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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 56. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1941 Per Copy w
Alaska Draft Lottery Drawn Today
Germans Declare The Red Army Is Falling Apart
Japs Create Impression May Attack Russian Siberia
NAZI BLITZKRIEG LEGIONS
REPORTED THROUGH STALIN
LINE ALL DECISIVE POINTS
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RUSSIANS REPORT NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
UNDATED. July 14 f/P) —Kelv
is tottering under a combined air
and land assault; Moscow is no
longer protected by the Stalin
Line; and Leningrad is caught in
between a German frontal drive
and a Finnish flank offensive, the
German asserted. They declared
the Red Armies are falling apart.
The campaign is rushing to a
climax as Nazi forces are report
ed hammering at the gates of
Keiv. Berlin waited expectantly
to hear that the gateway to the
Ukraine’s richest industrial and
farming regions had been forced.
German planes rained destruc
tion on Keiv’s warehouses and
hangars and even destroyed the
city’s waterworks, it was said.
This picture was pieced together
from words of an authorized Geir
man spokesman and the DNB,
ar.d in a slight degree from the
daily communique from the high
command.
Hitler’s headquarters said that
Finnish troops opened an attack
on Karelia, from both sides of
Lake Ladoga, the sector closest
to Leningrad. “The main strength
of the powerful Soviet army is
broken,” asserted the DNB re
porting also that the Nazi blitz
krieg legions slashed through
the main Stalin Line defenses
“at all decisive points.”
Dispatches from Ankara report
ed that Soviet officials are pre
paring to move from Moscow al
though the Germans are still
some 300 miles from the capital.
The British mission has already
transferred to Gorki. 250 miles to
the east.
By contrast, the Russians af
ter reporting the 2,000-mile front
aflame from a series of gigantic
new battles over the weekend,
declared in this morning com
munique that no major fighting
took place last night and that
there were no significant chang
es :r. the last several hours.
In London, authoritative quar
ters said the Nazi drive on Lenin
grad "is the most dangerous” and
that the Berlin claims of huge
gains were to be regarded as ex
travagant.
Nazi Campaign
Proceeds Accord
ing To Plan
UNDATED. July 12 IV)— Ger
man reports declared that Nazi
shock troops were storming the
northern wing of the Stalin Line,
but for the fifth consecutive day,
the High'Command found it ad
visable to report only that cam
paign is proceeding "according to
plan.”
The Red Army command, eitih
er in triumph or duplication of
Hitler’s official secrecy, declared
that there were no major changes
on the Western front.
The German DNB agency said
the assault on the deep Stalin
fortifications started yesterday
and was reinforced early today
by shock troops. The precise
point of attack was not speci
fied but it said cryptically that
it was in the “wet zone of the
Stalin Line.”
The Communist paper, Prav
da, reported that the city of
Pinsk, deep in the marshes of
that area, far behind the German
lines, remained in Soviet hands,
and its forces are raiding the
German rear.
Churchill Asserts Britain Hitting
Germany With Fearful Might, But
With Only Beginning Air Power
LONDON, July 14 .(/P) — Brti-j
am, unshaken after ten months
of German air blows, began hit
ting back with fearful might,
but is still only beginning with
her growing air power, Church
ill told a thunderously cheering
crowd of civil defense workers.
He delivered virtually the same
fighting message twice. The first
to 6,000 clamoring veterans of
the defense of London in a great
review at Hyde Park, and later
to a luncheon of the capital’s
organized civil defenders. He
said: “The time has come when
Germans should be made to suf
fer in their own homeland and
cities something of the torments
which twice in our lifetime they
have let loose upon their neigh
bors and upon the world. We
have now intensified, in the past
month, a systematic, scientific
and methodical bombing, on a
large scale, of German cities, in
dustries and other military ob
jectives.”
BIG BOMBER DOES
FINE ON 2ND TRIP
MARCH FIELD, Calif. July —
The Army’s new B-19 bomber,
the biggest airplane ever built,
took to the air for the second
time and performed smoothly
during a 90-minute flight.
Chief Test Pilot Major Umstead
said that he believes the B-19
could land and take off on almost
any American airport. The ship
took off 17 seconds after it start
ed down the runway, and stop
ped within 1,500 feet after it
landed. That was better than its
performance on its first flight.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the Nome Nugget office
GRUENING DRAWS DRAFT
ORDER NUMBERS, ALASKA
DAY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
TWO THOUSAND ORDER NUMBERS BE DRAWN
JUNEAU, July 14 ■(&)— Jump
ing the gun by one day. on the
drawing of a master list for Al
aska Selective Service draftees,
Governor Gruening this after
noon at eleven o’clock, in his
office was blindfolded and pull
ed number 817 as the first sew
ectee. Before the day is over,
2,000 white capsules will be open
ed and the master list will then
be mailed by the Selective office
at Juneau to all the draft boards,
who will then send out question
airres and make deferment lists.
July 15vh was the tentative date
set for the drawing.
Many officials attended the
first drawing but only seven num
bers were drawn up to noon to
day and the remainder this af
teroon and evening.
Number two was 1,539; number
three was 972; number four was
868; number five was 574; num
ber six was 495; number seven
was 1,486.
The Governor has no official
word as to how many will be
summoned to service. The rea
son 2,000 will be drawn was be
cause to cover the recent regis
trants of which Fairbanks has
the largest number of registrants
with Anchorage second and Ju
neau third.
Each man, by finding out his
serial number, published in the
f Nugget last Friday, will be able
to determine, now that the Terri
toria! lottery has been held, in
what order he will receive his
questionnaire. Serial numbers
from 1 to the highest registration
number in the Territory have
ibeen placed in capsules and are
now in procees of being drawn,
at Juneau.
