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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 91. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940, Pr:ce per ^ l*
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U.S. Sell 3,000 Planes Month Britain
. Jap Restrictions Halt American Trading In China
Nazi Speedboats Cross Channel and Sink Shipping
MINNIE MOTS CUM \N, MISS
ALASKA, IS TO MAERY
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ST. LOUIS, July 25 (/P) — Mir
nie M-tschman announced tha:
she is engaged to John Ebert o!
St. Louis. She is M rs Alaska on s
god will tour of the United Stat
es. They first rret three yean
ago in her home town Fairbanks
The girl met many noted prr ons
imruding Mrs. Roosevelt in her
month’s' tear but remarked “my
bigg t thrill was when I sa .v
^ Johnny again.”
She arrived in S*. Louis Sun
day ;q visit J.h my ana- hi* par
.ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Ebert.
data has been set : r the wed
ding. but Minnie indicated tha'
she didn't piun to return to Al
aska.
Ecert went to Sea, le to grer
her cn her arrival tb re but si
‘‘/El she had time to do wa;
wav. at me from the beat. That’;
the last I saw of her until shs
came to St. Louis.”
Asst. Scciy. $ar
Louis Johnson
Resigns
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WASHINGTON. July 25 hP)—
The White House announced the
•esijr.ation of Assistant Secre
ary of War Louis Johnson and
'.he nomination of Robert Porter
j Patterson ci New York, judge of
, he second U. S. Court of Ap
peals as h:s successor.
Stephen Early told reporters,
‘Since time immemorial'’ the
cabinet officer has the right to
..le-et his assistant secretary,
jtim .on asked Roosevelt to name
Pa* erson. Early said Johnson re
•ig-ed yesterday and has flown
o Bohemian Grove near San
■hancisco. As soon as the Presi
Ic-nt can get around to it, Early
said, he will wir? Johnson ac
ceptance of his resignation and
‘advise him he is confidently ex
pectir.g him, as soon as he. rests,
.o retrrn'lo Washington to eon
■ .ue in the service of the gov
ernment.”
Japs Close
U. S. Radio China
Thru British
SHANGHAI, July 23 UP)— Co
jincident with the United States
; act n licensing all oil and scrap
! iron exports, ii was reported that
1 Japanese restrictions had halted
all activities of American trad
tv in north China. As a result of
Japanese pressure, British author
; vv» re reported to have or
icroa .lie United States marine
.a dip static.! in Tientsin closed,
effective August 20.
A. Geneva, Joseph Avenol, Sec
hv -ry General of the League of
M it inns since July 1, 1933, an
nounced his resignation, stating
Tn ;• realities" of the present tim
co made his office no longer nec
, v-.'ory. Thus Avcr.o s.gr.ed what
i may 'be the formal death sen
tm.ee of the League as a political
body.
U. S. To Sell
3.000 Planes Month
To British
WASHINGTON, July 25 UP)—
• ■ torgefl ■ sa'id die
United States pledged “eevry fac
ility" to enable to British to buy
3.000 mil ary planes a month in
this country in addition to the
hugs orders already placed, con
firming the announcement made
in London by Lord Beaverbrook.
Merger.thau said the new ar
rangement, in addition to all pre
vi ms i rders, will require tire con
struct, n of nc.. factories. Say
ing he British seem to have
I plenty of money, Morg.mthau
; said the sums in’, jived were col
1 os sal.
Tire Secretary asserted that the
I Treasury, War and Navy depart
! ments ware in complete accord
; on the commitment. William
NiUdsen, production member of
I P » defense commission agreed
to undertake to work out the de
tails.
Speedboats Sink
22,009 Tons
BERLIN, July 26 ;(TP) — The
German command announced in
a special communique that Ger
.'.an speedboats sunk three mer
chant ships totaling 22,000 tons
off the southern coast of England
m the region of Brighton and
that another merchantman of
2,000 tons was set on fire.
2,000 Person Lost In One Sinking
. LONDON, July 25 (TP) — Au
horized sources said 2,323 per
sons were missing from the sink
ng of the Cunard liner Lancas
ria off St. Nazaire during the
evacuation of British troops from
Trance. There were 2,477 surviv
ors from the 5,300 persons aboard
Others may have saved their liv
es by swimming or wading
ashore and falling into the hands
of the Germans.
