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VOL. 43. No. 12. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY, JAN. 27, 1941. Price Per
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* Willikie And Churchill Confer For Two Hours
Italy Acknowledges Fall Tobruk
With Heavy Losses-Next Italian
Stand Will Be Made At Derna
.
UNDATED, Jan. 25 UP) — Fas
cist forces in North Africa and
also in Iritrea were reported with
drawing Caro said and that Dur
na, the Libyan port to the west
had fallen and Tobruk was left
virtaully undefended.
Italian marshal Graziani re
moved his headquarters 50 miles
farther to the west to Cirene,
after heavy RAF bombardment.
4 The Italian high command ad
mitted the loss of Tobruk with
heavy losses.
LAST STAND AT DERNA
UNDATED, Jan. 27 </P) —Brit
-* ain’s desert troops were reported
in battle with the Italian defend
ers of Derna, Libya, where a
swashbuckling Connecticut Yan
Iron Guard
Leader Horia
Sima Arrested
♦ —
UNDATED, Jan. 25 UP) — Horia
Sima, Rumanian vice premier
and Iron Guard chieftain who
looks more like a poet than the
leader of the rebellion which
kept Rumania’s blood in tumult
'this week was reported arrest
ed by Premier Antonescu, in a
spreading purge. A Bucharest
ke> placed the Stars and Stripes
ovrr the Barbary Pirates 136
years ago. Derna is 95 miles west
of fall n Tobruk, the gateway to
the Mediterranean plateau, on
the route to B ngasi. Observers
in Cairo predicted that Marshal
Graziani might make his “last
stand” defense cn the plateau, to
guard his base at .Bengasi, 170
miles to the west.
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Mussolini’s command said the
Ita ian forces inflicted “consid r
able losses on enemy armored
vehicles in lively fighting “east
and south of Derna.
Some 2,000 miles southeast of
Derna other British troops were
r ported to have driven a wedge
halfway across Italian Eritrea in
a drive toward the Red Sea.
newspaper said he barricaded
him in th ■ Iron Guard headquar
tors last night d.'fying arrest af
tor the end of the resistence of
his hot-headed followers. Troops
formed the place and captured
him.
Both sides in Rumania r port
ed that the Jews were suffering
heavily and that many were kill
ed. Travelers said they saw 203
dead beside a highway. 400 stu
dents who join d the rebels were
reported killed in Bucharest
street fighting.
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Ambassador Halifax Arriving II. S.
On Battleship King George Fifth
Met In Chesapeake Bay By FOR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (/P) —
Viscount Halifax, new British am
tiie United States
"fd a talking for than an
hour v i Secretary Hull that
“W ■ s things very rnu-ch alike.”
Pay: : 11- first formal call to
.• department, after his
■ king reception in
Ch: sa; :akc Bay yesterday, he
aid i '1 rs that ' President
,Rnc ds action in coming to
me t r; upon my arrival on the
bat'll: i King George Fifth,
would b.- greatly > appr: dated in
Eng ami and throughout the em
i nine where its significance will
he understood.”
D :u -ing the war he said his
>pini in was “When history ecm
^ l i he written, Hitler will have
be found to have lost the war
June when he failed to take
’. urge of the situation exist-;
■! the collapse of France.”
> i vsiders the most immed
!. i needs “mobilization of your
gr it industrial strength, and
translating that into action, sup
| plying us with the ships and sup
| plies that we need.”
*erri. Senate
3 Organized
HJNT,VT( Jan. 27 — The Terri
torial Senate was permanently or
S'-' 'J wi h Henry Roden Presi
:c: and Edythe Young Secre
tn. , following a temporary or
r :en at 11 a.r.i. this foie
i! r adj timed until 2 p.m.
ihi • afternoon.
n the Hcuse, H. II. McCutcb
ecn was made temporary speak
er but no other officers were el
ect., . Apparently there is a fight
developing belween McCutcheon
and ^co Rogge for Permanent
Spe.ker. The House adjourned
ti i three o'clock.
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Harry L. Hopkins (left), President Roosevelt’s personal envoy to London, shakes hands with Vis
count Halifax (right), Britain’s new ambassador to the United States. Hopkins had just arrived in
London. This picture was radioed to New York from London.
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Cochran For
Presi. Senate,
Rogge, Speaker
JUNEAU, Jan. 25 — The elec
tion of Leo Rogge of Fairbanks
as Speaker of the House and ei
ther Senator Henry Roden of
.n au or O. D. Cochran of
Nome, for president of the Sen
te was predicted by legi litors.
Roden can have the presidency if
he will accept. Cochran is not cag
er for the position. Permanent
officers probably will be made
Tuesday.
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Chilkoot To !
Fairbanks Trek
jy Army Started
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 25 (/P)
! — Fourth Army headquarters an
nounced that a detachment of
troops left by dog sleds and to
boggans on a 600-mile trek from
Chilkoot Barracks to Fairbanks.
The detachment was made up
by Major Charles Hart, Jr., Cap
tain Avery Cochran, four non
commissioned officers, four pri
vates, 43 dogs, three sl-'ds and
two toboggans.
King George
V c
Leaves in 21 Hrs.
_
/
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 25 .(/P)—’The
35,000 ton King George Fifth
j headed out into the hazy mists at
noon and lifted anchor within 21
hours after her arrival, within
three hours of the time when she
would have been compelled to
leave.
First Men For
Defense Bases
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland,
Jan. 25 (/P) — The United States
troop transport Alexander hove
to off this port and loaded the
first troops to man the U. S. de
fense base under construction.
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WENDELL LEWIS WILLKIE
\. illkie Delivers Note To Churchill
And T'icy Confer For 2 Hours
Will Talk To DeValera of Ireland
LONDON, Jan. 27. (JP) — Wen
d° 1 V/illkie d. liv red President
R. ev It’s n es-age to Churchill
at a lurchern and he disclosed
that he intends > talk to Presi
dent De Valera during a visit to
neutral Eire. Although he plan
le! to spend but an hour with
Churchill, Willkie and Churchill
,v re ngrosscd in a conversation
at luncheon that lasted two
hours.
Italian Sub
Reports Sinking
British Ship
UNDATED. Jan. 25 (/P) _ The
seaways war rag 'd full tilt the
Tt-vlian iugh command said and
that the submarine sank the 7.0C0
‘on British auxiliary cruiser Eu
rr eu- “loaded with troops” after
sharp fighting in the Atlantic.
Bor in said OThb ts operating
out of an Italian L-a-e damaged
two British battl.: hips and a
heavy crui. -r in the Mediter
ranean.
RAF Flies in Bad
Weather to Bomb
German Sub Base
UNDATED, Jan. 25 f/P) — The
British reported an overnight at
tack on the German submarine
base at Eorient, France, in bod
weather.
Loiftlon had its fifth successive
night without a visit by Gorman
bombers.
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Seven Nights
For London
Without Raids
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i UNDATED. Jan. 27 (/Pi — la
1 " r. r siege of Britain, London’s
tied their s'venth con
; s.-rt.'.ivj night without an after
I : irm but despite the bad
" her R AF raid ,s streaked ac
the el mat 1 before dawn to
al city of Han
\ . in north c iur~l Germany,
l .'s c rnmand acknowledged
♦ 4 were killed and G injured
in the raid.
publication Of
I Ted’ Paper In
' trc.clo i Banned
LONDON, Jan. — The govern
ment banned publication and dis
ibution of the Daily Worker, a
1 C mmunist organ published by
‘.he week. Scotland Yard detec
ivos raided the offices of the
i DaTy W’orker to stop publication
I just as the paper was going to
. nress.
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