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The Phoenix index., 1940-03-23

Is Sent To
Washington

NEW YORK-(S N S)-Cosn-
plete opposition to the emasculat-
ing amendments to the National
Labor Relations Act, proposed by
the Smith Committee, and sup
port of an amendment which
would insure an eventual break
down of discrimination against
Negro workers in organized labor
were the key points emphasized by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People in
statements filed with the House
and Senator labor committees.
The statement. was sent to the
House Labor Committee headed
by Representative Mary T. Nor
ton; and to the Senate Committee
on Education and Labor, headed
by Senator Ebert D. Thomas.
Officials of the organization eX-
planned chat the statement was
sent out in order to make it clear
that the association was entirely
opposed to those opposition'tst
groups whose aim is to destroy the
Act and hurt labor as a whole At
the same time the Association
wanted 70 give concrete expression
to it's unqualified opposition to
te do-nothing tactics employed by
some unions who have continued
to discriminate against Negro
workers.
The NAACP state in part, fol-
lows:
1.-The National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored Peo-
pie asks that by means of this
communication it be permitted to
express it unqualified opposition to
emasculation OF the National La
Dor Relations Act now proposed in
HR. 1918. the so-called Smith
Amendments and strongly urges
that these proposed amendments
be rejected.
THE National Labor Relations
Act is designed TO aid labor in or
ganizing freely ana bargaining
collectively. The proposed amend
ments can have no other effect
than to hamper labor organiza-
ton and to give employers addi-
tional legalistic excuses for re-
fusing to bargain fairly and fully.
The amendments also would
abolish the present board and sub
stitute less effective machinery. In
view Of the success if the present
board in settling more than go per
cent Of its cases without any for
NAL action, and its phenomenal
record of only TWO reversals in "a
cases in the United States Su-
preme court. there is no justifica-
ton for the present effort to
abolish The Board or to destroy
its effectiveness.
I'VE are forced to believe that
much of the support for the
amendments proposed in HR
1913 grows out of dissatisfaction
with the success of tine Board in
facilitating labor organization and
not out OF any sincere belief that
it has failed to promote indus
trial peace through fair and ef-
fective bargaining.
However. our objection to the
proposed amendments does not
mean that we believe the present
act to be perfect.
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would De Tie passage OF a ItuEI dl
bill outlawing Americas greatest
outdoor sport.
This one point has been repeat
ed and hammered upon by every
witness who appeared in opposi-.
ton to the legislation during the
Senate's hearings on the Wagner
Van Nuys measure. And of course,
the most vociferous opponents all
hailed from below the well known
line
That this belief in the cooling
down of the lynching spirit was .
Gnllnn.r hnc. nl1.rauc hner cNn1en6eO
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SE sE --'MISERIES" ?
RoMELs WON'T MOVE?

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HOLDS CONFERENCE

RICHMOND, Va.--(ANP)-Wlth
|Common Problems of the Com
|monwealtll," as its theme, the Vlr-
gir1ia Commission on 1nterraclal
Cooperation held its 21st annual
state conference at Charlottesville
last week.
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THE OLD ORDER

First agitation for antynching legislation some
eighteen years ago grew out of the terrifying picture
of whole communities including and small
children indulging in the brutally sadlstc orgy OF
torturing to DEATH and later hacking off ears,
toes and fingers as grim souvenirs of American civ
ry.
Everything then public Vivid word pictures
were drawn and flashed throughout the world by
Associated Press In later years actual photographs
of the mob in action were made. Nothing was con-
ceaed despite the persistent inability of coroners
juries to return any verdict other than met death
at the hands of parties unknown.
Then it was very simple for the Tuskegee staff
and other compilers Of lynch data to keep up with
the annual total Cf mob victims
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PLAY WINS HIGH PRAISE

DAYTON, O.-(ANP)--A one-act
play, Her Stars. written and dl-
kected by Verne Green, was high
commended by both audience
bnd critics at. its recent presenta-
|tion by Linden Center Players al
central YMCA.
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StreamIined Lynchine

