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VOL. 43. No. 42. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, June 11, 1941. - Per Copy is*
Airplane Plant Resumes Operation
Mussolini Defies U.S. To Declare War On Axis
GERMANS REPORTED BLITZ
BOMB CYPRUS - CHURCHILL
FACE CRITICAL PARLIAMENT
UNDATED, June 10 iff) —
While a Nazi spokesman in Ber
lin dismissed the reports of the
sinking of the Robin Moor, as
“confusing and contradictory,”
other developments crowded the
international picture.
Axis warplanes were reported
to have violently and continuous
ly assaulted the British fortified
island of Cyprus for the past 43
hours, indicating that Germany
may be prepar ng a “second
Crete” invasion cf the Mediter
ranean strongh .Id. 60 miles oif
the coast of Syria.
The reports of the blitz-bomb
ing of Cyprus came from the Ger
man-controlled Jeloey radio sta
tion in Norway.
! Churchill is facing a critical
1 parliament; questions as to Brit
! tin’s war reserves were heard;
| sharp demands for a more vig
I orous war strategy; a newer and
stronger plan of aerial warfare;
! and a drastic shakeup of leader
ship, Churchill crisply rejecting
;he proposal to form a small com
pact empire war cabinet, to in
clude the Dominion leaders. He
: told the House of Commons that
:tcriticism was “calculated as a
■ challenge to the security of the
! .idministra.ion.”
Relations between Japan and
■.he Dutch East Indies reached a
mere critical stage, following the
Dutch refusal to send increased
1 war supplies to Japan.
Robin Moor
Is Declared
Torpedoed
UNDATED. June 10 UP) — The
captain of the Brazilian rescue
ship declared flatly in radiogram
to the Associated Press, that the
U. S. steamship Robin Moor, was
sunk in the South Atlantic on
May 21, “torpedoed.” Govern
ment officials in Washington ex
pressed grave concern over other
reports that the vessel was sent
to the bottom by a German sub.
If true, it would be the first Am
erican ship torpedoed since the
World War.
Captain Waldemar Lucio Per
eira, skipper of the rescue ship
Osorio, said that 35 persons were
still missing from the 5,C-00 ton
Robin Moor. Eleven of the sur
vivors have been picked up.
British Predict
Of Damascus
UNDATED. June 10 ■(£>) — On
the Middle East war front, the
! British columns are driving into
French-ruled Syria and are re
' ported less than ten miles from
rcient Damascus, the capital. To
! right, the early capture of the
1 city was predicted. The British
said the advance was proceeding
smoothly.
rWOULD PERMIT CHAMPION
j BOLTS IN HAW An. ALASKA
: WASHINGTON, June 10 UP) —
; Delegate to Congress King of Ha
waii, introduced a bill to permit
15-round championship boxing
bouts in Hawaii and Alaska.
FULL PASSENGER LIST
OF SS COLUMBIA
The S. S. Columbia of the Al
aska Line, first passenger ship of
the 1941 season arrived Nome last
evening. The steerage passengers
were not previously listed and
are printed in this issue. There
were 272 passengers for Nome
and St. Michael and the ship car
ried 58,000 pounds of mail.
The cabin passenger list was
published when the ship sailed,
but is reprinted today.
J D Albrethsen
Geo Beacom
Bolden Lawrence
Blaine Berosek
Peder Bergh
Don Bosteyns
James G Brown
Joe Bragg
H Breen
Bobert Bock
John Carr
Pete Carlson
Nels H Christensen
John Chelgren
John Callas
Gust Carlson
(Continued on Page Three)
Mussolini Defies
U. S. Declare
War On Axis
ROME, June 10 (JP) — Musso
lini virtually defied the United
: States to declare war against the
' Axis. Addressing the Chamber of
: Fascist Giulds on the anniversary;
1 of Italy's entrance into the war, j
j he declared Japan to be loyal to,
I her pact with Germany and Italy I
in the event of “American aggres j
sion against the Axis.” The j
chamber applauded when he said
‘■Japan’s attitude is in perfect
line with the tripartite pact. The
Japanese are a proud and loyal’
people and couldn't remain in-]
different in the face of American]
aggression against the Axis.” f
He accused Turkey of aiding
Greece in the war against Italy]
and proclaimed that conquered
Greece now “re-enters into It
aly’s vital space in the Mediter
ranean.”
Hearing On
H.R. 4397 Is
Set For June 24
The Following telegram was re
eeived by the Nugget from Del
egate Anthony J. Dimond, at
Washington, D. C.
The hearing on the bill to pro
| vide representation in the AJas
i ka Legislature according to pop
j ulation, H. R. 4397, will be held
i by the House Committee on Terri
; tories, in room 1433, House Office
; Building in Washington at 10.30
j the forenoon of June 24th.
