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VOL. 40 No. 106 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, Sept. 4, 1939. Price Per co™ 1W
JOIN WAR
BRITISH UNER ATHENIA WAS TORPEDOED
French Troops Penetrate Germany’s Seigfried Line
SEEING THE SEA—Farms aren’t like this, said girls who
varied their stay at 4-H encampment with a steamer trip to Mount
Vernon. Left to right: Annabelle Wetzel, Harrisburg, Pa.: Martha
Wreath. Manhattan. Kas.: Dorothy Sledge, Coushatta, La.
France Opened
Attack Western
Front Barrages
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UNDATED, Sept. 4, — Heavy
gunfire sounded on the Western
Front as Great Britain, France
and Poland made war on Ger
many.
The tiny Grand Duchy of Lux
emburg wedged between France
and Germany heard the ominous
sounds reminiscent of 1914, soon
after dawn, in the new European
war.
The first maritime casualty is
the British liner Athenia which
sank off the Hebrides Islands af
ter she was hit by a torpedo,
which British officials attributed
to a submarine.
Winston Churchill, First Lord
of the British Admiralty said
the ship was torpedoed “without
the slightest warning’”.
The rescue fleet reported offic
ially they had saved all of the
fourteen hundred passengers—
three hundred and eleven of
them Americans, except a few
killed in the torpedo explosion..
France opened its land, seta and
air operations against Germany,
the War Ministry announced,
without disclosing the exact
theatre of hostilities being design
ated, to relieve German pressure
on Poland.
Reports circulated in the Fren
ch Chamber of Deputies said the
Frenfh offensive was concentrat
ed in the Belfort region where
Burgundy Gate, a valley, cuts
across the Rhine to Germany
not far from the Swiss frontier.
Governor Troy
| Resigned; New
Gov. Appointed
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. —
President Roosevelt Saturday an j
nounced the resignation of Gov- j
ernor John W. Troy of Alaska,
j He also, announced the recess
appointment of Dr. Ernest H
Gruening, chief of the division
j of Territories and Insular Pos- i
j session under the Department ofl
the Interior, to succed Gov. Troy.
The White House made pub
lic, correspondence with Gover
| nor Troy, in which he said he
l was resigning because of pro
< longed ill health. His resignation •
will become effective October 15.'
I
Announce Capture
Important Rail
Head of Poland
BERLIN, Sept. 2, — DNB re
ported that German troops had
captured Oderberg, an import
ant rail crossroads on the South
western Polish Czech frontier,
after the Poles had exchanged
only a few shots and then fled
with everything portable.
The news agency said that the
town was not damaged except
for a few broken windows, and
that the populace showered flow
ers on the incoming Germans.
The Poles were said to have j
seized the town when Czecho- j
slavakia went to pieces. '
British Liner S.
S. Athenia Sinks
After Torpedo
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LONDON, Sept. 3, — The Ad
miralty today confirmed the tor
pedoing of the British liner Ath
enia.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 3. — The
British Broadcasting company’s
represetative said that the Brit
j ish sterner Athenia, with four
teen hundred atboard had been
! torpedoed twio hundred miles
East of the Hebrides Islands.
Tlie liner was bound from Glas
gow to Montreal.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 — NBC
said its engineers had picked up
the shortwave broadcasting sta- j
tion DJB. Berlin, which said the
Athenia had struck a floating
I British mine, and had not been |
1 torpedoed by a German U Boat.!
DJB, being owned by the Ger '
man government, the announce
! ment thus had an official tinge.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 4.
—The State Department has been
advised that two ships picked up
a thousand survivors of the sunk
i en British ship Athenia.
Ambassador Joseph P. Kenn
j edy’s message to the Department
i from London said the British
Admiralty reported the steamer
j Knute Nelson was carrying eight
hundred survivors while Wann
engren’s yacht the Southern
Cross was carrying two hundred.
Wannengren, mentioned as the
| owner of the Southern Cross is
! not otherwise identified.
The State Department was in
formed there would be a delay
in efforts to check the list of
those saved, with the Athenia’s
passenger list, so the names of
any persons lost will not be av
ailable for some time.
FDR Announced
U. S. Neutrality
European War
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 4.
