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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 22. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. FEB. 19, 1941. ***** ^ 001,7 154
Tension High In Orient & Balkans
Peace On Italian Terms Or Nazis Invade Greece
Cold Wave Strikes Midwestern And N. E. States
WAR FEVER MOUNTS SHARPLY
IN FAR EAST AND BALKANS
NEW EXPLOSIONS THREATEN
UNDATED, Feb. 19 </P) — War
fever mounted sharply in the far
east and in the Ba’kans ith threat
ening new major explosions any
moment.
In the Orient, Japan accuse"'
Britain of committing “a bellig
erent act” as thousands of newly
arrived Australian troops filed to
defense posts in the Malay Pen
insula to reinforce the Empire’s
* naval base at Singapore.
In Shanghai, Major Junio Aki
yama, official spokesman for the
Japanese military forces in China
asserted the arrival of Australian
> troops in Singapore “cannot be
interpreted as a gesture contrib
uting to peace in the far east.”
But other quarters declared this
to be Britain’s answer to increas
ing Japanes. pressure in the
South Pacific and across the ad
jacent Gulf of Siam in French
Indo-China.
The Japanese reported that
more than 13,000 troops arrived,
far beyond the quota which
France was formally permitted.
Unconfirmed reports reaching
* Saigon said two Japanese fleets
aTe in the Gulf of Siam, between
Southern Indo-China and Malaya
one of them being anchored off
of Bankok.
Italy Making
Desperate Try
In Albania
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In the Balkans, long lines of
sealed railway cars were report
ed speeding German war sup
plies across Yugoslavia enroute
to Bulgaria, the gateway for a
possible Nazi invasion of Greece.
Dispatches from Belgrade said
that Germany’s Axis partner
Italy is apparently throwing all
available reserves into the con
flict against Greece in Albania.
A Greek spokesman declared that
Ita ian commanders wer? order
ing counter-attacks with “com
plete disregard to bloodshed and
without gaining an inch of
ground.”
From these dispatches it ap
peared that Mussolini’s legions
are making a final desperate at
t mpt to turn the tide alone be
fore Germany makes its expect
ed strike on the arrival of spring.
Bombers Inflict
Heavy Toll On
British Isles
W UNDATED Feb. 18 (/P) — N:zi
bombers inflicted apparently a
heavy toll of casualties in over
night raids on the British Isles,
and subjecting London’s millions
to a three and one-half hour al
arm, pounding the East Anglia
region in widespread attacks last
ir.g until dawn. Rescue parties
worked for six hours bringing
out dead .and the survivors, trap
pad when a heavy bomb smashed
the roof of a London shelter,
choking the entrance with debris.
Hospitals and bath houses in the
vicinity are crowded with injur
ed. Many are feared killed.
Most of the nations seem deter
mined not to return to the gold
standard. With Uncle Sam own
ing more than half of the world’s
gold, it’s no wonder the boys
want to play the game with some
other kind of chips.
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ARMY CHIEFS STUDY LEND LEASE BILL
With chairman Sol Bloom, New York (center) of the House foreign affairs committee, General George
C. Marshall (left), chief of staff, and Major General George H. Brett (right), assistant chief of the
an- corps, went over provisions of HR1776, the lend-lease bill, before testifying in private before the
committee.
Hitler Reported Pressuring Greece
Make Peace On Mussolini's Terms
Under Threat German Invasion
UNDATED. Feb. 18 </P) — Bal
kan diplomatic quarters reported
that Hitler brought pressure on
Greece to make a quick peace
with Italy, on Mussolin’s terms,
under the threat that Nazi
troops invade Greece. Dispatches
| from Sofia said that the German
1 minister at Athens informed
Greek leaders, that with the sign
' ing of the new Turkish-Bulgarian
non-aggression pact, Greece is
j now open to attack through Bul
garia. if Gr ece refused. It was
said that Hitler’s Balkan army,
estimated at upwards of 600,000
men, will start rolling from bas
es in Rumania, across Bugaria in
to Eastern Thrace.
