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VOL. 41. No. 73. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1939. Price per copy iw
Assessment T rk Bill Goes to Pres.
Europe Fears Hitler Try Coup Over Week-End
Fear That
Hitler Planning
Another Coup
UNDATED. June 29 </P)—Brit
ain, informed quarters said, sent
proposals to Moscow for the in
clusion of the Baltic States, Bel
gium. Holland, and Switzerland
in the proposed Anglo-French
Russian mutual assistance pact.
The proposal which is said to
have been the latest instructions
of the British government was
dispatched to Sir William Seeds,
British ambassador to Russia.
Europe’s capitals pushed the
far eastern anxieties into the
* background as fears were ex
pressed in London, Paris, and
Warsaw that Hitler is planning
another coop, perhaps this week
end to regain for Germany the
Free City of Danzig.
In Danzig, Nazi-controlled of
ficial sources ridiculed the for
eign reports of a “free corps” be
ing organized there by Germans
pouring into the city in disguise.
They also said these reports
are “alarming the public and are
« by no means warranted.”
Jack Dempsey
Might Have
Peritonitis
NEW YORK. June 30 UP) —
A. A. Jailer, Superintendent of
of the Polk Clinic Hospital said
Jack Dempsey, who underwent
an emergency appendicitis oper
ation might have seroius com- j
plications amounting to a gang- j
renous .appendix and peritonitis.1
Silver Cut To 38
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WASHINGTON, June 29 (JP)— \
The Treasury cut the price of!
foreign silver to 38 cents an !
ounce shortly after Morgenthau1
said the price would be adjust-!
ed to that of the London market, j
Pres. Considers
Filibuster Block
i
i Monetary Powers
WASHINGTON, June 30 (/Pi
President Roosevelt considered
the possibility of a Senate fili
buster which might block the re
newal of his expiring monetary
powers. He remarked that people
wouldn’t be more favorably in
clined toward filibusters if one
developed his remark that the
! people of this country readily
understood that any filibuster
situation evidently designed to
'focus attention on any effort to
i delay Congressional action so
that his emergency monetary
powers would expire at midnight
tonight. He added that lie con
sidered his filibuster remark a
rather mild one.
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House Votes
$75,000 Continue
WPA Investigation
WASHINGTON. June 29 <&)—
The House quickly voted another
$75,000 for continuing its WPA
Investigation and simultaneously
spent $1,808,000,000 on the relief!
bill toward its final enactment.
The House sent the bill to a con
ference committee to adjust the 1
differences as passed by the Sen !
ate.
iNoted Author Dies
MONTEREY. Calif., June 29
*/P) —Harry Leon Wilson, aged
72, noted author died last night
while asleeip. He had been ill
for several years.
At the age of 45 a man is like
ly to find out that he’s not the
man he used to be, and never
was.
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FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
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FRANK DISCUSSION about nation’s financial struc
ture followed meeting of Industrialist Owen Young (left) and
Jerome Frank, newly-elected chairman of the Securities and
Exchange commission, at monopoly hearing in Washington. P. C.
GUARDSMEN ARREST MINE PICKET
In a situation made tense by oitbufsts of gunfire and reported
bombing threats. National Guardsmen in the Harlan County, Ken
tucky, coal mine area were taking no chances. Here they march
away a packet after arresting him for trying to come through
National Guard Lines.
Senate Approves
60-Dav Extension
Assessment Work
WASHINGTON, June 28 f/P)—
The Senate approved a sixty day
extension beyond noon of July
first as the deadline by which
mining claim holders ordinarily
would have to commence re
quired development work for
this fiscal year.
Because the Senate refused to
extend the deadline still another
thirty days, until October first
instead of September first, House
action on the legislation will be
necessary' before it goes to Presi
dent Roosevelt for his signature.
The House previousy voted for a I
ninty-day extension.
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Kidnap Suspect
Is Shot And
Killed By Posse
CABLE, Wis„ June 29 (Ah —
R. A. Olson, fugitive who killed
2 special deputy sheriffs was shot
to death while attempting to flee
from four posse men led by
Constable Ernest Moore.
The shooting took place at
Lake Namakagon near the
I Wheatley Anderson ranch.
