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VOL. 42. No. 13. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JAN. 29, 1940. Per ™pt W
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Finns Continue Successful War Against Russians
Heavy Fighting Northern Fronts
Russians Unsuccessful Relieving
Encircled Soviet Forces at Ladoga
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UNDATED, Jan. 29 (/P) — Air
raid alarms were sounded in Brit
ain, rifle fire spurt along the
Western Fiunt and heavy fight-;
ing was reported on the Finnish
and Russian battlefronts, mark-.
ed Europe’s two wars.
Russian artillery poured shells
into the Finnish positions on the
Karelian Isthmus front apparent
ly to divert the attention from
the battlefront in the n' rtheast
at. Lake Ladoga where the Finns1
report important Soviet reverses.
The Red Army, the Finns said,
was unsuccessful thus far in at-!
tempting to relieve the large So
viet force surrounded on the La
doga front.
Russian bombers flew over He’
sinki without dropping their car
goes but more than ten localit
ies in nearby territory were
bombed. Material damage wa
slight.
In Leningrad, military head
quarters reported “nothing im
portant took place at the front.”
In the North Sea, England ex
perienced two air raid alarms,
the second took place after Roy
al Air Force planes had driven
off a group of German raiders.
Severe winter weather crip
pled British transportation and
caused postponement of home
leaves for members of the Brit
ish Expeditionary Forces.
All was quiet on the Western
Tront with broken rifle fire on
he Maginot and Seigfried lines,
while French reports said out
posts were fighting off increased
German patrol activity. The
French told also of “a new wave”
of German sub action against
Allied shipping, estimating that
one-third 1 f the Gormans, 75 to
30 undersea craft being engaged
in the campaign. The French
said depth charges were used sue
cessfully against the Nazi subs.
FINNS CLAIM MORE VICTORIES
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Outstanding developments in the Russo-Finnisn war included: A
report by the Finns that they had wiped out the 44th Russsan div
ision killing housands and taking more than 1,000 prisoners, near
Sotjmussalmi. Previously the Finns sid they had defeated a Red
ski detachment in the Salla sector. Rucssians were reported digging
in on the Karelian Isthmus. Ice on the Gulfs of Flnlnd and Bothn
was reported hampering Russia’s naval warfare.
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Germany Announces Success of
Sea Warfare With More Than
20,000 Tons Sunk by January 25
BERLIN, Jan. 27 </P> — A Ger
man communique announced
that that “constantly successful
German sea warfare resulted in
the sinking of more than 20,000
j tons by January 25th. The com
munique also announced that a
German sub alsi sunk two steam
ers out of a British convoy in the
Atlantic ff of Oporto.” In Lon
don authorized sources denied it
but said an unidentified French
ship was sunk off Oporto.
At Manchester, Winston Church
ill, in another of his bristling
radio speeches, before a Free
Trade Hall crowd reiterated that
| the odds are 500 to 1 against the
: Germans sinking a British con
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! \ yed merchant vessel. He add
1
| ed that Germany was a stronger!
! enemy in 1914-18 than the Nazi
i version of today.
Borah’s Successor
Is Appointed
BOISF, Jan. 27 (TPi —Former
United States Senator John W
Thomas of Gooding, Idaho, was
appointed by Governor Bottolf
sen to the Senate vacancy creat-1
ed by the death of William E
Borah.
Constane Bennett
& Anita Louise
Robbed of $33,000
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1 CHICAGO, Jan. 28 </P> — Five j
masked robbers held up Cm- j
I stance Bennet and Anita Louise,
! motion picture stars and robbed
them of jewelry they valued at
$33,000. The robbery occurred a
short distance from Chicago’s
Loop.
Liner President
Quezon Sinks
Near Japan
TOKYO, Jan. 27 (/P) —Satur
day, lashed by a raging storm,
the grounded 8,341-ton Philip
pine liner President Quezon, for
merly the President Madison,
was reported tlo have sunk on
the reefs off Tanegaihima Island
off southern Japan. The crew of
.114 and an undetermined num- j
her of passengers were taken off i
by rescue ships.
