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VOL. 43. No. 51. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, April 30, 1941 Per copy 15«
US Warships Warned be Torpedoed
Nazis Launch Feeler Assaults On British Coast
Russia Forbids Transit Of Further War Materials
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SPEEDBOATS, LONG - RANGE
GUNS UNLEASH “FEELER” ON
BRITISH INVASION COAST
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UNDATED, Aprli 29 UP) — A
battle between British and Ger
man speedboats, attacking along
the southeast “invasion” coast of
England was reported as Na?.:
long-range guns on the French
coast unleashed the heaviest
cross-channel bombardm r.t of
the war. The twin action may be
a “feeler” of the type likcdy to
become general in an invasion a
♦ tempt. DNB declared that sev
eral British sp eelboats were dam
aged in the clash.
Apparently Hitler’s long-awaif
ed storming of the British Isles
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is not in the immediate offing,
it was pointed out in London yes
tercLy, as the RAF has not Con
ner rated recently on bombing
G rman-iheld ports across the
channel. This indicates that the
RAF has not found any new
ma-,-ing of German troop barges.
In the Balkans, Hitler’s war
r'icite was rep rted girding it
self for the assault on the island
of Crete, 70 miles south cf the
Gre k mainland, which might be
the fall dress rehearsal for the at
tempt to invade England.
THREATEN U. S. WARSHIPS
BE TORPEDOED BY NAZIS j
IF ENTER COMBAT ZONES
UNDATED, April 30 (IP) — In
B rlin, the German spokesman
bluntly challenged President
Roosevelt’s declaration that U.
S. warships were not prohibited
▼ from entering tho combat zone,
and indirectly threatened they
will b? torpedoed by Nazi U
bnats. “Whether Roosevelt goes
into the war zone or not, doesn’t
change our declaration nor its
consequences,” the spokesmen
said. He referred the the “cat gor
ical declaration of months ago
that whoever goes into the war
zone to aid Britain, regardless of
■what flag the ship flies, will be
torpedoed.”
In a stat ment yesterday, Pr's
dint Roosevelt didn’t say apecifi ■
ally that American warships
would enter the combat zone, but
merely that they would operate
anywhere deemed ncessary to
American hemisphere defense.
Informed sources in Washing
ton said that U. S. warships and
patrol bombers and in all pro
bability, carrier-based aircraft,
are already playing a vital rol ’
in patrolling the ocean stretch*
figuring in th? grim battle of the
Atlantic.
CONGRESS TO NEVER
GRANT FDR POWER
ST. PAUL, Minr.., April —- Sen
ator Burton K. Wheeler. Demo
rat of Montana, told an audience
h re that if President Roosevelt
comes to Congress se king au
thority for convoys to England,
not even the Chief Executive’s
most ardent supporters would
vote for the proposal.
THE ‘BRAINS’ OF A MESSERSCHMI T T_Hcre Is the Instrument panel of a two
motored German fighting plane, a Messerschmitt 110 model, which was reassembled at the Vultee
plant in California, after it had been shipped from England where it was shot down. Aviation ex
' perts have been examining its par's with the utmost care. Note machine guns in plane’s nose.
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Transit War Ma
terials Through
Russia Forbidden
UNDATED, April 30 UP)—Rus
sia, number one riddle of the war
took n lice of a reported move
ment cf German troops, tanks
and artillery pushing north thru
Finis id l nd simultaneously an
nounce i that the transit of war
through Russia was
forbidd n. Taken on its face
value, the twin actions seem to
indicate the chilling of Russia’s
professed friendship for Ger
many, already disturbed by the
,swe p of Hitler’s conquering le
gions in the Balkans.
Ghena River Ice
Goes Out 10:46
Monday Evening
FAIRBANKS, April 29 — The
i~2 went out of Chena River in
f: nt of Fairbanks at 10:46 last
ev nine, April 28. Sev ral thou
sand dollars in numerous small
minute contests were distributed,
but no big prizes.
The ice at Nenana, the scene
the big Alaska break-up con
te-t, is still holding. Latest re
ts indicate it may hold for
several days,'but is uncertain.
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ADMIRAL STARK DISCLOSES
NEUTRALITY PATROL OPER
ATES FAR AS 2.000 ML OUT
WASHINGTON, April 29 C/P)—
Admiral Stark disclosed that the
American neutrality patrol was
operating at some points to as
much as 2,000 miles off shore.
