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Hitler to Answer Roosevelt’s Plea
. Pilot Kirkpatrick Crashes in Storm Near Cordova
Tornadoes Bring Death and Havoc to Four States
Pilot And One
Passenger Crash
Yet Undiscovered
CORDOVA, April 15 </P) —
Pilot Kirkpatrick and one passen
*'er Mike Noles, in an Airways,
Jne., plane, flying from McCarthy
* yesterday, at 11 a.m. were re
ported by 8 people to have crash
ed at Nelson Bay, about 10 miles
north of here on the mainland,
opposite Shepard Point.
Pilot Merle Smith in another
Airway, Inc. plane started to
search yesterday evening from
McCarthy but was forced down
at mile 183 on the railroad on ac
count of thick weather. Two
searching parties were cut ail
night in the vicinity of Simpson
Bay and Twin Lakes but were
unable to locate any sign.
Reports coming in this morn
ing from 8 residents cf Nelson
Bay indicate that the plane crash
ed on the mainland opposite
Shepard Point where a third
large party is leaving at neon to
make an intensive search of the
+ ridge.
Kirkpatrick’s plane was equip
ped with a radio but it is either,
out of commission or Kirkpat
aick is injured so he can’t work
it.
Exceedingly thick, snowy wea
ther is the cause of the crash
and also keeps two local flyers
from making a search from the
air.
A -
Wreckage Found
Search Continues
CORDOVA, Ap:'l 16 VP>—One
aileron ard tw o-her pieces of
wreckage id~n* fl"l ?s parts of
* the Bel area ' pi? _ flown by
•M. D. Kir’-patr 1. wrs found
Sunday r.c-r Obsarvon Island
by Joe Olson who cp rates a fisih
ing boat.
ivirkpat. ck has been m'ssing
fcir.se Fr day, when he was on a
flight from McCarthy to Cordova;
Pres. Roosevelt
Ask II Duce. Hitler
To Assure Peace
WASHINGTON. April 15 UP)—
P isident Roosevelt urged Hitler
and Mussolini to assure peace for
a p ri'nd cf least ten years. The,
President disclosed at an unusua’
Saturday press conference that)
he transmitted the messages to j
Hitler and Mussolini offering to
act as an intermediary in com
municating any offers for peace
by Germany or Italy to other na-1
tioTis.
The President asked specifical-j
ly whether Hitler and Mussolini
were willing to give assurances
that their armed forces wouldn’t!
attack the score of now indspend |
ent nations. “Such an assurance!
clearly must not apply not only
to the present day but to the fu
ture sufficiently long to give ev-j
ery opp rtunity to work by
peaceful methods for a more per
man ent peace.’’
a a b inding snowstorm with I
one pas enger, Con Miller, long
time McCarthy mining man.
Evergreen needles' and twigs
were stuck in the torn wreckage
to indicate that the plane had
fallen on the shore rather than in
water.
Searchers concentrated along
the south shore of the mainland
between Humpback Point and
Cordova and a dozen boats join
ed the search after the wreckage
was discovered .and about 50 men
3re searching nearby mountains
nek:- the direction of the fores
try r rv re. The beat Chugach is
cf -g as base for radio contacts.
Mr;. Kirkpatrick remained in
he radio room at the airport al
most constantly since her hus
band was reported missing.
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Hitler To Answer
Roosevelt’s Flea
On April 2o
—
UNDATED, April '7 (/P) —Hit
ler summoned■ the Reichstag to:
meet April 28 to hear his reply
to President Roosevelt’s peace j
proposa's, as violent Fascist and
Nazi press attacks pointed to It- i
al:an and German rejection of
them.
Britain pressed ahead with her,
anti-aggressor alliance and ccn- J
tinued to reinforce her empire
defenses.
Russia, it is reported in Lon- j
don, promised airplane and other
aid to the British-French coali
tion.
R action to the President’s pro
posals in Berlin and Rome lent
ubstance to the general tenor of
world comment, which is courag
eous and statesmanlike, but fu
tile.
