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VOL. 41. NO. 5. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 1939 Price per Copy is#
* Frankfurter Accused Being Radical
Rep. Howard Lyng Is Elected Speaker of House
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Charg es Felix
Frankfurter As
Communistic
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (JP)—
A woman author, Mrs. Elizabeth
• Hilling, is opposing Felix Frank
furter’s nomination to the Su
preme Court and offered to prove
to the Senate committee that
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
are “dangerous radicals."
The offer came after Chairman
Neely of the Judiciary subcom
mittee questioned her about
charges made against many pro
r minent people including Frank
furter. Chairman Neely opened
Mrs. Hilling’s book entitled “Red
Network” and noted that it class
es the Roosevelts as “dangerous
radicals by inference.”
The fast-talking witness in a
high pitched voice said, “Dr) you
want evidence? Just give me
fifteen minutes, I'll prove it. If
these facts are not true, then I
ought to be in jail.”
Neeley noting that many Sen
ators were listed as radicals said
^ apparently Mrs. Dilling “wanted
to put many persons in jail.”
■‘NovI don’t want to put them in
jail, I don’t want to put Frank
furter on the Supreme Court,”
she said. The witness described
the American Civil Liberties
Union as radical and commun
istic and added that Frankfurter
/ as a Harvard law professor “ser
ved as a director for seven years
and still is one.”
STATESMEN ENJOY FIRF.
PARIS — A spectacular fire
swept the facade of the Hotel
des Invalides and only quick ac
tion by fire fighters saved Na
p poleon’s tomb from damage.
Construction of the building
was begun in 1671.
News of the fire caused cabinet
ministers and deputies to aban
don an important debate in the
chamber, and with Premier Dala
dier, they stood in the biting
cold to watch the fire.
You possess some intelligence
if you can read a book without
going to sleep.
j
MORE OF MOORE was
asked by London audiences who
heard Grace Moore (above),
American opera and film star,
sins at a London benefit for
Queen Mary’s hospital.
Senate Committees
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Juneau, Jan. 10 (/P> — Import
! ant committees named in -the
Senate are as follows: Finance
aKl Corporation. Sul'ivan. Walk
er, Rivers, Patterson. Taxation
and Transportation, Hoffman,
Roden. Cochran, Laboyteaux.
Education, Cochran, Walker,
Hoffman, Laboyteaux. Fisheries,
Game and Agrculture. Patter
son, R'>den, .Sullivan, R vers
Mining and Manufacturing, La
boyteaux, Roden, Cochran, Pat
terson. Judiciary Roden, Sulli
! van. Hoffman and Rivers.
Another Narcissus
‘Pa, what is an egotist?"
“An egotist, my son, is a man
! who can look in the mirror and
: be satisfied wi*h what he sees."
—
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Hoffman
Lashes
i
Murphy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (/Pi—
! The House of Representatives
j heard a tvtter attack from Rep
resentative Hoffman on the Lab-1
j or policies and political back
ground of Frank Murphy, former
j Governor of Michigan, who was
1 recently nominated as Attorney;
j General by President Roosevelt.
“The record shows that Frank
I Murphy failed to perform his
duties as governor of his state
land betrayed his peop'e and left
; them at the mercy of armed in
vaders," Hoffman said.
' A Senate subcommittee ap
proved the nomination of form
1 er Senator Pope to succeed Mor-1
; gan to the TVA board of dir
; ectors and another subcommittee
heard Harry Hopkins testify that
he had done everything in his
power “to keep petty partisan
politics out of WPA activities."
In answering questions concern
ing his qualifications as Secre
tary of Commerce, Hopkins said
“if anybody had intimate exper
ience with bus ness during the
past six years, it is myself.” At *
another point he said if he had
the job of WPA administrator to1
d i ever again he would not make
any political speeches and em
phatically denied that he had ev
er made the remark “We spend
and spend, tax and lax, elect and:
! and elect," that several newspa
per correspondents attributed to:
him. “Anybody who knows any-(
thing about practical politics in
1 the counties of America must not
be surprised that even some
WPA officials have been coerced
1 into it,” he said.
A House meeting tomorrow
will take up the 725 million dol
lar work relief bill.
The Lesser Sin
Mother—Which apple do you
i want. Junior?
Junior—The biggest one.
Mother—Why, Junior, you
should be polite and say the lit
tle one.
Junior—Well. Mother, should I
i lie, or just he polite.
JAPANESE-BUILT GUNBOAT “Dhonburi” (above), completes the 1938 naval program
for Siam which includes 7 torpedo boats. 2 mine-layers. 2 convoy ships and a coastguard vessel. _ [
Howard Lyng Is
Unanimously
Elected Speaker
JUNEAU, Jan. 9 (/Pi — At the
afternoon session of the House,
Howard Lyng, democrat from
Nome was unanimously elected
Speaker of the House.
Those named .to fill positions
were Margaret Grisham, Juneau,
chief clerk; Violet Johnson. Fair
banks, assistant clerk; Catherine
Ghezzi, Fairbanks, engrossment;
Marie Williams, Skagway, enroll
ment; Mona Graves, Juneau,
watchman; Mary Pearce. Doug
lass, doorkeeper; A. B. Cain,
Juneau, messenger; Harry West,
Sew'ard. sergeant at anus.
