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V0L 42. Nl). 133. NOME, ALASKA, ERIDAY, NOV 1, 1940_ Pr*. p« IU
Greece Does Not Need Turkish Aid
Russia Guarantees Aid Turkey In Event of Attack
Pres. Announces New Plane Production Program
Greek Troops l ighting In Rain
And Mud Front Mextaxas Line
i
Reported Resisting Fascist Invasion
Turkey To Enter Balkan Struggle Only In Case Of
Bulgarian Attack On Greece Or Danger rIo
Turkey's National Interests
UNDATED, Oct. 31 '(/P)—Greek
, tr ops, fighting in bad rains and
mud along a hundred mile front
< well out ahead of the six million
del ar Metax:s Lire were report
ed -resisting the Italian invasion
so successfully that Greece decid
ed it doesn't ne.d Turkish help
Semi-official quarters in Ankara
the* capital of Turkey, said
Gri <e inform d the Turkish go\
err,men; that she can stem the I
t
these quarters scld. Turkey wil
ent:r th fur-dey-o'd Bclkar
Orly “in case of a Bui
garian attack on Greece or if
i in key's national interests are
n danger.”
While Mussolini's command re
; t i ed that Fascist legions mad;
five-mile advance on the Kal
River in a drive apparently
■fined at the Greek cjly of Ioan
una, 23 miles away. The Greek
enera staff said the Italian in
aders were held in check thru
u yesterday aft^r ‘‘a slight
.•.ihdrawal on the northwest
■ nt according to a pre-arrang
.1 'ulan.”
President lonu Announces Turkey
out Enter Italian - Greek War
Relations With Russia Friendly
v
Counters Threat of Eomc-Berlin Axis Plans By Pro
Turkish-Kussian Relations Now Friendly
Italians Cla m 35 Mile Advance Northwest Greece
UPDATED, N V. 1 (VP) — Tur
key ent : BaE an w r
n r, F Ia: u aam&ur^fd
thra of Rame P.r’.n a"i= rlars
by pncl TurVPh-Ru .Ti'.r.s
frie-dlv turn.”
On ti’.a B. ikan front, Stefani
•,'i • I I skan news agency re
i .. a 35 mile Faciat a Ivance
. ;!na region in North
.• s'. G> ■ aLong with the cap
t • 79 Greek villages,
r a'- ns hav “now taken a
ARMY'S BIGGEST BOMBE l PREENED FOR FLIGHT
.... -- ---—' r .mnL ^
This hoge four-motored Douglas bomber, known as the 13-19, which C. S. Army Air Corps officials
say L ' 3 higge.it military plane in the world, will be flown late this fall from Clover Field, Santa
hioni i, C ’if.. Dougla s Aircraft Corporation has announced. It can take olT with a gross Aveight of
* lGl.OfO pounds, Douglas officials said, and its four engines, each 20C0 horsepower, can take it under
sore': cond tions for a non top flight of 7300 mi.es.
Turkey And Ally, Britain Arc
‘Studying Situation In Balkans'
Italians Are Repulsed Everywhere
British Attack Southern Italy For First Time-Bombing
Seaport Naples Hitting Military Objectives
UNDATED, Nov. 1 W1)—Prcsi
dent Icr.u. in a sp.icch to the
National assembly at Ankara,
ally B
were “studying the situation in
the Balkans.” The nation’s re’a
tions with Russia he said “had
gone through a critical period"
but are now much improved.
Wiitii her report d "two mil*
lion b y mo s" Turkey openly de
fled any axis attempt to use Tur
key as a passageway to the near
e st but maintained a hands-off
p .bey under pressur from Rus
sia. The new friendly turn of
I Soviet-Turkish relations might
..indie: * th a Russia is guarantee
ing support of Turkey in the ev
ent of an ax:s attack on Turkey
and in return Turkey is k ep*
it T the Greek-Italian war.
Stefani’s renort of a 35 mi’e It
: nlian thrust which indicates that
the city of loaning is now nn
d t F, scist seige or 'that Musso
lin.'s invaders an’ not advnnc
i -n the shortest lin froth the
A.ban . n frontier, conflicted
with ofli’in 1 Greek reports.
T ie Gre command declared
tan". - supported Italian
troop* in northwest Greece w re
"repulsed everywhere." On the
o ■ •: end of a hundred mile front
the invaders hav started a ma
jor drive toward Salonika.
British bombers attacked smith
ern Italy for the first time, bomb
ing the seaport of Naples, strik
.i.ug oil tanks and other military
objectives in the Naples area
wh re great blast furnners and
steel mills are located. The bomb
ing followed the rising clan m of
the BritL-h press for stronger
blows again,at Italv.
Selective Service Officials Start
Clearing Way Cor Coca! Hoards
Start Actual Selection Of 800,000
1,630 Men To Report In 7 Western States Nov. IS to 22
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (/PI -
With Army corps commanders
a'readv calling for initial con
itingents of nv-n, national select
ee service officials concentrated
on clearing the wry for local
board* to b. gin actual selection
of 800, 09 trainees' who will be
summoned by next June for t n
years of military training.
