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VOL. 42. No. 69. NOME, ALASKA. Wednesday. JUNE 5, 1940 p™6 Per c°Pr ™
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President Asks Funds For 68 New Naval Vessels
Allies Rescue 335,000 Soldiers
In The Retreat Across Channel
30,000 British Killed or Wounded
...UNDATED, June 4 (/P) — A
fleet of a thousand Allied ships
rescued 335,000 French and Brit
ish soldiers in the great cross
channel retreat from the bloody
Flanders battle, Prime Minister
Churchill told the House of Com
mens. Even as he spoke, German
columns were reported by the
high command to be entering
Dunkerque. Churchill said that
30,000 of the expeditionary force
were killed, wounded or missing.
He added that when he first set
the time for the withdrawal a
week ago, “I feared it would be
my hard lot to announce the
greatest military disaster in our
long history.” He warned, “we
must expect another blow to be
struck almost immediately at us
t or at the French.” Chuchill add
ed, “Britain will carry this war
,to victory, if necessary .for
years, and if necessary alone.”
He acknowledged that all chan
nel ports were now in German
her. dr. -
The German high command
claimed that four hundred Allied
I planes were dosroyed in hang
ars on the ground in yesterday's
Paris raid in addition to 79 shot
down. The German communique
said “nine of our machines are
missing.”
Mussolini’s cabinet stamped
the seal of official approval on
Italy’s still undisclosed war plans
but gave no details as to when it
would act, as France signalled
“no. rt-ituijpion” on Germany's
civil populations. Authorized
French circles said the govern
ment would regard the raid a:
aimed at military objectives and
not on an open city. Time bombs
which the Germans dropped are
still exploding. At Le Havre,
bombing raids last night a d to
day set great fires.
Claim Mastery
French. Belgian
Channel Ports
BERLIN, June 4 :(/P) — The
high command claimed the cap
ture of Dunkerque and with it,
the complete mastery of the en
tire French and Belgian channel
coast as far south as the Somme
River. Forty thousand prisoners
and a “vast amount of booty”
was also taken.
French Holding
B Everywhere
PARIS. June 5 (IP)—Authorized'
wirces said tonight that the
French were holding everywhere
against the German offensive
with the exccp.i n of a few
points where “they may fall back
tu more favorable positions," the
operations of which “there is no
thing to worry about..’’ Nearly
two million men are engaged in
the vast battle.
German Amoved Vehicles on Both
Sides French-H id Town Amiens
LONDON, June 5 i/P) — Mili
tary sources said tonight that
“certain .armored vehicles” of the
German army are on both sides
of Amiens although not very
to the French-held town it
'Jf but said also that certain
German elements hrd reached
11:2 Somme cut net enough to be!
f: ~i'ed.
A CERMAN TALKS 'PEACE ’—Shown in New York
is Dr. Gerliardt A. VVestriek, commercial counselor for Germany
and economic trouble-shooter for Hitler, who recently came to
U. S. reportedly to improve German-American trade relations.
He says he expects peace in the near future. Left to right, Klaus,
Mrs. Westrick, the Doctor and Peter.
Congress Is Opposed To Transfer
Any Region This Hemisphere From
One Foreign Nation to Another
WASHINGTON, June 5 (/?) —
The resolution recording that
Congress was opposed to the
transfer of any region in this
hemisphere from one non-Ameri
can nation to another was approv
ed swiftly by the foreign affairs
committee of both the Senate and
the House. All but two of the
House committee members. Rep
resentatives Corbett and Chiper
field favored the resolution. The
Senate committee voted unanim
ous'.y. The Senate Committee re
jec *d by a vote of 19 to 2 the
pr neal by Senator Pepper, to
dir -et President Ruosevelt to aid
th Allies, short of actual partici
pat.m in the war.
Faria officially announced that
the primary schools would be
clCi.d Saturday because of the
children killed in Monday’s Ger
man bombing.
President Asks
Funds For 6!>
Naval Vessels
WASHINGTON, June 4 (/P) —
President Roosevelt asked Con
gress for funds to start 68 new
naval vessels, submitting a de
fense .request f1,‘177.741,170
for both the army and navy. He
said this week he would ask for
' “over a billion” which includes
funds to start three aircraft car
riers, 13 cruisers, 22 submarines,
and 30 destroyers.
Small Gain In
Population Of
Washington State
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SEATTLE, June 4 (JP) — In
complete unofficial returns of the
census indicate only a slight pop
ulation growth in Washington
state. The tentative figures are
for 77 cities, towns and villages,
excluding* Seattle and Tacoma.
1 Including Tacoma give a total of
,396,411 compared with 394,325 of
j ten years ago. Aberdeen, Hoqui
jam. Bellingham and Everrett lost
; population.