Coercion Charged
By Witness
SAN FRANCISO, June — The
long-missing witness in the Harry
Bridges deportation trial, Mau
rice Cannalonga of Portland, Ore.
appeared unexpectedly at the
hearing in San Francisco, and re
affirmed his previous testimony.
Early in the hearing, Canna
longa, a ship’s electrician, testi
fied that he had attended high
Communist meetings at which
Bridges was an active partici
pant.
Repudiated by Deposition
Later the defense introduced
an asserted deposition in which
Cannalonga repudiated his testi
mony and said that he was in
timidated by G-men into testify
ing against Bridges. A federal
subpoena was issued for the el
ectrician, but he could not be
located.
Cannalonga testified yesterday
that he was not intimidated by
the government agents, but was
intimidated by various members
of the longshoremen’s and other
CIO unions at Portland. Canna
lonya named Roscoe Craycraft, a
Portland longshore official, as one
of the men who forced him to
give the deposition. „
Psychiatrist Is Witness
The first government rebuttal
witness was Dr. James Ernest, a
psychiatrist from the Veterans
ALASKA ON WORLD’S LONGEST NORTH-SOUTH AIR ROUTE
Combined services of Pacific Alaska Airways. United Air Lines and Pan American Airways form the
world’s longest north-south air route, extending from Nome. Alaska, to Buenos Aires, Argentine —
10.964 miles. Discussing the new landplane service from Seattle to Alaska are. from left. Radio Op
erator 0. J. Johnson, First Officer John Knepper and Captain Murray Stuart of Pacific Alaska Air
ways, and Stewardess Cleda Defabaugh and Captain E. J. Smith of LTnited Air Lines.
NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION
PLANT NEARS NORMAL OUT
PUT AS WORKERS RETURN
LOS ANGELES. June 11 UP)—
The North American Aviation
plant neared normal operations
as the last striking CIO UAW pro
duction workers returned to their
jobs after an early morning meet
ing to consider protests of dis
crimination. Three members of
the UAW local negotiating com
mittee were reported suspended
from the night shift by order of
Colonel Branshaw, Army officer
in charge of production, under
orders of the President to operate
the plant. Three other members
said they were dismissed by the
foremen. About 600 attended the
meeting.
After hearing of the dismissals,
Wyndham Mortimer, UAW Inter
national representative, told the
workers, “This is a battle over
whether the unions be destroy
ed in this country by the Army
or otherwise, fae are not sabot
eurs. Let us show them we are
not trying to sabotage national de
fense. Let us still be confident in
the President’s promise that re
spect of our rights will be observ
_
Bureau Hosital at Portland. Dr.
Ernest denied defense testimony
that the late Richard Lovelace, a
former Communist leader, was
mentally unbalanced. A deposi
tion given by Lovelace before his
death naming Bridges as a Com
munist was introduced by the gov
eminent. Later the defense pre
sented a Portland naturopath, Dr.
Virgil MacMickle, who said Love
lace was mentally unstable.
Dr. Ernest said that he con
sidered the former Communist
leader a highly intelligent man.
Deportation Is Urged
LOUISVILLE, Ky., June— Con
gressman Jenning Randolph,
Democrat of West Virginia', call
ed for immediate deportation of
West Coast Labor Leader Harry
Bridges.
Randolph addressed the Nation
al Aeronautical Association’s con
vention in Louisville. He includ
ed the call for Bridges’ deporta
tion in a denunciation of what he
termed “interference of labor
leaders with the naion’s defense
plans.’’
Congressman Randolph agreed
that labor had the right to strike
in peace time, but declared that
strikes should not be allowed to
impede the rearmament program.
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75 Million
Spent On
Lease-Lend
' WASHINGTON, June 11 —
The President, reporting that
“Little over $75,000,000 of de
fense materials have been trans
ferred under the lend-lease law,
told Congress that “We will help
Britain to outstrip the Axis pow
ers with munitions of war and
we will see to it that these muni
tions get to the places where they
can be effectively used to weak
en and defeat the aggressors.” He
made no mention of the methods
to be used to insure delivery.
This is the President’s first re
port to the legislators on the pro
gress of the gigantic program to
supply arms to Britain, China,
and “other democatic nations,”
under the lease-lend authoriza
tion bill signed three months ago
today. How much of the $75,000,
000 went to Britain and how
much may have been transfer
red to other nations was not in
dicated.
Gaston Henri Haye, French
Ambassador to the United States:
“If France has eommittr.d mistalc
es, she has committed no crimes.”
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Cheechacco Dance Tonight at School Auditorium
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