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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 54. NOME, ALASKA, - Wednesday, JULY 9, 1941 , Per W
Vichy Govt Asks Armistice In Syria
Germans Believed Held By Russians For Fifth Day
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Declare Occupation Of Iceland Approach to War
Soviet Armies Report Smashing
Victory In Northern Russia, Nazi
Eastward Push Appears Halted
UNDATED, July 9 UP) — The!
Soviet armies reported a smash-!
ing victory over Hitler’s inva-1
sion forces in a battle in north- j
ern White Russia, where two Ger
man motorized regiments were
declared wiped out. “The enemy
left hundreds of killed in the'
field and retreated to the west.”
A Moscow war bulletin said
fierce Russian resistance is stall
ing the German drives along the j
1,000-mile front from the Baltic
to the Black Sea. The bulletin j
said the Nazis are trying to en
trench in northern white Russia,
on the upper Dvina river.
For the second successive day,
Hitler’s command reported gigan,
tic battles with Russia, with a
single sentence: “The fights con
tinue successful on the entire
eastern front.” DNB said that
Nazi troops scored major gains in
the Baltic sector with the cap
ture of Parnu and Vilpandi in
southern Estonia and Ostrov on1
the main railroad line to Lenin-1
grad.
Authoritative quarters in Lon
don said the Nazi eastward push j
into Russia appears to be halted
unless there is a big break-thru!
in the next few days, but a great j
pause is likely.
Russians Holding
Germans Along
River Defenses
UNDATED, July 8 (JP) — The
Soviet armies were reported hold
ing the Germans at bay along a
600-mile front, in river defenses,
•out in front of the main StaLin i
Line, crushing repeated Nazi at- j
tempts to break through, en- j
route to Moscow. A Russian war;
bulletin placed the scene of heav
iest fighting, at a tight stretched
line running almost due north:
and south between Ostrove on
the Latvian frontier and Mogilev
Podolski, on the Dnester river.
A Bessarabian border commun
ique said Soviet troops clashed
with German tank and motorized
forces in the Ukraine sectors of
Novograd and Volynski and fur
ther south, struck a “decisive
counter-attack at the flank and
rear of the enemy,” annhilating
two infantry regiments. The So
viet command said the Germans
were routed in a series of at
tempts to storm across the Dnepr
River on the drive to Moscow,
but conceded on the northern
front that the Nazi approached
within 75 miles of Leningrad.
Blazing heat engulfed the entire
battlefront.
Tersely, Hitler’s field headquar
ters made this lone comment on
the invasion: “Operations on the
eastern front are proceeding on
schedule.” In past campaigns,
German communiques have been
similarly brief when huge-scale
opera'tions are in a fluid, develop
ing state.
The Russians declared the Ger
mans to be suffering enormous
casualties and that gains along
the 2,000-mile front are slight.
Tass reported that 1,300 Germans
were killed and wounded in a
5-hour fight fcr a single village
and asserted that 7,000 Nazis
were killed and wounded and
1,500 others surrendered when So
viet tanks trapped a column of
German infantry in penetration
of the Russian lines.
By contrast, the Berlin report
ed the capture of an additional
142,000 Russian prisoners be
tween July 2 and 5 and 534 So
viet tanks and armored cars.
In Moscow, former Foreign
Commissar Litvinoff is scheduled
for a radio address over the Mos
cow radio at noon today. PST.
Litvinoff Appeals
To British To
LONDON. July 8 K/P)— Maxim
Litvinoff. former foreign com
misar of the Soviet Union, ap
pealed to the British people to
“strike now," because each blow
struck at Hitler is more effective
now, he said, than ever. He des
cribed Hitler as a trecherous
character and declared, there is
the underlying menace of Naz
ism.
Reports Heard
U. S To Buy
Kamchatka Pen.
MOSCOW. July 9 (A5) — Vice
Commissar of Foreign Affairs.
Lozovisky said he heard German
reports that Russia was negotiat
ing the safe of Kamchatka, the
far eastern maritime province, to
the United States, but declared
these reports were groundless,
and were spread, “doubtless to;
create friction between the Unit
ed States and Japan.”
