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_THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 107. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOV. 10, 1941 P^-Copy
Roald Amundsen May Be Alive
REDS COUNTER-ATTACK BEFORE MOSCOW
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Official sources reported Russians counter-attacking on the Mos
cow front (1), with the fiercest fighting at Kalinin, Mozhaisk.
Maloyaroslavets and Orel. On the southern front Germans claimed
their battle flags over Stalino (2), presaged a new princers action
in the Donets Basin area.
Churchill Pledges
No Peace With j
Hitler Regime
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UNDATED, Nov. 10 (JP) —With
Russia batt.ing for life against
new German threats, Britain be
gain a great aerial offensive to
relieve the pressure on her ally,,
and the whole Orient was shad
owed with threats of wider war.
Churchill warned that the
strugg'e soon may engulf "the re
maining fourth of the globe.”
This note he struck on the eve
of the 23rd anniversary of the
Armistice of the war which was
to have ended all wars. This
came in an address at the an
nual ceremony which marks the
induction of the new Lord Mayor
or London.
Churchill said "If the United
States should become involved in
war with Japan, a British declar
ation will follow within an hour.’
He asserted that Britain has
"broken the mora e of the Italian
navy and we now feel ourselves!
strong enough to provide power-1
fui naval forces of heavy ships
and the necesary auxiliary ves
sels for service, if need be, in the
Indian and Pacific Oceans.”
This hint of growing initiative
by Britain came amid strained
Japanese-U. S. relation, which a
special Japanese envoy, flying to
Washington, seeks to ease.
Almost as Churchill addressed
the London audience, U. S. am
bassador Winant, in a speech at
Plymouth, declared the first
premise in fighting “an enemy
ruthlessly determined on world,
conquest, is to fight him on the
ground you choose rather than
on the ground he chooses.”
As for the European war,
Churchill said it has already
been indicated that Germany
will scon start a peace offensive.
He pledged that ‘‘Whether we
are supported or are alone, how
ever long or hard ‘.he toil be, the
B:iti=h nation with his Majesty's
government at the head of the
nation, will Yiever enter any nego
iiation.5 with Hitler or any party
in Germany which represent*
the Nazi regime.”
LENINGRAD I NFOLDED
Leningrad, which Hitler boast
ed, he could storm and capture
whenever he wished, is being
enfo ded by two wide encircling
offensives. This bit of grand strat
egy is dictated apparently by the
char.ce that Finland r ight step
out of the war before Hitler is
ready.
Hitler’s command announced
the capture of the important tra
ffic junction of Tikhvin, about a
hundred miles southeast of Lenin
grad, by a force moving across
the Leningrad-Moscow communi
cations zone.
Deal Staggering
Blow To Axis
Supply Lines
LONDON. Nov. 10 (JP) — A
staggering blow to the Axis ef
forts to keep open the Mediteran
near supply lines to North Africa
was claimed as the British re
joiced ever the Admiraltys an
nouncement that two Axis con
voys of ten ships and one Italian
guardian destroyer were destroy
ed yesterday. King George him
self rewarded the commander of
the action, underscoring what
the Admiralty called “Brilliant,
determined action” by four Brit
ish warships which rushed into
the face of more and heavier It
alian ships, finished the job, and
reached port without a scratch.
Britain Begins
Greatest Aerial
War On Nazis
LONDON, Nov. 10 <rP) — Brit
inV great air offensive against
Germany and German occupied
territories, begun Friday night
wth the mightiest attack of the
war. and wheih continued vir
tually without let-up over the
week-end. was concentrated last
nigh' over the big northwestern
industrial city and port of Ham
burg. The AT ministry said that
Hamburg was plastered by high
explosives and fire bombs from
big RAF bombers.
British Acknowledge
Unprecedented Loss
UNDATED. Nov. 8 (Pi —Giant
four-motored RAF bombers
smashed at Germany, in the big
g ; .'tack of the war, last night,
pounding Berlin, Cologne and
Manheim. Other squadrons raid
ed southern Italy and Sicily. The
Germans listed 7 killed and 32
injured in the assault on Berlin.
Bon b-laden Spitfires and Hurri
canes. in swift daylight fol owup
raids flashed across the Straits
in great numbers for more than
two hours today.
The British air office acknow
ledged the unprecedented loss of
37 bombers in the night assault
on Germany alone. This is i.V
highest that either side has ever
announced in a night bombing
More than half were attributed
to heavy thunderstorms and se
vere icing conditions.
The Germans said their fight
er’s guns shot down 27.
Mussolini’s high command said
the bombers made a “prolonged j
raid” on Brindish, Adriatic port,
inflicting serious damage with 40
kil ed and about 80 injured. They
also attacked and killed three in,
the port of Gela.
The Germans intensified their
own aerial assault and the Brit
ish sa:d that at least six towns
were attacked. The Germans
claimed the destruction of dock
areas in Sunderland and Biyth. i
A bulletin from Hitler’s field
headquarters said his armies in
the Crimea crashed through the
six-mile-deep Russian defense
zone guarding the narrow Kerch
P ninsula, and continued to ad- j
var.ee on the port of Kerch, vital
bridgehead to the Caucasus.
General Rokossovsky, one of
■he commanders defending Mos
cow. said over the Moscow radio
that the Red army has halted
th? German attack on Moscow
and are now “counter attacking
in many sectors of the front."
14 British Shot Down
In Calais Region
NEW YORK Nov. 8 (P) — The
German radio said that 14 Brit
ish planes were shot down in
today's violent aerial combat ir.
the Calais region.
