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VOL. 41. No. 115. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY. OCT. 3. 1938 p™e per Copy During Queen Contest-10 cent*,
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Czechs Accepted Poland’s Demands
New Jersey Nazis Prevented from Holding meeting
Poland &Hungary wants common Borders Arranged
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Second Time
New Jersey Nazis
Are Rebuked
UNION CITY, New Jersey.,
October 3. (/P)—Militant rock
throwing anti-Nazis thwarted
for the second time 'in two weeks
an attempt by the German-Am
erican Volksbund, to hold a rally
in North Jersey. The infuriated
crowd of two thousand forced
police to request Fritz Huhn, the
National Bundleader, to call off
las' night’s celebration, by follow
ers of German acquisition of
Sudetenland. Booing demonstra
tions, accompanied by some of
whom wore Veterans oversea’s
caps.stoncd Kuhn as police Com
missioner Harry Little, escorted
Kuhn fr-*r. the he-dquarters of
the Hudson Cr Turd to an
awaiting r tcmo
Father and Five
Children Burn
Death in Home
DEEP RIVER. Conn.. October*
3, (/P>—Louis Beckwith and five
of his eight children are dead—
victims from an explosion that
sent Hames roaring through his
home yesterday, while he was
trying to start a fire in the kit
chen stove with inflamable liq
uid.
The Queen Contest coupon bal
lot will be found at the bottom
of the N. W. Alaska Fair Asso
ciation advertisement on Page 3.
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FROM THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET that didn’t
hang by a well, a thirsty road worker in Austria—where mountain
highways are undergoing repair—takes a drink. Use of oaket*
buckets to keep water cold U traditional in the j„n
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IN A GOLDEN TRAIN, a shrine containing Budapest’s most sacred relic, the mummified
• ■> hand of St. Stephen, was moved for first time in 900 years to Kstergom. Hungary. |
Poland Issues
l ltimatum To
Czechoslovaks
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WARSAW. Oct. 1. i/P)—Czech
oslavakia was reported today to
have acct?pted Poland's territor
ial demands, including the evac
uation of Czech troops from, the.
disputed Teschen area.
The Polish ultimatum demand
ed that the Czechs cede to Pol
and the town of Teschen, by 4:00
a.m. Pacific Standard Time, and;
the rest of the Eeschen-Silesian
territory, embracing seven hun-,
dred and seventy-two square mil'
es. by October 10th. I
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Hitler's Goose
Steppers March
Into New Terri.
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BERLIN, Oct. 1, <P)— Adolph
Hitler today sent the first steel
heLmeted. goose-stepping soldiers
mto parts of CzschoslavaKia
given him by the Four Powers
Conference, to buy peace.
The troops crossed the frontier
near Igen, while thousands more
are poised, with full equipment,
along the hundred and twenty
mile stretch of frontier, also ac
ross from three other rich zones,
ready to annex them before Octo
ber 8th.
Trying Get Poland
Not To Force
LONDON, Oct. 1. f/P)—Author
itative quarters reported that the
United States had joined in in
ternational representations to
Poland, asking for moderation
of demands in the Polish-Czecho
slavakia dispute.
The representations are believ
ed to have amounted to a virtual
warning, understood to be eon
trbiutory for a reported Pollsh
Czechoslavakia understanding.
Don’t forget to leave your name
end address for the Nugget to be
sent to you via airplane ait your
•mining camps, from now on.
Hungary, Poland
Hope for A Joint
Border Soon
BUDAPEST. Oct. 1, (/P>— The
Hungarian press today expressed
hopes that Poland and Hungary
would soon have common bord
ers, even though at Czechosiav
akia’s expense, it were to be ac
complished.
The press said that the Czechs
should return to Hungary all the
territory in which chiefly, Hun
garians live.
QUEEN MARY IS ILL
LONDON, Oct. 1, — The Queen
Mother Mary, aged 71, was re
ported ill today with laryngitis.
Accepted Demands
Allow Hitler To
Occupy
WARSAW, Oct. 1, (JP) Czecho
slavakia today accepted Poland's
territorial demands in full, there
by averting a threatened inva
sion.
Headquarters of the German
army of occupation at Peassau,
which is under military law, rul
ed that in the first Czechoslavak
ian zone to be occupied by Ger
mans, that foreigners not attach
ed to headquarters or accompan
ied by officers were subject to
immediate arrest,
A strict military observation is
also in force along the German
side of the frontier.
Thirty thousand soldiers occu
pied the Bohemia forest along a
sixty mile stretch paralleling the
Danube river.
It was assumed that the Czechs
had withdrawn to Krumau, and
are now using that city as a new
frontier base.
Shoots Two, Then
Turns Gun On
Himself
FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Oct. 3,
(/P)—A. A. McCandless whose
body was found on Greenstone
creek with his head blown off
by a rifle, yesterday, left a sui
cide note addressed to his wife
and daughter. The Coroner’s
verdict was suicide.
The body was taken to Ruby
where it is being held awaiting
instructions from relatives.
His body was found several
hundred feet from McCandless’
cabin, where he shot and wound
ed three miners who were brot
here for treatment. R. F. Squire
who was the most seriously hurt,
is now improving and probably
is out of danger. •
McCandless’ widow is now in
Fairbanks. McCandless was aged
69 years and came North in 1898.
THEIR NAME ISLEGION, and Film Actress Evelyn
■ Keyes went east to remind American Legion members that they’re
' invited to September national convention in Los Angeles. She’s
. with Vic MacKemie, national convention director. •
ONLY ANNE WAS OUT OF STEP When the two principals of the nation's No. 1 wed
ding June 18 at Nahant. Mass., marched across the lawn for the benefit of photographers. Percy, the
dachshund goose-stepping along, is a favorite pet of Anne Lindsay Clark, whose marriage to John
_ Koosevelt, the President’s youngest son. will take place in a tiny Nahant church. ,