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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 148. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, DEC. 4, 1940. Price P*r ®°py
Pope Pius Urges Christmas Truce
Axis Forces Strike Sharply At British Shipping
Greeks Inflict Crushing Defeats Retreating Italians
Pope Urges Warring Nations To
Declare Christmas Truce As Heavy
Inroads Are Made British Shipping
24,000 Tons of Shipping Over Weekly Average Are
Sunk During Week Ending November 24
UNDATED, Dec. 3 (P) — The
Pcpe urged that the warring na
tions observe a Christmas truce
and keep th: “clash of arms from
' drowning out the anvil chorus of
peace.” Even as the appeal went
out, the Germans announced that
Nazi U-boats yesterday sank 18
ships totaling 148,000 tons and
probably two others totaling
16.000 tons, in slashing new in
roads on Britain’s vital sea-borne
commerce.
Simultaneously the McKay ra
dio in New York picked up a dis
tress call saying that the steamer
Salvonia was being attacked by
a plane about 300 miles due west
of the Irish coast.
The Pope asked that the bellig
erents call a Yuletide truce “spon
RAF Bombers
Go On Far
ranging Forays
UNDATED, Dec. 3 (P)—British
bombers in far-ranging night
raids struck at Naples; August,
the Fascist naval base at Sicily;
and pounded the German U-bcat
base at Lorient on the French
coast while other planes roved
up th: Norwegian coast. The Lon
don air ministry said they bon'b
ed an enemy supply ship, hit an
other and set fire to the wharves
on Feje Island.
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taneously or by mutual accord,
that no new bloodshed may not
disturb or miserably extinguish
j the heavenly joy of that hour."
On'y last week Churchill re
: j oted the suggestion in the
House of Commons that an at
i tempt be made to arrange for a
Christmas truce.
The London Admiralty ack
nowledged that 22 merchant
ships . totalling 87,000 tons w’ere
! sunk by "enemy action’’ in the
week ending Nov mber 24. or
24,000 tens above the weekly av
erage since the start of the wrar.
The British naval spokesman
admitted it w’as a "serious men
-ce but as a nation we can tak
the knocks.”
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Treasure Island
To be Transferred
—
SAN FRANCISCO — Plans for
the transfer cf Treasure Island
to th: Navy Department were
reported speeding up following
word from San Francisco Mayor
Ro=si now’ in Washington.
Rcssi said he had reached a
near agreement with Navy oflic
ials over some of the questions
cf the transfer and was optomis
tic for an immediate agr.ement.
Final transfer of the island
will also require the approval of
the San Francisco utilities com
mission and the state legislature
Nazis Pass
London To
Bomb Bristol
UNDATED. Dec. 3 (£>) — Hit
ler’s planes passed London entire
ly from dusk to dawn, concen
trating on the English w st coast
port of Eristol, the chief port of
entry fcr U. S. war supplies, in
a six-hnui assault and left a trail
of destruction.
Anthony Eden
New Warning
LONDON, Nov.—Anthony Ed
en told the House of Commons
that defense of the British Isles
will be even more important
next rear than when invasion
threatened last summer.
Ed n ic id the House of Com
mons: “The danger of invasion
is not less. The German armies
are sti'.l massed behind the than
nor- s in Flanders. Hitler is
not likely to forget that the de
n:o of London is tho great blot
mon his march of conquest. As
>o 'g as London stands unconquer
ed the gains he has won else
where are in great and growing
jeopardy.”
ROYALTY OMITTED IN
NORWEGIAN PRAYER
—
OSLO, Norway — The Royal:
House and the storthing (parlia-'
ment) are things of the past so!
far as prayers in Norwegian:
churches are concerned.
Lutheran Bishops of Norway j
have be n vested with power by
:he government to devise a new I
Common Prayer in which King
and Congress will be omitted.
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Fire starting in the Armory of the 179th Field Artillery, located in the Atlantic city auditorium, gut
ted a four-story section of the big structure before l was brought under control. Officials estimated
> about a half-million dollars damage, including be .ye n SI50,COO and §200,000 worth of army equip
ment including ammunition which exploded at th e height of the lire.
Creeks Reach
Outskirts Of
?orto Edda
UNDATED, Dec. 3 (JP) — An
\Shens dispatch said that Greek
shock troops were seeking to
crush or trap the last Italian
armies in southern Albania and
have driv n the Fascists back
past Porlo Edda, about 15 miles
ns.de of A bania.
