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VOL. 43. No. 5. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JAN. 10, 1941. _Price per copy m
Asks Power Transfer War Supplies
Greeks Take Klissura, Gateway To Port Valona
Nazi Hints Germany Preparing For Vast Offensive
Congress Asked Give President
Power Transfer Military Equipment
To Britain and Other Democracies
Transfer Equipment to Any Country Whose Defense,
To the President, Seems Vital to Defense of U. S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (/P) —
After President Roosevelt urged
quick action on his vast landing
program, administration leaders
asked Congress to give him
sweeping powers for the transfer
of American made military equip
ment to Britain and other war
rinig “democracies.” The Presi
dent toid a press conference just
before the legislation was intro
duced in both houses of Congress
that the powers it .gave him wrere
needed to avoid delay.
The bill will permit the Presi
dent “when hi: deems it in the
intertst of national defense, one;
Manufacture arsenals, factories,
shipyards under their jurisdic
tion, or otherv:\se p .. ue any
defense articles tor the govern
ment of any country whose de
fer e to the President seems vi
tal to the defense of the United
States.
Two: Si 11, transfer, exchange,
lease, lend or otherwise dispose
of to any such government any
defense article.
j Three: Test, inspect, prove, re
pair, outfit, recondition or othrr
wi e place in good working order
any defense article for any such
government.
Four: Communicate to any
such government any defense in
formation pertaining to any ar
ticle furnished to such gov rn
ment under paragraph two of
this subsection.
Five: rtelease for export any
defence article to any such gov
ernment.”
Propaganda Minister Goebbels
Hints That Nazi Inaction May
15c Prelude to Great Offensive
Nazi Offensives Preceded By Careful Preparation
BERLIN, Jan. 9 </P) — Nazi
propaganda minister Gcebbels
dropped a hint that Germany
may be marshaling her forces
for another vast offensive. Goeb
• bels cautioned foreign correspond
ents not to regard the present
lull in operations as meaning in
decision, declaring that Nazi of
fensives were always preceded
by intervals of the “most care
fui preparation.”
Germany’s enemies, he said
scoffed at the long siege of inact
ivity on th- Western Front dur
ing the winter of 1939-40, ”ther
on May 10, the great offensvic
began on the west which in the
shortest time imaginable broughi
France to her knees.”
British Desert Army 120 Miles
Into Libya, Capture Airdromes,
Concentration Tobruk Continues
UNDATED, Jan. 9 UP) — Brit
■t ains swiftly advancing desert
! troops have driven 120 mile; into
Italian Libya the Brit:sh com
1 mand at Cairo announced, reach
:irg the Fascist airport of Gazala,
140 miles west of besieged To
bruk. Thirty five Italian planes
were tele n at Gazala an RAF
communique said and forty more
were abandoned at the airdrome
of Eladom, 15 mi.es south of
Tobruk.
Arf'on AH Along Libyan Border
CAIRO. Jen. 10 UP) — The Brit
i h general headqunrti rs an
ouneed the concentration of
British forces around Tobruk, It
naval station, garrison and
;v. on the Libyan coast while
r.t/rs farther west continue
nj at the same time flaring ac
n v: s reported against Italian
E At ica cn hundn ds of miles
f the southeast Libyan front.
Greeks Announce Capture Klissura
Gateway to Adriatic Port of Yalona
Last Kig Italian Port In Albania
UNDATED. Jan. 10 (/P) — The
capture of the key Italian strong
hold of Klis-ura in central Al
bania, the gaieway to the Ad
:; 1 tic seaport of Va'ona was an
n unccd by the Greek command.
»cl or. a is the last big port in
uthcrn Albania which is still in
Tta'ian hands.
The fall of Klissura, the cli
max of v. ‘ ks of bitter fighting,
v. as d;.v :rlbed by Athens mili
tary circles to have paved the
way .0 the seizure of Telepini,
be tw n mountain chad-1 15 mil
west. cracking the
'"■o , Italian defense line.
GERMAN AND RUSSIAN
ORCLS COMBINING TO
INVADE U. S. IN MAY
LOS ANGELES. Jan. — Rev.
Gerrit Meijer, who was dr.v n
"rom his Amsterdam church by
he invasion of Holland last y ar
said in an interview that “Ger
many and Russia arc planning to
nvade the United States next
May.”
