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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 97. NOME. ALASKA, V O'.esday. July 22. 1942 p^r c°Py l3*
Rostov Assaulted from Three Sides
44,143 Casualties Armed Forces Since Start War
Germans Claim Rosto\ Surrounded,
Red Star Says "Terrible Days Ahead
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UNDATED. July 22 (/P) — The Germans proclaimed
they have crossed over a low broad front to keep in
step with the invasion of the Caucasus and that “or
ganized” Russian defenses near Rostov, at the mouth
of the Don, have collapsed and the guardian city is new
half encircled. Russian and British ; dvices agreed with
the enemy on the trend of the battle but not to such
a degree as to admit that the strategic waterline was
breached and Rostov bait surrounded.
The Army newspaper Red Star gravely announced
that the Germans, pressing closer to Stalingrad, are
now approaching the border of Stalingrad province,
about 80 miles from the city itself. “Terrible days
face the country,” the Red Star sa ci, and called upon
Russian soldiers to emulate the heroic band of 28 who
died fighting German tanks barehanded in the snow
before Moscow last winter.
In an offensive action, the Russian air force bomb d
Konigsberg, East Prussian port, again at night. Six
large fires were seen through heavy overcast. The Mos
cow radio said 4 large explosions were touched off by
bombing and 38 fires were reported set. The city was
attacked late last Saturday night.
British military sources conceded that a small Ger
man armored force may reached the lower Don, and
said there is “no denying the danger to Rostov.” The
Germans seemed converging on Rostov from three di
rections: from Taganrog, 40 miles west; from Voro
shilovgrad, 100 miles north; and from Millerovo, 130
miles north and northeast.
The Russians officially acknowledged a continuing
retreat over scorched earth and dynamited coal fields
in the Don basin from Voroshilovgrad southeastward.
British sources feared that large Russian forces in the
salient above Taganrog were threatened
The British said, in the battle of Voronezh, some 300
miles north of Rostov, the Russians wiped out all but
one German bridgehead across the upepr Don. for their
siege of Voronezh, 10 miles east of the river. The Rus
sians reported that forces near Voronezh wrested con
trol of 4 Don crossings & more than 10,000 of the foe
were killed in one vveeb of fighting. The qualified suc
cesses of the Russian counter attacks at Voronezh,
however, seemed to have little effect on the German
drive across the Don steppes.
Bill To Simplify
Administration
Of Indian Affairs
W shlngton, July 21 (/P)
— The House passed and
sent to the Senate the billj
designed to simplify the1
| administration of Indian
Alfa s .n Alaska. The bill
will remit the Interior
Deot. *o incur obligations
'as early as January 1st m
i any c uicndar year for the
fiscal .ear commencing on
the next July 1st. Under
! exist1 tv law this cannot be
done until March 1st and
j the department said it is
too laU to permit the exer
cise i economy and effic
ier, c;. r. drawing up con
! tracts
Anoht' r bill passed
1 would reorganize the land
ofRct s in Aiaska, placing
them n charge of paid full
time per1' mnel, under civil
service. The present regis
ter at Fairbanks would be
converted into civil service.
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Concentrate On
Annihilation Rom
mel's Air Force
Cairo, July 21 (/P) — The
destruction of more than
fifty Axis planes on the
ground in two assaults on
advanced airdromes in a
i single day were reported
by the British in raids on
Aldaba and Fuka, 25 and
60 mles behind the Nazi’s
: lines.
A Reuters dispatch from
Alexandria said the Brit
ish fleet shelled the Axis
held Egyptian port of Mat
ruh again early yesterday
in the third such attack in
j as many nights. Installa
tions were destroyed and
ships damaged in the har
bor. Other long range fight
ers blasted Axis barges
northeast of Sidi Barani.
185 miles behind the lines.
Land operations on the
Egyptian front were con
fined to patrols, while the
British concentrated o n
the annihilation of Rom
mel’s air force.
STEEL WORKERS
PETITION PRESIDENT
INDIANAPOLIS, July— Tele
grams asking that President Roo
sevelt and the war labor board
reconsider their demands for $1
daily pay increases were sent to
Washington by Indian Harbor
Steel Workers.
The men are employed in
plants operated by Inland and
Youngstown Sheet & Tube, who
along with Republic and Bethle
helm were directed to boost the
pay of workmen 44 cents a day.
The Indiana Harbor employ
ees expressed dissatisfaction with
the WLiB decision. They called on
Roosevelt and the War Labor
Board to reopen the question in
viop of their request for an in
J crease of $ l a day.
I. S. Armed Forces
41.143 Casualties I
Since Start of W ar
Washington, July 21 i P)i
V *.e Office of War Infor
j mation announced that U,
: S. armed forces suffered
44.143 casualties in dead,
wounded and missing since I
the start of the war. 4.801
jare dead: 3.218 wounded;
and 36,124 are missing
I. $. Air Force
Challenges Jap
Control Yangtze
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Chungking, July 21 (/P)—
F escorted U. S.
bombers sank 2 Jap ships
yesterday in the Yangtze 1
river port of Kiukiang, |
I southeast of Hangkow. The
i raid challenged Japan's;
, long-held control of the air,
over her waterway supply
1 route to China. Not one of
the U. 3. planes was dam
aged. said the communique
which said the ships were
from 1.000 to 2.000 tenners
each.
