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34TH YEAR, NO. 6-52 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1939
PRICE TEN CENTS
REPORT RED ARMY OF MILLION MEN MASSING TO CRACK FINNISH
ANOTHER U. S. RED ARRESTED
Dozenberg Caught In Oregon for Fake Passport
AIDED BROWDER
LEAGUE OF NATIONS TOLD TO EXPEL SOVIET RUSSIA
Argentina Leads Demand and Gives Threat to Withdraw; Reds Protest
Formerly Was Prominent in Communist Party
.N'ew York, Dec, 9. (UP)—Nicholas Dozenberg, once prominent in the American Communist party, has 3een arrested in Bend, Ore., on 'raudulcnt pa.ssport charges, United States Attorney .lohn T. Cahill an- lounced tonight.
Elarl Browder, general secretary )f the Communi.st party, is already jnder indictment here on charges jf obtaining a passport under Dozenberg'? name, but the latter is accused on separate charges of se¬ curing a passport fraudulently him¬ self under another nam«. Born ill Latvia
Dozenberg and his wife, Kather¬ ine, are accused, Cahill said, of ob¬ taining fraudulently passports on which they gave their names as Nicholas L. and Helena V. Dallant, Cahill said they had lived in Wash¬ ington, D. C, until recently.
.She was not arrested with him. Cahill said, and her whereabouts are not known here,
Dozenberg was born in Riga, Latvia, in Igg,^, and was naturalized aa an American citizen Feb. 6, 1911. It was his naturalization certificate that Browder allegedly used in ob¬ taining a passport In 1921, accord- ng to the indictment returned tgalnst the Communl.'st leader.
Cahill asked federal authorities n Oregon to request Ihat hall of f,W,000 be set for Dozenberg. Ofli¬ cials here did not believe that he would fight removal to Ivcw York. Third Arrested
Dozenberg is the third prominent Communist to be arrested on charges of securing and traveling on fraudulent United States pass¬ ports.
In addition to Browder, Robert \V. Weincr, financial secretary of the party, is under indictment on similar charges. Federal authorities charge that his true name is Wel- wel Warsznwer and that he is a Russian alien who pn.'ed for more than 20 years as a native American citizen.
.Mp Gun Plot
Rio de Janeiro, D*c. 9, (UP) — Police today arrested m.ire than 100 alleged Communist agitators and seized large quantities of arms and ammunition which authorities said were to be uaed to establish a "party front" of Communists throughout the coun- tr.v.
The Communist party has been outlawed  In Brazil  since 1937.
The special political bureau an¬ nounced that quantities of propa¬ ganda materials were also seized in the raids and that leaders of the movement were among those arrested.
MACHADO POLICE HEAD SLAIN FROM AUTO
Havana,    Dec.   9.    (UP)—Miguel I Balmascda,    chief    of    the    secret | police    during   the   presidency   of the   late   Gerardo   Machado,   was shot and killed tonight as he  left ' the    home    of    Orestes    Ferrara, '•rmer  secretary  of  state.
Geneva, Dec. 9 (UP)—The League of Nations Council—with the Soviet
I delegate absent—tonight handed j over to Monday's assembly meet- ; ing the appeal of Finland against
invasion by the Red Army.
At the same time, Argentina was understood to be prepared to pre- lent what amounts to an ultima¬ tum to the assembly meeting next week, demanding expulsion of Soviet Russia from the league on threat that the Argentine govern¬ ment otherwise will withdraw. South American Demands
Argentina demanded the right to speak first at Monday's session, it was understood, because «he la sponsor of the expulsion movement in which the Argentine delegation expressed the hope that all Latin- American countries would partici¬ pate. The Latin-American dele¬ gates, at a private meeting, agreed unanimously that Bolivia should be re-elected to the council and it was also possible that Colombia would be a candidate.
