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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 128. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY. OCT. 21, 1940. Price P*r IU
Britain Starts Counter Offensive
Germans Complain Of ‘Terror Methods’ Of RAF
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Reports of Axis Demands on Greece Are Denied
Britain’s Aerial Counter Offensive
From Arctic Circle to Italy Make
Nazis Complain of Terror Methods
UNDATED, Oct. 21 (/P)— Brit
ain's intensified aerial counter
offensive was marked by a hun
dred bombs a minute crescendo
winch stung the Nazis to com
plain of “outright terror” meth
ods. RAF bombers pounded Ber
lin, Northern Italy, German-held
invasion ports and the German
seaplane base at Tromsoe, Nor
way in the Arctic Circle.
Berlin reported many civilians
were killed and wounded by Brit
isn warplane striking in several
waves and which destroyed apart
merit buildings in west Berlin
and showered incendiary and
high explisive bombs on Berlin
in the first air raid in five nights.
The Germans asserted that
their bombing squadrons drop
ped 500 to/;? q| bombs on Brit
ain in one 24-hour period over
the week end.
Rome reported 8 killed and 15
wounded by British raiders at
tacking cities in north Italy, for
ihe first time since early Septem
ber.
By daylight, Nazi raiders
swarmed across the Channel to
attack London, Liverpool and
other sections of the island king
dom. After <the 44th consecutive
overnight attack which the Lon
doners characterized as “compar
atively light” an air ministry
' rmun.que acknowledged some
ware killed and injured in met
ropolitan, London where damage
was dene to buildings^ including
many dwellings. A London hos
pital suffered a direct bomb hit
inflicting heavy damage to the
childrens’ wards but the British
reported no serious casualties,
j however.
Greek Sources Report German
And Italian Demands Territory
And Concessions Officially Denied
UNDATED, Oct. 19 i(/P) —Ger
man and Lallan demands that
Greece surrender territory, oust
the pro-British government, sev
er rade relations with Britain
and line up in the Axis-Balkan
sphere, were reported by Greek
diplomatic source.; in Cairo. De
nials came\ swiftly from Berlin,
R me and Athens. Official Greex
circles in Athens said the rumors
w re “unworthy of comment.”
Diplomatic sources there report
ed they found no evidence of in
creased tension in Axis-Greek re
lations. The Greek sources at
Cairo said the information came
directly from Athens that the
Axis powers are demanding the
use of Greek air bases; give Bul
garia a corridor to the Aegian
Sea; hand Italy a slice of the
territory bordering Albania; and
force the abdication of king Geo
rge the Second.
Recently massed Fascist troops
on the Albanian frontier have
Greece worried. Turkey has pro
mised her two million soldiers
would bar the axis route.
A conference of British diplo
mats in the Balkins is expected
to confer soon at Instanbul.
London had a lighter pounding
than usual in the 42nd consec
utive overnight attack. Bad fly
ing weather was said to have lim
..od the Nazi air activity. Berlin
said bombers were headed for
England in “uninterrupted suc
cession."
Arthur Greenwood, British
minister without portfolio told
workers that Berlin would pay
double for the bombing of Lon
don that the Ruhr in Western
Germany has already been bomb
ed more severely than anywhere
in Britain.
Jap naval planes apparently
flying from French Indo-China
bases struck at the reopened Bur
ma Road, hitting it hardest at
bridges, stopping hundreds of
trucks loaded with long-delayed
vital supplies for the Chinese for
ces which started north over it
yesterday.
Violent Storm
Destroys Part
PAA Base at Wake
HONOLULU, Oct. 19 i(/P)—Ra
dio communication with Wake
was resumed and it was said all
members of the Pan American
colony there, about 35 persons,
were safe after a terrific storm.
75 percent of the buildings were
damaged, the hotel unroofed and
one fourth of the dock knocked
down. There were no planes in
the area.
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High Surf at S. F.
SAN 'FRANCISCO, Oct. 19 <JP)
—'The highest surf of the year is
breaking on Ocean Beach here.
The Weather Bureau said the
great waves were stirred by a
storm raging in the South Aleu^
tians.
ARMY MEN WILL
VOTE AT ELECTIONS
WASHINGTON, Oct. — The
War Department announced
Army officers and men will be
given leaves from military duty
at forthcoming elections, but stip
ulates they must vote in person.
Jap Newspaper
Report Agreement
With Dutch Indies
TOKYO. Oct. 19 .(/P> — The
newspaper Asahi reported a Bat
avia dispatch telling of the con
clusion of an agreement govern
ing oil exports from the Dutch
East Indies to Japan. No details
were given.
A Jap mission has been there
for same time and the country
has been- vitally interested and
anxious about oil, lest the Unit
ed Slates p ace a complete em
bargo on oil shipments to the
Orient.
Record Weather
Over Country
UNDATED, Oct. 19 (Ah—Win
ter swept the eastern- seaboaru
equalling and breaking seasonal
temperature records, while the
West Coast had a heat wave.
Snow fell in -Maine, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Western Massa
chussets and northern New Jer
sey. A 44-year record in New
York City was broken when the
temperature touched 32 and Al
bany 25.
