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VOL. 43. No. 41. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1941 Copy 134
Report Nazis Sink U. S. Steamer
British And Free French Occupy Levant States
BRITISH AND FREE FRENCH
WITHIN 40. MI OF CAPITALS
OF SYRIA AND LEBANON
UNDATED. June 9 <£») — Bril-]
ish and Free French mechanized
columns, striking across the an
cient battlefields where the cru
saders fought the Saracens, were
reported to have advanced with
in 40 miles of Damascus, capital
of French-ruled Syria, and also
to within 40 miles ot Beirut, cap
ital of Lebanon. Th French com
mand said the French troops
were fiercely re.- stirg their for
mer British alii.‘3 along the Sy
r an and Lehan n 1: ntiers, d. •
straying several armored cars
and shooting down two R.AF wai
planes.
A French communique said the
RAF again bombed air fie ids at
Damascus, Aleppo and Levaya. 3
was not immediately clear who
ther French had declared war o.
Britain.
In Berlin, a Nazi spokesman
sa d the question of Germany’5
altitude or ultimate action could
n’t be discussed.
General Dentz, commander of
Syria’s defense forces, said tha.
b.oody fighting wss in progre«
British warships, supporting
the land invasion, began at 2 a.m.
Sunday, in a reported acc.or
along the Syrian coast, sheLing
t..e port of Tripoli, the terminu
for the pipeline irom Iraq's RL,
snl oil fields, and bombarding
other coastal points dispatches
from Jerusalem said.
Vichy estimated th? Allied fore
es at 20,000, and were driving
across the broiling desert into#
the volcanic mountains of the
French Levant states, from Pal
estine to Trans-Jerdan, pushing
back the French armies of 45,000
men, wherever they met.
Report Nazi
Subs Seen At
Bierut, Lebanon
' NKARA. Turkey. June 7 I/P)
A Rpu*er= dispatch said in tlv:
In' t vori d reports of German
infiltration, that eight German
r et sub narines were seen in
harbors of Bierut and Lebanon
in the post iv ek. The Italian com
mend r"po 'ted that planes last
-m>'. t bombed Malta, lashed at
Tobruk and also at troop em
placements near Sidi Barrani.
Ce man Artillery Shells Ships
C rnan artillei’y on the inva
■ n cra-t shelled British ship
on? in the Chann 1 and the Luft
waffe was reported especially
successful in raids off Scotland
and West Africa, three merchant
•hips totaling 21,500 tons being
I umk.
Lor.drn Bombed Again
Lcr.rion underwent its first
! b n bit’g since M y 11.
British Spurt in Ethiopia
The British occupation of
Ethiop a took a spurt with a
Nairobi r port that East and West
African troops crossed the Omo
River and captured Abalti with
■ 2.0C0 prisoners.
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PRES. ROOSEVELT ORDERS U S
TROOPS TAKE OVER NORTH
AMERICAN AVIATION PLANT
LOS ANGELES, June 9 (fP) -T
United States troops moved into
the North American Aviation
Company plant this morning to
take over the strike-bound plant:
on orders of President Roose
velt. A convoy of 50 trucks load
ed with army troops moved down
Redondo Boulevard to the front
of the plant. The troops were
greeted by cheers from lines of
workers across the road from the
plant’s main entrance, who were
prevented from entering the
plant by disorders. The soldiers
moved into the plant quietly and
the disorders ceased when the
convoy came down the road. The
occupation of the great aircraft
manufacturing center took place
with the simplicity of a routine
military maneuver, as the strike
entered the fifth day. Some of
the 12.000 workers entered the
plant in response to a govern
ment request for the resumption
of plant operations.
Plant Is
Essential To
National Defense
WASHINGTON, June 9 '(/P) —
Asserting that the continuous
production of the North Ameri
can Aviation plant was “essen
tiol to national defense,” the
President ordered the Army to
take ever the strike-bound plant
and operate it. The President’s
executive order was issued at
7:40 a. m. PST. The White House
said the order was issued by the
President under powers vested in
him by the Constitution and by
his recent proclamation of an un
limited national emergency.
L. M. Birkhead, founder,
Friends of Democracy: “We are
already in the war except for
the shooting.”
Asked Not Be Held
Responsible For
French In Syria
UNDATED, June 7 i(/P) — Brit
ain’s main hope of clinging to
thi; eastern Mediterranean seem
ed to depend more and more on
the French. The English found
hope from a Zurich dispatch quot
ing French diplomatic sources,
that Generalissimo Weygand,
Commander of the French colon
ial forces, could not guarantee
the attitude of his men in North
Africa, if they are called on to
fight the pro - British “Free
French” forces, also that W y
gand asked to be relieved of the
responsibility for the conduct of j
the French troops in Syria.