The League council met in an atmosphere reminiscent of the turbulent days when momentous post-war decisions were made in Geneva, including the decision to apply sanctions against Italy in the Kthiopian War, Italy's member¬ ship expires on Monday,
Jacob Souritz, Soviet delegate and ambassador to Paris, remained in his hotel while the budget com¬ mittee met this morning and while the council convened secretly and heard Rudolf Holsti of Finland pre¬ sent his government's accusation against the Soviet Union. Soviet ConinilRRar Overruled
Holsti was permitted to speak by the council, which thug over-ruled the protest of Soviet Foreign Com¬ missar Viacheslav Molotov that Holsti was not entitled lo repre¬ sent the Finnish peple. The Rus¬ sian government has recognized the so-called Terijoki "People's Gov¬ ernment" of Finland, which was set up as a rebel regime in terri¬ tory occupied by Russian troops,
L, B, Helfand was deputized by Souritz to represent him at the morning budget meeting, while Souritz remained at his hotel. Over the weekend, Souritz was sche¬ duled to confer with various other delegates and definitely to disclose the attitude of the Soviet on Mon¬ day. It was generally believed that he would boycott the assembly meetings next week, although the Soviet representative may continue to attend budget meetings. F.iiropean  Neutrals  Hesitate
European neutral powers were still hesitating as to whether they would support the Argentine de¬ mand for expulsion of Russia, but Britain, France and possibly most of the Latin-American nations were expected to lend their support.
The Dutch delegation waa under¬ stood  to   be   instructed   to  oppose any    effort    to    impose    sanctions against the Soviets and other nor¬ thern     European     nations—caught between   two   wars    indicated   the I same   attitude.   The   Scandinavians j were reported to he holding out the I possibility   of  some   effort   toward restoration  of peace  between Fin¬ land    ani    Russia    through    the machinery of the League, but the pro.'pects   were   not   bright,
"Finland  appealed  under  Article
II nf the covenant, which implies application of Article 16 if League machinery fails to result in con¬ ciliation. Article 16, in addition to providing for sanctions, concerns expulsion of a League member."
A Very Small $3,500,000
War
Biilldiiis
Claim Finn I.lneg Broken
Moscow, Dec, 10. -Sunday—(UP) —An official communique today claimed that Russian forces had broken through the main Finnish defense lines west of Lake Ladoga and were advancing toward Kaki- salmi (Kexholm) 55 miles northeast of Viborg.
The communique, issued by the Leningrad milltiiry headquarters, also said the Ked forces had ad¬ vanced 40 to 50 miles in the offen¬ sive launched against central Fin¬ land at the republic's narrowest point.
In northernmost Finland, troops from the Murinansk area of Russia \ destroyed bases and "centers of re- I sistance" in an area 31 miles south ; of the Finnish arctic port of Pct- i samo, the communique said, while i .Soviet naval vessels finl.shed the i task of clearing Petsamo harbor of Mines,
Finns Confident of Mannerheim Forts
Copenhagen, Denmark. Dec. 10 (Sunday). (UP)—A Helsinki dispatch t© the newspaper National Tidendes today said that Soviet Russia had massed 1,000,000 men in the Karelian Isthmus in an attempt to turn the Finnish army's left wins: and hreak througfh the Mannerheim defense system.
The Russian Forces Mere concentrated for a drive from the northeast upon the Finnish defense lines which, the dispatch said, have not thus far been "dented."
The defense in this area, consisting: of three to four lines of fortifications staggered similar to the (ierman Siegfried Line, could be held by forces even smaller than those at the Finns' disposal, the newspaper said.
Report Soviet Supply Line Cut
Oslo, Norway, Dec, 9, (UP) — The newspaper Arbeitcrbladet re¬ ported without confirmation to¬ night that Finnish forces had cut the Murmansk-Leningrad railroad in the far north and that Rus¬ sians had been repulsed In an at¬ tempt to land troops at the Vuok- sen River, aouthwest of Lake Ladoga.
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If  any  hu.sband  has  difficulty  in  serectlng  Christmas   present   for  his
wife,   here's  a  suggestion.    Wilburn   D.  Cobb,   left,  owner,  and  Victor
A. Lambert of New Y'ork are weighing famous Pearl of Allah, valued
at $3,500,000.   P. S,—It arrived at jeweler's in an armored car.
Maritime Martial Law As 4 More Ships Sink
German (Xistoint Oflficera Killed In Jugoslavia
Graz, Germany, Dec. 10 (Sunday) (UP)—Two German customs of¬ ficers were killed last Friday at their posts on the Jugoslav frontier, it was belatedly dis¬ closed   today.
