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VOL. 41. No. 37. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, March 27, 1939 Pri« Copy 1M
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Lithuanian Cabinet Resigns—New One Be Formed
Armistice Ordered Between Hungary & Slovakia
MARTINS ELECTION BRINGS CHEERS
Fcfr 55 minutes delegates to the Martin-called IIAWA convention
in Detroit staged a demonstration after they had elected him by
acolamation without opposition as their president. Martin was
carried around the convention hall as his followers paraded through
a storm of paper to the accompaniment of cheers.
New Cabinet
To Be Formed
KAUNAS, March 27 UP) — The
Lithuanian cabinet resigned less
than a week after they agreed on
the cession of Mem-el to Ger
many.
General Tshenius, chief of the
general staff, was asked to form
a new cabinet which re-signed fcl
-lowing reports c-f difficulties in
negotiations between Foreign Min
jster Willi Bcrtuleit c-f Lithuania
and the Nazi President -of the
Memel directory, who are work
ang out details f the cession of
Memel to Germany.
Japs Report
Capture Nanchang
SHANGHAI, March 27 </P) —
The Hankow headquarters of the
Japanese army reported the cap
ture of Nanchang, once import
ant Chinese air base of the Kiang
si Province. The Chinese earlier
reported that a brilliant counter
thrust had been made.
The Japanese announcements
said the attacking forces, entensi
fi d their onslaught and crossed
the Kan River and entered the
former capital of Kiangsi simul
taneously through its four gates.
SHINGLE PROTEST FLOODS MAIL
An avalanche of shingles, 10,000 of them, landed on senatorial and
White House desks when postmen delivered the wood which had
been mailed by lumbermen in the state of Washington. It was a
protest against increased import of sliingles from Canada under a
trade agreement. Senator Homer T. Bone (D. Wash.) was a trifle
perplexed when 2,0C0 of the chingles landed on his desk
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Chinese And
Japanese Troops
Are More 2,000,000
SHANGHAI, March 25 (JP) —
More than 2,000,000 Chinese 'and
Japanese troops are engaged in
bitter fighting on three widely
separated fronts along Chinese
rivers and four other sectors
with the steadily mounting toll
of casualties, now past the mil-'
lion mark since the hostilities •
began more than 20 months ago. |
The Japanese succeeded in
crossing the Yellow river, north
of Chengchow and 300 miles i
north of Kankow. The bloodiest
battle is being fought in the!
northern Kiansi Province, along1
a hundred miles front where the
Japanese are making a general
offensive southward toward Nan-!
chang, the capital of the prov-1
ince.
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Meeting Postponed
Public Health Council meeting
postponed until Wednesday,
March 29, 7:30 p.m. All members
urged to attend. Public cordially
invited to attend same at City
Hall.
Chairman II. G Miller i
Rules Slate
Has Power Tax
Fed. Employees
WASHINGTON, March 27 t/P)
—'The Supreme Court ruled that
the state has constitutional pow
er to tax the salaries of employ
ees or officials of the federal gov
ernment or its instrumentalities.
The decision was delivered after
litigation involving the attempt
of New York and Utah to impose
an income tax on Federal Em
ployes.
The opinion, in effect, approv
ed part of President Roosevelt’s
tax recommendations to Con
gress when he .asked for legisla
tion permitting reciprocal taxa
tion of salaries of federal and
state employes. Whether the fed
eral government can tax state
employes is awaited in a specific
ruling in the future. In this^ case
hpwever, the court left. Utile
doubt that it would uphold such
taxation.
Justice Stone delivered the de
cision on the New York case and
Justice Hugo Black the Utah
case. Justices Butler and McRey
nolds dissented over the New
York case.
Forty-One Senate Bills
Enacted By Legislature
Of Alaska—List in Full
JUNEAU — Forty-one Senate
bills were enacted this session
and have been recorded among
the 1939 session laws. The Sen
ate measures which passed both
houses were as follows:
Senate bill No. 1, to make un-j
known heir of deceased persons!
defendants in suits relating -to!
real property.
