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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 23. MOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1941. ***“ ** wpy 1W
Germans Moving Across Rumania
British African Troops May Go To Aid Of Greece
Italians Are Attacked In Somaliland and Ethiopia
GERMANS TROOPS REPORTED
MOVING THROUGH RUMANIA ,
TOWARD DANUBE FRONTIER
UNDATED, Feb. 21 (JP) — Col
umns of Gorman motorized
troops many miles long are re
ported rolling south through Ru
mania toward the Danube River
frontier with Bulgaria, as Britain
sped aerial reinforcements to
Greece against the expected Ger
man invasion of that kingdom.
Bulgaria would provide the log
ical gateway for a flanking at
tack on Greece probably striking
at the port of Salonika.
Military dispatches reaching
Balgrade said the mass move
ment of German troops was ac
companied by the shifting of the
general staff headquarters of the
German Balkan army from Buch
arest to Craiova, 40 miles from
the Danube.
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ALASKA AIR STATIONS
TO GET MONEY
—
WASHINGTON, Feb. — Presi
dent Roosevelt asked Congress
for $898,392,000 casih 'and contract
authorizations to expedite the
Navy’s shipbuilding program and
to carry out vast expansion of
the fleets and snore facilities.
Included in the requests are $4,
700,000 to establish fleet opera
tion facilities and' bomb proof
shelters on the tiny Pacific Is
land of Guam and $5,740,000 for
similar purposes at Guantanamo
naval base. Funds are also sought
for the establishment of sub
marine operating facilities on
Kodiak Island and Midway Is
land.
For the Kodiak air station fa
cilities t'he sum of $3,770,500 is
asked and for the Sitka Air sta
tion for additional facilities the
sum of $390,000.
The sum of $4,086,500 is ask' d
for additional facilities at the
Unalaska air station, also for sur
face craft berthing facilities and
storehouse at the same station,
the sum requested being $150,000
Surface craft berthing facil
ities and storage facilities at the
Sitka station are also embraced
in the request and $592,000 is the
sum sought.
NOTED BRITISH ORCHESTRA
LEADER PASSES AWAY
BRIGHTON, England, Feb. 19
<JP) — Sir Hamilton Harty, aged
60, composed and conductor who
frequently toured the United
States as a guest conductor of
orchestras di d at his home here
today.
British Attack
Italian Somali
land, Ethiopia
UNDATED, Feb. 20 (/P) —Brit- i
ish S' C1 African troops slashed
at conquered Ethiopia!
and "r "«norted to hav conquer!
ed t.he F cist garrison at Mega
along v.-;!h 600 prisoners while;
othe^- T1 ■ '! h forces are locked in !
heaw f ’.’’tirg with the Italians
on th S bland front. Mega is
40 r Y. north of K>:nya colony
fron \. the South Africans
star e! their drive on the king
dom " from Sela sifi.
Br g u ral .headquarters at
Cair i id British troops crossed
th< ’ i River, fighting off Ital
ian counter attacks.
LO' "’’TARS WILL
COME NEXT WEEK
W h the first Lodestar to be
deli' d in Seattle Monday and
two others before the end of the
wee PA A expects to resume
service between Juneau and Seat
tie s etime next week, accord
ing General Manager Joe Cros
son o i in Juneau awaiting
the ruthbound steamer. Crosson
is on s way back to the Seattle
offi- after a brief business trip
to Fairbanks.
Part for the Douglas airliner
damaged in Junean in a recent
storm are due in Juneau
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EIGHT DIE IN THE CRAS II O*1 TIHS ARMY BOMBER
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This closeup shows the force of the impact with which a huge four- motored army bombing plane, equipped with experimental appar
atus o reduce hazards of Arctic flying, smashed into Ragged Top mo untain near Lovlock, Nev., killing its crew of eight. The bomber
was enroute from McClelland Field, Sacramento, Calif., to Denver for experimental work in cold weather flying.
VICTORIOUS BRITISH NORTH
AFRICAN TROOPS MAY BE
SENT TO THE AID OF GREECE
i
UNDATED, Feb. 21 (IP) — At
tention focused on tbs arrival in
Egypt of Britain’s foreign secre
tary Anthony Eden and Chief of
;h Imperial Staff, General Sir
John Dill.