—Proclamations that President
Roosevelt is declaring American
neutrality and invoking the neu
trality act, will be issued within
the next twenty four hours, the
White House announced.
State Department officials said
they were looking into the facts
regarding the sinking of the Ath
enia and the airplane bombing
of the villa of the American Am
bassador near Warsaw.
Stephen Early the presidential
secretary, told reporters the two
proclamations would be issued
simultaneously, probably thru
the State Department,
ylarbhru esyut moultan pobi,m
JAPS HOP FOR OAKLAND
SEATTLE, Sept. 2 — The Jap
anese round the world airplane
Nippon hopped off from Boeing
Field here for Oakland at 9:01
AM, for an estimated flight of
five hours.
France and Britain
Waited Until Last
Possible Moments
UNDATED. Sept. 2. — Armed
and ready. Great Britain and
France decided upon at least a
slight delay in warring with the
Nazis.
Daladier told the Chamber of
Deputies that if eleventh hour
efforts were made to halt the
German Polish conflict, France
would support them, huit would
fight for Poland unless Germany
stopped its aggression.
Chamberlain deferred his vit
al statement on Britains stand
until lated today, awaiting Hit
ler’s answer to ‘our last warn
ing’, to halt the Reichs armies.
France said she heard rumors
that Germany had suspended
Poland operations but the Ber
lin high command denied this.
I Warsaw reported that Polish
1 troops were resisting while the
! government declared Poland was
' under a state of war.
: The Poles were reported to be
holding Westerpliatte despite 3
German attacks, and although the
Germans claimed its capture.
Official Polish statements did
not estimate the losses but said
that civilian casualties were sev
ee “because most attacks were on
unfortified cities.”. ,
A Berlin broadcast warned
that an air raid was expected
there tonight.
The Polish embassy in London
said that Warsaw had been bomb
ed six times today. ,
entered an.rtuA ils paec aimed
A German radio announced
two German columns which en
tered Pomorze from the eastward
lmd joined, bottling the Poles in
'the northern part of the Polish
corridor.
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Chamberlain Tells
World Britain Is
In The War
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LONDON. Sept. 3 — Prime
Minister Chamberlain today pr-o;
claimed Britain at war with Ger
many, after the expiration of the
: British ultimatum to Germany f
to withdraw her troops from Pol
and. The deadline expired at 2:000
a m. Pacific tune.
“You ca nimagine what a bit-!
te rblow it is to me. The actions
of this man Hitler show con
vincingly that he will never do
otherwise than use force in the
attainment of his will. Conse
quently we are at war with Ger
1 many. I am certain the right will,
prevail.”
So spoke Chamberlain in his
fateful message—a quarter hour;
radio radio address tonight
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PARIS Sept. 3, — Britain’s
war declaration left no doubt
i that France must follow suit.
i LONDON, Sept. 3 — An ex
j change telegraph British news
I gaency report stated that the J
Berlin radoi announced the cap;
lure of Czenstockqiu by the Ger
j man forces.
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! PARIS, S‘Pt. 3, — France to-;
night joined Britain in war ag-j
I einst Germany as the French |
government annou iced that Ger :
many had refused to give a sat
j ist'iCtory answer to France’s ul
timatum for the withdraw of
Reich troops from Poland—auto
matically putting France at war.
starting at 7 p.m. today Paris
t;me.
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Logs, thawing and drill reports
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices Vouchers.
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SUN.. FUN — Whimsical
Francis Day. London stage star,
note flower-rimmed sun glasses
at Soho fair in London.
j Coast Guard Head
Alaska Passes On
KETCHIKAN, Sept. 1— Com
j mancler W. K. Thompson, head
of tiie combined Coast Guard and
Lighthouse Service in Alaska,
died last night, after thirty one
years of service.
As commander of the Cutter
Itasca he was the last person to
hear Amelia Earhart’s voice vo
; er the radio-phone, and engaged
I in the fruitless search for her
! plane.
He is survived by a widow and
son Frank of Port Angeles, and
a son W. K. Jr., an ensign aboard
the cutter Northland.
ON CUARD WITH LIFE GUARD S—Here are some of Chicago’s 233 life guards learn*
Ing resuscitation, the better to patrol 28 miles of beaches. (A.P.-Universal Newsreel Photo.)