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VOL. 43. No. 75. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 1941. Per Copy is*
Communist Shoots, Wounds Laval
Russians Fire Encircled Tallinn, Capital of Estonia
Report Japs Protest Aviation Oil Shipments Russia
Report Japs Make Representations
Russia & U. S. Against Shipment
Aviation Fuel, Oil Via Vladivostok
TOKYO. Aug. 27 UP) — Domei
news agency, quoting what was
described as reliable sources,
said the Japanese government
made representations recently to
both the United States and Rus
sia Egainst shipments of Ameri
can aviation fuel to the Soviets
via Vladivostok. The govern
ment, Domei said, is taking a ser
ious view of the situation. Re
ports that both Russian and Am
erican ships, transporting not
only gasoline but other supplies
through Vladivostok, are said to
be “greatly irritating to Japan
ese sentiment.”
In Washington, official quar
ters denied any knowledge of
formal Japanese representations.
To Punish Anti
Nazi Disorders
In France
VICHY. Aug. 26 iMP) —All rank
ing German and-French police
authorities in German-occupied
Paris were reported to have dis
cussed measures for the repres
sion of anti-Nazi disorders, in a
meeting at the former capital
yesterday. Interior Minister Pu
cheu is busy arranging with oc
cupying officials, a means to ap
ply the latest decree aaginst
Anarchists and Communists, who
will be tried by court-martial in
the occupied zone and by a spec
ial appeal court in unoccupied
territory.
Britain Wipes
Out Iran’s
Small Navy
UNDATED. Aug. 27 UP) — Brit
ish reports from Simla, headquar
ters of the British command, said
Iran’s small navy was wiped out
by British men o’ war and Iran
ian Admiral Bay Endor killed.
Tass said Red Army forces, in
vading Iran, captured the town
of DilmaVi, only 100 miles north
east of Teheran, the capital. This
represented a three-day advance
of 100 miles.
Beaverbrook
Would Like To
See U.S. In War
LONDON, Aug. 26 (JP) — Lord
Beaverbrook, Minister of Supply
recently returned from conferenc
es in Washington, declared that
the United States is in fu’l swing
production with no slow down
since Germany invaded Russia.
A ked at a press conference, if
the United States was near to
entry into the war. Beaverbrook
replied that such a decision is
the business of the people of the
United States. Reporters persist
ed questioning Beaverbrook said
he finally said “I’d like to see
them in it.”
Of American planes he said:
“They are just as fine as any
product of th.s country or any
country.”
Lone Nazi Plane
Over Iceland
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. —
A single German twin-motored
bomber flew over Iceland today
and was immediately chased out
to sea by fighter planes.
It dropped no bombs. This is
the firs: such incident reported
since the United States Naval
forces joined British troops there
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RUSSIANS BURN SURROUNDED
TALLINN, CAPITAL ESTONIA
GERMANS STRAIGHTEN FRONT
UNDATED, Aug. 27 (3>) — Gi
ant walls of flame, streaking ov
er the seige-girt port of Tallin,
capital of Estonia, indicated that
the Russians are destroying the
city, presumably getting ready
for a mass attempt to escape by
sea. German troops were report
ed to have cut off the city on all
sides by land. Dispatches from
Helsinki, 50 miles across the Gulf
of Finland, said the glow on the
southern horizon above Tallinn
began last night and continued
this mcrning. Observers on the
Finnish shore also heard the
thunder of artillery fire .indicat
ing that German seige guns were
pounding the city.
Red Ships Sunk
In Gulf Finland
“Operation before Tallinn pro
ceeded successfully, the Germans
announced, adding that Nazi war
planes sunk four Soviet trans
ports and damaged four other
ships in the Finnish Gulf. Only a
few days ago, the Nazis said
they thwarted an attempt to
send supplies to the beleaguered
city, sinking seven Russian ships,
two transports, and destroyed
the flotilla leader, heading thru
the Gulf of Finland toward Tal
linn.
