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VOL. 42. No. 63. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. MAY 22, 1940 Pr;ce per copy 15*
Threatened
British Govt. Given Power Conscript Labor, Wealth
U. S. Navy Shipyards Ordered Speed Construction
Yesterday Germans Were Within
15 Miles 01 The English Channel
and W ithin Sight ol Eifel Tower
UNDATED, May 21 (/P> — Tne
M: a.i b r ;ig Up ns in t*.
forked slashes to the west and
south drove to within 15 m.les
of the English channel, also to
within right cf Eif 1 Tower, in
Paris only CO miles away.
The High command said the
French cities of Arras, Amiens
and Abbeville were seized. Pre
mier Renaud announced in the
French senate that Amiens and
Arras were taken.
The French war ministry
spokesman said the Germans
were meeting “furious resist
ance” everywhere and said that
indication , were that the Nazi ad
vance to .he sea was slowed up.
The drive to the west surpassed
'ihe westward gains of1 t-iC' Kai
ser’s army in the World War.
Thn German high command re
; • r . .1 chat the ninth French ar
my del nr'ing the Meuse front
trorn Naur to Sedan was crushed
in the greatest “attacking opera
tion of al! time.”
The British spokesman describ
ed the battle on the Western
Front “more confusing than ever
with everybody behind every
body else’s lines. Bands of Ger
man tanks are wandering around
living on the country.”
In a vide salient, the Nazis
dd “General Giraud, hitherto
commander of the seyenth
French army, who assumed com
mand over the ninth Army” and
his general staff w_re captured.
Nazi louroes said the last fort
in the Edgian Namur fortifka
ior.s was taken.
Failure Blow lip
Bridges Blaine for
Fast Nazi Advance
PARIS, May 21 t/P) —Premier
Renaud announced in the Senate
that “We must take immediate
decisions” and admitted the army
was up against something nev m
the deep motorized raids and
parachutists and explained the
disorganization. The army is as
sumed to ho,d the lines at the
Meuse River and in Belgium,
the Premier saying the French
divisions are “less numerous" in
that sector. He said the best
troops had been sent farthest in
to Belgium making it easy f ;
the* enemy mobile uni's to pene
trate. He laid part of the blam.
of the Nazi advance on the fail
11 cf the French cl iendem to
jit-* fho
British Troops
Hold Firmly To
Assigned Positions
NEW YORK. May 21 EP)—Brit
ish troops' are "holding firmly the
’•'csiticn a signed to them and
have reoulsed all attacks in the
oast 24 hours,” a London short
wave broadcast picked up here
'his afternoon, stated.
first Cruiser
Listed as Lost
LONDON. May 21 (jP> — The
Admiralty said the 9500-ton cruis
er Effingham was lost after strik
• g a rock off the Norwegian
•ccast but that all aboard were
rav'd. The Effingham is die first
Thill h cruiser officially listed as
lr f in fV>- wir.
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British Govt. Asks Dictatorial
Powers—Advance Guards Driven
Fully Mobilized
UNDATED, May 22 (JP)—Brit
ain mat ill d all her millions of
men and money to save the em
pire*. The government asked for
virtu illy d el: torial powers ov
er labor, v. ahh, the poor man’s
vages i he rich man’s capital.
Parliament quickly assented to
rushing through an emergency
bill.
Across the channel, the British
troops “pocketed”in Belgium by
the Nazi mechanized thrust
which threatened to cut them off
from the French, fought with
their backs to the sea. French
military spokesmen said however
the German advance guards were
chased out of Abbeville, 20 miles
from the channel and fiercely
counter attacking French troops
‘reported recapturing the town of
Arras, 60 miles from the chan
nel, probably relieving the pres
sure o.i the British.
A crowd of British women,
screaming “Kill the murdering
swir..pr ised around 22 cap
tured rman .fliers on their ar
riv:: 1 in England.
t ue of the terms of the emer
ge y bill was that the excess
prori.s taxes be raised to one
hundred per cent to avoid war
profiteering.
The German high command
claimed that the lightning paced
Nazi thrusts and daring motor
cycle raids, apparently unsupport
ed by infantry, widened the corn
dor, reaching almost to the chan
nel.
There was sudden renewed al
arm in southeastern Europe when
the general staff of Rumania.
King .Carol’s rich little oil king
dom, called 300,000 reservists to
the colors on 24 hours notice,
virtually bringing Rumania to
full mobilization.
