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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 139. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, NOV. 13, 1940 Price 0057 15*
| British Planes Cripple Italian Fleet
Powder Plants Northeast Blasted By Explosions
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Cold Weather Brings Death, Destruction Midwest
British Navy Strikes Crippling
Blow Italian Fleet-Affect Balance
Of Power In Mediterranean Sea
VICTORY WILL RELEASE BRITISH NAVAL UNITS
TO HUNT FOR “PHANTOM” GERMAN RAIDER j
UNDATED, Nov. 13 (/P) — Brit
ain's Royal Navy “struck a crip
p ing blow at the Italian fleet’’
the London admiralty reported,
seriously damaging two Fascist
battleships and probably a third,
as well as two cruisers “snug
1 gling behind their shore defens
es” at Taranto naval base. In ad
dition two auxiliary warships
there were reported “lying with
their sterns under w’ater. Church
ill told a cheering House of Com
mons "The result of the action
decisively affects the balance of
power in the Mediterranean.
London naval experts said the
victory will release powerful
units of the British Mediterran
ean armada to join the world
wide hunt for the "phantom”
German surface raider, possibly
the tin thousand ton pocket bat
itleship Admiral Schccr cr the
Luetzow which attacked a con
voy in mid-Atlantic on Novem
ber 11, Nine ships of the con
voy were reported missing.
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Taranto is described as Italy’s
main sea bas: and lies in the "in
step” of the Italian boot. The ad
miralty said the attacks climax
ed fruitless months in which the
British fleet sought to engage the
Italian fleet in battle and “pro
1 bably” left only half of the Fas
cist navy’s six capital ships still
1 effective.
Royal Navy panes flying from
undisclosed bases carried out the
assault on the night of November
11 and 12 the Admiralty said. A
British communique gave this
picture: Bomb hits caused such
havoc aboard the two battleships
they had to run ashore to pre
v at their sinking. One of these
belonging to the 23,COO ton Conte
de Cavour class is under water at
the “stern up to and including a
turret” Another battleship of
the 35,000 ton Littorio ’class is
body down by the bows, the fore
castle is under water and sh?
has a hcavv list to starboard
F amed Ecoroih is t
Passes Away
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CAMBRIDGE, Ncv. 11 I/P) —
F: nk N. Taussig, internationally
known political economist and
. professor Emeritus of Harvard
■'i d here t day. He would have
h en 81 years old next month. He
was chairman of the United
States Tariff Commission from
1917 to 1919 and was the author
of many books on economics and
international trade.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL
(ImrcTiill Speaks
In Tribute To
Chamberlain
LONDON. Nov. 12 f/P) —Prime
Minister Chunohi 1 told the
House of Commons that Cham
berlain died “with confidence
that we will turn the corner. His
only grief was that he would not
be a spectator at our final vic
tory, although there are long and
hazardous years ahead.
In tribute to his predecessor,
who died Saturday, Churchill
si'd In his strenuous efforts to
establish peace “Britain is guilt
la's of the blood, terror and mi>
ery which engulfed so many
lards and peoples, let seeks new
victims still.”
Xc-.v Manager of Indians
CLEVELAND, Nov. 12 </P)
Roger Peckinbagh was named
manager of the Cleveland In
dians.
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westard in the Mediterranean Sea from Alexandria met Italian warships in the Ionian Sea between
Italy and Greece. Italian planes and a submarine first attacked the Brtish ships (black symbols) south
of Crete, July 8. The nextday the two navies met in battle. Italian ships are shown by striped sym
bol-. Meanwhile in the western Mediterranean (not shown in this map) another British licet engag
ed an Italian air force, but reported meeting no Italian ships.
Explosions Blast Powder Plants
Engaged in Filling Defense Orders
Between 11 and 21 Estimated Dead
Occur In Widely Separated Sections of Northeast
UNDATED, Nov. 12 uP) — In
tragic, startling sequenc., explo
1 s.nn.s in widely separated sec
U ns of the industrial northeast
r cl;-_ 1 two powd r plants, one
• _ ged in filing defense orders
and a factory manufacturing
railway torpedo signals. Between
11 r. d 21 per.-: ns were estimated
da d and an undetermined num
b.r were injured.
The first blast razed the plant
of the United Railway Signal
Company of Woodbridge, N. J..
: about 15 miles from Manhattan
I and at least five were killed and
Inter-, than a score injured, some
critically among the hundred cm
ployees, mostly girls. The com
munity’s populous area was
shaken by the explosion of a sec
ond blast which ripped apart the
Bur.on Powder Works of the
A neriean Cyanmid C ;emical
Corporation at th village of
Edinburg two miles west of New
castle in western Pennsylvania,
killing three men. Three nth rs
were killed in a third explosion
in the Tro.jam Powd r Company
plant in the outskirts of Allen
town, Pa.. No one was injured.
