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VOL. 41. No. 67. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1939 Prk?e *>er °°W 15f
British-French Analyze Soviet Note
Public Hearing Is To Be Held On Submarine Thetis
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Girl Steals Infant So That She May Get Married
japs Will Not
Tolerate Third
Power in China
SHANGHAI, June 3 (.^—Jap
anese naval authorities served no
lice on all nationalities through a
note to the British that “We are
unable to tolerate a third power
trade with China of a bind cal
culated to assist Chiang Kai Shek
in his war resistance.”
The note cited a long list of
alleged instances in recent
months of British ships carrying
war materials and demanded cess
ation of such trade.
Bill Is Signed
Provide Geodetic
Survey Alaska
WASHINGTON, June 3 (/P) —
President Koosc.elt signed the
legislation designed to strengthen
national defenses dn Alaska to
ward the Orient, and providing
$1,425,000 for the construction of
two coast and geodetic survey
Ships to expedite charted waters
surveys asked by the Navy.
A commerce spokesman was
present who said the lack of ade
quate charts along the Aleutians
made naval operations “imprac
tical in this entire area during an
emergency, and that the surveys
were needed for the protection
of merchant marine. He also told
Congress that the Japanese inva
sion cf the Alaska fishing waters
made the surveys vital to the
Coast Guard which must keep
Washington informed of their
positions.
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CHAMBERLAIN FIRES UP
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Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain picked up a cigar instead of
an umbrella when he left No. 10
Downing Street recently to anws
er Lord Stanhope’s sensational
remarks about British anti-air
craft preparation. He’s shown
getting up steam on his way to
the House of Commons.
All Aboard Given
BIRKENHEAD. June 3 (/P) —
In the trapped submarine Thetis
the 98 persons aboard were given
up for dead by the British Ad
miralty. This is the greatest dis
aster in submarine history.
It is believed they succumbed
to Chlorine gas which resulted I
from water seeping onto fhej
batteries. Salvage efforts are (pro
ceeding. !
Full Public i
Hearing Be Held
Thetis Disaster
LONDON, June 5, (/P> — Pre
mier Chamberlain tcld the House
of Commons that full public in
quiry would be held on the Thet
is disaster in which 99 perished.
The Premier, in what he called
a full acouunt of the disaster, as
far as details are known, declar
ed that two forward compart
ments of the submarine were
flooded through the forward tor
pedo tube. It was found impos
sible to close the watertight door
behind the first compartment, he
said, but the flooding was re
stricted to the second compart- j
mcnt.
The main ballast tank was em
ptied but the sub' continued to
dive and struck bottom at about
130 feet below thte surface in
Liverpool Bay.
The impact destroyed the signal
ing apparatus, making it impos
sible for the submarine to com
municate with surface vessels.
A marker buoy was released
Chamberlain said and smoke
floats were sent up but they were
not observed by the escorting tug
which was with the Thetis when
the tragic dive was made at 4:40
p.m. PST Thursday.
Attention Pioneers
—
Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 1
will hold their meetings, during
the summer, on the 1st Wednes
day of each month, and will be
followed by a social. Next meet
ing June 7th.
Dave Gray, Secretary
Don’t forget to leave your nam«
and address for the Nugget to be
sent to you via airplane at your
mining camps, from now on.
ACCUSED SLAYER CONFERS WITH PARENTS
Robert M. Burgunder, Jr., (center), the handsome young college student who confessed the kill
* ing of two Phoenix, Arz., autom oble salesmen when he was brought back to Arizona after hs ar
rest in Tennessee, is shown with his parents, Robert M. Burgunder, Sr., former Seattle prose
cutor, and his estranged wife, Mrs. Ruth Burgunder of Alhambra, Calif., when he met them for
the first time sinie the killings. T hey conferred alone for more than an hour.
