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VOL. 42. No. 154. NOME. ALASKA. Wednesday, DEC. 18, 1940 Prioe ** *>P7
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23 Alaska Airline Applications are Recommended
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Evidence Announced Proof Bridges Is Communist
Indications Point General Italian
Retreat In Africa-Haile Selassie
Reported Leading Revolt Ethiopia
UNDATED. Dec. 18 <&) — In
dications of a general Italian re
treat in the battle of North Af
rica arose as the British RAF re
ported the Fascist troops falling
back toward Derna in Libya, 150
miles w st of the present fight
ing around Bardia. Derna is
about eight miles west of Tobruk
which is expected as the next It
^ alian defense point after the im
mediately threatened fall of Bar
dia, 15 mil s inside of Libya.
RAF warpianbs reportedly bomb
ed and machine-gunned Easiest
troops on the march toward Der
na. Other RAF planes bombed
Bardia itself at night which was
reported cut off.
I' Tribe-men of exi'ed Emperoir
Haile Selassi, were reported in
revolt in Ethiopia and further
threatening Mussolini’s dream of
a great Fascist empire in Africa.
Undersecretary of foreign af
fairs Richard Butler told the
House of Commons in London
that the “movement of r volt
against the Italians appears to
he making progress.” Britain he
aid was extending “all possible
assistance" to the ousted empor
cr and his subjects in their
light for freedom. Hail; was re
ported personally directing the
insurrection in the African king
dcm which the Italians wrested
rcm him in 1935-36.
British armored units are re
ported to have swung around
Bardia and have reached domin
ant positions west of the Fascist
stronghold as in the battle thirty
divisions of Australians and Brit
:sh infantry marched up in a dir
ct asasult on the town.
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Pressure On Bardia Steadily Increases
UNDATED. Dec. 17 UP)—Brit
ain’s counter invasion troops
pushed deeper into Italian Lb
p ya in the battle f .r North Africa.
RAF Bomb Chemical Center
RAF warplanes pounded the
German chemical manufacturing
city of Mannheik in a seven-hour
assault.
Greeks Smash Counter Attacks
The Greeks were reported
sma hing seven violent counter
attacks by the Fascist legions in
Albania.
London military quarters said
■ that General Sir Archibald Wav
ell’s des rt forces drawn from
the far corners of the British
empire thrust a salient in the
vicinity of Burdia, the key Ita -
ian stronghold 15 miles inside
the Libyan Mediterranean sea
coast. British armored units
vr _ reported sweeping over tire
desert beyond Brrdia in an at
m. it to encircle the town
winch would provide an import
ant base for a British offensive
rimed at .knocking Italy out of
the war.
Cairn despatches said the pres
sure on Bardia is “steadily in
.■reasing” with new British fore
s arriving to support the van
guard.
A British communique said 3
more forts were seized in Libya,
both on the frontier south of
3ardia.
The Royal Air Force reported
hat the British captured 15 dam
aged Italian planes at bases near
Sa urn and shot down ten others
vest rday.
HEADS UNBOWE D—Showing signs of the strain tinder
which they live in their besieged kingdom, Queen Elizabeth and
King George of England talk to a London canteen server. They
* recently donated ambulances, for air raid victims.
Examiner Raymond Slough Reconi
mends Granting of Applications
Of 23 Airlines In the Territory
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 T'i —
Long distance dog team travel in
Alaska is at an end Exanvncr
Raymond Stoagh tcld t: e Aero
nautics Board, recommending 23
applications for airlines in the
territory he granted. P a' es cov
er in 8 m'nutrs a day’s journey
by sled, Stough said in his 405
page report on aviation in A -
i ask?. He added flying has great
ly increased .n safety and mater
i tally reduced rates. A trip by
! sled f:1 m Fairbanks to Name
| rest $500 too' 20days against a
o ar.e far of $78 and four hours.”
The report sa.d air carriers in
Alaska with an investment in
Alaska of more than a million
dollars have annual revenues in
t excess of that amount.
Applications by airlines for
certificates were filed by 30 car
riers. The examiner recommend
ed 13, denied one which was ex
empted from requiring to have
a certificate and two were dis
: missed.
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The types of service proposed,
: v t!i 23 app icants varied great I
y. Sonic proposed only a limited
i operation but far the most part
he B ard approved the examin
! t's recommendations. Some of
i p rtions of the 23 applies-'
■ were disapproved. The oth
those who w re recom
: did in whole or in part are:,
v At Service, Lyle Air
■ Rave Airways, Nat
d, .win: Flying Service, Christen
i .i Air Service, Dillingham Air
rvict, Peck R oe Airways, Ray
Petersen Flying Service.
