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VOL. 42. No. 143. NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY, NOV. 22. 1940. Price Per °°Py
Italians Are Driven From Greece
Bulgaria Predicted will Embrace Rome-Beriin Axis
Believes Trade Proposals Acceptable To Russia
Italians Retreat So Hurriedly
Creeks Are Unable To Keep Up
Creeks Counter Invade Albania
Fall of Koritza is Acknowledged W Italian Command
Second Supply Base Argirocasto Is Threatened
UNDATED, Nov. 21 UP) — In
Greece, Greek troops were re
ported to have driven a wedge
through the center of the Italian
lire.s, forcing the invading Fas
cist to hasty fight six mites with
in the Albanian border. Spokes
men at Athens said the Italians
were retreating so hurriedly that
the Greeks found it impossible
to keep up. The break-through
occurred they said at Mertzani,
Albania, northwest of Konitza,
Greece.
No Italians
r *'•4
Are Left In
Greek Territory
UNDATED, Nov. 22 i/P) — Mus
so!ini’s threat to ••!•> ■.•-•k Greece's
back” took a boomerang setback
’ as his own command acknowledg
ed the fal' of Koritza, key Italian
supply base. Th, Greek govern
ment spokesman said by night
fall there might not be "a single
Italian left on Greek Territory.”
Dalian reinforcements are rush
ing to the front to attempt to
regain th,: captured city the Fas
cist command announced.
C "eek troops were described
I
as moving north toward Pograd
etz near the Albanian-Yugoslav
frontier. An Athens communique
said “our heroic troops have en
t red Koritza triumphantly and
the advance of our troops contin
ues everywhere. A general dis
play of Hags was ordered."
The retreat from Koritza ten
miles inside the Albanian bor
d r marks the first major turn
ing point of the Fascist invasion
of Greece which has now become
a Greek counter invasion of Al
bania. Italy’s second supply base
a' Argirooasto, southwest of the
hundred mile front was also re
. o .* threaVned by immediate
capture.
On the diplomatic front. Ru
mania’s pro-Nazi premier-dictat
or Antone:cu arrived in Berlin
for t:lks with Hi.Or. It was tak
en for granted that Rumania will
follow Hung ry as the newest
no ember of 'h, Axis-dominated
“European bloc against Britain.”
Axis air raids on Britain last
night were described as the light
est on the island this month.
Britons credited bad weather
with the softening cf the attack
on Mid ands which had started
furiously.
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L.5. To Open
Consulate At
\ ladivostock
MOSCOW. Nov. 22 (/P) — The
Soviet government authorized
the United Stales to open a con
sulale general at Vladivostock.
Diplomatic quart rs said Angus
Ward, vet.: an consul general
and first secretary of the United
S'ates embassy st Moscow was
named to head the new office
with a staff of two men. These
quarters added that the United
States recently had but one con
' sulate in Rus ia, a Mosc w.
V adivostcck overlooks the nar
row water: of the -eat of Japan’s
outlet to the Pacific, and is im
portant in Ru -sia’s over-seas com
merce especially sine, the war
has intereferred with the north
ern European and Mediterranean
sea routes. It is also an import
t lookout post on Russian-Jap
anese d velopments.
Fascist Battalion
Is Chased Into
It u «; o s 1 a v i a
c
BELGRADE. Nov. 22 W—One
Italian battalion endangered by
onrushing Greek was said by re
ports from the front to have
crossed the Albanian frontier in
to Yugoslavia near Stenje. It
was e-timat d unofficially that
800 soldiers were disarmed and
interned.
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Reported Russian military activity along the Rumanian frontier (1), as Germans moved into Ru
mania had the Balkan nations jittery. Turkey (2), appeared defiant of Germany und hopeful of Rus
* sian support in event of war. Turks foresaw three possibilities of German advance (indicated by ar
rows): toward Egypt (3), or toward the Dardan les, cr the Black Sea. In the Mediterranean Italy
|^.Iaimed a naval victory at Malta (A), including t le sinking of a British cruiser, and reported British
raids had killed at least 34 persons in the Dodecanese Islands (B).
King George Opens New Session
Parliament \\ kh Assurance Empire
V i!l Fight Till Freedom Is Secure
Lord Halifax Believes Trade Agreement Proposals
Are Acceptable To Russia
UNDATED, Nov. 21 ..Pi — King
George opened a new session of
Parliament with the solemn as
surance that the empire will
light "until freedom is made se
mi.' Expressing satisfaction on
the ever increasing volume of
nuuutions arriving from th Unit
ed States his optimism was echo
, a Churchill who told the
U;;us_ of Commons that Britain
v. ted to give a "helpful measure
of assistance to the Greeks,” and
no matter what damage done by
Nazi b 'mb-. Britain will rebuild
■ her cities and villages after the
UNDATED. Nov. 21 (TP) _ The
Italian command announced the
capture of Britain’s new vice
commander of the air forces in
tire middle east, Air Marshal
Owen Tudor Boyd, and six other
men. four of them officers. They
had made a forced landing in
Sicily enroute to the near east.
