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" THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 53. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1941 ' Per Copy m
U. S. Naval Forces Sent To Iceland
Russians Declare Germans Are Using Mock Tanks
Peru Commits Acts Aggression Against Ecuador
Germans Declare Stalin Line Is
Broken, Russians Assert Enemy
Thrown Back Along Entire Front
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UNDATED, July 7 i{/P) — Hit
ler’s invasion armies reported
they have “broken” the Stalin
Line, but the Russians declared
that Red Army troops blocked
the Nazi offensive along the
whole front and had driven the
Germans back in five sectors.
The Soviet command said Rus
sian troops seized the offensive
in heavy fighting from the Baltic
to the Black Sea and smashed
the Germans along the Berezina
River, hurling back the Nazi
dr.ve aimed at the north flank of
the Stalin line. DNB asserted
that German troops had broken,
the line which runs 75 miles
deep in some places. Equally
vague, the Berlin radio said Ger
man columns pierced the line at
several points.
Wood and Canvas
Tanks Are Seen
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The Russians reported official
ly that the Germans are using
wood and canvas tanks to pad
out the panzer columns. They
were described as self-propelling
and carrying machine guns. Red
Army scouts, it was said, discov
ered the subterfuge when they
spotted a Nazi tank column mov- j
ing up to the front, and noted j
with amazement “the body on a!
tank which unexpectedly gave
in under the pressure of the el- j
bow of an officer who leaned ag
ainst it.” In the column, the Rus I
sians said, only one of 20 tanks:
was genuine.
Germans Report
Progressive
The German command said
Axis troops captured Cernauti,
capital of Sovietized Bucovina,
in the drive on the Russian Uk
raine. Rumanian and Hugarian
troops, allies of Germany, were
declared to have reached the up
per Dnestr River in Bucovina,
while in nearby Bessarabia, Ger
man and Rumanian forces, re
ported “a progressive advance,”
after repulsing Soviet counter
attacks.
By contrast, a Red Army bul
letin said in the Bessarabian sec
tor, “the enemy, suffering very
heavy losses, was thrown back
to his previous position.”
New Plant
For Boeing
SEATTLE, July 5 — The Boe
ing Company, builders of big
four - motored bombers have
launched out a new National De
fense work, and plan to bUiLd
another large plant for flying
boats, in large quantities for the
Navy.
The new plant will be built or.
the shores of Lake Washington
near Renton.
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Men Over 28
Deferred In
Coming Draft
WASHINGTON. July 3 — The
Selective Service Board narrow
ed tis age limits in a blanket de
ferrment for all men 28 years or
older not now in training.
The effect of the order will
make only those from 21 through
27 liable to a year’s Army duty
in the future, and increased the
liklihood of an early call for
many of the 750,000 young men
registered on July 1.
U. S. Navy Forces
Arrive Iceland
Replace British
WASHINGTON, July 7 «A>) —
Forces of the United States Navy
arrived in Iceland in accordance
with an understanding between
President Roosevelt and the
Prime Minister of Iceland. The
naval forces moved in to supple
ment and. eventually rcfcillaoe
British forces stationed there and
to insure the adequate defense of]
Iceland. j
President Roosevelt told Con^
gress in a special message, of this*
far-reaching step of America’s ]
foreign policy. He said the Unit-1
ed States couldn’t permit the
“occupation by Germany of strat
egic posts in the Atlantic to be
used as air or naval bases for an
eventual attack agains the West
ern Hemisphere.” At the same
time he said this country has no
desire to see any change in the
present sovereignty of those re
gions. —
Ecuador Charges
Peru Aggressions
QUITO, Ecuador, July 7 </P) —
Ecuador charged Peru with pol
itical and military aggression af
ter a week-end of bombing raids
and border fighting, growing out
of a centur-old frontier dispute.
Gathering crowds paraded in
the capital streets, waved Ecua
dorean flags and chorused the na
tional anthem in front of the sta
tue of Simon Bolivar, the' liber
ator.
As the government ordered the
army to hold the southern front
ier, reports from the south told
of two days of sporadic garrison
battles and artillery shelling of
frontier towns by Peruvian
troops and Peruvian bomb raids
on Ecuador’s military outposts.
After a .session of the cabinet,
the ministry of defense issued a
communique blaming the out
break and penetration of Ecua
dorean territory, on Peruvian sol
diers and civilians.
^ ^ THE UNEXPLORED —Byrd survey party pitches camp at Mount Rea, 285 miles east of
Little America, on reaching edge of hitherto unexplored regions.
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Cristobal, Balboa '
Harbors Closed
Sunset to Sunrise
CRISTOLBAL, July 7 i/P) —
The commandant of the port of
Cpfstcbal put into effect new reg
ulations under which ships are
not permitted to clear or enter
Cristobal or Balboa harbors be
tween the hours of sunset and
sunrise.
