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VOL. 43. No. 76. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 29, 1941 Per Copy is*
Germans Control All Baltic Area
Konoye Sends Message FDR--New Phase Relations
Pacific Coast May Soon Face Oil Curtailment
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Shaded areas and spearheads indicate approximate German posi
tions on the Russian front as outlined in a series of communiques
from Adolf Hitler’s headquarters. The sectors, in lihe order des
cribed in the comuniques: (1) in the north, toward Leningrad and
Narva; (2) in the south, beyond Zhitomir and betwen the Dniester
and Dnieper rivers; (3) the centra^, or Smolensk sector.
Fuel Oil Shortage
Felt on West Coast
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 </P) —
Admiral Land, chairman of the
Martime Commission, proposed
the construction of a hundred oil
carrying barges as the speediest
and least expensive solution to
gasoline and fuel oil shortages on
the eastern seaboard.
Senator Maloney said that nu
merous vital defense industries
in the East “are terrified because
they have only four or five days
supply of bunker oil.”
Admiral Land testified before
the Senate committee investigat
ing shortages of gasoline. The
Senators also learned that the
Pacific coast soon may face the
same .curtailment of gas sales
now effective on the eastern sea
board.
East Oil Suppl ies
Reduced 15%
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 <A>) —
Ralph Davies, acting Petroleum
Coordinator, announced that gas
oline supplies in filling stations
in the east were reduced 15 per
cent in September as compared
to July.
Davies’ testimony opened a
Senate investigation of threaten
ed oil shortages. He presented
mass figures which he said show
ed that the eastern coast faced
an actual shortage both of gaso
line and oil, for heating and in
dustry from the coming winter.
Russ Aid Delega
tion Go Soon
, WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (JP)~
Pres. Rooseve't disclosed that he
will appoint Averill Harriman to
head the American delegation to
go to Moscow to consider the
problem of aid to Russia. Harri
man has been in London handl
ing lend-lease operations.
Roosevelt said John Biggers,
who has been in charge of the
production in the Office of Pro
duction Management, will take
over Harrlman’s duties.
The delegation to Moscow,
which will meet with corrospond
ing British and Russian groups,
may be appointed within a few
days, the President told a press
conference, and may have half a
dozen members.
U. S. Air Men to
Tour War Fronts
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 </P)—
A group of Arm Air Force offic
ers, headed by Major General
Brett, Chief of the Air Corps,
will tour African Near East, Med
iterannean and Atlantic war
fronts, and make a first-hand
study of British needs for Ameri
can aviation equipment. Making
the announcement, the War De
partment said the date of depart
ure will not be made public.
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Germans Capture Tallinn, Fleet
Engaged Battle In Gulf Finland
Now Control All Baltic Territory
UNDATED. Aug. 29 UP) — Hit
l-r's invasion armies captured
the long-be.seiged city of Tallinn,
capital of Estonia, the Germans
announced. A violent naval bat
he is believed raging in the Gulf
ef Finland the Germans attempt
irg to smash the fleeing armada
of Soviet warships. The thunder
of gunfire was heard in Helsinki,
59 miles across the Gulf from
Tallinn. Finnish fliers reported
seeing many dozen Russian ships
steaming out of Tallinn, heading
eastward. The Germans and Fin
nish fleets were said attacking
the Russians, in flight after burn
ir.g the capital.
Finnish aerial observers also
reported that great fires redden
ed the night skies at Viipuri, in
dicating that the Russians were
destroying the Karelian capital?
75 miles north of Leningrad. The
flames were visible 32 miles
away, the Finns said.
The Russians acknowledged
another major setback with the
fall of the great Ukraine city of
Dnieperopetrovsk and the destruc
:ion of a hundred and ten million
dollar Dnieper Diver dam.
A Nazi war bulletin declared
that several thousand prisoners
were taken at the Tallinn naval
base along with 22 loaded trans
ports, six coastal batteries and
vast stores of booty. With the
fall of Tallinn, the Germans now
hold control of all Baltic terri
tory except a few islands. Russia
conceded that German assault
troops penetrated the approach
es to Leningrad and Nazi dis
patches said German divisions
are within 32 miles of the old
Czarist capital; and that the
Finns are steadily advancing
from the north.
