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VOL. 41 No. 150. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DEC. 15, 1939. Per C(w 1W
British Cruisers Await Graf Spee
Pocket Battleship Graf Spee Preparing to go to Sea
Battered Graf
Spee Arrives
At Montevideo
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec.
13 (/P) — The damaged German
pocket battleship Admiral Graf
Spee arrived at this port shortly
before midnight with 30 men kill
ed and sixty injured.
Two of the three British cruis
ers which engagied the battle
ffhip off the Uruguayan shore in
a running fight from 6 o’clock
this morning until after eight to
night, are reported to be lying
just outside the harbor.
In London the British Admiral
ty announced that a British sub
marine sank a Nazi U-boat and
torpedoed an enemy cruiser in
the North Sea. The attacking sub
marine is said to be the same
one which, Tuesday sighted the
German liner Bremen but failed
to attack her.
Cruisers Ajax
And Acliilies
Are Reinforced
LONDON, Die. 14 f/P) — The
Admiralty announced that the
naval forces watching for the
German pocket battleship Admir
al Graf Spue were “strongly re
inforced." No details were given
as to additions to the cruisers
Ajax and Achilles which mount
ed guard outside of Montevideo
in an effort to prevent the es
cape of the Nazi warship to a
neutral port.
UNCARDED THRILL
*
After fainting on a platform 40
feet above the floor of the Bos
ton Garden, Henrietta Wallenda
of the Wallenda tight rope
troupe is shown being lowered to
safety. She was balancing on
shoulders of a fellow performer
who was in turn balancing on a
chair on the rope when the spell
seized her. She fought for con
sciousness until she was lowered
to the platform, then collapsed.
36 of Spec’s Crew
Are Buried
In Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, Die. 15 l/Pl —
Refueling of the battered Graf
Spee began amid growing expec
tation that she will put out to sea
despite the increased strength of
the British warships lying off
coast in wait for her. Oil was
loaded from the' German freight
1 er Tacoma and the warship’s
1 crew worked to repair the dam
; age caused by Wednesday’s day
long shelling by three British
, cruisers.
While preparations are pos
sible for a dash for freedom be
ing made, officers and a third
i of the Spee’s crew were buried
on Uruguayan soil. Thirty-six
men were killed in the battle,
the first major naval engage
ment of the war.
British quarters here indicated
that the ten thousand ton British
cruiser Cumberland was added
i to the patrol off Montevideo.
Official Argentine sources said
they understood the 26,000 ton
French battleship Dunkerque
■ was steaming here to join the
; blockading . force. However, feel
ling grew' in Montevideo that the
| German ship will attempt to run
, the gauntlet.
Forecasts Attempt
Will Be Made to
Run Guanilet
_
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 CP) — A
'daring attempt by the shell-torn
Graf Spee to run the gauntlet of
'British cruisers holding “the
death watch” outside of the har
bor of Montevideo was forecast
;n a broadcast from that South
American port.
An NBC announcer said the j
| German ship was rushing re
j pairs and seemingly desperate ef
forts were being made to sail
out of the harbor before the time,
of the deadline and the ship is
interned for the duration of the
war.
Uruguay Grants
Spee Extension
Time in Port
UNDATED, Dec. 15 CP) — The
Allies mounted reinforced guard [
over the trapped pat::e-iddled
Admiral Spee Which repaired its
wounds under an extended Ur
uguayan sanctuary. 0
Two of the British cruisers, I
before which the Nazi warship
fled, the Ajax and the Achilles [
kept patrol out at sea off the |
port. The British indicated that
they were joined by the ten thou
sand ton cruiser Cumberland. It
is also reported that the power
ful French Battleship Dunkerque
of 26 thousand tons is enroute to
strengthen the guard.
The Uruguayan government
! granted the Nazi warship permis
“GOLDEN ANGEL”
Mrs. Florence Camp who Frit/. Kuhn called his “heaven-sent gold
en angel" is shown in court in New York where she took the stand
against the fuehrer of the Gennan-American Bund on trial for
illeged theft of Bund funds. Repeatedly contradicting Kuhn, Mrs.
Camp said she saw “no fun" in his initial love note to her, which
Kuhn said had been sent in that spirit.
I
sion to remain in port long
enough to be made seaworthy.
While the Germans turned to
repaired .their floating fortress
and burying their dead, 62 Brit
ish seamen, taken from vessels
sunk by the Spee celebrated their j
freedom which was especially j
prized after a day in which Brit!
ish shells threatened to turn,
their prison into a tomb.
