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. THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 35. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, March 21, 1941. Per <*>?*
Allots Fund Change R. R. Terminus
London Homeless Start Trek From Battered City
* Yugoslavia Crown Council Decides To Join Axis
f BRITISH LANDING FORCE IN
GREECE IS EXPECTED TO
TOTAL OVER 300.000 TROOPS
BELGRADE, March 20 </P) —
The British are reported to have
landed “great numbers” of troop
yesterday at Salonika, the back
door of the Balkans, likely the1
first objective of any German
thrust from Bulgaria. This is un
derstood to be the first appear
ance of British forces in Salonika
although disembarking of a force
expected to total 300,000 men, lias
• been under way for several days
in five ports in southern Greece.
Accounts of the landing of troops
at Salonika along with vast sup
plies of gasoline were the same as
from the Greek frontier town of
• Gevfelia, Yugoslavia.
As Berlin dispatches reaching
Belgrade asserted “the Gres'k
question is already settled” the
dispatches failed to say just what
kind of a settlement was made
but added “Only a short time
must elapse before this conflag
ration which lias threatened to
engulf the other Balkans states,
will b_ extinguished.”
Additional advices in Berlin de
dared that further Turkish and
Yugoslav questions now were set
tied but they too were without
explanation.
An unconfirmed r-eport from
the Albanian frontier said that
Greek forces hammering at Tepel
ini since mid-December had fin
ally entered, taking many Fascist
prisoners and quantities of war
materials.
GERMAN RAIDS ON LONDON
CAUSE HOMELESS TO LEAVE
LONDON, Mar. 20 (/P)— Shops
were demolished and homes bad
ly damaged and casualties were
^ caused by a stream of Nazi raid
ers on the southeast coast. As the
trek of homeless began from the
London area, the scarred capital
received its worst nocturnal
pounding this year.
Two German bombers dived
from the clouds in a hit and run
attack on a southeast coast town
just after four Messerschmitts
plumm-ted out of a hazy sky and
raked a number of small fishing
boats with machine guns.
From the London area, worst
hit by last night’s six hour rain
of bombs, flowed a stream of per
ambulators and small carts load
ed with salvage and belongings.
The homeless refugees were com
forted and aided by begrimed
firemen who spent the night bat
tling fires. In a workers’ district,
a whole block of r:sidences wras
blown to bits. Five hospitals
were hit. A large hotel was part
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NEW DEVICE STOPS
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NIGIIT AIR RAIDS
OTTAWA, Canada, March 19—
Canadian and American engin
eers were credited with a large
share of the honor in perfecting
Britain’s new secret weapon for
defeating Nazi night raiders. Air
Minister Bower, unable to dis
close details, r vealed that a
group of Canadian radio mechan
ics were actively engaged in the
operation of the new weapon.
ly destroyed and public services
were thrown out of gear.
Many fires, big and small were
start d by thousands of incen
diary bombs. The blazes were
used as targets for the demoli
tion bombs dropped later on. One
large department store burned
down. Bombs injur' d several
firemen who were trying to ex
tinguish the blaze. Seven per
sons were killed in one building.
GREEKS AND GERMANS CONCENTRATE TROOPS
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Germans concentrated troops at Melnik (1) and Greece was reported countering with 90,000 men
north of Salonika (2). Nazis, headquartering at Plovdiv (swastika), also had military control fronting
Turkey, by land near Svilengrad (3) and by sea at the port of Burgas (4). Small arrows mark loca
ls lions of natural passes along the mountainous Greek-Bulgarian border.
ALLOT FUND CHANCE ALASKA
R. R. TERMINUS. PROVIDE 14
PLANES FOR NAT’NL GUARD
Provide Intermediate Fields Between Seattle. Juneau
WASHINGTON, March 21 (VP)
| — The House Appropriations
Committee approved the alloca
tion of funds for changing the
j terminus of the Alaska Railroad
1 from Seward to Passage Bay; the
1 establishment of two intermed
; iate landing fields for the Army;
dredging of Sitka harbor; and
equipping the Territories Nation
| al Guard with 14 planes. In in
troducing the fifth supplemental
national defense appropriation
bill th: committee included a mil
lion eight hundred sixty seven
thousand dollars for the Nation
al Guard, of which a million sev
en hundrid forty thousand, one
hundred forty five dollars is for
14 planes and equipment for the
129th observation squadron. The
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approved funds totaled 4 and a
half million dollars for the es
tablishing of intermediate land
ing fields at Yakutat and Annette
I ui; $625,000 for dredging Sit
ka harbor; $5,300,000 for chang
ing the terminus of the Alaska
railroad.
