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VOL. 42. No. 62. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY. MAY 20, 1940. Price per copy 154
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British Army in Retreat as Antwerp Falls To Nazis
Alaska R e Coloni lion Opposed in Committee
Germans Claim Capture Of
Antwerp, Gate To Channel,
Allies in Point Blank Retreat
UNDATED, May 13 (/P) —Ant
werp, the anchor ox the Allies
northern front was claimed by
the Germans as Hitler’s van
guards are reported to have car
ried the battlefield to within 60
miles of Paris. The Nazi forces
unfurled the Swastika flag over
Belgium's chief port of commerce
the DNB news agency reported,
after a lightning stab through its
fortifications, rated among the
strongest in Europe. In German
hands, Antwerp is a doubfed-edg
ed threat to the Allies and is a
menace to the whole line defend
ing Paris. Antwerp is the gate
to the channel ports from which
the Nazis could loose an aerial
blitzkreig on England.
German tanks,, armored cap and
warplanes blasted deeper inroads
into northern France but the
Allies indicated they were begin
ning to check the Nazi thrusts.
Hitler’s advance guards swept
to within 60 miles of Paris and
the main army is only 40 miles
behind authorized German sourc
es said.
The situation on the Western
Front is “very serious and it cer
tainly is not worse or possibly a
little bit better” than yesterday,
the British spokesman asserted.
Pounding into the stiffening
French ranks, the Nazis are gain
ing only at the expense of tre
mendous casualties the French
declared. At least half of Ger
many’s entire mechanized army
is said to be leading the offensive
in what the French air ministry
spokesman called “the most gi
gantic ba.tle of all time.’ Be
tween, 2,500 and 3,000 German
tanks are believed to be assemb
led in a French pocket. At some
places the French artillery is
shelling them.
A point blank retreat in B '
gium was admitted by the Allie
but they explained the wilhdi^w
a; is to conform to the situation
in France.
The capture of 2.3) Dutch a
French sellers in Holland was re
ported by the Nazi high com
mand.
Try Drive .
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Wedge Between
Allied Armies
PARIS, May 20 (/P) — Five
mechanized German divisions of
00,000 men inside their armor,
battered west across the northern
French plains in a drive toward
the channel, easing the threat of
a smash at Paris. Their apparent
objective is to drive a wedge be
tween the French forces defend
ing Paris and the Allied armies
of the British, Belgians and
French in Belgium.
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Drive Aimed
To Destroy
British Army
BERLIN, May 20 </P) — The
German drive across France veer
?d towards the English charnel
apparently with the aim of des
troying tire Bri.ish army. A com
...unique said forces struck west
ward and gained 20 to 20 miles
on the line northward from St.
Quentin between Peronne and
Cnnkrai. It was estimated that
a successful drive would isolate
300,000 British sol tiers and Al
lies in the northern flankr.
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British in Retreat Under Forced
Marches, Germans Claim Capture
St, Quenti i, 80 ’ .lies N. E. Paris
UNDATED,' May 20 P) — C . r
ir.an mechanized e plung
ing ahead in a massive euble
headed fl..n! ing thrust t vnrd
Paris and North Sea ports cl im
ed the ci” are of St. Quentin, 80
miles north eat of the French
capital and reached the historic
Somme battlefield of 1916. The
French said seesaw fighting there
left the fa e of the city in doubt.
The Nazi high command said
the British, being driven back
under forced marches toward the
•channel, incurred the “heaviest
ios^e , especially their armored
troops” by the dreaded German
dive bombers. Wave on wave of
plane squadrons are reported to
have destroyed the armored Ai
ded column racing north from
Laon and reinforcements were
forced to turn back. The British
sp . mar, admitted the situa
ion was pretty grim.
I Killer’s on rushing war machine
re, riedly had 801,000 reinforce
rat withdrawn from Holland
: row into the fray. Hitler is
rt; a ted to have chosen the site
for the German-dictated peace
terms at historic Munster where
in 1643. the signing of the treaty
ending the Thirty Year War
br ike up Germany into power
less small states.