LOUD HAVE BEEN the arguments of the anti
1ynching bills opponents that ynchng is definitely
on the way out, that DR.. Patterson's Tuskegee re-
port showed only three acts of mob violence in
which lives were lost during 1885, all of which
s,Ipposed tn prove Just how needless and useless
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sor of English, Southern Method
ist university, would speak.
The luncheon meeting was ad-
yertised "Fompeian room, Dallas
Athletic club, price 85c'' The
good old" southern custom
which frowns determinedly on the
intimacy of such association, if
not responsible, no doubt played
an important part in the ludicrous
outcome of the all-Negro program.
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Youth Delinquency
Pondered By Teachers

and criminal assault, and sex, Dr.. 9.
Bullock stated that they compared
similarly with those of adult Ne
gro criminals.
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WINS SUPREME COURT TILT

TOPEKA, Kans.-(ANP)- John
Hunt, attorney for the board of
education Thursday was given 20
days to file an answer TO the writ
of mandamuS, handed down by the
Kansas supreme court, forcing the
school board to allow the enroll
ment of Orlando Graham at Bos-
we'll Junior High school
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NOT so SIMPLE TODAY

Today, the task is by means as simple Moth
ing improves technique as much as practice This
rule holds for lynching as well as either pursuits
Public indignation and growing sentiment for the
passage of some federal legislation to curb this
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by the writer If anything the will and desire to
lynch is even more prevalent than in former years
1t has just been directed into quieer more sedate
more subtle channels.
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TERE pleasant little game that will give you message
every day puzzle designed to spell out
Count the letters first name Ii the number
subtract L. If the number Is less than D.
add The result your key number Start at the upper lett
recange check of your Key
numbers left right the the letters under
the checked figures give you. 5-t
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The Nome nugget., 1940-05-24
German Columns Mechaniized Army In CrOssfire

PARIS, May 24 lP) - The AL lied armies caught the German 5lmored columns in artillery cross fire in a new effort to cut the German salient to the sea. Masses of Allied infantry also weighed down on the corridor, pressing south from Flanders fields. In the Cambrai region, north from the Somme river, in a pincers movement, brought into full play for the first time, two branches of service for which the Allies claim superiority
 Military reports said the Ger man columns discarded the flame throwing tanks in their drive to- ward the sea and are using new equipment and machine guns.
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5,9O0 aIechanized Troops Isolated
 A Paris redo broadcast said hat five thousand German mech anizsd troops were isolated in a bitterly contested Amiens sector on the south prong of the Nazi pincers and that other German forces in Flanders were stalled for lack of fuel.
 Sailing Liner Rex Cancelled
 Tension in the Mediterranean increased as a Fascist Youth of ficiaI declared that Italy is "on the eve of our war to break the British manned gates of Gibral tar and Suez. Rome shipping cir cles heard that the scheduled sailing of the liner Rex from Genoa was postponed and was a possible tip-off to Italian war plans.
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-24
Three Mysterious Fires Break Out In Dawson, Y. T.
Mysterious Fires Break Out Dawson

DAWSON. May q Special from the Dawson News) - The Dswsoa News building and stock plant were seriously damaged by fra Thursday night. following aea mysterious szpl9sion in the ear of tAe building. Peters jew elry store. t&a h.acks from the News building #as badly damag d by a fife Wh. ch started at the rear of the building at five this morning.
 Wednesday night a fire start ing at the rear of Orphium Thea Ire destroyed the theare, he Yu- konia Hotel Jimmy Oglow and Ernest Sehink's stores, banly dam aged Grace Wyness' ladies wear store and Jack Houdeman's bar Der shop, arcade and cafe, all ad joining. All three of the fires were in widely separated parts of town and were of mysterious origin.
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along the Scheldt River line.
 Italian Defense Council Meets
 Mussolini summoned the Ital- ian supreme defense council into session, perhaps auguring the long awaited Italian decision to enter the war. The Italians accus ed the French authorities in Nor occo of renewing the hateful per secutions against the Italians liv ing in that protectorate."
 Count Ciano, Il Duce's number one man, who has been inspect ing Italian-held Albania, left for the YugoSlav border, the focal point of the tension.
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resident To Give Preside 0hei Sunday

WASHINGTON. May g lT. - President Roosevelt will discuss dlf=nzs conditions and need5 "m a dae#3e chat broadcast Sun day rsaat at 6.30 p. m. Pacific Time Secretary Early said 1t w.l. be "a straightforward, factual report rom the governmel. to the people with a general dis cuss.aa of the defense situation and needs The chat will pro bably last for a half hour.
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King g George Makes Personal Appeal

