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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 48. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, April 23, 1941 Per Copy is*
Greek Army Surrenders-King Flees
Nazis Assert Few British Will Get Out of Greece
U.S. War Department Over Hump In Production
GREEK ARMY OF EPIRUS SUR
RENDERED-KING GEORGE AND
GOVT. FLEE TO ISLE CRETE
UNDATED, April 23 (#) —
Greece’s army of Epirus surren
dered and King George fled from
Athens with his government, to
the Isle of Crete.
Annihilate British Rearguards
Berlin reported that Hitler’s
blitzkrieg armies “annhilated”
British rearguards at Thermop
ylae and swept on through the
pass. Thus, in 18 days of viol nt
assault, the battl of the Bal
kans appeared all but ended in
an Allied debacle.
230,000 Greeks Capitulate
Nazi quarters in Berlin said
that at least 250,000 Greek troops
capitulated unconditionally when
they were caught in an Axis trap
on the retreat from Albania. The
Germans said Nazi panzer colums
plunging through Thermopylae,
100 miles from Athens are relent
lessly pursuing British Expedi
tionary Forces on the retreat to
the Hellenic capital.
Few of BEF Will See Home
With G rman Stuka dive bomb
ers reported to have destroyed
seven ships totaling 37,000 tons
and damaged 12 others in Grcei
waters within the past 24 hour',
a Berlin spokesman express d
doubt that few B E F soldi rs in
Greece would ever see home
again. Hitler’s command said the
ships were chiefly transports
which had aboard units of British
troops fleeing from Greece. “Only
good weather” can save the Brit
ish, a Nazi official asserted.
GERMANS CRACK ALLIED LINE
ROLL TOWARD THERMOPYLAE
WHERE BRITISH LAST STAND
UNDATED, April 22 t/P)—Ger
many’s blitzkrieg armies crack
ed bath ends of the Allied line
a'd stormed toward historic Ther
mopylae, less than a hundred
miles from Athens, capturing the
Aegean coastal towns of Volos
ar.d Lamia as W-'ll as Ioannina.
In western Greece, Hitler’s com
mand said that Nazi columns
had trapped Greek forces retreat
ing from Aloania.
Fall Back to Mt. Olympus Sector
The British middle east head
quarters reported t:xsely that the
B'itish troops-were falling back;
in the Mount Olympus sector in ^
Eastern Greece and “now have
occupied a defense position south
of Lamia.” This may mean that
the British are preparing to make
a last ditch stand near Thermop
ylae Gap where 300 Spartans un
der King Leonidas held oif an in
vasion army led by the Persian
king Xernes in 480 B. C.
NewD efense Below Thessaly
A new defense lin. is apparent
ly being estabished in the rug
ged Lokris Mountains below the
flat plain of Thessaly. Lamia lies i
south of the Othrys mountains -
where it is believed that the
Alies previously had decided to
Chief of Staff
Declares War
Rent, Over Hump
WAOTTTTO7TON. April 22 (/P)—
G»r - ' •'■•ill. Chief of Staff.
" on’o Defense Inv-’sti
o C mn itteo that the War
D" ■ t has “gotten over the
h •r-'.'i" p‘‘ ■ •• wo years of diffi
• -• ombing a fighting
f ■ h “tremendous army
F said ho was high
1v 1.1 vi'h the organization
d declared “the
' as ,!'e highest morale I
V ■••• ov r seen.’’
TO ||(\VE
r„ - LFASE-LEND
T”A.^t-TTNCTON, April — Pmsi
rl a Raosev It placed Harry L.
F ’'in? officially in charge of
■■■ ’ a'irg and acquisition of
„ materials for all countries
h - fi'tjng under the Lease-Lend
Ac*.
Deals with other countries
" i v, involve consideration for
‘hi foreign policy will be handl
ed hv the State Department.
ma,ke a stand.
Dalian dispatches pictured the
T'”' ch a^d Greek line as stretch
~ "rom Pamia to Arta across
' ueper middle1 of the Grecian
” “'nsula. Arta lies 25 miles in
land from the Ionian Sea and
28 miles south of Ioannina.
Block Main Greek Retreat Route
rnhe Nazi command asserted
that German panzer columns are
sweeping westward across the
Pindus Mountains to Iioannina
and i-ffectively blocked the
Greeks’ main route to retreat to
t'he south.
Mussolini’s command said that
Italian legions were advancing
on Greece along the entire Al
banian front.