In Southern California the torn
P nature rose to over a hundred
in some spots. Seattle register 74,
lie warmest October 18th in his
tory.
8.500 ALASKANS
ARE OF DRAFT AGE
WASHINGTON, -Oct. — The
Census Bureau estimated 319,075
men are of selective registration {
age in territories and possessions
of the United States including A1
aska estimated at 8.500.
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Italy and Great FV.'H. '*» ~ ■ 1 \ > ■ t their troops have been working together in patrolling the in
ternational settlement it: S uighai. This • ktnre s ov,■< how the belligerents are kept apart. A United
States marine patrol (center) keeps between them in pa re! work. Italian marines are on the left and
British Seafovth Highlanders on the right.
FirsrfKT RATE plarixcs
RET i'.AIEU A i S ATTLE
SEATTLE, Get. — The hear
ings cn freight rates between Pu
get Sound and Alaska ports was
resumed before the Maritime
Commission ixaminar. The hear
ing is being conducted to deter
mine whether recently increased
freight rates, now in effect, shall
prevail. At: irncys f r four st< m
ship companies planned to pre
sent figures cn the value of the
fleet in an attempt to show 'hat
the rate of return on their invest
ment is fair under present rates.
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Maynard-Columbus Hospital Makes
Drive For New Beds and Elevator
The campaign to raise money for the purchase of new beds '
and an elevator for the Maynard-Columbus Hospital got under
way in Nome today. Business concerns outside of Nome have
already been solicited and gifts are coming in daily.
As stated in an earlier issue of the Nugget, the Advisory
Board of the hospital voted to ask for fundis to replace all of the
oldi ibeds and to provide an elevator to be used in moving acci
dent and surgical cases to and from the surgery.
It is four years since the hospital has asked the public for
aissitanoe. At that time the X^ray department and the surgery
were modernized. Since then gifts have been made by individuals
or groups who recognized the needs. Three rooms were com
pletely refurnished and four additional beds were provided, one
of them a fracture bed oosting over two hundred dollars. Within
the last year a modern refrigerating system and a new General
Electric furnace have been added. Each item of new equipment
contributes to the comfort and welfare of the patients. It is
hoped that every one will respond generously in this campaign.
The following solicitors have been appointed: for the U. S.
S. R. & M.. Leonard Smith, Garnet Martin, Bjarne Olsen, and
A. M. Hartford; for the city, Cappy McDougall, Thos. A. Givan,
Mrs. Luella Grant, Rev. W. P. Wood, and Dr. Thomas Morcom.
Contributions may also be sent to or left at the Miners and
Mexchants Bank, the Nome Drug Store, and the Hospital.
ISenator l dram Johnson of California
Announces Bis Support of Willkie.
::'erna!lv !?ighl on Third Term Issue
WASHlh '.19 </P) —
Senator Hiram Jc. m of Calif
j ornia, a lor: . r , r of Roose
• ’. ast nig : his support
' i Wil’kie i ’i declaring
I he was ", t ht”' on the
hird term i-.-u.. He spoke over
the radio.
Senator Sherid " Downey, his
Democratic c Hag immediate
ly followed from L s Angeles
saying he had a ‘•traditional senti
me t" against the third term but
"as between a liberal administra
tion headed by Roosevelt in a
t : rd term and a conservative
ule under Willkie, I must sup
port Roosevelt."
Johnson said “If the President
sees fit to increase the term to
four years he can increase it to
eight or sixteen till the office be
comes but an inheritance.”
j Steffanson
Discounts Big
Diomede Base
SEATTLE, Oct. 29 (JP) — Vil
hjalmur Steffanson, Polar explor
er, arrived from the east, enroute
to Alaska to inspect territorial
commercial airways. Comment
ing on the reported Russian fort
ification of Big Diomede Island,
he said, the island is nothing
“but a great bare rock which one
of cur cruisers could blanket
with shells in no time at all. Be
-udes it’s not the Russians we
have to fear. If any attacks come
they will came from Japan. We
ought to fortify Alaska and make
no Secret of it.”
Football Scores
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Saturday, Oct. 19 i/P» — Finals
Duke 13—Co'gate 0
i Princet :n 28—Pennsylvania 46
I Maryland 0—Florida 19
Vanderbilt 0 — Georgia Tech.
19.
Nebraska 53—Kansas 2
Idaho 0—Boston College 60
Iowa 6—.Indiana 10
Carnegie Tecli 0—Notre Dame
61.
Iowa State 14—Missouri 30
Rice 6—Tulane 15
Northwestern 27—Wisconsin 7
Tennessee 27—Alabama 12
Texas 21—Arkansas 0
II inois 0—Michigan 28
Drake 0—Navy 19
Georgia 13—Columbia 19
Syracuse 6—Cornell 33
H ly Cros 13—NYU 7
Fordham 24—-Pitt 12
Dartmouth 7—Yale 13
Army 6—Harvard 6
Penn State 34—Leigh 0
Connecticut 13—Maine 6
Minnesota 13—Ohio State 7
Oregon State 0—Washington 19
Stanford 26—Washington State
14.
UCLA 7—California 9
Oregon 0—USC 13
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