Stalin Says
Hitler Will
Lose War
MOSCOW, July — Soviet Pre-J
mier Josef Stalin broadcast a
message over all Russian radio i
stations declaring that Hitler’s;
armies will be beaten like Nap
oleon's were.
Stalin asserted that Germany’s
best forces already had been de
stroyed in the conflict on the
Eastern front.
Stalin admitted, however, that
the Nazis had occupied Lithua
nia, the greater part of Latvia,
the western part of White Russia
and part of western Poland.
Stalin declared that this was a
war not only for the defense of
Russia but for the liberation of
all people enslaved by Germany.
Slavery Is Issue
The Russian premier said the
question facing the Soviets iis
whether they will be enslaved
by Fascists.
Stalin made a plea for intensi
fied increase in production of
more war equipment to aid in
the defeat of the Nazi onslaught.
He said that everything must be
secondary to the interests of the
forces at the front and the task
of crushing the enemy.
Stalin included in his radio
message an appeal to everyone in
the Soviet Union to support the
Red army and navy in its efforts
toward victory.
Assistant Foreign Commissar
S. J. Lozovisky who is spokes
man for the Soviet Information
Bureau, voiced a flat guarantee
that Hitler will not win the war.
Lazovisky said:
Will Not Win War
“Hitler may win a hundred bat
ties, but he will never win the
war. We can guarantee that.”
Lozovisky pointed out that
during the World War, Germany
scored many victories, but lost i
the war. He added:
“Now the defeat will be all
the more decisive. Mad dreams
to conquer the world cannot end
except by Hitler’s collapse.”
Losovisky said German claims
that the Soviet Union is collaps
ing are ridiculous. He said that
the war will not be decided by
the loss of any city or cities, and.
that the important thing is to pre
serve the Soviet army’s main
forces. Lozovisky concluded:
“The Gormans will never see
Moscow —except as prisoners of
war.”
"SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Fewer Deaths
Over 4th July
Than Predicted
UNDATED. July 7 iff) — Vio
lent death overtook 628 persons
in the nation over the long Inde
pendence Day week-end As the
country went back and counted
among the dead, they found 384
victims of traffic accidents. 14
more than the average for an or
dinary Friday Saturday and Sun
day in July. While the auto fa
talities only slightly topped the
National Safety Council’s esti
mate of a normal weekend, they
are far below the Council’s pre
diction of 475 persons to die in
traffic accidents in the past three
days Rain in some part of the
country are believed the chief
reason that the total is not high
er.
Army Yields
Pattern Man
To Civil Life
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, — Lots of;
young men on the Selective Ser
vce list have been deferred from
induction because they art at
work in national defense indus
tries, but Frank H. Sallot, aged
23 years, is believed to be the
first United States private soldier
on record to be honorably dis
charged because his peacetime
capabilities are needed more by
the nation than his military ser
vice.
He is a pattern maker and
learned the trade and worked at
his father’s shops in Cleveland.
Patterns are required in many
national defense industries.
A few months ago young Sallot
was given an indefinite furlough
from the Army so he could re
turn to pattern making. He is
said to be a genius at it.
He received his honorable dis
charge papers from the War De
partment n Washington.
When Sallot was given his fur
lough he was on duty at Camp
Shelby, Miss.
Intelligence
Men Fire 28
Navy Workers
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. July 3
— Twenty-eight skilled Civil
Service workers, whom naval
spokesmen said “could not be
trusted to work around military
secrets,” were discharged from
the Mare Island Navy Yard.
Rear Admiral Greenslade, Com
mandant of the Twelfth Naval
District, said the dismissals were
recommended by Naval Intelli
gence officers after a thorough
investigation which was “purely
precautionary.”
The men discharged were not
blacklisted for private employ
ment. Names were not given
out.
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VALUABLE MAN — Private
Frank H. Sallot has been honor
ably discharged from the army
so he can make patterns.
American Nations
Will Cooperate
WASHINGTON, July —The 21
American republics are expected
to subscribe to the proposal
made by Uruguay for the practio
al cooperation of these nations
in the present crisis, according
to a State department announce
ment.
Under the proposal any and all
nations would not treat as a bel
ligerent any nation fighting a for
eign power outside of the Ameri
cas. A nation at war with an out
side power would thus be able
to use the harbors, airfields, and
other facilities of the subscrib
ing nations.
Remove Children
From Moscow
MOSCOW, July 7 W—The vol
untary removal of children from
Moscow is under way although
it was said officially there is no
compulsion for them to leave.
Ford’s Contracts
DETROIT, July — The Ford
Motor Company announced that
the Army was expanding Ford’s
contract to build Pratt & Whit
ney aircraft engines to 10,000
units.
The motor company said the ex
panded order would require im
mediate expansion of the plant
completed recently to turn out
the motors. The first of the air
plane power plants is scheduled
to come off the assembly lines
in August.