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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 138. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOV. 11, 1940. Pr;ce per copy 15*
Earthquake Lays Waste Rumania
KEY PITTMAN SUCCUMBS HEART ATTACK
Former Prime Minister N. Chamberlain Is Dead
British Bomb
Hitler’s Cellar
UNDATED, Nov. 9 i(/P) —Brit
ish bombs fe 1 last night on Mun
ich where Hkler addressed party
comrades on the 17th anniver
sary of the Nazi beer cellar put
sch. The British Press Associa
tion said one stick of explosives
hit the meeting hall and a large
fire broke out. Informed B rlin
sources said Hitler h3d complet
ed his address when the attack
came. British press dispatches
said the raiders flew over Mun
ich 11 minutes aft:r Hitler was
scheduled to begin speaking and
attacked for more than an hour.
In London Churchill described
the reelection of President Roose
veit as "a messa.g. across the
ocean of great encouragement
and good cheer for British suc
cessful resistance and final vic
tory has been proclaimed by all
parties in America.”
British planes bomb d Turin in
northern Italy and Cagliari and
Sardina last nij*ht. The Italian
high comand reported ten dead.
Tne Rome newspaper II Gicrnale
D’ltalia said “tremendous” air
bombardments o:i England and
her aides will start immediat ly
in reprisal.
In Athens, informed sources
said ?n entire I* Han division of
perhaps 15,000 men were trapp
ed in the Pindus Mountains and
the r capitulation was but a mat
ter of hour*. Salonika also heard
that Italian fore s in Albania
were vci'b'tt ft-nro tfir» Kor
Worst Earthquake
in History
Ravages Rumania
BUCHAREST, Nov. 11 (/P> —
Earthquakes without equal in
the written history of Rumania,
ravaged the Nazi-controlled oil
wealthy kingdom yesterday and
today and tore up transport sy-,
stems, knocked down buildings
and weighed profoundly on th - j
predictable military future of
southeastern Europe. At least a
thousand to two thousand per
sons are dead, injured or home
ess and uncounted new shocks
prolonged th terror and increas
ed the desolation. The German
oidiers who poured into Human
:a ifor weeks, with a purpose
known only to Hitler became in
a few quivering seconds rtscuers
fire fighters and are guarding
what order is left.
Quakes In Russia Too
MOSCOW, Nov. 11 i/P)—Earth
tremor^ the strong st ever re
corded in Moscow are reported
to have damaged seme of the
s uthern Russian ci* es, partic
■ Kiev Odesia.
. z~ sector.
Hitler said in his Munich
• • hi that Germany is ready
‘‘a- never before to face any com
bination in the world.” He refer -
r d sarcastica iv to the United
Status sever, i times and asserted
.he German production was the
in world.
Senator Key Pittman, Chairman
Of Foreign Relations Committee
Dies Heart Attack Eve of Reelection
Former Nomcite and Senator from Nevada To Be
Succeeded On Committee By Senator George
WASHINGTON, Ncv. 11 (JP) -
The unexpected d ath of Senat
or Key Pittman gave post-ciec
tion Washing* n a suddenly so
ber atmosphere. Eut since gov
ernment must go on, Senator Geo
rg. was soon mentioned as the
most likely man to succeed him
as head of the Senate Foreign
Relatins Committee. Senator
Pittman was stricken by a heart
attack Monday, on the eve of his
r.election for a fifth term in the
Senate.
Editor's Note: Key Pittman
was born in Vicksburg, Mississ
ippi,in 1872. He studied law at
me Southwestern Presbyterian
University, after which he went
m Seat !1 wh.re he engaged ir^
his chosen profession. In 1899
Pittman fol owed the call of gold
to ti c Klondike and Alaska. In
that same year Nome’s first gov
ernment was formed and he was
-.ppointed city attorney when the
boor's ticket was successful. It
is interesting to note that at that
election woman suffrage was re
cognized and the votes of the
few womn in the camp were re
eeivrd and deposited in the bal
lot boxes. Key Pittman was in
strumental in the early day fight
■* the “spoilers” and was
triumphant in his defense of the
-ourd. ughs.
In 1902 Putman followed the
g •!.! -'trike to Nevada, and ten
\ ears later went to Washington
• ;i‘ -r from that state. He
.- the Chairman on Foreign
II • -• in s >33. and since that
tin has occupied that office as
1’ ps b.-ing President pro-tern
i Senate. Ho was an ardent
dvocate in boosting the price of
- h r and in attempting to check
mat; the Japanese.
