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VOL.- 42. No. 30. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940 Price Per c°Py 15«
Soviets Pan Offer Peace To Finns
Finns Indicate will Reject Excessive Peace Demands
1940 Fairbanks Dog Derby Started This Fdorning
Queen Elizabeth Arrives New York
Sweden Seeking Arrange Armistice
Finns Call 19-Year-Old to Colors
UNDATED, March 7 <#*)—With
a “red duster” Union Jack proud
ly flying at her mast the British
Queen Elizabeth arrived safely in
Ne,v York harbor ending one of
the war's dramatic episodes. The
secret tr p was hailed by the Brit
ish as proof of their mastery of'
the seas but Berlin authorized!
sources said the “stealthy trip!
does not speak well for British
confidence of victory.”
Reliable sources in Stockholm
said Sweden is seeking to ar
range an armistice in the Russian
Finnish war and that Russian
peace terms were recently pre
sented to Finland. Unconfirmed
reports circulated that the Rus-,
sians demanded the surrender of
the Karelian Isthmus, Viipuri,
Lake Ladoga and part of the far
northern Petsamo area. Finland
called more men to the colors
summoning 19-year-old youth &
men who had previously been ex
empted for health reasons.
A German plane was shot
down off the northeast coast of
Scotland. The British Air Minis
try said it was the 44th German
craft downed near the British
Isles. Also long flights were made
last night over Germany. France
no wnced that 12 G -rman sub
marines were sunk during the
first six months of the war.
First of 3100 Air
Army to Get
planes This Month
WASHINGTON, March 8 (A3)—
The first deliveries on a mass or
der of 3100 warplane is expected
by the army this month less than
a year after Congress voted three
hundred million dollars for the
expansion program.
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Mish Confirmed
WASHINGTON, March 7 i/P)—
The Senate confirmed Guy Mish
ostrnaster at Nome.
Poet Passes Away
NEW YORK. March 7 (/P) —
Edwin Markham aged 87 poet
died here. The author of “The
Man with the Hoe” is said to
have been brought a quarter of
a million dollars by 1932. He was
a native of Oregon City, Oregon.
UPSETS LONG DYNASTY
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Sam II Jones whose election as governor of Louisiana ended a 12
years role of the Huey Long political dynasty is shown with his
wife both wearing triumphant smiles at New Orleans after the
votes were counted. Long’s brother Earl went down to defeat at the
hands of Jones. Although it was a primary race it is tantamount to
election.
Russians Planning Peace Offer
But Finnish Spokesmen Indicated
They Reject Excessive Demands
HELSINKI, March 7 </P) — The
Finnish government disclosed to
night that it received word from
Soviets that Russia is planning a
peace offer but indicated that de
tails were not yet known.
Well-informed quarters said
they were in nature an ultimat
um with the threatened alter
native of intensified attacks if re
jected.
Finn Mannerlieim,
Russian Blutcher
Reported Sweden
UNDATED, March 8 (/P) —
Peace talk involved the Finnish
Russian war with Sweden in the
vortex of discussions and Fin
land’s field marshal Mannerheim
and Russia’s Marshal Blutcher re
ported to have arrived in Stock
holm.
The British said that “possibly
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the United States” might be in
vited to make further peace ef
forts. Finland staggered by the
weight of the Russian forces ham
mering steadily at her defenses
fought on while her spokesman
indicated that rejection would be
the only answer to any exces
sive peace demands. A Stock
holm newspaper the Aftonbladet
cited the Finnish foreign minis
ter Tanner as saying that Finland
has “been in contact with a go
between.”
The British Royal Air Force re
ported they scouted German-oc- i
cupied Poland for the first time
dropping pamphlets and on their
return landed in France.
The British Treasury issued a 7
hundred million pound vote of
credit as a sort of blank check
! for the coming years of war ex
pense.
Undersecretary Sumner Welles
continued to tap the official1
French war attitude in a whirl
wind series of talks with govern- j
ment leaders.
