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VOL. 42. No. 23. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1940 per copy 1W
Reds Drop Bombs Swedish Village
Moscow Recalls All Russian Technicians In Turkey
Seven Russian Bombing Planes
Drop 30-40 Bombs On Swedish
Village Near Finnish Frontier
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 21 (/P) —
Seven Russ an bombing planes
showered between thirty and
forty bombs on the Swedish fron
tier village of Pajala, setting
many buildings afire but caus
ing no casualties.
Dispatches from the border re
gion reported thaat four build
ings in the village of Pajala of
3,000 inhabitants five miles from
the Finnish border were destroy
ed. Others were set afire by the
help for the Finns.
raiders who descended to 3,000
feet before unloading their car
go of bombs.
Although the bombing is gen
' erally regarded in Stockholm as
j accidental, it added new complica
| tions to Sweden’s difficulties ov
j er the matter of aid to Finland.
Sweden is expected to bring a
sharp protest to Moscow to fur
ther stimulate the Swedish act
ivist campaign for direct military
Finns Stubbornly Resist Soviets
Land Attacks and Artillery-Es
timate 800 Planes Used One Raid
HELSINKI, Feb. 21 </P) —Fin
land’s stubb~ n'y resisting de
fenders repulsed Russian attacks
which continued into the night
along the battered Karelian Is
thmus. A communique reported
that the Soviet land attacks cen
tered on Finland’s Mannerheim
Line defenses across the Isthmus
continued as Russian warplanes
for the second consecutive day
caused two air raid alarms to
be sounded in Helsinki. The at
tack of two of the Russian ciivi
sions “was strongly supported by
artillery and aircraft’’ but were
raid to have been repelled in the
Taipale or Eastern sector of the
Isthmus Front as the Russians
continued the hammering on the
forts at the Eastern end.
Eight hundred Russian planes
were authoritatively estimated as
participating in yesterdays raids
in which ten persons were killed
and twenty hurt in at least 30
com unities.
HONOR —For his “outstand
ing contributions to the design
and construction of transport
airplanes,’’ Donald Wills Doug
las (above), California plane
manufacturer, is scheduled to
receive the Daniel Guggenheim
medal for 1939.
FINNS STUMP “EXPERTS”
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 2 — The
Finnish broadcast an “Informa
tion please” program with 40
Russian prisoners- from the de
stroyed Forty-fourth Soviet Div
ision silting in as the “experts.”
Cigar were passed to those
who answered their questions
correctly, but only eleven of the
40 did any smoking.
All were stumped by these
questions:
Who was Rasputin?
What are the Olympic Games?
Who was Jesus? Napoleon?
Nurmi?
One said the Scandinavian
countries were Sweden, Finland
and Turkey. Another thought
Stalin was president of Russia,
He’d never heard of Soviet Presi
dent Michael Kalinin.
Still another missed a cigar by
a mile when he said Berlin was
the capital of France.
Well-bred people are those
who can insult each other and
make it sound like repartee.
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Britain Admits Return U-Boats
| Turkey to Make Plans with Allies
Mannerheim Line Is Penetrated
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UNDATED, Feb. 20 UP>—Mos
cow discussed hopefully the pros
pects of breaking through the
Mannerheim Line on Friday, the
birthday of the Red army while
the Scandinavias anxieties rose
with the repercussions of the two
wars at her doors.
Warlike preparations went
ahead in the near east and Brit
ain admitted that the last week,
the wars worst losses to British
and neutral shipping pointed to
the return of the U-boats with
the torpedo as the chief weapon
of destruction but also claimed
the destruction of at least four
and prohbaly six subs during the
week.
Turkey's supreme war council
met to scan the war clouds on
her frontier with Russia and to
coordinate her plans with those
of her British and French allies.
