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VOL. 42. No. 53. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, April 29, 1940 Price per copy is#
Strong Allied Resistance Developing
Germans Make Swift Drives In Central Norway
Bristol Bay Alaska Salmon Expedition Cancelled
► South Polar Supply Ship North
Star Arrived Seattle Today, Big
Broadcast Is Reception At Dock
SEATTLE, April 29 (A*)—Back j
from a trip to the Antarctic as
the Byrd supply ship, the motor
ship North Star moored at King
1 ston, across Puget Sound, waiting
to make a dramatic home-coming
here with a nation-wide broad- j
cast at 4 p.m. Pacific Time to
day.
Alaska Salmon
Cancells Trip
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26
(A5) — The Alaska Salmon Com
pany tonight announced the can
cellation of its Bristol Bay sal
mon expedition. 'J. Paul St. Sure
attorney tor the Alaska Salmon
Industry, in a letter to the unions
concerned, wrote “The Alaska
f Salmon Company will not under
take any expedition out of San
Francisco to Bristol Bay in 1940.
The Alaska Packers Association |
and the Red Salmon Canning I
Company desire to send expedi
tions and operate at Bristol Bay;
but they cannot and they will;
not undertake to do so unless a1
mutually satisfactory working 1
agreement is reached with all
unions on or before midnight, j
Friday, May third.
Two Men Killed
In Political
Feud Kentucky
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JACKSON, Ky., April 29 (A1)—
Two men are dead and four oth
ers jailed after another burst of
gunfire in the “bloody Breathitt”
county where enmity exists be
tween two political factions dat
ing back to the bitter Barkley
Chandler Democratic Senatorial
Primary of two years ago.
County jailer William Combs,
aged 41, was shot down from am
bush neal the mountain county
seat. Later Benton Sizemore, 25,
one of his turnkeys was killed
by a bullet in his back as he ap
proached the scene. Four persons
were jailed, including the three
brothers of Ri'dell Boone and
Pete Combs also Arthur Lee.
ATTENTION PIONEERS
The regular meeting of Igloo
No. 1 Pioneers of Alaska will be
held a* the Dri.ter’s Club Build
ing at 8 p.m. Wednesday. May 1st
Mme. Tetrazzini
Passed Away
j MILAN. Italy, April 28 (A5) —
] Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini, aged 65,
j celebrated opera singer died in a
| hospital following a long illness,
i She had been unable to take nou
rishment for several days, except
occasional sips of champagne.
She has been living in com
parative retirement for several
years in her native Italy. Mme.
! Tetrazzini made her farewell ap
I pearance in the United States in
! 1931 and her last broadcast in
! 1938.
French Liner
lie de France Sails
NEW YORK, April 29 (/P) —
The French 34,000-ton liner lie
de France sails Wednesday for an
undisclosed port, but shipping
1 circles said it would take a 12,000
I
ton copper cargo to Halifax for
trans-shipment to England and
France, then head for Australia
to do troop-ship service.
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DOCTOR ORDERS
DEWEY TO BED
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, COLORADO SPRINGS, April!
1 29 (Ah — Thomas E. Dewey was j
ordered to bed for a two day j
1 rest and treatment after a diges- j
tive disturbance.
Nazis Invade Scandinavias; Demand Police Danube
CITY BOMBED; *
NAVAL BATTLE
REPORTED AT SEA
NORWAY MOVES
CAPITAL HERE
GERMAN TROOPS
LAND in NORWAY;
OSLO SURRENDERS
SWEDES DENY
MOBILIZATION
GERMANS OCCUPY
DANISH CAPITAL
DANES SUCCUMB
TO GERMANY'S
‘PROTECTION -
NO RESISTANCE
ARMY LEAVES
CANCELLED
BRITAIN, FRANCE
PLEDGE HELP
TO NORWAY
GERMANY DEMANDS
POLICE PATROL
ALONG DANUBE
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This map highspols developments in Europe as Germany moved-into Norway and Denmark on a
plea of affordng them “armed protection,” and in the southeast was reported to have demanded
theright to police the entire length of the Danube River vital German supply route.
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More Million and
Quarter Leave
Relief S’ast Year
WASHINGTON, April 29 (#>)—!
The approach of “National Em
ployment Week,” the first seven
days in May, set aside by Presi-1
dent Roosevelt, brought from the ;
WPA, a report that more than
a million and a quarter persons
have left the relief rolls in the'
past year. Commissioner Harring
ton said 100,0C0 workers are leav.
ing the WPA every month, al
though many are forced to re-1
turn.
Plans Complete
Reindeer Acquisi
tion Deals June 15
iChas. G. Burdick, transferred
November 1, 1939 from the For
est Service, Department of Agri
culture to the Department of the
Interior as Special Representa
tive of the Secretary to purchase
non-native owned reindeer in Al
aska, pursuant to the Act of Con
gress of September 1, 1937, re
ports that the determination of
the number of reindeer of this
class of ownership has been com
pleted and most of the deals have
been consumated.
Edward C. Kelly stationed at
Portland, Oregon, as Special As
sistant to the Attorney General,
has been assigned to the Acquisi
tion Unit at Nome, Alaska, to
handle legal matters. Walter J.
