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VOL. 41. No. 120. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. G, 1939 Price Per c<w 15«
Informs Of Plot Sink Am. Vessel
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German Navy Reveals Be Sunk Near East Coast
Allies Want More Than “Assurances” From Hitler
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German Navy In
forms of Passenger
Ship To Be Sunk
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (/P) —
The Whitehouse announced that
a statement from the head of the
German navy informed the Unit
ed States that the American
steamship Iroquois carrying Am
ericans back, from Europe would
be sunk when it nears the Am
erican east coast. Before handing
the statement to reporters, Steph
• en Early, White House secretary
said the matter was fully dis
cussed at a cabinet meeting and
it was decided all facts should
be made known. He asserted the
information was given to a United
States attache in the embassy in
Berlin by Grand Admiral Raeder
of the German Navy.
The President received the
statement last night and in a
statement issued from the White
^ House said Raeder advised the
attache “that according to the
information on which he relied”
the American ship Iroquois
will be sunk when it nears the
American coast. The sinking of
the Iroquois will be accomplish
ed thru a repetion of circum
stances which marked the loss of
tht steamship Athenia,” he said.
As a purely precautionary
measure the White House state
ment asserted a Coast Guard and
several navy vessels would form
a patrol to meet the Iroquois at
sea and accompany her into port.
The Iroquois sailed from Ire
land October second with a full
American passenger list. The tip
was made public by the White
House but did not say how or by
whom the vessel was to be sunk
• but left a strong implication that
Germany is laying the responsib
ility in advance on England or
France.
The Maritime Commission
sent a message to the Iroquois’
skipper. Captain Chelton, telling
him to double his lookouts and
patrolmen.
Hitler Extends
Last Offer For
Peace with Allies
BERLIN, Oct. 6 (/P) —Hitler
proposed a European peace set
tlement "on a comprehensive bas
is” but added if <the Allies re
jected his "outstretched hand,
this statement will be my last."
He went on to say "Then we
shall fight on." He pictured the
new war as one sure to bring un
precendemted horror to the
world. "May those peoples and
their leaders who are of the
same mind now make their
reply,” he said in his hour and
twenty minute speech to the
Reichstag and world. He chal
lenged the Allies “to interpret
those opinions of mine as cow
ardice if they like. I need noit
occupy myself with what they
think; I make these statements
j simply because it goes without
saying that I wish to spare my
own people this suffering.”
Collaborators said Hitler re
garded his proposals as formal.
He will await Britain and France
to act on them. The Fueherer,
time and again, conciliatory in
! tone, specifically to both Britain
and France, world history he
said showed in war "there has
i never been two victors but very
j often only losers. Neither force
of arms or lapse of time can con
quer Germany. It is infantile to
hope for the disintegration of
our people.”
These among others are the
most material phases of his
speech: One, renunciation of fur
ther territorial claims save his
old colonial demands: two, dec
laration that Germany & Russia
together "would relieve one of
the a cutest danger spots in Eu
rope” by working for a peace
zone in Eastern Europe: three,
specific assurances to the world
that he has no designs on Ru
mania, Ukraine, the Urals or
Denmark and the expression
that in Europe generally and
Scandinavia as well his interests
are wholly economic; four, dec
aration that one of Germany’s
tasks in dealing with fallen Po
land is the establishment of a
“new order of ethnographic con
ditions, that is to say the reset
tlement of nationalities”; and the
further declaration that it is a
problem not restricted “to this
particu ar sphere but a task with
' far wider implications for east
' and south Europe is to a large
I extent filled with splinters of
( German nationality whose exist
ence cannot be maintained.”
Will Examine
Peace Plans
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UNDATED, Oct. 6 f/P. — The
British government announced
j that Hitler’s peace proposals
would be carefully examined in
! consultation with France while
sem i-official French sources
scorned the proposals as “based
‘ on the exploitation of central
and eastern Europe.”
An official British statement de
clared no peace proposal would
likely be accepted which didn’t
| effectively free Europe from “the
i menace of aggression. Something
! more than words is required to
| establish confidence.”
Semi-official French quarters
said Hitler’s speech followed the
lines the French expected and
added that his inferential sugges
I tion for the creation of a small
j Polish buffer state with Russia
j and Germany partitioning the
rest of the country was turned
I down by British and French
| statesmen even before it was
! made.
Estonia Permits
Quartering 25,000
Russian Troops !
UNDATED, Oct. 5 (>P)—Soviet;
Russia and Germany signed an
additiona' protocol to their Sep
tember 28 treaty at Moscow form
Elly fixing the new frontier
which divides Poland into nearly
cqiial parts.
Ratification of the mutual as
sistance pact with Estonia gives
Russia the right to quarter 25,000
troops on Estonian soil and gives
her strategic Baltic Island naval
end air bases.
Germans pinned hopes for
peace on Hit’er’s speech. Observ
: ers seeking a hint on what he is
! to say knew he was dissatisfied
on the attitudes indicated by
Chamberlain’s & Lord Halifax’s
speeches this week.
The Nazi attitude is that the
war in the east is finished and
the conflict in the west never
i started in earnest.
The British press attention
was directed toward the Ger
man sub which landed 28 men
and torpedoed the Greek steam
! er Dimantis on the Irish coast
yesterday. The sub escaped
l France pressed her war
. against defeatist propagandists
! while her western front army
sought to better its position
j against any German offensive.
