Oldest Newspaper In Alaska. uThe News Of The Day In Pictures” Menil>er Of J he Associated Press
— THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 11. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1941.
Rumanian Iron Guards In Revolt
Lindbergh Asserts Air Invasion of U. S. Impossible
Territorial Legislature To Convene January 27
Iron Guards In Rumania Revolt
And 6,000 Are Killed In Four Days
Fighting-Rebels Quelled in Capital
UNDATED. Jan. 24 (/P)— Fresh
dispatches from revolt-torn Buch
arest, the scene of four days of
•bloody civil strif said that
many hospitals were full of
wounded. Amid mounting death
li~ts, German and Rumanian mo
torized troops patrolled the Bal
kan capital’s streets. Reports
reaching Sofia said the casualties
in Rumania totaled 6.000 with
2.00D dead in Bucharest morgues
alone.
Whil. the rebellion was evi
dently quelled in the capital, dis
patches agreed that insurgent
Iro-n Guardists were still fiercely
resisting outside of Bucharest, es
P 'cially in such cities as Brasov,
G:urgiu, Port Constanta, Ploesti,
Cantina and Braiova.
Th,: revolt began Sunday after
the assassination Sunday of a
German officer attached to the
Nazi military mission. Officially
the uprising was charged to “mis
lead” young men, Guard hot
heads and "Communist inspired”
elements but one traveler reach
ing Sofia from Bucharest said the
rebel Iron Guards wanted their
leader Horia Sima as head of the
government.
Nazi f;la£ Is
Ripped From
Consulate
Two Riot Calls Bring Police:
Youths Climb 10 Stories
Two Tear Swastika
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 18—Two
riot calls were turned in to call
police after youths ripped a Swas
tika flag from the staff of the
German consulate, as several
thousand persons jammed the
street outside the building.
Mounted po’ice and patrolmen
hurried to the sc ne. The crowd
started gathering this morn in'
when a big Swastika was unr 11
ed in celebration, the consul"*
said, of the founding of the R'ic>
in 1871.
Several young men climbed a
fire escape and made their way
to the tenth floor above the con
sulate, where two of them msnag
ed io get hold of the flag and cut
and pull it down.
TWO FOUND GUILTY
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 —
Two young U. S. Naval s amen
were convicted of malicious mi'
chief in cutting down th Nazi
flag flying ever the German con
ulatc. “This is an offense ag
ainst another nation,” said Muni
cipal Judge Peter Mullins as ho
adjudged the two men guilty and
1 mandrd them to the custody of
Naval authcriti s.
Sentence will be imposed
Thursday. The two men are Har
o d Sturtevant, 22, of Hnverhil.
Ma s„ and E. G. Lackey, 23, of
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Draft Drawing
Not Take Place
Before September
JUNEAU, Jan. 23 (JP)— 976 per
sons registered for the draft.
Reg tration at Doug’as of 86
applicant- swarming, caused May
or Luces to call for volunteers
to help handl - the r gistering.
Diroc'or Karnes did not be
lieve that the drawing will take
place before next September as
there is no plac available for
training. The same master list
as was used in the States will be
used in A'ask a. Directions will
be issued later.
L o d e s t a r s
Are Due Soon
On PAA Route
Fas’ New Ships Will Fly From
Seatt’e to Fairbanks
SEATTLE, Jan. — Joe Cros^on
a"nourced that Pacific Alaska
Ab fays will in a few weeks put
■> an eigV-hour schedule from
S attic to Fairbanks.
The new time will b°'rrade pc i
Mo by the use of three new 14 j
smger Lockheed Lodestars on
"hich deliv' -ry is expected
end the end of February.
Those Lodestars have a cruis
og speed in excess of 200 miles
on hour and wi 1 go all the way
ough to Fairbanks in one day,
T taping at Juneau enroute.
Crosson said carrying of pas
ngers will be resumed when
the Lodestars go into service.
FAMILY DONATES BLOOD FOR BRITISH NEEDS
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Wallace S. Jacobs of New York (center), 52-year-old Emmaus, Pa., textile plant owner, was tapped
by Dr. Robert Powers for his third blood donation to the British supply of plasma. This time Jacobs
bronght along his wife, two sons, six brothers, two sisters, nieces and nephews—24 in all. The hos
pital accepted 17.
Lindbergh Says
Air Invasion of
U. S. is Impossible
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 UP) —
Co'. Clias. A Lindbergh testified
'hat transoceanic air invasion of j
1b United States and landing of
troops is “absolutely impossible,"
but that bombing raids across the;
\tlantic could do considerable .
; damage.
The flier was asked to appear:
' ‘ f re the House Foreign Affairs
! Committee by the opponents of
h administration’s lend-lease
!' to aid Britain. He didn't men
n the bill in his prepared state
i rnent. He said he understood he '
vould be asked to discuss the ef
fect of aviation on America's po
sition in time of war.
He advocat d the construction
of a total air force of about 10,0-OU
modern planes plus reserves.
