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VOL. 41. No. 33. . . NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, March 17, 1939 Price oer Copy li
Wreckage of Cope Plane Is Found
British Ambassador To Germany Is Called Home
Hitler Takes Slovakia & Hungary Carpatho-Ukraine
Wreckage Cope
Plane Found
Four Days Ago
JUNEAU. March 17 UP)— Lon
Cope's plane with five passengersj
aboard, missing since the after
noon of February 12th, was re
ported founl by searchers in the
woods opposite Grand Island on
•Glass Peninsula.
JUNEAU. March 17 UP) — The
wreckage of the Cope plane was
found by Charles Ashby, old
time prospector, who was taken
alone to the Grand Island section
■nine days ago.
The wreckage was found four
days ago but stormy weather pre
vented Ashby from leaving his
camp and coming to Juneau.
The wreckage was found about
two hundred yards from the
beach in a small clump of trees.
The landing place was about the
size of the plane itself. The ship
is badly wrecked. It crashed on
the nose and one wing.
Two bodies were seen inside
the plane. .Ashby brought back
Earle Clifford’s sample case to
substantiate his story.
The Coast Guard Cutter Haida
will probably leave late this af
ternoon with officials to return
with the bodies.
The passengers aboard the
plane were: George Chamberlain
of Anchorage; John Chappell
and E. Eek, and Earl Clifford of
Juneau and Jack Lenon of Craig.
New Navy Head
Is Appointed
WASHINGTON. March 16 UP)
—-Rear Admiral Harold R. Stark
will head the Navy for the next
four years during its greatest
peace-time-, expansion. The 58
year-old commander of battle
force cruisers was chosen by
Presiden1 Roosevelt to succeed
Admiral Leavy as chief of Naval
operations.
Captain John Henry Towers,
a flyer for 27 yeaTS was named
chief of the Bureau of Aeronaut
ics.
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King’s English is being mastered
by Russian-born Mrs. Bryan !
Grover (above), now a student I
in a London night school. Mrs.
Grover recently came from Rus
sia after her English engineer
husband had braved Soviet
wrath to rejoin her.
Fire Prevention
WASHINGTON, March 16 (/P) I
—The House tentatively approv
ed the $37,500 appropriation for
forest fire prevention in the in
terior of Alaska.
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The Poll Book for the registra-!
tion of voters for the forthcoming
Municipal and School Board elec-I
tion will close on Saturday, March
25th, 1939.
M. J. WALSH,
City Clerk
Publish March 17, 20, 22.
Have The Nome Nugget sent to
■your mining claim.
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Germany And
Hungary Absorb
Czechoslovakia
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UNDATED, March 16 l/P) —
The two new states, Carpatho
Ukraine and Slovakia, left from
the wreckage of Czechoslovakia,
faded from Europe’s map as Hun
gary annexed Carpatho-Ukraine
and German took Slovakia under
its protection as Hitler laid down
German law in Bohemia and
Moravia.
The rest of Europe wondered
anxiously where the next Ger
man expansion would be felt, but
only one man, Hitler, knew the
answer, and he is in Prague
awaiting a propitious moment to
appear before the 7,000,000 new
Czech subjects over whom he
has laid his protective hand.
A decree was broadcast by For
eign Minister von Ribbentrop
that Hitler has charted the fut
ure of the ancient lands of Bo
hemia and Moravia as that of
“an autonomous protectorate”
within a greater Germany.
While Hungarian troops march
mg across Carpatho-Ukraine,
reached the Polish frontier, Hun
garian premier Count Teleky pro
claimed to a wildly cheering
parliament in Budapest that
“Carpatho-Ukraine has become a
part of Hungary.”
The British press found in Ger
many’s emergence to imperialist
power, further reason for vigor
our preparedness. Prime minister
Chamberlain stuck to his policy
of conciliation, s i m u ltaneous '■
with rearmament but with em
phasis on rearmament.
In Paris agitation appeared to
be growing for a coalition govern
ment of all parties, to present a
strong front to Germany.
Premier Augustin Volosin, Pre j
mier of Carpatho-Ukraine, fled to
Rumania.
