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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 38. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, March 28, 1941. Per Copy 1*
Yugoslavia Withdraws From Pact
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Legislature Appropriates $50,000 For Guardi Units
Eliminate Fund for Changing Terminus Alaska R. R.
Eliminates Fund For Changing
Terminus Alaska R. R. Instead
Fund Appropriated For Repairs
WASHINGTON, March 28 </P)
— Th,? Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee eliminated the 5th
supplemental national defense ap
propriation bill of $5,300,00 to
pay for changing of the terminus
of the Alaska Railroad from Se
ward to Passage Bay and substi
tuted a million and a half re
pair bill for the railroad.
Army and Alaska Railroad of
ficials urged the change in the
terminus for national defense nec
essity saying the present road
offered an easy opportunity for
sabotage. Delegate Dimond and
Seward citizens testified that the
road could be repaired and made
easier to defend for a million
and a half.
Britain and U. S.
Formally Sign
Exchange Treaty
LONDON, March 27 </P) — The
treaty formally leasing naval has
es to the Unit-d States in the
western hemisphere in exchange
for 50 destroyers was signed at
Prime Minister Churchill's resi
dence.
Work has already been start
ed by th? United States on im
provements to the bases acquir
ed on September 3rd. The des
troyers have been in service with
the British Navy for months.
Lord Cranbourne, Secretary of
Dominions, and Lord Moyne, Col
onial Secretary signed the docu
ment for Britain and Brig. Gen
eral Harry Malony, U. S. Army
Commander, Harold Beismeier of
the U. S. Navy and Charles Fahy,
Assistant Solicitor General sign
ed for the United States as mem
b rs of the Base Lease Commis
sion. ___
Pres. Approves
Lease-Lend Fund
ABOARD, U. S. S. BENSON,
At Sea, March 27 (/P) — Presi
dent Roosevelt is aboard the!
yacht Potomac on a fishing and
vacation cruise. He signed the
seven billion dollar British aid
bill at 10:50 am. EST. His action
makes the huge fund immediate
ly available to establish the Unit
ed States as an “arsenal” for the
nation fighting aggression.
Accentuating the record-break
ing speed which Congress voted
the money, the bill was sent by
plane to the President’s yacht
which was cruising in Florida
waters, a few hours after the leg
islative action was completed
Tuesday. Bad weather, however,'
delayed delivery until today.
MENZIES PLANS
VISIT TO ROOSEVELT
LONDON, March 25—Austral
ian Prime Minister Menzies said
that he hopes to return home by
way of Canada and the United
States, and to confer with Prime
Minister Mackenzie King and
President Roosevelt.
Menzies came to England sev
eral weeks ago for discussions
with Prime Minister Churchill
and other high officials.
Menzies said he also expected
to visit Eire and talk with Prime
Minister De Vaelra.
Japanese
See U. S. In
War Soon
TOKYO, March 24 — The in
fluential Japanese newspaper Yo
miuri editorially predicted that
the United States would enter
the war by June at the latest,
and possibly as early as April.
Convoys To Be Cause
The Tokyo daily said the escort
ing of United States convoys
with food and war supplies for
Britain would b: the fuse which
will set off American participa
tion in the war.
Pointing out that the British
Isles produced only 40 percent of
their total food requirements, im
porting the balance from abroad,
the Japanese journal asserted
the British food hoard would be
exhausted by autumn as a result
of the German counter blockade.
One Step Forward
Yomiuri, in an editorial, de
clared it is evident that the lease
lend bill cannot be made effect
ive unless the United States tak
es one step forward beyond the
cash and carry system by escort
ing with United States warships,
convoys bound for Britain in Am
erican merchant ships.
F L I E R— A University of Cali
fornia ’40 grad, with geology
major, Richard D. Stowell is
senior cadet officer at Randolph
Field, Texas, chief U.S. basic
flight training school.
GOVERNMENT KING PETER II
OF YUGOSLAVIA RECEIVES
PLEDGE OF AID FROM U.S.
! UNDATED, March 28 </P> —
With a pledge of full United Stat
es aid to King Peter II's new
military regime reported. Yugo
slavia-informed Germany that
her adherence to the Rome-Bcr
lin-Tokyo -alliance was ’’impos
sible" and rushed 1,200,000 troops
to battle stations in Yugoslavia.
This militant defiance of the Axis
| fanned tumultous enthusiasm ev
n m German-conquered France.
In Marseilles some 10,00-0 inhabi
j tants streamed before the Place
| de la Bourse shouting "Long live
Yugoslavia” and the spontaneous
| demonstration grew in volume
hourly.
High Balkan diplomatic quar
ters said that the cabinet decided
in an all night session to return
Yugoslavia to “full and absolute
neutrality” because cooperation
'with the Axis powers was “con
trary with the Yugoslav people.”
As forecast ,by Churchill in
| London yesterday, this was re
ported to be Yugoslavia's blunt
answer to the virtual ultimatum
by Germany demanding an ex
planation of the- coup defat and
overthrow of the Regent Prince
Paul’s pro - Axis government.
Swiftly following this develop
ment the U. S. government deliv
ered a note to King Peter’s new
government promising full aid.
