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VOL. 42. No. 7. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday. Jan. 15, 1941. Prk5e *** 601,7 ll<
Hull Testifies For Lease-Lend Bill
10,000 incendiaries Dropped On Port Plymonth
Albanian Guerrillas Raid Italian Lines And Depots
English Port Plymouth Showered
10,000 Incendiary Bombs-Civilian
Fire Spotters Credited Saving City
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Toll Remarkably Light Considering. Intensity of Raid
But City at Dawn Presented ::Sorry Sight"
UNDATED. Jan. 14 </P) — Nazi
fire raid rs showered more than
ten thousand incendiary bombs
and “many tons" of high exp'.osiv
es on Plymouth, big English ship
ping port, leaving uncounted vie
tims still buried under debris,
• while RAF bombers attacked the
German U-boat base at Dorient
in the Dunkerque area of the
Nazi-held French coast.
Civilian fire spotters were cred
ited with saving Plymouth from
“even greater disaster" as the
Germans, striking in waves, took
advantage of th brillian moon
and the spreading fires to give
the citv of 205,(101) inhabitants
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one of its worst poundings. The
first wave of thirty bombers, it
was said, dropped thousands of
incendiaries illuminating the city
“in a grotesque light.”
i Two surface air raid shelters
j wore hit by bombs and two hos
pitals and a church damaged. In
| one hospital a single patient was
| reported killed amid a direct hit
' on a woman’s ward in which the
1 ceilings and walls were blown
apart. Early reports said the cas
j ualties were fear d to be large
; but officials declared that the tell
| was “remarkably light” consider
1 ing the intensity of the raid
which lasted about three hours,
j An eye witness said that Ply-1
j mouth at dawn was a “sorry
1 sight.”
Mon: cheerful news f r Britons !
came in a London admiralty re i
port that only four merchant
,hips totaling 14.637 tons were
sunk during the week ending Jan
I nary 5, one of the lightest weeks’
I losses since the war began.
, Albanian Guerrillas Are Reported
Raiding Italians-Albanians Battal
ions Disbanded Refuse Fight Greeks
Retreating Italian Abandon Dead and Wounded
UNDATED, Jan. 15 (/Pi — Re
ports reaching Struga, Yugoslav
ia, said that Albanian guerrilla? j
wore raiding Fascist iines of com
* munication and ammunition de
pots thus complicating the Ital
ian efforts to stem the Gre k
advance.
Albanian battalions organized!
by the Italians were reported to
have been disbanded because
they ref us d to fight the Greeks.
There was little news from
the North African front as the
British continued preparations to
assault the surrounded Libyan
port of Tobruk.
Leave Dead and Wounded
UNDATED, Jan. 15 </P>—Greek
mountain fighters are reported
to have smashed two Italian
ounter attacks and a drive to
:.h, north from Klisura in cen
tral Albania, compelling the Fas
cists to return in such ihaste that
they left dead and wounded on
the battlefield. Then the Greeks
are said to have resumed th ir
advance on Berati.
Weather Cause
Lull In War
j
Over Britain
UNDATED, Jan. 15 hP) — Bad
weather caused a lu'l in the air
siege of Britain during the night;
but RAF bombers flew in the I
dirty weather to pound Nazi air]
bases, shipping and a railway
bridg in German-occupied Nor
way. Two direct hits were report
ed on a motorship in Stavanger
Roads on the west coast.
London’s millions enjoyed an
other night of quiet and wonder
continued at the absence of Ger
man raiders sine. Sunday night.
\Vi!h the arrival of daylight Nazi
bombers returned to the assault
as a lone raider machine gunned
a village in northern Scotland
and dropped a single bomb. Plan
as were also reported owt East
England.
High Court
Gives NLRB
New Powers
WASHINGTON, Jan. —The Su
nreme Court held the Labor
Board has authority to require a
company to sign a written eon
*ract with labor organizations.
Justice Stone delivered the de
cision in the case of a Pittsburgh
.■ompany testing hte Board’s au
thority under tlhe labor act.
There were no dissenting votes.
McReyr.olds did not participate.
Ston. said, “Refusal to bargain
collectively is an unfair labor
practice. It is true the labor act,
while requiring an employer to
bargain co lectively, doesn’t com
pel him to enter into any agree
ment, but it doesn’t follow that
having reached an agreement he
can refuse to sign it. Because he
never agreed to sign one, he may
never have agreed to bargain,
but the statute however requir
es him to do so.”
THE MAIL GOES THROUGH—Lish, an 8-year-old British dog-of-war, in training in
England, worms her w'ay through barbed wire with a message (in the tin can). Her trainer, Leslie
Oliver, claims dogs are "as good as humans"—and better at some jobs. Lish wears a gas mask over
her muzzle. Barbed wire would have taken a man with clippers several precious minutes to cut.
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Hull Asserts Control Of High
Seas Is Key To Seeurity Of j
Western Hemisphere, Before Com.
