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VOL. 43. No. 28. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 9,1941. Per copy >54
RAF Air Armada Blasts Germany
58 Additional Vessels Recommended For Navy
Jewish Residents Desirable Areas Berlin Moved
GREAT BRITISH AIR ARMADA
DROPS HUNDREDS OF TONS
OF EXPLOSIVES ON GERMANY
UNDATED, May 9 </P) — Wav-i
os of British bombers, in the big
gest RAF smash of the war,
dumped “tens of thousands” of
fire bombs” and “hundreds of
tons” of high explosives on Ham
burg and Bremen and also at
tacked Berlin overnight, the Brit
ish said. In far-ranging expedi
tions, RAF warplanes flew as far
as Posen, Poland, in th> RAF’s
longest foray since the last raids
on Italy months ago. With long
range British bombers flying at
least 550 miles to reach the Posen
area, 1,100 miles round-trip, Hit
ler's Luftwaffe again violently as
saulted English cities and s t
battle were reported in both the
Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
The Germans said the British
“transit port” of Hull, possibly a
port of entry for American war
I supplies was subjected to a major
' attack this morning. The entire
city with a population of 350,000
I was shrouded in flame-tinged
moke. Returning Nazi pilots da
j closed the red flow of Hull’s fire!
could be seen from 70 miles
away. It was th>; eighth straight
night of stepped-up Nazi attack
• on Britain.
London dispatches said pro
i bably three to four hundred plan
' e.s, the largest RAF bombing
armada ever assembled for a
single night’s raid, were engaged
i in the sweep across Germany,
i The British air ministry said the
RAF struck the hardest blows at
Germany’s two big centers of
naval construction. Hamburg and
Bremen. B.rlin was also attack
ed.
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Greatest Author
ity on Folklore
Dies in England
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 7
(JP) — Sir James George Fraser,
aged 87, anthropologist, and pro
bably the* world’s greatest author
ity on folklore, died here today.
His principal work was “The
Golden Bough," a vast collection
on savage and civilized beliefs
and customs.
COAST GUARD MAY BE
PUT UNDER NAVY
WASHINGTON, May — Secre
tary of Treasury Morgenthau in
dicated the President has made a
decision about turning or r some
of the Seagoing pai l of the Coast
Guard to the Navy.
At a conference with- newosmen
asked wdvether anything had
been decided about turning over
part of the Coast Guard to the
{Navy, he replied: “Yes, but 1
cannot talk about it.”
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CLAIMS NAVY NOW CONVOYING WAR SUPPLIES
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Senator Charles W. Tobey (R-N. H.) studies a mrp in his Washington office before taking the Senate
floor to say that he had information from four unnamed persons that the Navy already is convoy
ing shipments of war materials.
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COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS
NAVY GET 58 ADDITIONAL
FLEET. AUXILIARY VESSELS
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WASHINGTON, May 8 (/?) — at , cost of approximat ly $350,
The H u e Naval Committee .re- 000.030. The bill represented an
I commend d legislation to author-i in .'ease of 33 ships beyond what
, ize the navy to acquire 53 addi- t1 navy requested in 1 gislation
lion a 1 flu-: and auxiliary vessels I introduced in March.
S ORDERED
OUT TO MAKE ROOM FOR
NAZIS RERUN
UNDATED, May 8 (/P) — Hit
ler’s Luftwaffe stabbed at British
coastal def‘ "sss in mounting
violence, machine gunning streets
of a southeast town, attacking
the Dover balloon barrage and
: clashing with RA,F fighters in a
1 sF.fies ^of big battles over the
| channel.
I Dispatches from London, com
! pared the Nazi hit and run for
l
I ays with the furious daylight act
.vity of last fall.
It was estimated in London
that three hundred German
bombers fl w over Britain last
| night.
The role of Americans in the
struggle was highlighted, mean
while, in the report of Robert
Hutchison, chairman of the Am
erican Eagle Club in London,
hat U,000 U. S. citizens are
fighting with the British and Al
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- j Is d forces.
1 Berlin, auinorities were report
' ed preparing heavier blows to
s! lash the British counter blitz
? krieg.
* Jews Evicted Desirable Area
; Nazi officials were said to be
*; making ? canvass,of ell horrr<ts vc.i
i th: German capital to find shelter
■(for bombed-out residents. Jewish
■ j families were ordered to live in
: j more restricted quarters, so that
all or part of their apartments
1 could b turned over to Aryans.
1 Many Jewish families were re
ported evicted from the desir
able Charlottesburg area. It was
■ explained that while comparative
ly few houses in Berlin were
. wrecked by bombs so far, the
RAF’s latest raids with the new
, British super-bombs and incen
■ diari s, indicated what might be
expected in the summer.
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Axis Penetrates
Only 2,000 Yds.
At Tobruk
UNDATE, May 7 UP) — On the
north African front, Mussolini's
command reported that Axis
troops captured important posi
tions in the month-old siege of
I the British garrison at Tobruk.
The latest British reports said
r peated Axis assaults resulted
only in a light penetration al >ng
a 2,000-yard front of Tobruk’s
outer defenses and new British
works were thrown up there.
British Gain
Upper Hand In
Iraq Fighting ]
—
UNDATED, May 7 (/P> — The
British middle east headquarters
said the situation was quiet of
strife in Iraq, at both the British
airdrome at Habbinyah, 60 miles
west of Baghdad and at the port
of Basra on the Persian Gulf. A
British communique said over
400 prisoners and six guns were
captured. RAF warplanes bomb
ed the airport of Baghdad yester
day.
“SOURDOUGH"
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
WINDSORS BACK IN U. S.
Duke and Duchess of Windsor, visiting U. S. together for a second
time since he abdicated, disembarked from the S. S. Berkshire at
Miami, Fla,, enroute to Palm Beach where the Duke planned per
sonal business conferences. Here the Duchess precedes him on the
gangplank.
WORST HOTEL FIRE IN YEARS
IN SEATTLE CAUSES DEATH
OF FOUR, ELEVEN INJURED
SEATTLE. May 8 bP) — The
city's worst hotel fire in years,
;pr ading rapidly bef re the oc
cupants awakened, killed four
persons in the small downtown
residential Stewart Hotel.
The dead are: John Sellar, 78;
Mr. Mrs. W n Murd
■ach about 6 ); Mrs. Violet Morri
son, 43; and 11 p us its were in
jur d. Four of them leaped to
the ground from second and
third floor windows, when flames j
raced up the stairway.
George Robert Jordan, aged
28, of Des Moines, Washington,
was critically burned and suffer
ed a severe back injury from
jumping fr m the third floor.
Truck driver Jeano "Ceccareili
turned in the first alarm soon af
ter 2 a.m. He said men and wo
men were screaming from the up
per windows when he first saw
the fire, Firemen took several
down by ladders.
The fire started, Fire Chief
William Fitzgerald said, in a
waste basket in the manager's
V
office, spreading rapidly to the
staircase ar.d filling the hallways
with smoke. The hot 1 is across
the stre.t from the new federal
'■ourthnuca.
WASHINGTON — Alaska Del
egate Anthony J. Dimond told
the Hour- Appropriations Com
mittee th y struck $50,000 for
new Ala-Ua road construction in
the Interior Deportment’s supply
bill without justification.
Delegate Dimond complained
the Territory needed “fully 100
times that amount.”
The D legate asserted that giv
en adequate roads, Alaska could
take care of itself.
Committeemen told Dimond
they refused the money -because
the Int rior Department was not
certain where it would be spent.