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VOL. 42. No. 112. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 13, 1940. Price per copy iu
Pronounce New London Defense t actics Successful
Roosevelt Delivers First Speech Of Campaign
Election Returns
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 11 — Nine
teen out of 71 precincts in the
Fourth Division give sweeping
solid Democratic majorities to all
offices including Senators and
Representatives. Precincts ac
counted for, including Fairbanks
give Cole 422, Dimond 1392, Mc
Cain 626, Roden 1272, Boyle 1273,
Humpheries 627 Hesse 1323, Mil
ler 578. For the Referendum 677.
Against 1348.
Dimond Carries
First Division
Three to One
JUNEAU, Sept. 11 — Twenty
nine precincts out of fifty seven
in the First Division, including
many large ones give Dimond
3760. Cole 1321, McCain 2414. Ro
den 2587, Boyle 3399, Humpheries
1578, Hesse 2728, Miller 2197,
For Referendum 2358 and Ag
ainst 2773.
JUNEAU, Seut. 13 — Complete
tabulations of from perhaps only
one-fourth of the precincts in all
Alaska, but including the larger
precincts give Dimond 7221, Cole
2371. McCain 4000, Roden 5333,
Beyle 6317, Humpheries 3033,
Hesse 5607, Miller 3779. In favor
of Territorial Liquor stores 2348,
Against 2753.
All Democrats
Leading Except
Senator Close
JUNEAU, Sept. 13 — Mount
ing returns from the Tuesday el
ection shows the Democratic can
didales in the First Division
lengthening their leads over the
Republicans except for Territor
Elsewhere Alaska
.ial Senator, a close race develop
' ing between Doc Walker with
| 26S7 and Frank Barnes writh
1 2456. With 32 of 57 precincts in, I
the Democratic candidates for J
the House are leading all Re-'
publicans in the following or-;
dsr: Shattauck 3066, Davis 2753, j
McCormick 2669, Jenne 2614. the
latter maintaining a lead over
the top Republican, Mildred Her
man with 2406.
_
One Republican
Is Elected In
third Division
ANCHORAGE. Sept. 13 (TP) —
Democrats conceded the election
of one Republican to the Territor
ial House from tb^ XUird U:v-,
i?:on while Republicans claim;
victory also for one seat in the;
Senate on the basis of returns
from 12 precincts cf the Div-1
ision’s 59. The returns tabulated
were said to be more than half
of the votes in the entire Div
. . I
ision.
The Democrats concede the vie
tory to either Aimer J. Peterson
or Moritz Ardreson for the
House. Peterson is leading Andre
sen by 80 votes. The Republicans
also c'aimed that Harry O'Neill,
Republican, now trailing Ed Cof
fee by 120 votes, would be elect
ed when the returns are com
pleted. ,
The totals from 12 precincts
follow: Cole 427. Dimond 1778,
McCain 796. Roden 1293. Boyle
1466, Humpheries 610. Hesse 1319
Miller 722, Coffee 1124. O'Neill
1001, Brownell 1115. Murray 872.
Andresen 907. Egan 1178, H. H.
McCutcheon 1121, Peterson 987,
Selby 757, Smith 1030, Wilson
666, Stanley McCutcheon 506.
The returns from 10 precincts ■
give the Referendum for 549;
and against 1254.
Lone German Dive Bomber
Drops 5 Bombs On Buekingham
king and Queen in Shelter
UNDATED, Sept. 13 (.Ti—Safe
ly huddled in the palace air raid
shelter King George and Queen
Elizabeth escaped uninjured
when a lone Nazi dive bomber
screamed down from the clouds
ar.d dropped a salvo of five
bombs on Buckingham Palace
and its precinct s. Witnesses said
the raider came out of his rear
ing dive into “a dead stick glide”
with motors silent, to check his
speed, in ord : to get better aim
at the palace. Other Nazi raiders
flying low and fast to the heart
of London dropped incendiary
bombs on narrow dead-end
Downing Street, of!' Whitehall,
where Churchill resided in fa
mous Number Ten. No damage
was reported.
After the raid the King and
,','U on inspected the damage to
:palace. The King replying to
it wr-r cabinet’s congratulations
; 1: "Like -o many other people
'mw, our pcrs rial experience of
G . reran barbarity only strength
ens the resolution of all of us
■ fight ‘.hr t'_k to final victory."
f a yr.ncess - were not in the
at t • ; time.
