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VOL. XLVIII. No, 122. NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1940 PER COPY~T5~
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Statehood; Blanket Ballot Favored
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’Statehood Leads;
Republicans To
Control House
JUNEAU, Oct. 11. UP)—Incom
plete returns indicated today that
Republicans have gained control
of the Territorial House of Repre
sentatives and picked up five
seats in the Senate to give them
seven members against nine Dem
ocrats. One Territorial office,
commissioner of labor, also ap
peared to be in the Republican
bag.
Proponents of Alaskan state
hood continued to build up an al
most two-to-one lead.
* Unofficial returns indicated the
next House would consist of 14
Republicans and 10 Democrats.
Democrats, however, continued
to give Territorial Delegate E. L.
(Bob) Bartlett, an overwhelming
majority in his race against Aimer
J. Peterson of Anchorage.
Territorial treasurer Oscar G.
^ Olson also appeared certain of re
flection over Cash Cole, Republi
can. Both are from Juneau.
r. ^Returns indicated Henry A.
Benson, Anchorage Republican,
had defeated Walter P. Sharpe,
Juneau Democrat, and Ross E.
Kimball, Aleutians Independent,
for labor commissioner.
In the Second Division, votes
from 26 out of 32 precincts, in
cluding Nome, give:
For Delegate: Bartlett 849, Pe
derson 609.
For Treasurer: Olson 758, Cole
640.
For Commissioner of Labor:
Sharpe 569, Benson 5687 Kimball
219.
For Territorial Senators: Munz
940, Jones 829, Lyng 635, Cross
445.
For Territorial Representative:
“Andy” Anderson 794, Ost 742,
Caws 735, Ed Anderson 666, Mil
ligan 619, Porter 615, McDonald
614, Madsen 582.
BERLIN, Oct. 11. (>P)—Berlin
police warned the public today to
beware of cotton being sold in
northern Berlin’s black market—
it’s gun cotton and highly explo
sive.
» On the basis of chemical tests,
•they issued this warning through
the press.
^ ’“Housewives, beware. Any ar
ticles made of this cotton which
are brought into proximity with
fire can result in explosion and se
vere injury.”
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Chinese Troops
Enter Kalgan
NANKING, Oct. 11. </P)—The
pro-government Central News
agency said Chinese government
troops had entered Communist
defended Kalgan, Northwest of
Peiping today.
Capture of Kalgan by Oct. 15
has been a goal of Chiang Kai
Shek's forces. Communists have
said its fall would result in a com
plete and irreparable split with
the Nationalists.
The news agency report of Kal
gan’s entry quoted reliable sour
i ces who said the troops made their
way into the city at 2 p.m. today
<7 p.m. Thursday, Nome time'. No
further details were available.
An early report had told of Gen.
Fu Tst-Yi’s government army suc
cessfully rolling on Kalgan from
the rear along a route used by
Chinese warriors of ancient times
to attack the mountainous re
doubt.
Proud Queen
Of The Seas
Returns To Nome
The SS Victoria, still the proud
Queen Victoria, anchored in Nome
roadstead at 7:00 p.m last night
with 3600 tons of general mer
chandise for Nome and Seward
Peninsula ports.
The old “Vic” made her last
previous trip into Nome in 1937 |
under the late Captain A. W. Wes- ;
terholm, who later lost his life |
when the Liberty ship John W. !
Stark was sunk during the war;
just south of Dutch Harbor, j
Through four wars, and 76 years
of exciting and thrilling service
the SS Victoria, built in 1870 in
Dumbarton, Scotland, has out
lived her designers and builders,
as well as captains and crews by
the dozens. She is the oldest
steamer under United States reg
istry, and perhaps the oldest
steamship in the world.
Her captain today, Captain El
mer Joost, who has been on the
bridge for the past two years,
states “When the Vic goes to her
final resting place, she will go
down in history as one of the most
marvelous vessels of all time.”
According to official records,
the Victoria has bene sailing the
Bering Sea run since 1903 and
continued faithfully until retired
(temporarily) in 1937. In 1941 the
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U. S. Backs Turkey
Against Russia
In Dardanelles
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. 1/P)—
The United States, strongly back
ing Turkey against Russian de
mands for a dominant position on
the Dardanelles, has advised Mos
cow that this country does not in
tend to be squeezed out of a voice
in control of the strategic water
way.
At the same time, in a note de
livered in the Russian capital
Wednesday and released for pub
lication today, the state depart
ment emphasized anew its oppo
sition to a Russian proposal to
take over a direct share in the de
fense of the Black Sea gateway.
The communication, delivered
by Ambassador Walter Bedell
Smith, constituted the American
reaction to Russian proposals for
direct conpersations with Turkey
, on revision of the control arrange
ments for the straits, and for Rus
sian participation in defense.
