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VOL. 43 No. 117. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, DEC. 3, 1941. Per Copy l*
Uncover Attempt Mussolini’s Life
r Showdown Pacific Crisis Expected Within Week
Sr hurt) Klirasii r-g'it), Jap-r.’s emissary to this cur try on a spec
ial inissit n, was accompanied to the White House by Secretary
ol St?.* C'c.'Jell Hull (center), for a conference with President
R iisevelt on the Far f>T>st situation. Kichisaburo Normua (left).
Japan?!)? ambassador, with with them.
Pacific Crisis May Be Brought
To Head By FDR’s Questions
UNDATED, Dec. 3 t/P) — Wash
irrrton o'dicial circles viewed with
m undiminished gravity the situa
tion in the Pacific, characterized
toy A .-istant Secretary of the
Navy Ralph Bard as "A tinder
box waiting the spark to ex
plode all over the eastern quar
ter of the g obe." Bard, who
spoke last night at Norfolk. V:;..
warned, if trouble came in the
Pacific it will not be minor. He
said the U. S. Navy is not malk
ing the mistake of under-esti
mating Japanese power.
Informed diplomatic circles in
Washington expressed, the belief
that the Pacific crisis might be
brought to a head within a week
by the President’s action yester
day asking Japan point-b:ank
why she was sending fresh troops
to French Indo-China.
Reports ’from the east remain
ed disquieting as advices from
Shanghai said Japanese troops
are continuing to concentrate in
that area, apparently awaiting
transports to take them south.
All British and Dutch shipping,
meanwhile, is withdrawing south
ward down the China coast.
In Tokyo, sections of the Jap
anese press accused Britain anew
of planning to invade Thailand
and charged the United States
with aiding and strengthening
the anti-Japanese front by de
laying the talks in 'Washington.
Battleship Prince
Of Wales Sent
To Singapore
UNDATED, Dec. 2 (A3)— Brit
ains new 35,000-ton battleship
Prince of Wales steamed into the
great Singapore naval base at the
head of a flotilla of powerful
naval reinforcements, as Japan
ese dispatches asserted that Brit
i?h Imrer'rl troops are massing
3long the Thailand frontier for
an invasion. The Prince of Wales
and other unspecified heavy units
are the first capital ships that
Britain has even sent to the Far
last, ready for action. Others
j have made only ceremonial visits
In Washington, it was disclosed
that President Rosevelt as ask
; mg the Japanese, questions which
are said to include requests for
an explanation of Japanese mili
• ar.v moves in Indo^China toward
Thailand.
Japan's envoys again called at
the State Department and envoy
Kurusu told newsmen that he
thought there still was a "fight
ing chance" for success in reach
• mg a settlement, declaring ‘I
dont give up so easily.’
With tension in the Far East
J near the explosion point, the
, British Admiralty reportedly or
dered all British China coast
i shipping to proceed immediately
■ to the British port of HongKong,
while the United States stood
firm in refusing to accede to
Japans demand “for a new or
der” in Asia as the price of
peace in the Pacific.
The Japanese cabinet devoted
a long session to the study of the
| said if there is any crisis in hi
Washington negotiations, sources
close to the Japanese govern
ment said.
In Washington, the talks will
probably be delayed for three
days or more since the Japanese
are understood to be seeking “a
clarification" of various points in
Hull’s statement of the American
position.
Tokyo newspapers splashed dis
patches describing the gathering
forces of America, Britain, China
and the Dutch East Indies in the
south Pacific.
A Domei report from Manila
said a declaration of a state of
emergency in the Philipines is
imminent.
Russians Asseri Germans Are On
Him Both As Moscow and RosSo\
Rushes To The l kraine
UNDATED. D- c. 3 (/!'■ ■ Rus
sia’s armies are reported to have
hurled the Germans back from 12
to 24 miles on the blizzard-swept
Moscow front, while in the Uk
raine, the Russians dec’arvd "the
nanie-.stricken uni my ” is st: 11 in
head! r . flight fr mi R< st v
Quoth'g the latest adv'c s from
?losci'W, the Briti-h r din said
the R ■ .-:ans sent the par.z r fore
■s of Col. G n, Heinz Guderian,
spinning int > reverse.
