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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 32. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1941 Per c°Py 154
120 Americans Believed Drowned
Fascist Viceroy To Ethiopia Prepares To Surrender
French Ask Syrians Resist British “Aggressions”
CONTROL OF SALUM SWINGS
TO AXIS IN SEESAW BATTLE
AFRICA BRITISH HOLD TOBRUK
UNDATED, May 17 (/P) — The
& esaw struggle for the control of
S&lum, heat-ridden advance
p<oir>t of the Axis drive into Eg
ypt, again swayed to the Axis
advantage as German and Italian
forces were reported to have cap
tured the town yest Tday, after
| the British had taken it the day
I before. It was also said that they
i had retaken Fort Capuzzo, Lib
; van frontier stronghold, near Sal
! urn and Sadi Azes, also a hun
| drcd prisoners.
The bes iged British garrison
| still held out at Tobruk.
FASCIST VICEROY ETHIOPIA
DUKE AUSTA PREPARES TO
SURRENDER TO THE BRITISH
UNDATED, May 19 <JP) —
Churchill’s pledg to tear Italy’s
African empire into “tatters and
shreds” moved nearer fulfillment
as Due Austa, Fascist Viceroy of
Ethiopia, prepared to surrender
himself and from 35,000 to 38,000
troops to the British at Arriba
Alaji. Mussolini’s command said
the Duk-’s army was trapped in
9,0 iO foot mountain stronghold,
230 miles northeast of Addis
Ababa. He capitulated as he was
running out of food and water.
The Italian resistance in the
African kingdom, it was said, is
continuing only in the sectors of
Jimma in the south and Gondar
in the northwest.
Western
Air War
Intensifies
UNDATED, May 17 (/P) — In
the western air war, th. Luft
waffe intensified attacks on Brit
ain last night, sending a hundred
planes over industrial Birming
ham in a three-hour assault.
The RAF centered their atten
tion in a raid on Cologne, Rhine
railway factory city and Bou
logne on the channel coast.
If people still don’t believe
that the M diterranean is an It
alian sea, Hitler is there to prove
it.
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Syria Protests
British
Bombing Fields
UNDATED, May 17 </P) — Dis
patches to Vichy from Beirut,
said that General Dentz, French
high commissioner of Syria, pro
tested to the British consul, to
repeated bombing of Syrian air
ports. The dispatch said German
plan.-s recently passed over Sy
ria ‘“in transit.’’
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Americas Prepare
Take Over
French Colonies
WASHINGTON, May 17 (/P) -
It was authoritatively learned
| that the twenty-one American re
| publics prepared to ertab'bh “a
provisional administration” overt
i the French colonies in the Am
! ericas if the forecast of close “co
i laborat ion” between Germany
and France is projected into th'
western 'hemisphere.
CORCORAN’S ALASKA
OIL IDEA PROBED
WASHINGTON, May — The
House Appropriations Commit
tee has made public testimony
from S cretary of Interior Har
old L. Ickes that Thomas Corcor
! an discussed with him the pos
sibility of a Government loan for
a private oil prospecting venture
in Alaska.
Secretary Ickes asserted he
made no r commendations on the
subject because it was outside of
his jurisdiction.
Secretary Ickes took offense at
questions from Representative Ro
bert F. Jones, Republican of Ohio
concerning a conference with Cor
coran on the oil venture intimat
ing that it concerned a proposal
by R. E. Havenstrite that the
Government finance drilling of a
new test well in the Iniskin Pen
insula area on which Havenstrit'
and associates hold oil and gas
leases issued by the Interior De
partment.
FORMER QUEEN OF
NETHERLANDS OPTIMISTIC
LONDON, May — Queen Wil
helmina of German-occupied
Netherlands, now r siding in Eng
land, said in a broadcast on the
the first anniversary of the in
vasion of her country, that
among the Dutch everywhere,
there is only one conviction and
that is that ‘‘our resistance must
be absolut .” She expressed con
fidence in a final Allied victory.
