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VOL. 41. No. 60. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939 Price Per
j Uncovers Anti-Semetic Campaign
Sign Agreement—Cannery Workers Start Alaska
King and Queen Crossing Canada for Pacific Oc.
SEC Get Chairman
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WASHINGTON, May 18 (JP) —
Jerome Frank of New York was
elected chairman of the Securit
ies Exchange Commission. After
swearing in Leon Henderson in
Frank's place, SEC officials said
that Commissioners Robert Healy
and George Mathew voted again
st Frank.
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* Brig. Gen, George C. Marshall
(above), 58, was selected by
President Roosevelt as chief of
staff, the army’s highest post, to
succeed General Malin Craig,
who is slated to retire. A Gen
eral, Marshall will be among the
youngest to hold office.
Dies Committee
Uncovers Anti
Semetic Campaign
WASHINGTON, May 19 {tP) —
The House committee investigat
ing unAmercan activities, asked
Major General George Van Horn
Moseley, retired, to tell what he
may know about the widespread
anti-Seimetic campaign. Other
witnesses said it was based on
fears of a revolution.
The U. S. acted after Moseley’s
name was brought up by the
committee last night, disclosing
evidence which developed into a
trail of secret agents across the
eastern and southern states.
Moseley was asked to appear
Monday along with three others
and John Hamilton, GOP Nation
al chairman, whose testimony
showed that on request he sup
plied a 1st of Republican Nation
a 1 comm.tleamen \o a man nam
ecMoy witnesses as active in the
campaign.
Also named were George
Deatherage of St. Albans, West
Virginia, chief of the Knights of
the White Canielia and Felix Me
Whirter, Indianapolis banker.
Start On Tour
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QUEBEC. May 18 (,/P) — The
King and Queen left aboard a
special train to trace .the path of
an empire to the far Pacific and
back in a month’s tour of Can
ada and the United States. The
first stop is scheduled for Three
Rivers, enroute to Montreal.
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
Abandon Hope
For Swedish Flyer
CHICAGO, May 18 UP) —Rel
atives on both sides of the At
lantic virtually abandoned hope
for the safety of Charles Back
man, Chicago aviator, long over
due in an attempted solo flight
from Newfoundland to Stock
holm, Sweden. He is 34 years of
age and has been unreported
since his take-off Tuesday.
Stabilization Fund
Not Be Used
WASHINGTON, May 19 f/Pi —
President Roosevelt, discussing
reports on the new sipending and j
lending program now being stud-j
ied by some administrative quarj
ters, expressed emphatic opposi
tion using ~a.fi v part of the two i
billion dollars stabilization fund,
to finance aids to business. He,
said t a press conference that
he had never heard that the new
plan was even being considered.
Americans Hold
19 of 45 Tickets
UNDATED. May 19 ->/P) —Am
ericans he'd 19 of 45 tickets
drawn on the five hcrses most
favored in the betting on the Ir
sh Hospital Sweepstakes at Ep
som Derby which was run Wed
nesday.
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LINEMAN ESCAPES DEATH ON POWER LINE
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Spared from almost sure death when two men rescued him from high voltage wires 20 feet above
the ground, Francis A. Radnich, 34, is shown as he was lowered into a stretcher placed on a fire
truck. Radnich had fallen across the wires, and the two men who saved him, braved death them
selves to climb the pole and lift Radnich off the wires. It was at Des Moines, Iowa.
INDICTED IN BOOTLEG GOLD SELLING PLOT
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Here are four of the twelve men named in indictments
gold reserve act through an alleg d illegal gold selling
Left to right, seated: Edward Levy, Sam Nankin, George Zwillinger, and Hugo Landecker, who
were held under bail ranging from S50.000 to S100.000. Standingare Emil J. < anepa (lett>, De
puty U. S. Marshal, and U. S. Marshal George Vice._
Naval Bill Goes
To White House
WASHINGTON, May 19, </P)—
Congress sent the $773,000,900 na
val appropriation bill to the
White House, when the House ac
cepted minor Senate amendments
which carry funds for the ex
pansion of the fleet and the
navy’s air force and including
money to begin construction on
two 45,000-ton battleships.
BILL TO HELP ALASKA
TOWNS REDUCE DEBTS
WASHINGTON, D. C. — In
order that municipal corpora
tions and public-utility districts
in Alaska having bonded indebt
edness subject to redemption
may have the benefit of low inter
est rates that are now in effect,
Delegate Dimond on April 20, in
troduced a bill in the House to
authorize such towns and dis
tricts to refund the original in
debtedness through issuance of
new bonds bearing lower rates
of interest.
The Delegate’s purpose in in
troducing the measure is solely
to reduce the debt burden of
those towns and districts in the
Territory that issued bonds for
construction of schools, street
improvements, and other public
works when the prevailing rate
of interest was higher than it
now is, and in order to guard
against any manipulation of bond
ing activities that might not work
toward this economic end, the
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bill carries a provision “that the
total debt of the municipal cor
poration or public-utility district
shall not be increased by such
refunding operations.”
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lying And Queen
Arrive Ottawa
OTTAWA, May 19 (/P) — The
King and Queen came to Ottawa
in a cold drizzle to begin their
two-day visit to the capital of
their largest domain.
The blue and silver royal train
rolled into the temporary station
at the southern boundary of the
city at ten a.m. The sovereigns
stepped out amid cheers of the
crowd gathered and to the boom
ing of a 21-gun salute.
The King and Queen saw the
northern lights glow’ing and dart
ing like celestial fireworks on
the night trip from Montreal. It
is an unusual sight even in Can
ada in late May.
Immediately on arriving at
Rideaiu Hall, the official residence
of Canada’s governor general and
after a procession through the
capital, the King accepted the
credentials of Daniel Roper, new
United States minister to Can
ada.
Cannery Workers
Start Coming To
Alaska This Week
SEATTLE, May 18 (/P>— Rep
resentatives of the canned sal
man industry and CIO officials;
cannery workers and the farm
laborers union signed a wage con
tract which they said provided
wage increases totalling about a
half million dollars this year for
7,000 workers in Alaska canner
ies. The contract is the last to
be signed after negotiations
which have delayed Alaska sal
mon fishing operations. Cannery
workers will start going to Al
aska this week.
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Aids Policemen in Death Probe
Charles Cassidy, Jr., (above),
4-year-old White Cloud. Mich.,
boy, gave information which po
lice said aided them in solving
the mysterious death of his mo
ther, 20-ycar-old Helen Cassidy.
The woman's body was found
hanging in her farm home. Au
thorities said they obtained con
fessions from Elton Cassidy, 26,
the woman’s brother-in-law, and
Mrs, Matilda Casshly. the mother
• nlay, that they strangled the
woman. • .
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