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VOL. 44. No. 93. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1942 Per Copy 154
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Fairbanks iner, Slayer of Three, Killed In Tunnel
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Russian Army Giving Ground As
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Germans Drive 200 Miles from Volga
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UNDATED, July 13 (.P) — The Russian army, giv
ing ground but keeping its front unbroken, hammered
back into the big bend of the Don river where the
Germans made their deepest drive into Soviet soil,
and carried the Swastika flag to within 200 miles of
the Volga, in a sweep toward the Caspian Sea which
would cut off the Caucasus.
In Egypt, however, bayonet-fighting Australian in
fantry bolstered the British 8th army in keeping the
Germans on the defensive, pushing them back 10 miles
west of El Alamein and badly blunting Rommel’s po
• tential threat to the Caucasus from the south.
The gravest threat on the hard-strained Russian
front developed at Boguchar, 50 miles beyond Rossosh
and 200 miles east of Kharkov, where the German drive
began; and barely 20 miles short of Stalingrad, on the
v Volga. To the north the Russians are still reported
holding Voronezh, though under intensive assault, but
in the southwest the were forced to give up Lisiehansk
and drop back east of the Donets river against a th ro
German spearhead being driven in south of Izyum, be
tween the Kharkov-Rostov front door to the Caucasus
and Boguchar, where the Don turns sharply east with
in 50 miles of the broad Volga, and 435 miles from As
trakhan, where the Volga pours into the Caspian Sea.
► The Vichy radio broadcast a report that Germans
occupied Pokrovisk, 40 miles northwest of Rostov, in
a new fourth spearhad southern drive. The Germans
said the Russians are “being pursued on a broad front
in the southern sector.” The Russian defenses were
breached and 30,000 Russians captured in a big new
encirclement southwest of Rzhev, 135 miles north
west of Moscow.
Allies Blast Linchwan, Main Jap
Base lor Drive In Kiangsi Province
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CHUNGKING, July 11 (/P) — Allied planes blast
ed Jap headquarters at Linchwan, main base for the
enemy’s drive in central Kiangsi province “with sat
isfactory results” yesterday, Stilwell’s headquarters
announced. The communique said two planes failed to
return, in the first official reference to Allied losses
since the Flying Tigers were incorporated with the
U.S. defense force in China. Linchwan is in the Kiangsi
area where the Chinese reported the ambush and
scattering of 30,000 Japs.
War front dispatches said the Japs, retreating to
ward Nanchang and Linchwan, are leaving a great
number of dead.
Brig. Gen. Chennault said the initial raids by Am
erican airmen on Jap occupied cities are only the be
ginning of a mighty aerial assault on every Chinese
center in enemy hands.
Japs Announce
Arrival Convoy
In Aleutians
TOKYO, July 10 </P> — From
Jap broadcasts — the Japs an
nounced that a large convoy, es
corted by destroyers and cruis
ers, arrived Friday in the Aleu
tian Islands. “ All forces reached
their destinations without en
countering enemy attacks.”
U.S. Will Have
To Lick Japs
In The Pacific
SAN DIEGO, July 11, W) —
Hugh Grant, former U. S. minis
ter to Albania and Thailand, said
in an interview that “the Japs
fire going to have to be licked in
Jap Raid Oil
Port Moresby
Is Ineffective
MacArthur’s Headquarters in
j Australia, July 11 (/P) — Allied
( forces shot down two Japanese*
| bombers when 21 bombers and 8
fighters attacked Port Moresby,
New Guinea. An Allied commun
ique said the enemy’s bombing
was scatered and wild and result
ed in no damage or casualties.
Anti-aircraft fire brought down
the two bombers and a third was
seen smoking and losing altitude.
the Pacific and that’s not an easy
job. We shouldn’t let the Coral
Sea and Midway victories lead us
to believe that from now on it
will be easy sailing. Japan is
highly vulnerable to air attack
and that will be one means
whereby we can bring the Jap’s
military power to collapse.”
Fairbanks Miner, Suspected of Slaving
'three. Suffocates In Mine Tunnel
FAIRBAXKS. July 13 (7P) — Answering demands
for his surrender with gunfire. Pete Yabacavin, aged
60, a miner, suspected of slay in - three persons, suffo
cated from the smoke from a fire, lighted to drive him
from a mine 12 miles from hem, yesterday.
Traced to the mine entrance by an FBI agent and a
Depute U. S. marshal, Yabacavin is believed to be the
man who killed Milo Saulich, aged 65; his wife Mary,
aged 55; and Mary Stay, aged 14. Thursday night.
He fired S shots out the entrance of the mine at the!
officers who built a fire in the mouth of the tunnel,!
and fired pistol and rifle shots into the 70-foot shaft
only to be met by two return shots.
Several hours later the FBI agent entered the tun
nel and found Yabacavin dead 30 feet from the mouth
of the tunnel. A revolver was i end and it contained 4
loaded and 2 empty shells.
The officers said they were convinced Yabacavin kill |
ed Saulich and his wife because they objected to his
attentions to the girl. Then he slew the girl because
she spurned him. The girl was housemaid for the
Saulich-. The officers added the\ believed that Yaba
cavin struck Pete Mesich on the head three times with i
a club and fractured his skull Friday morning in Me
sich‘s mom in the International Hotel because Mesich
put him nut of the hotel several months ago.
The bodies of the three slain were found by a neigh
bor Friday.
I I Arrested, Alleged Associates Of 8
Nazis Standing Court Martial Trial
WASHINGTON, July 13 (/P) — The arrest of 14
alleged associates of the 8 Nazis standing trial for their
lives before a military commission was announced by
Attorney General Biddle. The group includes 6 women
Biddle said.
