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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 95. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, OCT. 15, 1941 P*r Copy 15*
Nazi Radio Expedition Ship To
Greenland Arrives Boston, Custody
Former Coast Guard Cutter Bear
BOSTON, Oct. 14 i(/Pi — The
Nazi radio expedition ship cap
tured by the United States navy
off the coast of Greenland, after
a secret wireless station was set
up there, arrived at Boston in
custody of the naval ship Bear.
The small sixty-ton Nazi-con
trolled vessel of Norwegian reg
istry which the Navy intercept
ed in American defense waters
“during September,” and her
crew of about 20 arrived this
mcrning at the entrance of the
harbor and anchored.
The Bear is the former flagship
of Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic ex
peditions, and was before that
a Coast Guard Cutter stationed
in the Arctic, visiting Nome ev
ery summer.
Crew at Immigration Station
Authorities said the personnel
of the seized ship will be brought
to an immigration station and
subjected to established proced
ure dealing with foreign nation
als brought to American soil.
Bergdoll, World
War Draft Dodger
Asks for Parole
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 f/P) —
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll,
World War draft dodger in the
U. S. Army disciplinary barracks
at Fort Leavenworth, indicated
that he will request Attorney
General Biddle to dismiss a 23
year-old indictment pending ag
ainst him and others. When he
learned of the existence of the
old charges, he brought to the
attention of Biddle, a letter from
high War Department officials
stating that Bergdoll asked for a
parole and an inquiry was made,
as is customary practice, whether
there were any charges pending
against him. An official explain
ed that if there are any charges
pending, the army is prohibited
from granting him a release.
Biddle said he looked into tht
matter, and finding the old indict
ments, decided they should be
removed since the Justice Depart
men didn't intend to prosecute
them.
Bergdoll is serving a seven
and a half year sentence impos
ed by military court for deser
tion to escape and draft evasion.
NAZIS CLAIM RED SEA GAINS
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Germans claimed capture of the former Estonian Lsland of Owsel
and Muhu on the sea lanes to Leningrad (1). London reported a
German attack on Dagoe. Admitting Kiev was lost, the Russians
claimed the recapture of 32 villages in the central sector (2). Ger
mans also claimed the encircling of four* Russian armies east of
Kiev (3), and a German column reached the Sea of Azbv (4).
Argentina And
U. S. Sign Broad
Trade Agreement
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 UP) —
! Argentina and the United States
entered a new phase of commer
cial collaboration by virtue of a
broad trade pact, climaxing the
“on again-cff again” negotiations
for 72 years. The treaty was .sign
■d in Buenos Aires last night by
U. S. Ambassador Armour and
Argentine Foreign Minister Gui
! nazu.
The treaty gave Argentina free
I entry into the United States of
uch staple products as canned
orned beef, hides and wool and
assured the United Stales it will
j continue to be the most favored
nation in the treatment of ship
1 ment of autos, refrigeration ma
[ chinery and gadgets without nuim
ocr for the rich agrarian republic
Marshall Asserts
Germans Paying
Heavy Toll
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 i/Pi —
General Marshall is reported to
have told a Senate subcommittee
’hat the German armies are pay
ing a tremendous price in mater
ial for the ground gained in the
Moscow drive. The information
was said to have figured in testi
mony he gave when he appeared
: yesterday before the Appropria
tions Co-mimittee considering the
new lease-lend bill.
Navy Ready Arm
J J
Merchant Ships
WASHINGTON, Otrt. 15 i —
Secretary of the Navy Knox said
the Navy Ls ready to put guns
and their own crews on mer
chant ships “as fast as the ships
British Patrol
Contradicts Nazis
Greer Incident
WASHINGTON. Oct. 15 <7P>
The Navy’s official account of the
shooting clash between the USS
Greer and a German sub disclos
ed a report that a British patrol
plane put the destroyer on the
trail of the sub, and also flatly
contradicted the German claim
that the Greer started dumping
depth bombs at the sub more |
than two hours before the U-boat;
commander loosed his first tor
pedo. The Navy stated that a.
torpedo was fired in the first 8
mintues and later the first depth
charges went over the Greer’s
side.
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Navy To Carry
Mail To Kodiak
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 </P> —
A Navy plane will carry mail to
West Virginia soldiers assigned
to outposts in Alaska, Rep. Ed
miston said. Under airmail plans,
Edmiston said, expected to be ef
fective in a short time, a Navy
flying boat will deliver mail at
least once every ten days to Ko
diak and possibly weekly. He
said the Seward and and Sitka
detachments receive mail every
ten days, but Kodiak only by
monthly steamer. The plans
were developed in a conference,
in Brig. Gen Rose, Adjutant Gen
eral’s office.
come to us," once Congress au
thorizes such action. Knox spoke
as the House Rules Committee!
granted a parliamentary right-of
way to the legislation lifting the
Neutrality Act’s ban against arm
ing ships. Earlier the Senate For
eiyn Affairs committee approved
the proposal.
