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VOL. 43. No. 108. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, NOV. 12, 1941 Pe' Copy is«
SO NEAR MOSCOW AND YET . . .
A four-pronged Gentian drive, almost in shouting distance of
Me-tow was repot fled in London to be bogged down and facing
the dilliculiiies of winter. Nazis w'ere reported assembling new
forties of tanks and men for the onslaught onMoecow in the
Snnilensk-Roslavl area shaded).
Hitler's Armies Reach Black Sea
But Russians Declare Germans
Battlted To Standstill At Moscow
UNDATED. Nov. 12 ;/P) — Hit
ler’s Crimean armies are report
ed to have reached the Black Sea
coast just below Kerch, gateway
to the Caucasus oil fields, while
on the central front, the Rus
sians declared they have bat
tled the Germans to a standstill
with more than 70,000 Nazis kill
ed and wounded in the 41-day
drive on Moscow.
The Red Star, Soviet army
newspaper, said Russian infantry
artillery and tanks, smashing the
flank of two German divisions on
the outskirts of Tula, 100 miles
south of Moscow, put the invad
ers to rout and chased them for
more than five miles. On the
whole, the Rusians reflected
growing confidence, both in the
Donets conflict and before Mos
cow.
Soviet dispatches admitted,
I
however, that Gorman troops ad
vanced in the v'cinity of Naro
feminsk, 35 miles southwest of
Moscow, but said the situation is
stabiized.
The Germans said their ad
vance forces are within 31 miles
of Moscow at one point.
Meanwhile, Churchill told the
House of Commons that Hitler
failed to drive Britain to her
knees through starvation and
blockade and thus might be fore
ed to attempt an invasion “As
soon as he cun screw up the cou-!
rage to make the arrangements
and take the plunge.” Jubilantly
Churchill proclaimed heavy
gains against the Axis lbng war
at sea and hinted at a counter,
invasion of the Reich, with the
declaration that “In 1943 we will
have sufficient shipping to under
take overseas operations."
FIFTEEN OUT OF 1000
FAIL ARMY TESTS
WASHINGTON — Results of a
study of the causes for rejecting
36,800 out of 243,955 men who
were examined for military train
ing by induction boards through
out the nation during March and
April, 1941, were announced by
the War Department.
The study shows that about 15
men out of each 1,990 were re
jected with the principal causes
of rejection being defective eyes,
teeth and mental and nervous
disorders.
The surgeon general’s office bas
ed the study on weekly reports
received from induction boards
during the two-month period.
The new study shows that
15.07 per 1,000 men were reject
ed during March and April. A
previous sutdy of reports on ex
I
irr>.nations for all trainees prior
to March showed that 15.4 per
1,000 were rejected.
No effort was made to classify
the trainees, for the purposes of
the study, into age groups.
The following table offers a
I comparison of the principal caus
es of rejection by percentage,
! grouped under 10 headings:
Prior to Mar. &
Cause Feb. 10 Aprli
Eye 13.34 11.27
Ear, Nose, throat 9.52 8.71
Teeth . 19.42 13.15
Hernia 5.26 3.90
Feet . 3.64 2.15
Musculo-'Ske'etel 4.10 5j89
Cardiovascular . 6.18 7.88
Lung 4.99 6.16
Nervous-Mental 10.47 16.42
: Other . 23.08 24.47
Total . 100.00 100.00
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High School Gym Playfield Jamboree Nov. 15
CASH DOOR PRIZE - GAMES — FOOD — DANCING 8:30 P. M.
Fashion Show Military Capers Musical Selections
% ild Life Aviator
Lost Five Days
Alive and Well
F '• T..BANKS. Nov. 11 (News
miner) — Ray Rcnshaw, wild
life rgent and aviator, missing
for fiv days, was found this
morning by the Pan American
EUctra plane enrou’e from Fair
banks to Juneau. Renshaw and
his p ane were safe on the bank
of Polly River, 15 miles from
Selkirk, where ho ran cut of gas
and was forced to land with only
fen gallons of gas left. The El
ectra dropped some supplies and
Clarence Rhode and Harold Gal
wass, local wild life agents, left
here this merning in their plane
to take gas and supplies to Ren
shaw and to assist him to pro
ceed.
He was reported in fine spirits
but was thin y clad for cold wea
ther. The temperature is now
close to zero.
Capt. Herman Joselyn and co
pilot Lorenz were in command xif
the Electra which found him.
Guerillas Bomb
Dalian Soldiers
In Yugoslavia
ROME, Nov. 11 (/P) — More
than 24 Italian soldiers wPre
I wounded, one fatalljv and 25 civ
ilians were injured by a sudden
bomb and machine gun attack by
: guerillas yesterday in Spalato. a
Da’matia area in conquered Yugo
-lavia. One hundred fifty host
ages were arrested.
A Rome announcement said
three bombs, hurled into the
midst of a column of military
bandsmen and an Alpine Divi
sion, preparing for the ceremony
of lowering the colors, resulted
in the casualties.
