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VOL. 43. No. 95. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, OCT. 13, 1941. p« Copy i*
Germans Within 100 mi. of Moscow
6 Service Men Killed In Blast Sitka Naval Station
Defense-Vital Rubber Factory Severely Damaged
Unexplained Explosion At Sitka
Naval Base Dynamite Magazine
Sunday, Kills Six Service Men
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SITKA, Oct. 12 UP) — An un
explained explosion in an under
ground dynamite magazine at
the Sitka naval air station short
ly after noon Sunday killed at
least six service men and injur
ed a dozen persons in the near
by fishing village and damaged
defense and private construction.
The b ast crashed across Bara
nof Island as a hundred civilian
and army families were listening
to Benediction at the Sitka
Church. The concussion sent win
dows cascading into the stree's in
showers of broken glass, inflict
ing cuts on many women and
children who walked out along
the narrow streets.
The list of dead included Cap
tain Francis C. Alien of Kent
field, Cal f., a former official in
the Standard Oil Company, and
more recently Provost Marshal
at the air station: Private Ralph
E. Kirkibridge of Los Matos,
Calif.; Hedley O. Eastnbrooks:
Private Frank E. Havton of San
Francisco; Private Albert A
Spur ing of Evertsville, W. Va.;
Thomas A. Boscom, a marine.
Many homes, built recently for
officers as part of the five mil
l on dollar improvements on the
air station, were among the struc
turns damaged.
On Aug. 14, a premature ex
plosion on the construction site
of Naval Air Station on Japonski
Island in Sitka Harbor precipi
tated a rock slide which ki'led
six men.
Confesses To
Double Slaving
FORT WORTH. Oct. 13 (/P) —
Kentucky’s most puzzling slay
ing, that of go!f istar Marion
Miley and her mother, appeared
solved with the confession of
Tom Penney, that he partcipated
in a hold-up and slaying the
Mi leys in their Leavington, Ky..
apartment on September 28.
Penney, an ex-convict, aged 32.
from Lexington, said in a state
ment that he and Robert Ander
son of Louisville, a n’ght club
operator, shot th° women in g
scuffle when they resisted a rob
bery attempt. H s statement led
‘o he immediate arrest of An
ders n in Louisevi le on a mur
der charge. He denied complicity.
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Authoritative sources in London said a new Germon offensive on
(he eastern front was under way, and there was speculation that
Moscow' was the goal, with the attack developing especially from
the Roslavl area. Sectors. (1), the Lejningifed area, from whirih
Germans might thrust at Moscow; (2), the Roslavl r.'gfcon; (3),
the German drive at Kharkov; (4), the German (shaded arrow),
and Russian (black arrow), drives in the Cream earea.
Russians Feel German Drive Gan
Re Stopped 70-80 Miles Short of
Moscow, Which Is Yel Untouched
' UNDATED. Oct. 13 (.Pi — In
the face of Germany's cairns
that her Russian sweep was car
ried within a hundred miles of
Moscow on the west and south,
Russian dispatches from the
blood-bathed ront, declared that
one German thrust was slowed
down and that the Red army
launched counterattacks at sev
eral points. Authoritative quar
ters in London asserted that the
German offensive, now in i4s
12th day, lest momentum as com
pared to its speed of tire first
couple of days and added. “It is
possible that the German drive
might be stopped TO or 80 miles
short of Moscow. The limit of
human endurance and the wear
and tear on thousands of tanks
l and armored cars may intervene
to stabilize the Russian-German
front.”
Moscow was untouched as the
first snows of winter blanketed
the plains, perhaps smothering
Hitler’s hopes for a pre-winter
victory.
Russian dispatches said the
German drive was slowed, par
ticularly in the direction of Vyaz
ma. which the Germans reported
; they had passed already, and was
in the process of being mopped
up. Vyazma is 125 miles west of
Moscow. One Russian counter
! attack made possible by fresh re
| inforcements, was said to have
recaptured a town near Bryansk,
210 mi es southwest of Moscow,
the region of the German drive
on Moscow from the south. An
other counterattack was launch
ed north of Orel and east of
Bryansk. Orel was lost to the
Germans a week ago despite Rus
sian resistance. Pravda acknow
ledged that the Germans are still
j moving on Moscow and that it
! is only a question of whether the
drive will be robbed of its mo
mentum short of ts goal.
The Germans spoke optimisic
ally of the third spearhead thrust
toward Moscow from the north
| west, which was said to have
taken the Russians by surprise
and pushed them back to about
143 miles from Moscow. The
drive is reported still forging
ahead.
Authorized sources declared
that German armored forces and
l motorized infantry are thrusting
forward so fast that they no long
er bother to build an eastern
wall around the trapped Rus
sians but leave the task to horse
drawn artillery and foot soldiers. J
Situation Critical
Boths Sides Use
Masses of Men
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UNDATED. Oat. 11 i.Ti — Ger
man attacks in the Vyazma sector
were repulsed overnight and the
invaders suffered heavy losses
the Soviet government declared,
but the Red army acknowledg
the situation is still critical, both
sides apparently pouring men
into the huge ten-day-old strug
gle. The Russians said the Ger
man plan of encirclement has
boon blocked and the offen>ive
before Moscow slowed down. The
army newspaper Red Star said
the “danger is great” and called
for the British to set up a di
version on the front in western
Europe.
German reports asserted that
hundreds of thousands of Russian
corpses littered the battlefields
around Bryansk. 220 miles south
west of Moscow where Red i
troops attempting to escape the
encirclement by creeping through
the German lines at night, were
mowed down in great numbers.
