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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 113. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 16, 1940 per ^ 184
Conscription Measure Becomes Law
Speaker of The House William B. Bankhead Dies
German Troop Carrier Movements Are Reported
German Troop Carriers Seen
On French Coast-Dover Shelled
RAF Claims 185 Planes Downed
UNDATED, Sept. 16 (/P) — Ger
man long range cannon on the
French coast sent tons of steel
screaming across the channel in
to the Dover area, the gateway
for the possibly imminent inva
sion, even as the Britons cele
brated the greatest air victory
since the battle for Britain be
gan. At the high chalk cliffs at
Dover, Britain’s big coastal guns
thundered at the Nazi-held bases
across the channel. Later reports
said the German barrage was
hurling shells at emplacements
22 miles distant and apparently
replied to the initial British sal
vo of about 24 shells.
An official London commun
ique said RAF fighters and anti
aircraft guns shot down 185 Nazi
warrv>»nfs w*.«kyesi?rday’* flam
ing air battle, the biggest single
days bag of the war. Only 25 Brit
ish planes were reported lost.
The English said the pilots of
j 12 of these were saved.
Hitler's big Berthas opened the
cross-channel assault at 11 a. m.
, raining shells on Dover’s streets
i and on crowds of shoppers. The
| civilian population fled to shel
: ters as four salvos arrived within
j ten minutes.
Correspondents in English
coastal towns reported that Ger
! man troop carriers of every des
cription are steaming along the
French coast and in the ghostly
mist-hung channel waters. It is
feared that Hitler might take ad
, vantage of the weather to coak
| his troops landing venture.
Eleven persons were wounded
i in t'he shelling of Dover.
A big air battle raged high
over London, the capital exper
. drug iti faurib a-'r rc;d alarm,
, of the day. Shrapnel rattled like
; hail on the city's rooftops as bat
lories of Archies set up a terrific
I barrage.
London Offered
Choice Fates
Warsaw, Paris
UNDATED, Sept. 14 UP) —Neu
tral military obs rvers predicted
that the next 48-hours was a per
iod of intense danger of invasion
to Britain,” as Nazi raiders round
ed out a week of steady mass at
tacks on London.
An authorized German spokes
man said that Hitler alone could
determine when Britain would be
“ripe for the final assault.”
Wea*her conditions off Dover
were slightly less favorable there
still being a southwest breeze.
The nation’s postmaster Gener
al announced that due to heavy,
pressure on telegraph and tele-1
phone service the public was ask
ed to use them for urgent mes
sages only. He did not mention
any damage to them.
A time bomb exploded in front
of Buckingham Palace and dem
olished a huge gatepost and sec
tion of iron fencing. The bomb
was presumably dropped yester
day when five others fell on the
palace and grounds.
The German high command re
ported the continuing of day and
night bombing attacks on Lon
;lon despite unfavorable weather.
They said that -numerous factor
ies and docks were hit, and Lon
don airports, war industries and
rrilroads “bombed effectively” in
southeastern England. Well in
formed sources said that London
sti 1 had the choice between the
fates of Warsaw and Paris and
unless it capitulates, will be dev
astated.
President Signs Peace-Time Draft
Bill Issues Proclamation Require
16, Half Million Register By Oct-16
WASHINGTON. Sept. 14 (JPh
The Senate approved and sent to
th& House the final compromise
version of the peace-time con
scription 'bill, making approxi
mately sixteen ard one half mil
lion men from 21 to 35 subject
immediate regis'ration and pos
sible draft for a year’s military
training, by a vote of 47 to 25.
The measure includes a provi
sion giving the government pow
er to commandeer industrial
plants when own rs prove recal
citrant about accepting or speed
ing up defense orders. This mea
;3ii-e is' much m re drastic than
tire previous compromise version
written into the measure a short
time previously by the joint Sen
ate ar.d House conference com
mit t^e. ■ a r -. .'jt p , _ \
75,090 Enrolees By November
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (/P)—
The peace-time draft legislation
was finally approved by Con
gress and sent to the White
House. The President’s signature
is expected early next week sot
ting in motion the machinery
which will send trie first of 75,000 ,
draftees into camp in November.
The House voted 232 for and 124
against the measure.
A aska Plan be Announced Later
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (/P>—
President Roosevelt signed into
law the nation's first peace-time
drait bill and immediately is
sued a proclamation requiring
t. registration by October 16,
of 16 and on- -half million men
Eged from 21 through 35 years of
age. Tire President signed the
historic measure at 3:08 p.m.
EST in the long rectangular
White House cabinet room in the
presence of Chairman Sheppard
Mty of the Senate and House Mil
nary committee, Secretary of
War Samson and General Mar
i':
The President issued a state
ment saying “America has adopt
ed selective service in time of
peace and in doing so has broad
oned and enriched out basic con
cept of citizenship.”
The time and place for regis
tration in Alaska will be set by
a subsequent proclamation.
Sidney Laurence,
Artist, Anticipates
His Own Death
__________
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 14 UP) —
Friends recalled today of the
strange premonition of Sidney
Laurence, artist, of his approach
ing end. He told friends Wednes
day that he would die the next
day and told one who had order
ed a painting for Christmas de
livery he'd better get it at once
because “tomorrow' will be too
iate.”
