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VOL. 41. No. 91. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1939 Price per copy 13.
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Compensation Act Unconstitutional
Japan Demands Chinese Money In British Banks
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Germany & Japan Adopt New Trade Agreement
Arctic-Bound
Pandora Hits
Rocks St. Elias
SEWARD —The Coast Guard
cutter Morris reported it had tak
on aboard the six survivors from
the M. S. Pandora, which vessel
■is a total wreck.
Members of the expedition,
headed by Dr. Homer Flint Kel
lems, farmer-evangelist of Okla
homa, included his 21-year-old
daughter, Vivienne. All members
were reported in good health, al
though drenched by rain and ex
posure for 28 hours.
The heavily-laden Pandora lay
h.gh on the beach Sunday night
washed there by the high tide.
The Morris reported the boat
struck a line of rocks after the
plot lost control and at the first
impact the bow was damaged
and the entire port side stove in
with ribs broken along the en
tire side; the rudder was also
broken off.
The cutter stood by for what
salvage work possible Although it
was reported virtually the entire
•cargo is lost.
The wreck scene is three miles
south of Cape St. Elias light
house.
JUNEAU—Kellem’s Northwest
Passage expedition is stranded at
* Seward and Customs oflicias re
ported the party is without funds
to return to the States. The
party can not qualify as “ship
wrecked mariners" under mari
time laws because the crew is not
listed as regular seamen and
therefore not subject to trans
portation at state or government
expense.
Germany And
Japan Adopt New
Trade Agreement
TOKYO, July 29 </P> — Japan
formally announced a new trade
f agreement with Germany which
some observers believed to be
timed as a warning to France
and Britain..
Coming shortly after the Unit
ed States abrogation of the 1911
Japanese treaty, the new Ger
man-Japanese agreement was
seen as a warning to Britain and
France that any similar unfriend
ly action might drive Japan into
closer relations with the Rome
Berlin axis.
Giving unusual emphasis to
the agreement, which is only in
the instilling stage, they said the
pact allso strengthened their front
against Communism.
NOTICE
e All members and all interested
In the development of the Sec
ond Division are cordially invit
ed to attend the regular meeting
and luncheon to be given Tues
day August 1st, alt 12 o’clock
noon, Nevada Grill.
Dr. H. A. Bauer consultant to
the Alaska Planning Council will
address the meeting on the forth
coming economic survey.,...
FIVE MEN AND GIRL WHO PLANNED DARING ARCTIC TRIP
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“New York in three months" wastlie am of Dr. Ilomer Flint Kel 1 e m s, Oklahoma evangalist
raneher. as he worked on the 38-foot boat Pandora at Seattle. He hoped to sail around North Am
erica between Canada and the ice pack. Left to right: Ira Jones, engineer; Keilems daughter,
Vivienne, 21; Leo Clark, radio operator, and Keilems.
Alaska Workmen’s
Compensation Act
Unconstitutional
SAN FRANCISCO, JuT.y 29 <VP)
—The Circuit Court of Appeals
held unconstitutonal the Alaskan
Workmen’s Compensation Act as
amended in 1935. The court stat
ed the act violated the Terri
tory's Organic Law n*-ohibiting a
statute from cir hi acing more i
than one subject.
The litigation involved the
Territorial Government and the
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com j
pany and was a test case on
which six other actions were de
pendent.
The ruling was by stipulation.
The suit involved a territorial
appeal from a district court de
cision after the Territory sought
to collect $4000 from the com
pany for the death of Eugene
Quankenbush in a mine accident,
under the act which required
payment to employees killed in
action plus a payment to The
Territory for the care of aged
residents.
Recommends Pratt
WASHINGTON, Ji% 31 UP)—
The Senate Judiciary Committee
recommended the confirmation of
Harry Pratt as district judge for
the Fourth Division.
NOTICE
George Anderson, expert Piano
tuner with Pianos for sale or
rent will be in Nome about Aug
ust 15th.
For Meats Bring Your Friends
To The NORTH POLE BAKERY
Britain Starts
Mobilization Of
Naval Might
UNDATED, July 29 UP)—Great
Britain began a graduaj; mobiliz
ation of her naval might, to bring
all of her military branches to
fighting peak, for any eventual
ity in August and September, the
months in which tension is ex
pected.
British nlvalists were back
from leaves vhich were granted
early to assure for August and
September a full force and ships
prepared for sea.
Lieut. Rollins to Join Byrd
Expedition to Antarctic
Lt. Glenn Rollins, of the cutter
Haida, has [received the distinc
tion of beirj* included in the of
ficer's personnel of the cutter
Northland fcr Admiral Richard1
Byrd's Antarctic expedition.
The news means that Rollins I
will leave jluneau withtin two;
weeks to jcn the Northland at
San Francisjp.
EMIL HURJtV BUYS
PATH FIND® MAGAZINE
Emil Hurj, former Alaskan re
cently pun lased the national
current eve its magazine The1
Pathfinder, , rtnouncing that in
addition to rontinuing its pub
lication he woutld take a few
straw polls ,uth it.
Hurja wor.ed as a reporter at
Fairbanks, ter becoming Sec
retary to Aljska Delegate Char
les Sulzer. F, has been at Wash
ington since 1932.
Atterion Pioneers
A regular Meeting will be held
Wednesday, \Ug. 2, 1939. at 8
p.m. at the C Id Fellows Hall.
