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VOL. 41. No. 141. IOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOV. 24, 1939. Price pct c°Py I8«
War Costing Great Britain $23,800,000 Per Day
Rumanian Premier And Cabinet Split, Resign
DEATH RAY-to tb*
U. S. for use ai Invaders
would Dr. Antcu'o T on$oGa
(above), 49, Clev. 1- r <j r
give his “death ray * which, ho
says, kills by Instant dest-uclloi
of red blood corpuscles. Uc sa> j
he destroyed device.
WAR AIMS OF NAZI! ANT)
ARE MADE KNOWN
PARIS, Nov. 22 — The news
paper “Paris Soil" publl : d to
day what it claimed is an official
document stating German war
aims. The newspaper article said
the document was a list of in
structions sent out by Hitler to
instruct Nazi leaders is alleged
to contain the following Nazi war
aims:
1. —Reestablishment-^of front
iers by race and language. 2.—
Return of Alsace L rrzine. 3.—
Annexation of par's of H •!’• d.
Belgium, northern France, Yugo
slav1 a and Rumania._ _
Germany and
Allies Make
Conflicting Claims
UNDATED, Nov. 24 (/P) —The
conflict in the far cast spurted
to new activity and in Europe
the war of words continued to
ho d the limelight with air and
sea developments.
The Japanese reported the con
quest of Nanning, in Kwangsi
province, the capital of South
China in a drive designed to
evere the vital supply lines
from Chungkvving, the Chinese
capital. Nanning’s fall was an
nounced after a t,e:i clays drive
from the South China coast,
j The German high command as
.sorted that a Nazi sub claimed
I credit for the torpedoing and
damaging of the British cruiser
: Belfast at the Firth of Forth.
I Earlier reports of such damage
i by .a sub jjr a -mine drew neither
nf.v:: . lion on denial by Brit
! ' ;h officials.
A lone German scouting plane
returned from the British Isle1
lying over the Shetland Islands
The results of yesterday’s air
| battles brought conflicting claim
from the belligerents. A French
! communique said the allies bro
down eight German scouting
! planes and said they lost onlj
'' . cf their craft. The Germai
j command said its fliers bagger
three rnemy aircraft with no loss
es cf their own.
The war on the sea lanes, ir
which ten vessels were added tc
the list of victims, caused new
moves by Britain and Germany
Britain studied the methods tc
on mb a* the mines of the lates'
type which are reported being
dropped by parachute from Naz
warplanes. To spur the ecquisi
ion of supplies, arm in arm with
a campaign for safety on the sea
lanes, a powerful Brit'sh bank
ing group was organized it was
reported in London, to help im
porters ge. goods from the Unit
! ed States.
—
Alaska Ship
Fired On
By Canadian
SEATTLE, Nov. 22 —Capt. A.
J. Borkl; nd, master of the SS
North Coast arrived at Seattle
from an A’askan trip, reported a
Canadian naval vessel had fired
a shot am as the bow of the
steamer at Prince Rupert
Capt. Borklrnd said his ship
carried 73 passengers and a crew
of 75.
The incident occurred Sunday
j night when an officer of the Can
ndian bessel thought he did not
.top quickly enough when order
: ed to do so.
Cap'ain Borkland thought it
‘ was necessary to keep the steam
er moving to safeguard against
’ grounding, but stopped im.med
', lately at the warning shot.
The Captain said he had report
! nd ahead upon departure from
1 Juneau on Sunday that he was
L going to slop at Prince Rupert.
’ A Canadian officer at Esqui
mault naval base said the officer
J in the examination service of
‘ | ships was within his rights in
firing a shot across the bow of
any vessel which failed to stop
1 upon order, but added it was an
’ error of judgoment if the officer
| tried to stop an American ship
in dangerous waters.
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r
! fives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
i sick out of it.
FLIERS SMASH ENDURANCE RECORD
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Flying their pontoon-equipped plane hack and forth above the desert near Lancaster, Calif.,
Clyde Schleiper and Wes Carroll broke all endurance flight records when they exceeded the
previous mark of 653 hours, 33 minutes, by one hour. Their p lane is shown being refueled on
the day they broke the record.
I
Cost of War To
Great Britain Is
UNDATED, Nov. 23 <TP)—iGreat
Britain learned from her chan
cellor of the Exchequer Sir John
Simon, the war is costing her
twenty three million eight hun
dred thousands dollars a day.
while maritime losses particular
ly from the mine strewn east
coast of Britain, continue to
mount.
