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VOL. 42. No. 33. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, March 15, 1940 Per c°Py
Proposes Alaska Settlement Plan
Scandinavian Countries Plan Defensive Alliance
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Senate Receives Proposal Alaska
Be Settled By Private Enterprise
Chartered by the Interior Dept,
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WASHINGTON, March 13, </P)
—The Senate recieved a proposal
that Alaska be settled on large
scale, privately financed land de
velopment enterprises chartered
by the Secretary of the Interior.
The proposal in a bill was in
troduced by Senator Wagner of
New York and drafted by Inter
ior department officials provided
that any ten citizens might apply
to the Secretary of the Interior
for a certificate of incorporation
and provide a capital stock of at
least ten million dollars. The in
corporators are required to show
shares of stock or debentures pre
viously subscribed to amount to
a: least a quarter of a, million
dollars.
Persons eligible as settlers
will be citizens of the United Stat
j es and quota immigrants and per
[ sons lawfully admitted to this
! country for permanent residence'
The primary purpose of any
corporation will be the promo
tion of permanent settlements in
Alaska and development of such
industries based upon natural re
sources to contribute to the needs
of national economy and national
defense.
Representative Havenner, Dem
| ocrat of California introduced a
j similar legislation in the House
Thursday.
Territorial Cash
Balance Well Over
Million and Hall
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JUNEAU, March 15 (iT>) — Tax
payments totaling $276,000 were
received by the Territorial treas
■urer's office in the last mail from
the States, consisting of pay
ments on the gross gold tax and
cannery tax for the period ending
today. The payments bring the
net cash balance well over a mil
lion and a half dollars.
Rumor N Y Yanks
Might Be Sold
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NEW YORK, March 15 </P) !
A big scurry over reports that
the New York Yankees will be
sold resulted when word leaked
out that Governor Francis Mur-,
phy of New Hampshire was in
terested and when it found out
that he admitted he inquired into
the possibility of their sale sev- i
era! weeks ago. But he denied1
negotiations were now under way
or that he will be submitted an !
outright proposition for four mil
lion dollars asked for the club.
Japs Disclaim
Fighting Reds
TOKYO, March 14 (/P> — The
Japanese war office disclaimed
any knowledge of recurrance of
fighting between Japanese and
Russia troops on the Manchouk
uo-Mongolian border saying they
believed that such reports were
groundless.
ATTENTION
Catholic Ladies will give an
entertainment and dance on St,
Patrick’s Day Saturday March 16
at 9 pm for the benefit of the
Pilgrim Springs Mission at the
School Gym.
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Says Finns Die In
Defense of West
ern Civilization
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HELSINKI, March 1:5 (TP)—For
l eign minister Tanner said in a
broadcast to the United States of
the more than 50,000 Finns who
fell in the war and who died
or were wounded in the war “in 1
defense of western civilization, I
their sacrifice was not for Fin
land alone.”
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Russo-Finn Peace
Ends Possibility
IV ’ Red Alliance
LONDON, .March 14 (fP) —For
; eign office circles said the Rus
• sian-Finnish peace probably kill
| ed the possibility of Russia and
1 German being driven into a full
j military alliance. Russia again
! become an isolationist because j
i she lost heavily of men and sup
i plies and will want to consoli- ■
| date her gains.
French Report 58
Nazi Planes Down
PARIS, March 14 (R) —Official
French reports listed 58 German i
planes shot down from the start
of the war to March 10th. Ser
geant Edouard Sales is the lead
ing ace, with four downed. Decor
ations were awarded to fifty
fliers in all.
In Hotel Fire
Two Persons Die
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TORONTO, March 15 (/P)—'Two
men and a woman were burned j
to death in a fire which destroy- j
ed the downtown Avonmore Ho
tel and twelve persons were in
jured. James Hart and Mrs. Nel
lie Gibson were the only two id
entified.
ST. PATRICK’S BALL, SAT., MAR. 16th, 9 P. M.
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM — PROGRAM AND DANCING — EVERYBODY WELCOME
Finland. Norway, and Sweden
Consider A Defensive Alliance
Russia Pledges Spare Rumania
UNDATED, March 14 (ff)—Pin
land, Sweden and Norway, mind
ful of the price the Finns paid,
considered a northern defense al
liance, President Kallio of Fin
land in a radio speech explaining
' the peace terms, voiced the need
for such a union. Foreign minis
ters of Norway and Sweden are
uneasy over the Finnish conces
sions which give Russia rail and
plane access to Swedish and Nor
wegian frontiers and acknowledg
ed they were considering the for
mation of a defensive bloc.
