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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 72. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 1941. Per Copy is*
Ring Around Leningrad Tightened
Germans Overrun Ukraine East of Dneiper River
200,000 be Released From Armed Forces This Year
Russians Acknowledge Tightening
Ring Around Leningrad - Report
First Air-borne Invasion Troops
UNDATED. Aug. 20 (£0 — Hit
ler’s invasion armies tightened
the ring on Leningrad with an
other 50-mi!e advance, the Rus
sians acknowledged, driving to
the Novogorod region, 100 miles
south of the old Czarist capital.
A red army bulletin also indicat
ed that the Gormans are begin
ning to use .airborne troops ir. the
60-days-old conflict, reporting
that a number of four-motored
Junkers transports, loaded with
light tanks and men were shot
down.
German dispatches said the
left wing of General von Rund
stedt’s army, estimated at a mil
lion five hundred thousand men.
are advancing against stiff resist
ance toward the great bend of
the Dneipr river, site of the big
industrial city of Dneiperop
trovsk.
Advices reaching London in
dicated that Marshal Budyenny
succeeded in withdrawing a
great ipany of his troops across
the river but his forces are be
lieved weak in guns, depending'
too much on oLd fashioned horse
cava ry.
Hitler’s headquarters said
speed troops are successfully at
tacking a few remaining bridge
heads on the west bank of the
Dnieper still held" by the Rus
sians. It is evident that a grand
assault on the new Soviet de
fense line is about to begin.
While two other German and
Finnish columns drove on Lenin
grad from the west and north,
the Soviet high command said
the fiercest battle raged about
Novogorcd, ancient .walled town
above Lake liman. The Rus
sians said the Novgorod Province
terrain is favorable for a deter
mined -stand, since it. is half cov
ered wth forest and dotted with
about 1,200 lakes.
Nazis Overrun
Ukraine, Destroy
Units Russ Fleet
UNDATED, Aug. 19 <JP) — Hit
ler’s High Command reported
that Germany and her allies had
overrun all the Ukraine terri
tory east of the Dnieper river
and announced violent new as
- saults against the seige-girt port
of Ode=sa on the Black Sea.
On the northern front, a Red
Army bulletin acknowledged
that the jaws of the giant Ger
mar-Finnish nutcracker were
closing in on Leningrad with
bitter fighting raging only 75
miles southwest of the old-time
capital of the Czars.
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The German high command
further reported the capture of,
Russian fleet units under con
struction at Nikolaev, fallen'
Black Sea port, including a
35,000 ton battleship, 10.000 ton
cruiser, four destroyers and two
submarines. In addition the high
command said, German bombers
disabled three Soviet warships,
' including a heavy cruiser, in the
j waters off Odessa.
Authoritative quarters in Lon
don said the German occupation
west of the Dneipr river was not
a death blow to Russia, but if the
Nazis succeed in smashing Mar
shal Budyenny’s army, the re
sult would be serious.
Explosives and incendiaries
were dropped on the Soviet cap
ital in a new night raid, in which
the Russians said only one Ger
man plane broke through.
Churchill To Talk
Sunday Noon, PST
LONDON, Aug. 19 </P) — Chur
h;3 bold Atlantic conference vvith!
chill returned to London from1
President Roosevelt, to be greet
ed by cheering Britons. He pre
sided irr.en.ently over a special
war cabinet meeting and report
ed the results of the conference
to the King. He will address the
nation over the radio on Sunday,
noon, PST.
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WOMAN MAY FLY
BOMBERS TO ENGLAND
LONG BEACH. Calif.. Aug. —
Mrs. Gladys O’Donnell has a;
good chance of serving the cause!
of the democracies by ferrying
American-made bombers to Eng
land.
Mrs. O’Donnell has applied to
Col. Robert Olds, chief of the air
corps’ ferry command, to pilot
warp'anes made in this country
for Great Britain to their destina
tion across the Atlantic.
Mrs. O’Donnell is the wife of
an aviator and learned to fly
from her husband.
She is teaching United States
army cadet fliers at Long Beach.
The British air force bombed
Western Germany again over
night and touched off large fires
along the French coast from Dun
kerque to Boulogne.
BIG GUNS GUARD BRITISH CONVOY
Tiie heavy guns of the British battleship King George V guard an Atlantic convoy enroute to Eng
land. This battleship visited the United States some time ago when she brtiught Lord Halifax,
British ambassador, to this country.
Selectees to Serve
In Armed Forces
As Little 14 Mos.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (JP)—
The War Department announced
that unless the international sit
uation interferes, a substantial
number of selectees and National
Guardsmen will be sent home af
ter as lijtle as 14 months' service.
