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VOL. 43. No. 85. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 19, 1941. Per Copy is«
Nazis Capture Kiev Capital Ukraine
British Warships Being Repaired U. S. Navy Yards
Russian Flying Boats Enroute Back Russia via Nome
German Forces Raise Swastika
Over Kiev, Long-Beseiged Capital
of Ukraine-Resistance Tottering
BERLIN, Sept. 19 </P> — Ger
man farces entered Kiev and rals
ed the Swastika flag over the cita
del of the long-beseiged Ukrain
ian capital. Russia's third largest
city, the German command re
ported in a bulletin, the third
triumphant me sage in quick sue
cession from Hitler’s headquar
ters at the front, telling the Ger
man people:
1 — That two German army
groups had merged beyond the
Dnieper and Bssna rivers, in a
great sweep 125 miles east of
Kiev.
2— that the city of Poltava, 290
mi es beyond Kiev, only 8 miles
from Kharkov, had fallen to
these mighty forces.
3— That so far in the war, on
all fronts the Russian have lost
at least 3.600.090 men dead and
captured alone.
4— That Russian armies trap
ped in Eastern Ukraine are now
in process of being annihilated.
The whole picture implied that
Red army resistance in the vital
southern region of grainfields,
oil wells, ore deposits and war
industries, is tottering under the
weight of the fierce German on
slaught of hundreds of thousands
of men backed by the deadliest
mechanized weapons in the Ger
man arsenal.
Grave New
Threats Imperil
Leningrad
UNDATED, Sept. 19 (/Pi— Hit
ler’s command reported that Ger
man troops closed a steel ring
around four Russian armies, 125
miles east of Kiev, and “their an
nihilation is now in progress.”
Smiultaneously grave new
threats imperiled Kiev itself and
the great northern metropolis of
Leningrad. Trapped Red armies
were unofficially estimated at
about half a million men and
more than three million, six hun
dred thousand Soviet troops
were declared slain and captured
in the three months campaign.
Half were killed, the Nazi com
mand said, in contrast to the
historic ratio of three wounded
to every one killed in past wars
of man. Red army losses total
ed the staggering figure of nine
million men including some five
million, four hundred thousand
wounded. The German losses
were put at only 402,000 killed,
wounded and missing in the first
two months of the war.
Great Fires Rage in Leningrad
Finnish military dispatches
said huge fires raging in Lenin
grad are blazing so fiercely that
they could be seen with the
naked eye in broad daylight
from Finnish territory.
In a special bulletin, Hitler’s
field headquarters said that Ger
man army groups under Field
Marshall von Rundstedt and
Field Marshal von Bock, slashing
around Kiev in a vast flanking
movement met beyond the Desna
river to trap the Russians.
Stukas Silence Kronstadt
Other Nazi reports said Stuka
dive bombers silenced the guns
of Kronstadt fortress, powerful
island naval base 20 miles from
Leningrad, thus paving the way
for German warships to steam
up the Gu'f of Finland and shell
Leningrad from close range..
A R=d army bulletin acknow
ledged that the Germans reached
one of Kiev’s gates but indicated
that the struggle had not yet
reached a decisive phase as bit
ter fighting rag~d around the
city of 850.000 inhabitants thru
out the night.
Japan Protests Mines Sea Japan
A late Soviet communique said
Japan was reported by Koh Issie,
Tokyo government spokesman,
to have protested to the Soviet
embassy for the second time ag
ainst floating Russian mines in
the Sea of Japan, as a menace
to navigation. Two vessels, a Kor
ein sailing vessel and a Japanese
fishing boat were d dared sunk
by the mines with a loss of 13
lives. The mine field protects
Vladivostok, into which U. S. sup
plies are moving.
Mikhail Gromov, Soviet air ace
(above) who was in command of
the two Russian flying boats
which passed through Nome re
cently and which are now en
route to Russia via Sitka, Kod
iak and Nome.
Two Russian
Flying Boats
On Way Horae
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 C/P) — The
two Russian flying boats which
brought the military mission of
47 men two weeks ago left Sand
Roosevelt Asks For Additional
Five Billion Lend-Lease Program
Insure Uninterrupted Flow Aid
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 </P)—
President Roosevelt asked Con
I gress for an additional five bil
lion nine hundred eighty five mil
lion dollars for the lend-leas3
program so there wil. be “no in
terruption of the flow of aid to
those countries and in the vital
defense of our own country.”
