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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 80. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 1941. Per Copy 18#
Red Offensives Gain Momentum
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Vichy Admits Reprisals In Occupied Zones Useless
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Mother Of President Roosevelt Passes Away
Red Offensives Are Said To Be
Gaining Momentum - - RAF Raid
Oil Berlin Is Said To Be Heaviest
UNDATED. Sept. 8 ,(/P) — Ger
man front I ns dispatches ack
nowledged that the Red Armies
guarding Leningrad are making
a bitter village-by-village stand,
under the pounding of hundreds
of Stuka dive bombers, while the
Russians declared that they are
pressing the initiative on a broad
sector of the muddy, rain-soaked
front.
Berliner Feel Sting of Bombs
At home, the Germans felt the
sting of one. of the war’s most vio
lent aerial assaults on B rlin.
in which the Nazis admitted that
27 residents were killed by RAF
b mbers who broke through anti
aircraft defenses and dumped
high explosives and incendiary
bombs on the Reich capital.
The British Press Association
said the ra^l was with the heav
iest bomb weights on Berlin,
since the war started. Besides
fatalities, the Germans said, an
undisclosed number suffered
from wounds and feared that the
death toll might increase.
An unofficial German announce
ment said that 3,853 Germans
were killed in air raids on Ger
may since the start on August 2
when RAF pilots found Berlin
in shining bright moonlight.
The London Air Ministry re
ported “Soon there were many
fires” raging in the heart of the
city. The attack lasted more than
five hours, from midnight to al
most dawn. The Air Ministry
said U. S.-built night fighters
took part in an overnight offen
sive, raiding bases in'the Nether
lands and Brittany.
Two American-built planes al
so figured in the capture of a
bcmb-damaiged German U-boat
wallowing in a gale somewhere
in the Atlantic. The London Ad
miralty announced that British
naval authorities expressed
dcubt that the captured sub is
the Nazi underseas raider which
fought the U. S. destroyer Greer
in waters off Iceland last week.
Fiercest Fighting
On the western front, Soviet
reports said Russian troops, in
some of the firecest fighting of
the struggle, had driven Grj
! mans from positions astr'de the
I vital highway leading to Lenin
grad.
On the central front, a Red
; r;i rtercffenslve is said gaining
momentum, after recapturing sev
i eral important towns.
Germans Ousted
vital HR Zones
At Leninrad
UNDATED, Sept. 6 f/P) — Des
perate Russian counter attacks in
-he defense of Leningrad, pushed
the German besiegers out of the
vital railway zone approaches to
the city.
3-Day Battle Raging
A great battle began three
days ago and is still in progress,
i official Soviet recounts stated.
! The Army newspaper Red Star,
made the above claim without
stating the exact location or men
tion the railway and gave no
clue, for Leningrad is the hub
with many radiating lines, which
the Germans claimed they have
i cut. The Germans said yesterday
I that they were shelling a rail
way 25 miles east of the city.
The Russians said autumn fog
hindered the fighting.
Seventeen of 30 raiding Ger
man pLanes were destroyed.
At the, end of the 11th week
of the invasion, a climax seemed
near.
In the battles at Leningrad,
Kiev and Odessa, the Soviets
threw all the steel they had avail
ab e into the defense.
The German high command
said only that “Operations of at
tack in the east are progressing
favorably.”
Kiev, mother of Russian cities,
and capital of the Ukraine, con
tinued to stave off the semi-circle
of German assaults, after break
ing two major onslaughts last
month, the Russian official news
agency said.
Reprisals In Occupied France
For Anti - Nazi Actions, Make
Matters Worse, Vichy Admits
VICHY, Sept. 8 (IP) — More
than a hundred Jews and two
prominent French lawyers, one
of them Minister of Justice in
the old republic, were reported
seized as hostages by German oc
cupation authorities in Paris, be
cause of attacks on members of
the Germany Army. It was in
these new mass arrests that the
Germans took the two once-prom
ent lawyers: former justice min
ister Mass, and a Jew, Theodore
Valense, a former Deputy and a
native of Corsica.
Vichy no longer tried to hide
the gravity of the strife in the
occupied zone or the fact that
the reprisals are only making
things worse. An official govern
ment news ^gency told in its pa
per that “We can expect to see
street incidents multiply.”
Former President
of Cuba Dead
HAVANA, Sept. 8 i(A>) — Gen
eral Menocal, aged 74, Cuba’s
president from 1913 to 1921, died
yesterday of a digestive ailment.
Berlin Asserts
ALS. S. Greer
Attacked Sub
BERT.TN. Sept. 6 (JP) — A Ger
' man communique dec'ared, in
.connection with the case of the
j U. S. destroyer Gr^r that the
1 U-boat fired two torpedoes at the
destroyer in waters within the
Gorman blokadg zone. The eom
' mun'que asserted that the action
! was in self defense against at
tacks. the said destroyer violat
ing neutrality and that the U
boat’s action was justified.
The communique declared the
incident proved that President
Roosevelt has given the United
States navy shooting orders and
is now trying to provoke in
cidents to force the American
' people into the war.
j The communique said the U
boat comander was justified be
j cause “he was not in a position
to determine the nationality of
the attacking destroyer.” The
communique described the inci
dent as a running battle, starting
; at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, when the
U-boat “was attacked by water
I bombs at 62.31 degrees north,
27.06 degrees east, and was pur
j sued continuously.” The com
j munique said the engagement
lasted “until todward midnight,”
i with the destroyer pursuing with
1 water bombs, unsuccessfully un
til then.
