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VOL. 43. No. 65. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 4. 1941. Per 1•*
Germans Within 50 Miles Of Kiev
Japan Suspends Direct Steamship Travel To U.S.
FDR Places Full Embargo on Oil, Gas for Japan
JAPAN SUSPENDS DIRECT SS
TRAVEL TO U.S. STRANDING
600 AMERICANS IN EMPIRE
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UNDATED, Aug. 4 (JP) — Jap-j
an took an ominous new step in,
the Far East crisis with the sus
pension of all direct steamship I
service to the United States,
leaving about 600 American citi-J
zens stranded on the island em
pire. reliable informants said. Si
multaneously the Japan Times
and Advertiser, organ of the Tok.]
yo foreign office, said the Japan
ese government, next week, will
likely invoke a complete nation!
al economic mobilization to cope
with the United States and Brit
ish economic pressure.
While the steamship departur
es -were suddenly cancelled, two
big Japanese liners in United
States west coast ports prepared
for speedy dashes for home. In
Ser; Francisco, the 15 million dol
lar Tatsuta Maru discharged the
last of her two and a half million
do !ar cargo of raw silk with em
ergency longshore crews work
ing around the clock and rushed ;
aboard a thousand barrels of duej
oil, ballast and cargo, and sailed
for Japan. A Japanese liner pre
vious y sailed from San Francis
co empty, the second to leave
the United States without cargo.
At Seattle, the Heian Maru al
so piled raw silk on the docks
and was posted to sail as scon as
loaded. At sea, the Asa Maru.
which left Honolulu Friday with
HO American passengers and a
three million dollar cargo of raw
s:lk maintained a radio silence on
orders from Tokyo.
Dispatches from the Far East
said the departure of the Hikawa
M3ru, the N:tta Maru. and other
Japanese ships, scheduled to sail
for the United States, were post
poned indefinitely. Passengers
aboard the Nitta Maru. enroute
from China ports to San Fran
eiico, were taken off at quaran
tine when the liner arrived at
Kobe.
Shanghai dispatches said that
Japanese troops are still arriv
ing in increasing numbers at
Dairen, Japan’s port of entry at
Manchukuo, where Japanese fore
es along the USSR-Siberian bor
der were reported strongly re
inforced. Unconfirmed rumors of
new Japanese-Russian clashes
a ong the Manchukuo-Siberian
frontier, circulated at Shanghai,
but the Japanese Army denied
them.
Japan Defies American, British
Economic Pressure, Poise Troops
Thailand-Crisis Expected Month
UNDATED, Aug. 2 UP)—Japan
defied the American and British
economic pressure after Presi
dent Roosevelt’s embargo on avia
tier, fuel to Japan. Her Minister
of Commerce, Vice-Admiral Sak
onji, said the situation was “so j
tense that a single spark is suftic- :
ient to cause an explosion.” Si-j
multaneously, foreign military!
circles in Shanghai, which pre
dicted Japan’s current move in
IndoChina, said they expected a
crisis in Thailand within a
me r.th.
Japanese troops were reported
massed at Cambodia, near the
Thailand frontier. Japanese plan
es are poised within two hours
flying time from Bankok, the^
Thailand capital. Usually relia-|
ble Japanese sources in Shanghai!
said Tokyo tentatively approach
Thailand already, with the object
of welding the country to Japan’s
£o-cailed “co-prosperity sphere.”
This was further supported by a
statement from authorized quar-j
ters in London that Japan de-j
manded military bases from Thai
land, within 400 miles striking
distance of Singapore; and con
trol of the country’s rubber, rice
and tin production.
In Tokyo The Japan Times and
Advertiser, organ of the Japan
ese Foreign Office said flatly that
British and United States moves
to cut off Japan’s vital supplies
of oil, tin and rubber will only
speed her program to win econ
omic self-sufficiency in the south
orient. '
President Roosevelt’s order
damped a full-fledged embargo
on aviation fuel and drastically
reduced shipment of other oil
supplies on which Japan depends
for more than two-thirds of her
needs.
Domei said the measure was
aimed directly at Japan. Tokyo
newspapers asserted that the
United States is attempting to
monopolize the vital raw mater
ials of the South Seas, on a pre
ferred customers basis.
Embargo Stops
Two-thirds Japan’s
Gas And Oil
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2 OP) — i
Japan faced a showdown in her
program of expansion southward
as Roosevelt acted with an em
bargo on aviation fuel and dras
tically reduced other oil exports
on which Japan depends for
more than two-thirds of her gaso
line and lubricant needs. Since
Britain and the Dutch East In
dies are the only other available
major sources, it imposes a strin
gent export control and financial
restrictions on oil and other mili
tary necessities. Petroleum au
thorties considered that Japan’s
war machine and industries must
now run on principally hoarded
and diminishing oil stocks.
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German Troops Advance Within
50 Miles Kie^-Meanwhile British
Expeditionary Force Is Rumored
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UNDATED. Aug. 4 (TP) — Ger
man troops lunging past the
bloody Zhitomir sector on the
scutern front advanced within
50 miles of Kiev, the Russians
admitted, while both sides told
of new slaughter of thousands.
Hitler's command also claimed
new success ir. the vital central
front guarding 'Moscow. ‘'The
bu k of the Soviet armed forces,
trapped east of Smolensk, are
now destroyed. the remainder
facing dissolution,” a German
communique said. Nazi dispatch
es sad 2,300 Russians were killed
a thousand taken prisoner, and
71 tanks captured in an unstat
ed northern area. This may have
been the same action reported
by the German command which
said 10.000 Red Army troops
were taken prisoner west of Lake
Peppus in Estonia, on the north
ern front below Leningrad, along
with many tanks, cannon and sup
plies.
