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VOL. 43. No. 87. • NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1941. Per Copy U#
Leningrad Hurls Germans Back
Germany Challenges U. S. Interpretation Sinking
Japan Reported Preparing for Invasion of Siberia
RUSSIAN ARMIES DEFENDING
LENINGRAD REPORTED HURL
GERMAN OFFENSIVES BACK
UNDATED. Sept. 24 (JP) —The
Red armies defending Leningrad
are reported hurling the Ger
mans back on a battlefield litter
ed with Nazi corpses, while on
the esntrol front, fierce Russian
counterblows are pictured as eas
ing the pressure on Marshal Bud
yenny’s battered armies in the
Ukraine. The Red Star, Soviet
Army newspaper, said Russian
trc ops. in an all-day assault rout
ed the 136th German infantry
division and recaptured points
on the approaches to Leningrad.
Tank-supported German counter
attacks were repulsed, the Red
Star said. Large scale Nazi on
slaughts southeast of Leningrad
also failed, the Germans admit
ting bitter Soviet resistance
around Leningrad, but emphasiz
ed what was called a might bat
tle of annihilation, 125 miles east
of Kiev, where hte count of Rus
sian prisoners, enmeshed in a
trap, was reported nearing a
half million.
British warplanes have gone
into action for the first time on
the eastern battlefront, the air
ministry announced in London.
”A number of patrols have flown
in bad weather and have been
successful in encounters with en
any fighters,” the ministry said,
adding that 7 German planes
were destroyed in the initial en
gagement with a loss of only one
RAJF fighter.
Germans Report Destruction of
50 Russian Divisions East of Kiev
Reports Said Utterly Ridiculous
UNDATED, Sept. 23 (VP)— Hit
ler’s command reported the des
truction of 50 Soviet army divi
sion, about 750,000 troops & the
capture of 380,000 prisoners in a
bloody trap 125 miles east of
Kiev, while Italian dispatches
pictures scenes of chaotic retreat
of the Russian armies in the.
Ukraine. The commander-in
chief of the Soviet Fifith Army
was listed as a prisoner.
German Claims Ridiculous
In London, Russian Ambassa
dor Maisky declared in three
months of war, Germany lost
three million men killed, wound
ed or missing, one-third of the
entire Nazi army. Maisky describ
ed the German command’s report
last week on German losses as
“utterly ridiculous.” The Ger
mans placed the Nazi losses for
the first two months of the war
at only 85,000 dead, .296,000
wounded and 20,000 missing.
Nazi military dispatches assert:
ed that advances of the Red
Army counter offensive east of.
Smolensk, on the central front!
guarding Moscow, “collapse un
der German fire.”
According to Laws of War
On the diplomatic front, the'
Germans declared that whatever 1
happened to the United Slates-;
owned Pink Star, in waters near
Iceland, “was done in accord
ance to the laws of war.” They
asserted that Secretary Hull
drove America another step near
or war with his comment that
the U. S. Neutrality Act should
be. changed. What Hull actually
told newsmen in Washington was
that the President said the act
wou d be as likely to get us into
the war as to keep us out.
The Berlin spoksman said no
German subs or other overseas)
raiders specifically reported the;
sinking of the Pink Star, but mes'
sages were received telling of
sinkings out of a big convoy.
Possible Challenge to U. S.
Washington observers saw the
incident, the first sinking of an
American - owned vessel since
Roosevelt’s sink-on-sight order,!
as a possible challenge to Am
erica’s newly defined doctrine of
freedom of the seas.
German Operations. Area
The Nazi spokesman said that
“the ship was sunk in waters
clearly defined as a German op
erations area.”
In the Russian campaign, ad
vices reaching London said the
Red Armies are successfully
pressing counter attacks in a new
section around Glukhov in north (
west Ukraine, 140 miles south
east of Gomel.
2 Bank Bandits
Killed In Run
ning Gunfight
ELLWOOD CITY, Penn., Sept.
