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THE NOME NUGGET_
VOL. 42. No. 111. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. Sept. 11, 1940 ft ce per copy IS#
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Bomb Strikes German Reichstag
Nazi Bomb Scores Direct Hit Buckingham Palace
Churchill Compares Invasion To Spanish Armada
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British Drop Incendiary Bomb
On German Reichstag Building
Regarded As Symbol of Reich
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BERLIN, Sept. 11 {JP) — The
British dropped an incendiary
bomb through the roof of the
Reichstag building early Wednes
day in the war’s hardest attack
on Berlin while explosives shook
government buildings during a
central Berlin raid. The Reich
stag fire was reported controlled
promptly. The buildings has been
unused, being in the process of
being rebuilt since the 1933 fire,
but was regarded as the Reich
symbol.
A big bomb landed 300 yards
from the United States embassy.
Twelve-foot holes were blasted
on main avenues and many gov
ernment building windows were,
broken. Moonlight aided the raid
ers which also hit two hospitals,
an apartment house and a home
for aged Jewish. _ S
Germans Throw Off All Pretense j
Concentrating Military Objectives
St. Paul s Cathedral Nearly Hit
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UNDATED, Sept. 10 (/P>—Ger
man warplanes stormed central
London with a tempest of giant
bombs in the third successive
dusk to dawm attack, setting spec
tacular fires in the vicinity of his
toric St. Paul’s Cathedral and in
“the city”, London's Wall Street,
in 9 hour 2 minute assault.
Roaring salvos of bombs weigh
ing 800 to 1000 pounds each crash
ed near the Bank of England, at
Guildhall, London’s Lord Mayor,
at the General Pust Office, Lon
don Bridge, Fleet Street, and at
the Great Inn’s Court, where En
glish barristers for centuries
lived.
Saved By Wind
“In the chambers” of 250-year
old St. Paul, the great dome was
red-lit from the glare of flames
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from nearby warehouses. The
cathedral was saved by winds
blowing in the opposite direc- j
ticn. Hundreds of firemen fought
1 the warehouse blazes with the
aid of water towers for eight
hours without a break.
RAF officers estimated that 50
bombers were shuttling all night
! in long relays across the channel
and took part in the bombard
1 n’.er.t.
Thrown Off All Pretense
A British communique declar
ed “the enemy has now thrown
off all pretense of confining him
self to military targets.” Berlin
I retorted that the full blast of
j the aerial seige on Britain has
“just begun and that ever more
planes over London” is the order
issued by the Luftwaffe.
Carol Leaves
For Portugal
LUGANO, Switerland. Sept. 11
<#>)—Dethroned King Carol, left
last night by special train via It
aly for Portugal. Magda Lupescu
accompanied him.
Nazi Speedboat
Bases Bombed
LONDON — Royal Air Force
planes have bombed the Nazi sub
speed boat base at Lorient on
the Frenc'h coast, the Air Minis
try announced, and with good
results.
German Delayed-Action Bomb
Exploded Tuesday Buckingham
Palace-King and Queen Away
UNDATED, Sept. 11 (/P)— Brit
ons excitedly cheered the smash
ing RAF r3ids on Berlin as a be
lated announcement disclosed
that Buckingham Palace, the cen
tury-old royal residence of the
king and queen was partly wreck
ed by a German bomb.
Monarchs Not Present
The king and queen were not
in the great white stone palace
when the bomb, a delayed-action
missle crashed from the skies
Sunday night and exploded Tues
day, demolishing one corner of
the north facade in showering
splinters of glass. First floor pil
lars fell in fragments around a
crater 15 feet deep and 35 feet
wide which blasted a section of
the glass-walled swimming pool
directly under the queen’s sitting
room. At least a hundred of the
palace windows were smashed.
Only house-hold staff members
of the palace were present at
the time but were safely huddled
in underground air-raid Shelters.
Coincident with this curiously
delayed disclosure, which was
Pro-German
Agency Gets
Dies Study
NEW YORK — Dies commit
tee agents studied books, financial
and payroll records and corres
pondence of the German Library
of Information which were seiz
ed in their offices adjoining the
German consulate here and in
cluded a mailing list of 70.000
name-s and copies of “Facts in I
Review," a weekly tabloid paper'
which carries Hitler’s speeches
and German versions of-disputed
events in Europe.