Recommends Speedy Action
In a letter to Speaker Rayburn
he recommended speedy action
on the appropriation, which
would bring the total cf lease
lend funds to twelve billion,
nine hundred eighty-five million.
Roosevelt noted that out of the
. cr'ginal seven billion dollars ap
propriated last March, six billion
two hundred eighty mil ion was
allocated in the largest single
item, reflecting the determina
tion to supply vital needs to the
enemies of the Axis. A billion,
eight hundred seventy-five mil
lion was a’located for “agricul
. ural, industrial, and other com
modities and articles.” The next
biggest is a billion, one hundred
: ninety million for ordnance.
East Coast Treated
To Display Of
Northern Lights
_
NEW YORK. Sept. 19 {/P> — A
display of Aurora Borealis ex
ceeding any remembered by vet
eran observers, coinciding with
some expected sun spots, excited
citizens in the eastern part of
the United States last night.
Startled New Yorkers gazed at
the blazing skies and telephoned
to ask if the city was being bomb
1 arded.
Airplane passengers said the
j rainbow scale was unbel»?vab’e.
The radio went dead at times &
telegraph editors fretted as high
speed wires delivered only gib
berish for minutes at a time.
The Weather Bureau said the
display, ranging from red, pur
ple, green and blue was seen as
far south as Virginia and At
lanta.
British Warships
Being Serviced
In LI S. Yards
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WASHTNGTON, Sept. 19 (/Pi—
The Navy Department anonunc
ed that twelve British warships,
inc uding the battleship War
spite, are now in United States
ports, for repairs, provisioning
and other purposes. In addition
to these, the Department disclos
ed under a new publicity policy,
several other British craft are in
American harbors, but it was not
deemed feasible to make public
any information concerning them
at this time.
The Warspite is reported to be
in the Navy yar dat Bremerton.
The aircraft carrier Formidable
and Illustrious are among other
craft listed, both at Norfolk, Vir
ginia.
Point shortly after 10:30 a.m.,
the 13th Naval District announc
ed, to follow the same route back
to Russia, tuoching Sitka, Kodiak
and Nome.
Aboard the ships are ten Rus
sians, all but one who was on
the mision which came here on
September 4.
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Germans In Out
skirts Leningrad
UNDATED, Sept. 18 UP)—Ger
man troops are reported to have
invaded a fortified park and
taken by storm, 119 pill boxes on
the outskirts of Leningrad. Nazi
seige guns bombarded the heart
of the city and prepared to shell
the great Kronsadt naval base
of the Russian Baltic fleet. Other
dark news to the -Soviet cause,
was contained in advances reach
ing London, which said that Hit-1
ier’s invasion armies, at the ex-!
treme southern end of the front,
apparently cut off the entire
Crimea Peninsula and Sebasto
pol, big Russian naval vase on
the Black Sea, .is presumably
isolated from the Russian main
land.
Italian sTry Force Dardanelles
London quarters also reported
an Italian attempt to send war
ships, flying the Bulgarian flag,
through Turkish-controlled Dar
danelles. The British ambassador
at Ankara, it was said, probably
made representations to the Turk
ish government. A highly placed
foreign observer in Ankara, who
recently returned from Rumania
and Bulgaria, said Bulgaria had
purchased six Italian destroyers
as a smoke screen for the deal,
and asked Turkey’s permission
to bring them through the Dar
lapelles into the Black Sea,
where the British and Russians
suspected they might be used by
the Axis. Turkey has not replied
yet.
The British press renewed its
clamor for opening a new front
against the Germans, probably
an attempt to land troops in west
ern Europe. The conservative
London Times declaring that
Britain not only must help the i
Russians, but must “develop oth
er fronts where the enemy will |
have to expend his sti’ength.”
Hitler’s command, announcing
great successes in the onslaught
against Leningrad, said German
troops, sweeping eastward across
the Dnieper River into the Uk
raine,’ are “progressing irresist
a-bly.”
Nazi warplanes operating from
the Arctic to the Black Sea are
credited wth sinking three Soviet.
troop transports, a destroyer, two j
submarines, four torpedo boats j
and 16 other ships were declared
hit so heavily that their lo6s
could be assumed.
Dimond and Gov.
Leave Fairbanks
j
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 18 (News
Miner) —'Delegate Dimond, Gov
ernor Gruening and Julian Edel
stein of the United Press Bureau,
left Fairbanks in a plane piloted
by J. J. Ryan. Assistant Director
of Civilian Defense, for Juneau
at 9:30 this morning after a 12-!
day tour of A’askan coastal and
interior towns. They visited
Ladd Field and other projects
here.
