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Newspaper In Alaska. "The News Of The Day In Pictures" Member Of The Associated Press. Nugget Weather Forecast Published Every Slightly Cooler WEDNESDAY, Generally Fair THE NOME NUGGET MONDAY, Tonight and Tomorrow FRIDAY VOL. 40 No. 106 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, Sept.

4, 1939. Price per copy 154 ENGLAND, FRANCE JOIN WAR BRITISH LINER ATHENIA WAS TORPEDOED French Troops Penetrate Germany's Seigfried Line AD SEEING THE SEA -Farms aren't like this, said girls who varied their stay at 4-H encampment with a steamer trip to Mount Vernon. Left to right: Annabelle Wetzel, Harrisburg, Martha Wreath. Manhattan. Dorothy Sledge, Coushatta, La.

France Opened Attack Western Front Barrages UNDATED, Sept. 4, Heavy gunfire sounded on the Western Front as Great Britain, France and Poland made war on Germany. The tiny Grand Duchy of emburg wedged between France and Germany heard the ominous sounds reminiscent of 1914, soon after dawn, in the new European war. The first maritime casualty is the British liner Athenia which sank off the Hebrides Islands after she was hit by a torpedo, which British officials attributed to a submarine. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the British Admiralty said the ship was torpedoed "without the slightest The rescue fleet reported officially they had saved all of the fourteen hundred passengersthree hundred and eleven of them Americans, except a few killed in the torpedo France opened its land, sea and air operations against Germany, the War Ministry announced, without disclosing the exact theatre of hostilities being design ated, to relieve German pressure on Poland.

Reports circulated in the Fren ch Chamber of Deputies said the Frenfh offensive was concentrated in the Belfort region where Burgundy Gate, a valley, cuts across the Rhine to Germany not far from the Swiss frontier. British Liner S. S. Athenia Sinks After Torpedo LONDON, Sept. 3, The Admiralty today confirmed the torpedoing of the British liner Athenia.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3. The British Broadcasting company's represetative said that the British stemer Athenia, with fourteen hundred aboard had been torpedoed two hundred miles East of the Hebrides Islands. The liner was bound from Gias gow to Montreal. NEW YORK, Sept.

4 NBC said its engineers had picked up the shortwave broadcasting station DJB. Berlin, which said the Athenia had struck a floating British mine, and had not been torpedoed by a German Boat. DJB, being owned by the Ger man government, the announcement thus had an official tinge. WASHINGTON, D. Sept.

4. -The State Department has been advised that two ships picked up a thousand survivors of the sunk en British ship Athenia. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's message to the Department from London said the British Admiralty reported the steamer Knute Nelson was carrying eight hundred survivors while Wannengren's yacht the Southern Cross was carrying two hundred. Wannengren, mentioned as the owner of the Southern Cross is not otherwise identified.

The State Department was informed there would be a delay in efforts to check the list of those saved. with the Athenia's passenger list, SO the names of any persons lost will not be available for some time. FDR Announced U.S. Neutrality European War WASHINGTON, D. Sept.

4. -Prociamations that President Roosevelt is declaring American neutrality and invoking the neu trality act, will be issued within the next twenty four hours, the White House announced. State Department officials said they were looking into the facts regarding the sinking of the Athenia and the airplane bombing of the villa of the American Ambassador near Warsaw. Stephen Early the presidential secretary, told reporters the two proclamations would be issued simultaneously, probably thru the State Department. ylarbhru esyut moultan JAPS HOP FOR OAKLAND SEATTLE, Sept.

2 The Japanese round the world airplane Nippon hopped off from Boeing Field here for Oakland at 9:01 AM, for an estimated flight of five hours. France and Britain Waited Until Last Possible Moments UNDATED, Sept. 2, Armed and ready. Great Britain and France decided upon at least a slight delay in warring with the Nazis. Daladier told the Chamber of Deputies that if eleventh hour efforts were made to halt the German Polish conflict, France would support them, but would fight for Poland unless Germany stopped its aggression.

Chamberlain deferred his vital statement on Britains stand until lated today, awaiting Hitler's answer to 'our last warning', to halt the Reichs armies. France said she heard rumors that Germany had suspended Poland operations but the Berlin high command denied this. Warsaw reported that Polish troops were resisting while the government declared Poland was under a state of war. The Poles were reported to be holding Westerplatte despite 3 German attacks, and although the Germans claimed its capture. Official Polish statements did not estimate the losses but said that civilian casualties were sevee "because most attacks were on unfortified A Berlin broadcast warned that an air raid was expected there tonight.

The Polish embassy in London said that Warsaw had been bomb ed six times today. entered an.rtuA ils paec aimed A German radio announced two German columns which entered Pomorze from the eastward had joined. bottling the Poles in the northern part of the Polish corridor. Are you taking advantage of six months paid in ad vance subscription Chamberlain Tells World Britain Is In The War LONDON, Sept. 3 Prime Minister Chamberlain today pr-0 claimed Britain at war with Ger many, after the expiration of the British ultimatum to Germany to withdraw her troops from Pol and.

The deadline expired at 2:000 a m. Pacific time. "You ca nimagine what a bitte rblow it is to me. The actions of this man Hitler show convincingly that he will never do otherwise than use force in the attainment of his will. Consequently we are at war with Ger many.

I am certain the right will prevail." So spoke Chamberlain in his fateful message--a quarter hour radio radio address tonight PARIS Sept. 3, Britain's war declaration left no doubt that France must follow suit. LONDON, Sept. 3 An ex! change telegraph British news gaency report stated that the Berlin radoi announced the cap ture of Czenstockqu by the Ger man forces. PARIS.

Sept. 3, France to-! night joined Britain in war against Germany as the French government announced that, Ger many had refused to give a satisfactory answer to France's ultimatum for the withdraw of Reich troops from Poland-automatically putting France at war. starting at 7 p.m. today Paris time. PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED The Nome Daily Nugget carries several forms of printing blanks for your convenience Dredge Logs, thawing and drill reports Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode Location Notices.

Vouchers. FUN -Whimsical Francis Day, London stage star, wore flower -rimmed sun glasses at Soho fair in London. Coast Guard Head Alaska Passes On Governor Troy Resigned; New Gov. Appointed WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, President Roosevelt Saturday an nounced the resignation of Governor John W.

Troy of Alaska. He also announced the recess appointment of Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, chief of the division of Territories and Insular Possession under the Department of the Interior, to succed Gov. Troy.

The White House made public, correspondence with Governor Troy, in which he said he was resigning because of prolonged ill health. His resignation will become effective October 15. Announce Capture Important Rail Head of Poland BERLIN, Sept. 2, DNB reported that German troops had captured Oderberg, an important rail crossroads on the South western Polish Czech frontier, after the Poles had exchanged only a few shots and then fled with everything portable. The news agency said that the town was not damaged except for a few broken windows, and that the populace showered flow ers on the incoming Germans.

The Poles were said to have seized the town when Czechoslavakia went to pieces. KETCHIKAN, Sept. 1- Commander W. K. Thompson, head of the combined Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service in Alaska, died last night.

after thirty one years of service. As commander of the Cutter Itasca he was the last person to hear Amelia Earhart's voice voer the radio-phone. and engaged in the fruitless search for her plane. He is survived by a widow and son Frank of Port Angeles. and a son W.

K. an ensign aboard the cutter Northland. 4. ON GUARD WITH LIFE GUARDS -Here are of some Chicago's 233 life guards ing resuscitation, the better to patrol 28 miles of beaches. (A.P.- Universal Newsreel Photo.).