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VOL. 42. No. 18. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 9, 1940 Per
Champ Joe Louis Decisions Godoy
Dimond Seeks Priority Employment for Alaskans
Talks Have Started for Restoration World Peace
< France Rejects Soviet Protest
Of French Raid on a Russian
Commercial House In Paris
UNDATED, Feb. 8 (/P) — R is
sia’s role in Europe was high-1
lighted by the Red army’s inva
~ sion 'of Finland which occupied
* the attention of numerous capi
als on the continent.
Sending off waves of Soviet at
tackers on the Karelian Isthmus
the Finns reported Russian fore
es on the Arctic and Sails- front
were retreating from Markajarvi
toward Salla close to the front
ier.
The Frenoh government is re
liable reported to have rejected a
jfc. Soviet protest against the police
raid Monday of a Russian com
mercial house in Paris contend
ing that diploma'ic immunity
was no: involved. A Russian com
municiue said a hundred French
plain cknhesmen and pc’ice took
part in a raid extended to the
homes of the Russian staff. Docu.
ments were seized and Soviet cit
• izen: were searched.
Fr nch accounts said that three
Russian agents were detained
temporarily but were later freed.
Russian ambassador Surits de
manded the return of the seized
documents. The raids further em
bittered the Russian and French
relations which were already
strained by the Daladier’s gov
ernment's suppression of the
French Communist party, and
French support of Finland and
Switzteiand when they expelled
Russia from the League of Na
tions.
London reports said the first
contingent of British volunteers
might leave for Finland next
week with the apparent blessing
of the British government which
■;aid yesterday that substantial
material aid was on the way to
Finland.
The Finnish legation arranged
f„r the cn’.kument of “hundreds”
of volunteers from England.
On the Western front both
’’ranee and Gtrrrcny both report
> 1 in ej 11 d patrol activity but
.gey? no indication of any more
important military developments.
Fireworks Plant
Blows I p But
i
No Casualties
# REDONDO BEAClfc Calif. Feb.
9 /Pi—-A firework; p ent blew up
with terrific force nui here j>n
a dozen families sleeping in hr us
es nearby escaped sen.us injuiy.
A p dice officer -aid “Ids in-cred
ib’e that a dozen homes were
damaged, come of them flatten
ed c"* yet ro onz was killed, not
one even seriously hurt.
So violent was the blast that
people 20 miles away thought it
was an earthquake. Three per
sans cut by glas and fly'ug de
bris received hospital treatment.
Tiie cause of he explosion was
unknown.
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Finland Denies Russian Reports
Of Capture of 13 Mannerheim
Line Forts on Karelian Isthmus
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UNDATED, Feb. 9 (/P) — Brit
ish fighting planes rising to meet
German Lumbers as they roared
along Britain’s coast in a new
wave of attacks against merchant
shipping engaged the raiders in
a series of air combats shot down
one near the Firth of Forth. The
raids were the first attempted
since last week when they sruck
three times.
Elsewhere enigmatic Russia
and embattled Finland present-1
td contrary pictures of their con
flic.t in thj frozen northland
where the Finns are reported
smashing the renewed Red army
attacks on the Mannerheim Line
tesulting in heavy Russian loss-'
es, while in restless southeastern
!
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Europe there are significant act
ivities.
Usually uninformative Lenin
grad headquarters in a commun
ique claimed that Red army fore
es captured 13 steel and concrete
“ariillery forts” of the Manner
heim Line and on the Karelian
Isthmus and north of Lake Lad
oga inflicted great losses to the
Finns. The Finns who told of a
steady heavy pounding on their
lines for more than a week by
Russian tanks, artillery and air
bombs, even as the Russians
made their announcements, mini
mized the fighting and insisted
that the Mannerheim Line was
still intact.
Dimond Seeks
Priority Employ
ment for Alaskans
Washington, D C
Feb. 8
N me Nugget, Nome
Hearings have been scheduled
fur March 12th before the House
committee on the Merchant Ma
rine : d Fisheries on House Bills
7987-7988 and 8115, all seeking to
give residents of Alaska prior
i y of employment in Alaska fish
eries.
Anthony J Dimond
Proof of Labor Blanks car now
oe had at the ITruie Nugget office
Nazi Soldiers Aid German-Russians Return 1o Reich
4 '_.4 _ **
^ Berlin approved caption for this picture says that it shows
German soldiers helping Volliynian Germans )>tack their possessions
^ on a primitive wagon for return to Retch. Many German nationals
are leaving Russia to settle in the land of their ancestors, the Ger
man government says.
Survivors Tacoma
Seine Boat Report
4 Men Missing
CLOO OOSE, B C. Feb. 8 (/P»
—Three survivors of the wreck- j
ed Tacoma seine boat Varsity ar
rived Wednesday at the govern
ment telegraph line cabin 12
miles north of here to report 4
companions missing after the j
wreck of their 67-foot vessel Sun
day (night. Hiuibert Ursich, Hu
bert Ancich and Anton Mavier
said they had not seen the other
four since their small boat also
wrecked.
Approves of
Hull’s Reciprocal ;
Trade Program
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (/P) —1
The House Ways and Means com
mittee voting along partisan lines
gave approval for the continua
tion of Hull’s reciprocal trade |
program for another three years.
The continuance'* was bitterly I
fought by the Republican minor
ity and will probably be called
up week after next.
Representative Boland predict
ed he would win approval after
he polled he House in his cap
acity of majority whip.
Gov. Genera]
Of Canada
Is Injured
OTTAWA, Feb. 8 (/P) — The
condition of Lord Tweedsmmuir,
aged 64, Governor General is
causing “grave anxiety.” A bull
etin issued by the government
house said he suffered concussion
of the brain Tuesday when he
fell down in his dressing room.
The bulletin said his (weakness
was increasing.
President Roosevelt Announces
He Is Sending Sumner Welles
Survey Conditions in Europe
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (£>) —
President Roosevelt announced
he was sending Sumner Welles,
under secretary of State to Eu
rope on a personal survey of
conditions in Italy, France, Ger
many ar. t Great Britain. Disclos
ing the move at press confer
ence the President said that
Welles was instructed to make no
proposals or commitments in the
name of the United States. The
statements made to him by Eu
ropean governments, he will re
ceive solely for the President and
Secretary Hull the President
said.
Diplomatic Conversations With
Neutral Nations Have Begun
For Restoration World Peace
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (-‘V> —
S acre .ary Lull announced that
diplomat c conversations “of in
rmal character” have commcnc
gd with neu .r. 1 governments “in
view of the evident desire of all
neutral nations for the eventual
restoration of world peace.”
Hull emphasized that the con
versations “involved no plan or
plans but were in nature prelim
inary inqnirk;' relating to sound
international economic system
and at tha same time a world
wide reduction of armaments.”
He added that the conversations
can be "extended to belligerent
nations insofar as they involve
these two common problems for
future peace.” He said the con
versation with neutrals didn't
embrace “matters involving the
present war conditions.”
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