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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 24. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, FEB. 24, 1941. *>CT w 1!W
' New U-boat Campaign Next Month
President Asks Additional 3 Billion For Defense
John Nelson Is Found Dead On Nome Beach
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Nazis Assert
Canadian Ship
Flying U. S. Flag
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UNDATED, Feb 22. {/P) — The
German high command declared
that their naval forces “in the In
dian Ocean” sunk an armed Can
adian merchant ship flying the
U. S. flag and with the Stars and
Stripes painted on the hull. They
identified it as the 7,100 ton craft
named the Canadian Cruiser own
ed by a Canadian tramp shipping
company of Montreal. German
circles said the reported display
of the American flag should be
of grave concern to the United
States.
Canadian naval headquarters at
Ottawa said they were without
any information whatever but
“after all the Germans have been
known to put out misleading re
ports before, to meet their own
ends.” I
Britain To Keep
Open Sea Lanes
LONDON, Feb. 21 — The First
Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Al
exander, declared in a radio
speech to the empire that the
key to Gr.at Britain’s war effort
was the maintenance of her sea
communications.
“The very heart of our strug
gle is keeping open our lifelines
to the world, and especially to
the United States.”
The Admiralty minister said
that figures on shipping losses
during the past nine weeks had
been encouraging.
Earlier the Admiralty has an
nounced that British and Allied
shipping losses in the past week
were slightly under 30,000 tons.
This tonnage includes nine Brit
ish ships and four ships of Allied
registry.
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British Announce
Danger Zone In
Mediterranean
UNDATED, Feb. 22 i(/P) — The
British admiralty announced a
great triangular zone in the Med
iterranean between Italy and Af
rica marked off and in which you
“might expect anything” in the
shape of mines, bombs, torpedoes
and shells.
A British communique said
that their south African forces
had captured the important Ital
ian Somaliland and Indian Ocean
village of Jumbo and large quan
tities of guns, materials and pri
soners.
Kai-Shek Wages
W ar On Opium
CHUNGKING, Feb. 21 — Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek call
ed on the people of China to
stamp out the opium traffic and
to e iminate gambling as a social
custom. The Generalissmo ad
dressed China by radio on the
ocassion of the seventh anniver
sary of tb? New Life Movement
he founded.
Chiang Kai-Shek said that
China has made many advances
in the past seven years in spite
of the Japanese war. The Gener
alissimo said that opium smok
ing, gambling and banditry, the
most vicious enemies of China
for generations, have been encou
raged by the Japanese in the
*nections they have occupied.
Chiang Kai-shek said that the
Japanese have lost 1,770,000 men
and have drained thier country
of its resources in futile attempts
to conquer China.
A critic must have high stand
ards to make his criticism worth
anything.
TEST FOR FORO MOTOR —To determine the power output which can be expected from
12 cylinders, above two-cylinder model of the aviation motor Henry Ford hopes to adapt to mass
production is undergoing tests (above) at Detroit. After a study of many aircraft motors. Ford
engineers now have in the making a 12-cylinder, V-type. liquid-cooled motor with injector fuel system.
ROOSEVELT ASKS CONGRESS
FOR THREE BILLION DOLLARS
MORE FOR NAT’NL DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 >(>P) — dollars is a direct appropriation
President Roosevelt asked Con- and two billion ninety six million
gress for an additional three bil- ] do!lars in contractual authority,
lion eig.it hundred twelve million ,
dollars for national defense for!The measure earned forty six
the balance of the current fiscal ^*on ^or Signal Corps in
year. Of the total, one. billion I addition to seventeen million dol
seven hundred sixteen million | iars in contractual authority
Greatest Air
Battle Rages
Over Dover
UNDATED, Feb. 22 UP) — Ar
madas of German and British
warplanes clased in a great bat
tle five miles up over the Straits
of Dover after RAF squadronr
had started offensive sweeps ag
ainst German held France.
The action, one of the biggest
and fiercest battles since the fall
of Boulogne, Dunkerque and Os
tend started when the RAF at
tacked German planes which had
laid a smokescreen off the coast.