U. S. Preparing For Worst
TOKYO. Nov. 8 >(/P) — The con
temp ated withdrawal of Ameri
can marines from Shanghai
means that the United States is
preparing everything for the
worst possible outcome of the
Japanese-American conferences
at Washington, the newspaper
Asahi declared tonight.
High School Gym Playfield Jamboree Nov. 15
CASH DOOR PRIZE GAMES — FOOD — DANCING 8:30 P. M.
Fashion Show Military Capers Musical Selections
Report Roald
Amundsen Alive
ROME, Nov. 8 (/P) — The Ste
fan i news agency carried a round
about and wholly unconfirmed
Stockholm report that a man re
sembling the long-missing Nor
wegian explorer, Capt. Roald Am
undsen and bearing his surname
was seen living among the Eski
mos at Fort Bay, Greenland. The
a: count quoted the German-edit
ed Norwegian newspaper Deut
sche Zeitung as saying that in
formation to that effect had come
from an “officer of the North
Alaska Trading Corporation, and
it is not possible to say if the
story is invention.”
Amundsen disappeared in June
1928, when he went in search of
survivors of the Italian airship
Italia which was wrecked return
ing from a North Pole flight.
Roald Amundsen was born in
1872 in Norway, he was 56 when
he disappeared, and if alive to
day wou'd be 69.
In 1003-96 Ire led an expedition
through the northwest passage,
on bo:.rd the "Gjoa,’ a small seal
mg slcop of 17 tons, and succeed
ed in finding the position of the
magentic North Pole. It was the
first ship to pass from ocean to
ocean, north of Patagonia.
In 1910-12 he led an expedition
on board the “Fram" which was
the first actually to reach the
South Pole.
Between 1918-21, Amundsen
made the northwest passage in
the “Maud.”
In 1926 Amundsen started
from Spitsbergen with Lincoln
Elsworth and Umberto Nobile in
the Italian built dirigible “Norge"
crossed the pole and reached
Teller, Alaska in 71 hours.
When General Nobi'e’s airship
“Italia," returning from the
North Pole was wrecked on May
24. 1923. Amundsen chivalrously
volunteered to go in search of
him. He left Bergen for Spitz-;
bergen in an airplane on June
17 and was not heard of again, j
Passenger Train
Derails, kills II
KENTON. OHIO, Nov. 10 (/Pi —
A passenger train thundering
through the night between 60 to
70 miles an hours was derailed
by a cylinder head blown off by
a freight train, and piled up into
a mas of twisted steel near Dun
kirk, last night. Eleven persons
were listed as dead and about 50
injured. Engineer Schuler and
HO persons survived the wreck
of the Permslyvania Railroad’s
“Penn-lyvania. The engineer
said something w'ent wrong just
; fter he passed the freight train
on his Chicago to New York run.
He recalled faintly seeing a man
with a flashlight.
The vice president of the road
said the cylinder from a freight
train had blown out onto the ad
joining track and “before there
was time to flag it, the Pennsyl
vania, moving at hgh speed, on
the east bound track struck the
'' imaged cylinder head derailing
it and turning it over. Passen
■> >rs were tossed helter skelter
out of their seats and berths into
near freezing temroeratures.
Naval Operating Base
Established at Iceland
WASHINGTON, .Nov. 10 </P> —
Secretary of the Navy Krurt an
nounced the establishment of a
iu-v-ui upurjtinA -It.j-n at loaland.
rai ing that outpost to one of the
Nave’s most imnortant oners -
tiorts centers. Rear Admiral
James Kaufmann was named as
commandant.
The Navy said the establish
ment of the base served for both
administrative and task purposes,
the latter referring to actual
warship operations. It is a step
taken only when extensive and
varied naval activities, both
ashore and afloat, are centered
at one place.
Neutrality Revision Ready
For Final Action in House
WASHINGTON. Nov. 10 (Ah —
The House Rules Committee
, cleared the way for final House
1 action Thursday in a sweeping re
vision of the Neutrality Act, to
permit the government to army
American merchant ships and to
send them into combat zones in
belligerent ports. One Democrat
ic committeeman. Rep. Cox., de
c'ared that the nation “is being
led to the slaughterh use." The
committee agreed unanimously,
its members said. to limit the
debate to eight hours.
SEN. PASSES REVISION
NEUTRALITY LAW
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 <.P< —
The Senate passed and sent tu
the House tonight, the legisla^*
tion permitting American mer
chant sb ps to carry arms and to
sail to belligerent ports in com
bat zones. The action came on
a vote of 50 to 37 after 11 days
of debate. Administration leaders
in the House predict that they
have sufficient votes to win
approval for the Senate substi
tute.
Kurusu Does Not Have
Much Hope For Success
MANILA, Nov, 3 — Sa
buro Kurusu, special Japanese
envoy flying to the United States
'.n rn attempt to bring about a
settlement with Washington, was
reliably reported to have told
friends, during tire overnight
stop here, tnar he did not iiavo
“much hope" for success. He
was reported to have said that
he u as unable to offer the Unit
ed States sufficient c ncessions.
Say "Armed U. S. Ships
Will Be In England Soon”
LONDON, Nov. 8 oP — The
f.erncon paper Star, st id. com
i n mg o , the Unitef States
Senate amending the X, ural'ty
Ac*. ' Ann : United States sli ps
may be here soon.”
SHIPPING POINT FOR . S. AID TO SOVIETS
Under a maritime commission order, effective Oct. 28, it was indicated Bo tt i will become the ship
ping point for American aid-to-Russia supplies imving over the north Atlantic, probably to Arch
angel, as indicated by top route. Previously laid shipping and air routes to England. Africa and
• he Middle East are also indicated.