Kingsley Wood
Report Expansion
Royal Air Force
LONDON, March 7 </P) — Sir
Kingsley Wood head of the Air
Ministry told the House of Corn
mans that the British Air Force
have made more than a thousand
sorties into Germany by day and
night and said the force is pre
paring for a “great expansion of
strength which is known to be
necessary.” He said that RAF
planes have sighted German subs
more than 100 times and deliver
ed more than 60 attacks success
fully and have escorted 700 con
voys.
Senate Passes
j-Year Trade
Agreement
WASHINGTON, March 8 (/PI—
i The Senate Finance Committee
| voted 12 to 8 to approve without
! amendment the House-approved
legislation to continue the admin
istration’s trade agreements pro
gram for three years beyond
next June 12.
The House passed the hundred
eighteen million five hundred sev
enty eight thousand dollar Inter
ior Department appropriation
bill after cutting three million
four hundred seventy nine thou
sand dollars from the budget es
timates and then took a week
end recess.
ATTENTION
A Pioneer Card Party will be
held Monday, March 11th at 9
pm at the I O O F Hall.
Asks 3-Man Croup
To Act Merely As
Judge In N L B
WASHINGTON, March 7 (/P)—
A majority of a special House
committee asked Congress to re
place three members of the Na
tional Labor Board and create a
new three-man group to act
"merely as a judge” in collective
bargaining disputes and recom
mended 17 amendments in all to
the Wagner Act. Chairman Smith
of Virginia said they represent
“imperative things needing im
mediate attention.”
Japs Complete
Occupation Start
ed 3 Days Ago
HONGKONG, March 8 (JP) —!
The Japanese army’s south
China ‘headquarters announced
the complete occupation of the
Chungshan area 50 miles north of
Canton by the expedition that
drove inland from the Pearl Ri
ver Delta three days ago. Chung
shan is important in Chinese eyes
as the birthplace of Sun Yat Sen,
the father of the Chinese repub
lic,
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
That unique and humorous
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have bee:
brought strictly uptodate, and art
now available at' the Nugget offl
ce.
Twelve Teams Start This Morning
On 82-Mile Course To Livengood
Of 1940 Fairbanks Dog Derby
FAIRBANKS, March 8 (Spec-1
al to the Nugget)—Midst a stir- j
ring scene on the frozen surface
of the Cliena River at the foot
of Cushman Street a record
crowd gathered in motly winter ]
attire. The record-breaking
throng of -enthusiasts witnessed
the starting of a Northland class
ic a' 8 this morning as a dozen
sturdy dog teams from many
points of interior Alaska got
away on the gruelling grind of
the 1940 Dog Dertby over the 82
miles course to LLvengood where
they will rest 10 hours tonight
and return tomorrow the first
team prcbabiy arriving late in
the afternoon.
With two teams added since]
yesterday the starting teams in
order of the their get away fol
lows:
Harold Woods, .Afn t Skaug,
Bob Buzby, Johnny Allen, Ro
bert Hanson, the newsboy driver,
Walter John, Bergman Kokrines,
George Jimmie, Mike Agababa,
Jacob Butler, Harry Sam and
Crosky Moses. Eight of the driv
ers are Indians. The whites are:
Skaug, Buzby, Hanson, and Aga
baba.
The most exciting get-away
was when George Jimmie with 12
dogs dashed off carrying one as
a spare dog in the basket. He
fell from the sleigh and ran a
hundred yards before being
thrown back in.
Their progress will be report
ed in by phone from different
stations. The temperature was 10
below and the skies are cloudy
with a Light snow falling.
The rules require all dogs to be
brought bats’: whether, exhausted
crippled, dead or alive.
Soviets I ose on fee driven off with severe losses be~
JUrlClo UUoC UII Itv fore viipuri the high command
announced.
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HELSINKI, March i </P)—More you can Save -2.00 by paying six
than 30 Russian tanks were des months in advance for your sub
troyed on the ice and troops were wription to The Nome Nugget.
SHII! THE WALLS HAVE EARS
This cartoon of two clubmen conversing beneath a poi trait with
features of Adolph Hitler is part of a current British poster cam
paign to keep the public from discussing and divulging information
which might have military value to Germany.