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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 88. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, July 1, 1942 Per c°p>' 15<
British Say Desert Battle Not Over
Military Control Established Travel to, From Alaska
British Commander Declares Battle
Not Over Until Enemy Is Defeated
CAIRO, July 1, (AP)—General Auchinleck declared
in the order of the day to the 8th army that the “bat
tle is not yet over and will not be over until we have
defeated the enemy and defeat him we will.
The British commander’s confident message to his
troops was pubished as Rommel’s armored spearheads
rolled nearer Alexandria on the Nile. Their advance
units are somewhere east of El Daba, only a hundred
miles from Alexandria. A German communique de-1
dared that Rommel’s forces are attacking only 65
miles southwest of Alexandria.
British headquarters were noncommittal as local
ities were reported in heavy fighting yesterday in the
desert.
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Strict Military Control established
Over Civilian Travel to, From Alaska
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 (AP) — General De
Witt established strict military control over all civilian
travel to and from Alaska. Effective July 11th, a mili
tary pass will be required for any civilian, entering
i or leaving the territory. The pass will be obtainable
only for official government business or definitely ar
• ranged, legitimate employment or business reasons,
and the return of bona fide Alaska residents to their
homes, for close domestic relationship and school in
terests.
A permit from General DeWitt will be necessary
to enter Alaska and one from General Buckner to
leave. Only children under 16 years of age will be ex
empted and they must be accompanied by a parent or
guardian.
Passes may be obtained through the Alaska Travel
Control, an ew agency created by DeWitt. in the Ex
change Building in Seattle. Information and applica
tion blanks may be obtained from Seattle but must be
returned at least 15 days before the permit can be
» <Jssued.
Every person will be carefully investigated, photo
graphed, fingerprinted and must supply a complete
statement of his personal history. Both fingerprints
and photographs will be attached to the permit and a
copy of the fingerprints will be sent to the FBI in
Washington. The civilian will again be fingerprinted
on his arrival in Alaksa.
No permits will be issued to enemy aliens or per
sons of Japanese ancestry or anyone whose presence
* in Alaska, the military authorities believe, might be
detrimental to the territory’s security.
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k WHIRL OF BOMB S—Inventor Lytle S. Adams of Irwin.
l*a.. explains that his rotary incendiary bomb thrower would i
% shower 5,000 small incendiary bombs per minute, the mechanism
being lowered from a plane, and raised when load s exhausted,* j
I I. S. Raid on
Tokyo Had Great
Morale Effect
London, July 1 (AP) —
A military commentator
asserted that Jap air and J
land forces, concentrating
on the border of Manchu- j
kuo. “seems in little doubt
to be making its own mili
tary preparations, so it
may at a chosen moment,
attack Russia.” The com
mentator said there has
been a general drift of Jap
forces northward but add-;
ed. ”1 don’t wish to imply'
that their preparations are
complete or an attack is
imminent.” He said the
bombing of Tokyo by U.S.
airmen on April 18 had “a
very great morale effect,
very much greater than
actual physical damage.”
Exempt United
Nations Arms from
Customs Duties
Washington, July 1 (AP)
—President Roosevelt sign
ed legislation to prevent
repetition of the incident
when a United States cus
toms official on the Alaska
border demanded that Can
adian airmen and ground
reinforcements pay duty
on their arms and other
equipment before entering
Alaska to reinforce defens
es. The new law accords
free importation privileges
to the armed forces of any
of the United Nations cross
ing United States borders.
When the Alaskan cus
t o m s official messaged
Washington he was told
that Canadians could be
classified as “distinguished
foreign visitors,” in order
to free them from regular
customs inspection and du
ties. One high official de
manded the official’s name,
suggesting that he be use
ful after the war, at a Phil
ippine post where he could
confront any new Jap in
vasion with a copy of the
United States Tariff Act.
Gov. Appeals
For Collection
Scrap Rubber
The Nome Nugget is in
receipt of a wire from Gov.
Gruening. stating that the
rubber collection c a m -
paign is lagging and its sue
cess, being of utmost im
portance, appealed for full
est covering and collection
of scrap rubber.
Duy Defense Bonds and Stamps
Carrier Vkisp
Reinforced
Island of Malta
Washington, July 1, (AP)'
— The American aircraft
carrier Wasp, venturing
dangerously into the mid
Mediterranean battle area,
recently delivered aerial
reinforcements to the Brit
ish bomb-battered island
of Malta. It was disclosed;,
officially that the Wasp1
i made several ferry trips,
without damage to itself or
escort vessels, to the Brit
ish stronghold, flanking'
the Axis supply lines to
Africa.
The date of the trip was
not given in the Navy’s for
mal announcement, but au
thorities said it was “a few
weeks ago." apparently
about the time the Ger
mans and Italians were
pouring peak quantities of
i supplies into Africa to
1 build up Rommel’s Libyan
1 campaign. On one trip the
Wasp carried British fight
er aircraft manned by
' RAF pilots.