20 (jP>—1Two bandits, fleeing with
about a thousand dollars in cash,
after a bank robbery were shot
to death and a third wounded by
two policemen and a drugstore
clerk ir a spectacular running
gunfight. All the loot was blood
sbaked when recovered.
Earl Everts, aged 28, was kill
ed by clerk Jimmy Pasta when
the trio were overtaken at the
edge of town. Pasta wrested a j
rifle from one of the bandits who
was shot. He said “I don’t know |
how I’d have done it if I hadn’t
been scared I was going to die.”!
Albert Feelo, aged 26 died to
day from wounds suffered in a
gunfight at pointblank range
with Police Chief Ernest Hart
man who had tried to barricade
the road. The third bandit was
beaten into submission.
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Friction Increasing Between Berlin
And Washington-Nazis Challenge
Interpretation Pink Star Sinking
UNDATED, Sept. 24 (/P) —Fric
tion between Washington and j
Berlin increased, as Germany '
bluntly challenged President ^
Roosevelt’s interpretation of the
Pink Star sinking, American-own ;
ed vessel torpedoed and sunk1
Friday night off Greeland, while
traveling in a Canadian convoy.
Roosevelt disclosed that the shij)
was flying the Panama flag and
was armed. „
Authorized quarters in Berlin
said “Whoever accepts an enemy
; convoy thereby becomes a con
stituent and part of the enemy
I formation.”
The Germans asserted, Roose
; ve.t in declaring it immaterial
! whether the ship was armed or
1 unarmed, or what flag it flew,”
was trying to establish wild west
justice, not international law.”
In Rome, editor Gayda chimed
in with the statement that Axis
I ships will defend themsevles
gainst any armed U. S. merchant
men they met “on their courses.”
To Create Vast
Food Reserve
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LONDON, Sept. 24 iJP) — The
j creation of a vast pool of food
j reserves for supplying Europe in
j the emergency period after the
' war, a plan upon which the Unit
| ed States has already been con
: suited, was proposed by Britain
in the Council of Allied Govern
; ments, and adopted without dis
I sent.
Anthony Eden read a state
i ment to the Council from U. S.
Ambassador Winant, declaring
that the United States believes
the undertaking “of great pros
pective usefuilness.”
The proposal was made after
! the Council approved of the
Rcosevelt-Churchill eight-point
Atlantic Charter without dissent,
j pledging adherence to “common
principles and a policy of coop
j eration to the best of our abil
ity.”
Fine Gift For
Cruiser Juneau
The city of Juneau, is all set to
“potlatch” a $1,000 silver service
for the new cruiser named after
the Alaska capital and scheduled
for launching on October 7. '
According to Mayor Harry I.
Lucas, the silver service to be
presented will include punch j
bowl, ladle, tray, cups, candle- j
sticks and other pieces. Presents
tion of a silver service to a Navy
ship by the city for which she
is named is traditional.
The "Juneau” is being con-:
structed at the Federal Shipbuildj
ing and Drydock Company, Kear!
ney, New Jersey. She is one of
eight ships which the Navy desig
nates as the “Atlanta Class of
1938--W,” new medium - sized!
types to operate as flotilla flag
ships. They will be the Navy’s
fastest cruisers and its smallest
since the “Scouts” of 1905.
ITALY STARTS TO
RATION CLOTHING
ROME, Sept. 22 — The govern
ment Sunday forbade travellers
to take valuable jewelry out of
jttaly without special permission
and anounced that rationing of
shoes and clothing would begin
October first for the first time
since the war began.
Windsors Arrive
Miami at Start
of 6-Week Tour
MAIMI, Sept. 23 UP) _ The
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
I reached Miami by plane on the
■ first leg of a six weeks tour of
the United States and Canada.
They were greeted by cheers
; from several thousand Miamians.
