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VOL. 42. No. 129. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. OCT. 23, 1940 Pnce per copjr 15*
French Collaboration Axis Reported
Royal Air Force Prepares for Air Supremecy 1941
French Naval Collaboration With
Axis Against Britain Reported
Price For Definite Peace Pact
UNDATED, Oct. 23 (/P)— A trip
le defense, under reported axis
pressure. France is to join in the
war against Britain, emerged af
ter a mysterious meeting “some
where in France’’ between Hit
ler and French vice premier La
val. The vanquished republic
will undertake “no military, na
val or aerial action against Eng
land, the French government
spokesman said and added
France will not declare war on
England under any circumstanc
es. Reports from Berlin previous
ly said events seemed shaping to
ward an attempt to join the sur
viving craft of the French navy
with German and Italian fleets,
combining to smash Britain’s sea
power.
Well informed sources in Bern,
Switzerland, reported a violent
batt e going on inside the Vichy
government over the question of
I letting the French war fleet “col
laborate’’ with the Axis powers
against Britain. Such collabora
tion. the sources said will be the
price France must pay the con
querors for a definite peace pact
to replace the existing armistice.
While Nazi officialdom and the
German press displayed extreme
retiscence over the Hitler-Laval
mee.ing, indications arose that
Hitler was concerned over a pos
sible upsurge rebellion in
France.
Japan Notifies U. S., Great Britain
and Russia of Abrogation of Treaty
Protect Fur Bearing Seals In Year
TOKYO. Oct. 23 </Pi — Japan
notified the United States, Great
Britain and Russia that she is
abrogating, effective a year
hence, the agreement protecting
fir bearing seals. Tina foreign
office announc 'd that during the
y '. r Japan will submit propos
als for a new agreement. The
foreign office statement said the
seals multiplied to such an ex
:ont in the North Pacific that the
fi hing industry is damaged.
Kim Carol
r
And Party
Are Held
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SEVILLE, Spain, Oct. 23
Former King C:rcl of Rumania,
his red haired friend Magda Lu
• pescu and Ernst Urdaneanu. Min
: ister cf the Palace are under vir
itual arrest ar.d a strong police
' guard is ar u: d their hotel. They
were notified of this yesterday,
where they had been taken from
[Gianada. The Spanish govern
ment considered the case possib
i ity of r return to Rumania.
; but today the foreign office, ap
j parently acting cn an appeal
i from Carol stayed the execution
j of the removal order, pending
1 conference,
" Urdareanu. former minister
who accomp: r.r.d his ruler into
exile was a b iiv frightened man
j when he joined Carol, pleading;
i for an interview. Carol argued
1 in a telegram that international
i law didn’t sanction the extradi
tion of Lupescu ard Urdareanu to
i Rumania “where the threat of
death awaits them.”
MYSTERY TRIP OX
—
NEW YORK. Oct.—Lord Loth
ian, Briti h Ambasador to the
United States, was aboard the
Yankee Cli; per when it taxied
away from LrGuardia F.eld re-j
cently or. the takeoff for Europe.
Considerable secrecy surrounded
1 is presence aboard.
Rampaging streams, swollen by torrential rains swept over widespread areas in the mountainous
sections of western North Carolina causing high property damage in many communities. Hardest hit
by the floods was the town of Marshall where the French Broad River rose six feet in the business
section. This picture shows the town’s inundated depot, with tracks at left completely wrenched
from their foundations.
o
Amor.® heavily wooded mountains veiled in mist at Newfound Gap, Tenn-N. C. Prseident Roose
vr'i is shown dedicating the Great Smoky Mounta'ns National Park. Behind the President, left to
right Paul V. McNutt administrator of the Federal Sccurtiy Agency; Governor Cooper of Tennessee;
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina; Senator McKellar of Tennessee. The next two men were unident
fied then comes Secretary of the Interior Ickes; Mrs. Roosevelt; Governor Hoey of North Carolina.
