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VOL. 43. No. 51. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, JULY 2, 1941 P®p Copy m
Russians Dealt Staggering Blows
Knox Calls For Immediate Use of Navy In Atlantic
26-Day Old C.I.O. Strike At Fairbanks Is Ended
Navy Secretary Frank Knox
Calls For Immediate Use Of
U.S. Navy To Clear Atlantic
WASHINGTON, July 1 iJP) —
Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox called for the immediate
use of the United States navy to
“clear the Atlantic of the Ger
man menace,” and led the capital
to wonder whether he was hint-’
irg at an important change in
administration policy toward
Nazi sea activities.
The direct language of the
Navy Secretary, used in the
speech at Boston last night, gave
rise to the belief, in some quar
ters, of a definite revision of con
templated and existing naval
strategy.
Knox addressed the annual con
ference of Governors and urged
that naval forces be used to deal
H.tler a “smashing blow even
though it involved the risk and,
danger and extreme sacrifice if
need toe, of American blood.” The;
speech, it was generally agreed
here, went further than Knox, or
any other cabinet officer had
gone in any previous public pro
nouncement.
Wheeler Says
Knox Should Be
Thrown out Office
WASHINGTON, July 1 f/P) —
Senator Burton K. Wheeler said
ina statement that Secretary of
Navy Knox “should resign or be
thrown out of office” for assert
ing in his speech: “The time, to
use our Navy to clear the Atlan
tic of the German menace, is at
hand.”
RAF Blasts
Brest And In
land Targets
LONDON, July 2 *£>) — The
RAF sent strong forces across
the channel into northern France
in daylight again after an attack
at night on' the German base at
Brest, where British bombs were
said to have straddled the deck(
of a German battleship. Watch
ers on the English southeast
coast said there was “very great
activity” over the channel. Many!
British squadrons and waves of
planes were often so high that
they could only be heard. Dis
tant rumblings of explosions
swept across the coast, indicating
that the RAjF's target were all in
lard. Besides Brest, the air min
istry said, decks at Cherbourg
also were bombed in overnight
raids on the coast. The British
lost two planes.
Fire Oldenburg
Freight Yards
LONDON, July 1 <UP) — The
RAF renewed daylight raids on
Germany proper this afternoon,
setting a large fire in the rail
way yards south of Oldenburg. A
few hours later they sent a wave
cf 'bombers and fighters across
the chanel to blast the Nazi-held
French coast.
Twenty Years of Night Flight
Some conception of the advances made in scheduled flying over the
historic mid-continent airway since the first through day and night flight
from coast to coast twenty years ago, is given in these pictures. At top:
twin-engined 200-mile-an-hour Mainliner of United Air Lines of the kind
used in overnight coast-to-coast schedules in 1941. Below: Single-engined
90-mile-an-hour open cockpit type of DeHaviland used in the initial
through flight from the Pacific to the Atlantic in 1921. Insets show Cap
tain Jack Knight, of United Air Lines, hero of the 1921 flight, as he
looked then (left) and as he looks today.
I
Nazi Command Announces Smashing
400,000 Trapped Russians, Capture
100,000 And Immeasurable Booty
_
j UNDATED, July 2 '(/Pi — Hit
| ler’s military juggernaut was de
: dared to have dealt a bloody,
| staggering blow to Russia, smash
I ing “a large part” of the Soviet
armies trapped east of Bialystok.
estimated at 400,000 troops, anql
| captured 100,000 Red Army pri
[ soners. In addition the German
j command announced “immeasur
! able booty” was taken in the
battle and included 400 tanks
' and 300 field cannon seized or
destroyed. The Russian troops
! were described as retreating on a
| wide front, suffering heavy cas
; ualties from the strafing Nazi
Luftwaffe.
German and Finnish armies
rolled across Russia from Fin
land in a new drive on Lenin
! grad. A German war bulletin as
serted that the Red armies are
falling back east of Lwow, for
merly in Poland, and east of
German-captured Minsk, retreat
ing toward Estonia. A Nazi com
munique said “units of the Hun
j garian army are advancing thru
the Carpathian passages in Ga
, lacia to join the German army on
| schedule.”
