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VOL. XL VIII. No. 51 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 29. 1940 PEItCOPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
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.NEW YORK, April 29, UP)—
£r)e United Nations security coun
cil expected to order an investiga
tion of Franco’s Spain today unless
gpviet Russia, thefonly opponent,
Voves to delay the action by at
tempting to invoke a veto as the
delegates prepared to meet. They
lined up ten to one in favor of
Au stralia’s latest proposal to set
up a five man .subcommission to
determine whether the Franco re
gime is threatening world peace.
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TOKYO, April 29, f/P) — The
Allied world formally charged
Premier Hideki Tojo and twenty
seven other members of the mil
itaristic clique,” with fifty-five
counts in war crimes indictments.
The charges included murder and
deaths at Pearl Harbor, Hongkong,
Shanghai, Philippines. They will
be arraigned formally May third.
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NEW YORK, April 29, f/P)—
William Benjamin, 36, business
man who District Attorney Frank
ffogan said admitted losing up to
$46,000 a day at race tracks was
arrested on a grand larceny
charge and is accused of swindling
credit firms out of more than
$500,000 in the last four months.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29. (/PI
^Conditions are favorable for Jap
anese F. type encephalitis, viru
lent and sometimes fatal form of
sleeping sickness, to gain a foot
hold on the Pacific Coast, accord
ing to Dr. W. Hammonds, and Dr.
W. C. Reeves, tropical medicine
researchers of the University of
California Hooper Foundation.
MANILA, April 29. f/P)—Presi
dent Sergio Osmena conceded the
election of Manuel Roxas and ex
pressed the hope that his successor
will be given “wisdom and
strength for the great task he will
shortly assume as the first chief
executive of the Philippines Re
public.” He promised Roxas his
support “in everything that is
right.” Official returns gave Rox
as 1,167,000 votes and Osmena
1)984,000 as the count neared com
pletion.
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WASHINGTON, April 29, (/P)—
President Truman proclaimed
Sunday, May twelfth as “Moth
ers Day,” and called for its na
tionwide observance.
^ Election Day
Tomorrow. April 30th, is
Election Day.
In party politics it is neces
sary to declare your party in
order to get a ballot to vote.
The polls are open at 8:00
a.m., and will remain open
until 7:00 p.m. This should
| be time enough for each and
every voter to go to the polls
and cast his or her ballot to
nominate the choice of candi
dates.
LOCOMOTIVE F E R R Y—An LCT which was fitted out as a locomotive ferry by L’. S. and
British technicians discharges a giant engine at a dock in Europe.
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Kiotiti" Marks
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German Election
FRANKFURT, April 29. </T»
Germany’s fast growing new po
litical party, the right of center
Christian Social Union, won an
overwhelming victory in week
end county council elections. In
the American zone the elections
were marked by rioting and pro
Nazi activity.
Conservative rural voters gave
the church-supported parts almost
a two to one lead over their near
est rival, the slightly left wing So
cial Democrats. The Communist
party polled only a bare five and
four-tenths percent of the three
million one hundred thirty-six
thousand votes cast in the second
free election in the area in thir
teen years.
Four United States army agen-,
cies are investigating the street
battle between German voters and
more than 5,000 Jews and dis
placed persons in Diessen, Bavaria
Six persons are reported still in
hospitals out of eighteen treated
for stab wounds and beatings. The
riot was finally quelled by Ameri
can soldiers.
A search was underway for i
two Jewish guards, whose disap
pearance prompted the displaced
persons to rush the German polls
after a report was circulated that
the guards had been murdered by
civilians.
BABY GIRL ARRIVES
FOR JOHN NORBERTS
Mr. and Mrs. John Norbert have
a baby girl, born Sunday evening
in the Maynard Columbus Hospi-1
tal.
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Primitives caught fish in weirs)
of stone or wood.
Foreign Ministers
To Clash Over
Italian Colonies
PARIS, April 29. t/P»—The fourj
power foreign ministers confer
ence ran into its most crucial ses
sion today on the future of Italy's
colonial possessions in North Af
rica and the Dodecanese Islands
in the Mediterranean on the agen
da.
