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VOL. 41. No.139. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOV. 20, 1939. Price ** co™ "<
Seven Ships Sunk Over Week End
DIMOND ASKS ALASKALABOR FOR BASES
3 Explosions Rock Piccadilly Circus In London
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POLAR SKI P PEP.-chilly
prospects arc ahead for Capt.
Stafford T. L. Wuitlam (above).
He’s shipper of (he “North Star,’’
lh S. department of interior mo
torship that'il accompany the
Eyrtl expedition ca its survey
trip to tire Antarctic.
Dutch Liner
Simon Bolivar
Sunk by Mine
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LONDON, Nov. 18 iff) — The
Netherland liner Simon Bolivar
was sunk by a mine in the North
Sea. One hunderd forty of the
four hundred persons aboard, in
cluding women and children, are
missing. Two hundred sixty sur
vivors were picked up, many bad
ly injured.
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Seven Ships
Sunk Over
Week - End
UNDATED, Nov. 20 (>P)—Min
es exacted a heavy toll of mer
chant shipping of both warring
and neutral nations. Over a week
end devoid of military develop
ments seven ships were sunk,;
six of them off /the Eastern
coast of England. The heaviest
loss of life was suffered by the
Netherlands liner Simon Bolivar
which sank Saturday, bound
from Amsterdam to the West In
dies Authirities said about 140
lives were lost.
Of the five other ships sank
near England, two were British,
one Italian, one Swedish and one
Yugoslav. A Lithuanian freight
er was sunk near Rotterdam.
Britain charged Germany with
laying mines near commercial
hipping lane*; used by neutral
powers but Germany denied that
the mines could have been Ger
man. There is a possibility that
the mines were torn loose from
their moorings by heavy weather
and drifted into the shipping lan
es
Summing up the sea warfare
for the past .month a French com
munique declared that the Ger
man shipping captured by the
French “exceeded by several
thousand tons” the tonnage
France has lost to Germany.
The Western Front remained
quiet as it had during the past
weeks with only minor patrol
and scouting skirmishes
POWER FOR ‘NORTH STAR’ —There’s a lot of
nnu-or thinks Chief Engineer Herman Sanwlek of the motor
KT-S»“»u?- i». ->rnf S'
longest Diesel engine in any ship in the U. S. It is reel lon^,
! weighs 110 tons, has 1,525 horsepower and will push the North
| Star’’ at 13 knots when ship leaves Boston with Byrd party.
Dimond Asks
For More Alaskans
Work on Air Bases
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 WP)—
The hope that more A askans
would be employed next spring
on the major construction work
on the air bases authorized by
Congress, was expressed by Del
egate Dimond after he and Gov
ernor Gruening conferred with
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Edison and Rear Admiral Ben
Morell of the Bureau of Yards
amd Docks Dimond said he hoped
that the major work would bo
be pushed next spring and said
he believed he made progress in
presenting his requests to the
Navy.
177 Bead or Miss
ing Due to Sea
War This Week
UNDATED, Nov ?0 (7P) — Sea
warfare brought about the des
truction of three more British
ships the Pensilva. the Wigmore
)3nd the Torijh Bearer, in the
North Sea and sent the total of
known ships list of all nations
to 135 with a total tonnage of
538,000 tons.
The Admiralty announced the
4,200-ton Pensilva, the ninth cas
ualty of the past week end, was
lost by “enemy action.’’
The crew was saved off the
sinking Torch Bearer, 1,2G7 tons
it was disclosed when four of her
crew of 13 landed in an English
port.
More than 177 persons are eith
er dead or missing due to sea
warfare and brings the total
death toll to over two thousand.
British ship losses rose to 71 or
five times the known German
losses of 14.