The first victim was Johann Leiner, stationed at Sulmbach, who was shot by an unidentified man whose papers he had de¬ manded. The assailant fled, and shortly afterward the second of¬ ficer, Anton Masser, was shot from ambush at the nearby cus¬ toms   post   of  I..angcgg.
Both officers were killed by re¬ volver bullets, presumably fired by the same man.
British to Have 100,000 Men Sweeping Mines
U,S, Navy to Build Biy Fleet of 50-Mile-an-Hour 'Mosquito* Boats
Washington, Dec. 9. (UP) The navy moved to build the nucleus fnr a powerful fleet of high speed "mosquito" boats for coa.stal patrol aa President Roosevelt directed creation of a new naval district for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in a step to bolster vital Caribbean  defenses.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles p:dison placed a $5,000,000 order with Electric Boat Co., Gro- 'on. Conn., for 11 motor torpedo boats and 12 motor boat submarine chasers designed by Hubert Scott-
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I Paine  of  the  British  Power  Boat I Co,    Scott-Paine   recently   demon¬ strated   Ihc  new  "mystery"   boats, which rely on speed and deception, I to    American    authorities.     They 1 were     reported,     unofficially,     as ' capable   of   making   .50   miles   an hour. I
To Aid Neutral Patrol
The   new   craft,   which   will   be built with American labor and ma¬ terials, are in line with the navy's experimental   program   to   develop ! a type of small torpedo boat and I submarine   chaser   which   can   be ' produced   in   mass   quickly   in   an ' emergency.    It   has   building   foiiir 1 submarine   chasers,   ranging   from 110   to   165   feet   long,   and   eight motor torpedo boats, ranging frnm 54   lo   75   feet,   all   of   American design.
Such   ships   might   be   used   In bolster   Ihe    neutrality    patrol    by the   coast   guard   and   navy.    The navy  Is  now  using  73  old  World ^ War destroyers  on thU patrol.
By HARRV L. PERCY
London, Dec. 9 (UP)--Four more ships were sunk today with a loss of 41 lives as the admiralty imposed a form of maritime martial law in strategic British sea lanes in a new move to combat the renewed German U-boat and mine warfare.
The day's developments on the .sea front included:
1.—Two British and two Scandi¬ navian ships were sunk and noth¬ ing further had been hcRrd from a Japanese freighter which sent out an SOS in Scottish waters yester¬ day. Navy Taken Control
2.- All shipping was placed under naval jurisdiction in the waters ad¬ jacent to the Nore, in the Thames River estuary; Portsmouth, on the south coast: the western ap¬ proaches to Rosyth, in the Firth of Forth on the Scottish east coast, and the Orkney and Shetland islands, north of Scotland.
3.—Heavy firing at sea was heard on the Y'orkshire coast and resi¬ dents of a seashore resort who saw British warpianes flying oul lo sea during the gun fire believed there had been an engagement between aircraft and ships, but there were no official reports of North Sea action.
4.—The admiralty announced that a warship had captured the 3.648- lon German steamer Henning Oldendorff, the navy's 19lh prize since the war began. Seventeen other enemy merehanlment have been sunk.
5. -The foreign office withheld comment, pending study, on the United States protest against Im¬ position of a blockade on German exports.
6.- It was indicated that more than 100,000 men soon would be engaged in sweeping British sea lanes of German mines. All among a new group of youths registered for duty under the National Service Act today who were fi.shermen or had special seagoing qualifications were instructed to report al mer¬ cantile marine depots.
All 21 of t>ie 2,400-ton Danish collier Scotia's crew perished when an explosion, presumably caused by a mine, sank the vessel In the North Sea Inst night, it was an¬ nounced at Copenhagen,
Moscow Finds Na: Helping Finland
is
Moscow, Dec, 9. (UP) — Diplo¬ matic circles tonight attached significance to a dispatch by the official newa agency Taaa from Stockholm quoting British sources as saying that Germany had re¬ cently sold anti-aircraft guns and large quantities of munitions to Finland.
