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VOL. 41. NO. 4. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, Jan. 9, 1939 Price per Copy is#
Gov. Olson Pardons Tom Mooney
Norman Walker Elected President Alaska Senate
N Walker Elected
President Of
The Senate
JUNEAU, Jan. 9 (/P) — The
Fourteenth Territorial Legisla
B lure convened today, with Gov.
Troy opening the House of Rep
resentatives at 10 o’clock and the
Senate at 11 o’clock, with all
members answering the roll call,
except Rep. James Davis who ar
rives tonight.
Henry Roden presided as presi
nt-protem of the Senate. Im
mediately following the .admin
istering of oaths t.o the members
of the Senate, N. R. Walker was
elected president. Adjournment
was then taken to 11 o’clock
Tuesday.
In the House, H. H. McCutch
■eon acted as temporary speaker.
Committees on mileage were ap
pointed and adjournment was
taken to 3 o’clock to make t.heir
report.
Advocate Embargo
Warring Nations
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (/P) —
The American Congress for
Peace and Democracy advocated
•that an embargo be placed on
war materials, loans, and credit
/ to Japan, Italy and Germany.
A1 C a p o n e
Leaves Alcatraz
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 l/F)
— Al Capone, former Chicago
^ gangster leader was transferred
from Alcatraz to the federal cor
rectkmal institution at Terminal
Island at San Pedro where he
will remain a year on misdemean
or charges.
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RECESS from the stage ends
for Katharine Cornell, the thea
; ter’s “first lady” who has
scheduled “Herod and Marianne”
for a tour to the middle west be«
fore it appears in New York.
Above, Miss Cornell plays a
South Seas beauty.
1 Cases Of
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Discovered
JUNEAU, Jan. 9 (/P)-Juneau
schools wore closed for at least
: ton days as the result of the dis
icovery of four d ptheria cases in
one family. Territorial Health
Commissioner W. W. Council
also -prohibited children from at
tending amy public gatherings,
i
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the ITctne Nugget office
FUNERAL SERVICES
Funeral services for the late
Charley Sims will be held at the
St. .(Joseph's Catholic chur^i,
Tuesday morning, January 10th
at 9 o’clock. Father J. F. McEl
meel officiating. Interment Bel
mont Point cemetery.
Gov. of Calif.
Grants Mooney
Full Pardon
SACRAMENTO, Jan, 7 (/P) —
Governor Olson granted Mooney
a full unconditional pardon and.
he was released immediately.
Wife in Tears
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 7 UP) —
j Tom Mooney expected a pardon j
jin a couple of hours as Culberl j
j L. Olson, California’s first Demo-j
1 cratic governor in 44 years, j
j chose the day after his inaugur j
ation ball to fulfill in the state
capital what amounted to vir- ^
1 tually a promise to grant Moon
: ey’s petition for a full pardon.
If no reasonable opposition de
| veloped, the pardon will go into
' egect exonerating Mooney of the
1916 San Francisco Preparedness
I Day bombing of which he was!
! convicted and sentenced to death
I which was subsequently commut j
! ed to life imprisonment at the ur
I gent request of President Wilson.
Mooney’s first act was to visit
Warren K. Billings who also was
convicted bul because of a pre-.
vious felony conviction, cannot i
be pardoned unless the State Su
prone Court recommends it.
i Mooney claims he and Billing^1
,
j were convicted on perjured testi
mony.
He left San Quentin penitent-;
iary at dawn on an auto trip to
| the capital. He spent the last day
j in prison exuberantly receiving
vistors.
Backed up by this wife and sis
ter, he said he would establish
l residence in San Francisco.