Key Pittman spoke for our
country as a whole when he gave
the fo lowing statement to re
porters not so many months ago:
“The people of the United Slat
es do not like the government of
Gem : r.y. The people of the Unit
cd Stats# do not like the govern
ment of Japan. The people of
the United Stat.s, in my opinion
are against any form of dictat
rial government, communistic
or fn--'ci«tc The people cf the
Cr : .i S have the right and
• ;■ t : co morality and
justice in a'-cordanee with p ace
treaties with us. And they will.
Our government does not have
to use military force—and will
not. unless necessary-"
Here’s how the top floor of one of the wings of the rambling war d partment building looked a few hours after an early morning fire
of undetermined origin swept the structure. Made from the roof of an adjoining building thus picture shows the charred ruins of
what the police said was the section which housed a message center from hich the signal corps sent coded messages. In the distance
is the Lincoln Memorial.
President \ oices
Faith Democra
cies will Survive
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 UP) -
President Roosevelt v viced faith
. in an Armistice Day speech that
democracy will survive and pre
dict'd that the people under “the
iron heels of modern dictators or
1 modern o’igarches will r bel.”
The President said in his
sp ech broadcast from Ailmgton
National Cemetery “I for one,
didn’t Relieve that the era of
democracy in human affairs can
or will be snuffed out in our life
, time."
Squabble Over
Tacoma Bridge
TACOMA. Nov. 9 ' P)—Engin
e is pbanning to rebuild the Nar
rows bridge converged in the
city, a mo g th m Frederick Lien
!v;d, M \v York associate of
bi. e > d> --'gner Leon MoisseifT.
He celled "not true” the asser
tie n by Bl rk Eldridge, the
! igii r, that the
state was t d by the federal
money lord: g ; ncies RFC and
PWA that it coil'd rot have fed
eral funds unlcs-' eastern engin
eers of national reputation were
employed. Eldrid said that the
state engineers had protest.d to
the bridge’s design.
War Department
Bldg. In i ’ames
WASHINGTON — A roaring
fire in the War Dep: r nent Muni
tions Building in Constitution
Avenue destroyed the newly
built fourth floor addition dur
ing the night and did extensive
damage to sections of the build
ing housing a mass of records,
some of them secret documents.
Intelligence officers and fire
marshals began an investigation
into the cause of the conflagra
tion as soon as the massed fire
fighting equipment of the Dis
trict of Columbia brought the
flames under control in a strug
gle lasting more than an hour.
Secretary of War Frank Knox
whose War Department offices
were mxt door said at his press
conference that Secretary of
Henry Stimson has expressed be
lief the fire was “unquestion
able” as being caus d by ■’hort
circuit or cigaret.
Disregarding the accidental
theory of the fire’s origin, special
investigators continued to comb
| the charred debris of the struc
ture while at the same time den:
ing search for “sabotage evi
dence."
V Chamberlain
If ’• kmttl*. i liU l
’
SEATTLE, Nov. 11 i.45> — Lon
•; planning public memorial ser
vices possib'y in Westminister
Abbey for f riu.fi Prime Minis
ter Chamberlain. .71, who died
Saturday amid the bomb strewn
e untr;. side which wrecked his
dream of ‘ Peace in our time.’’
lie died at 8:09 a.m. PST at his
Hampshire estate where the
and was pockmarked by Nazi
bo: b craters. At the wish of his
family the death was not an
need unt.l Sunday morning.
Editor-* Note: On May 23. 1937
Neville Chamberlain succeeded
S miley Baldwin r - Prime Min
i'ter. He had formerly been
Chance lor of th; Exchequer.
Nearly thro-, years later, upon
his resignation May 10. 1940. the
day Germany began the drive
’'.rough th: lowlands on France,
lie was rep! e d :r, cT.ce by Win
ston Churchill who thereupon ap
pointed him as L. rd President
of the Council which office he
resigned or October 3:-d.
Greeks Rout
Fascist Invaders
ATHENS, Nov. 11 —Italian
invaders in Greec “lost the bat
tle on all sectors and are retreat
’pg in disorder toward Albania”
the Greek radio declrred. Thus
he radio summarized the series
■f Greek successes which it said
von in 15 days of b’ber warfare”
l 's ite the super’prity of the It
H. S. Gym Playfield Jamboree Nov. 16
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