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VOL. 42. No. 72. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, June 12. 1940. Per 15*
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National Debt Limit aised To 49 Billion Dollars
French Government Moves From
Paris To Tours, Banks to Loire
Turkey Declares is \Sith Allies
UNDATED, June 11 ^—Ber
lin sources reported the destruc
tion of two entire French armies
in the great battle for Paris, say
in,g that Hitler’s mechanized col
umns were speeding southward
to slice France in half to meet
Italian troops. There was no hint
of any such slaughter in Paris
and London dispatches.
The French high command re
ported that Weygand’s armies
stemmed the tempestuous “scy
the” attack down the coast aim
ed at seizing the French capi
from the rear.
Italy marshalled all her re
sources. authoritative sources in
Rome said. Troops and the naval
and air forces “undoubtedly are
engaging” the Allies. No details
were given, The cabinet, in a one
hour session levied new taxes, in
some cases increasing them one
hundred per cent.
Biilish sources at Gibraltar
said Italian crews attempted yes
terday to scuttle six of their
ships in the harbor but British
naval units reached them in time
to beach most of them.
Clement Attee, deputy leader
toid the House cf Commions*that
14 Laiian ships hod already been
seized and ten others were in Brit
ish ports.
iliurc .vas icac-.on ui Washing
ton when P* esidi nt Roosevelt last
night in eik'ect, sot ,-ed notice on
the world that the United States
i; shifting from the role of ncu
t ’.alnv ta one ~f ncn belligerency.
which means favoring the Allies
all we can without war. Most con
gressmen who offered comments,
endorsed Roosevelt's strong stand.
At Instambul, Deputy Yaltchin,
important political figure, said
Turkey was at the side of the Al
lies “with all her heart and wish
es their success.’’
The French government moved
to Tours and the banks to Loire,
the former tourist center. A pajl
of acrid smoke hung over Paris,
due to numerous fires set by a
German incendiary bomber.
Italy Raids
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LONDON. June 11 bP — The
war office announced that enemy
i aircraft raided the Malta British
naval base in the Mediterranean,
:. mere hop from Sicily where
Italy has both naval and air
bases. The communique said
there was a raid “at 4:50 a.m. by
ubout ten h stile aircraft at Mai
| ta and a further raid Later in
the morning. Casualties were
slight and little damage done.
One enemy plane was destroy
ed.’’
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ns Claim Within Twelve
One-Half Miles of Paris
French Say Defenses Unbroken
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UNDATED, June 12 (/P>— Bat
tle-stair. ed French poilus fought
doggedly to “the last ditch’’ in
the defense of Paris at the old
World War battlefields of Cha
teau Thierry and along the
Marne. The German high com
mand said their armies smashed
to within 12 and one-half miles
of the ccpi.al; that Reims and
Rouen were captured and Le
Havre bombed and seven trans
ports sunk.
The Paris spokesman said “No
where have the French defenses
been pierced.”
London reported a bombing at
tack on Northern Italy. Rome
said the first enemy assault on
Italian soil was r ade on the Lig
uarian coast when ' the great port
i Gen-qa it situated but r.o de
'oils \veTe give'n.
At Sydney, the navy minister
-aid the Italian liner Romolo
10,000 tons, -was fired and scuttl
ed by her crew in mid-Pacific,
when she was intercepted by an
Australian cruiser. The cew was
saved.
The Germans reported advanc
eg of from 50 to 70 miles toward
Paris “on many fronts” in the
past six days and said “our of
Tensive is going ahead on sthed
u,e.” Quick-firing German anti
aircraft guns, leveled <off with an
■fTective horizontal range of 8
miles destroyed 200 Allied tanks.
Prime Minister Churchill con
ferred with Premier Rcynaud
! -v-P fVmnrnl Weveand some
German and Allied troops fought n the streets of Calais recently just 22 miles across the English
Channel from England, as map shows. Shaded area was territory claimed by Germany. Circles
show other points of major fighting.
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where in France yesterday and
reached "a complete agreement”
in vital steps.