A c’rrmui cue from H tier’s
1 * dquart ;rs cia no 1 fresh, vio
lent tank and infantry batt’es be
fore Moscow, but the Russians
said the Germans were thrown
! back in two key sectors and gen
| erally painted a brightening pic
1 ture of the two-months old strug
I gle for the capital.
In the Ukraine, Soviet dispatch
| as said Red armies, counter
■ nsrchhig back through the Don
•ts River incJustri-1 basin, arc
1 finding frozen bodies of Germans
•
i wra’-wd in flimsy blankets and
hudd t d in roadsides ditches. To
save themselves from the bitter
cold, the Nazis are fighting in
suicid'al fury to hold vdlages
; where they could find warmth
i and shelter.
A London broadcast said Hit
er rushed to the field where Mar
| shall Von Brauchitch, command
■ er-in-chief of the entire German
[ Army in the Ukraine, will “at
; tempt to stop the rout at all
! costs.” German armored rein
| forcements are reported hurry
; ing along the Mariupol road to
j combat the Russians, whose
sweeping counter offensive, so
far has appeared to have hurled
the Germans back more than 75
miles from their fastest eastward
thrust in the Novocherkask re
gion, 35 miles beyond Rostov. Ac
cording to Soviet reports, the
Germans are falling back be
tween Taganrog, 40 miles west of
Rostov and Mariupol which is
| a hundred miles west of Rostov.
On the north African front,
! British headquarters said the
iesert conflict continued to rage
over a wide area but the tempo
of the batle has decreased ‘for
the time being.” Acknowldging
that Italian troops held Bardia,
Mediterraanean port 10 miles
west of the Egyptian-Libyan
frontier, the British declared
they still held El Duda. southeast
terminal of the 10-mile corridor
from Tobruk, while Axis forces
have occupied nearby Rezegh
and Bir El Hamed.
—
Puts End To
Tales German
Invincibility
UNDATED, Dec. 2 <JP) — A So
viet dispatch declared that the
retreat of Hitler’s Ukraine arm
ies from Rostov became a rout,
with the Nazis fleeing westward
along the shores of the Sea of
Azov, after a defeat which “puts
an end to tales about the invin
cibility of the German army.” A
British broadcast quoted Soviet
vice commissar Losovslcy as say
ing “the last attempt by the Ger
mans to take Moscow cost them
a million men.”
On the Libyan desert front, the
j British acknowledged a damag
ing '('thank to General Sir Alan
Cunningham’s drive to knock the
Axis out of North Africa.
Dispatches from Cairo sc id the
Germans slashed through the
r.'i'ish c rridor from Rezegh to
1 bruk. joining the trapped pan
zor f re: s northeast of Rezegh
a"d recaptured Rezegh itself,
: s i Bif El flamed.
The Brili-! 1 spokesman said
the Nazi break through meant
:ln- newly united German panzer
d.\ -ions are now hemmed in
a’ "g the coast east of Tobruk
but could probably break thru
tin British encirclement and es
c:hv to the west “if they wish
1 to do so.”
The spokesman declared, how
ever, that while the Nazi success
“may delay matters a few days
'ot’.ger,” it will not impair British
confidence.
Meanwhile, Prime Minster
Churchill told Parliament that
“;:t any time Hitler may recog
nize his defeat by the Russian
armies, and to recover from dis
aster, visit us with all his fury."
Churchill added grimly ‘We are
all ready for him and shall re
ceive him when he comes by1
day or night."
Declaring that Britain's crisis
in equipment is “largely over,”
Churchill told the House of Com,
noons that the “crisis of man- [
power and woman power” will
dominate 1942.
Britain proposed her military
conscription age limits be low
ered to 1G and one-half and rais
ed to 50 years, expanding the
conscription to bring in more
than three 'million men and wo
under call to armed service. Al
though Churchill explained only
women vounteers will be assign
ed to “lethal or combat service."
