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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 79. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1940 P« copy m
Willkie Is Chosen GOP Candidate
Outbreak Appears Imminent In Balkan States
Germany and Italy Counsel
Rumania Accede Soviet Demands
For Bessarabia and Bucovina
BUCHAREST, June 27 hP)—Ru
mania decided, according to diplo
matic quarters to yield vast terri
torial concession to Russia but
plteades time to dicker the Red
demands. A precautionary mobil
ization was ordered a little more
than five hours before the expira
tion of the ultimatum, calling for
the return of Bessarabia and oth
er concessions. Amid reports that
the Soviets massed her might, Ru
mania asked postponement of
the deadline fixed at noon tomor
row, PST. Red planes are report
ed to be darkening the Rumanian
skies while Russia massed troops
tanks and artillery on her north
ern frontier.
Apparently Germany and Italy
both counselled Rumania to bow
to the Russian demands as minis
ters of the axis power conferred
at length with King Carol. Au
thoritative sources said Russia
demanded: The return of Bessar
aba, once part of Czarist Russia
but since 1918, Rumania's bul
wark against Communist Russia;
Cession of the northern part of
the province of Bucovina, once
part of the Austro-Hungarian em
pire; Control of Rumania’s Black
Sea port of Constanta for a nav
al base, along with railway bases
and the supervison of Galati and
Braila, the two ports which con
trol all navigation on the Dan
ube River.
Trouble With Hungary
BUCHAREST, June 27 (JP) —
The Rumanian government to
night officially signified its ac
ceptance of Russia's ultimatum
demanding cession of Bessarabia,
northern Bucovina and other con
cessions. At the same time offic
ial sources disclosed that the Ru
manian army is being concentrat
ed in Transylvania, near the Hun
garian frontier. Hungary has
been agitating for the restoration
of Transylvania, which she lost
to Rumania after the World War.
Rumania Mobilizes Two Million
Hungary, Bulgaria Call Reserves
Turkish Fleet Guards Dardanelles
UNDATED, June 28 (JP) — ,War
clouds blackened over southeast
ern Europe. King Carol’s littile
Balkan kingdom, after yielding
to a stiff Russian ultimatum, rush
ed most of its two million troops
to the Hungarian frontier. Hung
ary and Bulgaria called up their
reserves and Turkey sent her
fleet into the Black Sea stripped
for action and ready to defend
the Dardanelles again from at
tack.
In Bucharest, German legation
officials charged the Soviet move
and Rumania trick “inspired by
Britain” for a great new war
front. Germany is avoiding any
such trap they said, and is con
centrating on the main task
ahead, the assault on Britain her
self. The situation became hourly
more grave, threatening to ex
plode the famous Baikan “pow
derkeg” in a clash of bitter age
old racial hatreds.
Bulgarian regulars sped bj
train from the Turkish frontier
to the Rumanian border.
Official quarters in Bucharest
said they were informed that Hit
ler sent a telegram to Stalin ask
ing the Soviet dictator to “meet
Rumania half way.” By contrast
there is no tempering of the Nazi
Fuehrer’s ambitions in the war
on Britain. Authorized sources in
Berlin stated bluntly that Ger
many’s reply and peace feelers
from London was this: “the can
nons are speaking.” The British
already denied any peace over
tures.
Russian troops heavily rein
forced by tanks and planes pour
\ ed across the Rumanian border
Nshortly after dawn, swiftly fol
lowing up the Russian utimatum
on Rumania which expired at
noon PST yesterday. They oc
cupied four cities in the ceded
provinces of Bessarabia anh Buco
vina. It was not immediately
known where King Caroi appeal
ed to Hitler for actual military
help to combat the Soviet inva
sion or merely asked Hitler to in
tercede diplomatically for mod
eration of Russia’s stiff demands.
Make Peace
Offer England
NEW YORK. June 27 (/P) — Im
portant business and financial
sources of large interests in Eu
rope said they received informa
tion, which they considered au
thentic, through neutral countries
that Germany made “sensational
peace overtures” to England.
