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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 61. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1942. Per Copy 154
Soviets Take Link Kharkov Defense
Registration of Men 18 to 20 Is Set For June 30
Fifth Registration Day Set For
June 30 For Men Age 18 to 20
WASHINGTON, May 22 (AP) — The President set
June 30 as the registration day for men between 18
and 20 years of age. This will complete the present
registration of the nation’s manpower, for both fighting
and non-combatant war duty, in the fifth registration.
Under existing law, men 18 and 19 will register be
tween 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. June 30, but will not be sub
ject to military draft until they reach the age o.f 20.
Approximately 40,000,000 men between 20 and 65
have registered in the four previous drafts.
Government Will Try Prevent
Unwarranted Pay Increases
WASHINGTON, May 22 (AP)'— The President
' declared that the government will do every thing it
could to prevent what he termed unwarranted pay
increases in private plants. Half a dozen steps might
be taken, the President said, but he didn’t enumerate
any of them at the press conference. The President re
iterated again that the war will be a long one and
cautioned against over-optimism one week and over
pessimism the next. Public opinion and news go up
and down and things appear of big moment but more
can be done to prevent it better. It is the war effort flue
tuations, he said, which caused the tendency to over
statement on the part of the American people.
Japs Starl Offensive To
knock China Out of War
CHUNGKING. May 21 (AP) — Japanese troops'
fended near Foochow, chief port and capital of the east
coast province of Fukien, and engaged in heavy fight
ing with Chinese defense forces, the Chinese announc
ed. The invading force was carried aboard a dozen
transports which made their way up the Min river to
a point near the city. The descent on Foochow, a city
of 400.000 inhabitants and the largest port between
Shanghai and Hongkong, is the southward extension
of a series of Japanese attacks assuming the character
of a major offensive, perhaps intended to knock China
out of the war.
Herbert Hoover Declares
Dictatorial Powers Must
Be Vested in President
New York, May 21 (AP)) j
— To win total war, says I
Herbert Hoover, dictator
ial powers must be vested
in the President. The formj
er president said tonight,
“There must be no hesti- j
tion in giving them to him
and upholding him in them
Moreover we must expect
a steady decrease in econ
omic freedom as the war
goes on, and we must
start our thinking with the
disagreeable, cold, hard
fact that it is economic
measures that win total
war, just plain Fascist ec
onomics.”
Hoover addressed the na
tional industrial confer
ence of the board of Re
search Organizations.
AVG Flying Tigers
Destroy 47 Jap Planes,
31 Trucks In April
Airdrome at Kunming,
China, May 20 (AP)—The
United States AVG Flying
Tigers destroyed 47 Japan
ese planes and blew up 31
enemy trucks during April
an AVG communique said.
Indications Are Mexico
Will Declare War On Axis
Over Ship Sinkings
Mexico City, May 21 (AP)
— The Axis refused even
to receive Mexico’s protest
over her first ship loss in
the war and there are
strong indications tonight
that Mexico will declare
war quickly.
Foreign office investiga
tion reports that two more
Mexican ships were sunk
by torpedoes today off Bra
zil.
Today —The newspaper
La Prensa reported that
the Havan, a Mexican ship
was torpedoed off Cuba
and burst into flames. Most
of her crew was lost.
40 Norwegian Teachers
Drowned In Sinking By
Nazis of Small Vessel
Moscow, May 21 (AP) —
The Soviet information bu
reau said 40 Norwegian
teachers from the Oslo dis
trict were drowned recent
ly when the small vessel in
which they put out to sea
was sunk by a German pat
rol launch.
Government Might Have
To Requisition Autos To
Haul Workers To Plants
Washington, May 22 (AP)
— Rubber coordinator Ar
thur Nevvhall r e ported
that the government ulti
mately may have to requi
sition autos to haul work
ers to and from war plant
areas where other facilities
are lacking, and if the na
tion’s tire resources are
wasted. Newhall assured a
press conference, however,
that he saw.no need for re
quisitioning of tires this
year or in 1943. In any
case they will not be tak
en to be ground up for re
claimed rubber, but only
as a means of solving the
transportation problem.
Brig.Gen. Jimmy Doolittle
Promises Many Surprises
For Japan and Germany
Washington, May 20 CAP)
— Brig. Gen. Jimmy Doo
little, who led the air raid
on Tokyo promised tonight
in a broadcast “many more
surprises for Japan and
Germany.
Doolittle’s back ground
shows Alaska is entitled to
part claim to the hero. His
parents took him north in
the gold rush at the age of
three. He started school in
Nome and later returned
to San Francisco.
War Dept, records fail
to support the Anchorage
suspicion that there might
have been a fireman by the
same name on the Alaska
Railroad in 1921, on army
duty there.