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ARMSTRONG WHIPS
PEDRO MONTANEZ
NEW YORK, Jan. 25 —Henry
Armstrong brought his perpetual
motion fighting machine and a
fierce two-fisted attack into high
gear to stop Pedro Montanez in 9
rounds of a scheduled 15 round
fight to defend his world welter
weight championship.
The bout was witnessed by
more than 19,000 fans who paid
more than $59,000.
Montanez was floored three
times and saved by the bell
twice; he put up a gallant show
ing but Referee Cavanaugh was
forced to call a halt in the 9th
with the Puerto Rican helpless
and absorbing terrific punish*
j meat.
, Armstrong weighed 139% and
i Montanez 144% pounds.
Bride 10, Mate 21, Parted
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Mary Alice aged 10 wed but a
few days to Charles Schall, 21
year-old Athens, Ohio, coal min
er, looked downcast after a court
orderen an annulment and sen
tenced her, her mother Mrs Ly-!
I dia Hudnall and Schall to sep
arate institutions on delinquency
charges.
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Noted Surgeon
Passes Away
PALM BEACH, Jan. 28 (yP) —;
Dr. William D Haggard, aged 67.
; Past President of the American ;
l College of Surgeons and of the j
American Medical Association, |
died of a heart attack here.
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GERMAN PLANES ATTACK
COLUMN FRENCH TANKS
ARE DRIVE OFF BY RAF
PARIS, Jan. 27 UP)—For the
first time in the war, a German
plane attacked a column of
French tanks but they were un
damaged when three British j
planes chased it away. A French
communique had “nothing to re
port^
Delegate Dimond Requests The <
Establishment Seward-Aleutians
Passenger Service on Mail Boat
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 <7P) —
Delegate Dimond told the House
j in discussing the Treasury and
Postotlice appropriations bill
shouldn’t be deprived of the 6 to
8 thousand dollars for Alaskans’
transportation by cutting $55,000
off the $125,000 recommended
for establishing a Seward-Ko
diak-Bristol Bay-Aleutian Island
bqat service. The government cur
!
rently pays the Contractor $70,
000 annually but the boat is too
! small to carry passengers.
It was agreed that a $55,000
] “subsidy be given for a vessel
to furnish certain transportation,
but the use of subsidies by the
PostofTice Department is not a
new o-ne.” The service is needed
largely for ill persons.
Recent Filings
4th Division
For Primaries
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 26 (Spec
ial)— Victor C. Rivers of Fair
banks, member of the Territorial
Senate for the last four years,
mailed the necessary papers to
Juneau today, filing as a candi
date for Teiritorial HfgmVay En
gineer on the Democratic ticket.
Me is a civil engineer and a mem
b 'i's of the Board of Engineers
and Architects and Examiners.
Other Fairbanksans who have i
filed for the Territorial primaries
set for April 30th are P J Mc
Donald, Republican, now city
councilman, for Senator; Robert
J McKanna and I. uis D Colbert,
both Republicans, for the House;
Gilbert Stevens, Democrat, for
the Senate; Hugh N Hewton and
Fred Sorri, both Democrats, for
the House.
The ban against mail and fur
shipments from Tetlin and Tana
cross, both recently stricken with
an epidemic supposed to be scar
let fever was officially lifted to
day by Dr. F B Gillespie, De
puty Territorial Health Officer,
on the strength that there have
been no recent new cases and
none have at any time been se
vere.
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PASSENGER TRAIN RAMS
INTO GASOLINE TANK CARS
KILLING 200 INJURING 100
TOKYO, Jan. 28 (A1)—Monday,
two hundred persons, trapped in
side of a flaming suburban train
when it rammed into a string of
gasoline tank cars were killed or
burned to death at Osaka and
one hundred were injured.
RAINS, GALES, POUND BAY CITIES
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Rains, accompanied by winds of gale force, sepread havoc through
out the San Francisco Bay area. Sudden downpours flooded strreet
intersections, and caused rock and dirt slides on main highways
that interrupted traffic, in Berkeley, Calif., the wind uprooted a
75-foot Redwood tree, toppling it against the Alpha Epsilon Phi
sorority house at the University of California.