Scraps Three
Govt. Agencies
c
Washington. July 1, (AP)
— Nearly half a million
people lost their jobs or
government aid by the
scrapping or curtailment
of three depression-born
agencies which cost more
than 17 billion dollars.
Congress abolished the
CCC yesterday by denying
it funds for the fiscal year.
The start of the new gov
ernment business calendar
also saw the WPA cut to
skeleton form and heavy
reductions in the NYA pro
gram.
With a background of
transition and change in
eras from men hunting
jobs to jobs hunting men.
the life of the CCC ended
at midnight. The demobil
ization of 60,000 enrollees
and 15,000 civilian employ
ess of the corps began this
morning.
Soviets Cut Off
German Wedges
_ i
Moscow, June 30 (AP) —
Soviet forces on the Kursk
front above Kharkov cut
off the German infantry
forces which pierced their
lines in several sectors, j
More than 200 Nazi tanks
were smashed in two days,
the army paper Red Star,
reported in the first detail
ed account of the massive
new battle raging in that
area. Front line accounts
said Timoshenko’s defend
Russians Declare German Offensives
Are Blunted With llujre Losses
MOSCOW, July 1 (AP) — A German attempt to
launch a new offensive near Gzhatsk, an advance point
a hundred miles west of Moscow, was frustrated by
powerful Russian counterattacks. The army paper
Red Star reported that the 7th German infantry regi
ment lost more than 2,500 men in this battle The
paper sa d the Russians held their original positions
when it ended. The Germans apparently abandoned
their efforts there but continued a bitter offensive ag
ainst Sevastopol and on the Kursk front. Russian
counterattacks are reported to have cost the Nazis
whole companies and battalions of shock troops on
the latter front, .300 miles south of Moscow. The 3-day
old offensive at Kursk is already blunted with huge
losses, including 350 tanks, the Russians said.
Denies Lack oi Equipment Cause
Oi British Defeat In North Africa
LONDON. July 1 (AP) — Britain's War Produc
tion minister and his predecessor denied that a lack
of guns, tanks or planes was responsible for the Brit
ish military defeats ir. North Africa, as Churchill’s
critics launched a “no confidence" attack on his direc
tion of the war.
Oliver Lyttleton, Minister of Production, told the
House of Commons that the manufacture oi b-pounder
guns, tanks, and supplying American-made dive bomb
ers tolhe British forces in the field, is progressing
steadily, and added “shortly we are going to surpass
the equipment of the enemy in several important
weapons.”
In the House of Lords, Beaverbrook, former Pro
duction Minister, said he didn’t think there was any
shortage of equipment in Libya and never heard it
suggested that there was any shortage of aircraft. The
British have more tanks in the desert than the Ger
mans and Italian combined. Beaverbrook said. He and
Lyttleton spoke in reply to charges by Churchill's crit
ics that production is not providing British forces with
adequate equipment to meet the Axis attacks. The
Prime Minister said they made “the greatest possible
mistake” when they attacked the Defense Minister
or his office.
Heavy U.S. Raids
In Libyan Desert
j
Cairo, June 30 (AP) —
Heavy raids by augmented
U. S. Army air forces on
German and Italian tanks
in the Egyptian desert hat
ers closed in quickly be-j
hind the wedges driven by
the Nazis, before support
ing tanks could be brought
up. This battle, perhaps,
represents the beginning
of Hitler’s general offens-j
ive up and down the front.
With enormous tank losses
inflicted on the Germans,
the Red Star said, much of
the sting was drained from |
the German attack. The;
Red defenders hurled back
subsequent German at
tacks in two other violent
ly active battle sectors.
Sevastopol’s war-weary
defenders rallied to beat
back reinforced German
shock troops from posi
tions from which they
launched a 48-hour assault.
On the Kharkov front,
heavy but indecisive fight
ing still raged.
tie area of battered Tobruk
were announced by the
British who indicated that
the enemy made a thrust
eastward in the vicinity of
Fuka, 140 miles west of
Alexandria, and 45 miles
southeast of Matruh.
Both German and Ital
ian communiques asserted
that Rommel’s men al
ready have reached the
area east of Fuka. The Ital
ians said several thousand
more British troops were
captured at Matruh.
British headquarters
said large forces of Axis
tanks and vehicles were
met and forced back Sun
day west of Fuka, but ack
nowledged that the enemy
again advanced yesterday
and fightiing is in progress
in the same area.
Fresh N e w Zealand
troops, fighting with bay
onets at close quarters, bol
stered the British defense
while strengthened U. S.
air power dropped bombs
steadily on Axis vehicles
and bases. U. S. military
observers just back from
the front said the situation
is somewhat improved.