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VOL. 42. No. 31. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, March 11, 1940 Price per copy is#
Unofficial Reports Peace Accepted
Minnie Motschman Selected “Miss Alaska” 1940
Russia Demands Her Terms Be Met
Without Preliminary Armistice
And Fighting Continues Unabated
UNDATED. March 9 f/P)— The ]
drive for peace between Russia
and Finland threw Europe into
a tangle of diplomacy intricately
snarled with issues of peace or
continued war, while in the Nor-1
th it involved ramifications of
the British — French — German
war in a confused many-sided
picture. These developments
stood out:
Sweden asserted she had acted
as a go-between only to establish
contact between Russia and Fin
land, on Russian terms of peace.
The stage here shifted to Moscow
or possibly Riga for final nego
tiations. Russia is reported to
have demanded that her terms
be met without a preliminary
armistice. Meanwhile fighting in
Finland continued unabated.
Plan Additional Aids
Great Britain and France gave
increasing indications that they
are considering greater aid for
Finland should peace moves fail.
The controlled French Press
predicted an expeditionary force
if Finland asked it. However an
expeditionary force could land
only on the Russian held Arctic
coast of Finland or move across
neutral Scandinavian soil.
To Talk To Mussolini
Adolph Hitler sent foregin min
ister Joachim von Ribbentrop off
I
! to Rome to confer with Musso
lini while Vatican City authori
ties announced he would be re
j ceived by the Pope..
I German officials in the mean
I time evaded committing themselv
i es on Germany’s role regarding
| the Russian-Finnish conflict or
j the significance of the visit to
Berlin of former Finnish presi
dent Svid Hufvu..
Tomorrow, German memorial
day, Hitler will address the na
tion from a Berlin armory at 3
A M Pacific Standard Time.
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Report Accept
Peace Conditions
STOCKHOLM, March 11 <&)—
The Finnish delegation is report
ed to have left Moscow with the
peace conditions to be submitted
to the Finnish government. The
four-man commission traveled by
airplane. A Swedish telegraph
agency dispatch from Helsinki
said “the foreign affairs commit-1
tee of the Finnish Parliament re-;
portedly recognized the Russian •
peace conditions but no official!
confirmation was available.” The
report was immediately with
drawn at the request of the Fin
nish legation w“hich said it could
be denied.
MRS. DAHL AWAITING HUSBAND
* Mrs. Edith Rogers Dahl is shown in a Philadelphia night club where
she is doing a Spanish dstnce specialty as she read the news that
her husband Harold E Dahl had won release from Spain as a civil
war prisoner. The news was too good for Mrs. to believe. She re
fused to celebrate until 4he got official word from the U S State
Department—because “I’ve heard it so many times before.” Dahl
nearly three years a prisoner of wrar awaited only a boat ride for
his return to the United States.
Bergman Kokrines
Yukon Indian,
Wins Dog Derby
FAIRBANKS March 8 (Special
to the Nugget)—The first racers
into Livengood reached there in
the following order and hour:
Kokrines 4:40:29; George Jim
mie 4:55:34; Skaug 4:55:39; Fair
banks time. The elapsed time of
each—Kokrines 8 hours thirty
minutes 29 seconds; George Jim
mie 8 hours 41 minutes thirty
four seconds; Skaug 8 hours 53
minutes and 39 seconds.
Kokrines was driving seven
dogs with a leader named Victor
—Jimmie was driving twelve
with a leader named Rita and
Skaug drove ten Siberian dogs j
owned by Leonhard Seppala with !
the leader named Trixie.
All other teams mentioned had ]
mixed malamutes and cheechaceo
breed dogs,
Near Tatalina Woods passed
Skaug with the latter’s dogs be
coming tangled. Woods returned
and helped untangle them, Lat
er Skaug beat him into Liven
good. Seppala said’all team made
very good time
FAIRBANKS March 9 (Special
to The Nugget)—Bergman Kok
rines and his mixed malamute
cheechacco-bred team sprinted
across the finish line Saturday
midst the thunderous cheers of
the huge throng to be the first in
for the 1940 Fairbanks Dog Der
by Classic covering a total of one
hundred and sixty six miles—
Fairbanks to Livengood and re
turn—in a total elapsed time of
eighteen hours, seven minutes
and thirty three seconds.
Authorities doubted if any of
i the other teams could beat his
time. Kokrines made the last 9
miles in one hour and nine min
utes finishing with six dogs in j
the harness and one in the bask-;
et of his sled which went out of !
action five miles from the finish.
The other dogs finished fresh.
