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VOL. 41. No. 140. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1939. Price c°P7
15 Ships Sunk Since Last Thursday
BRITAIN TO BLOCKADE GERMAN EXPORTS
Gov. Gruening To Arrive Juneau December 5th
Genual) J^ptures
Two British
Secret Agents
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BERLIN, Nov. 21 OP) — Two
leaders of the British Inte’ligence
Service in Europe were captured
on November 9‘.h when they at
tempted to cross the German bor
der into the Netherlands. An of
ficial announcement said the cap
ture was made at Venloo where
the Netherlands dispatches on
that night reported a shooting in
cidenl and the capturing of the
occupants of a Netherlands auto
mobile who were taken into Gor
many. The men were identified
as “Best and Captain Stevens.”
The statement said they were
overpowered and taken prisoner
by the state police but added
“there are contradictory claims”
as to whether they were enptur
ed while still in Hohand or
when in Germany. At present
they are being examined.”
Virginia D’Amore, 18 was charg
ed with the slaying of her baby
daughter born Oct. 5. Police said
the girl, an unwed mother, admit
ted killing the baby in New York
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I»ril&in Has Lost
Six Naval Vessels
No Far In War
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UNDATED, Nov. 21 <JP) — A
: British minesweeping trawler
j fighting the suddenly increased
mine menace off Britain’s coast
ink herse'f by a mine the Brit
i ish Admiralty announced and
tcknowledging the loss of the
sixth British naval vessel since
the war began.
Germany, invading southeast-:
; crn England by air for the sec
nd time in two days, lost a war!
plane which the British Air Min!
-try said was shot down by1
, Royal Air Force fighters over the
east coast.
The naval trawler which was!
sunk yesterday was the 490-ton
Mastiff, one of Britain’s newer1
ight naval vessels. Mines took a
: l of ten merchant ships in the
; North Sea over the week-end, |
half of them neutral and the oth
r half British with a total of
134 persons dead or missing as a(
result of the sinkings. Britain
previously acknowledged the
loss of five naval vessels: the air:
craft carrier Courageous; the;
battleship Royal Oak: the sub-!
marine Oxley; the Northern Rov
er, a naval auxiliary vessel; and
the destroyer whose name was j
not disclosed. Britain disclosed i
that her Baltic fleet was holding I
large scale maneuvers from her j
new Baltic bases. She warned
Finland of her determination to ■
“establish a strong peace all ov!
er the Finnish Gulf.”
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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
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The Second Division Democrat
ic convention is herewith called
for next Sunday, November 26,!
at 2:30 p.m. in City Hall bldg.,
Nome, Alaska.
All Delegates are requested to
he present either in person or by
! proxy.
Howard Lyng,
Chairman
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Fifteen Ships
Sunk Since
Last Thursday
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UNDATED, Nov. 22 (/Pi —
Mounting maritime losses and re
criminations over the foiled
Munich plot on Hitler’s life fur
ther embittered the warfare be
tween Germany and Britain.
Six German planes bombed
the .Shetland Islands north of
Scotland but British sources said
the raiders failed to hit any ob
jectives.
The Italian steamer Fianona of
6800 tons struck a mine off the;
English coast where more than!
ten ships including five neutrals
have gone down in the past fiveI
days.
The German freighter Bertha
Fisher fell prey to a British war
ship near Iceland. These new
casualties added to the list of 15
! ships which mines and submar
: ines destroyed since last Thurs
I day in a quick increase which
spurred Great Britain to retal
iatory measures against Ger-1
many. Britain accused Germany
of 'osin^ the mines but the |
charge was denied by Berlin.
In retaliation Prime Minister!
Chamberlain announced a block
ade on all German exports, de
s:gned to choke the Reich’s trade.
Most of the imports have already
been banned by the British con
traband control imposed at the
war’s outset.
Berlin declared the British
measure was certain to bring a
counter-retaliation by Germany. |
Gov. Gruening
To Arrive Juneau
December 5th
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (/P) —
Dr. Ernest Gruening said he
would vacate his office as chief
of the Interior Department’s
Territories Division today and
prepare to depart for Alaska to
assume his post of Governor.
D partment officials said no sue
cesser to Gruening has been nam
cd. He will leave tomorrow for
Hanover, Mass, with Mrs. Gruen
ing to visit their son Peter at
the Philips Academy there. From
Hanover they will proceed to
Seattle and sail on the S S Yu
kon on December 2, arriving in
Juneau December 5th. They have
rented their Washington home to
R oresentative Caroline O’Day
of New York.
NOTICE
All interested in the future de
velopment of Northwestern Al
aska are invited to attend the
All-Alaska Products Dinner to
be held at the IOOF Hall, Wed
nesc’.ay evening November 29 at
G:30 p.m.
Make your reservation with
the telephone operators. Tickets
will be sold by the Committee.
The importance of the reserva
tions is evidenced by the fact
that we had only 47 reservations
and the attendance was over 140
last year. Reservations will be
closed at noon, November 29th.
N. W. Alaska C of C
ORDERS NOT OBEYED
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Repercussions lingered in Honolulu following a 11-day visit of Jap
anese naval training squadron during which an American customs
official was denied admittance to a cruiser because he refused to
obey this sign, shown by the sentry. The official was carrying greet
ings of the port of Hilo to the Japanese admiral.
'Nazi. Secret Police
Announce Arrest
Munich Bombing
BERLIN, Nov. 21 f/P) —Hein
rich Himmler, chief of the Nazi
secret police announced that he
arrested a man in connection
with the attempted bomb assass
ination of Hitler in Munich on
November 8th.
Himmler said the man was
George Elser aged 26 of Munich
who confessed on November 14
after steadfast denial of any com
plicity in the attempted assass
Territory of Alaska
By the Governor
A PROCLAMATION
An annual custom, revered and
conscientiously observed since
the days of our forefathers thru
out the nation, has been recogniz
■ ! again by a proclamation of
he President of the United Stat
and in accordance therewith
!, John W. Troy, Governor cf A1
as?-a, do hereby appoint Thurs
day the 23rd day of November,
Nineteen Hundred and Thirty
Nine a day of
THANKSGIVING
And I recommend that upon
that day all the people of Alas
ka, refraining so far as may be
from their customary labors,
uni-e in returning thanks to A1
mighty God for his gracious
gifts; for the conditions of com
fort and happiness which have
been sustained in our Territory
as a whole; for the increasing evi
dence in wealth with which our
land is endowed; and for the
faith that a still more prosperous
era is at hand.
Given under my hand and the
Seal of Alaska, in Juneau, the
Capitol, this Third day of Nov
ember, in the year of our Lord
One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Thirty Nine.. .
(SEAL) John W. Troy
Governor of Alaska
| ination. Eight persons were kill-,
i '1 by the bomb in the Munich
Buergerbrau celler eleven min
utes after Hitler had left, follow
ing a sp: ech made at the cele
bration of the anniversary of the
unsuccessful 1023 Nazi Putsch
N OTIC E
i A meeting will be held tonight
I at 8 p.m. at the City Hall to
I organize for the Annual Com
! munity Xmas activities, includ
I ing an election of a general chair
! man. All persons interested are
urged to attend.
“ S O II 1) () U G II ”
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EXTRA WINS
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It was an “unknown” New York
photographers’ model under the
name of Doris Jordan that was
picked as leading lady for Gary
Cooper’s next picture, but her
signature on her contract reveals
her as Doris Davenport, who wa*
a movie extra six years a gov
She’s shown as she looks today.