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VOL. 42. No. 146. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOV. 29, 1940. _Pnce P«r copy 1M
Greeks Now 30 Miles Into Albania
British and German Destroyers Battle In Channel
President Roosevelt Disfavors Additional Sales Tax
Liverpool Suffers Terrific Night
Assault And Destroyer Battle Ends
in Conflicting Claims to Victory
British Admit Extensive Damage Is Inflicted But
Toll On Human Life Is Not Heavy
"UNDATED, Nov. 29 t/P) — A
battle between British and Ger
man destroyers in the English
channel early today brought con
flitting claims to victory.
The teeming English port of
Liverpool on the Irish Channel
suffered a terrific night assault
in which the Germans said hun
dreds of Nazi bombers set fire
visible for many, many miles.
German pilots returning to their
bases from the attack said the
pert was “burning” and flaming
oil was pouring into th,.- Merger
river with bomb-smashed oil
tanks lighting “the scene of dev
astation.”
A British communique admit
ted the damage “somewhat
more extensive than first indicat
cd“ but asserted that th: toll of
1 human life was not heavy.
Berlin reports said German de
stroyers torpedoed two British
destroyers and sank four other
/e stl: in an attack near the
: Eng i;h co:st at the Atlantic end
; of the English Channel.
Greek Capture of Pogradetz, Italian
Stronghold 30 Miles in Albania,
Aided by Company of ‘Amazons’
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AP Correspondent Verifies Capture of City in Dispatch
Written On Abandoned Italian Typewriter
UNDATED. Nov. 29 •(/*>) — In
the Balkan war it was establish
ed that the Greeks wi re in pos
session of Pogradetz, Italy’s
stronghold in the w> st. 39 milss
in-ide of Albania. An AP corres
pondent sent out with the Greek
armies was first on the spot, with
verification of Pogradetz's fall.
He wrote his dispatch on a type
writer abandoned by an I a ian
officer.
Gre k dispatches from the bat
'1.-front t Id of the exploits of an
At"rzen company" of Macedon
ian pessant women of more than
a hundred strong who helped to
defeat 3,000 Italian troops, roll
ing huge recks d'wn on them
from the mountain tops. The wo
men it was said followed the
Greek column against officers’ or
ders.
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CALL HIM ‘BLACK |ACK ’—Since 1898 when he was
first lieutenant of the 10th U. S. cavalry, a Negro regiment,
Pershing has had a nickname, “Black Jack,” given him by a West
Point cadet who, irked by the general’s frequent “That was the
«ay we did it in the 10th cavalry,” one day growled “Black Jack
Pershing.” Pershing (left) reviewed lOtii cavalry in 1932.
President Roosevelt Not In Favor
Of Sales Tax Raise Additional
Funds For The Defense Program
Will Use Airplane First Time In 8 Years If Necessary
To Return To Washington In Emergency
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (/Pi
President Roosevelt told a press
confer r.ce that he looked with
disfavor on a sales tax to raise
additional revenue for the de
fense program. The statement
was made in response to a press
question about his supper con
£:rence tonight with seven con
gressional, departmental and fis
cal advisers. He said the discus
sion tonight would be merely ex
ploratory.
He told surprised reporters
that he might use an airplane for
the first time in tight years if it
should be necessary while away
from Washington, to return with
in 12 hours for some emergency.
Ho s id he was planning a trip
next week but couldn't say
whore he was going.
T President said he refer
red to the defense commission,
the problem of speeding up the
work on the new destroyers and
said consideration is being given
to the elimination of th,_ machine
tool bottleneck.
The
Washington
i* l t* it y-ijO-K o un d
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON — The situa
tion inside France is such that
there is more and more senti
ment among Administration lead
ers to draft venerable John J.
Pershing as American Ambassa
dor to France.
It is believed General Pershing
could do a good job because of
his old friendship with Marshal
1 Petain, now; No. 1 man in the
! Vichy Government. The two
were comrades in arms during
| the World War, and never do
they meet without an affection
ate embrace on both cheeks.
But more important than this
! is the manner in which Marshal
Petain is reported to be pulled in
two different directions; toward
the Germans on one hand and to
ward the British on the other.
Chief advocate of friendship
with Nazi Germany is Pi. rre La ‘
val, long France's No. 1 appeas
1 er, who has an inside track with
Petain at present. Laval has been
carrying on the conversations
with Germany which aim to give
French air and naval bases to
Hitler and his .arugment w'ith
Petain is reported to be that the[
| British are not to be trusted, that
: France's future lies entirely with j
Germany.
On the other hands, Marshal
Peiain’s natural instincts are pro
British and anti-German. Fur
thermore, there am the natural
i sympathies of most Frenchmen,
; including some of his other ad
visers.