Veteran Dies
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Yonkers, N.Y., March 16—Maj.
Charles A. Benton, aged 91, who
rode as honor guard at President
Lincoln’s funeral cortege and
served with General Custer in
the Indian wars, died here.
France Is
Preparing
For War
UNDATED, March 17 <JP) —
France drafted a bill that gives
the premier semi-dictatorial powj
ers and to make her ready to
fight, at a moment’s notice. She
joined Britain in considering pro
tests .to Germany as the Nazis
clamped a hold on Czechoslovak
ia.
Britain instructed her German
ambassador Sir Neville Hender
son to return to London to report
on Nazi gains. The recall is con
sidered a gesture of disapproval
of Hitler’s methods.
Arrests and suicides are report1
ed to be increasing among anti
Nazi Jews in Czechoslovakia and
secret police are making a sytem
atic cleanup of those undesirable
to Nazis.
Hitler’s movements from town
to town in an armored car and
with corps of guards is •i*.tedded
in secrecy.
In Sofia, Bulgaria, thousands
of university students were chas
ed by police after demonstrating
against the dissolution of Czecho
slovakia.
To Chart New
Course To Asia
Thru Aleutians
SEATTLE, Merch 16 !A')—The
Federal Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey disclosed a five-year twenty
five million dollar project to
chart a shorter and safer course
to Asia through the North Pac
ific and facilitate naval opera
tions for the shrouded Aleutian
Islands.
Its purpose is to develop a
route between continental Amer
ica and Asia through Unimak j
Pass and westerly along the nor j
them side of the Aleutians. The j
proposed new route will be a i
hundred miles shorter and less:
troubled by westerly storms.
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seems Dcssible ALockheed XP « ““e—only to crack up at Mitchel field, N. Y. Construction of similar ships
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-unuercarriage, is designed to carry machine guns. Pilot Ben Kelsey, who made flight, was injured slightly. !
IT TAKES ALL KINDS to make a track squad, and the
University of Pennsylvania is no exception to that saying. John
Drebinger (left), a mller, is an outstanding candidate for the
team, but he has to yield plenty in height to towering Ed Beetem,
I*-foot 6-Inch freshman, who's a weight man. Bcetem tips the
£•'<><« si Ui poands. He came from Mercersburg Academy.
$1,070,000 For
Reindeer Bill
Is Defeated
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WASHINGTON. D. C.. March
16 <IP) — Representative Culkin ,
asked the House to cut twenty j
million dollars from the twenty
three million proposed appro
priation for the Grand Coulee
Dam project. Previously the
House deleted by a vote of 151 to
113 the Administration's propos
al to Congress to provide one
million seventy thousand dollars
to be used for restoring Alaskan!
reindeer to Eskimo and Indian
ownership.
Defeat came as the House re-1
sumed consideration on the one j
hundred sixty million dollar In
terior Department Supply Bill.
Foes of the plan charged that the:
government was merrily trying
to help the white operators to
"get out of the business.”
Delegate Anthony J. Dimond.
on the other hand, said that the
transfer of the reindeer was be
ing made to the native, who dur
ing the past year, largely, lost
their herds through fusion with
the white owned herds, that the
transfer was essential to the ec
onomic welfare of 19,000 Eski
mos and 5,000 Indians.
New Steamship
Service to Alaska
Is Announced
SEATTLE:, March 16, (JP)—'The
establishment of a regular per
manent service to Alaska by the
Consolidated Olympic Line was
announced by E C. Bentzen,
president of the Olympic Steam
ship Company of the Northwest
and head of the Consolidated
Line,
A minimum of three sailings
a season are planned with the
first by the steamship El Capitan
from Puget Sound on May 20,
for Bering Sea ports. Further
sailings will be provided as re
quired.
Representatives of the new
line include S. W. Taggart, long
time northern resident, as Nome
agent.
District lighterage will b e
handled at Nome, Golovin, Teller
Tin City, Solomon, and BluiT by
Captain Heinie Berger of the
Berger Distributing Company.
AN APPRECIATION
I take this opportunity of tliank
ing my many Nome friends for
thoir loyal support in electing me
Miss Nome.
Edith Hoop