He was struck by four bullets
when killed.
Olson had been hunted since
June 17. He toppled into the
, water from the boat he was try
| ing to shove into the lake.
Extension Assess- i
ment Work Passes !
Senate and House
WASHINGTON. D. C.
June 30
Nugget, Nome.
A bill passed the House and
Senate on June 29th to extend
the time, within which annual
assessment work on mining
claims held by location in the
United States and Alaska may be
commenced, from 12 o’clock noon
on July 1st to 12 o’clock noon on
September 1st, of the current
year. The bill goes to the White
House this morning.
Anthony J. DLmond
Pres. Roosevelt
Signs Business
Tax Revision Bill
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WASHINGTON, June 30 <iT)—
President Roosevelt signed the
business tax revision bill which
does away with the undistribut
ed profits tax and re-enacts the
excise tax which was expiring
today. The bill also provides
for the revamping of the cor
porate tax setup in response to
the widspread demand that the
government ease up on business.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
I
Ask Mail Boats
Carry Freight
And Passengers
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! WASHINGTON, June 30 </P)—
j The approval of legislation to re
] qhire mail boat operations, be
j tween Seward and numerous
points along the Alaska Penin
j sula, the Aleutians, Bristol and
Good News Bay, to use vessels
j large enough to accommodate
i freight and passengers was urg
j ed before the House Postoffice
Committee by Delegate Dimond
1 and J. W. Cole, Deputy Second
! Assistant to the Postmaster Gen
eral.
Huntington Morse, assistant to
the chairman of the Maritime
1 Commission and Paul Gordon of
the Division of Territories, testi
fied that the residents of villages
along a 700-mile route are vir
tually without water transport
ation facilities. The present mail
boat, they said was not licensed
to carry passengers and freight.
1st Trans-Atlantic
j Passenger Flight
Is Completed j
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j MARSEILLES, June 30 (/Pi —!
I The Dixie clipper completed the
| first scheduled trans-Atlantic
| flight with paying passengers.j
The ship arrived at 4:20 -a.m. \
PST and made the hop in the |
elapsed time of 30 hours. 29 :
■ minutes from Port Washington
: on Long Island Sound.
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SYMPHONY IN BELLS
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NEW YORK — Thirty-five
; bronae bells in a 165-foot carillon
! tower will sound the hour, the
■ half and the quarter hours day
j and night at the New York
1 World’s Fair. The carillon is part
of Belguim’s exhibit. Three ev
enings each week carillons con
| oerts will be given.
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Senate Votes
Authorize Billion
800 Million Relief
WASHINGTON, June 29 </P)—
The Senate finished strongly af
ter more than fourteen hours de
i bate and voted 50 to 0 early to
day to authorize $1,800,300,000
1 for relief for the fiscal year be
; ginning Saturday, July 1.
Aware that a compromise must
be reached with the $ 1,735,000, -
000 House bill before midnight
tomorrow if all relief is not to
be suspended, administration
leaders drove the Chamber re
lentlessly through almost an in
terminable series of amend
ments up to the final ballot.
Leaders expressed the belief
that a speedy conciliation, of the
differences between the House
and Senate bills will be accom
plished. making possible finai ac
tion before the deadline.
Premier Resigns
Rather Than
Resort Borrowing
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AMSTERDAM, June 30 (IP) —
Netherlands' Cabinet Premier
Colijn resigned as a result of a
controversy with Catholic min
isters over the question of bor
rowing funds to finance defense
and unemployment projects. He
has steadfastly refused to resort
to borrowing.
.When a truth is repeated too
often, everybody takes it for
granted and nobody takes it ser
iously.
Some speakers are so eloquent
that it is a real pleasure to be
fooled by them.
Short skirts are in style again,
which means that man is not in
terested in what a woman wears
but where it stops.
CAZE AT THE CAVEL that now belongs to Rep. Lex
Green (Dem.-Fla.), shown at Washington. D. C. The gavel is made
of walrus tusk and was given Mr. Green by Alaskans in tribute to
his work as house territories committee chairman.
Fourth Of July Celebration And Dance Tuesday
PROGRAM, SPORTS, DANCING, BLANKET TOSSING, HIGH-KICK ING FOURTH OF JULY