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VOL. 42. No. 56. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1940 ***** Per C0P7
Germans Claim Brit. Battleship Sunk
Allies Attempt Regain Loss Prestige At Narvik
Gallahadion Wins 66th Running Kentucky Derby
Germany Claims Her Planes
Sunk A 39,009 Ton British
Batlleshin By Dive Combing
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UNDATED, May 4 4JP) — A!
30,COO ton bet Me ship w a ■: re- >rt
ed by Ger? -y sun ; off ,h Nor
wegian era-l by* clivirg Nazi
bombing planes. Tire German;
claim was unconfirmed. Immed
itely other s: cress capped :he 25 i
day blitzkreig which brought a1
most tv. -thirds o. Norway under
German sway and ousted the Al
lied exp edit ncry farces i all
but the northernmost region. Or
ganized Norwegian resistance col
lapsed in the wake of the alleged
withdrawal which cost Bri.ein
not only the s.rategical'.y import
ant southern Norway but s rous
ed a storm of bitter deones'ic crit
icism against the Chamberlain
govemmen..
Berlin jubilantly declared the
British bar.Isa.rip, a war vessel
of the Queen Elizabeth class was
sent to the bottom off Narnsos,
Friday, the day af:er Britain’^
last troop from central Norway
re-en.barked from port. Nothing
but debris could be seen a few
minutes after the German barb
ers scored a direct hit near the
ba.tlship’s forward turret. Nazis
said them was speculation as to
whether the commander cf the
British Expeditionary Forces was
- ; 1. There was no comment
from British sources on the Ger
man claim.
One authoritative s urees in
London said Britain will contin
ue fighting for Norway "with the
greatest vigor.”
N i way’s central military com
mat d asked the i vadin-g Ger
man. for an armistice and ac
cus J the Allies of "inccmprehen
Able ac ion in not giving them
due notice” of their retreat. As
ihc Norwegians laid down their
arms the swift moving German
forces poured into the new terri
tory, occupying ruined Namsos,
Grong and other central points.
Schwellenbach Is
Named judge
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WASHINGTON, May 6 iff) —
Pi-iid'ni ?. os'vc’t nominated
Ser.a r Schwellenbach for the
United States district judge for
. tern W.'u.i ir.gtcn.
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H.M.S. Warspite (above) led the British fleet which penetrated
Narvik fjord, Norwegian ore port and sank seven German destroy
ers, according to the British admiralty. The Warspite, a 30,600
ton h"Ml""hin r"x"".nts eight 15-inch guns, eight six-inch guns and
eight 4-incli anti-aircraft guns. She also carries four airplanes,
launched by catapult. The Warspite is the vessel which the Ger
mans claimed to have been sunk by bombers near Namsos.
British Tighten Seige On Nazi
Troops In Narvik—-Men And
Munitions Massed In Balkans
UNDATED. May 6 (JP)—British
naval and land forces are report
ed tightening the seige on the be
leaguered three or four thousand
German troops at Narvik in a
desperate effort to counter the
loss of prestige suffered by the
withdrawal from southern and
central Norway.
The admiralty announced that
the 1800-ton destroyer Afridi was
sent to the bottom by bombers
while convoying Allied troops
out of Namsos. The Afridi carried
a crew of 219 and was 47th British
naval loss of the war. The British
announced and said two of the
attacking bombers were shot
down.
Hitler dramatically dispatched
alpme troops on a difficult 20lf
mile trek through almost impas
sable mountains in an attempt to
aid the Nazis at Narvik. They
must go over a narrow country
t oad sometimes only a mere path.
Hie high command reported fur
ther blows against the British
navy and said one .battleship was
hit by bombs off Narvik. Britain
denied officially the German
claims Saturday that a battleship
and cruiser were sunk off Nam
sos.
The Balkan capitals were key
ed to high nervous tension as
Turkey, bound to the Allies by a
mutual assistance pact, was re
ported massing troops along the
frontier facing Greece and Bul
garia. Other developments, some
unconfirmed, were that Germany
was concentrating men and muni
tions near the Yugoslav and
Hungarian frontiers. Russia bol
stered to more than six divisions
the troops facing Hungary. Italy
strengthened her forces along the
Yugoslav .border gd the DoJecan
ese Islands units. The British and
French battle fleets appeared in
the Aegian Sea.
In Britain, demands arose for a
more vigorous prosecution of the
war. Chamberlain is speaking to
the House tomorrow.
Gallahadion Wins
66th Running Of
Kentucky Derby
CHURCHILL DOWNS, May 4
(/P) — The field of probable start
ers in the 66th running of the
Kentucky Derby was reduced to
eight with the scratching of M. J.
Schmitt's True Star. The last
chance True Star had for run
ning in the $75,000 added event
j dirnppeared under the rays of
the burning sun, the first Ken
ucky has seen in a week. The
| rack nromised to be lightning
i ist. True Siar's owners never cn
rtained more than a vague hope
wt the colt might run well in
. he mud.
