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! THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 37. 'JOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Mar. 26, 1941.
* Sea Blockade Extended Greenland
Disorders Rock Yugoslavia In Protest Axis Pact
* Senate Refuses To Accept Alaska Armory Bill
' YUGOSLAVIA SIGNS AXIS PACT
WITH GERMAN ASSURANCES
OF TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
Roosevelt Freezes Yugoslavia Funds In United States
UNDATED, March 25 UP) —•
With the solemn German pledge
that no Axis troops will march
through her territory, Yugoslavia
signed the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo
alliance at Vienna. The cer mon
ies were attended by Hitler.
Well-informed Vienna sourc
es declar d that Germany spec
» ifically exempted Yugoslavia
from giving military aid to the
Axis and guaranteed territorial
integrity. In this respect, the
terms of the pact av-rted a se
vere blow to the defense plans
of Britain and Greece against the
expected Nazi invasion of Gr.ece.
Reliable sources in London said
Germany has massed 800,050
troops in the Balkans to carry
out the blitzkrieg attack and to
guard the Russian frontier. Ear
lier r:ports estimated the British
strength already landed or ex
pected in Greece at 300,000. Greek
troops which could be diverted to
oppose the Nazi invasion number
about 400,000. Turkish troops mass
ed at the Bulgarian frontier num
ber 100,000.
Ill Washington, President
Roosevelt froze all of the funds
of Yugoslavia in the United Stat
es. No explanation for the freez
ing was given, but it has been
the policy of the administration
to tie up funds of any country
coming under the domination of
the Axis powers. Yugoslavian as
sets ai'e estimated at a million
dollars.
.Military observers said the
free passage of German troops
through Yugoslavia’s Vardar Val
ley would have collapsed the Brit
ish and Greek plan to stand
along the 30-mile-wide Struma
River line, intended only to block
attack from Bulgaria, and would
have* compelled them to fight
along the 60-miles Vardar River |
front and possibly to defend the.
whole 200 mil _ line from Abania •
to Turkish Thrace. <
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* YUGOSLAVIAN STUDENTS
DEMONSTRATE AND RIOT IN
PROTEST AXIS ALLIANCE
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UNDATED, March 26 (/P) —In
the Balkan crisis, rioting flared
in the heart of Belgrade as stu
dent, carrying British and Ameri
can flags, demonstrated against
Yugoslavia’s signing of the Axis
alliance. Singing patriotic songs,
youths of the World War-born
kingdom marched the streets
when they w re suddenly attack
ed by Axis sympathizers. Sol
% 1
diers and police quelled the fight
ing, making many arrests. The
outbursts developed shortly af
ter Premier Cvetcovic. returned
from Vienna where he signed the
Axis pact. He went into confer
ence in an effort to end the dis
orders which have erupted in the
past 24 hours. He carried the
written pledge of Germany that
no Axis trops would march thru
th country.
Senate Refuses
To Accept
Armory Bill
JUNEAU. March 25 UP) — The
Senate be a vote of 5 to 3 refus
ed to re pt the armory bill as
passe b*. the House. After a
heated d ' to C ffey, Sullivan
and C r.m were the three who
vo'. n. Tliis means that
the ai bid is possibly dead
for t! pri. ent session.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (A5)
—Major General Schley, Chief of
Army Engineers told the House
Appropriations Committee that a
mu b r of riv r and harbor pro
jects o which there will be sub
stantial delay in fulfillment due
to con Utions of local cooperation
were hose who prosecution were
not now justified in the interest
of navigation and commerce.
Am p < th se he listed Tolovana
River. Alaska, $40,000 and Nome
harbor $269,500.
He aid that fcr the mainten
ance of river and harbor projects
these amounts were needed: Sti
kine River $900 and Nome harbor
$19,500.
G' RMAN CRIME LESSENS
BERLIN (A5) — Crime has de
crea i 50- per cent in Germany,
rec::' statistics indicat., princip
ally cause capital punishment
ha- b^en prescribed for many
offens.rs formerly atoned for by
life imprisonment. Several war
time crimes, among them vio
lence and robbery during black
cut, also draw decapitation sen
tences.
