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Vol. 44. No. 63. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, May 27. 1942 Pcr 15«
Jap Premier Boasts of New Threat
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Soviet Annies Smother Nazi Advance
Germans Claim Resistance Broken
UNDATED, May 27 (AP) — Soviet front lin? ri;s
patehes reported that Marshal Timoshenko’s armies
smothered part of the German offensive 80 miles below
Kharkov, while the German command asserted that
the resistance of the Russian troops encircled in the
same critical sector has “been broken.” The Russians
declared that the Red Armies, smashing through the
flank of the German wedge, brought the Nazi offensive'
in the Izyum Barvebkova sector to a standstill.
In a most important zone, the Red Star, the Soviet
army newspaper, said lank-led Russian infantry, at
tacking under cover of an artillery barrage, captured
the slope of a hill dominating the battle zone, and are
now fighting at the gates of a village several miles from
their starting point. The Red Star said two Nazi count
er thrusts failed to halt the advance.
Soviet reports said that the German push was stop
ped along a river bend where Russian troops are ap
parently encircled and were described as now enlarg
ing the pocket.
The Red Star said the Germans are suffering "im
mense losses.” Tank battles are flaring in many sec
tors of the 125-mile battle zone, with the Russians
matching the attacks of Nazi squadrons of 20 to 80
tanks each.
Supplies of Crude Rubber Vvill Be Ex
hausted May ’43, Respite Curtailment
WASHINGTON, May 26, (AP) — The Senate De
fense Investigating Committee criticized the Army and
Navy for not paring rubber requirements to the bone,
asserting that if production of synthetics didn’t come
up to schedule, military forces “may find themselves
without rubber at some future date.”
In a 57-page report, the committee said national
gasoline rationing on a “sensible basis” and requisi
tioning of tires must be given serious consideration to
conserve the million tons of rubber now on the when’s
of motor vehicles. There is no new or reclaimed rubber
at all for non-essential uses within the next three years
and the best that could be expected from a successful
synthetic program will be to supply military needs
and essential civilian requirements, ;uch as tires for
cars tr. nsporting defense workers.
The resources of this hemisphere oiler little hope
for adding substantially to the united national supplies
of crude rubber, which Price Administrator Henderson
testified will be exhausted in May, 1943, even with the
greatest possible curtailment of civilian uses.
B-lo U. S. Bomber
Sinks Enemy Ship
Off Recife, Brazil
Fori Alezii, Brazil. May 2G
(AP) — A high source re
ported that another enemy
sub was sunk off Fmcife to
day by a “B-18,” presum
ably an American bomber,
a Douglas twin-motored,
medium bomber, known as
the B-18 and used by the
U. S. Army.
Mexico Is To
Declare War on
Axis Powers
MEXICO CITY The Mexi
can C «!,;-■ •; decided to call a
special s. inn , f congress to de
clare war on the Ax.-- as a re
prisal n i astire for the sink r.g of
two Mex ran ships.
The ann iunc< ment that a s 'c
ond Mexican tanker had been
sent down by an Ax's sub off
Cuba with the loss of 10 lives
served to heighten the indigna
tion that was arouse dthroughnut
Mexico at the sinking of the first
s1 n earlier in the week.
Vi sterday, the Mexican govern
ment was undecided a- to whi
ther to declare war outright or
stale that a national emergency
e isted. Either course spake II
for the Axis since the latter
u uld have meant drastic mca
sur s over all Ax:s properti s.
Commanders of military ? ms
and state governors came to th
Mi xican capital for conferences
and received word from Mexican
C nsul Salvador Aguayo at Mi
ami, Florida, that the Mexican
tanker Fajadcoro had been fired
mi by a -Uboat off the coast of
Cuba and sent to the bottom.
After deliberating that k-b-st
blow, the Mexican Cabinet dc u I
ed that it could no other o>:;r.i
hut to call a special session t
declare war on the Axis powers.
K> Areas In
Alaska Named
nefense Areas
T'k •b.ngton, May 2G (AP)
— The G vernment desig
n sled 13 additional com
munities in the entire
Territory of Alaska as “de
fense rental areas," when
it ordered rents affecting
.i me million persons, cut
1 ek to the March first
1 /cl. Tiie OPA announced
that the new areas will be
given the usual sixty days
to meet recommendations
before the government
t kes steps to enforce
them.
1 . S. Air Mission
In Britain For
Important Talks !
London, May 2(> (AP) —
A Lr. S. war mission, head
j od b\ Army and Navy
chiefs, called one of the
most important yet sent to
Britain, arrived and lias
gone into action with no
loss of time. It was disclos
ed that the two leaders,
were Lieut. Gen. Arnol i.
head of tlie Army Air Fore
cs and Rear Admiral Tow
ers, Chief of Naval Aero
nautics.
Their purpose is to con
fer with the British and
the talks are believed de
signed to coordinate strat
egy for a master blow ag
ainst Germany.