Dimond plans to visit Sitka,
pcssibly Ketchikan and other
southeastern Alaska points and
hopes to be back in Washington
on the 25th.
He said here, that he believes
Alaska needs double what has
been appropriated to date, for
the completion qf her national
defense, including more fields,
adequate for 2.000 war p:anes
and adequate troops and equip
ment to defend the fields, also
an interior and international
road system. He placea as para
mount, the granting of priority
to keep Alaska mining and fisher
ies going in order to avert para
lysis of industry, and to retain
the population to assure contin
ued revenues.
Introduces Bill To Revise
Fisheries Procedure
WASHINGTON. Sept. 19 UP)—
Senator Wallgren introduced a
bill to revise the procedure for
adopting Alaskan fishing regula
tions. 'The measure provided
hearings to be held in Seattle,
prior to November of each year,
to consider and promulgation of
regulations for the following
year. Such hearings also might
be held at Juneau or other Al
askan points if so desired by the
Interior Department.
PROTESTS MINES IN
SEA of JAPAN 2nd TIME
SHANGHAI. Sept. 18 UP) —
A Domei news agency report
said that Japan has protested to
Moscow over alleged Russian
mines floating in the Japan Sea.
Domei said Japan made charges
that such a mine recently was
responsib'e for the sinking of a
60-ton Japanese fishing vessel
and the loss of 9 Korean fisher
men. Japan requested that Rus
sia prevent the recurrence of sim
ilar incidents “in the interest of
peace and quiet in the Japan Sea
as well as remove any danger to
vessel of third countries navigat
ing there.”
United States tankers -carrying
fuel to Russia traverse the Japan
Sea route to Vladivostok.
Torpedo Explosion Causes
Sink Swedish Destroyers
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 18 UP) —
The most generally accepted
cause for the explosion which
cost Sweden three modern de
stroyers, was dishandling of a tor
| pedo. Another report, civilian cir
■ les said, was that a boiler explo
i sion aboard the destroyer Gote
I borg set off blasts which also de
I stroyed the Klas Horn and the
Klas Uggla at anchorage in Harsf
I jaerden Fjord.
Union Dispute
Delays Sailing
Of S S Baranof
SEATTLLE, Sept. 19 (IP)— The
sailing of the Steamship Baranof
for Nome and St. Michael was de
layed by a union dispute. A rep
resentative of the marine fire
! mens union said that the firemen
wou’dnt sail if a certain cook
was aboard. The marine cooks
and stewards association insist
ed that the cook should sail with
the vessel.
Enroute to Alaska To
Dedicate Mission Boat
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (JP) — Rev.
Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, Mod
erator for the General Assembly
of _ Presbyterian Church of the
United States of America, left by
air for Juneau to dedicate the
new mission boat “Princeton”
which will carry the gospel to
isolated communities along the
Alaskan coastline. He is to re
turn Wednesday.
He is the pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Los An
geles.
Price Ceiling Is
Greatest Necessity
WASHINGTON. Sept. 19 OP)—
Bernard Baruch, World War
head of the War Industries
Board, told Congress that legisla
tion which would put a ceiling
over the entire price structure, is
the “greatest single necessity of
our present crisis and which will
save twenty percent or more ot
all appropriations.”
Testifying before the House
Banking Committee considering
the Administration’s price con
trol bill, Baruch said that while
he strongly favored the measur
e’s objective he remarked it was
“peacemeal.” He told of sharp
issues with members of the com
mittees chiefly in that he favor
ed a single administrator to any
price control law enacted, con
tending that the ceiling of farm
prices should go to “parity level
and no higher.” Baruch said sol
emnly “with payrolls soaring,
shortages developing, and more
money bidding for goods, the dan
ger of an inflationary price rise
is imminent if not taken firmly
in hand, and in time it may get
beyond the possibility of con
trol.”
American Legion Conven
tion Elects Commander
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 18 OP) —
Lynn Stsmbaugh, aged 51, of
Fargo North Dakota was elected
commander of the American Le
gion.
Detroit and San Francisco en
tered bids for the 1943 conven
tion. Minneapolis will be the host
for 1944; New Orleans was chos
en for the 1942 convention.
Stsmbaugh was a second lieu
tenant in France in 1918. Two
other candidates were nominated
Edward Scheiberling of Albany,
N. Y., and Raymond Fields of
Guthrie, Oklahoma, who with
drew.