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VOL. 42. No. 114. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, SepL 18, 1940 _ Price per copyiu
London Object Greatest Assault
London Is Shelled By German Long-Range Guns
Sam Rayburn of Texas Elected Speaker of House
Churchill Discloses Nazis Continue
To Deploy Barges And Ships In
Preparation for Invasion of Britain
ASSERTS AS SILLY GERMAN IDEA, BOMBARD
MENT LONDON CAUSE BRITISH MAKE PEACE
UNDATED, Sept. 17 (/P) —Win
ston Churchill disclosed in the
House of Commons that the Ger
mans were continueing to deploy
barges and ships in preparation
for the invasion of Britain. He
warned: “We must expect Hit
ler to make an attempt at what
he judges to be his best oppor
tunity.’’ He spoke before the as
semblage of the Commons which
began at 2:45 p.m. but the fact
that it was in session was kept
secret for two hours because of
repeated air raids on London.
The great stained glass windows
of the House were removed and
plain glass substituted. The
House adjourned shortly after
it assembled, when a siren sound
ed the third alarm since dawn,
but they reassembled before the
all clear signal was sounded.
Sharp Fighting In Egypt
Churchill’s statement was the
first in nearly two weeks and
ranged from the capitalation of
air raid casualties at home to the
Founder Of
Hospital Milk
Stations Passes
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ Sept. 13
</P)—Dr. George Goler, aged 73,
who as the Rochester health of
ficer established the first munici
pal milk station for prenatal clin
ics, died here today.
Dr. G. Frank
And Son Killed
In Auto Wreck
GREENLEAF, Wis., Sept. 16 —
Dr. Glenn Frank, 53, chairman
of the Republican party’s pro
gram committee was killed and
his son Glenn, Jr. injured fatal
ly in an automobile accident last
night.
Frank was bringing to a close
his campaign for the Republican
nomination for United States sen
ator Tuesday’s Wisconsin pri
mary.
Later: Dr. Frank was enroulte
from one political gathering to
another when his car failed to
round a curve at a road inter
section and crashed into a sand
pile and overturned. Frank was
killed instantly and his son died
on the way to a hospita at Green
bay.
Theodore Stumpf, 23, member
of Frank’s campaign publicity
staff, was burned by acid from
the auto’s campaign sound equip
ment and is suffering from shock
Stumpf only gave a meager ac
terse announcement of “sharp
fighting" is taking place between
armoured vehicles of the British
forces in western Egypt and
those of the Italian invaders, and
disclosing that 2,000 persons
were killed and about 8,000
wounded in the first half of the
September air raids on Britain.
Nazi Bombing Idea Silly
Churchill asserted that this
bombardment was carried out
with the silly idea of forcing the
British government to make
peace. He added “We can await
the decision in this prolonged air
battle with sober and increasing
confidence.” That he asserted
was because the air force had
done serious damage to the Ger
man invasion preparations on
the other side cf the channel, be
cause British strength is devel
oping steadily in the air and on
land and sea.
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count of the accident. He told
iffieers: “I was riding in the
back seat and think Glenn Jr.,
was driving. I don't know for
sure and don't remember any
thing else.”
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Britain Can
Hold Out
Says Knox
j
—
HONOLULU, Sept.—Secretary j
of the Navy Frank Knox arriv- j
ing to inspect Hawaii’s defense,1
expressed the opinion that Brit
ain has “better than a 50-50
chance to hold out. against Ger- j
man attacks, but added he would j
not have made ’ this statement
one month ago.
He said the British fleet has
bottled up the Germany navy|
and the Germans are unable to
establish sufficient air suprem
acy to make a surface invasion
possible.
Knox said the government is
getting the “greatest coperation”
from industry and labor in pre
paring for national defense and
there is “not nearly the con-,
fusion in Washington there was,
in 1917.”
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Gale Reported Scattering Fleet
Invading Vessels English Channel
Big Berthas Shell London Itself
UNDATED, Sept. 7 (VP)— Ger
man iong-range guns on the
French coast, firing a distance of
at least 90 miles began to shell
London itself in a new phase of
the ten-day-old assault cn the
British capital, informed Nazi
quarters in Berlin said. Simultan
eously the London air ministry
reported a gale sweeping thru
the English channel last night,
scattered Germany’s invasion
fleet and ent h ; ships scurrying
to shelter.
Warns Again t False Hopes
The German report of the shel
ling of London was unverified. In
London itself, i, v. as said guns,
super-cannon, hitherto held in
reserve for cross-channel bomb
ardments were expected to in
crease daily. Amid these rapid
fire developments, Ghurdhill
■vamed Britons against false hep
es that Hiller may have waited
toe long to invade England this
year He spolie as London's mil
iins underwent the third air raid
alarm of the day. Earlier Britons
had taken h;pe that the chances
of invasion was dimmed by the
first autumn storm raging in the
(channel and e sewhere over Brit
am .-kies were thick with fog,
fur r hampering the Nazi aer
ial seiee.
