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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 33. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAR. 17, 1941. _ 154
7 Billion Aid Bill Be Oked Wed.
100,000 British Troops Are Reported In Greece
One-day Service Seattle-Fairbanks Starts Thursday
ADMINISTRATION SOLIDLY BE
HIND REQUEST FOR 7 BILLION
FOR LEASE-LEND PROGRAM
Bill Goes To House For Debate On Tuesday
WASHINGTON, March 17 (jP)
—President Roosevelt’s call for a
most urgent all-out national ef
fort on the leas'-lend program,
lined up the administration, forc
es solidly against any attempts
to cut the seven billion dollar
fund asked to provide imple
ments of war to embattcd democ
racies, by th avowed opposition.
' Voting on the full amount was
lacking in the House, where the
debate on the measure starts to
morrow. Approval is expected
Wednesday. Some Senators how
ever questioned the need of so
much money immediately.
The President’s Saturday night
speech, on- of the most strongly
worded he ever delivered on in
ternational affairs continued to
monopolize comment. Some pas
sages of it evoked speculation on
Roosevelt's future plans for the
American people. The President
said.: “Gangness recognized the
xtreme seriousnes of the situa
tion and that is why they de
manded and got a policy of un
qualified immediate all-out aid
to Britain, Greece, China and all
governments in exile, whose
homelands are temporarily oc
cupi.d by aggressors. From now
on that aid will be increased and
yet again increased until total
victory is won.”
Roosevelt’s statement that the
Americas will work, sacrifice de
pended service for a “vital
bridge” of boats to transport sup
p.ies aboard, was interpreted by
some as hinting at convoys, but
administration supporters doubt
ed that mat was the intention.
100,000 BRITISH TROOPS IN
GREECE & GERMAN PLANES
ARE NOW IN BULGARIA
Situation In Balkans Is Reaching Critical Stage
UNDATED, March 15 </P)—'The
reported landing of nearly a hun
dred thousand mechanized Brit
ish troops in southern G,P ece and
the tuning up of hundreds of
German warplanes on Bulgarian
airports indicated that the new
l Balkan war front is in the mak
ing. Neutral diplomats arriving
at Belgrade from Athens, told of
the disembarkation of Britons at
five ports and said thi:y expect
ed both the British and Greeks
to deny it officially for strategic
reasons within twelve hours. The
ports were not named but Salon
ika was mentioned most fri quent
ly. Flame throwing machines,
tanks, anti-aircraft and anti-tank
.guns were mentioned among the
items of the British equipment.
Germain circles asserted that the
Balkan crisis was “reaching a crit
I ical stage.”
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PA A To Start
One-Day Service
Seattle-Fairbanks
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SEATTLE, March 17 iTP) — Pac
ific Alaska Airways announced
the start of a twice-weekly break
fast to dinner scheduled beginn
j ing Thursday for a Seattle to
Fairbanks flight in a time of 10
hours 55 minutes.
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RAF Am!
L n f t w a f e
Trade Blows
UNDATED. March 15 if/P) — Air
raiders exchanged heavy blows
across the English Channel. Brit
ish warplanes blasted such in
dustrial centers as Rotterdam,
Duesseldorf and Gelsenkirchen.
The German high command said
damage to industries was neglig
ible but some civilians were kill
i d and injured. The British ack
nowledged the loss of two raid
ing planes.
German crews raided Glasgow,'
Sheffield, London, Leeds, Ply
mouth. and South Hampton leav
ing a trail of casualties and pro
perty damage.
The High Command announced
that two merchant vessels total
| ing 111,000 tons were sunk off
the British east coast.
The British said four bombers
were shot dowm. London had ^
showers of fire bombs.
From the Albanian fighting
' front, Germans reported that j
Mussolini’s personal effort there
to spur the Italian troops to vic
tory, failed, and he must go back
to Italy “covered with shame.”
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U. S. PLANE SIMULATES ATTACK ON BALLOON
A U. S. army plane begins a dive in simulated attack on a dirigible being used at Fort Lewis, Wash
as a barrage balloon in practice sessions until real ballons, due soon, arrive.
