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VOL. 41. No. 111. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, Sept. 15, 1939 Price per copy i«
U. S. To Protect Neutrality Rights
French Force Germans to Retreat Down Moselle
Russia And Japan Stop Fighting Undeclared War
LAW LENIENT IN ABDUCTION
Nurse Polly Weil, 18, is shown in San Francisco with Judge Lile
T. Jacks after he had ordered her committed for an indefinite
period to a state home for girls at Ventura, Calif. Miss Weil ad
mitted taking 5-year-old Krehe Osborn from his parents' home in
San Francisco to San Jose, where she was found with the boy. A
ransom note had been left.
Rosalind Johnson (right), “Miss Salt Lake." who created some
German Army
Retreating Down
Moselle Valley
UNDATED. Sept. 15 (/P)—Brit
ain and France reported they
matched German gains on the
eastern front with successes at
sea. In the s'.eady push toward
the Seigfried Line, unofficial
French sources said, the German
troops apparently are fearing the
French attack in force toward
Trier. They are retreating slow
ly down the Moselle Valley rip
ping up the railroad tracks
which follow' the course of the
river.
Saarbrucken, the major goal of
the French operations is attack
ed on three sides and is at the
extreme left of the front. The
French reported a local offensive
carried them closer to the import
ant German base of Trier.
German troops are credited in
Berlin w'ith new advances on
widely separated points in Po
land. In the south they are said
to be pressing Polish Ukraine.
Near Warsaw they seized Jab
lona, about ten miles northwest
of the capital. A German report
of operations on the western
front said French forces are 70
miles west of Warsaw. Germans,
they said, continued to thwart
attempts of (the encircled Polish
troops to break out of the pock
et.
Calls Roosevelt
"llnneutral”
BERLIN, Sept. 14 I7P)—A com
jnenitavy usually reflecting the
views of the Foreign Office said
that President Roosevelt, in his
interpretation of the Monroe Doc
trine was “unfair, unchivalrous,
and unneutral.”
Poles Pray For
Fall Of Rain
UNDATED, Sept. 14 (,4s)— Pol
ish prayers for a fall of rain are
reported to have been answered
! as Germany’s motorized columns
.oiled deeper into the Territory.
; Berlin reported that Gdydia,
isolated almost from the start,
' surrendered.
Poland is counting on the as
j distance of ‘'general mud” to bog
i down the invading coumns.
—
For. Diplomats
Leave Poland
Co Rumania
—
CERNAUTI, Rumania, Sept. 15
t/P)—A caravan of foreign diplo
mats, their wives and families,
including American Ambassador
to Poland Anthony Biddle arriv
ed at 6 p.m. tonight to escape
! the war which is swiftly flooding
extreme southeast Poland.
Members of the group, 60 in
j all, brought reports of a tremend
j ous German drive aimed to cut
j Poland off from Rumania.
With Biddle was Mrs. Biddle,
his daughter Peggy Schultz, Mrs.
j Biddle’s secretary, Mary McKen
zie. Others in the party included
the diplomatic representatives of
Brazil, Spain, Italy, Belgium,
Sweden, Netherlands, Switzer
land, and Japan. Most of them
planned to leave at once for
Bucharest.
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
NORTH POLE BAKERY
Write to your friends and rela
fives on the 'Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it
U.S. Intends
Protect Rights
As A Neutral
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 t/P>— '
The government served notice on
warring nations that it “reserves
all the rights of the United Stat
es and i s nationals under inter
national law" and will take ap-|
proprirte measures when those
rights are violated.
Secretary of State Hull issued
a formal statement that govern
ment has not abandoned any of
its rights as a neutral under in
ternational law." The statement
followed several incidents involv
; ing the stopping of American
ships by belligerents on both
| sides. •
Accuse Poles of Violations
i MOSCOW. Sept. 14 UP) The
1 Russians accused Polish airplan
I es of "frequent violation" on her
; western frontier.