Ti. grar.t white stone palace
- bl -d by a delayed-action
i) r:.!y lost Tuesday and was
. 11 y da aged. Buckingham
■ been used as the London
residence of Britain’s sovereigns
.'i’tco the accession of Queen Vic
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Declares Govt. Has Right Extern!
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Compulsory Service To Industry
UNDATED, Sept. 12 (fl>)_Prc
dent Roosevelt, in a speech to
Party leaders, called the first t
his third-term campaign, declar
ed tonight that the government
has the right to extend the prin
ciple of compulsory service to in
dustry if necessary to the inter
ests of national defense. The ad
dress under the sponsorship 'of
the Democratic National Commit
tee was delivered at a convention
of A F of L teamsters union in
Washington. Roosevelt reviewed
the New Deal’s social and labor
measures and assailed those of
whom he charged with first seek
ing to obstruct and now endeavor
ing to repeal them. He repeated
he will do everything to keep the
nation out of war.
Wendell Willkie said at Rush
ville that President Roosevelt
and his associates, concentrated
in the capital, are “a line of force
that should be broken” by re
jecting the third term.
Describing Roosevelt’s handl
ing of foreign affairs as "clumsy”
Willkie said “The United Slates
cannot but fail in the present
world struggle under such leader
ship.” )
The returns in yesterday’s Dcm
ocratic primary in Georgia indic
ated that former Governor Tal
madge was successful in his ef
forts to obtain a third term. The
totals apeared to assure that his
nomination is as good as election
over Agricultural Commissioner
Columbus Roberts. Athens attor
ney. Talmadge who formerly op
posed President Roosevelt, told
voters he would support the Dem
ocratic ticket in the national el
ection.
Second Division Returns, General Election, September 10, 1940
Dele. Atty. Auditor Engin. Senator Representatives
Gen.
PRECINCTS £ ^ _ « S |
VOTING S Q | g2PQ_Si£9l
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OP P K ^Suw0^muP0cnw3H^^<
CITY OF NOME . 17 0 362 208 286 313 179 281 221 300 40 166 155 215 184 233 L56 299 336 210 241 223 299
LITTLE CREEK . 9 50 17 39 44 10 39 16 38 10 8 15 23 17 40 13 52 31 17 24 30 32
SOLOMON ..-. 5 30 5 27 29 4 23 8 23 8 0 5 6 10 25 15 10 25 14 27
WHITE MOUNTAIN ...... 6 24 19 14 19 15 22 11 16 6 12 7 21 2 20 31 7 16 8 23
BLUFF . 494976578 5 5 23(9 6 1 611 7 8 5
COUNCIL .. 14 22 20 16 18 17 18 16 1.6 8 7 13 11 15 24 12 20 16 17 24 13
GOLOVIN . 163351510 102500116643
CANDLE .*. 45 56 42 57 60 41 52 46 57 34 8 20 27 61 62 23 55 28 46 65 37 56
TAYLOR . 3 21 7 17 16 9 21 7 17 6 6 5 14 16 16 5 16 16 11 11 11 16
DEERING . 2 29 7 21 28 3 17 9 22 1 1 1 5 24 15 4 12 6 7 20 10 23
KOTZEBUE . 26 38 25 35 38 21 40 19 41 21 1 4 32 26 31 19 29 25 29 44 27 15
FORTUNA LEDGE . 5 12 2 26 25 3 18 5 19 4 2 .3 16 5 16 18 10 15 3 20 24 5
MOUNTAIN VILLAGE . 4 17 4 17 18 3 20 1 19 2 0 3 1 19 21 4 14 3 1 18 8 12
TELLER . 12 19 16 12 18 10 12 17 16 0 12 1 14 10 12 8 16 21 15 24 18 13
TOTAL ., . 303 695 369 579 638 322 573 384 592 132 230 231 391 393 515 326 334 549 394 556 4ni"4i>7
RAF Drop Bombs On Berlin's
Tiergarten-Evolve New Method
Anti-Aircraft Defense of London
UNDATED, Sept. 11 P)—Brit
ish warplanes showered fire
t mbs around Berlin's Tiergar
ten, the German capital's central
p rk, in a 92-minute r d before
dawn and pounded t. e great
shipping ports of Hamburg and
Bremen in an intensified assault
on Hitler's Reich. The T: rgarten
1 lies near the Wilhelmstrasse
where the German g vernment
buildings and Hitler’s v.i chan
cellory are situated.
