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VOL. 43. No. 67. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 8, 1941. P« Copy l*
British Aid Thailand Depends on US
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German Armies Approach Leningrad And Kiev
‘All-Out’ Tax Program for Defense Is Advocated
RUSS REPORTED ON OFFENSIVE
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Moscow reported that the Red, Army on the central t'r>nt liad
launched an offensive (5) along the Dnepr River, crossing it north
of Rogachev and pushing the Germans back 19 miles. Other de
velopments: (1) Russians reported smashing a German convoy in
the Baltic; (2) a two-pronged Finnish drive was reported moving
toward Leningrad; (3) Germans reported the Stalin Line had been
pierced at Opochka; (4) hard fighting was indicated in the Kiev
sector.
German Armies Pictured Plunging
Headlong Wobbling Red Defenses
Britain to Defend Oil In Caucasus
UNDATED, Aug. 8 (IP) — Hit
ler’s command reported that
German troops, knifing deep into
the lower Ukraine, annihilated a
•Red Army force trapped south
east of Uman, 125 miles south of
Kiev, and capturing more than
30,COO prisoners, including the
supreme commander of the Rus
sian Sixth Army. Earlier, an un
official Nazi report said Kiev it
self was surrounded, but the com
mar.d report indicated that the
main German thrust was direct
ed at cutting' off the Black Sea
port of Odessa, some 140 miles bej
low Uman.
A mystery concerning the over
night bombing of Berlin, by an
unofficial tally as the 80th raid
there of the war, developed when
a source in London said that Rus
sian planes attacked Berlin. By
contrast, the Germans said the
raiders “we undoubtedly Brit
ish.” The British said that no
RAF planes went near Berlin.
While the Germans pictured
her armies as plunging headlong
agamst the wobbling Soviet de
fenses, Russia’s Marshal Timo
shenko voiced a new note of con
fidence. This was an appeal to
the people in German-occupied
territories to “join your com
rades and first starve, shoot, and
blow up the Germans to help the
Red Army rout Hitler’s dogs,
spill blood for blood, and death
for death, for the hour of victory
is near.”
Dispatches were received from
Istanbul quoting well informed
sources there as saying that Brit
ain was prepared to send several
divisions of Indian troops thru
Afghanistan to bolster Russia’s
defenses of the oil-rich Cau
cusus. These sources reported
Afghanistan will formally pro
test the passage of troops to Rus
sian but will ultimately yield.
In the north, the Nazi com
mand said, German columns
driving on Leningrad, captured
Wesenburg, 68 miles southeast of
the old Czarist capital and pene
trated to the Gulf of Finland. If
true, this indicates that the Rus
sian-heid capital of Estonia, Tall
inin, is cut off by land and means
that the Russian Baltic fleet is
in jeopardy by German guns
pressing toward its big base at!
Kronstadt.
Hitler’s headquarters also de
clared that German and Finnish
troops, driving on Leningrad
from the north in a giant squeeze
maneuver, are “making furtherj
successful progress.”
2-lieaded Thrust
Made Leningrad
UNDATED, Aug. 7 (JP) — Rus
sian troops were reported battl
ing fiercely to stem a two-headed
drive on Leningrad. Nazi col
umns are striking from the south
along the shores of Lake Peipus;
Secty. Morgenthau
Advocates All-Out
I
Tax Program
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 •(&) —
1 Advocating an “all-out tax pro
j gram for defense,” Secretary of
1 the Treasury Morgenthau asked
i Congress to tax millions of ad
: ditiona'. persons of small incomes
1 by cutting the personal tax ex
emptions, to stiffen other taxes
on married couples, corporation,
rnd others. He told the Senate
Finance committee on Revenue
that House approval of the tax
bill shou'd increase the present
$3,206,200,000 to “at least" three
and a half billion. He hinted
i strong y that he would like much
j more.
Under questioning, Morgenthau
estimated the necessary raise at
• at least two billion more than he
! expected to be provided by the
pending bill. If the federal gov
ernment can pay two-thirds of
its operating expenditures thv»
fiscal year, 22 billions, with an
estimated deficit of about 12 bil
lions, it will meet the two-thirds
cost. At that rate, he said, the
: estimated revenues needed to be
i boosted by about 5 bilLion, 6i)0
thousand dollars, including the
( amounts contained in the pend
[ ing bill.
Canada Takes
Precautions Guard
West Coast
OTTAWA, Aug. 8 iff) — De
fense Minister Raison anonunced
that authority has been granted
to proceed with the mobilization
of the Sixth Canadian Division
i with the active army.
He asserted that all necessary
precautions are being taken on
the Canadian Pacific coast in
view of the Far Eastern situa
tion.
and German and Finnish forces
are attacking north of the Karel
ian Isthmus and are within 75
miles of the city.
Soviet reports indicated that
the push in the north was tempor
arily abated overnight but noted
heavy fighting south of Lenin
grad.
