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Last Boat From Seattle Sail Sept. 30
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Germany Announces Capitulation Of Warsaw
Fighting in East Wanes-Intensifies on West Front
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18th Day Poles
Are Determined
To Fight On
UNDATED, Sept 26 </P) — A
j new German assault on Warsaw
was launched while the German i
and French forces locked in
heavy fighting on the western
front. French and German artil
lery exchanged fire south of
Weibruecken, across the Rhine
frontier.
Paris dispatches said French
are cannonading the south end
. of the western front, aiimed at
breaking up the German troops
concentrations reported near the
Swiss border.
Reports reaching Switzerland
said heavy losses were sustain
ed by both France and Germany
when French troops repulsed a
German counter attack, attempt
ing to relieve the pressure on key
forts near Zweibruecken on the
eastern front.
^ A German communique said
operations have started against
Warsaw “after all efforts failed
to convince the Polish command
er of the gruesomeness and use
lessness of resistance in the war.
Warsaw has been beseiged for
18 days.
While German and Soviet
forces have taken almost all of
Poland, a German communique
* said 2.000 prisoners were taken
in a pocket southeast of the cap
ital. Russian troops have neared
the agreed demarcation line split
ting Poland between the two
powers as German troops fell
back toward the new border.
An unofficial survey said Po
land has lost between six and
seven hundred planes since the
fighting started, the rest of the
+ air force of about 300 planes
have been interned in Rumania
and Lithuania.
Germany reported the down
ing of six French planes and two
balloons and the French report
ed the defeating of the German
air force in two major battles
which preceded the artillery
bombardment of the Seigfried
Line.
[- . Germans
Drop Incendiary
Bombs Warsaw
BUDAPEST. Sept. 27 (/P)—The
Warsaw radio returned to the air
after a lapse of nearly two days
and reported that the Polish cap
ital was "destroyed by an infer
no,” in its twentieth day of the
German siege. The announcer de
dared “more than 3,000 civil
ians” were killed in the last 24
hours.
Polish troops defending the
capital said they repulsed all Ger
man land attacks. “Warsaw is vir
tually razed but the morale of
the population is excellent and
we will never give in while one
of us is still alive.”
Speaking at 5:15 a.m. PST, the
announcer reported that German
bombing planes are throwing in
cendiary bombs into the center
of the city. Communications with
in the capital are described as
impossible “because of fires and
universal wreckage, the food sit
uation is tragic and our last hos
pital was destroyed by German
shells today” the announcer said.
FOR SALE
Boy’s bicycle and skis; child’s
mattress and skis. Inquire Neilly
residence.
AMONG C !' OS E N F E W—Discipline rules Che 125 en
roJlces at the U. S. const Ruard academy at New London. Conn.
0 Above. Capt. C. G. VVinsted of Wilmington, N. C., inspects a rote.
Strike Threat
Causes Sailing
Date Set Ahead
Nome Agent Joe Harnish of
1 the Alaska Steamship Company
I is in receipt of a wire from the
Seattle offices of the Company,
j announcing the new date of the
sailing of the last boat for Nome,
j Following is the text of the
wire:
“Account extreme uncertainty
of labor situation and consider
ing the best interests of Nome
we will sail the Mt. McKinley.
Saturday, Spetember 30. avoid
ing possibility of tie-up."
T h e iNolhwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce sent the
| following telegram today to Dei
i egate Dimond protesting the ad
| vanced sailing date:
j Hon. Anthony J. Dimond,
I Delegate from Alaska.
Washington, D. C.
Advised only today account
; maritime strike Pacific coast sail
ing last boat from Seattle ad
vanced to morning thirtieth stop
Advanced schedule compels sus
pension operations entire dis
trict and makes impossible se
cure fall deivery very heavy ship
ments machinery and supplies en
route to Seattle for new projects
anticipating spring construction
and nineteen forty operations al
so we consider impossible Alas
ka Communications System han
dle excessive traffic in time com
mercial houses Seattle make de
liveries stop We request you ap
peal Secretary Perkins advising
Nome only American port clos
ed eight month period We de
| pend Labor Department secure
[ relief from situation and make
J demand responsible parties per
i mit last boat sail October tenth
as scheduled stop Situation ex
i tremely critical stop Notify Carl
i Lomen our National Counsellor,
j NW Alaska Chamber Commerce
Other telegrams of protest
have been sent from Nome ex
plaining the critical condition
which the early sailing will cre
ate in this district. Merchants in
Nome have been frantically pre
paring telegrams containing
their orders, in the hope that at
least part of the orders will be
delivered in time to make the
sailing on Sept. 30.
