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VOL. 43. No. 94. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 10, 1941. Per Copy is*
Ask Congress Revise Neutrality Act
German Advance Is Costing Enormous Losses
Hospital Fire Threatens Barrow-Sub-zero Weather
President Urges Congress Revise
Provisions of Neutrality Act to
Permit Arming American \ essels
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 </<P> —
President Roosevelt, asserting it
is time for the us to “stop play
ing into Hitler’s hands and un
shackle our own,” urged Con
gress to revise the Neutrality
Act to speedily permit the arm
ing of American merchant ves-1
sels, in a special message. He also!
left the door open for further re-,
vison later, to wipe out another:
major prohibition —that of pre
venting American cargo ships
from travel to ibelligerent ports,
saying that Hitler has “offered
us a challenge which we a- Am
ericans cannot and will not tol
erate.”
The President said. “We will!
not let Hitler prescribe the wa
ters of the world in which our
ships may travel. The American
flag is not going to be driven
from the seas either by his sub
marines, his airplanes or by hie
threats. We cannot permit the
affirmative of the defense of cur
rights to be annulled or diluted
■by sections of the Neutrality
Act which have no realism in th
light of the unscrupulous aiubi
tion of a madman.”
Administration leaders moved
rapidly to implement the Presi
dent’s message, introducing bills
in both houses to repeal provi
sions of the act against the arm
ing of American merchant ves
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SPAB ISSUES DECREE
AFFECTING MATERIAL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (/P) —
Toe Supply and Priorities Board
issued a sweeping policy in a
decree forbidding the start of!
any public or private construc
tion which will use critical mat-1
erial essential to the nation's de-!
fence or public health. The rul-|
ing of the SPAB. the announce-!
ment said will affect power, nav.
g3’.ion and flood control projects,
office buildings, pod offices, ho
ieU, highways and even residen
tial construction and will sus
pend such non-essential building;
for the duration of the emergen-;
cy. SPAB oflicals said the ruling!
carried the implication that the!
Priorities division, headed by ;
Donald Nelson, by using its prior
ky power to deny materials to
projects considered unessential,
could block works projects ap-(
proved by Congress.
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Above map shows Locale of the fighting reported in today’s news.
Russian Front Dispatches Concede
German Armies Advancing Over
Mountains Of German Corpses
UNDATED. Oct. 10 (rP) — Rus
sian front line dispatches conced
ed that Hitler’s invasion armies
are still advancing “over moun
tains of German corpses." in the
Bryansk sector and in the nine
day-old battle of Moscow. Simul
taneously, the British radio re
ported a new threat developing
almost due west of Moscow. The
BBC said Nazi troops are strik
ing toward the upper Volga town
of Rzhev, 125 miles west of Mos
cow. thereby stretching the main
Soviet defense line to a 70-mile
arc through Vyanzma & Byransk
to Orel.
Admit Several Nazi Gains
In the see-saw fighting around
Vyanzrra, 125 miles southwest of
Moscow, the Russians admitted
that the Germans scored gains in
several sectors but said picked
army troops are now moving up
to meet them as reinforced units
breasted the first violent impact
of the Nazi onslaught. The Red
S’.3r said Russian troops recap
til red a village around Vyazma
and found 4.500 Germans dead.
Elsewhere in the same region,
counter attacking Soviet troops
are reported to have routed a
G rn an motorized column, kill
ng 8 000 Nazis and destroying
220 tanks in a five-day battle.
The Red Star said German ad
vances around Bryansk were
achieved only through sheer
weight of numbers the invaders
suffering enormous losses. The
Red Star said the Germans are
throwing immense forces into
the new push after being routed
earlier in the Bryansk sector, to
220 miles southwest of Moscow.
The atmosphere in Moscow it
self is distinctly more confident,
in contrast to yesterday’s official
acknowledgement of a grave em
ergency. The Soviet command is
reported to have opened the flood
gates on Russia's mighty man
power of reserves, throwing
masses of fresh troops into the
bitter conflict
Nazi Press Chief, In Berlin, From
Hitler's Headquarters Declares
Soviet I nion Militarily Finished
UNDATED, Oct. 9 (/Pi — Hit
ler’s press chief declared that
the “Soviet Union is militarily
finished” as the 110-day-old war
on the eastern front was virtual
ly decided when nearly a million
Red erm.y troops were caught in
two vast encirclements by the
German drive on Moscow. The
sensational pronouncement
which was not elaborated by any
details of specific land gains,
| came from Dr. Otto Dietrich, ar
riving in Berlin, direct from Hit
j ler’s eastern front headquarters.
He asserted, “from the springs of
the Volga to the Sea of Azov.
; the remnants of the Soviet arm
ies are everywhere in retreat.”
The Berlin radio broadcast a
Shanghai dispatch, quoting “So
i viet quarters.” reporting that the
Russian government is fleeing
Moscow. There was no confirma
tion elsewhere.
A special command bulletin,
heralded by a fanfare of trump
ets, over the German radio, de
clared that Russia’s battered Rod
armies have not a single division
left fully fit for battle, on the
entire front.
Dietrich said: “Let the English
attempt a landing in Norway,
Kolia nd, Belgium, or the French
coast and they wll learn what
reserves we still have."
