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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 76. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. JUNE 21, 1940. Per roPr
Hitler Delivers T er ms His Armistice
Would Demilitarize France, Strip Wealth, Resources
Presi. Roosevelt Names 2 Republicans to Cabinet
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Lyon, France’s 3rd largest City
Captured With 200.000 Prisoners
50,0000 Poilus Surrender to Swiss
UNDATED, June 20 (/Pi —Hos
tilities between France and the
axis armies is expected to cease
Friday or Saturday at the latest,
the official Italian news agency
reported, asserting that the
French plenipotentiaries started
back to Bordeaux with the terms
dictated by Hitler and Mussolini.
The place of meeting with the
French envoys, who arrived in a
snow-white plane was “some
where” in German-occupied nor
them France but the exact lo
cation was not disclosed, blam
ing Berlin for “difficulties in
news transmission” via Spain.
A French government commun
ication, naming France’s four
peace plenipotentiaries, said-they
didnt’ reach the German govern
ment until 3 p.m. PST yesterday.
A Broadcast said “it could be
» transmitted to the Fuehrer only
at 6 p.m. The high command
thereupon gave the necessary in
structions and immediately made
preparations for receiving the
French armistice delegation.
Hitler’s command announced
the fall of Lyon. France’s third
largest city, two hundred miles
v_
i north of Marseilles, and the cap
| ture of more than 200,000 prison
ers including General Altmeyer,
| the commander of the tenth
French Army.
Fifty thousand French poilus,
: in the eastern Maginot Line sur
rendered their arms to Swiss sol
diers and poured across the Swiss
frontier.
Waves of German planes at
tacking from midnight to dawn,
rained new death and destruc
tion on England, in the opening
phase of the “battle for Britain.”
2700 Royal Air
Force Men Dead,
Missing, Prisoners
LONDON. June 21 </P) — Royal
I Air Force men, dead, missing or
1 iriscners, passed the 2700 mark
j with the issuance of a ILst of 127
' missing.
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Alaska “Queens” Thrilled By Trip “Outside”
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Miss Minnie Motschman (left) and Miss Margaret Scott are shown
# as they arrived at Seattle, June 13 aboard the steamship Aleutian,
enroute to Washington, D. C„ and the New York world's Fair. Miss
Motschman of Fairbanks, “Miss Alaska,” and Miss Scott, who is
“Miss Nome,” went on a shopping spree soon after they disembarked
(This is an Associated Press photo)
Hitler Dictates Three Aims German
Armistice From Railway Gar Used
For Same Purpose By Foeli In To
COMPIEGNE. June 21 (P) —
Hitler reached the highest point
in his meteoric career at historic
Compiegne forest when he per
sonally received the French en
voys and handed them the arm
istice terms which proclaimed the
defeat of France. The Fuehrer
chose for the meeting place, the
railway car in which Foch hand
ed the Germans his armistice
terms. There, at 3:32 p.m. Hitler,
flanked by his highest military
chieftains and civil officials, faced
the four-man French delegation.
The ceremony of presenting
the terms lasted only ten minut
es. The peace terms, Hitler said,
and Keitel thought were not hu
j miliating to France. When the
: preamble was read Hitler step
; oed down from the historic car
and saluted stiffly.
Hitler’s visit to Compiegne was
conducted with military precision
| arriving there at 3:15 p.m. with
J with top military leaders as well
1 as Rudolph Hess, his deputy for
party affairs. He survey with in
terest the railway car, which had
been moved out of the special
building where the French en
shrined it at the exact spot where
it stood when Foch dictated his
terms. Inside, Hitler occupied the
same seat occupied by Foch. As
he looked out of the car window
he could see nearby, a marble
bust of Foch.
When Hitler left the car, the
French representatives were left
behind to consider the terms
handed them. The French officers
were provided a tent for their
quarters outside the car and tele
phor.e facilities were installed to,
: permit them to call their govern
ment. The French listened silent
ly as Keitel read the preamble.
Wipes Out W rong
German Military
J
Honor and Dignity
UNDATED, June 21 (IP) — Hit
—
i
ler crowned his hour of triumph
by personally meeting France's
peace-seeking envoys at the shell
torn forest of Compiegne, the
scene of the signing of the World
War armistice. He met the
French plenipotentiaries in the
same historic railway car in
which Foch dictated his terms
when the Kaiser’s armies laid
down their arms. Colonel General
(Wilhelm Keitel. chief of the
Nazi command first read the pre
amble of the armistice conditions
Hitler remaining silent. Nearby
was foreign minister Von Ribben
trap. Colonel General Walter Von
Brauchitsch, commander-in-chief
of the German army was also pre
?-*nt. The meeting took place at
3:30 p.m.
The official German news agen
cy said: “Today’s action in the
forest of Compiegne wiped out
the wrongs done to the German
miltary honor and dignity. The
action toward the enemy, honor
ably defeated, stands in contrast.
to the eternal hate and sowing of
monuments at this place where
the Gallic business once shamed
the undefeated German army.”
The three aims of the German
armistice terms were announced:
One, to prevent the continu
ance of the war by France, by
the apparently complete demilit
arization of the French.
Two, to obtain full guarantees j
for the “necessary continuance of1
the war against Britain.” This
indicates that the Frencli indus
tries, material and wealth will be
taken over by Germany to fight
England.
