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VOL. 43. No. 14. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 1941. " Price Per c°py 15«
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Hitler Asserts Is Ready For U. 5. Aid To Trite in
Direct Airline Alaska To States Is Proposed
House Bill Would Utilize Unused
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Immigration Quotas For Past 6
Years Colonization Plan For Alaska
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (/P) —1
Chairman Dickstein of the House
Immigration Committee intro
duced a bill that would lump all
unused quotas of all countries for
the past six years and make the
total available for refugees from
foreign persecution to colonize
Alaska.
Under the plan persons seeking
admittance to Alaska would be
P required to satisfy authorities
that they had never engaged in
subversive activities in their
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homelands and that th y relin
quish allegiance to any foreign
power. Also they would be re
quired to continue in productive
enterprise and be prohibited
from returning to the United
States until they had been in
Alaska for five years.
Dickstein said the legislation
was designed to colonize Alaska
for naiional defense purposes and
as'a market for the nation’s sur
plus production.
British Aid Bill Sent To House
For Three Days Debate—Knox
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f Forecasts Grave Crisis 69-90 Days
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (JP) —
Tlii.- Administration's British aid
bill was sent to the House floor
with a momentous debate start
ing Monday while Secretary
Knox testified that the Nazis
were awaiting “good weather for
a long enough time” to invade
Eng'and. After a brief hearing,
the House rules committee gave
the bill legislative right of way
under procedure of thre? days
general debate permitting unlim
ited offering of amendments.
Chairman Bloom of the foreign
i affairs committee stated that thn
j United States was “not neutral
but just as netural as any other
| nation.”
Knox testifying before the Sen
ate foreign relations committee
j n newed his forecast of “a very
] grave crisis” within 60 to 90
days.
DUKE OF WINDSOR’S
FURNITURE IS FOUND
PORTLAND, Jan. The month
old mystery of what happened
■ to the Duke of Windsor’s rattan
furniture from Hongkong wras
cleared up in a forgotten hold of
the ex-liner City of Norfolk
L. W. Hartman, customs brok
er, said the 52 pieces of furniture
were discovered in the ship’s
hold after having been unreport
ed on the docks of San Francisco
or Los Ang les.
The ship unloaded her cargo a
month ago at Los Angeles and
then was brought here to be con
verted into marine transport.
President In
Bed \&ith Cold
WASHINGTON. Jan. 28—Presi
dent Roosevelt cancelled several
engagements and went to bed to
nursi a cold. White House offic
ials said he is taking precautions
more than anything else, and pro
bably will be all right.
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hlgnt Big
WASHINGTON. Jsn. 27 — The
Army and Navy is expected to
award contracts within the next
few days for cons'ructio.n of a
chain of eight Naval and Mili
tary air bases involving 20 differ
■nt e tablishments on British Is
land t) rritory in the Western
Hemisphere.
The contracts are now under
negotiations and dirt wi 1 fly just
as soon as they are signed.
The Newfoundland base, it is
l arned, will include an air base
a d Army training areas also a
N val baa of 22 acres
Bermuda bases will include
naval and seaplane stations alsc
Corage space for vast quantities
of explosives.
DRUGGISTS VICTIMIZED
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28 — A
federal alcohol tax collector,
Leonard Rhodes, was under ar
rest Sunday charged with im
personating a narcotics officer.
Assistant United States Attorney
Hammack said Rhodes entered a
number of drug stores and seized
narcotics after posing as a drug
inspector At least five druggists
were said to have be* n victim
ized.
Leigh W. Hunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Deegas, and Cecil M. P. Cross (left to right) returned to the United
States on the Atlantic Clipper from Lisbon, arriving at New York. The German government re
quested Washington to recall the three members of the U. S. Empassy staff in Paris on grounds they
helped a British officer escape.
Col. Frank Knox (left!, Secretary of the Navy, w..:s overflowing with good will as he v Ivor <“! | ord
Halifax (right', new British ambassador, and Lady Halifax ashore at the Naval Aea ' mv ,t Anna
polis, 'Id., from the presidential yacht Potomac. Lord and Lady Halifax, greeted in (hes'pcake Bay
by P'-csHent Roosevelt, transferred from the battleship George V and rode to shore on the Potomac.
