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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 34. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Mar. 19, 1941. Per Copy 15*
House Passes Seven Billion Fund
German Raiders Reported Sent U. S. East Coast
U. S. Sending Naval Experts Far East & So. Pacific
REPORT GERMAN CRUISER
AND SUBS CROSS ATLANTIC
PREY ON U.S. COAST SHIPPING
Berlin Scoffs at Idea, Saying Germany Not So Naive
As To Attack America With Submarines
UNDATED, March 18 W—Hit- !
kr has sent “not only German
U-boat but German battle cruis
ers” across the Atlantic to prowl
American waters, it was declared
in. London. Churchill said that
Nazi overseas raiders have “al
ready sunk some of our independ
ently routed ships not sailing in
convoys.”
The statement followed in
formation received by the Unit
ed States government that at
least one long-range Nazi U-boat
is heading across the Atlantic to
prey on shipping off the Ameri
can coast. I
Churchill also disclosed that
three German submarines were
sunk yesterday.
Authorized quarters in Berlin
were quick to scoff at the U-boat
report, declaring it was a “put
up job by American war inciters
and is clumsy propaganda. We
are not so naive as to attack the
United States with U-tooats.”
Source Of
Information
Official Secret
WASHINGTON, March 18 (/P)
— Reports said at least cm: Ger
man submarine iis enroute to U.
S. coastal waters, and is perhaps
the forerunner of such which as
sailed American ships in the
World War.
One report said the informa
tion came from an int rcepted;
message, sent to at least one Ger
man sub, probably a 1500 ton
raider with a range of about
10,COO miles without refueling.
The source and details of the gov
ernm at information was an of
ficial secret.
Senator Wheeler said it came
from Britain’s ambassador, Lord
Halifax.
Despite the German denial that
a U-boat was sent to operate off
the Atlantic coast, Washington
reflected no little concern.
Raiders Sink
Ships 1500 Miles
East Of N.Y.
UNDATED, March 18 (/P) —
Churchill eairi raiders had sunk
ships as far west as the 42nd mer
idian, about 1500 miles east of
New York. The Pan American
neutrality zone extends 300 miles
into the Atlantic but is not recog
nized by beliigorent powers. At
the same time Hitler’s command
reported smashing new blow's ag
ainst Britain’s vital convoy sys
tem. The Nazi command said Ger
man subs sank five armed mer
chant ships totaling 35,000 tons
in an attack on a convoy; and a
4,900 tons merchantmen as sent
to the bottom in the North Sea.
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ARMY DAY —1911
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, Senate Concurrent Resolution 5,
75th Congress, 1st Session (50 Statute 1108) pro
vides:
“That April Cth of each year be recognized by the
Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stat
es of America as Army Day, and that the President of
the United States be requested, as Commander-in-Chief. -
to ord r Military units throughout the United States to
assist civic bodies in appropriate celebration to such ex
tent as he may deem advisable; to issue a proclamation
each year declaring April 6th as Army Day, and in such
proclamations to invite the Governors of the various
States to issue Army Day proclamations: Provided, That
in the event April 6th falls on Sunday, the following
Monday shall be recognized as Army Day.”
Pursuant to that resolution President Roose
velt has issued a proclamation designating April 6,
1941 as Army Day and has issued an order to mili
tary units throughout the United States, its Terri
tories and possessions to assist civic bodies in the
appropriate observance cl that day and inviting the
Governors of the varous States to issue Army Day
proclamations.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, ERNEST GRUEN
1NG, Governor of Alaska, do hereby declare April
- 6, 1941 as Army Day.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto subscribed my
hand and caused the seal of
the Territory of Alaska to be
By The Governor affixed. Done at the City of
Juneau this 6th day of March
in the year of our Lord, nine
S E A L teen hundred and forty one,
and of th: Independence of
the United States of America
the one hundred and sixty
fifth.
ERNEST GRUENING
Governor of Alaska
E. L. BARTLETT
Secretary of Alaska
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Three girls and a boy were bom over a four-hour period to Mrs. Porter Lasley, 42, wife of a Leitch
field, Ky., farmer. Mrs. Lasley is the mother of ten other children. Later the quads were moved to a
Louisville, Ky., hospital. Mother and children (left to right) are John, Mildred, Martine and Beulah.
All but John, who was receiving oxygen, were reported in good heath.