As a last gesture of triumph,
Russia announced that Viipuri
was occupied only five hours be
fore the fighting was halted bv
the treaty which gave them the
shed-shattered city anyway.
The attention of European cap
i.als shifted toward southeast Eu
rope in perpetual wonder of
"what next?” Reliable Berlin
sources said Germany gained
from Russia a pledge that Ru
mania would be spared no matter j
what happened in scu-theast Eu- i
rope. Bucharest hoard reports that1
a Rumanian-Russlan non-aggres-1
sion treaty is in the making;
which might quiet Rumania’s!
fears of a Red army strike this
spring.
27 Killed In Train
& Truck Collision
McAllen, Texas j
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McALLEN, Texas, March 14
(/P) —Twenty three persons were
killed when a passenger train
crashed broadside into a truck
loaded with fruitpickers at a
crossing six miles east of this
lower Rio Grande valley city.
Seventeen were injured in the
worst wreck in Texas history as
a Missouri Pacific train hit the
truck at 8 am carrying in on the
cowcatcher for 600 yards scatter
ing the limbs and bodies of the
victims apparently laborers of
Mexican descent living in farm
areas around Almo. The truck
burst into flames and one victim
was found charred when the
train stopped.
Two witnesses of the crossing
crash said Jose Ramon drove the ,
truck carrying forty two Mexi
can laborers directly in front of
the train after slowing to twenty
miles an hour and making a turn 1
in the highway. Justice R. L. Sav j
age returned a verdict of accid- j
ental death after a day-long in- 1
vestigation. Twenty seven were
killed, fifteen injured and four
may die. Engineer A1 Wilson
said the train was going forty
five miles an hour and that he
did not see the truck at the time
it was struck.
6 Die in Apartment
Mouse Fire
CHARLOTTE, S. C.. March 15
(fP) — Six persons were killed
and eight injured, several critic
ally in a 2 am fire which spread
rapidly through an 86-unit apart
merit house. The dead are: Mrs.
Hazelle Martin, gift shop manag
er; Miss Rowena Dickinson, 26;
Mrs. H. Russell Ely; Miss Lucy
Walton, 43 a nurse; Tommy Char
!ty, 15; Edward Martin, 21, a
student. Two were fatally injur
ed by jumping to the concrete
alleyways.
Over 00 Die In
Brazil Flood
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RIO DE JANIERO, March 15
f/P)—More than 30 persons perish
ed in a flood of the River Dpce
in southeastern Brazil dispatches
from Santa Then za sa'd.
AMERICANS HELP IN FINLAND
Pictures show activities of a group of American volunteers in the Tirnish v, ar, engaged i . ambu
lance service ir, the fighting zone. At top, they give first aid to a wounded F^ a. I v,\ v. in
white outfits, they do stretcher work.
Crew Scuttles 7,400 Ton German
Merchant Ship Lacoruna At
Approach of British Warship
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UNDATED, March 15 (/P)— Brit
in announced the scuttling by
ii.e of the German merchant ship
Lac'Jiuna of 7,400 tons when a
warship approached Wednesday
in northern waters. The warship
! pcked up the crew of sixty then
i finished her off with gunfire. The
Lacoruna left Rio de Janeiro on
February 3.
'
j Finnish forces began the re
! treat over the battle-churned
' snows with 100,000 civilians
! ahead of them. Cessions to Rus
sia must be completed by April
10th. What Russia will do with
the new territory is expected to
i he decided by the Supreme So
viet called to meet March 29th.
Moscow sources believed that an
autonomous republic will be ere
j :>tcd.
Norwegian foreign minister
| Noht asserted that no official re
i quest for the passage of Allied
troops through Scar.dina’, ia to
aid. Fir'and was received until
last Tuesd y when th>.,peace was
£••• ounccd. He said the request
is tu ned down, fearing the na
tion would be drawn into the
war if Germany tried to inter
cept the troops also because it
was too late.
The French senate debated for
the second day secretly the strat
egy of the Allies after criticism
of allied inaction demands an ex
p anation of the Allied role in the
northern war.
22 Ships, 142,000
Tons of Shipping
Scuttled hv Nazis
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LONDON, March 15 (/P) —The
scuttling by fire of the German
merchantman Lacoruna near a
warship brought the total to at
least 22 ships, 149,000 tons which
the Germans destroyed to pre
vent thgir filing into enemy
hands. The ships carried mostly
rich cargoes.