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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 121. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1940 Pnce per wpy l5*
Italians Massing On Greek Frontier
Japan Prepares to Seize British Fortress Singapore
Congress Authorizes Ail Alaska Mail Go By Air
130,000 Italians Troops Massed
At Greek Border-Mussolini and
Hitler Confer at Brenner Pass
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UNDATED, Oct. 4 (/P»—Italian
troops, 130,000 strong, were re
ported massing near the Greek
frontier while Hitler and Musso
ini met at Brenner Pass amid re
ports of “big events" in the off- i
ing. Reports from Athens said
the Italian troops in Italian-dom
inated Albania were shifted to
new positions along the Greek
frontier within the past few
days. The Italian press repcated
,ly turned its propaganda guns on
Greece asserting that the ancient;
kingdom is being made a pawn i
oif Britain. Officials quarters in
Athens declared “all precautions
have been taken by Greece ag
ainst a surprise from any quar
ters.”
In Rome, Foscist editor Gayda
asserted that the dramatic Bren |
ner Pass conference did not in- j
volve any other country in the [
war. “Italy and Germany are not j
thinking of fixing the date to end [
the war,’’ Gayda added, giving
point to the guarded Nazi-Fas
cist admissions that the war may j
last a long time. At end of the j
three-hour meeting, a commun-1
ique was issued declaring “with
in the framework of an ordinary
exchange of ideas, II Duce and
the Fuerher met in cordial re-:
union, conducted within *lhe
sphere of the axis. The two
chiefs examined all problems con
fronting the two countries.’’
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Chamberlain,
111, Resigns
From Govt.
LONDON, Oct. 3 (AP> — Ailing
Neville Chamberlain, former
prime minister under whom Brit
ain entered the war, dropped out
of the government. Churchill
reshuffled the cabinet to give la
bor a more prominent role.
The man whose tightly rolled
umbrella come to symbolize his
pre-war policy of appeasement
toward the totalitarian rulers
resigned both his post of Lord
President of the Council, which
he held since the cabinet fell
last May after the ill-fated cam
paign against the Germans in
Norway, and in the inner war
cabinet he also resigned his lead
erahip of the Conservative par
ty which he retained when he
gave way to Churchill. An au
thoritative press association said:
“It is a foregone conclusion that
Churchill will succeed him as
party leader.”
In quitting, Chamberlain, aged
71, expressed the “unshaken con
fidence” under Churchill’s lead
ership that Britain “with her
allies and associates will succeed
in overcoming the forces of bar
barism which has reduced a
great part of Europe to a condi
tion little better than slavery.”
Trackers Found
Not Guilty
At Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 3 — A ver
dict of not guilty was returned
by a jury in the case against 14
trucksters, tried before U. S.
Commissioner Wm. Growden on
a charge of disorderly conduct
in blocking the Richardson High
way and in refusing to pay tolls
at the government ferry at the
Big Delta crossing of the Tanana
River.
Japs Prepare
Take Britain’s
S i n g a p ore
ROME, Oct. 3 (JP)—Mussolini’s
newspaper II Popolo D'ltalia said
Japan was preparing to attack
Singapore, Britain’s great far
eastern fortress if Britain even'
obstructs Japan's po’icy in the1
Orient or if the United States en!
ters the war. Mario -Appelius, the
paper’s leading commentator,
calling Singapore the pivot for
the British positions in the far
oast declared “Japan is seeking
to place itself in the best possible
position strategically against Sin;
gapore in anticipation of being
forced by Eng ish hostility or in
tervention of new allies of Eng-1
land, to attack, and throw down!
the pillar of Singapore.”
Dellwood Sails
Oct. 12 For Nome'
With CAA Cargo
SEATTLE, Oct. 4 i/P) — The
Steamship Dellwood is posted to
sail for Nome October 12 with
equipment including 2024 tons of
tractors for the Civil Aeronautics
Authority gnd other freight. She
will probably call at Dutch Har
bor and Kodiak enroute Nome.
The Baranof is to sail Oct. 16,
the final sailing of the season for
Bering Sea ports.
Agent Wilcox of the Aalska
Line announces that the SS Dell
wod saiLs from Seattle for Nome,
October 10th. Tire Dellwod is
carrying a cargo of equipment
forthe GAiA and a large ship
ment of lumber for the U. S. S.
R. & M. Co. I
The Dellwood is a combination
freight and passenger ship and
will have accomodations for at
least 65 first class passengers.
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Tristan Kidnaper
Sentenced Life
Imprisonment
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.. Oct.