The Windsors plan to entrain
tomorrow for Washington where
the Duke will discuss means of1
transporting tourists to Nassau,'
winter resort capital of the Ba
hama Islands.
The chief object of the trip,
Edward said at Nassau, was to
attend to the business affairs of
his ranch near Calgary, which he
has not seen in 14 years.
Campaign For
Aluminum Ended
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 UP)—
The national wire and aluminum
collection campaign yielded an
estimated 11,835,000 pounds of
scrap, defense officials announc- j
ed. The total is equivalent to ]
the amount of aluminum needed |
for 1900 fighter planes or 350
four-motored bombers.
Despite Lateness Of Season, Re
ports Indicate Japan Continuing
Preparations for Invasion Siberia
PEIPING, Sept. 23 (JP) — De
spite thd- lateness of the season,
which foreign military men say,
should make a Japanese invasion
of Siberia unlikely, advices from
Manchukuo indicate that the Jap
anese are continuing prepara
tions there for possible hostil
ities. These advices mention that
fresh Japanese troop movements
at Harbin and Hsinking toward
the Russian frontier, especially
west of Vladivostok. Air raids
precautions were also reported
stepped up in the principal cit
ies of Manchukuo.
Shanghai sources said the ban
on foreign travel to Manchukuo
was enforced strictly and even
Germans are unable to enter or
leave. The Hungarian minister
ws reported unble to go to Hsink
king to present his credentials.
Unconfirmed reports from Kal
gan said the Japanese recently re
inforced the guards along the
Outer Mongolia border road to
Urga after the appearanc^there
of Soviet planes.
Japanese-controlled C h i nese
language press in both North
China and*%fanchukuo appeared
completely reversed in their at
titude on the German-'Russian
war. The papers are now assert
ing that a Nazi victory is in sight.
Observers said Japanese pro
tests on the alleged appearance
of drifting mines in the Sea of
Japan, could provide a pretext
for Japanese naval action, if one
desired. The protests are appar
ently unanswered.
Japan Squelches
Celebration Of
Joining Axis
TOKYO, Sept. 24 (/P) — The
Japanese government squelched
plans of fiery Seigo Nakano and
his pro-Axis Tohokai group, for
a series of rallies Saturday, cele
brating the first anniversary of
Japan's alliance with the Rome
Berlin axis. “We want to cele
brate this event with dignity, so
we don’t want meetings every
where,” said Koh Ishii, govern
ment spokesman, announcing the
cancellation of .9 down-town
speeches which Nakano had ar
ranged with the avowed purpose
of drumming up enthusiastm for
the Axis.
i
I Nazi Attempt Take
Murmansk Fails
MOSCOW, Sept. 24 </P) — The
complete failure of the second
German attempt to capture Mur
mansk, Russia’s ice-free nort in
the Arctic, was reported by the
1 Red Star, organ of the Russian
Army. The German’s second of
fensive in the far north began
after the arrival of reinforce
ments early in September, the
Red Star said. The drive -was
wrecked, with the Germans los
ing 2,000 killed between Septem
ber 8 and 15 the paper declared,
but indicated, however, that fight
ing in that sector is still contin
uing.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
ON JEWISH NEW YEAR
NEW YORK, Sept. 22 — Presi.
Roosevelt in a Jewish New Year»
message Sunday called upon the
nation to re-dedicate itself to the
task which lies before us in or
der that all peoples may live as.
equals. His message was read by
Stephan Wise, noted Jewish lead
er in a Columbia Broadcasting
System broadcast, sponsored by
the United Jewish Appeal, com
memorating the opening of the
year 5702 in the Hebrew calen
dar.
U. S. NAVY FORCES MOVE INTO ICELAND
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Map locates Icelapd where a United States Navy force arrived to supplment and eventually replace
British forces which have been stationed there. The U. S. forces moved into Iceland in accordance
with an understanding between President Roosevelt and the Prime Minister of Island.