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VOL. 43. No. 86. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 22, 1941 Per Copy -
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Italian Warships Make Surprise Assualt Gibralter
Pres. Signs New Tax Bill —Another Is Considered
Italian Warships Sink 4 Ships
In Gibraltar Harbor In Surprise
Attack, The First Since 1782
UNDATED, Sept. 22 (/P> —Mus!
solid’s command reported that i
Italian warships entered the port j
of Gibralter, Britain's great Med j
iterranean fortress and sank 4 ■
merchant ships under the guns j
of the big rock citadel. Aside;
from an Italian torpedo attack on ■
Gibraltar shipping last year, this j
is the first naval assault since!
French and Spanish ships un- •
successfully shelled the British j
garrison there during the winter ;
of 1792.
The type of warships engaged
in the current raid were not dis
closed. Describing the bold raid,
the Italian command, identified
the attackers as merely “assault
units” which entered the bay and
inner port to sink three ships cut
rignt and damage another so ser
iously that it was assumed lost.
Authoritative London quarters
met the Italian claim with “abso
lutely no comment.” The attack
apparently took the British by
surprise since the Gibraltar har- J
bo.r is protected by moles, nets,
minefields and the great guns of;
the high rock which has long
been considered secure against
close-in assault.
Annihilate 450,090 Reds
In the Russian campaign, the
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Germans reported that about 30
Soviet divisions, perhaps 450,000
troops were “annihilated” so far.
In the trap east of Kiev, the four
Red armies encircled there, are
repo rted struggling to blast their
way out of the Nazi ring. While
the Germans asserted that the
beleaguered armies are tightly
sealed. Moscow dispatches said
they are seeking to fall back to
Kharkov, heart of the Donets
River industrial basin.
Warlike Preparations Bulgaria
Meanwhile warlike prepara
tions in Bulgaria, ostensibly aim
ed at Turkey or Russia were em
phasized by unconfirmed reports
that King Boris of Bulgaria is
enroute for a meeting with Hit
ler. Berlin authorities declared
the report was “without ques
tion.”
Well informed sources at An
kara predicted that Turkey faced
an imminent shovvndown.
Parachutists Land Bulgaria
In Berlin, the Wilhelmstrasse
..ported that Bulgaria “has been
brought to a s.ate of higher
watchfulness” which it said is
net surprising in view of the re
ported landing of Russian para
chutists on Bulgarian soil.
Wage Dispute
Threatens Cons
Air Bomber Plant
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 20 (JP> —
A wage dispute threatened to
halt production at Consolidated
Aircraft Corporation’s gxteat
bomber plant. AFL machinists an
nounced that they were prepared
to strike for a blanket ten cents
and hour pay increase, or twice
that which the company offered.
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100 Norwegians
Die Escaping
To Britain
LONDON, Sept. 22 f/P) — The
Exchange Telegraph reported at
■Goteborg, Sweden, that a hun
dred Norwegians, trying to es
cape to Britian were killed when
two small ships were sunk by
German bombers outside of Ber
gen harbor.
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President Signs
New Tax Bill
Into Law
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WASHINGTON. Sept. 22 (,P>—
The ink of the President’s signa
ture on the record three and a
half billion dollar tax bill was
still fresh as legislative lead rs
started to work on another new
revenue measure. The President
signed the biggest-in-hisiory fex
bill Saturday and his final gm
stroke meant much higher taio-;
in 1941 on incomes, both p|r
s'onsl and corporative, were put
in the law books, effective gfc
tober 1. A lot of new increased
excise levies applying to a le
gion tf tilings among them li
quor and light bu bs were in
[ elud .d.
Chairman George of the Sen
: ate Finance Committee said the
! new bill will bring in revenue
around two hundred million dol
j Lars and will come from a re
i definition of taxes on insurance
i companies and from some chang
| es in the present community pro
I p-rty system.
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Fear Germany
May Occupy
All of France
BERN. Sept. 22 f/Pl — Author
itative sources declared that
some elements in Vichy fear that
all France may be occupied, if
the shootings and sabotage attrib
uted to Communist elements, per
sist in the German - occupied
zone. Petain’s appeal yesterday,
against saboteurs in the occupied
area, these sources said, was im
portant primarily as an appeal
for French unity against the dan
ger of grave new difficulties with
the German Army.
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IRAN PROMISES ALL SEASON ROUTE
Black arrows show German penetration of the Soviet Ukraine; shaded arrows indicate direction of
Russian and British drives into Iran. The Russians said their Cossacks had reached half way from
the border to Tabriz, Iran’s second-largest city. Russian forces also were heading for Ardebil on the
West shore of the Caspian Sea. The Russians also had a force on the East shore. The rail terminus of
Bandar Shah would be one of their obectiVes. The British disclosed that they had occupied oil in
stallations just inside Iran, about 80 miles northeast of Baghdad and that the air orce and the navy
had seized the Persian guf port of Bandar Shapur and nearby Abadan, seizing Axis ships. Conquest
of Iran would provide an all-season supply route to Russia from Egypt and the Gulf.
