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VOL. 43. No. 29. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941. Per c°*>y 154
at Frontier
145 Miles of Highway in Alaska Is Recommended
U. S. Restricts Movements Italian Consular Officials
GREEKS MASS 90,000 TROOPS
MTS. NORTH OF SALONIKA
EXPECTED GERMAN ASSAULT
150,000 GERMAN TROOpS AND 1,700 WARPLANES
POSED ALONG BULGARIAN-GREEK FRONTIER
UNDATED, March 6 iJP)—With
Britain pledged to fight at her
side “until final victory is won,”
embattled Greece massed 90,000
troops in mountain passes north
of Salonika in readiness for the
imminently expected assault by
the 150,000 Germans posed at the
Greek-Bulgarian frontier. Ob
servers in Sofia, the capital of
Bulgaria, said the Nazis might in
vade Greece at any hour. Waves
of German bombers are reported
arriving from the North, re in fore
ing the Nazi fourth air fleet, to
taling 1700 bombers and fighters,
already based in Bulgaria.
Sofia dispatches said the Ger
man planes were photographing
both the Greek and Turkish de
fenses. Strict military control
was clamped down on all com
munications between Bulgaria
and the outside world.
TURKEY AND BRITAIN PRESS
DEFENSE OF DARDANELLES
GERMANS ONLY 100 MI. AWAY
UNDATED, March 6 </P)—Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Eden and
General DLl'l left Athens last
-night. A communique announced
that they and Greek leaders had
reached a complete agreement
in all aspects.
The British and Turkey press
ed defense preparations as the of
ficially controlled press called on
Russia to halt Germany’s march
ever deeper into southeast Eu
rope. with Hitler’s armies now
massed within a hundred miles
of the Dardanelles, Turkish news
papers declared that “unless Rus
sia has decided to commit suicide
She had better not let Germany
come near her life-giving artery,
the Dardanelles, as important to
Russia as to Turkey.” The Dar
i ■ imm »
danelles, linking the Black Sea
and the Mediterranean, provides
the Russians outlet to the west
ern word.
Asks Naval Bases ,
Of Rumania
UNDATED. March 6 </P) -^Gov
errument quarters at Bucharest
acknowledged that Rumania has
received a communication from
Moscow, the message, high diplo
matic sources declared was a vir
tual ultimatum that Rumania
cede naval bases on the B’ack |
Sea to Russia.
CONSTRUCTION OF 145 MILES
OF HIGHWAY IN ALASKA IS
RECOMMENDED FOR DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, March 6 VP
— The construction of 145 milei
of highway in Alaska to .give the
Army an alternate port at which
to land supplies for the great ba^
es at Anchorage and Fairbanks
was recommended by the Inter
ior Department and Army oftic
ials in testimony just made pub
lie. It was said, the only way a
present, of getting supplies to Ar
chorage was by railroad from Sc
ward, 114 miles away. o*ver e
trackage that is dangerous, from
a national defense standpoint.
Colonel Stephen Sherihl on the
War Department’s general staf
said the road between Sewarc
and Anchorage is dangerous be
cause half of it "consists of great
high trestles, wooden structures,
turns, twists and tunnels and
ion may provide easy points for
sabotage which could wreck the
railroad and put it out of com
mission for considerable time.’’
He :id it was the opinion of the
: ral staff that the road should
be construction from the Richard
son Highway to the railroad at
Palmer, to permit the landing ol
supplies at Valdez from where
they could be transported over
the Richardson Highway to the
1 Alaska railroad, then to Anchor
: age. It is believed that the road
could be kept open the year
around.
BELIEVE TURKEY WILL
HELP GREECE COMBAT
NAZI INVASION GREECE
UNDATED, March 7 (JP) —
Greek diplomatic quarters ex
pressed the (belief that Turkey
will send troops to the mountains
of Grecian Thrace to help com
bat the German invasion of
Greece.
Britain was reported speeding
all the equipment it could spare
to the Turks. Simultaneously the
British disclosed that Britain has
already coped with a week-long
“mock invasion” probably on a
scale greater than Germany
could launch. The sham attack
featured landings by air and sea
with the British staff officers Lm
j personating the German general
| staff.
