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VOL. 42.No. 157. NOME. ALASKA. Wednesday, DEC. 25, 1940 p,r e°PT "*
Pope Proposes New World Order
Proposal Shall Be Based On Five Mora! Victories
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Activity Indicates Invasion Attempt may Be Made
Industrial Manchester Bombed
Unusual Channel Activity Re
* news Fears Invasion Attempt
Nazis Are ‘Burning With Desire To Meet English'
England’s big industrial city of
Manchester suffered anoth.r tern
pestuous night bombing and a
number of persons were killed
and wounded when a bomb ex
ploded direclly on an ar raid
shelter. Others were buried in
c liars when houses collapsed.
This was the second consecutive
night attack.
A Manchester communique
acknowledged “considerable d?m
age done” and many new fires*
started. A hospital, twro shelters,
shops, houses, and commercial
buildings wer; reported destroy
ed or damaged. Seven bodies
bodies were pulled out of a bomb
XW demolished tavern. Rescue
squads attempted to reach others
believ d to be trapped by heavy
beams. One bomb, ^mash-ad dir
ee'.ly into the middel of the tav
ern.
There were renewed fears of
a German invasion attempt s tir
ed by unusual activity reported
a ong the Nazi occupied channel
coast. Fresh warning were voic
d in recent days by Churchill
j 1 other British officials.
Feld Marshall Walter von
Gra-uichtisch in a radio address,
aid Germany’s armed forces “I;
n w you are al just burning
with the desire to at last m:et|
the English. You are merely i
awaiting the Fuehrer’s command
to do so.”
J.now fell on the Straits of Dov
er, the so-called invasion gate-i
.vay, striving as a cloak for any
ro.-.i cha^m^ thrust.
20.000 Italians
Are Trapped
In Bardia
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In the battle for North Africa
20.000 Italians were trapp d in
the seige-bnund desert post of
Bardia, Libya, reported facing a
serious water shortage. British
artillery bombarded the town for
the eighth straight day.
Subscribe tor The Nome N ice
Patterson |
Appointed !
New OH ice
WASHINGTON, Dec. —Robert
Patterson of New York now As
-istant Secretary of War, has
been nominated by President
Roosevelt as Under gecretary of
War.
The new position was cr ated
by a bill approved by the Presi
dent recently.
Second Earthquake Rocks North
East United States. Extending to
As Far W est As Ontario, Canada
Christmas Trees and Furniture Shaken By Shock
EOSTON. Dec. 24 (/P) — A s c
on.d quake in five days shook
northeastern United States and
portions of Canad as far west as
the province of Ontario. D spite
the gr at area shocks were felt
running westward hundreds of
miles from th. Ntw England
coast southwest into New York
and Pennsylvania and northward
into Quebec.
No serious damage was indicat
ed. The tremors began between
3:T’> ■ nd 8:44 a m and knocked
n Christmas tree ornaments
: J toilet articles in som; plac
:■ :d ratt ed dishes and caused
•-•re to rock‘Slightly.
WAR, NAVY DEPARTMENTS
TAKE COGNIZANCE OVER
FIFTH COLUMN REPORT
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — In spite of
he Dies Committee reports and
the statements of the Depart
ment of Justice and the Federal
Bureau of Idenlfication a lot of
.'o k official and unofficial are tak
ing the “fifth column” with two
grains of salt and a sniff.
Not so with th: War and Navy
1. partments.
Thousands of civilian employ
es, newsmen and non-uniformed
ifietrs who daily hang their Hats
n the Hr.g. low War and Navy
buildings that stretch for blocks
a ong Constitution Avenue are
having their pictures taken. Be
fore long their coat lap Is and
blouses ill bloom with buttons,
shewing their photographs and
business identification.
The fire in the War Depart
dent Building a few weeks back
has been officially written off as
accidental but it did put the
RAF Batter
Invasion Ports
UNDATED, Dec. 24 (/P»— Brit
: ish warplanes battered hard at
; Nazi “invasion ports” in pre
dawn raids amid speculation that
Hi *r might be planninga Christ
J mas attempt to invade England.
