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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 98. * NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 12. 1940 ^ ^ Per lw
War Settles To Fighting In Air
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No Compromise In Senate Conscription Legislation
Japanese Demonstrate In Anti-British Mass Meeting
Belligerents Settle Down To \iar
By Air--British Losses 1500 Planes
Italy Greatly ‘Irritated’ by Greece
UNDATED, Aug. 10 (/P> — The
belligerents settled down to a
punishing war by air power. It
aly claimed further gains in her
land drive into British Somali
land.
The Germans said their bomb
ers were working “on schedule”
and blasted the great British
Faversham munitions plants, the
Pobjoy aircraft works and the
Sheerness and Chatham govern
ment shipyards. Anti - aircraft
batteries .brought down two Brit
ish planes bringing the total war
bag of 1500.
The Italians said their columns
passed Adueins, Somaliland.
Their planes bombed Berbera. its
main seaport and warplanes hit
British objective on the Egyptian
TIm R'Oish bvcyjes-h.p
solution and a destroyed
damaged seriously by bombs on
August first. —
The British said their aircraft j
bombed an Italian vessel in Tob-1
ruk harbor in Libya, setting it
aflame,
French Pilots reconnoiterrir.g
for British bombers struck at
Italian positions near Hargeisa
and British bombers made a suc
cessful damaging raid on Mas
sua, Eritrea. The South African
air force blew up two Italian1
bombers and damaged two oth
ers pn an Italian airdrome in
Ethiopia.
The Nazi press and radio an
nounced that their own food sup
plies and those of the Balkan
states w,as ample to last this
winter as the fate of the peoples
in German-occupied countries
•was no great concern of hers.
Egypt prepared to change from
a passive alliance with Britain to
an active cooperation with the
outnumbered British forces in j
Africa.
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New International Complications
UNDATED, Aug. 12 (&) — Brit
ish planes and anti-aircraft gun
I ners clashed with 200 German
raiders who stormed the great
i naval base at Portsmouth and
other military targets in a wide
area. The British said they drove
all but 55 back from the coast
by early afternoon and had shot
down at least 14 of those which
got through.
The Berlin radio counterclaim
ed that 23 British planes were
destroyed. In the opening phases
of the battle, the raiders sniped
at the barrier balloons strung in
protective networks in the air
along the south coast. Four of
them were reported shot down
near Dover. The Nazis said 90
Britishers were shot down in yes
terday's flights, three others by
anti-aircraft fire and that 21 Ger
man pianea were misH'.g. — ■'
The official British score was
60 Germans and 26 British shot
down.
There were new international!
complications in southeastern Eu 1
rope as an authoritative Fascist
in Rome said serious conseqrenc-1
es wouid follow the reported be
heading of the Albania minority
leader by Greek border leaders.
The Italians were “enormously
irritated.’’ Fascists also accused
Greece of supplying British war,
ships and planes with oil from 1
Greek bases.
In London, a spokesman said
Britain will be adverse to the
Hoover proposal that the United
States supply food to Holland,
Belgium, Poland and Norway. He
said Britain would vigorously
maintain the blockade of Ger
many and Nazi-occupied states.
They said Germany should sup
ply them with food from their
abundance.
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Railroad Head Passes Away
CHICAGO, Aug. 10 '(/PI— Law
rence A. Downs, aged 68. who
rose in 60 months, from the hum
ble job of rodman to chairman of
the board of the Illinois Central |
Railroad died here today.I
Willkie Prosecute
Violators Of
Hatch Act
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COLORADO SPRINGS. Aug.1
12 (Pi — Wendell Willkie said
that one of his first acts if el-1
ected president will be to pros-!
ecute all persons who bought or
1 sold advertising in the Democrat
ic National Committee’s 1940
campaign book He told report^*
lets at a press conference that!
they were violating the Hatch.
Act corrupt practices laws.
Elliott Roosevelt and wife.
! here on a trout fishing vacation
| trip were invited and visited him
for half an hour for a "non-pol
itical visit." Roosevelt, on leav-'
j ing, said: "I wish you good luck.”
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State Dept.
Reopens Posts
French Terri.
j.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (P) —
The State department disclosed
the reopening of the diplomatic
I list ing of the posts at Dakar.
French West Africa, the nearest
point to South America and also
at St. Pierre, Miquelon, French
insular possession off the coast of
| Canada. The Dakar post was clos j
, ed nine years ago in an economy
drive.
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Hunting Season
Ducks. Geese
Is Extended
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 12 (Pi
Secretary Ickes announced that ■
the hunting season for ducks and 1
geese was extended to 60 days -
from 45 days this year because! *
of an increase in the number of
birds.