4 (/P*—In the third, four-minute
appearance of Wilhelm Muhlen
broich was sentenced to life im
prisonment for the kidnapping
of Marc de Tristan, Jr., aged 3.
The German alien was sentenced
exactly two weeks after he
snatched the little boy from a,
Hillsborough street in what he;
planned was a “perfect kidnap- j
ing.”
He stood as though transfixed
as Superior Judge Maxwell Mc
Nutt pronounced sentence. When I
the judge finished, the kidnap
er still stood before the bench
and his attorneys had to call for
him to sit down.
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Axis Out To Beat
Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (/Pi — J
The President quoted a newspa
per dispatch saying “the axis is
out to b at President Roosevelt."
When asked at a press confer
ence whether he had “any reason
to believe that Germany and It
aly are working for your defeat
in the election,” in a New York
Times dispatch from Rome,
Roosevelt picked up the copy of
the Times from his desk, which
quoted the story. In reply to the
question first, he said it was a'
little difficult to answer the ques
tion. When after the quotation,
he was asked whether he had
any reason to believe the story
true, the President replied he
was just quoting the story back
at the reporters.
8 Soldiers To
Mush Chilkoot
To Fairbanks
ANCHORAGE — Elmen dorf j
Field hadquarters announced 114;
soldiers and four officers are
scheduled to arrive at Seward
October 4 enroute to Ladd Field
Fairbanks, where they will be
stationed.
The men comprise Company L
Fourth Infantry.
It was also announced six men
and two officers are scheduled to
leave Chilkoot Barracks during
February with 40 dogs to travel
overland to Fairbanks on the
first Army expedition for exper
ience on Alaska trails. The dogs
are being transferred to Fair
banks, where they will be sta
tioned with the Fourth Infantry.
The Army decided this will af|
ford a good opportunity to give
men winter experience; an officer
will compile detailed reports for,
use of the Army when planning
future wilderness expeditions.
Five teams will be used and the
schedule calls for stops at the fol
lowing placed with distances to
be covered each day:
All Alaska Mail
To Co By Air
—
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (/P> —
The House sent to the White
House the measure affirming the
legality of carrying all mail in
Alaska by air irrespective of
whether or not air mail rates
are paid. The measure -carried 1
the Senate amendment authoriz
ing the post office to control the
postage rates.
Delegate Dlmond said the bill
was introduced after legal ad
visers raised the question of whe
■ther plane delivery should be
restricted to mail bearing air
mail stamps.
Registration Date
Alaska Not Set
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (/P) —
^Major Ben Howell, Director of
the manpower division of the
army and navy selective service
committee said the date for draft
registration in Alaska has not
yet been set because the snow
is not packed there in many plac
es thus presenting travel diffi
culties.
Court Martialeri and Exiled
CLERMONT, France, Oct. 4
(/P) — A court martial convicted
former education minister Jean
Zay of desertion from the army
and sentenced him to loss of mili
tary rank ar.d exile to a place
not immediately designated.
The following names of pas
engers were incoming on the
McKinley bt|t were not avail
able to be printed before: Carl
Carlson, Mrs. F. J. Daugherty.
Wm. A Gilmore, Dorothy Inman,
and Willard Riehardsen.
Pleasant, 12 miles from Chil
keet; Glacier Camp, Yukon Terri
tory, 22; Bear Cabin, 18 miles;
Dalton Post, 16; Klukshu, 18;
Kathleen Lake, 20; Bear Creek,
20; Kluane, 35; Burwash Land
ing, 35; Wellesley Lake, 90 mil
es. The men will sleep in the j
open on this stretch.
Then, Snaig, 15; Tanana Cross-!
ing, 100 miles, again sleeping in |
open then to Fairbanks.
The .Northwest Mounted Police i
will provide an escort through
Yukon Territory, and a native
guide will accompany them from
Wellesley Lake to Tanana Cross
ing.
Food will cached along the
route; the party will start with
1,500 pounds cxf equipment and
food for men and 1,000 pounds
of dog food.
The Army plans to contact the j
party occasionally by airplane, i
dropping food from the planes, j
partly for practice and partly by 1
necessity.
.The six soldiers in the party j
will be stationed in Fairbanks to i
take care of the dogs.
General Simon Buckner said
the dogs will be used by the
Alaska defense force for work in
the wilderness, taking aid to
Army planes down in the wilder
ness, but probably little else.
CAA To Build
To Build Station
At Anchorage
SEATTLE, Oct. 4 (JP> — R. D.
Bcdinger, Civil Aeronautics
Authority regional manager said
powerful government wireless
transmitters and receivers were
being built in Snohomish county
and at Anchorage to broadcast
weather information to all avia
tors. He said the work had start
ed on the transmitter and receiv
ing station north of Marysville
also on the station at Anchorage.
