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VOL. 42. No. 12. MOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JAN. 26, 1940 ^lce Per 15*
Americans Advised Leave Sweden
Many Ships Sunk In Mediterranean and North Sea
Japan Uneasy Over Trade Treaty
And The U S. Strategic Position
Many Sinkings In European War
UNDATED, Jan. 26 (/P) — The
American and Japanese trade
treaty relations drew toward a
close with Japan uneasy over the
new strategic position of the Unit
ed States but the latter is in no
hurry to show her hand. Japan
and England at the same time
carried on the controversy over
the removal from a Japanese lin
er of 21 Germans by a British
warship near Japan.
In Europe’s two wars activity
continued to be concentrated in
the Russian-Finnish conflict, the
Finns reporting the invaders in
difficulties on two fronts, above
the Arete Circle and in southeast
Finland.
Americans in Sweden were ad
vised by the United States lega
tion at St~ckholm to consider re
turning home “because of the pre
vailing international situation.’’
Officials said the move implied
precautionary measures and was
lacking in urgency or compul
sion.
Twelve passengers and 26 crew
men lost their lives when the
l,752-*ton Norwegian steamer
Biarritz struck a mine and sank
in 30 seconds in the North Sea.
Tiie Norwegian steamer Borg
holm rescued 12 passengers and 7
of the crew, bringing the surviv
ors to Ijmuiden. The Biarritz
went down at 2 am, 36 miles
northwest of Ijmuiden after a tre
mend us explosion. The first offic
er said the fact that one life
boat was already hung on the
davits permitted the survivors to
get away to the Borholm near by.
Other victims of the war at
sea included the Finnish steam
er Onto of 1300 tons which sank
Tuesday after striking a mine in
the North Sea. The crew of 18
reached an English port ab ard
a Greek vessel.
The Swedish steamer Patria,
1100 tons, enroute to Rotterdam
from Goteborg, sank Saturday af
ter striking a mine. Four of the
crew of 21 were landed at Swed
en.
A Netherlands steamer landed
at a British port the bodies of 4
men taken from a raft in the
N rib Sea. Their nationality was
unknown.
U. S., ALASKA ROAD
GROUP MEET, OTTAWA
OTTAWA, Jan. 24 — Canadian
and American studies of possible
routes for the projected Alaska
highway will be compared here
Thursday when the two Inter
national Highway commissions;
meet for the second time.
The Canadian report is believ
ed t: be nearly ready for pre
sentation to its government.
The American report is simil
arly advanced. Rep. Warren G
Magnuson, chairman of the U S
Commission, Thomas Riggs, Gov
ernor Gruening and Donald Mc
Donald of Fairbanks wore expect
eel to attend.
PADEREWSKI STIRS
“POLISH PARLIAMENT"
PARIS, Jan. 24 —Ignace Jan
Paderewski, 79. stirred the P iish
parliament in exile which, elect
ed him as its president, pledging
his weakening body will raise
Poland “from ruins.”
Said Paderewski: "Poland is
immortal. We will deliver hex
from captivity and will raise her
f; m captivity and will raise her
from the ruins. We take this en
gagment before God."
Paderewski, famed pianist and
con poser, was President of Po
land in 1919.
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Breaking Foie
Causes Death
Of Jack ?>el!
Jack Bell, electrician for the
U S Smelting Refining ar.d Min
ing Co. at Nome fell to his d ath
yesterday afternoon when a pow
er pole on which hs was work
ing broke and crashed with him
to the gr end.
The accident occurred on the
i new power-line route from Nome |
: to the Submarine mining field
j west of town. Present with him1
lit was repor’ed were Nels S.van
berg Jr.. Andy Roberts and Har
ry Knud son.
An account of the accident said
that the p,:lc was a key one1
where strain from stringing a
new power line was assessed. It
was .understood 'hat Bell climb
ed the pole to install another guy
wire clamp, and wa working on
it when the strain on the pole
caused it to break off above the!
ground, bringing him crashing top
! the ground. The safety b It it i
I was sad held him to the pole so,
ilhat ht o'.; Id not get away from I
it before it hit the ground.
He is survived in Nome by his
widow and young son.
HUGE SHIPMENT OF FOOD
STUFFS, GERMANY, BLOCKED
OTTAWA. Jan. 24 — The gov
eminent forbade the export of
wheat and other materials to
countries adjacent to Germany
except by license thus pr:sum-i
ably blocking the million & one
il a aider bushels of wiieat ship-!
mtnt bougiit from Russia.
It was expected the cargoes
would have been shipped to Brit
i !i Columbia from Vladivostock
aboard ships provided by the
States Steamship Company f
Portland, Ore.
