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VOL. 42. No. 81. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, JULY 3, 1940 Per c<w
Nazi Submarine W arf are Intensified
Navy Awards Contracts For 3 Airplane Carriers
Germany Intensifies U-Boat
Campaign British Losses of
Shipping Near Million Tons
UNDATED, July 1 (/P) — Inten
sifted U-Boat campaign, striking
white the British escort system
was upset by the collapse of
France, scored “admittedly
heavy” losses among Great
Britain’s merchant shipping. An
authoritative London report said
wholesale sinkings were record
ed in the three-week period from
June 2 to 23, as the escort ships
were diverted to withdraw Brit
ish, French and other Allied
troops “all the way from Best to ]
St. Jean de Luz,” at a cost esti
I mated at 186,000 tons. It was in
dicated that Italian subs might
be helping the Germans in a re
newed underseas warfare to crip
pie imports and vitally needed
foodstuffs by Britain in her dark
•est month.
In the World War, April, 1917.
the peak of Germany’s unrestict,
I ed sub warfare, Britain lost 196
ships totalling 600,000 cons. At:
that time the island kingdom had
cr.lp- :ix weeks supply rf iood
left. Late official and unofficial
figures pieced the British losses
in the current war at 784.000 tons:
up to May 26, followed by Cast
week’s hiatus, of which none
were reported sunk. This figure,
in today’s announcement would
make the total British less almost
a million tons. British reports es
* tirruated that German losses up to
June 4 totalled 830,000 tons.
Southeast Europe Calming Down
In Southeast Europe, amid an
apparent lull in the critical Bal
kan situation, Rumania looked
anxiously to Germany to prevent
further dismemberment at the
hands of her hostile neighbors,
Hungary and Bulgaria, both re
ported to have been emboldened'
by Russia’s successes. Rumors in;
Budapest said Hungary made a
move “inspired by Germany’’ or
dering partial demobilization and
proposed to demilitarize a zone
cm both sides of the Hungarian
Rumanian frontier. Later uncon
firmed reports said both Hungar
ian and Rumanian troops had
withdrawn a short distance to
avoid further incidents.
Charge Hungary
Attempt Foment
Revolution
BUCHAREST, Jury 2 </P) —
Charges that Hungary was at
tempting to foment revolution
among the Magyar population of
Transylvania, in order to pave
the way for the eventual entry of
her army into the province, was
made by government quarters.
Sources close to the palace cab
inet asserted that the Hungarian
government was smuggling rifles,
machine guns and hand gemades
into Transyvania which was ced
;d to Rumaia by the post-World
TYar Trianon Treaty. It was de
clared that more than a million
and a ha f Magyars were in a
position to k;'l Rumanian officials
and harass defense should Hun
gary cross the frontier.
Have The Nome Nugget sent ti
vour mining claim.
Nazis Announce Discovery Of
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British Plan Enhu •«e Battlefront
To Include All Of Europe
UNDATED, July 3 (VP) — Ger
man U-Boats and bombing planes
attacked Britain with new fury
while the official Nazi news agen
cy DNB published an alleged Al
lied “win the war” plan, drag
ging in most of Europe into the
conflict. DNB asserted the docu
ments were captured in France
and disclosed the Allied program
of entangling Rumania, Turkey,
Greece, Yugosavia and Scandin
avia to gain widespread new bat
tlefroots against Germany.
Sink British Convoyed Ships
The Nazi command said Ger
man planes attacked a convoy off
the English channel coast and
sank 18 thousand tons of British
shipping and German subs tor
pedoed another 39,000 tons.
German sky raids, displaying a
new boldness in a daylight sortie
instead of the usual night masked
attacks, bombed the south coast
lof England after an earlier as
sault and killed 12 and wounded
123. One Nazi plane machine
gunned soldiers near a beach. In
cendiary bombs were also drop
ped. A British Royal Air Force
fighter shot down a bomber off
the east coast. An air ministry
communique issued shortly af
ter noon said anti-aircraft guns
were still in action.
Blitzkreig on British Isles?
With the apparent easing of
the Balkan crisis permitting Hit
ler to divert his attention from
southeast Europe, Britons won
dered if the intensified Nazi raids
signalled the opening of the long
awaited battle for Britain.
Anti-Semetic Riots In Rumania
Bloody anti-Semetic riots
Douglas Corrigan, famed for his “wrong way” flight from New Y osk to Ireland, is shown visiting
his son, Douglas Orville and his wife at St. Vincent’s hospital, Los Angeles. Papa Corrigan explain
ed the Orville in his six-pound son's name, is for Orville Wright, the co-inventor of the airplane.