Brigadier General Thomas
R .::s. Assistant Chief of Engin
eers told the committee that the
Army is establishing intermed
iate flying fields to break the
long jump from Seattle to the
Army bases in Alaska. He said
the Ann.tte Field is 600 miles
from Seattle and 20 miles from
Ketchikan. At present land plan
es couldn’t land anywhere be
tween Seattle and Jumau.
London Raid
Exceeds That
On Coventry
BERLIN, March 20 (/P) — The
German command declared that
66,000 tons of shipping was sunk
in continuing attacks on Britain’s
lines of supply.
Strong units of the Luftwaffe
blasted dock facilities aind other
targets in London in a violent
night assault. Informed sources
said the raid was “unpreosdent
ed and far exceeded Coventry.” ■
Hundreds of planes were said to
have participated dropping about
ten thousand incendiary bombs
and many high explosive bombs.
HAL ROACH’S WIFE
PASSES AWAY
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LOS ANGELES, Calif., March
17 — Mrs. Margaret Roach, the
wife of film producer Hal Roach
died following a week’s illness.
Y ugoslavia
Decides To
Join Axis
UNDATED, March 22 ^—Yu
goslavia’s crown council decision
to join the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo
alliance gave Hitler the green
light on his expected invasion of
Greece but at the same time pro
cipitated a government crisis in
which three Yugoslav cabinet
minister angrily proferred their
resginations. Belgrade dispatches
said the ministers predicted ser
ious internal strife will develop
in Yugoslavia. Reg nt Prince
Paul acting for the boy king
Peter subsequently refused to ac
cept any of the cabinet resigna
tions declaring no one is allowed
to quit until the agreement is
signed. German quarters declar
ed the sigature date is set for
Sunday. The Yugoslavian pre
mier and foreign minister is slat
ed to leave tonight to tomorrow
for Vienna.
Serb feeling against the gov
ernment’s decision was reported
as mounting feverishly as pictur
es of Roosevelt and Churchill
w.re displayed publicly in many
towns.
King and Queen
In Close Shave
UNDATED. March 22 </f*) — In
the aeria siege of Britain the
King and Queen escaped by a
few hours, a violent raid on Ply
mouth, by German planes press
ing the city in a night strategy.
The concerted attack showered
quantities of fire bombs and high
explosives on the port city not
long after the British sovereigns
visited shipyards and inspected
former U. S. destroyers.
Nazi pilots said the Plymouth
naval provision depot was de
stroy by great sea of fires and
that extraordinarily heavy dam
age was inflicted.
FIGHTING INSIGNI A—Four of the designs turned out
in the studio of Walt Disney, who has been swamped with re*
quests for emblems to be used by various defense branches of
service, are shown. Tor left to right: Eagle Squadron f'r U. S.
fliers with R.A.F.; Alaska defense forces; bottom: 108th observa
tion squadron; the 23rd pursuit squadron stationed in Puerto Rico.
House Passes
Armory Bill
O'
JUNEAU, March 19 (/P) — Fol
lowing a three-hour hearing with
plenty of debate, the House to
night passed the Armory bill 10
to 6. Those voting against were
Davis, Peterson, Rogge, Shattuck
Whaley and Harvey Smith. The
bill carries an appropriation of
$500,000 for five armories at
Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage,!
Fairbanks and Nome. The ques
tion now is, whether the Senate
will accept the bill.
House To Recon
sider Armory Bill
JUNEAU, March 20 OR) — Ac
tion on the controversial armory
bill was again delayed in the
House Thursday until Friday
when a reconsidertation, vote
will be taken. There was also
found an emergency clause un
attached to the income tax bill,
with half a dozen other measures
were sent from the House to Sen
ate. The latter placed them on
the bottom of the calendar for
consideration. Whether they be
accepted by a two-thirds vote is
necessary for acceptance as the
time limit expired Tuesday.
Ausies Cheer
U. S. Sailors
SYDNEY. March 19 (/P)—Hun
dreds of thousands of Australians
stood on the shores of flag-deck
ed Sydney harbor and cheered
the arrival of seven U. S. war
ships headed by the flagship Chic
ago on a visit and part-training
cruise. The visit was hailed by
the press and official circles as a
token of Australian-American
friendship. The Australians gave
a tumultuous ovation to the 2,000
officers and men of the U. S.
Navy.
Governor Names
Commissioner
JUNEAU, March 21 (JP) — The
Governor this morning sent in
the nomination of Michael Jay
Haas of Anchorage to be Terri
torial Commissioner of Labor.
The nominee is a prominent
Democrat who formerly resided
at Valdez and went to Anchorage
several years ago. The measure
has no emergency clause, so if
confirmed, Haas will not take of
fice for three months.
AIR MARSHAL RESTS
Air Marshal Sir Hugh Doweling
of the RAF, in the U. S. inspect*
ing war industries, stopped a&
Sun Valley for a rest and some
skiisg. Here he is on a ski tour*
ing exepdition on Proctor Moun*
tain.