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VOL. 43. No. 89. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 1941 Per Copy it*
Nazis Driven 6 mi. from Leningrad
Long-Range British Bombers Blast Italian Cities
Deportation of Bridges to Australia Recommended
Russian Campaign Now In 15th
Week - Reds Advance Six Miles
Around Sei^e - Girt Leningrad
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UNDATED, Sept. 29 (/Pi— In
the Russian campaign, now in its
15th waek, Soviet dispatches re
ported the rout of two German
and allied Rumania infantry bri
gades in bitter fighting on the
southern front. More than 2500
Rumanians were killed.
It was declared that Marshal
Timoshenko’s Red armies on the
central front recaptured 10 more
vil ages. In the drive on Yeldya
and Smolensk, Soviet troops are
reported to have hurled the Ger
mans back three lines of trench
es and crossed the Desna River.
Advancing on a six-mile front
around seige-girt Leningrad, in
the ncrth, Soviet front line dis
patches sa;d the city defenders
are ‘.stacking incessantly, then
driving forward without respite.”
A Russian correspondent tele
graphed from behind the seige
lines that “We have already
cracked the enemy’s advance.”
Advices reaching London said
German warplartes are violently
blasting railroads and highways
in the Crimea Peninsula, key to
the control of Black Sea waters,
but Nazi troops are making litt.e
if any progress in their attempts
to crass the four-mile wide Pere
kop Isthmus.
Both Sides Chaim
Successes-British
May Co Caucauses
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UNDATED. Sent. 27 ifP) — The
German command announced the
conclusion of the battle for the
encirclement east of Kiev, and
the destruction of five entire So
viet armies and the caoture of
605,000 prisoners, but the Rus
sians claimed new successes ev
erywhere else along the front.
T'-e British strongly intimated
that they might rush trecn= for
the defense of the Caucasus.
Hitler’s headquarter-, claiming
a v:"tcrv “unnera'leled ip the
world’s history,” r^por’ed the
seizure or destruction of 3718
Rus-ian ra-non, 835 ta^ks and
great quantities of other war
equipment. The communique stat
ed “the exploitation of these sue
cesses is in full swing.”
Informed Germars said the
source of the Volga, in the north
near Sellger. lay in Nazi hands
for several days.
A Soviet communique anneunc
ed Rod army successes in the sus
tained drive on the central front
north of the Kiev area, and re
pulsed a strong German attack
on Leningrad. The defenders of
the Crimean Peninsu a, the key
to the full control of the Black
Sea. are declared to have cut
down thousands of German sol
diers seeking to storm the ap
proaches to that stronghold.
While the British reported con
I tinned overnight raids against
Cologne and other G'. rmap. cit
ies in the district, weather over
the empire appeared shaping for
j a major move to hasten troops
[ from India ard the near east
through Iran for the defense of
Russia's vital oil Caucauses re
j gion.
The Germans continued press
ing against the Leningrad defens
es and fighting was general south
of Russia’s second largest city.
NEW U. S. SUBMARINE IS LAUNCHED
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A Navy tug moves to put lines aboard the new submarine Silversides just alter it was launched at
the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, Calif. Fivemore submarines are under construction there.
British Bombers Flying 1200 Miles
Round Trip Over Switzerland
Bomb Scattered Italian Cities
UNDATED, Sept. 29 fflh—Brit
i h wafplanes pounded Italy ov
ernight in the greatest raids
there of the war, attacking four
mainland cities and four Sicily
Island cities. The toll at Rhodes
wrs at least 68 killed and wound
ed. Mu? olini's command ack
now edged that 11 persons were
killed and 55 wounded in nine
of the cities assaulted.Two others
were killed in the blackout.
The RAF avoided Rome, de-^
spite earlier expectations that
the Fcseist capital might be
b'.mhed in reprisal for the Axis
attack on Cairo, holy city of the
Moslem wor d. The RAF shower
ed high explosive bombs and in
cendiaries on Genoa, Spezia,
Turin. Svona, and Marina on the
Italian mainland. There were
some casualties at the fifth main
land city of Milan, but the in
juries and fatalities were from
anti-aircraft shells and traffic ac
cidents.
Also attacked were the Sicilian
towns of Palermo, Trapanu, Mar
sala, Castel, Vetrano and the It- i
alian island of Rhodes in the ‘
eastern Mediterranean.
One RAF plane was reported
downed by anti-aircraft fire at
Turin and the crew of five killed.
Reports from Bern said large
numbers of planes passed over
Switzerland last night, indicat
ing that the raiders flew over the
A ps from Britain in a 1200-mile
round trip journey.
Chinese Deny
Japanese Claims
Capture Changsha
SHANGHAI, Sept. 27 UP)—The
Japanese army announced the
capture of Changsha. The Japan
ese previously announced that
their troops had entered Chang
■ha suburbs from the northeast,
fighting hand-to-hand with the
'Chinese defenders, outside the
Hunan province capital, import
ant for its rice and wheat, and
on the Canton-Hankow railway.
At Chinking, the Chinese army
spokesman asserted that Chang
sha is still in Chinese hands and
declared that the Japanese
c'ain s of its capture were pure
fabrication.
Italian Planes
Sink Brit. Ships
j ROME, Sept. 29 i(7P) — In a sud
! den burst of violent air and sea
i fighting, Italian torpedo planes
sunk three British cruisers and
at least three merchantmen in a
| nine-hour attack on a Mediter
| ranean convoy. The British an
' swered with an all-out bombing
, offensive against Italy.