The dispatch, distributed to the Russian press, said that Ger¬ many offered to supply Finland wilh even larger quantities of arms at reduced prices. / The report was carefully word¬ ed and carried without comment.
German circles In Jfoscow. however, said that the report was a misunderstanding of tho sit¬ uation.
Riissian Subs Sighted
Sweden Takes Step to Defense
Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 10 - Sunday. (UP) —A Helsinki dispatch In the newspaper National Tidendes today reported that four Russian submarines had been sighted in the Gulf of Bothnia north of the Aland Islands and beyond the Fin¬ nish mine fields laid last week.
IRISH SAILORS STRIKE FOR WAR RISK PAYS
Dublin, Dec. 9, (UP)—One hun¬ dred seamen on ships of Irish reg¬ istry struck today for a 200 per cent increase in war risk payments.
The demand waa served on the British Shipping Federation, own¬ ers of the vessels, and the Eire government.
Copenhagen,   Denmark,   Dec,   9,
Stockholm, Sweden, Dec, 10 — Sunday. (UP)—Sweden recognized the danger of war today in an official announcement by the gov¬ ernment that Gen, O. G, Thoernell had been appointed commander-in- chief of the nation's armed forces.
The Swedish constilullon pro¬ vides that the post of commander- in-chief shall not be filled except In case of war or the threat of war,
Thoernell, one of Sweden's fore¬ most soldiers, retains In his new post his old one of chief of staff for defense.
The new commander-in-chiefs first act was to Issue a proclama¬ tion to the army In which he said:
"Soldiers: The foremost safety of our country depends upon your sense of duty, your strength and will, your solidarity. In the de¬ fense of Sweden we will be united In joint action," Same ."Men Rescued
Nine   of  the   crew   of  43   aboard (Continued   on   Page   A-IO)
OFALLIEO_SHIPS
Says Bombers Can Find No Targets; Artillery Active
Berlin, Dec. 9 (UP)—The German press today reported that German fliers were returning with fully loaded bomb racks because they could find no Allied ships in the North   Sea.
The newspaper Nachtusgabe said German airmen were complaining bitterly at the "evacuation of the North Sea" by British naval units.
The official German news agency said:
"The number of steamers sunk yesterday In the Atlantic and off the British coast by mines and torpedoes Is much higher than enemy  propaganda  admits,"
"Countless wrecks, whose mast tips and funnels appear just above the surface, make the British waters look like a graveyard. This result of German sea warfare has been recorded by numerous photo¬ graphs brought back by German observation planes," the agency continued,
A high command communique announced today that there had been Increased artillery activity at several points on the Western Front and that advance forces had destroyed or crippled five enemy po.sitions on French territory near the Luxenbourg frontier.
Report Defenders Repulsed Attacks
By WEBB MILLER
Helsinki, FinlancJ, Dec. 9 (UP)—An official announce¬ ment tonigiit said that severe fightinjr raged along th« Karelian hsthmus but that Finnish troops had stood their ground and repulsed most of the Red aiTn\- attacks.
Tiie announcement of repeated Soviet troop attacks be¬ tween Lake Ladoga and the (lulf of Finland—in front of ths Manneriieini defense line—followed disclosure that Soviet airplanes had raided the Finnish base at Hangoe, on the .southwestern coast.
A Finnish general staff announcement said that the defending forcei were fighting back strongly at all points, although Russian reinforce¬ ments had been reported moved up on the Karelian front Tanks, Planes Destroyed
The  official announcement said  that numerous  enemy tanks and :irmored cara and guns had been destroyed in the Karelian fighting.
Three   Russian   planes   were  shot   down,   the   announcement   said.
Russian planes bombarded a number of points on tho northwest bank*
of Lake Ladoga, It ji»ljl,. including the  famous Monastery of Valamo
on an island in the northern part of the lake.
Other   towns   north   and   north- ' naval   and   aerial   attack   early   in
Nazi  Attacks Stopped
Paris, Dec, 9 (UPi- The French heat back repeated attacks by Ger¬ man patrols on the front today and claimed the enemy raids were "without results,"
Land patrols of about SO men each operated along the entire front, it was reported, but were most active In the sectors east of the Moselle River.
