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THE NOME NUGGET_
VOL. 42~ No. 36. " NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1940 _ Pr.ce per cow IK
Proposes National Guard of 50,000
, Italy Claims Notable Sea Successes Against British
Democratic National Convention Now In Session
Italy Tells
Sea Successes
Against British
—
UNDATED, July 13 (JP) — The
Italian high command claimed
notable successes in a naval en-'
gagement with Britain which
started in the Mediterranean five;
days ago and is still going on. An!
Italian communique said that
bombers scored hits on battle
ships and two cruisers yester
lj} day. The Italian admitted a des
troyer was lost “by enemy bomb
ardment.”
The forces which since Wednesi
day have been beseigir.g a Brit- j
ish fortified town near Moyale on
the Kenya-Etheo’pian frontier,
captured it.
The German high command
ft said the sea war on Britain was
marked by the capture of a num
ber of merchantment with vaiu
ahe cargoes and alj>o that 24,000
tons more w’ere sunk.
A major development in the
topsy turvy Balkans was a re
port that Rumania is cleaving
more to the Rume-Berin axis and
would withdraw from the Bal
kan Entente unless Turkey turns
out her officials who engineered
the alliance with Britain and
^ France. One of tiie Rumanian to
talitarian regiment’s new anti
seme tic decrees took the wives of
Jew out of (government positions
and aso demobilized thousands of
farm workers and industrial
technicians to return to produc
tive jobs.
Louis Lochner said in a Berlin
dispatch that the Germans des
cr bed the prccen; war against
^ Britain in the air and sea as
. “child's play” in comparison with
what is ccming. They sre so. con
fident of victory that they al
ready are moving thousands of
troops eastward away from the
Siegfried Line where they are
no longer needed, also to be
ready for use In the east if nec
essary.
Marine Reply Japs
“Not Satisfactory"
J
SHANGHAI, July 13 (IP)—'The
Domei news agency reported that
Col. DeWitt Peck, United States
Marine commander of this dis
trict “failed to give a satisfactory
repy” to the complaint by Ma
jor General Miura against the
treatment of 14 Japanese plain
clothes men arrested on July 7th.
Greek Freighter
Mysteriously Ex
plodes in Pacific (
ASTORIA, July 13 (IP)— Twen
tv-one officers and men from the
Greek freighter Hellenic, and her
skipper, until recer h. on the A1
aska Steamship Company’s Cur
ae.o, were voluiby thankful for
solid iground under them after
being out 63 hours in an open
boat.
The reached shore late yester
day after the 1.518 ton 45-year
>ld vessel, which was headed for
Shanghai from Aberdeen, caught
fire 130 miles at sea and blew
up. Second engineer Merrtzanis
uffiered from critical burns and
•'xposure. None of the others
were seriously injured.
First mate Catselides said the
ship caught fire mysteriously at
3 a.m. Wednesday. The wireless
seen went out of commission and
the ship was abandoned. A tuna
fisherman picked them up yes
terday.
Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon, Republican
nominee for the vice-presidency, had "words” in Washington with
Senator Burton K. Wheeler (eft) of Montana, who hopes to win
the Democratic presidential nomination at Chicago, but it was all
in fun. Wheeler has announced opening of campaign headquarters
in Chicago.
British Plan Of ^ar (alls
For Two Years on Defensive
And Take Offensive In 1()42
UNDATED, Juy 15 UP)— Brit
ain celebrated another reported
victory over German air raiders
in a battle high above the hotly
contested Straits of Dover and
took hope for ultimate victory1
from a fighting speech by Church
ill. Britain’s plan of campaign,
Churchill disclosed, calls for a
two years defensive war to
guard the British Isles against
the Nazi conquest and then in
1942 a counter offensive. ‘ We
: would rather see London laid in
j ruins and ashes, then be ensiav-,
’ ed” he declared.