—
Overwhelming Speed Is Our Greatest Need
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 <SP) —
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
told the House Foreign Affairs
Committee that the “Control of
the high seas by law-abiding na
ti ns is the key to the security
of the Western Hemisphere." The
S;ate Department head appeared
b' fore the committee as the first
witness in President Roosevelt’s
bi 1 for aiding Britain and other
nations “fighting aggression" by
lending or leasing them war ma
terials ranging from bullets to
battleships.
Hull described the measure as
one “to make it possible for the
United States to allocate our re
sources in the ways best calculat j
ed to provide security for this
(nation and this continent. Above,
all it will do all th/Ese things
i in the speediest possible manner
' and overwhelming speed is our
greatest need.”
He asserted that the proposed
n w order in the Pacific means'
domination by one country to the'
' exclusion of the interests of oth- j
j or nations.
Medical Supplies
liritain Sought
NEW YORK — An urgent plea
for anti-toxins and other supplies
to prevr-nt the outbreak of epi
demics among children in Great
Britain was issued by Dr. Carnes
Weeks, advisory chairman of the
Medical and Surgical Supply
Committee of America, with na
uonal headquarters in New York.
Warning that the winter lack
of sunshine coupled with damp
ness and poor ventilation in
makeshift bomb shelters may ere
ate a “serious health emergency,
especially among growing child
ren of school age” Dr. Weeks
cal'i d 'upon the parents of the
United States to help the com
mittee meet the problem. The
ned is greatest, he said for vita
mins, cod liver oil, anti-toxins,
anti-meningicocci, food concen
trates, otreals and canned milk.
“England’s battle is more than
a war against invasion by ships
and planes,” Dr. Weeks observ
ed. “Hers is a fight against sick
ness and disease wrought by
crippled water supply systems,
shattered homes, bombed hospit
als and insanitary air raid shel
ters. Against such a background
the plight of Britain’s youngsters
is naturally more heart-rending."
Since the committee was form
ed last August, Dr. Weeks dis
closed 500 gallons of cod liver oil
and tonics have been shipped to
mergency field hospitals in Eng
land where they are distributed
among children stricken with
rickets and other diseases result
ing from lack of sunshine. In
addition, 5,000,000 doses of vita
min concentrates have been s nt
overseas to treat cases of malnu
trition and build resistance
among English boys and girls. In
the four months of its existence
the committee has rais d $108,000
The Committee is kept inform
ed by cable from London of the
need or specific medical and sur
gical supplies. A cable message
that arrived n-cently requested
immediate shipment of rubber
sheeting, hot water bottles, lint
and tetanus antitoxins. Many
drug and supply houses thruout
the nation have contributed gen
erously to the support of the
committal’s work, Dr. Weeks
said.
Says We Could
Mine Two
Needed Metals
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Report to Ickes Tells of Status
Of Quicksilver and Tungsten
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WASHINGTON — The United
States could probably fill its own !
requirements for quicksilver and,
tungsten if imports of thbse met-,
als were shut off. W. C. Menden-1
hall report, d to Secretary Ickes
as part of the annual report of
the Geological Survey, of which
he is director.
His service has inspected thir
ty-four projects in the United
States where the. e metals axe in
some stage c*f production.
Mr. Mendenhall urged intensi
fication of the top graphical sur ‘
vey of the Unittd States as a
defens: measure, pointing out
that strategic maps could not be
made after an emergency arises,
; but must be ready in advance.
The report said that only 45.8
1 percent of the total area of the
United States has been topo
graphically mapped thus far.
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TELEPHONE SERVICE COMINC UP-with a
reel on her back, Floss, being trained in England for war duty,
lays a telephone cable across a section of bomb-pitted, barb
wired ground. Cable pays out from reel.
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Shortage Of
Meat Faces
Britons Now
Marked Wartime Increase In
Meningitis is Reported
By Officials
LONDON, Jan. — Food Minis*
ter Lord Woolton acknowledged
that Great Britain is suffering
from a m at shortage but said
this is believed to be only tem
porary.
At the same time, Chief Medi
cal Officer Sir Wilson Jameson,
noted a marked wartime increase
in meningitis is reported, an in
crease from 1500 cases to 3000.
Sir Wilson Jameson expressed,
fears the disease might be serous
ly augmented by the fact that
millions of Britons sle p in damp
cold confined subways and air
raid shelters during the winter
months.
A brighter note was sounded
oy the Adrriralt” • nnouneirg a
.harper reduction in the toll of
Great Britain’s vital sea borne
commerce “by era my action,"
TERRITORY NOW
$790,224 IN BLACK
Tihe Territory of Alaska begins
the new year with one of the
largest bank balances in history,
and this despite unusually heavy
expl nditures for roads in the bi
ennium.
Territorial Treasurer Oscar G.
Olson announced that the Trea
sury’s bank balance as for Dec
ember 31, 1940 was $790,224.96.
Except for 1938 and 1939, this
is the largest in the past decade.
Bank balances as of December
11 n the past 10 years have been
as follows:
1931 $298,920.92
1932 271,433.46
1933 . 381,524.82
1934 . 516,398.26
1935 743,255.16
1936 . 536,876.13
1937 717,192.44
1938 990,009.89
1939 816,108.24
1940 ... 790,224.96