The French claimed that the raiders were unable to capture a single  prisoner.
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AID DENIED LOCAI- ."Vn.NERS
Harrisburg,    Dec,    9    (UP)    The unemployment compensation board of review has rejected the compen¬ sation   claims   of   John   Dankulich, | Plainsville,   and   Charles   Kozloski,' Old Forge.
Dispatches from Euro¬ pean countries are now subject   to   censorship.
Lool<s Like Dreary Christmas For 500 Little Girls in City
From all present appearance, about 500 little Wilkes-Barre girLs are rather certain of a very bleak Christmas. Just what they'll think of Santa Claus along about noon of two weeks from tomorrow would be nothing to cheer for.
These are the 500 little Marys and Margarets and Joans and -Nancys who will be pretty much without anything to let them know It's Christmas unless the Wilkes-Barre firemen take care of them and the Wilkes-Barre firemen can't find what they need growing on trees. They know that because Captain David (Slim) Thomas, the efficient fire inspector and Santa Claus assistant, has even looked there.
There Are No Dolls
In case you don't know, we'll explain in as few words as possi¬ ble that each year the city firemen collect and receive all the dis¬ carded toys pos.>-ible, then get busy repairing them for distribution among the needy of the city. They're doing fine work again and will have quite an array for the kids again this year, . . . But they haven't any dolls.    They need some .500.
They were In something of the same fix last year but a local philanthropist came to the rescue. He bought ,'iOO and presented them to the f.remen.
This year, however, for reasons which cannot be printed hero but which are good enough for the most skeptical, his good work cannot  be repeated, ,
Still H Chance
There is still a chance and, aven though the firemen have not asked the Sunday Independent to do this—nor even hinted at it— we'll suggest that if som^ r|y sends in a fairly good-sized chunk of money, or a lot of pccpie send In smaller amounts, the firemen will be able to go out nnd buy what the little girls need.
It they do, it will be quite a lurprlse though also quite a plcH,'iaiU one for Miss Katherine O'Rourl-e who, .'starting tomorrow, will he in charge of the distribution center at a very convenient location 12 South Washington street, in Ihe Town Hall building. ... On the first floor, too.   You won't even h.ive to walk up.
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Italian Students Cheer Finland, Jeer Communists
Rome, Dec. 9. (UP) Steel-hel- meted grenadiers with fixed bayonets today broke up a march on tiie Soviet embassy by 1,000 students and Fascist youths, most of them in Blackshirt uniform, who shouted "Down with Communism, viva Finland,"
The youth.s, who have been stag¬ ing daily demonstrations against Russia for a week, were dispersed a block from the embassy by the hundreds of grenadiers who had been placed on special guard duly there.
Groups of demonstrators formed shortly after their Saturday after¬ noon pre-military training exercises and marched through Rome's main streets shouting against Com¬ munism,
The marchers pa,ssed close to the British embassy, but made no demonstration there.
A Hungarian military mission ar¬ rived in Rome by airplane today for consultations with Italian army leaders, and United States Am¬ bassador William Phillips had an informatory conversation on the International situation with Count Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister, at the Cbigi Palaca,
west of l.Ake Ladoga were bom¬ barded by Russian planes, the announcement said. These Included ' Laskela, Vartsila, Valsamo and Mantsin-Saal. The Finns announced that the bombs caused little dam- [ age. j
Ciiarge Civilians Attacked i
At     Suistamo,     Russian     fliers swooped  low and  machine-gunned the   civil   population,   wounding   a few, the Finnish dispatches charged, I Finnish   planes,   a   communique , said, made a number of reconnolt- ; ering flights and bombarded enemy ' troop  concentrations  and  columns. Three aerial raids were reported made   on   the   important   Hangoe base on the southwestern coast at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, > where the Russian fleet and aerial ^ armada   apparently   were   attempt¬ ing to clear a  path  for the  land¬ ing   of   troops   on    the   mainland. Finnish   dispatches   said   the   first j two raids did no damage but com- ' munications were difficult and out¬ come of a reported third raid was , uncertain, j
On    the    Karelian    Isthmus,    In southeastern   Finland,   the   Finnish dispatches from the front said that | the  Red  army  still  had  failed  to j dent  the  Mannerheim  defense  line ' and   one   report   aaid  that   Finnish ' counter-attacks   had   thrown   back the enemy as much as three miles at  one   point.   The   messages   indi¬ cated    heavy   casualties    on    both j sides, I
Russian Navy Attacks
The Soviet navy was believed tn have tried to bombard the coastal area where the main Finnish de¬ fenses run down to the gulf north¬ west of Leningrad, experts com¬ menting on last night's ccunmunl- que said. Russian troops also were reported trying to advance along the shore of Lake Ladoga, where Finns said the wild countryside aided  a strong defense
On the east central front, the Finnish dispatches said, defense lines were holding strongly in most places against the Soviet effort to drive across middle Finland and in the far north, the battle around Petsamo continued with the Finns claiming possession of the key port of Linihamarl where Soviet troops previously had been reported land¬ ing or trying to land.
