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VOL. 43. No. 93. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. OCT. 8, 1941. Per Copy im
Germans 12o Miles From Moscow
5 Billion More Approved For Lend-Lease Program
Germans Claim Great Victory North of Sea Azov
House Committee Approves Five
Billion Dollars For Lend-Lease
Completed Not Later June, 1943
WASHINGTON. Oct. 8 (JP> —
The House Appropriations Com
mittee approved the five billion,
nine hundred eighty-five million
dollar' lend-lease appropriation.
The committee made a statement
that the production of munitions
has not yet reached a point
where the defeat of the Axis pow
ers is assured. The committee re
ported to Congress that almost
all of the huge new fund could
be obligated by next March one,
and delivery of material could be
completed not later than June
30, 1943.
Members asserted that produc
tion will necessarily be slow at
first .and asked that no abuses of
putting the dollars of the new
fund to wmrk is impreatively nec
essary.
The committee report disclos
ed:
1—That Secretary of Argicul
ture Wickard plans to use a bil
lian dollars to feed one-fourth
of Britain’s population in the
next six montlvs.
2— That while lend-lease offic
ials are dissatisfied with the “rel
atively small trickle" of mater
ials going to tilie Axis foes, they
expect the flow to increase great
ly soon, upon ccmplet.on of time
consuming initial preparations.
3— -That for every dollar of de
fense articles exported, 70 cents
worth of other services will be
rendered.
4— -That Secretary of War Stim
son believes the war crisis “is no
less acute, indeed, if anything is
Sharper," than heretofore.
5— That there are no plans for
the reduction of the army or the
suspension of the draft program,
either of which. officials said,
would “be tragic."
RED ARMY CLAIMS VICTORY
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The main battle area on the Eastern front: (1) the Leningrad zone
(2), Bologoe, on Moscow-Lcningrad rail line, objective of reported
German drive; (3), where Red Army claimed Germans were smash
ed in Smolensk sector; (4). the Kiev area; (5), lower Dneiper re
gion, where Nazis reported eastward push; (6), beseiged Odesssa
German Armies Reach Defense
Lines 125 Miles From Moscow
Russians Report No Break-Through
UNDATED, Oct. 3 (.Pi — Ger
_! man armies, storming toward
Moscow in a great new offensive,
reached Soviet defense lines and
trapped several Red armies now
; fighting a vast batle of annihila
tion only 125 miles from the
Russian capital.
Hitler's command reported in
the south, too the plight of the
Russians appeared growing mon|
- desperate by the hour. Nazi mili
>: tarv dispatches said the entire
1 south wing cf the Soviet army is
I broken and the German drive
i has already engulfed Ossipenko
> and Mariupol on tile Sea of Azov,
s1 threatening the Don river port of
j Rostrove, gateway to the rich
Caucasian oil fields. German bat
^ j tie flags were reported within a
i hundred miles of Rostrove after
’ j a 450 mile advance from the Prut
River, boundary between Ru
mania and Russia where the
Nazi onslaught started 15 weeks
I ago.
Soviet reports, acknowledging
that the Germans won some in
itial advances, as the war’s might
lest batle raged to a climax on
the road to Moscow, declared
the invaders are striking ith the
i “fury of a mad beast, straining
all efforts, regarless of the cost.’’
No Sign of Major Break-Throuah
The Russians said there was no
sign of a major break through,
however, and Red army troops
are holding on grimly against the
assault of Nazi tanks and dive
bombers. A single Russian infan
try' division was said to have de
stroyed more than 300 German
tnks with improvised grenades—
explosive bottles of gasoline.
In the siege of Leningrad, the
Rusians drew a brighter picture,
declaring their counter attacks
5 are growing in intensity. Four
thousand German and Finnish
! troops were killed and many
more captured in the 18-day bat
1 lie along "A" river.
Hitler Claims
;\ ietory North
of Sea of Azov
UNDATED, Oct 7 MP) — Hit
I ler’s command claimed a victory
over the Russians in a great new
; battle in the Ukraine north of
j the Sea of Azov, but London
; military quarters reported that
the Germans were checked with
j severe losses and guns of the
! Soviet Black Sea fleet are heav
, ily pounding the invaders.
Smash 19 Germans Forts
| On the northern front, the
| Red army announced that Lenin
grad’s defense guns smashed 19
1 German e3rth and timber forts
on the approaches to Leningrad,
silenced two artillery batteries,
j and put other Nazi seige wea
' pons out of action. Masses of Ger
I man troops were said put out of
j action and dispersed by the So
e viet fire.
^ | Germany’s bitter war to stamp
. | out revolt in conquered nations
by firing squad, hangman and
guillotine brought six more ex
l- ecutions and otie suspended
death sentence.
Collect Evidence of Oppression
Simultaneously the British gov
eminent announced it was col
lecting evidence against Germans
responsible for murder and op
pression and cruelty to hostages’
mothers in Nazi-occupied terri
tories. Richard Law. undersecre
tary of Foreign Affairs, told par
l'ament that the government is j
con.-idering the subject of punish j
ment for such individuals, pre
sumably after the war.
73rd Execution in France
German authorities announced
the seventy-third execution in
'ccupied France: The victom was
a Belgian, shot in reprisal for an
attack against a German soldier
in French Adrennes. In addition
five Czechs were mowed down
by German firing squads upon
conviction of preparing for trea
son and possession of weapons.
DNB said the death sentence,
imposed on General Elias in
the Nazi Bohemia-Moravia pro
tectorate "for premeditated trea
son,” wrs suspended to permit
him to testify against other sus
pects. The Berlin spokesman de
clined to comment where Elias
made his plea for mercy. Hitler
is the only person who could
commute his sentence.