It is on these questions that the
Russian Mediterranean interests
and Britain’s Empire communica
tiors are expected to clash direct-;
ly. There are indications that the
discussion of Italian colonies, par
ticularly the disposition of Tripoli
tania will take up most of the ses
sion. The Russians asked for a j
trusteeship of Tripolitania, but
Britain is opposed to such a grant.
Truman To Name
New Chief Justice ;
WASHING ION, April 29, (/P)—
The President, his mind made up
on the Supreme Court, turned to
a search for a means of settling
the nationwide soft coal strike be
form an industrial crisis sets in. (
The President’s choice for a new
chief justice to succeed the late
Harlan Stone, and a new member
for the court to succeed the man
elevatect to the presiding spot is
expected to be announced early
this week, p .rsibly tomoi row.
That much is known de' r.itely,
but White House confidants for
the most p« rt, declined to verify
the speculation that either Robert!
Jackson or William Douglas would ,
be moved up to head the court, •
and Secretary of War Patterson, a
Republican, would be added to its
membership.
Azerbaijan, Iran
Start Negotiations
TEHRAN, April 29, t/V)—A del
egation of the self-proclaimed au
tonomous regime of Azerbaijan
province, whose arrival here yes
terday was marked by a demon
stration in which two persons
were killed, expected to begin ne
gotiations for a reunited province
of the Iran Central government.
Jafar Pishevari, premier of the
Azerbaijan regime set up in Rus
sian occupied province headed the
seven-man mission.
The leftwing Tuden party pa
per Rahbar charged in a front
page story that the shootings yes
terday, in which two workers
were killed, was ordered by Col.
Norman Schwartzkopf, American
adviser to the national police.
The shootings occurred when to-,
bacco factory workers clashed
with police guards on the road to
the airport where the delegation
from Azerbaijan arrived for the
conferences.
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Demand Seizure
Of Wheal Stocks
WASHINGTON, April 29, (/P>—
With food becoming a powerful
weapon in world politics, the
clashing of the State and Agricul
ture department views over Amer
ican famine relief methods appear
certain to reach the President for
decision.
The State Department under
Acting Secretary Acheson is de
manding much more forcible mea
sures, such as the seizure of some
wheat reserves in the hands of
millers, than the agriculture de
partment has been willing so far
to order into effect.
Fighting Continues
In Manchuria
CHUNGKING. April 29. f/P>—
Efforts to settle the fighting in
Manchuria broke down after the
the utmost efforts of General Mar
shall proved insufficient to bridge
the chasm between the Chinese
National Government and the
Communists. All sides revealed
a settlement of the civil conflict
laced an indefinite delay.
The government is refusing the
newest peace proposals of the
Communists demanding favorable
terms on the basis of their mili
tary successes. Informed Chinese
sources said Chiang Kai-Shek re
jected the Democratic League
formula for a “cease fire” agree
ment which would have left the
Communists in possession of Son
art, Manchuria.
These sources indicated that
Kai-Shek preferred to wait until
his armies fought their way north
ward to recaptured Changchun
before halting hostilities. General
Marshall, who has been conferring
almost ceaselessly in recent days
with Chiang and Communist lead
er Gen. Chou, in an effort to reach
an agreement, gave the order for
the transfer of his headquarters
to Nanking Tomorrow.
Coal Negotiations
Resumed Toda\
m
WASHINGTON, April 20. i.P)—
The Labor Department said nego
tiations between Lewis and the
soft coal operators, which were
broken off April 10. will be re
sumed tody at the Labor Depart
ment.
Special mediators McGrady and
Fuller sitting in. Representatives
of the operators said they stood
pat in their refusal to commit
themselves in advance to the
union administered health and
welfare fund, the point on which
the negotiations previously foun
dered.
Spirited Bidding At
Sealskin Auction
ST. LOUIS, April 29, (A3)—-The
open auction of more than 30,000
Alaskan and Cape of Good Hope
sealskins opened with spirited bid
ding. Officials of the Fouke Fur
Company predicted a new gross
dollar volume record of more than
two million. With no ceiling limit
on bids the prices were generally
running twenty percent above the
sale of last October.
The company is conducting the
sale for the governments, as the
Union of South Africa is the other
shipper.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
LUNCHEON TUESDAY
The NWA Chamber of Com
merce will hold its regular noon
luncheon in the Nevada’s Blue
Room at 12:00 o’clock noon, Tues
day. The faculty of the Nome
Schools will be special guests.