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Largest Fort
Around Leige
Capitulates
i
WITH THE GERMAN ARM
IES, May 22, By Louis Lochner,
(A*) — The gigantic Fort Batice,
last great major fortification
around Leige capitulated before
my eyes. As we stood on the
heights between Eupen and Mal
medy with a commanding view
of the whole region, German ar
tillery followed by dive bombers,
made it easy for infantry to
force entry. We saw Nazi swa
slickas raised above the main
f< rtifleation within 20 minutes
alter the bombers attacked.
Have The Nome Nugget sent ti
’-wining claim.
Berlin sources identify this wre :a^;e as that of a British homher of the Vickers-Wellington type
shot down by German anti-aircraft guns “on the shore of the No~th Sea.” One man of the crew
was killed in the burning plane, ‘our others slightly injured.
WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND FRANCE APPEALED TO
NEW YORK, May 22 (/P) —The
women of France and Great Brit
ain were called upon in a Paris
broadcast today to "join all ser
vices of the army where they can
replace men.” The broadcast was
picked up by the CBS.
CHURCHILL’S GOVT. GIVEN
I'NPRECEDENTEI) POWERS
LONDON, May 22 {/P) —Within
three hours the Houses of Com
mons and Lords passed the King
George - approved bill giving
Churchill’s government unprece
dented sweeping war emergency
powers to conscript labor and
wealth.
WHY HITLER MOVED
Two considerations decided
Hitler to move rapidly, according
to word which comes from his
Italian allies.
First was the fact that the Al
lies still are unprepared, espec
ially in the air, and Hitler want
v d to strike before they would
be fully prepared in the fall.
Second, Hitler knew that there
was not much danger of heavy
U. S. war sales to the Allies until
after the presidential election.
Alter the election, Hitler figured
that American sympathies might
loosen up the Johnson act (bar
ring loans to defaulted govern
ments), and the United States
might become a wholesale sup
plier of Allied war materials—on
a credit basis.
Unquestionably it was in pre
paration for the Scandinavian
conquests that Hitler released the
white paper reporting the con
versations between Polish and
American diplomats. The timing
was perfect—one week before his
blitzkrieg —and beautifully cal
culated to make Washington lean
over backward for neutrality.
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V o'.es Down
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WASHINGTON. May 22 VP —
By a vote of 12 to 1 the Senate
for n relations committee shelv
d t! ■ proposal that the United
•Slat sell army ar.d r.avy plan
to toe Allies only. Sen r P.
Pep r vvo s the author of the pro
po.- i. It v. as favored by Chair
man Pittman who said the con
census of the committee members
was that the legislation would
violate international law and
would constitute “intervention
by the United States” in the war.
Renton, Wn., Man
SEATTLE, May 22 (VP)—Ernest
Smothers, aged 27, of Renton,
was kill d by special deputy sher
iff Graham last night near Ren
ton. Smothers was shot without
warning his fiancee Alive Traver
son, told authorities.
Graham was assigned to watch
a hidden car believed to have
been involved in a robbery and
slaying in a Renion liquor store
Saturday night. Graham fired
shotgun blasts at Smother’s car
when it speeded away from what
he thought was a hcld-up. Miss
Traverson said it tuck some min
utes to convince Graham that her
companion was shot and drive
him to a hospital.
In the hcld-up Saturday night
Thomas Lea.lurly, manager of
the liquor ,- t r; W3 shot and kill
ed by two bar.di's who escaped.
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in good tc:i;;ii.ion. Inquire George
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Navy Shipyards
Arc Ordered To
Speed up Y, ork
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WASHINGTON, May 21 (JP) —
All N ivy establishments were or
.sored by Acting Secretary Comp
'on to speed up defense prepara
ions, working additional shifts
nd increasing civilian shipbuild
;ng forces by at least 15.000 with
in three months. He sent the in
structions in a letter to all com
mandants of all naval district
yards and stations were 66 war
ships are under construction or
are projected, including eight bat
tleships.
Stock Market Falls
With Nazi Advance
i NEW YORK May 21 (sPi—The
heaviest selling of the war smash
ed the stock marke on the news
of the continued German ad
vance. Leading shares fell from
a dollar to more than thirteen
dollars.
Alf Landon To
Confer with FDR
WASHINGTON. May 21 —
The White House said Alf Lan
don would confer with President
Roosevelt tomorrow as prelimin
ary representative Wadsworth
lunched with the President to
day. Wadsworth is campaign man
ager for Frank Gannet. ,
“The country’s welfare in time
of peace and its safety in time of
war rests upon the existance of a
stabilized aircraft production —
an economically and technically
sound air transportation system,
both domestic and overseas—an
adequate supply of well trained
civilian pilots and ground per
sonnel.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt.
NOW IF IT WERE REAL!_a tree trunk served us
dummy gun for this camouflaging drill at Fort Benning, Ga.