The British air ministry later ack
nowledged that Boyd was an It
alian prisoner.
German Speed
boats Sink
British Ships
BERLIN, Nov. 21 UP) — The
high command asserted that Ger
I man speedboats since the start of
the war have sunk six British
destroyers, two submarines, and
i oth: r war vessels totaling in all
11,300 also 212,000 tons of mcr
'chant shipping.
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Says Soldiers
Should Dress
Like Eskimos
Pointing to the Eskimos of the
far north as srtyle plates for what
the well dressed Alaskan soldier
i should wear, Vilhjalmur Stef
ansson, explorer lecurer and
scii ntist advised the army offic
ers at .Anchorage to pattern out
door gear for troops closely after
1 the garb used by Point Barrow
aborigines.
Mr. Stefansson arrived in An- 1
chorage from Fairbanks where I
he conferred with PAA officials,
' He is a technical advisor for thr :
i PAA. As a guest of Col. O. F.
j Ohlson he was seeing he Matan- j
lighting is over.
In the House of Lord-. F reign
Secretary Halifax decli.roJ Brit
ain had made proposal.- f r a
tr. de agreement with R a-, a and
that he has “some n.< • m ' to
belu ve th: proposals are accept
able.
Parliam. r.t opened a.- Ruman
ia's premier Antonescu and For
eign Minister Prince Sturza ar
ia, ed in G rmany strengthening
the b I;< f that Rumania is al
ready dominated by Nazis and is
about to j in the Axis alliance.
in'a valley.
Ai .ot;.m.. Mr. Stefansson has
pr..\v :■ i mound in the far north
Ai 1. ami Greenland since
! i he . s never bef .-re visited
Air ka sen h , i the Arctic Circle
and he admitted that he was en
joying what he termed the priv
ilege.
The grayed. nttldy-fac-d North
Dakotan said he was glad to be
abie to advise officers 'f the Al
aska Defense F re - in winter
clotliing for the tr ps He spent
many hours with General Buck
ner at Elm. ndorf F.eld when his
advice was eagerly sought.
“I’m no expert on this part
of Alaska." Mr. Stefansson said
"but as far a.- clothing troops for
maneuvers in Arctic Alaska
there is nothing better than that
worn by the Eskimos
“The Army should adopt their
reindeer or caribou clothing al
most without modification. The
less gadgets you have in cold
weather the better. Zippers are
absolute’y out. They are sure to
freeze so th y won’t work. An
other bad feature for Arctic clo
thing is bulky hoods. They leave
a space at the back of the head
where frost can form."
Mr. Stefansson discredited re
ports that th Soviets were fort
ifying Dicmede Island. a mile
and a half from U. S. territory on
tlie grounds the sheer rocky pro
tuberances were be useless as a
submarine or air base.
Mr. Stefansson was appointed
technical adviser or Pan Anjeri
can Airways seven years ago and
helped plan northern European
flying routes or the firm because
of his intimate knowledge of
Greenland.
It is in that capacity that he
came to Alaska on his pres-nt
trip.
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Phillip Murray
Is Named To
Succeed Lewis
ATLANTIC CITY. Nov. 22 ,-P)
— The CIO chose Phillip Mur
ray as president by acclamation
bestowing upon him the title of
leadership worn th past five
y ars by Lewis who is stepping
down as he promised to if Roose
v It were reelected. Lewis plac
ed the Pittsburgh lab r leader’s
name before the convention as
his choir of sucre -sor. Lewis
-aid Murray u a an “industrial
state.-mat! with an established
brilliant record f throe decades.
He ha- contributed his great n
c.-gy to labor without self consid
eration."
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UNDATED. Nov. 21 uPi_ D.J
psttcnes rer-f > d :n Bucharest
from Sofia. Bulgaria, predicted
that Bulgaria will change her at
Ltude from “defensive neutral
ity” as a result ol the current
axis political activi'y and make
definite claims on Grtece. Bal
kan reports have ng indicated
that Bulgaria mig it demand a
corridor through Greece to the
Aegean Sea, a r -ad incidentally
which German troops could use
in an advance in the mar east
and an attack on Greece. Bulgar
ia is not formally aligned with
the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis but
German sources in Rumania sug
gested that she may follow Hun
gary’s example and find her
place in Europe’s new order.
ESSAY I ST—"We hear foot
steps and know it is the milk
man, not the gestapo,” wrote
Sam Cooper (above), 17, of
Omaha, in Americanism essay
that won $1,000 first prize in
national rontest conducted by
Ladies Auxiliary of V.FAV.