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VOL. 42. No. 109. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 6. 1940. ' ^ per ^ lu
Countless Warplanes Attack Britain
King Carol Abdicates Rumanian Throne, Is Exiled
Churchill Predicts Nazi Retaliation United States
Chuchill Predicts Hitler Will
Attempt Retaliate U.S. Trading
Fifty Destroyers To Britain
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UNDATED, Sept. 5 (/P)—Prime
Minister Churchill predicted in
the House of Commons that Hit
ler will attempt to retaliate
against the United States for the
transfer of 50 over-age destroyers
to Great Britain. Churchill said:
“There is no doubt Hitler will
not like this transfer of destroy
ers and no doubt he will pay
the United States of America out
if he ever gets a chance.” The
Premier, whose war review
speech was delayed for 45 min
utes as Nazi Luftwaffe raiders
droned high over the London
area for the second time today,
declared: “There is not the slight
est violation of international law
for the United States and the
British to swap destroyers and
naval and. air ba'es. He added
that the swap did not affect the
non-belligerency of the United
States.
He disclosed that British
deaths from air raids in August
totaled 1075.
Form Death Legion
In southeast Europe the Bal
kan situation was plunged into
new complications as unconfirm-.
ed reports said that 3,500 Ruman :
ian soldiers volunteered to form
a death legion to resist the Hun- j
garian occupation of northern
Transylvania. “Tb show the
world Rumania courage” the le
gionnaires reportedly pledged
themselves to man the concrete
forts of the Carol defense line
near Ordea, which is not sched
uled to be turned over to the
Hungarian troops until tomorrow
under the terms of the axis-dic
tated settlement.
The abdication of King Carol j
to join his red-headed friends,
Mferame ~t>u]wsnr -m Txtie. was'
reported in Bucharest govern
ment quarters, as the Rumanian
monarch bowed to the demands
of his new iron-willed premier,
General Antonescu, for a virtual
dictatorship.
Waves Of Countless Nazi \5ar
Planes Engage Defenders In Non
Slop Mightiest Assault on Britain
LONDON. Sept. 6 (/Pi—Coming
wave on wave, in formations too
tt^ck to count. Hitler's warplanes
launched mightier assaults than
ever against Britain, after the
worst night of the war. The in
vaders were engaged in a series
of non-stop battles all over the
London area and ever southeast
ern England. The London area
experienced its fourth alarm of
the day at 5:59 p.m. after a re
spite of only a little more than
four hours. The all clear signal
sounded at 6:35 p.m.
To meet the onslaught, masses
of British fighters took to the
skies, setting upon at least one
formation of 200 bombers and
battle planes, fending off bomb
‘attacks on the airports of the
London area. Battles ere raging
in fully half a dczen areas of
southeastern England. The air
ministry said that at least 34
German planes were downed
and 9 British planes lost but that
the pi’ots of six of them were
reported safe.
London Gets
Five Air Raids
In One Day
_
LONDON, Sept. 6 (/P) — Air
Raid sirens wailad in London’s
fifth warning of the day at 8:53
p.m.
Nazis Bomb
British Hangars
Plane Factory
—
BERLIN, Sept. 6 UP)—Two for
mations of German planes bombed
the hangars and airplane works
at Henley and Weybridge, Ger
man sources said, leaving 14 of
their own number downed but re
porting 35 British planes downed.
Four hangars and 10 planes at
Weybridge were said to have
been hit by middle-weight bombs
At Henley, hits were scored on
runways as well as shots on a
side field.
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Petain Govt.
France Forms
New Cabinet
VICHY, France, Sept. 6 (JP) —
A new cabinet of the Petain
government was formed wTith
Pierre Laval retaining the post
of vice-premier. General Hunt
ziger was made new minister of
war and Petain remained chief
of state. General Weygand was
sent to French Africa to assume
charge of all political as well as
military matters.
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King Carol Rumania Yields To
Military Dictatorship. Abdicates
In Favor of Prince Mihai, Aged 18
BUCHAREST, Sept. 6 {JP> —
King Carol, yielding to the de
mands of Rumania’s new mili
tary dictatorship and to the riot
ous clamor in the streets, abdic
ated in favor of his son, Mihai,
aged 18.
He fled into exile aboard his
royal yacht and it was reported
with him was red-haired Magda
Lupescu. associate of more than a
decade ago when he relinquished
his right to the succession to the
throne in gay Paris. The exile
left Prince Mihai to reign as
child monarch under a regency.
The destination of the royal
yacht, which sailed in the Black
Sea from Constant was unknown.
The King boarded it after a sec
ret departure from Bucharest in
a special tram.
Back of him in troubled and
dismembered Rumania, Carol
left his son, as the front of the
\\ arning is Given
Out Bv Wallace
J
DES MOINES, Sept. 2 — The
national campaign had appeease
ment” after Henry A. Wallace.
Democratic Vice- Presidential
nominee said a Republican vic
tory will result in “one econom
ic concession after another" by
the United States to totalitarian
countries. The statement was
made by Henry Wallace in his
speech formally accepting the
nomination. Over 7,000 persons
jammed around Wallace during
his speech which was frequent
ly interrupted by cheers.