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Here is a speculation map showing where some of the blows could be delivered by Italy. 1—Smash
against French border. 2—Seizure French Corsica. 3—Attack Gibraltar and Tunis. 4 Possible route
through Albania to Yugoslavia and Greece. 5—Seizure of Malta. 6—Italian Dolecanese naval base, a
spot for air and sea raids against Turkey, Greece, Crete, Suez ( anal and Alexandria. 7 Land at
P tacks from Tripoli into Tunisia. 8—Land attacks into Egypt.
few
'OREGON, HERE VV E COME! ’—Determined to wrest new homes from virgin land, so^o
25 families left Long Beach, Cal., bound for a GQO-acre tract they'd acquired near Grants Pass, O. i,
' Their leader, J. IV. Wilson, waves them on, he plans to tree the gun for ue., hunting.
No Compromise
iii Conscription
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10 i/P) —
Administration leaders turned a
cold shoulder to talk of comprom
ise in the Senate fight over the
conscription legislation. Senator
Barkley, Democratic floor leader
expressed belief tiiat conscrip
tion and the proposed voluntary
enlistments could not be linked
successfully in such a sytem as
Senator Maloney proposed as a
substitute for the Burke-Wads
uorth bill which would register
all men between the ages of 21
and 31 but would delay the draft
until January 1st, during tiie per
iod of voluntary enlistments.
Tiie opposition senators are re
ported discussing the possibility
of a referendum vote on the con
stription matter in the November
election.
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I'arley Heads Coco
Cola Export Corp.
WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 10
i/P) —James Farley was appoint
ed chairman of the Coco Cola ex
port corporation. Board chairman
Robert Woodruf announced that
he accepted the position and is
"in charge of all the export busi
ness, partciularly the expansion,
of our business in foreign coun
tries.” Farley’s resignation as Na
tional Chairman of the Democrat
ic Party is effective August 17
and he leaves cabinet August 31.
[ Appropriates $7,250,000 for
Housing at Alaska Bases
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 </P)—
The Housing Authority anounceci
that President Roosevelt approv
ed the allocation of $7,250,000 to
the War and Navy department to
construct 1725 homes at three na
val stations and an army post.
The fund includes $1,625,000 for
325 dwellings at Anchorage near
the air base.
Congressmen Zip
Thru to ^ estward
Congressmen enroute to the
Westward to view pr gress on Al
askan d*. *lu •?-> . rks spent very
little ti’ . Juneau yesterday
before <_•• ng • > r journey.
In fact tw of . >.■ n embers of
the Ho us Si :e re. fee on Army
and Naf . -'.al Defe se didn’t ev
en go to Juneau. E presentatives i
Joe Stmts : AL1 am.a and D. D.
Terry cf Arkansas 1 oft the Al
aska Cl:pp r a Aik Bay and
boarded a PA A 1 "i*a at the
Mendenhall . un.-w fly to Fair
banks.
Two other - n >e of the sub
committee went ’ Juneau to j
board the C as*. Guard cutter
Haida and left fur Seward. They
were Representatives G. B. Sny
der of Pennsylvania md George
A. Mahon of Texas.
Col. S. H. Sherrill accompanies
the Congressmen as military ad
visor.
Others leaving on the Raida in
eluded Gov. Ernest Gruening;
Major Jesse E. Graham, organiz
ing the National Guard and Lieut
Commander J. S. MacKinnon, in
charge of the Juneau branch of
fice of the 13th Naval District. j
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World \fcar
Veteran Dies
In War Games
CENTRALIA. Wash., Aug. 10
1/P) — Major L. Van Basem, com
manding the second battalion of
the 109th infantry of San Jose,
California, died from a heart at
tack at a field hospital last night
after collapsing at the end of a
night-time practice march. He
was a World War veteran. Offic
ers said that several men passed
out during the hike but were re
suscitated.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
| be had at the Nome Nugget office
Anti-British
Mass Meeting
fn Tokyo
TOK\ O. Aug. 12 lif1) — Police
prevented a march on the Brit
ish embassy after three thousand
persons held an anti-British mass
meeting beneath German, Italian
and Japanese flags.
The municipal council sponsor
ed the meeting which adopted
resolutions demanding the with
drawal of the British from the
Far East and favored the streng
thening of relations with the
Rome-Ber'.in axis. Hundreds of
police surrounded the meeting.
Marines Stationed
Guantenamo Bay
For Training
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 10 </P) —
Amid far-reaching plans to
trengthen the defenses of the
Caribbean, the Navy is ordering
2900 Marines to Guantanamo
Bay. for intensive training man
euvers. From Guantanamo Bay
they will be in a position to
reach South and Central America
quickly.
Social Security
Spends 3 Billion
In Five Years
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (JP)—
The Social Security program, 5
years old this week has distrib
uted three billion dollars to the
nation’s aged and unemployed
workers, and to widow?, orphans
and to the blind. In advance of
its anniversary, Wednesday they
drew up a statistical picture say
mg fifty million workers were
! enrolled.