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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 98. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCT. 20, 1941. Per Opy is#
21 Casualties Kearny Torpedoing
Nazis 57 Miles From Moscow--City Under Seige
U. S., British Fleets to Cooperate, Japan Is Warned
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Germans said their guns were pounding Kronstadt torts pronamv
from Oranienbaum (1). Russians claimed advances from Yelnva
(2), toward Smolensk. Germans asserted they were pushing as
saults cn Bryansk and Kharkov (arrows), while the Capture of
m<-re Russians troops was reported east of Kiev (2), London heard
that the Gentian push on Crimean (4)), continued ‘‘without much
success.”
Soviets Reported Holding Nazis
At Bay Moscow -- Japan \\ anted
Against Attack Russian Siberia
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UNDATED, Oct. 13 ’(TP) — So
viet counterattacks were report
ed holding the Germans at bay in
the 17-day-old battle fronting
Moscow and in the Far East, Jap
an was the target of stern new
British warnings against an as
sault on Russia via Siberia.
Reuters quoted a Stockholm
dispatch as saying that the Red
army counter blows had driven
the Germans back, recapturing
the strategic town of Kalinin, 95
miles northwest of Moscow.
Other British reports quoted the
Moscow radio as saying that So
viet troops Tuesday recaptured
Orel, key rail center 200 miles
south of Moscow.
London newspapers notified
Japan that any attempt to spread
the war would be met by the
combined British and United
States fleets. The spokesman for
the Netherlands government in
exile in London said every facil
ity of the Dutch East Indies will
be placed at the disposal of the
United States in the event of
war—he implied the Indies bases.
In Washington, senatorial de
mands for a hard-fisted United
States policy with Japan drew
various statements from Japan’s
new predominantly military gov
eminent.
At Tokyo, Premier Tojo held
his first cabinet meeting, carry
ing the triple portfolios of pre
mier, War Minister, and Home
Minister. Tojo is reported to
have pledged Japan to a firm
policy with the United States.
In a br f redio speech he call
ed on the empire for “all coopera
tion and aid.” and declared that
Japan must “strengthen our ties
with treaty nations,” in apparent
reference to the alliance with
the Rome-Berlin axis.
Senator Pepper said the only
way to deal with Japan was to
“draw a line and warn them that
if they cross it there will be
shooting.”
Chinese newspapers in Hong
king said the new Jap cabinet
“smells of powder.”
The German high command re
ported that a U-boat sunk ten
merchant ships and two destroy
ers in a strongly guarded convoy.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
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tives on the ‘Outside,’ using Sour
dough Stationery. They’ll get a
big kick out of it.
Moscow Under Stale Of Seijre
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German Forces 37 Miles Away
Nazis Sweeping Into Caucasus
UNDATED. Oct. 20 -7Pi—Height
ened tension in the Far E:st, the
increasingly grave situation at
Moscow, indeed over a 1 Russia,
and the controversy between the
Un'ted States and Germany over
the torpedoing of the Kearny are
outstanding developments of the
war and threats of war girdling
the earth. This world news form
ed a mosaic in which each piece
fit the whole pattern.
Japan's new priemier, General
Toju declaring that Japan ha ■
reached the crossroads of her des
tiny, called for "iron unity
among a 1 the fighting arms and
the people to cope with the en
circlement of Japan by foreign
powers." As Japan imposed dras
tic censorship on mail and nego
tiations, the United Pacific front
composed of the United States,
Britain, China, the Netherlands
East Indies, Australia, and New
Zealand was reported at Can
berra as complete.
A Chinese army spokesman es
timated that Japan has massed
an equivalent of 29 divisions in
Manchukuo, Russia’s Siberian
“backdoor" with three or four
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:i ■ r ■ divisions enroute.
Moscow Under State of Seige
.'i ■ s\v is under a state of
s g* pr claimed by Stalin and
if braced for the impact of Ger
. i:.n forces on y 57 miles away.
At one point the German com
mand said n w wedges were
duven into the Moscow defenses
and two more Red army groups
wore wiped out. German soldiers
and their allies in southern Rus
sia are sweeping anew toward the
industrial Donets basin and Ros
tov, gateway to the oil-rich Cau
CdSUS. ^
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Decide Richardson
Highway Tolls
c. •/
Are Legal
FAIRBANKS, Ocl. 17 (Fair-1
banks News-Miner) — Judge
Harry E. Pratt of the U. S. Dis
trict Court for the Fourth Judic
ial Division of Alaska, sitting in
Fairbanks today, handed down a
43-page decision, declaring the
Richardson Highway tolls legal.
