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VOL. 42. No. 27. 'JOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1940 Price per copy 134
Sacramento River Highest 23 Yrs.
Three Persons Die Pacific N W Due to Weather
Finns Planting Bombs In Ice Around City Viipuri
Sacramento River Overflows Banks
• Bursts Dikes In Seven Places
Water Is Highest Since 1917 Flood
SAN FRANCISCO Feb 29 {&)
—The Sacramento river’s swoll
en flood waters burst through
levees in seven places on the
twelve mile stretch which sur
rounded the three small towns
of Princeton, Butte City and
Codora.
Some ranch families were mar
ooned but most of the towns’
residents had time to reach plac
es of safety.
Two hundred residents of the
town of Princeton sought refuge
in the high school gymnasium
and the Methodist church.
Only two drownings were at
tributed to the three-day flood—
hydraulic engineer Harold von
Bergen of Sacramento who fell
out of a boat and Irene Clements
whose car overturned in a creek.
Broken Dike
Strands Autoists
Drowns One
SAN FRANCISCI, March 1 </P)
A torrent through a broken dike
drowned five persons in one fam
ily at Meridian bringing the
death toll to nine in the five-day
flood as the levee gave away at
midnight. Residents fled to high
er ground but an automobile
carrying six persons was caught.
Frank Flearty was rescued but
his wife, two daughters, son-in
law and daughter-in-law were
lost.
The dike breaking is believed
to have saved the city columns
from grave peril as the Sacram
ento River crested 29 and one
half feet higher than the record
1 set in the 1917 flood.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 (/P)
— Four persons feared drowned
wee found perched in tree bran
ches said they had clung there
I from 2 am until 8:15 am. Only
I one person was drowned Mrs
i Frank Flearty. Her husband had
, been rescued by another motor
' ist and brought a boat to the res
cue.
Nomination Of
Postmaster Mish
Sent to Senate
—
WASHINGTON D C Feb 29 —
President Roosevelt today sent
to he U S Senate the nomination
of Guy E Mish to be U S Post
master at Nome Alaska.
—
ATTENTION
Catholic Ladies will give an
entertainment on St. Patrick’s
Day Saturday March 16 8:30 pm
for the Benflet of the Pilgrim
Springs Mission at the School
Gym.
Turks Seize German-Owned Krupp Shipyards
Turkey ally of f&ngland and France seized the German-owned
Krupp shipyards at Istanbul and discharged German technicians
who had been outfitting Turkish submarines. This picture shows
the launching of Turkey’s second submarine from the shipyards
in Maroh 1939
House Agrees Prohibit Future Loans
By Import, Export Bank to Countries
Defaulting On War Debts To U. S.
WASHINGTON Fob 29 (IP) —
The House of Representatives ten
tatively agreed to prohibit fut
ure loans by the Export and Im
port Bank to any country de
faulting on war debts to the Un
ited States,
There was no opposition nor
_
no record vote although mem
bers bickere-d for more than an
hour previous on proposals to ex
tend the prohibition to agencies
of defaulting foreign govern
ments also,
Rain, W ind Cause
Three Deaths In
& Ore.
SEATTLE, Feb. 29 (TP) —Three
deaths have been attributed to
date to heavy rain and wind
storms which swept Oregon and
Washington during the past few
days.
Rivers in several areas have
overflown highways and farm
lands.
The two-day-rains broke the
February precipitation mark of
long standing..
At Spokane William Moore,
aged 84, a Spokane homesteader
was drowned when the river
bank which had become under
mined fell in.
Everatt Price of Prairie City
Oregon was killed when a tree
toppled on his truck; and James
Crookett of Baker, Oregon died
when hit by a flying tree limb.
Wind caused wide spread dam
age in north and central Idaho.
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German Planes
Attack Shipping
Brit. East Coast
UNDATED, Merch 1 l/P) — Ger 1
; man warplanes roared off Brit-1
j ain’s east coast and attacked
, trawlers and other shipping. A
• Berlin announcement said sever
al large Ships were sunk and a
convoy dispersed.