Nazi raiders, keeping up a re
lentless schedule of bombing at
tacks, peppered the Isand king
dom almost daily since June 13.
j They dropped high exposives on
1 a south coast English town this
morning. The ministry of home
■security reported that some hous
I as were damaged and a small
(number of casualties were caus
ed, some fatal. Britain is ready,
Churchill said if Germany tries
an actual invasion.
Reveal Ultimatum
Soon Be Served
Britain Bv Axis
UNDATED, July 15 (/P) —
Bombs fell on the Holyland, in
its first raid of the war, when
enemy planes presumably Ital
ian. dropped explosives on Haifa
a seaport in British mandated
Palestine. Several casualties re-'
suited.
In a sharpennig conflict in Af
rica, the British garrison at Moy
ale in Kenya colony, besieged by
Italian troops sin^=> Wednesday,
withdrew.
The Italian high command as
serted that two British submar
ines were destroyed and sunk
over the weekend in naval op
erations in the Mediterranean.1
They also claimed that ten Brit
ish planes were shot down. Ital
ian plane machine-gunned Brit
ish troops near Buna. East Africa.
The German command report
ed bombing attacks on British
port facilities, airports and arm
ament industries. Fires and ex
plosions were observed, a com
munique said, particularly at
Faversham, which served as the
secret base for British Q-Boats
in the World War. Q-Boats are
anti-submarine craft often dis
guised as fishing boats.
Nazi planes slashed at British
ponvoys in the English channel
and sank three merchantmen to
taling 17,000 tons. A British des
troyer, an auxiliary cruiser, and
four other merchant ships were
aso reported damaged by bombs.
Fom the authoritative Fascist
editor Gayda, it was indicated
that Germany and Italy would
serve and ultimatum on Great
Britain within a few days, offer
ing her the choice between sur
render and destruction.
President And Secretary of
War Propose To Place 50,000
National Guards Active Service
WASHINGTON, July 13 (tf>) —
President Roosevelt’s proposal to
put 50,000 militiamen in active
service, brought the controver
sial subject of National Guard
mobilization 'back to the fore. A
decision which recommended
calling out almost a quarter of
the guard was reached yesterday
by President Roosevelt and Sec
retary of War Stimson. Congress,
recessing for the Democratic na
tionali convention, must approve
it however. When Roosevelt, in
a special message on May 31 ask
ed for authorization to mobilize
the Guard for any defense em
ergency, he received a barrage of
criticism. The plan now would
call out 4 of the 18 Guard div
isions, seven anti-aircraft regi
ments and an indefinite number
of coast defense units.
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Alaska With First
Six In Airfields
WASHINGTON. July 15 (ff>) —
The Civil Aeronautics Authority,
reported that six states and Al
aska possessed more than a hun
dred landing fields.
Caifornia has 186.
Texas 151.
Pennsylvania 102.
Florida 122.
Michigan 121.
Ohio 111.
Alaska 128.
America Attempting to Race
Time with Dollars in
Building Defense
SPOKANE — Major General
Henry H. Arnold, chief of the
Army Air Corp, said that the
"United States is attempting to
do with dollars what Germany
did with time and the result is
problematical. There’s no substi
tute for time. It took Germany
six years to build up its balanc
ed army. England tried building
with dollars and 'has met with
fair success. France was just too
busy to build at all. It now re
mains to be seen what we can
do.”
STRATOLINER SETS
WEST TO EAST RECORJ)
NEW YORK, July 13 —A giant
new Boeing Stratoliner roared
on. o LaGuardia Field at 9:29
a.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
Monday night, setting a west to
eas, transcontinental record for’
commerciail planes.
The Stratoliner left Burbank
Field at Los Angeles at 9:15 p.m.
(Eastern Standard Time) Mon
day n.gnt, stopped briefly at
Kansas City on a flight through
the so-called substratosphere at
an altitude of about 17,090 feet.
It arrived in New York one
hour and 11 minutes ahead of
schedule.