The case was argued here last
month in the stated case of the
United States versus members of
the Tanana Valley Truckers As
sociation, to test the validity of
the tolls imposed on freight brot
over the highway from Valdez to
Fairbanks. George Folta. Attor
ney at large for Alaska and for
the Interior Department, repre
sented the government and John
L. McGinn was counsel for the
truckers.
McGinn said today that he will
appeal to the Circuit Court of
Appeals.
The case is the culmination of
a year's fighting against the high
way tolls by the truckers. Judge
Pratt contends that after elimin-,
ating other points the "ultimate
complaint by the defendants is
that the imposition of tolls takes
away their profit as carriers and
their only reason is that freight
rates on the Alaska Railroad are
such that truckers cannot op
erate at a profit and no law guar
anteos their right to make a pro
fit."
Nearly $15,000,000 In Defense
Stamps Sold First Four Months
—
WASHINGTON — Sale of $4,
453,748 Defense Savings Stamps
during August showed an in
crease of 30 percent over sales
for July, the Treasury announced
Total sales for the 4 months
since the Savings Program start
ed on May 1 last were:
May . $3,475,070
June . 2.802..345
July . 3,288,283
, August . 4,453,748
iisill and Welles
Confer With
Jap Minister
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 bPi —1
The State Department disclosed
that Secretary Hull and Sumner
We les had a lengthy conference
late yesterday with Kaname Wa
kasugi, Jap minister, for a gen
eral interchange of views” with
out elabora;:on, the Department
spokesman said.
HEATHER FORCAST
Variable and rapid changes!
from clear to overcast skies ac
companied by intermittent snow
flurries tonight and Tuesday.
Slightly warmer Tuesday with
light N. W. winds freshening in
the afternoon. !
GERMANS ARRIVE AT FORMER PALACE OF CZARS
German trfwps arrive at the famed castle of former Russian Czars in Tsarskoi Selo, approximate
ly 15 miles south of Leningrad, according to German sources. Russia reported that German attacks
on the outer defenses of Leningrad had been repaired with Nazis losing 1.200 men killed and
! wounded. This photo sent from Berlin by radio.
Kearny. Torpedoed by Submarine,
Undoubtedly German, Makes Port
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uiih 21 Casualties Reported
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 i.T) —
The enpi al was jolted by the
news that the torpedo which hit
the U. S. S. Kearny took a toll
of 21 casualties: ten injured and
eleven listed as missing, but be
lieved dead. The navy formally
identified the attacker as a “sub
r rine, undoubtedly German,"
but this detail of the official an
nouncement was momentarily ov
ershadovved by the unlooked for
disclosure that the Atlantic fleet
sustained its first personnel loss,
os with the torpedoing of the
new 1.630-ton destroyer. When
first made known Friday, the
Navy's communique said there
w. re “no casualties indicated,"
and rchef tempered the capital's
r-‘action to the incident. Last
night, however, the Navy receiv
ed urther information that the
wound 'd Kearny made her way
fo n undisclosed port and the
rap. i • ed casualties and character
of the encounter between the
Kearny and the sub led inform
ed quarters to write off the miss
ing as dead. In their belief the
men were either blown out of
‘she ship when the torpedo ex
ploded or else were trapped
when the watertight bulkheads
closed after the ship was hit.
One possibility suggested by
men familiar wilh the destroy
er's construction was that some
of the missing men might be
trapped in the flooded engine
room compartment and have a
bare chance of survival. One
navy officer said a person famil
iar was the destroyer could read
ily identity the battle stations at
which the missing men probably
were when the torpedo struck,
but d •dined to volunteer any in
formation, however, since four of
the missing are firemen and three
are watermen. The belief is that
one of the Kearny’s engine rooms
was hit.
No knowledge
BERLIN, Oct. 13 i.Rt — Author
izod German sources found it
was “interesting" that the re
ported torpedoing of the destroy
er Kearny happened at the very
moment that the neutrality de
bate was at its height :n Con
gress. They said thej had no in
formation front the admiralty on
the incident and hence no official
reaction is possible, but added
Roosevelt and his whips in Con
gross undoubtedly find the inei
dent most welcome in orHpr to
hasten their aggressive pro
gram.”
Embassies Move
ROME. Oct. 18 i/P> —Authori
tative sources said foreign dip
lomatic staffs which left Moscow
have gone to Kuibyshev, on the
Volga River, 550 miles to the
east.
Edward (udalty
Passes Away
m
CHICAGO. Oct. 18 <.V — Ed
ward Cudahy, Sr., aged 81, found
t and head of the great pack
ing company died hern of a
heart ai mcnt. He spent 68 years
in the packing business.