Senate bill No. 2, effectuating j
Federal copyright laws.
Senate bill No. 3, amending
the unemployment compensation j
law.
•Senate bills No. 4, appropriat
ing $800,000 for roads.
Senate bill No. 5, returning
overpaid taxes of $147.82 to;
Grace Lowe of Livengood.
Senate bill No. 8, including
cold storage plants and canneries
among enterprises which may
be operated by Public Utility Dis
tricts.
Senate Bill No. 9, appropriat
ing $20,000 for construction of a
hospital at Seldovia.
Senate bill No. 10, providing
for sale of hard liquor by the
drink under license of $500 and
$1000.
Senate bill No. 11, appropriat
ing $5,000 for expenses incurred
by Donald McDonald in connec
tion with the plans for the Al
aska Iternational Highway.
iSenate bill No. 13, reducing the
interest rate on town of Wrang
ell bonds held by the Territory.
Senate bill No. 15, appropriait
ing $540 for relief of Fred W.
Wagner.
Senate Bill No. 16, providing
for registration of reindeer
brands and marks with the Rein
deer Supervisor at Nome.
Senate bill No. 19, providing
for appointment of a director of
the Department of Criminal In
vestigation.
Senate Bill No. 21, providing
for establishment of the date of
birth by filing of petition.
Senate bill No. 22, reducing
the license tax on undertakers.
Senate bill No. 23, requiring
agricultural and industrial fairs!
to spend an amount equal to that;
appropriated by the Territory in
assistance of each.
Senate Bill No. 24, directing
the use of Alaska lumber on pub
lie projects paid for from Terri
torial funds.
Senate bill No. 25, establishing
standards of weights and mea
sures.
Senate bill No. 29, licensing en
gineers and architects.
Senate bill No. 31. refunding
to the incorporated town of Port
Alexander $759 due as a liquor
license refund.
Senate bill No. 32, prohibiting
sale of liquor on election days.
(Senate bill 38, relating to dura
tion of chattel mortgage liens.
Senate bill No. 49, setting pe
nalties for non-payment of gross
gold taxes.
Senate bill No. 45, allotting
$19,999 from Third Division road
funds to open the Richardson
highway between Valdez and
Willow Creek.
Senate bill No. 51, providing
that every person subpoened as a
juror and attending court shall
be paid $1, to be assessed against
the party demanding a jury trial.
Senate bill No. 54, allowing in
surance associations to do busi
ness in the Territory.
Senate bill No. 56, providing
for cooperation with the Federal
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ROSEBUD' STRUGGLES FOR LIFE
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Mar am Wolf (above), two-year-old, was in a hospital at Sunbury*.
Pa., unconscious five days after being beaten, and was struggling
for life. Physicians .said the child suffered a brain injury and
paralysis of the left side. State Police Corporal Richard Gray quot
ed Paul W. Barrick, 22, as saying he struck the child at “least 50
times because I thought she (looked like that other man (her father)
The child had been branded with a stove-lifter. The baby’s mother,.
Helen, was held as a material witness. Nurses at the hospital had
named the child “Rosebud,” she was so tiny at birth.
Germany Soothes
BRATISLAKA, Slavakia, Mar.
25 </P) — Semi-cfficial sources
said an armistice was ordered in
Eastera Slovakia where Hungar
ian and Slovakian troops are en
gaged in border fighting. It was
understood that Germany was
trying to smooth out the dispute.
N;ne Hungarian bombers drop
ped fifty b mbs on ar.d destroy
ed part of the town of Spisska.
Sen. Committee
Approves Douglas
WASHINGTON, March 27 (£>>
—The Senate Judiciary Commit-,
tee unanimously approved Pres.
Roosevelt's nomination of Doug-,
las as associate justice to the U..
S. Court of Appeals.
Have The Nome Nugget sent t<*
your mining claim.
TAKE A MEMO, BOYS! And the lads In Newark uni
I versity experimental psychology took many notes and concluded
that Betty Hutton is a Grade A jitterbug because she’s an almost
perfect extravert as claimed by Vincent Lopes (left).