Other Rapid
fire Developments
Other rapid-fire developments
crowded the international pic
t
ture: In London, informed sourc
es predicted the collapse of Iran’s
resistance within the next three
days. Russian troops, driving
southward, reportedly captured
Tabriz, the country’s second big
gest city. British Imperial forc
es, striking northward, advanced
40 miles
NAZIS STRAIGHTEN LINES
ON CENTRA! FRONT
In Berlin, the Germans report
ed that Hitler’s invasion armies
had annihilated the 22nd Russian
army, captured the town of Vel
nikie Luki far behind the main
German-Russian line, killing
more than 40,000 Red troops and
taking 30.000 prisoners Velinkie
Luki lies 275 miles west of Mos
cow and 250 miles south of Len
ingrad about midway between
Lake Ilmen and Smolensk. The
capture of the town means that
the Germans have straightened
out their lines on the central
front, putting them in a position
for more concerted drives ag
ainst both Moscow and Lenin
grad.
Iran Government
Pleads for Peace
Delayed dispatches from Tehe
ran. Iran capital, reported that
British and Russia ministers, af
ter an audience with the Shah
transmitted the government of
Iran’s plea for peace. The Shah,
it is said, guaranteed that vir
tually all Germans in the coun
try will be ousted within a week.
japs Drills For
Fire Bomb Raids
TOKYO, Aug. 27 f/P) — Dis
trict air raid practice in prepara
ion for actual nation-wide civil
defense drills next month, began
in down town Tokyo, with accent
on defense against incendiary
bombs, which one newspaper in
deed y suggested might come
from American planes. Asasi, one
of the nation’s leading newspa
pers referred “to the opinion
common in Europe and America”
that Japanese cities are made of
wood and paper. Asasi said “We
must show that our cities are not
the hlost inflamable in the world,
displaying our scientific techni
que and our spiritual and phys
ical endeavor.”
FDR ASKS PEOPLE TO GUARD
AGAINST MATERIAL WASTE
WASHINGTON, Aug. — Presi
dent Roosevelt called upon ev
ery American citizen to enlist in
a campaign against accidents to
prevent “wastage of human and
material resources of the nation.”
He asked the National Safety
Council to lead the concerted
drive.
PRESIDENT HITS JAPAN
ANOTHER SWAT; TARIFF
ON CRAB MEAT RAISED
HYDE PARK. N. Y., Aug. —
President Roosevelt ordered a 50
percent increase in the tariff on
I imported crab meat from Japan,
which is the chief source of sup
ply.
The proclamation made no men
tion of Japan, specifically, how
ever.
The proclamation declared the
duties on imported crab meat
shall be raised from 15 to 22% j
percent ad valorem and further
states the increase is necessary to
equalize differences in cost of
production elsewhere which has
been determined by investiga
tion of the Tariff Commission.
The tariff in crab meat ap
plies to meat prepared or preserv
ed in any manner, including raw'
crab, paste crab or sauce, packed
in air-tight containers.
While the proclamation is an
innocent looking document on
the surface it constitutes a link
in the chain of economic mea
sures against Japan.
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Pierre Laval, Leading French
Collaborationist, Shot, Wounded
Anti-Communist Demonstration
VICHY, Aug. 27 ■(£») — Pierre
Laval, agted 58, former Vice
premier under Petain and lead
ing French proponent of strong
collaboration with Germany, was
shot this morning when he at
tended an anti-Communist dem
onstration in German-occupied
Versailles. He was reported ser
iously wounded. Laval was shot
in the chest. Doctors said they be
lieved he would live.
Shot at the same time, although
less seriously hurt, was Marcel
Deat, former Air Minister and
Rightist journalist, and like
Laval, a leading collaborationist.
Laval, swarthy white-tied pol
iticians, brought Petain and Hit
ler together after the armistice
He was shot in both arms and
body while Deat received only a
wound in the arm. The.tw.o were
sitting beside each other, receiv
ing registrations of anti-Com
munists to fight in a volunteer
force along side Germany in the
war against Russia.
