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VOL. 43. No. 68. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 11, 1941 Copy II*
Germans Advance At Two Points
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Give Up Hope Indefinite Extension Army Service
Japan Near Break Diplomatic Relations With U. S.
REDS FIGHT WITH BACKS TO LINE
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Bl’.ck arrows indicate German drives; white arrows Russian re
sistance on the eastern front. One drive (1) was aimed at Lenin-^
grad from the north. Today a 60-mile lunge was reported by the
Na2i command. There was heavy fighting in the central sector (2)
and also, the Russians said, in the direction of Novograd Volynski
in the drive at the Ukraine (3). Smolensk was reported taken, by
an AP dispatch, and 15,000 men were reported destroyed below
Leningrad.
German Armies Advance 60 Miles
Toward Leningrad and Port Odessa
Disputed Smolensk Falls Invaders
UNDATED, Aug. 11 'WP) — Ger
many’s invasion armies smashed
deeper into both ends of the
1.200 mile battlefront; scoring a
60 mile advance toward Lenin
grad in the north and threaten
ing the Black Sea port of Odes
sa in the south. A bulletin from
Hitler’s field headquarters assert
ed "the pursuit of the retreat
ing enemy in the Ukraine is pro
gre-sing rapidly everywhere.”
Nazi officials declared that Mar
shal Semeon Budyenny’s Red
Army of the south has practical
ly lost the entire Dnieppcr, the
vast fertile plateau southeast of
Kiev. DNB, the official German
news agency, said the 180th So
viet light infantry of about 15,000
men, was completely destroyed
south of Lake Ilmen.
On the front below Lenin
grad, the Russians declared their
armies, reinforced by a rising
tide of militia, are holding firmly
against the German onslaught. A
Soviet communique pictured the
struggle as continuing violently
overnight .in the Smolensk sal
ient 230 miles west of Moscow,
on the Estonia front, and at Bel
tserkov, 50 mile^. south of Kiev,
the Ukraine capital. A fierce new
batt'e was reported developing
in the Uman sector midway be
tween Kiev and Odessa. The dis
puted city of Smolensk had fall
en, the Associated Press report
•;d, it was learned upon -reaching
the ruins.
Germans Claim
140,000 Russians
UNDATED. Aug. 9 UP) — Hit
ler’s headquarters claimed the
capture of more than 140,000
Russian troops in two gigantic
smashes in the Ukraine. Sixty
miles southeast of Smolensk, they
said they left more than 200.000
dead and wounded in the fieid.
They also reported the capture of
Kcro.sten, which was bitterly de
fined as a rail junction, 80 miles
northwest of Kiev. After many
days fighting in forests and the
dreary Pinsk marshes, much;
booty was captured, including
317 tanks, 12 railroad trains and
5,250 trucks.
Russian communiques contend
ed that their lines were holding
well and that the blitzkrieg is
now merely a series of local pat
rol actions and bitter night fight
ing.
‘SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Japan On Full Economic War
Footing-Only 2 Steps Remaining
For Diplomatic Break With U. S.
TOKYO, Aug. 11 (IP)—The gov
eminent put Japan on a full ec
onomic war footing under a gen
eral mobilization act. Authoritat
ive quarters declared only two
s'eps remained before a possible
actual break with the United
States. These, the newspaper
Chug-Ai, which speaks, for big
business, said were a complete
j embargo and severance of con
sular re'ations. A consular
breach would be a likely pre
lude to end diplomtic relations.
The economy measure particul
arly covers control of the stock
exchange and marine transporta
tion and gives the government un
limited power to draft manpow
r and economic resources in a
war emergency.
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U.S. Asks Germany
For 2 American
Survivors ZamZam
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9 (.P> —
The United States asked Ger
many for an immediate report on
the two Americans, Francis Vico
vari of New York, co-leader of
:he American ambulance party;
and Laughing-House Wilson of
North Carolina, tobacco man, un
reported since they were wound
ed aboard the Egyption steamer
ZamZam, 115 days ago. They
were then reported in a serious
conditions but their whereabouts
; are unknown despite inquiries in
| Germany and occupied countries.
Two Americans
Are Aboard
German Raider
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 UP) —
Germany informed the United
States government that the two
wounded Americans, who were un
reported since their capture on
the ZamZam, are still aboard the
raider Tamesis, but its where
abouts was not disclosed.
