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EDITORIAL
CIVILIAN BOMBINGS
AND TOTAL WAR
Authenticated reports of bomb
jng of Paris by the Nazis, and de
claration of intention to retaliate
especially if such raids are per
sisted in —carries the European
conflict dangerously near if not
into the most dreaded phase of
warfare imaginable.
The world shudders in contem
plation of what it may all lead
to. If “total” war—meaning the
attacking of civilian populations
as well as all armed forces—said
to be a threat of Germany, comes
not a man, woman or child may
escape the most horrifying con
sequences. Annhilation of civil
ians as well as military units,
.with no mercy on anyone would
follow.
Cities harboring troops or in
any way provided with defensive
or fighting equipment, according
to dispatches attributed to Ger
man origin, will be construed as
legitimate objects of attack. They
intimated Paris was so equipped.
Whether or not this is only a pre
text, the worst is now threatened.
The war has reached such a
stage, that it will require little
more to precipitate open attacks
on city after city, fortified or un
fortified. The world at large may
hope for this unbridled form of
warfare to be averted, but will it.
It is not to be forgotten that
in the recent Spanish war Mad
rid and many other cities were re
peatedly bombed and reduced;
that in China, the Japanese all
but wiped out Shanghai and oth
er great Chinese cities in air
raids and naval attacks, hesitat
ing at nothing until they had
gained control.
Appeals of neutral nations or
former conventions or agree
ments between nations are now
nothing. The determination to de
liver the last crushing blow and
batter France to her knees and
then invade England may afford
excuse for resort to any method
conceivable of breaking civilian
morale—but victory purchased at
such debasement will win for
those responsible the contempt of
-every nation still possessed of a
sense of honor or compassion for
the innocent or helpless.
.America and the nations com
mi.ted to the high ideals of dem
ocracy may now witness in Eu
rope what may be expected if
they become involved or fail to
prepare to keep the disciples of
*‘t tal” war from the shores of
the Western “World.
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By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON — Over in the
block-long munitions building,
whose architecture is early 20
th Century whitewashed bar
racks, the army boys have torn
from their books that venerable
saying, “You can’t beat the
Dutch.”
On the nice clean page they
have inserted, there is a “Warn
ing to Future Generals: The way
those fifth column work beats the
Dutch.”
Sifting down the reports of the
Nazi’s five-day blitzkrieg of Hol
land, the army experts have con
cluded that the fifth column
has again proved itself the most
valuable weapon developed in
modern warfare.
The secret magic with which
the Nazi hordes over-ran Holland
although the Dutch had been pre
paring for such an emergency
for years, can, say the army
men, be summed up in two words
Internal combustion.
For example, from the very out
| set of the German invasion, snip
l ers took a toll of Dutch soldiers
I from the roofs and window's of
buildings even in the well-polic
! ed cities of The Hague, Amster
j dam and Rotterdam.
Two Cops On Duty
: When the sixth column, or para
chute troops, arrived at one of
the main airports near Rotter
dam, only two civil policemen
were on duty—the only logical
conclusion being that.someone in
[ the army had ordered all troops
away from the airport at the
1 zero hour.
In several of the principal cities
| the air raid alarm system went
completely haywire. Sirens
screamed day and night, throw
i ing the cities into utter confu
jsion.
; In Amsterdam, the water sup
ply system — that vital artery
which is the first objective of
saboteurs—washed out complete
ly
In The Hague, the heart of the
Dutch government, there was an
uprising which took on the es
pects of an organized revolution.
Hour after hour, parachute
troops were reported landing in
localities where, strangely Dutch
troops weren’t.
And most significant of all, the
Nazi invasion of Holland wasn’1
even off the griddle before Eng
I land started a nation-wide clean
up of aliens.
: There’s one thing more, though
I this occurred in Belgium. Armj
j
officers who fought in the World
War I looked over the collapse
of Namur, and the apparent in
' effective resistance of the outer
i forts of Liege and ran back thru
! the pages of memory.
Kaiser Had Trojan Horse
There, they found the stories
of the fall of these two great
fortresses in 1914. and reports cur
rent then that a “fifth column”
j had been working for months
I with the German high command
j to bring about their capitulation.
A former intellgience officer re
calls that German imperialists
months before August, 1914,
bought large estates near these
fortresses and showed a great
predilection for building cement
; tennis courts. It wasn’t discover
ed until Belgium was a shambles
| that the “tennis courts” were ce
ment slabs 30 feet deep, and
really hidden emplacements for
big guns that battered the forts
into heaps of crushed rock.
The conclusion here is that
that “secret weapon” of Hitler's
is no more than this same fifth
column. The report that the men
in Fortress Eben Emael suddenly
* discovered their machine guns
| and small cannon would not
; work was the clue. Somewhere
! among those 1,000 men who
j threw up their hands in surrend
! er must have been dozens or ev
en scores who walked the Nazi
glory road instead of the trail to
prison camps.
GRAVES OF 3 PIONEERS
FOUND ON CAMPUS
LARAMIE, Wyo. — Workmen
on the University of Wyoming
campus, digging excavations for j
a new building uncovered three j
graves of pioneers who were bur
ied more than a half century ago.
