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VOL. 42. No. 118. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1940. P™* °°*J m
Axis Powers and Japan Enter Pact
Is Warning For U. S. Keep Out Of European War
Spain Believed About Enter War Against Britain
Germany, Italy And Japan Sign
Ten-Year Military and Economic
Pact-Aimed At The United States
UNDATED, Sept. 27 (/P)—Ger
many, Italy and Japan signed a
ten year military and economic
pact which the axis spokesman
said was aimed at forestalling the
possible entry of the_United Stat
es into the European war. Ap
parently this would mean that
“Germany, Italy and Japan will
undertake to assist one another
by ail economic and military
means when one of these con
tracting powers are attacked by
a power not at present involved
in the European wrar or in the
Sino-Japanese conflict.”
Japan has repeatedly complain
ed against the alleged “outside
interefer.net'” by the United
States in Japan’s so-called “leg
itimate” expansion thrusts in the
Orient.
In Tokyo, the influential news
paper Asahi declared that a clash
with America “now seems inevi
table.” Posters were plastered
near the U. S. embassy in Tokyo
proclaiming “We wont permit
Britain or the United States to
interfere in the east or Asia.”
This diplomatic stroke bring
ing Japan into the fold as the
potential full-fledged military
ally against Britain was carried
out amid an elaborate ceremony
in Hitler’s chancellery while the
streets of Berlin were splashed
with flags.
The Italy, Germany and Japan
pact also provided for the main
tenance of the status quo of Rus
sia and specifically stated that
Japan "recognizes and respects”
the axis powers’ determination
to create a new order in Europe
with the Rome-Berlin duo agree
ing similarly regarding Japan's
expansion in the Orient.
Hitler witnessed the signing of
the pact which was m effect a
blunt “hands off” warning to the
United States against their entry’
er partcipation either in the con
flicts in Europe or in the far
east.
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HIS KIDNAP PLOT FAILED
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Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich (right) alien German who entered
the United States in 1935, and whom Federal agents said admitted
being the abdductor of 3-year-old Marc de Tristan, Jr, son of Count
and Countess Marc de Trinstan. of Hillsborough, Calif., is shown
shortly after he had been captured with the bey in his possession
near River Pine, Calif., by two lumberjacks. Yesterday the family
£ finally prevailed upon the rescuers to accept $16,000 as a reward.
Previously the two lumberjacks had refused to accept any reward.
Japan Charges United States
With Opposition To Japanese
“Legitimate* Expansion Orient
TOKYO, Sept. 26 (/Pi—A qual
j ified informant said it was ex
; pected that Japan would active
I ly support Germany if the Unit
] ed States should enter the Europ
ean war. The informant said the
Japanese government was finally
convinced that the United States
was unalterably opposed to Jap
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an’s “legitimate” expansion in
the Orient. This source said the
“strengthening” of the anti-Com
mintern pact between Germany,
Italy and Japan had become one
of the main objectives of Japan
ese diplomacy in the past year.
Meanwhile he indicated that a
non-aggression pact with Russia
was not unlikely. He said “Japan
is and always was opposed to
Communism but this doesn’t
mean that a working agreement
I with the Russians cannot be af- |
fsc'.ed.”
Recent Japanese press com
ment urged reapproachment be
tween Tokyo and Moscow. Jap
an recently changed her ambas
. lor to Moscow lor that osten
sible purpose.
The qualified informant, return
ir.g hi the question of the United
S ate said "Japan has consist
. "Ty sough, only the peaceful
ec - mic penetration of the far
ir sphere of influence lies
here and we prefer not to send
troops and warships to the var
ious corners of the far east to
guarantee that penetration. How
ever, tire United States has con
sistent y attempted to block Jap
an even during times when the
British offered conciliation and
the American policy has increas
ed in strength.”
98 German
Planes Downed
By British Today
J
LONDON, Sept. 27 .(iTi — The
air ministry announced that 98
German planes were destroyed
in attacks on Britain up to five
p.rn. A great air battle was1
fought within sight of observers
in a southwest London suburb
this afternoon with at least a hun
dred British and German planes
filling the skies.
