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VOL. 42. No. 8. 10ME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1940 ***“ Per c°p* 18«
Italy May Be Compelled Go War
Sub-Zero Weather Halts Fighting In Both Wars
Three Day Finnish Relief Drive Starts Tomorrow
3-Day Drive
Finnish Relief
Starts Thursday
The Finnish Relief Committee
met last night at Kenn’s Bakery
to complete organization plans
which developed into the follow
ing details:
Thursday, Friday and Satur
day of this week have been de
signated as the days for the
drive, at which times the mean
bers of the committee will can
vass the city.
For every donation, a member
ship ribbon will be presented to
the donor. No matter how small
the amount, the donation is ac
ceptable, declare the members.
All persons interested are re
quested to donate according to
their wishes — small or large
amounts.
Business houses have placed
banners on their delivery trucks
announcing the drive.
All funds raised will be depos
ited at the Miners & Merchants
Bank at Nome, under the “Nome
Finish Relief Fund.” From this
amount regular remittances are
expected to be made to the head
■of the Territorial Campaign for
transmission to the national com
mittee from which point the as
sistance is dispatched to the Fin
nish non-combatants.
For those persons outside of
Nome and in this section of Al
aska the following advice is giv
en. Any donations should be mail
ed Mayor Fred Kubon, Nome,
and if in the form of checks or
money orders, made payable to
the “Nome Finnish Relief Fund”
ODD FELLOWS NOTICE
First Degree will be conferred
Friday night. Large attendance
requested.
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it.
Alaska Democratic
Convention Meets
At Juneau
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JUNEAU. Jan. 17 — National
Committeemen Jack Hellcnthal
in the keynot speech at the Dem
ocratic Territorial Convention
this forenoon declared that the
Alaska delegation to the Nation
al convention should not be in
structed but the convention
should pass a resolution urging
the nomination of James Farley
for President unless world condi
tions are such that Roosevelt
should be drafted for a third
term. But if there is a question
of sentiment or country, there
should be only one answer.
The speaker said that Farley is
the best friend Alaska ever had
and much can happen between
now and the national convention.
Lew Williams, Wrangell editor,
was made temporary chairman.
The Credentials Committee was
appointed and was to report at
1:30 this afternoon when the per
manment organization affected
will get down to business and is
to be completed by Thursday.
QUINTS NOT INVITED
N. Y. FAIR IN 1940
CALLANDER, Ont., Jan.—The
business manager of the Dionne
quintuplets denied that the
Quints had received an invita
tion to appear at the New York
World’s Fair during the 1940 sea
son.
Manager Keith Munro said
that as far as he knew, the
Quints had not received a
World’s Fair offer since last year.
Official circles also doubted ru
mors that the five little girls
would be permitted to appear at
the fair.
Neither the guardians of thej
Quints nor the Ontario govern- j
ment were expected to agree to
send away the feature attraction
| of Ontario.
FINNS PUSH INTO RUSSIA
Map shows highlights of recent action in Russo-Finnish war: (1)
Cities in |this area were reported targets of Russian air raids; (2)
Viipuri was shelled by artillery; (3) Finns reported shelling the
Soviet battleship Marat off Koivisto; (4) carrying the war into
Russia, Finns pressed within 75 miles of .the strategic Murmansk
railway; (5) Russians claimed victory at Suomussalmi
Warns Italians
May Be Compelled
To Enter War
ROME, Jan. 17 </P) — Ettore
. Mutii, Secretary of the Fascist
j Party warned the Italians that
I they might be compelled “at any
moment” to fight in the Europ
ean war. The warning was pub
lished after a conference of party
leaders of 26 provinces.
The communique advised the
Italian people not to be too great
ly impressed by the “recent dem
onstrations of international sym
pathy.” This evidently was in re
ference to the friendly attitude
displayed toward Italy by France
j and Great Britain since the war
j with Germany began.
ALASKA GETS RUN-AROUND
ON JOBS, SAII)
JUNEAU — The Empire says:
Despite indignant denials by con
Tractors* 7Hat discrimination is
being practiced on the naval air
base projects, Alaskan workers
are still being given the “run
; around” in the matter of employ
I ment, Gov. Ernest Gruening de
I dared.
On the eve of his departure
| for Washington where he will
| among a great many other things
' take up the project employment
complaints with the Navy Depart
ment, the Governor said he was
satisfied despite the denials that
discrimination against Alaskan
workers has been and is being
practiced.
“Denials do not alter the facts”
Gov. Gruening said. “In addition
to the manifest, demonstratable
facts which I have mentioned, I
have in my possession a quantity
of other information which indi
cates Alaskan are being given
what is generally referred to as
the run-around. I personally ex
perienced such a run-around ;
[when I went to Sitka.
\ In Seattle recently H. W. Mc
Curdy, president of the Puget
Sound Bridge and Dredging Com
pany, one of'the contractors, des
jcribed Governor Gruening’s com
1 plaints as “unfair and uncalled
for."