Kokrines is a Yukon river In
dian trapper from Tanana and is
thirty two years old. The first
thing he did after the finish was
to start reviving his exhausted
dog. He was one of the oldest
drivers in the race while the dogs
average six years old. Kokrines
wins a prize of three thousand
dollars,
Arnt Skaug driving Loenhard
Seppala’s Siberian dogs arrived
second in nineteen hours two min
utes and forty five seconds.
George Jimmie was third with
the time of nineteen hours twen- j
ty three minutes with no chance
of placing for the others.
Kokrines was definitely esta- j
blished as the winner of this;
year’s classic.
Miss Alaska is to be elected
Saturday night after an elabor
ate style review, with the gor
geous coronation ceremony to
morrow afternoon.
ATTENTION
A Pioneer Card Party will be
held Monday, March 11th at 9
pm at thp I O O F Hall.
Minnie Motschman
Aged 20 Is Chosen
Alaska"
—
FAIRBANKS March 10 (Spec
! ial to The Nugget)—Beauteous
raven-looked, fiashing-hlack-ey-;
j ed, olive-skinned Minnie Motsch
| man, twenty year old Alaskan
| born, was chosen before a throng
I of more than a thousand persons
! Saturday night as “Miss Alaska”
j for 194-0, from a field of seven
J representatives of as many Alaska
! communities, after a scrutinous 1
test in which the girls were re
view first in skii togs then even
ing dress and bathing suit.
Born at Nulato a lower Yukon
mission town twenty years ago,
Miss Motschman graduated from
the Fairbanks high school and
! then attended the University of
| Alaska, She is five feet four and 1
weighs one hundred and twenty
pounds and is financially self sup
porting. Both her parents are
dead, She does secretarial work j
and dress designing. Her main
ambition is to participate in as
many forms of athletics as poss
ible.
Miss Alaska for 1940 has never
j set foot outside of Alaska.
With part of the ancestral
blood of earliest historical Alas
ka, she has the distinct type of
beauty which rivals the charms j
j of that legendary figure Minnc-!
| haha.
An elaborate coronation cere- j
mony was to be held Sunday af- j
ternoon. Miss Alaska’s home is
in Fairbanks.
Miss Nome who was to compete j
in the contest failed to arrive—
being weather bound at Nome
since Tuesday.
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vance for your subscription.
Miss Alaska
Of Last Year
Breaks Leg
FAIRBANKS, (Special to the
Nugget) March 11 — Miss Irene
Reenstrom “Miss Alaska’’ for last
year fell and broke her right leg
while skating at the University
of Alaska rink yesterday the last
day of the Carnival.
The evening before she did a
fancy dance act before the queens
competing for Miss Alaska. Last
summer she represented Alaska
at the San Francisco Fair and in
Hollywood. Her home is in Se
ward,
Dr. Dazey Acquit
ted on Wedding
C7
Anniversary
LOS ANGELES, March 11 LP>
Dr George Dazey 41 Santa Mon
ica physician celebrated his ac-!
quittal of the charge of murder
ing his first wife with “the great
est wedding anniversary a man
ever had.’’
The jury after four-days de
liberations freed him of the
charge of drugging Doris aged 31
four years ago and carrying her
to the garage to die beneath an
automobile exhaust. The state
said the motive was his belief
that their son Walter was not his.
He denied it on the stand yester
day the second anniversary of his
marriage to his second wife.
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They'll get a big
rick out of It
Invaders Meet
Little Success
HELSINKI, March 11 (JP, —
With Finland anxious with sus
pense regarding peace negotia
tions the high command announc
ed the invading Red army con
tinued attaaks at Viipuri Bay but
“met with success in few plac
es.”
Two Army Fliers
Killed In Crash
SHARON SPRINGS, Kansas,
March 11 t/P) —.Major Devereaux
Myers and Corporal Maurice Mel
vin were killed in a plane crash
after they left Albuquerque yes
terday.
The Army fliers had headed for
Lowry Field, Denver but radioed
late in the afternoon they were
“hitting soup and were turning
east.” A rancher four miles south
of here saw the crash and the
plane burn at 8:30 pm. ,
Son Kills Father
For Drinking
BURLINGAME, Calif., March
11 —Daily quarrels between
father and son over the father's
drinking ended with the son,
George aged 22 ambulance driv
er acused of shooting to death
his father as he slept awakening
his mother who slept in the same
room. Police Captain Hartnett
said he calmly admitted it. The
father was Andrew Steed aged
49 unemployed accountant whom
the son supported for the past
six months.
REAL WAR CLOUDS IN THE PACIFIC
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Flaming gasses accompany the blast of this 16-inch coast defense gun shown being fired some
where in Hawaii as part of the army’s and navy’s preparation for annual war games in the Pacific
in April. ’
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