The order in which the new
numbers are drawn in Juneau
will be the Order Number of
each registrant in Alaska. Each
community will have many of
the same serial numbers and all
men with any particular serial
number will receive the same Or
der Number and receive their
questionnaires at the same time
and the same order.
For example, the first number
to affect the Nome registrants
was no. 574, the fifth number
drawn. Now everyman with ser
ial number 574 whether he lives
in Juneau, Fairbanks, Bethel,
Anchorage or Nome, will have
Order Number 5. Only the new
Order Number will have signifi
cance after the lottery.
The sixth Order Number
drawn today was 495. Robert F.
Baldwin of Nome, holds Order
Number 5. serial number 574, the
first number affecting the Nome
registrants. Order No. 6, serial
number 495 is held by George
Luke, Wht. Mt.
Gas Rationing
Soon In Populous |
Eastern States
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WASHINGTON, July 1.2 {IP) —
Secretary of the Interior . I ekes
let motorists in the populous east
know that the “Fill-er-up” era
is near an end. The Petroleum
Coordinator passed word around
of the decision to use gasoline ra
tion cards and other compulsions
which will depend upon 'the
amount of fuel saved by volun
tary rationing programs in 16
eastern states and the District
of Columbia.
Fifty - two. motorists here,
whose exhaust pipes fumed too
much, were escorted to police
headquarters and given red stick
ers and ten days to get their en
gines readjusted.
French In Syria
Enter Direct
Negotiations
BEIRUT, July 12 (fP) — Gen
eral Henri Dentz, Vichy com
mander-in-chief of Syria entered
into direct negotiations with the
British, looking for an armistice
after the refusal of the French
government to accept the British
terms. A delegation left this
morning to meet the British and
negotiate conditions for a settle
Demand British
Leave Iceland
WASHINGTON, July 12 (JP) —
The immediate withdrawal of
British troops from Iceland, to
forestall a possible Nazi attack,
which would place American
(marines and sailors there under
fire, was demanded by Senator
Bone, member of the Naval Af
fairs Committee. “As long as the
British are there, the Germans
have the right, under the rules
of warfare to attack,” he told re
porters.
HIGH JURIST IS
ON FISHING TRIP
PORTLAND, Ire., July — Su
preme Court Justice Douglass ar
rived in Portland recently to
spend a vacation fishing and oth
erwise relaxing in the North
west.
Douglas predicted that retired
Chief Justice Charles E. Highes
will be known in history as the
greatest American jurist since
John Marshall. Hughes retired
from the Supreme Court on July
1st because of old age. Douglas
was bought up in Washington
state, while Mrs. Douglas is a
native of Oregon.
menit. Dentz acted as soon as he
received word from Vichy that
the M-point British armistice
terms were turned down, and
left him free to negotiate if he
thought it necessary. The British
forces are five miles away.
Japs Close Port Of Kobe For
Ten Days-Militarists Believe To
Create Impression Attack Siberia
SHANGHAI, July 14 \JP)— The
Japanese port of Kobe is closed
to foreigners for a ten day period
starting tomorrow, it was report
ed here amid an apparently Jap
anese-sponsored propaganda cam
paign to create the imression
that a Japanese attack against
Russiau Siberia is imminent.
Most foreign military quarters
were inclined to the belief that
the Japanese are indulging in
war nerves as far as Russia is
concerned. They were said still
convinced that the next Japanese
move will be against French
Indo-China, current object of a
Japanese press tirade. Tension is
apparent in Saigon, French- Ir.do
China it was said in a dispatch
from there. Observers, said how
ever, that if Russia collapses un
der German blows. Japan might
risk attacking the powerful Red
Army in Siberia, estimated at
about 39 divisions.
Tightens Control
Communications
TOKYO, July 14 (JP) — Japah
tightened centre! of her phone
and telegraph services. Other
language may be used in mes
sages abroad but must be re
stricted to areas of Japan, Ger
many. England, Chinese or Man
chu and are further limited with
in the empire.
The Communications Ministry
announced that only Japanese,
German and English may be
used in telegrams sent abroad.
Messages in code must have
translations attached and all dis
patches signed by the senders.
Within the empire, only Japan
ese may be used on the tele
phone.
No Letup British
Bombing of Nazis
UNDATED, July 12 f/P)_ Fol
lowing a night of assaults thru
a thunderstorm, on the naval
base at Welhelmshaven, the RAF
offensive on the Western Front
continued today on railway and
canal communications in north
ern France. Near St. Omer, five
German fighters were downed.
Germany claimed the bomb
destruction of a British sub and
a 2,000-ton fregihter in British
coastal waters, as well as air
thrusts on the Suez Canal. The
Egyptian government acknow
ledged some damage to the can
al and 20 casualties.
The Admiralty of the Dutch
government in exile announced
that one of its subs in ‘the Med
iterranean sunk a heavily loaded
8,000-ton tanker.
MINES ARE LAID
SAN FRANCISCO. July — the
Coast Guard warned shippers
that mines have been laid out
side the entrance to Golden Gate
harbor. The mines were sup
posed to have ‘been “practice”
mines but with the warning came
a pronouncement by an official
that “I wouldn't like to sit on
one of them.”
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DI N I NC ON WI NC—A plane wing served as luncheon
table for Canada’s air marshal, William A. Bishop (third from
*jft, facing camera), when he inspected Consolidated Aircraft
plant in San Diego. Note circle marking plane for Britain.