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VOL. 41. No. 56. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, May 10, 1939 Pnce Per c°py 15*
Another Plan Govt. Reorganization
Chamberlain Throws First Light On British Efforts
Pope’s Appeal
For Peace Strikes
Responsive Chord
UNDATED, May 9 (8) — The
Pope is disclosed to have convey
ed to the heads of governments
through diplomatic channels “his
ardent desire for peace" and the
prayer that Europe’s problems be
solved by “peaceful means" to
which they all say they are dis
posed."
This peace move, struck a
more responsive chord in Ger
mainy that any such effort made
so far, a Foreign Office spokes
man sa d. Such advances would
he regarded as “much more hon
est effort at mediation" than for
example the British mediation of
fer of yesterday.
Russia’s support is objective to
both groups of European powers
(trying to line up nations in their
respective blocs, BritaimFranoe
against Germany-Italy. The So
viet government is studying the
newest British proposals of part
icipation in the British-French
adliance but would give no hint
of its attitude toward the note
which was presented yesterday
to Foreign Commissar Molotoff.
Red tapes isn’t just a figure of
speech- The government actually
does use it. The procurement di
vision of the Treasury Depart
ment has just put in an order
for some 130-odd miles of it for
requisition by various govern
ment department during the com
ing year.
It’s cheap cotton tape about
one-eighth of an inch wide: it’s
used for tying up bundles and
folders of paper, and so on. Blue
amid white tape are also used.
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Britain Still
Trying to Get
Russian Support
UNDATED, May 10 </P>— Pre
mier Chamberlain disclosed in
the House of Commons that Brit
ain asked Russia for military
aid in. Eastern Europe only if the
British or French forces have al
ready launched any future con
flict. The Chamberlain statement
threw the first official; light on
Britain’s latest efforts to gain
Russian support in its attempt to
offset the Rome ^Berlin, axis. He
i said the British proposals made it
plan 'that theirs is no intention
i “that the Soviet government
should commit themselves to in
! tervene irrespective of whether
■ Great Britain or France have al
ready done so.”
The premier’s words were de- j
signed to clear up what he said
was a misunderstanding of pro
i nasals in Moscow of previous
1 British overtures which were
met by Russian counter-sugges
| t on s fo r a broad Brit ish-French
Soviet alliance which w’ould guar
antee the independence of Eu
rope’s smaller states.
Mussolini made his "best efforts
at drawing Yugoslavia closer to
the Rome-Berlin axis, as Prince
Paul, regent of Yugoslavia and
his foreign minister Alexander
Markovitch reached Rome to vis
it some diplomats, though Paul
i is reluctant, despite Italy’s wish
! es, to sign an anti-Commintern
pact with which links Italy, Ger
many, Japan, Hungary and Man
choukuo.
Vladimir Potemkin, Russia's
first assis'ant foreign commissar
lengthened his step over in War
w, after returning from Tur
key a-d is conferring with For
eign Minister Beck.
NEW INSPIRATION FOR LOU
I
Lou Nova’s departure eastward from Los Anglese to begin training
for his June 'battle with Max Baer in New York had to be put off
for a day when his wife gave birth to a daughter, at a Los Angeles
hospital. Lou, the ex-collegian who has become one of the nation’s
rising heavyweighs, is shown getting his first look at his daughter,
Hertha Louise, in the arms of her mother.
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With Russia and Poland on the north and Greece and Turkey on
the south, the British plan to encircle the Rome-Berlin axis hinged
on the attitude of Rumania. As the map indicates, Rumanian re
luctance to join an alliance with Russia and Britain leaves a wide
gap in the drive to keep the Black Sea from German domination.
Pres. Proposes
Another Plan
Reorganization
WASHINGTON, May 9 </P) —
President Roosevelt proposed a
second government reorganiza
tion plan to Congress involving
fourteen interdepartmental bu
eau transfers and consolidations
estimated to save a million and
a quarter yearly. The President,
in a lengthy message declared
this to be his final plan to Con
gress this session.
