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VOL. 42. No. 10. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JAN. 22. 1940. Price per copy lty
Communist Leader Is Convicted
Italian Passenger Liner Explodes And Burns at Sea
Earl Browder Is Convicted In
Federal Court On Two Counts
Sentenced To Four Years Prison
NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (JP) — The
case of Earl Browder, Commun
ist leader, charged with passport
frauds, went to the jury at 12:09
pm Pacific Standard Time.
Browder argued before the
Federal Court that the jury must
acquit him unless they wish to
set the precedent that “citizens
may be exiled from their own
country.” Although he engaged
George Gordon Battle, one of
New York’s best known lawyers
to defend him, Browder chose to
sum up his own case, explaining
to the jury as he began to talk
that he was a correspondence
school lawyer. He contended that
the prosecution offered by the
government was just “a long com
plicated flimsy chain.”
NEW YORK, Jan. 22 UP) —
Earl Browder was convicted on
both counts of a federal indict-!
men! charging the use of a pass-1
port obtained by false state
ments. He was sentenced to two
years and fined a thousand dol
lars on each count.
“The verdict of the jury was
the only possible one that could
have been returned” Judge Al
fred Coxe said. Attorney Battle
moved to delay in motion but
the Judge said he preferred to
dispose of the case immediately.
He then passed sentence, which
is to run consecutively which
means that Browder must serve
four years.
The maximum penalty could
have been ten years with fines of
$4,000. His bail of $7,500 will be
continued until Wednesday, at
which time he must appear in
court fi.r the fixing of a new
bend in connection with his ap
peal. He left the court room
smiling wryly and said he had
"no comment” to make.
Mary McElroy,
Kidnaped in 1933
Kills Self
.. KANSAS CITY, Jail. 21 (/P) —
Mary McElroy ki'.led herself Sun
day, shooting herself with a re
volver alter seven years of brood
ing over what she termed unjust
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punishment for the men who kid
napped her in 1933 and obtained
530,900 ransom.
Foice found a note penned by
the 32-year-old daughter of the
late H F McElroy Pendergast,
political machine leader, which
said: “My four kidnappers pro
bably are the only people on the
earth who don’t consider me an
utter fool. Ycu have your death
penalty now so please 'give them
a chance.”
Ice Forming In
Gulf Finland
May Be Threat
UNDATED, Jan. 22 </P) — A
new factor in the Finnish-Rus
sian war is a freshly formed ice
coating in the Gulf of Finland
and is arousing speculation over
the possibility ctf a Russian in
fantry attack from the Soviet
bases in Estonia. Fearing such an
attack across the ice bridge, or
from landing expeditions from i
Soviet ships, Finland has already;
fortified and barricaded some sec
tions of her gulf coast.
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Successful Finnish air raids cn I
“certain enemy air bases” were
reported in a Finnish commun- j
ique. Other sources said raids on '
the great Soviet naval base at |
Kronstadt and also on Baltiski, j
the Estonian port where Russian j
recently estabished an air base, j
were accomplished. Finland’s air j
thrusts were in retaliation and
in seeking to end Soviet raids
which inflicted widespread dam j
age on more than a dozen Finnish
towns and vilages but in which
one. three; persons were reported
killed.
The Finns said the capture of
Russian aviators revealed that
the Estonian bases were being us
ed at least for part of the aerial
attacks on Finland.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (JP) —
Major General Omar Bundy,
aged 78, who retired in 1935, af
ter a brilliant army career ex
tending from the Indian cam
paign to the World War died
here Sunday.
Romeo and Juliet Meet Briefly Without Balcony
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Society’s Romeo and Juliet got another hurried glimpse of one
another in a Riverhead, Long Island courthouse corridor where
“Romeo” George Lowther, by virtue of a habeas corpus writ, forced
“Juliet” Eileen Herrick’s parents to produce her. They were free
to marry under decree of Judge L Barron Hill, but late reports
said the Herricks had driven away from their Long Island home j
with Eileen, while Lowther was reported attempting to charter a
plane so the star-crossed lovers could lly to another state and be
married. Left to right in this scene: Lowther, Eli Johnson, Low
tiler’s attorney; Miss Herrick* and a nurse, Mrs. Dorothy Gay
Double Header Baseball Wednesday, Jan. 24,8 pm
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Great Britain
Loses Her 21st
Naval Vessel
LONDON, Jan. 21 iC.P) —Brit
ain’s 21st acknowledged fleet loss
of the war was disclosed in the
announcement that the destroyer
Grenville was sunk in the North
: Sea by a mine or torpedo with
a probable loss of 81 men.
j Elsewhere ten merchant ves
sels were reported sunk or dam
j aged by mines, explosions, col
I iisions or fire in one of the worst
Sunday’s for shipping in weeks.
