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YOL. 41. No. 155. 'JOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DEC. 29, 19.39 Price per copy i<w
30,(wO Ton British
Battleship Is Hit
Three Men Killed
UNDATED, Dec. 29 (/P> —So
viet warplanes struck anew at
Finnish railway junctions and
southern coastal cities while Ger
many reported a new blow to
British sea power. The German
submarine command announced
that a British batt eship of the
Queen Elizabeth class was tor
pedoed by a Germany submarine
west of Scotland. Upon receipt
of the German announcement the
British admiralty said a German
larine attacked a battleship
^..ong three men and doing some
_.amage.
£ Another announcement, disclos
■ ed that when the attack occur
' red there were five ships of the
Queen Elizabeth class near by.
They are vessels of 30,009 tons
and were constructed before the
eWorld War and have eight 15
inch guns mounted on each.
/Finland’s rail centers and coast
al towns suffered new air attacks
after official Finnish reports told
of flights by Finnish airmen yes
1 terday to attack “the enemy’s
rear on both sides of the frm’ier.
Continui
•back the Russian invasion was re
ported by the I- .u s who carr.c .
the war into Russian soil on the
eastern front where ski patrols
are striking toward the Mur
mansk railway, the Soviet Arc
tic supply route.
Dissatisfied v :‘h the treatment
of the Russian-Finnish war by
the British, French and Ameri
can press Russia reimposed cen
sorship on dispatches before
iheir transmission.
Proof of Labor Blanks car. now
be had at the llane Nugget offlet
In Earthquake
Ankara, Turkey
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ANKARA. Dec. 27 (TP) — The
Thursday catastrophe of earth
quakes in northern Anatolia
bil ed more than 8,000 persons
unofficial sources said. Open
fields became the refuge of thou
sands cf panic stricken people.
ALASKA SQUADRON
OF AIRPLANES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (TP)—
The War Department ordered the
creation of a 52 new Army Air
Corps squadrons representing
several hundred planes to rein
force the defenses of the Carib
bean. Pacific and continental
United Slates.
The nev. organization will in
elude a 23rd base squadron now
being organized for March
Field.
Ccir.g to Alaska will be the
2T.h, a composite group of med
;rn planes comprised of the 37th
bombardment squadron being
rmed at Barksdale Field, Loui
siana. A squadron going to A a
aska i usually a flexible unit of
to 18 planes to a group.
I EC I ESS PILOT IN
ROYAL AIR FORCE
LONDON, Dec. 28 — The news
paper Daily Mail reported that a
I -less pilcl, Flying Officer Rob
Bader, lost his legs in an air
plane crash eight years ago.
Since that time he has accus
tomed himself to artificial legs
and finally was accepted by the
Royal Air Force.
ANKARA, Dec. 28 (A>) —Of
ficials announced tha' 42 000 per
sons were killed or injured in
the region of Erzinean alone in
yesterday's Anatolian earth
quake. Now tremors shook Ana
tolian today while a blizzard and
fierce winds increased the suffer
ing of the hundreds of thousands
of homeless.
A heavy -storm raged along
the Black Sea coast tearing shipf
loose from their moorings and
battering down seaside homes.
The temperature is 22 below
and many thousands of surviv
ors who fled to fields were froz
en to death according to sparse
reports reaching Ankara officials.
Erzinean is- a province in the
extreme east of Turkey on the
Armenia border and in 1920 hSrt
a population of 157,00 and of
these about 40,000 lived in the
city.
Before the report from Erzin
can d trict readied Ankara an
unofficial estimate given on the
umber killed and injured in An
atolia was 9 000. It is feared the
death toll will mount as the sur
vivors of the quakes faced dang
ers from exposure, lack of pro
per medical attention, scarcity of
food and poor water.
Yesterday’s tremblors toppled
minarets and mosques and sent
crashing roofs of buildings kill
ing some people in their sleep.
Relief expeditions battled their
way through a blizzard over the
debris strewn railway lines and
roads to bring aid to the victims.
Disrupted communication ■ pre
vented officials from learning
how serious the effects of today’s
shocks were.
Magna Carta Brought to U. S. For Safe-Keeping
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Temporary custody of the Lincoln cathedral copy ot England’s Magna Carta was committed io the
Library’ of Congress, Washington, D C for safe keeping during t’’e war. Above Archibald Mac
Leish (left), Librarian on Congress acknowledges acceptance of the famed document from Lord
Lothian, British ambassador to the United States.
