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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 115. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 20, 1940. _ Price per
Attempt To Draw Spain Into War
Nazis Hint at Continuation War Through Winter
3-year-old Boy Kidnaped, Held Hundred Thousand
Indicated That Germany and Italy
Attempting Draw Spain Into War
Morocco and Gibraltar as Reward
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UNDATED, Sept. 20 (/P)— In
dications that Germany and Italy
are trying to draw Spain into
the war against Britain with
French Morocco and possibly the
fortress of Gibraltar as a reward
was reported by foreign observ
ers in Rome. The Fascist press
bluntly wrote of Spain as a po
tential ally, lending credence to
the report. By this strategy, it
is believed that the axis powers
hoped to gain control of the Med
iterranean probably by storming
Gibraltar by the rear, through
Spain, thus tightening the block
ade and strangle-hold on the Brit
ish Empire.
German foreign minister Von
Ribbentrop, in a second confer
ence today reported discussing
the post-war division of Africa
“and the fate of those African
peoples who will be freed from
British tyranny” as one Rome
newspaper phrased it.
For First Time Nazi Press In
Berlin Drops Hints That War
May Continue Through Winter
—.—
UNDATED, Sept. 19 <>P)—'The
British fleet blazed into action
in the Mediterranean, shelling It
alian troops marching along the
Libyan-Egyptian coast, while on
the home front at London, the
capital's bomb-strafed millions
surveyed the havoc from the
fiercest night-long assault. Many
victims were feared entombed in
sou heast London when a Ger
man bomber crashed with a full
load of bombs, demolishing sev
eral buildings. An official esti
mate placed the city's casualty
list at 90 killed and 350 serious
ly wounded.
British warplanes retaliated
with a smashing attack on Ger
man “invasion ports" the London
air ministry said, leaving the
Nazi-occupied French coast in
flames for miles. The raids hit
hardest at LeHavre, Boulogne,
Calais, Dunkerque, and Ostend,
all scenes of German barge and
troop concentrations.
Britain’s naval action in the
Mediterranean was reported in a
communique by the Italian com
mand which said Engish men-o
war attacked Fascist troops ad
vancing from Bardia in Italian
Libya toward Sidi Barrani, 60
miles inside Egypt, already occu
—
pied by the Blackshirt advance
guard. Mussolini's command as
serted “our air force bombed
them and forced them to suspend
action and put them to flight. A
ten thousand ton cruiser was hit
by a torpedo dropped from one
of our torpedo planes and was
seriousy damaged.” No figures
were given as to Italian troop
casualties.
With the siege of England
reaching a new peak in destruc
tiveness, correspondents in Do
ver reported that the channel is
still far too rough for the pas
sage of the invasion armada.
Hints War Last Thru Winter
For the first time, the Nazi
press in Berlin dropped hints
that the war might continue
through the winter. If true, Brit
ain appears to have won the first
vital round of the war, the fight
to stave off defeat until it can
muster her great empire forces
for a counter-offensive in 1941,
heralded by Churchill.
Berlin reported that the wea
ther was ideal for relentless
major air a“.acks on England
and said Nazi raiders during
the night bombed Liverpool.
Newcastle and Bellingham as
well as London.
Bomb Explodes
Near Auto Of
Duke of Kent
LONDON, Sept. 19 (JP) — A
time bomb exploded within 80
yards from the auto of the Duke
of Kent, the youngest brother of
the king who was visiting the
bombed areas in southwest Lon- j
don. He was uninjured.
The Duke was travelling along j
the road in his car when he;
came to a section roped off and
marked by a sign: “Danger—Un
exploded Bomb.’’ The auto stop
ped at the same moment that the
bomb exploded and earth and
stones showered around the car.
German bombs damaged the
courtyard of the British museum
and other west end London build
ings holding art or historic treas
ares, but the treasures were eith
er removed at the start of the
war or were protected against
injury.
SWEDEN ATTACKED
BERLIN, Sept. — The German
preSs launched a concentrated at
tack on the Swedish government
press charging certain newspa
pers in Sweden with deliberate
ly insulting Germany.
Hitler’s newspaper headed the
procession in finding fault with
the Swedish government for re
primanding one paper which as
serted British occupation forces
in Iceland resulted from terror
ism but failing to reprimand an
other that charged terrorism us
ed in Germany.”
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10,000 Ton German Troop Ship
Sunk-Churchill Pledges Ultimate
Retaliation German ^ar Assaults
UNDATED, Sept. 20 (/Pi — Be
latedlv the British admiralty an
nounced “it can now be stated”
that his majesty’s submarine
Sturgeon torpedoed a heavily
laden 10.000 ton German troop
transport in the North Sea oft’ of
Denmark, September 2 and sank
it in flames.
Unofficial Swedish press re
ports previously told of the sink
ing of the Nazi transport Marion
with the loss af most of the 4,000
men aboard.
