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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 127. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1940 pnce per copy 15*
Alaska Registration Date Jan. 22
Britain Discloses German Invasion Attempt Fails
German School Children Move to Western Rumania
Governor Gruening Tentatively
Sets January 22nd As Date For
Registration For Draft In Alaska
SEWARD, Oct. 17 (/P)—Gover
nor Omening, in Seward tod^y,
named January 22nd as the tent
ative date far draft registration
in Alaska. By that itirne it is
hoped that the forms will be dis
tributed to the remote parts of
Alaska.
Alaskans of draft age, going to
the States between now ar.d the
tentative registration date for A1
ask?, are required to present
themselves within five days, to
the nearest drafting office and by
doirg so preserve their status as
potential registrants of Alaska.
It is likely that Alaska drafitees
wi 1 stay in Alaska.
The Governor was banqueted
today and this afternoon address
_d the public. He will be a pass
enger aboard the southbound
steamer Yukon Friday morning.
Britain Discloses Smashing 01
Attempted Invasion September 16
Nazis Report Naval Engagement
UNDATED, Oct. 18 (/P) — Brit
ain smashed a German attempt
to invade England, the London
air ministry disclosed. Simultan
eously Hitler's command report
ed a naval clash off England's
Bristol Channel which may have
been “a feeler” for a new inva
sion thrust. The Nazi command
said German destroyers, circling
Land's End to strike at Britain’s
west coast on the Atlantic, bold
ly attacked a superior British na
val force of a cruiser unit pro
tected by destroyers.
Authoritative British quarters
said the Nazis attempted to
launch a sea borne invasion on
September 16 but RAF bombers
wrought such havoc among the
embarked troops that the plan
was abruptly cancelled. On Sep
tember 20, a high government
official of a conquered nation ar
riving in New York said German
officers tn'd him that practice
maneuvers for the invasion cost
the German 10,000 r. ", and bod
ies of German soldiers wash
ash re at French channel ports
frequently.
The British disclosure is report
ed to be t’u first official British
admission that Hitler actually
started troops across the channel
to storm the island. “On Septem
ber 16 many German troops em
bark* d but were later taken off
■the ships' a news service declar
ed. adding that the stubborn in
vasion plans “were not adopted
because of the sustained offen
sive by the RAF” on the invasion
ports along the German-held
channel coast.
“ SOUF.DO U G H ”
STATIONERY
•\t Nugget Office
Col. Richard Park
Head Engineers
Pacific
i
—
PORTLAND, Oct. 17 t/Pt —Col/
Richard Park of Mobile. Ala-,
bama, vvi 1 replace Brigadier Gen 1
• eral John C. E. Lee as North!
Pacific Division officer here it j
was announced today. Lee left!
today for San Francisco to take!
charge of Fort Mason, the port |
of embarkation.
HOUSING 13 JOB
DEFENSE SAYS FDR
PITTSBURGH. Pa., Oct. —
President Roosevelt, referring to
public housing as a “job defense” i
-aid that as ’ong as people know
the government “is working to1
protect their jobs and homes, we
can be confident that if need
: arr. .tu * w.>-jople will whole- j
■ hearted// join in the defense of
their homes and democracy.”
Sitting in an open car, the
President dedicated the hundred
thousandth home unit of the Unit
f'd S'ates Housing Authority, the
313.000.00J Terrace Village, a
series cf three-story apartments
for low-income families.
The dedication ceremony fol
lowed a swing through industrial
plants here essential to national
defense.
ALASKA MINE BILL
PASSES THE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Oct. — The
House has passed and sent to the
Senate the bill permitting the
cost of official surveys of Alaska
mining claims credited against
S100 in improvements or labor
required to make the annual ass
essmeni before patents are is
sued.
