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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 26. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1941 Per copy 15*
Situation Hn Iraq Critical
Nenana Ice Moves Out May Third At 1:50 A.M.
26 U. S. Ships Loaded Munitions Reported At Suez
BRITAIN’S STRUGGLE NEARS
CRITICAL STAGE IN IRAQ,
GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES
UNDATED. May 3 i/P) — War
flamed fiercely in the graveyard
of empires, as the battle between
the British and Iraq fore -s went
into its second day, in the area
crowded with memories o,f vanish
ed Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian,
Greek, Roman, Saracen and Turk
power.
London said only that “fighting
continues,” and that som-: Iraq
► artillery was silenced. An Iraq
communiqu said that 26 British
planes were destroyed at Habban
iyah airfield, the British bar 60
miles west of Baghdad and ti t
British motorized detachments
failed in an attempt to occupy
another airfield.
Wheth r German aid was re
portedly asked by Iraq’s premier
Gailani, and beginning to arrive,
was not evident, but the German
radio said the Iraq government
directed an appeal to the Arabs
in Pal:stine, asking them to take
up arms; that British planes at
tempted to bomb th-e Baghdad
rc idence of the premier; that
strong native troop contingents at
Saudi, Arabia, are massing south
of the Trans-Jordan border.
Iraq Government
Cuts Oil Pipeline
To Mediterranean
UNDATED, May 5 1T1 — In
the rear east, Britain’s struggle
app inched a critical stag; as
th“ pro-German government of
Ir q cut the pipeline flow of oil
to the Mediterranean. Unconfirm
ed reports said Iraq troops had
encircled the British air ba -e and
garrison at Lak. Habbaniquah,
60 miles west of Baghdad and
were closing in.
The Swiss radio quoted a Bag
hdad communique as saying the
airport is under constant artil
lery fire and the b Mings are in
flames.
* LUFTWAFFE ATTACKS LIVER
POOL AND RAF COUNTERS
WITH WIDESPREAD BOMBINGS
UNDATED. May 5 (/P) — Hit
ler’s Luftwaffe, striking within a
few hours after Hitler told the
Reichstag that no coalition of
t powers could defeat Gem a’rv,
heavily bombed Belfast and at
tacked Liverpool for the fourth
night in a row. A German com
munique termed Belfast as an
“important transit harbor” im-:
plying it was being used as a
port of entry for U. S. war sup
plies. The Nazi command said 4
ships were set afire and tiemen
dous fires and explosions observ
ed in aircraft and industrial
plants.
British officials said it was fear
d casualties in Belfast w re heav
ier than from a previous Nazi
raid there on April 15 which
. au ed 500 deaths.
RAF bombers countered with
wide pr ad overnight raids blast
ing decks and shipping at Rotter
.'am, Antwerp, Le Havre, Brest,
Cherbourg, St. Nazaire and the
Nazi-held airdrome at Querque
ville.
At Brest, the London air minis
try report d that RAF bombs
scored fresh hits cn the German
battleships Gnesiseau and Scharn
herst in the 15th assault in five
weeks.
EIGHT-MAN CRE
MINES AT KA
WINNERS NF
FAIRBANKS, May 3 (/P)— The
Gods of fortune threw another
Northland surprisa when at ex
actly cne hour and fifty minut -
his morning. May third, they
forced cut the ice at N nana,
the lap of Fr i
Mil of Ka itishna, Alaska, tin
pntiie c nt nt of the f imous N '
nana break-up prize totaling ap
nroximat -ly 595,000. Mdl :r held
;he winning minute alone. The
nearest to him was five minutes
away.
Long distance telephone advic
es from Ner.ana, 6J miles from
i Fairban . . confirmed that Fred
I Miller, Ion . c gle winner of the
: Nenar.a ice classic, who cop^ the,
-.'rami prize of $95,000, was all by
this 1 lEsoma, holding the van
ning minute at 1:50 this nricrn
! ing, May third.
His exact identity was not ful
i ly established but the best local
•.Mtthoritiss say he is a mining
. achinery m chanic for the Car
! .bou Mine Inc., a large placer
| mining concern operating in the
j Ksntishna district, near Mount
! McKinley National Park.
A plane is leaving here this
afternoon and may bring Miller
’here. It was understood h ■ is
about 40 years of age.
The Nenana ice ran for ninety
T’inutes alter breaking, then
ammed in front of town and is
j still holding fast at last advices.
The Chena River ic: in front of
Fairbanks went out at 10:46 the
| evening cf April 28.
—
Crew of Caribou
Mines Winners
FAIRBANKS, May 3 (/P) — A
i 'message from J. E. Nasenius, man
ger cf the Caribou Mines in tbs
j Kantishna district, late this after
j noon, confirmed the report that
Fred Miller, named as winner of
, the Nenana ice contest is there,
and ass rted that seven others
HEADING FOR THE NAV Y—After commissioning in Bremerton’s Puget Sound yards, the
Fuller (above) will be a navy transport. It formerly was 8.378-ton steamer City of Newport News.