This information said the peace
offer indicated would leave Eng
land some 95 percent of her
present empire, but would pro
vide for the internationalization
of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal.
Italy To Attack British Isles
ROME, June 27 (/P) — Italian
troops may join the German fore
es in the attack on the British
Isles an authoritative source said.
It was added that Italian planes
and warships were also believed
lkely to take part in the opera
tion.
American Cameraman Prophecies
Conquest By Germany of British
Isles Completed In Ten Days
HOLLYWOOD, June 28 (J>) —
Cameraman Norman Alley who
photographed the United States
gunboat Panay bombing in 1937,
came back from Europe with the
prediction that Germany will
start the conquest of the British
Isles and complete it ten days
later.
He said: “In Rotterdam I stood
by and watched 27G blocks razed
by a rain of Nazi death from the
skies which only took ten min
utes. We must be impressed by
the Nazi war machine and suffic
ient y impressed to begin prepar
ing for any eventuality as effic
iently as possible."
U. S. Fleet Sails —
Destination Unknown
HONOLULU, June 27 UP> —
The whereabouts and destination
of major units of the United Stat
e.s fleet which put to sea amid
great secrecy Monday continued
1 to mystify Hawaiian islanders.
The ships were last observed foil
lowing the regular sea lane to
■ the mainland, which they left on
' April 1, for annual war games.
PUBLIC WARNING
City Ordinance 150 section 53
prohibits the setting off of fire
crackers, guns, fireworks of all
kinds or any article containing
powder within the city limits,
without the permission of the
mayor and city council. For vio
lation of this ordinance a penalty
of not more than S100 fine is pre
scribed or 6 months in jail. This
also applies on the Fourth of
July.
By order of the Fire Comm.
B. I). Stewart, Director Dept. Mines
Outlines New Prospecting Program
To Be Inaugurating in Alaska
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B. D. Stewart. Director of the
1 Territorial Department of Mines,
who has been in Nome daring
.he past week, expects to leave
j for his Juneau headquarters Sun
day on the outgoing PAA Elec
tra.
Interviewed today Mr. Stewart
announced several interesting
programs of the Department of
Mines which are of particular in
terest to this section of Alaska.
Aben Shallit, Nome assayer for
the Department is to be dispatch
ed to the Kougarok section to
prepare topographical and geolog
ical data concerning the develop
ment work which has been going
on in that section for some years.
It is expected that the informa
tion obtained will be used as a
supplement to the last Geological
Survey report made in 1906 in
that section. This will require the
balance of the season’s work for
Mr. Shallit when he is not busy
at Nome with assays.
J. C. Roehm, associate mining
engineer of the department is ex
pected to come to Nome in about
two weeks, and will prooeed to
other points on the Peninsula,
said Mr. Stewart, on a reconnais
sance trip to gather information
on development, geological and
other information of the mining
industry.
Mr. Roehm during the past two
years extensively mapped the
lower Kuskokwim & Good News
Bay sections of placer and bed
rock formations, and from the
results obtained, active discover
ies and operations have commenc
ed.
He has also carried on investi
gative work with a galvatometer
and geosoope in the locating of
mineralized channels below over
burden. From analysis of informa
tion obtained and subsequent act
ivities, the resuts of his mappings
with these instruments have been
very favorable, commented Mr.;
Stewart.
The Director of Mines also an
nounced that a party headed by j
Associated engineer Henry P. Joe |
sting, who will be accompanied
by Professor Ernest F. Fox of the1
geology department of the Uni
versity of Alaska, will soon go to
the Russian Mission section on
the lower Yukon River, for ex-j
tensive exploration with such |
types of instruments, and will be
assisted by drilling crews to
check on their analysis of form
ations.
George E. Zeigler, an associate
engineer of the Department has
been stationed at Anchorage, said
Mr. Stewart, who will be actively
engaged in work pertaining to
the physical and constructive
functions of coal and under
ground mining in the Third Divi
sion.
