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VOL. 42. No. 3. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JAN. 5, 1940. Price per copy 154
British Government Is Reorganized
Budget Incseases Appropriations For Alaska, 1940
Russians Scattered—Finns Ten Miles Into Russia
President’s Budget Message
Recommends Increases For
Alaska 1940 Appropriation
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (IP) —
President Roosevelt’s annual bud
get message to Congress recom
mended increases over last year
in Alaskan apropriations for
Fisheries, Game, Law Enforce
ment, Relief and maintenance of
roads, trails and bridges.
He asked $570,000 for moun
tain roads, trails, bridges, ferries,
•tramways —ten thousand above
last year.
$281,060 for fisheries service,
for the protection of seal, sea ot
ter and maintenance of Pribiloff
Island natives as compared with
$268,200 last year.
$135,000 for Game law enforce
ment, an increase of five thou
sand.
$30,000 for relief, an increase
of ten thousand.
$75,000 was asked for the main
tenance of the Alaska Reindeer
Service and $75,000 for the care
and management of buildings,
cabins and expenses of mainten
ance for employees. $795.00 was
authorized last year for the pur
chase of reindeer herds.
The message asked for $2,775.
600 for the Alaska Railroad spec
jal fund as compared with $2,625,
UOO and $11,900 from income tax
es paid by the railroad on busi
ness in the territory to provide
one percent payment to the trcas
•urer of the territory.
Other recommendations includ
ed $197,992 for the Signal Corps
and maintenance of the Alaska
Communications System as com
pared with two hundred thou
sand previously.
The International Pacific Sal
mon Fisheries Commission, forty
thousand.
| Twenty five thousand for the
A aska agricultural experiment
! station. $23,918 for agricultural
extension service. One hundred
j and forty thousand for star mail
j route service, which was un
l changed.
No provision was made for con
1 tinuing the Alaska International
Highway Commissioner who re
ceived $6,200 last year. The com
mission virtually completed its
task during the current year.
Dionnes May Be Reunited
TORONTO—'Prospects that the
Dionne quintuplets would be re
united their their parents, seven
brothers and sister in 1941, came
to the forefront in the decision of
Dr. Dafoe to retire from the
Board of guardians of the famous
five-year-olds.
The Ontario government must
accept the doctor's resignation be
fore the decision takes effect, but
informed sources said that step
is assured.
Dionne, in Callendar, comment
ing on the report that Dafoe had
recommended the family be re
united, dec ared the “Quinns,
mother and I are happier than
we have ben since the babies
were taken from us five years
ago.
REPUBLICAN NOTICE
Nome Republican Club meet-1
ing Sunday, Jan. 7, 2:30 pm at
City Hall. All Republicans invit
ed.
Kegoayah Public Library now
open at City Hall Friday even
ings from 7 to 7:30 pm.
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The smile of A1 Hostak (left) of Seattle and the tears of Eric Seelig
(right) are eloquent evidence of Ilostak’s successful defense of his
middleweight championship at Cleveland, Ohio at a Christmas
Fund show. These studies were made after Hostak scored a knock
out in 1 minute and 21 seconds of the first round
President Roosevelt Says
Government Is Prepared
To Move On Reduced Budget
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i WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 UP) —
j President Roosevelt today swift*
jly completed the broad outlines
of his congressional program by
sending to congress a sharply
trimmed financial budget, specify
ing in his budget message that
the four hundred and sixty mil
lion dollars of emergency nation
al defense expenditures should
be offset by special taxes.
He forecast a net deficit for
the next year beginning July 1,
of one billion seven hundred and
sixteen miliions dollars as against;
three billion nine hundred and j
thirty three million for the cur- i
rent year ending June 30th.
“The reduced budget,’’ means,
the President said “that the gov
ernment is prepared to move for,
ward on reduced rations. How
ever, any further cuts would re
sult in undue hardship on indiv
idual and economic groups.”
The total expenditures for the
next year including the billion.
e:ght hundred thousand for de
fense expenditures was put at
eight billion four hundred and
twenty four million dollars or
s:x hundred and seventy five mil
lion less than this year. Net re
ceipts aside from social security
taxes have been estimated at five
billion five hundred and forty
t ight million dollars an increase
dr three hundred and eighty two
million over this year, which
Roosevelt said would result from
better business conditions.
Attorney General Frank Murphy
Nominated to Supreme Court Bench
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 </P) —
President Roosevelt today nom
inated Frank Murphy as Asso
ciate Justice to the Supreme
Court bench, and named Solicit
or General Robert Jackson to
succeed him as head of the De
partment of Justice.
He also sent to the Senate the
nomination of Judge Francis Bid
die to Circuit Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit.
Solicitor General Jackson, 46,
is reported to have been offered
the seat on the Supreme Bench
but was said to have declared he
thought there were others much
better qualified then he to a seat
on the bench.
The new Associate Justice,
Frank Murphy was appointed as
Attorney General to head the
Department of Justice January
2nd last year. He was formerly
High Commissioner of the Phil
ippines and Governor of the
State of Michigan.
Murphy’s nomination is the
fifth to be made by President!
