1 Oldest Newspaper In Alaska. “The News Of The Day In Pictures’* Member Of The Associated Press,
THE NOME NUGGET
t VOL. 42. No. 95. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, August 5, 1940 Prc- Per ^ lw
Conditions Favorable Nazi Invasion
* Prominent London Japanese Businessmen Arrested
- Contracts Awarded For Air Station At Unalaska
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Weather and Tide Conditions
Favorable For Nazi Invasion of
Britain—Germans Reported Busy
UNDATED, Aug. 5 UP) — In
ternational weather and tidal con
ditions made the time propituous
for the Nazi invasion of Britain.
The British air force reported the
Germans busy preparing at
French ports. The Royal Air
Force smashed at continental ob
I jectives over the weekend to hin
der assaults. The British report
that three Nazi planes were
downed in battles over England.
The Japanese ambassador in
London is drafting his third pro
test over the British arrest of
Nipponese citizens. In Tokyo, the
foreign office witheld its decision
on whether England was acting
in reprisals over the Japanese ar
rests of British n Japan
A British bomb intended for an
Italian submarine squadron hit.
British Arrest
High Japanese
Businessmen
UNDATED, Aug. 3 UP)— Fric
tion between Japan and Great
Britain reached a new high point
with the arrest of two of the
most prominent Japanese busi
nessmen in London. There were
repor’s that other Japanese were
held throughout the Empire and
rumors of the existence of a big
spy ring centered at London. Sig
niftcantly, the arrests which “fl.-fo
bergasted” high Japs in London,
came just two days afier British
sources expressed fear of rapidly
worsening relations which might
eventually provoke Japan to mili
tary action. Japan made strong
| a surface vessel in the Mediter
i ranean. The British drove off an
attack on Mersa Mathus but the
Italians claim 14 British planes
were shot down in Africa and ad
mit losing a submarine. The Brit
Lsh said the Italian plane losses
yesterday were 15.
The United States congression
al conscription debate waxed hot
in debating the presidential call
of the National Guard to active
service.
General Pershing, in a radio ad
dress last night urged the United
States to make 50 destroyers
available to England.
Charles A. Lindbergh, in an ad
dress advocated cooperation with
Europe regardless of which side
wins the war. He asks non-inter-1
vention.
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protests to the arres‘3.
The British denied that retalia 1
“ion was the mo*.ive for the ma-.
jo: military events of the war.
The Nazi air force extended;
their all nigh* raids on Britain to:
daylight but the British said only
slight damage was done.
Exchange telegraph news ag-!
ency said “hundreds of Italians
were killed and much war mat
erial captured at Libya.”
The Germans said one U-boat
sank seven ships and one eruis-!
er.
Other naval activity: sank two
hundred sixty thousand tons of
shipping and 25,000 tons of war
vessels in July.
Another contingent of Austral
ian troops arrived in England. j
The Frencn government ban-1
red free masonry and all secret
orders and further limited the (
sale of foodstuffs. 1
Members of the new defense commission named by President Roosevelt held their initial meeting with
the chief executive at the White House and conferrel on methods of spending swiftly a $4,300,000,000
wrar chest for national defense. Standing, left to righ: Ralph Budd chairman of the board of
Burlington Railway; Edward R. Stettinius Jr., chairman of United States Steel corporation; William S.
Knudsen president of General Motors corporation; Miss Harriet Elliott dean of women of North
Carolina University; Leon Henderson member of Securities commission; Chester C. Davis federal
reserve board member; William H. McReynolds administrative assistant to the I resident.
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Navy Awards Contracts For
Four Million And Half Dollar
Air Station At Cnalaska
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 1/P) —
The Navy took further steps to1
improve the Alaska defenses,
awarding four million three hun
dred five thousand dollar con
tracts for work on the naval air
station and to prepare aviation
facilities at Unalaska. A syndi
cate of three companies already
engaged in the work at Kodiak
was given the order.
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Army, National
Guards in \^ar
Games in Vi ash.
