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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 50. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1941 Per Copy I*
Nazis Reported Half Way Moscow
Elsewhere, Russians Fighting West Of Old Borders
F. B. I. Stages Largest Spy Roundup In U. S. History
German Panzer Columns Break
Through Minsk Sector, Capture
City Are Half Way to Moscow
UNDATED, June 30 VP) — Ger
man panzer columns. striking
■through Russia’s army defenses
are reported halfway to Moscow
in the sweep which already en
gulfed Lwow,formerly Poland, ac
cording to the Berlin spokesman,
and captured Minsk, 20 miles in
side of the old frontier of Rus
sia. The Nazi spokesman indicat
ed that Hitler’s invasion forces
already were in sight of Smol
ensk, 200 miles east of the Minsk
highway.
A Moscow' spokesman said a
■big pocket was being formed
around the Russian troops in the
Smolensk region, while a special
German war bulletin declared
“On the north wing we are con
stantly in pursuit,” once again
implicating that Russia’s resist
ance was crumbling under the
impact of Hitler’s lightning tac
tics, executed with a force which
the Russian’s themselves estimat
ed at more than two and a half
million troops, presumably in
cluding Germany’s allies, the
Finns, Slovaks, Rumanians, and
Hungarians.
Nazis Claim Ring Around Reds
The German command report
ed that capture of Libau on the
Baltic Sea. DNB declared a ring
around the Red Army divisions
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in the Baltic “is too narrow and
tight that the destruction of the
Bolshevist units is certain.” DNB
said several hundred Soviet
tanks and 42 cannon were captur
ed or destroyed northwest of
Lwow.
A Russian communique said
“during last night our troops
continued stubborn fighting in
the Ourmansk, Divinsk. Minsk
and Luck sectors. In other sec
tors of the front, reconnaisance
and frequent troop regrouping
and artillery duels took place.”
Russians Still West of ’39 Border
The roar of cannonading was
reported on major sections along
most of the 2.000 mile front from
the Baltic to the Black Sea, while
the Germans claimed rapid fire
series of successes, it was appar
ent with the exception of the
■Minsk area, Russia’s Red Army
was still fighting west of the 1939
Soviet frontiers. A Moscow com
munique declared that German
attempts to knife across the Karl
eian Isthmus from Finland, now
fighting at the side of German
land troops, and by sea at Vii
puri, were repulsed. Viipuri, on
the Gulf of Finland, is only/74
miles by railroad from Lenin
grad, Russia’s second largest
city.
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WOMEN STEPPING INTO
JOBS OF MEN WHO ARE
CALLED, DRAFT, DEFENSE
•By Adelaide Kerr
AP Feature Service Writer
Lots of women are doing men’s
jobs with success nowadays.
Three girls are drivingtaxi-cabs
in San Jose, Cal., because the
draft and defense work have
made men drivers so scarce. To
get their ffiobs they had to draw
up a map of the city from mem
ory and pass three examinations
—the cab company’s, the city’s
"ariid the state’s. Their boss says at
least one of them drives as well
as any man he’s seen. The girls
work eight hours a day.
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Louise and Fanny Moore spend
a lot of time hiking along the
bottom of the river bed (30 feet
below the surface) in JaJckson
ville, Fla. They’re divers in their
father’s salvage business, which
operates from the houseboat
where the family lives. Two bro
thers make the rest of the crew.
The girls began their diving
several years ago after a visit
ing youngster dropped his air
rifle overboard and Louise dived
to recover it. Now they both slip
on their heavy suits and helmets
frequently and go down on such
assignments as recovering out
board motors and locating 4,000
pound pile driver hammers that
have been lost overboard.
What they like best though is
open-air athletics. Fanny holds
the women’s state track record
for 400 meters and Louise the
record for the javelin throw.
Dr. Eloise H. Health, a Vassar
graduate, is believed to be the
only woman in the country who
is chief chemist of a water sup
ply system. (The American Wat
er Works Association records dis
close no other.) For the last sev
en years, as chief chemist of the
New Haven, Conn., Water Com
pany she has sampled the 27,000,
000 gallons of water consumed
daily in the New Haven area.
Dr. Health says there is a
growing demand for research to
prevent harmful growth in reser
voirs and pipelines and that
many women are qualified for
the work. Her chief worry in her
job is the prevention of coliform
(intenstinal bacteria). To check
on that she collects samples of
water from New Haven taps and
puts them in a culture medium
of beef broth and sugar kept in
an incubator at body tempera
ture. (The bacteria multiply
quickly and cause fermentation
in the broth.)
Gardening is Dr. Health’s hob
by. She runs a flower pot at the
laboratory and a vegetable gar
den at home.
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Maggie Porter was “the law”
in Parma, Mo., for several
months. After her father died
last December, she pinned his
chief of police star on her suit
lapel, strapped a six-shooter
around her waist and set out to
keep law and order. She made 30
arrests in two and a half months
so the town father told her to
“carry on” till the spring elec
tion.
‘‘SOURDOUGH’’
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
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26 Persons Arrested, Charged
With Espionage By FBI In
Four States, 22 Are Germans
NEW YORK. June 30 <£*) —
Swiftly and secretly, during the
weekend, the nation wound up
the greatest spy suspect hunt in
its history, with the arrest of
26 men and three women, on es
pionage charges. Agents of the
FBI entered homes and taverns
in four states to seize the 24
suspects. FBI chief Hoover an
nounced that while five others al
ready are in custody on other
charges, the other group includ
ed 22 natives of Germany who
will be arraigned today before
the U. S. Commissioner in Brook
lyn on specific charges of con
spiring to engage in espionage
activities in the United States.