Nazis Accuse
Allies Inciting
i'mns to Resist
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UNDATED, Dec. 28 f/P) — The
wintry warfare between Finland
and Russia entered its fifth weak
with the stubborn Finnish resist
ance still holding up the Soviet
invasion. Finnish troops in some
sectors are taking the offensive
and with planes and ski troops
struck at Russia’s railway con
n etion at the .far north point
where the Murmank Line comes
within five miles of the Finnish
border. Unconfirmed reports said
that whitcclad ski troops and a
highly mobile unit planning to
disrupt communication then re
treat quickly had already reach
ed their railway objective.
Russian and Finnish forces fac
ed one another across virtually
unchanged battle lines on the
1 Karelian Isthmus where for four
weeks battering failed to get the
Red army past Finland’s Manner
heim Line defenses.
Russian air raids on Finnish
cities yesterday raised the civil
ian death toll to about 15U since
the war started.
The Russians made public
some scant information about
the northern campaign saying
only that the Soviet aviation
made reconnoitering flights.
Nothing of importance happen
ed on the front of Europe’s oth
er war and it remained quiescent
except for brief patrol clashes on
the Western Front and aerial en
gagements.
The mouthpiece of the German
foreign office accused Britain
and France of deliberately incit
ing Finland to resist Russia so
that the regular flow of supplies
from northern Europe to Ger
many many be disrupted.
LAST RITES
FOR IIANS MIROW
The funeral service for Hans
Mirow will he held at the Fed
erated Church at 2 pm Saturday,
December 30. Rev. Wilbur P
Wood vviil officiate.
NEW YEAR’S EVE
CELEBRATION BERLIN OCT
BERLIN, Dec. 28 (/P) — The
government put a damper on
New Year’s Eve celebration with
the announcement that all cafes
and other amusement places in
Berlin would be closed at 1 am
on January 1.
The announcement came as a
disappointment to most people
in Berlin who had previously
heard the curfew would not
sound on New Year’s.
However the government an
nounced that the seriousness of
the times and the general black
out enforced nightly in Berlin,
had motivated the ruling.
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ings from 7 to 7:30 pm.
Roosevelt Will
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 {IP) —
Pres. Roosevelt announced that
he will name Daniel Bell, form
er ac.ing budget director, to the
vacant post of undersecretary of
the Treasury.
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HITLER SENT BY
DIVINE PROVIDENCE
BEALIN, Dec. 28 {IP) — The
German people were told by
Chance lor Hitler’s Nazi Deputy
Rudolph Hess that they were
fighting for their national exist
ence. Hess declared that the real
war aims of Germany’s enemies
were to divide up the Reich.
He said they wished to give
large parts of Germany to her en
■■'Tries and transpose tUa***.^ into
small weak states.
Hess declared that Hitler had
b en sent to the Germans by Di
vine Providence to right the
wrongs which already had been
committed.
MOSCOW REPORT IS
DENIED BY BRITISH
LONDON, Dec. 28 {IP) — A for
eign office spokesman denied
that the British embassy in Mos
cow had advised Britsh-owned
concernss in Moscow to liquidate
their business as soon a possible.
The spokesman said there had
been no change in Anglo-Soviet
relation a id d' dared the report
as having no foundation in fact.
H. G. Dalton,
iron Magnate,
Passes Away
CLEVELAND, Dec. 27 </P)
Henry G. Dalton, aged 77, million,
ure chairman of the Youngs*
town Sheet and Tube Company
and head of the nation’s second
largest iron ore shipping firm
died.
Dalton, at one time a shipping
clerk,.was the leader of the spec
tacular attempt in 1930 to merge
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
with Bethlehem Steel.
Last Rites For
Flyer Hans Mirow
Held Tomorrow
The community of Nome will
congregate at the Federated
Church tomorrow afternoon at,
2 pm to attend the last rites of
one of its most highly respected*
and ambitious citizens—aviator
Hans Mirow.
The services will be conducted
by Rev. Wilbur P. Wood of the
Federated Church.
The shocking news of his death
while on a mercy flight comes as
a great loss to Nome and Alaska,
and in paying its last respects to
this intrepid aviator and business
man, The Nugget joins with the
host of other associates and cit
izens in their last formal adieu
to his record in the Far North.
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