After three grand scale attacks
were made by the Nazis in a re
newal of their mass assaults Brit
ish and German long-range ar
tillery also fought a duel ac
\ ross the Dover Strait with the
German shells rocking the Dover
area with two shells every two
minutes and the British fire in
creasing in intensity after a half
hour.
One formation of nine German
planes streaked across central
London during the ibig battle but
they were flyin so high they
could be seen only with the aid
of powerful glasses.
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Nothing Official
Says Roosevelt
j
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (TP)—
President R.oscvclt told the
press that he couldn’t say any
thing about the new Japanese,
German and Italian pact because
he had received nothing official
on it. Asked whether the ten- i
year treaty was unexpected, the
President replied yes and no, but
did not elaborate.
Alaska Clipper Forced Return
PORT ANGELES. Sept. 27 (TPi
— The Alaska Clipper which left
here at 8:40 a. m. for Ketchikan
returned to the harbor here this
afternoon. The Coast Guard said
they heard messages from the'
p’ane which reported motor
trouble. Preparations were made
to remove the mail.
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Havana Agreement Ratified
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (TP)—
The Senate ratified the Havana
agreement by which the United j
States and twenty other Ameri
can republics pledge themselves
to prevent the transfer of any
territory in this hemisphere from
one non-American country to an
other.
Clipper Service Is To Be
' Extended Thruout Entire
Winter Seattle-Juneau Run
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SEATTLE, Sept. 23 — Pan American Airways announced
the provisional service between Seattle, Ketchikan and Juneau,
originally scheduled to be discontinued October 15, will be ex
tended trrough the winter.
Capacity business and national defense activity determined
' the company to continue, as the weather will, permit twice-a
week flights until mid-December, when the company hopes to
take delivery of a new type of high-speed, twin-engined trans
port ordered from the Lockheed factory at Burbank, specially
adapted for the Alaska winter service and capable of non-stop
service between here and Juneau.
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BEFRIEND KIDNAPED YOUNGSTER
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After 3-year-old Marc de Trinstan, Jr., son of Count and Countess
Mare de Tristan of Hilsborough, Calif., had been freed and his ab
ductor captured near River Pine, Calif., 48 hours after the boy had
been snatched from the hands of his nurse near the family home, he
was befriended by Mrs. Ann Breidenbach (hoding Marc) and Mrs.
J. E. South until Federal agents arrived.
Spain About To Enter War On
Side of Rome-Berlin Axis to Permit
German Troops Attaek Gibraltar
UNDATED, Sep:. 26 (TP) — Ev
ents shaped rapidly toward the
entry of Spain into the war on
the side of the Rome-Berlin axis,
apparently to permit the attack
on Britain’s citadel of Gibraltar,
by German troops passing thru
Spain.
Berlin reported that the in
clusion of Japan in a globe-girdl
ing axis program also appeared
in the offing as a counter to the
possible closer British and Am
erican collaboration, making a
four-to-one combination against
Britain’s lone stand.
The Fascist press spoke openly
of Spain’s present role as ”pre
bel'igerent” as Count Ciano left
Berlin to conclude diplomatic
negotiations bearing on the re
ported collaboration of Spain
with the axis powers. Informed
quarters in Rome pointed to the
fall of Gibraltar which guards
the west gate of the Mediteran
nean Sea and enable German
troops to cross the narrow strait
of Gibraltar to North Africa,
thus facilitating the axis powers’
widely heralded program of
breaking England’s hold on the
dark continent.
Other developments in the in
ternational picture broke swiftly
as Great Britain, smarting under
the withdrawal from Dakar, af
ter a three day naval seige, sent
her bombers to Berlin in the
longest raid of the war on the
German captial.
Authorized French quarters
in Vichy said heavy damage was
inflicted on the British battle
squadron at Dakar which made
it impossible for the British to
continue the attack without re
inforcement from fleet units
needed elsewhere. The French
admiralty reported that three
British warships were hit at Da
car — the 29.000 ton battleship
Resolution; the 31.000 ton battle
ship Barham; the 10,000 ton
heavy cruiser Kent, in addition
to the 32.000 ton battle cruiser
Renown which was reported bad
'y damaged by a direct bomb hit
during the French air raid on
Gibraltar.
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