W CARIBOU
NTISHNA, ARE
;nana ice pool
of the camp arc partners with
him in the winning date.
The message read: ‘‘Tire Cari
bou Mines mining crew won the
Ncnana ice classiflc. There nr
eight in the group, mm dy: Fred
Miller, N. Bischoff, Herman Med
ic d. Howard M :cD; mild, Fran
.! Anderson, Elmer Larson, Ar
thur Erickson, and J. E. Nasen
ius."
A plane left her late this af
!• , • on piloted by Frank Pollack
t bring Hartman N.tsenius t;
Fairbanks and is expected back
this evening.
$ inners Are
All Alaskans
_
j FAIRBANKS, May 3 UP)— The
Ala?kan spirit asserted itself
when the right men who won the
Nenana Ice classic promptly ag
reed among themselves, on hear
ing the news, to pitch in $150
each for a ninth, A1 And
the other man in their camp, who
was absent whan they formed the
group which picked the winning
date. Anderson is a brother to
Francis, one cf the lucky eight.
All are sourdoughs and have
worked for Joe Nasenius, mining
operator, in various Alaska min
ing camps for over ten years.
Th-ir ages range from the thir
ties to the forties.
Nasenius has a wife and two
sons in Seattle; Fred Miller has
a wife and a two-year-old dau
ghter in Crawfordsville, Oregon;
Matt BischofT is single, a long
time Alaskan; Herman Medford
is marri d and has a son in Seat
tle; Howard MacDonald is single
from Seattle; Francis Anderson,
formerly of Lakeside was born in
Alaska. None plan to leave the
Carbou Mines
Miller, Nasenius, Bishop and
Francis Anderson rode a tractor
14 miles to the landing field to
day to meet the plane from Fair
banks with the KFAR broadcast
ing crew and equipment, where
they broadcast their story that
Miller and they had a total of
40 tickets. Nasenius flew h re
with the returning plane piloted
by Frank Pollock and establish
ed the identity of.the winners.
Reports Conflict
Over Action
At Tobruk
UNDATED, May 3 .(/P) — Ber
lin said her African corps report
ed “a great number of casemates
and several hundred prisoners”
were taken in deep pen tration
of the Tobruk garrison.
In Cairo, the British said the
Axis assaults on Tobruk failed
at a heavy cost and now temper
ed off. The British forces at Sal
um, in a surprise foray, took pri
soners.
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CROATS SEE GERMAN TANK
Soldier r < r ' ich was recognized by If Hitler as an in
dependent Safe <*e/4"d ci'rleirly into a Go-nan tank n Zagreb.
This picture radioed from Heflin to New York.
VICHY *T«v 3 i ^) — U ual’.y
p.liabl" d r’ "irclris reprr
ed the4 21 A^i-i-an merchant
ship; lead ’ * ‘ funnels with
arms and muni s for the aid
of the Brr :?h i 4he middle east
arrived at th S.ez Canal. The
same s ure - the ship.^ w re
conveyed by American warship-.
The news r m like wild-fire thru
neutral diflr ".tie circles as well
as official ,F n> -h quarters. The
accounts s:id th 1 ships carried
light tanks a d , nti-tar.k and
anti-aircraft guns.
-- - . —-—I.. .1 -- —
WASHINCTC'r. May 3 (/F) —
Word from Vichy about the r -
port of An eric - warships, brot
the crisp c n r • nt from the
Navy Department that no United
States navy ships are employed
for convoy duty.”
Enroute l^omc
Seattle, May 3 a thou
sand-ton gold dredge, d stined
for operations at Nome, believed
one of the largest pieces of mine
machinery ever taken norih, ar
rived on th i Steamship West
kyska from Baltimore, to be re
shipped north.
Assert \ itlulrawal
From Greece Made
With Loss 6 Ships
T'NDATED, May 3 OPt — The
' vh command in Berlin said the
r fore . submarines, and sur
*?0’ craft sunk 1, 211,000 tons of
B • ' h merchant shipping space
'n April a-d 4,0,000 tons in
Or k waters.
T • L: r.dan Admiralty announ
£d that the British troop with
rawal from Greece was accom
plished with the loss of only the
destroyers Diamond and Wry
k and four transports, only
of which had troops aboard.
.3 seven hundred men aboard
wore rescued but it was fear
d i,, re were heavy losses on the
; . troyers.
araiysis Victim
ran Lung Fails
JUNEAU, May 3 i/P) — The
3 title Orth pedic Hospital iron
lung flown h re and arriving Fri
1 v noon, gave seme relief, but
' ! to s v the life of John
'<• rt. aged 23, mine mechanic,
cken with infantile paralysis.
■ h.ad been in an iron lung,
f’om a garbage can, two
'■■ears ago by Dr. Robert Coffee
nj Chet MaoLean, a mechanic.
Help from Seattle was asked
by radio. He has a son, aged two,
here, and the widow is believed
:o be in some hospital in Califor
nia.