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THE NOME NUGGET
V0L. 43. No. 36. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, March 24, 1941 P«r Copy 154
Senate Passes 7 Billion Aid Fund
Yugoslavian Leaders Enroute To Sign Axis Pact
Senate Defers Action Alaska Armory Bill Tuesday
YUGASLAVIA OVERRIDING PRO
TESTS WILL SIGN AXIS PACT
GERMAN TROOPS ON MOVE
Pact Would Give Germany Right To Send Troops Thru
Valley in Yugoslavia Strategic To Invasion of Greece
UNDATED, March 24 UP) — A
heavy movement of German
troops through the Struma River
Valley in Bulgaria toward the
Greek frontier was reported in
unconfirmed Balkan dispatches,
as Yugoslavia’s Prince Paul, over
i riding angry protests against sub
mission to Germany, prepared to
join the Axis, Military exp.rts
said the Struma River Valley was
the likely portal of Hitler’s ex
pected attack on Greece.
A Reut:rs dispatch from Bel
grade said large formations of
Nazi troops were seen advancing
rapidly southward through the
valley since yestei’day afternoon.
Official German quarters in B -1
grade said that Yugoslavia will
have to sign up as a partner just
as Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria
and Slovakia have done, but is
rather a merely passive member.
Presumably this will give Ger
many the right to march Nazi
troops through the Balkan king
s' dom via the Vardar Valley, strat
egic for the invasion.
Greece herself warned Yugo
slavia against any “hostile act”
in coopsrating with Germany.
British minister Belharde ad
dressed a note to the Yugoslav
government appealing to the re
gency not to betray Yugoslavia.
In the fact of rising public op
inion and smouldering unrest re
f QUEEN LENDS NAME
TO WAR ACTIVITY
—
LONDON, March 13 — Queen
Elizabeth gave her permission for
'use of the name “The Queen’s
Canadian Front” for fund-rais
ing drives in Canada. The money
to be raised will be used for air
raid victims in Britain.
ported in the Yugoslavian army,
a government communique said
the cabinet was shaken by a four
day crisis ar.d now is reformed.
A special train carrying govern
ment leader to Vienna to sign
the Axis pact was scheduled to
leave Belgrade at 1 p.m. PST.
New cabinet members, replac
ing th _■ three anti-Axis members
who resigned were reported al
ready to have assumed their dut
ies.
Govt, Officials
Ordered Resign
Protest to Pact
BELGRADE, March 22 (£>) —
The Independent Democratic j
Party, the fourth most important
in Yugoslavia, ordered all of its
members holding government
job to resign, as political revolt
against the government’s plan to
accede to German demands for a
modified affiliation with the Axis.
It was officially reported by
British circles in Cairo that for
mer Premier Stoyadinovich of
Yugolsavia who was a pogerman
has been turned over to British
hands for safekeeping.
HIGH HONOR PAID
MARIAN ANDERSON
PHILADELPHIA, Pa„ March
Negro Contralto Marian Anderson
was presented with the $10,000
Bok award. Miss Anderson is the
twentieth recipient of the award
to the city’s most outstanding cit
izen.
Senate Passes
Seven Billion
Aid Fund
WASHINGTON, March 24 UP)
—The Senate passed, by a vote of
67 to 9. and sent to Roosevelt,
the s ven billion dollars appro
priation to finance the administra
tion's all-out British aid pro
gram. The appropriation had al
ready passed the House and was
approved without change during
two hours of debate preceding
the vote.
Many senators who opposed
the original lend-lease measure
said they votE'd for the appro
priation to carry out the law. Ar
rangements ar. being made to fly
the bill to the President, who is
now cruising southern waters.
Germans Claim
Sink 224,000 Tons
UNDATED, March 22 i(A>)—The
destruction of 224,000 additional
tons of British shipping, more
than half by battleships, was
claimed by Germany as the bat
tle of the Atlantic increased with
the lengthening of daylight tours.