Pilot Bill Lavcry
Flies Seattle To
Fairbanks 14 Hrs.
Seventeen hours 43 minutes al
ter he roared into the air off Seat
tie’s Boeing Field in a new tri
motor Stinson with eight passen
gers aboard, Pilot Bill Lavery
swo. ped to a landing at the Fair
banks airport at 1:43, Tuesday.
Flying time for the Seattle
Fairbanks hop, with halts at Van
couver. Prince George, and
Whitehorse was 14 hours.
When he awoke from an 11
hour nap. the Fairibank,s pilot
announced he could have brot
30 passengers with him from
Seattle had there been space in
his new ship. The eight he brot,
however, were James S. Robbins
of the Arctic Circle Exploration
Company of Candle; Miss Mary
Preston, daughter of Mr. and
Mr . George Preston of Fair
banks Mrs. D. L. Chestnut, mo
ther cf Mrs. Bill Lavery; C. V.
Hopkins, new mechanic for La
very Airways; Howard Witner,1
brother cf Cullen and Paul Wit
ner, Fairbanks barbers; Wood
bury Abbey, Nome miner; Mike
Kaputka, affiliate of the Lomen
Brothers Company in Nome; and
Do: >thy Latimer, niece of Mrs.
Marsha Lavery of Fairbanks.
'“'Vo bbins, Abbey and Kaputka
rested briefly in Fairbanks, then
boarded a plane for Nome and
Candle with Pilot Jack Hermann
placing the trio from Seattle to
their destinations in the Seward
Peninsula within a total elapsed
time of 41 hours.
For the wife of the arriving
pilot it was a surprise reunion
with her mother, Mrs. Chestnut
of Seattle. Mrs. Lavery had no
word that her mother was aboard
her husband's plane.
The pilot brought the three
motored ship to Fairbanks with
the intention of establishing
scheduled runs between Fair
banks and Anchorage when the
Seattle-Juneau connection of the
PAA swings into action.
Germany Launches New Attack
As Russia Indicates Possibility
Of Cooperation With England
UNDATED. June 5 (/P)—Hitler
lauached a violent new offensive
ag ist France on tlie 125-mile
S ' me and Aisne front stretch
ing westward from Laon, 75 mil
es n rth of Paris to the channel.
The attack was touched off by
the Fuehrer himself from his
Western Front headquarters. The
massive attack began about 7
p.m. Pacific Time Tuesday with
a furious artillery barrage. The
Nazi air force thundered over
head. bombing and strafing and
massed infantry moved forward
in dawn hsze. In the order of the
day addressed to the armies, Hit
ler said "The plurocratic rulers
of England and France who are
pledged to each other to avoid all
means for the bloom of a better
new world and if they want the
continuation of the war, their de
sire will be realized.”
In a special message to the
German people, Hitler ordered
an eight-day celebration of the
F’ar dors victory with flags to be
deployed in homes and bells toll
. u for three days that “their
sound may unite with the pray-:
ors with which the German peo- ’
p!e w;d again accompany their
sons.
There were no immediate re
ports of the progress of the fight
ing but semiofficial French sourc
es said "the battle is continuing.”
The French have been hastening
the fortifications of the Somme
and Atones front in the Amiens
sectors where one phase of the j
battle appeared to be centering
on the middle reaches of the
Somme where the Germans have
held the bridgehead on the south
ern side of the river despite de
termined French eff zts to oust
them. I
Berlin declared Paris was
“practically exposed to” assault.
Tliere was a highy significant
development in London where
Soviet Russian circles indicated a
good possibility for the coopera
tion of the two countries in the
Black Sea and Eastern Mediter
ranean which would be to coun
ter Italy's pressure there.
Asks Ground
Garrison he Sent
To Anehorage
WASHINGTON, June 4 {&) —
General George Marshal, Army
chief-of-staff, told the House ap
propriations subcommittee in
testimony made public today, of
the “tragic shortage” now of the
Army’s manpower. He said a
ground garrison of one battalion
of infantry and a field artillery
detachment should be sent as
quickly as possible to Anchorage.
Forbid Amateurs
Talk Abroad
WASHINGTON. June 5 UP) —
The Federal Communication Com
mission prohibited amateur ra
dio communication by stations in
this country with foreign sta
tions. There are approximately
55.000 amateurs licensed in ’ the
United States. The ruling does
not apply to amateur's communi
cating with the territories.
Mayor Fioreilo La Guardia (right) of New York City demonstrat 'd how “we treat criminals in
New York” before Attorney General Robert Jadkson (left) an 1 J. Edgar Hoover, F. B. I Dir
ector. at National Police Academy exercises at Washington, D. C. “We kick ’em out' La
Guardia said, with gestures. Jack sin and Hoover appeared to enjoy it.
Cheechacco Dance Night After Arrival S S Columbia
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