Russia set claims of continued
progress on Verdun-like Karel
ian Isthmus in a battle, against
Finnish reports of the destruc
tion of a Red army division to
the north of Lake Ladoga. On
ihe Karelian Isthmus the Rus
sians announced advanced posi
tions and are admitted by the
Finns to have penetrated the
Mannerheim Line for only six
miles.
Viipuri, once a thriving city of
74.000 is now the gaunt target
of redoubled Russian artillery
fire and bombing. The Reds also
reported the isolation of Kiovisto
an island fort, the western an
tekor of the Mannerheim Line, off
the Kerelian Isthmus in the Gulf
of Finland.
j Russ. Experts
Prepare Leave
I Turkey--War Talk
| INSTANBUL, Feb. 21 (/P) —
! Hundreds of Russian technical ex
I perts employed in Turkey’s in
[ dustry for many years under the
| Turkish-Russian agreement were
1 ordered by the Moscow govern
i ment to return to Russian im
mediately. The Russians are ex
j peeled to embark in Russian
ships with their families for Od
essa, the Russian Black Sea port.
This action follows the grad
liquidation by Russia of its com
mercial organization in Turkey.
The Turkish press recently dis
; cussed the possibility of war this
! spring in the near east. Russia’s
Caucasus oil fields will possibly
, be the center of activity.
House to Hold
Hearings March 12 j
On Fisheries Bills
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Washington, D C
February 21
Nome Nugget, Nome.
The House Co<mimittee on Mer
chant Marine and Fisheries has
set for hearing and consideration
on March 12 the following addi
tional Alaska Fisheries Bills:
House Bill 5476—to create an
Alaska Fisheries Commission.
House Bill 6690—to limit net
fishing in Nelson Lagoon to resi
dents of Alaska.
House Bill 7542—to forbid for
feiture of boats and gear for al
leged violaions of the law unless
and until offenders are convicted
of criminal offense.
And House Bill 8172—to ex
empt trolling from the weekly
closed season.
The testimony on most of these
bills was taken by the commmit
tee in Alaska ,but any other wit
nesse who care to appear before
the committee on March 12th
will be heard.
Anthony J. Dimond
Chamberlain Reproves Norway »
For Failing Duties as a Neutral
And Praises Navy’s Action
LONDON, Feb. 20 (#1 — Nor
way was accused by Chamber
lain of failing in her duties as a
neutral and displaying “complete
indifference” to the use that the
German fleet might make of her
waters. Chamberlain told the
House of Commons that the Nor
wegian authorities, three or four
times failed to mave a proper in
spection of the prison ship Alt
mark from which 299 British pri
so nor.; were rescued by the Brit
ish destroyer Cossack, Friday.
Norway's view that the Altmark
was a warship and thus not sub
ject to search would legalize the
German fleets use of neutral wat
ers, cresting a precedent that
Britain "cculd under no circum
s.ances accept,” Chamberlain de
clared.
The destroyers Cossack’s bold
move against the Altmark and in
which the boarding party killed
'seven Germans and set the Brit
ish prisoners free was given the
vociferous approval of the House
of Commons.
Laborite Albert Alexander de
dared that the opposition parties
also wished to go on record in
praise of the navy's action and
Prime Minister Chamberlain’s
statement.
The secret of success is that
there is plenty of room at the
top of the ladder but most of the
lower rungs are missing.
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NOTICE
The Poll Book is now open in
the office of the City Clerk for
the Registration of Voters at the
Annual City Election to be held
April 2, 1940. * t
M J Walsh. City Clerk
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Finns Grab War Booty as Icy Death Grips Russians
Finnish soldiers (top) are shown removing a Russian field gun left behind by fleeing Soviet forc
es alter the battles at Soumussalnii. This gun and others were soon turned on the Russians as
the Finns turned the invaders back. The lower picture shows a Russian soldier frozen to death
where he fell beside his stalled army truck on the Suomussalmi front. He is still clutching the
field telephone line he was erecting. He was but one of thousands killed as the Finns routed
the invaders