FRESH KILLED VEAL
—
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POLET’S STORE
caraouflsf e, which enable them to advance across snow almost unseen bjr the Russian Invaders. _
Relief I unds
For Indigents
Is Inereased
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 Ed
ward Bartlett, commissioner o
accounts and deposits, U S Trea
sury, t Id the House subcommit
ilc at the appropriations hearings
that the Treasury appropriation
bill has been increased, because
ol suffering of indigenes in Alas
ka. which had caused Interior
Secretary Harold Ickes to add a
$10,000 increase to the Terri
tory's relief fund for next year.
B rtlet also told the committee
that the $39,302 left in the Alas
kan relief fund was created from
10 percent of receipts from licens
es collected outside of incorpor
ated towns in the Territory.
He said the fund was created
by Congress and of the $119,000
collected Congress appropriated
$80,000. "Last year we received a
letter from the Secretary f the
Interior asking us to include in
our estimate enough money to
enable them to give to this part
icular purpose all those receipts."
* Rep. Louis Ludlow of Indiana
asked if suffering had increased
up there, and Bartlet replied ye
The budget approved an in
crease for Alaska indigents from
$20,000 this year to $30,000 for
the 1910 41 fiscal year. Treasury
officials also explained that an
item of $11,900 for Alaska and
for general territorial purposes
■ame from a one percent tax on
gross income of the C pper River
Northwestern Railway and the
Pacific Arctic Railway and Navi
gation Co. He said the average
collections amounted to that fig
ure during the past two years.
Clinton Uttley, superintendent
of divisions, Post office Service,
told the committee that because
of unusual conditions in Alaska
where some postoffices cannot
pay for third class clerk hire an
additional $8,183 for “third class
clerk hire is necessary and that
the past allowance doesn’t allow
salaries high enough to take care
of the unusual salary conditions
up there."
Uttley added many third class
clerks were working for less than
WPA wages and trying to raise
a family on that.
William Triom, superintend
ent of the railway adjustment
division postoffice, told the com
mittee that his department need
ed $140,000 for star route ser
vice, the same amount as grant
ed this past year.
He said the department asked
‘he Budget Bureau for $150,000
but this had been cut $10,000.
He said air mail service in Alas
ka cost the government forty
two and four tenths cents per
mile and added the Civil Aero
nautics Authority later will take
over licensing contractors and
that the service has become reg
ular air mail service under the
direction of the first assistant
P stmaster General.
Other officials explained that
when the CAA took over the Al
askan Air mail, contractors who
now handle the star route service
in the Territory, will have to ap
ply for certificates of conven
Americans Advised Leave Sweden
Because of International Situation
Germans Producing One Sul) I)a\
LONDON, Jan. 25 (JP)—Mines
n.lp:d to iw -11 the toll of mer
.•han: marine casualties in the
war in the North Sea while in
he Mediterranean a small auxil
iary vessel of the French navy
is in distress from an undeter
mined cause. The French ship,
is the 622-ton Forfait. Her dis
tres.-, call was sent out by the
Italian freighter Cellina which is
speeding to her aid.
In the British, French and
German war, the Germans re
ported that their submarine pro
duction reached the one-a-day
hv 1 and fhe British lotked for
intensified attacks on merchant
I
shipping.
Artiilery fire thundered in the
Vosages mountains on the West
ern Front but activity otherwise
was apparently limited to scout
ing by rival air forces, the Ger
mans reported one British plane
a .sh it down yesterday.
Merchant marine losses ,;f the
war increased with the torpedoe
ing of the 44-ton Latvian steamer
Everene. All but one of the crew^
were rescued.
The survivors of an unidentifi
ed French boat, torpedoed off the
coast of Spain yesterday, landed
at Vig,? with eight men lost.
ience and necessity, instead of
carrying all classes f mail as at
pre ont because ordinary mail
could net be transported by air.
as air mail rates apply.
J W Cole, deputy second assist
ant Postmaster General, said that
as long as the CAA & » • vet
"We are ah right.”
While members of the commit
tee suggested the best solution
would be to enact legislation, to
•ontinue the Alaskan star route
rv.ee, as at present, no action
iward this end was taken by
the committee.
Cole explained that on the
Posimaster General’s authority
.e can make plane mail rates
-rd imdmary Thah ‘marthe same
in AU'.'ka, “but whether he will
do that, I am not prepared to
say, C de said.
ROLL OUT BARREL, 1835 VERSION
Papa Tony Bondance celebrated his birthday—he averred 1 is 10'uh
at the'Farm Colony on Staten Island, New York, by trying out some
of the newer dance steps with his nurse. He said his recipe for
pushing by the century mark was no meat, tobacco, alcohol or
women, friends declared.
Crippled Children’s Benefit, Sat., Jan. 27-9 P. M.
ENTERTAINMENT-DANCE HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM ADMISSION ADULTS $1.00 C HILDREN 25^ ‘ - , j
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