Three, to produce “proper con
ditions for a new European
peace.”
Immediately afiter reading of
the preamble, Hitler departed
amid the strains of “Deutschland
that although the Allies in the
World War were supported by
American troops, the Allies, did
n’t successfully in any way con
quer ithe German army, navy or
air force.
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Delegate Ready
For Royalty
Delegate Anthony J. Dimond
wil extend a cordial welcome to
■ Miss Minnie Motschman when as
‘‘Miss Alaska of 1940,” she will
arrive in Washington, D. C., to at
tend the national convention of
the Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
Hail to the air lines — no
fatal accidents in the past year—
a tribute to men and metals.
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Joe Louis Kayoes
Godoy iu Eighth
UNDATED, June 20 (JP) — Joe
Louis remained World heavy
weight champion tonight, stop
ping Arturo Godoy of Chile, via
the technical knockout route in
one minute twenty four seconds
of the eighth round in their sch
eduled 15 iround fight before
more than 30,000 sectators. Louis
weighed 199 pounds and Godoy
201 Mi.
Louis floored the rugged Chil
iean with a hundred punches for
a count of six just at the end of
the seventh round. He finished it
| up in the eighth when he floored
Godoy twice then dropped him
for the third time when referee
Billy Cavanaugh ended the bout.
Army Dispatches Largest Group
Of Soldiers To Alaska In History
570 Men Make 3-mile-long Train
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FORT LEWIS. June 21 {JP) —
The U. S. Army dispatched the
! largest group of soldiers in the
history of Alaska to “provide
protection for the new airbases
now being established in the
Territory. A battalion of infantry
and a battery of field artillery
troops left here at 8 a.m. for Seat
tie where they will board the
army transport St. Mihiel. A com
1 pany of engineers from Fort Law
ton will join them. The ship is
scheduled to sail for Anchorage
tomorrow. The territorial force
j comprises 570 officers and enlist
ed men assigned to the airbases
at Anchorage, Unalaska, Kodiak
' and Fairbanks.
Major General Sweeney, com
mandant at Fort Lewis, of the
third division, said: “This is the
largest single group we ever sent
to Alaska. There were only a
few soldiers up there in 1898.’’
The bulwark of the new Al
aska force is from the first bat
talion, fourth infantry previous
ly stationed at Fort Missoula,
Montana. The troops arrived Wed
nesday. A threemile -long que of
trucks ftled out of Fort Lewis. In
addition there were scores of
truckloads of waving men. The
column included motorcycles, re
connaissance cars and trucks load
ed with field equipment and sup
plies.
Roosevelt Forms Coalition Cabinet
Naming Frank Knox and Henry
Stimson GOPs. to Cabinet \ acancies
WASHINGTON. June 20 (/P) —
President Roosevelt took steps to
form 3 coalition cabinet, submit
ting to the Senate, the nomina
tions of Colonel Frank Knox as
Secretary of the N..vy and Henry
Stimson as Secretary of War.
Knox is the publisher of the
Chicago Daily News, a Republic
an. and vice-presidential candi
date in 1936. Stimson was secre
tary of States in the Hoover ad
ministration and Secretary of
War under President Taft. The
submission of the nominations
was accompanied by the White
House announcement but without
amplification.
Secretary Woodring resigned
his cabinet portfolio, effective
with the Senate confirmation of
the nomination of his successor.
White House officials said that
Woodring's letter of resignation
was so personal that the usual
custom was not followed, and it
was not made public.
Knox succeeds Charles Edison,
who resigned, effective June 24,
to run for the governorship of
New Jersey.
9,000 First Flight
Covers From Fbnks
Is Record Dispatch
FAIRBANKS. June 20 OP) —
Nine thousand first flight air
mail letters from Fairbanks and
far-flung Interior Alaska points,
from Forty-Mile to Nome left
here at nine this morning by El
ectra to swell the Alaska Clip
per’s first south bound air mail
volume from Juneau for the Stat
es. tomorrow. One-third of the
letters are from out-lying points.
Today's shipment supplements
the large interior lot previously
forwarded to Juneau for the in
itial clipper flight cachets from
that point. Today’s mail is the
largest non-holiday air mail dis
patch on record.
MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER
DIES AT AGE OF 59
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PHILADELPHIA, June 21 (jP)
— General Smedley Bulter, aged
59, retired, of the Marine Corps,
died at the Naval Hospital here
at 5 p.m. EST. He had bc-en ill
for several weeks.
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GOP Recognizes
\\ kite Delegates
Official Alaskans
PHILADELPHIA. June 21 (P)
— The Republican National Com
mittee decided to favor the three
members delegation from Alaska
headed by Albert White. The de
cision was reached by a rising
vote for White. His counsel suc
cessfully contended that in sel
ecting their delegates by the re
cognized party governing commit
tee, they abided by the rules of
the national committee in calling
their convention.
Alaskan Is Named President Of
National Bank Of Commerce
SEATTLE, June 21 <P> — Char
les Kirtland, twice mayor of
Wrangell, prominent in Alaskan
banking circles for the past 14
years was elected president of
the National Bank of Commerce.
He will devote the banks atten
tion to Alaskan customers and to
cooperation between P a c i fi c
Northwest firms and business in
terests in Alaska, President An
drew Price said.