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Securities Imported to Alaska
To Be Examined by Governor
Further restrictions relating to
financial transactions with for
eign countries, restrictions intend
ed to strengthen the machinery
for "freezing credits-’ where in
vaded countries are involved, are
now in effect, according to in
formation received today by Gov
emor Ernest Gruening from
Washington.
The ruling provides that secur
ities imported into the United
States must be given to the pro
per authorities for examination
before they are delivered to ad
dressees.
In Alaska Governor Gurening
is c fficially designated to make
such examination. This will bei
done so the Treasury Department
will be enabled to ascertain de
finitely whether Norway, Den
mark, Belgium. The Netherlands
or Luxembourg or nationals
thereof have any interest in such
securities.
All securities or evidences
thereof from a foreign country I
which may be imported into Al
aska must now be forwarded to
Governor Gruening for the nec
essary inspection.
The customs service and the
pest office department will coop
erate actively in enforcing this
ruling.
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DUTCH PRINCESS REACHES LONDON
Seeking a haven from war, princess Juliana of the Netherlands, is
own leading her two-year-old daughter, Beatrix, through the
tv'lway station upon arrival in London. Center background, the
L'arl of Harewood (English) who met them. Picture cabled from
London to New York.
ALASKA CHROME QUEEN
BACK IN SEATTLE AFTER
AIR RACE FOR BIG PRIZE
Mrs. William Moroney, who re
cently flew from San Francisco
to Fairbanks, thence on to Sel
dovia in a race to acquire con
trol of valued chrome deposits
on which she was reported to
hold options, was back in Seattlei
with the big prize securely clin
ched. The Seattle Post-Intelligenc
er reported her return there, say
ing:
Petite, twenty-eight and with
alert blue eyes, Mrs. William
Moroney, who might approprate
!y be called America’s chrome
queen, arrived in Seatt'e from A1
aska yesterday, her $843,00 con
tract to supply the United States
with war-essential mineral safe
from a possible challenge.
Mrs. Moroney has title to a
huge chrome mine on the Kenai
Peninsula, Alaska, near Seldovia.
She has another chrome mine in
California that she sold a few
months ago to Rustless Iron and
Steel Corporation for $75,000.
Eight years ago Mrs. Moroney,
then Dorothea Reddy, was a $135
a month stenographer with the
now defunct National Recovery
Administration. She was interest
ed in chrome. She was interested
because her late father Dr. John
F. Reddy of Medford, Ore., had
supplied the government with
some amount of chrome during
the closing d3ys of the World
W: r. The government hadn’t paid
him.
One-Woman Fight
Miss Reddy started a one-wo
man fight against the federal gov
ernment for the unpaid bill for
chrome mined in Southern Ore
gon in 1918. Last year and not
until then, she won and an appro
pration bill adopted by the pres
ent congress carries an item of
$3,200 in payment for that claim.
Somewhere Mrs. Moroney got
an idea that there might be an
other war, and it was logical to
assume that if there was Amer
ica would need chrome as it did
in the past war. All industrial
chrome, necessary in the manu
facture of stainless steel and
many npilitary alloy^ had been,
coming from Russia, New Cale
donia and Turkey.
Dr. Reddy had acquired title
to much chrome land, but the
documentary evidence could not
be located at the time of his1
death. His daughter, throwm on j
her own resources, began a1
search through records, both in!
Washington and Oregon. She
found the necessary papers, but i
demand for domestic chrome was
nil.
Then came international tur
moil. Russia stopped shipments
of chrome. France drafted man
power in New Caledonia and
production there halted And on
ly recently Mrs. Moroney learned
in a telephone conversation with
New York associates, that Italy
had stopped a chrome shipment
of 5,000 tons from Turkey.
Result: Mrs. Moroney has most
of the available high-grade
chrome on the North American
continent and the federal govern
ment readily gave her the huge
contract, calling for delivery of
a vast amount of the ore. The con
tract, broken down calls for pay
ment of $33 a ton.
It also calls for delivery. Min
ing and delivery costs money and
Mrs Moroney made an arrange
ment with New York interests
for $200,000 for mining and other
productions costs, but the latter!
demanded certain data w'hich!
would only be obtainable in Al
aska.
Mrs. Moroney flew to Seattle
the latter part of May chartered
a special plane to Seldovia, arriv
ed there May 24, several hours
before expiration of her fat con ,
tract, and arranged for its renew
al for another six months The i
chrome was under thirty feet of
snow so she couldn’t start pro
duction immediately but expects
to do so in several weeks.
Meanwhile Mrs. Moroney nurs
es a pet peeve against Paul Mal
lon who column appears daily in
The Post-Intelligencer. On May
13, Hallon w-rote the following:
“A woman, for one example,
won her bid to produce chromite j
ore in Alaska many months ago,
but the chromite and the woman
have been missing ever since.”
Mrs. Moroney insists she isn’t
missing at all, and as for the
chrome, w-ell, there’s an estimat-1
ed 286,000 tons of it in her Al
askan mine. She may send Mal
lon a sample.
ROYAL DUTCH REFUGEES IN LONDON
I rim css Juliana oi the Nether a cl r renr.e in London from the war, wheels a perambulator
• ntnining her 9-months-old dan i. Princess Irene along a London street. left, her 2-year-old
i ■ '•{ . Prioress Beatrix, todd a one with a policeman, carrying her dolls. This picture was
radioed from London.
Final Results
Second Division
Primary Election j
DEMOCRATIC
For Delegate
Dimond . 625
For Auditor
Boyle . * 425
Sheldon . 148
For Attorney General
Roden . 299
Grigsby . 281
For Highway Engineer
Hesse . 334
Rivers . 249
For Senator
Cochran . 550
For Repr esentatives
Lyng . 355
Whaley . 325
Smith.fc. 297
Cross . 290
Porter . 282
Scott . 217
Lee . 199
Kell . 196
Cockburn . 88
Fix . 89 (
Kubon . 86 !
REPUBLICAN
For Delegate To Congress |
Cole . 236
Duker . 85
For Auditor
Humpheries . 275
For Attorney General
McCain . 275
For Highway Engineer
Reed . 169
Miller . 136;
For Senator
Egbert . 294 J
For Representatives
Stan groom . 294 j
Ball . 238!
Taggart . 202
Ost . 195
Rude . 187
Hurley . 175
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GAS-PROOF BOX SHIELDS PRINCESS
Prince Bernhard (right), husband of Princess Juliana of the Neth
erlands, is shown helping a nurse (left), carry a gas-proof box in
which his nine-months-old daughter, Princess Irene, traveled from
their homeland to London. Juliana and Princess Beatrix, 2, also
fled to London. Picture cabled from London to New York, shows
the arrival at London