Lindbergh asserted that he be
r iieved that the United State
should wage a war with all of
our resourc s if an invasion of
A aska or any other portion cl
America were attempted, but a
sudden air invasion of Alaska i
out of the question. The conquest
of Alaska would necessitate the
movement of troops and supplies,
by ground and sea to defeat our
| >wn forces, and the establish
| nent of enemy bases. Even if
that was accomplished there j
would b_ little likuhood that the j
wilds of Canada would be crossed
and the United States invaded by
an army based upon remote Al
aska outposts, by Asiatic or Eu
ropean powers.”
Legislature
Is To Convene
On January 27
—
JUNEAU, Jan. 24 (Juneau Em
pire) — The 15th Alaska Terri
torial Legislature will get under
way officially Jan. 27 at 10 a.m.
when Secretary of Alaska E. L.
Bartlett will convene the House.
One hour later the Senate will
convene. Both houses are expect
ed to adjourn after electing tern j
porary officers.
All members except 3 out of
24 are expected to answer the
gavel. The three are due late
j Monday.
The Governor’s message will
j probably not be delivered until '■
the middle of the week when
the legislature is completely or
ganized.
—
HEADS CHOSEN IN
NENANA ICE CLASSIC
—
At an election held in Nenana
Saturday, Michael J. Cooney was
named to manage the annual Ne
nana ice classic for 1941. He re- j
ceived 46 out of 78 tickets cast
for manager. Sid Sheldon and
Andy Gevit received 16 votes
each.
The vote for a general advis
ory committae resulted in the
following being select:d: George
Adams, Frank Jones, Sr., L. P.
Corliss, Ed. McCabe and Ed.
Keogh, Sr. Three others also ran.
A total of 247 ballots were cast
in the committee contest.
British Capture
Tobruk and Move
Toward Derna
UNDATED, Jan. 24 (A>i — Brit
ish army units captured Tobruk
and moved westward toward Der
na, the next big Italian fortress
on the M diterranean coast. Mo
torized patrols are already re
ported near Derna.
Seattle Black
out March 6
SEATTLE, Jan. — Major John
Carroll, acting mayor, set Thurs
day, March 6, between 10:30 and
11 p.m. for what Major Walter
Best, county national defense
chief aid, will be the first actual
blackout of any major U. S. city
urd r conditions simulating ac
Ur.il warfare.
Aoeroximat ly 8,000 blackout
wardens, observers and referees
will direct the undertaking undeT
Frank Cadman, blackout commit
tee chairman.
Army and Navy planes will
soar above the city during the
blackout taking photos and watch
ing for negligence.
I
TAIL FIVE STORIES HIGH
S me idea of tile amazing size
of the world's largest land plane,
und c eons.rue.ion at the Dou
glas Aircraft factory in the Unit
ed States, can be had from the
fact that the tail, which engin-;
eers call the vertical fin, towers;
as high abo ve the ground as a I
five-story bid dings. The enor
mous plane vvi 1 have a weight of
about seventy tons, fully loaded
and a range of over 6,000 miles.
Of al metal c nstruction, and
with a wingspan of 210 feet, the
big ship is powered by four giant
engines of 2.000 h stpower each,
a total of 8,090 hors power.
Haile Selassie
Leading Revolt
In Ethiopia
BOMBA, Ethiopia. Jan. 24 <JP)
Haile Se’assie, emperor of Eth
iopia, now in Ethiopia, is actively
leading the loyal tribesman re
v It against the Italian conquer
ors.
Official of Red
Cross Is To Be
Sent North
9AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23 —
The American Red Cross head
quarters of the Pacific Coast an
nounces that Keith McCoy, now
stationed at the Vancouver Bar
racks, has been appointed Red
Cross representative of the vast
Alaskan territory" Troth Anchor
abe to Kodiak and to Dutch Har
bor.
This is the first Red Cross man
t.o ever be stationed in Alaska.
McCoy sails from Seattle Jan
uary 25 on the steamer Baranof
for Anchorage.
Army officials, it is said, re-,
quested the appointment.
1,500,060 POLES
WERE EXPELLED
LONDON. Jan. 20 — Polish au
thoritks in London said that
more than a million and a half
Poles were expelled from their
homes during the first year of
Nazi occupation.
The sources said that the Poles
were expell d from their homes
under a general expropriation or
dnr of Field Marshall Hermann
Goering. Those not able to move
to other nations are confined in
a small fragment of Poland left
by the Nazis as a living space for
the Poles.
Meanwhile, sabotage and other
acts of violence were reported in
creasing in occupied Poland.
AIR BATTLE RINGSIDE —Hclnietcd Winston
Churchill. England's doughty prime minister, watches an air bat
tle from some spot in Dover while the mayor of Dover stands
calmly by his side. The prime minister has one of his hahitu.'*.l
cigars, although on another occasion he had to toss a cigar aside,
by order of the warden at an air raid shelter.