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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 71. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, June 3, 1942 Per Copy is*
1,036 RAF Planes Blast Germany
Dutch Harbor “Gateway To Alaska” Is Attacked
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Reports received early this morning informed that Dutch Harbor “Gate-way to
Alaska was attacked by 4 bombers and 1!> lighter planes. No last minute reports
have been received as to the extent of the damage. Dutch Harbor is located out
near the end of the Aleutian chain, shown in the above map of the north Pacific.
Dutch Harhor Reported Under
Aerial Attack Early This Morning
Headquarters, U. S. Army Troops, Nome, Alaska,
June 3 — Reports received early this morning inform
that Dutch Harbor was under an aerial attack. No fur
ther information or details were given.
Comments from the local authorities advise the peo
ple of Nome and vicinity to keep aware of the attack
and not tobecome excited but remain calm, as for the
present time no reason for an attack on Nome can be
foreseen. The local military authorities also advised
that reliable reports will be related to the public. A
news bulletin board will be installed on the front of
the City Hall for all reports released.
C. A. Clark, Major, Cavalry, Commanding!
Released to Nome Nugget, June 3, 1942.
Rommel Risks Shattering Blow
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CAIRO, June 2, (AP) — A sudden shift in tactics by
desert-wise Rommel indicated that he might be gam
bling on a desperate chance to keep the Libyan offen
sive alive even at the risk of a shattering blow to the
oackbone of his forces. Latest advices from the North
African front said Rommel called a halt to the flight]
■ of his two armored divisions, grouping them.
The RAF, reporting decreased activity because of]
dust storms, nevertheless kept up attacks on enemy]
air fields at Derna and other objectives at Tmimi, Ben-,
gasi and Martuba, caught behind the British lines]
southwest of Tobruk after skirting it. The Nazis have
been struggling since noon May 30th to hold open two
gaps through the British minefilds to extricate their
trapped forces, at a clostly pounding by British tanks,
guns and planes.
• House Votes Declare
War On Bulgaria,
Hungary, Rumania
Washington, June 3 (AP)
— The House of Represent
atives voted without op
position to add Bulgaria,
Hungary and Rumania to
the list of countries with
which the United States is
at war. The resolutions
* declaring war will be act-'
^ ed on tomorrow. The Sen
ate is in recess today and
there is no debates or dis
cussion.
Bishop Koive,
Oldest Bishop
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Seattle, June l (Delay
ed) (AP) — Bishop Rowe,
aged 85, died at his home^
in Victoria at 7:15 a.m., the
diocesan office here an->
nounced. He was the old-:
est living active bishop of
the church.
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your mining claim.
Large United Nations
Convoy Reaches Russia
After 5-Day Runing Fight
LONDON, June 2 (AP) — A
large United Nations convoy,
carrying American and British!
1 war supplies to Russia reached a;
north Russian port after a run- •
i ning battle of five days and
, nights, against German subs and
| over a hundred Nazi planes The
British announced that there is |
almost constant daylight now in
the far north waters. The Admir
! ally said this is the most diffi
cult time of the year to push
convoys through that route, but
n spite of such conditions the1
British indicated that only six
or seven Allied ships were sunk,
, catling the German claim of
bagging 18 ships an “exaggera
tion of 175 percent."
fir. Defense Bonds and Stamps
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Chief British Commandos i
Arrives U. S. For Talks
Leaders Armed Services
Washington, June 3. (AP)
The arrival in this coun
try of Lord Louis Mount
batten, British chief of
; combined operations, was
i announced by the British
; information service which
said Mountbatten has!
come for a “short visit dur!
ing which he will consult
with representatives of the
r. S. fighting services.” As
hicf of Combined Opera
i lions, Mountbatten also
heads the British Com
; mandos.
Australia's P. M. Curtin
Defies Japan to Land
Large Forces There
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rNTVATED. June 2 (AP) —
Australia’s prime minister Cur
t 'i bluntly challenger! J pan to
attempt an. invasion, and declar
ed that since the arrival of Am
erican reinforcements “the en
[ emy has found his most south
I i ily adventure beyond his cap-.
I^icity to execute.”
■ On tlie critical China A'ar front
1 Chiang Kai Shek’s armies ari
reported to have recaptured
j Shakichen. north of the Japan-,
j ese-held province capital of Kin
, hwa, and killed 400 Jap troops
in a surprise attack. The Chin
ese army spokesman acknowledg
ed however that Jap troops have
driven 35 miles southwest of Kin!
hwa on the east coast and fight-!
ing advanced within 10 miles of
Chunsien, one of the main tar
gets of Jap raids against sus
pected Allied air base sites.
Curtin launched Australia's
second liberty loan drive declar
ing “Japan’s program has at last
suffered a stalemate. I defy the
enemy to land large forces on
Australia.”
