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VOL. 42. No. 105. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1940. Price per copy 1W
Draft Measure Passes The Senate
Most Destructive Raid Of War Inflicted London
Hitler Attempts To Make Peace In Balkan Crisis
World's Largest Citv, London
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Subjected To Most Destructive
Air Raid Of The War Today
LONDON, Aug. 23 UP) — Ger
man bombers in waves, laid a
roaring barrage of explosives and
flame over the London area early
today in the most destructive all
night attack so far hurled against
the world’s largest city.
Rumanian and Russian Troops
In Bloody Border Clash Sunday
May Be Setback For Hiller
UNDATED, Aug. 27 UP) — A
bloody border clash between Ru
manian troops and Russia’s Red
Army soldiers, possibly signal-;
ing a shrrp new setback to Hit
ler's exoressed ilesiry Jor Deace
in the Balkans, was reported in j
diplomatic dispatches from Buch
arest. Hundreds were reported
killed on both side in the fight
which originally broke out Sun
day, which the dispatches said
occurred in the vicinity of Dor
ohoi near the new Russiar.-Ru
manian frontier. After a Sunday
night lull, the battle was renew
ed.
Hitler exerted powerful pres
sure on Rumania and other Bal
kan countries, sources of Ger
man supplies, to maintain the
status quo in southeast Europe,
while he concentrates on the bat
tie for Britain.
British RAF bombers attacked
both Germany and Italy on far
ranging sorties before dawn. The
British Broadcasting Company,
official British radio asserted t at
government buildings along the
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FITCHBURG, Mass., Aug. 27
UP) — Major General Benjamin
Poore, aged 77, World War hero,
and commander of the Seventh
Corps area at the time of his re
tirement in 1927 died here today.
He was assigned to the seventh
brigade in the fourth division
during the World War.
WARNS AGAINST FINGER
PRINTING SERVICE SWINDLE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 — A
warning against swindlers who
are advertising a “finger-printing
service” to aid aliens in register
ing has been made by Earl G.
Harrison, director of alien regis
tration of the Department of Jus
tice. Mr. Harrison declares that
no fingerprints will be accepted
except those made by the proper
postoffice officials and that no fee
can or will be charged for this
service.
NOTICE
Democratic Club meeting call
ed for Saturday, Aug. 31, 8:00 p
in., City Hall. Full attendance
urged. Important business.
M. J. Walsh, Chairman
Wil'helmstrasse in Berlin, where
Hitler’s chancellery is situated,
was among the targets bombed.
In London, the air ministry re
ported that British planes “de
livf red a success!ull. attack on a
number of important military ob
jectives in the “axis territories.”
Six tons of RAF bombs were
dumped in 40 iminues on Italian
industrial targets the air minstry
said.
The Italian command acknow
led*3d that the British niglht
hawk raiders scored hits on the
sreat Fiat tank and plane factory
in Turin and attacked other
points in the face of violent air
and anti-aircraft reaction. One.
British bomber was reported shot'
down in an attempted attack on
Milan.
Nazi warplanes flocked back
and forth over Britain this morn
ing renewing the almost night
long assaults which kept Lon
don’s millions awake during a
six-hour chain system raid end
ing at 3:40 a.m.
Millions For
Ship Building
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25—War
ren G. Maghu n, Rc >iv = dative
from the State of Washington
said high Navy officials have not
hied him tl\at the Navy Depart
ment intends to spend approxi
mately $177,000,000 in the Puget
Sound area for shipbuildings dur
ing the next four years.
The program of expenditure
wouid be under the plan for a
two-ocean navy increase recent
ly authorized.
Funds to start the program are
expected to be available from the
five million dollar defense bill
now before Congress, Magnuson
said.
Under present tentative allot
ments, Megnuson said, approxi
mately a third of the Northwest
monies will be spent in the Puget
Sound Navy Yard, mostly for
destroyers, and the remainder
will go to private concerns for
building of combat vessels.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
Write to your friends and rela
fives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it.
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Hitler Enacts Role Peacemaker
In Balkan Crisis To Permit Nazi
Concentration Connuest Britain
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UNDATED, Aug. 23 i/P)—High
in his Obersa zburg mountain
chalet Hitler enacted the role of
behind-the-scenes peacemaker in
the Balkan crisis while bombers
.subjected the British Isles to a
new ordeal by fire in salvos of
incendiary time-fused gasoline
bombs.
Hitler received Italy’s foreign
minister Ciano, presumably to
dictate his desires for the main
tenance of the status quo in
southeast Europe, newly threat
ianed by a war between Rumania
and Hungary. Ciano left by plane
for Vienna accompanied by Ger
many’s foreign minister Von Rib
bentrop for a four-hour parley
tomorrow with Balkan represent
stives aimed at settling Hun- j
gary’s claim for the rich Ruman *
an province of Transylvania.
Hitler previously expressed a
stern wish to keep the flames of
the main European conflict from
spreading to the so-called ‘'Bal
kan powderkeg"for two reasons:
To insure the uninterrupted
flow of vital oil and food sup
plies from Rumania and Hun
gary to Germany for her battle
against Britain; and to permit
Germany to concentrate on Brit
ain alone without having to di
vert troops by taking sides in
the back door conflict in south
east Europe.
Meanwhile a mixed Rumanian
and Russian commission investi-1
i tlis border clash in which
. urdreds of Rumanian and Red
a:r,y soldiers were reported
si.in. The Rumanian government
c !.firmed the reports, previously
d • ied, that a Soviet plane was
sh it down on a reconnaisance
flight over Rumania yesterday,
bu! the government said that the
R : sian pursuit plane fired on a
Rumanian pi: :e, At the same
tin \ in another aerial clash, six
Rumanian fighters were report
edly shot down two Russian
planes.
