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VOL. 42. No. 70. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. JUNE 7, 1940. Price per copy iw
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* Cannon-Equipped Planes V/reak Havoc Nazi Tanks
ftazi Plans Call For Capture of
Paris Within 15 Days While the
# French Try New Defense Strategy
UNDATED, June 6 UP)— Fleets
of German tanks nosing into new
ly organized “quicksand” defense
systems, were reported by the
French to be'suffering heavy loss
es on the two hundred mile West
ern Front.
Nazi plans call for the capture
of Paris within 15 days. The Ger
man high command announced
** their forces have gained ground
in a sweeping thrust to the south
west.
The New French strategy was
reported to ibe to permit the “pan
zer” forces to filter through with
out attempting to throw infantry
in their path and then in an n
gulfing movement close behind,
and halt the followup rush of
German infantry while the tanks
^ are met by point-blank fire from
concealed nests of 75-milimeter
field guns. General Weygand's
command denied any serious
break-through, admitting only
strategic withdrawals.
London acknowledged German
progress at certain points. They
said “the Germans are tapping
everywhere to find a soft spot
^ and when they find it they will
try to push through.”
, Germany unleashed her most
extensive bombing attack on Eng
land since the war began, with
high explosives and incendiary
bomb, dropped last night in a
sweep over a 270 miles stretch of
the coastline in an apparent at
tempt to hit airdromes. Bombs
were dropped at Yorkshire, Lin
colnshire, Norfolk and along the
Thames river. One raider was
shot down. Six persons were hurt
but damage was slight the air
ministry said.
Italy notified the United States
government that a 12-mile strip
around their coast was being
mined. The U. S. liner Washing
ton will be conducted through
safely. The Washington is sched
uled to dock at Naples on July
10th.
FRENCH DESTROY 25
GERM AN TANKS
PARIS. June 6 UP) — The sen
official Telefrance News agency
reported that 25 German tanks
were destroyed at Chaulnes in
the heaviest fighting in the Abbe
ville region at the mouth of the
Somme River.
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Renaud, One-man
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Director of ^ar
PARIS. June 6 i.P — Premier
Paul Renaud became France’s
one man director of the war with
lightning changes in the cabinet
shortly after midnight. It was an
il unced he asumed the import
ant post of foreign minister in ad
.iiticn to the premiership and war
o r.fnj.o. Former premier Dala
dier was dapped from the govern
ment in addition to other hold
overs from previous regimes.
Map shows the border between Germany and the low countries
before the Nazi invasion, and where Belgium had 600,000 men under
arms and The Netherlands 400.000.
CAA Authorizes Pacific Alaska
Airways -To Establish Air Route
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Between Seattle And Juneau
WASHINGTON. June 6 (/Pi —
: The Civil Aeronautics Authority
authorized the Pacific Alaska Air
ways to establish an air route be
tween Seattle and Juneau. The
Authority called the Seattle-Ju
neau route important not only
commercially but as a matter of
national defense. Alaska is the
only territory not now linked j
with continental United States
by scheduled airline.
The Authority said it was un
derstood that the Airways are
prepared to begin service soon,
having already made some twen
ty *,trial flights ever the route.
The service will be conducted at
the outset by Sikorsky S-42-B
flying boats but the company
plan- ultimately to use Boeing
307, 4-engined land planes all the
way from Seattle to Fairbanks
with an intermediate stop at
Juneau. The Company told the
CAA that Boeing planes will be
available by the fall of 1941 and
that suitable landing fields will
be available for them at about
the same time.
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Miss Alaska and
Miss Nome Leave
On Tour Sat.
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FAIRBANKS, Juno 7 — As
good-will envoys in behalf of Al
1 aska to the New York World's
Fair, Washington, D. C„ and oth
er metropolitan centers, Miss J
, Minnie Moitschmann “Miss Alas
ka" and Miss Margaret Scott
"Miss Nome" for 1940 leave Fair-1
banks at 9 oclock tomorrow
morning, flying by PAA Electra
! to Juneau where they will con
nect with the S. S. Alaska or
Aleutian for Seattle, Monday.
Miss Alaska is a beauteous, ra
ven-locked, dark-eyed brunette,
whose ancestry dates back to the
earliest days of Alaska. Miss
Nome is a striking, blue-eyed
blonde. Both are self-dependent
typical Alaskan beauties.
