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VOL. 41. No. 43. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, April 10, 1939 **** P** l5*
King Zog of Albania Flees to Greece
Britain to Protect Greece, Turkey from Aggression
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Four Russian Destroyers Enroute Mediterranean
Death of Governor Frank D.
Fitzgerald of Michigan automat
ically elevated Lieut. Gov. Luren
D. Dickson (above), who will be
80 years old on April 15, to the
gubernatorial chair. He was serv
mg his seventh term as Lieuten
ant Governor when Fitzgerald
died.
• Draft Dodger
On Howe To,
Serve Time Out
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NEW YORK. April 10, (/P) —
Mrs. Grover Cleveland Bergdol,
•wife of the notorious World War
draft dodger, announced her ar
rival from Europe and said her
husband would sail next week
(from Germany to surrender him
Fascist Troops
Occupy Capital
Of Albania
TIRANA, April 8 (/P)—Fascist
Italy’s fast flying troops occup
ied Albanian capital without a
hostile manifestations after a
night of terror and disorder, at
tending the rout of her proud
'it'le mountaineer army. It is re
ported that King Zog fled to
Greece.
The advancing Italian column
tolled in from the coast, 25 miles
away, just a little over 24 hours
after the Italian advance began
against bitter resistance of the
poorly equipped Albanians who
were fighting for the life of their
independence.
The defeated army retreated in :
to the hills. King Zog, his queen,
and baby fled to Greece.
Previous reports said Z ? with
part of his government moved to
Elsaban, near the border, with
plans to defend the (torturous
trails leading to an inaccessible
retreat.
self to military authorities and
serve the remainder of the five
year sentence imposed upon him
before he escaped in 1919.
Mrs. Bergdol arrived on the!
i Hamburg'- American liner St.;
’Louis with four of her five child
,ren who went to Europe last Dec
jember when she announced her
jintention of persuading her hus
band to return to America,
Bergdol fled military guards
after he was sentenced for eva
sion of the draft.
Proof of Laibor Blanks car now
be had at the "tme Nugget office
TUMOR SLOWLY KILLING CHILI)
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The life of two-year-jold Harold Holt, Jr., shown in the arms of his
mother, slowly is being crushed out by a many-headed tumor for
which medical science no cure. It ha.4 attacked the liver, the
lungs and one remaining kidney, and physicians say the child may
hang on for another week or so, although he already has lived past
his time. The family home Is in Pittsburgh, Penna.
Britain Warns
More Aggression
Means War
UNDATED, April 10 </P)_Pre
mier Chamberlain reported and
told Italy that the attempt to
seize the strategic Greek Island
of Corfu was regarded as Brit
ain’s invitation to war. His re
port was followed by urgent em
ergency orders to the British fleet
at Malta. A British cabinet meet
ing was held which hightlighted
the potential new center of Europ
ean strife as Greece & Italy con
solidated her conquest of Alban
ia.
Unconfirmed reports said that
Britain decided to guarantee the
independance of Greece, Alban
ia's southern neighbor. The Brit
ish eab;net, it was understood, de
cided to recall Parliament from
its Easter vacation, for a session
Thursday.
The Malta orders called all
crews back from shore leave last
night and sent the 35,000 ton
battleship Malaya toward an un
disclosed destination.
In Paris, both Britain and
France were reported consider
ing a joint military and naval
demonstration to back up their
Eastern European allies against
further Italian and German ex
pansion.
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Sinks 35 Miles Off
Cape Flattery
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QUILLA.YUTE, April 8 (TP) —
; The British freighter, Temple
: Bar hit a rock a mile and a half
' north of Quillayute Needle Point
| off shore 3 miles south of the
; Quilayute River. A frantic SOS
was sent out at 4 a.m. before
the crew abandoned the ship.
A Cotast Guard crew brought
23 of the 29 aboard the ship into
their station. They reported the
rest of the men were safe on the
; beach.
The ship was called a total loss,
i Some of the crew got ashore in
lifeboats while others drifted
j near the wreck in lifeboats,
j The Temple Bar sailed from
Port Everglades, Florida, March
14 for Yokohama. She was bound
up the Washington coast to Co
mox, Brit. Columbia, for a bunk
ers load of scrap iron to be tak
en aboard for Japan. L. W. Tuck
er was her master. There was
no one injured.
The weather was clear when
I the vessel hit. The coastline there
i abouts is rockstudded. The scene
is 35 miles south of Cape Flat
tery.
The ship was built in Scotland
in 1928 and did not ordinarily
ply the Pacific coast trade. She
! was a 4,291 ton ship.
; FRESH PUMPERNICKEL Today
NORTH POLE BAKERY
PIONEER MEETING
1 _
; Monday, April 10th, followed
' by Last Trophy card game at
1 9:15. Refreshments to be served.
Britain Guarantee
Independence To
Greece & Turkey
LONDON. April 10 (/Pi — The
British cabinet in an emergency
session is reliably reported to
have decided to offer a guarantee
of independence to Greece and
Turkey. Chamberlain is also re
| ported to have tc’d Italy that any
I attempt made to seize the strat
; egic Greek-owned island of Cor
: fu would be interpreted by Brit
I ain as an invitation to war.
The cabinet session coincided
: with emergency movements of
, British warships in the Medit
' erranean and at the same time
! the cabinet dee ded to break in
i on Parliament’s Easter vacation
and convene both Houses in ex
traordinary ses-ion Thursday.
—
Four Russian
Destroyers on Way
| To Mediterranean
INSTANBUL, Turkey, April 8
IjP)—Four Soviet Russion destroy
ers steamed through the Bosphor
us from the Black Sea, enreute
to the Mediterranean. The move
ment is interpreted as indicating
Russia’s interest in the present
situation in the Mediterranean
and her determination not to be
caught unawares of any develop
ment following the Italian inva
sion of Albania.
Increasing alarm of -the Bal
kan States over the possible in
j tentions of the Rcme-Berlin ax’s
I was demonstrated by a hurried
' visit by the Rumanian foreign
I minister Gafencu for urgent con
sultations with the Turkish for
eign minis’er Ooglu. •
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STERILZED HEIRESS WEDS AGAIN
Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, heiress to the fortune of her inventors
lather, Peter Cooper Hewitt, and Gene Bradstreet, formerly a bar
steward in San Francisco, are shown after their marriage at Reno.
Nev., th» second marital venture for the girl who figured in a
.ser.^itional suit against her mother in 1936, charging the latte*
had had her sterilzed. Her divorce decree from Ronald Gay, auto*
mobile mechanic of Oakland, Calif., became final a few days before>
her second maTriage. *c^
Tax Evaders
Plead Guilty
NEW YORK, April 10 <JP) —
The income tax evasion trial of
Torrio, termer Chicago
underworld leader came to an
ebrnot end when Torrio and two
of his four co-defendants pleaded I
•guilty. They are Torrio’s broth
er-in-law William Slockbow-er &
James La Penna.
When their case was recorded
Judge Clancy declared a mistrial.
The other defendants are Louis
La Cava and John Dagostino.
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FATHER BUILDS INCUBATOR TO SAVE CHILD
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Faring an emergency when his wife ^ave birth to a two and a ha >' pound daughter at Pittsburg,
I Charles Bozurich built an incubator, heated it by electricity, an d used it to keep the infant alive*
For four day and night hr kept a constant vigil, and nurses said his ceaseless attention saved
the child's life. Hr is an unemployed truck driver.