The shooting ocurred as the]
Legionnaires were taking the
oath of allegiance. In the midst
of the ceremony, a man identi
fied as Paul Colette, aged 21, a
Communist, arose and started
firing, wounding both men be
fore he could be overpowered.
Reports said that after the doc
tors extracted the bullet from
from Laval’s chest, he asked to
talk to his wife on the telephone.
The shooting occurred the very
day the newly established anti
Communst court began function
ing, to handle cases of many hurt
dreds arrested, both in occupied
and unoccupied France. In grow
ing manifestation of opposition
to collaboration with the Ger
mans, a number of persons des
cribed as Jews and Commun
ists were arrested in the fourth
ward of Greman-occupied Paris.
Colette to'.d authorities that h^
joined the legion of anti-Com
munists volunteers simply to
have the opportunity to shoot
collaborationist leaders arriving
at Versailles this morning, and
he volunteered the Information
that his sole purpose wa«» “shoot
ing down” Laval.
AMERICAN EAGLE PILOT
BAGS TWO NAZI FIGHTERS
LONDON, Aug. 27 ,(£>) _ Pilot
Officer William Robert Dunn,
American in the Eagle Squadron,
a former airline flier from Hous
ton, Tex., shot down two German
fighters, suffering a bullet wound
in his foot, the Air Ministry re
ported.
British And
Russians Sweep
Through Iran
UNDATED, Aug. 26 (&)— Rus
sian Cossacks, sweeping down
from the north, and British Im
perial troops, striking from the
south and west, reported meeting
only slight resistance in the two
day-old invasion of Iran. The Al
lies in the south, made a swift
cleanup of the ancient middle
east oil kingdom of Iran. Dis
patches said Indian and British
forces, including air-borne troops
seized three key points after
brief skirmishes.
IRAN STIFFLY RESISTING
The German radio quoted an
Iran news agency as asserting
that Iran troops are putting up a
stiff resistance, particularly ag
ainst the Soviet forces advancing
southward laong the rail line to
Tabriz. British headquarters, by
contrast, asserted that the joint
invasion is progressing so rapid
ly hat casualties are few.
Germans Ever
Nearer Leningrad
R. R. To Moscow
UNDATED, Aug. 26 (fP) — A
Red Army bulletin acknowledg
ed that Nazi troops are advanc
ing on Leningrad’s jugular vein,
the rail line to Moscow, after cap
turing Novgorod, 100 miles south
of Moscow. The Germans are re
Germans Silence
112 Soviet Bunkers
Clear 2,900 Mines
BERLIN, Aug. 26 (#■) — DNB
announced that the Germans cap
tured Luga, industrial city of
22,000 inhabitants, about 90 miles
south of Leningrad, on the Rus
sian front between Lakes Ilmen
and Peipus, in fighting which last
ed several days. DNB said Ger
man formations silenced 112
bunkers .cleared away 2,900 min
es, captured 2,300 prisoners,
seized more and destroyed 54
armored cars and 46 guns.
ported within 35 miles of the rail
road.
Soviet military dispatches said
Leningrad’s hastily drilled peo
ple's army had gone into action
in “heroic battles for their city,
fighting courageously, side by
side with the Red Army.”
HEAVY RAINFALL ON FRONT
A heavy 24-hour rainfall soak
ed the whole battlefront from
the Baltic to the Black Sea. The
Russians counted on increasingly
bad weather to bog down the
German advance.
RETREAT EAST OF DNEIPER
Hitler’s command again sum
med up the progress of the con
flict with a single sentence: “On
the entire Eastern front, opera
tions proceed according to plan,
successfully.” Other Nazi reports
pictured Marshall Budyenny’s
Ukraine armies as retreating east
of the Dneiper river under an as
sault by the Luftwaffe.
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