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VOL. 42. No. 50. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, April 22, 1940 ^lce Per coPy 15*
Americans Advised Leave Hungary
First American Killed Is Military Attache Norway
Former Republican Gov. '/Wisconsin Found Dead
* Nenana Ice Moved At 3:27 p.m.
Saturday—$80,000 Pool Won By
Clara Hansen, Anchorage Stenog.
FAIRBANKS, April 20 (JP> —
The crack that all Alaska await
ed, came at 3:27 Saturday after
L noon as the ice in the Tanana
River began moving at Nanana,
bringing a prize of approximate
ly $80,000 to Clara Hansen, An
chorage stenographer. She miss
ed by one minute of guessing the
exact time the frozen river be
gan its annual trek downstream.
Watchers at Nenana go: so ex
cited by the breakup that they
failed to notify the outside world
for several hours although sever
al thousand Alaska waited breath
lessly for the news.
Miss Hansen, a youthful blonde
is employed by the Civil Aero
nauties Authority. She was born
in Juneau, is the daughter of a
pro perous fisherman and has
lived in Alaska all her life. She
is reported to be engaged to mar
ry a United States Army Signal
Corps wireless operator.
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Britain, Russia
Negotiate For
Trade Treaty
» UNDATED, April 20, (JP)— Al
lied, and German troops poured
into Norway on a large scale and
drew' heavy lines of battle while
Germany united to celebrate Hit
ler’s 51st birthday.
The Allies made cautious mcv
es to widen their influence with
Britain and Russia making over
tures toward trade talks. To ease
one sore spot France made a ges
ture toward Germany's non-bellig
erent ally and hostile critic of the
Allies, Italy. Premier Renaud told
the French Senate that the For
eign Affairs Committee of France
is looking toward the “Mediter
ranean for an entente" with Italy
and also Spain, whose nationalist
government received German and
Italian aid in the civil war. The
Premier also declared France’s
purpose in southeastern Europe
was to “maintain th • peace and in
dependence of all countries.”
The flow of treops into Norway
indicated a ba.tle of major pro
portions was now in the making.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
Wine to your friends and rela
ives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
■ticK out of it.
> FARLEY SAYS HE WILL RUN
Postmaster General James A. Farley announced at Boston that his
♦ name would be presented to the Democratic National Convention as
a candidate for President. “And that’s that," Farley added. He is
shown above with his daughter, Betty, at Wellesley College, where
she is a student, after he made the announcement.
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Captain Lohey Military Attache
Is First American Filled On Land
Since Start Of European War
WASHINGTON, April 22 (/P)—
The Stale Department received
word that Captain Robert Lohey,
assistant .military attache at
Stockholm was killed in a Ger
man bombing raid on Dombas,
Norway yesterday. He is the first
American to be killed on land
since the war’s start. He was a
native of Iowa. He reported for
duty under the minister to'Swed
en, Frederick Sterling, a few
days ago. Previously he had been
in Finland as an observer of the
war there.
Saturday afternoon he went to
Norway to contact a party of Am
ericans which were being moved
out under escort of Lieutenant
Commander Hagen. Tire party
was composed largely of the fam
ilies cf the American legation
and consulate at Oslo. It crossed
the frontier into Sweden under
Hagen's escort yesterday.
W rd of Lohey’s death was re
ceived in a telegram from Op
dal dated yesterday and signed
by Major Ysium, presumably a
1 Norwegian army officer.
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STOCKHOLM. April 22 (/Pi —
The newspaper Handels Tidnin
gen said that Captain Lohey was
killed by a bomb splinter in his
heart while standing inside a tun
nel near the front of it where a
bojnb exploded. No-one else in
the tunnel was hurt.
Thirty Die In
N. Y. Passenger
Train Wreck
LITTLE FALLS, New York,
[April 20 </P) — The westbound
New York to Chicago Lakeshore
Limited, a New York Central j
passenger train hurtled from the |
rails at Mohawk Valley before:
midnight and killed at least 30 \
and injured at least one hundred
persons. All the sixteen cars car
rying from 250 to 300 passengers j
most of whom were asleep, piled j
up on a wide curve when the
train was attempting to make up
time. Railroads said they believ
ed it sprung a rail.
The locomotive jumped the
rails and hit a stone embank
ment killing the engineer and fire
I men. The cars crumpled up like
matchwood.
' The passengers were strangely
calm as they began the rescue
work without hysteria in a scene
of the greatest confusion and des
olation. Identification of the vie- j
tims proceeded slowly because
they were mostly in sleeping at-'
tire, many badly mangled.