The high command said, on the
southern Ukraine front, the an
nihilation of Soviet troops north
of the Sea of Azov is approach
ing completion and eleven Rus-:
sian attempts to break out at'
Leningrad failed yesterday and
23 super-tanks were destroyed.1
Nevertheless the German news
pa per.-,»to Id the people that the
men at the front wou d not be
home this winter, which seemed
to indicate that Hitler’s descrip
tion of the Moscow offensive did
not mean the end of the war.
Prime Minister Churchill re
ceived a demand from a group
of British students for “immed
iate, armed action to relieve the!
pressure on our Russian allies.” \
More than 200 bombers attack
ed the Ruhr. Rhineland, Rotter
dam Osten, Dunkerque and Bor-j
deaux.
Destroy German
Radio Greenland
! WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 </P) —
The Navy announced that the
Nazi radio station discovered on
tire Greenland coast was “dis
posed of,” also that a small Nor
wogian steamer enroute to estab
lish a station there was seized
by the navy. The announcement
said the radio station was man
ned by an “agent of the Ger
man Gestapo,” and “two other
Norwegians,” who had been dis
embarked from a Norwegian ves
sel. The seizure occurred last
month.
Asks Probe Of
Jap Diplomats
—
WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 (JP) —I
Senator Gillette urged the State i
Department to approve the pro-1
posed Senatorial investigation of
Japanese diplomatic and other'
representatives in the United
States. He arranged to see Sec
retary Hull on the resolution
which he and Senator Johnson
offered this week, calling for an
inquiry into reports that agents j
of Axis powers are organizing [
non-quota alients and also "dual
citizens” into groups hostile to
this country.
Firestone Rubber Factory For
Defense Severely Crippled B\
Furious Explosions And Fire
FALL RIVER, Mass., Oct. 13
(.P) —A great factory for defense
was severely crippled after a fur
ious exp osiott ravaged huge stor
es of government rubber equip
ment for the armed forces with
an estimated loss of $13.00).000.
Firemen from thirty-rodd
Massachusetts and Rhode Island
1 cities fought for more than 8
i hours to curb the blaze, fed by
highly combustible latex and
crude rubber, racing through!
| most of the waterfront plant of;
Firestone Rubber Corporation
here.
Where Rubber is Cured
The blaze originated, a work
man said, over a .small room, on
the third floor of a five-story
brick manufacturing building
where rubber auto cushions
were being heat-cured. Plant of
ficials said the twelve buildings'
contents were covered by approx
imately SlT.OOO.ObO insurance.
Four of the buildings were vir
tually undamaged.
Japs And U. S.
Agree To Allow
Several Sailings
TOKYO, Oct. 11 (.Pi — The
Japanese foreign office announc
ed that as the result of an agree
ment with the United States over
the dispatch of Japanese vessels
to America, the “Imperial gov
ernment decided to send three
ships in turn to the Pacific
Coast." These will be the first
sailings since the British and Am
erican freezing of Jap credits.
One of them, the Notta Maru is
sailing on October 20 for Van
couver and Seattle. ,
U. S. Ambassador Joseph Grew
had no comment, but other em
bassy sources expressed the be
lief that there will be no gen
eral Japanese exodus from the
United States, and the sailing
will help exchange mail and also
big stocks of goods of both coun
tries which are exempt from the
freezing order.
CIO CHIEF FLAYS
WAGE CONTROL ACT
WASHINGTON, Oct. — Presi
dent Phillip C. Murray of the
CIO took the positon that there
is no necessity for federal con
trol of wages but that some kind!
of price control legislation is j
apparently “immediately neces
sary.”
Ralph Hetzel, Jr., head of the
economic division of the CIO,
read the statement of Murray's
views to the House Banking Com
mittee. Murray, recuperting from
a long illness, sent word that his
doctors would not let him ap
pear.
Tiie CIO head contended that
that wage increases are not res
ponsible for the current price in
creases, adding that this argu
ment is "being used as a touch
itone to justify an attack against
organized labor by those who al
ways sought labor’s destruction.”
Meanwhile, an all-out price
control measure to impose ceil
ings on virtually everything, in
cluding wages, defense profits
and agricultural products, was
I offered to Congress by Represent
ative Albert Gore, of Tennessee.
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('omm. Approves
Re-apportionment
For Territory
WASHINGTON. Oct. 10 </P) _
Tlie House Territories Commit
tee approved the House bill by
Delegate Dimond. to amend the
Organic Act of the Territory to
provide for the re-apportionment
of the legislature. The bill would
provide for 16 Territorial sen
ators, four from each judicial
division; and 24 members of the
House to be chosen on a basis
of population.
Harry Daugherty
Former Atty. Gen.
Passes Away
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COLUMBUS. Ohio. Oct. 12 UP)
— Harry M. Daugherty, aged 81,
former Attorney General and*
confidante of President Harding,
died here. He was stricken while
writing a book explaining the
political attacks involving the
Teapot Dome oil scandal and oth
er alleged government lrregular
ites in the 20's. The bok s unfin
ished. He resigned as Attorney
General at the request of Presi
dent Coolidge.
Japs Massing
For Attack
On Siberia
CHANGSHA. Hunan Province,
Oct. 13 (/Pi — The Japanese are
massing 32 divisions in Manchu
kiuo for an attack on Siberia,
General Yueh, commander of
China’s sixth war zone asserted.
He told correspondents that
three Japanese divisions, which,
recently took part in a drive on
Changsha, the third, fourth and
sixth, will soon be sent to Si
beria.
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