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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 42. No. 149. _ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DEC. 6, 1940._Pr'm p" e"PT "*
Italian Lines In Albania Collapse
United Air Lines Mainliner Crashes Killing Eight
Flu Epidemics Close Schools Cordova, California
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Complete Collapse Italian Lines
In Southern Albania Is Reported
Creek Army Captures Porto Edda
Italian Chief of Stafi Marshal Badoglio Is Replaced
Report Argirocastro Occupied Is Unconfirmed
UNDATED, Dec. 5 UP) — The
Greeks in slashing counter in
vasion armies hurled dawn at
tacks at Porto Edda and Argiro
castro, the key Italian bases in
southwest Albania. Dispatches
from the front said the two cit
ies are about to fall.
BELGRADE, Dec. 5 (JPi —
Greek sources here said that
Greek troops entered Porto Edda
and were expected to occupy
Agirocastro by tomorrow. The
Greeks here said the successes
spelled the virtual collapse of the
Italian campaign on the southern
rent, which the Fascists aimed
originally at Athens.
UNDATED, Dec. 6 UP) — The
ecmplete collapse of Italy’s lines
i*-* southern ./Yrhenie v/cu> indies!,
ed by reports from the Balkan
war front. Italy is planning to do
something about it, was Rome’s
announcement as Chief of Staff
Badogiio was replaced.
A report by way of the Yugo
slav border, unconfirmed by eith
er Athens or Rome, said Greek
forces occupied Argirocastro, It
aly’s last remaining frontier re
gion base, for the luckless at
temp to conquer Greece.
The Greek army announced
the capture of Porto Edda, Italy’s
sea gateway and that the Greek
campaign is 15 miles from Ar
girocasto but there was no con
firming admission by Italy.
A report from Bitolj, on the
Yugoslav border said Argirocas
tro was captured at noon after
bloody fighting and that thou
sands of Fascists were prisoners.
Reports of the Italian revers
o ■ £»«-i rvi r\ on tNo Ox ROmC'o
announcement that Bodoglio had
resigned.
Jan Kubelik,
Renowned Czech
\ iolinist Dies
BERLIN. Dec. 5 </P)—, Jan Ku
belik. aged 60, renowned Czech
violinist died in Prague of an un
disclosed ailment.
EPIDEMIC OF COLDS
RESTRICTS ARMY ACTIVITY
CAMP MURRAY, Wash., — Re
striction of military activities by
the Forty-first Division, U. S.
Army, was ordered in order to
combat the outbreak of colds
which have affected 1,400 of the
12,000 soldiers here.
Maj. Gen. eGorge A White said
the Division’s theaters and mili
tary schools will be closed, long
marches discontinued and night
marches postponed and the men
will be confined to quarters dur
ing the present heavy rains.
32 Puget Sound
Lumber Mills
Are Tied l p
SEATTLE. Dec. 6 (7P>— Pickets
of th? A F of L Puget Sound
District Council and Lumber and
Sawmill workers closed seven
Seattle lumber mills employing
approximately 2,000 men as the
Puget Sound wage dispute tie-up
spread to a total of 32 lumber,
mills and lagging camps.
N. Y. A. ALLOTS
S27.005 TO ALASKA
WASHINGTON—The National
Youth Adminitration recently an
nounced allocation of more than
$30,000,000 to stat s and territor
ies to expand employment for
jobless youths. The program plac J
es emphasis os metal and mech
anical work as experience pro
jects. Alaska Ls allotted $27,005. ^
Foreign ministers of Germany, Spain and Italy met in Berchtesgadcn to put what was believed to be
final touches on Axis plans for a gigantic squeeze play on the Mediterranean through Gibraltar (1)
and Greece (2). Diplomatic sources believed plan; called for an assault through Spain on Gibraltar
and for a German drive through Bulgaria to out lank and crush the Greeks Arrow through Spain
shows route Axis forces could take to attack Gib altar from the north. Double pointed arrow in
Atrica shows how Spanish force, should Spain tike an active part in the war, could attack the
Fortress from south and prevnet aid from reaching Gibraltar from Africa.
Eight Persons Killed and Eight
Wounded In Crash 01 United
Air Lines Mainliner At Chicago
CHICAGO, Dec. 5 (JP) — The
Cleveland to Chicago United Air
Mainliner crashed in a vacant lot i
a block and a half from the mun-1
icipal airport after striking an
apartment house and utility lin
ts. Eight persons were killed:
Captain Philip Scott of Chicago;
co-pilot George Young of Chic
ago; Lee Haneleine of Chicago,
an airline employee; Wilbert J.
Austin of Cleveland, president
of the Austin Company, a big de
fense pro} ct building concern
holding Seattle and other West
Coast contracts; S. W. Moore of
Cleveland. Army engineer; Miss
Jane Selby of Chicago; Keller
Melton, agi'd 40, Chicago WPA
safety engirt er: and Charles
Manville aged 38, Cleveland Gen
eral sales manager of the Na
ti• • . I Refineries Company.