Jsmith reminded the Russian
government that the big there had
agreed at Potsdam that they would
propose to Turkey their views on
revision of the Montreux conven- i
tion, which now sets up the rules
for use of the Dardanelles.
“My government does not con-!
sider,” Smith said, “that it was!
contemplated at the Potsdam con
ference that the direct conversa- i
tions which might take place be
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Three Arrested In
Sale Of Atomic
Bomh Pictures
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. (/P)—
The justice department today an
nounced the arrest of three men in
Baltimore on charges of publish
ing photographs of the atomic
bomb which has been obtained in
the Pacific.
A department of state officials
said pictures of the bomb were
obtained by one of the men while
he and a group of other service
men were serving with a bomber
squadron in the Pacific during the
fall and summer of 1945.
The men, seized by FBI agents
were identified by FBI director J.
Edgar Hoover as:
George Wallace Comer, 23,
Belair, Md., Miles Frederick Dau
benheyer, Belair; and James
Barnes Rike, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Vancouver, End Of
“Terror Voyage”
Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 11. (£>)—
A voyage, described as one of
“fear,” ended here yesterday for
the Vancouver freighter SS. Wai
hemo when it docked from Auck
land, N. Z., to b^ fololwed a short
time later by thearrest of 26 crew
members.
The seamen were charged with
wilfully disobeying commands of
ship’s officers while docked at
Auckland, but it was learned this
was only part of the story. The
men were released on $100 bail,
pending court appearance tomor
row.
Capt. John Ritchie refused de
tails of the “terror voyage.” but it
was reported that fist fights be
tween officers and men were com
mon, that crew members were
armed, and that two of the offi
cers were threatened by knife
wielders.
The only formel charge has to
do with occurrences in Auckland,
but trouble was also experienced
in other ports, and it was reported
that at Suva seven armed natives
were placed aboard by police to
protect the officers. Another re
port said that the oficers slept
with “persuaders” under their pil
lows each night.
NEWS IN BRIEF
GRANTS PASS, Ore., Oct. 11. j
</P)—A report by mining experts
of two states today perked up the
modern California gold rush,
which crammed Crescent City,
Calif., with prospectors last month
and later almost petered out on
the word of independent assays.
An assay on a sample from the
claim that started the rush dis
closed gold visible to the naked
eye, said John C. O’Brien, district
mining engineer of the California
state division of mines, and Hollis
Cole, of Oregon state college’s
mining department.
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BATAVIA, Oct. 11. (iP)—At the i
request of Indonesian representa
tives, a scheduled meeting of the
tri-partite truce committee at
tempting to bring about a cessa
tion of hostilities in Indonesia was
indefinitely postponed today.
Negotiations of the committee—
which includes Dutch and British
representatives — had been re
sumed only last Monday after a
three-month lapse.
U. S. Ready To
Defend Greece
If Attacked
By MEL MOST
PARIS, Oct. 11. (/P) — The
United States told the peace con
ference today it was ready to join
in any United Nations defense o«f
Greece “if Greece's security is en
dangered by the acts of an aggres
sor nation.”
The U. S. ambassador to France,
Jefferson Caffery, speaking on
the peace treaty with Bulgaria,
said the United States had con
sented to leave Bulgaria her pres
ent frontier with Greece only be
cause Americans relied upon
United Nations safeguards to pro
tect Greece from any attack.
“The United States delegation
can give full assurance that the
United States can be counted up
on to act” in accordance with such
measures, Cafferty told the dele
! gates.
Greek Premier Constantin Tsal
daris, said bitterly in an earlier
address that the terms of the
treaty draft with Bulgaria would
permit that nation to emerge from
her second war against the Allied
nations larger and stronger than
ever before.
Polish delegate Stephan Wier
blowski demanded that the peace
conference give Bulgaria an out
let to the Aegean, a claim prompt
ly countered by Greek requests
for a strip of Bulgaria.
The renewed demand by the
Slavic group that Bulgaria be
given Greece's north Aegean pan
handle was presented at the outset
of plenary session discussion on
the Bulgarian treaty, the third to
come before the conference as a
whole. The Italian treaty was ap
proved yesterday and the Roman
ian pact early this morning.
Fighting against the clock and
the calendar in their dash to ad
journ by Oct. 15, the delegates
again split along general east-wesfr
lines of cleavage in approving the
peace treaty drafted for Romania,
just as they did in their final ac
tion on the Italian pact the previ
ous day.
Once again, Russian foreign
minister V. M. Molotov, the pre
siding officer, saw Slav group
projects tumble in defeat as the
21-nation conference upheld de
cisions of the parley’s working
commissions in vote after vote.
Molotov attacked with some
heat yesterday what he termed
“dollar democracies” and accused
the United States of having made
money out of the war white Eur
ope suffered, but shortly after
midnight he was forced—as chair
man—to announce that Western
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