While the Germans thus pro
claimed the climactic turning
point of the world’s greatest mil
itary campaign, the Russians ack
nowledged that they had with
drawn from Orel, key town 6S
i miles southeast of Bryansk, on
! the Moscow-Kharkov railroad,
but gave no intimation of a pend
ing collapse. Russian troops were
reported resisting strongly north
of Orel after a three-days bat
tle. They first abandoned the
town, then recaptured it and fin
ally withdrew again under pres
sure of numerically superior
Nazi forces.
A mid-day Red bulletin said
Marshal Timoshenko’s forces on
the central front are still battling
fiercely against the Nazi jugger
naut in the Bryansk and Vyazma
sectors.
Tass indicated that Soviet
troops still held Vyazma. Russian
warplanes, Tass said, “concentrat
ed heavy blows on enemy tank
columns which managed to break
through” in that sector and
struck telling blows on one such
column proceeding toward Vyaz
ma.
Russian civilians are now re
ported fighting shoulder-to-shoul
der with Red army soldiers to
stem the Nazi rush to Moscow.
A German pilot said that snow
is falling behind the front lines,
spreading a thin layer over the
Russian steppes.
Turkey Concludes
Trade Treaty
With Germany
BERLIN. Oct. 10 (/P) — The
conclusion of a German-Turkisih
trade treaty involving about
eighty million on each side was
announced, to run until March
31, 1943. A spokesman said the
pact was signed at Ankara and
called on Germany to send war
materials and iron and steel pro
ducts in return for Turkish ex
ports of raw materals. principal
ly cotton, tobacco, olive oil and
minerals.
Del. Dimond Surprised at Speed
Of Alaska Defense Establishments
and Evident Effectiveness of ork
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WASHINGTON. Oct. 10 (7Pi —
Delegate Diamond predicted on
his return from a month's visit
that Alaska will require the total
appropriation of $300.00).000 to
complete defense establishments
in Alaska. He sa.d they already
cost more than $133,000,000.
Speed Surprises Delegate
Dirnond said the “speed with
which national defense establish
ments in Alaska are coming into;
being is actually surprising to
me. I hadn't looked for such act
ivity and the evident effective-!
ness with which the work is be
ing done is most encouraging."
He said economic conditions are
excellent in the Territory as a
result of this improvement by
the national defense work. Al
most every resident in Alaska
who wanted work and is able to
work has found employment. He
said citizens in the Territory are
happy that the national govern
ment is so energetically setting
up a defense there, which will
leave a reasonable degree of as
sured safety for the Territory.
Helen Bender, of
Juneau Empire to
Marry A1 Monson
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JUNEAU, Oct. 10 (Juneau Em
pire) — Helen Troy Bender,
president of the Empire Publish
ing Company and Capt. A If N.
Monson of Pan American Air
ways. announced plans to be
married Saturday afternoon. The
wedding ceremony will be per
formed n the room of the bride's
father, John W. Troy, at St.
Ann’s Hospital.
The couple will reside in Ju
neau: She maintaining her official
duties on the Empire and Mon
son will continue piloting Panair
Lodestars between Alaska and
Seattle.
President Arias of
Panama Flees
PANAMA. Oct. 9 i/P) — Pan
ama President Arias fled the
country by airplane at 5:30 a.m.
Tuesday with such secrecy that
his departure was not disclosed
until today when his successor
was sworn in. Neither his motiv
es for leaving the country nor the
events leading up to the sudden
development were clear, but the
country is quiet.
Although no official reason was
given for Arias' departure, pol
itical circles said pressure was
brought against him by political
opponents and foes who accused
him of being anti-American and
pro-Nazi. They said it was fear
ed that his nationalistic policies
might jeopardize the country’s
relations with the Uinted States.
On the surface, there is no indi
cation other than internal politics
as a background for the flight.
The Supreme Court of Panama
swore in Earnesto Jean Guardia,
second vice-president, reputed in
favor of collaboration with the
United States, as head of the gov
eirnment.
The Arias regime had been in
office for about a year. He recent
ly refused to allow ships flying
the flag of Panama to be armed.
Many ships under Panama reg
istry are carrying United States
war aid to Britain.
Arias was said to have flown to
j Barranquilla, Colombia, by Pan
Amefican-Grace Airways plane
; and has since reached Cein
| Fuegos Cuba.
1 ire In Hospital
At Point Barrow
Threatens Village
PT. BARROW. Oct. 10 !*P) —A
fire which threatened disaster to
Barrow, destroyed tire Depart
ment of Interior doctor's and
nurses quarters. The town had
no fire-fighting equipment and
Eskimos, in sub-zero temper
atures, formed a bucket brigade
from a water ho'e chopped thru
a foot of ice. A 15-mile wind
kept Hip flames from the of be*
buildings.
Dr. Harry Burnstein, and
Clara Kaufman and Madeleine
Borviek, nurses, saved ther per
sonal belongings and hospital sup
plies stored in the building. Es
kimos began dragging away the
charred timbers to their homes
for fuel.
Relations With
Panama unchanged
President Says
WASHINGTON, Oc*. 10 (7P) —
President Roosevelt declared
that dip'omatic relations with.
Panama will remain absolutely
unchanged as a result of the
change of presidents. He to d a
press conference that he talked
with the State Department last
night and apparently it was
made in accordance with the Pan
amanian constitution, so the
question of recognizing the new
regime is not involved
No Information
That Russia Is
Ready for Peace
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (TP) —
The President,, answering a press
conference query, declared that
I he had no reports at all to in
j diioate that Russia has reached a
! point in her resistance to Ger
many where she might have to
accept an armistice.
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