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VOL. 43. No. 31. * NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. Mar. 12, 1941. ^Copy 154
Asks 7 Billion For British Aid Bill
German Planes Drop Bombs On Greek Towns
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PRESIDENT SIGNS BRITISH AID
BILL INTO LAW EXTENDING
UP UNTIL JUNE 30th, 1943
WASHINGTON, March 11 {JP)
— President Roosevelt signed the
British aid bill at 12:51 p.m. PST,
15 minutes after it arrived from
Capitol Hill. A battery of cam
eras set off a glare of flash bulbs
as a White House official waved
to reporters, the signal that Roo
sevelt had signed the bill into a
law.
Bill Is 2 Months
In Congress
WASHINGTON, March 11 </P)
—Congress completed action on
the historic British aid bill just
after the President set seven
billion dollars as its starting ap
propriation. This round figure,
which will be the largest peace
time appropriation ever request
ed in America’s history, was an
nounced as Congressional author
, ities met with the President, an
ticipating his signing of the aid
legislation late today or tonight.
A roll call vote sent it to the
White House. It was announced
that the vote was 317 to 71 on
the House acceptance of the S n
ate amendments.
The measure sped to the Presi
dent almost two months to the
day after its introduction on
January 10. As soon as the Presi
dent signs it, he will have un
precedented authority to manu
facture or otherwise procure any
defense article and turn it over
to the government of any coun
try whose defense he “deems vit
al to the defense of the United
States.”
One billion three hundred mil
lion dollars is the limit imposed
on tire amount of existing mili
tary and naval equipment that
could be turned over to other
nations. The President’s powers
under the law end June 30, 1943,
unless terminated earlier by a
majority vote of the House and
Senate.
Seven Billion Is
For Lease-Lend
WASHINGTON, March 11 (fP)
— President Roosevelt, Conigres-1
sional authorities disclosed, will:
ask Congress for a seven billion !
dollar appropriation to carry out
the British'aid program, now un
der legislation and which he is
expected to sign late today or to
morrow. He will probably re
quest t'he sum in a message to
'Congress tomorrow. It was dis
closed also, his intention to ask
the sum at a conference attend
ed by members of the Senate and
House Apprporiations Commit
tees and other legislators. What
specific items the money will be
used for was not disclosed but
the congressmen said it will per
mit the purchase “of all articles
authorized by the British aid
bill.”
Senate Byrnes, when asked
what period the appropriation
was for, said it would cover “the
life- of the bill.” Furthermore,;
the seven billion dollar total, j
Byrnes said was inclusive of the
billion three hundred million dol
lars worth of present war sup
plies and possessions of the Army
Navy which may be transferred
to Britain or other nations.
St Patrick’s Benefit Party, Sat., March 15, 10 P.M.
mnz: HIGH school auditorium — ADMISSION $1.00 — LADIES free
ROOSEVELT ASKS CONGRESS
FOR 7 BILLION DOLLARS TO
CARRY OUT LEASE-LEND BILL
It Is Imperative For The Security of America That We
Encourage Democracies’ Heroic Resistance
WASHINGTON, March 12 (/Pi
President Roosevelt sent Con
gress a request for a seven bil
lion dollar appropriation to carry
out “the fixd policy of this gov
ernment to make for Demccra
| cies, every gun, piano and mu
> nition of war that we possibh- j
can.”
In a letter to Speaker Raybur
transmitting the d'tailed esti
; mates of the budget director fo. |
j the seven billion dollar expend!
lure, Roosevelt assorted, “I
strongly urg the immediate en-j
actment of this appropriation.’’
He declared that as an Ameri
can he felt “it was imperative
'' r the security of America that
we encourage Democracies’ her
>ic resistance of aggressions by
not only maintaining but also in
i' asing the flow of material and
1 tar.: e from this country.’’
:■ lor 1 >'t item is two billion
i y four million dollars for “air
. t and aeronautic materials,
: lud g engines, spare parts
it d accessories.
FASCISTS HINT AT JAPANESE
MOVE SOON TO COUNTERACT
AMERICA’S BRITISH AID BILL
I “America Has Spoken, Japan Will Say Its Word”
I _
UNDATED, March 11 </P)—'The
propaganda guns of the Rome
Berlin-Tokyo alliance boomed in
concert against the United States
as Japan’s Foreign Minister Mat
sumoka prepared' to leave the
Far East for important talks with
Hitler and Mussolini.
A high British naval source de
dared that Britain already has
enough trained personnel to man
j the whole United State ft et if it
were turned over to the British.