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Eleven Persons
Are Killed In
Auto Accident
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SLAYTON, Minn., April 22 UP)
j— The worst traffic accident in
state history brought the death
of eleven young men and women
early yesterday. One other per
son is expected to die and anoth
er suffered only a broken arm
and shock.
Two light sedans met in a ter
rific head-on collision when one
was on the wrong side of the
road. .Seven were killed outright.
Among the victoms were two bro
thers, Harold and Lorens Tuy
namans. All the victims were be
tween the ages of 17 and 23.
Germans Say
British Have
Been Hard Hit
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BERLIN, April 22 i(/P) — The
j DNB news agency said Namsos
and Andalsnes, western Norweg
i ian towns, where British forces
j landed are aflame. In the daily
report on the military situation,
i supplementing the high com
i mand’s communique, it was add
j ed that the British have been
j hard hit by air bombs.
The German expeditionary
force is reported to have gained
ground steadily to the northeast
, and south of Trondheim. It was
j announced officially that eleven
; Allied planes, nine of which were
British were shot down yester
| day over the North Sea and on
the Norway Western Front.
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Union Leader
Is Arrested At
Order of Dewey
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NEW YORK, April 22 (/Pi — |
■ George Sealise, ev-eonvict, and
! $25,000-a-year president of the:
| Building Service and Employes
j International Union, was arrest
led at dawn at the Rain Hotel
; Sunday. He is charged with ex
! tortion of $100,000 in the last 3
I years from 20 hotels and 11 win-,
I dow cleanings firms, by threaten
i ing strikes and sabotage. •
He once served a term in the
i Atlanta federal prison for white
! slavery. He said was was the “vie
• tim of political aspirations,’’ re
! ferring to instruction from Dis
j trict Attorney Dewey, who is on
j a western trip, to arrest him.
NOTICE
A11 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
are requested to register with
Chas. D. Jones, chairman, before
Wednesday, for attending the
121st Anniversary Dinner at the
Odd Fellows Hall, April 27.
Signed: Committee
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American Citizens In Hungary
Are Advised To Leave While
Means Of Egress Are Available
BUDAPEST, April 22 (/P —The
United States legation advised al;
American citizens on Hungary to
“decide as to the advisability of
| leaving for the United States
1 while there is still means of eg
ress available." There are about
400 in the country, but most of
them are Hungarian born and
went to the United States, were
naturalized and returned to their
native land to live.
Former Gov.
Wisconsin Dies
KOHLER. Wisconsin, April 21 '■
(fP)—Walter J. Kohler, aged 65. |
chairman of the board of the Koh j
i !er Company and a forme'- Re- J
I publican governor was found
| dead in the bedroom of his home.
He had apparently been in good
lealth.
He was a widely known pol
itician, aviation enthusiast, and
industrialist and was recently
among the 53 indicted in Cleve
land in connection with the Jus
tice Department’s investigation
of high construction costs and j
charged with conspiracy to re |
strain trade in the plumbing in-1
1 dustry.
North E. Wind
Immense Tides
BOSTON. April 22 (/R) — A
roaring snow and rain laden j
Northeaster whipped up immense j
tides, isolated the northeastern
tip of Maine and left the possib
ility of serious floods. The gale j
reached blizzard proportions in
Maine ard Vermont. Shipping
and air travel was suspended.
The surf splashed over the top
j of 114-feot lighthouse in the Bos
j'on harbor. The Merrimack Riv'
I or in New Hampshire went over
its batiks at Newburyport.
FDR May Come
To Alaska At
Fml of Session
WARM SPRINGS. Ga„ April
22 (A*)—President Roosevelt said
1 at his press conferenc- this morn
! mg that he had decided tentative
| ly to make a twenty-one day non
political swing around the coun- «
try which would overlap the per
iod of the Republican National
Convention in June.
His trip may take him to Ju
neau, Alaska, he said.
He expects to dedicate three na
tional parks, probably visiting
Natchez. His only speeches will
have conservation as the princip
al subject, he said.
Starting out in June as soon as
congress adjourns he proposes to
dedicate the Great Smoky Mour.
tain National Parks in North Car
olina and Tennessee, visiting the
city of Natchez. '
He will then drop in on his son
Elliott at Fort Worth, Texas, and
then go on to the West Coast for
the opening of the newest Nation
al Park at King’s Canyon, Calif
ornia.
After this he will keep his
promise to visit San Francisco’s
Exposition and then dedicate the
Olympic National Park in the
state of Washington, after which
perhaps, he will go on to Juneau,
Alaska, by boat.
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FINNISH MINISTER GREETS FIANCEE
Hjalmar Procope, Finnish Minister to the U. S., is shown greeting
his fiancee. Margaret Shaw, an English girl, as she arrived in New
York on the liner Conte Di Savoia. They met in London 2 years ago.