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• ^ THE NOME NUGGET '
VOL. 44. No. 142. NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY. NOV. 27, 1942. per c°p:'
Germany Occupies Toulon, France
I Russians On Offensive From Moscow to Stalingrad
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Urges Local Manpower Commitee
Be Appointed for Second Division
Hon. Ernest Omening
Governor of Alaska
Juneau. Alaska
My dear Governor:
Under the provisions of the
“Gold Wining l imitation Order
— I,-2ft8 — of the War Produc
tion Hoard, dated Oct. 8th, 1942,
all placer mining in the Second
Division of Alaska has ceased,
anil by reason thereof, a large
number of persons who were em
ployed in (his industry are now
out of work.
The order of the War Manpow
er Commission, Directive No.
XIII, prohibits any employer
from hiring for work in Alaska,
any person who on or after Oct.
1, 1942. was employed as a pro
duct ion of maintenance worker
in connection with gold mining,
except upon the reference r.f the
United States Employment Ser
vice.
This order further provides
that “no person who on or a ter
^ Oct. *. 1942, has left employment
as a production or maintenance
w« rke in connection with gold
mining, shall be referred by the
U. s. Employment Service, to
any work in Alaska other than
work in essential non-ferrous
metal mining, milling, smelting,
and refining activities, unless de
nial of such referal would en
tail undue hardship upon the in
dividual concerned, as determin
ed in accordance with regula
tions prescribed by the chairman
of the War Manpower Commis
sion.
Paragraph 3 of the same order
provides that a worker dissatis
fied shall be given a fair oppor
tunity to present his case to the
“local area War Manpower Com
mittee.
There are a number of men,
wdio have been employed in
placer mining in various capa
cities as maintenance workers,
not in any sense skilled miners,
w ho are by reason of age and
other causes unable to go out
side and seek work in “essential
non-ferrous metal mines, mills,
smelterv, rr refining plants,” to
which they are presently con
fined. This inhibition against
these workers being employed
in other work in Alaska and at
their homes is a very great and
needless hardship to them, and
in not a few instances will make
them public charges.
Were there a “Local Area Man,
power Committee” in this Divi
sion. as provided for in the di
rective mder of the War Man
power Commission, those work
ers who are unable to go outside
and seek employment could be
give a hearing a.d allowed to
accept other employment.
It is therefore dearly appar- ■
ent that a Local Area War Man
power Committee be created for
this Division o? Alaska, or some
i her means he provided where- i
by the class of workers referred
to, can he relieved of the ex
treme hardship imposed by this
cider.
Ina' much as Directive No.
,\:il of the W ar Manpower Com
mission specifically states the re
employment in Alaska of these
production a n d maintenance
workers is contingent solely up
on the referal of the IT. S. Em
ployment Service, and in lieu of
the absence of such Service from
this Division of Alaska, it is urg
ed that either a branch be estab
lished or tlie proposed Local
Area Manpower Committee be
authorized to act as the agent of
this Service.
In view of the seriousness of the
situation described herein, I re
-ppctlullv request that as Chief
Executive of the Territory, you
utilize your good offices to effect
a speedy and satisfactory solu
tion to this highly untenable sit
uation.
Very truly yours,
Howard Lyng
2nd Division Member
Territorial Hoard Public Welfare
Appeals intensification Scrap Metal
Hunt In Remaining Weeks of 1942
The following communication was received by
The Nome Nugget from Donald Nelson, chairman of
the War Productions Board:
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24 — The govern
ment is asking the American farmer to dedicate the
remaining weeks of 1942 to. an intensified scrap hunt.
l Steel miners need more heavy scrap and the farms are
one of the best sources of this type of metal. We need
your further help in this farm drive, and in aiding our
salvage committees to continue this effort throughout
the next few weeks. .
Mats and other material to help you are being pre
pared and will be mailed soon. All salvage committees |
are being instructed to continue to make available to
the farmer all their transportation facilities and man
power, and to cooperate with you in every possible
way. The nation is looking to the American farmer. I
am sure, with your help, he will come through.
REGISTRATION OF
WOMEN IS NOW
CONSIDERED
Washington, Nov.—Presi
dent Roosevelt, at a confer
ence with newsmen, said
no decision has been reach
ed yet on the issue of Na
tional Service legislation
but added there is a com-,
pulsory registration of wo
men under consideration.
President Roosevelt said
such regisration of women'
will not mean they will be i
ordered by compulsion to j
go here or there or some;
other place to work, but
the aim is to try and find'
out where available sup
ply.of women workers ex
ists and something regard!
ing their fitness for war!
industry jobs.