(Norwegian frontier dispatches reported, however, that the fighting was moving close to the Norwegian border, indicating that the Rus¬ sians were making progress on the Arctic coast. In London, the Fin¬ nish legation said that total of 100 Russian tanks had been captured or destroyed in Karelia.)
New reservists were called to the colors during the day. It waa un¬ derstood unofficially, but the order appeared to be precautionary rather than due to need for more man power at the moment.
One of the most Important phases of today's operations was another Soviet thr "St at the Finnish "Gibraltar" of Hangoe, on the southwestern Finnish coast. A Soviet base at Hangoe was one of the demands made by Moscow in developments leading up to the wa r. Uangoe, scent of • V4ia Soviu
the conflict, is both an island and a mainlnd point and domintes the gateway to the Gulf ot Finland and Helsinki. Finnish circles believa that the Russians are seeking to prepare the way for landing of troops on the Finnish mainland in order to attack from the west aj well as from the east and north, thus following the German "light¬ ing war" strategy in  Poland.
There were three separate aerial raids on the Hangoe area during todays attack, after which com¬ munications were disrupted and details of the fighting were diffi¬ cult to learn. Soviet warships also were reported participating In at¬ tacks on the Gulf of Finland coast. Reports that at least one Russian
I airplane had been shot down in the Hangoe battle lacked confirmation in Helsinki. SO More Italian Plenes
j     Thirty   more   Italian   planes   ar-
I rived for the Finnish armed forces, making a total  of 80 which  hava
I been delivered here,
j On land, the Finns claimed tue- cesses both In the Karelian sector of the southeast where their main
I defense    line    is    named   for   Gen.
I Baron  Carol  Gustaf von  Manner-
[ helm and In the far northern area where Soviet troops have met stiff resistance at almost every step in their drive  toward  the Norwegian
\ frontier.
I With clear weather on the Kare¬ lian  Isthmus,   the  Finns  were  re-
I ported preparing counter-offenslvea on three fronts: one in Karelia, and two on the central" front north of Ijake Ladoga where the Red army is seeking to cut Finland in two. Military headquarters at Helsinki said that so far the Soviet forces had been unable to penetrate the so-called Mannerheim Line, and that not a single fortreaa in the de¬ fense system on the Karelian Isth-
' mus was in serious danger yet, Tha Red troops were thrown back ai much as three miles in some places by the Finnish counter-attaclt, dis¬ patches from the front reported, and losses of the Russian units were hea\-y In the region cut up by small lakes west of Lake L.a> doga.
THREE ARE INJURED BY FALLS HERE
Three local persoijs received hospital treatment yesterday for injuries suffered in falls. Ona v.oman suffered a fracture of tha hip in a fall on her kitchen floor,
Robert Dobish, 18, of 25 Auburn street, Wilkes-Barre, fell when playing sandlot football yesterday and was treated for Injuries of the right shoulder at General Hospital.
Mrs. Allie Ruggles, 66, of ISO Carlisle street, city, fell at her home and suffered a fracture of the right hip. According to re¬ ports, she slipped on the floor of her home. The woman was ad¬ mitted to General Hospital for treatment.
Joseph Mangan. 13, of 170 Wil¬ liam street, Pittston, was treated at Pittston Hospital yesterday iXUcftooa lat  » (cftctuiad