While Berlin served notice of
I “no truce” with Britain over the
ho iday both Rome and Berlin
officially ridicul d Churchill’s
broadcast appeal to King Eman
iel that the Italian people turn
■gain-t Musso ir.i and the Gor
an alliance. Mussolini’s govern
:ntnt flatly rejected the plea, de
l-ring “Italy will continue the
war in a 1 fronts until victory.”
j heat under the precautionary pro
' gram.
Not only will all employees
j have to report with their identi
fying badges in place but visit
! ors to the bui dings whether plea
sure or business bent will be es
I corted by arm'd guards to the
j offices on which they are calling.
WHITE HOUSE OPEN AGAIN
The Capitol is under the heav
I iest guard in years. Although vis
! itors are not asked for identific
ation the least suspicious actions
or the carrying of dangerous look
ing packages is likely to result
in a polite but firm questioning.
In front of the Capitol wffiere
the great inaugural stand is be
ing constructed for the event of
January 20 there’s a constant
jday and night guard. The eon
! struction work and the Capitol,
' from sub-basement to dome are
searched almost daily.
Nobody here is pooh-poohing
| this vigi'ance but it certainly is
: not being duplicated at the oth
er end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
The White House grounds, closed
| a few weeks ago again are open
! to visitors as is the White House.
Guards remain at every gate and
| every turn but the official family
: and residence are hardly any
i more inaccoessible than when
| the worid was at peace.
Most White House employees
have been fingerprinted. So have
some of the White House news
paper correspondents but that
was started tmo years ago and it
j always has been voluntary with
the individuals.
tdolf Hitler (right) speaking before a background of shining anti-aircraft guns in the Borsig mun
itions plant at Berlin, told Germany ‘we will defeat the entire world.’ At left is Propaganda Minis
ter Joseph Goebbels; center. Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the German Labor Front. Associated Press
Telemat. Radioed from Berlin to New York. _
POPE PIUS XII
Victories Over Hatred, Mistrust,
Se'fiskiess, Egoism And Right Over
MHrl, Pope’s Basis for New Order
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VATICAN CITY, Dec. 24 (A3)—
j Pope Pius tcl:l ti e College of
Cardinals that the new world or
der "proposed to the warring na
t:on, should be based on five
•nora! victories. These victories
he said are: On', over hatred:
two, over mistrust and here the
Pontiff called for a “return to
that fidelity and observance of
pacts without which the pure nci
ghboriiness of peoples, paricular
ly the co-exist- urn' of powerful
an ! weak peoples couldn’t suc
ceed.
Third, over the idea that might
makes right; 'our, ov-r cold sel
fishness: and five, over the “s ir
it of co'd egoism which is fear
less in it rig'd and easily loads
to violations ret cnly of honor
; and sovereignty of the sta4o but
< f t’’o righteous and wholesome
| disciplined liberty of citizens as
well.”
The Pontiff spoke in response
;
to the Christmas greetings of
ihe Cardinals. s
Pope In Plea
ror Truce On
Christmas Day
Pope Pin* urged warring na
ti ns to observe a Christmas
trace to keep "the clash of arms
from drowning out the anvil
chorus of peace."
The nope asked belligerents to
eg I a Yuletide truce "spontan
e gdy or by mutual accird so
that new bloodshed may not dis
rta or miserably extinguish the
heavenly joy of that hour.”
Prime Minister Churchill re
jected a suggestion in the House
of Commons that an attempt be
”ade to arrange a Christmas
truce.”
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BIG COPPER BUY
BY UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON. Doc. —Feder
! al Loan Administrator Jesse Jon
Ies announced the purchase of
I 100,000 tons of Latin-American
| capper on a basic rate of 10 c nts
I a pound.
The companies from which the
mppr will be pui'chased are
largely American copper com
j nies operating in Latin Amer
ica.
Anaconda will se'l 57,000 tons
American Metal 10.000, Phelps
D dge 5,000 and Kennecott 28,
! 000.
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