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VOL. 43. No. 59. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1941 Per Copy lU
Russians Report Holding Positions
Bolivia Expells German Minister Over Alleged Plot
Congress Is Asked Extend Service Armed Forces
President Roosevelt Asks Congress
Authorize Extension Of One Year
Period For Active Serv ice of Forces
WASHINGTON, July 21 bP) —
Declaring that America is “in
finitely in greater" danger than
a year ago, Prseident Roosevelt
asked Congress to authorise the
extension of the one-year period
of active service for army select
ees. national guardsmen and re
servists. Unless the extension is
granted, Hoosevelt said, the na
tion is taking a grave national
risk of disintegration of the army
to get under way within two
months. The responsibility of
maintaining an efficient army, he
said, in his messeage to Congress,
rests solely with the legislators.
He dramatized his request by,
trying out the inovation of a]
transcribed message on records,
so his words might be broad
cast to the nation and world.
The President emphasized that
■conditions have changed, since
the twelve-month limitation was
placed, a year ago, on service
selectees, guardsmen and reserv
ists. He said, “today, it is im
perative that I should officially
report to Congress what Con
gress undoubtedly knows: that
the international situation is not
less grave but more grave than
a year ago."
Announce Over
night Air Service
States To Nome
LOS ANGELES, July 18 —
Details of a proposed overnight
air service, linking west coast
military centers with Alaska and
its 90 million dollar defense pro
jects, over an all-year inland
route, was announced by West
ern Air Lines. No. 2550 skyway
will extend from its northern ter
minus at Lethbridge, Canada, to
Nome and Anchorage, via Fair
banks.
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Of Commerce
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WASHINGTON. July 18 (/P) —
Robert H. Hinckley. Assistant
Secretary of Commerce left to
night for a two weeks Alaska in
spection trip to include the com
munications and airport pro
grams.
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War in the east spread to Finland (1), where Russians claimed to
have repuHed attacks. Russians conceded Germans had driven
through Lituanija (2), a third of the way to Leningrad. Germains
reported their forces had skirted Minsk (3), to reach a third of the
distance to Moscow. Germans claimed capture of Lwow (4), and a
German drive appeared to be aimed at Kiev. Russians claimed fo
be still holding along the Prut River (5). Black arrows indicate
German drives; broken arrows, reported German objectives; white
arrows, Russian resistance.
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Red Army Is Reported Clinging
Tenaciously to Defense Positions
As War Enters The Fifth Week
MOSCOW. July 21 (/Pt — The
Red Army is reported clinging |
tenaciously to its defenses at the|
head and flanks of Germany’s
Smolensk salient toward Mas-1
cow. fiercely opposing the invad
ers from positions in Smolensk dtj
seif. The Red command indicated
that the Germans were being
he'.d. Private Soviet advices said'
Smolensk, notwithstanding the
contrary German claim, is in|
Russian hands. The city is 230
miles southwest of Moscow, on a
good motor road.
With the war now in its fifth
week and the Germans on their!
second offensive, its second com
munique continued to mention
the same areas where the battle
has raged for days. These are the,
Polotsk and Nevel sector on the
northern Rank of the Germans:
the Smolensk operations in the
Smolensk area itself; and the
sector of Novograd and Volenski
in the Ukraine, Where the Rus
sian forces are defending the
path to Kiev, capital of that ridh
province.
Moscow had its sixth air raid
alarm this morning, the alert
lasting 45 minutes, but no Ger
man planes came through.
Nazis Liken Sov iet
To Fall of France
BERLIN, July 21 ifP)— “A big,
destructive battle is in progress
east of the Stalin Line,” a Ger
man military spokesman report
ed tonight and compared the sit
uation at the end of the first
month of the war on the eastern
front to the situation on the west
ern front, between the Meuse Riv'
er and the English Channel, af
ter turning on the Maginot Line
on June 4. Even as the Germans
gave the harried French and
British forces no breathing spell]
then, he said so the Germans!
are now not giving the Russians]
time to reorganize, after smash
ing the Stalin Line by complex
encirc ling tactics.
He declared the Germans des
troyed at least one Russian divi
sion and pushed 'the Red Anmy
another notch closer to destruc
tion, although there are no re
ports of any staggering new loss
es from the Russians, such as
previously was reported in what
the German described as a battle
involving nine million men. Au
ithoritative sources said one divi
sion was wiped out in the Mog
ilev area and o’thers are hemmed
in inside pockets in the region
around Vitebsk. The Russians
left more than 4,000 dead and
several thousand others were tak
en prisoner at Mogilev, authoriz
ed Germans said.
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Germans Widen
Breach Stalin Line
UNDATED," July 19 (JP) —
Rounding out the fourth week of
the great offensive against Rus
sia. the Germans reported widen
ing the Smolensk breach in the
Stalin Line facing Moscow.
The Russians perhaps signific
ant'y, omitted their usual claim
of holding their ground. While
the German armored might thus
thrust within 230 miles of the
(Russian capital from the south
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■'sassy staff left Moscow for Kazan
in the Tartar republic, 450 miles
to the east, the Germans came
toward Istanbul. The Russians
are said to be holding four mil
lion men in reserve for the de
fense of the city. The source of
this report was an Axis diplomat
stationed at Moscow, until the
outbreak of the war and he said
this fresh army waited behind
Moscow, ready to roll against the
German forces. A carefully tim
ed counter offensive is made at
this point to force the Russians
to separate their big far eastern
army.