S.ar Air ines, Woodl. y Air
ways, Jim Dodson Air Service,
Harold Gillam, Lavery Airways,
Pollack Flying Service, Ferguson;
Airways, Mirow Air Service, Nor j
them Cross Inc., Wien Alaska
Airlines.
The Aircraft Chart r Service,
the Alaska Air Transport and j
| the Marine Airways were merg
ed with the Elis Air Transport,;
the Peter, burg Air Service and
| the White Pass Airways.
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Father Hubbard
f o Come Alaska
Again Aexi Year
SAN JOSE, Dec. 17 (JP) — Fa
S Iher Hubbard has given up all
1 thought of exploring in China
next spring and will return again
to Alaska. The decision was
made for him by the dog Kotze
who presented him with a litter
of nine puppies, “a perfect team.”
| Father Hubbard learned this
| from his brother Captain John
j Hubbard who is caring for the
| dogs on a farm in Butte County.
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President
Vetoes Logan
Walter Bill
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (JP) —
President Roosevelt vetoed the
Logan-Walter bill in a message
asserting that he was convinced
it would “produce utmost chaos
and paralysis of the administra
' tion of the government at this
critical time.” The bill, the cen
ter of a congressional controver
sy for months desired to estab
lish a uniform procedure to fac
iiitate court reviews on adminis
trative rulings in certain quasi
judicial and federal agencies.
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Explosion Razes
3-Story Bldg.
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CINCINNATI, Dec. 17 (/Pi —.
Members of four families were'
blasted out of their beds in a pre
dawn explosion which wrecked a
three-story down-town building,
killing eight to eleven persons.;
Tw.lve were injured and three;
missing in the pile of brick, kind
ling and dust which until 3:30
a.m. was a structure housing
business establishments on the
first floor and apartments on the
upper floors. Eleven children
were among the victims.
While the cause was not deter
mined immediately, Joe Hughes
who lived across the street said
the explosion was "like a puff
of gas igniting."
URGES BETTER NAVY U. S.
BREMERTON, Wash., (/P) —
Rear Admiral H. E. Yarnell, for
mer command?r-inchief of the
Asiatic fleet sounded a warning
here that the position of the Unit
ed States navy might not be as
favorable in 1946 as at the pres- j
ent time.
"The United States now has
the finest navy in the world” he
told an audience of 800 persons
which included many high-rank
ing navy officers.
“But we must prepare for any
war emergency that might arise.
The end of the present war
Rumanian Premier Gen. Ion Antonescu (left) and Vice-Premier
VIoria iSir.n h ight) leader of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard, were re
ported to have pleaded for “legality, justice and order" as the
Premier straggled to check possible anarchy in his Iron Guard
"tale after the "blood purge” in which at least 64 Rumanians died.
Portrait is that of Gomeliu Codreanu, former Guard leader.
might create gi aler defense
needs.”
He discussed Japan’s position
in the Pacific and added:
“Japan would like nothing bet
:er right now th: to get out of
its war with China right noun”
He expressed a belief that the
United Stat s must not place too
great a dependence on the aid
of Latin-Arr.ericsn countries as
those countries might have their
own troubles.”
M I S S I O N_“Special duly”
soon will bring England’s Air
Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowd
ir.g to I'.S. It is thought trip
concerns C.S. plane production
for flrituin*
Hoover, of H>1
Says Bridges
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fs Communist
MIAMI BEACH. Dec. 17
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
FBI says that Attorney General
Jackson will probably call public
| hearings on the FBI report. Hoo
j ver declared that the report con
; firms that Harry Bridges is a
“Communist."
At San Francisco, Bridges re
ferred to the hearing of a year
ago presided over by Dean Lan
d s of Harvard Law School in
which Landis found Bridges not
x Communist and no grounds for
deportation.
1 A native of Australia, Bridges
| said "The new evidence that Hoo
ver has secured we know is
faked. It was secured bv brib
cry and intimidation. Hoover
j says yes and Landis says no.
Compare the records of the meth
| ods of the two and any honest
' man will know who is telling
; the truth.”
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Bridges took a plane for Wash
ington but his office said that
there was no connection between
his trip and Hoover’s statement.
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