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THE.NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 145. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday. NOV. 27, 1940 Price Per c°py 15«
Conference Defense Advisers Called
Secty. Asks Halt Production Commercial Planes
Greeks Report Morale Ot Italian Army Broken
President Calls Conference Of
Defense Advisers on Strikes In
National Defense Industries
WASHINGTON. Nov. 26 </P)—
President Roosevelt announced
that he was calling defense advis
ers to a conference on strikes in
the national defense industries.
He invited to the conference Sec
retaries Stimson, Knox, Attorney
General Jackson and Sidney Hill
man, labor leader member of the
defense commission.
Stephen Early said the men
were called “to discuss labor in
relation to national defense and
including difficulties of strikes
and so forth.”
The discussion is to start at
11 a.m. PST after a luncheon con
fere nee between the President
a: d Bernard Baruch, New York
industrialist who was chairman
of the War Industries Board in
the World War.
At the capitcl, members of the
II use Judiciary Committee gath
i : d at the ca I of Chairman Sum
nets to consider possible legis
lation which might be enacted to
curb strikes in defense plants.
War Dept. Asks
Stop Production
Comm'l Planes
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 1/P)—
Secretary Stimson announced
that the War Department has ap
pealed to the Priorities Board to
halt the expansion of commercial
air services on the ground that
thi y interefere with plane pro
duction for the American and
British armed forces. Stimson
declared at a press conference
that the Douglas Aircraft Com
pany is now delivering planes to
commercial lines at a rate of 12
a month although it has been 60
days h hind schedule on deliver
ing a test plane on an Army or
der for 186 dive bombers.
An aide to Stimson explained
that "a very large shortage” cf
engines similar to thos,: used by
commercial transports is in pros
pe-ct for the fighting forces early
next spring because of the time
lag required to get new engine
facilities into production.
V ultee Air
craft Strike
s Settled
DOWNEY. Calif.. Nnv. 21 Wi
llie settlement (f t> ■ '2-day Vul
n-ided for
V i’ . o for 5200
n cn annually. The c ntract in
cludes a nn-str'k >. no-lockout
claur, for the next 18 months.
—
SEATTLE. Nov. 23 TP) — Two
attalions of ihe 75'.h Coast Ar
‘ 1 ery sailed for Anchorage cn
the transport St. Mihiel. The two
battalions comprised 7G5 men; 12
73 mm long range anti-aircraft
guns: 24 37 mm rapid fire guns
and several trucks.
Federal Jury To
Investigate Ekc
tion r.omnlamls
i
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 f,Tt
Attorney General Jackson an
r.ounn d hat officials cf all na
tional political parties, commit
tee, their records of contribut
ion® and expenditures wil be
cal' d before a federal grand
jury in connection with the in
vestigation of alleg d violations
of election laws.
T o Attorney Gencr; 1 said the
special grand jury w 11 convene
h re Decf-r. h r 3 at the order of
Chi f Ju tice Alfred W >at of
Dis riot '' irt of te *Di stret
f C ' r V t ?.I: uric ■ Milligan,
Fode . 1 District Attorney from
nsx, City is here on a special
•: n: to nvestigate the el
action complaints and "o present
vidonq: before the jury. Numer
ous reports were received by
> ■ -i that the three mil doff
d 11:r limit fixed for campaign
;r nditures and the Hatcli Act
f'< elated tfOrliir]
T"T HU
nn
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y:.y,y::T Walnv,
orymercially
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (JP)—
Commercial walrus hunting and
trading was banned under a biil
introduced by Senator Bail y.
The measur, provided a maxi
mum penalty of 6 months im
nrionment and $500 fine for vio
lation of a permit for taking wal
rus only for scientific purposes
or by natives, miners, or explcr
ers when in need of fo-od and
clothing.
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WILLINC TO WEAR A CROW N—This is a family portrait showing Prince Juan of the
Asturias, favorite son of Spain's exiled King Alfonso. Restoration of a monarchy in Spain, now Fascist
and ruled by Franco, might mean a crown for Juan. He's seen with Princess Marie and their chil
dren. Princess Pilar (left). Princess Margarita and Prince Juanito.