Roosevelt to the nine-man court.
Although Murphy has been nam
ed to succeed the late Justice
Pierce Butler, regarded by the
administration as a conservative,
the change is not expected to
create any material effect in the
effect of the court’s opinions.
The President also sent the
nomination of Charles Edison as
Secretary of the Navy to the Sen
ate. He had been given a recess j i
appointment a few days ago.
Dreat Britain Warned She
Will Be Held Responsible |1
For Damage to American Ships
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (/P) —
The American government warn ;
ed Great Britain that the U S
will hold her responsible for dam:
ages resulting from “losses, in
juries” if American ships are
forced into British-controlled
ports.
The State Department released
the text of a long note given to
the British ambassador for for
warding to his government. At
the same time it disclosed that
the American ship Moore-Mac
sun of the Moore-McCormack
Line enroute to Bergen, Norway,
was taken into Kirkwall, one of
the British control ports within
the area forbidden to United Stat
es vessels by the neutrality act.
The Department said since it
violated the neutrality act pro
hibiting an American vessel to
enter the combat area, it cabled
the American embassy in Lon-1
don last night to communicate
immediately with the master of
the Moormaesun and obtain a
full statement of circumstances
as a preliminary step for possible .
action.
The State Department’s note
to Britain dated December 14th
made a point also that the Amer,
ican steamship companies are
voluntarily cooperating with the
British authorities. The message
was signed by Secretary Hull
then said ‘‘in view of these con
siderations it is difficult for my
government to foresee as a prac
tical matter any occasion necessi- j
tating the entry of American ves
sels into belligerent ports."
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Ministers of War and Information
Resign From Posts And Govt.
Of Great Britain is Reorganized
LONDON, Jan. 5 (/P) — Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain re
organized the government with
War Minister Hore Belisha and
Minister of Information MacMil
lan retiring in one of the biggest
political sensations since the war
started.
Oliver Stanley, President of
the Board of Trade becomes the
War Minister and Sir John Char
les Walsham, organizer of the
British Broadcasting Company,
controller of the station; former
Director General of the govern
ment, and head of the Imperial
Airways takes over the much
criticized Information Ministry
which is in charge of the war’s
censorship. The Iron and Steel
industry lawyer Sir Andrew Dun
can becomes President of the
Board of Trade.
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Finnish Troops Chase Russian
163d Div. 10 Miles Beyond Border
And Bomb New Russian Airbases
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 4 (JP) —
Finnish troops chasing the scat
terred remnants of Russia’s
crushed 163rd division were re
ported to have pushed ten miles
into Soviet Territory and to have
surrounded the second Red army
division sent to assist the beaten
163rd. Reports of the encircle
ment of the relief division were
not immediately confirmed.
Military authorities at Helsinki
said the Finns had surrounded
the division between Lake Kian- j
la and the Russian border. The |
Red troops were said to be in a
desperate plight with food, am
munition and supplies cut off.
The Copenhagen press dispatch
es said Finnish bombing planes
! had raided and partly destroyed
new Russian air bases on the is
lands of Dago and Osel off the
coast of Estonia, near the south
ern end of the entrance to the
Gulf of Finland and which Rus
sia won the right to fortify from
Estonia last fall. The newspaper
Aftenvis speculated that the
Finns had used new English and
Italian planes in the raids.
Russian Cattle Line Ls Broken
And Her Strength Shattered
Fighting Becomes Hand-lo-Hand
UNDATED. Jan. 5 (/P)—Fight
ing on Finland’s eastern border
leveloped into hand-to-hand gue;
riila encounters with both Rus
sians and Finns using ski troops:
tor sudden swooping dashes over
a lls and among the trees of the
aitterly cold snow-swept coun
try. Gone, at least for the pres-;
snt, is the threat of a Russian,
irive to the westward across
Finland’s narrow waist. The Fin
nish defeat of the Red’s 163rd
Division on the ice at Lake Ki
anta shatterred the Russian’s bat
tie strength, there is no longer a
well defined battle line and the
Finns held the initiative in the
skirmishes which did occur.
There is virtually no news of
the G-erman-British-Frerfch war.
Germany reported somewhat liv
lier artillery action on the W -
ern Front and continuing air re
connaissance against Britain and
France.
On the diplomatic front Rus
sia reported the concluding of a
commercial treaty with Bulgaria
and at the same time the Soviet
government began similar nego
tiations with Japan and continu
ed trade talks with Germany al
though it was rumored in Sofia
that Russia might ask military
concession in return for Bulgar
ia’s trade. Moscow "said the pact
dealt principally with the Black;
Sea shipping and wouldn’t in
volve political questions,
NOTED LAWYER DIES
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 5 UP)—Char
les Nagel, Secretary of Com
*rce and Labor under President
Taft’s cabinet and one of the
midwest's most successful law
yers died here at the age of 90.
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CHANG E—Treatment Is be
ing given in St. Louis to Cbi
nese-born Mary Chou, 31, «o
correct feet misshaped by bind
ing in youth. She’s a postulant
with a Catholic order of nuns.