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VOL. 43. No. 3. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY, JAN. 6, 1941. ***** *** 001,7 1*
British Capture Bardia Garrison
Pres. Asks Help For Nations Fighting Aggressors
11 Navy Fliers Die Transport Crash During Storm
Bardia Surrenders To British
Who Establish Blockade Tobruk
Next Italian Line Of Defense
UNDATED, Jan. 4 </P)— Brit
ain’s desert armed claimed a vic
tory over “the suicide garrison’’
at Bardia without disclosing how
how long the mopping up may
take. Cairo headquarters of the
Army of the Nile said that al
most half the Fascist defense po
* sitions and between a quarter
and a third of the 20,000 Italians
captured. Dombard dispatches
disclosed that seme prisoners
were taken there.
* Australians Mop Up
CAIRO, Jan. 5 </P) — The Brit
ish officially reported that Bar
dia’s Italian garrison had surren
' dei-ed, hauling the flag down
from- the government house
while Australians were mopping
up the last pockets of resistance.
Australian Casualties Only 500
UNDATED, Jan. 6 (JP)—British
mechanized patrols, sweeping on
a spectacular conquest of Bardia
* reported they had established
a “close blockade" of Italian fore
es at Tobruk, 70 miles to the
west, Marshal Graziani’s next de
fense line in tiie Libyan des rt.
The armored speathead of the
Sen. Barkley
Is Fleeted
• Floor Leader
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (/Pi —
Senate Democrats unanimously
reelect d Senator Barkley of Ken
tucky as floor leader while the
British counter-offensive was
said to been operating 20 miles
south of Tobruk. A dispatch from
n wly captured Bardia itself was
quoted by British military sourc
1 es as saying that Italys position
in all of eastern Bardia was in
peril and indications are growing
I of demoralization among Musso
lini’s north African armies. Coin
cidentally the RAF reported a
! fierce two-day bombing attack on
Tobruk in which “many sticks of
i bombs were dropped on military
buildings, airdromes, naval bar
racks and the town’s defenses,
i Eleven Ba'ian planes were re
ported destroyed in a series of
clashes over the desert.
An Australian communique
listed the Australian casualties in
breaking the 20-day siege of Bar
iia at not more than 500. while
35,000 Italian prisoners and 50
tanks were reported captured.
The total Ita’ian cr. uslties up to
ihe fa 1 of Bardia was estimated
! at 15.000.
I
Mussolini’s command’s daily
; - ir bull.tin didn’t mention the
: ‘‘ate of Bardia noting only that
; mere strongholds on the Bardia
! front had fallen into British
| hands.”
Republicans again bestowed the
minority leadership on McNary
of Oregon,
The Democratic party confer
ence pick-d Harrison of Mississ
ippi as president Pro Tempore,
and the Republicans Vandenberg
of Michigan. Hill of Alabama
was chosen Democratic whip sue
eeeding Minton of Indiana who
was defeated for relection. I
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ean Sea, the Balkans and in Northern Egypt wherethe fall of Bardia yesterday highlighted the war.
Karl Theile,
Thos. R. Lyons
Die at Seattle
THEILE, FORMER TERRI.
SECRETARY AND LYON
PACIFIC N.W. ATTORNEY
SEATTLE. Jan. 4 OP) — Karl
Theile, aged 53. former Territor
ial Secretary of Alaska died here
today. He later operated the
Diamond K Packing Company of
Wrangell and a mining business
near Nome.
Judge Thomas R. Lyons, aged
74, wide y known in Pacific north
west and Alaska legal circles,
died h re. He was assistant Unit
ed States d'strict attorney at Ju
neau from 1900 to 1903 and fed
eral judge there for four years
from 1909.
Roosevelt Asserts U. S. Facing Un
precedented Foreign Peril, Asks
Congress Increase Our Armaments
WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 </P) —
President Roosevelt told Con
gress that the United States fac
ed an unprecedented “foreign
peril" and demanded a “swift
driving1 increase in our arma
ments” both for defense and for
the use of fighting “democracies”
abroad. Roosevelt in his annual
message on the state of the union
said “the need of the moment is
our action and our policy should
be devoted primarily and almost
exclusively to m eting this for
eign peril, for all of our dom
estic problems are now a part
of this great emergency.”
Appearing before a joint ses
sion of the House and the Sen
ate in the great House chamber,
the President said he asked Con
grses for “greatly increased new
appropriations” to carry on the
def nse program and recommend
ed that “a greater portion of this
great defense program be paid
for from taxation than we are
paying today. I also ask Congress
for authority for funds sufficient
to manufacture additional muni
tions and war supplies of many
I'.inds to be turned over to those
nations which ana now at actual
war with aggressor nations.” He
didn’t last the nations to receive
he p on the lease-lend plan but
at his recent fireside talk on de
fen ,-e he rf erred specifically to
Britain, China and Greece.