A Reuters dispatch from Mos-j
cow declared, however, the So
viet command is “confident that
the Germans will reach neither
Kiev r 'r Leningrad, let alone Mos
cow itself.”
German military dispatches pic
lured the strongest Nazi blows
as falling on the Russian forces
in the Ul<$hine. The Germans de
dared the remainder of the Red
Army troops surrounded in that
grain-rich province are “now fac
ing destruction.”
The German command assert
ed yesterday that Nazi troops are
at the gateway to Kiev.
On the African warfront Axis
bombers raided the Suez Canal,
killing 30 and wounding 35.
A Red Army bulletin reported
that Russian troops routed one
of Hitler’s edite death’s head div
isions, littering the field with
2,500 Germans killed and wound
ed.
British Aid To Thailand Mill Hinge
On U.S. Willingness To Cooperate
M ith Strong Measures Against Japs
LONDON. Aug. 7 <vP> —Britain;
expects little Thailand to resist
any Japanese invasion and Brit
ish aid in such an event will
hinge on the willingness of the:
United States to cooperate with;
strong measures, authoritative
sources declared. The implication
is that the United States must be
wi ling to cooperate in more than
an economic blockade of Japan,1
if Britain is to give .strong back-'
ing to Thailand. That British im-;
perial forces are making ready
for any Japanese thrust on Thai
land. which might be either or
both a threat to Singapore or
the Burma Road, the lifeline of
the Chungking Chinese govern
ment, was indicated by a Reuters
agency dispatch from Singapore
quoting the Singapore office of
the Ministry of Information
which said, in British Burma and
south China, “all preparations!
are ready to smash any Japanese'
attempt to cut the Burma Road
or move further westward.”
The British are looking toward
a policy of British and Ameri
can cooperation extending be
yond diplomatic and economic
measures, applicable not only to
a possible situation in Thailand,
but to the entire Far East. Thai
land is in a position of danger
the informant said.
An authoritative world mili
tary review added that the na
tion’s army numbers but 50.000
men and its equipment is limit
ed but the air force “makes up in
quality what it lacks in size.”
This source refused flatly to say
that Britain will help Thailand,
pinning his answer to: that is a
question, of the United States at
titude.
In Melbourne, Australian Navy
minister William Hughes assert
ed that it is up to Japan to de
cide whether there will be peace
or war in the Pacific.
Kodiak Cattle
Boat Unreported
For Two Weeks
KODIAK. Aug. 6 CP) — Fear
ing for the safety of her husband
l who left their home on Sitkal
j edik Island. 90 miles from Ko
diak. Mrs. Jack McCord request
ed that a search party be sent
\ cut by the naval air station.
Planes were sent out today,
making a wide search for the 65
foot halibut boat. President, with
! four men and six horses aboard,
bound for Chirikof Island, part
of the McCord cattle range. Mc
I Cord left Sitkaledik Island two
| weeks ago during heavy westerly
' weather but weather conditions
for the last ten days have been
clear and calm.
McCord was a former associate
of the Frye Seattle meat packer
in a cattle raising company nam
ed the Chirikof Cattle Company,
but he now owns the entire inter
est.
He lately purchased a schooner
to transport a large contract for
dressed meat from his ranches to
the naval air station at Kodiak,
Rabindranath
Tagore, Greatest
Modern Poet Dead
CALCUTTA. Aug. 7 UP) — Ra
bindranath Tagore, aged 80, fam
ed Indian, greatest of modem
poets, and winner of the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1913, died
after a protracted illness.
Bruno Mussolini,
Son of II Duce,
Killed in Crash
ROME. Aug. 7 t/P) — Captain
Bruno Mussolini, aged 33, who
abided by his father’s admonition
to ‘‘live dangerously,” was killed
in the crash of a long-range
bomber he was testing. Bruno
was the commander of the de
tachment in the plane.
He died near Pisa at 10 a.m.
and four hours afterward the
Rome radio announced his “glor
ious death at his post of combat.”
Bruno was born in April, 1022,
at Milan while his father was
head of the Young Fascist move
ment and editing the newspaper
I! Popolo D’ltalia. Bruno was the
premier’s second son.
Mussolini, himself a pilot, flew
at once to Pisa. His Chief of Air
Force, Generai Princolo and two
other fliers, the second pilot and
mechanic were killed in the
crash. The remaining members
of the eight-man crew were in
jured.
Alaska Permitted
Organize Military
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8 f/P) —
Senate concurrence on minor
House amendment completed con
gressional action on legislation to
extend to Alaska the samp gec
mission, to organize rrvJlitary
units other than the National
Guard, as granted to the States
last year. * ^
Louis and Nova To
Fight On Sept. 19
NEW YORK. Aug. 6 (ff) — Pro
moter Jacobs announced that he
decided to stage the Louis-Nova
heavyweight champioshlp fight
in the Yankee Stadium on Friday
September 19.
A WAIL OF AN AUDITIO N—Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty pulls a switch in
Huston, setting off an eerie wail from this huge siren, studied for use in the event of an air raid. „