In the Balkans, diplomatic
j sources at Belgrade predicted
that Yugoslavia, under pressurt
to choose between the Axis and
j Britain, will refrain from joining
! the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo alliance,
for the time being at least.
WARN AGAINST ACCEPTING
GERMAN ASSURANCES
UNDATED, March 7 (/P) — In
1 Instanbul, inspired Turkish news
j papers warned the nation strong
I ly against accepting German as
surances and declared the spread
of the war to the Balkans seem
ed inevitable.
Reports that Britain was rush
ing equipment to Turkey seemed
j to indicate that Turkey was re
| solved to fight if Germany moves
j on the Dardanelles.
Balkan observers spotted 50
German tanks poised almost with
I sight of the Turkish frontier. The
initial German onslaught, how
ever, if it comes, is expected to
strike at Greece’s Struma River
valley in Macedonia, the 60 mile
corridor leading to the Sea of
Salonika.
Dispatches from Sofia said that
General Papagos, commander of
the Greek army has apparently
intended to abandon Thrace as
indefensible. These dispatches re
ported the Greek were already
clearing civilians out of Thrace,
the northeast province along the
Turkish border with Bulgaria,
long coveted as an outlet to the
Aeigan Sea. If the Greeks elect
to fight at the Struima, abandon
ing Thrace, they will have only
a 25 mile wide front to defend
along the Bugarian fr-ontier.
Yugoslavia’s role in the crisis
has remained a mystery, but au
thoritative quarters at Belgrade
said Regent Prince Paul confer
red with Hitler Monday at Ber
chtesgaden and heard that a state
ment reiterating Yugoslavia’s
neutrality might be expected
within a few hours.
AUSTRALIANS LEAVE FOR SINGAPORE
Australian infantrymen await embarkation at Sydney for service overseas. This group was one of
the many contingents which arrived at Singaporeto bolster the defense forces in Britain’s “Gibraltar
of the East."*
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CUTTER COLLECTS HEAVY ICE COAT
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Members of the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Hscanaba began
removal of a heavy coating of ice the vessel collected during a
Lake Michigan crossing from Grand Haven. Mich., in a gale and
sub-zero temperatures to Chicago.
MOVEMENT OF ITALIAN
CONSULAR OFFICIALS IN
11. S. TO BE RESTRICTED
WASHINGTON. March 6 (TP)—
The United State notified Italy
that the movement of Italian con
sular officials throughout the U.
S. will be restricted and asked
that the Italian consulates at De
troit and Newark be closed. The
State Department made pubic a
note to the Italian government
requesting that its consular offic
ials confine their movements to
those areas in which they exer
cise the recognized duties of
their respective offices.
The action followed a request
by Italy for the closing of Ameri
can consulates at Naples and
at Palmero. Restrictions impos
ed by Italy on movements of Am
erican diplomatic officials, the
Department said in closing, was
requested for “reasons of na
tions policy.”
Thirty Million
For Navigation
Program is Urgent
WASHINGTON, March 6, <7P)
— A thirty million dollar em
ergency navigation program lab
eled “urgent for national de
fense’’ will be undertaken by
Army engineers as soon as Con
gress appropriates the funds.
Among the improvements on
Sitka harbor, was to provide a
sheltered beach for naval sea
plane operations, $109,000; Kod
diak harbor, to provide a 22-foot
channel to serve the naval base,
$70,000.
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports
Mining Deeds T*laeer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers,
Deficiency Bill
Asks Million For
Alaska Roads
—
WASHINGTON, March 6 (yP)-^,
The first deficiency bill reported
in the House contained one mil
lion dollars for Alaska roads.
Cutzon Borglum,
Famed Sculptor
Passes Away
CHICAGO, March 6 <yP) — Gut
zon Borglum, aged 69, interna
tionally famous sculptor died
here after a brief illness. His
wife, son Lincoln, and daughter
were at the bedside.
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