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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 73. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 22, 1941. Per Copy i»
Nazi Drives on Leningrad Checked
President Reports Churchill Meeting To Congress
American Defense Production Is Up To Estimates
UNITED STATES MARINES (two men at right), were ?reet«l by
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a British :<.'/ldier (left), on their arrival at a Y. M. C. A. canteen
at an undisclosed place in Iceland.
Marines Are
Popular W itli
Icelanders
REYKJAVIK, Iceland. Aug. —
United States Marines who ar
rived in Iceland a few months
ago are now in permanent bar
racks and have all the conven
iences of a military post in the
States.
Climate Surprises Marines
What surprises the Marines
most is the comparatively mild
climate in Iceland. The island,
which has an area of 39.799
square miles, is cf volcanic or
igin and has many geysers and
hot springs. There are large gar
dens around the hot springs.
Semi-Tropical Products
In some places even semi-trop
ical products are grown.
The climate is greatly mod.fied
by the Gulf Stream.
The Americans are popular
with the Icelanders. The- popula
tion of the island is almost
119,000.
CAA Communica
tion Plans Block
Radio Fadeouts
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Plans for regional chains of
short-wave radio reporting sta
tions throughout Alaska, to de
feat the workings of radio fade
outs in the Territory, are in the
mind of Eugene Sibley, commun
ications chief for the Civil Aero
nautics, when he left Juneau re
cently by plane, enroute to Wash
ington, D. iC.
Sibley had been in Alaska con
ferring with Army and Navy
communications officers and with
the Weather Bureau regrading
cooperating radio communica
tions for the Territory which
would be shared by these agen
cies. along with the CAA.
Of vital necessity to both mili
tary and commercial air route
operations is a system by which
weather reports from throughout
the Territory can be made avail
able to flyers and this informa
tion transmitted to the States
for synoptic map making use,
Sibley explained.
Where present communications
facilities are often blocked by
local radio fade-out conditions
which prevent transmitting infor
mation from large sections of the
country, establishment of a
double chain of stations would
make it possible to get the in
formation out over other stations
in case a key station is tempor
arily in a fade-out belt, Sibley
explained.
FAR WEST FEELS
LIVING COST RISE
SAN FRANCISCO, (A>) — Pac
ific Coast housewives are feeling
the rising cost of living more
than those of the rest of the na
tion.
For the first half of 1941 the
cumulative monthly rise for sev
en western states averaged 3.3
percent. The national rise for 56
cities was 2.9 percent. The figur
es are from the National Indus
I trial Conference Board.
Defense Workers
Adrift In Dredge
In Atlantic Ocean
SAN PEDRO, Aug. 22 i.Pi —
Twelve defense workers are be
ing b own about in the Pacific
Ocean on a powerless and rudder
less dredge by a gale. The dredge
s owned by the Standard Dredg
ing Co. and was torn from its
towing steamer yesterday. Its
postion was then given at 1.200
miles due east of Honolulu. De
stroyers and planes are going to
their aid from Honolulu.
Leningrad Citizens Volunteer
To Repel Invaders-British and
Russians Poised Move on Iran
Russians Report Checking Columns Driving On City
UNDATED. Aug. 22 (/P) — Rus
si an troops reported checking the
German siege columns storming
toward Leningrad, as thousands
of the city’s civilians volunteer
ed for service in the people’s
army. Dispatches from Moscow
l said Leningrad is now “a form
; idable military camp." After four
i days of bitter fighting on the out
I er perimeter of its defenses, the
1 Germans appeared to have made
i no significant new progress. Tass,
j officia Russian news agency cor
.'espondent, said the city is echo
ing to the sounds of marching
men through its broad squares
and parks, to join the peopl's
army suporling the regular army
at the t'ronh
All through the night, the Red
Army battled in late summer
j rain storms to check the main
I Nazi drives, around Novgorod,
100 miles south of Leningrad and
| at Kir.gisepp, 70 miles to the
southwest. From the north other
German and Finnish forces are
knifing down the Karelian Is
thmus, only 65 miles away.
A bulletin from Hitler’s head
quarters, declaring “the enemies
I casualties are uneblievab'y high”
I
reported that more than a mil
lion two hundred thousand men
were taken prisoner.
Amid this critical hour, a new
theater of war appeared on the
verge of opening in the oil king
dom of Iran. London dispatches
-odica'.ed that Britain is ready to
S; nd t.ro ps into the country un
less the Iran government com
plies with the British and Rus
sian demand for ousting of 3,000
Germans. British and Russian
troops are poised on the border,
ready to move at any moment.