The four-motored ship weighs
23 tons and cost $450,000.
' The craft spanned the contin
ent in the elapsed time of 12
hours and 14 minutes, compared'
with the time of 12 hours and 44
minutes set by a TWA plane on a j
scheduled passenger flight on
March 16, 1935.
Faster trips have been made’
by transport panes, but not on
regular flights.
PETAIN NEW HEAD OF
FRENCH GOVERNMENT
BERN, Switzerland, July 13—
Marshal Petain's broadcast, heard
here announced plans for trans
fer of the French government to
the famous Palace of Kings at
Versailles, in German-occupied
territory.
It was announced the new
French state, already substantial
ly a dictatorship, wiil be decen
tralized and based on the old i
provincial system of pre-Repub
lican France.
After Petain spoke, the French
radio announced that he will re-1
place President Lebrun, effective
Friday, as head of the French
state and chief of ’.he govern
ment’s executive departments.
Petain wiil have full legislative
powers until a new Chamber is
formed and in case of a crisis he
can legislate without asking the
Chamber’s advice.
MAJOR GENERAL ARNOLD
SPEAKS ON NATIONAL
DEFENSE OVER KFAR
Major. General Arnold, chief
of the staff of the Army Air
Corps was met at Fairbanks on
his arrival by high officers of
the Ladd Field Air Corps & civic
leaders.
Staff members who accompan
ied the major general were:
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Mc
Daniel of San Antonia, Lieuten
ant Colonel Ira C. Eaker of Eden,
Texas, Major Harold L. Clark of
Minneaplois. Captain Eugene H.
Beebe of Santa Barbara, Tech
nical Sergeant H. B. Puzenski,
flight engineer from Celeveland.
and Sergeant Robert Meade, ra
dio operator from Easterwell,
Ohio.
The nation's air defenses—part
iculary in Alaska—were discuss
ed by Arnold in an interview ov
er Radio Station KFAR at 9:15
Saturday night.
The rearmament program will
inevitably boost ’ business over
j the nation, but its a shot in the
arm that can’t last forever.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT**
Tremendous Pressure Brot
To Bear for Jas. Farley To
Continue, Demo. Chairman
CHICAGO, July 1.3 — Tremen
dous pressure has been brought
to bear for James Farley to con
j tinue as chairman of the Demo
cratic National Convention re
gardless of the choice of presi
dential nominee. - ,
Leaders of the Roosevelt third
term movement regarded Far
ley's statement Friday that he
would not “take a walk” if Roose
velt runs again, as at least par
tial victory in their efforts to
persuade him to handle the cam
paign at least in the early stag
es. Facing nearly 200 reporters
and a field day for fending off
questions, Farley said the presi
dential nomination would come
Thursday and the vice-president
ial nomination on Friday.
He reiterated it woud be a “ser
ious mistake” if a candidate is
chosen without a roll call.
Convention delegates said they
had not decided who would place
Farley’s name in nomination for
President.
Paul McNutt predicted Roose
velt would accept a third term
nomination. Receiving reporters
at his headquarters he declared
the nomination “seems to be the
itars. I think he wili be nomin
ated and that he will accept.”
Asked if he thought Roosevelt
would be reelected, he replied,
‘certainly.”
He said he is undecided as yet
A'hether he will be a candidate
for the vice-presidential nomin
ation.
His headquarters were opened
at the same hotel for the organ
ization dedicated to nominating
.Vendell L. Willkie for President
at the GOP convention and is
leaded by Guy Warren of Cor
pus Christie, Texas, who said “it
vil provide a medium for people
o express their desire for na
. onal unity.”
SIX CANNERIES IN THE
KODIAKS TIED UP—STRIKES
SEATTLE, July 13 — Six can
neries in he Kodiak Island area
are being picketed as a result of
a strike sanction given to the
AFU and UFU by the Washing
ton district of the Maritime Fed
eration. Officials said the can
neries employ 2,000.