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VOL. 41. No. 129. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 27, 1939. ^ P*r C0P7 l8«
Repeal Arms Embargo Passes Sen.
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Prize Crew Is Taking City Of Flint To Germany
United States National Debt Reaches 40 Billion
Hull Announces
Govt. Demands
City Of Flint
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (JP) —
Secretary Hull announced that
the government demanded that
Russia return the City of Flint
with her cargo and her Ameri
can crew. The demand was pre
sented by ambassador Laurence
Steinhardt but no reply has been
received as yet. The American
demand was based Hull said on
the United States conception of
international law. On this sub
ject Hull said this country's view
of international law on the mat
ter is embraced in the United
States Supreme Court Decis'on
of the case of the British steam
er Appam which was sent by a
German raider Moewe in 1916 to
Hampton Roads, Virginia, with
a German prize crew aboard. The
Supreme Court decision called
for tne release 0i* :Vii vessel on
the grounds that Germany had
no right to send a prize ship into
an American port. Hull said the
American position also embraced
Article 21 of the Hague conven
tion of 1907 which said that a
prize ship could be put into a
neutral harbor only in case of
exceptional circumstances such
a stress of weather, breakdown
of machinery or lack of provi
sions.
Russians Release
City Of Flint
Leaves Port
MOSCOW. Oct. 26 '(/P) — The
Rush an rad.o announced that the
City of Flint was released. They
said her cargo w:s inspected by
authorities at Murmansk, then
freed. The ship was ordered to
leave port immediately.
City Of Flint
Bound Germany
By Prize Grew
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BERLIN, Oct. 27 </P) —Official
advices said the City of Flint
was being sailed from Murmansk
to Germany in command of her
i prize crew. The German pocket
battleship Deutschland and the
freighter are reported to be some
where along the Norwegian coast
heading slowly toward the Brit
ish blockade area.
The vessel was seized as a eon
j traband ship and taken to Mur
mansk and was released last
. night by Russia. Advices reach
: ing Berlin said the Germans lost
! no time in lifting anchor for Ham
i burg where the prize court it is
| planned will decide the fate of
I the ship and its cargo.
"RAND3 DISCLOSURE
! “SORDID PROCEDURE’’
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (TP) —
i President Roosevelt branded as
I “a sordid procedure” the public
; jlion by the Dies Committee of
be names of more than 500
j vcrnment employes on “the
membership mailing list” of the
! American League for peace and
j □ mocracy. The Committee char
I ged the League as being a “front”
for Communist activity.
FDR WILL NOT TALK
ABOUT TIHRI) TERM
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (/P) —
President Roosevelt met third
term questions with a smile and
suggestions that the press con
ference confine itself to news,
j Jibe conference is the first since
| Secretary Wallace remarked in
' San Francisco that the European
j war would make a third term de
mmole. Press Secretary Early
•i. men ted stingingly that W?l
1 zc should have consulted the
President before he talked on
i t*'3t subject.
Chamberlain
Replies To
Von Ribbontrop
LONDON, Oct. 27 <7P>— Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain to
clay told the House of Commons
that there can be but one reply
to Germany’s declaration of war
to the finish and “We are pie
pared to give it.”
He referred to Von Riibben
trop’s Tuesday speceh, saying he
didn’t intend to waste time by
“commenting on the many de
tails of th s performance.”
“Net a one in this country' is
deceived by its distortions of
truth. There is already abundant
evidence that Von Ribbentrop
has not been successful in his
attempt to mislead impartial ob
servers in other parts of the
world. Indeed I even cherish the
j hope and despair that all such
; ratification will be recognized
i by Some in Germany itself, and
that they will see where the real
truth lies.”
Chamberlain, in speaking of
Germany’s war against shipping
declared: “It seems that it has
now become the rule that mer
chant sl ips are sunk without
warning,” He said that in the
past week five British ships have
, been sank, totalling 22,000 tons
j which Great Britain has lost, in
a week.
Soviet Laugh
j At Accusation
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LONDON, Oct. 25 (/PI— Prime
i Minister Chamberlain accused
j Germany of inviting Russia “to
■ un the cursade against the Brit
ish Empire” in his war accusa
tion which brought laughter
from Soviet ambassador Maisky
who was listening in the d;plo
rr a tic gallery.
SCOURING THE SEA LANES CLEA N—Alongside the British mine sweeper Seagull
rides its “paravane,” a device with a sharp cutting edge which severs the under-sea mines' anchor
lines, causing the mines to float to the surface. There they’re exploded by gun fire. To rid the sea lanes
of mines, England sends her flotilla in close formation through the danger zones.