The Russians countered with
a report that a Soviet tank col
umn smashed through the Ger
man forces near “N” a town on
the northwest front,, killing at
least a thousand Nazi soldiers
and littering the battlefiled with
the wreckage of more than a hun
dred shell-torn tanks, armored
cars and quantities of field artil
lery.
JOINT TAX FOR
MARRIED COUPLES
WASHINGTON — The House
Ways and Means Committee re
fused to write into the new three
and a half billion dollar tax bill
a relief for taxable married
couples.
By a 19 to 9 vote the commit
tee decided that married couples
must file joint income tax returns
whether their earnings are sep
arate or not.
A man and his wife must, if,
the bill is approved in its present
form, file a tax return based on
the entire family income. They
may not as heretofore, pay as in
dividuals and thus gain higher to
tal exemptions on their earnings.
In taking the new action the
Committee made it clear that the
new aw will not affect joint in
comes of $4j000 or under and
will deal leniently with the $4,000!
to $8,000 class.
The requirement will add $33
to the tax paid by man and wife
without dependents whose total
income is $5,000 a year. The Com
mittee estimates that the new pro
vision will affect only one-tenth
of tax-paying married couples.
BILL OUTLAWING WALRUS
KILLING GETS APPROVAL
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Territories Committee approved
House Bill 1806 which outlaws
the promiscuous killing of wal
rus in Alaska for ivory or other
commercial purposes.
The bill does not prohibit the
killing of walrus by natives for
food or for historical exhibition
in museums.
Two Worlds Line
Ip For Clash
Mussolini told that Italian
troops are leeving the Russo
Berman war theater “as the line
up is now complete for a clash
.between two worlds," with Rome
Berlin and Tokyo on one side
against London, Washington and
Moscow, on the other, in a speech
mode on July 29 as he reviewed
his blackshirt legion at Mantua.
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Britain To Send
Forces to Finland
Meanwhile a flood of reports,
unconfirmed by officially unchal
lenged, persisted in London that
Britain will soon dispatch an ex-'
peclitionary force to open up a
northern European front, possib
ly in Finland. London newspa
pers carried advances from Gote
borg. Sweden, that large British
naval forces are already in the
Arctic. Minister of Supply Bea
verbrook’s Daily Express, carried
the headline “All the Axis ds
Asking Where We Will Invade.”
Axis Withdrawing
In Tobruk Siege
British headquarters at Cairo
reported that German and It
alian troops are withdrawing
from advance position in the 4
months siege of the British garri
son at Tobruk, Libya.
Seventeen persons were killed
and 59 wounded in an Axis raid
on the Suez Canal, in the heav
iest casualty list yet recorded
there. Raid alarms sounded in
Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and
several Egyptian provinces.
Silk, Hosiery Mills Close Doors
On 250 Million Dollar Industry
To Conserve Supply of Raw Silk
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (/P) —
National silk and hosiery mills
prepared to close their doors to
night on a 250 million dollar in
dustry, in obediance to a govern
ment order to cease production at
midnight. 175.000 or more silik
workers looked to the federal
government to provide a means
of support. The effect of econ
omic warfare in the Pacific was
brought home to American with
stunning force and suddenness
last night as the Office of Pro
duction Management issued a
stop order on silk processing, to
conserve the supply of raw silk
for the armed forces. The order
is a result of the freezing of ev
ery bale of raw silk in the hands
of mills ar.d warehouses, prepar
atory to possible requisitioning
by the army and navy, who there
by gain a two-year supply of silk
for parachutes, powder bags and
other defense necessities.
Reds Report
Slaughter 60,000
UNDATED, Aug. 2 UP) — The
Russian armier defending Smol
ensk, the gateway to Moscow, re
ported the slaughter of four Ger-i
man divisions of about 60,000
men. Soviet military dispatches
declared that Nazi advance fore
es were retreating with heavy
losses under Red counterattacks.
Pravda said: “From isolated
defensive blows, the Red Army
is going into consecutive counter
blows, hurling back the impu
dent enemy."
German reports said Nazi in
fantry, moving up to advance
fighting lines in the Smolensk
salient, freed swift panzer col
umns for a new break toward
Moscow.
AMERICANISM REAFFIRMED:
NAVY WORKERS SIGN UP
BREMERTON, Wash., — Thou
sands of employees at the Puget
Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton,
Washington, have flocked to sign
statements of American loyalty
and freedom from all subver
sive policies, according to offic
ials of the Thirteenth Naval Dis
trict.
Pres. Asks 17
Million for CAA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (/P) —
A supplemental appropriation re
qu^st was sent to Congress by
the President who indicated that
it contained further expenditures
for the improvement of Alaska
airports. The President asked 17
million dollars for the CAA but
gave no details or how much was
planned for Alaska, but a Budget
Bureau statement said, because
of the increased importance of
Alaska to national dfeense, it is
now necessary to make further
improvements to airports now be
ing constructed in Alaska. In
addition, considerable expansion
is asked for communication serv
ices used by the Army, Air Corps
CAA and Weather Bureau.
This is in accordance with dir
ection by the Navy Department,
but the Bremerton yard officials
have expressed themselves as ex
tremely gratified with the speed
and willingness shown by the
14,000 workers in signing the
statements. The affidavit is sworn
to before a notary public.
“Our workers have been proud
and eager to reaffirm their Am
ericanism in this way,’’ one yard
official stated.
NEW 30-TON TANK FOR ARMY
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This is the first M-3 medium 30-ton tank built for the U. S. army at the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
shown at Eddy’s Tone, Pa., on the Chester Pike he ded for the Aberdeen, Md., proving grour.ds.