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VOL. 43. No. 36. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, MAY 28, 1941 Per Copy 15«
National Emergency Is Proclaimed
British Navy Destroys German Battleship Bismark
British Defenders of Crete Are Obliged Withdraw
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
PROCLAIMS UNLIMITED
NATIONAL EMERGENCY
Requires Strengthening of Defense to Extreme Limit
Of National Power and Authority
WASHINGTON, May 27 {&) -
President Roosevelt announced
in a world-wide radio address
that he issued a proclamation de
claring “that an unlimited na
tional emergency exists and re
quired the strengthening of our
defense to the extreme limit of
our national power and author
ity.”
Will Not Hesitate
Meet Challenges
Asked whether in view of the
world situation, the nation should
“hesitate to take every single
measure necessary to maintain
our American Liberty,” he add
ed, “Our p?ople and our govern
ment will not hesitate to me t all
challenges. As the President of a
united and determined people, I
say solemnly, ‘We reassert tin:
ancient American doctrine of free
dom of the seas. We reassert the
solidarity of the twenty-one Am
erican r publics and Dominion of
Canada in the preservation of the
independence of the hemisphere.
We have pledged material sup
port to the other democracies of
the world — and we will fulfill
that pledge. We in the Americas
will decide whether and when
and where our American inter
ests are attacked or our secur
ity threatened.
Proclaim Unlimit
ed Emergency
“ 'We are placing our armed j
forces in strategic, military po
■ sitions and we will not hesitate
I to use our armed forces to repel
an attack. We r assert our abid
ing faith in the vitality of our
constitutional republic as a per
petual home of freedom, of tol
erance and of devotion to the
word of God.’ “Therefore with
profound consciousness of my re
sponsibilities to my countrymen
and to my country’s cause, 1
have tonight issued a proclama
tion that an unlimited national j
emergency exists and requires |
the strengthening of our defense
to the extreme limit of our na
tional power and authority.”
Common Prudence
■
j Limit of Strength
Roosevelt said the objectives of
the Axis “include overthrow, j
throughout the world, of the ex-'
isting democratic order, and
world-wide domination of peo-j
pies .and economies through des-1
tructioo of all resistance on land,
sea and air. Indifference 00 the
United States to this ever-in
creasing menace would be peril
ous, and common prudence re
quires, that for the security of
this nation and of this hemi
sphere, we should pass from
peace-time authorizations of mili
tary strength to such a basis as
will enable us to cope instantly
and decisively with any attempt
at hostile encirclement of this
hemisphere or establishment of
any base for aggression against
I
AXIS PARTNERS SILENT OVER
ROOSEVELT'S PROCLAMATION
-REGARDED INVITATION WAR
German Public Kept Unaware FDR's Speech
—
UNDATED. May 23 UP> Both
Axis partners were grin-ly silent
officially on President R-oos v It’s
speech, but propaganda sources
which do their bidding, were al
lowed to hint that it may be re
garded as an invitation to war.
Preparing For Aggession on Axis
Virginio Gayda, Fiscist editoi1.
who often reflects Mussolini’,
views, said flatly that Rocsev.Jt
“is preparing for aggression” ag
ainst Germany and Italy. Other
Fascist circles in Rome said the
fireside cha1, committing the Uni.
ed States to a policy of resisting
any German attempt to gain con
trol of the s as, virtually put the
United States at war with th’
Axis,
Decisively Rejected by Nazis
By late afternoon, the Berlin
and German press, had not dis
closed to its public that the
President had even spoken, but
'.he Di':nst Aus Duetschland, a
news commentary close to for
eign office connections but not for
home consumption, said the ad
dress received “decisive rejec
tion” by the Nazis. A O rman
radio broadcast, also . xclusively
for consumption abroad, was
heard by CBS in New York to
denounce Roosevelt’s attitude on
freedom of the seas as meaning
“nothing short of unlimited con
trol by Washington” of world sea
lanes. The radio declared “Ger
many, however, neither can nor
vv:ll permit this type of econom
ic dictatorship on the part of
America or any other nation."
Japs Sec Step Closer To War
I" T 'kvo, the influential news
N.chi Niclii, said the Presi
fleet’s addr ss advanced the Unit
cd S‘..at '< one step closer to war.
111:t a i :sc in the Tokyo stock
m rki ‘ apparently indicates the
belief ip some financial quarters;
tin* the spe eh contained nothing
1 to upset the Japanese and Ameri
! can trade relations.
French Reassure
LIS. Will Hold
Fleet, Colonies
i _
j WASHINGTON, May 27 f/Pi —
The French government gave re
newed assurances, in writing, to
the United States that the French
fleet and colonies will not b sur
rendered to Germany or to any
other power. The note, contain
ing specific guarantees, was del
ivered by French Ambassador
Henry-Hay to Sumner Welles.)
The Ambassador told reporters
that the note was drafted by him
on instructions from the Vichy!
government and was intended to
remove misgivings here, on the1
score of French and O rman col
laboration.
it, as well as to repel the threat
of predatory incursion by for
eign agents into our territory and
society.”
Highlights Of
Fireside Chat
Highlights of his speech includ
cd:
“This is no time for capital to1
make or be allowed to retain ex
cess profits and articles of de
fense must have undisputed light
of way in every industrial plant
in the country.”
“Collective bargaining will be
maintain'.d but the American peo
pie expect impartial recommenda
tion of our government will be
foil, wed both by capital and la
bor.