^Fourth of July Celebration and Dance Thursday
BAND CONCERT 10:30 A. M. LITERARY PROGRAM 11:00 A. M. SPORTS 1:00 P. M. DANCE AT PUBLIC SCHOOL GYM 10:30 P. M.
spread thru Rumania as King
Carol’s hostile neighbor, Hungary
was mobilizing her army to her
greatest peace-time strength.
Carol himself was reported on
the verge of abdicating several
days ago after sharp criticism for
his surrender of Bessarabia and
north Bucovina to Russia but
was said to have been dissuaded
by his cabinet.
Mobilization In
Hlinearv On
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BUDAPEST. July 2 (P —Hun
gary’s mobilization went ahead
aac-ording to plan tonight despite
reports that chances improved
for the peaceful settlement with
Rumania over Transylvania.
Navy Awards
io9 Million
In Contracts
WASHINGTON, Jully 3 <JP> —
The National Defense Commis
sion announced that the Packard
Motor Company agreed tentative
ly to undertake a contract for
9.009 aircraft engines, 3.000 for
the United States and 6,000 for
Great Britain. William Knudsem,
in charge of defense production
said the agreement was subject to
the approval of the Packard dir
ectors. Henry Ford refused the
offer saying he would work only
for the United -States.
Meanwhile the suppmentary de
fense production which may run
into additional billions of dollars
was talked over in a conference
between President Roosevelt and
key men in the defense set up. !
The navy awarded contracts
for the construction of three air
craft carriers and two cruisers
costing one hundred sixty nine
million, haLf of which goes to the
Newport News Shipbuilding Com
pany.
There has been indication of
a supplementary program intend
ed to build up for the army such
equipment as guns, tanks, planes
and airpane motors.. In the Pack
ard transaction they were to
build engines of Rolls Royce de
sign hitherto made only in Great
Britain.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH
H. FORD ARE CANCELLED
WASHINGTON, June 30 UP) —
Wiilliam S. Knudsen, National
Defense Commissioner, declared
government 'negotiations with
Henry Ford for mass production
of airplane engines have collaps
ed.
He said Fords refusal to manu
facture engines for Britain as
well as the United States forced
cancellation of plans, and said
“cooperation will be sought else
where.”
Senate Committees Approve
Nomination of Stimson and
Knox To Cabinet Posts
WASHINGTON, July 2, (/Pi
Th S nate Militay committee ap
proved President Roosevelt's nora
inat. of Henry Stimson as Sec
retary »f War by a vote of 14
to 3.
WASHINGTON, Jufy 3 -
The Senate naval affairs commit
tee approved by a vote of 9 to 5
the nomination of Frank Knox
as Secretary of the Navy.
The action cleared the way in
the Senate for the consideration
probably early next week of the
Knox appointment and the mom
ination of Stimson as Secretary
of War. The naval committee
vote came after Knox was ques
tioned at length about, and which
he denied specifically, the report
that he favored sending United
States soldiers to fight in Eu
rope. The Stimson nomination
was approved yesterday by the
Senate military affairs committee
Senator Bone of Washington was
among those voting against his
nomination.
issues Call For
Condition Banks
WASHINGTON. July 1, f/P) —
The Comptroller of Currency
issued a call for the condition of
a 1 National Banks at the close
f busir; s on June 29th.
U. S. EMBASSY IN
FRANCE MOVES TO MONTS
MONTS. France, .July 1 —
Temporary offices of the Ameri
can embassy in France were set
up here at the chateau of Charles
Bedaux, where the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor were mar
ried.
The staff consists of three men.
Secretary Hugh Fullerton III. Er
nest Mayer, trade commissioner
and Leight Hunt.
The chateau is not far from
Tours, which the French govern
ment selected as the first tempor
ary capital after leaving Paris.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
CHARLEY CHAPLIN SUE?
LIFE MAGAZINE FOR
MILLION T M, 7
Charlie Chaplin is suing Life
magazine for SI.000.000 and
restrain them from using or re
leasing a part of their issue—just
because they printed a picture of
the comedian. He claims that it
will hurt his forthcoming film
"The Dictators" because it shows
him in his uniform as a dictat
or. It will be interesting to note
whether his picture will fall
short at the box office because of
his long absence from the screen
We’ll know once and for all whs
ther the public really forgets a
real favorite.
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OliAPLIN HOLIDAY —Already taller than his dnd is
Charles Chaplin. Jr., seen with the film comedian and Pai '*e
Goddard at Santa Catalina Island, Cal. They’ve been on vaca.^n,
living aboard PauletU’s yacht, the ‘'Panacea.”