LONDON, May 24 (P) - On Empire Day, with England threat ened with her first invasion since l066, King George in a personal broadcast to the world accused Nazi Germany of "a long planned scheme to subjugate by force the nations of the world
 He called upon his people to keep your resolve unshaken. De feat will mean the destruction of our world as We have known it, and the descent of darkness up- on the ruins.'
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Delegates For Roosevelt Now Over Majority

WASHINGTON, May 24 (P) - RooSeVelt's pledged and semi pledged delegates to the nation al convention went over the ma jority marx with Vermont's giv- ing him six yesterday. He now has the commitments of 547 F votes of the 1,094. Republicans raised the demand that he state his third term intentions in his Sunday night broadcast.
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German Armored Troops Drawing Near Calais, Only 20 Minutes
 By Air From Dover, England

UNDATED. May q lH) - The German capture of B0ulange, France, strategic seaport just 20 minutes b. alr from London. was admitted in authoritative Lon don quarters. The sweeping Nazi push to the sea, preliminary to the heraldad invasion of England also gained in two other smash ing blows. German machanized troops are reported in Berlin to have advanced to within close reach cf Calais, gateway and French channel port, only g miles from Dover, England, while other Nazi forces grappled in fierce fighting With the Allied troops in the streets of Ghent, Belgium. Ghent is 30 mics north west of Brussels where the Ger mans are reported to be attack ing on the outskirts of the city.
 Na7is Try for Jump-off Places
 The trend of the battle in the critical struggle for the mastery of the English channel veered rapidly north with the Germans striking hard for the shortest dir ect jumping off base for England at Calais. In so doing, Hitler's armored legions simultaneously frightened the steel trap on be- tween five hundred thousand and a million Allied troops pocketed in northern France and Belgium. Nazis jubilantly declared the en- circlement of the Allies is near ing alright completion and said that the great destructive bat tie may occur earlier than expect ed.
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French Armies Threaten Chop Off Nazii Thrust

PARIS, May 23 lP) - The French armies, effecting what for eign military experts called "a miracle of reorganization" fou- ght with new fury to reunite the northern and central armies, and to chop off the long spear head which the Germans have driven to the sea, and engaged in a bitter see-SaW battle be- tween Cambrai and Valencien- neS.
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Possibility Of Invasion Thru n d

LONDON, May B (P) - Lord of the privy seal Clement Attlee told the House of Commons that the governments of both Ireland and Britain were "alive to the possibilities" of an invasion of Britain through Ireland. He said There can be no question of the British government giving orders to the government of Fire but all proper consultations have taken place.
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Alive to Possibilities of Invasion
Communications Imperilled

The German break-through again imperilled communications between the 550,OC0 Allied troops in Northern France and the mil lion French soldiers to the south. The British spokesman admitted there is a gap between the two armies and the Allied situation on the Western Front is extreme ly grave"
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Germans F Miles From Channel British Deny German Report Allies
 Embarl>ing From Channel Ports

UNDATED, May 23 (AP) - The fall of Abbeville, 12 miles from the English channel, to German shock troops was announced in the House of Commons in a two minute statement by Prime Min ister Churchill. Heavy fighting al so ragged around Boulogne, Fran ce, on the Channel. Churchill said: Tt is too early yet to say what the results of this coastal fighting may be but evidently it carries implications of a serious character" French reports yester day said the Germans were chaS- ed out of Abbeville.
 Alive to Possibilities of Invasion
 Clement Attlee, deputy leader in the House disclosed that the governments of both Britain and Ireland were appreI4 @S ely alive to the possibilities" of an invasion through Ireland.
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Germans at Gates of Calais

Later German reports said the swift German armored cars, driV ing through St. Omer approached the gates of Calais" The Ger man high command announced the sinking of six loaded British transports in the English Chan peI
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-24
CROMWELL RESIGNS AS
 U. S. MINISTER TO CANADA

WASHINGTON, May B (PJ - President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of Jimmy Cromwell as minister to Canada. He was nominated Tuesday by New ter sey Democrats for U. s. Senator.
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-24
British Deny BOmbings

