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THE^OM^NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 19. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, FEB. 12, 1941. ** w
Deportation Of Bridges Is Ordered
Reinforcement German Troops Entering Rumania
Willkie Urges Immediate, Long Term Aid to Britain
MOSTLY YANKEE —New York’s debutante model. Helen
Stedman (left), shows Co-Chairman Gary Garrison and Jean
Perkins type of ambulance plane for which British-Amcrican Am
bulance corps hopes to raise funds in a Scotch Ball in N. Y. Jan. SI.
Caught Smuggling
$55,083 In Gold
Canada to U. S.
SEATTLE, Feb. 12 ffl — Cus
toms officers in a routine exam
ination of automobiles entering
the United States from Can a'a a'
Blaine, frustrated an attempt tc
smuggle $55,000 in gold into thr
United States.
Leo Morland, aged 39, of Van
couver, B. C., was arrested when
an officer found 57 gold bars hid
den betw’een th: inner wall and
metal outer wall of his car’s
trunk and equipment.
I
Fred Bradt, customs agent in
I charge at Seattle, filed a smug
gling charge against Morland.
; who he said, told him the gold
v :s “accumulated” in Australia
land smuggled first into Canada.
Bradt said an intensive investiga
1 tion will 'be made of Morland’s
-object in bringing the go’d into
the United States. He pointed
ut that Morland is in the pecul
iar position of facing prosecution
by both the United States and
Canada. Bradt said the' usual pro
cedure was after trial in this
country will be to deport him to
Canada where he could be charg
ed with breaking the war-time
law regulating the amount of
money that may be taken out of
the country.
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A REPORT — IN F U L L—Volume by volume, a record of the committee’s activity lines up in
front of the Temporary National Economic Committer (TNEC) as members consider their final report
to congress. Left to right: Rep. Clyde Williams <r» r'o.): Rep. Hatton Sumners (D-Tex.): Thurman
Arnold: Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.), Ch; h nan; Dewey Anderson, executive secretary TNEC.
WILLKIE URGES PASSAGE OF
AID TO BRITAIN BILL WITH
MODIFICATIONS IMMEDIATELY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 {JP) —
Urging passage of the British aid
bill “with modifications” Willkie
proposed to the Senate foreign re
lations committee that the United
States furnish Britain with five
to ten destroyers a month.
The 1910 Republican candidate
Tor presid nt. appearing in the
1 Senate’s marbled caucus room,
which was packed by hundreds
who waited for hours to hear
him, he declared in a prepared
statement that Britain needs “im
: mediate and long term” assist
! ance. lie said we should provide
Bi itain with destroyers “directly
and swiftiy rather than through
rigamarule and dubious legalis
tic interpretations. Incidentally,
if we make more destroyers avail
able for Britain we should re
condition them in the country in
our own yards.”
As for modifications, Wilikie
said it was wise to limit the pro |
posed aid to the British Common
\\v Ith, China and Greece and
said in discussing the legisla-,
tion “We mustn’t hide important!
! fact.- and must have the courage
I to draw the proper inferences J
from these facts. Democracy can
not live by dodging around the |
corner.” Wilikie said he believed
that the policy of “isolation” will'
eventually destroy civil liberties
in the United States and bring;
economic upheaval.
Deportation Pro
ceedings Ordered
Against Bridges
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (JP) —
Attorney General Jackson order
ed deportation proceedings ag
ainst Harry Bridges, West Coast
labor leader, on the basis of a
FBI report that Bridges is a Com
munist. Jackson said the war
rant for his arrest will be is
sued and served on Bridges at
b arings held in San Francisco
beginning March 31st. Bridges,
head of tihe CIO longshoremen’s
union is an Australian.
LORD LLOYD *LL 3
WEEKS, PASS ,S AWAY
LONDON, Feb. — Lord Llyod,
61, British Colonial Secretary
and Government leader in the
House of Lords, died suddenly.
He became ill 3 weeks ago when
, he b:gan suffering severe chills.
FBI Doubles
Activities;
Defense Work
National Defense activities
i have more than doubled the
, work of the Identification Divi
jsion of the Federal Bureau of In
| vestigation in December, 1940.
j as compared with December, 1939
i it was announced by T. E. Naugh
| ten, acting agent in charge of the
] Juneau office of the FBI.
An average of 13,545 finger
prints were receiv-d for search
daily in December 1940, as con
■ toasted with 6,300 in December,
11939.