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Details Of
Drowning Of
Warren Ferguson
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Kotzebue, Oct. 26
Nome Nugget Nome
At 10:30 a.m. October 20th,
Warren Ferguson left the Fer
guson store with a half-ton
truck carrying a six-by-six tim-:
' bc-r for the tug Helen Lee which
J he was having placed in winter
i quarters on the bank of the la
goon. Logan Varnell was inside1
the cab with Warren and a na
tive boy, Mark Kooklun, was ir.
I the back of the car.
They drove on the ice follow
ing nea<r the beach. As they I
rounded the point going into the
1 lagoon the car went through the
j ice. Kooklun jumped from the I
| car onto good ice but Ferguson
I and Varnell went down with the
! car; As the car sta<rted down Fer
! guson said “Open the door.” Var
i nett did and soon got out and
caw: up through the hole. He
then went back he said to look
for Warren but lost his bearings
and was carried past the hole by
the incoming tide which carried
him into the lagoon.
The men working around the
tug saiw them go down and rush
ed to their aid. They saw Var-j
nel swimiming face upwards un- i
i der the coar ice and broke the
I ice with a two-by-four and pull
ed him out. He was still breath
ing and soon afterwards walked,
home.
The men kept looking through
the ice for Ferguson. Matt Par
vin soon arrived breaking the
lice, making the hole larger, then
lied a rope around himself so he.
could be pulled up. He descend
ed to the car, looked in and
around it but Warren was gone.
Men are still dragging the bot
tom of the lagoon for the body.
They built a wire fence across
the entrance of the lagoon so the
body could not go to sea.
Warren Ferguson leaves a wife
and three young sons also a bro
ther, Archie.
B. W. Netty
Federal Debt
Mounts Over
Forty Billions
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (A>) —
The federal debt went over the
forty one billion mark, bringing'
the Treausry within four billion
of its borrowing limit. The daily
treasury statement disclosed the
debt total reached forty one bil
lion, twenty three million as a
result of a fifty two million in
crease one day due to borrow
ing short term bills on baby1
bond sales. A year ago the peak
was thirty eight and a half bil
| lion.
I WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (Ah —
Americans received two billion
dollars more in wages, dividends i
and other forms of income, the
first three quarters of this year
than in the similar 1938 period.
The Commerce Department esti
mated a total for the 9 months
of $50,789,000,000.
FIFTH GRADER SERVES IILBBY
Thirteen-year-old Carrie Bell Davis, a fifth grade schoop pupil Is
shown serving her husband John Davis 22 a PWA worker a dish
of beans at the Springfield W V. home of the bride’s parents. The
child-bride said she would continue school for a while.
Pope Pius XI
Condemns Govts.
By Dictator
CASTLE GRANOLFO, Oct. 27
iJP) —Pope Pius XI condemned
the governments which assume
“that absolute autonomy which
belongs exclusively to the su
preme raker" and offered con
-■ >!ation to dismembered Poland.
In the first encyclical of his
reign the Pontiff, after recount
ing the failure of hi.; efforts for
peace also pleaded for a settle
ment of the war devoid of the
errors of past treaties which fail
ed to bring a lasting peace.
He blamed the denial of “the
authority of God and the sway of
his law” to the rise of govern
ments which make the state “the
last end of life.” Continuing his
attack on the claims of unlimit
ed authority by the sta.te, the
Pope said such a practice “was
not simply an error harmful to
the internal life of nations, their
prosperity, and to a larger and
well-ordered increase of their
well being but likewise injures
relations between peoples.” It’s;
effect he added “breaks the unity
of supernational society and robs
the law of nations of founda
tion and vigor and leads to the
violation of others’ rights and im
pedes agreement for peaceful in
tercourse.”
The Jamboree — bigger and
better than ever—November 11.
Senate Passes
Rep ea ! Arms
Embargo 63-30
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 I/P) _
Votin overwhelmingly for the re
peal of the arms embargo the
Senate tonight, 63 to 30 approv
ed the Administration’s Neutral
ity bill and sent it to the House
where the proponents of the mea
sure claim a smail but safe ma
jority.
The hill would permit bellig
erents in Europe to buy Ameri
can products of any kind with
the restriction in general that
they must pay cash and may bor
row no money here and must pro
vide foreign ships for transport
ing their purchases across the At
lantic. It is also intended to in
sulate the United States from
war by laying down conditions
designed to prevent incidents
likely to inflame publie opinion
or lending otherwise to drag this
country info the conflict.
Rome to Rearm
ROME, Oct. 27 </P) - The gov
ernment announced it would
spend about $873,000,000 on It
aly’s anmed forces in a new re
armament program. It was not
announced what period the new
program would cover nor her
linked armaments appropriation
of about half a billion announced
last December.