Just a few hours after Tuesday
the historic conscription lottery,
Major General George WoodrulT,
corps area commander at Boston
called on six Now England gove
rnors in that area to provide
084 men by November 18 under
the selective service system, Si
muitaneously on the Pacific
Coast, the Ninth C rp area at San
Francisco sent the governors of
seven western states the opening
requisition for a total of 1,830
m:n to report at induction sta
tion between November 18 and
22,
Announces
New Program
Military Planes
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (A') —
President Roosevelt said th re
may be a new production pro
gram for American military plan
es as soon as Congress gets back.
He told a press conference that
such a program was probable.
Replying to a qu stion he said
it was based on the objective of
pushing the United State pi ne
production capacity to 50,000.
| The question was: whether the
possible new program was based
on Britain continuing th? tight
through the winter.
Roosevelt Real I inns INedj'e II. S.
Boys Mol Bo Sent To War—Willkie
Says If FDR Releeted, War In April
Announces Hritish Order For 12,000 Military Planes
UNDATED, Oct, 31 t/H' ITesi
deni HxMiidvelt tonight i > jillh rm il
his pit dj- ’ Hud Unit* d Hint* *
boys are not going to be ,<■ id 10
any for go war," Hot u I it <* ■ '■ flt
the nan 1 moinent Will-,, win
saving "tr your elect bun on tin*
i> : i id p iSt perfol main ■ ill'll
pledge > n may expect war by
April, 11)41,
The I vs i contenders in the
While II" o> spoke a little oyer
100 mill apart the Democratic
nominee ad incusing one enthus
in tic pariy rally in Boston while
Ills Republic n rival spoke b<
fore aneihei* gatherinig in lldii*
more,
P o v II oe*'d llu Hi iion ml
dn to announce that Britain
I,. | requested permission to neg
niiate 12 01)0 more planes in the
United Stales and he in turn ask
| (he prop !' defense officials to
Hive HriUiin "the m< si sympathet
ie ennal leration" and that t)ho
inatter el prospective purchases
would not be added to hamper
the pres nt national defense pro
gram,
Wlllkie said he wanted to
knew whether his opponent’s
"pledge for peace was going to
last any longer than his pledge
for sound money" campaign in
IH,'t2, Wlllkie- charged that the
Democratic nominee abandoned
*> ii I money pit,1 in April
tight, five months phot be said it
was made
Justice Department Orders De
portation 'A ile 01 Karl Browder
On (Grounds 01 Illegal Knlcrv
C v
To He Sett* Hack To Her Native Russia
WASHINGTON, i el :H (A'l =>
The Justice l> p ir- iient order*
od the depot 'tlh 1 ■'! Mr*, It it • t
H< rkman Browder, wife of Hurl
i ivfrdi >, gen or i Aery of
the CommunuG I', t > > the Unit
>(l Stale?, on Hie tinda that
•do outer d the e u 1 ty illegal
Iv. The order w n n d l*y Ah
lorney General Ja-’U •, and al*'
denied the applies.! on for *ua*
pension of the depot : s,on order
on the grounds that Mrs. Brow
d r gave "evasive testimony re
gard ng her relati nship with the
Communist party and created
1 >uht a • to her eligibility for len
icney,"
Immigration officials sa.d Mrs.
Ur.'Wder, agtal 43. would be giv
on a reasonable time to present
herself ter deportation to her na
tive ltussia,
iWalanuska Farm Colony Products
Sales Non Slim% l,ar»e Increase
ANCHORAGE Seventy per
c nl increase in va ue of farm
products marketed lone during
August of 15M0 compared with
the preceding A--glut, was re
ported recently by tit Matanus*
i \ a!ii'\ f inwers' C
Association.
In a report to m n lnr# it was
pointed cut that t o' association
p act'd $16 ;>;'5 w orth of product'
on sale this year as compared
w ith $M.OOh a year ago -u . t e
s: me month.
At the same tine, the aasocta
lion said the "Matanusxa Mo d'
truck, with a capacity of one and
one-half tons has r placed a
smal er truck of litre* quarters
: , capacity, t ■.' larger truck,
jm addition to carrying he v r
loads, is makirg sown trips
weekly to A itch; r ' e whin' the
; lighter truck mad t tee a win '
The sma'tef truck is m",v here
used for deliveries to mines
! the Willow' Creek area.
Creates: increase of bttst't ss
was noted in the value of cream
I cry products. The value this year
\ $7 <7h comp, red t o. $ v-UH) a
15' , an increase id 12 > per
o i't, This was apparently due
■ ' the purchase by she pe ony of
: ' K st S ite Diary in Anchor
s' and the marketing of milk to
", 5 is customers.
Shortage of Help
In wholesale d ' ivories of meat
the ,:>cr se was set at 30 per
with the t 5. t v. !ue this
a. $X0S‘ „v '.It 'd to $4,300
year The e ny market
el $.5 2ft in pr dute and only
$2,100 ii year sen bringing an
nertiisr of f$ per cent.
Co«>Jer also that ordinarily
' d t Utc rev <. • , s has been
, ve.l -' •. dnets of the
,5s go kitchen .*nd that dur
: X.iyJts: this y • -r. owing to
c. of he p ir, that depart
,-n v cry la;'.' sausage was
n.d'," t'".’ assvc.iiu." deciar-cL
"Had it been possible to op
■■ ct the usual standard of
■d.ict-.o", the meat department
veulJ have shewn an evbn gnat
cr percentage of increase.