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VOL. 42. No. 15. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 2- 1940 Price ^
Recommends New Radio Monitor
Senator Asks End “Carpetbag” Governing Alaska
Wars Lose Spotlight to British and Jap Diplomats
i Japanese Hope For Renewal
Of Treaty Relations With U. S.
And Expresses Distrust Russia
UNDATED, Feb. 1 (A5) — Inter
est. shifted from the battlefields
of the world’s three wars in Fin
land, China and on the Western
Front, to center in the parlia
ments of two of the empires in
volved, Britain and Japan.
The Japanese heard sweeping
statements on their foreign pol
icy, expressing the hope for a
renewal of treaty relations with
the United States, and distrust of
Russia.
While the British Commons
prepared to debate on Laborite
demands for the inclusion of the
Economics Minister in the war
cabinet, Britain’s top government
opposition leaders marshaled
their forces to speak on the Ec
onomics Miaists*- issue covering
its phase in warfare. The Labor
ites declared they are being
slight by the government.
Fireign Minister Hachiro Arita
told the Tokyo diet that he hoped
that the “treaty-less situaion”
wih the United States would be
ended soon. He disavowed any in
tention of curbing “the rights
and intrests of the United States
or other bird powers’’ in China.
The Japanese army “is not re
laxing its watch against Russia’’
in the far east, War Minister Gen
eral Hata said, because of the
scores of illegal acts committed
by Soviet forces after truce was
declared last September, in Man
ihoukuo and the outer Mongolia
border.
Japanese dispathces reported a
major battle shaping up in the
Kwangsi province in south China
where 24 Chinese divisions are
said to be encircled. In the north
1 cast, at Nanking the Chinese are
said to be attempting to recap
| ture Nanning, the main Kwang
Si city on the rail line to French
Indo-China.
Senator Vandenberg Appeals
Congress Discontinue ‘Carpet
Bag’ Governing of Alaska
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (/Pi —
Senator Vandenberg appealed to
the Senate to end “the Carpet
bag” governing of Alaska, just
before the Senate confirmed the
nomination of Ernest Gruening.
Vandenberk said “I have no ob
jection to Gruening as a nominee
under the prevailing practice of
carpetbagging the governorship
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of Alaska but I wish to assert my
belief that there is now a suf
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ficiently civilized population in
Alaska that they ought to permit
ted to have one of their own resi
dent for governor.”
Proof of Labor Blanks car. now
be had at the rTonte Nugget office
Field Gun Loaded for ‘Attack’ on Ol'fornia
Field guns, like the one above weri loaded on the chartered steamer
Baranof at Olympia, Washington for shipment to California where
several thousand soldiers paticipated in a mock attack on the Cal
ifornia coast in the nation’s largest army-navy war games. .
Recommends Airwave Monitor
Radio Checking Station Alaska
For Use Detecting Espionage
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (£>) —
Because any foreign spy can
transmit transatlantic messages
on a radio built from dime store
parts, Ur.cle Sam is increasing
precautions against the use of
air espionage in response to an
appeal by James Fly of the Com .
munications Commission.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee recommended that the
Fly appropriation be boosted by
$40,000 to build a new “monitor”
station near Anchorage as a si
lent detective of the air waves.
Fly told the committee that
“there is extreme difficulty in
avoiding espionage work by the
use of high frequency transmis
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sion. Peculiarly enough in the
high frequency field a transmit
ting set may be set up oy a skill
ed person for a very few dollars
and can take it in a suitcase and
go around the corner to a hard
ware store or five and ten cent
store and come out with a short
wave transmitter set which may
be capable of international range
let us say transatlantic communi
cations.”
Fly expressed the opinion that
the location of a checking station
in Alaska was especially import- j
ant because of the'"unsettled con
dition of the world and the im
portant location on the west
coast of Alaska.
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Rumania Attempting A Policy
Of Economic Neutrality With
Germany who Wants her Products
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BELGRADE, Feb. 2 (Ah—Ger
man pressure on Rumania to ob
tain the acceptance of a sweep
ing plan to make her industries,
petroleum production and agri
culture, adjuncts to the Reich’s
economic structure is reported
by informed persons as the meet
ing of the Balkan Entente open
ed. Rumanian informants said
that already some concessions
have been made to Germany re
gardng the plan but that Ruman
ia is looking to her partners in
the Entente—Turkey, Greece and
Yugoslavia to support her in a
policy of economic neutrality
and enable her to resist encroach
ments that might involve her in
1 war.