A communique said that battle
ships sunk 22 ships totaling 116,
000 tons, submarine got 11 to 77.
000 tons off of West Africa and
long range bombers accounted
for the rest in home and Medit
erranean waters.
879 PLANES MADE
DURING FEBRUARY
WASHINGTON, March — The
office of production managment
had delivered 972 airplanes dur
ing February.
Eight hundred seventy nine of
these went to the Army, Navy
and the British.
The balance went to commer
cial airlines and other govern
ments.
EUROPEAN WAR'S NEWEST ZONE OF THREAT
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The map indicates rail lines and general topography of the Balkan region which has become the|
war’s newest trouble one as German troops overran Bulgaria. Germans were reoprted as far south
as Melnik, Bulgaria, less than 100 miles from Salonika, Greece, and also to have reached Trigrad and
Svilengrad. Greece and Turkey were declared to be speeding border defenses, and Turkey was said to
be rushing warships to the Dardanelles.
EDSEL FORD DRIVES FIRST “BLITZ BUGGY” OFF LINE
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Edsel Ford (right), drives the first pygmy reconnaissance car off the Ford Rouge Plant assembly
line at Detroit. Brig. Gen. C. H. Bonesteel (left), S xth Corps Area commander, was a passengers in
the first car.
SENATE DEFERS ACTION ON
ARMORY BILL TIL TUESDAY
JUNEAU, March 21 >(/P) — By
a vote of five to three the Senate
refuses to accept the income tax
bill from the House. Walker,
Brownell and Roden voted in fa
vor of it.
The House refuses to attach the
emergency clause to the armory
bill then sends it to the Senate
I
which defers action on accepting
: it until next Tu-sday.
The House rejects the Senate
bill which would increase the
school tax to $7.50 and also
would make working women pay
the tax.
The S.nate kills the blanket
i primary bill.
British Take
Long-Defended
Italian Post
UNDATED, March 22 (A*) —
British headquarters at Cairo re
ported the capture of Giararub.
long-defended Italian oasis in the
eastern Labya des-rt. The com
mander and 800 soldiers were
taken prisoner.
A Greek spokesman said an It
alian thrust on the Albanian
front was repulsed.
SHANGHAI REPORTS
SHORTAGE OF FUEL
SHANGHAI, China, March —
The French Concession at Shang
hai will be virtually blacked out
under new regulation imposed to
conserve power supplies.
The order bans the use of all
neon and other electric supplies,
and the use of electricity for
cooking or heating, except for
medical aparatus or vital indus
trial equipment.
Fuel shortages arising from the
Chinese war have seriously cur
tailed Shanghai’s power supplies.
Labor Urged
To Stand
Bv Bridges
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WASHINGTON, March 18 — j
Phillip Murray, president of the
Congress for Industrial Organiz
ation, urged full labor support
for Harry Bridges in the West
Coast labor leader’s fight against
deportation. Murray charged that
enemies of labor were respons
ible for the new trial of Bridges.
The CIO head declared that the
new trial was what he termed
“and attempted appeasement of
the attacks which are intent upon
undermining organized labor as
a whole.”
Murray appointed an official
CIO committee to aid the Aus
tralian-born labor leader.
Bridges’ appeal for a 30-day
postponement of his deportation
hearing was denied by Judge
Charles Sears, special presiding
inspector appointed to hear the
case. As a result of this action
Bridges will face government wit
nesses March 31 in the Federal
Court at San Francisco.
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Germans Again
Concentrate On
UNDATED. March 22 {£>)—The
Gorman Luftwaffe concentrated
again on Plymouth, England,
blasting many business houses
and blocks of homes in a six
hour assault on the second suc
cessive night of raiding. Casual
ties were believed to be heavy.
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COMMUNIS T—Robert
Minor (above), a veteran com
munist leader and new general
secretary of the party in U.S.,
was once a newspaper cartoonist,
lie’ll succeed Earl Browder, who
soon must start serving prison
sentence for passport fraud.