Further developments are ex
pected hourly on the situation.
Announce That
Warsaw Surrend
ers to Germans
BERLIN, Sept. 27 </P) — The
German high command announc
ed that “Warsaw capitulated un
conditionally.” Handing over of
the city will probably occur on
September 29. The announce
ment came several hours after
an earlier communique declaring
the Warsaw defenders, under
the thrust of a German assault
begun yesterday, made offers
this morning to surrender.
MAKING HAY, WITHOUT THE SUNSHIN E—An agricultural program not on the
senate calendar was given consideration by these Democratic senators when the Alfalfa club had ilg j
outing on the farm of former Representative Joe Himes, near Frederick, Md. Left to right: Pat Harrt* 1
[_ -> son. Mississippi; D. Worth Clark, Idaho: Alva B Adams. Colorado; Allen Ellender, Louisiana. * <£j
Neutrality Bill
Be Reported In
Sen. Tomorrow
j*
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 {JP>—
Opposition to the prompt approv
al of the Administration’s neu
trality bill, by the Foreign Re
lations Commitee apparently fad
ed when Senator Borah, one of
i .
its most adamant opponents said
j he expected the measure to be re
' ported on the Senate floor to
; morrow.
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Billy Conn Holds
Light Heavy Title
PITTSBURGH. Fa., Sept. 25
| (/P)—Bil'y Conn at 172retain
ed the light heavyweight cham-,
1 pionship by winning a decision
' over former Champion Melio Bet
tina at 174’^, in 15 rounds before
a crowd of 17.000.
As in the first fight, some i
months ago, Bettina did all the:
fighting in the early rounds but
, Conn came from behind as the
1 Italian tried for a smashing fin-<
ish. The 14th and 15th rounds1
decided the match which was
very close all the way with no ]
knockdowns.
Legion Convention
Be Held in Boston
_
CHICAGO, Sept. 27, {/?)—'The
1940 convention of the American
! Legion is awarded to the City of
Boston.
.Mrs. FDR To
V isit in Seattle
WASHINGTON. Sept. 27 (IP)—
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, at a
press conference, indicated that
she might visit her daughter Mrs.
Boetticher at Seattle next month. |
•Freudi Report
Wipe Out Parts
Seigfried Line
UNDATED, Sept. 27 </P)— The
European war is mounting in in
tensity at sea and on the west
ern front but entered apparent
ly on its final phase at its start
ing point, the eastern front. Ger
many said Warsaws defenses ag
reed to surrender. The Warsaw
radio, describing a terrific Ger
; man assault on the capital declar
| ed “We will never give in while
j one of us is still alive.”
A German communique report
ed the capture of fortresses in
the north and south of Warsaw,
in its twentieth day fu siege. So
viet and German troops are in al
mast cc. .pletc control of Poland,
leaving to diplomats the final dis
position of the territory.
On the western front, French
dispatches reported that German
, positions on the Seigfried Line
i were wiped out by heavy artil
lery fire as the entire front blaz.
I ed with cannonading. The French
i communique, however, said the
front saw a “calm night.”
Swiss dispatches declared the
Germans launched an attack on
the Wissembourg sector. A Ger
man communique reported “only
minor skirmishes” on the west
ern front.
Fighting on the sea, Germany
asserted the Reich “air froce un
. its yesterday successfully attack
' ed English naval units” in the
i North Sea, The communique said
i “beside one airplane which was^
destroyed, several severe hits
i were scored on one battleship.**
Churchill, First Lord of tfie
Admiralty, said twenty German
planes attacked British naval
units in the North Sea but the
British ships were undamaged.
He declared one German plane
was shot down, another was dam
aged and a third captured.
FRESH BAKERY GOOL>S AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
RED LETTER DAY—Whan these Russian misses were
given t .p honors at a beauty contest in Paris, it was a “Red”
lel'er day for the Russian Nurses Aid society, where the election
was held. “.Miss russia” was Irene Bnrodo'ilina, 19. Hr r mains
of honor were Marguerite KostoTf (left), 17, ar.d KaSia Pavalova
(risiit), 19. t’om>i-re tium with American. teatjties. . j