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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 58. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1941. P« Copy is*
Rains Threaten Bog Nazi Invasion
Emperor Orders Konoye To Form New Cabinet
To Ask Congress Extend Services Armed Forces
Rains Threaten Bog Down Nazi
Mechanized Armies-Report Face
Acute Shortage Of Oil And Fuel
Nazis Assert Gigantic Battles Develop in Their Favor
—
UNDATED. July 18 <f/P) — The
ram-drenched, bloody Russian
Gc-rman war front threatened to
bog down Hitler's mechanized
armies at a critical moment of
the campaign hut the Nazi com
mand asserted, “The gigantic bat
tles on the Eastern front are de
veloping in our favor in all dir
ection.”
Ey contrast, the Soviet com
mand declared, after violent all
night fighting that the Red arm
ies are still holding all vital po
sitions and that there have been
no significant changes in the vast
struggle between 9 million men.
Nazis Not Completely Halted
Authoritative sources in Lon
don said the Nazi juggernaut
drives on Leningrad and Moscow
have “not been completely halt
ed” but the Russians are counter
attacking firecely in several sec
tors.
Dispatches from Berlin said
German columns, driving on Len
ingrad, captured a Russian air
plane depot with 150 lanes, and
also seized 4,000 horses, 1,000
trucks and a thousand prisoners
amid heavy losses to the Soviets.
Beyond this claim the Germans
made no specific report of fresh
gains, asserting that a broadly
sweeping Nazi victory is in sight.
Battalion Women Captured
DNB said “a whole battalion of
women” of the Red Army forces,
defending the route to Lenin
grad were captured.
Nazis Short of Oil and Fuel
In London, official quarters
said that Germany’s armies and
air force were threatened with
an acute shortage of oil and fuel
if the Russian campagin contin
ues until September. Already it
was said, Nazi supplies have been
severely cut >by the invasion of
Russia, by the Soviet aerial bomb
ardment of the Ploetsi oil fields
in Rumania, and supplies captur
ed in the Nazi sweep across west
ern Europe have been used up.
Evidence that a similar pinch is
felt in Italy is seen in the Fascist
government order cancelling all
gasoline raions for private autos,
effective October 1, because of
the growing difficulty of getting
gasoline through the British
blockade.
Germans Declare
Russians Using
Last Reserves
UNDATED, July 17, </P) — Hit
ler’s command declared that 9
million troops are located in the
“tremendous struggle for a de
cision” on the eastern front. The
Russians have thrown their last
reserves into the conflict in an at
tempt to stem the Nazi blitz
kreig.'
Hitler’s invasion forces, storm
ing through the center of the
Stalin Line, captured Smolensk,
230 miles east of Moscow. DNB
said, also it was reported that
Po'otsk was by-passed by the on-|
rushing Nazi vanguards, to be
taken later in enveloping tactics..
Great successes are in the mak
ing, Hitler's field headquarters
claimed, casting off its recent
mood of the past week.
A Moscow communique ack
nowledged violent all-night fight i
ing in which German and Rus
sian troops contended for the
mastery of the road to Lenin
grad. A battle raged in Pskov >
sector, 150 miles southwest of
Leningrad, but details are lack
ing.
“In other sectors no major op
erations took place and there
were no significant changes in
the positions which our troops
occupied,” the. Soviets declared.
But on the all improtant central
front, guarding Moscow, a crit-;
ical hour was struck, and Rus
sians are officially concerned ov
er the tank-led Nazi legions |
which have broken through in
the vicinity of Smolensk, key rail,
way town, about half way along
the Minsk-Moscow motor high
way, but made no mention of the
fall of the town.
Rearguard Resistance Broken
The Germans asserted that
the protracted rearguard resist
ance of the Red Army in the
Smolensk sector was crushed and
the Nazi advance to the eastward
is continuing swiftly. On the
southern end of the 2,000 mile
battlefront, the Germans also
reported the capture of Kishinev,
capital of Bessarabia.
The Germans declared that
more than a thousand Red Army
prisoners were taken in the Smol
ensk sector, including the Soviet
division’s chief of staff.
RAF Sinks
100,000 Tons Of
_
UNDATED. July 17 (JP) — On
the English Channel front, RAF
warplanes are reported to have
struck a heavy blow at Axis ship
ping with 17 vessels totaling al
most 100.00!) tons put out of ac
tion and 5 others from 40 to 45'
tons, bady damaged in the port
of German-held Rotterdam.
The Republicans have been
claiming that politicians have be
come cynical regarding the peo
ple; that’s turning the tables, for
the people have been that way
about the politicians these many
years.
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Konoye Forms New Cabinet .
No Great Changes Made Forces
Directing Japanese Government
TOKYO. July 17 f/P> — Prince
Konoye received the Emperor's
command to form a new cabinet
to rep'ace the one which resign
ed last night to give way to one
more capable of grappling with
‘the ever-changing world situa
tion.” Koncye. who also headed
the retiring cabinet, began as
sembling a new list of ministers.
Authoritative sources said it was’
expected that the emperor will
be able to install the new govern
rr.ent tomorrow.
Among Konoye’s first consulta
tions was with Baron Hiranuma.
a strong Nationalist and Home
Minister of the outgoing cabniet.
Observers beleived this to indie
ate that Hiranuma will remain
in office continuing the totalitar
ian domestic program upon
which the old government em
barked.
Cabinet Has
Three Admirals,
Four Generals
TOKYO. July 18 lOP) — Prince
Konoye formed a streamlined
cabinet with himself as premier
and totalitarian-minded Baron
Hiranuma as vice-premier. The
membership is weightd in a mili
tary sense with three admirals
and four generals.