The German high command re ported that harbor facilities in Dover, England and Dunkerque, France were effectively bomb ed' but this was met by a quick, flat denial by the British. Berlin sources said the British troops falling back to the Chan mel were "embarking from sev- eral French coastal points" and the England-bound transports were bombed. Also that mechan- jed troops were slowly winning after terrific fighting in Flanders
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-24
Earthquake
 At Lima, Peru

LIMA, May "A (P) A strong one-minute earthquake demolish ed houses and sent the popula- tion into the streets in panic. In the first report, none were re- ported killed.
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BROADCAST FROM DUBLIN IS CAUSE OF CONCERN

NEW YORK, May 23 (P)-Ed- ward Murrow, CBS correspond ant in London said a broadcast in the presence of many German diplomats and newspapermen, from Dublin was causing "consid ecahle alarm in England"
The Nome nugget., 1940-03-04
Pioneer School Teacher Mrs.
 Cram Passes On

SEATTLE March ? (P)- The close marital partnership in edu- cational and missionary work of forty years was dissolved here by the death Friday of Mrs Belle Cram wife of the Rev D w Cram retired Presbyterian, pioneer Al askan missionary.
 Coming to Seattle as a bride in 1900 she went with her husband to Alaska, settling in Valdez, where a church was built which still stands there,
 For twelve years Mrs Cram taught school while her husband took care of the church work at Point Barrow under the federal bureau of education. She also served at BettleS on the Koyukuk river and at points in Kotzabue Sound before retiring in 1925.
The Nome nugget., 1940-03-04
GONE WITH THE WIND" SNARES FOUR OSCARS"

HOLLYWOOD March - Gone With the Wind" won the Academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences annual proclamation award.
 Robert Donat was given a stat ue for the best acting achieve ment for his Goodbye MT Chips Vivien Leigh "Scarlett" in Gone With the Wind won the feminine Oscar.
 Victor Fleming for Gone with the Wind" was named best dir ector. Both Donat and Leigh are English stars. Thomas Mitchell in "Stagecoach" was judged the best supporting actor. Hattie Mcdaniel negro mammy in Gone With the Wind" won the supporting actress award.
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sion to his Berlin discussions.
 We'll informed sources said the Fuehrer gave as Germany's price for peace British and French re- cognition of a "German Monroe Doctrine in central Europe; per manent political domination over an area including Bohemia, Mor- avia Slovakia and Germany'S portion of dismembered Poland and Hungary; the restoration of her colonies which she lost in world war number one; and the breaking of the "strangle-hold" which Great Britain has on the lanes to raw materials of the world.
 The German chancellor was al so reported to have said that an improvement in German-Americ- an relations was desirable, Fur thermore, it was said he wanted guarantees from Britain and the French government that they would not stir up the Balkans or Scandinavian countries.
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Increased by $500 were the salaries of the Governor and Sec retary whose usual figure $15,600
 Contingent expenses were cut $4280 to $18,l Legislative ex- penses remained the same $50,000
 Public schools got $50,000; care of the insane $2O5,8 $40; roads brid ges and trails got an increase of $10,000 to $570,000; Construction and repairs to trails and roads got S10,000 increased to $150,000.
 Other items in the bill exclu- siVe of funds for the operation of the territorial government included fire fighting which was cut $1O,50O to $27,OO0; education of natives cut $l0,785 to $940, 595; medical relief was raised $52, $40 to S492, 490; the reindeer service was $75,000 or $500 under the budget estimates; Mckinley Park got $28,12 a cut of $1850; en- forcement of game laws $155,000 cut $24,200.
 Alaska Railroad funds were in creased $155,O0O to $2,775,O00 and investigation of mineral resourc es received $6O,000 or the same as this year
The Nome nugget., 1940-03-04
Germans Shoot Down Belgian Plane In Air Fight
Belgian Plane Is Shot Down In Air Fight with German Plane
 Over Belgian Terri. Three Dead