Approximately 2C0.000 men
will be due for re’ease from ac
tive service this year. In order
that they may resch their homes
before the Christmas holidays,
their release will be accomplish
ed prior to December the 10th.
Lease-Lend Pro
gram May Cost
Fifty-five Billion
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20 l.T*)—
A'loeations and commitments
for the defense program topped
the fiifty-one billion dollars, as
a prospective lease-lend request
may raise the total to more than
fifty-five billion dollars.
FRANK KNOX HAS
CONFAB OVER STRIKE
(By Associated Press)
Navy Secretary Frank Knox
and L. H. Korndorff, President
of the Federal Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company, conferred for
more than an hour on the com
pany’s offer to turn its strike
bound Kearny, New Jersey, yard
to the Navy, and then adjourned!
until later^
Knox withheld any hint as to
his attitude towards the com
pany’s offer affecting the big
plant where 17,000 workers have
been idle since last Thursday.
Other Sore Spots
An American Federation of
Labor strike continued to ham
per operations at the Curtiss
Wright Corporation’s propellor
division in Caldwell, New Hamp
shire, with labor production on a
minor scale. The company said
several current labor disputes
were involved.
In the South and in the East
Jersey City and Dover, New Jer
sey plants of L. O. Koven and
Brothers, workmen struck, halt
ing work on a million dollar
navy contract for submarine
manifolds and gasoline and wa
ter tanks.
NO NEW AUTO
MODELS AFTER 1942
LOS ANGELES, Aug. — Gen
eral Motors Board Chairman Al
fred Sloan said that the 1942
automobiles will be the last mod
els produced by the American
industry until after the national
defense emergency is ended.
Sloan said that motor compan
ies will continue to produce
cars but will make no changes in
design that would require retool
ing. The General Motors Chair
man said that the new cars will
contain practically no aluminum,
nickel or chromium because
those metals are required for na
tional defense purposes.
SPITFIRE ARMED WITH CANNON
A cannon-armed Spitfire, one of the new type British pursuit planes
with greatly increased fire power, does asharp turn, revealing guns
on leading edges of both wjngs.
Brooklyn Pier
Fire Destroys
Cuba Line Ship
NEW YORK, Aug. 19 </P» —
Seven persons were known dead
and some two score missing as
the aftermath of a fire which
swept the Brooklyn pier, eating
up cargo, destroying the Cuba
Mail Line ship Panuco and nu
merous small craft, yesterday An
investigator said the total death
toll of the million five hundred
thousands do'llar fire, may never
be known.
BELL PHONE STRIKE
MAY BE CALLED
NEW YORK, Aug. — A tie-up
of the nation wide Bell Tele
phone System was threatened
when the Association of Com
munication and Equipment work
ers announced that a majority of
its locals in 13 cities have voted
strike authorization in connec
tion with its dispute wth the Bell
Company.
Negotiations with the company
the Western Electric Company
part of the Beil System, are now
stalemated over four points pro
posed in a master working agree
ment, the Association said.
Work stoppage by the 8,000
members employed in Western
Electric’s installation depart
ment would tie up work on the
Bell System private communica
tions installations in military
camps and other defense plants
throughout the country.
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Detroit Streetcar,
Bus Operators Out
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DETROIT, Aug. 20 (/P)—Street
car and bus operators of Detroit’s
Municipal Transportation. System
struck suddenly this morning,
leaving some 400,000 office and
factory workers to seek emer
gency means of getting to work
and thousands were delayed. The
union is seeking recognition as
| the sole bargaining ogent for op
erators.
NEW SYSTEM FOR SPONSORS
OF NEW CRAFT FOR NAVY
| SEATTLE, Aug.—Sponsors for
! mine sweepers and coastal mine
I sweepers built in the Thirteenth
! Naval District, will be chosen by
| the Commandant of the district
rather than by officials in tl^
Navy Department at Washington.
This information has been re
ceived by Rear Admiral C. S.
.Freeman, naval district com
mandant here, in a message from
the Navy’s Bureau of Naviga-.
tion.
In considering sponsors, the
letter read, commandants are au
thorized to consider among oth
ers “the wives or daughters of
personnel employed at the build
ing yards, including masters and
foremen, who have been out
standingly active in encouraging
the rapid construction of the
vessels in question, and who
have thus promoted the national
defense.”
Coastal minesweepers are now
under construction at the Peter
son Ships Yards, .and at the Tac
oma Boat Building Company,
both of Tacoma.
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