Within two hours after
stepping from the train
which brought them h re
after landing from a plane
which Hew across the At
lantic, Gen. Arnold was
arranging meetings with
the chiefs of Britain’s fight
mg forces, and assumed
personal charge of the L.
S. air operation plans.
The typical unofficial
British reaction to the mis
sion was that it foreshad
owed a supreme air offen
sive against the Axis in
Europe.
10 LAWMAKERS
ARE ASKED TO
VISIT LONDON
WASHINGTON, May — Con
gressional leaders are reported
to be divided on whether to send
10 Senators and Repreesentativ
es from both the Republican and
Democratic parties to England
for talks with the British Par
liament about war problems and
peace aims. A tentative invita
tion was laid before a group of
House and Senate leaders by an
unnamed British spokesman at a
secret conference recently.
Democratic leaders are report
ed to have given the idea gen
eral approval.
Senate Republican leader
Charles McNary of Oregon and
House Republican leader Joseph
W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts
are skeptical.
Premier Tojo Sounds New Threat To
Australia--Discounts Attack Russia
Inflexibly Determined to Annihilate Allies in India
UNDATED. May 27 (AP) — Japan's Premier Tojo
sounded a new threat to Australia, asserting boastfuly
that the “naval forces now in defense of Australia have
di appeared and nothing is standing now to defend that
country before the onslaught of imperial Japanese forc
es." Evidently on a “fishing expedition” in quest of in
formation, Tojo’s repetition of Japan’s claims to vic
tory in the Coral S i battle, discredited b> Allied ac
counts, was accompanied by a renewed pledge of Jap
anese suppoi t to the Axis,
Japan will do her utmost to contribute her share as
partner of Germany and Italy," he told the Jap parlia
ment in the presence of Emperor Ilirohito. but as if to
dispel the idea that Japan will help Germany by at
tacking Russia, foreign minister Tojo carefully explain
cd that “relations between Japan and the Soviet Union
have undergone no change, even after the outbreak of
war in greater east Asia, Enemy countries will, I pre
sume. intensify their efforts to alienate Japan and the
Soviet Union, but there will be no chance for such in
trigue to bear fruit so long as the Soviet Un on firmly
maintains the attitude mentioned.”
In addition to his threat against Australia, T ; warn
ed India that as “long as British and America t troops
remain in India, Japan is inflexibly determined to an
nihilate them.”
i'ranee Takes Step Toward Turning
Still-Showerful Meet Over To Hitler
UNDATED. May 26 (AP) — France ! taken a
definite step toward turning the French fleet over to
Hitler. London advices indicated, amid reports of new
Italian demands for prized French terr'torial posses
sions. including Tunisia, Nice an ! Corsica By agree
m nt between Vichy and Berlin, it was said, German
sailors are to be permitted “to familiar: themselves
with the operations of French warships.'’ in a move
foreshadowing Nazi seizure of France’s still-powerful
Navy forces.
Meanwhile Britain’s former War Secretary, Hore
Belisha, asserted that the successful establishment of
a s< nd front r Europe might end the war this year.
While Briuns clamored for direct action. Hore Belisha
declared. “A stern struggle is in progress round Khar
kov and we promised to intervene to robeve our Rus
sian ally. The phychological moment 11. v come, be
yond which we must not delay if our ae!: n is to turn
the scale.”
On the fighting front, Soviet headquarters reported
that Hitler's mechanized armies are suffering heavy
losses in tanks and men in an attempt to flank the Rus
sian's in the Li-day-old battle of Kharkov
Workers Thanked
By Gen. \rnold
INGLEWOOD. Calif. — The
chief of the United States Army
Air Corps, Lieut. General H. H.
Arnold, wired to the employees
of the North American Aviation
Company plant a message of
praise for the performance of
the bombers they built in the
raid on Japan last month. Gen
eral Arnold said that the com
mander of the raid, Brig. Gen.
James Doolittle, advised him:
“The performance of all the
planes of my squadron was mag
nificent.”
General Arnold added:
‘This feat is a tribute to the
skill and workmanship of North
American employees. May your
efforts carry us to the enemy in
i increasing numbers.”
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London naval observers believe the Coral Sea battle grew out of a Jap invasion
convoy’s drive from Rabaul or the Solomon Islands toward (black arrows) the
New Hebrides or New Caledonia. British said the aim would he to encircle Aus
tralia on the east and cut or threaten U. S. supply lines.
Praised P>\ Chinese
CHUNGKING. May — The
leader of the A m ere an bombing
raid on T k> Brig. General
Jimmy Doolittle, v\ras congrat
ulated by the CH nese army news
paper, San Tang Pao. Said the
paper:
"Doolittle wrote a mast glor
ious page in World War annals
because it was the first time in
history that the Japanese have
been punished inside their own
territory. We extend our heart
iest congratulations t-o Doolittle.’*
Lived In Nome
General Doolittle who led the
raid of American bombers over
cities of Japan is a former Alas
kan resident. His fattier was a
1 carpenter in Nome in 1904 and
; young Jimmy then sold papers,
for The Nome Nugget. The fam
ily moved from Alaska in 1910.
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