The others were unidentified.
iRAF Blasts Hamburg Dockyards
v. j
And Nazi Convoy In Channel-Is To
Launch Offensive Contr ol Air 1941
l
i UNDATED, Oct, 22 iff)—Brit
■ ish warpl; ncs struck two crippl
| irg blows to German shipping,
| the London air ministry report
ed, dumping tons of. high explos
ives and at least a thousand fire
! bombs on the Hamburg dnck
| yards where German warships
are under construction, and blast
ing a Nazi convoy in the chan
nel. The ministry said the
bombs exploding around the con
voy almost lifted some of the
ships out of the water. In the
hour-long assault on Hamburg,
numerous fire were started in the
shipyards surrounding the decks,
the ministry said, addirg "the
,-hain of fires became engulfed in
one great flaming mass.”
Two more British spokesmen
meanwhile amplified Churchill's
assertion that the British will
launch an offensive to gain con
trol of the air by 1941. Lord
Croft, war undersecretary declar
ed “the war can never be won
without a military decision in
the east or west or on both
I
| fronts. Tha.'s why we are build
ing up a _r. t army.” Another
authorized sis o. . nan in London
1 recast tne mcreas.ng use of air
power in Brit .i. land operations,
disc.osing tha. squadrons of
h .whers. qt ■ p bly fighters,”
would be piaci d at the army’s
command when r eded in any
particular .; eia io: . This is evi
d ntly in r. rcm > to the herald
ed big scale war in the Med
iterranean and F y; tian theatre.
A Rom -I. rim is attempt to
lure Franco* > declaring war
on her for d Britain, was
w.daly rep:: with easy peace
■ rm - as th . ogled before
the Vi by ;; vrom.en.t, Britain
o - counted the
potentialities of French aid to
Germany a d I ily. especially at
sea. where much of France's
navy, second most powerful in
Europe be'' re the war, was ef
fectively cripph d in naval ac
tions at Oran, A 1 rs and Dakar,
or bottled up in Alexandria har
bor or other Eng i-h ports.
2 ITALIAN DESTROYERS
ARE SENT DOWN
LONDON, Oct. — The Admir
alty .reports that the British cruis
er Ajax sank two Italian destroy
ers and crippled a third destroy
er in two engagements in the re
cent extensive sweep of the East
ern and central Mediterranean by
the British fleet.
Th Ajax is one of the three
British cruisers that drove the
German pocket battleship Graf
Spee into .the harbor at Monte
video, where later the craft was
blown up by her own crew.
The Admiralty says the Ajax’s
fight with the destroyers consti
tilted the main action in the Med
iterranean nd no contact was
m3de between the main British
and Italian sea forces.
PART OF PACIFIC FLEET
GOES BACK TO HAW An
SAN DIEGO. Cal. Oct. — Part
of the Pacific Fleet has started
back to Hawaii after two weeks
overhaul and vacation.
Other vessels will leave later
from the Navy yards.
Thirty vessels have left over
the Pacific but the definite des
tination is not made public.
Subscribe tor The N^me Nusee j
I tilities Magnate
Passes Away
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HUNTINGDON, N. Y„ Oct. 23
bP) — George Bruce Cortelyou,
aged 78. confidant of three presi
dents, holder of three cabinet
posts and one of the nation’s out
standing financiers was found
dead in bed. He was former presi
dent of the Consolidated Gas
Company of New York which be
came one of the largest and most
important utilities in this coun
try during his administration.
Cortelyou was retired in the past
five years.
COMMUNITY CHEST y '
DRIVE AID IS ASKED
WASHINGTON, Oct. — Presi
dent Roosevelt linked the nation
al community chest drive with
the need for bolstering the coun
try’s morale for defense.
Said he: “In this critical mo
ment of our history we must
more than ever be conscious of
the true meaning of the "erm
mu'ity spirit." It is a spirit
hitch comes from our corrtmun
. \ of interests, our c-arrwr unity
>f faith in the Democratic ideals,
our community cf devoti n to
good."
The President urged all Ameri
cans to aid the drive for com
munity funds. He emphasized
that a nation has no need to be
cruel in order to be tough. Said
he: “The ancient command to
love thy neighbor as thyself is
still the force that supports our
faith—a faith that we are deter
mined shall live and conquer in
1 world poisoned by hatred and
ravaged by war."
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