The north African battle-front
almost comp etely inactive
. .nce th British capture of Ben
gasi on February 6th which may }
mean that the troops used in that
campaign are already sent else
where.
Cairo reports said that Britain
was capable of throwing large
numbers of troops into the Bal
kan conflict to aid Greece.
—
Uniled Airlines To
Survey Spokane
Fairbanks Fine
SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 19 —
James Ford, managing secretary
of the Spokane Chamber of Com
merce said today he had received
word that the United Airlines
shortly would begin a survey of
a possible airline between Spo
kane and Fairbanks.
Ford declared he talked by tele
phone with Harvey Hancock, as
sistant to the president of the
United Airlines.
Hancock said a group of the
,’s officials would arrive to be
gin to check the route within 10
days.
Ford added they contemplated,
if it was found feasible, the line
would apply to Washington for
an extension north.
Five Cent Wage
Increase Given
Longshoremen
® _
• SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 <JP)
S —The Waterfront Employers As
j sociation announced rtjbid grant
i ed a five cent hourly wage in
I crease to the Pacific Coast long
| shoremen in accordance with an
| agreement for wage revision. At
j this time they congratulated the
union for the recent lack of work
stoppages.
Eight Army
Fliers Lose
Their Lives
LOVELOCK, Nev. Feb.—While
a cordon of CCC camp enrollees
stood guard and camp fires lit
up the gruesome scene. Army in
vestigators sought to determine
why the new type bomber crash-1
ed on the mountain side near,
here February 6th, cremating the;
crew of eight.
The crash was the fourth air
disaster in the West since Decern j
her, involving United States war
I planes.
The wrecked bomber carried J
equipment for experiment in cold j
weather flying that might have!
been installed on other Army;
Air Corps fighters and also the
j alously guarded secret bomb
sight.
The scene of the tragedy is at
a mountain which rises abrupty
1.000 feet on the desert, 10 miles 1
southwest of here.
The possibility of sabotage is
discounted by Col. F. C. Nelson,
Commanding Officer of McClel
lan Field at Sacramento, the
starting point of the ill-fated
flight.
The rumor that an attempt to
sabotage planes at the field were
discovered a week ago, has nei
ther been confirmed nor denied
by Col. Nelson.
All the bodies were burned be
yond recognition.
The members of the crew
aboard the bomber, accompany
ing Capt. Freeman, were as fol-j
lows:
First Lieutenant E. W. Ketch
am, co-pilot.
Technical Test Sergeant K. H.
Gilreath.
Staff Sergeant Everett Crabb.
Sergeant J. F. Davies.
Sergeant Elmer S. Trainer. i
Sergeant Frank W. Whidden. i
Private C. E. Applegate. ;
Nazi Bombs Hit
Large London
Hospital
UNDATED. Feb. 20 {/P) — In
the battle for Britain, RAF bomb
ers raked the invasion ports of
Brest and Calais on the Nazi
held French coast as German
night raiders strewed cargoes of
death and d struction on London,
Plymouth, Portland, and Swan
sea, Wales.
The Nazi bombers wrecked a
block-big London hospital, kill
ing severgLpatients and a nurse.
Other patients were buried and
the d' bris but rescue squads and
doctors and nurses, working by
flashlight throughout the night
extracted all the trapped sur
vivors by dawn.
In -another London district an
elderly woman was ki led when
seven high explosive bombs fell.
Two pedestrians died and two
children were killed in their
sleep.
A British communique acknow
ledged severe damage to Swan
sea, South Wales industrial port,
including “a considerable num
ber of houses and business prem~
ises."
GERMAN FLIERS
ASK TO LEAVE
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 19 —
Nazi Consul General Fritz Weide
mann asked the United State Lm
migration Department to permit
four young Germans o return to
South America.
The flyers, formerly employed
by a commercial air line in Col
ombia, came to San Frarwcis-eo
last summer. Th y intended to
sail for home by way of Japan
and Siberia, but Japanese steam
ship lines refused them passage.
The men have been detained at
the Angel Island Immigration sta
tion since last August.
BOMBER COMMANDER
iM
Capt. Richard S. Freeman of
Ladd Field, Alaska, was in com
nand of an experimental four
notored Army bomber which
rashed into ragged Top Mount
tin near Lovelock, Nev.