I
Believe Sub Had Advance
Knowledge of Cargo Ship
Sunk in 90 Seconds
New Orleans May 22 (AP)
—A sea captain expressed
the belief that the two tor
pedoes which sank his me
dium-sized U. S. cargo ship
in 90 seconds were fired by
a sub crew, tipped off in ad
vanee as to the vessel’s
movements. At least 21
members of the crew and
the gun crew were carried
to their death in the anuz-i
ingly swift sinking which
occurred in the Gulf of
Mexico on May 10.
Captain Henry Rowe at
taehed significance to the
fact that the sub not only
attacked without warning,
but didn’t, surface after the
sinking to obtain informa
tion about its victim, pos
sibly indicating that the
sub’s officers already knew,
the ship's identity and its
sailing plans.
Individuals Skilled In
Critical War Occupations
May Not Be Drafted
Washington, May 21 (AP)
— The War Manpower
Commission directed the
Selective Service System
to instruct local boards to
consult federal employ
ment Service offices before
drafting any individual
“skilled in a critical war
occupation.” The directive!
was included in an 8-point
program announced by
Chairman McNutt to pro
mote the “fullest utiliza
tion of the manpower of
the nation.'
Russians Capture Major Link
In Kharkovs Defense Rinii
C
UNDATED. May 21 (AP) — Russia’s armies, driv
ing over fields littered with wreckage, are reported to
have engulfed a key German stronghold, crushed re
peated German tank attacks, and stormed forward 6
more miles in the ten-dav battle of Kharkov. Soviet
dispatches said Russian troops wiped out Nazi strong
holds in the garrison in a fierce 40-minute struggle. A
communique said 5 villages were captured in the battle
area “with enormous losses” to the inflated enemy.
Ear behind the lines, Soviet guerillas are reported
to have recaptured an important city of several thou-,
sand inhabitants, deep in White Russia, driving out
ihe Germans who held the point for four months, and
routing a strong Nazi force which attempted to regain
it from dawn to dusk.
Rattle dispatches to the Red Star said the German,
stronghold captured at Kharkov, one which the Nazis,
sought to hold at any cost, was apparently the major
link in Kharkov’s immediate defense ring.
Hitler’s fiield headquarters pictured the Russians as
suffering heavy losses as German warplanes ranged
over the Kharkov battlefield in great numbers, strafing j
and bombing the Red Armies.
GROUND LITTERED WRECKED NAZI TANKS
MOSCOW, May 20 (Delayed) (AP) — Thursday,
the crushing Red Army offensive around Kharkov was
still rolling ahead at dawn today over ground “littered
with wrecked Nazi tanks and machines.’’ The official
news agency. Tass said fresh German reserves were
thrown against the Soviets but five villages were re
captured by the Red Army, and an attempted German
counter offensive 80 miles south of Kharkov was
checked.
Italy ( laims Sub Sinks U. S.
V
Battleship of Maryland Class
ROME, May 22 (AP) — The Italian command said
in a special communique that its sub Barbarigo sank a
U. S. battleship of the Maryland class with two tor
pedo hits, off the Brazilian coast yesterday. There was
no confirmation from any other source to bear out the
claim.
The communique said the escorting vessels of a U,
S. naval formation didn't reply to the attack; and gave
the time of the asserted attack at 2:50 a.m. Rome time,
the place 100 miles west of the Brazilian island of Fer
nando Noronha, 125 miles off the easternmost extrem
ity of Brazil.
Allied Submarines Sink 7,100-Ton
Allied Headquarters in Australia, May 21 (AP) —
Friday, Allied submarines have sunk a 7,100-ton Jap
anese criuser of the Kako class and two Japanese cargo
vessels of 9 and 6 thousand tons respectively, it was
announced officially.
MacArthur’s headquarters said 14 Japanese planes
were destroyed or damaged in air raids on Japanese
invasion bases in New Guinea and Timor.
There are four ships of the Kako class, each carry
ing 604 men.
Down 4 Planes Over Port Moresby
Allied Headquarters in Australia, May 20 (Delayed)
(AP) — Thursday, Allied bombers destroyed 2 ground
ed Jap planes, damaged the runway, and started large
fires Wednesday in an attack on Koepang, Dutch Timor.
MacArthur’s headquarters announced that 4 of 12
Jap fighter planes were damaged when intercepted by
Allied planes during a strafing attack on Port Mores
by, New Guinea.
FATHER-AND-SON FLYING TEAM
Captain E. Hamilton Lee (left), clean of all pilots, looks
proudly from the cockpit of his United Air Lines Main
liner as his son, Robert E. Lee, sits beside him in the
capacity of a new United first officer. Young Lee just
has graddated from United’s pilot training sdliool, to
follow in the footsteps of his father who has flown
more than three and a quarter million miles as the
“flyingest man” in the world.