are making an inspection tour of
Alaska and will be in Nome for
several days. The Nome Nugget
endeavored to contact them but
before going to press had been
unable to do so.
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Coast Guard
To Establish
Alaska Office
WASHINGTON, June 22 (>P> —^
The Coast Guard will establish
an office in Juneau July 1, under
the command of W.K. Thompson
Also, the headquarters of th*
Lighthouse Service will be brot
under the coast guard by the re
cent government reorganization
order.
Officials said the lighthouse
superintendent now stationed at
Ketchikan would be transferred
to Juneau under Commander
Thompson. The Ketchikan light
house shops, they said, would pro
bably remain there.
Although the Coast Guard reg
ularly patrolled the Bering Sea
in the sealing season, there have
been no headquarters in Alaska,
Poet Passes On
SAN DIEGO. June 22 </P) —
Walt Mason, aged 77, humorist
and poet, died early today in his
home in suburban uajolia, after
an illness of several weeks.
He became ill a few days be
fore his birthday on May 4th He
is survived by a daughter, Mary.
His wife died in 1936.
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31 Years for Trip To Store
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It took 31 years for Anthony Ke
se to go to the store for a can
of kerosene for his mother. Mrs.
Veronica Kesep. But when he did
return to his Wheatland. Pa.,
home he brought the kerosene
with him. “My prayers have been
answered,” Mrs. Kesey said as
she kissed him (above). He said
he was tired of wandering and
| wanted to settle down. ....
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