Eight others were injured. The
cause of th crash was unknown
but it was thought it occurred in
snow storm after the plane
circled the port waiting instruc
ti ns to land.
British Parliament Votes Down
Motion Britain Seek Immediate
Peaee & If Necessary Compromise
UNDATED, Dec. 5 (/Pi— Brit
ain’s parliament sternly rejected
by a vote of 341 to 4, a motion by
three Independent Laborites who
urg d that Britain seek peace im
mediately. The House of Com
mons listened in grim silence as
the trio demanded that Britain
state her war aims and seek to
end the war “if necessary in a
spirit of compromise.” The three
who made the motion are all
Scotchmen and Glasgow mem
bers of the left wing of the Brit
ish labor movement.
To the cheers of the House,
Clement Attlee, Lord of the
Most Successful
Defense Britain
LONDON, Dec. 5 </P) — In the
most successful defense of Brit
ain for some time in terms of
aerial invaders destroyed, th
air ministry announced that 15
axis planes were shot down ag
ainst the loss of two British
craft.
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Privy Seal replied to the left
wing motion in an impassioned
denunciation of the “fallacy of
suggesting on one side this ter-,
rible war and on the other side
all th'. beauties of peace and.
that the alternative is not war'
and peace but it is war and what
kind of peace?”
Attlee, Churchill and a De
puty of the House asked James
Maxton, one of the trio, “If it
comes to conference, if Hitler re
fuses to listen to reason and says
lie prefers his scheme, will the
honorable member fight or give
way?”
Court Upholds i
Dismissal Morgan
From T V A
CINCINNATI, Dec. 6 f/P)—The
Sixth U. S. Circuit Court of Ap- i
peals upheld the dismissal of
Arthur F Morgan, Chairman of
he TVA. affirming the lower
court dismissal of Morgan’s suit
which sought the recovery of
$4583 which he alleged was due
as his salary. Judge Simons of
Detroit cited a Supreme Court
case and said “the power to re
move executive officers appoint
ed by the President is conferred
upon him by the Constitution so
it may not be abrogated by stat
ute.”
SAFETY PIN IS
REMOVED, BABY’S LUNG
TACOMA, Nov. 29 — The swal
lowed safety pin which sent 17
months-old Erna Missikin on a
2,500-mile trip to Tacoma from
th; Pribilof Islands was success
fully removed from the girl’sj
lung, and Dr. A. W. Howe said
the operation was successful. The
little Alaska girl will be releas
ed from the hospital in a couple
of days.
Dr. Howe said he worked with
a bronchoscope, the smallest hej
had ever used, to grasp the inch
long pin lying in the child’s
right lung.
F 0 0 D F 0 R THOUGH T—Possibility that a new con*
flensed food mixture that includes every vitamin except “C" and
which might eliminate malnourishment is hinted bv Dr. Robert S.
Darrjs (above) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Har
ris said that there are two formulas of the concentrate composed
of such things as skim milk powder, whole wheat meal, oats.
Cordova Schools Ordered (dosed
Due To Prevalence Of The Flu
Situation Described As Not Serious
CORDOVA. D c. 5 (TP) — The 150 pupils hero.
C rdova schorls were ordered The order followed the spread
closed today by D: Wm. Chase, in the past s veral days, of the
health officer. wh.n the superin- illness which Monday took the
tendent of schools informed him life of a three-months-old child,
that one out of five pupils was Many persons, including adults,
absent with flu and that another in the town are privately ra
fifth were in class s but suffer- ported ill. The situation is not
ing from colds. Children were I serious and the order was issu
also barred from public gather-1 ed to prevent it from becoming
ing places and movies. There are j so.
Epidemic Of Mild “Type A”
Influenza In California Is Sub
siding Is Reported By Authorities
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.^6 (TP) j throughout the state remained
— Reports indicating California’s Closed and some planned public
epidemic of mi'd influenza was ?Jtrciings woi pos.pnned. Hun
.... . , . clreds of citizens stayed home
subsiding were viewed hopefully .
. s i j from work to nurse cases of the
by heabii authorities. Word of a;iment which was identified by
small outbreaks came from ad-, health department r esearch ex
jacent states as many schools -verts as “typ A" influenza.
Secty. of British
Treasury Confers
With Morgenthau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (/P> —
Sir Fred rick Phi'lips, Undersec
retary of the British Treasury,
said after a conference with Mor
genthau that he is giving the
United States the ‘ balance sheet
statement of our resource and
cost of supplies from the U. S.”
Phillips conferred with Morgen
thau for more than m hour.
LANDING ON CURACAO
BY NAZIS FAIL
NEW YORK —The World Tele
gram says a German landing
party from a raid r operating in
the Caribbean was repulsed by
British forces at Curacao, in the
Dutch West Indies, when the
Nais attempted to destroy valu
able oil refineries there.
The pap:r, quoting an unidenti
fled witness, says the Germans
invaded Curacao on the night of
July 28, and that British land
forces, shooting at two armed
tankers in the harbor killed or
wounded 35 Germans.