Lone Raider
Bombs English
Coast Town
_
LONDON, Nov. 12 </Pi — A
lone daylight raider dropped
high explosive bombs at a point
on the northeast coast of Eng
i land and two tenement houses
! were wrecked and three persons
taken to the hospital with minor
injuries.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Ro
bert A. Taft this afternoon start
ed his reply to President Roose
velt’s condemnation of “ham
str nging provisions” of the Neu
trality Act.
Senator Taft made the declar
j ation that repeal of the legisla
t on will give the President au
thority to “carry on an undeclar
■ ed war.”
The Senate gallaries were
crowded as Taft took the floor to
state the opposition’s case.
President Requests Immediate
Action On Anti-Inflation Bill
But Comm. May Delay 2 Weeks
J 0
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 <JP) —
The House Ways and Means com
mittee weighed a request by the
President for immediate action
on the big anti-inflation tax pro
gram, but the members seemed
disposed to defer the problem
unti; after the house acts on the
pending Price Control legisla
tion. In private expressions of
opinion, committeemen said the
price control measure is anti-in
flationary in purpose and regu
I
lations, and finally it contains
help to decide what further pre
cautions against inflation should
go into the new tax bill.
If the committee formally
adepts that attitude, a delay of
two weeks on the President's ap
peal seems likely. The President
appealed for speedy consid', ration
or the tax program, in a letter
to chairman Doughton of the com
mittee which decides on all new
revenue measures.
Ships Will Arm
Within Ten Days
WASHINGTON — Nov. 3 was
the second aniversary of the first
major revision of the Neutrality
Act—the repeal of the arms em
bargo in 1939.
And the anniversary date
found the Senate pushing meth
odically toward a final vote up
on repeal of most of the rest of
the Neutrality Act —those sec
tions prohibiting arming of Am
erican ships and barrirg Ameri
can vessels from war zones and
belligerent ports.
Vote on Embargo Repeal
Two years ago the Roosevelt
Administration mustered a major
ity just under 2 to 1 for em
bargo repeal, to allow Britain
and France to buy armaments
in the United Slates on a cash
and carry basis.
Today the Roosevelt Adminis
(ration claims a margin of about
5 to 4 in favor of the pending
bill, which would allow the del
ivery of lend-lease materials to
Six Killed
In RAF Raids
On Nap! es
ROME. Nov. 12 «,T». — British
raiders struck in several waves
overnight at Naples, damaging
civilian buildings, starting fires,
and killing six persons with high
exp'osives and incendiary h 'mbs.
The Italian command announced
that eight British bombers w me
declared shot down in raids on
Sicily.
Bvita n in American chins.
The 1939 revis'on followed 3
weks of Senate debate.
Arming Within 10 D'/ys
Roosevelt Adnvni-tration I -a.1
;*rs predicted that the Navy could
start arming United States mer
chant ships within ten days.
Navy authorities have said
they were ready for merchant
ship arming as soon as the ink
dried on the President’s signa
ture to the Neutrality Act repeal.
President Speaks
Legion Ceremonies
Armistice Dav
WASHINGTON. N v. 11 f.P> .
Pres'd nt Roosevelt said in an
Armistice Day address It is our
■duty to ourselves and to those
who died to gain our freedom,
‘‘To make the world a place
where freed m e’.n live and
grew into the ages.’’
The American pe'p'e believe
Mr. ‘ lib rtv is w rth fighting for
" \ ' ■< "If th-'V are oblig
ed to fight they will fight and
will eternally hold it."
He spoke from the circular
rr rb e m phithc? or at the Ar
1 r.g r N.* Moral C.-meterv. at
o r- r-o” lucted by the Ameri
can Legion. A few moments
before, h. stood solemnly at -at
: -ntioi .■ hie an aide placed a
wreath "" i-s* the tomb of the
unknown soldier of the last
i» ci tu v¥ ar.
To jo Discusses
Talks of Knox
And Churchill
TOKYO. Nov. 12 (Ah — For
eign Minister Tojo d .-cussed the
snoeches of Churn ill and U. S.
Navy Secretary Knox before the
plenary session of the Privy
Council at the Imp ri.’l Palace.
Newspaper h adlin • -< pressed
irritation w h K* x'- state
-*•> n s ye- • d ■■ v grave ques
••-s ar about ‘ h d cided;
that the hour i is h
■ l that further American fore-,
be:.ranee toward Japan «ou d be
::u r c!erstoc i.
Buy D.h'en-e P. r.h- a d Stamps
FDR TELLS NATION “SHOOTING HAS STARTED"
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Surrounded by his aides and secret service men. President Roosevelt brnMc-; t 'o the raP'-r* fn a
Navy Day addres from the Navy League dinner in Washington. Standing hen -nth the P Me Ps
Hag and naval decoration he said that the “shooting has started.” Ore the stage with him v. ere the
first lady (left) and Associate Justice Hugo Bla k (right).