U. S. EXPERTS ST UDY GERMAN PLANE
A bullet-ridden Messerschmitt fighting plane, shot down over England, arrives at San Diego, Calif,
via boat for delivery to the Vultee Aircraft com pany for study by its engineers. They hoped to
learn something about German construction methods, instrument types, armament and engine design.
BRIDGES, ATTORNEYS. AT DEPORTATION HEARING
Fl„,. j , iiairy Biidges, West Co i»;’, r leader, went into court in San Francisco
where the government is holding an immigration ear % k<rg t • p H at Brin ’ ! com
munistir affiliations and should be deiwirted. Left 'a i -it: Mi nev Carol King. George Wilson,
Harry Bridges, Attorney C. Aubrey Grossman and Attoi e> Rilhard Gladstein.
i . »
Says Bridges
Is Communist
Party Member
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April
—The Government's fifth witness
in the Harry Bridges deportation
hearing, testified the longshore
leader on the Pacific Coast spoke
for a committee at the CaLfiornia
Communist Convention which
was closed to everyone except
Communist Party members.
Sam Diner, who identified him
self a a former Communist now
operating an apparel shop in San
RafaCl, said Bridges made a re
port on the San Francisco gener
al maritime strike for the Com
munist Trade Union Council at a
Communist Party Convention in
Fresno later. Diner said Bridges
was and is now a member of the
Communist Party.
U.S. Air Observer
With British Is
Killed in Africa
WASHINGTON, April 22 (/P)—
Colonel Gerald Brower, aged 47.
U. S. military air observer, was
killed in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan,
the War Department said “in an
airplane accident.” He was as
signed as an observer with the
Royal Air Force in the Middle
East.
The State Department said a
Cablegram was received by the
American Legation at Cairo and
related that the Colonel was kill
ed Sunday at El Obeid, 250 miles
southwest of Khartoum. No de
tails were given.
LONESOME MR. SMITH
RANDOLPH FIELD, Tex. —
Never before in his 23 years of
living, says Joe Smith, has he
enjoyed such exclusiveness. He’s
the only Smith among 394 class
mates training to be Army pilots.
MATSUOKA ASSERTS TH 'T U.S.
SHOULD BE CONVINCED JAPAN’S
INTENTIONS ARE PEACEFUL
TOKYO, April 22 (IP) — Jap
art's “thr.-e great achievement -
within six month-” should con
vince the United S'ates that her
intentions are strictly peaceful,
Foreign minister Matsuoka told
newspapermen on his return
from conversations in Berlin,
Rome and Moscow. Hr listed
these achievements:
The Three-power pact among
rrr.arv. T‘r>’v *• ci Jam".
Tr>" Jma- S'e re"'g-itirn of
the Nanking regime as the “basic
government” of Ch na.
And the recently signed Soviet
Japanese neutrally pact.
However, in answer to a ques
tion whether Japan cont mplated
a non-aggression pact with the
United States he repied “I don’t
know."
Guard For
U. S. Office
In London
LONDON, April 16 — The Unit
ed States is reported as consid
ering sending a detachment of
Marines to guard the American
Embassy here. .
The Embassy operates with
: • • fi' - f n tary, naval
a”d commercial : :DDi-ng exports
’ ho da; 1 y eschar-; secrets with
the British.
London bar n- ‘ even a police
man on regular duty.
NAVY NOW RETRUITING
BIG FORCES
WASHINGTON, April 21 —
Questioned concerning reports
the Navy plann d to recruit
15,000 Alaska fishermen as a pos
.sible means of relieving destroy
ers on duty on the Atlantic or
elsewhere, the spokesman said
the Navy Department has circul
ar^ d all merchant seamen to an
effort to build up both the reg
ular Navy’s en'jisted strength
and its reserves, but asserted he
knew of no recruiting directed
specificaly to Alaska sailors or
fishermen.
Subscript for The Nome Nugget
HOSPITALS TO TEACH
SHOCK TREATMENTS
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 —
Instructions on diagnosis and
treatment of shell shock as well
as guides for d tectirg war neu
rn 3 have been added to San
Francisco emergency hospitals
guide books on orders of City
Health Director Dr. J. C Geiger.
I N F O R M E D—Dorsey Gass
away Fisher. 34. a Kansan, has
been named second secretary of
the American embassy in l« :•
don. He's been in state dept.
I uikision of current information.