11 Navy Fliers Die In Crash of
Transport During Storm-4 Just
Has! Bailed Out Another Wreck
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 5 WP) — A
single ambulance returned today
with the bodi s of 11 Navy fliers
killed in the crash and explosion
of a storm-buffeted naval trans
port in the rugged mountain
country southeast of San Diego.
Officials from the scene, in the
Mother Grundy Peak area, said
that had the plane been travel
ing 20 feet higher the cdaft
would have reached the naval
air station only 20 miles away.
The Transport left Big Spring,
Texas, Saturday with four avia
tors who parachuted to safety
from a storm-rocked bomber last
Thursday which was blasted into
small pi ces.
The dead arc: Lieut. Command
r jcscpn Henry Cogan. 54, pi
lot; Lieut. Commander Stephen
Bland Cooke, 42, Commander of
Patrol Squadron 13; Lieut. Vic
tor S. Gaulin, attached to Patrol
Squadron 14; Lieut. James Cyril
Flemming of Patrol Wing 1; Da
vid Ever tt Ferguson, co-pilot;
Marvin Magee, machinist’s mate;
Frank Richaird Naylor, radioman;
H. E. Neff, machinists’s mate;
Frank Recke Jr., machinist’s
mate; A. M. Parryl and L. J.
Hughes, radiomen. Neff was for
merly stationed in Alaska.
Abuse Safe Con
duct II. S. Ended
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4 (fP)
—“The escape” to Tokyo of six
German naval reservists who
were interned here resulted in
the tightening of British vigil
ance. An unofficial British spokes
man said the abuse of the safe
conduct priviliges of some of the
512 sailors originally brought to
Angel Island after the German
jship Columbus was scuttled off
1 the Virginia coast last January
precluded a further similar ac
tion. He said “Their game is up.”
It was disclosed that five deck
officers and one engin er walked
aboard the liner Asama Maru on
last October 25th carrying the
baggage of seven Germans who
had been permitted to sail be
cause of physical disability or
| ill health and remained aboard.
A far as the United States is
concerned the men may leave the
country any way possible.
French Nobc! Prize Winner Dead
VICHY, Jan. 5 (/P) — It was
announced that Henri Bergson,
aged 81, foremost French philos
opher and winner of the 1928
Nobel literature prize for 1928,
died in Paris yesterday of pul
monary congestion.
Russia Warns
Germany To
Watch Step
In the Balkan crisis some So
viet circles reported that Moscow
has a'ready warned Berlin ag
ainst “any step which might ser
iously endanger the good rela
tions” between Russian and Ger
many. All communication with
Rumania was cut off. Soviet quar
tors in Belgrade said the summon
ing of Russia’s minister home
from Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ru
mania and Hungary was definite
ly linked wiih “new military de
vJopments in Rumania and Hun
gary.”
German troops movements last
week were reported to have swol
len the Soviet armies in the Bal
kans to approximately 600,000
while Russia also massed heavy
concentrations of the Red Army
in nearby Bessarabia and along
the lower Danube.
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Bombs On Ireland
Of German Origin
i
N utral Ireland made the ac
cusation that German airmen
were responsible for the bombs
' dropp d on Dublin and the gov
’ ernment’s demands for repara
: tions elicited this response from
1 a Berlin spokesman: “Those
bombs are English or they are
imaginary."
DUBLIN, Jan. 4 (A>) — Tin
hatt' d air raid wardens and dem
olition squads stood by in the
streets as the government disclos
ed that more bombs as well as
magnetic mines which had fallen
in Ireland were identified as Ger
man. Resid-nts however refused
to desert their living rooms for
the discomfort of basements or
outdoor shelters. The press ridi
I ruled such an idea that the bomb
violations were a mistake.
An official statement said two
magnetic sea mines were drop
ped off of County Wicklow and
"identified as of German origin,
also that bombs were dropped at
Qslegate.”
BREMEN LEFT SEA FLAMES
British bombers smashed for
the third consecutive night at the
great port of Bremen, leaving the
industrial area a “sea of flames”
the air ministry' said.
Overnight too, the Nazis said
they made a big assault on Bris
tol and started fires which were
visible for more than a hundred
miles.
JAPS ARREST U. S. MARINES
Peiping authoritative sources
say that Japanese military au
thorities flatly rejected the de
mands to apologize for the "il
legal arrest” of five U. S. Marines
in a cabaret on New Year’s Eve.
The Japs declared the Americans
were responsible and demanded
that they apologize. Col. Allen
Turnage, marine commander
sharply rejected the Japanese
claims after a several hour con
ference. His demands still stand.
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Admiralty reports said British ships near (1) had bombarded focal
points of Italian retreat at Salum and Bardia (small arrows) while
large forces of Italian troops were trapped in the “Libyan noose’*
of western Egypt. This “noose” British said was effected by sudden
attacks (arrows) friom the desert; (2) through Sidi Barrani (3)
against the front south of Sidi Barrani where Italians were resist
ing the advance; and (4) a thrust at the Italian right flank which
j swept around northward to the coast at Buqbuq. Shading locates
Italian Libya and Italian troops in Egypt.