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VOL. 42. No. 16. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEB 5, 1940 Price per copy is#
Suggest Treaty Protect Fisheries
Finns Repel Russian Attacks, Inflict Heavy Losses
Congressman Wallgren Suggests
Alaska Fisheries Be Protected In
New Trade Treaty With Japan
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (A*) —1
Cong. earn.an vVa.lgre.i, Wash
ington Democrat announced that
he had Suggested to Secretary
Hull tha. any new trade agree
ments with Japan should project
the Alaskan fisheries. He said
Japan’s failure to abide by the
treaty agreements caused .he ab
rogation ot the paci and pointed
out that the Uni.ed Slates is de
pending on “Japanese good w a”
to prevent unregulated fishing by
Japant e in B.istol Bey. Waii
gren believed that such a lo.se
agreement was inactiq .a e to pro
tect the sain.on industry and the
Interior Department reg ! La Lie is
for the entitling year prevent
1,509 fishermen and 709 boats,
usually a part of the Bri.-icl Bay
fleet, from fishing in these water
k Wallgreri said the S ate D
ment answered that they v.v:c
“contir uit: ; to give constant 31 -1
practical attention to the . . ,u
tion cf Alaska fisiisnea' to
protection g>d’ To.a itiaiion »•:
“important food anc economic 1
source involved.”
He also raid he received a pre
liminary report from Interior De
partment Acting Secretary Bur
lew saying in part ‘ The Depart
ment has no au.hoiity wher y
the reg datlm may specify tVv
number of boats '.hat can fish or
whether the boats be ma-i-ed by
persons from the States or mi
elfn*s of tbQ T rritory. Ac
i;\g them to be citizens or personr
owing allegiance to the United
States, the Department feels that
residents f Alaska should have
a. pxexci- :ce for developing the
• j.i iiiax rcaoSlices of the territory
xc same as residents of any state
should have such priority of con
si deration. If the persons engag
ed in fisheries are residing In the
slate of Washington and are sup
plying all the labor needed,
. hi vs the continuance of
this occupation threatened by an
influx of large numbers from Cal
ifornia, it is believed that a pro
test would be made by the Wash
ington residents the same as the
r esidents of Alaska are protesting
the threatened loss of their oc
cx.p lion In the Bristol Bay area.”
Democrats Will
Hold Convention
WASHINGTON, ^eb. 5 f/P> —
The Democrat, bar chosen Chic
ago as the place t. hold their
■ • al comer tier, it was an
nm.mced here today.
Odd-Fellows, Rebckahs Attention
BOX PARTY, Cards and enter
• t c t ha i re'sy night 9 pm
T - x F Hall. Admission 25c.
r ilea am? Ice Cream free. Get
•r fnvDafion from your Odd
Fellow and Rebckah friends.
DUCHESS OF WINSOR LOADS TRUCK
The Duchess of Windsor, wife of Great Britain's former king, is
shown Here performing a menial task in strange contrast to her
social standing. Dressed in Khaki uniform and ovtrseas cap, she
is shown in Paris loading Christmas preents into a truck for dis
tribution to French soldiers.
President Tells Reporters
He Choose Time Announce
Third Term When And If
HYDE PARK, Fob. 5 tP) —
President Roosevelt said at a
press conference that lie was
getting tired of attempts to sound
him out on the third term and
that when anything would be
said it would be at a time of his
choosing and his alone.
The President said he thought
the newsmen agreed with himj
that they too were tired and sug
gested putting it this way: your1
desks are very, very silly and
very obviously when anything is
said it will be 3t a time of my
choosing, not their choosing.
Never i less a reporter remark
ed: “We w 1 keep on trying Mr.
Prirlden-t." The President said he
\v ida t adding the admonition
t > . ;se assembled to tell their
offices that they didn't want to
b( put 1-: a ridiculous or im
n: ;ure position.
NOT! C E
A 1 interested in the develop
m t of Name and Northwestern
A! s’a are cordially invited to
all nd the annual meeting to he
he'd in the Nevada Grill Tues
da liocn February 13th Election
of Officers and luncheon.