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Senator Borah
Passes Away
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j WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (/P) —
j Senator Borah of Idaho, aged 74,
| dean of the Senate, died at 5:45
pm Pacific time. His death follow
ed a cerebral hemorrhage with
which he was stricken about the
.time of a fall suffered in his
i apartment Tuesday morning.
TJ?& Senator was unconscious
when Mrs. Borah found him ly
ing on the floor of the bathroom.
He regained consciousness rarely
thereafter. Sometimes he called
for his wife who was constantly
in attendance.
With his death one of the long
est and most colorful careers in
American politics ended. He was
an uncompromising foe of trusts
and monopolies from the time of
President Theodore Roosevelt.
He was famous as a staunch
champion for complete United
States independence from for
eign affairs.
He entered the Senate March
4th, 1907 and would have com
| pleted 33 years of service next
: March 4th.
i Dem. Terri.
Convention at
Juneau Ended
JUNEAU, Jan. 20 (Special to
j The Nugget) —The Democratic
! Territorial Convention adjourned
late Friday afternoon after adopt
ing a platform of various resolu
tions and adopting by-laws and
A constitution for the govern
ment party.
Prominent resolutions on the
platform planks include the dele
gation vote for Roosevelt if he is
nominated; investigating of Al
aska railroad and steamship com
panies to secure rates that will
reduce the cost of living; placing
the Alaska Road Commission and
the Alaska Railroad under the
War Department; support for Di
mond’s gradual abolition of fish
traps over a five year period; re
vision of the gross gold tax and
additional net tax enactment; a
code for traffic regulation on
highways; to keep refugees out
of Alaska; and for the creation of
a Territorial Department of La
bor.
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Italian Motorship With 643 s
Persons Aboard Burns, Sinks
In Mediterranean After Blast
j GENOA, Jan. 22 (JP) —Italian
j officials announced that 104 per
sons including 40 passengers
were missing in the burning of
the 11,000 ton Italian motorship
Orazio in the Mediterranean Sea '■
off the coast of France yesterday.!
Of the 643 passengers and crew !
members aboard when the liner i
left Genoa Saturday, a total of;
539 were known to have been1
rescued by noon today. Officials
said the rescued were picked up
by half a dozen vessels but the
auth orities said possibly some i
others were also saved but were
j not reported by their rescue ves
j sels. Seaplanes flew over the
j stormy seas all day looking for
| survivors.
Italian Minister to Panama,
Renato Fiienza and several less
, er members of the Italian dip
lomatic service were aboard
when the vessel sailed for Val
paraiso. It was to have made its
first stop at Barcelona today. The
fire was the result of an explo
sion from an undetermined
cause.
MARSAILLES, France, Jan.
22 (/P) —The fire which burned
the Orazio spread so fast that
nearly all the lifeboats went up
in flames before they could be
launched survivors disclosed. De
spite the speed of the fire and
the heavy seas which tossed the
life boats high, all 412 of the pas
sengers and all but a few of the
231 of the crew were rescued, the
line announced. Second officer
Giorello said the fire Hollowed
an explosion in the engine.
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British Stop
lap Ship, Take oft
German Seamen
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I TOKYO, Jan. 21 (/P)—Terming
the incident very disagreeable,;
government officials said Japan
was considering a formal protest
to Great Britain against the halt
ing of a Japanese steamship off
Yokohama and the removal of 21 i
German merchant seamen. The
warships halted the Asama Maru
with a warning shot across her
bow.
The Board of Directors of the
Northwestern Alaska Fair Assoc
iation will meet in the office
Polet’s Store on Tuesday even
ing, 7:30 pm.
The final accounting of the
Sixth Annual Fair and the re
port of the Auditor will be re
ceived. A date for the next Fair
will also be set.
CLOSE SHAVE WITH DEATH
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'It was nip and tuck with Stanley Slyster, *20 (left) who was buried
for 20 minutes under 15 feet of planer shavings in Portland, Ore.
after he fell into a 40-foot sawdust bin while cleaning a blower.
He was saved by Harry Cpnklin (right) and revived by pulmotor