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VOL. 41. No. 114. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 22, 1939 Price per copy iu
Sub Is Sighted Off Alaskan Coast
President Asks Congress Repeal Arms Embargo
Premier Caleniscu Of Rumania Is Assassinated
COO K—A 91,000 prise winner
I in final "cook-off” at world’s
poultry congress, Cleveland, waa
' Mrs. Homer Hixson of Gains*
villa, Fla., shown with - prise
dossert, a fruit roll.
Joe Louis Wins
Eighth Champ
Fight Since 1937
DETROIT. Sept. 20 <;P)—After
chasing Bob Pastor around for
30 minutes and getting nowhere
Joe Louis knocked out the form
er collegian in 33 second of the
11th round to retain the word’s
heavyweight championship.
Lo-uis weighed 200 and Pastor
weighed 183. After flooring Past
or four times in the first round
and once in the second, Louis
couldn't do a thing with the
back-pedalling husky until his
left shot out with sudden fury in
the 11th round. Pastor dropped
and managed to raise himself to
his knees but could not get to
his l’cet before Referee Sam Hen
nessy counted the full ten.
A crowd estimated at 40,000
contributed to the gross of
around $400,000 to see Louis sue
cessfuiy defend his title for the
8th time since he won it from
Jim Braddock in 1937.
Pastor, after a weak start,
came on in the 8th, 9th and 10th
rounds and once in the 8th had
the Brown Bomber befuddled
with a two-handed sally.
Wazis Withdraw
To West Poland
BERLIN, Sept, 22 UP)—A Ger
man-Russian agreement was an
nounced under which Germany
is withdrawing her armies in Po
land to the west of the contin
uous north and south line formed
by the Pissa, Vistula and San
Rivers. It was also announced
that Warsaw, on the west bank
of the Vistula remain in Ger
man hands.
Pres. Declares
Arms Embargo
Is “Dangerous”
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 <7P)—
President Roosevelt asked Con
gress to repeal the arms embargo
| provision of the neutrality law
because they “are most vitally i
I dangerous to American neutral
; ity, American security, and Am
erican peace.” In a message de
livered in person at the extraor- |
dinary session to the legisators;
present, he said he could offer i
no hope that “the shadow over;
the world might swifty pass.”1
Speaking from the rostrum of |
the crowded House chamber,
Roosevelt told the Senators and j
Representatives that he assemb
od them to amend the legislation:
i which in his best judgement, “so
I alters the historic foreign policy
| of the United States that it im- j
pairs the peaceful relations of
the United States with foreign
nations.” The crux of the issue
he said was the repeal of embar
go which forbids the shipment of
munitions to combatant nations
and “return ' to international
law.”
The President took occasion to
renew his plea for non-partisan
ship during the international cris
is and gave reassurances that it
is his belief that America could
keep from being embroiled in Eu
rope’s conflict.”
“Let no man or group in any
walk of life assume the excusive
j protectorate over the future well
j being of America, because I con
ceive, regardless of party or sec
don, a mantle of peace and pa
triotism wide enough to cover us
all. Let no group assume the ex
clusive legal peace bloc and we
will all belong to it," the Presi
dent said.
24 Senators
form Bloc To
Opp ose Revision j
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 t/P)—
Two determined senatorial fac
tions began digging in for a con
elusive battle over President
Roosevelt’s renewed appeal to
scrap the arms embargo and sub
stitute a cash and carry system.
Lead by Senator Johnson of Cal
ifornia, 24 Senators have organ
ized a bloc to oppose the sale of
arms to the warring nations on
the grounds that it is likely to
force the United States into the
European conflict.
The President reported that he
received a big stack of telegrams
about his neutrality speech but j
personally had seen only 40 to 50
sent by Governors and personal
friends. Secretary Early said a
poll showed an exception of 8
or 10 message wired, all pro-ap
peal.
Chairman Pittman postponed
until tomorrow the meeting of j
the Senate Foreign Relations!
Committee to consider the Presi-!
dent’s recommendations.
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Pres. Reports
Two Foreign Subs
Atlantic & Pacific
.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 22 (/P>—
President Roosevelt disclosed
that submarines which he said
1 were not identified were sighted
i off southern Alaska and off Bos
I ton and reported by the Mari
| time Commission. Rooseve’t told
j reporters he was informed of the
| presence of the two .underseas
i craft and that the submarines
I were not American. He said they
' were sight, d by ships at sea but
I declined to disclose the specific
I source of the government's in-1
formation ; bout their presence
but said the the source* were
perfectly reliable.
He asserted that sub in the t
Pacific Ocean was off the south
ern boundary of Alaska where it i
joins Canadian territory and
j that the sub in the Atlantic he
said was from 50 to 70 miles
from the southern tip of Nova'
Scotia, half way between there j
and Nantucket Shoals.
He said there is no regular
government neutrality patrol in
Pacific waters. When some one
wanted to know whether the!
craft might be Canadian, the!
President laughed and said they:
j might be Bolivian or Afghan.
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Metlakatla Indian
Reports A Sub
In Clarence St.
■
! KETCHIKAN, Sept. 22 f/P) —!
