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VOL. 41. No. 61. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1939 Price Per 154
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Royal Visits ionne ui lets
Dies Discloses Campaign to Prepare for Revolution
Germany & Italy Join in 10- Year Military Alliance
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‘HANDS OFF”
General Hugh Johnson, formei
fiery NRA administrator, looked
somewhat pensive as he told th<
senate foreign relations commit
tee he believed in a “hands off’
neutrality policy and that sane
tions are war. ....
Public Facilities
For M’Kinley Park
WASHINGTON, May 22 (JP) -
The Senate passed and sent tc
the White House a hill authori?
:ng the President to provide put
lie facilities 'and accomodation*
*t Mount McKinley Park.
First Fatality
Over Danzig
Occurred Sunday
UNDATED, May 22 (/P) —Ger
many and Italy cemented their
axis partnership in a formal ten
year military alliance as Britain
appeared ready to meet Russia
on terms lining up the Soviet Un
ion with the British-French front.
The strengthening of one coali
tion and the apparently immm
| ent enlargement of the other
came amid new tension, the re
sult of the first fatality yesterday
i in Polish-German issue over Dan
| z, g, when a Danzig-German,
Gustav Gruebner, a butcher was
| shot and killed by a Pole under
disputed cirsumstances. The in
1 cident precipitated an exchange
of angry notes between the Nazi
I dominated free city and Poland.
Germany and Italy agreed to
pool all their military and econ
omic relations even before wtar to
| give then an effective striking
■ power.
Coif Championship
Being Decided
HOYLAKE, England, May 22
f/P) —■Defending champion Char
ley Yates of Atlanta and Dick
Chapman of Greenwich, Connec
ticut, played a superbly advanc
ed second round in the British
Amateur Golf Championship.
Yates beat Bruce Thompson
five and four, and Chapman beat
■John Cowlet four and three.
SMELL THE POSIES, MUMMY’
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Her face and head heavily wriapped with bandages as a result of
injuries from an auto accident, Mozelle Britton, pretty film actress
and wife of actor Alan Dinehart, is shown in a Hollywood hospital
as her three-year-old son, Mason, brught her some roses. Physicians
believed her beauty would not be marred by the accident
TWIN SISTERS DIVORCE TWINS
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Lou'sa May Sebring (left) and her twin sister, Lois Maude Sebring,
woke up on their divorce day at Carson City, Nev„ with smiles on
\ their faces. They were divorced from Ray Alvin Sebring and Roy
! Calvin Sebring, twin brothers to whom they were married in 1934
at Port Orchard, Wash. They charged cruelty. The husbands reeside
I at Seattle and formerly were members of the U. S. Marine Corps.
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Queen Elizabeth
And Quintuplets
Exchange Gifts
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TORONTO May 22 (yT)—Queen
! Elizabeth exchanged gifts with
the Dionne quintuplets at a pri
vate reception before the royal
couple and later Canada’s five
famous sisters made appearances
at the Ontario Legislature where
the queen gave Annette, Cecilie,
Emilie, Marie, and Yvonne, five
Little white coats -brought from
London. In return she received
the photographs of the little
girls, each child signed its name
on its own photograph with the
guidance of its mother’s hand.
Appearing before parliament, the
quints threw kisses which dispell
ed the formality of the occasion.
Reveals Plot
To Assassinate
Eduard Benes
PARIS, May 20 </P) — Diplo
matic sources revealed that Stef
an Osusky, former Czechoslovak
ia French minister, forwarded to
ex-president Eduard Benes, in
formation of a Nazi fomented
plot to assassinate Benes during
his current residence in the Unit
ed States while lecturing.
Osusky turned over all inform
ation to the French and Ameri
can police authorites who are
making investigations of Osus
ky’s information which came
from secret agents in Prague,
which included charges of the
!
I plot fomented by Nazi secret po
I lice.
Early this month telephone
j threats against Benes caused
I guards to watch him closely and
| revealed that Nazi agents .are
; seeking some disgruntled Czech
or Slovak or anyone who will
carry out the assassination.
First Trans
Atlantic Scheduled
Flight Is Made
NEW YORK, May 20 UP)—-'The
Yankee Clipper, built in Seattle
by Boeing, took off from Port
Washington on Long Island at 9 |
a.m. Pacific time, carrying one
hundred thousand letters, inau
urating the first regular trans
port service between the United
States and Europe. Arthur E. La
Porte is the pilot and the ship
carries a crew of fourteen.
Four other mail flights are
scheduled before the passenger
service is started.
The Clipper is due at Horta, in
Azores in fourteen hours.
MARSEILLES, France, May 22
(A*) —The Yankee Clipper alight
ed at 3:40 pjm. completing the
first regularly scheduled commer
cial flight across the Atlantic
Ocean. The Clipper left New
York Saturday and carried mail j
but no commercal passengers and
stopped at the Azores and at
Lisbon.
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge 1
Logs, thawing and drill reports, |
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode!
Location Notices. Vouchers,
Special Power of Attorney forms |
Trying Prepare
American People
For Revolution
WASHINGTON, May 22 i/Pi —
Dudley Gilbert, New Yc.rk social
ite told the Dies committee an
un-American activities that he
has been trying for months to
organize a campaign “to help the
American people be ready for a
red revolution.”
Examined closely about letters
he wrote to J. E. Campbell of
Owne.-boro, Ky., with whom he
ass ciated, Gilbert t Id the
romnuit e “I figured very short
ly that we faced a civil war from
the left, and I thought if they
took over the country, what was
left of the country would have
to rise up under the Franco meth
od.
Rep. Ileaiy asked if Gilbert
meant a military dictatorship.
Gilbert replied: “If something
like that did take place wr would
have to do something
We didn't advocate a military
movement but only that the peo
ple would have to fight back.”
Pleads Guilty
KANSAS CITY, May 22 </P) —
Tom Pendergast, dethroned boss
of the city's long-p werful Demo
cratic machine pleaded guilty to
evading federal income taxes on
$443,000. Government arguments
laying this as a basis for sen
tence promptly charged that he
actually evaded taxes on $1,240,
000, and since 1027 bet two mil
lion dollars on horse racing, and
in 1935 los ng $600,060.
In defense efforts to avert a
prison sentence, Pendergast's
MAY WIN FREEDOM
Mrs. Coletta Schlett (above),
"motor murder" widow of Nor
walk, ().. appeared to be headed
for freedom follovvi.i^ her story
of intimacies with Harold Hast
ings, in trill for killing her hus
band by running him down with
an auto. The prosecution an
nounced it would recommend
freedom for her, death for Hast
ings.
physcian sa:d he had a heart ail
ment which might cause death in
case of a shock.
PENDERGASTSENTENCED
KANSAS CITY. May 22 (/P) -r,
Tom Pendergast was sentenced
to 15 months in prison by Judge
Merril Otis. He was given a week
to get his affairs in order. •
With time oil' for good behav
ior, may mean his sentence will
only be ten months.
LOOK PLEASANT DESPITE WRECK
?; ..mi iiumti .
Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Martha of Norway could
still laugh when they disembarked from the liner Oslofjord at New
Iforti upon tlieir arrival to visit the United States. Their steamer
bad collided early with a pilot boat in New York harbor. No one was
injured. The royal pair are shown leaving the boat for the cutter
Riverside on their way to a reception at the Battery.