Mrs. Mooney, who defended
her husband throughout the1
years said “These twenty two'
years have been a moth-eaten
life to me—-it has been something;
like a clo-ak of which there is
1 little left but tatters, however,
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9MUNITIONS PLANTS MILES
DOES ANOTHER WORLD WAR BREED HERE? Approach of Nov. 11, marking
20th anniversary since armistice that ended the last world war, finds Europe criss-crossed with for
tifications designed to hold back invading tanks and soldiers. With its cluster of munitions plants—
branches of the powerful Skoda whose main works are at Pilsen—western Czechoslovakia is a prize
much craved by Hitler. As the map shows, munition plants are near the Sudeten mountains region
where live the'3,500,'JCO Sudeten Germans over whom Hitler wishes to establish a “protectorate.”
Fears that Germany would attempt to swallow the Sudetic region gave all nations a severe attack of
“world war jitters.” ___
DRESSY occasion was open
ing of Britain’s parliann •' at
tended by Lady Baldwin " of
'the former prime ininird . . arl
Stanley Baldwin. She's leaving
the house of lords.
even they amount to something
I have been crying for thre«
days, not in sorrow, but in joy.’
Mooney is no longer the dyna
mic beetle-browed direct action
ist he was, for sixteen years ir
prison has worn him down anc
mellowed his philosophy but his
spirit remain unbroken. Wheth
er or not Mooney will again be £
firebrand in the workers ranks
has been on the minds of some ol
those who opposed his release
Mooney friends plan a paradi
Sunday, up Market Street ovei
the same fateful route which
made history where a bomb kill
ed ten and wounded forty.
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Mussolini Galls
Meeting Fascist
Grand Council
—
UNDATED, Jan. 9 UP)—Europe
Poked ahead to a week crammed
with turbulent possibilities as
Neville Chamberlain is to go to
Rome to take the pulse of anoth
er dictatorship.
He is on ihis way to confer
with Daladier, Britain’s demo
cratic partner, tomorrow, whose
relations with Italy have been |
strained by the Fascist clamor
! r Fn ach .possessions.
At the same time two great
battles are raging in Spain
while animosity is fermenting
on the border between Hungary
and Czechoslovakia, disturbing
the Budapest and Prague outlook
which is anything but bright.
As Chamberlain conferred with !
his key ministers in London, both'
the Dictatorships and Democrac-j
ies want peace-but each at its!
own price, and the French and1
Italian issue may prove to be a 1
stumbling block. The French
Foreign Ministry announced jrij
Paris that Italy protested against!
the alleged anti-Fascist demonstr ]
ations duruig Da-Ladier’s visit last,
week to Algiers.,
Mussolini called a meeting of
the Fascist Grand Council, Italy’s
highest executive body for Feb
ruary fourth. By then. Fascist
leaders will have an opportunity
' to judge Chamberlain's attitude
i | and weigh the success of Count
Ciano, Foreign Minister, reviv
ing Italy’s mid-European influ
ence through talks by Hungarian
I ,Yugoslav hi "1 Polish statesmen.
A F of L And
j: C I 0 May Be
R e c o n c i 1 e d
i ——
WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 </P) —
, The National Labor Board in
formed Congress that there are
; signs that the A F of L and the
CIO may patch up their digerenc
1 es.
j
I
I
•
Rl |CY Henry Armstrong,!
1 who won feather,'
light and we’ter titles in less than
year and then resigned the feather
weight, successfully defended wel
ter crown In match with Garcia.'
Job Hunters
Are Plentiful
At Juneau
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JUNEAU, Jan. 7 UP)— Politics
were bubbling hot in Juneau to
day but is now simmering down
as the members of the Alaska
Legislature were solid in their
backing for Senator Norman
Walker for Fisheries Commis
sioner to succeed Bell. Although
it is reported here that Saul Haas
collector of customs in Washing
ton is the No. 1 candidate and
who is supported by Senator
Bone. It was also reported that
R. W. “Bob” Bartlett, former
secretary to Delegate Dimond is
a candidate for the Secretary of
Alaska. J. Campbell of Anchor
age is also mentioned but it was
understood Herbert Brown, may
or of Anchorage was being boost
ed. It was reported also that J.
J. Connors, Customs Collector
for Alaska was mentioned but
he positively declined.
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