YEL.M, Wash., Aug. 3 1/P)—The
vanguard of 40,000 soldiers of the
4th U. S. army and National
Guards of the western states as
semb'cd here for three weeks of
war games in this vicinity, also
at Fort Lewis and Camp Murray.
Seventy troop trains are arriving
t .morrow and motor convoys are
bringing the rest.
Fairbanks Air
Base Work Year
Ahead Schedule
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 3 1/P) —
Major General Arnold, chief of
the Army Air Corps returning
here said the work at the Fair
banks base was so far advanced'
that cold weather tests of train
ing could ibe made in November,
a year ahead of schedule.
The War department announc
1 ed that Representatives Snyder,
Terry, Stannes and Case, of the
H ;tise military appropriations
subcommittee will inspect the
army establishments in Alaska
this month. The action came less
than two weeks after the con
firmation that a Russian air base
ua- being developed on Big Dio
; mode Island.
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Two Pilots
killed In
Collision
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SEATTLE. Aug. 3 — Two
pilots on training flights were
killed last night when their ships I
collided at Boeing Field. Les
Comford, 23, of Portland and
Roger Theron Byron of Black
foot, Idaho, died in the wreck
age. Dale Dilanty, instructor, fly
ing with Byron parachuted to
safety. The planes were prepar- j
ing to land when they crashed.
Dilanty said he was unable to
explain as he did not see Corn
ford’s plane and was uncertain
how he got out of the plane.
Witnesses said he was thrown
out by the impact. Byron was a
University of Idaho student.
Extortion And
Bombing Plot
Broken Up
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 3 (/P> — A
bizarre $100,000 extortion and
bombing plot was broken up
with the arrest of Walter Minx,
23, his brother Kurt, 27: and Dan
iel Carter, aged 28. Police said
the youngest admitted to having
planted the bomb which explod
ed harmlessly in the Sears Roe
buck Store on July 24, also to
sending a series of threatening
letters to store manager Rowland
saying a .bomib “two hundred tim
es Larger will igo oft'.'’ The trio
planned to get away on the Lake
in a tin home-made submarine
found in their basement, picking
up the ransom money which was
to have been dropped from an
airplane.
British Fleet
Leaves Gibraltar
Defend Isles
GRENOBLE, Aug. 3 (JP) —
A France dispatch from Tangier,
Spanish Morocco, said the British
fleet at Gibraltar sailed west yes
terday to aid in the defense of
England. The fleet included three
cruisers, two plane carriers, five
submarines and seven destroyers.
President Calls For Unity Between
Federal, State Governments in Un
covering Subversive Activities
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 </P) — j
President Roosevelt called for
unity between Federal and State1
government in uncovering sub
versive activities and strengthen
mg national defense. He said:
"untrained policemen are as in
; effective as untrained soldiers
and an amateur detective s)on|
becomes a fussy, malicious, busy
1 body. ’ He told governors, attor
India Mail
Train ^ reeked .
30 Are Killed
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CALCUTTA, India. Aug, 5 <TP)
— Thirty Indians were killed and
70 injur?! when the Daeca-Cal
, tuita mail train was wrecked 75
miles from re. Authorities said
they susp t- i >abotage.
Subscrtbe for The Nome Nugget.
ney generals and other state auth
orities at a law enforcement meet
ing in a letter read by Attorney
General Jackson: “We must be
vigilant, always on guard, swift
to act, but also wise and cool
headed and not to express activ
ities in the cruel stupidities of
the vigilante. There is where
the fifth columns form their
lines.”
Frederick Cook,
Arctic Explorer
Passes Away
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LARCHMONT, N Y., Aug. 5
uP)—Doctor Frederick Cook, one
time Arctic explorer died here
today. He had been ill for many
months. During his ilness, Presi
dent Roosevelt granted him a
full pardon.
Japan sent an undisclosed number of warships from its China fleet
to the French Indo-China port of Haiphong amid reports she might
attempt to declare a “protectorate" over the Far East territories of
conquered France and Holland. This map shows the distances from
Haiphong to Japan, the Philippines, Saigon and Singapore. French
Indo-China is the principal port of entry for American made pro
ducts into China.