LOOKS SO PEACEFUL NOW _Here is the Chicago stadium where on July 15 the Demo
crats open their national convention. Stormy may be the sessions nominating presidea lal candidate.
Seattle's $8,854,400 l ake Wa hing* n pontoon bridge recently opened is the longest floating bridge itt
the world, and furnishes a shorter route to East on Washington by crossing Lake Washington from
Seattle to Mercer Island, shown in the background The photo shows the bridge brilliantly lighted.
Nazi Torpedo Speedboat Sinks 18.000
Ton Merchantman \\ hich British
Claim Is Home-Bound French Ship
UNDATED. July 25 OP)—Nazi
[air bombs fell 12 miles from the
iut#kirts of London the German
.command reported while in an
other daring operation a flfty
mile-an-hou.r Nazi torpedo speed
! boat bounced sixty miles across
‘.he English channel to sink an
I armed merchant ship near Brit
tain’s great naval base at Port
land. Skittering over the rough
[channel, too fast for the big long
range guns at the naval base to
make it an effective target, the
German sea raider got in its
knockout blow on the 18,000 ton
craft and darted home again. The
Nazi command’s report of the
spectacular feat was quickly coun
tered by Britain’s First Lord of
the Admiralty, who declared the
craft to ibe the French ship Mek
nes, with nearly 1200 French offic
ers and men aboard, enroute
home to German - conquered
France.He said about a thousand
men were saved. “The boat was
flyinig the French flag and the
French colors were painted on
the deck and sides and were
fully illuminated.”
The German command said
German planes bombed the big
British Vickers aircraft factory
at Weybridige near London
where the famous Brookland
auto race track is also located.
The raids came as Britain claim
ed the victory ire the first major
phase of the five-weeks-old strug
gle against the Nazi conquest of
England by repeated violent at
tacks from German “blitzkrieg
bases” across the channel. At the
same time she tightened her
blockade on the Reich. With
more than a thousand mass air
raids, the Lord n spokesman
said the Bridsh ' force now
‘‘made it ex*.: " difficult for
Germany to ;v:.T.iz. massed at
tacks in •’ .1 . r’.v from air
dromes and II 1 i. Belgium,
France :r ' - - c ’.dished in
Norway.
Italian Planes Bomb Gibraltar
British Count 28 Air Raiders
Raised Yesterday Over Britain
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UNDATED, July 26 (IP) — It
alian bombing planes renewed at
tacks on Britain's great rock fort
ress Gibraltar the gateway and
sentinal of the Mediterranean, !
the Fascist command said. They
declared the heavily fortified bas
tion was effectively bombed af
! ter a long night flight from It
alian bases. Dispatches from Gib
raltar S3 id an unspecified num
j ber of enemy planes bombed the1;
strongho.d in a thirty-minute
raid before dawn but were driv
: en off by anti-aircraft fire.
Meanwhile the German-control
led Holland radio was quoted say
ing a Dutch peace committee ap
pealed to President Roosevelt “in
the name of humanity to ar-.
range a peace conference.
The war in the west started
briskly again as the Nazi raiders
droned over the British Ises and
were met by scrappy British
Royal Air Force fighters. One
i German planes dumped a bomb
[load over a southeast English
I town when pursued by and RAF
Convoy Attacked
North of Ireland
BELFAST. July 26 OP)—Heavy
gunfire was heard off northern
Ireland coast early today and
flashes of fire between ships and
airp'anes could be seen. Shore
witnesses on the coast said Ger
man air raiders apparently at
tacked a convoy. British fighter
planes sped to the rescue. The
raid on the convoy is the first
witnessed in north Irish waters.
fighters while another sky invad
er was shot down. Three of its
crew were killed. An English
farmer ran out and capture ! the
pilot. Another flight of Nazi
bombers were chased of. from
southeast England The British
Air Ministry counted 23 Nazi
planes bagged in yesterday’s flam
mg aerial battles, the biggest
day’s haul of the war.
Hitler's command rep Tried 2<3
British planes shot dow: ‘while
only 0 of our plane are m issing.”
The Germans also reported the
der.ruction . f 15 mercn; t ships
totaling 63,000 tens.
Yesterday’s dive bombing at
tacks cn London, the first food
line of the war, at the rmddle
class district, at Shephe. s Bush
where the housewife so ight to
replenish egg supplies, the Brit
ish censor permitted dispatches
to disclose an egg shortage, one
cessant aerial raids on shipping
have begun to pinch Britain’s
larder.