BRUSSELS March 2 (Ho)- The Belgian government announced today that a Belgian airplane had been shot down in an air fight between German and Belgian planes over Belgian territory.
 The brief communique said: "a Belgian plane was shot down this afternoon during a battle be- tween Belgian planes and German planes. Another communique will be issued tonight"
 Earlier reports from the front fer region that a Belgian plane crashed near Bastogne three mil es from the Belgian-Luxembourg borders and that the occupants were burned to death.
 Government officials viewed
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Hitter Outlines His Price For
 Peace To Sumner Welles In
 94-Minute Conference Saturday

UNDATED March ? (P)-Hlt- Ter Saturday stated to Sumner Welles Assistant Secretary Of State of the United States, Ger many's case for the domination of central Europe and a means of access to raw materials.
 The war which the Fuerher said he would continue until his obiectives were gained, mean while reached its long arm again across the Atlantic as the German freighter Troja of twenty three hundred tons was fired into fam es of Aruba an oil refinery is land in the Dutch West Indies while attempting to run the Brit ish blockade.
 The German freighter was cut off by a British cruiser. The crew of the Nazi boat fired her rather than surrender.
 Welles, President Roosevelt's fact finder in Europe, conferred with Chancellor Hitler for nine ty four minutes as climatic ses-
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Italy Protests
 Blockade German Coal Shipments

UNDATED, March (P)- The war at sea was marked by fresh outbursts of activity in a week end fraught with new impica- tions as Italy protested the Brit ish blockade of German coal ship ments and warned London that her Economic and political re- lations' with Rome were serious ly endangered. The Italian note struck at the British contraband control and generally charged the interception of mail on the high seas in fragrant violation of the Hague conventions.
 There are rumblings in Britain of dissatisfaction with British war leadership following the Ger man bombing and machine-gun- ming of the British liner Domala in the English Channel. Of the 301 persons aboard 108 were re- ported missing or believed lost. The vessel battered and fire scar red was lowed to an English port.
 Two other small British steam CTS the Albona and Cato were sunk by mines. Tint Dutch freight CT Limburg was also reported ma chine-gunned in the North Sea.
 The Russian high command an nounced that Soviet troops are closing in on Viipuri from the north and south. The Films are clinging desperately to the city and reported fresh successes north of Lake Ladoga.
 The French reported 2 German planes were shot down on the Western Front.
The Nome nugget., 1940-03-04
House Appropriation Committee
 Asks $l,O59,50 For Alaska Terri.
 Government For Fiscal Year l94l

WASHINGTON, March 4 (P)- The House Appropriations com mittee introducing an Interior De partment Bill asked $1,059, ,560 for the Alaska territorial govern ment for l94l an increase of $65,- 720 over the current year but $200 less than the budget recon mendations.
 For the Fisheries Service they recommended $28O,540 an in- crease of $12,340 but $1l20 under the budget estimates. The Blu reau was also allowed $78,900 for the fishery market news service an increase of $29O0 also $1l,500 for fish screens.
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the incident-the first of it's kind since the war started-in a ser ious light.
 The number of Belgian dead is unknown but one report said three.
 The Belgian pursuit ships were attacked by German bombers and two Belgian airmen were seen to parachute to earth. The Ger man ships escaped unharmed.
 Shortly after the governments announced the German ambassa- dor arrived at the foreign office seeking and interview with Bel gan foreign minister Henry Spaak.
The Nome nugget., 1940-03-04
Heavy Fighting At Outskirts Of Viiipuri

HELSINKI March 2 (P- Air raid alarms kept Helsinki citi- zens in bombproof shelters an aggregate of four and a quarter hours today as Russan warplan- es roared over the outskirts of the city on numerous occasions.
 The Russians flew at a great
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height bound for objectives fur ther north.
 The air activity was coincident with heavy fighting on the out skirts of Viipuri, key to the Rare Han Isthmus.
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RumOrs Circulate That Air and Supply Ministers of the British
 Cabinet Might Be Reulaced

LONDON, March 4 (P) - Ru- mors which circulated with the appearance of press comment that i've must have the right men, in high places in the gov
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SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
 At Nugget Office

That unique and humorous and typical Alaskan stationery "Sourdough Roadhouse Letter heads and Envelopes, have beer brought strictly uptodate, and are now available at the Nugget off1- ce
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ATTENTION

Catholic Ladies will give an entertainment on St. Patrick's Day Saturday March 16 8:30 pm for the Benfiet of the Pilgrim Springs Mission at the School Gym.