Hoover said the G-men have
shadowed the suspects for two
years and finally led them into a
‘■fly trap.”
Ring Used Secret Inks
Warrants issued here charged
the prisoners with transmitting
information to foreign nations
concerning cargoes of British
bouni ships; new developments
'united States naval and army
aircraft products, especially the
..latter; transportation and cour
ier service: and the latest arma
ments. The alleged spy ring used
secret inks, the couriers travel
ing across the Atlantic on Clip
per planes. Hoover declared that
a short wave radio of ocear.-span
ning range was found in the
room of one of the suspects.
Russians Claim Annihilation Of
German Columns In Minsk And
Capture Of Blitz Plan Bessarabia
UNDATED, June 28 {IP) — The(
Red Army, now standing on the.
old Russian frontier, to bar the
road to Minsk and Moscow, re
ported its tanks, planes, and ar
tillery, in blitzkreig style, routed
a German column which had cut
deep into the Polish buffer zone.
Smashing of this spearhead, the
Russians said, took place some
where west of Minsk, a scanty 20
miles inside of Russia proper,
about 400 miles southwest of Mos
cow & about 150 miles from the
nearest German border. The Rus
sian command claimed two other
smashing victories and the anni
hilation of a German reginjent
in the Bessarabia section. “Lange
detachments of enemy troops
and the entire staff of the 39th
panzer corps” in the Luck sector
of Poland, is in the latter class.
The Russians claimed they cap
tured large quantities of war ma
terial, numerous prisoners, and
the plans for the blitz operations
against the Russian frontier in
that region, but the battle there
continued and was still undecid
ed at the time of the communi
que.
Meanwhile in Moscow, the Brit
ish and Russia intergration effort
against their common foe was
sped by a visit by Sir Stafford
Cripps, British Ambasador, with
the foreign commissar. He arriv
ed in Moscow yesterday with the
British military, air, naval and
economics experts.
Off-Shore Naval Base To Be
Established In Eastern Aleutian
Islands On September First
WASHINGTON, June 30 UP)—
Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox announced that off-shore
naval base will be established onj
Amaknak Island in the eastern \
Aleutians on September first, j
Commander William UpdeGraffj
of Portland will be in command
of the base. Other stations will
be established on Midway Is
land in the Pacific and at Caren
age Bay, Trinidad, five miles'
from Port cf Spain.
RAF Leaves
Bremen Aflame
In 17th Raid
LONDON, June 28 UP) — Flam
es “all beyond control” were left
raging in the important north
German port of Bremen and its
shipyards, after an unusually
heavy night attack by British
bombers in the 17th successive
raid on northwestern Germany,
the air ministry said. The an
nouncement was made as new
waves of daylight bombers roar
ed out again to the German-held
French coast.
Germans Place
British Air Loses
At 36 To 1
BERLIN, June 28 t/P) — In
formed German sources placed
the total of British air losses for
the preceding 24 hours, at 36
planes against 1 German plane.
They reported the sinking of 6
merchantmen totaling 21,000 tons
•off the English southeast coast by
German airmen. Overnight Brit
ish raids on both Western Ger
many and occupied territory
were acknowledged.
U. S. Marines
Sent London
Aid Officials
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WASHINGTON, June 28 i(/P) — '
The Navy Department announc
ed that a small detachment of
marines was sent to London to
“facilitate communications be
tween the various United States
offices located there.” The Navy
said the detachment consisted of
three officers and 60 men.
British Take
German Raider
Supply Ship )
LONDON. June 28 !(/P) — The
3,000 ton German vessel Alster
tor, supply and prison ship for a
Nazi sea raider was intercepted
and survivors of two sunken Brit
ish merchantment were rescued,
the Admiralty announced. Seven
ty eight officers and men, includ
ing those of the 4,651 ton Rab
aul and of the 5,500 ton Trafal
gar were rescued, the commun
ique said. The Admiralty said
the survivors reported 9 men on
the Rabaul and 12 on the Trafal
gar were killed when those ves
sels were sunk by the Nazi raid
er.
Report General
Gamelin Escapes
French Prison
NEW YORK, June 28 </P) —
The German radio reported a
Vichy dispatch that General
Gamelin, former generalissimo
of the Allied forces, escaped
from a prison in France. Two per
sons were arrested on suspicion
of having aided his getaway.
Gamelin has been under ar
rest since September 16. 1940, by
order of the .government of Pe
tain and was held along with pre
miers Daladier, Reynaud, Blum,
and others for trial over the re
sponsibility of the French dec
laration- of war and the collapse
of France. The German radio
said Gamelin escaped at 11 a. m.
Friday from the prison at Bour
raso.
“Japs Switch Generals,” says
•a headline. Leaving it for the
American Navy, apparently, to
spank their admirals.
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play an impressive array of service stripes. They’re in the 18th infantry regiment, First division, based
at Camp Devens, Mass., and are (left to right) Nathan Rosenstein, 28 years; Wade Hitchcock- 25:
- William Lipskie. 28. and Homer S. Smith. 23.
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