London reported that RAF
raiders also bombed the Anhalter
Railway station in central Berlin
and the big Tempelohof air
drome. Hitler’s command admit
ted that 14 were killed and 41
1 injured and many fires started
in the cities attacked.
T o-don’r wary Tni'tiw.s trnder
wer' their fifth straight dusk-to
daw a*tack, sleeping again in
the ! rk sepulchral gloom of un
j d.rground shelters, but the pop
ulation f und a warming and
la note of cnnfort in the steady
i slam of “archies,” anti-aircraft
' guns, setting up a screen of
fire in blast; a*, the raiders. A
| new Lond n defense tactic has
been evolved, throwing up a ra
• pid fire “ea-o-n:netails barrage”
instead of sniping at the 3hips
singley. Industrial planes picked
rut by searchlights are officially
credited with having greatly im
peded the German assault.
The British Press Association
said “They must have struck
‘error in‘o the hearts o? the
Nazi airmen, for time after time
they broke up large formations,
! of bombers and either brought
I them down or turned them
back.”
Only twenty bombs exploded
in central London in contrast to
the many hundreds in the pre
i vious night raids, but suicide
' squads combed the capital in
J'ea-w, 4*teyed-ac?ka cm.,-.*?..•
■ es such as blasted a corner of
Buckingham Palace Tuesday, 43
[hours after it fell from the
skies. One delayed-action missile
was discovered this morning near
the historic old St. Paul's Cath
« ii 1. just >ff of Fleet Street, on
newspaper row which appears,
by the bombing, to be a favorite
target of German airmen.
The Washington
Daybook
v
Bv Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON The number
of persons v. . . ' for the Unit
ed States g ver. is now well
over or rr .1.1 ’
The Civil S-: v'ce commission
has giv n cat figures for June.
They add up to 1,011.066 working
for you and me and Uncle Sam.
Approx rat'.Ty 134.000 of these
work in Washington, the rest out
over the land, somewhere be
tween PA? • Barrow. Alaska, and
Little America. Antarctica.
Something like 80.000 of the na
tion's new helpers have been add
ed in the last year. The defense
drive, of course, .s given as the
reason. About 70.000 of these are
new employes of the War and
Navy departments, the Civil
Aeronautics board and the Pan
ama Canal zone.
This is the first time the num
ber on the Federal payroll has
gone over a million. The World
War payroll peak was 987,857.
Capital Business Booms
Note to merchants: How are
you doing? We are doing fine.
For example, “Washington mer
: chants are looking forward to the
■busiest autumn on record. Fore
shadowing the fall advance, de
partment store sales here reach
ed new all-time highs for both
July and the first seven months
of the year. July sales were 16.7
per cent above July last year—
and stood 26.5 percent above the
Same month in 1929. The first
(seven months were 6.5 percent
ahead of last year and 21.2 per
! cent over the same period in
: 1929.”
From Both Sides
Excerpts from the comments
on the Wendell L. Willkie accept
ance speech:
Senator Vaodenberg (Rep.) —
"This speech is one of the great
est in our generation. It sounds
the challenge of a crusade I
have long been waiting for.”
Senator Minton (Dem.) — “It
was the worst major p litical
speech I ever listened to."
Representative Shafer (Rep.)—
“Willkie’s endorsement of some
" m of selective mil.tary - rvice
decs not mean that he is for
compulsory military service.”
Representative Michener Rep.)
—‘ The speech is clearly Willkie
e.que — specific, outspoken and
here can be no doubt where Mr.
Wil kie stands on the vital is
sues of the day.”
Halt Wet, Half Dry
To all states, counties and
cities who still have- prohibition
headaches: Pity the poor ..istess
of a popular Washington csf» on,
20th street, northwest. Wo >n ci
tomers enter, tJhe hostesses h
to say: “Are you going to
a drink?”
They get answers all
fr m “What business
yours?” to “Sure, if it'
house.” But they hav©^
asking and if the ansv
the young ladies th/
with the further st/
you’ll have to sit
the other side is /
This business / t)
option to a
comes about /
passed a la/ » '
hat there f ^t—
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actions \
runs sty1 ,, ^s
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