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VOL. 42. No. 104. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 26, 1940 Price per copj 18#
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Mass Attacks On Britain Renewed
Berlin Bombed By RAF Planes In 3-Hour Raid
Asserts Int’nat’nl Highway Imperative to Defense
Germans Again
In Mass Attacks
London Area
LONDON, Aug. 24 (JP)— Hun
dreds of German bombers and
fighter planes swarmed over
southern England in mass at
tacks and attempted two raids on
the London area but British au
thorities said the fighter planes
were turned back. Some bombs
fell on one London suburb and
at least one bomber and escort
ing planes were shot down.
LONDON, Aug. 24 '(A3) — Thun
der of gunfire and bombs from
the direction of the Thames Es
tuary was heard this afternoon
during the second air raid alarm
of the day, which marked the
double-barreled German assault
by new waves of bombers and
cross-channel long-range guns. A
heavy barrage of anti-aircraft
fire ringed the city as screaming
I dogfights raged over the north
eastern outskirts.
Last night parachutists were
dropped and a small squadron of
bombers loosed from two to three
hundred incendiai’y bombs in a
single area in Midlands. Twenty
one bombers unloaded cargoes in
southeast coast town in the day’s
fourth raid there. A pall of
smoke blotted out the white
cliffs.
Massed Squadrons Nazi Bombers
Attack Hell’s Corner, Port Dover
British Bomb Berlin 3-hour Raid
UNDATED, Aug. 26 (/P)—Brit
i ish RAF pursuit planes drove off
two waves of German bomibers
| headed for London late today. A
violent battle was fought at a
1 height of 20,000 feet and more
| than 50 Britons were killed by
the -hail of German bombs which
[ fell as far inland as Midlands.
UNDATED, Aug. 26 '(/P) — Ter
riffic air battles raiged over Brit
j ain as massed squadrons of Ger
man planes flashing across the
Channel on a thirty-mile front,
attacked England’s Hell’s Corner,
the port of Dover, the gateway
for a possible Nazi invasion. The
Germans bombed crowded streets
at Folkstone and other coastal
towns.
British Spitfires and Hurricane
fighting planes soared up to meet
the new intensified onslaught. At
'.east ten German raiders were
-reported shot down.
Waves of British RAF bombing
planes in a display of rising
aerial might thundered over Ber
lin in a three-hour raid before
dawn while Nazi warplanes
dumped high explosive, incen
diary and shriek bombs on the
London area for the fifth time in
48 hours. Berlin Reported that
1500 bombs totaling 300,000
pounds were dumped on 38 ob
jectives in the British Isles dur
ing the night. The British said
“small fires and property dam
age” resulted from the London
raid.
Despite a growing clamor by
Britons for retaliatory raids on
Berlin, a spokesman declared to
day’s attack on the German cap
ital was by no means the signal
for the start of terror assaults on
German civilians.
Scenes of horror were report
ed in a southeast coast town of
England where Nazi planes
spread death and destruction in
a 20-minute raid, during the shop
ping hour, spewing bombs on
crowded street,, A laundry filin'1
with working girls suffered a dir
ect hit. At least one woman was
kiled.
RAF fighters racing to the at
tack reportedly shot down at
least two raiders and four others
were Shot down attempting to
cross the channel coast. Simultan
eously aviation experts in Lon
don estimated that 3,000 German
planes about one-sixth of Hitler’s
total operation strength in the
air were thrown into the 9-week
old assault on Britain.
| Italians Bomb
I British Africa
ROME, Aug. 24 (P) — Italian
planes bombed the naval base at
Alexandria; the airfields of Sidi,
Barrani anid Khartoum; and the
British troop concentrations at
Mersa Matruh, the Italian high
command announced.
L Thieves Attempt
ft Rob Payroll of
I National Guard
I PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24 (P)
f —National Guardsmen returned
l from maike-believe war maneuv
" ers in New York state to a real
fight outside their armory, with
five armed men. The five were
suspected of plotting the robbery
of $15,000, the regimental pay
| roll. The men were overpowered
^ and jailed.
Lowest Temp.
In 77 Years
BUFFALO, Aug. 24 <P) — The
temperature tumbled below freez
ing in some sections of Northern
New York. Dexter airport, which
was the base for airplanes in the
1 recent war maneuvers register
^ 28 degrees. Watertown, 36; Al
ii bany, 45; Buffalo, 48. This is the
f coldest date in 77 years. Truck
farm crops were damaged.
Pretender to French Throne Dies
LONDON, Aug. 26 TP) — The
death of the Duke of Guise, the
pretender to the French throne,
at Laraehe in Spanish Morrocco,
was reported from Madrid by the
: Reuters British news agency.
U. S. ARMY OF TWO
! MILLION SEEN BY 1943
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WA9SHINGTON, Aug. 23—De
| fense Commissioner William
Knudsen advised Congress an
Army of 2,060,060 could be plac
ed in the field fully equipped by
October, 1943.
Knudsen’s opinion was given
in a memorandum to the House
Ways and Means Committee. It
followed a question of Senator
Lodge several days ago as to how
long it would take to put such
a force in the field.
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Actress Dies
From Burns
I HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 24 (JP) —
' Actress Edna Waldron, aged 26,
died of burns received Sunday
in an unsuccessful attempt to
save the life of Catherine Bow
; man, aged 3, whose clothes be
came ignited from the fluid Miss
Waldron was using to clean the
[clothes of the child, who was
visiting her.