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SKI PATROL MEMBER MAKES MOUNTAIN BIVOUAC
Private William Conger, Indian, member of the Third Division ski patrol of Fort Lewis, Washington
demonstrates how the unit bedded down for th night on Mountain maneuvers in the Northwest,
Canada Starts
Work On
Air Bases
OTTAWA, March 15 iJP) —Trac
tor trains are moving into the
Canadian northwest with 800 tons
of eqiuipmi nt and materials to
build the new series of air bases
stretching from Edmonton and ,
Vancouver to Alaska. The air
ministry and transport depart
ment said Air Minister C. G. Pow
der told a press conference some
time ago that such bases will be
built as part of the defense pro
gram under recommendation of
the joint Canadian and United
Status defense board. This dis
closure is the first that work has
started.
Nazi Air Force
Claims Sinking
British Ships
UNDATED, March 17 ((#>)—The
German command reported that
their air force took another bite
our of Britain’s sea-borne com
merce, sinking two armed mer
chantmen, totaling 4,000 tons, in
the Atlantic west of Ireland, the
probable destruction of a 5 thou
sand ton armed merchantman;
and damaged two other freight
ers, totaling 4,000 tons. Informed
Nazis is Berlin also reported that
German planes torpedoed two
British battleships in the Mediter
ranean, off the siland of Crete
but the High Command made no
mention of it.
The DNB reported a stiff blaz
Figures Differ
Tonnage Sunk
During War
UNDATED, March 17 </P) —
With Hitler’s all-out spring offen '
sive against British shipping just
beginning, the authoritative
Lloyd’s shipping register listed
British, allied and neutral ship-1
ping for the first 18 months of
the war as 1,245 ships, totaling'
4,967,0'JO tons, a total of 700,000
tons more than the aliles lost in
thi: first two and a half years of
the first World War; against 422
German and Italian Axis control
ed ships aggregating 2,028,000
tons reported sunk up to March
2.
The Lloyd figures compared
with claims advanced by the j
March 13th German commentary
Dienst Aus Deutchland that the
Germans destroyed 9,000,000 tons
of ships. Britain started the war
with some 21,000,000 tons of ships
and obtained an undisclosed;
amount, about 12 million tons
held by Norway, Denmark, Bel
gium, Netherlands and France.
§212.000,000 TO BE
PAID TO FARMERS
WASHINGTON, March — A
House committee approved a mca
sure carrying $212,000,000 for
parity payments to farmers.
It also provides for many oth
er far-reaching activities of the
Agriculture Department program
ing fire had broken out aboard
the 49,000 torn liner Bremen,
which made a dramatic dash ac
ross thie Atlantic from New York
early in the war, but didn’t give
the sliip’s whereabouts.
Nazis Assert
Britain Intends
Occupy Azores
BERLIN, March 15 '(/P) — Ger
man sources professed igreat in
terest in Tangiers and Moroccn
reports that the British contem
pale the occupation of the Az
ores and aso make landing bases
in Portugal. The Associated Press
has not received any such reports
The highly placed newspaper
Dienst Aus Deutschland said:
“There are indications from Wask
ington that the United States
might have encouraged the Brit
ish to such a step and doubtless
will be of special significance to
Germans.” The paper added that
such a move was like the British
efforts to obtain Ireland to set up
a more effective defense against
the submarine and long distance
bombing planes,
Nazis Imprison
American Woman
WASHINGTON, March 15 </P)
— The State Department was in
formed that Mi's. Etta Shiber,
American, widow of a New York,
newspaperman, was sentenced to
three years imprisonment by a
Germany military court in Paris,
charged with complicity in aid
ing British military fugitives to
escape from occupied France.
Maynard Barnes, al the Ameri
can embassy, cabled that she was
well defended by a German
speaking attorney. The prosecu
tion demanded her death. Two
others who were tried were giv
en death sentences and four oth
ers prison sentences.