Yugoslavia Stiffen
j Attitude to Nazis
—
BELGRADE, March 10 (/P) —
Victor Von Heeren, German min
ister to Yugoslavia conferred for
an hour and a half with foreign
minister Cincar Marcovic on Ger
man and Yugoslav relations. Ger
man circles immediately circulat
ed the report that Yugoslavia
will sign the Axis pact on March
26th. This report was heard de
spite statements from high Yugo
Slav quarters in Belgrade that
the government has stiffened its
attitude toward Germany, es
) pecially since British troops have
| landed in Greece.
France Needs
Food From U. S.
GRENOBLE, March 19 (JP) —
Petain told France that Ameri
. can aid is necessary to the feed
l ing of France. He also announced
that a new French constitution
wil be drawn only after a Europ
ean peace is concluded.
House Passes
Seven Billion
Dollar Aid Fund
WASHINGTON, D. C., March
19 (^P) — The House voted swift
approval of the seven billion dol
lar cash British Aid program,
the unprecedented peace-time
measure sent to the Senate just
a week after the President asked
for the big fund. Repeated at
tempts were made by some Re
publican members to reduce the
fund but a bi-partisan majority
easily ditched them.
Japanese Says
Australia Consid
ering War Japan
NEW YORK, March 19 </P)
A Domei radio broadcast quoted
a Japanese arriving from Sydney
as saying that “Australia is con
sidering s riously the possibility
of war with Japan.” Thirty four
members of the staff of the Tak
ashimaya Company arrived at
Kobe.
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NAVAL EXPERTS FAR EAST
SEND SHIPS NEW ZEALAND
Ohservers Are Send to Canberra and Bangkok
i -
BATAVIA. March 19 {JP)— The
United States was reported in
creasing the staff of naval ex
perts in the Far East and South
Pacific. Two officials are being
[Stationed at Singapore, Darwin,
j Sydney, Aukland and other
points in addition to those reg
ularly attached to the U. S. lega
tions. At Canberra and Bangkok
they were described as observers
and not members of the Ameri
can diplomatic or consular ser
vice. At the same time there was
great interest here in the train
ing cruise of American warships
which currently put a total of
four curisers and nine destroy
ers of the U. S. Navy in Austral
ian and New Zealand waters.
Reports continued to circulate,
despite any support from official
quarters that Singapore will be
available to the U. S. fleet if
Japan moves southward.
GERMAN AIR FORCE ASSAULT
PORT CITY HULL-RAF BOMB
KIEL AND WILHELMSHAVEN
UNDATED, March 19 UP)—Ger
many’s Luftwaffe thundered fire
bombs and high explosives on
the English shipping city of Hull,
with a population of 300,000, in a
violent overnight assault, leav
ing great numbers dead and
wounded. Dispatches from Hull
said the attack, the worst of
many suffered there, had raiders
1 roaring overhead in steady wav
es, using the same tactics which
cost a thousand lives and 1300
injured in last week's smashes
at Liverpool and Glasgow. Berlin
j said several hundred planes were
I engaged in the raid, attacking
I through the entire night. A single
! high explosive bomb blasted a
j shelter. The only survivor there
was a year-old baby.
British bombers countered
with a heavy attack on the north
German port of Kiel and again
pounded the German naval base
at Wilhelmshaven and oil stor
age tanks at Rotterdam. The Ger
mans reported that a number of
civilians were killed and many
injured by the RAP’s forays ag
ainst, the Reich but asserted the
damage w'as slight.
German long range bombers
stabbed in daylight at a convoy
of 35 merchant ships escorted by
six British destroyers in the
North Atlantic. DNB reported
that one ship of from 5 to 8 thou
sand tons was listed as sunk and
another left with a heavy list.
Must Expect Losses
In Atlantic Battle
Til Victory Won
LONDON, March 18 </P) — The
Admiralty recorded another
heavy toll in shiping losses with
25 ships sunk totaling 98,832 tons
for the week ending March 9. A
spokesman declared “We must be
prepared to face these losses un
til the battle of the Atlantic is
won. The enemy is bringing into
play his maximum forces under,
on, and over the sea.”
But England’s Royal Air Force
was busy smashing at the Ger
mans too. A London communi
que said that RAF night raiders
pounded anew Bremen, and the
German naval base at Willhelms
haven. The Germans admitted
that several persons were killed
and injured in the attacks.
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