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VOL. 43. No. 62. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1941 Copt IS*
Nazi Blitzkreig Declared Washout
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Action May Follow Indies Freezing Japanese Assets
FDR Calls Philippine Forces for Military Service
Soviets Declare Hitler’s Blitz Is
“Washout”, Fight Becomes Seige
Report Nazis Plan Painless Peace
UNDATED, July 28 (£>) — Rus
sia declared officially that Hit-j
ler’s blitzkreig is a “washout,” j
and the conflict has now settled j
down to old fashioned siege. The
Russians reported the destruc
* tion of two German divisions of
about 30.000 men.
A week-end Red Army bullet
in indicated that Soviet troops
are taking the initiative in sev
eral sectors of the 2,000-mile
front.
“Another Verdun”
The Germans were declared to
have run into “another Verdun.”
While previous communiques
mentioned only stubborn battles
of fierce fighting. today’s ac
count spoke of “fighting actions
of our troops” throughout the
night in ,the Neve! and Smolensk
sectors on the central front and
at Khitomir in the Ukraine or
southern front.
Countering the Russian asser
tion. Hitler’s command reported
that the battle of Smolensk, a
phase of the German onslaught
on Moscow, “is drawing to suc
cessful conclusion.” The Nazi
command said all Russian at
tempts to prevent the annihila
tion of the trapped Red Armies
in the Smolensk sector have fail
ed.
On the northern front, DNB
said the advancing Nazi columns
lunged within 45 miles of Lenin
grad.
Nazi military leaders also
claimed the annihilation of two
Russian divisions near Mogilev,
the southern base of the Smolensk
sector, and the capture of 23.000
Red troops. 91 cannon, SO anti
tank guns and 750 vehicles.
S. A. Lozovsky, Soviet vice for
eign commissar declared the
blitzkreig was a washout and re
ported the Red Army lines are
intact from the Arctic to the
Black Sea. He said the Red air
fleet forced the Luftwaffe to fall
back to bases deep in German
territory and left nothing of the
Rumanian oil center of Ploesti
except the name.
Offer “Britain Painless Peace”
Pro-British circles in Turkey
quoted a diplomat of an Axis sat
ellite nation as outlining a pur
ported Nazi plan to offer “a pain
less peace” to Britain if the Ger
mans pushed the Red Army east
of the Ural Mouuntains. Under
the plans, the Germans would
cease hostilities against Britain,
if Britain would recognize the
Reich as the control.ing power of
Europe. The scheme was also
said to propose the partitioning of
European Russia, with Germany
taking over the Ukraine and ap
portioning the rest to Turkey,
Rumanian and Poland.
Moscow, Berlin
and Alexandria
Reported Bombed
UNDATED, July 26 (Interna
tional) — In the European war
theater, Moscow, Berlin and Al
exandria reported air raids.
The German high command
said the regular rearguard Rus
sian resistance was broken; in
the Ukraine as strong Russian
units, thrown into that front
were repulsed with heavy losses
and pursued by the Germans.
Soviet Girls Now
Serving In
Merchant Marine
MOSCOW. July i(/P) — Girls
are being taken aboard Soviet
vessels to serve as sailors and
navigators, Komsomol Pravda,
paper of the Communist Youth
Organization, announced.
It is said the White Sea Onega
Steamship Line had given jobs
to thirty girls, some of them vet
erans of the Finnish war, and
that others were in training.
Raisa Viasova, who attended
the Leningrad Naval School and
originated the Komsomol move
ment for girls to go to sea, has
been assigned as pilot of the
passenger steamer, Karl Marx.
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Howard Jones,
U. S. C. Football
Coach Dead
LOS ANGELES, July 28 (£>>
—Football coach Howard Jones,
aged 55, died yesterday, leaving
leaderless the University of Sou
thern California football machine
which he made famous. A heart
attack cut down the Trojan men
tor as he was preparing for the
new football season to start Sep
tember 8. He was Southern Cal
ifornia’s coach since 1925 and
since 1934 has been earning
$15,000 a year.
ALASKAN RADIO
NAVY PROBLEM
The Navy Department is spend
ing thousands of dollars in sec
ret scientific research in Alaska
in efforts to determine why radio
waves in the Far North do not
follow a true path when they are
transmitted from ships, it was
learned recently.
In most instances, shore sta
tions have been able to deter
mine the whereabouts of ships
by using a radio direction finder.
However, in many parts of Al
aska, the waves are distracted
and the true location of the ves
sels sending the signals cannot
be determined.
The Navy recently dispatched
large quantities of expensive
equipment from Seattle to aid in
the research, which will be con
tinued fca: many months.
Japan Freezes American Assets
Retaliatory Action - Netherlands
East Indies Follow U. S. Lead
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UNDATED, July 26 (Inter
national) — Japan struck back in
the new economic war, freezing
United States assets in the Em
pire. Indications were that the
same retaliation is upcoming ag
ainst Britain. American sources
said Japan will probably take
over Shanghai, occupying the vir
tually indefensible international
settlement and the French con
cession. without resistance. It is
expected that Japan will act thru
the Tokyo-sponsored Nanking
government, with the long-threat
ened abolition of foreign hold
ings in China.