HiCcr Insists British Cause Lost
And Germany Is Fully Prepared
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For American Aid To Grea! Britain
BERLIN Jan. 30 (/Pi — Hitler
told the German nation that
“whoever wants to help England
will have to realize that what
ever ship going or coming in
front of our torpedoes will be tor
p*doed.” He declan d that al
though the British were now’ hop
ir.g for aid from the United Stat
es, “When we were forced into
! this war we had plans even then
1 for this emergency.”
8th Nazi Anniversary
Hitler, speaking on the eighth
anniversary of his assumption of
power, insisted that Britain’s
cause is “lest." He said "We are
now fully prepar d for whatever
may happen in relation to Ameri
ca’s help.” He boasted of the arm
ed power of Germany and said
that Germany has rr ny things
making it “a thousand times
stronger in strength than we
have already display.d.”
Scoffs at Axis Defection
He scoffed at the notion of de
fection in the Axis.” Of the
imminence of the defeat of Italy
| he said, “When Italy sent squad
' rons of planes to help us in the
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war against England they said:
Germany was in need of help.
Now German airplanes are in
south Italy and they say G-e-1
rmany is taking over Italy. A1
I can say is this: We are going to 1
hit at England wherever we can |
hit her and let them r alize that
this is not a small fracas. It is
total war which can never end
until the total destruction of |
Eng and is accomplished.”
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No Lack Food, Raw Materials
He assured the nation that Ger
many has no lack of food or raw J
ri atcrial: and declared ‘‘It is Eng
lar.i who has to be afraid of that!
'ar.g: r.” II:- then promised a new
p. in;.; submarine offensive.
‘Not Slightest Difference To Us’
Referring to reports that he
had heard of an English offensive
m-where” Hitler said, "I wish
they would It me know in ad-!
vane so I could make the land
ing of their expeditionary force,
a .iltle easy for them. Whatever
they plan, whatever they have in
mind is not going to make the
slightest bit of differ r.oe to us.”,
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P r i n c e s s s
I Save Royal
Time, Planes
LONTKDN, Jan. 28 — Princess
Elizabeth and Princess Margarete
Rose paid their first welcome
visit to a Royal Air Force station
and pretended to handle one of
the large bombers of the coastal
command during an imaginary
air raid. King George and Queen
I Elizabe th stood by as the two
Princesses boarded the plane and
asked excited questions of the
pilot.
Elizabeth sat at the controls of
the warplane pretending to be
guiding the machine on a bomb
ing expedition. Meanwhile Prin
cess Margarete began focusing
the bomb sights on an imaginary
enemy.
The Princesses also boarded
several other planes at the RAF
station and watched machines
land and take-off.
Airline ^reposed
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 31 (JP) —
The development of a direct air
'■ service between Fairbanks
1 arl the United States as a joint
■ mimercial aviation and d fense
undertaking was discussed by
members of Congress and Mayor
LaGuardia of New York, chair
man of the joint Canadian-Ameri
can Defense Board.
S' natcr Lucas of Illinois said
h ■ plan contemplated an airline
ning from Fa Hanks to Fargo
N.rth Dakota, and Chicago and
New York, as the only feasible
ate from the standpoint of
national defense.
The project won d require the
construction of landing fi Ids in
Canada along the route and the
• 'pi ration of the Dominion gov
ci m nt is essential. The airline
would provide and would be
available to commercia communi
ation a link with Alaska and an
important link in the continental
dif' use program.
PAA Fights Gas
lax at Honolulu
HONOLULU, Jan. 28 — A rul
: by the United States District.
Court 'holds today that Clipper
planes landing at Honolulu must
pay Hawaiian territorial gasoline
‘axes on fuel they take aboard.
Pa,n American Airways had
fought paying the tax, on
grounds that its planes are in ser
vice U tween California and the
Orient. The Pan-American firm
refuels its own ships at Honolulu.
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