Germans And
Allies Beseige
Soviets Long Front
UNDATED, July 1 <iP) — In
bitter all-night fighting, Russia’s
troops were declared to have
checked the advance of the Ger
man invasion forces, in two main
sectors of the 2,000 mile battle-!
front, at Minsk, Bro-buisk and
Luck areas, where the Nazis
were striking directly at Moscow
and in the Soviet Ukraine. The
Germans, by contrast, asserted
that two Nazi tank columns “are
now far east of Minsk,” the cap
ital of white Russia, and German
speed troops are in sight of Smol
lensk, 250 miles from Moscow. '
The German command said
Nazi and Slovak troops are “car-;
rying forward the pursuit of th-e
enemy on both sides of Lvvow,”!
the gateway to the Ukraine. A;
communique said “The Soviet [
armies, surrounded between i
Bailystock and Minsk, vainly
made desperate attempts for an
entire day to break out of the
vise." Approximately 400,0C0 Rus
*sians were reported caught in
■the Nazi trap. A German war
, bulletin declared that Russians,
j charging in formations from 8 to
12 ranks deep and supported by
j heavy tanks, “collapsed with un
: usually bloody losses.”
Radio reports from Stockholm
J's^id Riga, capital of Sovietized
tiatv.a had fallen to Nazi hands.
! France’s off-stage role in the
! ten-day struggle moved nearer
i to actual fighting with the state
| ment of the Vichy government
that it had no objection to
' French volunteers fighting along
side their former enemies, the1
I Germans. Only yesterday the
French broke off diplomatic re
lations with Russia.
The Rome radio said Hitler
and Mussolini decided to war ag
i ainst Moscow and the destruc
tion of the Red Army, in their
latest Brenner Pass meeting, on
June second.
A Berlin radio broadcast said
German, Bavarian and Alpine
troops, in violent action at Lwow
destroyed a hundred Soviet
tanks with hand grenades.
A Moscow communique said
the Red Army stemmed the Nazi
onslaught toward the Ukraine,
counter-attacking and destroy
ing German tanks. Far up in the
Arctic, a communique said,
"fierce clashes with German
troops are in progress, the enemy
suffering considerable losses,” in
the Thistuin and Murmansk area.
—
7 German Subs |
Sunk By Russians
LONDON. July 1 '(A>) — The
Exchange Telegraph said tonight:
that it heard the Moscow radio!
announce that 7 German subs!
were sunk in the Baltic and
Black Seas.
Germans Enter
Mitau, Latvia
BERLIN, July 1 t/P) — A Ger
man Army correspondent report
ed that he entered Mitau, Latvia,
with the first German troops to
reach the city, 35 miles south
west of the Latvian capital,.
Riga.
Gen. Wavell Is
Transferred
To India
LONDON, July 2 HJP) — Gen
eral Sir Archibald Wavell was
suddenly transferred from the
middle east to India and surpris
ed Britons speculated on the pos
sibility that the government is
trying to forstall a quick German
victory in Russia and a subse
quent Nazi drive on the Ganges.
The transfer switches com
mands with General Auchinleck,
aged 57, a Scot, moving him from
India to the Middle East. Auchin
lek served in Egypt, Aden, Iraq,
Kurdistan and India and was
named commander of India last
January after distinguishing him
self in directing the British at
tack at Narvik and organizing
the English coastal defenses. The
appointment of Captain Oliver
Lyttleton, minister of state, and
member of the war cabinet, to
represent the cabinet in the mid
die east was announced by
Churchill who refused to make
a statement today in the House
of Commons which might ex
plain the reason for the change.