The Admiralty said the attack
was executed despite heavy wea
ther and poor visibility and that
within two minutes the whole
ship burst into flames. When the
I British sub rose to the surface
after the vessel was sunk, Ger
man escort craft were sweeping
! the water with searchlights in
Dimond Belic\ es
RFC Funds Avail
able for Alaska
WASHINGTON. Stpt. 20 (/Pi
Delegate Dimond said he believ
ed that loans would be available
und^r a bill signed by the Presi
dent, authorizing Reconstruction
Finance Corporation loans of ten
million dollars, for the develop
ment of metaLs needed for na
tional defense. The loans would
greatly aid mineral development
in Alaska but the bill contained
no specific reference to Alaska.
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Capt. Louis Lane
Famous Arctic
Pilot Dies
MODESTO, Calif., Sept. 18 </P> j
— Captain Louis Lane, famed
sea-farer, whaler and explorer of
the far north died while on a
deer hunting trip near here.
In 1914 Captain Lane rescued
the famous Arctic exporer Vil
hjalmer Stephansson from Cape
Kelllett Banks Land and ten
years later found the death camp
and bodies of the four men lost
from the S. S. Karluk of the Can
adian Arctic Expedition of 1914
18.
Lane was in command of the
first merchant ship to land at
Wrangell Island which he claim
ed for the United States. He like
wise claimed Herald Island.
Editor’s Note:— Captain Lane!
was a whaler, and he caught
some of the largest, including a
Sulphur Bottom whale measur
ing 90 feet in length. He also
too'k the famous Sidney Snow
hunting and film party on the
S. S. Herman into the Arctic to
quest of survivors.
Meanwhile Berlin reported
that German raiders are striking
hard at London again, bombing
facilities of the southern railway
in London and other military ob
jectives.
A mass assault of 200 German
wa: planes ran into a cloud-hid
d n ambush of RAF fighters over
D ver. "Hell’s Corner.”
While London’s millions hud
dled in tiie dim light of r'r raid
shelters, they read in the morn
ing newspapers a pledge by
Churchill for ultimate retalia
tion for German war assaults.
1 “Don’t worry they’ll get it back"
Churchill was reported as say
ing grimly when crowds demand
ed reprisals as he was inspecting
bomb shattered homes in the Bat
‘ terse’’a area of London
film “The Great White Way."
While on this trip tu and party
captured alive what was reputed
to be the largest Polar Bear in
the Arctic, measuring 11 fee' in
length.
Captain Lou:s Lane was the
son of the well-known gold king
C. D. Lane of early-day Califor
nia and of Nome in 1900. He is
survived bv a wife Mrs. Bessie
Lane and two children, a dau
ghter Mrs. Wilson Er.-kine. now
in Kodiak, Alaska, and a son,
Alien, all of San Francisco.
3-YearOld Son Comtesse de Tristan
Kidnapped By Two Men and Is
Held Hundred Thousand Ransom
HILLSBOROUGH, Calif., Sept.
20 ..-Pi — Two men kidnapped
Marc de Tristan, aged 3, son of
Comtesse Marc de Tristan, a
member of the wealthy and so
cially prominent family, and left
a note demanding $100,000 for
his return. The baby was snatch
ed as he and his nurse walked
n ar the family's home. Or.e man
carried a gun with which he
threatened the nurse.
Hilisb rough police said the
ransom note left at the scene of
the kidnapping read: "We de
Soviets Accuse l
Spread Monroe Doc
trine Whole World
MOSCOW. Sept. 19 i.-P) —- The
Red F. t ; publication of the
Soviet . y accused the United
States spreading the Monroe
Doctrine to ''the whole world,"
and is planning L occupy the
Azores. M ’ em Canary and
Cape V rde !-!
The newspaper declared the
occupat; r of tese Portugese
and Spanish a- - tf the West
Coast ' N'v'h Vf: ;ca “by a
s.rong Em pear n ver would be
a serious menace to the United
State; an \ n mly to Latin
mand a hundred thousand dol
lars for the return of this child.
We want 'he money to be in
used five, ten and twenty dollar
bills. We will not take any spur
iously marked money and will
collect the money a your con
venience. We want no police in
terference.”
The man who snatched the
child lost his hat as he leaped
into a black automobile.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the Nome Nugget office
I
America, nence the Red Fleet de
clared that the United States is
preparing to take them over her
self. The article also declared
I that there was a-1 American
tores* ci i ■’gita nfe t-c ■ok*
j over the British and French col
j or.ies in Africa.
NOTICE
A meeting of the Board of Dir
ectors and all superintendents
and assistants of the Fair Assoc
iation is called for 2 p.m. Sun
day, Sept. 22 in the I O O P
kitchen. Due to the proximity of
the Fair, it is important that all
attend.
Chas. I). Jones. President
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Have The Nome Nugget sent to
i '-rui- mining claim.
PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH DEFENSE BOARD
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President Roosevelt gave instruction to these six U 'it'd States members of the permanent Jet-; C
Canadian defense board before they left Washington^ 1). C., for an initial conference at Ottawa. In
foreground with the President is New York’s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Standing in back, left to
right: Capt. Harry W. Hill, Navy; Col. Joseph T. McNarney, Army Air Corps; Commander Forrest
P. Sherman, Navy; Lt. Gen. Staney D. Eudick, Army; and John I). Hickerson, state department.
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