The Trojam Company held at
•east one defense order for $81.
J00 wer h of explosives for the
Army. Si far as can be dot r
mined the other two firms held
■'efei’se contracts.
Abrogation Seal
Treaty Is Just
w
Start of Disputes
WASHINGTON. Nov. 13 <•■?) —
Delegate Dimond says Japan's ab
rogation of the fur seal conven
tion opened the doors to more
salmon fishing disputes in the
Pacific. A Tokyo dispatch of
October 23rd said Japan will no
longer adh-.re to the treaty with
the United States, Britain & Rus
si?, to proiect fur seals, Dimond
said “The announcement of the
Japanese government which de
cided to abrogate the convention
means it intends also to throw
overboard definitely the more im
p riant gentlemen's agreement
to th_ regulate Pacific coast sal
men catch. If in going to slaugh
ter seals they are going to raid
commercial fishing runs as well,
our fishermen will go out and
fight them off boat by boat.’
80 D
o Persons
Perish In
Cold Spell
UNDATED, N v. 13 i/U;
Searching parties scanned the
col-, waters of Lake Michigan
and the frozen marshlands of the
Gr at Lake; region for addition
al victims of the violent storm
which brought death and destruc
tion to the middle west. In the
frigid weather 88 persons includ
ing two scoi" sai’ors were known
to have perished. Many others
are missing and scant hope re
mained of their being found
alive.
Alaska Agency
Placements Are
Falling Off
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•WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (VP>—
The Social Security Board re
ported that public employment
services in Alaska placed 299
workers in private jobs last Sop
tember, a decrease of 271 per
cent from previous months. The
number of persons se king jobs
through public agencies in Al
aska declined 4.7 percent. Two
thousand thirty four Alaska un
employment insurance benefits
totaled $45,077 in September, a
d crease of 43.8 percent from pre
vious months.
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Ski Troops To Be Developed
Bv United States Army In Plan
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Proposed By Colorado Rep.
By Jack S.innett
WASHINGTON -If a group of
men here have : .r way—and
they may the l ted States is
g .ng to have s. ski troops.
Poles Mus i
Give
To Germans
By Helen Kirk; atrick
(Special Cable to Cn.cago Daily
News and Ketchik. Chronicle)
LONDON—The Germans have
informed the Warsaw population
that the city is to be divid d into
three portions: one l' r Germans,
one for Po’es, one for Jews.
The Germans are taking the
biggest and most 1 utiful resi
dential ar a, alth ugh having on
ly 50 000 people, while the Poles
are to have only the former
working class districts. The Jews
are to be enclosed in a walled
Ghetto.
No on? is allowed to move
furniture from hi- '-'use to hi?
new quarters, only linen and clo
thing and this to be done immed
iately.
Apparently the Germans have
forced the Poles to rebuild the
c ntral residential section, which
is virtually in ruin- and which
is the only area the Poles will
bo allowed to occupy, is still un
reconstructed.
(Crpyrght 13-10. C’e cago Daily
News Inc.)
Rep. Lawrence Lewis. Denver
Democrat, has turned over to
Gen. George C. Marshall, the
Army’s Chi.f of Staff, an elab
orate prospectus for a 6,000-acre
training camp under the brow of
the continental divide, 50 miles
west of Denver. At last report,
the Army staff had the proposal
under serious consideration.
What cas. Rep. Lewis and his
associates have made out for
their project! They start with the
premise that "if the United Stat
us is to have complete military
defense pr paredness. it must
provide for every conceivable
eventuality.” Then the Congress
men asks just what would hap
pen if American troops should
sure day find theme Ives defend
ing the nation in the ragged
mount ■ of Alaska or British
Columbia.
POLNTS TO FINNS
He points out that men often
ore incapacitated at 8,000 feet if
u ■ "cia-t rr. d t i it and that men
from law altitudes frequently
filial} ■ at 10.0)0 to 14,000 feet.
Horses and mu’es from the lovv
‘ .mds can'; take it either and ev
en machines as mechanically per
feet as the aut nobile need re
adjustments to buck the rarified
air and stinging cold.
Look how the Finns skied cir
: ’ 1 the lumbering Rus
- ■ st : th - Austrian Jagers
kitrrr: ■> cv r t” mgs of Nor
• • v 1 h'v> plodding British,
a vs Mr. Lew;-.
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