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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 47. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, April 21, 1941 Pw Copy is*
Allies Fall Back New Line Greece
Canada, U. S. Agree Exchange Defense Articles
Fires Leave Thousands Of Acres Charred Ruins
PANZER COLUMNS LESS THAN
150 ML FROM ATHENS-BRITISI1
REPORT REARGUARD ACTION
UNDATED, April 21 </P) — Hit
ler’s rampaging panzer columns
were reported less than 150 miles
from Athens, thrusting south
along the 60-mile wide plain of
Thessaly in central Greece, as the
Allies acknowledged that they
had fallen back again to a new
and shorter defense line. Appar
ently the next major stand by the
British and Greeks will be made
at the southern mountain bar
riers guarding .the .approach to
Athens between the Gulf of Cor
inth and the Greek port of Lamia
The British middle east head
quarters said the British with
drawal was “in conformity with
the movement of the Greek army
fighting on their left.” Austral
ian and N w Zealand troops ex
ecuted "brilliant” rear-guard ac
tions and inflicted a heavy toll
on the Germans, a British com
munique said.
The London radio declared the
new line was unbroken and said
the German assault was proving
so costly that the Nazis had
“thrown in still more reinforce
ments of mechanized units, in
fantry and aircraft.”
Meanwhile a Havas dispatch
from Sofia said the Bulgarian
army had started to occupy sec
tions of northern Greece and fall
en Yugoslavia.
Greece’s King George called
on his troops to fight “to the very
end.”
Amid Allied reverses, saw the
Germans break through the nor
thern mountain defenses at Mt.
Olympus on the Imannint front,
and reportedly captured Larisa .
and Trikkala and storm down the 1
flat plain of Thessaly toward his
toric Thermopylae. Trikkala is
the control point of the railway
through central Greece from Sal
Onika to Volos on the Aegean
Sea.
With Hitler himself directing
th; German blitz from a railway
car somewhere in the Balkans,
the German command asserted
that Nazi mechanized forces are
driving south “far beyond Lar
isa” in. pursuit of the retreating
British and Greek troops. A
Greek comuniqu: however, de
clared that the new Allied line
was holding doggedly under a
violent assault and nowhere had
the Germans knifed through.
direek Premier
Morizis Dies
UNDATED, April 19 (/P) — The
German high command claimed
the capture of Larisa, 40 miles
south of Mount Olympus and said
that the Swastika was raised on
the mountain, but the British
Army headquarters at Athens as
ser.ted that the h:avy Nazi at
tacks failed to penetrate the
British and Greek line at any
point.
Greece had a cabinet crisis with
the sudden death of Premier Mor
izis, sueerssor to General John
Metaxas, who died on January
29th. It was reported that King
George II planned to form a mili
tary government and assumed
wartime control as head of the
council of ministers.
Political circles in Berlin in
dicated that Hitler’s 52nd birth
day, tomorrow, may be marked
by a Greek-Axis armistice. This
belief was based on German
claims of a break-through in
Greek mountain passes.
Papers Caution
British Expect
More Reverses
LONDON, April 19 </F>—News
papers tonight almost unanimous
ly cautioned the public editorial
lv to expect more serious revers
es and a possible British with
drawal from the Balkans because
of the numerical superiority of
,1he German army and its m'chan
1 ized power.
G. M. Ians No
New Cars In ’43
DETROIT, April 19 UP) — A
l General Motors announcement
| that they plan no new mode!
! passenger cars in 1943 is expect
d to be followed shortly by Ford
and Chrysler. These three make
about 35 percent of the nation's
cars.
A British threat to bomb
Rome in case that Athens and
Cairo are attacked from the air
was angrily rejected by Berlin
which said that it had no inten
tion of bombing either city.
The German high command
said a heavily armed 8,000 - ton
British auxiliary cruiser was
bombed and sunk near Salum,
Egypt, last night and brought the
Luftwaffe’s 24-hour shipping de
struction record to 58,000 tons.
The British said four Axis mer
chant ships and escort vessel
were set afire or left in a sink
ing condition in a North Sea at
tack. Yesterday 8 British planes
At Athens, Premier General
Simovic of Yugoslavia, said the
defeat of his armies was caused
by the swift German entry into
Croatia and the lack of “prior
collaboration with the Allies."