This policy was proposed after
it was decided futile for Rum
ania to ask the other members
for a military alliance. Under the
policy the four nations are to sell
suppies to both Germany and
the Alies but only to the extent
of normal peace-time trade,
PLUNGED TO DEATH
FROM SHIP
SEATTLE, Jan. 26' — Marion
Shadow nurse at the Bureau of
Indian Affairs hospital at Kot
zebue since last August, plunged
from the deck of the SS Alaska
1 at about 4:30 am Thursday. She I
had resigned her position be-!
j cause of illness.
An officer on the ship said she
was on her way home to Mercer,
Pa. A sister who met the boat;
i and had driven to Seattle by j
| auto to meet her sister, planned
to begin the trip home today1
I with her sister’s belongings.
Captain Nilsen said that altho
the steamer stopped lor about an
hour in Queen Charlotte Sound '
after the plunge was discovered,1
her body was not found.
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COUNTRY IS FIRST,
PARTY SECOND, FARLEY
WINSTON SALEM, N Y Jan.
—Postmaster General James Far:
ley said his love for ris country
transcended any allegiance to the 1
-Democratic party, but gave noJ
indication that the statement had
any political significance.
He said in effect that existing j
wars upon American politics I
were utterly unpredictable but
that the judgement of “our peo-1
pie and their patriotic devotion
will subordinate partisanship to
the public good.
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Fourth Division
Complete Filings
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 1 (Special)
—The complete list of Fourth
Division Alaska legislative candi
dates at the close of filing this
afternoon are as follows:
For Senator: Democrats Gil
bert T B Stevens of Beery; Hjal
ma Nordale of Fairbanks; Repub
Means P J McDonald and John H
“Deacon” Jones.
For Representatives: Democrats
Wesse D Lander, Hugh M Hen
ton, Fred A Borri, Charles F Her
j bert, Mrs Dorothy Loftus, Leo
Rogge, Alfred J Ghezzi, Frank S
Gordon, all of Fairbanks and
William R Olsen of Bethel; Re
pubicans Louis D Colbert, R J
' McKanna, Fred G Johnston, Ar
| thur F Carpenter, Henry P Car
I stens, Mrs Fay C Hurley and E
Thomas Murton all of Fairbanks
and Sam Estes of Chatanika and
Independent Robert McCombe of
Fairbanks.
Complete Filings
From Juneau
JUNEAU, Feb. 1 (Special) —
! Filings closed 5 o'clock Tuesday
| afternoon for the Territorial pri
i maries for April 30 with the fol
lowing announcing their candi
dacies:
For Delegate: Democrat An
thony J Dimond incumbent; Re- j
publicars Sam Buker and Cash!
Cole both of Juneau.
For Attorney General; Demo
crats Henry Roden and George
Grigsby both of Juneau; Repub
lican Harry G McCain of Ketchi
kan.
For Auditor: Democrat Frank
A Boyle incumbent, Robert Shel!
! don of Fairbanks; Republican A
SHE PREFERS JAIL
TO STRIP-TEASING
I Patricia Winfrey (above), 21,
j New York dancer who vainly
! sought a film career in Holly
wood said she preferred jail to
becoming a strip-tease dancer.
Patrolman Ross Gray said Miss
Winfrey tossed a brick through a
drugstore window' to attract his
attention. The office said she told
him she would rather starve than
do strip-tease dancing and that
her money had run out and she
had been evicted by her landlady
She was booked on a malicious
mischief charge. .
H Humphries of Fairbanks and
Independent Harry G Watson of
Juneau.
For Highway Engineer: Demo
crat William A Hesse incumbent,
Victor C Rivers of Farbanks; Re
publican Harold C Miller of
Ketchikan and Irving Ockreed of
Fairbanks.
BEESEMYER VIEWS PAROLE PAPERS
After serving nine years of a 40-year-sentence for alleged defalca
tion of $8,000,000 from a Hollywood finance company, Gilbert H
Beesemyer was paroled from San Quentin prison. The 54 year-old
former financier sentencet in 1930 is shown in the California state
parole joffice of Parole Officer Charles C. Coxe (holding parole pa
pers) ji^st after he was released from tne prison.