The British said a trawler and
drifter went to the aid of a ves
sel which sent out an SOS also
that a Norwegian ship badly dam j
aged and listing heavily managed
i to reach an east coast port after
I sending out distress signals. They
also said British pursuit planes
drove off the planes which bomb
ed and machine-gunned the fish
ing boat Courage but that several
i fishing trawlers were attacked.
Anti-aircraft guns barked
j along the Thames estuary and
the British said Royal Air force
i scouts reached Berlin on the 3rd
j such night excursion in a week.
They also reconnoitered other
German oities.
The Red army hammered the
southern gateway to strategic Vii
puri and Rumania called 200,OOf)
| citizen-soldiers increasing the
army to 1,600,000 and French ae
j crees included three days of pro
| hibition from alcoholic beverag
| es in a week.
Sumner Welles reached Berlin
and conferred with Von Ribben
trop and authorized German
sources indicated that Germany’s
theses is she will not even dis
cuss peace unless Britain’s “stran
gle hold on the economic life of
i the world” is placed before Well
es.
Britain announced plans to
stop German coal from reaching
Italy.
French Decree
Issuance Food
Rationing Cards
PARIS Feb 29 (d1)—The French
cabinet today decreed the issu
ance of food-rationing cards while
President LeBrun signed other
decrees intended to reduce the
consumption of oil and alcohol:
throughout the country.
France already has three meat-;
less days a weeks, while on oth
er days restaurants are forbid
den to serve more than one meat
i dislh per person.
Miners Come lip
From Underground
Sitdown Strike
PIONEER MINES, B C March
1 (P) —Forty one miners who
staged a sixty-hour sitdown dem
onstration 3,000 feet down in the
Pioneer Gold Mine are back to
their families none the worse for
their experience. They are mem
bers of the CIO Mine Mill and
Smelter Workers Union which is
on a five-months strike.
Police Inspector John Shirras
who went down the mine per
suaded them to come up yester
day after a three hour confer
ence.
Finns Plant Mines
' ~
COPENHAGEN Feb 29 (P) —
Finns have been busy rating
1 mines on the ice in the bay near
Viipuri and massing all their
available artillery for its defen
se against a possible encircling
movement by the Russians again
st Viipuri.
An estimated three hundred
thousand Russians are now on
the Karelian Isthmus, forcing
the fighting to a new intensity,
Will Not Transfer
—
SEATTLE Feb 29 <P) — J Ji
Underwood, Seattle’s chamber of
commerce representative at the
national capital, telegraphed to
day that the War Department
does not contemplate transfer of
purchases for the Alaska defense
projects from the San Francisco
headquarters to Seattle, at pres
ent.
He wired that he had investi
gated such a report which em
anated from the San Francisco
chamber of commerce.
McKinley Nat'nl
Park Dog, Tige
To Be Honored
CHICAGO, March 1 UP)— Tige
Mount McKinley National Park
sled patrol team dog which saved
the lives of Ranger John Rumohr
and his dogteam mates when
they fell through the ice into a
river is to be honored Janet
GLick Secretary of the Dog
World International Diploma of
Honor Award Committee announ
ced. She asked the Juneau Em
pire to take charge of the cere
monies.
John Rumohr in an official re
port credited his life to the sag
acity of Tige which running
loose because he was sick led and
encouraged the team to pull out
of the broken ice.
Kermit Roosevelt
May Command
Finn Volunteers
LONDON Feb 29 UP)—It was
officially announced that Kerm
it Roosevelt had applied for per
mission to resign his commission
as a Major in the British Army
to take the leadership of inter
national volunteers in Finland.
About 500 volunteers already
are on the way; they are about
a quarter of the international
forces enlisted by the British as
well as the undisclosed quantities
of war materials which the gov
ernment hsa sent to aid Finland
against Russia.
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MOUNTED POLICE: WINTER STYLE—To help
preserve order at the North American speed skatinc champion
ships, Police Chief Joseph Peters (ri«ht) and officers of the Sche
nectady, N. ¥., force put on their Ice skates, too.