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DIES COMMITTEE INVESTI
GATE TOURIST OFFICE
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (AP) —
The Dies committee will inquire
into the activities of the German
Tourist Information Office, when
it meets here next week.
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Wendell Willkie Advocates
Creation Of Cabinet Post
Of Secretary Of Aeronautics
NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (/P) —
Wendell Willkie advocated that a
secretary of Aeronautics be add
ed to the President’s cabinet. He
jsaid that branch of military ser
vice was most important and
! should not toe subordinated. “My
; impression that in our air con
struction and training of pilots
j and mechanics we are hope
lessly unprepared. If England
had trained a force equal to
that of Germany’s she would not
be facing the present crisis.”
At Washington, the WPA re
plied to his charges that the rolls
were being packed on election
year, saying the roster has de
creased from June to July by
about a hundred thousand and
that employment in the months
before the .election will be the
smallest for the same months in
the past three years.
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ISecty. Hopkins
| Resigns Succeeded
jBy Jesse Jones
—
j WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (/Pi
President Roosevelt accepted the
resignation of Secretary of Com
merce Hopkins. The post will be
offered to Federal Loan Admin
istrator Jesse Jones.
Hopkins tcld the President, in
a letter that he was quitting to
recover his health. He has been
uffering from a stomach ailment
| .or nearly two years. The presi
dent injreplying said: “You may
resign your office, only the office
and nothing else. Our friendship
•vill and must go on as always.”
j Hepkins headed all the New
I Deal’s big relief agencies until he
; mtered the cabinet late in 1938
i o succeed Daniel Roper. The bil
ions he spent in government
osition has made him widely
K.iow.n
Pioneers Adopt
Resolutions
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| FAIRBANKS, Aug. 23 (/P) —
| The Grand Igloo, Pioneers of A1
aska ho ding their annual session
at Fairbanks, adopted resolutions
urging the following:
Early completion of that part
of the International Highway
within Alaska.
Increased appropriations by
Congress for .he Alaska Geolog
ical Survey.
The establishment by the Al
aska Legislature cf a fund of
$25,0'!)0 to care for aged and in
valid Pioneer women, since the
Territorial Pioneer home cares
only for men.
Fixing Juneau as the place for
:he annual Grand Igbo session,
every year, when the Legislature
is in session there.
A resolution urging the amend
ment of *he Jones Act was refer
red to the legislature.
Donald MacDonald, Alaska Highway
Commission Engineer Asserts Seward
! Vulnerable Spot In Defense System
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25 </P)
—Three men with a fishing boat,
operating on a dark night could
paralyze the United States- Al
i a ok a defense machine in less than
j an hour is the opinion of Donald
MacDonald,. Alaska Highway
Commission engineer. He said an
| attack could be made on Seward,
the Territory’s only all-weather
entrance while the town was
asleep. Oil tanks and wharfs con
tainir.g Alaska’s entire gas and
o'i supply could be dynamited as
the population tried to give chase
and find the channel markers
destroyed and the whole area,
dangerous as a mine field, owing
to hidden reefs. Not even the
Navy would dare to enter the
waters until is was resurveyed.
It would take a fleet of 100 big
planes a day to supply Alaska
with food alone. The only answer
as MacDonald sees the problem
is the construction of a road from
the railhead at Hazelton, B. C.,
to Fairbanks, curving through
the Yukon territory to be im
] inune from attack offshore.
Grand Igloo
Pioneers Alaska
iFAimAiNKS, Aug. 26 (/P) —
The Grand Igloo, Pioneers of A1
aska concluded its three-day ses
sion in Fairbanks with the elec-i
lion and installation of the fol
lowing chief officers: President
Martin Knupp cf Fairbanks; Vice
Grand Tony Foiet of Nome; Sec
retary Melle Thomas of Cord
ova: Treasurer John Reck, of Ju
neau: Chaplain Mrs. Fannie Phil
lips qf Anchorage: Historian Dr.
Will H. Chase of Cordova; Re
corder Charles D. Carter of Ju
neau; Trustees- Z. J. Loussac of
^ Anchorage and Wiii. m Coughlin
of Nenara. The next convention
1 wil ltake place in Juneau in 1943
during the legislative session.
N O T 3 C E
A, Meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Fair Association
and a ! superitendents and assist
ants v. ill be held at the IOOF
Hal! at 5 p.m. tonight, Mon- J
r’rv, Axe. 26th.
F'bnks Radio
Beam Range
Station Tested
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 23 (/P) —
The radio beam range station,
first of the group being installed
by the Civil Aeronautics Author
ity in Alaska was officially check
ed and accepted this week. The
action authorizes qualified pilots
with approved instruments fly
ing planes may ride the beam in
any weather on the main routes
out of Fairbanks.
Old Timer Passes
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 26 (JP) —
Harry Greep, 74, U. S. Commis
sioner and postmaster at Circle
Springs died Saturday. Burial
will take place there today. For
35 years Greep had been a min
ing operator, merchants and in
■public service of the locality.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
The smiling countenances in the first row belong t Wendell L. Wilkie, Republican presidential nom
inee, his wife, left, and son, Phillip. They are sh >wn as they looked to friends at an “old fashioned
American party” staged by a Willkie-for-Preside u club.