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VOL. 43. No. 48. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, June 25, 1941. Per Copy 18#
Russia Launches Air Offensive
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Britian And Russia Allied To Defeat Germany
American Ships To Carry Munition To Russia
RED ARMY CLAIMS CAPTURE
5,000 GERMANS IN FIRST DAY
UKRAINE PENETRATED 120 Mi.
MOSCOW, June 24 (JP) — Rus-.
sia’s huge Red Army, battling fu-;
ricusly against German mechaniz
ed columns on the far-flung Bal
tic to Black Sea front, claimed to
have thrust two invading German
forces back across the Soviet
frontier. The Pravda. Communist,
party organ said: “The thing now
is to smash the vile Fascist beast
which dared to lift its blood stain
ed paw against our free life.”
First Powerful Opponent
In the first two days of fighting
against its first really powerful
opponent, the Red Army claimed
the capture of 5,000 German pri
soners, the destruction of 300 Ger
■man tanks and the shooting down
of 127 Nazi warplanes. The So
viet command acknowledged the
loss of three frontier towns: Brest
Litovsk, Kolno and Lomza, es
well as other penetrations in So
vietized Lithuania and eastern Po
land.
Drive 120 Miles Into Ukraine
In Ankara, reports received by
foreign military attaches said Ger
rran panzer columns drove 120
miles into the Russia Ukraine dur
ing the first two days of fight-1
ing while German and Rumanian
forces, slashing northward j
through Russian Bessarabia to-!
ward Odessa, penetrated 80 miles!
of Soviet territory.
Soviets Take Internal Measures
Inside Russia, measures were
taken to frustrate fifth columnist
and “panic mongers.” Pravdt
printed a severe warning, serving
notice “to each and everyone at
tempting. in these tense, hard
times, to violate discipline and
spread panic, will be regarded as
an enemy to the Soviet state and
treated mercilessly to the full ex
tent of wartime law.”
BRITAIN WELCOMES RUSSIA
AS AN ALLY IN THE COMMON
TASK TO DEFEAT GERMANY
LONDON, June 24 </P> — An
thony Eden formally welcomed
Russia as an ally in ‘our common
task to defeat Germany” in a
speech to the House of Commons.
Eden urged the British nation
forego political considerations fac
ing the situation, raised by Ger
many's drive on Russia. Commun
ism is not the issue, he said, add
ing, "We always hated their
creed,” but he went on, what
counts is that the Russians “are
fighting a man who seeks to dcm
mate the world and that also is
our sole task.”
Eden reiterated Britain's
pledge for the redemption of Po
land and announced that Russia
has accepted the offer of British,
military and economic mission;
"to coordinate our common task
to defeat the enemy.”
WORKERS WILL BE
FINGER-PRINTED
WASHINGTON, June — Presi
dent Roosevelt took another step
to guard against fifth columnists
working their way into the fed
eral government.
Mr. Roosevelt has ordered that
all Civil Service employees be
fingerprinted, and their records
filed with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation-.
WHITE HOUSE LIBRARY —A piano stands among
thousands of volumes at the White House library in the basement.
RUSSIA LAUNCHES WHOLESALE
AIR OFFENSIVE ON FINLAND
AND NAZI-OCCUPIED POLAND
—
UNDATED, June 25 <JP) — Rusj
sia launched a wholesale air of-i
fensive against Finland and oc-]
cupied Poland, in a blow by blow;
reply to German raids which
were reported to have left Lenin
grad in flames and damaged sev- j
eral other cities.
Unprovoked Attack On Finland >
Finland made a second sharp!
protest to Moscow against whatl
it called an unprovoked attack.
Finland said the Soviet assertion
chat German troops attacked Rus
sia through Finland was a “de
liberate lie.”
The Pravda, Communist party |
organ, warned that the “world
will be amazed at the forces
which the Soviet people, in its
indignation and patriotic wrath,”
will hurl against Germany.
Bombs fell on Helsinki twice, ;
to start a forest fire outside the
city. Many other Finnish cities
were reported attacked and Fin
nish fighters and anti-arcraf t1
guns who resisted the raids were
aid to have shot down 8 Rus
han planes.
Germans Are Pleased
Germany announced that the
war is progressing so favorably
that "great successes” are in pros
pect. Deep thrusts by German
columns into Russian territory
were claimed.
Reports from Turkey said the
Russians were offering little re- [
sistance in the former Rumanian !
province of Bessarabia, and that
a German parachute division is in
readiness to attack Odessa, Rus
sian Black Sea port. The Ger
mans told of the heavy bombard
ment of Russian railways and air
bases. German troops were said
to have captured the former Lith
uanian city of Vilna.
Helsinki dispatches reported gi
gantic fires in Leningrad after a
German raid. The Russians ack-l
nowledged that they were un-1
able to halt three powerful Ger-:
man drives on the central and
northern fronts.
Southern Capitals Taken
In the south, Ankara reports:
said German and Rumanian
troops captured Cemauti, capital
of Bucovina province and Chis-j
inau, capital of Bessarabia, both
taken from Rumania by Russia,
a year ago.