Dispatches from Bucharest said
Rumania planned to meet Hun
gary’s demand for the return of
war-lost Transylvania which
to; med a part of the old Austro
Uungariart empire, offering to
cede 10,000 square miles of the
province to Hungary, provided
Hungary' agrees to a complete
exchange of populations.
In the war in the wrest, Nazi
bombers sought to penetrate Lon
don’s ring of defenses anew after
scorching widespread sectors of
the island kingdom with fire |
bombs. London dispatches said j
the widespread use of aerial
llame weapons indicated new
Nazi tactics of terror and des-:
;ruction. Official British sources:
asserted at least 15 German plan
es were downed during the day.
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Joint Western Hemisphere Defense
Board Meets in Ottovva. Canada
Mayor LaGuardia U. S. Chairman
OTTAWA, Aug. 27 UP) — A
pledge to a united front by Can
ada and the llnited States in a
permanent joint defense board
against foreign aggression in the
Western Hemisphere was advanc
ed by Mayor LaGuardia of New
York, chairman of the U. S. sec
tion. The Mayor said “I can as
sure you there is no minority to
report on this board.”
The Beard opened delibera
tions yesterday under the joint
New Rtiliiur On
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Alaska Freight
Is Now Issued
SEATTLE, Aug. 26 —Shippers
to Alaska hailed a ruling on a
revised schedule for general mer
chandise shipments to the Terri
tor issued by the U. S. Bureau
of Commerce.
The regulations now require
individual export declarations
for every shipments and costs
local companies almost $100,000
ayear it is said, but under the
new ruling it is provided that in
chaimanship of Col. O. M. Biggar
of Ottawa and LaGuurdia, who,
declared the problem, so far as
he United States is concerned,!
boils down to whether her stat-;
egic points in the Western Hem-i
isphere are to be used as bases i
for offensive operations by poten
tial enemies or as bases for hem
isphere defense.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the Nome Nugget office
shipment of general merchandise,
in which no item is valued over
$10, the shipment may be group
ed as “general merchandise."
T. A. Davies, chairman of the
Alaska committee of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce said "This
move is a great help to certain
types of shippers who handle
small merchandise. We hope
these improvements will result
in a greater simplification of send
ing shipments to the Territory.”
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Senate Passes Peacetime Draft
Bill By A Vote Of 58 To 35
Measure Now Goes To House
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 tsPi— 20 inclusive to register for draft.
By a smashing vote of 53 to 35 30me 12,000.000 men in all will
the Senate passed the peace-time , . ,
draft bill requiring all male citi- be affectea b>‘ the measure whl0h
zens between the aged of 21 and was sent to the House.
McNary. Republican \ ice Presi
dential Nominee Criticizes The
Roosevelt Farm Administration
SALEM. Aug. 28 (/P) — Charles
McNary followed up his formal
cceptar.ee of the Republican
vice presidential nomination with
a round of conferences with na
icnr: and state party leaders.
Rerrc entative Joseph Martin
R puli.f national chairman,
announced that McNary will
make x or seven major cam
paign a dresses, the first some
where in the midwest, after Sep
tember 20.
In a thirty minute acceptance
address late yesterday, McNary
criticized the Roosevelt adminis
tration's f . n pr gram, particul
arly the recipr iml trade treaty
system which he said failed “to
dissipate, alleviate or liquidate
the uneconomical conditions"
I facing agriculture. He said in
i spite of subsidy payments, the
I farm income during the seven
.years of the New Deal, verged
1 on two billETCT dollars less man
(during the previous seven years
| of Republican administrations.
McNary urged the federal gov
ernment’s continued development
] of hydroelectric power, declar
ing that power? and navigable
streams “should be a common
heritage.”
He told a crowd of 12,00) that
he opposed “Involvement in for
eign military adventure” but
was scared of a peace of appease
ment or “surrender of our na
tional dignity, independence of
action, our political freedom, and
the civilized values we cherish."
Willkie Announces Itinerary
\)\\] Speak Seattle Sept. 23
Denounces Preparedness Plans
NEW YORK, Aug. 27 </P> —
After exp inding his criticism of
Presidcn* R > vt *.‘s defense pro
gram he demanded the end of
the “bunk c nversati ns” Wen
del V,hi proval to
an augmented Wi tern campaign
which will carry him on a 7,000
mile itinerary with announced
calls and half a dozen major
speeches, me of hem expected
at Seattle on September 23rd.
Lord Steward,
Royal Family,
LONDON. Aug. 25 — Because
of alleged Nazi sympathies, the
Duke of Baccleuch has been dis
missed from the service cf the
King and Queen.
Anouncement was made that
King George has terminated the
Duke’s further connection with
the Royal Household, where he
held the responsible post cf Lord
Steward.
Nothing is known as to what
form the support of the Nazi doc
trine took, but it is known posi
tively that the Duke sympathized
[ with Nazi Germany, while at the
The tour is interspersed with 60
to 70 rear platform appearances
and brief talks in 18 States.
Willkie isued his latest denun
ciation of the preparedness plans
at .as conference yesterday
. dv; eating that Roosevelt “dele
gate substantial authority” to the
National Defense Advisory Com
mission and designate one mem
ber as chairman.
same time be.ng m the s.rvlee
f His Majes'y and occupying a
position close to the threne.
Army Leaders
To Visit U.S.
Oti Invitation
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 —
Army Chief of Staff General Mar
shall, disclosed he has invited the
Chiefs of Staff and one officer
| each from every Republic in
! South and Central A erica to
j visit the Unied States in October.
The purpose of the visit will
be to make these Repul 'ics fam
iliar with the United States mili
tary establishment and will be
transported by plane about the
country to various army posts.