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VOL. 41. No. 99. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 18, 1939 Price per copy iw
Charge G-A Bund with Immorality
Expect Nazism To Flower in U.S. In 15-20 Years
Germany Wants Hungary For Jumping-off Place
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Leo Schmitz, 1-year-old of Chicago, was a little sad-eyed about it
all as he sailed alone from Neur York aboard the Europa for Ger
many where he will visit his grandparents in Cologne. He also
flew from Chicago to New York alone after his father. K. Schmitz,
• placed him in care of stewardess. Leo is shown in arms of nurse
Louise Rauchfuss of the Europa’s staff.
Testifies To
Bridg es Case
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 (IP)
—Testimony, that Detective Wit!
liam Browne of the Portland Po
lice department allegedly offered
money for information linking
Bridges with the Communist
part, was given at the deporta-;
tion hearing by Miss Craney j
^ Goldman, comely Los Angeles,
stenographer.
She testified that she had taken j
a 26-page question and answer
statement from John Leech, for J
mer Communist at Los Angeles
in July, 1937, in which the Port-.
land house painter made accusa
tiins of an alleged bribery at
tempt.
% Leech previously testified that
he was a Communist party or
ganizer at Los Angeles but later
had resigned from the party, and
that Bridges had attended Com
munist meetings.
The stenographer testified that
Leech’s statement named Browne
as having shown Leech a billfold
containing money on top of
which was a hundred dollar bill.
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LAUNCHING GOES AWRY
BELFAST, Aug. 17 </P) —One
woman was killed and 20 persons
injured when Britain’s newest
aircraft carrier, the 23,000-ton
“Formidable” burst from her
supporting cradle and made a
runway of the Belfast launching
slough.
The fifteen million dollar ves
sel s'id into the water premature
ly hurling the blocks of wood sup
porting her keel among the thou
sands of persons gathered at the
launching.
Lady Wood, wife of the Brit
ish Air Minister Sir Kingsley
Wood managed to break the trad
itional bottle on the receding
bow of the vessel as it started
sliding away in some unexplain ;
able manner.
Scores of shiprights below the I
vessel in the act of freeing her
before the signal was given, rac
ed to safety as the cradle crash !
,‘d about them.
STATE TO RUN FERRYS
OLYMPIA. Aug. 18 (/P) — In
the opinion of Attorney General
Hamilton, until ferry operators
are ready to resume service the
state acting with the counties in
volved, has the power to provide
terry service as a part of the
highway system. He told the gov
srnor of his opinion and express
ed his request to the government
after the Inland Boatmen’s Union 1
called the strike paralyzing the
ferry service between Seattle &
the islands of the Olympic Pen
insula.
Father Hubbard
Tells of Noatak
Expedition
Capt. Aarnout Castel of thej
“Nanuk” returned to Nome from |
Kotzebue, Monday with Father
Bernard Hubbard and Ed Levin,
who have been gathering folk
lore material and exhibits to be
I presented at the San Francisco
! International Exhibi t i o n on
"Treasure Island.”
The Cutter Spencer arriving
late las' night bought the Hub-'
i bard Expedition’s speedy power
! boat to Nome from Kotzebue.
Father Hubbard and Ed Levin, i
| who are well-known to everyone
j here, expect to board the S. S.
| Denali for the cruise to East,
[ Cape, Siberia, and return to the
| states on the vessel when it sails
i south from Nome,
j The outstanding impression of
1 the Hubbard Expedition into the
; heart of the Brooks Range insult *
[ the Arctic (Circle was scenic
i beauty coupled with the hottest
! weather even encountered by the
; Glacier Priest in 13 years of ex
I ploration
t “Of course we had some very
|
I hot spells inside volcanic craters
j on the Alaska Peninsula” said
Father Hubbard “but inside the
Arctic Circle where popular con
; caption has nothing but perpet
j ual ice and snow we struck days
and days of regular tropicai wea
ther where the thermometer reg
istered 120 in the sun and 90 in
the shade. We didn’t even use
our woolen underwear all sum
t mer!”
"Our main purpose this season
was to penetrate into the Arc
tic interior up the Noatak River
1 and look for traces of aboriginal
migration as well as study the
topography and mineralogy of
the region. Scenically it is very
1 similar to the Death Valley sec-1
tion of the United States. Aside
from one native village about 90
miles from the mouth of the Noa I
tak River the desert bleakness of
i the mountains would make it
I seem probable that only a few
j trappers or prospectors have fro
quented the area and no physical
i inducements could ever make it
desirable for human settlements.
| Low grade minerals were taken
i as specimens but nothing of a
j valuable nature appeared. The
most surprising thing was the to
tal absence of game. For 200
miles up the river not even game
trails were seen and when the
party climbed one of the high
est ranges that overlooked the
headwaters of the Colville basin
no sheep or caribou could be
detected with most powerful bi
noculars.