Here to give an address on the
Am r can War Peril," Rev. Mci
r said:
“I've s on plans of mother
hip1, 1 u dreds of which are be
ing con-tructed in Germany and
Russia, each to accomodate be
wcan 35 and 1 Ut) bombing plan
es. The planes are for the com
j.r,' d German and Russian fore
s to invade America, via Siber
a and Canada, also in mother
ships from die Atlantic Ocean
and South American waters.”
MECHANIZATION DOESN’T WOR K—The mule’s still king in parts of Panama Canal Zone where jungle and mud
immobilize frucks. Here a Canal Zone mule pack train that will carry gun powder to hidden defense posts along waterway is unloaded.
RAF Bombers
Range Afar
Germany, Italy
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UNDATED. Jan. 9 i7P) — Over
night RAF warplanes bombed
Naples in the heaviest of a ser
ies.ef blows ranging from the
north coast of Germany to Italy’s
dwindling empire in North Af
rica and riding the skies virtual
Iv unchallenged.
The RAF pilots attacked Pal
mero in Sicily; Wilhelmshaven
and Emd1 n in Germany; and Be
ga-i in Tripoli, North Africa.
Meanwhile British Ax Secre
tary Sinclair announced a plan
to open RAF training to boys of
16 years and older “to meet the
growing demand for pilots.”
Ruhr Industrial
Region Germ any
Heavily Bombed
j
UNDATED. Jan. 10 tJP) — The
British RAF reported heavy
bombing as-aults on Germany’s
vital war industries in the Ruhr.
RAF bombers also carried out
a large scale attack on cross
channel objectives in France
i shortly after noon. apparently
i blasting the G rroan occupied
; port of Boulogne.
Britons Say
“Firekrieg" Is
Held In ( heck
UNDATED, Jan. 10 {&)— Ger
man bombers showered hundreds
of incendiary bombs on London
at night, concentrating the as
sault “on one large district”
which the British censorship
kept secret, in an evidl?mt at
tempt to repeat the devastating
"firekrieg” of December 29.
The government declar'd that
the capital’s newly organized fire
bomb fighting squads doused the
incendiaries almost as fast as
they fell.
U n a fa s k a
rs Closed
To Shipping
JUNEAU — The historic port
d Unalaska, oldest in Alaska and
‘•irthest west on the North Am
rican continent has been order
'd closed to shipping, icfTective
Tanuary 15.
Collector of Customs James J.
Connors received notification of
e osing Unalaska as a port of en
try. The port was among the
first opened in the North, being
on the original list when the A1
•iska Customs District was estab
lished by Act of Congress, March
3, 1891. During the Klondike and
Nome gold stampedes, Unalaska
was one of the most active ports
ion the Pacific Coast. Most of the
Sir Frederick Phillips (above) un
dersecretary of the British Trea
sury, said after a conference with
j Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau that he was giving the
i United “a balance sheet on the
state of our resources and the
cast of supplies in the United
States.” He said “We didn’t dis
cuss any question of policy.
steamers plying the Yukon in the
sarly days were eitb.r built or
assembled in Unalaska yards.
In recent years Unalaska has
j been a stopping place for ves
!on the great circle route be
! tw-en North American ports and
| the Orient.
Defense Precautions
While no definite information
as to the purpose of closing the
port was given in the notice re
ceived by radiogram, Collector
Connors said he presumed it was
brought about as a consequence
of defense work now in progress
at Dutch Harbor adjacent to the
town of Una.aska, end the desire
pf the Government that the priv
ilege of Customs entry and cl.'ar
ance of foreign vessels be re
moved.
The Navy has begun construc
ion of an advance submarine
nd air base at the port, which
s reported already ring d with
I. f nse guns.
Foreign vessels will hereafter
mt be allowed to visit Unalaska
it a I. while even U. S. bottoms
,ust obtain special permits and
o.-rt bond at S attle for permis
■ n for their entry to the port.
Deputy to Retire
Jack Martin, who is U. S. Com
missioner and Deputy Collector
of Customs at Unalaska, will find
■ If of his job gone after Jan
uary 15.
Unalaska is the farthest west
ind north port of entry in'North
, An nca and is even west of Hon
j Juki.
K ports of several recent vis
ts of Russian and Japanese ships
3 Unalaska are believed to have
effected the Gov rnment’s deci
ion to close the port.