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GERMANS REPORTED IN KIEV
The German High Command anounced that the Germans had entered Kiev after fierce fighting, aJid
that the German flag was flying on the citadel there. Black arrows show direction of Gemun
thrusts in the southern Ukraine. One started from Kremenchug was aimed at the rail center ofKhar
kov. Other drives further south were aimed at cutting off the Crimea Crosshatched area shows Rus
sian territory occupied |by German forces.
Russians Acknowledge Moscow Is
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Threatened And Population Not
Needed In War Work Flees to East
UNDATED, Oct. 15 ./Pi—Fierce
ly driven by a new menace
which Moscow acknowledged the
Red army declared the Germans
are swarming toward over their
on heaped dead in a mighty at
tempt to turn the capital's VoLga
river defense flank near Klinin,
95 ml.es northwest of Moscow.
Admitting that Nazi masses of
men and steel still surged for- !
ward the Red Star, organ of the
Soviet army, said nevertheless,!
that German parachutists seek
ing a foothold behind the Ros
si; n lines were wiped out and,
Moscow's grim defenders pinch
ed off wedges thrust deep into
their lines. Surne parachutists
were said trapped behind the Ka
linin line where armored units
sanashed at the approaciies to
the city directly west of Moscow
Other German forces are re
ported by London to have rolled |
half way from Vyazma toward
the capital. To the south, the
German press said the munitions!
making town of Tu.sa. IDO miles
from Moscow, had fallen tighten
ing the Nazi sem.-circle. The Ger
mans declared the mop-up, after
the gigantic encirclement battles
at Bryansk and Vyazma were so
nearly completed that vast addi
tional forces of perhaps hundreds
of thousands of troops arc being
released to be rushed on to the.
east to bo'ster the big push on
the capital itself.
Moscow’s streets were crowd
ed and all its population not j
needed in fighting or war work
streamed east toward safey. The |
city was bombed in a briilf
morning air raid.
Long Range Guns In
Range of Moscow
UNDATED, Oct. 14 (JP) — Hit
ler's invasion armies were cred
j ited with slashing new gains ot
j 110 and 60 miles in two vital
sectors in the battle of Moscow.
Nazi vanguards are reported bat
j tling only 65 miles west of Mos
cow and long range German
''ei<e guns are in position to
shell Moscow’s outer defense
belt. There was little gloom in
Moscow itself, however.
Wi de conceding German super
iority of numbers, weight and rna
! chinery. the Russians declared
that resistance is growing and
Red army counterattacks are in
creasing in frequency. Thousands
of Moscow civilians are reported
toiling feverishly to erect chains
of field fortifications around Mos
cow and masses of fresh Soviet
troops are hurrying to combat
the Nazi juggernaut, under oath
to "die here but not let the en
emy into Moscow."
London advices said advance
German troops reached Mozhai
sk, about midway between Mos
cow and fallen Vyazma, but were
; ejected by fiercely c anter-attack
in Red army forces. This thrust
apparently marked the closest
approach to Moscow since the
German offensive began on Oc
tober two.
A Berlin spokesman indicated
a so that Nazi columns encircled
Kaluga a hundred, m 1< - .- u
Moscow, and rolled on leaving
Soviet forces there to be mopped
up by German rearguards. If
true, this means that the Ger
mans have advanced more than
half the distance from Bryansk,
the scene of much of the heaviest
fighting, to Moscow. The Ger
mans asserted that still another
Nazi column is moving down on
Moscow from the Valdai Hills to
to the Northwest, and are near
ir.g the Moscow-Leningrad rail
way.
Senator Norris
Declares U. S.
Can Lick Japs
WASHINGTON. Oct. 14 (VP) _
i Senator Norris declared that an
1 Amcrican-Japanese conflict in
the Pacific might develop '“as
quick as a wink." if Germany
hould defeat Russia. He added:
"I'm not so sure that war with
Japan would be a bad thing for
I ihe United States."
Believe Navy Can Lick Japs
The legislator, aged 80, the
only remaining member to cast a
vote in the Senate against our
entry into the late World War,
said a German victory in Russia
might lead Japan to interefere
witih American shipping in the
Pacific. The United States he as
serted. will not tolerate any such,
interference. He disclosed that
navy officials advised him that
they "could sink the Japanese
fleet within two weeks. Although
they may be a little optimistic, I
believe we could lick the Japan
ese."
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