CANADIANS TAKE KING FOR A RIDE»
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King George (left) was taken for a ride in a Bren carrier when he visited Canadian troops in Eng
land recently. Seated beside the king as they rode over the testing grounds was Gen. Victor Odium.
CONFER ON SOFT COAL STRIKE
Ezra Van Horn (left) of Cleveland, representing the operators; Dr. John R. Steelman (center), dir
ector of the U. S. conciliation service, and John L. Lewis (right), head of the United Mine Workers,
are shown in an informal moment at their conference seeking settlement of bituminous coal strike.
Forest Fires
Ra\ a»e Eight
r r
Eastern States
UNDATED, April 21 (JP) —
Thousands of acres of eight east
ern states were charrsd ruins as
the aftermath . of a ’devastating
series of forest fires which con
sumed the sun-dried countryside
like cordwood. Tiny sparks be
came raging flames under the
double spur of brisk breezes and
tinder-like trees, shrubs and
grasses. The fire devoured hun
dreds of homes as well as forest
farms. A fortnight of unseason
able warm, dry weather wa blam
ed for the seriousness of the
fires. Several hundreds individ
ual blazes felled dozens of fire
fighters and resulted in at least
two deaths.
Hardest hit was central and
southern New Jersey where G8
homes were gutted and property
damage estimated at up to a mil
lion. Other states where blacken
ed tree stumps marked the path
of the fires were Massachusetts,
Vermont, Pennsylvania, New
York, Maryland and Virginia. In
West Virginia some 150 separate
blazes were reported.
Deanna Durbin
Weds V. Paul
HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (/Pi —
Deanna Durbin, aged 19, radiant
ly lovely in a satin gown murmur
:d a scarcely heard “I do” and
became the bride of Vaughn Paul
aged 25, in the first big church
wedding in this city in four
years.
Car Runs Off
Dock-Two Die
CORDOVA, April 18 (/P) — The
plunging of a commercial del
ivery truck over the city dock
this afternoon brought death to
Knute Iverson .ags d 23, the driv
er, and Martin Anderson, aged
70, with youths Ross Billet and
Albert Vacurra who escaped. The
latter suffered severe leg cuts.
The truck skidded on the slip
pery dock and as it started its
fatal plunge, Billet, Vacurra and
Anderson exited from the rear,
the youths swiming to safety but
Anderson dying of injuries and
shock.
Iverson’s body was unrecover
ed d spite raising of the truck,
probably falling out in the pro
ces of raising. Iverson, is a local
youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Iver
n. Anderson is a pioneer Alas
kan fiisherman and leaves a large
family.
Witnesses said the car’s speed
was inexcessive but the dock was
slick and the driver applied the
brakes at the beginning of the
fatal plunge but was unable to
avert the dock's edges, and the
car leaped over the heavy cup
guard.
Ketchikan Stages
Second Blackout
KETCHIKAN, April 19 (IP) —
This city’s second blackout last
night was successful as firemen
staged a mock air raid, shoot
ing huge bombs and lighting
smoke pots and flares. They
climbed on ladders up a three
story business building exting
U.S., Canada Agree
To Interchange
Defense Articles
HYDE PARK, April 21 (VP) —
The speedy mobilization of North
America’s resources, calling for
the interchange of defense articl
es by the United States .and Can
ada was agreed upon by Presi
dent Roosevelt and Prime Minis
ter McKenzie King. Designed for
the dual purpose of hastening aid.
to Britain and other democracies
and for the defens: of this hem
isphere, the agreement was an
nounced in a joint statement to
night after a seven-hour confer
ence hetwe n Roosevelt and the
Canadian leader. Both then left
for Washington and Ottawa.
The statement said “it is ag
reed upon as general principles ir»
mobilizing the resources of this
continent that each country
should provid the other with de
fense articles it is best able to
produce and above all produce
them quickly and production pro
grams should be coordinated to
this end.”
During the year, the statement
added, it is hoped that Canada
will supply the Unit d States
with 2 or 3 hundred million
dollars worth of defense articles
“urgently needed by the United
States.” Certain kinds of muni
tions, strategic materials, alumin
um and ships were mentioned.
uishing an “incendiary” blase.
National Guard units took sta
tions with machine guns and
rifles.
The firemen used firecrackers,
imitating machine guns, sirens
sounded and people jammed the
streets.