GREEKS, TURKS M ASS MORE TROOPS
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Latest developments in the jumbled Balkans: 1. British said they bombed BeratL 2. Greeks claimed they
downed five Italian planes which bombed quakc-t -rn Larisa. 3. Greek and Turkish trops massed along
the Bulgarian border. Swastikas indicate strategic border points and potential German naval bases.
GERMANS RIDE INTO BULGARIA
A.n a.m«,.ca scouting car crosses an unidentified Rumanian border bridge into Bulgaria the day
after Bulgaria signed into the Axis cair.p at Vienna. This picture was radioed from Berlin to New York.
GERMANY EXTENDS BLOCK
ADE ON BRITAIN TO WITHIN
3 MILES OF GREENLAND
UNDATED, March 26 UP) —
Germany threatened to “answer
with deeds” any dispute of her
action in extending the sea block
ade on Britain beyond Iceland to
within three miles of Greenland,
thereby formally moving the war
zone to the threshold of the west
ern hemisphere.
Two United States Coast Guard
cutters are reported cruising in
Greenland waters, as part of the
American Iceberg Patrol.
Washington authorities have re
peatedfy declared that Greenland
is covered by t^ Monroe Doc
trine.
Germans said the blockade was
extended to include Iceland af
ter reports that American ships
were unloading there for trans
shipment of U S. war supplies to
Britain.
No immediate -comment was
forthcoming from official circles
DIMOND ASSERTS THAT UN
LESS ALASKA IS DEFENDED
IT WILL FALL TO ENEMIES
WASHINGTON, March 26 <A>)
— Delegate Dirnond told the
House appropriations subcommit
tee at hearings that unless Alas
ka was adequately defended it
would “fall into the hands of
aggressive and barbarous ene
mies, diabolically devoted to the
destruction of things in the soc
ial, economic, political and re
ligious life to which we give the
highest value.” He said this in
appearing before* the committee
in support of the construction of
a defense highway between Al
aska and the United States, thru
Canada. He didn’t mention Japan
and Russia by name but said “We
have seen what happened to
China, Finland and Poland.”
Dimond said th: problem of de
fending Alaska was simple as
long as our fleet could remain in
the Pacific but added “if our fleet
should be compelled to go to the
Atlantic and be required to re
main there and if the Panama
Canal were th n blc (Iked, it
would be too much to hope that
our enemies would be so good
and kindly as to not take over
Alaska. In such an event, a high
way between the United States
and Alaska would really be in
dispensable not only to the de
fense of our own country but to
the defense of Canada.”
U. S. ARMY PASSES
MILLION MARK
WASHINGTON </P)—The army
has passed the million mark, war
department officials said today.
They estimated there are 1,003,
500 officers and men now in the
service.
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NO HOT WATER
STRASBOURG </P) — Because
of strict rationing of heating
materials in Alsace, only cold
water gushes from most hot
water taps. Hospitals, restaurants
meat markets and some factories
may have hot water. A barber
shop is limited to one hot water
faucet.
Both Sides In
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UNDATED, March 26 i(/P)—The
lull in the air war continued,
neither side reporting any import,
ant blows across the channel.
IIu«e Fleet
Work For
N o r w a y
Loss of life among Norwegian
seamen has “been smaller dur
ing Norway's first eight months
of belligerency than during the
preceding s ven months of neu
trality," Norwegian Minister of
Shipping and Supply Sunde
wrote in a recent issue of the
New York Journal of Commerce.
He said more than 85 percent
of the Norwegian merchant fleet
fourth largest in the world, es
caped from enemy control last
April. He said some 873 ships
totaling n arly 4,000,000 tons are
maintaining Norway’s interna
tional trade, important to the
British-Norwegian cause.
He admitted that “losses of ton
nage have been considerable."
Income from the merchant
fleet is enabling the Norwegian
government to take an active
part in the fight with Britain and
to maintain naval, land and air
forces with expenditures more
than double the former peace
time military' budget for all Nor
way.
Sunde also wrote that King
Haakon’s government is meeting
all international obligations of
Norway — “certainly a rare
achievement for a government in.
exile.”
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