Mr. Stewart in commenting on
the future of mining in this sec
tion, as well as throughout Al
aska, referred to a recent public
release by Secretary of the Trea
sury Henry Morgenthau Jr., con
cerning the government’s policy
of maintaining the present level
of the price of gold.
While production of gold and
other minerals in Alaska has in
creased considerably of late years
said Mr. Stewiart, the field o.f ac
five prospecting has not kept
pa^j, and it is the intention of
the Department of Mines, within
the scope of its financial budget
to further the interest in this part
I icuar field as much as possible.
Increased Appropriation For
Army Be Sought To Be Used
For Purchase New Equipment
WASHINGTON. June 23 —,
President Roosevelt, it is report
ed intends to seek an immediate
boost in the defense program
that would more than double the
five billion eighty two million dol
lars already appropriated, and
shatter the arms bill of the peak
of the World War year. Usually
informed sources said the request
would be exclusivey for army
purposes and might be ready for
submission when Congress returns
next week.
WASHINGTON, June 23 (TP) —
President Roosevelt indicated an
increased appropriation would
be sought for the army but offer
ed no suggestion as to the amount
He intimated that the added
funds would be used to place
large orders for defense equip
ment.
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Supplemental
Defense Bill
Signed By Pres.
c J
WASHINGTON, June 27 (IP) —
President Roosevelt signed the
supplemental defense bill, giving
the war and navy departments
a ur billion seventy nine mil
.ion dollar cash appropriation
and authority to make additional
contracts totaling 289 millions.
Th ' sum is about equally divided
between the two departments. In
addition, there is the reguar ap
propriation of two billion eight
hundred million dollars voted by
Congress for the army and navy
for the coming fiscal year.
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Billion. 157
Million for Relief
WASHINGTON, June 27 UP) —
President Roosevelt signed the
billion hundred fifty seven mil
lion dollar bill to finance relief
for at least eight months begin
ning July 1st.
Rep. Magnuson
On W ay Alaska
WASHINGTON, June 27 (VP) —
Representative Magnuson, a mem
ber of the House naval affairs
committee is enroute to Seattle
to take a government plane to
inspect the work on the naval
bases at Sitka and Kodiak.
Republican Convention Nominates
Wendell L Willkie for President
And McNary for Vice-President
PHILADELPHIA. June 27 (JF)
— The Republican national con
vention nominated Wendell L.
Willkie as its 1940 presidential
candidate on the sixth ballot. A
last minute unanimous break by
the big Pennsylvania delegation
clinched the matter when the of
ficial figures had given Willkie a
majority of the convention.
Tw6 of Alaska’s three votes
were recorded for Willkie on the
final ballot. The third vote was
for Taft. .Albert White declined
to divulge how his delegation had
voted individually.
McNary for Vice President
PHILADELPHIA. June 28 iJP)
— McNary was nominated for
vice-president by the Republican
convention the unofficial tabula
tions showed. He was put over
when New York cast 82 of the
92 votes for him, giving the ma
jority for the convention.
Willkie Favors McNary
PHILADELPHIA. June 28 (JF)
Wendell Willkie told a jammed
press conference that he intended
to resign the presidency of the
Commonwealth Southern Corpor
ation Public Utilities Holding
Company on Monday. Willkie
said he expected a series of con
ferences, before the day is out,
concerning the selection of the
chairman of the Republican na
tional committee.
He said he thought the election
of the vice-president nominee “a
job for the convention.” Author
itative sources previously said he
had favored Senator McNary, but
McNary insisted he would not ac
cept the place.
Promise Fighting Campaign
PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (/P)
— The Republican convention ad
journed their five-day meeting at
1 p.m., promising to conduct an
aggressive fighting campaign.
Willkie told the convention:
“Democracy and our way of life
is facing its most crucial test.”
He pledged to “join with you in
this great crusade” to preserve
American institutions in this
“last firm untouched foothold of
freedom in all the world.” He
said: “I call upon you to join me
and help me. We cannot fail if
we stand together in one united
front.”
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