Then their shovels struck a
fourth coffin. Before a dozen
more spades of eath were turned
a crowd of over 200 was watch
ing.
Gently the workmen scraped
away the soil from the rotting
boards.
Suddenly the decrepit lid lifted
Out stepped a masked figure,
clad in black coat, heavy boots
and brown fur cap. On his back
was this sign:
“I've waited 50 years for the
j Varsity Show.”
Cops unsnarled the traffic jam
and learned it was a publicity
gag for a show the seniors were
staging.
The "corpse” had been planted a
half hour before the workmen
“discovered” it.
—
HOLLYWOOD STAR-LITES
By Chuck Cochard
HOLLYWOOD (Exclusive) —
Europe’s war is having a good
effect on Hollywood in one res
pect.
Hollywood’s foreign market
for the sale of pictures* is being
cut off by this present-day con
flict and although it is having a
bad financial effect on the film
| companies today its good influ
| ence will show in the long run.
Already studios are aiming their
films for domestic use solely —
and that means more time and
more care will be taken in the
making of a picture. The results
will be fewer, but better films.
David Selznick revealed only
■* 1 * ’ W A Si-Ji Vl X
[
recently that factory methods]
cannot be adopted by the film in I
dustry. It is too bad that a war!
was the only way to bring about
the change from mediocre films
to excellent ones. But it has al
ways been that way —someone’s
bad luck is someone else’s good
luck.
The film “Our Town” is my
idea of a swell picture during
these trying times —American
ism at its best—see it.
We wonder why so many of
Hollywood’s married couples tell
us fellows that there isn’t a thing
to those divorce rumors when
all the time they have their grips
all packed for that trip to Reno.
Tyrone Power and Annabella
■ celberated their first wedding an
niversary by looking at the mo
i vie that brought them together—
( “Suez”
Dorothy Lamous is seen at so
many places w'ith so many differ
ent men that it’s difficult to de
termine who the number one
man is in her life—however it
is reported that he is an Army j
aviator in Honolulu.
WIEN ACTIVITIES
June 5—Pilot Wien made two
trips north with freight and pasj
! sengers. Ed Gross, Nome to
Homestake; Billy Waldheim,
Nome to Dahl Creek; and Rollyn
■ Ball. Nome to Boulder.
A flight was made to Council,
1 Aggie Creek and Golovin in the
evening with freight. A1 Blatch
ford was a passenger to Council
from Golovin and Mr. and Mrs. ■
Chester Milligan were taken to
Aggie Creek from Council.
A load of freight was taken to
points north. Edna Thompson
was brought to Nome on the re- ]
turn trip.
Graham Lammers and Frank |
Whaley were passengers to Nome
from Fox Bar and Rainbow this
morning.
Mort Sullivan was brought to
Nome from Bluff. ;
Pilot Noel Wien arrived in
Nome from Fairbanks with one
! passenger from Fairbanks with
one passenger and freight. Passen
gers on the return trip were Mr.
J. Truitt and Mrs. John Tahl
Munz Air Activities
Passengers from Taylor yester
day with Bill Munz were Sam
Godfrey, George Lemmon and
Eddy Jacobsen.
Today Pilot Munz brought
from Taylor to Nome: Mrs. Eddy
Jacobsen and Mrs. George Lem
mon.
A passengers to Taylor today j
was Glenn Madden.
Federated Church
Wilbur P. Wood, Pastor
11:00 a.m.—Church School
7:45 p.m. — Worship service.
Sermon topic: “The Vine and
the Branches.” Mr. Bernie Knud
son will sing.
ESKIMO METHODIST CHURCH
Miss Sarah Taylor, Deaconess
11:00 a.m.—Church School
5:30 p.m.—Worship service.
Sermon topic: “The Path of
Wisdom.” W. P. Wood will
preach.
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FATHERS DAY
Greeting Cards and appropriate
Gifts for this occasion
The date: June 16
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Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Partly Cloudy tonight; Sautrday cloudy and cooler; Probably
light rain in the afternoon.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 71 Lowest temp — 52 Precipitation — T
Total precip this month, Trace Total since Jan. 1, 1940, 2.50
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight..-. —- .. 55 51 NNE-12 Cloudy
8am .-. —. 63 41 NE-18 Pt Cldy
12:30 p m .-. 70 32 NE-17 Pt Cldy
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 56 Lowest temp — 36 Precipitation — 0
Tomorrow: Sunrise 1;23 a. m. , Sunset ..10:36 p. m.
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind ..Weather
Deering .... 42 W-12 Clear
Council ...— ... 57 NE-10 Pt Cldy
Golovin _ ___* 67 NE-20 Pt Cldy *
Kotzebue .. ..—..— 47 W-7 Clear
Solomon _ _ _ _ 58 NE22 Clear
Teller.... _ 45 E-4 Cloudy
Wales ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ..■■
Weather Hlsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time ’
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage —- 45 N-6 Clear 0
Bethel ..... 48 NE-3 Pt Cldy 0.02
Cordova __—... 45 NE-3 Clear 0
Dutch Harbor.... . 44 NE-25 Rain 0.16
Fairbanks _ 45 N-6 Clear T
Juneau__ 48 N-3 Clear 0 ,
Pt Barrow -- 10 NE-3 Pt Cldy 0
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