The Russians said the full fury
of the blitz offensive was concen
trated on .Smolensk and related
sectors and stubborn fighting con
tinued their during the night. A;
communiqe said the Red air
force was also active through the
night against motorized and
mechanized troops. German air
dromes were reported destroyed,
and 32 German planes down
ed yesterday, a total of 71 in the
past three days.
While the Red Army minimiz
ed the German offensive in sec
tors away from the center of the
long front, the German claimed
its troops and Rumanian comrad-i
es are crossing the Dnestr river |
at several p'aces in the advance
on Russian Bessarabia & the Uk1
raine. There have been previous I
German reports to this effect
The Germans also claimed break
ing enemy resistance as Finnish
and German forces, advancing on'
the northern shore of Lake Lad
oga, are making a flanking of-'
fensive north of Leningrad.
The big refineries of Rumania’s!
Ploesti oil fields, and tanks con-J
taining 20,(K)0 tons of oil were
destroyed by the Red air force,
an authoritative source said at
Ankara.
With this part of the rearguard
action by air and land operations
and with guerilla forces, Russia
hopes to slow the Germans be
fore they can roll into Moscow,
Leningrad and Kiev, the major
goals. Russian guerilla detach
ments, behind the German lines,
were reported to have captured
two cities, identified only as “sh
and z.” The Army newspaper
Red Star, said the guerillas orig
inally were ten men who expand
ed and recruiting “partisans” and
armed themselves by breaking
up a German armored column
and seizing three whippet tanks,
several armored cars, bicycles, as
well as considerable ammuni
tion. The Red Star said they then
assailed the Germans, holding
two towns.
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Government of Bolivia Discloses
Alleged Nazi Plot of Revolution
German Minister Ordered Expelled
LAPAZ. Bolvia, July 21 (/P) —
A number of prominent Boliv
ians, including former Finance
Minister Victor Estensorro, are
under arrest in connection with
an alleged Nazi plot vVhich the
police said was smashed in time
ly action. President Penaranda,
advocate of close cooperation
witli the United States, said Er
nst Windier, German minister, |
was ordered expelled from the;
country. The President said he,
has vocumentary proof that t'he
German minister attempted to
meddle in Bolivia’s domestic af
fairs.
Estensorro was a member of
the Chamber of Deputies and a
Cabinet Minister until June 20
when he resigned after a dis
agreement over the exchange;
rate of the peso and the dollar, j
Described by the police head
as a “ruationalist revolutionary
movement,” the organization was
automatically dissolved with the
proclamation of a state of siege.
The country is still under a state)
of siege but the capital provinces
were reported quiet.
Has Information
Germany Planning
New Aggression
WASHINGTON. July 21 </P) _
Secretary Welles said the United
States has information that Ger
many is planning new steps of
aggression against the remaining
indepedet coutries of Europe. He
made the statement at a press
conference but didn’t go into de
tails. His comment aroused spec
ulation on the possibility that he
menat that Spain and Portugal
might be due for attacks.
Welles disclosed the United
States promised fuLl support to
Bolivia in the event that an in
ternational incident arise from
the alleged attempted Nazi coup
there, and which ordered the ex
pulsion of the German minister.
Churchill Revises
His Government
For Third Time
LONDON, July 21 </P)— Prime
Minister Chuhchill revised the
government for the th/ird time
since May second, dispatching A1
fred Duff Cooper to the Par East
as special War Coordinator for
the Cabinet and naming Brendan
Bracken, Minister of Informa
tion in his stead. Bracken who
has been Churchill's Parliament
ary Private Secretary is the
fourth man since the start of the
wtar to hold the information port
folio.
The exact nature of Cooper's
new asisgnment was not disclos
ed but it Was understood that h'is
duties will be similar to those
of Captain Lyttleton, govern
ment coordinator in the Middle
East. Cooper is believed to be
headed for Singapore.
Pacific North
west Gets
Relief from Heat
SEATTLE, July 19 {&) — Sear
ed by a week of blistering tem
peratures, the Pacific northwest
looked for relief from a week of
heat and fires which have taken
a toll of lives, timber and grain.
A thunder and lightning storm
struck Seattle early today bring
ing a heavy downpour of rain.
Temperatures climbed as high
as 115 in recent days to break
all-time records for Washington
and Oregon.
The Oregon human toll stood
at nine deaths attributed to the
heat, with four drownings and
one lightning victim.
Washington charged 2 deaths
to the heat and dozens of heat
Mexico Forbids
Japanese Ships
To Load Lead
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MANZANILLO, Mexico, July
19 (ff>) — The Japanese steamer
Takka Maru went out to sea af
ter leaving behind on the dock,
300 tons of lead which the port
authorities forbade her to load,
in compliance with Mexico’s re
cent agreement to sell surplus
war essential metals only to the
United States and other western
hemisphere republics. The last
shipments of the metal to clear
the port were carried by Japan
steamers, the Kuniwkawa Maru
which sailed Wednesday and the
Skagi Maru, Thursday.
TWO VITAMIN PILLS
DAILY FOR SOLDIERS
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WASHINGTON, July —Troops,
serving in Alaska and other far
northern outposts will hence
forth get two vitamin pills daily
according to an announcement
made by the War Department.
The tablets are to be included
in the regular rations as a safe
guard against diseases of the
regions where fresh meats, vege
tables and dairy products are not
available.
prostrations.
Above the whole heat-ridden
scene, rolled the annual summer
threat of billowing smoke and
crackling flames.
The regional forest service at
Portland reported a total of 954
lightning-set fires in the Oregon
and Washington National Forest
during the past four days, but
most of them were controlled be
fore they could do much damage.
A hundred other fires were set
iby lightning striking on 'State and
private forest lands.