—
FRENCH IN AFRICA
So at times Petain is reported
i to be drawn one way by Laval;
at other times almost ready to
go to Africa and put himsi-lf at
the head of the French army to
lead a campaign against the It
alians in Egypt.
Should the French North Af
rican army become active on be
half of England it would mean
much not only to the British but
| to the United States, whose big
)gest worry concerning the Mon
Nazi Raiders
Pound Pori
u/i a i vmOulil
UNDATED, Ncv. 28 t/P) — In
the aerial siege of England the
! Germans reported that more
{than 100 Nazi raiders pounded
I th° southwest port of Plymouth
(dropping 110,000 tons of bombs
and a'so attacked London and
again set a new series of fires.
ALASKA IS REPRESENTED
HERALD TRIBUNE FORUM
This year for the first time, A1
aska was represented in the New
York Herald Tribune Forum, the
tenth annual occasion of that
kind, sponsored by Mr. and Mrs.
Ogdon Reid of the Herald Trib
une.
As was natural, the general
subject of the Forum was named
“America’s Second Fight for
Freedom.”
Among those participating in
the Forum were President and
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wen
dell Willkie, Mayor R. LaGuard
ia, of New York, Col. William J.
Donovan, Secretary of Navy
Knox, Assistant Secretary of
War Patterson, Archibald Mac
Loish, Nelson Rockefeller, Eve
Curie, Carl Sandburg, Oren Root
•Jr., Leon Hend. rson, Dorothy
j Thompson, Almiral Yarnell, Mrs.
| Robert Taft, Ambassador Bullitt,
The Chinese Ambassador, Dr. Hu
Shiih. Australian Minister Casey,
Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di
i mond and many others. Delegate
| Dimond was invited and spoke
on “Alaska and National De
fense.”
i roe Doctrine is that a combin
ation of German-Italian forces
might use Dakar, French naval
base on the bulge of Africa, for
operations against Brazil and
South America.
, That is why “Papa” Pershing
is considered so important to in
fluence his old friend “Papa" Pe
ain.
NOTE —General Pershing, 80
years old last September is not
in the best of health, usually
spends his winters in Arizona,
might suffer during the rigors of
a French winter.
A L V✓ A r' S A S 0 L D I E R—A full year was 1938 for General
Pershing, shown Nov. 11 honoring the nation's Unknown Soldier.
Near death’from heart attacks in February, he rallied and at
tended the .V :1 wedding of his only son, Warren. In August he
went to France ,o resume work as chairman of American Cattle
Monuments commi :nn.
Italian Command, In Late Account,
Claims \ ictorv Over British In
Mediterranean Naval Engagement
Account Of Fighting In Greece Differs With Greek
Description Smashing of Italian Resistance
UNATED. Nov. 28 i/P) — Mus
'solini’s command claimed a vic
tory in a m w version of yester
day’s naval battle in the Medit
erranean, asserting that the Brit
ish fleet and not the Italian
“steamed rapidly away.” This be
lated account'd nirastcd with the
British admiralty’s description of
more th3n 12 hours eat'lirr,
which said the engagement was
fought at extreme range and that,
the Fascist fleet immediately re
tired at “high spt d. ’
This Italian report said two
British cruisers were “damaged
for certain” in the she ling.
Three Briti h men-.f-war, a bat
tleship. an aircraft carrier, and a
cruiser were hit by bombs dr p
ped by Italian warplanes in a fol
lowup attack. The battle occur
li.d south of Sardinia. A fire was
started aboard a British battle
ship the Fascist’s communique
said, adding only one Fascist
ship, the destroyer Lanciere was
damagt d.
The e mmunique also reported
that Italian trocps of the eleven
.
i.'o count, r ai.acks at various
point;, v.w ch war>. tcr wned with
- i. e: Again. ;i i conflicted
• hi’ ti e Greek d rrriptr n of the
mr ign which id the Greek
., it : s smashed 1. 1. o resist
. - < th souther fi ■ af
ar a battle rsr 1 f . r days, A
Greek spokesman srid the couri
er offensive in Alb an'a bud tak
t a the initiative g • . rally and
s r w driving ahead "at the same
3p td which n :ik d the attack
in r?'cr.t diys.”
Big Split
Is Looming
!n Europe
VICHY, France, Nov. — Pre
mier Laval was reported enroute
to Paris in an attempt to stave
off a definite break with Ger
many.
Franco-German relations have
.rich d a critical stage as the
csult of expulsion of more than
100.000 French speaking resi
lents cf Alsace-Lorraine.
Dispatches from Paris said Ger
nan authcritcs added to the fric
tion by cutting off passes for trav
dors from occupied to the unoc
cupied zone.
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