Presaging an ever-in
creasing aerial challenge
to the invaders, a Chinese
govt, spokesman said that
the U S. will be asked thru
Laughling Currie, special
adviser to President Roose
velt, for more planes along
with a “rather long list” of
other military supplies.
Currie returned from
China on July 16 with a
message of undisclosed
contents for the President
from Chiang Kai-Shek.
In land fighting, a Chin
ese army spokesman re
ported, the Japs fought
i their way back into the
Chekiang provincial sea
port of Wenchow Friday,
after being disclodged by
the Chinese the day before.
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kiska May Go Down In History Vs
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Tomb of Would-Be Jap Conquerors
by Keith Wheeler
At Sea with the Pacific Fleet, June 20 (/P) — Delayed
Kiska harbor may earn a place in history as the drear
iest tomb ever to receive a corps of invaders who had
hoped to conquer the world. It may be that the hope
ful little men have chosen the foggy bay, under the
black peaks of Kiska's hills, from which to launch their
last serious attempt to invade or conquer the United
States. Now it seems more likely that they have chosen
a place at which to die.
Midway, the first choice, failed and there now, despite
repititious punishment by American bombers, they are
doggedly assembling at. Kiska. If they fail there, they
may not have the strength to try again.
Already the Emperor's high-prowed ships are going
down at their moorings, victims of bombs failing day
and night from big brown and gray planes, running a
shuttle service of destruction along the Aleutian chain.
Big PBY Catalina flying boats first located the Japs
in Kiska harbor on June 10 when they moved in during
a stormy week and captured or otherwise disposed of
the 10 American weather observers stationed there. The
battle began on June 11th when the first flights of Navy
:Cataiinas, Army Fortresses and B-24 Liberators began
freighting bombs to Kiska.
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Germans Advance Down Rich Donets
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Approach Rostov From 3 Directions
MOSCOW, July 21 (/P) — The forward wall of Ger
man tanks and motorized infantry pushed southeast
from Voroshilovgrad toward Rostov and down the rich
Donets basin coal field region, left ablaze and wrecked
by the Russians. Falling back to a new stand northwest
of the gate to the Caucasus, at the north of the curv
ing 300-mile battieline, Red Army forces are battling
hand-to-hand with the Germans on both banks of the
Don River, in a fight to sweep tiie Nazis from their la.-t
bridgeheads and to trap those holding on to newly
fortified positions between the river and Voronezh, 10
miles to the east.
The Germans are apparently massing forces in the
i great grain area between the Donets and the Don. from
Boguchar to south of Millerovo, in an all-out effort to
take Rostov from three direction and Stalingrad from
two direction. Germans communiques said Rostov is
already aflame and under asault from the west, north,
and east. German forces farther north have pushed
i about 50 miles closer to Stalingrad, watchdog of the
j lower Volga.
Dimond Assert Navy Late In Releasing
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Resume of Jap Activities In Aleutians
WASHINGTON, July 20 (/P) — Delegate Dimond ex
pressed the opinion that the Navy, long ago. should
have given the public a resume of Jap activties in the
Aleutians.
Referring to the Navy communique on Friday .giving
an account of operations in the northern Pacific, Di
mond said: “The Japs sent altogether too much power to
the Aleutians for that move to be a mere side-show
operation. I wonder why we had to wait this long to find
out the facts. It all could have been made public with
out giving any information to the enemy. As far as the
enemy’s power is concerned, it doesn’t help them if we
told what they have.”
Dimond said it was reported to him that the Japs have
25,000 troops in the captured islands, but he has been
unable to confirm the report.
Ceiling On Wages Likely
To Get Congress Support
WASHINGTON, July — Congressional leaders pro
mised speedy consideration to any recommendations
President Roosevelt may make to link wage stabiliz
ation to price controls so as to aid the fight against the
rising cost of living.
Apparently authentic reports are current that the
President will ask congress for broad flexible author
ity to put ceilings in wages and to clamp down on fur
ther increases in pricec of farm products.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, (R-Mich), said:
“Any realistic plan that gears wages to price control
is desirable.”
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I’. S. NAVY REVEALS JAPANESE LOSSES AT MIDWAY
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JAP SHIPS SUNK AT MIDWAY j
FOUR aircraft carriers -
Three OR FOUR DESTROYERS
TWO HEAVY CRUISERS
ONE OR TWO TRANSPORTS
JAP SHIPS DAMAGED AT MIDWAY
TWO OR THREE BATTLESHIPS
FOUR OR Five CRUISERS
FOUR TRANSPORTS
Japan's naval losses in the Battle of Midway were even more serious than
first reported, the U. S. Navy revealed. Besides the heavy toll in ships sunk or
damaged, 275 Jap planes and their crews were reported lost with their car
riers. The unofficial estimate of Japanese deaths was: carriers, 6.000 lives;
battleships, 2,000; heavy cruisers, 4,000 ; light cruisers, 500; destroyers, 1,500;
and transports, 4,000 or more.