The Nome nugget., 1940-07-05
WAKE UP NATION DECLARE
 NOTED ALASKA VISITORS ON FIRST TRIP OF NEW CLIPPER

to the nation and Alaska to aWak en to- imminent peril of destruc- ton before it too late was sound ed by speakers at Juneau Cham Der of Commerce dinner at the Baranof Hotel, arranged to honor the passengers on the first Alaska Clipper.
 Those who came to salute the arrival of the Clipper stayed on to talk national defense until 2 o'clock in the morning, so re- vealing and expressing were the messages of the Clippers distin- guished passengers, says the Daily Empre.
 Thomas H. Beck, President of Golfers Weekly, made the out standing address in an evening of outstanding addresses. He spoke of a visit to England a month be- fore the war began, of the amaz ing state of unpreparedness of the English, of 100000 parachute troops now in Norway awaiting the signal to conquer England.
 Beck said that two months ago he predicted the fall of the Re- public of France and the disinte- grafton of the British Empire.
 q repeat that prediction here and now" he declared emphatic ally, adding that 1t was already too late to talk of helping the Allies and warning that we must move quickly to save our own ma tion.
 We have to organize and arm with the effectiveness of a dic- tatorship, and we have a long way to go," Beck said.
 He pointed out that more than a million trained men, fliers and mechanics will be needed to man the 50,000 plane we propose to build. He said that we would need ten times the number of air fields we now have available for training purposes.
 We haven't the guns we need, nor any of the rest of the equip ment necessary to repel invasion said Beck. He remarked that Ger many's large new tanks are pow cred with diesel engines of 1,25O horsepower, while the largest land diesel engines now made in this country generate only 125 horsepower. An entirely new de- sign will be necessary, he said, for our American manufacturers agree that diesel engines power ful enough to propel such tanks would take up so much room, there would be no room for the breech of the tank cannon, let alone for instruments and crew.
 Germany's triumphs of design and manufacture must be, and can be surpassed in this country, Beck said, but it will take a lot of doing, and it must start now. He said the German air force at the start of the war was known to have more than 400 squadrons of planes. Only a little over 100 of those squadrons have been identified in combat in all the campaigns so far, leaving hun dreds in reserve. He said that the airport at Oslo was captured in five minutes by single German plane which came down out of bad weather, unloaded two small tanks and cleaned out the defend CTS. Within a few minutes there after German transports had un loaded troops which had been packed together in the planes, so tightly that they couldn't even sway from side to side. This large force of infantry moved iinmed- lately upon Oslo's rear, while the bombardment proceeded in front of the city.
 ''If We mean what we say when we say we love democracy, and will defend democracy" Beck de clared "We've got to get busy, and busy at once. We've got to go into this thing on colossal scale.
 America has the men, the mon ey and the materials which make her the only people left who can