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VOL. 43. No. 99. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, OCT. 22, 1941 ***<• Copy iu
Toil Of U. S. Ships Sunk Reaches 10
Soviets Say German Dead Literally Cover Ground
Former Nome Nurse, Miss Wright, Lost Near Tetiin
Soviets Picture Hitler's Armies
Suffering Enormous Losses And
Bogged Down On Moscow Front
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UNDATED. Oct. 22 UP) — So
viet dispatches pictured Hitler’s
invasion armies as suffering enor
mous losses on the Moscow front
and “literally every meter of
ground is covered with bodies of
fascist soldiers and officers.” As
the Germans drove toward the
Russian capital from the Moz
haisk sector, 57 miles away, mili
tary reports reaching London
said the German offensive had
bogged down in an icy gale over
all but impassable roads at the
immediate approaches to Mos
cow. 1
A high ranking neutral mili
tary authority in London said on
re.iable information that Russia
indicated that the German as
sault on Moscow, and in the
north, was definitely halted and
the peak of the Nazi offensive
has passed. This source said “un
doubtedly Hitler will order the
carrying out of new attacks but
he will not again be able to mus-1
ter anything like the strength he
has used up in the past two
weeks.”
Other London sources, how
ever, said the Germans were con 1
eentrating great new forces ati
Smolensk for an all-out frontal i
attack on Moscow.
r Stalin remained at the Krem- j
lin to direct the Red citadel’s de
fenses. In the fiercest fighting,!
centering around Mozhaisk Pass,
it was said the Germans hurled
in tanks, motorized infantry and
an aviation assault, which devel
oped into hand-to-hand fighting.!
Tass said Marshal Timoshen
ko's Red troops fell back to new
lines, only where the Germans
were able to concentrate in nu
merical superiority. The depth
of the withdrawal was not dis
eased., Winter's fiivt snow fell in
the Mozhaisk region and a bitter
wind how ed across the steppes
piling snow on the roads and for-;
est.
Hitler’s field headquarters, si
lent on any new advance opera
tions before Moscow, declared
that Axis troops, driving at the
Donets river industrial basin in
the Ukraine, scored further ad
vances. By contrast, reports
reaching London said that Red
army troops had stopped the Ger
man thrust toward Rostov, gate
way to the Caucasian oil fields
after evacuation from Tangan
borg, 30 miles to the west.
Bitter Wind Howling
A Russian broadcast said the
Germans lost more than 5,003
men under tank-led Red attacks
southwest of Moscow, presumab
ly in the Ma'.aoyarosLavets sec
tor where Nazi spearheads were
reported within 50 miles of the
Kremlin. Soviet reports also told
of renewed German attempts to
advance east from Orel, with
heavy fighting raging along the
Orel-Mtensk highway.
Moscow Defenders
Are Strengthened
Bv Civilian Army
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UNDATED. Oct. 21 </Pt — Ger
man and Italian troops, smashing
at Russia’s vital Donets River in
dustrial basin, are reported to
have captured Stalino, a hundred
miles northwest of Rostov: while1
on the central front, the Russiansi
are appeared to be stemming the j
Nazi drive on Moscow amid a;
series of huge-scale tank and in-j
fantry battles. Stalino is a city;
of 455,000 population and lu»s on
one of the two main rail linesj
between Moscow and the great |
Caucasian oil fields.
Soviet dispatches acknowledg
ed that Marshal Budyenney’s
Ukraine armies, desperately ,
pressed by an intensified Nazi j
assault have withdrawn to new
lines near Taganrog, only 30
miles west of Rostov. The Ger
mans claimed Taganrog’s fall yes
terday.
Official Russian accounts of the
20-day-old battle of Moscow said
the capital’s defenders are streng
thened hourly by the civilian
army and are holding fast ag
ainst terrific hammering at sev
eral points. The Russians declar
ed Soviet counterattacks have
turned back the Nazi offensive,
over battlefields covered with
snow.
To the north, the German com
mand reported the capture of
Dago Island, powerful Soviet
naval base after ten days of fight
ing. Three thousand Russians
were taken prisoner the cfim
rnand said and “therewith all
Baltic islands are in German
hands and the entire Baltic area
is cleaned of the enemy.”
A special bulletin from Hitler's
field headquarters, describing
Stalino as one of the most import
ant armament centers in the
Donets basin said Axis forces
took the surrounding region but
“Stalino itself was taken by Al
pinists.” These might have been
either German or Italian troops.
Nazi military commentators re
ported that the southern Axis
armies were led by picked units
of Hitler's own Elite Guard and
indicated that Rostov soon will
probably become the pivot for a
gigantic new encirclement move
ment to take the Donets Basin.
On the bloody central front
before Moscow, the German com
rnand said that General Petrov,
identified as commander-in-chief
of the Russian Fiftieth army and
member of the Supreme Soviet
Council was found dead on the
battlefield east of Bryansk, 200
miles south of Moscow.
In the north, German military
dispatches reported that Red
army troops counter attacking
around Lake Ladoga, near Lenin
grad, suffered heavy losses, but
the Germans aknowledged, how
ever, that Soviet counterblows
were launched on a broad scale,
with great ferocity.
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Fur Seal Treaty
In No. Pacific
Is Ended Today
TOKYO. Oct. 22 iJP) — The
treaty negotiated between the
United States, Britain, Russia,
and Japan in 1911 to protect fur
sea’s in the northern Pacific, be
comes void after today, but the
government warned that the
1912 Japanese law prohibiting
seal hunting is still in effect. Ter
mination of the treaty resulted
from action taken last October
23, by Japan under the clause
which permitted any of the par
ties to end the pact after 1936.
by 12 months written notice.