The establishment of the sta
tions Bedinger said was neces
sitated because the Alaska com
munications were burdened by
regular business and the need
for additional weather data has
increased.
The local PAA office announc
ed today that a plane is schedul
ed to arrive Nome from Fair
banks tomorrow with air mail.
Tigers Two One
Over Cincinatti
v\ orld Series
Thursday’s Game
FLASH, Oct. 3 (fP) — Final—
Detroit 3. Cincinnati 5.
The Cincinatti Reds evened
the series by beating the Tigers
5 to 3 in the second contest. Be
hind the masterful three-hit hurl
ing of Buekv Walters, Schoolboy
Rowe, the Tiger ace gave up 8
hits and all five of the Cincinnati
runs before going to the show
ers after 3 and one-half innings.
Detroit—2 00001000 — 3
Cincinnati 0 2 2 1 0 0 fl 0 x — 5
Batteries. Tigers: Rowe, Gor
sica in the 4th and Tebbetts. Cin
cinnati: Walters and Wilson.
Walters started poorly, walking
the first two men up — Bartell
and McCosky. in the opening
frame. They scored on Gehring
er's single and fielder’s choice
and the Tigers appeared on their
way but the Reds, smarting un
der “They can't hit" criticism
banged into Rowe for four hits
and two runs.
In the second they tacked to
gether a single and Jim Ripple’s
screeching homer for two more
in the third and clinched it with
another in the fourth inning on
consecutive doubles by Walters
and Bill Werber. The only Tiger
gesture after that came in the
sixth when Gehringer forced Me
£osky at second after McCodky
walked, then came home from
irst on Greenberg's sizzling
double against the scoreboard.
The Reds were lucky to get
their runs before Rowe was lift
?d, for relief hurler John Joseph
Perry Corsica, aged 23, old right
landed reformed first baseman,
:umed in one of the best relief
lobs in series history.
The youngster went in with
ane out in the fourth and not a
single Redleg reached first un
til the eighth when Jimmy Wil
son, 40-year-old Cincinnati catch
?r scratched his second single of
the day off third baseman Hig
gins’ glove to that point. Gcxrsica
bad retired 13 consecutive hit
ters but as it was he got 14 of
the 15 to face him.
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Today’s Came
FLASH, Oct. 4 <rP!—Cincinatti
4, Detroit 7.
—
The Detroit Tigers exploded a
thirteen-hit barrage to over
whelm the Reds, 7 to 4 and gain
ed a two to one advantage in the
World series. The Tigers had
j won the opener at Cincinatti
i Wednesday behind Buck New
som's stellar hurling 7 to 2, but
lost yesterday 5 to 3 as the Red’s
Buckv Walters held them to 3
i hits.
(Cincinatti—-1 00000012 — 4
! 10 hits — 1 error
Turner, Moore in the 7th, Boggs
in the 8th. Lombardi and Baker
! catchers.
Detroit—0 0010042x — 7
| 13 hits — 1 error
i Bridges and Tebbet-s.
Rudy York and Frank Higgins
supplied Detroit with homers in
| the inning that broke up a spark
ling pitching duel between Turn
er of the Reds and Tommy Brid
ges of the Tigers. Both were
i four-bases with a Tiger on bases
and Higgins' wallop went high
j into the upper left field stands
| and sent Turner to the showers,
i Whitey Moore got the side out.
Moore was lifted for pinch hitter
! in the 8th and Joe Beggs went
onto the Red's hill in the last
i half only to be shelled for two
more runs. Bridges was touched
for two runs and three hits in a
(staggering finish until the big
l Detroit outburst. Bridges pitched
'superbly but Reds got to Bridges
in the first inning for a run on
a double by Bill Werber and at
single by Ival Goodman.
After Goodman hit Bridges re
tired 21 of the next 23 men fac
ing him. Detroit tied the score
j in the 4th on singles by Barney
| McCosky, Charley Gehringer 3c
York.
The big 7«th was opened by
Hank Greenberg with a line
drive and before the inning was
j over the Tigers batted around
1 York, the number 2 man of De
j troit's famous Greenberg-York
one-two punch and hit a tower
ing drive over the lower left field
stands. Before Turned could re
gain his poise Bruce Campbell
singled and Higgins belted a horn
er into the upper left field pavil
ion.
The Higgins clout finished Tur
ner and Whitey Moore got the
side out. The Reds fought game
ly to the last putting together 3
singles for a ru nin the 8th and
the same number of blows and
errors for a pair of tallies in the
9th. There was a paid attendance
of 52,877.