BRITISH APOLOGIZE
FOR BOMB ERROR
BERN, Switzerland, Feb. 21 —
The Swiss Federal Council ac
cepted a British apology and of
fer of payment for damages in
bombing of Basel and Zurich by
foreign planes last December 16
and 22.
The British note said there
seemed to be sufficient evidence
that British planes may have
bombed the Swiss towns by er
ror. A number of persons were
killed at Bern and there was
considerable property damage at
Zurich. Both Basel and Zurich
are near the German border.
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German Troops
Entering Bulgaria
P < r
is Unconfirmed
UNDATED. Feb. 22 (/P) — An
unconfirmed report transmitted
| by Reuters from Belgrade said
German troops have been cross
ing into Bulgaria from Rumania
near the town of Ruschuk since
4 p.m. yesterday.
A Turkish official radio broad
cast from Ankara said that the
British were holding large forces
in North Africa in readiness to
i rush to Greece.
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John Nelson
Is Found Dead
| Sat. Morning
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John Nelson was found dead
I by Gus Hendrickson, south of
Alvin Polet’s residence, on Riv
er Street Saturday morning, Feb.
22nd.
Mr. Nelson was 52 years old,
and had been in Nome and vic
inity since 1914 working for dif
ferent mining companies. Pre
vious to that time he had been
with the Seattle Water Co. for
nearly 20 yisars.
He married in Candle, Alaska,
and his wife and daughter are
in Seattle and a son at Wasilla,
Alaska. An inquest was held to
day at the Commissioner’s Court
at 4 p.m.
The Marshal’s office wired to
Mrs. Nelson concerning his bur
ial and she requested that he be
buried in Nome, at a later date. j
Mr. Nelson did not belong to
any Nome lodge.
At time of going to press, thej
coroner’s inquest was still in ses- i
sion.
JONES DISLIKES
WAR PROPHECY
WASHINGTON, Fab. 21—Com
merce Secretary Jesse Jones re
quested that the prophecy before !
the House banking committee
that “the United States is ‘near- j
ly in the war’ ” be stricken from
the committee record. Jones ap-1
peared in connection with finan
cial legislation before the House
committee.
Travel enables the tourist to
get away from everything ex
cept himself.
“VICTORY WITHIN THE YEAR”
Fuehrer Hitler salutes the crowd as he forecast ‘victory within the
year’ and warned: “Every ship that comrs within the reach of our
torpedoes will be torpedoed.” Th. picture was radioed from Berlin,
to New York.
HITLER, SPEAKING ON ANNI
VERSARY NAZI PARTY WARNS
OF JOINT AXIS SUB CAMPAIGN
MUNICH, Fob. 24 i/P) — Hit
ler told the German people on
the 21st anniversary of the found
ing of the National Socialist Par
ty that the aims of Germany’s
enemies following the World War
was to keep hor “small and in
effective.” The party was there
upon provoked to unify the Ger
man people. He said “To us, all
Germans had to be Germans first
last and always.”
Hitl.:r’s address was not avail
able for broadcast to the United
States the NBC was informed,
but the network’s monitors listen
ed to it over short wave chan
nels.
Bit by bit, Hitler traced the
rise, of the party he helped found.
He shouted to his parisans of the
recapitulation, the hardships, he
said were the part he endured in
freeing Germany from the shak
Les of the Versailles Treaty.
Then he told how political lead
ers were forced to convert the
post-war Germany government
from one for specia interests into
one. for all the people of the
Reich. In this respect Hitler
said the Jews held the “greatest
responsibility for the mainten
ance of that ill-fated system.”
Hitler touched on American
participation in post-war devel
opments when he said “even the
high sounding promises of form
er President Wilson turned out
to be so much talk. The promis
es mad,: to us by other nations
were utterly futile and hollow.”
Warns of New
Sub Campaign
MUNICH, Feb. 24 UP) — Hitler
warned his enemies that a joint
German and Italian submarine
campaign will be loosed on them
next month Almost in the same
breath he announced that al
ready the expanded U-boat cam
paign had sunk, 90,000 tons of
enemy warships within the past
two days. The new underwater
thrust starting next month will
.mploy “new types of submarin
es." Hitler declared, adding “one
thing is sure — where British
ships appear is where Britain
will fight us and we will fight
them and destroy them.”