The Germans also claimed the
capture of Compeigne, the scene1
of the signing of the Armistice in
1918: that Allied troops were cut
off and surrounded near St. Val
ery on the coast: and that 59 Al
1... d planes were destroyed.
Italian said British air raids on
desert airdromes in Italian Libya
were beaten off without serious
damage.
Unidentified planes dropped
dropped bombs in and near Gen
eva killing four and injuring
many. Unofficially they were be
lieved to have been Italian plan
es.
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Bombs Dropped
On Geneva Of
British Ori <jin
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BERN, Switzerland, June 12
I (/P)— The Swiss federal govern
ment announced otlicially that an
examination of aerial bombs
which had been dripped around
Lake Leman las: night killing 4, j
showed them of British origin.
Seven of the bombs were drop
i ped at Renes and six near Gen
eva.'
Claim Capture
Allied Generals
BERLIN, June 12 VP) — The
high command today announced
that French troops surrounded at
St. Valery on the English chan
j nel had capitulated, and that
1 rr are than 20,000 prisoners had
been taken captive, including one
French Corps General, one Brit
ish Corps General, and four Fren
c'h Divisional Generals. The mat
erial taken, it was said was “in
calculable.”
War Secretary
Transfers Troops
To Anchorage
WASHINGTON. June 12 <JP)—
Secretary of War Woodring an
nounced today that the First Bat
talion of the Fourth Infantry
would be transferred in the near
future from Fort Missoula to
Anchorage, Alaska, and that Bat
tery A of the 81st Field Artillery
woiuld be organized from artil
lery troops of the Third Division
and sent to accompany them. He
also said that a company of En
gineers and other small detach
ments of service elements would
be organized and moved to An
chorage from Fort Lewis and oth
er West Coast stations. I
Defense Financing Bill Would
Raise Debt Limit to 49 Billion
Lower Income Tax Exemption
WASHINGTON. June 12 (&'> —
The House today passed the de
fense financing bill with only six
adverse votes, boosting taxes one
biilion, four million dollars an
nually, and increasing the na
tion s legal debt limit from forty
five to forty nine billion dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau explained the bill to the
S mate finance committee today.
Senate approval of the bill is ex
pected next week.
The bills lowers personal in
i' ime tax exemption to $800 for
single persons and to two thou
sand for married persons, increas
ing the number of taxpayers by
two million, and inceasing the
taxes of all those now paying.
The bill also increased the sur
taxes on incomes ranging from
six thousand to one hundred thou
sand annually, from one to thir
teen per cent. It also boosts cor
poration levies one per cent and
includes for five years only, a
ten percent supertax. Thus the
man whose income taxes figure
to one hundred dollars must pay
one hundred ten dollars.
Seal lie-Juneau
Service to Start
all June 20
SEATTLE, June 11 UP) — The
four-engined. 32-passenger Sik
orsky Clipper which is to inaug
urate the service to Alaska ar
rived at Matthews Beach at 4:35
p.m. yesterday from San Francis
co. after a 7-day leisurely flight
fr H N Y irk. The plane was
greeted by blasts from whistles
of nearby pleasure craft.
The first flight tc Juneau, with
mail only, will be made on June
20. Four days later the ship will
start a twice-weekly passenger
and mail service. Seattle manag
er Bulhvinkei said it was undecid
ed whether the same crew will
make both trips north.
More Late War News Will Be
Found On Page Three
Work Started
Today On 22
New Warships
WASHINGTON, June 12 (A*)—
The Navy Department today an
nounced that work orders had
been started on two new forty
five thousand ton battleships, and
twenty other warships and auxii
liary cruisers. The orders went
forward within an hour after
President Roosevelt signed the
Navy's one billion, four hundred
million dollar appropriation act.
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Ah —
The House completed congression
al action on the bills permitting
the navy to have a total of 10.000
plants, 16,000 pilots, build 22 new
combat vessels and also to in
crease the navy's surface tonnage
by 11 per cent. Both bills now ga
to the White House,
Here at a glance is the geographical and tactical contrast between
the German invasion of Belgium in 1914 and the Nazi invasion of
the lowland countries, 1940. Light arrows indicate the path of the
1914 sweep through Belgium.