Clark Field Agent for the Office
of Indian Affairs from Washing
ton was appointed fiscal agent to
handle all fiscal matters.
Roundups have been held on
many ranges using Eskimo crews
with U. S. Reindeer Service per
sonnel in charge. While the herds
of reindeer were being tallied
through the corrals, scouting
crews, consisting of two men and
one dog team each, covered the
ranges to locate and estimate
numbers of deer missed by the
roundup crews. Aerial surveys
were made on all ranges to check
on the work of the ground crews |
and to locate any reindeer which
they may have missed. A tri-1
motor Stinson plane owned by
the Mirow Air Service of Nome
and piloted by Jack Jefford was
used for this purpose. This air
reconnaissance crew usually con
sisted of Mr. Burdick, J. Sidney
Rood, General Supervisor of the
U. S. Reindeer Strvice, the white
owner or his representative and
one or two Eskimo chief herders
thoroughly familiar with the
range being covered.
Mr. Burdick reports that:
“An honest effort was made to
determine as accurately as pos
sible the number of non-native
owned reindeer' in Alaska and
purchases were based on these
figures. The white owners assist
ing in the survey were satisfied
that they were toeing paid for
all reindeer which they could
reasonably claim. Mr. Burdick’s
orders were that the Government
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Strong Allied Resistance In
Central Norway Developing
As Railway Is Threatened
UNDATED. April 29 f/P) — A
strong Allied resistance is appar
ently developing as a Nazi blow
at the strategic Norwegian rail
way is threatened to isolate Al
lied troops in central Norway.
Stockholm reports said the Ger
mans now face the problem of
breaking through the supposedly
strong machine gun and light ar
tillery line the Allies have drawn
across rocky Gudbrandsdalen and
the Glomma river valleys. Whe
ther the Germans will again be
able to climb around the defense
positions as they did last week,
by sending columns over the
snowy mountain paths depends
on the Allies ability to cope with
Nazi air power. Reports of Allied
concentrations are regarded in
Stockholm however as evidence
1 that the Allies are alive to the
ituation.
At London, in the afternoon,
a war office communique announ j
ced the position at Gudbrandsdal:
en was "unchanged.”
The DNB News agency report
ed the Nazis captured 20,000 ar-;
tillery shells, many portable wire
less sets and other war material.
A high command communique
yesterday said 24' officers, includ
mg numerous English fliers were
among the 2,900 men captured in
the Stavanger district in southern
Norway where no large Land op
erations had been previously re
ported, The communique did not
say how many Norwegians were
captured.
Over the week-end a lightning
40-mile German advance enabled
the Germans to strike at the rail
way linking Domibas and Storen.
Both sides rushed up reinforce
ments.
At Rome, Dino Alfrieri, re
garded as a Pro-German Fascist,
was named ambassador to Ger
many.
Britain announced that three
German supply ships were sunk
and more Allied troops landed at
Andalsnes and denied the Ger
man claims that four cruisers and
eleven transports were either
sunk or seriously damaged in the
last 48 hours. Germany said the
British warships were damaged
off Narvik and central Norway.
Swift Smashing German Columns
Endanger Allied Central Positions
STOCKHOLM. April 28 <£>)—
German columns smashing ahead
across central Norway, Swedish
dispatches reported, were moving
with such amazing speed as to
endanger British. French and
Norwegian positions in the entire
Trondheim area.
Latest dispatches indicated that
Norwegian units already were
well scattered while the allied
forces were giving ground before
the pressure of relentless attacks
of machine-gunning German air
planes.
The reports said a decisive bat
tle was being awaited at Dom
bas, a hundred miles south of
Trondheim and seventy miles to
the south of Storem. Thus is a
highly important railroad and
highway junction where the road
from Oslo branches off to Andals
nes—the allied troops’ landing
port to the west of Storem and
Trondheim.
To the north, the German drive
on Dombas was reported to have
nearly reached that town, the
possession of which goes far to
ward the control over the central
Norwegian railroad network.
Nazis Assert
Allies Planned
Occupy Norway
BERLIN, April 27 (/Pi —Ger
many proclaimed today the ex
istance of a state of war between
the Reich and Norway, based up- j
! on the charge that the Allies had.
! perfected deep-seated plans to
invade Norway, which German
intervention had “foiled" by a
few hours.
Shortly after Chancellor Hit
ler’s sweeping proclamation end
ing the twilight of the diplomat
ic status of Germany’s invasion
of the northern kingdom, Foreign
Minister Von Ribbentrop announc
ed the publication of “document
ary proof” that the Allies had
planned to occupy Norway in an
effort to widen the war and de
stroy Germany.
Von Ribbentroy asserted that
Norway had connived in the
plan. ,
In a half-hour address at the
Chancellery before diplomatic
corps, foreign and German press
representatives, high German nav
al, army and air force officials
said that during the German
troop operations in Norway: “we
found an entire plan of occupa
tion by an allied army.”
Even as they spoke the govern
ment released a series of docu
ments purporting to prove that
the British issued orders April
6th and 7th for the seizure of
strategic Scandinavian points.
The high command belatedly
announced the capture of some
three British prisoners in Nor
way, among them a staff com
mander bearing “a number of
politically and militarily import
ant British operations orders and
documents.”