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VOL. 41. No. 70. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1939 Pric® per copy
S.S. Columbia Proceeding Thru Ice
Mirow Plane Directing Ship To Leads Open Water
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Danzig Arrests Polish Inspector Charged Espionage
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GRIM reality of Hitler’s ag
gression through threat of arms
has brought a sterner line to the
face of England’s prime minister, ■
Neville Chamberlain (above),
the cautious, unhurried promo
ter of a “stop Hiller” front
among nations.
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Pole Charged With
Attempt to Kidnap
And Espionage
UNDATED, June 12 UP) —
Charges of attempted kidnapping
and espionage made by the Free
City of Danzig against a Polish
customs inspector created a new
issue in the free city while Brit
a in and Russia renewed nego
tiations for a mutual assistance
agreement.
Polish inspector Jan Henryk
Lipinskii wafe arrested Friday
night and charged with trying to
obtain military information from
German storm troopers visiting
in Danzig, by representing him
self as a former German Reserve
officer and trying to persuade
them to cross the border into Po
land.
Reports from Warsaw said the
Polish Commissioner at Danzig
Marian Chodacki, protested to
the Free City authorities.
In London, British Foreign Sec
retary Halifax outlined to Ivan
Maisky, Russian ambassador to
Britain, the new formula which
is being sent to Moscow in a
fresh attempt to break the long
standing deadlock of the propos
ed British-French-Russian mu
tual assistance pact.
William Strang, foreign office
expert on Central European af
fairs, who was named special en
voy to Moscow for negotiations,
left by airplane for the Russian
capital.
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FLYING FAMILY DIES IN CRASH
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This is the wreckage of the plane in which Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Olinger and their young daughter of Milton, Ore., were killed when
it crashed into the side of a mountain about 70 miles from Seattle.
The bodies of Mrs. Olinger, 28, an expectant mother, and her dau
ghter, Dixie Lee, 7, were found in the plane. The body of Olinger
was found 100 yards away.
Mirovv Plane
Hunts for Lead
For S S Columbia
Four steamers are still ice
bound while enroute to Nome.
The nearest is now 116 miles dis
tant.
The steamers Columbia and
Sutherland -wired the local agent
here of the Alaska Line to get
an airplane to assist in making]
flights to obtain ice conditions;
from the air and to -aid the cap- j
tains of the boats now lying at)
anchor in an open lead which is;
closed toward Nome. The posi-!
tion -of the boats this morning
was 48 miles off the south mouth i
of the Yukon River at 62.37
north and 166.28 west.
Pilot Jack Jefford, flying the;
Lockheed land plane of the Mi
re w Air Service, left Nome Suni
day night at 6 o’clock and flew
down the east coast to Unalakleet
where- he gassed up the plane
and took off, following the eas i ■
contour of the coastal points,
-thence southwest to the steamer
Columbia’s position. Pilot Jefford
radioed ice conditions direct to j
Captain Anderson aboard the*
Columbia, telling ihi-m that the j
ice was s?lid in Norton Sound !
and St. Michael. Also -that the!
open water lead in which the;
vessel is now anchored is only
extended 45 miles toward Nome
and -is then closed by solid ice
for several miles. Pitot Jefford
did not make a landing but re
turned to his Nome base.
Jefford took off again this
morning to make a -circular flight
over the area from a 'high alti
tude between Nome and St. Law
rence Island toward the steam
ers’ anchorage thus probably pav
ing a way to finding other leads
which will allow the vessel to
reach the open water in front of
Nome,
No news has been received of
the positions of the freighter El
Capitan and the cutter Duane.
The later is supposed to have an
amphibian plane aboard for scout
-ing work but secrecy seems to be
the keynote of the cutter’s act
ivities.
It was ascertained this morn
ing that there were 337 passen
gers aboard the S. S. Columbia
and 130 others designated as a
crew, making a total of 467 per
sons aboard the vessel. With the
vessel ordinarily making the run
from Seattle in about 8 days to
Nome, it can- be readily seen- that
the ship being out 14 days today,
that much of the perislhable sup
plies aboard will probably be
used up before arriving here.
This is a serious matter for
Nomeiites, who having gone thru
a long winter of lxk months
without fresh vegetables and
fruits, and who depend so much
on the arrival of the first boats
with these necessary luxuries for
their health, itha-t every day add
ed to the overdue period means
so much in loss of vitality and en
ergy and health of the commun
ity, unless they go on a nat'ilve
diet of food stuff recovered from
the sea.
PLANE LANDS FOR GAS
The Mirow plane landed at
Unalakleet at 3:08 this afetrn-oon
BURGUNDEli WANTS TO “FACE MUSIC ALONE ’
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Steadfastly maintaining he was innocent of the charge of killing
two Phoenix, Ariz., automobile salesmen, Robert M. Burgunder, Jr.
handsome 22-year-old colloge youth, said after his arrest in John
son City. TL'nn., he would "face the music alone," avoiding aid from
his parents, and said he would waive extradition to Arizona. He
is shown (center) with Tennessee officers as he was booked.
after making a reconnasiance
flight toward St. Lawrence Is
land and toward the Columbia to
the eastward. Pilot Jefford re
ported that the lead in the ice
that the Columbia is now in, is
her best bet, as ice towards St.
Lawrence is apparently a solid
mass, with no leads.
The S. S. Columbia has about
40 miles to go in an open lead
which runs in a NE direction,
said lead is narrow and if the
vessel proceeds it will take about
one hour for the plane after gas
sing up to meet the Columbia at
the point where the lead ends
and broken ice will have to be
gone through for about 5 to 10
miles, after which the steamer
will enter open water enroute to
Nome.
Pilot Jefford hopped off
from Unalakleet at 4:30 this
afternoon to assist the steamers
Columbia and Sutherland thru
the ice to open water.
Latest Boat News
At last reports Pilot Jefford
was endeavoring to direct the
steamer Columbia through the
broken ice to open water, as we
go to press at 6:30 p.m., which if
successful may bring the passen
ger boat to Nome by early morn
ing.
The revised and complete list
of passengers will be printed in
the Nome Nugget after the ar
rival of the S. S. Columbia. If
you want a copy please tele
phone the Nugget office and news
boys will call at your door.
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Ku Klux klan
Elects a New
Imperial Wizard
ATLANTA. Ga, Jane 12 (fP)—
James Arnold Cole-Scott, of
Terrehaute, Indiana aged 42, a
former veterinarian is to succeed
Dr. Hiram W. Evans, ex-dentist,
as Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wiz
ard. He has been Evans’ Chief of
staff for two years.
Evans denied reports of inter
nal dissension.
Cole-Scott was elected at a sec
ret Klan convention of delegates
from 36 states.
He announced a program to
i promote the interests of “native
| bom white, protestant, gentiles.”
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Two Jap Officials
Die of Poisoning
TOKYO, June 12 </P) — Two
officials of 'the Japanese consulate
general at Nanking died as a re
i suit of drinking apparently poi
soned winie served at a banquet
the foreign, office announced.
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Landon Compares
New Deal to Fas*
cism, Communism
BOSTON. June 12 </P) — Alf
Landon, former governor of Kan
sas asserted that the New Deal’s
attitude “is that rights of the
users are greater than the rights
of the owners of property,” and
is identical with “the belief of
fascist and communist govern
ments.”
Landon, addressing a graduat
ing class of the Boston Univer
sity declared “in actual practio*
by the governments of today, th*
rights of the users are made su
perior to the rights of owners.”
SENTIMENT filled the
studio air when Bette Davis.
Hollywood film star who wins
awards for her “embittered
woman” characterizations, had t
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