Tersely, the Red Army com
mand reported only that Soviet
troops “fought the enemy along
the entire front. Russian front
line dispatches, however, said
the Red armies are battling fier
cely. to save Kiev, Ukraine cap
ital, on the west bank of the
Dneiper river, while Red sailors
and soldiers, trapped in the sea
girt Black Sea port of Odessa,
fought to execute Marshal Bud
yenny’s order of defense “to the
last drop of blood."
On the air front in the west,
the British remained on the off
ensive, carrying out a new series
of attacks on Duisburg and fol
lowed these with daylight as
saults on the Nazi occupied
French coast. The Germans claim
ed they downed 30 British air
craft in the 24 hours ending this
morning.
Russ Optimistic
Only at Front
Guarding Moscow
UNDATED, Aug. 28 (JP) — Ger
man troops, storming toward Len
ingrad were reported within 32
miles of that city, while on the
Middle East front, all fighting
ceased in the four-day-old inva
sion of Iran by British and Rus
j sian forces.
Already proclaimed a: “in ter
1 rible danger,” Leningrad is be
ing defended by hastily mobil
ized volunteers of the people’s
army, fighting alongside of reg
ular Red army troops. Inside the
the great industrial city, third
1 line d fenders manned street bar
ricades.
| On the southern front, the Ger
, mans said massed Russian infan
try which attempted to cross
! back to the west bank of the
Dnieper river, have been chop
| ped by German artillery. Only
j on the central front guarding
! Moscow, did the Russians present
an optimistic picture.
Soviet dispatches said counter
attacking Red army troops smash
ed two successive German de
fense lines in the Gomel area,
about midway between Smol
ensk and Kiev.
Simultaneously, Marshal Bud
yenny issued a dramatic appeal
to the besieged Russian forces at
Odessa, to defend the port “to
the last drop of blood.”
Order Iranians Stop Resistance
In Iran, a new cabinet ordered
l the army to cease all resistance
| to the British and Russian ar
j mies. A British broadcast, noting
the end of hostilities, said the
Allied invasion turned into a
peaceful occupation.
Turkey Manifests Alarm
Meanwhile, Iran’s next door
neighbor, Turkey, manifested in
creasing alarm at Germany’s in
tentions. Well-informed Axis
quarters in Istanbul said Hitler
told Turkey that he may soon
need the use of Turkish terri
torial waters in the Black Sea,
possibly to attack the Soviet port
of Batum, the end of the pipeline
from the great Soviet Baku oil
fields. These quarters said Hit
ler assured the Turks, however,
that he had no other demands.
Apparently Hitler is looking
ahead to the day that his troops,
now storming across the Dnieper
river in the lower Ukraine, will
turn, south, around the Sea of
Azov and march along the east
ern shores of the Black Sea.
Mussolini And
Hitler Meet On
Eastern Front
BERLIN, Aug. 29 (/P) — Hitler
and Mussolini have been meet
ing at Hitler’s headquarters on
the eastern front since Monday
an official announcement said.
The five-day discussions, which
didn’t end until today, covered
all political and military devel
opments, the announcement said
and indicated that particular at
tention was paid to the duration
of the war.
Defense Savings fiords can be
registered in the name of child
ren as well as adults.
| Jap Premier Sends
Personal Message
To Pres. Roosevelt
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28 'OP)—
A persona! message from the
Japanese Prime Minister to
President Roosevelt was deliver
ed to the President by Admiral
! Nomura, Japanese Ambassador.
Nomura came to the White
| House after today’s rapidly de
[ veloping tension growing out of
the conflict between Japanese
and American policies in the Pac
ific. He conferred in the White
House with the President and
Secretary of State Hull.
Nomura refused to e aborate,
in reply to a barrage of ques
1 tions by reporters, what the mes
j sage from Konoye contained.