The Russians bombed Warsaw,
Danzig and Rumanian Constanta,
to match the German assaults om
Ukraine cities and claimed to,1
have destroyed 381 planes while
losing 374.
$7,500,000 Lawsuit
vs. CIO Ousted
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June—Fed
eral Judge Wilkin dismissed the
$7,500,000 damage suit filed by
Republic Steel against the CIO.
Republic Steel had filed the ac
tion under the anti-trust laws.
The suit resulted from the 1937
steel strike called by the CIO
Steel Workers’ Organizing Com
mittee. Judge Wilkin used the
United States Supreme Court de
cision in the Apex Hosiery case
as a basis for his action in dis
missing Republic Steel’s suit.
The Apex Hosiery Company
lost out in its effort to collect
damages from a labor union un
der the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
America To
Cut Down
On Cheese
SYRACUSE. N. Y., June — Sec
retary of Agriculture Claude
Wickard reiterated belief today
that the American people will
have to cut their cheese consump
tion to help supply British food
needs.
Wickard told the Dairymen’s
Cooperative Association that the
British need dairy products to
ease their food supply shortage.
He said each person would have to
forego some dairy products to
send Britain food more vital than
any other.
The agriculture secretary prais
ed the farmers for their coopera
12-hour Flight
To Europe
Predicted
LONDON, June — President J.
T. Trippe of Pan American Air
ways told British aviation ex
perts that he expects to see sched
uled flights made from the Unit
ed States to Europe in 12 hours.
Trippe delivered the 29th Wil-I
bur Wright Memorial lecture on!
“Ocean Air Transport” at the
meeting of the Royal Aeronautic
al Society. Said Trippe:
“Had it not been for the war,
’■three nations, and more probab- j
ly six, would have been operat
ing services across the Atlantic.
The advent of war left the Unit
ed States to maintain essential
transocean air communications1
across both the Pacific and the
Atlantic.
BRAZIL SELLS WAR
GOODS ONLY TO U. S.
DIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,
June —Brazil is reported to have
banned the exportation of cer
tain defense materials, including
rubber and manganese, to all
countries except the United Stat
es.
tion in the defense program and
in the aid-to-Britain drive. He
stressed the important role the
American farmer must play in
the current conflict. Said he:
“The American farmer has a
vital part in this struggle to de
fend democracy —a place which
is likely to prove decisive—just
as it proved decisive in the first
World War.”
COMBAT ZONE NOT APPLY TO
PACIFIC-AMERICAN SHIPS TO
CARRY MUNITIONS TO RUSSIA
WASHINGTON. June 25 i(£>)—
President Roosevelt doesn’t in
tend to issue a neutrality proclam
ation on the Russo-German war,
Secretary Welles announced. Am
erican ships are thus permitted
to carry arms to Russia's Pacific j
port of Vladiyostock and the Unit!
ed States thereby takes the same
position in reference to the Rus
sian-German war as it maintain
ed duing the long undeclared war!
of Japan on China. Asked what
effect this would have regarding
the transport of arms to Russia in
American ships, Welles explained
that combat zones have already
been established and the Presi
dent don't include the Pacific re
gion or Vladivostock. This will
remain open to American ships
carrying arms and any other sup
plies.
JAPAN INDICATES READINESS
FOR ANY SITUATION BUT NO
CHOICE MADE--NAZIS-SOVIETS
TOKYO, June 25 m Japan’s
leaders debated in two anxious,1
secret seessions, the empire’s
course in the new situation aris
ing from Germany’s invasion of
Russia. Premier Konoye later
laid the results of the meetings
before the Emperor.
General Tojo, war minister,
told a meeting of munitions mak
ers that the Japanese army “is
making full preparations for plac,
ing the country in a position ofj
perfect security and coping effic-1
iently with th ever-changing in
ternational situation,” but failed
to indicate what choice Japan
will make if it has to decide be
tween Germany and Russia. The
future attitude of the United Stat
es, he said, defies prediction. The
newspaper Hochi quoted him to
the effect that there is military
menace to Japan’s new situation
which has developed “aljong a
line from Alaska and the Aleu
tian Islands to Vladivostock.”
Plan Prevent
Jap Abrogation
Seal Treaty
WASHINGTON, June 25 m —
Fisheries Bureau officials told the
House Appropriations Commit
tee that hearings on the second
deficiency appropriation bill of
the State Department, are plan
ned to prevent Japan’s abroga
tion of the fur seal treaty of 1911,
by presenting evidence that the
seal don’t eat food fish in Japan
ese waters.. Ward Brower, chief
of the division of Alaska Fisher
ies, said the Bureau needed $290,
000 to purchase an outfit tg> fol-.
low the migrating seals to prove,
its contention that the seals fol
low the American coast into the
waters off California, not those
off Japan. He said Japan hadi
given notice of the abrogation on
October 23 of last year, effective
October 23, this year.
"SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
ADD ENIGMAS—Always prominent in each new batch of
wartime rumors about Spain is Generalissimo Francisco Franco
(left), shown with his army minister, Jose Varela, reviewing
troops on the day Spain celebrated second anniversary of peace.