The newest naval casualty was
ihe British destroyer Gipsy
which struck a mine and then
was beached. Forty men were
iisted as missing. A Greek freight
er was also added to the toll. At
least 18 ships have gone down
near Britain in the past week as
a result of mines or submarine
torpedoes.
Su John Simon mentioned the
“magnetic mines" which he at
tributed to Germany, as the
, cause of the sudden heavy mari
I time losses.
j Germany poked fun at the Brit
i ish intelligence service declaring
that German secret police were
j in radio contact with the British
' agents and fooled them into be
lieving they were anti-Hitler
| revolutionists.
Hitler conferred with his war
chiefs at the annual reception of
| the Reichfis air|, saa and land
fighting forces. Both Germany
I and the allies claimed success in
! air warfare. A German com
: munique declared that four
! French planes were downed on
the Western Front where land
fighting remained at a minimum.
A French communique report
ed that six German planes were
shot down near Franche Conte
after a lone raider was driven ofi
from Paris this morning.
A repercussion of the war was
the resignation of the Rumanian
government headed by Premier
Ai tanu. alter the cabinet split
over trade negotiations with Ger
i many. The German-Rumanian
negotiations broke down when
the Bucharest government held
out against German pressure for
more foodstufis and oil from Ru
mania at a lower cost.
Dogs Howl As
Byrd’s Ship
Leaves Port
BOSTON, Nov. 22—Heading in
to a near gale the old barken
! tine Bear left on the first leg
| of a voyage to Antarctica, the
i longest ever undertaken by the
i U S Navy with a sailing vessel
since the days of steam.
Whistles shrieked a farewell
salute and 78 sled dogs howled a
response and wind strummed in
the rigging, as the Bear disap
peared down the harbor in a
swirling snowstorm. The old cut
ter is part of the Byrd expedi
I tion.
I
Invention Of
Alaskan May
Find War Lise
Electric fire, the deadly inven
tion of an Alaskan miner, may be
used in the present war, says
the Juneau Empire.
Char es Strom, oldtime mech
anic ari l steelworker who has
lived at Council on Seward Pen
insula for 30 years, developed
the electric fire bomb, to be
dropped from airplanes, near the
end of the World War. He went
to Washington and was received ;
by Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker who obtained all rights to
the Strom invention for the US,
Army. The war ended before it
cou'd be used in the conflict.
Strom, visiting in Juneau a
few days enroute south, says his
, electric fire had proven devas
i ating in tests. It even burned on
. snowdrifts and on w*tc2.
Strom has been in Alaska since
it’OO, when he went to Prince
William Sound to work for the
A. C. Company. In 1900 he drove
i 60 head of cattle over White Pass
into Dawson where they sold at
$1 per pound on the hoof.
SENATOR PAYS ONE-DAY
VISIT TO NORTHLAND
Senator Lewis B. Schwellen
bach, Democrat of Washington,
1 whose home is in Seattle, was a
| surprise visitor this week to
Ketchikan.
He came to Ketchikan Monday
Ion the steamship Yukon and left
I for Seattle Tuesday on the steam
BEAUTY —American girls
might look enviously at the
oriental charm of Miss Chine
Tsin Kuo, Chinese newspaper
correspondent who is visiting
C. S. She expects to see Mrs. !
Eleanor Roosevelt. ShS called i
Jap bombing “worst in history.’*
' ship Alaska.
While in Ketchikan, the sen*
ator declined to comment on his
passible appointment to the Fed
eral judgeship of the Western dis
trict of Washington, succeeding
Judge J. Stanley Webster of Spo
kane.
Senator Schwellenbach said he
was “awfclly tired” after Con
gress ended, and whenever he
was tired, he “liked to rest up
by taking a boat trip.”
The Senator revealed he was
four days in his Seattle homo
while newspapermen and others
were seeking him in Spokane to
query him on the judgeship.
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ENDURANCE FLIERS LEARN TO WALK
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Wobbly in the knees after 30 days in the air in a tinv sean’ane in
which they set an endurance record of 726 hours, Clyde S Hieyer
I (left) and Wes Carroll are shown getting their land lc>rs with the
help of their pretty wives, Ruth Schlieper and Catherine Carroll,
upon the termination of their flight at Lancaster, Calif.