It was estimated that the
Roosevelt order, freezing Japan
! ese and Chinese credits will ap
ply to Japanese funds and pro
perty aggregating more than a
j hundred and thirty million dol
1 lars. The retaliatory Japanese ac
tion will immobilize two hundred
seventeen million dollars of Am
erican assets.
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Japan Occupies
New Bases In
Indo - China
UNDATED. July 26 (JP> —
' At Saigon. French Indo-China,
Japan began occupying new bas
es with the plane-arrival of rank
ing army and navy officers and
with the first appearance of mili
tary trucks, rolling from Hanoi.
Prearranged fanfare greeted Gen
eral Rishiro Sumita, military mis
sion commander.
Netherlands
Indies Freeze
Japanese Assets
TOKYO, July 28 (fP) — The
Foreign Office-controlled Japan
Times and Advertiser described
the United States as a “hostile”
| leader -of a grim economic battle
, against Japan. As the Japanese
, press generally employed sharper
: terms of attack on Washington’s
economic measures, informed
* sources said the action of the
: Netherlands East Indies, of freez
ing Japanese assets, following
the United States lead, might
produce even more far-reaching
consequences than the American
program. Japan has been getting
quantities of oil from the Dutch
Indies and shutting off the sup
ply might bring about drastic
changes in the far eastern situa
tion.
In Batavia, it was asserted that
the Japan-Indies agreement,
whereby Japan would get a mil
lion eight hundred thousand tons
i of Indies oil annually, was sus
pended.
•SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
16 L. S. Army
Officers Be Sent
Philippines
WASHINGTON. July 28 (/P) —
;In an aparent move to strengthen
Amer’cs’s easternmost army out
pod. the War Department or^er
ed 16 officers for duty in the Phil
ippines. The men, ranging in
rank from a Second Lieutenant
to a Captain, will leave San Fran
cisco about August 7, the War
Department disclosed in the list
of orders.
Gen. McArthur to
Command P.I.
WASHINGTON, July 28 (<P> —
President Roosevelt nominated
Douglas McArthur, Lieutenant
General, to command the United
States and Commonwealth forces
of the Philippines. The nomina
tion of the former Chief of Staff,
went to the Senate as Senator
Pepper told reporters that Roose
velt couid make no better selec
tion for a commanding general
of the forces in this troubled far
eastern area.
Warring dictators have put more
than one king out of business,
but King Cotton won’t have to
abdicate if new promotion plans
of the Cotton-Textile Institute
have the desired result; the goal
is ten million bales of evotton for
domestic consumption, to offset
export losses.
Committee Approves Amendment
Selective Service Act, President
Calls P.I. Forces Military Service
WASHINGTON, July 26 (/P) —
The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee approved by a vote of 9
to 1, in a four-hour session, the
resolution amending the Selec
tive Service Act to retain select
ees. Guardsmen and reserves in
the army beyond one year, on
the ground that the national in
terest is imperilled. The commit
tee declined to accept the War
Department suggestion that the
measure include a declaration of
a national emergency. Sen. Hall
of Alabama said the matter
would call into effect a long list
of emergency powers which the
legislators did not wish to in
voke. Chairman Reynolds was
the only one who reooitded a
vote against the declaration.
FDR Calls P. I. Armed Forces
HYDE PARK. July 26 <(.<P) —
President Roosevelt called into
the armed services all the organ
ized military forces of the Philip
pine government. There was no
immediate official explanation of
this step, generally regarded as
an indication of the United Stat
es’ displeasure at Japan’s south- .
ward Pacific moves, and followed
the United States freezing of
Japanese credits and Nippon’s re
taiiatory freezing of American
assets.
The President’s order puts the
Philippine military forces under
the American Army general who
will designate the time when the
personnel will be inducted into
the American armed service.
Current Comments
Prom Washington
After a term of Congressional
deliberation and debate, dating
back to the time when Winter
was merging into Spring, the
Ways and Means Committee of
the House has spoken tentatively
upon the subject of taxation. Al
though not so drastic in some res
pects as the system offered by
the Treasury, the House plan
points to a rough and rugged
road for the middle bracket tax
payer to travel.
Those having incomes that
range from $1,000 to $5,000 per
year, will be asked to part with
three times as much as the next
collection as they did at the last,
it is alleged. When the $10,000
figure is reached, the tax will be
twice what it was formerly. The
top-notchers will have to put up
with an increase of from 15 to
75 percent. There will be a lower
ing of the surtax limit, which
will affect practically everyone.
Each will have a chance to do his
“'bit,” though the contribution in
most instances will be regarded
as a l'bite,” and a good sized one
at that.
When neighbors begin to run
the lawn mower early Sunday
morning, in retaliation for a late
and loud operation of the radio
the night before, friendly rela
tions may be said to have become
strained. Diplomatic connections
between the U. S. and the Axis
powers have reached that stage.
The suppression of the German,
consulates in this country was
put off with noteworthy forbear
ance. The United States is not at
war but Mr. Hitler himself is
good support for the rule that it
is unwise to wait for attack be
fore getting ready to ward of at
tack.
CRUISER IN SINGAPORE DRYDOCK
Here is one of the ifirst pictures ever released by the British of a cruiser being shored up for repairs
and ovehaul in the big floating drydock at Singapore, Britain’s big far eastern naval base.