The trip is sponsored by the
Fairbanks Dog Derby and Ice
, Carnival at which they were
'chosen at Fairbanks in the last
carnival in March. With com- j
j plete wardrobes including snowy
Alaskan parkas and mukluks pro
vided an impressive appearance
for the gala occasion at the grand
farewell ball in their honor to
night before they depart for the
wonder world that awaits their >
i first tour outside of the north-1
I
land and the great goldfields at
Fairbanks and Nome, their hom
es since birth.
F BI Gets 500
New Agents For
Defence Work
WASHINGTON, June 6 (/P) —
Attorney General Jackson said
that any inference that the Jus
tice Department contemplates a;
“mass drive or wholesale arrests \
in connection with the defense
program are “wholly unwarrant
ed." He made the assertion to
new men, referring to statements 1
in the budget bureau’s letter,
dealing with the request for
$3,358,000 for the Federal Bureau
j of Investigation, chiefly to add
500 agents to the force, now en-1
| gaged in national defense work.
Old Guns To Be
Sold To Allies
WASHINGTON, June 7 (/Pi —
President Roosevelt disclosed at
a press conference that he is
asking Congress for legislation to1
permit the government to trade
in old types of guns thereby to
complete the government’s power
to turn back to manufacturers,
all kinds cf surplus equipment.
The effect would be to make
large stores of American war sup
plies available for sale to Allied
nations by private firms.
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U. S. Envoys Ask
Speed Production
WASHINGTON. June 6 (/Pi —
The White House reported that
America’s ambassadors at Paris
and Lend n were “telephoning
and cabling, and asked we do
everythin* we can to speed up
production of military essen
tials.” __
SWEDEN SCANS THE SKIE S—"Watch and wait” is the motto of Sweden, and here’s an
anti-aircraft gun near Visby on the island of Gotland, which lies south of capital. Stockholm. _
Cancellation Sailings Italian Ships
Hints At Italy's Entrance Conflict
Two-thirds Nazi Bombers Destroyed
UNDATED. June 7 (VP) — Can
'i or. equipped planes wreaked
now havoc on German tank col
umns.
The Nazi high command an
nounced in a brief communique
that the Weygand line was “brok
en through on the entire front."
There was an ominous hint of
Italy's entrance into the oonflict.
when the Italian Line at New
York reported that all Italian
ship, on the high seas were or
dered into neutral ports and all
sailings cancelled.
Authorized German sources
said Germany’s war aims were
two-fold: “the annihilation of|
England and the ann'hiLation ofi
France, ail else is beside the'
point." I
Ti e French said the 200-mile
front was held firmly against the
fury of the German onslaught.
They reported that French and
British planes destroyed four
hundred tanks. In a dramatic
ord r of the day. General Wey
gar.i declared the future of
V ei depends on your tenacity
i hold tight to the soil of
France." Scottish Highlanders
supporting ‘heir French comrad
es on ties lower Somme battle
field battled in their shirt-sleeves
in stifling heat.
London military quarters re
ported that the Somme situation
was “not bad. in fact its pretty
good.’’
The American embassy in Lon
don urged ail American without
urgent re ..sons for remaining in
England to return home on the
liner Washington which is sailing’
from Galway, Ireland, about the
15th of Jure.
The French government radio
reported that two-third of the
Nazi air force’s famous dive
bombing S vto destroyed.
The British admiralty an noun e
ed a three-mile curfew for mer
chant vessels around the United
Kingdom, banned to all ships be
Sw«en sunset and sunrise, except
to organized convoys, to avoid
the threat of night attacks.
Half Million
Nazis Try Flank
Wevgand Fine
J y,
PARIS, June 7 (JP) — The Ger
mans, with their machine power
reported by the French as dwindl
ing. sent masses of men, perhaps
half a million, into a supreme ef
fort to flank the Weyand line at
both ends and strike a decisive
blow at the heart of France. It
was estimated that one-fifth of
their 2,000 tar.’- nrms ■'a was in
active and fewer dive bombers *
are in action.
Entry & Travel
of Aliens In l. S.
Greatly Restricted
*
WASHINGTON. June 6 (VP) —
A State Department order placed
the entry and travel of aliens un
der drastic restrictions, barring
admission to the United States of
all foreigners unable to prove “a
legitimate purpose or reasonable
need.” The ban was imposed si
multaneously on shore leave priv
eleges cf all foreign seamen
whose names are not listed on the
visa-ed crew's roster of the ship
making port. „
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