Steals Child In
Order to be Wed
PHILADELPHIA, June 3 (/Pi
Miss Beatrice Wood, aged 18, was
held without bail at a hearing
where she wept and said she did
n't mean to steal five-month-old
Gerald MeCrohan from a peram
bulator to pose him as her own
dead child, to induce Frederick
Bauers, aged 23, to marry her.
Bauers was released. The baby
was taken Thursday and return
ed by the police to its parents
yesterday, when they found it
with Bauers on a park bench.
Both Fronts
Show Strength
UNDATED, June 3 (/P)—Signs
of strength appeared for the Brit
is! French and Germany-Italian
fronts. French political sources
sajd Turkey, the mutual assist
ance partner of Britain, might
mediate their differences, keep
ing Russia out of the pact.
On the other hand, Japanese
sources said Nippon war and nav
al ministers discussed details of
military conversations with Ger
many and Italy.
Britain started registering 20
year-olds for military training in
the first peacetime conscription
in England’s history.
Boat Movements
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The S. S. Columbia is report
ed to be due at Dutch Harbor at
6 a.m. today.
The freighter Sutherland left
Dutch Harbor for Nome at 5 a.m.
today.
The freighter El Capitan, was
reported to be at Egik, Bristol
Bay, Sunday afternoon.
The Cutter Duane will arrive
Nome as soon as ice conditions
permit.
The ice fields are reported to
be heavy between St. Lawrence
Island & Nunivak Island, which
is in the direct path of steamers;
headed for Nome.
The Lomen Commercial Com
pany have made plins to launch
their tugs and lighters in Snake
River as soon as conditions per- j
mil. The U. S. Coast Guard
launch will also be placed in the!
water as soon as conditions per-1
mit.
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Yukon Free of Ice
The Yukon River is reported;
open to the mouth, but Norton !
Sound appears to be still full of |
ioe. The ice must pass by Nome ■
in the next few days or a week j
or more before boats can reach |
St. Michael. Again this Yukon
River ice may delay steamers ar
riving at Nome unless the steam
ers go far to the westward and
come in around it, via St. Law
rence Island.
MEET MR. AND MRS. BRUGH
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When Arlington Brugh and Ruby Fay obtained a marriage license,
nobody called, but when it became known that the same two, as
Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck of the films, eloped to San
Di\ego, Calif., and were married in a midnight ceremony, that be
came news. Trye are shown after their return to Hollywood where
they announced the wedding.
Another Note
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LONDON. June 5 </Pi — Pre
mier Chamberlain toLd the House
of Commons that the latest So
viet note would require consider
ation before he could make a
statement on the British and
French efforts to bring Russia
within the mutual assistance
framework.
In formed sources said the note
was addressed jointly to Britain
and France and therefore requir
ed consultation between the two
powers before an answer could
be drafted.
Favor Removal
Tax Irritants
WASHINGTON, June 5 (/P)
John Hanes, undersecretary of
the treasury told the House Ways
and Means Committee that the
administration had a “duty” to
make any tax changes that might
be necessary to stimulate busi
ness.
He named a former Wall
Street broker who said “Where
ever we find the tax system may
be operating against necessary in
centive and is interfering with
legitimate and necess. ry enter
prise it seems plain to me, that
it is our duty to correct the sit
uation.”
Hanes endorsed in full, Mor
genthau’s tax recommendations
inc:iuiding the removal of “tax
irritants” such as the undistrib
uted profits tax, and the capital
stock and excessive profits tax.
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
Inquiry Demanded
In Sub Disaster
UNDATED, June 3 (/P)—'Inter
national political issues paled be
fore the efforts to ratse to Brit
ish submarine Thetis. Despite 9
statement made by Cammed
Laird, Ltd. builders of the craft,
officials have abandoned all hope
for the 98 persons aboard. It was
stated that they are probably all
dead from chlorine gas.
The British press demanded am
inquiry why no Tescue bell waa
i available and why the Thetis was
permitted to make its first test
run unattended
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STRETCH of plastic "filler’*
used in new laminated safety
glass shown at Franklin Institute
in Philadelphia is tested by
pretty Wynette Price. .