Britain Desert Armies Lash Out
In 30-Mile Thrust In Libyan Desert
UNDATED, June 3, (AP) — Br itain’s desert armies,
lashed out in an offensive on a 30-mi!e thrust against
the Axis in North Africa while RAF bombers, perhaps
400 strong, battered the great German war foundries
: city of Essen for the second time in 24 hours. Huge fires
, were said left raging in the city of 660,000 population.
> In London, a spokesman said, objectives of the ter
rific assaults on Cologne and the Ruhr have already
been substantially achieved. He declared a total of
30,000 RAF’ planes bombing Germany each month “is
not a fantastic figure.”
London military quarters acknowledged that Axis
j troops mopped up British forces in a 9-mile sector of
the 50-mile British defense line in Libya, but declared
that the Axis supply line was seriously endangered by i
a thrust at Rotunda Segnali. This major Axis base is!
30 miles west of the advanced Axis positions. Front
i line dispatches said the Germans now established a!
! new alignment after withdrawing to the westward af-i
iter a violent tank battle at Knightbridge, 25 miles1
' southwest of Tobruk.
While the RAF blasted Essen, German night raid-i
ers again attacked Canterbury, a Nazi communique
said, declaring that German planes dropped 10,000 in
cendiaries and the heaviest calibre explosives on Can
terbury and reported that 34 British planes were shot
down in daylight attacks on the channel coast yester
day, and during the night over western Germany. The
German command admitted that the British caused con
siderable damage in an attack on Duisberg in the Ruhr
Valley, neighbor of Essen. The death toll in Cologne
has risen to 200.
Heavy Rains Bogging Japs In China
But Difficulties Confront Chinese
UNDATED, June 3 (AP) — Chinese dispatches re
ported that Chiang Kai Slick’s armies cut a triangular
chunk from the flank of the Jap lines in Cheking Pro
vince and recaptured Yangki, 45 miles northwest of
Kinghwa. They said heavy rains are bogging the Jap
invasion of China’s east coast. Serious difficulties still
confronted the Chinese in lower Chekian. however, as
east of the important city of Chienshien, 45 miles south
Jap columns batled the defenders only 12 miles north
west. of Kinhwa, Jap-occupied provincial capital.
A Tokyo broadcast asserted that a new Jap offensive
in Kiangs province, adjoining coastal Chekian. on the
west made considerable progress with the apparent ob
jective of seizing the whole Chekian-Kiangsi railway.
Jap columns are reported driving at both ends of the
rail line, and are still some 200 miles apart. The new
drive is reported as having already captured the im
portant town of Chiehsien, 25 miles southwest of its
starting point, Nanchmk.
In the far south Kwangtung province, the Japs claim
ed steady progress in the third major offensive, moving
northward from Canton along the Canton-Hankov/
railway.
RAF Makes Second Crushing Raid
On Germany in l Rays. Smash Essen
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35 BOMBERS FAIL TO RETURN
LONDON, June 2 (AP) — The RAF turned the
lethal devastating might of 1,036 planes loose on Ger
many last night, almost all of them m the region of
the Nazi arsenal city of Essen. Churchill announced
I that the second of the crushing raids by the RAF, made
against sources of Hitler’s military strength in three
days, struck home at the huge Krupp Munitions Works.
Churchill promised more of even greater severity to
follow “When we are joined, as we soon shall be, by
the air force of the United States.”
The Essen raid came after a pause of but one night,
when bad weather held the RAF's great bomb-carry*
ing air armada gounded after the mammoth attack by
considerably more than a thousand British bombers on
Cologne. Churchill said 35 bombers failed to return.
Hiller Plans General Offensive On
Russia In June, Possibly Liter in July
Lochner. AP Berlin Correspondent Repatriated
The following was written by Louis Lochner, vet
eran correspondent and chief of the AP Berlin Bureau,
during Hitler’s preparation for war. It is based on in
formation received too late for telegraphing from Lis
bon and was written by Lochner aboard the repatria
tion ship Drottningholm, which reached New York
today.
NEW YORK, June 1 (Delayed) (AP) —Some time
in June or possibly even later, in July, Hitler plans to
give the command for a a general offensive along the
entire Russian front, and more than that hopes to
march on Turkey and Iran in order to execute one of
his famous pincer movements. This information came
to me on the last day of my stay in Lisbon from a Ger
man source to well in the know of things that I cannot
doubt its veracity.
On the recent see-saw struggle on southern Russian
front, my informant pointed out that it is merely a pne
paratory action, leaning off the boards, of a major ac
tion which is impending unless the United Nations
spoil Hitler’s game by really erecting a second front
in the west, quickly and efficiently thereby compelling
Hilter to take large contingents of his troops and air
force away from Rusia. He intends to ‘'finish)’:’ Rusisa
by a dramatic general assault along the whole line
from every possible angle and is willing to put all his
eggs in one basket and concentrate on this one military
problem.