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VOL. 41. No. 149. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1939. Price Per c°Py 15«
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Demand Expulsion Russia From League Nations
Rumor Pocket Battleship _ Cruiser
Russia Passes
24-hr. Deadline
To Reply League
GENEVA, Dec. 12, (&)—'The 24
hour deadline for the reply to
the League of Nations offer to
mediate the Russian-Finnish war
passed without a reply from Rus
sia. The deadline was 9 am PST
but officia's said consideration
would still be given the reply if
it is received later. Nevertheless
at 9 am, A 13-nation league com
mittee cons dering Finland’s ap
peal for aid began drafting a re
port to the league assembly to
Condemn Russia for aggression.
Indications pointed toward the
adoption of such a resolution by
a large majority either tonight
or tomorrow. Argentine then,
plans to present a proposal for
expelling Russia from the Lea
gue.
Russia Rejects
Mediation Of
Finnish War
GENEVA, Dec. 12 (/P)—Russia
rejected the league proposal to
mediate the Finnish war and
opened a way to> the possible
banishment of Russia from the
League of Nations. Premier Molo
toff telegraphed League Secre
tary General A C Avenol that
‘the government of Russia
thanks Monsieur the President
for his kind invitation to take
part in the discussion of the
Finnish question and at the same
time the government of the US
SR brings your attention to the
fact that it cannot accept this
invitation for reasons outlined in
its telegram of December 4th,
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sent in response to M Avenol’s
communication.”
The previous communication
said Russia considered Fin
and’s appeal “unfounded” and
added that Russia did not
consider herself at war with
Finland but said she was main
taining peaceful relations "with
the people's government which
the Soviet Russians spon
sored. The message also added
that the Helsinki government
“resigned its powers.”
The telegram tonight arrived
three hours after the deadline
and its reception automatically
kil ed the League attempts at
i mediation.
League Unanimous
In Demanding
Russia’s Expulsion
—
| GENEVA, Dec. 13 4JP) — The
I League subcommittee unanimous
ly adopted a report demanding
Russia’s expulsion from the Lea
| gue of Nations.
It was implied but not spee
! ifically stated that the report
jwas adopted after hours of wran
gling and named Russia as the
aggressor for the invasion of Fin
land and invited all League mem
hers to give Finland all possible
aid. In addition the report sug
gested that non-member nations
such as the United States might
he asked to join in helping Fin
land if the League Council de
sires.
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British Sub
Reports Seeing
Liner Bremen
LONDON, Dec. 12 UP) — The
German liner Bremen which has
been successful in dodging the
British fleet since the war started
was sighted this morning by a
British submarine which the Ad
miralty said refrained from at
tacking her without warning.
The Bremen apparently is
heading for Germany from Mur
mansk where she found refuge
in September the Admiralty an
nounced. They also said the sub
in failing to attack without warn
ing acted according to “rules of
sea warfare.”
BENEFIT BASEBALL GAME
TO BE HELD ON DEC. 27
Because of the breakdown in
the school heating plant the An
nual Community Xmas Benefit
Baseball Game has been postpon
ed to Wednesday, December 27.
There will be no baseball prac
tice tonight, The first practice
session will be in Monday night,
December 18, from 6 to 10 pm.
The team practice schedule is
as follows:
Nome Team—6 to 7
Hammon team—7 to 8
Native team—8 to 9
Commercial team—9 to 10
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FUNERAL NOTICE
All Pioneers are requested to
attend the funeral of our late
Brother Pete Yager Friday, Dec
ember 15 at the Federated
Church at 2 pm.
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"F FOR FOUR DA Y S — More grief than their years should bear war the lot
or Jimmy, 16 months, and Patsy Ann, 2, who were found after they'd Spent four days without food in
an unheated Philadelphia house. They were half naked. Police Capt. William Dever said their mother
t. had left them; their father, James Hannan, was booked on an intoxication charge.