IN SHOOTING
Mrs. Elizabeth Greve Caldwell
Carotin (top), socially prominent
was shot and critically wounded
by Lawrence Sprague, 30, (low
er), at a fashionable Long Island
home, following which Sprague
killed himself after shooting a
state trooper who tried to pro
tect Mrs. Carol in Jealously was
the motive given for the shoot
ing
To Try Limit
Special Session
To Neutrality
J
..
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (/Pi—:
President Roosevelt indicated j
I that he strongly hopes to limit
the legislation of the special ses
! sion of Congress to the revision
1 of the neutrality act.
Asked at his press conference, |
i whether he planned to request
• for anti - profiteering legislation,
: he said he didn’t expect to. He
told reporters he also planned to
i make no request for a deficiency
\ appropriation nor war-risk in
surance legislation. He declared
1 that no plans were even consider
ed for the government, that
| could be remotely connected
i with the posibility of our getting
| into the war abroad.
| Answering questions he said
he had given no thought to the
j appointment of a new minister to
' Canada, succeeding Daniel Rop
er and had neither heard nor
read the speech made by Senator
Borah last night denouncing the
administration proposals to re
peal the arms embargo provision
of the neutrality act.
Roosevelt confirmed the expect
ations of Congress when it rec-1
eived his message on neutrality!
I for the opening session Thursday
said it was not determined if
the administration would be sat
isfied if the entire neutrality law
were repealed. The President
said, getting down to the contents
of ithe message, the answer
would give away what he expect
ed to say.
Report Warsaw
Is Encircled
—
1 BERLIN. Sept. 14 (/PI —Dis
patches reported that Warsaw is
encircled, Lubling is cut off from
Lwowa, and a third force is ad
vancing on Brest and Litovsk,
and is now at Brzesc.
At London, Chamberlain told
the House of Commons that if
the Germans bombed Polish civ
ilians it would strengthen the
British and French resolve to “in
sure that the menace we are now
fighting, is finally removed."
British Freighter
City Vancouver
Is Torpedoed
"
NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (/P>—'The
liner President Roosevelt wire
lessed that a Dutch tanker and
an airplane rescued the crew of
the British freighter City of Van
couver /which was torpedoed off
the southern Irish coast while en
route to Colon from England.
I
“SOURDOUGH” I
STATIONER!
At Nugget Office
Russia, Japan
Reach Truce
In Border ar
—
MOSCOW. Sept. 15 M’) —Sov-j
j iet Russia and Japan are report
('d to hav-e reached ar. armistice
“in th.ir undeclared war on the
Manchuokuo and Mar.golian bor
i dor.
Some observers expected the
move o lead to the immediate
signing of a non-aggression pact
between them. Japanese ambas
sador Shigenori Togo ard Soviet
Premier Molotov are reported by
usually unimpeachable sources m
liave agreed upon “immediate
cessation of hostilities,-’ in a 4
hour conference. Tiiey will meet
again t m >rrow after which a
communique will be issued Ger
j many has been trying to effect
a reconciliation betwee.. Moscow
■ and Tokyo since the signing of
the German-Soviet non-aggres
sion pact of August 24.
Warsaw Is Half Ruined
WARSAW. S,pt. 14 (£»> —The
radio indicated that the capital is
i still hcldiro out but is half ruin
| ed.
Young Jack Allen
Anchorage Flier
Crashes, Burns
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 14 </P>
McGrath advises that pilot Jack
Allen and plane which had been
missing for over two days was
found by searching planes. Allen
crashed and burned five mile3
from Takotna.
A party is leaving Takotna to
1 recover the body. CAA inspect
ors McWilliams and Burnett are
here, and om of than is going
inspect the wreck
Jack Aken was reputed to be
youngest Alaska flier. He hail
J from Anchorage and flew for
the' Star Air Lines.
Heavy Artillery
j j
At Saarbrucken
PARIS. Sept. 14 <VPi—It ls re
ported that the Allies, closing in
on Saarbrucken, are encounter
rg “strong action by heavy en
emy artillery.’’ i e
MISS SALT LAKE TURNS UP
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excitement by apparently failing to arrive in San I ra'
ceremonies at the exposition, is shown with a comp
Alder, after she had renorted herself safe to San r
the next day. She explained she’d got off the tn>'
not knowing a reception committee was v