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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 30. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, MAY 14, 1941 ^ Copy 15«
Assert Hess Discloses Information
Germans Claim Hess Has “Crazy Plan” End War
U. S. Ships To Go Red Sea In Spite Hitler’s Threats
GERMANS DESCRIBE 800-MILE
FLIGHT OF HESS’ AS ACT OF
MAN MENTALLY DERANGED
UNDATED. May 13 iTP) — Ger
man propaganda’ described the
melodramatic 800 mile escape
flight of Rudolf H: 53 to Scotland
a? an net of a man “mentally de
ranged because of physical ill
ness." While elsewhere there was
speculation that th? N^zi deputy
Party leader might divulge infor
matron which wcu’d strike a ser
ious blow to Hit! Hs war plans.
Shows First French Nazi Party
As British foreign office ex
perts questioned Hess at a Sco -
ti.-h hospital, minister 0; infor
mation j Alfred Duff Cooper, t Id
rti:icing Britons “We can only
, say hi» arrival here show’s the
—ftr-St breach in the Nazi party has
' oo.’UFEad, sine . Hitler murdered
1 1 -a hug*,1-, bloc of his own followers
- in.Juqe, 1934." Duff Cooper refer
red to the notorious “blood
purge” which Hess helped to ex
ecjtq on Hitler’s orders.
Counter Assertions Hess Insane
Count ring German assertion?
that H ss is mentally ill, the Bri
ish pointed out that for a mad
man he made an adroit job of fly
ing 800 miles from Germany to
Scotland and bailing out when
he failed to sight a landing place.
Hess was in a Messerschmitt in
the darkness. The plan-’s fighting
guns were not loaded.
Lived Under Hallucination
An official Nazi party commun
ique declared “Hess appears to
have lived under the hallucina
tion that he is still able to bring
about an understanding b tween
Germany and England, through
personal action with old English
acquaintances.”
P" 'ght No Suggestion of Peace
The British said flatly hat Hit
ler’s long-time boon friend and
nur. ber two choice for fueher
hip in the event of Hitler's
•’eat’.n brought no suggestion of
p- ace. The purpose of his fi ght
remained a d^ep mystery, mnid
a flood of rumers. Word circulat
ed in Glasgow that Hess brought
.nip rtarf inforn ation about the
German air force which he want
ed. to. con municate to the Brit
ish. Authoritative quarters in
London sr.id Hess knew if h had
! goiie* to a neutral country m
; stead cf parachuting onto a Scot
tish moor he was in .danger of
Icing-bumped off by Nazi agents.
Plane’s Tail Bullet-Punctured
Photographs of the plane show
•:d' th'e' tail *wa> punctured ■ by
a chine-gun bullets,, apparently
inflict'd ei.her by German or
British pursuits.
Churchill said in the House of
Commons that a further state
ment wil be made shortly about
Hess’ flight.
Now that girls are taking the
places of young men b hind the
soda fountains, we trust no one
will call this the era of the drug
store cowgirl.
Col. Knox
Is Coining
To Alaska
Col. Frink Knox, Secretary of
t'1 Navy, is planning a visit to
A'aska this summer to insnect
arms in Juneau, Ketchikan,
Petersburg and Seward i-> pre
para'ion for the installation of
in $1T7.0I00 section Naval de
fen^' hose in each locality.
Thi ini' rmation was receiv d
in a radiogram sent to the Juneau
Chamber of Commerce by Dele
te Anthony J. Dimond in re
ply tc a communication sent to
•he Alaska delegate offering all
eonp ration in order to help the
edabli hir f the base at Ju
neau.
F p r d'-■■•delves from Wash
'uv, a ’• .led' that plans were
!: Lng r do to-Construct 59 see
dor.dl Naval defense ba§es . .in
coast.*1 towns and includ d the
, four Alaska ports in the building
’d-ogrnm.t The‘biases will be sta
tions for small defense craft that
will patrol harbors, be used as
ir.e sweepers, . detept submar
' ics and protect coastal convoys
from attacks.