The cruiser Exeter, the third,
c^f the Spee’s antagonists steamed
into an Argentine naval base and
one hundred hospital beds were
prepared for her wounded.
On the otner side of the At
lantic German and British re
ports of an air battle in the
North Sea conflicted. The British
said their warplanes were at
tacked from the sea and air as
they saw a German naval squad
ron steaming southward and i
that four German and three Brit
ish planes were shot down.
The German command assert
ed* that ten of twenty British at
tackers were shot down while
one German plane was forced to
alight on the sea.
NOTICE
Write to your friends and reia
tives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it
League Nations
Asks Members
To Aid Finland
_
GENEVA, Dec. 14 (/P) — The
League of Nations by an unani
mous vote of its council expell
ed Russia because of her inva
sion of Finland. Four members
of the council including the mem
ber from Finland abstained from
voting in the expulsion action.
The others were China, Yugoslav
ia and Greece. The vote on the:
resolution declared as a result j
of Russia’s actions toward Fin
land “the United States of Soviet i
Russia is no longer a member of
the League.”
,The unanimous vote of the coun'
cil is necessary to expel a mem
ber but abstentions does not af
fect unanimity. This is the first
time in League history that a na
tion has been expelled by the
council.
The move followed action by
the assembly condemning the
Russian aggression and asking
member’s aid for Finland and ap
proved the invitation of non
league members such as the Unit
ed State to also help the little
republic.
The council and the assembly
both adjourned after taking this
action.
Radio Appeal Is
Made to Russia
To End War
HELSINKI, Dec. 15 (JP) —Fin
land’s foreign minister Vaino
Tanner appealed in a radio broad
cast to Russia”s foreign commis
sar Molotok for the suspension
of hostilities and the resumption
| of negotiations on the basts of
the principle of the small na
tion’s right to self determination.
Tanner, who took part in the
j long-drawn Kremlin negotiations
which preceded the Russia inva
; non, recalled that Russia lent
! support to the principle and re
; called aL o how the Moscow gov
ernment broke off diplomatic re
lations with Finland, refused
mediation by the United States,
! rejected Sweden’s offer of concil
; ialtion and spurned the League
| of Nations’ appeal for mediation
' of the dispute. ‘"However the air
is still open” Tanner said.
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Liberals Can’t
See McNutt
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 10(/P) —
; Secretary of Interior Harold
j Ickes said President Roosevelt
J Liberals in both Democratic and
i Republican parties would not
(support the ticket headed by
(Paul McNutt for president in
i 1940.
Ickes made the statement to
. reporters at the end of a hectic
| press conference during which
he said he did not believe Roose
velt had decided on the former
Indiana govrenir to succeed him
in the White House in the event
he did not run for a third term
| himself.
Ickes said Liberals opposed Me
Nutt because of his record,
which included organized labor’s
opposition for calling out the Na
tional Guard during a strike.
—
President Declines
To Comment On
Ickes* Statement
; HYDE PARK, Dec. 15 iJP) —
j President Roosevelt declined to
1 comment in Secretary Ickes’ crit j
J icism of Paul McNutt as a pos- j
sible candidate for the Democrat.
I ic presidential nomination. The
1 President, talking to reporters
shortly after he arrived from
Washington declared he was loo
old in political experience to •
comment on the Ickes statement!
| that the Liberals would not sup,
; port McNutt for President. He I
1 said it was a game to get people [
j to comment on this man, that '
i man, the third man and the
fourth man. He said by a generals
process of elimination the report
ers could have the whole story.
DRUNKOMETER TRIED
To settle a legal dispute over the
question of when a man is drunk
and to test the accuracy of a
"drunkometcr,” Richard S. Kap
lan, president of the Gary, Ind.
Safety Couniil drank four ounces
of whiskey, called himself a “mar
tyr for safety,” He’s shown tak
ing a swig, wiping his brow,
blowing in to a balloon where al
coliolic content of subject's
breath is tested. .
REPUBLICANS
Important meeting of Nome Re
publican Club at City Ilall Sun
day December 17th at 2 p.m.
Annual election of officers.
Chas. D. Jones,
President pro tern
Exceptionally Fine Lutefisk
Now Ready
LEHMANN’S
Kegoayah Public Library now
open at City Hall Friday even
ings from 7 to 7:30 pm.
Pioneer Roof Garden, Sat., Dec. 16, School Gym