Wallace declared that “appeas
ers will have their way if the Re
publicans win, because they have
contributed largely, both politic
ally and financially, to the Re
publican cause. These people be
lieve the Republicans, in power,
would give them a profitable busi
ness with the German controll
ed Europe at the earliest pos
sible moment.’’
Plane Engines
Contracted By
Army and Navy
WASHINGTON — Agreement
'has been reached between the
Navy and the United Aircraft
Corporation for the manufacture
of 17,000 airplane engines, for
both army and navy use, to cost
$160,000,000.
Announcing the agreement at a
press conference, Secretary of
the Navy Franklin Knox said
that it had the full approval of
the War Department and wotuld
cover the entire requirements of
both army and navy for United
Aircraft engines for the two fis^
cal years 1941 and 1942.
j Formal contract covereing the
axis-a'.ign.ed military dictatorship
already started wholesale round
ups of important political figures
in Carol’s decade of power.
Government circles reported
that Carol in exile will receive
an annual pension equal to sixty
thousand dollars. Close associates
of General Antonescu, the new
premier said that after a long
debate in tr ■ palace during the
right, Carol'.- demands for a fin
ancial settlement or annual pay
ment was decided cn, but that
Carol was likely to be dispossess
ed of much cf his extensive pro
perty holdings in Rumania.
Gangs cf anti-Semetic Iron
Guards, wlhom Carol outlawed by
the hundreds and whose mem
bers died before his firing squads
reamed Bucharest beating Jew
ish shop ^keepers w ho failed to
hang pictures of Mahai, in their
windows.
agreement, Knox raid, will be ne
gotiated soon as funds fir the en
gines, provided for in the five
billion dollar defense appropria
tion bill pending in Congress, be
comes avadab'e.
Meanwhile, Knox said. United
Aircraft is proceeding immediate
ly with 3 $1,500,000 expansion of
its plant at Hartford, Conn.
R. R. Head Dies
NEW YORK, Sept. 6 l/P>—Leon
Loree. aged 32. former President
c-f the Delaware Hudson Rail
road died here today.
The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON — One of the
biggest international problems
facing the Administrate n is whe
'her to feed or not to feed Eu
rope.
Certain occupied areas are be
ing rap.d.y denuded by German
troops. In France, for instance,
f d is being purchased by the j
German army with "krediten
marks" which are redeemable ag
ainst the French government
which has guaranteed to make
g od this paper German curren
cy. which, actually has nothing
else behind it.
This is a painless method of
extracting re d from French pea
.sants. German purchasing agents
pay him in kreditenmarks which j
he c ; verts into francs; thus he'
f ..vs .. d v ; ward the army of,
C CCV'P t.) TI,
Me.au-a it tie mere are certain
arers F which, because
of lack of .raneportation, actual
ly are starving. Similar condi
tions ex s’ n. Belgium and Hol
land. In tm utter country, ac
cording t Dutch diplomats in
Washing - ' aiders have
been force . by e Germans, to
plant crops cm are plowing
them up wl . G .r.an backs are
turned.
“We would r starve than
feed the r. . r.' is the Dutch
s!:*gan.
Kon ev's 5 ’ Relief
The man. ■ vigorously
demr.nos f g se occupied
areas is H I ver. It has
net I - bit Hoover's
associates have gone mudh fur
ther into this than anyone realiz
es. Hugh Gibbson, ex-Ambassa
dor to Belgium, actually has en
gaged in conversations with of
ficials of Belgium, Holland and
Poland, regarding food for these
areas.
These conversations run exact
ly counter to the State Depart
ment's policy and also to the
Neutrality Act, which bars Am
or.can snips from the war zone.
Yet no food can be sent to Bel
gium, Holland and Poland except
on American ships, which, would
nave to traverse the war zone in
violation of the British blockade.
State Department, policy is one
of cooperation with Great Britain
and not of violating the block
ade.
Furthermore, U. S. Army and
Navy executives view the feed
ing of Nazi-dominated Europe as
exactly similar to feeding ar» en
emy of the Untied States. They
contend that one of the most
potent weapons against Hitler is
hunger, ar.d that for the United
States to feed his occupied areas
would be playing directly into
his hands. --
As a result, some Adml tistra
tion Senators propose an investi
gation by the Foreign Relations
Committee cf the food-re’:T act
ivities cf Hoover and his cl as
sjciates. They point to the Logan
bill, which makes it a cr.minal
offense for cry American citizen
to conduct diplomatic negotia
tions with a foreign government.
At one time, when Mr. Hoover
himself was in the White House,
the Logan bill came near to ba
ng invoked against the la.e Sen
a to: Borah.
These Senator:- would also like
to investigate the fact that Am
ba’s dcr Gibson’s wife is a Bel
gium and that both are on close
r.s with King Leopold, who
"i r >nd 'red to the Nazis.
Two two-story buildings were destroyed by fre on Angel Island. U. S. Immigration stat' i S«JI
Francisco Bay. This aerial view shows the administration building, one of the structures -e-tre-d.
The deportation hearing of Harry Bridges. West Coast CIO leader, was held in this bu: iing \ -\
summer. Damage was estimated at $50,000. One person, a soldier sent from the mainlav 1 to ' ?Ip
fight the fire, was injured. Fifty women in a detention ward were escorted to safety.