MISS ALASKA LEAVES
SOON FOR S F FAIR
Given as a reward for winning
the title of "Miss Alaska” at the
1939 Ice Carnival. Irene Reen
strom gets the trip to the San
Francisco World Fair. The Sew
ard gin is scheduled to leave
about August 1 by steamer for
the States.
At Juneau Miss Alaska will be
joined by Jane Gordon. “'Miss
Fairbanks” of this year. Miss Gor
don will accompany her to San
Francisco as manager of the Miss
Alaska tour.
Inasmuch as it is necessary and
customary for Miss Alaska to
have a traveling companion, Miss
Gordon was requested by Garniv
al officials to assume the position
of manager of the trip. She had
planned a trip to the States any
way, and her position as Miss
Fairbanks, elected by the people
of Fairbanks, and her experience
at traveling made her the ideal'
choice in the opinion of those ar;
ranging the trip.
Under a reciprocal arrange-!
ment with transportation com
panys and hotels, the major por
tion of the traveling expenses of
the two young women has been
taken care of at no expense to
the Carnival other than includ
ing advertising in the Carnival
program booklet.
With Miss Alaska going only to j
San Francisco, the total cash ex-1
pense of this year’s tour figures!
to be less than in 1938 when Miss
Alaska journeyed to Southern !
California. The expenses include:
a/ll of those attached to Miss
Reenstrom’s trip and a small part
of Miss Gordon’s.
Two funeral services were held
this afternoon at the Native Meth
odist Church, foir Mrs. Martha
Dixon and 3-year-old Selma
Charley. Followng the ceremony
the cortege went to Bellmont
Point Cemetery for interment.
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Demand Britain
Surrender 3,000,000
Chinese Money
UNDATED. July 31 <4* — A
joint dispatch of a British and
French military mission is to
start immediate staff talks in
Moscow, it was announced in the
House of Commons by Premier
Chamberlain. The military talks
will proceed “side by side" with
the surrent three-power con versa 1
lions aimed at bringing Russia
into the mutual assistance pact!
with France and Britain. The;
British mission will include Ad
miral! Sir Reginald Plunkett and
Major General T. G. Haywood.
In Moscow, the Cammumst
i party newspaper, the Pravda
1 said that Russia was ready to
f J j
help organize a “real peace
front.”
Anti - British demonstrations
were staged outside of Britain's'
Tokyo embassy amid growing re
: ports of grave difficulties in the |
, British & Japanese negotiations
I for settling the far eastern dis- j
J pute between the two powers.
Informed London quarters fear i
I od that the Tokyo talks, initiated
! after the Japanese imposed the
blockade of June 14 at Tientsin,
j on the British and French con
; cessions were headed for a break
| down as the negotiations were
deadlocked. The Japanese de
mand that Britain surrender
j about $3,380,000 deposited by the
J Chinese Government in British
| banks at Tientsin,
Definition Of
Indirect Aggres
sion Is Big Snag
LONDON. July 31 l/P) —Pre
mier Chamberlain acknowledged !
before the House of Commons
that the definition of the term
“indirect aggression” was the ma
jor snag holding up the conclu
sion of the proposed British
French-Russian mutual assist
ance pact. He made the disclos
ure in a Foreign Affairs com
mittee debate a short time after
he announced that military mis
sions would be sent to Moscow.
He said: “There is no secret
about the fact that the British
government, the French govern
ment, and the Soviet government
combined have not yet been able
to agree upon a definition of the
term indirect aggression which
wouILd be satisfactory to all part
ies. Although all three realize
that indirect aggression might be
just as dangerous as direct ag
gression, all three desire to find
a satisfactory method for pro
viding against it."
NOTICE (
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All persons wishing to be- *
come charter members of the 1
Arctic Club please see Wilfred a
Boucher or Eileen Harris on or 1
before July 31, 1939.
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Accuse New Deal
Establish Com
munism in Mexico
WASHINGTON, July 29 (ZD
New Hampshire's Republican
Senator Bridges charged in the
Senate today that the Roosevelt
administration “encouraged and
even connived at the estabish
ment of Communism in Mexico.’’
Opposing the plan for a hun
dred million dollar expansion
for an export and import bank.
He said the American people
have been paying for and main
aining the Cardenas govern
ment's policies as part of coop
teal. n with our new deal, and
Cardenas has encouraged his fel
low travellers to the south to
se.ze property of American citi
zens through our silver policy.
We have even subsidized them
in doing so.”
N. C. Stines Visiting in Nome
Norman C. Stines, well known
to many people who consolidat
ed the placer ground in this vic
inity and brought it to the atten
tion of the U. S. Smelting Co.,
which now' has large scale oper
ations here, is now in No.me.
Mr. Stines did hi$ grouping
work in 1924 and left here about
two years later. He has not vis
ited Nome for 13 years.
Since leaving here, the prom
inent engineer, has covered a
wide field in his work Most re
cently lie has been in Colorado
and before than Worked w’ith
mining interests in South Amort
ican countries. Mr. Stines stated
that the South American coun
tries, although rich ;n mineral
resources, are not considered
oractioal for entrance by outside
tapital, due to prevailing poliit
cal affairs.
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COMIC RELIEF
r— tmm+wmm ..in
arol Maurice (above), former
bow girl and friend of William
Buckner, Jr„ enlivened the
ittcr’s trial for alleged conspir
cy in connection with Philipp
ine railway bonds by testifying
ii federal court, where she is
liown, that Buckner had often
>lked to her of marriage, “But
nly as you’d talk about the war
i China.”