German Air Force
Starts Attack On
Leningrad Fields
BERLIN. Aug 22 *£>) — The
German air force opened a para
lyzing series of attacks on the
Leningrad area, DNB reported
tonight, saying that eiight air
ports in the Leningrad zone,
south and southeast of the city
were bombed effectively.
Germans Smash 3 Main Bulwarks
Leningrad’s Defenses - - Russians
Acknowledge City In Dread Danger
Germans Declare Leningrad Have Same Fate Warsaw
UNDATED. Aug. 21 <JP) — Hit
ler's high command reported that
German troops smashed three
main bulwarks of Leningrad’s
outer defense system and the
Russians acknowledged that the
city is in dread danger. Challen
ging the official Russian order
for a fight to defend the city to
the death, the Berlin radio de
clared that if the city is defend
ed, it would suffer the fate of
Warsaw which was largely des
troyed by Nazi Stukas and seige
guns, when the Poles refused to
surrender.
The Red Army northwest com
mand admitted that Leningrad is
under “direct threat of attack,”
but the Russians expressed con
fidence that the city’s defenses,
with an estimated garrison of a
million men, would hold.
On the southern front, Rus
sia’s great seaport Odessa was
reported aflame, blasted by Ger
man artillery and Stuka dive
bombers. ,
CAPTURE NOVGOROD
The German high command re
ported that Nazi troops are storm
ing toward Leningrad from the
south, also the capture of the an
cient walled city of Novogrod,
100 miles below Leningrad, in
bitter fighting. Berlin also claim
ed the capture of Narva, 81 miles
southwest of Leningrad; and
Kingisepp, rail gate to Leningrad
25 miles further east.
Gasoline Shortage
In Eastern States
Is Acutely Felt
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 UP)—
A gasoline shortage is pinching
eastern motorists with the na
tion’s capita! hit the earliest and
hardest. Some Washington filling
stations sold to pleasure car driv
ers only half as much fuel as
they oirdered.
Netherlands To
36 Per
cent U. S. Coffee
HYDE PARK, Aug. 22 {JP) —
President Roosevelt, setting quot
as for non-signatories of the
Inter-American Coffee Agree
ment, assigned to the Nether
lands and her possessions, 36 pe
cent of the total coffee admiss
able to the United States.
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FDR Reports to Congress Meeting
With Churchill And Proclaims
Impossibility of Peace With Nazis
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 flP) —
President Roosevelt, reporting to
Congress on his meeting with
Prime Minister Churchill, said
the declaration of principles ag
reed upon were so clear that
they would be difficult to oppose
“without automatically admitting
willingness to accept a comprom
ise with Nazism.” These princip
les, he added in a brief special
message, also would be hard to
oppose without admitting willing
ness to “agree to a world peace
which would give to Nazism dom
intion over large numbers in con
quered nations. It is inevitable,
he said, that such a peace would
be a gift to Nazis, to take a
breath, an armed breath, for a
second war to extend control ov
er Europe and Asia, to the Ameri
can Hemisphere itself.’’
He said it is necessary to “call
attention once more to the utter
lack of validity of the spoken
or written word of the Nazi gov
ernment.”
He added, it is also unneces
sary to paint out that the dec
laration included, of necessity,
"the world need for tre edom of
religion and freed'm of inform
ation.” He said: "No society of
the world, organized under an
nounced principles could survive
without these freedoms which
are part of the whole freedom
for which we strive.”
American Defense Production, While
Not Completely Satisfactory, On An
Average, Is Up To The Estimates
HYDE PARK. N.Y. Aug. 22 (JP)
— Sharply assailing the figures
cited by Senator Byrd. President
Roosevelt asserted that while Am
erican defense production has
never been completely satisfac
tory, on an average, it is up to
the estimates. He said we have
turned over hundreds of tanks to
the British, tanks of modern de
sign produced in the last year.
Deliveries More Than Estimated
The anti-aircraft program calls
for monthly deliveries of 61 for
I the remaining four months of the
year and the war Department be
lieves the program will be met.
He said Byrd asserted that the
production of 37 millimeter anti
tank guns was at the rate of 15
monthly while the actual output
was 72 in July and will be 160
in August; 260 in September and
320 in October. The acual pro
duction of SI millimeter mortar3
is 345 monthly and plane pro
duction is 1,465 monthly.
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HUMAN B R I D C E—British shock troops train in the
technique of crossing a barbed wire fence by stepping on the back
of an officer who has thrown himself across the entanglement te
make a human bridge. Scene is somewhere in Northern Ireland.