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VOL 43. No. 100 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 1941. Per copy iu
Collision In Far East Is Inevitable
_ LES FROM MOSCOW
Norse Lucille Wright Is Found Safe Near Tetlin
j
Russians Claim Nazi Losses In J
Months Equal the Entire German
Losses of The First World War
UNDATED, Oct. 24 UP) Russia
deei’r.d officially that several
hur irr*d thousand Germans have
already been kille'd in the drive
on Moscow and in four months
the Nazis have lost as many men
as the total casualties suffered by
the Kaiser’s armies in the four
years of the World War. Accord
ing to United States State De
partment figures, the Germans
lost 1.773,000 killed and 4.210,000
wl unded in the World War, a
total of almost six million. DNB
quickly fo lowed this claim w. h
the reported destruction of more
than 260 Soviet divisions approx:
mately 3,900,000 to 4,680,030 men,
in the bloody campa’gn up to
September first.
Leningrad Thrusts
Thrown Back
The Soviet newspaper Pravda
reported that a new G rman
thrust south of Leningrad was
thrown back with at least 2-590
wounded, killed or captured and
Red army troops have retaken
the villages of Velya and Khol
my. Russian front ine dispatches
said the Germans were also re
pulse d in assaults west and south
of Moscow, but acknowledged
new German penetration in the:
Donets River battle zone in the
Ukraine. “They have not taken
and will not take Moscow,” said
official Soviet spokesr. an Lozov- ]
. Nevertheless, Stalin rielegat
- •! two of his key marshals to
form new Red armies. Soviet dis j
patches acknowledged Moscow's
po-ition was grave and the Brit:
i.-h radio quoted Pravda reports
saying “today Moscow is in dan-!
ger, but we will never surrender
and we must be prepared to see|
the streets of Moscow become I
the scene of violent fighting.”
_
Germans Still 60
Miles from Moscow
I Azovsky asserted' that the Ger
mans are still more than 60 miles,
from Moscow, count ring the Ger
man official claims yesterday
that Nazi spearheads had advanc
ed within 35 miles of the capital.
• g notice n t Russia will,
,'v: quit, I. zovsky told for-j
eign new-men that Marshal Bud
ven nv red Marsal Voroshilov
were withdra vn from the battle
front and have alrerdv begun or
ganizing new armies from the
vas. reservoir of Soviet rr.anpow
GERMANS AT KIEV CITADEL
German troops, among the first to enter the city of Kiev, Ukrain
ian capital, according to the German caption, stand before the
city’s citadel. Picture radioed from Berlin to New York.
To Enlarge Army
400.000
WASHINGTON. Oct, 23 (<P) —
Secretary of War Stimson an
nounced War Department pre
parations to expand the army air
forces with 400,000 flying cadets
and enlisted men by next June
30:h. nearly tripling its present
strength-. Stimson said “The sub
sequent expansion to possibly the
half million level will be made,
possibly beyond that date."
The present organization of air
forces is based on 54 combat
groups, whereas the enlarged pro
gram calls for 84 such groups,
each composed of several squad
rons.
Congress was told that the or
iginal program provided for a
force of 25,000 planes but Stimson
dec ined to state how many of
these are in service or how many
are contemplated under the new
program.
FDR Announces
Tank Program
To Be Doubled
; l
Expansion Is Part of Over-All
Revision of Defense
Production
WASHINGTON. Oct. 24 OP) —
Withholding all figures, the Presi
dent announced that the Ameri
can program for producing tanks
for the United States armed fore
es will be approximately doubled
at once. He told a press confer
ence that the projected expan
sion is part of an over-all re
vision of the defense picture, but
the rest of it, he said will not be
ready until later in the fall or
perhaps when Congress meets for
its new session in January. He
1 wouldn't say what the present
tank program is, nor what the
increase will provide. That in
formation, he asserted, the Axis
1 would like to have. It does call
ifer many thousand more tanks.
British and Free French Forces
Start Attack French Somaliland,
Surrounded Since Last Spring
VICHY, Oct. 24 (JPi — The
Vichy regime’s Governor Gener
al of French Somaliland reported
n a dispatch' from Jabuti that
British and Free French troops
-darted to attack the colony. The
announcement said the attack be
gan Thursday and pushed some
30 miles into French territory.;
The little French colony on the
Gulf of Aden has been surround'
ed by British and Free French
forces since Italian Eritrea and
nearly a!! of Ethiopia was wrest
ed from the Italian last spring.
Demands Made On Churchill
For British Action In W est to
Bolster Russia’s Battered Armies
UNDATED, Oct. 23 UPi —Brit
ain’s Parliament resounded with
demands on Churchill for British
attacks on Italy, night landings
on tile continent, raiding parties
and to dispatch imperial troops
to bolster Russia’s battered arm
ies in the Ukraine. “The people
of this country are ready to take
grave risks for Russia and the
army wants to fight,” declared
Laborite Noel Baker, opening the i
opposition in a full-dress debate,1
Simultaneously Minister of
Supply Lord Beaverbrook told
the House of Lords that the Unit
d States and British missions in
Russia promised Stalin to make
up Russia’s losses in tanks and
planes.