“It is unmistakably apparent
to all of us that uness the ad
vance of Hitlerism is forcibly
checked now, the Western Hemi
sphere wall be within the range
of Nazi weapons of destruction.”
“War is approaching and is on
the brink of the Western Hemi
sphere itself and it is coming
very close to home as the pre
sent rate of Nazi sinkings of mer
chant ships is more than three
times the capacity of British ship
yards to replace them and more
than twice the combined British
and American output of mer
chant ships today.
FDR Asks 3
Billion For
More Planes
WASHINGTON, May 27 (/Pi —
In the midst of preparing a mo
mentous pronouncement of gov-1
ernmental policy. President Rooso j
velt asked Congress for a three
billion three hundred nineteen
million dollar appropriation fori
more airplanes.
Stephen Early told reporters
that Roosevelt will extend his [
fireside chat an extra fifteen min
utes tonight and assert'd “I think
you can say that by Wednesday
morning there will no longer foe
any doubt as to what the nation
al policy of this government is.”
Of the total planes, two billion
seven hundred ninety million is
for the army and five hundred
twenty nine million is for the
Navy.
Expected Clear Up
Convoy Questions
WASHINGTON, May 28 </P) —
President Roosevelt is scheduled
late this aifternoon for a pr:ss con
ference in which he is expected
to clear up the question of con
voys.
BATTLESHIP BISMARK SUNK
BY BRITISH NAVY REPRISAL
FOR DESTRUCTION HOOD
LONDON. May 27 i/P) — Tcr
ped.j i la e« of the aircraft car
rier Ark Royal, backed by shots
from the Royal N: vy’s Atlantic
fleet, sent the 35.00) ton German
battl ship B smark to the bottom
in the North Atlantic at 11 a.m.
today. U was announced ofTicial
1", in ster i iev n , for the sink
log of the mighty battle cruiser
Hood. The coup de grace was ad
ministered after the Bismark was
spotted by an American-made
plane. She was sev rely damag
ed by torpedo after torpedo, hurl
ed into her vitals by planes of
.he flee; arm.
A. V. Alexander, First Lord of
the Admiralty, announced that
.,ust three days aft r the 42.000
ten Hood was blasted to pieces,
between Iceland and Greenland
units of the Royal Navy, includ
ing the n w 35,000 ton battle
ship Pr ”ce of Wales, caught up
to her as she tri d to make the
French port of Brest or St. Naz
aire. She had been deserted by
her escorting cruiser. Prince
Eugen. ore of Germany's three
cruisers of the 10,000 ton Hipper
class.
The British asserted that “mea
sures are being taken in respect”
to the Eugen, on. of Germany's
most powerful cruisers. An offic
ial statement said the British
disclosed that the Bismark elud
ed her pursuers once Saturday
nig t in bad weather but a Unit
'd Muti s-built Catalina plane
picked up the trail again Sunday,
before midday.
GERMAN SKY TROOPS TAKE
CAPITAL OF CRETE. DECLARE
ALLIED RESISTANCE CRUSHED
Assert British Withdrawal Attempts Bv Sea Thwarted
UNDATED, May 28 (JP) — Ger
' man sky troops seized Canea, cap
i ital of Crete, and smashed Allied
| resistance in the nine-day strug
gle, the Nazi command declared,
j while Luftwaffe dive bombers
frustrated a British attempt to;
escape by sea. British headquar-,
i ters acknowledged that the Brit
i ish troops defending Canea were
] “obliged to make a further with-1
| drawal to a more favorable posi
■ tion to the rear and severe fight
| ing continued.”
French and British Planes Battle
A seri.s of other swift-break
ing developments paced the Brit
ish setback in Crete and includ
ed the capture of Halfaya Pass in
Egypt by Axis troops, now strik |
ing in renewed fury at the Suez |
j Canal. The British, and her old
ally. Franc:, met in open combat |
for the first time, in a clash be-1
i tween RAF and French war- [
: planes over Syria. Germany and j
Italy granted France permission
to build up her continental air
force “for the defense of her em
pire,” apparently countering Brit
ain’s threat to attack unoccupied I
France is Petain continues active
cooperation with the Reich.
Thwart British Sea Withdrawal
In the critical battle of Cr te,
Hitler's command asserted that
Allied resistance on the 160-mile
long Isle was crushed with Brit- j
ish and Greek defenders suffer- j
ing heavy loss:s as they retreat- j
ed. Nazi mountain troops, sup-:
ported by waves of machine gun
ning and bombing attack planes j
were said pursuing the British j
across the island. A communi-1
que said dive bombing Stukas
thwarted a British attempt to re
treat by sea, with the destruc
tion of four ships totaling 5,400
tons and damaging two others in
Suda Bay, site of the big British
naval base.
RAF Martin BombeT Downed
In the Middle East, French,
warplanes were reported to have
attacked British planes, for £ha
first time, over Syria, where the
RAF had been bombing airports
assertedly used by German bomb
ers enroute to Iraq. French dis
patches from Beirut said th Brit
ish and French squadrons clashed
when the British started attack
ing the airdrome at Neirab. An
RAF Glenn Marntin bomber was
downed and all members of the
three-man crew w-re killed.
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BLAMES ME N—Says Miss
Alice Paul (above) of Moores
town, N. J., “Men are to blame
for the present war.’* She has
just returned to N. Y. from
Geneva, Switzerland, via Lisbon.
She’s chairman of the world
women's party for equal rights.