The information said that al
r ady money had been appropriat
ed for the immediately construc
tion of 13 of the bases and that
he others would be built ‘‘in the
near future.”
Sieel workers feel greatly in
flated by their wage increase. We
hope the national economy does
n t get to feeling the same way.
MORGENTHAU GETS A LIGHT FROM ASSISTANT
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Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau (right) gets a light from John L. Sullivan, assistant
secretary of the Treasury, as he began his testimony before the house ways and means committee in
Washington, D. C. Morgenthauasged for S3,,>00,000,WO new taxes. gTeater defense production, reduced
non-defense spending and safeguards against profiteering.
These men practicing lathe work while masked are among 12,500 Puget Sound navy yard civilian
workers at Bremerton, Wash., getting gas defense trainihg at the rate of 1,000 weekly.
BRITISH SAY HESS TALKING.
WRITING WORDS TO MAKE
NAZI HIGH COMMAND SWEAT
BRITISH RADIO BROADCASTS BARRACwE HESS
STORIES DIRECTED AT GERMANY
UNDATED, May 14 <JP) — Hess
was described by the British ra
dio as talking and writing "words
to make the German high com
mand sweat," in the first semi-of
ficial intimation that he may al
ready have divulged vital Ger
man military secrets.
Hess Questioned Closely
British military intelligence of
ficers were reported questioning
the numb r-three Nazi closely.
Simultaneously the government
controlled British Broadcasting
Company began a barrage of ten
broadcasts a day to Germany on
the Hess affair.
Indicates Disgust Nazi Party
The London Daily Mail said, in
preliminary conversations, Hess
“indicated^ his personal disgust
with th Nazi party” and told of
mounting tension among Hitler’s
party chieftains.
Had "Crazy Notion” End War
Authorized quarters in Berlin
said that documents left behind
by Hess indicated that he plan
ned to visit Duke Hamilton in
Glasgow, in an effort to bring
about peace.. Thr Nazi spokes
man said: "Hess had a fixed idea
he was a sort of messiah, by
whom a spectacular individual
gesture could bring about a ter
mination of hostilities.” The
spokesman declared that Hess
had no intention of approaching
Churchill or other British govern
ment leaders but that he had a
“crazy notion” that pacifist group
could end the war. “Hess didn’t
flee as a traitor,” the spokesman
asserted. Nazi officials previous
ly declared Germany would not
accept any peace offer except on
German term.
Germans Not to Tune Broadcasts
In the Reich, itself, Germans re
ceived an oblique warning ag
ainst list.ning to foreign broad
casts even as the British radio
flooded the air waves with Hess
stories in Czech, Spanish, Nor
wegian, French, German and oth
or languages.
Listeners Get 4-6 year Sentences
DNB published a list of seven
r.cent cases of persons sentenced
from four to six year terms for
tuning in their radios on foreign
broadcasts. Only two of the five
morning papers in Berlin men
tioned Hess’ mysterious flight to
Scotland.
July 1 Set
For Second
Resgistration
WASHINGTON, May — Army
Selective Service officials here
reported that they have decided
on July as the date for registra
tion of approximately one mil
lion men who have become 21
since the first Selective Service
enrollment last October.
The registration will take place
in the headquarters o,f 6,500 lo
cal draft boards. It is expected
that a proportion will be called
for training within a few months
after registering.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the Nome Nugget office
m
U.S. Ships To
Go To Red Sea
Despite Hitler
UNDATED, May 14 (JP) — HiU
ler, plunging ahead on his mili«
tary campaign, declared that
ships risking the northern Red
Sea supply route, which Presi
dent Roosevelt opened recently
to United States shipping, would
expose themselves to destruction
by the “German armed forces.”
Informed circles in Washington
said Hitler's action was antici
pated and it was not expected to
change U. S. plans for getting
suppli s through to Suez.
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PROTEST —To her moneyed
relatives, Zara du Pont (above)
is “Miss Kick” because she
usually backs up vocal protest
with action. She marches with
strikers, pickets utility plants,
belongs to 63 progressive or
educational organizations.