The current of “the Battle of the
| Atlantic” so far however, is such
that the British have not offic
ially suggested that United Stat
es naval assistance is needed to
combat Hitler’s sea raiders.
In Washington, yesterday, Brit
ish Ambassador Halifax discount
ed reports that the two countri s
will exchange naval vessels as a
part of the British aid program.
A Japanese newspaper assert
ed that the United Stat s planned
to send U. S. destroyers in ex
change for British capital ships
for use in Far Eastern waters
against Japan. Lord Halifax said
he did not consider such an ex
change likely now, or in the fu
ture.
Fasicist sources in Rome hnifccd
at an impending Japanese move
under the triple alliance in reac
tion to the United States’ British
aid bill.
The Italian newspaper La Tri
bun.a declared bluntly that Mat
sumoka’s trip is the “immediate
answer to Washington’s threaten
ing move yesterday. America has
spokm. Japan will say its woTd
and it is for this that Matsumoka
is coming to Berlin and Rome.
Try Assassinate
British Minister
George Rendel
ISTANBUL, March 12 (/P) —
i Turkish palace military author
: ities declared they were search
: ing for a “Balkan bomb ring”
b lieved to be behind an attempt
to assassinate George Rendel. the
British Minister who left German
occupied Bulgaria. At least four
persons were killed and upwards
I of 20 injured last night, but R:n
| del escaped by a narrow margin
j when a bomb wrecked the lobby
I of the luxurious Pera Plaza Ho
j tel where the British diplomat
brought a party from Sofia, by
train, only a few minutes before.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY!
Write to your friends and rela
lives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They 11 get a big
<ick out of it.
GERMAN WARPLANES BEGIN
BOMBING OF GREEK TOWNS
ZERO HOUR IS INDICATED
UNDATED, March 12 </P) —
German warplanes have already
begun bombing Greek towns
from bases in Bulgaria, it was
reported, as Hitler massed half a
million troops on the frontiers of
Greece and Turkey and signs
pointed to an imminent show
down.
Yugoslav leaders gathered at
Belgrade amid forecasts that she
will capitulate quickly to the
Nazi demands to join the Rome
Berlin-Tokyo alliance. By yield
ing, Yugoslavia will presumably
open a new avenue to the ex
pected German invasion of
Greece. Indications that a zero
hour is near, w -re seen in these
factors:
1. The steady southward move
ment of Nazi troops through Bul
garia which has been under way
for ten days has suddenly dwin
died to a trickle.
2. German staff officers are re
port d to have disappeared from
Sofiaand headed for the field
headquarters at Plovdiv, 40 miles
from the Greek border and 80
miles from Turkey.'
3. Thousands of German and
Pndgarian warplanes have been
placed in readiness for action, in
eluding the siren-screaming Nazi
bombers exploited for terroriz
ing effect in Western Europe last
spring.
Churchill Thanks
United States For
Lend - Lease Aid
! LONDON, March 22-'(AT—Win
ston Churchill formally thanked
the United States for the passage
i of the British aid bill. He term
! ed it a new Magna Charta and in
spring act of faith, with a U. S.
military mission in the gallery.
He later received the Americans
in a private room.
Churchill solemnly read the
statement in the House of Com
mons. He said: “The Lease-Lend
bill, as the House is aware, be
came a law yesterday when it
received the immediately signa
ture of the President. Pm sure
the House wishes me to express
on their behalf, and of the na
tion, our deep and respectful ap
preciation of this momum'-nt of
generous and far-seeing states
manship by the most powerful
democracy, which has in effect
been declared in solemn statute,
that they will devote their over
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Commander John
Perry Named C 0
Kodiak Naval Base
WASHINGTON, March 12 </P)
i —Tlie Navy announced the trans
fer of Commander John Perry
from the Naval Air Seattle to be
the commanding officer of the
Naval Air Station at Kodiak*
when it is established.
Carry on
LONDON, March —Nearly 500
Methodist churches, more than
200 of them in London, have been
damaged or destroyed by air
raids throughout Britain but
church work has continued “al
most without interruption.”
whelming industrial and finan
cial strength in insuring the de
feat of Nazism, in order that na
tions great and small, may live
in security, tolerance and free
dom.
BRITISH BOMBERS ASSEMBLED OUTDOORS
Production of Lockheed Hudson bombers for Britainhas been so accelerated recently that final as
sembly of the planes Ls being done outdoors at airports near the Lockheed factory at Burbank, Cal.
Several score camouflaged ships here await installation of wing tips and motors.