True Star’s withdrawal left 8
iree-year-olds in the classic:
Bimelich, Mioland, Dit, Sircc
; . o, Roman, Pictor, Royal Man,
; nd Gallahadion. They are all
c <peeled to go with the possible
. xieeption of Sirocco. The drying
mack promised to make Bimelich
en even greater favorite than he
might have been otherwise.
The race is scheduled to start
at 2:45 p.m. Pacific Standard
Time.
CHURCHILL DOWNS. May 4
j (. P) —Gailahadion won the Ken
tucky Derby by two lengths be
fore a crowd of 70,000. Bimelich
was second and Dit third.
Bimelich, a prohibitive favor
ite took the lead beautifully af
] ter the field of eight turned the
| stretch, but about a furlong from
home Gallahajdion came through
the rail cleanly and outran the
great Bradley colt. It was Bime
; lich’s first defeat in nine starts.
He barely nipped Dit at the wire
a photo being necessary to de
cide which was second.
Gallahadion’s time was 2:05.
The record time is 2:01 and four
fifths, set by Twenty Grand in
1931.
Mioland, a Pacific -Coast colt
finish fourth. Gallahadion closed
on the approximate odds board
at 25 to 1. An almost staggering
surprise to the great crowd was
Sirocco who finished fifth. Sixth
; was Roman, seventh Royal Man
j and eighth far back was Pictor,
|about 1G -lengths off the leader.
Nazis To Mop Up
British Soldiers
BERLIN, May 6 <JP) —British |
detachments, cut off from the
main expeditionary force when
the Allies abandoned the Norweg
ian port of Namsos, have been
spotted by airplane scouts in the
region north of Namsos. Author
ized souces said the German
troops being sent to Narvik will
be ordered to mop them up.
Conspiracy Charges Dropped
GAINESVILLE. May 6 </T>) —
Frank Whelchel was acquitted j
in a federal court of charges he
conspired to sell postal appoint-:
ments. The jury was given the1
case at 6 p.m. Saturday and re
turned a verdict this morning. Co
defendant Gradt Jones who was
accused of acting as a go between
was also freed.
FUNERAL NOTICE
All Pioneers are requested to
attend the funeral of our late
brother Jack Starr at 2 p.m. Tues
day at the Federated Church.
Bill Maloney, Secty.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Frederick Cook
Arctic Explorer
Is Stricken
PORT CHESTER, New York.
May 4 iJP)— Dr. Frederick Cook,
aged 77. Arctic explor. r. suffer
ed a cerebral hemmorhage last
night and was taken to a hospital.
His condkion was described as
fair.
Cook lives at Tims Rivers. New
Jersey. Cook, whose claim that
he was the discoverer of the
North Pole precipitated a long
controversy with the late Admir
al Perry, was a guest for two
weeks at the home of Ralph Von ■
Ahlefeldt, a friend of long stand
ing and one of the leaders who j
first vindicated Cook.
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12 Oil Companies
Indicted In Anti
trust Campaign
WASHINGTON, May 6 (JP) —
The Supreme Court upheld the
decision of the federal district
court of Madison, Wisconsin, hold
ing 12 major oil companies and j
five individuals violated the'Sher
man anti-trust act in conspiring j
to raise the price of gasoline in \
ten midwestern slates. This is
one of the government’s major
cases in the current anti-trust
campaign.
Waiter Kills 3
Persons For
No Reason
MARTINS FERRY. Ohio, May
6 (VP)—Half smiling. William Sev
astis. aged 52. a waiter answered
with a calm “I am guilty” to the
charge of killing three men in a
wild burst of pistol fire at a card
party in a restaurant yesterday.
The dead are Mike Manos, the
proprietor. Gust Gramatakis and
John Levanis'. He said “I just got
mad and started shooting. I don’t
know why.” Manos had refused
to lend him money. He is held for
the Grand Jury on a first degree
murder warrant.
E. Berry ^ all
American In
France Dies
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MONTE CARLO. May 5 </P) __
E. Berry Wall, New York boro
society leader, eighty years old,
who was one of the most pictur
esque figures on the continent for
a quarter of a century died after
a three-day illness. He had been
described as “the very last ghost
of the old school of dandies.” He
recently refused to be repatriat
ed because of the war. He con
tinued following the social sea
sons at the French watering plac
ss.
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British and Norwegian troops were reported to have clashed
Namsos (1) north of German-held Tronheim (2). British were re
ported attempting troop landings a Andalsnes (3) which military
observers consider a possible prelude to an effort to encircle Trond
heim. Threatened Hamar (4) was still in Norwegianhands. From
Sweden’s west coast (5) came reports of a German hospital ship
steaming north
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