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Russ. Object Passage Nazis, Bulgaria
Eastern Airlines Sleeper Plane Crashes Killing 7
French Population Channel Coast Being Removed
RUSSIA OBJECTS TO PASSAGE
OF GERMANS THRU BULGARIA
RESULT ANKARA CONFERENCE
UNDATED, Feb. 27 ,(/P) — Bal
kan dip'omats heard that Rus
sia raised objections to the pas
sage of German troops through
Bulgaria. Dispatches from Bel
grad said the Yugoslav General
staff had ordered a speed-up in
defense preparations in Yugo
slavia and it was said they now
fear that the German armies
massed in Rumania might at
tempt to invade Gre.ce through
Yugoslavia instead of through
Bulgaria.
Yugoslavia’s foreign minister
Cincar Marcovic was called back
unexpectedly to Belgrade from
Budapest, the capital of Hungary
where he had arriv d only yes
terday to sign a Yugoslav-Hun
garian treaty of friendship.
Diplomatic quarters in Buda
pest heard that nis abrupx recaii
was connected with “impending
events of importance between
the Axis and Yugoslavia.” The
long traditional protector of her
"little Slav brothers” and Bul
garia, Russia, may have decided
to stiffen her attitude toward a
Germany thrust in southeast Eu
rope, as a result' of conferences
now going on in Ankara, Turkey.
Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain’s
envoy to Russia flew to Ankara
as Foreign Secretary Eden and
General Di 1, chief of the British
g neral staff, conferred with
Turkish leaders, presumably on
moves to counter any Nazi at
tack on Greece.
Sir Stafford it was believed
was carrying news of Russia’s at
titude if Turkey resolves to fight.
In the past Russia was repre
sented as exerting strong pres
sure on Turkey to remain neutral
in relations between Britain and
Bulgaria.
Re aliens were further strain
ed by the mysterious disappear
ance of ft fivember of the British
legation staff at Sofia, said to
have been kidnapped “by the Bui
garian police at the behest of Ger
mans.” British quarters said the
incident might lead to a break in
diplomatic relations between Bui
©aria and Britain.
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Removing French
Population From
Channel Coast
UNDATED, Feb. 23 (JP) — Un
confirmed reports from Vichy
said that Germany was removing
the French population from the
English channel coast and is clear
ing a 22-mile strip. Some quar
ters declared that this indicated
final preparations for the attempt
to invade the British Isles. These
reports said the removals began
in mid-January.
It was considered possible that
the long-heralded thrust across
the channel might coincide with
the opening of the vast new Ger
man U-boat offensive which Hit
ler declared would be unleashed
in March.
Germans said Nazi warplanes
have already taken heavy tolls of
British shipping, sinking or dam
1 aging 28 vessels, totaling 146,000
tons in the past two days. In
addition to the aerial toll the
tons were sent to the bottom by
German command said 22,000
Nazi subs.
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Marriage License Issued To
Madeleine Mirow, John Moore
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RENO, Feb. 26 (JP) — A mar
| riage license was issued to John
W. Moore, aged 33, of Anchorage
and Madeleine C. Mirow, aged
27, of Nome.
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United States enLssies in the Orient have again urged American women and children, and men who
did have to remain, to leave Japan, China, andlndo-China (1). The urging came just as the Navy
Department asked Congress for more than $74,000,000 to strengthen facilities at Pacific bases (2) at
Guam, Samoa Midway, Wake and Palmyra IslandsThe request was made coincident with reports from
l Manila that f^miUes of Army officers in the Philippines have been told to get ready to leave for the
United States. Dotted lines and figures show distances between the islands.
EASTERN AIRLINES SLEEPER
PLANE WRECKS, KILLING 7,
EDDIE RICKENBACKER HURT
ATLANTA, Ga„ Feb. 27 f/P) —
dropping away from the radio
beam, an Eastern Airlines plane
ripped itself to pieo s in some
pine woods near here, killing sev
en and injuring nine others, in
cluding the famed flier, Eddie
Rickenbacker.
The 14-passenger sleeper bang
ed against a wooded knoll short
ly after 1 a.m. in attempting a
beam landing after a run from
New York, but the searchers did
| n’t find the wreckage until short
ly after dawn.
An injured passenger made his
way to a phone to call for help.
Th; wreck occurred 5 miles from
the airport and 700 yards from
the nearest dirt road. Rescue
work was painfully slow and it
was until mid-morning that the
sev.n bodies were removed from
the smashed cabin.
Nine of the injured were taken
to hospitals and undertakers re
ported that seven bodies were
brought in. Three of these were'
identified as those of the crew,!
Captain James P rry, co-pilot L. |
E. Thomas and Stweard Clarence
M>>ore, a11 of New York. The oth
er four bodies of the passengers
w re listed as Repres ntative Wil
lism Byron, Democrat, of Wil
liamspc rt, Maryland; B. C. M.
V nderhoop, of Scarsdale, New
York; Juan Maria San Salvador,
a Central American; and A. Leib
c\v :7. of Atlanta. Tire identifica
tion of the dead passeng rs was
diiacult as they were dressed in
pajamas and some of them had
been asleep in the plane’s berths.