Kamchatka Peninsula and
maritme province, containes
Vladivostok, eastern-omst prov
ince of Siberia, which some Jap
anese imperialists have suggested
the acquisition by Japan.
Germans Being
Held For Fifth
Consecutive Day
VICHY, July 9 (/P) — Military
sources here said the Germans
were generally being held up at
the Russian front for the fifth
consecutive day, with the excep
tion of two new pushes, one at
the line between Potosk and Le
pel and the other in the Novo
grad and Volynski sector of the
Ukraine.
Germany Asserts U.S. Occupation
Iceland Is Active Military Step
And Nation Moves Closer to War
UNDATED, July 9 (IP) — On
this diplomatic front, a German
spokesman, giving Germany's
first official reaction to the land
ing of U. S. naval forces in Ice
land, asserted it was an active
military step and the United Stat
es is now represented by troops
in the war zone. The spokesman
said “From a military point of
view these troops might as well
be in a British port. President
Roosevelt has been a long time
aproaching the war and has now
moved much closer to it. Nazi
sources implied clearly that Ber
lin is counting on the possibility
of its occupying other places such
as Azores, the Cape Verde Is
land. and Dakar on the coast of
French West Africa.
In London, Churchill hailed
Roosevelt’s action as “one of the
most important things which has
happened since the war began.”
He said the British and United
States navies will probably find
it “mutually advantageous to as
sist each other in the very dan
gerous waters” around Iceland.
Concerned Over
Statement Made
By Sen. Wheeler
WASHINGTON, July 9 (IP) —
Prime Minister Churchill express
ed to the White House his British
government’s concern over “the
announcement made July third,”
the day Senator Wheeler made a
statement to reporters that Am
eican forces will soon occupy Ice
land. Receipt of the message was
anounced by Stephen Early, who
plainly indicated it was directed
at Wheeler’s statement. E'arly,
however, didn't mention Wheel-1
er’s name.
U. S. Forces At
Iceland Constitute
Intervention War
ROME. July 8 i(/P) — Political
circles said the arrival of Ameri
can forces at Iceland “constitutes
a real and true intervention in
to European waters.” One highly
placed Fascist comment was: “Do
ing this. President Roosevelt as
sumed the grave responsibility
of sending his ships to a blockade
zone,” and declared the action
was in violation of the Presi
dent’s premise “not to send Am
erican forces or troops outside
of the continent.”
Japs Assert
U. S. Entered
Hostilities Zone
TOKYO. July 8 '(£>) — The U.
S. dispatch that naval forces had
occupied Iceland in a “de facto”
participation in the war, the na
tionalist newspaper, Kokumin,
said. Dispatches reported the Am
erican action, appeared in big
headlines on the main news pag
es of all Tokyo newspapers.
Domei said “this action is de
cisive and must have taken
strong determination.” It means,
Domeii said, that the United Stat
es has finally entered the zone
of hostilities defined by Germany
and holds “increased possibilities
for further aggravation of rela
tions between the United States
and Germany.”
Six Red Cross
Nurses Missing
Sunk Vessel
UNDATED, July 9 i(/P) — The
Red Cross said a British vessel,
bearing ten Red Cross nurses to
England, was torpedoed and six
of the nurses are missing. A Red
Cross official said the vessel, the
identity of which is a secret, was
torpedoed about two weeks ago,
and that four of the nurses were
rescued four days ago and in good
condition.
He asserted the boat sailed
from a Gulf Coast port on June
5th.
The missing nurses are: Phyl
lis Evans of Everett, Mass:; Dor
othey Morse of Boston; Nancie
Pett of Detroit; Helen J.urewicz
of South America; Margaret Som
merville of Catskill, N. Y.; and
Dorothea Koehn of Oshkosh,
Wis.
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President To
Ask For 7 Billion
Dollar Fund
WASHINGTON. July 9 UP) —
The President will ask Congress
this week for additional appro
priations for both defense and
lend-lease operations. Some ad
ministration forces said the fig
ure will equal the original seven
billion dollar lend-lease bill.
COP Congress
man Passes Away
WASHINGTON, July 8 (tP) —
Rep. Stephen Bolles, Republican
from Wisconsin, aged 75, and a
veteran newspaper editor, died
of a heart ailment. He had been
a member of Congress since Jan
uary 3rd, 1939.