Among other things, McCurdy
said:
“We think the citizens in the
States are entitled to some jobs
I —Alaska is not paying a cent
| for the work;, the United States
J is paying for it. Further, it is not
a relief project, but a national
J defense work.
“We are getting tired of these
| tirades of the Governor."
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REASON FOR NAVAL
EXPANSION IS EXPLAINED
■ ■■
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 —Ad
miral Harold Stark, Chief of Na
val operations in Washington
told the House Naval committee
that in considerating the propos
ed fleet expansion program, “we
must face the possibility of an
Allied defeat.”
In recommending expansion of
the plan Admiral Stark said the
United States must measure the
strength of "any potential com
bination of enemies” in event the
Allies are defeated.
Zero Weather
Stops Fighting
North and W est
I UNDATED,' Jan. 17 f/P)—Wea
lthier achieved what diplomacy
[failed to produce—peace in the
■ European battlefields. Though a
I temporary lull in the fighting ex
: tended throughout the snow
i choked Finnish-Russian war zone
[along the Western Front extreme
[cold paralyzed what little fight
ing there lias been between Ger
I many and the Allies.
I
Fifty-one degree below zero
[weather in some parts of Finland
[made major military operations
[virtually impossible. The coldest
weather in 25 years increased the
'suffering among Finnish victims
of Soviet air raids but gave re
spite from Russia land attacks.
Finnish forces held positions of
' from five to ben miles inside
j th> Russian 4rtontia>r naa» kiasua
!on the east central front where
they reported consistent progress
during the past three weeks.
The sweeping air raids of the
past five days tapered off with an
attack yestreday on Hanko, the
southwestern Finnish naval base
where 19 bombs were dropped.
Congressional leaders in Wash
ington expressed douibt whether
financial aid would be voted Fin
land since many members voiced
their fears that further aid might
involve the United States ulti
mately in the European quarrels.
President Roosevelt expressed
the opposite view in letters to
the Senate and House declaring
that financial assistance for the
purchase of non-military supplies
wouldn’t threaten involvement.
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“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Three British
Submarines Sunk
By German Action
UNDATED, Jan. 16 (/P) — Brit
ain gave up three submarines as
lost in the first acknowledge
ment of British submarine loss
es due to German action during
the war. The Admiralty said the
submarines Starfish, Sea Horse
and Undine which carried nor
mal complements totaling 107
men were listed as war casual
ties since they failed to report
to their bases for the past week.
Britain said they believed one
Geiman submarine was sunk in
the North Sea. The British state
ment came shortly after Ger
many announced that two Brit
ish submarines were destroyed
at Holgoland Bight but that part
of their crews were saved. Ger
many named the Undine and
bpt made no mentic/x of
the Sea Horse. .
The stepped-up sea warfare
b ween the western belliger
ents was accompanied by a new
strain in relations between Rus
sia and the Scandinavian neu
trals. A Soviet broadcast ac
cused Sweden of forcing her un
employed to fight for Finland.
The renewal of Russian charges
conflict both with Sweden and
Norway who protested to Mos
cow against alleged Soviet vio
lations of their territory. Russian
bombers, they said, attacked a
Swedish island and Red warplan
es have flown far over northern
Norway. The two nations are
fearful of becoming embroiled
in the northern warfare. Pre
viously they had denied Russia’s
charge that they were giving of
ficial sanction to sending men
and war supplies to Finland but
the Kremlin said that the Swed
ish and Norwegian replies were
unsatisfactory.
Long Machine
Faces Primary
Run-Off in Feb.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17 (IP)—
Ballot tabulations showed that
Governor Earl Long, chief of the
powerful Lousiana political ma
chine which his brother built
must face a self-styled reform
candidate run-ofl in the Demo
cratic primary in his effort to
win the election for the contin
uance of the personnel policies
of the regime established by the
late Senator Long, which are at
issue.
In the first primary election
yesterday, it appear certain that
Long would fail to attain a maj
ority over the field by some
where between twenty and thirty
thousand votes. The judging was
incomplete but unofficial returns
available at noon indicate he
! must face the Jones reform cand
1 idate, Lake Charles, attorney for
I the run-ofl on Febrdai-y 20.'
The returns of 675 of the
state’s 1703 precinct including
New Orleans gave Long 100,000
against 64,000 for the Jones cand
idate and 49,000 for James Noe.
ACTRESS SUES FOR $2G5,9«5
LOS ANGELES, Jan.—Actress
and heiress Geraldine Spreckels
sued the exclusive Hacks Depart
ment Store of Beverly Hills for
$265,965 as result of a fire.
Miss Spreckels, a film actress
and heiress to a sugar fortune,
was severely burned several
months ago when her flimety
lounging robe caught fire from a
cigarette.
She charged the department
store with negligence in not cau
tioning her that the robe was
highly inflammable. Miss Spreck
les said that she was confined to
a hospital for 46 days recovering
from the burns, and that her
body and face were permanently
scarred.
Weather and by the apparent respect each high army command has for his enemy's fortifications,
German sources distribute this picture of their concrete tank traps, designed “to protect the German
_ . _L_ frontier from sudden attacks." Note barbed wire interfacings.