I The largest increase was re
corded in the volume of Civil
Service prints retained in the
Identification Divsion where
23,025 were retained in Decem
| ber, 1940, as compared with
4,512 in D:cember, 1939.
A record numb-r of 11,130 con
tributors submitted 333,930 fin
gerprint cards during December,
1940. These included criminal
prints, personal identification
prints, War, Navy and Marine
Corps prints, as well as Civil
Service prints.
During each working day in De
cumber there were approximate
ly 24 fugitives identified in the
fingerprint files through the
medium of wanted notices main
tained for the benefit of law in
forcement agencies.
On January 1, 1941, the Identi
fication Division contained 15,
023,719 fingerprint cards of all
descriptions.
THREE MORE BARRACKS
IN ALASKA AREAS
WASHSINGTON, Feb. — The
Navy Department announces
there has been added to the sum
of $19,225,790 for contracts let to
the Siems, Drake and Puget
Sound Company for construction
of Army garrison facilities at
Sitka, Kodiak and Unalaska,
$5,193,840 also the sum of $400,
000 for preliminary investiga
tions, including equipment and
supplies at the same site.
BULGARIA IN THE SQUEEZE
Bulgaria, hemmed in between German armies massed on Rumania
(1) and Turkish, troops concentrated on her Thrace border (3), was
reported to have centered her own soldiers on the border facing the
Vurks (2). If the Nazis enter Bulgaria from the North, the Turks
will enter from the South, their officers warned.
NAZI TROOPS, WAR EQUIP
MENT FLOWING SOUTH AT
RATE OF 40 TRAINS A DAY
Assert Bulgaria Fears Danger of English Invasion
UNDATED, Feb. 11 i(/P)—iFleets
of German transport planes ident
ified as the type used to drop
Nazi parachute troops in the
1940 blitzkrieg on the western
front were reported flashing
southward across Hungary in an
apparent sequel to Britain’s rup
ture of diplomatic relations with
Rumania. The planes were report
ed speeding in the direction of
Rumania and Bulgaria and the
Balkan capitals nervously spec
ulated that Hitler might be start
ng a thrust on Bulgaria for the
invasion of Greece or Turkey.
Informed sources in London
said Britain is expected to break
diplomatic relations with Bul
garia if Nazi troops were admit
ted to that Balkan country.
Dispatches from Budapest said
that 31 giant tri-motored planes
flew to Budapest alone, sweep
ing so low that the markings
were plainly visible.
There was no immediate ex -
planation of the hurried rein
forcsment of Germany’s armies
massed in the Balkans, which
are already estimated to number
in the hundreds of thousands.
400,080 Nazis Sent
To Balkans As
Reinforcements
UNDATED, Feb. 12 (JP) — In
the nerve wracked Balkans, war
like preparations moved steadily
ahead and military observers in
Belgrade reported that Hitler
sped 25 new divisions of about
400,000 troops into Rumania in
recent we ks to reinforce his Bal
kan command. An average of 40
trains a day, it is said, are pass
ing through Hungary, carrying
German munitions, tanks, guns,
and men. The Nazi force is re
ported massed on the banks of
the Danube, facing Bulgaria.
Perhaps significanty, pro-Axis
newspapers in the Bakans, de
clared that Bugaria “fears that
England is about to violate her
neutrality.” This, recalling the
well tried Nazi strategy before
Hitler’s blitzkrieg legions struck
at the lowlands of the western
front last May.
The Turkish official press urg
ed a united Balkan front against
a German thrust across Bulgaria
while some quarters said the
Turks will probably not fight un
less her borders are invaded.
Others cited Turk y’s military al
liance with Britain and noted
that British officers from the mid
die east command have just fin
ished inspecting Turkish fortifica
tions facing Bulgaria.
Mussolini And
Franco Meet
In Italy
UNDATED. Feb. 12 (JP) — Mus
solini and Fanco were reported
to have met “somewhere in It
aly” amid speculation that the
conference would consider
Spain’s possible entry into the
war.
Diplomatic observations a t
Bern, expressed two beliefs as to
the usbject of the Franco-Musso
lini talks: one, that Mussolini is
pressing for Spain’s aid in the
western Mediterranean to help
wrest the offensive from Britain;
and two, as Franco is the head of
a large Catholic state, joining his
efforts with those of the Pope t<x
bring an end to the war.