British Bombers
For Five Hour
ROME, Oct. 22 i/Pi — British
bombers, attacking Naples in
wave after wave for five hours,
caused huge damage last night in
the war’s heaviest assault on It
aly’s big west coast maritime
and industrial center. The com
mand declared that bombs were
dropped by the hundreds and are
said to have killed 14 and injur-;
ed 27. This is the second raid on
the city in less than a week, as
British planes carried out on at
tack Thursday night and killed
12 and injured 37.
30 Frenchmen Shot In Reprisals
And 30 More Are Condemned For
Assasination Of Nazi Gen. Holtz
VICHY. Oct. 22 — Marshal
Petain announced to the French
nation that 50 of their country
men were shot by the German oc
cupat.on authorities this morning
in retaliation for the assassina
tion of German officers. In a
broadcast which fol’owed the
news of the second German of
ficer assassinated in 48 hours,
who met his death yesterday in
Bordeaux. Admiral Darlan, vice
premier, followed Petain on the
radio, one of a series of emotion
al appeals to the populace by
Secty. of \&ar
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WASHINGTON. Oct. 21 —
Secretary of War Stimson an
nounced his support of a p'an for
a $25,000,000 highway to Alaska
“desirable as a long range de
fense measure," which caused
supporters of the road to decide
to try to secure congressional ap
proval before spring by writing
to Rep. Cartwright, chairman of
the House Roads committee.
Stimson said, despite certain
limitations, military considera
tions justified the construction of
the highway “under low priority
rating,” but from an evaluation
of the trend of international af
fiars, the construction of the high
way now appears desirable as a
long range defense measure.
“As the highway will be financ
ed by the United States govern
ment, it was suggested that the
bill or any other bills amended
to provide for its construction,
be under the supervision of the
Federal Works Administration,
with this inclusion: That no fur
ther objection be interposed to
the bill.”
Senator Magnuson said he will
introduce shortly a new bill call
ing for the construction of the
highway.
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France’s highest authorities.
Both the Marshal ard the Ad
miral accused “foreign powers”
of having caused the recent ser
ies of assassinations.
No detai's were given as to
how the first fifty hostages were
shot. At Nantes another fifty are
scheduled to die if the two who
shot Lieut. Col. Paul Hotz, chief
of the Nazi field gendarmes at
Nantes, are not captured by mid
night tomorrow.
50 Frenchmen
Ordered Shot
For Gen. Holtz
VICHY. Oct. 21 (/Pi — German
forces of occupation in Paris or- !
dered 50 persons shot in reprisal j
for the slaying in Nantis of the
German commandent, General
Holtz.
ADMIRAL AND BOSS —Admiral Ernest J. Kin* (left), commander-in-chief of U.S. fleet,
posed with Secretary of Navy Frank Knox aboard U.S.S. Augusta during Knox’s call at Bermuda., i j
Two More American Merchantmen
Torpedoed In At hint icy Presum
ably By Germans. Brin" Toll to 10
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 <,P> —
The Maritime Commission said
it was advised of the rescue of
all 39 Americans in the torpedo
ed American freighter LeHigh.
Twenty-two were landed at Bath
urst by the British ship Vimy
and 22 at Freetown. Since the
crew included only 39. officials
expressed be ief that the others
are stowaways.
The news gave a measure of
relief to Washington, perturbed
though still, over the loss of two
more American-owned ships by
Atlantic raiders. The sea war
toll of American vessels now
-hands at ten.
The President made it plain
that he considered the Lehigh’s
-inking as a particularly flagrant
act of piracy.
None of the Lehigh's survivors
at Bathurst were injured accord
in? to the Commission's informa
tion while two of those who land
ed at Freetown suffered injuries.
Lehigh Is Ninth
Ship Sunk
In Atlantic
WASHINGTON. Oct. 21 <.P) —
President Roosevelt announced
the torpedoing Sunday night of
the American merchant vessel
LeHigh. just north of the equa
tor. near the southern end of
the hu ge of Africa. While lack
ing information as to the num
ber of persons aboard. Roosevelt
told a press conference that one
boat load of survivors was pick
ed up. It was understood, he
said, that two other boats are
missing and a search is on for
thern.
He said that the persons in
he boat that was found, believ
’d that no one was killed, but
that some p rsons w.-re .v unded
by the explosion of the torpedo.
The LeHigh, 49<)0 tors, dis
charged cargo at B ib ra. Spain,
the President said, and was run
rung empty or, a trading voyage
down the gold coast ard left no
doubt and he is convinced it was
torpedoed by a German sub. H-#
to d reporters that Hull was dead
night when he called such activ
ity, piracy.
The LeHigh is the ninth Am
erican-owned vessel sent to the
bottom in mere than two years of
European war. The LeHigh was
flying the American flag.
Bold \ enture Is
Sunk by Raiders
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WASHINGTON. • 22 .? —
The Bold Vetnure. flv rg the Pan
American flag was t r-pedoed off
Iceland Thursday ard - the 10th
Amer can-own.‘d m rviiar.tman
lost. Eighteen nv rrbers of the
Bold Venture's crew . re misse
ing.
Tankers ^!o\ing
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NEW YORK. Oct. 22 .-Pi — Au
thoritative sources ir. Tokyo said
that not a single United States
oil tanker has reached Vladiv
ostok since the conclusion of the
Moscow conf crime . A Dime!
broadcast, was renor* j by this
siurce, to have sa d that this con
tradicted the United State- stand
that all war materials and oil
will be sent to Russia as soon
as pgs'ible.
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