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HOMESTEADS IN THE PHILIPPINES —Homesteaders in fertile Korondal valley on
Mindaneo island of the Philippines live in these simple houses and spend their time farming: plots of
jan(j_part of the 213,000 acres being: homesteaded under the Philippine government’s supervision. The
farmers are trying: to raise rubber, peanuts. Some 6,000 settle! an already ther >.
BRITAIN’S SINCAPOR E—Life seems calm enough in this view of Raffles Place in Singa
pore, Britain’s heavily fortified Near East base straddling empire trade routes from British Isles to
India, Australia and New Zealand via the Mediterranean. When tension in the Far East rose Britain
strengthened her defenses in Singapore, which is at tip of Malay peninsula.
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120 AMERICANS, 24 AMBULANCE
DRIVERS, AMONG 200 DROWNED
SINKING OF EGYPIAN SHIP
UNDATED, May 19 </P) — One
hundred twenty Americans in
cluding 24 U. S. ambulance driv
ers, enroute to the British and
"Free French” forces of Egypt
were feared to have lost their
lives in the sinking of th, Egyp
tion steamer Samsam somewhere
in the south Atlantic between
Brazil and Capetown, South Af
rica. The Americans, including
Philip Faversham, son of the late
matinee idol William Faversham,
were among the 201 passengers
aboard the ship which sailed
from New York March 20. The
Samsam was said to be plainly
marked with the flag of belliger
ent Egypt.
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FRENCH COMMISSIONER SYRIA
CALLS ON PEOPLE TO RESIST
CRIMINAL AGGRESSIONS BRIT.
I
UNDATED, May 19 {JP) — Ir
I the middle cast war theater
Britain’s struggle was further
complicated as General Dentz,
high commissioner of French
ruled Syria at Lebanon called on
the Syrians to resist the “crimin
al aggressions” of the British.
“Ono. again England sheds
French blood,” he said, referring
to RAF attacks on Syrian air
I dromes.
The British declared, when the
attacks opened last w'eek, that
! German planes were flying to aid
Iraq and w re landing on Syrian
air fields enroute to Iraq.
Reports from Beirut said citi
zens of the United States and
Britain in Palestine were advis-1
ed to leave Lebanon immediate-1
liy.
Hess Tells
Own Story
Of Landing
———
GLASGOW, May 16 — Rudolf
! Hess, No. 3 Nazi leader, told his
story of his flight from Germany,
in a calm voice, of flying to Great
Britain with an extra gas tank
aboard his plane and guided by
a map of a route to “Ausburg,
Scotland.” The route on the map
was marked by blue p'ncil.
Hess said he circles for a long
time over the Scottish country
side intending to land his plane
but finally took to the parachute,
after turning the plane upside
I
down to help hims>:lf out of the
cockpit.
Hess said, "I climbed several
thousand feet, threw the plane j
over on its back, switched off the 1
engine. Just as I was falling out,
I righted the plane again switch
d on the engine and sent the
plane hurling to the earth while
I fell clear.”
| Hess told Home Guardsmen he
fitted the extra gasoline tank to
his plane to make certain he had
enough fuel for the 800-mile
flight but dropped the exra gas
tankinto the sea when he crossed
the coast of Scotland.
When guards took Hess into
custody he told them there are
“no bombs in my plane so you
ne:d not worry.”
Iraq Reports
Bomber Activity
j
i
UNDATED, May 17 i/P) — An
Iraq army communique mention
ed important bomber activity ag
ainst the British for the first time
and probably means that German
or Italian warplanes are already
fighting with the Iraqis, whose
own w ak air force, the British
declared to be virtually destroy*
I ed.
The Italians acknowledged of
ficially in Rome that their planes
had reached Iraq. A communique
said that a number of bombers
attacked the British-held Cinelde
ban camp. “What remains of the
camp installations are damaged
badly” and fires are visible for
miles. Several British planes
were destroyed.
PRISCILLA LANE
CHRISTENS STREET
—
i BURBANK, Calif.. May 15 (/B)
— Actress Priscilla Lane, chris
tening a street, smashed a bottle
with such force that Mayor Wal
ter R. Hinton and City Manager
Howard I. Stites were showered
with champagne.
Th' y declar.d the christening
was a success. The street was
named Priscilla Lane.
j RUDOLF HESS ,