The authoritative Sofia news
paper Zora said that Russia had
og: ed with Germany that the
Bu’garian-Turkish pact was a
:ns of preventing the spread
of the war to southeast Europe.
Cold Wave Hits
Midwest States
UNDATED, Feb. 19 (VP) — Arc
tic blasts kept the mercury at
sub-£ero levels in sections of the
middle west and brought freez
ing temperatures to most of the
northeastern quarter of the na
j tion. Sub-zero cold was felt in
j seven midwestern states with
Minnesota and North Dakota re
porting the lowest readings.
Continued snow flurries and
cold was forceast in most north
ern states. Highway crews bat
tled drifts in western New York
which suffered the worst snow
|stonn of the season yesterday.
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SLACK TIME WORK
PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED
WASHINGTON. Feb. — Presi
dent Roosevelt disclosed at a con
ference with newsmen that plans
have been undertaken to build
up a reservoir of public works |
projects to take up the slack in
defense employment after the
war.
The President said these pro
jects are such as highway con
! struction, hospitals, airports and
general housing which will be
! put on the shelf and brought ou
1 when the need* develops.
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Question State
hood Is Before
Hawaiian Legis.
HONOLULU, Feb. 19 i/P) —The
question of statehood for Hawaii,
demanded by a two to one mar
gin of the plebiscite last Novem
ber, against confronts the law
makers convening in the 2lst
Territorial legislature. There is
no clear forecast on what action
the legislature will take as a
result of the plebiscite, beyond
the usual resolution reminding
Congress that Hawaii still wants
to be the forty-ninth star in the
American flag.
The Territory’s Delegate to
Congress, Samuel Wilder King,
suggested the creation of a spec
ial commission to, promote state
hood cause, by its appearance be
fore congressional committees, is
necessary.
Fortifying
Newfoundland
WASHINGTON, Feb. — An
nouncement was made by the
War Department that the work
of fortifying the area leased in
Newfoundland for a United Stat
es military base is going forward
satisfactorily.
The Newfoundland area is one
of the -areas that was leased for
99 years by Great Britain to the
United States in exchange for 50
United States used destroyers.
Soldiers and supplies recently
were taken to St. John, Newfound
land, by the United States trans
port Edmund B. Alexander com
manded by Capt. William R. Jen
sen.
United States troops at the
Newfoundland base are under
command of Col. Morris D. Welty
German Bombers Attack
British-Held Iceland City
BERLIN—Hitler command re
ported that on Feb. 10, German
planes, roving far from their bas
es, attacked the British airport
at Reykjavik, capital of Iceland,
which the British have occupied,
but which is still a possession of
Nazi-held Denmark. Reykjavik
is 1,000 miles from the German
airbases in Norway.
THEY LEARN TO BALANCE RATIONS
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A group of soldiers in the New York area, entfol’ed for a six-lesson
| course in a dietetic institute in New York, studies the chemistry of
| food preparation in the Jabcratory. All their new education is not
confined to handling a rifle.
Ilk Force, Air
c
Corps, Far North
MOFFETT FIELD. Cal., F b.
—'More than 500 Army Air Corps
officers and en isted men are pack
ing their furlir.ed flying suits and
long woolen underwear prepara
tory to service in Alaska. The of
fleers and men board d the trans
port St Mihiel at San Francisco
to join other units bo-und for El
mendorf Field and Ladd Field at
Anchorage and Fairbanks respect
ively.
The units making the trip, in
addition to the McfTet Field
group, will be 275 mm who have
been undergoing aviation special
training, commanded by Major
John Davidson; the Twenty-third
Air Base Group and Twenty
Eighth Composite group com
manded by Major G. W. Titus,
and the Eighteenth Pursuit
Squadron, which has been station
ed at Hamilton Field.
The transport St. Mihiel will
stop at Seattle, Alaska-bound, to
pick up the Seventy-Third Med
ium Bombardment Squadron
from McChord Field and also the
Thirty-Sixth Heavy Bombard
ment Squadron from Lowery
Fie'd, Denver.
BUSINESS NOT AS USUAL —The streets of London
are an office now for some bombed-out firms. Here’s a scene in
“The City.” with teleerams being sent from open-air offices.