UNDATED, Dec. 4 1/P» — An
Athens dispatch said Greek
shock troops battled their way to
the outskirts of Porto Kedda on
h Adriatic Sea and crushing
new defeats were inflicted on the
retreating Fascist columns.
Along the mountain front, the
Italian command said “renewed
attacks by numerous enemy for
mations and considerabl artil
lery preparation were held in
check by tenacious reistance."
Japs Jail
Americans
HONGKONG. Nov.— A Domei
dispatch from Hanoi charged the
U. S. Consular Service was di
recting a “s lf-admitted espion
age upon Japanese military estab
lishments” in French Indo-China
Domei alleged that Charles
Reed, U. S. Consulate in Hanoi,
announced he had directed Am
erican n wspapers to photograph
the Japanese military depot Nov
ember 25.
Newspaperman Melville Jac
oby and Vice Consul Robert Lin
den were arrested and handed
ov:r to French gendarmes.
FRENCH OFFICIAL SMACKED
IOWA GIRL IN EYE
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26 —
The French Vice Consul at San
Francisco, Paul Bibily, was free
of a battery charge today in con
nection with a black eye suffer
ed by a young woman. The wo
man, 22-y.ar-old Pearl Allee,
said that the Vice Consul hit
her when she said she was going
hack to Iowa. The court dis
missed the charge after Miss
Allee forgave Bibily but said she
was still going back to Iowa.
PICKPOCKET RODS GRANT
JACKSON OF WALLET
SEATTLE, Dec. 4 — G. R.
Jackson, Nome banker, lost $600
while visiting Santa Claus” Seat
tle headquarters. Jackson stood
at the toy department of a down
town store and watched the chil
dren enjoy the toys. A pickpock
et removed his wallet containing
currency and some important pa
pers while the banker watched
the youngsters, Jackson told the
police.
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Greeks reported smashing successes along their entire battle front,
asserting they had destroyed two Italian battalions along the Kala
, mis River (1), routed the famed Facist Centaur division in the
S’indus Mountain (2) and crumbled the Italian left wing at Koritza
(3) Italians, under a new commander, said their cavalry had struck
in the vicinity of the Y'ojousa River (4). Shaded arrows indicate
Greek moves: black arrow, Italian.
Italians Report Destruction British
Warships \Miile German Sub Sinks
6 Armed Merchant Ships In Atlantic
UNDATED. Dec. 4 P) — Rome
and Berlin Nazis reported sharp
new blows against Britain’s sea
power. German airm n said they
bombed Birmingham in an over
night attack and set 25 big fires
raging in the English industrial
center.
Mussolini’s command said
three British warships were tor
pedoed by Fascist torpedo plan
New Air Base
On Pacific
WASHINGTON —Secretary of
Navy Frank Knox announced
the Navy Departm- nt will devel
op a $3,500 000 air 1 e at Tongue
Point. Oregon.
The Secretary said this will in
elude an airfield and otli r fac
ilities on the prorronoto-ry ex
tending out in the Columbia Riv
er for three miles, northeast of
Astoria.
The airfield will be under the
command of Lieutenant Com
mand-, r George Hasselman, now
stationed at Seattle.
N O T I V t
The Pioneers of Alaska Igloo
No. 1 will hold their regular
meeting on Wednesday, Decem
ber 4th at 8 p.m. at the Odd Fel
lows Hall. Nomination of officers
will be held and all members
are urged to attend.
Wm. J. Maloney, Secty.
es and two cruisers were destroy
ed by an Italian sub at Suda Bay
on the Greek island of Crete.
In the Atlantic, the German
command said a lone wolf U-boat
sank six British armed merchant
ships totaling 31,000 tons. Long
range German bombers roved
out over the Atlantic 250 miles
northwest of Ireland to sink a
4900 ton British cargo vessel.
Russia And
United States
Get Together
WASHINGTON — Immediate
resumption of diplomatic talks
between the United States and
Soviet Russia, interrupted by the
recent visit of Premi r Molotoff
to Berlin to talk with Hitler, is
disclosed by the State Depart
ment.
A meeting took place between
Soviet Ambassador Oumansky
and Under Secretary of State
Sumner Welles.
It was the first conference sch
eduled between the United Stat
es and Russia, stopped shortly
before Molotoff went to Berlin.
The conference is interpreted
by well-informed source^ as a.
sign that Molotoff's Berlin visit
has not impaired negotiations in
progress here for several months
looking toward a general im
provement in Russo-American re
lations.