“SOURDOUGH"
STATIONERY
At Nuggel Office
n *. explained, First Lord of the
Admiralty Alexander comment
ed on reports of “mass concen
trations by the enemy, making
his dispositions for the entrance
to this country." He declared “I
can promise, if the enemy comes
across in surface craft, they are
going to get something good.”
Frr'ian-ent Not Worth Farthing
I K.zi qurrLrs in Berlin assert
ed -hat ten thousand planes with
load- f bombs were to be daily
unleashed on the London area in
the next few days striking from
French coastal bases in a titanic
“all out” assault. A host of 2,500
German warplanes are making
four trips daily to carry out the
threatened full-scale blitzkreig,
; iey declared, apparently aimed
at wiping out the 2,000-year old
British capital and its eight mil
lion inhabitants. A German close
ly connected to Goering said “I
wouldn't give a farthing for the
iiouses of Parliament."
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President
Dedicates
Big Dam
CHATTANOOGA—Am id thun j
derous applause of thousands of
Southerners, President Roosevelt
last weak dedicated the mam
moth Chiekamauga Dam.
The $30,000,000 dam stretches
one mile across this Tennessee
Valley River.
The President also dedicated
the great lake behind the dam
one of the “great lakes of the
south” created toy the vast sy
stem of TVA dams which have
assumed increased importance in
supplying power for defense
works.
Second Division Returns, General Election, September 10, 1940
SOLOMON .£. 5 30 5 27 29 4 28 18 23 8 0 5 6 10 25 15 10 25 14 27
WHITE MOUNTAIN . 8 24 19 14 19 15 22 11 16 6 12 7 21 2 20 31 7 16 8 23
BLUFF . 494976578 5523 ,9 616 11 785
COUNCIL . 14 22 20 -15 18 17 18 16 10 87 13 11 15 24 12 20 15 17 24 13
GOLOVIN . 163351510 102500116643
CANDLE 45 56 42 57 60 41 52 46 57 34 a 20 27 61 62 23 55 28 46 65 37 56
TAYLOR . 3 2i 7 17 16 9 21 7 17 6 6 5 14 16 16 5 16 16 11 20 11 16
DEERING ' I".'-".'. 2 29 7 21 28 3 17 9 22 1 1 1 5 24 15 4 12 6 7 20 10 13
TOT^AL. ., 261 605 (342 489 539 181 483 342 497 105 201 220 332 333 435 377 465 485 346 441 347 447
Lina Medina, the Peruvian girl who is claimed to have given birth
to a son at the age of five, will be brought to Chicago next month
lor examination b> a medical commission, according to Attorney
Richard S. Kaplan. Kaplan relexsed this picture which he said
shows the > wig mother and her 15-months-old child.
Churchill Asserts Germans Getting
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Ready for Actual Invasion England
Exhorts People to Do Their Duty
LONDON. Sept. 11 vP)—Prime
Minister Chare! 1 said that Ger
many is preparing for the inva
sion of England by moving hun
dreds of self-propelled barges
down to the northern ports of
the French coast, opposite Brit
ain’s shores. These craft and
troop convoys he added are mov
ing into position under the pro
tection of the big German guns
set up on the French coast. “No
one should blind himself to the
fact that this German invasion is
being planned with a'.l the Ger
man craft and method character
istics of them," he dec ared.
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Next weak he said, “Must be
awarded as a very important one
to us hi our history. Every man
| arid woman must prepare to do
his duty, whatever it may be. I
have special pride and care in
:>ur fleet which is very p werful;
our shores are well fortified and
well manned and behind these
lines we are better equipped and
have a far stronger army than
; ever before.’’ He compared the
: present invasion with the at
tempt of the Spanish armada to
invade the British Isles and with
he later attempt by Napoleon.
Kiii« Haakon
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Norway Declared
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Unable Function
OSLO, Sept. 11 UP) — The Nor,
wegiar. parliament declared King
Haakon was no longer able to
function but decided to postpone,
until after the war, the question
of whether he be allowed to re
turn to his country.
30.787 Alaska Seal
Skins Are Sold
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 10 </P) —Fifty
roa: manufacturers and fur job
bers bought 30,787 Alaska seal
shins from the United States in
‘he semi-annual auction, yester
day. The skins brought an av
erage of $21.08 cents each, a 3
3-10 percent advance in price.