Sen. Wheeler
Inquires About
WASHINGTON — Democratic
i Senator Burton K. Wheeler of
i Montana was revealed to have;
! corresponded with Secretary of:
| War Henry L. Stimson with re- j
; ir.rd? to American troops helping
:he British guard the Suez Canal.
For some days the rumor has
persisted in Washington that sev
oral thousand American troops
have disembarked in Egypt to
help the British. Apparently
there is no basis for the rumor.
However, friends of Wheeler
declare that the isolationist Sen
ator has written War Secretary
Stimson demanding confirmation
or denial of the Suez rumor
Wheeler was said to be insist
ing on a yes or no answer from
the War Department under
threat of airing the matter on the
Senate floor.
Speed-up Will
Finish 2-Ocean
Navy in 1942
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1,1 i/P) —
A warship building speed-up,
cutting construction time on new
ships an average of 12 and a
half percent for each vessel, will
give the nation its two-ocean
navy, two years earlier than,
scheduled. Navy sources said the
fleet will be ready in 1942.
Govt. Has Plans
Take Strike-locked
Shipbuilding Plant
WASHINGTON. Aug. 11 (JP) —
Defense officials said plans for
the government seizure of the
Federal Shipbuilding' and Dry
Dock Company at Kearney. N. J.
are lying ready on a desk at the
Navy Department for use if the
compay did not alter its “intran
sient” attitude in the strik'e
which ha,s tied up four hundred
ninety three thousand, dollars in
defense orders. 1
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RUSSIAN-BRITISH MILITARY PACT SIGNED
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Russian Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov (seated', signed the British-Russian mi'itary agreement
at Moscow, while behind him, Sir Stafford Cripps (left*, British ambassador to Moscow, and Premier
Joseph Stalin (center), looked on. This is an RCA test transmission by radio fvom Moscow to N. Y.
Abandon Hope For Indefinite Ex
tension Army Service And Seek
Senate-Approved 18-Mo. Extension
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 {tP) — is contending that the national in
Some Democratic leaders aban- terest is no more imperiled than
doned hcpe for an indefinite ex- a year ago when the Selective
tension of Army service in view Service Act was passed, and the
of the growing opposition and government contracted with the
sought, over the week end, to draftees for a year in the army,
button-hole support for an 18- and then to be disorganized, as
month extension, which the Sen- President Roosevelt said they
ate has approved. The opposition would be if not kept longer
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Headway is Made
By Germans
But not so Much
LONDON, Aug. 9 (/P)— Author
itative sources conceded that Ger
mans are making • headway to
ward Odessa but depreciated the
German “high sounding claims”
of annihilation of the Russian’s
entire sixth and twelve armies
and a part of the eighteenth.
London reports indicated that
the second Soviet air attacks on
the German metropolis occurred
last night but Berlin said they
beat off the invaders at the end
of the day.
Russians Report
Great Losses
Nazi Columns
MOSCOW, Aug. 9 iff) — The
Red Army declared that heavy
!osses were inflicted on ten more
German divisions, quoting Ger
man sanitary corps messages in
dicating losses as ranging from
2! percent of one infantry divi
sion, 30 percent of a tank divi
sion, and 40 percent of three in
fantry and 4 tanks divisions.
Two Escaping
Convicts, Warden
Killed in Break
McALEST'ER, Okia., Aug. U
i(/P) — Warden Jess F. Dunn, of
the Oklahoma penitentiary and
two escaping convicts, one a for
mer prison guard were killed in
a brief but bloody Sunday break,
the worst in three decades. The
four escaping convicts shot the
warden and twice stabbed him
through the heart.
Fire Hazard
Great in Pacific
Army Games
FORT LEWTS, Aug. 9 </PJ —
The Army called on foresters,
CCC camps, soil erosion workers
and the highway Departments to
aid in preventing forest fires dur
ing the war game maneuvers of
100.900 soldiers in Western Wash
ington. starting Monday. Warm
dry weather hazards will be com
plicated by the mass movements
of so many troops, in what mill;
t-ary men described as one of the
greatest emergency mobilizations
the nation has ever seen in games
with a simu a'eel enemy.