Germany Occupies Toulon, Blotting
Out Last of Unoccupied France
Part of French Fleet Scuttles Itself
LONDON, Nov. 27 (/P) — Germany occupied Tou
lon in violation of another Hitler promise, overcoming
the resistance of Vichy French forces, but which gave
part of the fleet in the Mediterranean harbor time to
scuttle itself. This sudden stroke erased the last ves
tiges of France’s liberties, blotting out the only re
maining spot of the unoccupied French homeland and
turning the whole country over to Nazi military rule.
A German communique frankly attributed the
step jointly ordered by Hitler himself and Mussolini,
in fear of growing Allied might in North Africa, and
the refusal of the French armed forces to submit to
the Axis will.
Accompanying the letter to Marshal Petain. which
informed him of the step, was Field Marshal Von
Rundstedt who “will be in charge of all measures
deemed necessary and who will make all decisions in
the French territory.”
All French naval and army forces were demobiliz
ed by Hitler’s order, and the armistice allowed France
an army of 80.000 men.
The communique contained only the line that
“Part of the French fleet scuttled itself.” It is not
known which or how many of the sixty-two French
war vessels, including three battleships of France’s
Mediterranean fleet, are at the bottom of Toulon har
bor.
The order to enter Toulon was given by the Axis
war leaders last night “to prevent the French flleet
from putting out to sea as planned, and to demobilize
unsure contingents of the French army,” it was said.
Danger Deepens for Hitler s Battered
Battered Spearheads at Stalingrad
As Red Offensive Gains Momentum
MOSCOW, Nov 27 (/P) — The danger deepened
hourly for Hitler's battered spearheads at Stalingrad,
latest battle dispatches indicated, as fresh strength
was poured into the aggressive Red army garrison, over
the newly won land route. Fast wheeling field columns
cut across the besiegers’ lifelines to the west and a
confused war movement swiried across the broad step
pes west of Stalingrad. It was impossible to define the
battle lines clearly but overnight dispatches said in
some places the Red offensive gained such momentum
that the fleeing Germans were frustrated in efforts to
burn warplanes on fields, overwhelmed too swiftly to
permit takeoffs. _
German Hospital Trains Jammed
Nazi Losses Mount To Nearly 250,000
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UNDATED, Nov. 26 (/P) — German hospital
trains are jammed with maimed and dying, rolling
back from the bloody slaughter pens before Stalin
' grad. As the Red armies surged ahead Nazi losses
mounted to nearly 250,000 killed, wounded or captur
ed. A Reuters dispatch from Moscow said the roads at
Stalingrad, still held by the Germans, are clogged with
Nazis fleeing in disorder to avoid entrapment.
The Berlin radio reported a heavy Russian of
fensive action west of Moscow with Soviet troops at
tacking the German-held sectors of Rzhev and Torpop
tes. DNB said the Russians launched an offensive on a
wide front south of Kalinin, 95 miles northwest of
Moscow. Although the Kremlin remained silent on
these reports, it indicated that the Red armies started
a major drive on the Moscow front, synchronized with
the great countersweep at Stalingrad.
Intermittently, for several weeks, the Germans
reported that powerful Soviet forces were massing in
the Moscow region and admitting for the first time
that the Russians are fighting less than 135 miles from
the Latvian frontier.
Nazi headquarters reported “In the region south
of Kalinin and in a sector southeast and west of Tor
poptes, the enemy started an expected attack on No
vember 25th on a broad front.” The German communi
oue asserted that all Soviet attacks in the new offens
ive were repulsed and the “local pockets which the
enemy was able to create momentarily, were wiped
out by counterattacks.”
On the Stalingrad front, Hitler’s command ack
nowledged that the Russians are striking out in heavy
tank-ied infantry attacks between the Volga and the
Don River bend.
ONE LIVE SHELL IS
TAKEN FROM THIGH
OF LONDON WORKER
Brighten, Eng., Nov. —
Henry Coates of London is
alive, thanks to the cou
rage of a surgeon who re
moved a live German Mes
serschmitt cannon shell
from his thigh—a danger
ous operation amost with
out parallel in medical his
tory.
Coates was wounded re
cently when a German
plane bombed and mach
me-gunned the building
in which he was working.
Surgeons, knowing that
' shells of the type which
penetrated Coates’ leg fre
quently explode at the
slightest touch, were faced
with a rare dilemma. Fin
ally they called in a bomb
disposal squad, which sug
gested that with extreme
care the shell might be re
moved.
Disregarding the danger
to himself, Dr. Donald
Hall, chairman of the Roy
1 Sussex County Hospit
al, undertook to perform
the delicate operation. As
sistants and nurses quickly
volunteered to help and
the operation was carried
through without mishap.
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cember, before the outbreak of war between U.S. and Italy. The pope in brj.rd.-ast after Dec. 11 war declaration date, laid down a five
poiut plan for peace, declaring that in world of the future there iru-f not be aav kind of aggression, oppression of minorities, designing
nations seeking monopoly on economic wealth, total rear or ara-.an.cu: races, and persecution directed against religious seers.