Matsuoka, who concluded the
neutrality pact with Russia, af
ter aligning the Japanese policy
with the Axis, as foreign min
ister in the preceeding Konoye
government, is out. He is succeed
ed, for the present, by naval ex
pert Eeijiro Toyoda, whose for
eign policy and outlook is little
krown.
The Chinese press at Hong
Kong said the chief motive for
the reorganization was to tear up
the neutrality agreement with
Russia.
Domei said “compared to the
prveious administration, the new
cabinet offers few changes in per
.scnnel, if not make-up, to con
vey the idea that any drastic re
organization has taken place with
in the directing force of Japan’s
national government.”
A Japanese press forecast, con
sidered as cautious, the foreign
policy. The Tokyo stock market
seemed unaffected by the cabinet
changes
Japan Calls Up
Undetermined
Number Reserves
SHANGHAI. July 17 f/P) —An
undetermined number of Japan
ese reservists in addition to a
vast number of men already un
der arms, are being called up in
accompaniment to the Japanese
cabinet shift, according to re
ports received from foreign sourc
es. The summoning of reservists
was first reported early in the
week, before Konoye and the
cabinet resigned. Today’s advices
said even soldiers discharged
from the army in China a year
and a half ago have been recall
ed to the colors along with a rnim
ber of reservists in Manchukuo.
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Russians staged heavy air raid while German and Russian land
forces battled. Helsinki (1), Danzig and Koenigsberg (2) were re
ported bombed by the Red Air forcd. Warsaw (3) & Constant (4)
were in flames. Russians indicated Germans pushing 3 main drives
into the Soviet, one toward Kaunas, one toward Grodno and one
toward Brody, but said the drive had been block along Prut River!
Roosevelt Will
Ask Congress To
Extend Service
WASHINGTON, July 18 (fi>) —
President Roosevelt disclosed he
will send to Congress next week,
a message urging the extended
services of selectees, reservists,
and National Guardsmen. He
spoke at a press conference, of
the necessity of avoiding a com
plete disintegration of the army.
He said the burden is very’ defin
itely on Congress, as the service
of these men is now limited to
one year. Asked whether he will
recommend also that draftees
and guardsmen be authorized to
serve outside the western hem
isphere, he replied in the nega
tive.
Lindy Asserts
Expects Apology
From Ickes
NEW YORK. July 17 UP) — j
Col. Lindbergh advised President]
Roosevelt that he has no connec
tion with any foreign govern-]
ment and that he received his
German decoration while serving
the American Embassy. He de
clared he had the right to an
apology from Secretary of the In]
ter Ickes for certain “statements
and implications.”
In a letter to the President
Lindbergh offered to open his
files and testify before any com
mittee appointed by the Presi
dent, to answer any charges
which made be made against
him. He declared, however, that
unless the charges are made and
proved, he felt the right to “ex
pect truth and justice from the
members of your cabinet.”
No Confirmation
Given to Hitler
Goering Row
WASHINGTON. July 14 — No
confirmation has been received
in Washington from London,
Rome or Berlin of a report en
amating from Moscow Saturday
to the effect that Adolph Hitler
has broken with Reichs-Marshal
Hermann Goering over the at
tack on the Soviet union.
According to the Russian radio
commentator, Goering has oppos
ed the Russian campaign on the
ground that the German air force
was in no position to undertake a
major offensive.
Hitler was said to have flown
into rage and to have calleld
Goering a coward.
The Russian radio announcer
j said that the chief of the German
Gestapo had .advised Hitler to
' put Goering into a concentration
camp.
Often it’s easier to do a good
job than to explain why you
didn’t.
U.S. To Defend
Iceland Attack,
Threat of Attack
WASHINGTON, July 18 </P)
President Roosevelt declared the
policy of the United States is to
defend Ice'and and also to afford
protection to the American garri
son there. Therefore, he told a
press conference, it is what he
termed A-B-C stuff to keep open
the sea lanes to Iceland. Orders,
he said, have been issued to pro
vide protection against attack or
any threat of attacks. He added
that no one in the room, includ
ing himself, could define threat
of attack.
Unprecedented
Heat Wave Hits
Pacific Northwest
UNDATED. July 17 VP) — The
Pacific Northwest’s unprecedent
heat wave which caused a crit
ical water shortage in some cities,
and multiplied the forest fire ha2
ard, is nearing an end, weather
observers predicted.
New heat records were estab
lished in most cities of the area
yesterday, Seattle reporting a
new all-time high of 100 degrees.
Six cases of heat prostration
one serious, were reported.
Two deaths in Portland were
attributed to the heat. The tem
perature rose to 102 degrees.
Officials ordered sprinkling
halted entirely while in other
cities officials sought the cooper*
tion of citizens in curtailing lawn
sprinkling.
In Seattle, the city water
mains delivered thirty million
gallons, equivalent to 295 gallons
for every person along the pipe
lines.
In Eastern Washington, one
ranch home was burned and two
others were threatened by a fire
which swept 15 miles through
the clump grass and sage of the
Frenchman Hills.
C. G. Shattuck
Appointed Head
Of Merit System
The appointment of Curtis G.
Shattuck, as Supervisor of the
Alaska Merit System was announ
cd by the Merti System Council
comosed of Walter P. Sharpev
Director, Unemployment Com
pensation Commission; Dr. W. W.
Council, Commissioner, Territor
ial Department of Health; and
Russell G. Maynard, Director, De
partment of Public Welfare.
The appointment became effect
ive today, upon the acceptance
of the resignation of George
Sundborg, who it is understood
is entering other employment.
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