S. S. Dellwood
Hard Aground
At False Pass
SEATTLE, June 7 i(jP) — The
Coast Guard naval radio inter
cepted messages that the big can
nery supply ship Dellwood was
herd aground on Nichols Rock at
False Pass. Th passengers, most
ly cannery employees, are being
removed in tenders and small
craft. The vessel is in no im
mediate dang r and struck at
5:20 a. m. The Cutter Haida, on
patrol duty, is responding to the
call and is expected to be along
side at 7 a.m. Capt. L. Jacogson
of the Dellwood messaged that
then; was no wind, nor fog and
that the bay was smooth
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Information
Supplied FDR
BERLIN, June 7 i(/P) — An au
thorized spokesman said, Roose
velt’s statement that he had pa
pers on his desk outlining the
purposes of German propaganda
in the United States, was “based
on falsified documents or false
information.” He then gave nu
merous quotations which he at
tributed to President Roosevelt,
Wendell Willkie, the late Lord
Lothian, Maj. Gen. H. H. Ar
nold of the U. S. Army Air Corps,
and other prominent Americans
and Britons, to the effect that
Britain would collapse if Ameri
can a:d ■ was not immediately
available.
FLYING FORTRESS GOES TO
SACRAMENTO IN 10 lirs. 43 min
Lieutenant - Colonel Dale V.
Gaffney made no mention when
he opened the throttle of Ladd
Field’s Flying Fortess in Fair
banks 7:15 a. m. tfo; morning of
May 30th, that he was in a hur
ry. •
Army attaches who welcomed
him and his party of nine when
they clambered out of the four
motored bomber in Sacramento,
California, at 8 p.m. Pacific Stand
ard Time, figured, however, that
the Ladd Field commander must
have been anxious for another
look at the Golden State..
Ladd Field officers here receiv
ed word by radio that the B 17 B
landed in thi? California capital
—2280 air miles away—10 hours
45 minutes after the Boeing
bomber lifted off the runway in
Fairbanks, an average air speed
of 213 miles per hour.
RECEIVES UNCONFIRMED
REPORT U. S. STEAMER IS
SUNK BY NAZI SUBMARINE
WASHINGTON, June 9 (£>) — j
The Navy Department received
an unconfirmed report from a
Brazilian steamer, the Osorio,
that an American steamer, the
Robin Moor, had been torpedbed
and sunk in the South Atlantic,
bya German submarine. The re
\
port said the Osorio found one
lifeboat with survivors. An ear
lier Rio De Janiero report mere
ly said the ship sank, without
giving the cause.
The Robin, which carried 8 pas
sengers, and a crew of 38 was
bound from New York to Cape
town.
700 Chinese Die
By Suffocation
In Air Raid
CHUNGKING. June 6 m —
Sev .'n hundred Chinese were kill
ed by suffocation inside, and by
a bloody stampede at the en
trance, of Chungking’s biggest air
raid dugcut, during a disastrous
Japanese aerial attack. Rescue
squads are still bringing out the
bodi s of whole families, late to
day. of those who managed to
fight their way inside the shelter,
soon choking to death when the
piled-up bodies cut off the ven
tilation.
“Boss’* Pendergast
Is Half Way
Through Stretch x
KANSAS CITY, June 7 (/P) -
T. J. P rdergast. former Demo
cratic boss, and R. E. O’Malley,
■one of his lieutenants, sentenc
ed to two years each in. prison
by a three-judge Federal court,
which found them guilty of con
tempt and deceiving it, in Mis
souri’s ten million dollar fire in
surance settlement, both have al
ready served one year of their
terms for income tax .evasion.
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Union Shop Is Principal Issue
In Fairbanks U.S. Smelter Strike
Both Sides Give Out Statements
FAIRBANKS FACES HER
MOST SERIOUS LABOR
TROUBLE IN YEARS
FAIRBANKS, June 5 — Fair
banks faced its first major labor
dispute in more than three decad
es.
A substantial majority of 760
employees of the United States
Smelting Refining and Mining
Company were expected to abide
bya CIO union strike vote call
ing for cessation of work at 5
p.m.
The strike vote setting the dead
line came after negotiations bog
ged down over terms in an agree
ment submitted by the union
leaders.
A “union shop” plause was call
ed the chief stumbling block to
agreement.
Officials of the company stated
their intentions to maintain oper
ations despite the strike.
Both sides prepared statements
for publication over the issues
involved.
Tells Company’s
Attitude
Announcement was made by
Roy B. Earling, vice president
and general manager of the Unit i
ed States Smelting Refining and
Mining Company, that, having
been unsuccessful in attempts to
bargain with Local Union No. 444
of the International Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers Union, CIO
the company will continue opera
tion despite announced plans of
the union strike.
Mr. Earling issued the follow
ing statement, setting forth the
company’s attitude:
“The principal and only issue
involved is the union's demands
for and the company’s refusal of
a “Union Shop.”
“We are not opposed to collect
ive bargaining, and, in fact have
contracts wth the same Interna
tional Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelters Unions at our other
mines and smelters, in the States,
some of which have been in op
eration for years. None of them
contain a union shop provision,
and we do not intend to agree to
either of them here.
“. . . We have notified the com
mittee and the union that we are
ready at any time to continue dis
cussion of the other questions in
the controversy but our offers
have been disregarded and the
matter is apparently out of our
hands.
“We regret to see the long re
cord of industrial peace in this
district marred by a strike which
is so unnecessary and hoptf the
union comittee will reconsider its
position carefully before taking
final action.”
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