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NAZI SEAMEN ON WAY HOME
thoroughly pleased with their 3,000 mie journey from New York
were these three members of the erew of the scuttled German liner
Columbus as they arrived in Oakland. Calif., on a round-about
journey back to Germany by way of the Orient. The size of the
United States greatly impressed the 512 members of the sunken
liner's crew, left to right: i Eduard Witowsky, Otto Zeitch and
Werner Poppe.
Pastor Dies Larses!
P r e s b
Congration
SBATTLE, Feb. 5 (JP) — Rev.
Mark Matthew’s died here at 7:40
am of pneumonia paralysis. He
was' 72 years old and pastor of
the largest Presbyterian congrga
tion in the nation.
He was taken to the Seattle
General Hospital on January 30
after suffering a slight cold for
about a week. Besides his widow’
the former Grace Jones he is sur
vived by a son, Mark Jr. of Los
Angeles and a daughter Mrs.
Norman Scott Jr. of Santa, Mon
ica, California.
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it
Shortage Of
Coal In Japan
TOKYO. Feb. 2 — Except for
factories engaged in “urgent"
production of war materials and
essential war materials and
essential public services, the in
dustri'al heart of Japan, in the
Osaka metropolitan area, is vir
tually at a standstill due to an
electric shortage of dwindling
water power.
Beginning at 9 am electric serv
ice was shut off in 14 prefectures
embracing Osaka city, with 3,500,
000 inhabitants.
At Kobe the empire’s chief
port city, with a population of
1,000,000 and Kyoto with a pop
ulation of 1,200,000 the shutdown
was to last 14 hours with indica
tions it might continue Wednes
day.
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I
IT S A DATE FOR FEB. 9
Heavyweight Champian Joe Louis (left) is shown at New York as
he signed a contract with Arturo Godoy (right) to fight for the
heavyweight title February 9 in Madison Square Garden. Between
the two fighters is John J. Phelan, chairman of the New York State
AtlCatic Commission.
Russian Attacks On Keralian -
Isthmus Fail Again and Result
In Thousands Russian Casualties
UNDATED, Feb. 5 (fP) — Night
air raids by Soviet warplanes
brought terror and severe dam
age to two Finnish cities, Turku
and Viapuri. Fires burned thru
out the night after sweeping air
attacks but the Finns reporting
the Russian raids which occur
red the past few night behind
the lines reiterated their inten
tion of stiffened resistance again
st the invaders. Pounding attacks
against Finland’s Keralian Isth
mus defense lines failed anew
the Finns said and resulted in
thousands of Russian casualties
at Summa and heavy lasses at
Muolaajarvi. Finland reported 40
civilians killed and 50 wounded
Saturday. The start of the week
end saw successive waves of Rus
sian planes roar across the Fin
nish frontier. The Finns claimed
they shot down eleven machines.
In Europe’s other war, the
main activity was at sea where
German aircraft struck three
times m the last week against
merchant ships off the British
coast. Germany said fourteen
ships were sunk Saturday in
raids off the coast by three Ger
man planes. The British acknow
ledged that ten ships were attack
ed and at least one sunk but de
clared the German claims were
absurd.
The principal German object
seemed the disruption of convoys
by which the British attempted
to safeguard their own vessels
and those of neutral nations en
gaged in trade with the Allies.
The Western Front remained
quiet.
Ex- R. R. Head
Passes On
CHICAGO, Feb. 4 (JP) — Fred
W Sargent, former head of the
Chicago-Northwestern Railroad,
died in Evanston Hospital after
a long illness.
Head Locomotive
Works Passes
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4 <#)—
Samuel M Vauclain, aged 83,
chairman of the Board of Dir
ectors of the Baldwin Locomo
tive works died here.
Detective Connect
ed with Lindy Case
Dies in Prison
WASHINGTON. Fab. 4 i/P) —
Ellis Parker, aged 68. former
New’ Jersey detective prominent
in the Lindbergh case and later
sent to prison for 6 years for
conspiracy to kidnap Paul H.
Wendel, died at Lewisburg, Pen
nsylvania federal prison of a
cerebral ailment.
Iowa Reperesentative Dies
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 —
Representative Cassius C Dowell
Iowa Republican, aged 75, died
here. He served twelve terms
in Congress.
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