ARTIST MASKS DEATH'S FACE—EVERYBODY’S HAPPY
.? istice Department employes at Washington D C who have had the jitters every time they glane
ed up at death’s ugly face as port ’.yea t-y John Steuart Curry, Car,-as-born artt t one the wall
-if the fifth floor (left) ha > ' r«»rry paintefP a mask «n tl a face. At Oorry is
shown as he applied the mask, P i" m‘ die of pieture is scaf ' ’>ng.
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Doiudas Fairbanks
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Passes Away From
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Heart Attack
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 12 (A'i
i Douglas Fairbanks Senior, who
leaped to film fame by his spec
i tacular acrobatics died in bed of
! a heart attack, at the age of 56.
The dashing Don Juan, for 15
I years the ranking male star in
: pictures succumbed after a day’s
illness at his beach home at San
jta Monica.
■ At his beds'de was his widow,
the former Lady Sylvia Ashley
and his brother Robert. His son
Douglas Jr called a few minutes
before Fairbanks died at 1 am
but did not reach the house.
Intimates said Lady Ashley
was prostrated and under the
care of a physician. She was des
cribed as taking his death very
hard.
In recent months Fairbanks
has been quiet and retiring and
seen only occasionally at Holly
wood functions. Only last Sat
urday he was in the best of spir
its and attended a football game.
He didn’t complain of illness un
til Monday morning, but even
when he suffered a slight heart
attack in the afternoon, physic
ians didn’t consider his condition
serious. Fairbanks was born in
Denver.
NOTICE
The Common Council, setting
as a Board of Equalization will
meet on December I4th. 13th
and 18th, 1939 at 7 o’clock pm.
M J Walsh, City Clerk
Publish Dec. 13 15 18
Republican's Notice
Meeting of the Nome Republic
an Club at City Hall, Wednesday
8 pm. All Republicans invited.
Signed C W Thornton
Secretary
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British Cruiser
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 13 fiR)—
British naval officials said they
arc investigating reports that the
7,000 ton British cruiser Achil
les was sunk in a battle with Ger
many’s 10,000 ton pocket battle
ship Admiral Scheer but were un
yble to obtain any direct inform
ution,
Reports circulated here but
without confirmation said the bat
lie ccurrcd off Punta Del Este
on Uruguay’s east coast.
Thp Achilles left Montevideo
December 9th after refueling.
She recently came to the Atlantic
coast from a patrol assignment
in the Pacific.
NO INFORMATION
MONTEVIDEO. Dec. 13 (/P) —
British, German and Uruguayan
officials said no information con
cerning reports of a battle be
tween the Admiral Scheer and
the cruiser Achilles.
Russian Steamer
Is Sunk Off The |
!
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TOKYO, Doc, 13 iff’)—87 per
sons were known to have died
and between 200 and 500 are be
lieved missing from the sinking
of the Russian steamer Indg.rka
off the Island of Hokkaido. The
Japanese foreign office announc
ed that Karafuto Maru a Japan
ese steamer rescued 390 of the
vessels passengers and crew. The
cause of the sinking is not
known.
Hokkaido is the northernmost
of the main islands of Japan.
The reports of the number of mis
sing conflicted. The Indigirka, a
vessel of 2690 tons went down
yesterday. High seas hampered
the rescue operations.
Two Champs
Win Fights For
Xmas Benefit
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CLEVELAND, Dec. 11 UP) _
Two champions protected their
titles with knockouts in a Christ
mas fund show here. A1 Hostak
at 159. middleweight of Seattle
kayoed Eric Selig, 160 pounds of
New York in the first of their
Scheduled fifteen round bout, m
tak’s first real blow caught Se
lig's chin and floored him for the
count of nine. His second right
upper cut finished Selig.
Welterweight Henry Arm
strong at 138 and a half stopped
Jimmy Garrison, 141 of Kansas
City in the seventh of a sched
uled ten rounder. The first six
rounds were fairly even though
the champion had the edge after
the first two. Garrison’s corner
tossed in the towel after he was
downed twice in the seVenth and
bleeding badly.
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