U. S. Govt.-Owned
Steamship Slink
Enroute Iceland
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 ifjtP)—
The State Department announc
ed the sinking of the United
Slates Government-owned steam
ship Pink Star, in waters near
Iceland, on September 19.
The Pink Star is an ex-Danish
vrs-1 of 6809 deadweight tons,
.quisitioned by the United Stat
es Maritime Commission on July
12. The vessel was flying the Pan
3 aeian flag when sunk.
A message received by the
Navy Department and communi
cated to the State Department,
didn’t say whether the ship was
tcrp.doed, struck by a bomb, or
mined.
The Pink Star sailed from New j
York on September third with a I
general cargo.
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Russian Flying
Boats at Sitka
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SEATTLE, Sept. 23 (/P) — The!
Russian flying boats reached Sit
ka late yesterday, the Navy an
nounced.
Discount Reports
Kiev Taken
UNDATED. Sept. 20 (/P) — Al
though c'early in a desperate po
sition in the Ukraine, the Red
Army is reported still fighting
heavily at Kiev and they said the
Gormans lost fen divisions, or
up to 150,000 men in assaulting
the city.
The German high command
said the citadel was stormed yes
terday and Russian officers fled
as the whole Red garrison sur
rendered. This left some doubt,
however, whether the Germans
occupied the old Ukrainian capit
al or merely smashed into a part
of it. A Soviet midday commun
ique today made no acknowledge
ments except to place the heav-1
iest fighting directly at Kiev.
A high source in London ex
pressed doubt that the Nazis
have done as well as they have
claimed. Russian sources ip Lon
don admitted tl*u t Kiev, Lenin-1
grad and even Moscow might ev
entually be lost. The Soviet
Union did not think of defeat,
but said a withdrawal strategy
has been planned.
At London, Reuters new!
agency quoted the Nazi-controll-;
ed Paris radio as saying that Ger ]
mans in Paris shot 12 more host
ages in reprisal for attacks on a
German soldier three days ago.
The Italian high command re
ported that two Italian trans
ports, taking troops from Libya,
were torpedoed and sunk off Tri
poli but nearly all soldiers and
the crew were saved.
W. Averell Harriman, head of
the American delegation said in >
London that an agreement on im
mediate material aid for Russia
was reached by the British and
United States missions including
hundreds of planes and tanks.
AIRLINE MASCOT
From Alaska to California, “Taku,” Siberian huskie puppy, trav
eled by boat and plane to serve as mascot for Western Air Lines.
German Army j
Vows Killings
Be Punished
VICHY, Sept. 22 ,(A>) — Killing
of another German officar, six
days ago, in a series of attacks j
.on members of the German fore- j
es occupying Paris, was disclosed
in the reported death of officer
Captain Scheben. Only Paris pa
pers announced the funeral, held
yesterday in the famous Mad
eleine Church, in the heart of
Paris.
A vow, in the name of the
German Army was delivered at
the big£ that “we will employ
every means, that these attacks
which cause indignation to all
honorable men, shall not go un
punished,” was disclosed in the
Paris papers.
Twelve More
Hostages Shot
PARIS, Sept. 20 (A1) — Col.
Gen. von Stuelpnagel, command
ant of the occupying forces in
France, announced that 12 more
hostages were shot for killing a
German non-commissioned offic
er Tuesday. He said seven were
executed as Communists; two for
attacks on Germans and three
for illegal possession of arms,
two of them former minor gov
ernment employees. If there are
more attacks, “Many more host
ages will be shot,” he said..
Siberian Puppy
Is Airline Mascot
From mushing with an Alas
kan dog team to mascot for an
airline, thats the exciting story
of “Taku,” Siberian huskie pup
py# adopted by Western Air
Lines officials during a recent
'.urvev trip to Alaska.
The puppy one from the ken
nels of Alaska famed woman
musher, Mary Joyce, began his
journey from Taku Pass in the
glaqicr region near Juneau by
boat to Seattle last week. Then
he was flown from Seattle to
Butte, where another plane car
ried him south to Los Angeles,
:peeding in a few hours a dis
tance which would take a year
for a dog team to mush.
Leo. H. Dwerlkotte, first vice
president, and Thomas Wolfe,
vice president of traffic for the
airline, selected “Taku” as mas
cot during their recent survey
trip in connection with Western
Air’s application for a route from
Lethbridge to Juneau, Anchor
age, Fairbanks- and Nome via in
land Canadian cities of Calgary,
Edmonton and Grande Prairie.
BULGARIA EXECUTES
COMMUNIST DEPUTIES
BERN, Sept. 22 W — Advices
from Sofia said that an unstated
number of Communist deputies
in the Bulgarian parliament were
executed and legislators of the
former Peasant party were in-,
terned.