The communique charged
President Roosevelt, contrary to
his statement, that he had given
“general orders to American de
stroyers not only to report posi
tions of German ships and U
boats but beyond that, to attack
them,” and that finally “Roose
velt, in this way is also trying
with all the means at his dis
posal, to provoke incidents in or
der to incite the American people
into war with Germany.”
The location was given as
about 200 miles southwest of
Iceland.
Navy Launches
Atlanta, Fastest
Light Cruiser
KEARNY, N. J„ Sept. 6 (JP) —
The Navy launched the 6,000 ton
light cruiser Atlanta and made
an announcement that it would
make at least 43 knots, equal to
the speed of the fastest U. S. de
stroyers. Armaments and certain
features intended to increase the
speed of the vessel were kept
secret.
Margaret Mitchell, author" of
“Gone With the Wind,” was the
christener.
3rd U.S. Tanker
At Vladivostok
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 <JP) —The
third American tanker harrying
oil to Russia from the United
States .arrived this morning at
Vladivostok, the Sydney, Austral
ia, radio said.
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Mrs. Sara Delano Rocsevelt and President and Mrs. Roosevelt
First Indications
Winter Seen In
Rocky Mountains
HELENA, Mont., Sept, 8 (A1) —
Winter sent a spearhead of snow
and frost into the mountain coun
try, adding a generous amount
of rain, dust and wind for good
measure. The Bitter Root Moun
tains in Western Montana, and
the ranges along the Continental
Divide were tipped with snow,
and rain washed the eastern
slopes of the Rockies, with as
much as 248-one hundredths in
i hes falling within 18 miles of the
city.
BRITAIN TAKES
OVER RAIL LINES
LONDON — The British gov
ernment announced that it had
assumed dontrol over all rail
road lines in Britain.
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Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt,
Mother of President, Died At
Hyde Park Home, Aged 86
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HYDE PARK, N.Y., Sept. 7 t/P)
— Mrs Sara Delano Roosevelt,
aged 86, who lived to see her
only son become the President of
the United States, died at the an
cestral Roosevelt home overlook-j
ing the Hudson River, at 11:15
from ah acute circulatory col
lapse, resulting principally from
advanced age.
The President’s address to the
nation, scheduled for Monday
night was postponed until Thurs
day.
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt
was the daughter of Warren
Delano, a banker and Far East
trader. She became James Roose
velt’s second wife at the age of
26. James Roosevelt was a law
yer ,and financier and was a
fourth cousin of Theodore Roose
j velt.
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt
was five times a grand mother:
one grand daughter, Anna Elea
nor, and four grand sons: James,
Elliot, Franklin Jr. and John.
iShe was also ten times a great
grand mother: Anna Eleanor
j “Sisie” and Curtis “Buzzie” Dahl
children of Anna’s first marriage
and John Boettiger, son of her
second marriage; Sara and Kate,
daughters of James’ first mar
: riage; Wililam Donner Roosevelt
1 son of Elliott’s first marriage and
Ruth Chandler and Elliott Jr.,
“Tony,” children of his second
marriage; Franklin D. the third,
son of Franklin D. Jr., anld
Haven C.ark Roosevelt, son ot
John.
AMERICANS FROM
ORIENT REACH U. S.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The liner
President Coolidge arrived in
San Francisco carrying a capa
city load of 709 passengers, most
ly American citizens leaving the
Orient.
Many of the Americans are re
turning to the United States af
ter living for as long as 20 years
in the Far East.
The President Coolidge was
denied permision by the Japan
ese government to bring an ad
ditional 100 American citizens
Yokohama.
U. S.-JAPANESE
PRESENT STATUE
SAN FRANCISCO — The Jap
anese-American Citizens’ League
of San Francisco offered to the
city today a 34-foot black gran
ite and stainless steel statue
created by Beniamino Bufano.
The sculptor entitled his jut
j ting futuristic statue “Peace”
Canadian Com
mand Troops At
Spitzbergen
OTTAWA, Sept. 8 HP) — Brit
ish, Canadian and Norwegian
troops, under Canadian com
mand recently effected a landing
at Spitzbergen, Norway, without
interference, to keep German
forces in Norway from utilizing,
for their own war purposes, the
rich coal mines, the National De
fense Headquarters announced.
The Arctic island is 500 miles
northeast of Norway proper.
but the Japanese-Americans re
named the ‘Tolerance.”
They said they offered the
work as an expression of good
will from American-born Japan
ese. Mayor Rossi said that the
offer would be turned over to the
City Art Commission.
SAYS JAPANESE FEAR
U. S. FLEET IN PACIFIC
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 5
l/P) — A Minnesota congressman
who just returned from six
weeks of duty at sea with the
Reserve Air Officers of the Ma
rine Corps Reserve, declared to
day that Japan is “deathly
afraid” of the United States fleet
when it is in the Pacific Ocean.
The legislator, who holds the
rank of colonel, was Representa
tive Maas. He remarked in an in
terview that some of the fleet
had been withdrawn to the At
lantic but expressed the opinion
that nevertheless the United Slat
es forces in the Pacific remain
strong enough to fend off any at
tack against this nation and at
the same time to keep open the
supply routes for vital shipments
of rubber and tin.
Furlther, the congressman
said he belivea that the Western
Hemisphere was in “no danger
of Japanese aggression.”