One of the most graphic pictures flashed to America since the air assault on London began, this is
the wreckage of a movie house and adjoining buildings, according to British sources, after a Nazi
raid. The damaged arch at the right appears to be the theater stage. Picture was radioed from London
This is home and shelter for the fo’.its who live in iiie Camden Town section of London. Come the
bombers and they head for the shelter of the sub-.vay, prepared to spend the night. Now the home
less have a "dictator”—Sir Edward Evans—to take over all shelter problmes. All who had no urgent
reason to len.ain in London were urged to leave.
One Of Founders
Of Dime Store
WILLKESBARRE, Pa„ Oct. 16
'TP)— Fred Morgan Kirby, aged
79, one of the founders of the
vast Woolvvorth store chain died
here today. He became president
>f the fast growing five and ten
system in 1912 when his 96 stores
merged with those of Frank A.
Woolworth.
RIVERS. HARBORS BILL
APPROVED BY THE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Oct. — The
House approved and sent to the
White House a bill authorizing
$35,000,000 in defense improve
ments on rivers and harbors. The
project included in the rivers
The first full length play of the
and harbors measures had been
requested by the War and Navy
department as of extreme value
to the national defense. All of
the projects are located on the
Atlantic, the Pacific Coast and
the Gulf of Mexico, with none of
them in the interior of the coun
try.
ALASKA DAY TODAY
Today, Oct. 18, is dedicated in
commemoration of that day in
1867, when at Sitka, then the
capital the United States took
formal delivery of Alaska from
Russia. Seventy three years of
varied fortune have passed and
a new era is promised for Alas
ka.
Federal offices and the bank
in Nome observed the day by
remaining closed.
200,000 German School Children
To Be Moved to western Rumania
From Several Large German Cities
UNDATED, CUt, IT P) — The
trass exodu- 1 T 0 German
, school childr fr Berlin and
Hamburg and ; r large Nazi
cities to western Rumania was
reported by author: :es, while
Britain took steps to remove
children ard mothers from the
bomb-ravaged districts of Lon
! don. Dispatches from Bucharest
I said prepara .ms were going
ahead to he,use the German child
ren now being reir ved from Ger
many. A Berlin announcement
said German women and child
ren would be removed “to avoid
imperilig their health.”
Hea’Jth minister MacDonald
told the House of Commons that
500 expectant mothers were leav
ing London weekly to escape the
Nazi bombs. 489,000 school chi d
ren, about 56 percent of the
school population had already
[ left for safer havens in the
' countryside. MacDonald disclos
| ed that 5500 beds in London has
1 pital wards were filled with cas
uafies recovering from "the wan
I ton efforts of the German air
men." He also noted an ominous
: increase in the dread cerrobro
j spinal fever, in all liklihocd ag
gravated by the crowding of Lon
; don’s millions into admittedly in
| adequate air raid shelters.
Hitler’s warplanes renewed
mass daylight raids on England
after heavy rains begged down
j some German overnight attacks
giving London one of its quiet
1 est nights since early Septem
ber.
Other fronts were omir vxsly
quiet. In the Balkans. Russia and
Germany continued to mass
j troops, facing each other ; -ross
! the Danube Delta in Rumania.
I
Secretary Of
Navy Gi\ es
j
Out Plans
WASHINGTON, Oct. — At a
conference with newsmen, Sec
retary of Navy Frank Knox fac
ed a barrage ,of questions and all
: were concerning the tense sit
uation in the Far East.
Secretary Knox said the Unit
ed States fleet now on duty in
| the Pacific will be brought up
to full strength immediately and
4200 men will be added and
•crews will be raised at once from
35 to 100 percent.
Secretary Knox said the step
is only one of several measures
to reinforce the naval s.rength
without delay.
The Navy Chi-of also said the
Navy is “pressing” for the ac
quisition of 31 additional auxil
iary ships to the fleet.
Asked point blank whether he
concurred in the prediction that
it is feared war with Japan will
break out in 15 days, Secretary
Knox promptly replied: “No I
do not think anybody knows.”