Adjournment was taken until
11 o’clock Tuesday morning out
of respect to the death of Sec
retary Griffin.
House Committees
JUNEAU, Jan. 10 </P) — The
following important committees
were named in the house. The
first named in each case is the
chairman:
Banks, Banking . and Corpora
tion, Dav's. Porter, Drager, Land
er. Anderson. Education and Pub
lie Health, Dowd, Anderson, Cof
fee, Lander. Fisheries, Fish Game
and Agriculture, Walker. Davis.
Smith, Coffey, Lander, Gordon.
Martin, Porter. Labor and Cap
ital, Smith, McCormick, Porter,
Gordon. Mining and Manufactur
ing, Lander, McCormick, Porter,
Smith, Rogge, Spencer. Roads
and Highways, Martin. Walker,
Coffey, Spencer. Rogge. Ways
and Means, Rogge, McCormick,
Walker, Coffey, Drager, Dowd,
Martin, Lander. Territorial In
stitutions, McCutcheon, Walker,
Porter and Spencer.
Senate
Appointments
JUNEAU, Jan. 10 (jPi — The
Senate announced this morning
that Bess Millard of Juneau was
appointed secretary. E d y t h
Young, Juneau, assistant; Ruby
Hogin, Juneau, enrollment clerk:
Bell Wasvick, Petersburgh, en
, grossment; Charlotte Clauson
Petersburg, watchman; Patrick
Doloy, Cordova, doorkeeper
Peter Gilmore, Ketchikan., mess
; enger; Fred Sorri, Fairbanks
! sergeant at arms.
Aside from the fisheries reso
; lution, nothing else was done and
1 the Senate took adjournment till
2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon
The House is milling along this
forenoon and will go into ses
sion again at 2 this afternoon.
He’ll Get the Cream
“I’m engaged in the diary bus!
ness at present,” remarked the
lawyer.
“You don’t say!” exclaimed his
friend, the doctor.
“Fact,” rejoined the legal light
“I’m milking an estate.”
REICH GENERAL Franz
Haider (above) Is newly named
head of Germany’s general staff,
succeeding Gen. Ludwig Beck.
Hitler named him.
Resolution Urges
Associate Comm.
Of Fisheries
JUNEAU, Jan. 10 (JP) — The
Sena'e in a concurrent resolu
tion introduced by James Patter
son, urges President Roosevelt to
appoint an Alaskan associate com
missi.oner of Fisheries, copies to
be radioed to Roosevelt, Hopkins,
and Delegate Dimond.
Local 203, mine and mill work
ers union passed a resolution in a
meeting Monday night, urging
Senator N. R. Walker of Ketchi
kan as Commissioner of Fish
eries. Since the resignation of
Bell, sentiment is crystalizing in
Alaska fo-r Walker and the mem
bers of the Legislature are solid
ly behind him.
Heard At A Party
How old would you say Madge
Decolitay is?
She says she’s twenty-six, but
I imagine the age she gives is
like her gowns, cut as low as
possible.
j Chamberlain
Is To Advise
Mussolini
UNDATED, Jan. 10 (JP)—Prime
■ Minister Chamberlain left Lon
don in another attempt to smooth
Europe's authoritation powers
through face to face talks with
their leaders, this time with
Mussolini. The sweeping insur
gent offensive in Spain in which
new successes are reported wall
be a factor expected to en
ter into the Rome talks in which
Chamberlain would like to learn
the 1939 plans of the Rome, Ber
: lin, and Tokyo triangle.
Reports of growing Germain.
1 and Italian efforts to dominate
Spain in her strategic Mediter
ranean outpost cast a shadow
on the premier’s departure. With
a flourish of the familiar umbrel
la that accompanied him to Berg
chtesgrden, G esbung and Mun
ich last autumn, Chamberlain,
left, carry last minute reports
from French Ambassador Charles
Corbin that Germanys new fleet
of “minnow submarines" were
being built to hamper French
and British shipping in the Med
iterranean.
Authoritative sources in Paris
where Chamberlain and his ac
companying Foreign Secretary
Halifax arranged for a brief stop
over tea, declared that he will
advise Mussolini to patch up his
quarrel with France over oolon
ies.
Winners Lehmann’s Drawing
Names Unknown
Just before going to press the
drawing for the winners of Leh
mann's holiday prizes were an
nounced as follows.
1st—No. 8616—$100 Cash.
2nd—No. 14914—$32.50 Dresser.
3rd—No. 6209—$80.00 Heater.
Booby—No. 11137 -$20 floor lamp
Judges of t he drawing were:
Mrs. E. Lottsfeldt, Miss Mariann
Mish, and Miss Virginia Calkins.
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j MEMORIES OF MUNICH Still stir in Czech and Slo*
vak war veterans, who turned in war medals at a recent protest
meeting in New York. Tiie Munich meeting which arranged dis
memberment of Czechoslovakia was on Sept. 29. Above, Frank
Cizek, who was wounded three times during service with a French
regiment, holds the tray for Benny Walla of Russian army’s !
_Czech contingent. *
Chamberlain Enroute Italy Confer With Mussolini