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VOL. 41. No. 119. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, Oct. 4, .1939 Price Per c°py 15*
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Allies Refuse Peace Negotiations
ASSERTS NAZI PLEDGES ARE WORTHLESS
New York Yankees Win First Game World Series
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FOOT FORWARD -what
the next step will be In English
Russian relations, observers i
wonder as William Strang
(above), of British foreign office,
continues discussions with Mos
cow' statesmen. Strang, shown in
his garden, bore terms of Eng
land's nnct \ls to Soviets.
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Fronts Quiet
Rumor Germany
To Make Thrust
UNDATED, Oct. 4 (/P)—Verbal
ammunition was most in evi
dence in the European conflict
which lulled in the actual bat
tlefields. The world watched for
what effect Chamberlain’s Com
mons speech would have on the
continuation of hostilities. Both
French and German communi
ques reported “calm” on the
western front. The French said
there was artillery fire by both
sides south of Zweibruecken.
On the eastern front, Germany
said “mopping up action took
place involving fights which shat
tered Polish troops.”
Switzerland heard reports of
an impending German thrust at
the French through the Alsace
Burgundy gateway near the
Swiss frontier. Germany appears
they said, to have strengthened
the Rhine garrisons for this pur
pose.
Norwegian shipping brokers
announced they were asked by
Russia to furnish ships for carry
ing cargoes from the White Sea
to Britain and France, and Ger
many seized such cargoes in the
Baltic as contraband,
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
(Yankees Win
First Came Of
| World Series
—
SEATTLE, Oct. 4 UP)—Flash
The New York Yankees defeated
the Cincinnatti Reds, two to one,
in the first game of the World
Series.
Box Score
Cincinnatti — 0 0 0 100000
One run, four hits no errors.
Battery — Derringer and Lom
bardi.
New York — 0 00010001
Two runs, six hits, no errors.
Battery—Ruffing and Dickey.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 l/P)— In a
dramatic, noisy ending, Charley
Keller tripled and Bill Dickey
brot him home in 9th inning to
give the word champion Yankees
a two to one victory over the
Cincinnatti Reds in the first
game of the 1939 Word Series.
The sudden ending of one of
the tightest hurling tests in re
cent series history came with
one out in the final frame. Keller
sent a tremendous fly almost to
the center field wall, 407 feet
from the plate and Goodman
barely got his hands on the ball.
Joe DiMaggio purposely passed
and Dickey rifled a liner into
■ short center with the count at
one to one to end the game.
Red Ruffling held the Reds to
four hits The Yanks got just six
hits off Paul Derringer, Cincinn
atti ace. The courageous Reds
battled every step of the way
and scored the first, jabing home
j a run in the fourth inning when
' Goodman walked to second and
raced around on Frank McCor
mick’s second single of the game.
The Yankees knotted the score
in the last half of the fifth with
a sharp single through third by
| Gordon and hard liner to the
i left fitld by Babe Dahlgren, good
j for two bases.
Both pitchers were at top form
j offering a dazzling assortment of
fast balls, curves and changes of
pace. Derringer struck out seven
! batters and every player in the
Yankee lineup except Joe Di
Maggio. Red Dolf gvae only one
base on balls. Ruffling, fanning
four and was giving amazing
support in three of the first five
innings. New York’s great in
field produced unmatched double
plays. Three singles Ruffling al
lowed but after the fifth chap
ter Ruffling retired every Cin
cinnatti batter in order, until
they were expectel to break up
their order. Derringer was equal
ly as good.
Whale
Outside Boston
BOSTON, Oct. 4 (/P)—Captain
Matt Driscoll of the trawler Ebb
said a white whale was sighted
at Georges Banks about 200 mil
es east of Boston, while the trawl
er was fishing. He estimated the
whale to be between 80 and 100
feet long. He said it spouted once
and disappeared.
Britain Believes
Present Lull
Is Before Storm
UNDATED. Oct. 4 (A*)— Britain
and France refused to ycild to
“a scarcely veiled threat” of
Soviet and German collaboration
If the European hostilities con
tinue, Chamberlain acting as
spokesman for the British and
French allies, in the House of
Commons said the allies “will
examine and test” any German
peace proposals “but no mere
assurances from the present Ger
man goveimment can be accepted
by us.”
The threat was implied he said
in a Soviet-German declaration
which partitioned Poland was
mentioned as an alternative of
consultation if the western allies
failed to make peace. He said
nothing in the declaration could
swerve the allies from effective
prosecution of the war.
Authoritative sources in Berlin
indicated Germany and Russia
would consult after the western
powers declared their attitude.
Informed sources both in Berlin
and Rome expressed the belief
that no new peace proposals
would be put forth immediately
by Mussolini as suggested after
the Italian Foreign Minister’s vis
it to Hitler Sunday.