Football Scores
Football Final November 18
Cornell 35—Dartmouth 6
Princeton 13—Yale 7
North Carolina 3—Duke 13
Carnegie Tech 0—Holycross 21
Nebraska 14—Pitt 13
Michigan 19—Penn 17
St. Marys 0—Firdham 14
Illinois 0—Ohio State 21
Tulane 25—Columbia 0
Northwestern 0—Norte Dame
7
Oklahoma 6—Missouri 7
Minnesota 9—Iowa 13
Georgia Tech 6—Alabama 0
Vanderbilt 0—Tennessee 13
Texas Christian 19—Texas 25
Texas A and M 19—'Rice 0
Oregon State 21—California 0
Washington State 7—Stanford
0
Santa Clara 0—UcLA 0
NOTICE
A meeting will be held Wed
nesday, November 22, 8 pm at
the City Hall to organize for the
Annual Community Xmas activ
ities including election of a gen
eral chairman. All persons inter
ested are urged to attend.
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People Disapprove
Of Student At
tempts at Uprising
BERLIN, Nov. 18 (/PI — Nazi
; authorities broadened their pow
er to deal with the alleged reb
e'.li us activities in Bohemia and
Moravia by extending the trea
son law to the protectorate, af
ter nine Czechs were executed
and academnies were closed for
three years following student’s
d:V urbarices yesterday.
Meager details of the incident
indicated that the nine dead in
c uded two policemen and seven
Prague university students ac
cused of assaulting German citi
zens during an anti-Nazi demon
s’ration. Authorized sources in
sisted that order prevailed to
day.
Ninety per cent of the popula
j tion disapproved of what they
; termed attempts to sow dissen
sion by the youthful followers of
ex-President Benes.
Murder Jury
Disagrees Case
Be Re-Tried
■—
SEWARD, Nov. 20 (/Pi —After
twenty hcurs of deliberation the
district court jury reported itself
deadlocked over the Gene Hal
lett wife murder case and were
discharged. Hallett, a former
Seattle Maritime wireless operat
or remained in jail. He will be
re-tried in Anchorage during the
next term of co.urt.
District Attorney J W Kehoe
and his assistant H P Noggle
said that Mrs. Hallett disappear
ed from Kodiak Island several
days after coming from Seattle.
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ON BYRD TRIP -Frank
lin Johnson, full-blooded Eskimo
from St. Michaels, Alaska, will
be one of crew members aboard
the “North Star” on its trip to
Antarctica with Byrd party.
Johnson wears a bird feather
Jacket to keep him warm.
N O j V 0 Y R D DOC—Other Helds looked greener to this
sled dcT on the U. S. Interior department motorsliip “North Star”
which will accompany the “Bear of Oakland” carrying the Byrd
expedition to Antarctica. Both ships are at Boston,
Three Explosions
Rock London
Theater District
LONDON, Nov. 18 (/P)—Throe
sharp explosions which authorit
ies blamed to the outlawed Ir
ish Republican army shook the
Piccadilly Circus, which corres
ponds to New York’s Times
Square.
Theater goers were thrown in
to confusion but no one was in
jured apparently because the
crowds wore small due to night
ly blackouts.
One shop window was shatter
red and its steel shutters twist
ed across the pavements. Theater
glass was smashed. A fourth ex
plosive, which was a dud, was
found at Fashionable Park Lane
near a bank. :
Capone’s Brother
Reveals A1 .
Is In Hospital
BALTIMORE, Md„ Nov. 18 (JP) ;
— John Capone, Villanova. Pen
nsylvania, businessman said his
brother Scarface Al Capone _was *
bed ridden in a hospital here,
but was in a “cheerful mood and
does not hold a grudge against
anybody’’ although he is “a lit
tle on edge”—nervous like any
one coming out” of Alcatraz.
He declined to comment on the
clinical aspects of Al’s paresis
case.
The brother was never associat
ed with Al’s crime syndicate. He
indicated the ex^big shot was
humbled and ready to cry quits.
FRESH HEAD LETTUCE
From Anchorage At Polet’s
Commence to lay your plan*
for your costume for the coming
Mask Ball. Nome School Gym.
Dec. 9th
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CRAM D 01) MAM
—Younger men tr \ l.e raig'^t
envy the energy oi i\ * Aloa'io
Stags (above), footV'cs “grs d
old man,” who’s < • ing his
golden jubilee y i i.
He’s at Stacktor !.. at the
College of t .c iaiific.