The 14 were “immediate contacts”of the German
agents who landed on the Long Island and Florida
coasts from German subs in June. At the same time,
FBI Director Hoover said the arrests were made in
Chicago and New York in the last three weeks and in
vestigation of their activities and other possible con
i tacts are still under way.
Those announced in custody are: Belmut Leinder,
Herman Heinrich and Faje Astoria of Long Island,'
N. Y.; Anthony Cramer, Miss Hedwig Engeman, Mrs.
Maria Kerling, Ernest Herman Kerkhof of New York;
Hans Max Haupt, Mrs. Haupt, Harry Jaques and wife
Emma, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Richard Wergin, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Wilhelm Froehling of Chicago.
Hoover said the “Individuals apprehended were
known to have given shelter to the saboteurs after their
arrival in New York and Chicago, furnished assistance,
and would have aided foreign agents in their sabotage
activities in the United States. One of the individuals
assisted by purchasing an auto for the use of one of
the Nazi agents for transportation. Explosives and
other material was recovered by FBI agents on the
Atlantic shore of Long Island and Florida.”
Hoover added that the suspects also helped by con
cealing part ot $176,000 which the saboteurs brought
with them, but which the FBI recovered.
Assert Germans
W ipe Out Entire
Norwegian Town
LONDON, July 13 (/P) Reuters
J said the Soviet information bu
reau broadcast a report that the
Nazis wiped out the village of
Telemark in a province of south
ern Norway and “shot all its resi
dents including women and chil
drn.” A spokesman here of the
Norwegian government, however,
said “we received no information
that the village had been wiped
out.”
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Nazis Will Shoot, Imprison
All Relatives of Persons
Accused of Sabotage
VICHY, July 13 <7p) — The
Germans announced in Paris
that they will shoot males over
18, member of families of fugi
tives from military justice, accus
ed of terrorism or sabotage. This
applies to “all near male relativ
e's in an ascending line, as well
as brothers-in-law and cousins.”
Women of the same degree of
kinship will be sentenced to hard
labor. Children of adults thus
punished will be sent to reform
1 schools, the announcement said.
All ics Smash Nanehang Second Time
Chinese Ambush. Scatter 30.000 Japs
CHUNGNING, July 11. (/P) — Allied bombers de
livered a second smashing blow to Nanehang, capital
of Kiangsi province, sinking one transport in the river
and destroying ten Japanese planes on the ground.
Chinese dispatches reported that Allied planes heavily
bombed the base last week. All Allied planes returned
safely from the second attack.
Meanwhile, Chinese forces in Kiangsi are reported
pushing the Japanese back at several places. An official
communique confirmed the Chinese reports Thursday,
that a Japanese force of 30,000 was ambushed and
beaten back in heavy fighting in Kiangsi.
News From Russia (/rave: Timoshenko
l iuler Assault i rom Five Directions
UNDATED, July 11, (/P) — Hitler’s headquarters
asserted that German armies smashing down the Cas
pian Sea, reached the Don river on a 220nmile front,
within 80 miles of Stalingrad, at one point, and inflict
ing a great “destructive defeat" on the Russians. The
Nazi command claimed an advance, in depth, of more
than 200 miles since Hitler launched his grand offen
sive on the Kursk-Kharkov sector two weeks ago.
Simultaneously, a violent renewal of the battle in
Egypt marked the beginning of one of the most c itical
1 weekends of the war, a phase which might precipitate
the opening of an Allied “second front” in Western
Europe. At the outset, the British apparently gained
the upper hand, as headquarters reported that Auchin
leck’s arniies, reopening the stalemated "battle of bot
tleneck,” advanced 5 miles yesterday in a pre-dawn
attack. The British announced they struck out west
ward aiong the railway from El Alamein, 65 miles west
of Alexandria, seizing the initiative, to break the 10
day lull in the conflict.
News from Russia continued grave. Under assault
from five directions, Timoshenko’s armies fell back in
stubborn retreat as the Germans captured Roososh,
100 miles south of Voronezh on the vitally important
Moscow-Rostov railway, and pressed simultaneous of
fensives against Voronezh. Staryioskol, Kanemirovka
and Lisichansk. The Germans asserted that 38.000 Rus
sians were taken prisoner and thousands of tanks de
stroyed or captured in the fighting west of the Don
river from June 28th to July 9th.
Nazi and French
Police Join In
Street Battle
VICHY, July 13 i/P) — French
gendarmes joined German police
in a pitched battle against de- j
fiant h a n d grenade - tossing
Frenchmen at Houdin Pas de |
{Calais. Department reports reach |
ing Vichy said one group is re
i ported to have been killed and a
by-stander wounded before the
French and Nazi police stormed
the house which Frenchmen de
scribed as a “Communist’s” and
barricaded. The Germans said a
cache of firearms and explosives
was found in the house.
Posters Of
Fssential Viork
Being Made
WASHINGTON, July — War
manpower sources sa:d that ros
ters of essential civilian activities
and “critical war occupations”
will be published about July 15
to establish a definite guide to
military deferment.
Plan Ci •eater
Production with
Less Material
DETROIT, July '1 (/P) — Am
ericans as individuals are going to
have to make old things do "as
we never have before in all our
lives," as the war production ef
fort gets into full swing, is the
opinion of Donald Nelson chief of
the VVPB. Speaking before sever
al hundred representatives of
leading auto companies, Nelson
praised the achievements of the
industry to date but added that
every manufacturer from now on
must plan greater production
with less materials "in every sin
gle day for many months, per
haps years to come.”
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