-The JEU'itish and French in the
vicinity cf Gibraltar, at the west
ern gateway, and virtually the
entire British fleet, around Mal
ta, Britain's great Mediterranean
naval base, are ready.
A commission of British army
officers arrived at Cairo by plane
from India to study arrange
ments for the transfer of troops I
to Egypt from India in the event
of war.
The Union of South Africa,
sent 500 police under orders to
Southwest Africa, a German col
ony before the World war, and
which is now administered by
the Union of South Africa under
a League of Nations mandate.
NOTICE
There will be a special meet
ing of the Nome Health Council
at the City Hall, Monday, April
17, 1939 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. E. F.
Clements of the Territorial De
partment of Healith will be speak
e.r for the evening. All members
are urged to attend and the pub
ic is cordially invited.
Henry G. Miller, Chairman
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HITLER CONFERS IN PRAULE AFTER SWIFT SEIZURE
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Rciehsfucrhcr Adolph Hitler (extreme right), is shown as he conferred with his staff in Hradoany
Castle, Prague, Czechoslovakia, after formally taking over what used to be that country, a map
of which lies o nihe table. Holding paper is General Wilhelm Keitel. This picture was transmit
ted by radio from Berlin to New l'ork and was the first received showing Hitler in Prague.
POLES REJOICE WITH HUNGARIANS AT BORDER
" v _*
Happy that the 20-year dream of a common frontier with Hung ry had been realized through
the Hungarian occupation of Ru heria, Polish border guards (r'ght in both groups), embraced
Hungarian soldier arriving at K inuc, Poland. This picture was tiansmitted igi^telr-phone and
radio to New York.
Tornadoes In Four
States Killed 41
Injure Over 170
UNDATED. April 17 f/P)—Tor
nadoes ripped into four southern
states and killed more than 41
and injured ovre ’70, and wreck
ed week-end damage estimated
in the hundreds of thousands of
dol’ars.
Searchers picking their way'
through the wind torn debris in ,
Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and
Arkansas slowly raised the death
tolT throughout early Monday
morning darkness.
The greatest toll was counted
in the small cattle raising com- j
munity of Center Point, near1
Collins, Arkansas where at least1
20 were killed and an undeter
mined number injured as a twist j
er demolished the church soon af
ter the completion of Sunday af
ternoon services. It also swept a
6-mile area nearby. Rev. Thomas
West was among the dead in |
the Center Point church.
In Louisiana, 7 were killed
when twisters whipped into resi |
dential and business property,
leveling a score of homes and
tearing away portions of a brick
power plant.
Sup. Court Re
leases Communist
WASHINGTON, April 17 </P)—
The Supreme Court ordered the
discharge from custody of Joseph
Strieker, of Hot Springs, Arkan
sas, whom the Labor Depart-;
ment sought to deport on the
grounds that he was an alien- j
communist.
Justice Roberts delivered the.
opinion which held that the de
partment erred in its construe-;
tion of the statute under which
Strieker was ordered deported. I
Roberts sa d “in the absence of
a clear definition of expression,
we ara not at liberty to conclude
that Congress intended that any
alien, no matter how long a resi
dent of this country, or however
well disposed toward the govern
ment, must be deported if at any
time in the past, no matter when
or under what circumstances or
for what time was a member
of a described organization.”
The court concluded that pres
ent membership in such an or
ganization, requires deportation.
S richer was a member cf the
Communist Party for three
months in 1932 and 1933.
The Department is awaiting
the ruling as a guide for their ac
lion in demands to deport Harry
Bridges, who was described as a
Communist before the Dies Un
American activities committee.
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS FROM GRANDMA
m .i
Sistie Dali got a hug and a smile l>v way of bij'-hday greetings from
her grandmother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon the latter’*
arrival in Seattle to be with her daughter, Mrs. John Eoottige.*,
who is Sistie’s mother, for the birth of a baby Mrs. Boettig r is
expecting soon. The day before was Si.stie’s birthday and si. to d
Mrs. Roosevelt “I saved a piece of my birthday cake for At
left is Buzzie Dali, Mrs. Eoetigger’s son.