Germany sent an official pro
test to Yugoslavia apparently
based however, on alleged beat
ing of German citizens in Bel
grade where wildly enthusiastic
crowds shouted in the streets and
cried “Down with Germany and
Italy.”
The Yugoslav army was des
cribed as ready to fight if at
tacked. A German Panzer divi
sion is now massing along the
Yugoslav-Bulgarian front. Ger
man anger was reflected by the
Nazi radio which informed the
German public of th? anti-Nazi
demonstrations in Yugoslavia.
First Act Of
Peter’s Govt.
! * eject Axis Pact
o
UNDATED, March 27 (/P) —!
Yugoslavia’s King Peter II, aged
17, overthrew his pro-Axis re
gency and took the reins of gov
ctnnv nt after a wild night of riot
:rg against the kingdom’s adher
1 once to the Axis alliance. Official!
ly unconfirmed London reports
| said the first act of King Peter’s
new government was to reject
the Axis pact. This was support
led by the fact that the now gov
i ernment whioh took over from
| the regency’s “capitulation" cab
j inet, included the two ministers
j Who resigned in protest against
yielding to Germany.
General Dusan Simovic, Army
Chief of Staff, quickly form d a
new government with himself as
premier.
Reports reaching Budapest said
Regent Prince Paul fled the coun
try and Premier Cvetcovic and
foreign minister Cincar Markovic
who signed the ^.xis pact in
Vienna only 40 hours ago were
said to be under arrest as were
the other cabinet members.
Belgrade reports said many per j
sons were killed and wound d '
in the night-long fighting which
preceded the coup.
The new government reported
that the action of throwing off
the Axis yoke would possible pro
vide an excuse for G rman
troops to march into the turbul
ent kingdom. This report coincid
ed with a Belgrade radio broad
cast ordering all reserve officers
to report to their garrisons im
mediately. Yugoslavia was said
to have mobilized a million men
in recent weeks.
British In Hot
Pursuit Of It
alians in Africa
CAIRO, March 28 </P) — Brit
ish troops arc in hot pursuit of
Italian forces retreating head
long toward Asmara, the capital
of Eritrea, after the occupation
of the key mountain town of
Cheren by British Imperial Forc
es. The Middle East Command an
nounced the large number of
35,000 Fascist defenders of the
African “Verdun” were reported
captured by British troops in bat
tered Wah Cheren late Wesdnes
day night after 7 weeks siege.
In Ethiopia, where the British
forces knocked another founda
tion stone from Italy’s crumbling
East African empire, was the cap
ture of the walled city of Hara.
The British Command announc
ed “in all sectors the situation
continues to develop to our ad
vantage."
Ships Load
Lead To
Make Bullets
SAN FRANCISCO, March —
Loading of 500 tons of lead
aboard the Japanese liner Tatuta I
Maru was rushed yesterday to
beat the Sunday night deadline
when government export licenses
will be required for the metal.
The freighter Kuniikawa Maru
completed loading a cargo of
60,000 lead bars while the freigh
ter Durban Maru is en route to
Japan with a large consignment
of the metal.
The lead probably will be the
last to be shipped to Japan.
It is estimated that 500 tons of
lead would make 50 million bul
lets.
You can .ave -2.00 by paying six
months ii advance for your sub
xxiption The Nome Nugget.
SHE DECREES VVEARIN’ OF GREEN
The First Lady pins a green carnation on the lapel of the Presi
dent’s float at 1he White House. Besides being St. Patrick’s Day. it
was the celebration of their 36th anniversary. Note their wedding
anniversary and or St. Patrick’s gifts—an Irish potato decorated
with clover and a planted pot of clover.
Legis. Adjourns
Provides $50,000
Alaska Guards
JUNEAU, March 28 OP) —The
legislature adjourned shortly af
ter 6 this morning and killed all
Armory Bills but did pass an ap
propriation for $56,860 for the
maintenance of Alaska National
Guard units at Juneau, Ketchi
kan, Anchorage, Fairbanks and
Nome, each getting $10,000. The
remainder is for expenses of the
headquarters at Juneau and for
medical corps traveling expens- j
es for the next biennium.
In Britain Killed
By Air Raids
LONDON, March 28 (JP) —
About fifty civilians were killed
for each military fatality by Ger \
man air raids on Britain since j
the war’s start it was disclosed in
an official statement which plac
ed the civilian dead at 28,859 and
the seriously wounded at 40,166.
The exact military total was not
given.
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They 11 get a big
<ick out of it
Boeing Busy
On Airplanes
For Britain
SEATTLE, March — At the
Boeing Air Company’s plant in
Seattle, production of war plan
es for Great Britain is going full
speed ahead.
The plant, of course, is also
turning out aerial craft for the
United States government.
Many members of the British
Royal Air Force, both fliers and
ground crew' men, are at the
plant familiarizing themselves
with the operation and the mech
anical construction of the air
craft.
A production schedule to sup
ply England with 20,000 Ameri
can-made fighting planes in the
next year and a half, was an
nounced in Washington, D. C.
Ten thousand seven hundred of
them will come under the terms
of the seven billion dollar Lease -
Lend bill. The schedule is re
ported to have been worked out
by high administration officials
who also reported surveys were
under way to find a route for fly
ing them to England via Green
land and Iceland.
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds Placer and Lode
Location Notice'. Vouchers,