“Several thousand feet of mo
tion picture were taken in natur
al color and infra red and a few
thousand still pictures.
“I am very pleased with the
results” said Father Hubbard be
cause it added more precious
footage to our million feet of
standard size library of Alaskan
motion picture film and added an
other interesting section of the
territory to our personal know
(Continued on Page Three)
19-Year-Old \ out!
Testifies Bef<
On immoi
WASHINGTON. Aug. 18
Heen V .zos, aged 19, told the
Die., C' n.mittee that there was
“immorality" in the German-Arn
erican Bund camp in Long Island
New York. She said she quit the
Bui d because “the leaders would
n t let me alone." The plump,
dark-haired Bund youth leader
added in almost an inaudible
tone, "they planned to attack
me."
She said "the immorality of
the entire movement appalled
me so." Rep. Staines put in, start
ing a question, but she said, "It
disgusted me.” cutting Starnes
off.
Earlier she said the Bund lead
ers attempted to inculcate
campers with that idea that Nazi
principles were, l'ar superior to
American institutions and ideas.
They said national socialism was
the oniy thing that could save us.
I don't know what we are going
to be saved from. They said we
Germans weren’t getting the
consideration due us from this
country and it is about time we
spoke.”
Continuing her testimony, the
girl said hut the German Nazis
expected Nazism in America to
bear fruit “in fifteen to twenty
years.” Referring to the Ger
mans who addressed the tourist
party if 30 Bund youths who saw
Hitler in Berlin in 1928: “They
said they were leaving it up to
us in the Bund to prepare the
way. The Bund was to open
camps and buy property to form
German settlements so that when
Germany offers to aid us we
li Leader
>re Committee
ality In G-A Bund
j
can say that here we have a Ger
man majority and want to be
part of Germany.”
She said Fritz Kuhn was rec
ognized in otficial quarters as
“the American Fuehrer." She
also told the committee of a
speech delivered at the youth
camp by a Dr. Axeman. German
propaganda service. The speech
outlined Germany’s future as fol
lews: Germany is going to get
back everything she rost. and
after the Danzig-Polish corridor
is rec aimed the Nazis will move
into Denmark and spread thru;
the Scandinavian countries. Af
ter tha: the United States is the
next objective.
Physical £ laminations For
School Children Begim
The annual physical examina
tions for school children were be
i gun Thursday morning. Thirty -
1 six children were examined by
i Dr. More m with the assistance
i of Mrs. Sprer.ger, public health
j nurse Mrs jaldwin, Mrs Bock-1
j man. Mrs. McLean, and Mrs. Ry
deen assisted with the records.;
Sonic- of tiie mothers took advan
tage of the opportunity to be pres i
ent while their children were be-:
; ;:ig examined. The physical exam
| inaiions for .he school children;
will be completed at a later date.
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Germany Ready
Is Now Looking
Toward Hungary
UNDATED. Aug. 13 f/P) —1The
tautness of Europe’s “war nerv
es,’’ slackened as Germany turn
ed her immediate attention from
the Danzig question to build her
political fences in eastern Eu
rope.
A new feeling of optimism,
grew in Britain although Ger
many’s army stood ready to en
ferce the Nazi demands on Po
1 ni at a moment’s notice.
Delieaie diplomatic problems
are believed to have shifted Ger
man attention for the time being.
They revolved around Stefan
Eskay, Hungarian foreign minis
ter, and the attitude of Hungary
in case of a conflict in Europe.
Germany, it is believed, wanted
to know if she could use Car
patho-Ukraine, recently annexed
by Hungary,, as ' pulping-off
place for hostilities with Poland
and whether Hungary would be
sympathetically “neutral’’ and po
living the Balkans for Germany
in time of tension.
The well-infomed commentary
Dienst Aus Deutschland said that
Germany and Hungary see “eye
to eye.” This was interpreted
some quarters to mean that Gef
many could count on Hungary’s
extremely benevolent neutrality-.
However, in Budapest, the for
eign office spokesman character
ized such statements as '‘entire
ly untrue.” The foreign office also
announced that Count Eskay
flew from Munich to Rome and
said he intended to confer for
some time with Mussolini on It
alian and Hungarian relations
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YOUNG SNITE ATTENDS MASS AT MIRACLE SHRINE
In his “iron lung” trailer (at ri glit), Fred Snite, ,Ir„ of Chicago joined other invalids in celebrat
ing mass at the sacred grotto of L ourdes, Lourdes, France. By special permission, the mass was cel
ebrated by an American priest, t he Rev. I*. J. McCardle of the ILoccse of Rochester, N. Y. Young
Snite was recently married in C hicago.