Parliament was sent on a vaca
| tion by a Daladier decree appar
! ently aimed at muzzling Com
! munist deputies who urged
peace talks with the Reich.
I
Hungary re-established diplo
matic relations with Russia as ev
idenee of a changed attitude of
southeastern nations toward Mos
cow since the partition of Po
land.
KIDNAPED PASTOR TAUGHT ARABS TO PLAY POKER
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The Rev. Gerould Goldner of IVlogadore, Ohio, wro was kidnaped by Arabs in July and released
after payment of about $2,500 random, shows reporters upon his arrival at New York just how an
Arab sentry drew a bead on him. Goldner abo related how he taught hi , captors to play poker—
dueces wild—and won, only to give back his winnings.
Russia & Latvia
Sign A Pact
MOSCOW, Oct. 5 i(/P)—.Russia
and Latvia signed a mutual as
sistance pact, the Tass news
agency announced.
Announces End
Polish Campaign
BERLIN, Oct. 5 (TP) —Hitler
pronounced the Polish campaign
completed after he reveiwed the
troops which conquered Warsaw.
He to'd the soldiers “I know you
are ready for anything.”
New York Yanks
Take Second Game
Four to Nothing
. SEATTLE. Oct. 5 0P)_Flash -
Yanks 4, Reds nothing.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5 OP)—liv
ing one of the finest pitching ex
hibits in series history, Marcelu
Monte Pearson held the Reds to
two singles to give the Yankees
their second straight triumph
with a score of four to nothing.
The Reds didn't get a hit until
Lombardi singled in the 8th.
Box Score
Cincinnatti — 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
No runs no hits no errors.
Battery—'Walters and Lombardi.
New York — 00310000x
Four runs nine hits no errors.
Battery—iHershberger in the 8th,
Pearson and Dickey.
For seven and one-third inn
ings Pearson was on his way to
the first no-hit game ever pitch
ed in a world series but Ernie
Lombardi stabbed a sharp liner
directly over second base to
break this streak. In the 9th, Bill
Werber shot another bounder
through the shortstop, the Red’s
second safety. Even so Pearson,
who had a no-hltter last year
against the Cleveland Indians on
August 27 tied the series record
held by Herb Pennock since
1927.
Tlie Yankees power broke out
in the third inning for three
runs on five hits off Bucky Wal
ters. Babe Dahlgren sent .a tre
mendous drive to the left field
stands for a home run in the
fourth and completed the scor
ing. This early bombardment
created such enthusiasm among
the crowd of 60,000 that the fuli
effect of Pearson’s magnificent
hurling was not realized until
along about the 6th frame when
New York’s own guns were fin
ally silenced by Walters. After
producing at least one hit in ev
ery earlier inning Pearson’s per
formance is the first series shut
out since Lon Warneke of the
Chicago Cubs stopped the De
troit Tigers 3 to 0 in the first
game of the 1935 classic.
The official attendance was
59,991 and the receipts $226,000.
Would Accept
An Armistice
From Roosevelt
BERLIN, Oct. 6 i/P.i—Authorij
ed sources said that Hitler would
accept an armistice if it were
proposed by President Roosevelt
with a view to a general Europ
ean settlement.
jap Ambassador
To Germany
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is Recalled
TOKYO. Oct. 6 {/Pi—'The Jap
anese government recalled Ma
jor General Hiroshi Oshima, am
basador to Germany. He has long
been an advocate of a military
alliance between Japan, Ger-,
many and Italy.
No official reason was given
but the recall was considered in
evitable ever since Japan's for
eign policy underwent a drastic
change, sequal to Germany’s con
elusion of the non-aggression
pact with Russia.
Bernstorff Dies 1
i
GENEVA, Oct. {/P)—Count von
Bernstorff, German ambassador
to Washington when the United
States entered the World War
died of heart diseae here at the
age of 77.
Gov. to Sen.
FRANKFORT. Ky., Oct. 6 f/P)
—Governor Chandler, high offic
ial sources disclosed, will resign
Monday and be appointed U. S.
Senator by Lieutenant Governor
Keen Johnson who will succeed
him as governor. Chandler is to
take the seat left vacant by the
death of Senator Logan.
Steamer Sunk
LONDON, Oct. 6 (/PI—1The Min
istry of Information announced
that the British steamer Glen
farg, 876 tons was sunk by a sub.
The crew was picked up and put
ashore but one man died of
wounds.
"Merely an x\ct
Of Comradship”
BERLIN, Oct. 6 (xP) —Grand
Admiral Eric Raeder warning
American authorities that the
Iroquois might be sunk off the
American coast was described by
author itative spokesman as
“merely an act of comradship.'*
The spokesman added that Ger
man authorities received inform
ation which they had every rea
son to believe reliable that such
an attempted sinking was plot
ted.
9 Pro and Con
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 </P) —
Senator Schwellenbach contend
ed the Administration’s neutral
ity bill offered “the most order
ly retreat from war that any na
tion ever executed.” Schwellen
bach spoKe after Senators Nye
and Overton vigorously opposed
the repeal of the arms embargo
and Nye demanded that the ad
ministratiin seek the enactment
of “cash and carry” legislation
without repealing the embargo
Overton contended repeal would
amount to “armed intervention”
in the war.
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