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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 119. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 30, 1940 r*™ Per °°n
30 Million Allotted Alaska Fields
Believed Hitler About to Make Supreme Gamble
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Pact May Extend to Bulgaria
Expresses Belief New Pact Will
Keep United States From War
Possibility of Extension to Bulgaria
UNDATED. Sept. 28 ■(#•) —The
extension of the new German, It
alian and Japanese pact to in
clude Bulgaria, thus bringing
stronger pressure on Greece and
Turkey, who lean towards Bri
ain, was suggested by Italian pol
itical circles. One of the aims of
Germany and Italy has been to
keep peace in the Balkans.
Meantime, how much squeeze
the new alliance put on the Unit
ed States and also the position,
of Soviet Russia was ill-defined
between her one-time foes. The
big question most observers ag
reed and principal aim was to,
keep the United States out of thej
European war by increased
threats from across the Pacific, i
also out of Japan’s widening the1:
way through the menace of a
three power hook-up. Berlin pol
itical quarters speculated on whe1
ther the alliance would not pre
clude the United States from
dickering with Britain for use of
any British naval bases in the
far east.
The influential Tokyo newspa
per Yomiuri expressed the belief
that the pact would keep the
United States from going to war.
A highly placed Japanese told
the Associated Press the treaty
was a great primary form con
sistent wTith the United States op
position to Japan’s policies.
Senator Key Pittman, citing
Friday's ratification of the treaty
of Havana as new proof of Pan
American solidarity, said the
western hemisphere nations were
prepared to meet “any aggres
sion” growing out of the alli
ance.
Berlin sources said the might
destruction yet was wrought in
air attacks on England yesterday
when 1100 tons of bombs were
dropped and two merchantmen
in Dover harbor sunk by shells
fired across the channel.
Declares U. S.
Preparing For
Any Eventuality
CLEVELAND, Sept. ?.8 (JP) —
Under secretary of State Sumner
Welles declared in a new state
i rnent of foreign policy that there
“is no problem in the far east
that could not be peacefully solv
ed through negotiation,” provid
ed “all concerned” desired to find
an equitably solution. He added
however, that the United States
is preparing “for any eventual
ities” and reasserted the Ameri
can intention to “render all mat
erial support and assistance in
the form oif supplies and muni
tions to Britain and her domin
ions in what we hope will be
their successful defense against
armed aggression.” He spoke be
| fore the foreign affairs council
here.
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First Flotilla
U. S. Destroyers
Reach Britain
A BRITISH PORT, Sept. 28
(fP)— The first flotilla of former
U. S. destroyers, part of the fifty
traded to Britain, arrived, flying
the Union Jack and joined the
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Royal Air Force planes dropped flares at Tegel (l)near the German capital, sending Berlin residents
scurrying to air-raid shelters for an hour and 40 minutes. Later Berlin sources claimed one of flie
British planes was shot down near Oldenburg (2). The RAF pounded German coastal bases near
Boulogne and fanned out through Germany. Nazi warplanes returned to widespread overnight raids
against the British Isles and London authorities admitted that a German long-range gun has bomb
arded the English coast (3).
Thirty Million Dollars Allotted
For 200 or Less C A A, Army
And Navy Airfields In Alaska
WASHINGTON. Sept. 30 <>P>—
A tentative list of nearly 4.000
places from which the Civil Aero
nautics Authority and Army and
Navy will sekct 200 or less sites
for airfields needed in the nation
al defense program included
Nome with $9,606; Kodiak $763,
000; Petersburg and Wrangell a
million dollars. The supplemental
civil functions appropriations
bill has allotted 30 million dollars
in cash and 50 million dollars in
contract authorizations. Federal
officials emphasized, however,
that no selections have yet been
mads.
Truckers Arrested
For Refusing Fay
Highway Toll
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 30 — Four
teen truck drivers including a
few owners were arrested yes
terday at the Big Delta crossing
of the Tanana River by deputy
U. S. marshal Pat O'Connor. All
are now locked in jail at Fair
banks and charged with viola
tion of the regulations of the
A aska Road Commission in re
fusing to pay Richardson High
way freight tolls at the Cross
ing. They came to town on their
own recognizance. J. C. Winters,
attorney for the defendants, is
preparing a habeaus corpus. The
application of the arrests is the
outcome of a long fight by the
truckers against the tolls.