The Soviet government news
paper Izvestia gave a strong hint
that Finland as well as ail the
Baltic states received Russian de
mands for naval and military
bases.
Britain is apparently charting
her course in the belief that the
present diplomatic maneuvers
are merely a lull before a great
er storm of warfare. The British
press backed the stand taken by
j Chamberlain that any peace pro
! posals wrould be tested in the
j light of previous Nazi pledges
which he said had been “worth
less.”
Hitler was described by inform
ed persons in Berlin as holding
that Chamberlain’s speech didn’t
give a clear reply to the German
Soviet peace declarations made
when the two powers partitioned
Poland.
Call Condition
National And
State Banks
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 </P) —
The Comptroller of Currency is
sued a call on the condition of
all national banks at the close
of business Monday, October 2.
The Federal Reserve Board is
sued a similar call on 1126 state
banks belonging to its system, in
addition to the 5203 banks affect
ed by the Comptroller’s call.
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j Transportation
Company Formed
Ply To Alaska
I NEW YORK. Oct. 3 (A*)— Pan
I American Airways announced
I they have ordered 22 new flying
! boats and land transports as part
of a 5-year, six billion dollar pro
grain to speed up scheduled on
al services including those to
South America and across the At
lantic and Pacific Oceans.
The new ships will include 3
Boeing “stratosphere type land
transports;’’ 6 Boeing Clippers
and 13 Douglass transport planes.
C. V. Whitney, Chairman of
the board said he hoped to es
tablish an express air service
from Seattle to Fairbanks by
next summer to link with the
company’s present mail route be
tween Nome and Fairbanks, de
i pending upon whether the gov
I ernment airports are ready and
' “the post office department is in
; terested.”
Hop es Establish
Thru Service
Next Summer
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SEATTLE, Oct. 3 i/P) —Three
Seattle transportation men an
nounced the formation of a com
pany to operate a new freight
service from Puget Sound along
the British Columbia coast and
Prince of Wales Island to Jun
eau. They are; B. C. Johnson,
formerly of the Alaska railroad
and from Chicago and Milwau
kee; Fred Buexten, for many
years marine engineer on ships
plying the Alaska trade; and Cap
tain W. J. Moore, for 25 years a
licensed master mariner.
The company will be known as
the Milwaukee—Alaska Line and
they plan to operate three ves
sels; two freight steamships and
a large power barge.
French Hold
150 Sq. Miles
Of Germany
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UNDATED, Oct. 3 UP) —Talk
about peace overshadowed hos
tilities on the European battle
front. On the western front,
France reported “great activity
1 by patrols on both sides during
the night." Germany said “there
were only minor artillery and air
j plane activity.”
The French estimated they
i held about 150 square miles of
German territory between the
Maginot and Seigfried fortifica
! tion lines.
On the eastern front, a Ger
man communique said "German
troops marched into the fortress1
at Warsaw" and began counting
the prisoners taken during the
1 September campaign in which
Russia aided by the partitioning
of Poland.
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The British Air Ministry cas
ualty list reported 16 British fly
ers killed; seven wounded; three
missing, and five are believed
to have been captured since the
war started.
Senator Logan,
| New Dealer,
Passes Away
WASHNGTON, Oct. 3 UP) —
The unexpected death of Senator
Logan of Kentucky, took one of
President Roosevelt's supporters
I in Congress and brought an in
| terruption in the tense struggle
t over the neutrality legislation.
Logan, a Democratic member
i of the Senate since 1931 died of
j a heart attack in the early morn
ing. He was missed at yester
day's session. Senator Barkley
announced that the Senate would
meet and then adjourn out of res
pect “to this statesman of the
highest quality.”
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GRIN OR GRIM —Britom
busy with the war against Ger*' I
many found time to pierce the j
gloom with these shafts ' of ,
humor, even as Hitler's war l
machine rolled on in Poland, it 1
church has its suggestion; Cham* *
berIain's umbrella "tops" Hitter.
Report Seeing ~
Bremen Russia
_
OSLO. Oct. 3 (Pi*)—A sailor ar
riving from Murmanks asserted
he saw at the Russian Arctic
port, the German liners Bremen,
New York, three smaller Ger
man liners, and fifteen German
freighters. He said 800 of the
crew of the Bremen and 400 of
the New York’s crew have gone
to Germany by way of Russia.
Fay Templeton, ,
Aetress, Passes
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 4 iPP)
— The theatre and music hall
career of almost all of her long
life ended for Fay Templeton,
the toast of the mauve decade,
who died in quiet retirement
here yesterday, at the age of 74.
GERMANY CLAIMS FRONTIERS NOW SAME AS IN 1914
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Shaded Portion Is That Held By Germany