Everett Hudson a Metlakatla In
dian h-henman arriving here to
day said he sighted an unidenti-j
fled submarine in Clarence Strait
at dusk Tuesday. He said the
sub '.’.me to surface and proceed]
ed >■ > ward and drew abreast’
i of IT’ Ison’s seine boat near
1 Windy 'Point on Prince of Wales*
I Island Hudson said when the
' craft drew abeam of his own ves
-el ab >ul three-quarters of a
j mile away it gradually submerg
I ed until only its periscope was
visible.
Under six-power glasses, Hud ]
-on said his four companions al
so saw the sub. He said the sub i
was sighted in the middle of!
Clarence Strait bewteen Gravina ;
and Prince of Wales Islands
: bout two miles north of Punch j
1 Hill and the radio beam station!
on Gravina which is about 15
miles by airline from Ketchikan!
and probably 50 or 60 miles!
north of the British Columbia
boundary.
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1,400 Foreigners Leave Warsaw
BERLIN. Sept. 22 .(/P)—Nearly
1,400 foreigners including at
least 8 Americans left beseiged j
Warsaw and were taken to Koen'
igsberg in East Prussia by spec- ]
ial trains, the German army an j
nounced.
49 YEARS LATE R—Dedication of this marker at the Y’s
Camp Albany on Lake Champlain, N. Y„ brought to the scene
Frank W. Ober (left) and Joseph W. Texter who were together
at this spot back in 1890 when the camp, believed the second
oldest boys’ camp in United States, was established. Ober was
then Y.M.C.A. secretary. In center is Judge Wm. E. Wooliard.
Premier Calinescu
Foe Of Pro-Nazis
Is Assassinated
BUCHAREST, Sept. 21 1/P) —
At 8 a.m. PST, Premier Calines
cu was shot and killed by men
believed to be iron guardists.
Troops were called up at once to
prevent a coup.
The assassination of Calinescu.
known as Rumania’s strong man
because of his suppression and
outawing of the pro-Nazi Iron
Guard organization, was attrib
uted to conflicting national inter
ests. The assassination came as1
German and Russian troops ap
proached the Rumanian frontier
in their occupation of Poland.,
Rumania got one-seventh of herj
territory from Poland.
Russia worked on a war set-i
tlement while the Rumania gov
ernment convened immediately
, to take necessary measures to
! meet the crisis of Rumania’s pos|
ition of internal and internation (
al affairs as a result of the kill- j
ing.
The British and French allies
and the Germans are engaged in
a bitter struggle, each side at
tempting to influence Rumania’s
policy to their advantage.
Calinescu was known as the
advocate of political and econom
ic cooperation with Britain and i
France. Rumania’s oil is needed
by Germany’s mechanized army
and her air force is a major j
prize.
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SHOT IN HIS OWN CAR
UNDATED, Sept. 21 <JP) —The
assassination of Premier Armand
Calinescue of Rumania shocked
the Balkan nations on the fringe
of the eastern war front while
Europe watched expectantly for
major developments.
Caiinescu had been the foe of
the pro-Nazi Iron Guard organ
ization. Rumanian legation sourc
os at Budapest reported the Iron
Guard were agitating through
out the country since Germany
invaded Poland. “Throughout Ru
mania there is terrible excite
ment,” said a broadcast over a
Rumanian government radio sta
tion, then the broadcast was cut
off. Communications from Rum
ania were interrupted and corres
pendents were unable to give
full details of the situation.
The premier was shot while
driving his car on one of Buch
arests principal streets. Another
car drove along side his own.
In Berlin the army was report
ed on the eastern front to have
cleaned up Poland with the ex
ception of four centers of resist
ance.
Another British freighter, the
Kinsington Court was sunk by a
sub. The British government an
nounced that 2 Royal Air Force
flying patrol boats rescued the
crew of 34.
Swiss reports indicated that
France might start important op
erations.
Propaganda Minister Goebbels
in Berlin gave correspondents a
vigorous denial of allegations
that Germany intended to vio
late the neutrality of Belgium,
the Netherlands or Luxembourg.
LEND-SPEND -Marrlner
S. Eccles, federal reserve board
chairman, is shown as he told
senate banking committee that
President Roosevelt’s $3,800,
000.000 lending program needed
supplementing with “a continu
ous public works program."
— -Sr-,
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Rumania Extracts
Blood Price From
The Iron Cuards
BUCHAREST, Sept. 22 (/P) —
Thousands were reported execut
ed as Rumania, under a virtual
military dictatorship, exacted %
heavy blood price on the pro
Nazi Iron Guards for the assass
ination of Premier Calinescu. Re
liable sources said thousands of
members of the outlawed Iron,
Guards wert taken to concentra
tion camps throughout the coun
try and shot to death to avenge
yesterday’s killing of the premier
who was a foe of the Iron Guard.
The sources also said that some
women were shot.
Government Lets
Aircraft Contracts
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (A*)—
The Administration program for
the rebuilding of national air de
fenses was stepped up to a fast
er rate with the award of $58,
585,000 aircraft contracts, and
the decision to build a West
Coast aeronautical research lab
oratory at a cost of ten million,
as quickly as possible at Moffett
Field, near Sunnyvale. Califor
nia.
Boeing at Seattle received a
$8,102,000 contract for four-mo
tored bombers and another con
tract of $2,843,000 for some 400
primary training planes was
awarded to Boeing Aircraft,
Stearman Division, at Wichita,
Kansas.
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