SOX OF ROOSEVELT SEEKS
COMMISSION IN AIR CORPS
HYDE PARK. Sept. — Secre
tary Early said Elliott Roosevelt
applied to Washington for a com
mission in the Air Corps and
said it was entirely of his own
initiative. Young Roosevelt has
taken a Civilian Pilot Training
course and is 30 years old.
Willkie Closes
His W estern
Presi. Campaign
ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN,
tmroute to New York, Sept. 23
(■fl*)—Wendell L. Willkie will re
port tonight to New York Repub
licans on his western campaign
trip which closed last night at
Madison. Wisconsin, with a
speech before a cheering crowd,
in which he accused President
Roosevelt of using “the influence
of the presidency to destroy”
democracy. He referred to the ef
forts to purge anti-administra
tion members of congress. He
said: “Roosevelt did not like the
way they voted so he threw the
full weight of the presidency in
to efforts to throw those men out
of public office.”
He is addressing a New York
state party convention tonight.
Dismiss Palm’s
Claims To Ice
Pool Winnings
WASHINGTON. Sept. 27 (/P)—
Superior Judge J. T. Ronald
threw out of court, on a demur
rer the complaint of Oscar Palm,
aged 40, of Fairbanks, seeking to
force his wife to surrender to
him the management of the $41.
000 she won last April 20 on the
Tanana River ice break-up guess
mg contest. The court ordered
the funds to be impounded pend
ing the hearing of Palm’s divorce
suit.
Palm, a laborer contended that
the Northern Commercial Com
pany, holder of the prize funds
of the annual contest should be
restrained from surrendering the
money to Mrs. Palm. Her attor
neys however, argued successful
ly that Mrs. Palm used her own
funds for purchasing the contest
ticket and under Alaska statutes
she is entitled to the full benefit
of her successful prognostication.
The Palms were wed last No
vember.
That unique and humorous,
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes", have beei
brought strictly uptodate, and ar*
now available at the Nugget offi
ce.
Claude R. Wiekard (right-, Indian farmer, was nominated by Presi
dent Roosevelt to succeed Henry A. Wallace (left) as secretary of
Agriculture. Wallace resigned to campaign for the vice-presidency
of the United States.
Axis Likely Attempt Diversion
At Gibraltar to Draw Home Fleet
From Channel to Permit Invasion
UNDATED. Sept. 30 (TP) — A
hint that gas warfare may be
the next dread phase in the Eu
ropean conflict was dropped in
Berlin while Britons took warn
ing of a heralded new crisis in
October. Informed quarters in
London lock 'd for a double-bar
reled turn of events before the
onset of the win :r axis drive to
capture Britain's Gibraltar and a
couple of Indian summer at
tempts to invade England.
Aircraft production minister
Lord Beaverbrook in the London
Daily Express declared pointed
ly that Hitler is approaching his
“supreme gamble." The newspa
per said the axis powers were
likely to attempt to capture Gib
raltar in an effort to draw the
British home fleet to the Med'.ter
annean, thus leaving the English
channel less hazardous for Hit
ler’s invasion barges. The pur
pose and project of the Gibraltar
coup, the Express said was to
“seal our fleet in the eastern
Mediterranean."
Berlin authorities envisioned
the possibility of chemical gass
es spilling out of the skies on
the civilian populations and ad
vised the residents to be sure
every one has a mask, although
gas, so far, has not been used
in the present struggle.
Berlin reported new, behind
the-scenes activity brewing to
supplement last weeks’ spectac
ularly staged Rome-Berlin-Tok
tyo military agreement. Russia
and Spain are apparently not in
volved in the new diplomatic
“offensive.” Berlin's act and pact
maker Von Ribbentrop is expect
ed to depart for Moscow soon.
There were some intimations
that Spain may be taken into
the totalitarian fold in treaty
signing ceremonies at Rome.
British and German artillery
duel 2d across the channel shell
ing Calais and Dover respective
ly. One man was killed and sev
eral others wounded as the Ger
mans pumped shells into Dover
from a distance of 30 miles.
Nazi pianes flying over London
touched off air raid alarms three
times during the forenoon. Hit
ler’s command said that German
raiders were straffing from the
Island of Aberdeen to the Eng
lish Channel.
Three Successive
^eeks Air Seige
Oil London
LONDON, Sept. 23 f/P) — Ger
man bombers struck again in the
midmorning rain after a furious
over-night assault which wound
up three successive weeks of re
lentless air seige on the British
capital. A second alarm sent Lon
doners to shelters this afternoon.
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