Defenders Are
Pressed Back
Amid this clamor for definite
British action and help, Rus
sian troops defending Moscow
are reported being steadily press
ed back upon Moscow. Hitler’s
command asserted that Nazi col
ums smashed through Moscow’s
outer defenses on a broad front
on the southwest and west, reach
ing several points only 38 miles
from Moscow.
Soviest dispatches said bitter
fighting raging in the barricad
ed streets of Kalinin 95 miles
northwest of Moscow.
Large forces of fresh Italian,
Hungarian and Rumanian troops
were thrown into the southern
battle for the vital Donets River
industrial basin.
Reports reaching London said
the Germans, handicapped by the
winter’s first snows blanketing
the Moscow front, are taking to
the air with parachute troops in
great numbers.
U-Boat Sinks
32.000 Tons Out of
Atlantic Convoy
BERLIN, Oct. 23 i/P) — The
German command said that U
boats sunk four merchant ships
totaling 32,090 tons including the
14.000 ton troops transport Au
rania. The command stated that
the ships were sunk out of a
well defended convoy in the At
lantic.
Collision In Far Fast Inevitable
II Hie Japanese Continue To
Pursue Their Plans of Expansion
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 <&) —
Secretary of the Navy Knox said
that “A collision” in the Far
East is virtually inevitable and
could occur on twenty-four hours
notice. He told a group of naval
munition manufacturers that the
“Situation in the Far East is ex
tremely strained and we are sat
isfied in our own minds that the
Japanese have no intention of
giving up their plans for expan
sion. If they pursue that course,
a collision there is inevitable and
can occur on twenty-four hours
notice."
This description of the condi
tions involving the United States
and Japan coming from the cab
inet member after a week of
Washington efforts to find a for
mula for a settlement was
prompted by a discussion of ways
in which U. S. munitions could
be delivered to Russia.
Knox said he “Just hurried
away from a conference” but he
didn’t say with whom, in which.
Russian and British needs of war
materials were stressed as mat
ters of great urgency.
Lucille Wright
Is Found One
Mile from Tetlin
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 22 (News
Miner) —Lucille Wright, veteran
Indian Bureau nurse, was found,
after spending two nights in a
blizzard, in good condition ex
cept or frostbitten toes and ex
haustion. A Tetlin radio message
says she was caught in a storm
while driving a dog team on a
mercy mission between Tetlin
and Moose Creek. She had no
matches to make a fire and wan
dered in circles until she took re
fuge in the forest a mile from
Tetlin where she was found by
an unnamed Indian.
Returning From Mercy Trip
She was returning from a 30
mile trip across open, swampy
lake country, after visiting the
CAA Boundary airfield
Many natives with dog teams,
Pilots L. F. Barr and Bob Ausley
from a nearby field and wildlife
agent Clarence J. Rhode with
observer Dean Crossland, all
with ski-mounted planes, joined
in the search.
Miss Wright, who has been for
many years a nurse in the north
and an experienced musher is a
former resident of Minneapolis,
Minn.
Boston Becomes
Aid To Russia
WASHINGTON. Oct. 23 (/P) —
Boston will become the shipping
point of American aid and sup
plies to Russia, effective Tues
day. The Maritime Commission
order designating the New Eng
land post as the focus for such
activities was taken as an indica
tion that most shipments of indus
trial and military material to
Russia will move over the North
Atlantic, probably to Archangel.
Some shipments in the past have
been sent to Vladivostok, how
ever, it was understood the Bos
ton designation did not apply to
oil shipments.
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Threatened Oil
Shortage in East
\irtually Erased
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 r-Pi —
Secretary' of the Interior Iekes
said the prospect of a severe pet
roleum shortage in the east,
about which he has warned often
in recent weeks, is now virtual
ly erased. Gasoline, attributed to
Ickes' program of he Petroleum
Coordinator's office, coupled with
the continued widespread warm
weather has held down consump
tion of heating oils.
Tu o Norwegians
Are Executed
OSLO, Oct. 24 (VP. — Two Nor
wegians. executed by firing
squad after conviction October
fifth, by a German court martial
on charges of espionage, were
identified as Karsten Wang and
Ivar Dueland.
WAR SUPPLIES TO
HASTEN TO RUSSIA
TOKYO, Oct. — The Japanese
newspaper Yomiuri, published a
report originating from it claim
ed to be trustworthy Washington
sources, that the Soviet Union
will receive $500,000,000 worth of
goods by next spring as a result
of the British-American-Soviet
Moscow conference, just conclud
ed.
Participants in the conference
were Lord Bea verb rook, British
supply minister: W. Averell Har
riman, head of the United States
mission; C. A. Oumansky, P“
sian ambassador
States, and ’ ■ • T\T
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continue t
many througlL "I
return for these war n, ^ t
Promised British and Ann I.
can materials include shipment
of 1,000 fighter planes to Mos
cow within the next 10 weeks, in,
addition to aviation gasoline, air
plane engines, anti-tank guns as.
wel las raw materials, the Japan
ese reports said.