At a barber shop he said: “I’m
going to get prettied up to die.”
When he went home he asked
to be taken to the hospital, and
collapsed next morning and
died. He had been in failing
health for many months.
His paintings of Mount McKin
ley won him wide fame. He lived
in the Anchorage Hotel where
all tourists asked to see him. He
is survived by a widow.
" ' ' r '■ —
Write to your friends and rela
uves on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
rick out of it
Second Division Returns, General Election, September 10, 1940
Dele. Atty. Auditor Engin. Senator Representatives
Gen.
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SOLOMON 5 30 5 27 29 4 23 8 25 8 0 5 6 10 25 15 10 25 14 27
WHITE MOUNTAIN .... 8 24 19 14 19 15 22 It 16 6 12 7 21 2 20 31 7 16 8 23
BLUFF . 494976578 55239616 11 785
COUNCIL .. 14 22 20 16 18 17 18 16 16 8 7 13 11 15 24 12 20 16 17 24 13
GOLOVIN . 163351510 102500 1 16643
CANDLE 45 56 42 57 60 41 52 46 57 34 8 20 27 61 62 23 55 28 46 65 37 56
TAYLOR Z."."ZZZ".. 3 21 7 17 16 9 21 7 17 6 6 5 14 16 16 5 16 16 11 11 11 16
DEERING . 2 29 7 21 28 3 17 9 22 1 1 1 5 24 15 4 12 6 7 20 10 23
KOTZ0BUE 26 38 25 35 38 21 40 19 41 21 1 4 32 26 31 19 29 2 5 29 44 27 15
FORTUNA LEDGE . 5 12 2 26 25 3 18 5 19 4 2 3 16 5 16 18 10 15 3 20 24 5
MOUNTAIN VILLAGE .-. 4 17 4 17 18 3 20 1 19 2 0 3 1 19 21 4 14 3 1 18 8 12
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ST MICHAEL ZZZZZII. 297365377300 10 522569592
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Secretary Navy Knox Declares
U.S. Pacific Fleet “Greatest and
Most Powerful On The High Seas”
HONOLULU, Sept. 14 \&)—Ar
intensive study of the United
| States fleet in action convinced
! Secretary Knox that it “is the
greatest' in the world, returning
from a live day inspect.on, dur
ing war exercises far at sea. He
said it is the greatest, most pow
erful and most effective fleet on
Speaker William B. Bankhead
Speaker House
William Bankhead
Passes Away
*
WASHINGTON Sept. 14 (JP)—
The g '.era! end \ of Speaker
of the H)use Bankhead was “not
considered satisfactory.” Dr. C.
W. Bruns - naval h xspital med
ical officer .-aid he had only a
fair night an J developed a sight
fever. He was t .ken to the hos
pital Thursday after collapsing
shortly before he was scheduled
to deliver an address to a Dem
ccratic ral y.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 14 {JP)—
Speaker William B. Bankhead,
aged 63 of Alabama, died early
Sunday at the naval hospital
here. Death was due to a reptur
ed artery in the abdomen. The
Democratic leader was stricken
last Tuesday.
Honorable William B. Bank
head was born in January, 1374
in Moscow, Lamar County, Ala
bama and was congressman for
Alabama for 24 years. Since 1936
he has been Speaker of the U. S.
House of Representatives.
He attended the Unversity of
! Tuscaloosa and later studied law
I in Georgetown, then went to
Fayette where he was admitted
to the bar. He practiced law in
Huntsville in the office of Judge
! William Richardson, who for
j many years was a member of
Congress.
Bankhead was married in Jan.
[ 31, 1907 in Memphis and then
: the high seas or anywhere.”
Knox flew' here yesterday from
the Ui S. S. Eenterprise, 40 miles
at sea and described the spectac
ular maneuver's. He said he was
aboard a destroyer which “sunk”
in a night engagement, a battle
ship. He thinks more and better
bombing planes are needed.
f
. returned to Huntsville to live.
Two children were born, a dau
ghter Eugenia, and then in Jan.
1902. another daughter, Tallulah,
! who was destined to become the
; beautiful and talented star of the
3roadway stage and Hollywood.
Foreign Agents
Biamed For
\. J. Explosions
a -
KENYIL, N. J. Sept. 14 (JP) —
i “Activities of foreign agents”
i were blamed by Senator Barbour
1 at Washington, for the explosions
which killed at least 48 persons
Thursday, and which in five min
utes blasted more than a score
of powder plant buildings.
State police checked the mem
bership rolls of the German Am
erican Bund against the roster
of the plant employees.
G. M. Agrees To
Mass Production
Machine Guns
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 </P)_
The War Department announced
an agreement with General Mot
ors for mass production of ma
chine guns at an estimated coat
f 81 million dollars.
Report British
P. I. Freighter
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 14 (/P)
A report circulated here that a
British warship halted the Phil
ipine freighter Dona Aurdra, a
hundred miles off the California
coast and removed the Italian
engineer today. Th& agents 3aid
they lead heard of it but had no
■jnfirmation from the master of
j the vessel.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
That unique and humorous
md typical Alaskan stationery—
Sourdough Roadhouse Lettcr
j eads and Envelopes”, have been
J irought strictly uptodate, and am
i ow available at the Nugget offi
ce.
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