CIO Union Strike At Fairbanks
Ends With Union Acceptance Of
Contract Work Starts Immediately
FAIRBANKS, July 1, (News
Miner) — Prospects for the ter
mination of the 25-day-old strike
by the CIO union and local 444,
against the U. S. Smelting, Re
fining and Mining Co., affecting
760 employees in the Fairbanks
district, looms today as unions
members are voting in a secret
ballot on the acceptance of a new
ly drafted contract. The results
are expected to be known late
today.
The agreement recognizes the
union as the bargaining agency,
provides an average increase in
wages of 10 percent, a seniority
plan, a grievance committee, im
proved living quarters, no strikes
or lockout, and exempts all the
executives, clerical, technical,
superintendents and supervisory
staff. The agreement was drafted
after a series of negotiations with
the assistance of Jesse F. Jacob
son, U. S. Commissioner of Con
ciliation for the National Labor
Relations Board.
UNION RATIFIES CON
TRACT BY 70% VOTE
FAIRBANKS, July 1 (News
Miner) — The CIO strike against
the U. S. Smelters was definite
ly terminated today as the union
ballot approved the agreement
by over 70 percent it was an
nounced by W. A. Rasmussen, A1
aska Union representative.
Roy B. Earling, vice president
and general manager of the com
pany announced that the power
plant will start tomorrow and
the men will be returned to work
as rapidly as possible. It is ex
pected all branches will be un
der way in two or three days.
J. E. Jacobsen, labor conciliat
or left by plane this morning for
Juneau, enroute to Sitka to in
vestigate fishing disputes.
Expect Good Working Season
FAIRBANKS, July 1 (News
Miner) — Picket lines were with
drawn and stirring preparations
began to start the power plants,
and the 8 gold dredges and other
equipment of the U. S. Smelting,
Refining and Mining Co. tomor
row morning, following the sign
ing of an agreement late this af
ternoon. Terminating the 26-day
strike, the CIO union accepted
the company’s last counter offer
of recognizing the union as the
bargaining agency, with an ad
vance of ten percent in wages,
and a seniority and grievance
committee setup, but eliminating
the union ship, closed ship and
checkoffs.
Many men have left the coun
try but the Company hopes to
have all branches of the service
in operation for a good season.
Expenses Exceed
Income 5 Billion
Fiscal Year
WASHINGTON, July 2 —
The Treasury announced that it
spent $12.710,000,000 including
six billion forty eight million for
defense in the past fiscal year.
Expenditures were 5 billion one
hundred three million above the
income.
An official review of the fiscal
year which ended Monday night,
showed huge increased both in
expenditures and revenues in the
preceding year but made no men
tion of the program for the new
year which includes twenty two
billion two hundred sixty nine
million anticipated for spending
as a result of the defense pro
gram.
“Hope” America
Stay Out of War
WASHINGTON, July 1 (/P) —
President Roosevelt reaffirmed
the hope that America could stay
out of the war. He drew a dis
tinction, however, between hope
and belief, but also said, at the
press confreence, that it is ob
vious how anyone would vote in
a poll whether this country
should plunge actively into the
conflict against the Axis powers.
Certainly everyone is against
war, he said, just as everyone is
against sin.
Jap Government
Chooses New
World Policy
TOKYO, July 2 «/P) — The gov
ernment announced it had chos
en a policy for coping with the
crisis arising from the Russian
German war. Matsuoka told the
nation that a “super emergency
of very grave nature is develop
ing before our eyes, throughout
the world and particularly in
the east and Asia, with a direct
concern for our country.” The na
ture of the government’s decision
even its general terms, remained
undisclosed despite statements is
sued by the cabinet and Matsua
ka, after a morning conference
in the imperial palace with gen
erals and admirals of the high
command and key members of
the cabinet in the presence of
Emperor Hirohito.
Th'-t unique and humoroua.
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have been
Drought strictly uptodate, and are
now available at the Nugget offl
-e.
The President preferred not to
coment on Secretary Knox’s de
claration at Boston last night,
that the Navy should be used
immediately to clear the Atlantic
of the German menace, so that
war supplies could be delivered
to Britain.