The first plan, involving a
merger of a score of independent
lending, welfare, and public [
works agencies into three new
federal agencies becomes effective
June 23 but because of a veto res
ultion failed passage in the
House.
The second plan proposes to
transfer from the Department of
the Interior, the Bureau of Fish
eries, the Commerce Depart
ment and Biological Survey to
the Agricultural Department. It
abolishes the National Bitumin
ous Coal Commission and trans
fers its functions to the Secre
tary of the Interior; and trans
fers the Foreign Commerce Ser
vice of the Commerce Depart
ment and the Foreign Agricul
tural Service of the Agricultural
Department to the Department
of State. The plan provides for
the consolidation of that depart
ment’s foreign service and trans
fers the Bureau of Lighthouses
from the Commerce Department
to the Treasury Department and
mergers the Coast Guard and
transfers it to the Department of
the Interior.
The Bureau of Insular Affairs
of the War Department is merg
ed with the Division of Territor
ies, Islands and Possessions.
The plan would abolish the Na
tional Emergency Council and
transfer ail its functions except
film and radio activities to the
President and other minor offic
ials.
The plan proposed to transfer
to the Department of the Interior
The Bureau of Insular Affairs of;
The War Department, which ad-:
ministers the Philippine Isllands
affairs and the Dominican Repub
lie and the custom receivership
and merge it with the Division
of Territories, Islands, and Poss
ession which adminiters to Al
aka, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands.
U. P. Railroad
Official Dies
WASHINGTON, May 9 <jP> —
Carl R. Gray, aged 71, vice-chair
man on the board of the Union
Pacific Railroad and former presi
dent was found dead in his bed
in the Mayflower Hotel.
The discovery of Gray’s death
was made when associates went
to his room to awake him at 10
a.m. His son, Russell Gray said
his father was feeling well when
he retired after dinner. Another
son, Carl, Jr., said his father was
here on “national transportation
matters.”
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
Testifies Radio
Service in Alaska
Overburdened
WASHINGTON, May 10 iJP) —
Increased military activities and
expanding commercial develop
ment in Alaska have placed a
heavy burden on the govern
ment’s communications systems,
Congress was told by Colonel
Clyde E. Eastman, executive oflfic
er of the Army S'gnal Corps,
who told a House appropriate ns
subcommittee during hearings on
War Department civil functions
supply bill, that traffic has shown
a steady growth over the past 3
years.
Even more business is in pros
pect he said as “fishing, mining,
and agriculture, all have con
tributed to its growth. The in
crease in gold and platinum min
mg activities have been striking.
It is al’so of increased importance
as a result of aviation develop
ment and the expansion, of the
defenses of the Territory which
requires the Signal Corps Sys
tem as a backbone.”
Eastman said that the establish
ment of air routes under the con
trol of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority would soon place a
heavy burden on the system
which will not be relieved until
the Authority establishes its own
radio stations.
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“Sorry” for Husband’s Wife
Betty .Mae Dye (above), 17, of
Denver, learned on her honey
moon that her husband was
charged with bigamy, and said
she was "so sorry” for Mrs. Sadie
Fahrenbruch of Lincoln, Neb.,
wife of the man being sought,
"Too bad we both can’t have
him,” she said. Officers were look
ing for Harry R. Fahrenbrush, 34,
NOTICE
The Nome Sports Association
will hold its regular meeting
Thursday night, May 11 at 7:3ft
o’clock. A new president isi to ft%
elected and important committed
reports heard. All members are
urged to be promptly on time.
Calvin Poole. Pres.
RARE DISEASE DOOMS CHILD
Nine-year-old John Zurick, shown comforted hy his widowed moth*
er, IVTrti. Katherine Zurick, is shown back in his home at Ramey.
Pa., after Philadelphia physicians dismissed his case with the sor*
rowful words: “No hope.” Ji-hn suffers ffom the rare Schilder'9
di^jase, which has the effect, one physician said, “as though the
b^ain was cut off in the middle.” School teachers first not?d the
disorder—John couldn't write in a straight line. Later he lost
speech and became unable to chew or walk. Doctors said medical
sciences knows no cure.
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