A k Fury of Attacks
■ .zi quarter.- in Berlin assert
eo hat the German Luftwaffe
■ .auncked tit. heaviest raid cf the
y, sr o.t L . .! n, during the night
I with dive bombing Stukas smash
ing the empire capital, traffic
jun.tiers and subway stations.
Lh. . all}', the Germans said,
m ny of these were ineapacitat.
fid, reporting aso many new fir
■ - burt.t.tg :r. L ndoo's bomb
ve'-.’ged ird" rial areas. A Brit
ish communique acknowledged
the fury of the night-1 rg raids
“spread in many prrts of the
country but mainly concentrated
on London.”
—
Paul E. Madden, chief of the California narcotics enforcement div
ision, is shown above with the rubberized silk bags containing 17
lbs. 3 ozs. of narcotics seized aboard a Japanese freighter in San
Francisco. Madden p/laced the wholesale value of the dope at
$81,000. He hinted the case would have international ramifications
and involved contraband worth more than $1,000,000 when it was
‘'cleaned up.”
Germans Renew Mass Assaults
On London-7 Out of 10 Airports
Remain Damaged Beyond Repair
NATION-WIDE CASUALTIES ARE OFFICIALLY
REPORTED 13,000 INCLUDING 3,333 DEATHS
UNDATED. Sept. 18 (/Pi—Brit
ish fighters clashed with 300 Ger
man warplanes in a terrific bat
tle over the Thames Estuary and
reportedly scattered the raiders
to save London from one of the
gr. atest mass assaults of the
war. Flying at 15,000 feet, three
waves of German bombers and i
fighters thundered across the ]
Dover coast and plunged through
the barrage of anti-aircraft fire
and headed for London, which
was wreathed in a fresh chaos
of smoke which hazed the cap
ital. j
An AP observer on the chan
el coast said the sky seemed
•nil of planes as the Germans
ssed ever his head a few miles
from London.
Defense planes knifed up in
.hree formations and broke them
up i:i a series of whirling dog
lights. The battle came as Lon
don’s mill: 'ns underwent their
fifth day and night air raid alarm
which capped a "night of hell"
marking tl .■ 1 ■ st raid of the
war—9 hours 54 minutes of ter
ror from the skies.
A British communique said it
was feared casualties may be
heavier than in recent months.
Ravburn Is
Named To
Head House
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 —
Sam Rayburn, 53. Texas Demo
crat. was elected Speaker of the
IIous ■ by acclamation, while the
body of his predecessor, the late
William B. Bankhead of Ala
bama, lay in state at the foot of
he House rostrum.
Members of the Democratic
conference said there was no dis
cussion about filing the majority
leadership. Rayburn, who has
been vacationing, expressed the!
belief nothing will be done about'
it immediately.
Rep. Patrick J. Boland, Penn
sylvania Democratic whip, told
newsmen he will be a candidate
for floor leadership.
Willkie Is
I g n o r a n t,
Asserts Hull
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 —
State Secretary Cordell Hull ac
cused Wendell L. Willkie of be
ing “grossly ignorant” of the his
tory of the United States during
the last few years in placing up
on President Roosevelt the re
; sponsibility of the fate of Czech
Bomb Falls Near U. S. Embassy
A delayed action bomb fell
near the U. S. Embassy in the
heart of Mayfair, remaining still
unexploded after daybreak. A
member of the embassy staff
said wryly “we certainly had a
hell night. They were popping all
around us."
Nazi quarters in Berlin, des
cribing the raids aimed at Lon
don’s aerial defense bases, said
that 7 out of the British capital’s
ten remaining airports were bad
ly damaged in the past 24 hours,
some beyond the possibility of
immediate repair.
Nation-wide Casualties — 13.009
With toff y, starting the 4th
month of daily air attacks on
England, official reports put the
total nation-wide toll at 13.000
casualties, including 3333 deaths.
In the first 15 days of September
at least one to t)wo thousand
were killed and 8,000 wounded.
By mid-morning sunshine had
driven off the mist and rain
which shrouded the English chan
nel and great numbers of Ger
man raiders flying at more than.
20.000 feet crossed the southeast
coast over “hell’s corner’’ in the
region of Dover.
oslovakia at Munich.
GOP presidential • candidate
Willkie charged in a speech in
I linos that Roosevelt helped to
promote the Munich pact, urged
settlement and “sold Czechoslo
vakia down the river.’’
Hull said the President never
had communicated by phone eith
er with Mussolini or Hitler.
41.000 Hold Pilot
Rating Rise Of
15.000 In A ^ear
WASHINGTON — Airplane pi
lot certificates were held by
41.000 individuals in the United
States Julyl, as compared with
26.144 a year earlier. Dop3'.d H.
Connolly, Administrator of Civil
Aeronautics, reported.
About 10,000 boys ard girls
vere graduated from CAA train
ng courses and half as many
Tern commercial schools during
the year. California, with 5.829
pilots, ranked first in the coun
ty. New York State, with 2.371
pilots, was in second place.
Demands for flying equipment
to match this increased activity
gave such impetus to the manu
facture of trainers and other ty^
es of light airplanes that 2,718
additional aircraft were certific
ated during the tweve months.
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