Of the nine in the hospital,
those in the most serious condi
tion seemed to be Rickenbaoker,
with a broken left leg and back
injuries to an undetermined ex
tent; H. A. Littledale, Assistant
managing editor of the New
York Times; Mrs. Littledale, J.
S. Iiosenfeld of New Orleans;
and H. Hansell of the Bronx,
New York. Both the later two
were ab. to walk away from the
shattered plane, the former giv
ing the alarm which brought the
searchers to the isolated scene of
the crash.
WILL BUILD NAVAL
BASE, GUAM ISLAND
WASHINGTON, Fob. — Legis
lation to authorize a $242,000,000
program for development of nav
al bases, including Guam and
new island outposts received
from Great Britain, has passed
i the House and been sent to the
Senate.
Final passage, by a voice vote,
came after Chairman Vinson of
the House Naval Committee, pre
sented a letter from chief of Na
val Operations Stark asserting
that while there is “nothing of
fensive” about the twice rejected
Guam project, any protest from
Japan about it ought to be “to
tally disregarded.”
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Former King Spain
Alphonso XIII Dies
—
ROME, Feb. 28 (/P) — Aphonso
the Thirteenth, former monarch
of Spain died at 11:50 a.m. in a
hotel room at Rome which has
been his exil _ for a decade.
He had suffered a series of
j heart attacks beginning February
| 13th and had been sitting in a
| chair for the past seven days,
| too weak to be placed in bed.
i His mind was lucid and cheer
| ful to the last.
At his side when he died was
his Queen Victoria, from whom
he was estranged for many years,
his son designated as the heir to
the Spanish throne, Don Juan; an
other son, Don Jaime; his daugh
ter Beatrice and three doctors.
A Spanish Jesuit priest, Padre
Ulpiano Lopez administered the
last rites of the Catholic Church
when death seemed inevitable.
On Feb. 22, another daughter,
Maria Christina was summoned
from Turin, but was unable to
reach Rome as she was expecting
a child.
Prince Juan served four years
with the English Navy and
speaks English fluently.
NOTICE
TO ALL MALE PERSONS be
tween the ages of 18 and 60:
A call is being made to you to
register your willingness to join
either the local Home Defense or
a proposed unit of the National
Guard at Nome. It is desired to
have all applications in the Of
fice of the City Clerk as soon as
possible in order to present the
required information to Army of
ficials who are due to arrive here
March 3rd. Call at the City
Clerk’s Office and get your ap
plication form.
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AMERICAN FLIER KILLED IN ACTION
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The first action fatality of the American Eagle Squadron, a force
fighting on the side of the RAF, was announced in London as Edwin
Ezell Ordison (left, pointing), of Sacramento, who was killed while
chasing a German plane. He stands here with Byron Fees Kenneriy
of Pasadena, Calif., a member of the squadron.
Jap Ultimatum
To French In Indo
China Is Expired
TOKYO, Feb. 28 <JP) — Satur
day— Japan’s ultimatum to the
French that they agree to yield
Thailand and large areas of In
do-China provinces of Cambodia
1 and Laos, or suffer “forceful ae
' tion” by Japanese armed forc
es, expired at midnight Friday
without a reply.
Authoritative sources said the
Japanese Foreign Office was plan
ning an extraordinary conference
of key officials iater this morn
ing to which Indo-China peace
conference delegates will be ask
ed for an explanation of why the
French had not replied.
The nature and future Japan
ese action will depend on their
analysis of the French explana
tion, it was stated.
FORD COMPANY IS
SUED FOR MILLION
DETROIT, Feb. 25 — The Ford
Motor Company personnel direct
or, Hary Bennett, and three less
er company officials were named
as defendants in a million-dollar
damage suit.
The suit was filed by CIO Unit
ed Auto Worker Herbert Harris
of Salem, Mo. It was based on a
claim that he was tarred and fea
thered at Dallas, Texas, in 1937,
after speaking at a meeting urg
inp unionization of Ford work
ers. He said he was hospitalized
three days and suffered perman
ent nervous shock.
Air Force In
Alaska Is Being
Strengthened
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 </P)
Strengthening of the U. S. air
force in Alaska was announced
by Secretary of War Stimson,
I who told at a press conference,
that three additional air corps
units left the West Coast recent
j ly for Alaska and that three ad
j ditional units were scheduled to
leave within the next two
months.
He declined to disclose the
strength of these units in men
and planes, declaring “I don’t
like to make the War Depart
ment a center for specific in
formation to go out to friends
abroad, or if you must, non
; friends abroad.”
FILM COMPANY
TO GO TO BARROW
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 25
— A film company headed by Dir
ector Ewing Scott is enroute to
Am rica’s farthest-north settle
ment, Point Barrow, Alaska, to
! produce a sound picture with an
! authentic Eskimo background.
The company will spend six
months in the Arctic seaport film
ing the story with an all-Eskimo
cast. The Eskimo actor Ray Mala
will play the lead. The film com
pany will travel to Point Bar
row by ship and plane.
Mala filst starred in the mo
tion picture “Igoo,” and since
then has appeared in a number
of film stories of the Far North.
He is a native of Candie, Alaska,
near the Arctic Circle.