J. * t _ , "
Although England already nas begun tc vnd child 11 to' other it'i ' "•: tile motion' , nil* hi i -ays
King George and Queen Elizabeth inv'* fn-'y rejected suggestion:* that Princss Eh she a (left-,
heir presumtive to the throne.ard hG- si ter Princess Margaret, be sent out of the country because
of the war. So here are the prince?vs riding in a pcn> cart at the country residence where they
are staying during the war.
Great Britain And Ally, Greece,
Report Sharp Blows A^airst Axis
Fascist Army’s Morale Is Broken
Irnanian Iron Guard Executes fil Politic;*1 Prisoners
New Fascist Commander Asks For Planes & Troops
UNDATED. Nov. 26, W) —
j Great Britain and her little ally
; Greece reported sharp new
, blows against the Rome-Berlin
j axis while British night raiders
struck at both ends of the axis,
I bombing Berlin and Italy’s big
; industrial center Turin.
The Greeks said Mussolini’s
, Fascist invasion armies were fall
ing back in disorder with their
“morale broken.”
In a grim sidelight of the in
. ternational picture, dispatches
| from Budapest reported that Ru
mania's Iron Guard had taken
j bloody revenge on the regime of
i former King Carol by the firing
i squad execution of 64 political
! prisoners.
The Italian command in a com
| munique declared “on the Greek
I front normal reconnaissance and
! patrol activity was reported. Our
air force carried out continuous
i
actions against e ' iy prepara
tions, ar.d troop, flying fields,
and Ioannira was -mbed."
It was a’so rep 1 ed that Ital
ian warplanes at' eked the har
bor and British naval base at Al
exandria on November 19 and |
hit six warships.
Despiti: the arrival of fresh,
troops, Athens ch.-patches said,
the Italians are abandoning rich !
stores of material as they fled to
the north into Albania. In a
wheeling movem nt toward Ad
riatic Sea ports, only in the south
west Albania sector the Greeks j
sad the Ita ians were putting’ u_r
a stubborn resistance, bostered
by troops and plane reinforce
ments. General Soddu, the new!
Fascist commander reportedly re
questedly planes Kind, frefsh
troops in an attempt to h It the
Greeks.
Alaska Field
Is Ft. Richardson
— .
WASHINGTON. Nov. — The
War Department announced El
mendorf Field at Anchorage has
been renamed Fort Richardson
in honor of Brigadier General
Wilds Richardson who died in
1929. Brigadier General Richard
son servvd much of his Army
career in Alaska, was president
of the Territory’s board of road
commissioners from 1905 to 1917,
and the Richardson Highway,
which was constructed under his
supervision was named for him.
Depth Comb .
In Straits
VICTORIA. B. C., Nov. — Can
adian authorities warned ship
ping that a depth bomb is loos'
in the Strait of Juan dp Fuca
between Victoria and the United
States, but said that there pro
bably is no danger.
How the bomb happened to be
released in the Strait is not ex
plained. The authorities said the
depth bomb contained enough ex
plosives to sink a battleship, but
[probably has either exploded or
[ become waterlogged.
%
Royal Air Force
Strikes at Nazi
Blockade of Isles
UNDATED, Nov. 26 i/P>—Bri
an's Royal Air Force struck in
widespread blows in its drive to
tnash the weapons of the Nazi
sea blockad, the London air min
istry reported.
Meanwhile in the Balkan war,
the Greeks reported the capture
of Pogradetz, 30 miles inside of
Albania.
The British said RAF warplan
es flying in a densp night fog,
b imbed German naval bases at
Kiel, Wilhelmshaven and Ham^
burg and attacked the Demok sea
plane base and other Nazi air
dromes. Simultaneously the Lon
don cdmirj tv noted icvidence
that the counter campaign ag
ainst the crippling attacks on
Br.tish shipping are proving sue
eassful. Communiques said that
during the week ending Novem
ber 17. only 17 British, allied and
neutral merchant ships totaling
39 0 0 tons were lost by enemy
action, qr approximately two
hirds the week’v average since
he German blockade was inten
sified last May.
Noted English
5 u !> I i s li e r
Passes Away
LONDON, Nov. 23 UP) —Lord
Rothermere, aged 72. British pub
isher who with his brother, the
ate Lord NorthclifTe, revolution
zed England’s traditional meth
id of news presentation died.
The Bermuda Press Associa
*ic n announced that Rothermere
was born Harold Harmsworth
and left England in May on a
pecial war mission.