Addressing a defense luncheon j
of the U. S. Chamber of Com-;
merce ,tbe chief of naval op ra
tions indicated in an extempor
aneous addition to his prepared
address -that generally the patrol
vessels are operating about half
way across the Atlantic “from
nign latitude to the Antarctic,
in both oceans.”
Stark spoke after General Mar
shall reported on the state of
the army and revealed that eith
er today or tomorrow an army
garrison will be dispatched to
Trinidad. He added that “very
shortly11 new bodies of troops
will move to Alaska.
Already, Marshall said, Army
garrisons are in Alaska, Kodiak
Island, Newfoundland and Ber
muda. He didn’t say how many
troops were to be sent in the new
contingents.
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Soft Coal Miners
Resume Work
Thurs. Morning
WASHINGTON, April 29 </P)—
The United Mine Workers Union
announced that soft coal produc
tion will be resumed Thursday
morning. The nation’s bituminous
fields have been shut down since
April 1st, in a dispute over a new
wage contract.
The announcement was made
by spokesman and union Presi
dent Lewis after he discussed
with his district presidents, the
Appalachian coal area. The de
cision of the southern producers
might accept Roosevelt’s propos
al to reopen the mines.
The break in the coal wage con
troversy came last night when
Secretary Stephen Early announc
'd that the southern operators
had accepted the proposal of
President Roosevelt to reopen the
southern mines and negotiate a
wage agreement with the UMW
on a ’retroactive basis. On the
date of the resumption, the south
ern operators unexpectedly toss-d
in a dollar a day pay boost, pend
the final contract settlement.
U. S. Engineers
Will Let Bids
Till May 12
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SEATTLE, April 29 </P) — The
U. S. Engineers office here an
nounced that they will accept
bids until 2 p.m., May 12, for the
construction of 11 2-10 miles of
roadbed, two tunnels to Passage
Bay and canal construction for
the Alaska Railroad.' J '
U iV ft A I N E CRANAR Y—Famous is the fertility of Rus
sia's Ukraine on the Black Sea, a region rich iu minerals and
grains and poor in modern farm implements. Here’s a harvesting.
None can say for : ;n-e if Lkraine figures in Nazs •
War Department
Accepts Resigna
tion Lindbergh
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WASHINGTON, April 29 (/Pi— j
The War Department announced
that Lindbergh’s resignation as a
reserve air corps officer was ac
cepted. The flier had written to
the President, tendering his re
signation because of the Presi
dent’s comments on him at a
press conference Friday, left “no
honorable alternative.”
While it has been the War De
parment’s policy not to accept
resignation from reserve officers
during an emergency period,
Secretary Stimson possessed dis
cretionary power to act favorably
or unfavorably on it.
In a confidence with the Presi
dent. he compared the flier to oth s
er persons who predicted the de-1
feat of the British by Germany, j
and to Copperheads, a Civil War
term, applied to northern-rs who
believed the army incapable of
victory.
Stephen Early, commenting on
Lindbergh’s resignation said: “It
leads me to wonder if he is re
turning his decoration by Mr.
Hitler.”
Report Sinking
35,000 Tons of
British Shipping
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UNDATED. April 30 f/P) — Hit
ler’s command reported new sink
mgs of 35,000 tons of British
ships in “strongly protected con
voys” by attacks of German U
boats. In addition the command
said, Nazi speedboats raided an
other convoy off the British
southeast coast an sank three mer
chantmen totaling 9.500 tons.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside,’ using Sour
dough Stationery. They’ll get a
big kick but of it.
Court Sentences
Tax Evaders
NEW YORK, April 27 — Jos
eph Schenck, multimillionaire
movie executive, was sentenced
to three years in prison and fined
$20,000 in Federal Court after be
ing convicted on a charge of in
come tax evasion.
The movie producer was con
victed a week ago of evading tax:
es in 1935 and 1936.
Schenck, board chairman for
20th Century-Fox, was accused of
evading $412,000 in taxes.
Co-defendant Joseph Mosko
witz, Schenok’s eastern represent
ative, was sentenced to one year
and a day in prison and fined
$2000 on one of four counts of
which he was convicted.
COMMAN D_Capt. Olaf M.
Hustvedt commands the new
35,000-ton, $70,000,000 North
Carolina, newly commissioned as
the nation’s first battleship In 1ft
years. A resident of Decorah, la.,
the captain will command 1,00%
men and 75 officers.