In the Russian-German war, a
Soviet dispatch reported that be
sides the German defeat at Ros
- tov, Red army troops also put the
Germans to flight through deep
snow drifts around Stalinogorsk.
120 miles southeast of Moscow.
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Reds Recapture
40 Villages
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i
| MOSCOW. Doc. 3 i(/P) — The
i radio announced that “bloody bat
i ties were fought yesterday ev
ening in the suburbs of Tagan
rog,” and 40 additional villages
were recaptured. The German ef
forts to halt Russia’s advance at
Rostov were still futile, the
broadcast said.
Approves f!
Billion More
I For Defense
_
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 f/P) —
An additional $8,243,000,000 ap
propriation, almost entirely for
defense, but including lend-lease
funds to vastly increase produc
tion of tanks and guns for British
and Russian forces, was approv
ed by the House Appropriations
Committee. The huge new outlay
will bring the total cash and con
tract authorizations provided for
defense since July, 1940, to the
staggering sum of $67,990,000,000.
Expose Great
Anti-Fascist
Conspiracy
ROME, Dec. 2 uP> — “A vast
ant.-Fascist conspiracy" which in
eluded an attempt cn Musso'ini’s
life ard sabotage to Italian mun
it ions plants, was di-covered at
Tr'r-ste, the ofTklrl agency Stef
an i reported. Trieste is a seaport
in tv rtheastern Paly. near the
Yugoslav borrit r. and was form
erly the o d Austrian empire's
principal pert, with a population
of 248,000.
S xtv persons w re arrested
and put to trial before a special
trhun !. The agency said recent
terroristic attacks were attribut
ed to the conspirators and in
cluded explosions in munitions1
f icb-ries at Piagenza, Bologna,
and Clana, in which “hundreds
of persons were killed and in
jured."
APP* •oves Funds
Fur Richardson
Palmer Highway
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (P) —
The appropriations committee
recommended the House appro-j
priation of a half million to carry j
on the construction of the Palm
er-Richardson Highway in Al- j
aska and increase the limitation
cost from a million and a half to |
a million, eight hundred thou
sand dollars. Alaska road officials
advised the committee that in
creased prices and unexpected
additional work made the increas
ed cost necessary. The commit
tee also recommended $50,000 for
the use of natives in Alaska and
an additional $15,000 for their
medical relief.
The committee also recom
mended an appropriation for n
additional $1,305,000 for army
construction at Sitka.
Former Nome Girl
\ esfa Kelling Is
Killed In N.Y.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 i/P)—Vesta
Kelling, aged 40, feature writer
for Wide World Service, a news
s rv'ce rf the Associated Press,
was kfk’d by an accidental gas
explosion in her east side apart
ment. She was formerly a mem
ber of the staff of the Washing
ton Evening Star, and was born
in Nome.
Famed “Scotty’*
•/
Allan Passes On
SAN FRANCISCO, Drc. 2 UP)
— Alexander “Scotty" Allan, for
Bier Alaska legislator, famed do?
team driver and oldtime Alaskan
goldminer died here today.
In recent years he was in the
dog food business hero. Allan
made fortunes and lost them dur
ing the K’ondike and Nome gold
ru.-hv s. His dog teams won the
Alaskan Dog Sweepst• kes three
times and he took 400 dogs to
France in 1915. The animals, un
der, his supervision, served faith
fully with the Allies armies.
A native of Scotland Allan first
crossed the ocean in 1887 when
he was sent to Canada by the
Hudson Bay Company.
The funeral is to be held
Wednesday.
Pacific Settlement
fs lip To Japan
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 UP) —
Secretary Hull reiterated that a
general settlement in the Pacific
still depended on the Japanese
acceptance of the non-aggression
policies outlined in the American
note handed to the Japanese en
voys last week, to which no reply
has yet been received.
GERMANS CLAIM KERCH CAPTURED
The Gorman High Command announced that German and Ruman
ian forces had occupied Kerch, stepping-stone to the Caucasus.
Russians said coincidentoilly, that wintry weather had reached the
region of the Crimiea. In the north. German armies still stood
before Rostov.