The high command said the
Allies lost more than 100,000 pri
soners over the weekend.
The British announced that the
destroyer Witley was damaged
bj German bombing planes and
beached.
Britain deprived all aliens of
the right to possess firearms.
New General
Is Planning
Counter Offensive
BASEL, May 20 ^—Reports'
here are that General Weygand,
newly named General is appar
ently shaping a powerful pincers
counter offensive at Valenciennes
and Rethel to out off the German
advance.
King of Norway
Appeals People
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STOCKHOLM, May 18 -
King Haakon of Norway broad
c;st an appeal to hi: subjects to]
maintain their hope and courage.
T - o.-.pi truer die belief l’.tr-t
'With war alii.3 we car. regain j
f. erdom far the whole Norvvcg
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With Rumania on the alert for a possible spreading of the Europ ean war. King Carol, in white
cape, Crown Prince Michael (center) and Premier George Tatarespu (second from left) are shown
reviewing a group of newly commissioned Rumanian army officer . near Bucharest.
Requests Stop
Trading Future
Crain Markets
WASHINGTON, May 18 (&) —
Secretary of Commerce Wallace
asked the nation’s future grain
markets to prohibit until further
notice all trading in grain futur
es below the closing prices of to
day. The request was made after
wheat prices declined more than
twenty five cents a bushel this
week. Wallace explained that the
federal government probably is
without authority to require to
cessation of trading in future con
tracts but said he felt that the
markets would cooperate.
Constitutionality
Bituminous Coal
Act Is Upheld
WASHINGTON, May 20 Mb —
The Supreme Court held consti
tutional the 1930 bituminous coal
act designed to stabilize the in
dustry by fixing the minimum
prices and regulating marketing.
Director General
Canal Company
Passes Away
PARIS, May 18 (/P) —Philippe
Bunaiu Varilla, the engineer who
at the age of 26 was directer
general of the French company
who agreed to dig the canal ac
cross Panama, died here today.
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Senator Bone Opposes interior
5ept. Alaska Colonization Bill
I?i Territories Com. Hearings
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WASHINGTON, May 18 JP> —
; Senator Bone said be believed
build a ring of steel around the
Wesi rn Hemisphere to keep cut
the Eur ; can struggle. He made
the remark after two days ques
tioning of 40 witnesses before the
Senate territories committee on
the Interior Department bill in
tended to provide for settlement
and development of Alaska by
bringing into the Territory war
refugees as employees of public
service corporations to be set up
under the bill.
The Senator said he couldn’t
understand why war refugees,
with whom we sympathize deep
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y. should be brought in to devel
p the territory when there are
a million American unem.ploy
d. He said it would be a dread
ful thing to permit them into the
I territory and later have to de
port them. 'lie Senator said the
Senate has approached the prob
lem of letting refugees into Al
aska with the thought of the un
employed in this country in
mind. Bone continued: "I have
no quarrel with the idea of help
ing the other fellow but we al
ways have this problem on our
doorstep—if we can’t relieve our
own how can we relieve the oth
er fellow.
Asks Carry All
Classes of Mail
Alaska bv Plane
j
WASHINGTON, May 20 (/P) —
The Post office asked Congress to
authorize it to carry all classes
of mail to Alaska by airplane to
overcome transportation difficult
ies. Acting postmaster general
Ramsay Black made the request
in a letter to Speaker Bankhead.
Com. Approves
Armv Bill
WASHINGTON. May 20 {IP) —
The $1,820,941,000 army bill, un
precedented in peace time, won
the quick approval of the Senate
appropriations committee.
National Guard
For Alaska
Is Planned
WASHINGTON. May 20 m —
General Marshal, army chief of
staff told Senators when request
ing a twelve million dollar appro
priation this week for defenses
in that area, that enlistment of
national guard in Alaska was
planned. In testimony made pub
lie today he said the government
would probably provide armories
and other equipment. Gijard
units will probably be establish
ed in Seward, Anchorage, Fair
banks, Ketchikan and Nome with
an R O T C unit at the Univer
sity of Alaska.
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