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Vichy Announces Asking Britain
For Immediate Armistice In Syria
Order Not Prolong Unequal Combat
VICHY, July 9 iJP)—'The Vichy
government announced that it
asked Britain for an immediate
armistice in the month-old war
in Syria. A communique said
General Der.z. French High Com
missioner. was authorized to "ask
for an immediate silencing of
arms.” This was done yesterday
in Beirut through the interme
diary of the United States con
sul.
London reported it didn’t have
confirmation of the reports that
the armistice was concluded. A
communique said Vichy had tak
en steps and ordered not to pro
long the unequal combat.
House Approves
Bill Transfer
R.R. Right-of-way
WASHINGTON, July 0 iJP) —
The House approved the Senate
legislation authorizing the Cop
per River Northwestern Ralvvay
to convey to the government its
railroad right of way and other
properties in Alaska, for use as a
public highway. The tramroad
tram-way measure was sent to
the White House.
Bomb German
Held Greece
CAIRO. July 9 i(/P) — The RAF
sent bombers to Greece and
Crete, now in German hands and
started fires in a serie of raids,
the RAF command announced.
It was said the attack on Greece
was aimed at Eleusis on the
southern coast, 11 miles north
west of Athens and was carried
out without any losses.
RAF Raids
W. Germany
BERLIN, July 8 (/P)— Britain’s
RAF raided several places in
western Germany last night, kill
ing and wounding civilians and
causing considerable damage in
Cologne and Muenster, "primar
ily in residenital sectors,” the
German command reported in its
daily war bulletin.
It was declared, however, that
the night raids, together with
yesterday’s daylight attacks on
Nazi-held channel coast, cost the
British a total of 28 planes. Two
German losses were reported
American League
Wins All-star game
DETROIT, July 8 {&) — Ted
Williams of the Boston Red Sox
smashed a terrific home run over
the top of the right field stands,
to score two mates, both in the
ninth inning to climax a four-run
rally to give the American Lea
gue All-Stars a seven to fivte
victory over the Nationals. The
thrilling battle ws witnessed by
54,000 fans.
'SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Plans For U. S.
Aid To Russia
Are Progressing
WASHINGTON. July 8 ,(/P) —
Acting Secretary of State Sum
ner Welles said plans for Ameri
can aid to Russia are proceeding
rapidly and effectively. He said
Ambassador Oumansky confer
red with him and Assistant Sec
retary Acheson on plans to place
Soviet orders in this country.
They are now down to a point of
discussing the details.
In reply to reporters' questions
Welles said the United States
tiad received no official informa
tion substantiating the reports
that Japan might establish a “saf
ety zone” around the Japanese
islands and cut off Vladivostok,
the only far east port thru which
Russia can import American sup
plies.
In Shanghai, experienced ob
servers said Japan’s curtailment
of this shipping route and con
centrations of her merchant ma
rine in the Pacific is obviously in
preparation “for any eventualit
ies.” In other words, what ever
action Tokyo may decide to take
next.
Koh Issii, spokesman for the
Japanese government, said in
Tokyo, the concentration is due
to a shortage of ships for the
Pacific routes. He pointed out
that there is little chance for
Japanese freighters of obtaining
cargoes on the east coast of the
United States, so henceforth th«\
Japanese ships will probably be
confined to calls on the west
coast. He added that U. S. regula
tions concerning the Panama
Canal are very inconvenient to
the Japanese.
Shanghai observers said Issii’s
statement was not convincing
and asserted that Japan’s trade
in the far east declined greatly
while her trade with Europe is
completely halted. They suggest- *
ed that the ships were called
home and handed over to the
miiltary authorities, if Japan at
tempts a new oversea expedition.
Major Kunion Akiyama, Japan
ese army spokesman, said Japan
is “greatly concerned over the
possibility of the spread of the
Russia-German war to the Far
East” as a result of the passage
of U. S. material to Vladivos
tok. Both Akiyama and the naval
spokesman declined to say whe
ther the U. S. and Soviet vessels,
carrying war supplies to Vladiv
ostok, will be subject to stoppage
and search by the Japanese navy.