Deny 650 Germans Arc Hostages
The Germans denied the Brit
ish radio reports that 650 Ger
man hostages are held by gueril
las in Yugoslavia.
A bulletin from Hitler's field
headquarters indicated that the
battle north of the Sea of Azov
is part “of the gigantic new' de
velopments" which the Fuerher
himself declared were begun last
Wednesday. A Nazi communique
said “German trops, shoulder-to
shoulder with troops of an allied
country, are pursuing the defeat
ed enemy with motorized and
tank unit thrusts deep into the
enemy’s retreating columns. The
Russians, acknowledging that the
Germans had drivin a> wedge into
an outlying unspecified sector on
the Moscow front” reported that
Soviet tanks and bombers de
stroyed 34 Nazi tanks in fierce
counter blows.
Registrants Be
Given 10 Days
Notice, Induction
The following wire was receiv
ed by the Nome Selective Ser
vice Board from the Territorial
Headquarters of the Selective Ser
vice System:
Please igive publicity to the
fact that registrants to be induct
ed will be given ten days notice
after the director issues the call
to your board notifying you of
the number of men to be induct
ed and induction diate. Stop. The
call will be issued as soon as all
local boards clasifications are re
ceived.
Word has been received that 47
men from the Nome area will be
inducted. The names will appear
in the next issue of the Nugget.
Survivor of Tanker I. C. kite.
Declares “One Perhaps Two Subs
Attacked W ithout W arnins at \ight
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RIO DE JANTERO, Oct. 7 i.-P;
— II. W. Ackerman, aged 19, a
survivor of the Panama flag tank
er I. C. White, declared that “one
perhaps two” unidentified sub
marines torpedoed and sank the
American-owned ship without
warning in a midnight attack
600 miles off Brazil.
Ackerman said, in the first in
terview with any of the 17 sur-,
vivors brought here by the res
cue ship Del Norte, that the un
dersea boat or boats fired only
one torpedo.
Brazilian port authorities who
boarded the Del Norte earlier
said that they were told that the
ship was shelled as she sank.
Three Almost Surely Drowned
Ackerman said three men were
missing from the tanker’s crew
of 37, and were "almost surely
drowned.”
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Bridge Collap se
Ties I p Lake
Superior Shipping
| SAULT STE. MARIE. Michi
gan Oct. 7 <^P) — The collapse of j
l a one-arm lift bridge believed to]
'be the largest bascule type in
' the world, brought defense-vital
j ore shipping from Lake Superior
I ports to a temporary halt. The
giant span, owned by the Canad
ian Pacific, sagged beneath the,
j weight of a loaded freight train
| and the locomotive and tender
I shot from the open end into the
j approach to St. Mary's Falls can
j al, carrying two trainmen to
| their death and effectively block
•ing the two largest Sault Ste
Marie locks, which link Lakes
! Superior and Huron.
A wrecking train was summon
j ed immediately but officials esti
I mated that it would be four
I days before the locks could be
! sufficiently cleared to provide
I passage for heavily laden ore car
riers, which include some of the
largest craft to navigate the
lakes.
The cause of the collapse was
not known. Officials said there
was no reason to suspect sabot*
, age. The bridge was construct
, j ed in 1914.
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German Propagan
dist Arrested
By The FBI
NEW YORK. Oct. 8 t/P) — Geo
rge Sylvester Viereck. an admit
ted German propagandist, was ar
rested by FBI agents on an in
dictment charging him with with
holding information in his State
| Department registration as an
agent of a foreign power. Viereck
an author and editor, is listed as
born at Munich, Germany, and
emigrated to the United States in
1895 at the age of 11.
He is credited with having pre
dieted the sinking of Lusitania
four days before the passenger
laden ship went down in the
North Atlantic, the event which
many persons believe was a di
rect cause of the United States
f entering the first World War.
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Japanese lr<je
Nazis Concentrate
On The British
TOKYO, Oct. 8 (/Pi — Dome!
news agency, in a special article,
urged the Axis powers to termin
ate the war with Russia to con
serve German resources manpow
er and equipment for an all out
assault on the British. The news
agency warned that if the war ia
Russia is extended over a long
period, the Axis powers may be
faced with a dearth of materials
because it said they are a union
of "have iiots." Britain and Am
erica. on the other hand, the
agency declared. may become
stronger because there are a rep
resentation of the '"haves.”
Jap Newspapers
Blame the U. S.
For Encirclement
TOKYO. Oct. 8 i.P) — News
papers, striking the same chord
! in critical comment against the
United States, blamed Washing
j ton for what was called strength
| ening the spread of encirclement
! >f Japan and said the Pacific
situation is deteriorating.
Nichi Nichi, in a page one edi
; torial. said ‘‘Japan is earnestly
tryng to remove the Pacific can
cer by Premier Konoye’s person-*
| al message to President Roose
velt. delivered August 28. How
ever, the Pacific situation is go
ing from bad to worse and it gan
, not be said what will happen
next.” The paper asserted that
the United States is evidently
| aiming to include Russia in the
American - British - Chinese and
Dutch encirclement by sending
Oil and planes. This irritated the
Japanese who now must expect
any development and prepare
for the consequences.
ANCHORAGE, SEWARD
GET GOVT. HELP
WASHINGTON. Oct. — The
j Federal Works Agency announc
| ed Presidential approval in Alas
i ka Defense Public Works recrea
| tion facilities for Anchorage, to
[ cost $125,000 and Seward to cost
! $5,000, both costs Federally
j borne.