1 Mussolini’s command reported
; that wave after wave of Italian
j planes pounced on the British
j convoy sailing eastward from
I Gibraltar Saturday, keeping up
■ the attack despite firece sky fight
| ing. Six British planes were shot
I framing into the sea and eight
Italian planes were lost, the com
rnand said in special communi
que. The battle was said to have
churned the waters of the mid
Mediterranean from 1 p.m. to 10
p.m. Saturday.
Italian torpedo planes striking
' repeatedly at an aircraft carrier,
! battleship, cruiser and at least 10
destroyers guardng a British con
voy, sunk two heavy cruisers,
one light cruiser, three merchant
men and possibly sunk one mer- ;
chantmen, damaged a battleship
and another “large but undeter
mined unit,” and six smaller
units were destroyed.
| WARNING GIVEN OF
POST-WAR SIC1NESS
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. — A
health conference was told that
the United States must guard ag
ainst the spread of post-war epi
demics from battle-scarred Eu
rope.
Dr. Hugh Cummings, former
surgeon general of the United
States, declared typhus fever
might spread widely after the
war. Said Dr. Cummings:
“It looks as if we are going to
have the same or even worse con
ditions than existed after the
World War. There is every rea
son to believe there will be an
increase in typhus fever cases.
Sanitary conditions are bad dur
ing and after wars because of
starvation, overcrowding and
poverty.”
Deportation of Harry Bridges is
Recommended By Charles Sears
Who Presided over 11-week Hearing
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29
(/P) — The deportation of Harry
Bridges to Australia was recom
mended by Charles Sears who
presided at the longshore lead- j
er’s eleven-week hearing in San!
Francisco this spring. In his find- [
ings, announced by the Immigra
ticn Department here, Judge;
Sears held that Bridges is a mem
ber of and affiliated with the!
Communistic party and also affil- I
iated with the Marine Workers j
Industrial Union.
Sears denied that the Bridges’ •
petition will reopen the hearing j
on the grounds that the Depart- i
ment of Justice tapped a tele
phone vVire to obtain informa
tion to present against him, by
Albert del Guirico, supervisor of
the Immigration Department’s!
special inspection division
Bridges was given 30 days in
which to file an exception. It was
del Guirico who directed the
prosecution of Bridges at the sec;
ond hearing, in which Sears1
found the Communist Party of'
the United States “believes in, i
advises, advocates and teaches
the overthrow by force and vio
i lence,” of this goernment.
In regard to the charges that
Bridges was formerly a member
of the IWW, Sears held that no
evidence of the IWW type of or
gani2ation was alleged in the
complaints.
Sears listed there three major
items in his decision on Bridges
in connection with the Commun
ist Party and Marine Workers:
1— Harry Lundeberg, head of
the Sailors Union of the Pacific,
who, at the trial testified that
he was urged to join the Com
munist Party while in Bridges’
home;
2— James O’Neil, former pub
licity man for the Bridges office,
who, on the stand repudiated the
statement which the FBI quoted
him as saying that he saw Brid
ges pasting dues stamps in a
Communist Party Book;
3 — It was inconsistent that
Bridges himself, detailing his
connection with the publication,
"Waterfront Workers," denied
a motion to reopen the case, bas
ed on Sear’s decision that there
was no evidence of wiretapping.
Regarding the deportation hear
ing itself, he said that there
might have been subsequent wire
tapping.
State Emergency
Declared Moravia
—
| BERLIN, Sept. 29 </P) —A tight
curb on the state and a civil em
ergency, with the arrest of Gen
eral Elias, premier of the Ger
man protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia, on charges of premedit
ated treason, was interpreted by
Czech press as Germany’s last
warning to the Czech people. The
Dienst Aus Deutschland declared
that the Czech government-in-ex
ile in London, reported that six
persons, including General Bily,
former military commandeT of
Bohemia, and General Vojtu, de
puty commander fo the 7th army
: corps of Bratislava, were execut
1 ed among the first German sup
| pressive moves.
i The German public and for- j
eign correspondents in Germany j
knew no details of developments
in the protectorate bejtond the
announcement that Reinhard
Heydrich, ace trouble shooter for |
the German secret police had i
General Elais arrested and order
ed the state of emergency within
24 hours after taking over the
post of the Reich’s protector, on
Saturday.
AMERICAN LEGION URGES
ELMINATION OF BARRIERS
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. —
The American Legion National
Convention adopted resolutions
proposing the removal of geo
graphic limitations ip the use of
American troops.
Calling for the defeat of Hit
ler “and all he stands for,” the
resolution was approved by voice
votes. Shouts of approval greet
ed the question when it came be
fore the delegates.
14 Cargo Ships
Are Launched
In One Day
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 W—
President Roosevelt acclaimed
today’s launching of 14 cargo,
ships “as a telling blow to the
menace of our nation," and em
phasized his intention to proteot
American merchant men from
“torpedo, shell or bomb.”
Roosevelt’s congratulations on,
the largest mass launching since
World War days, were sent in a^
specially transcribed message to
Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf yards,
where the new vessels slid down
•the ways at intervals from dawn
to dusk.
American shipbuilders, the
President said “caught the true
spirit with which this nation
must be imbued, if Hitler and
other aggressors of his ilk are to
be prevented from crushing us.”
$155,000 URGED AT
JUNEAU’S PORT
WASHINGTON, Sept. — The
House Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee received , favorable re
ports from army engineers on
navigation improvements in Al
arka for possible inclusion in the
general rivers and harbors pro
gram to be presented to Con
gress.
The Alaska projects include:
Gastineau Channel, at Juneau,
$155,000. The work will include
harbor deepening and widening
and channel dredging.
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