Before the conference, it was
! reported that the envoy would
discuss with Roosevelt, the strain
i ed relations between the coun
tries. including the reported
| Japanese representations to Rus
| sia and the United States against
the shipments of American oil
i and other supplies to Russia via
! Vladivostok. Asked specifically
I whether the message he carried
was related to the shipments to
Russia, Nomura replied that he
! didn’t think so.
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Delicate Situation
Between Nations
Prompts Message
j TOKYO, Aug. 29 i(/P) — Prince
Konoye’s message to President
Roosevelt was prompted “by
very delicate relations existing
between Japan and the United
States, following the outbreak of
the Russian-German war,” Do
mei said, and that it reaffirmed
Japan’s desire to establish a ‘oo
prosperity sphere” and a perman
ent Pacific peace. Domei com
mented that after all, members
of the cabinet and some of the
highest military officials of the
nation held an emergency meet
ing to discuss American-Japan
ese relations, following delivery
of the Konoye message to Roose
velt in Washington, yesterday.
Believe Message
Outlines Japan’s
Attitude In East
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 {IP)—
A man-to-man discussion of Am
erican-Japanese relations be
tween President Roosevelt and
Ambassador Nomura impressed
diplomatic quarters as a possible
first step in a sweeping review
of all important points at issue
between the nations. Bolstering
this conclusion was an official
announcement from Tokyo that
the message which Nomura deliv
ered to the President, outlined
the “Imperial government’s at
titude to the Pacific situation.”
Asked at his press conference
today whether he is hopeful now
“that war in the Pacific can be
averted,” Roosevelt smilingly
dodged a reply, branding the
Police Roundup
Member of Anti
Communist Legion
VERSAILLES, Aug. 28 <iP)
Police in the German-occupied
zone began a roundup of mem
I bers of the anti-Communist le
j gion, recruited for service in Rus
| sia, in an effort to determine
whether Paul Colette, who yes
: terday shot Pierre Laval, had ac
i complices within the ranks of the
legion. It was at a mobilization
of this very legion, that Colette,
posing as a recruit, shot pno
Nazi Laval and Marcel Deat, o'd
time appeaser and two others.
Glad He Hit Collaborationists
The red-haired Colette frank
ly told an investigating magis
trate this morning that he is a
follower of General DeGaulle,
and was very glad that he hit the
collaborationist politicians.
Doctors are hopeful to save
the lives of both T-a -al and Deat,
who were gravely wounded.
In Paris, the outright opposi
tion element is being rounded up
in what was called preventative
arrests in order to keep the Ver
sailles shootings from serving as
a signal for genenal disorders.
Yesterday, one of the new anti
communism courts in Paris pro
nounced its first three death sen
tences as a result of many hun
dred recent arrests here.
In Versailles, a heavy guard
was thrown around the barracks
where the shooting occurred.
Three anti-Communist legion
naires were taken into custody
for carrying revolvers of the
same type which Colette had
stuck in his belt.
The three men condemned in
the Paris court were ordered ex
ecuted immediately. They are:
Andre Brechet, electrician, and a
former secretary and Communist
deputy; Emil Jean Bastard, mill
tant Communist; and a Russian,
Abraham Trzebruche.
Doctors Fear
For Life Of
Pierre Laval
PARIS, Aug. 29 {/P) — Fears
for the life of Pierre Laval
mounted tonight as dcotors at
tributed his sustained high tem
perature to a possible infection
from the assassin’s bullet wound,
just below the heart. The pos
sibility of peritonitis was regard
ed as a mortal peril, physicians
said, and are considering an op
eration to extract the bullet even
though they rejected surgery ^at
first as too dangerous and bad
ordered the bullet left untouch
ed.
question too long and too broad.
He made no comment on his
meeting with Nomura.
To the question asked whether
“We are getting anywhere,” he
replied, No news and that today
reminded him that the second
anniversary of war is approach
ing. Asked whether the outlook
is any better Roosevelt remark
ed that he will make a speech on
Monday, which is the second an
niversary of the start of the war.