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VOL. 43. No. 78. / NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1941. Per Copy IB#
Germans Repulsed At Leningrad
JAPAN FACING POSSIBLE INTERNAL STRIFE
Russian Flight Composed Technical Air Observers
Japan Told Is Facing Gravest
Crisis in History-Reliable Reports
Picture Japan Near Internal Strife
TOKYO, Sept. 3 iff) — Premier
Konoye told the government and
war industries representatives,
that Japan is facing the gravest
crisis in her history, as total mo
bilization is necessary to over
come the emergency. This was
Konoye’s first public statement
since July SO'.h and came as the
proposed movement of United
States war supplies to Russia,
through waters adjacent to Jap
an, was a subject of discussion
in Tokyo, Washington and Mos
cow. The Premier spoke before
a round table conference of gov
ernment executives and leaders
of Japanese business concerns,
one of a series of meetings in
stituted by the National Service
Association, to develop Japan’s
economic power.
The leaders of Tohokai, the ex
treme Nationalist Political group
headed by Seigo N aka no, threw
their support to the proposals for
the establishment of an ocean
safety zone around Japan, the
plan which Konoye said yester
day was under consideration.
The passage of two Soviet
pla.nes across Bering Sea to Al
aska was cited by the Japan
Times and Advertiser as indicat
ing the possibility of future dan
gers in the north. The paper said
“Any effort to establish a system
of warplane service between the
American and Asiatic continents
will be viewed, by authorities
charged with the defense of
Japan, as a question of state and
international importance.”
Japan Reported
In Throes Of
Internal Struggle
UNDATED. Sept. 2 UP) — Jap
an was reliably reported in' the
throes of an internal struggle be
tween German-goaded extrem
ists and realistic moderates, over
how best .to achieve unchalleng
ed Oriental dominance, which1
the Japanese regard as their or
dained world role.
Three Possibilities
According to reliable foreign
ers. including Axis nationals ar
riving in Shanghai, the seething
situation behind Tokyo’s censor-1
ship may develop into cne or
more of the following:
1— Japanese action in the Fac
ifk> or a new move on the Asia
•ic continent. The former might
be a thrust agaiinst the Nether
land East Indies and the latter
a move against Thailand, or Vlad
ivistok. Russia’s Pacific gateway
for receipt of war supplies from
the United States.
2— Overthrow of the present
Kor.oye government, possibiy by
force.
3— Rapproachment of the Unit
ed Slates and Britain, as desired
by the realistic moderates as ai
breathing spell, pending hope of i
eventual American and British
acceptance of the Japanese ex-i
pansionist policy. This last repre-l
sents a victory fer the present j
moderating influences of the Koni
oye government. The first two
would be a victory for the ex
remists, notably the military
clique whidh according to the
Shanghai arrivals is under pres
sure and even demands by Ger-1
man advisers that the Japanese
challenge the United States,!
Britain and Russia.
The realistic moderate Japan
ese leaders were pictured as sure
that Japan will face a catastro
phic defeat if it makes that chal
lenge.
U. S. Gasoline Nears Russia
Between the rival leaders of
Japan lay the mass of panicky
civilans, which, according to the
Shanghai story, are preparing
for incendiary bombs with buck
ets of water and piles of sand out
side their flimsiiy build homes of
reed and mats under which
they will have to take refuge.
A shipment of American war
supplies to Russia via Vladivos
tok, the first shipment of aviation
gasoline, is now nearing that
port and brought Japan to the
cross roads of her policy. What
she will do beyond the present
representations against the Vlad
'ivostok shipments is a big ques- j
tion.
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PRESIDENT’S PROPERTY —Minor White House mys
tery involved recent disappearance, from F.D.R.’s desk during a
press conference, of several packages of book matches such as
these. Note the legend appearing on gold-covered cover.
Russ Technical
Mission Observe
U.S. Plane Plants
I
; WASHINGTON. Sept. 2 (T>)—
i The War Department announced
.hat the Russian military mission
enroute to the United States via
' Nome is a "Purely technical mis
sion," coming to observe plants
i vhere American aircraft are
made. The announcement said the
Russians will visit a number of
American aircraft factcres, but
their itinerary was not disclosed.
■ The visitors will confine their
activities to observation and will
not engage in training.
Russians Arrive Sitka
SEATTLE. Sept. 3 i-P) — The
Russian military mission arrived
at Sitka at 11:45 a.m. PST, the
j 13th naval district said. They left
i Kodiak early this morning.
614 Are Dead Over
Labor Day Holiday
UNDATED, Sept. 2 (/P — Six
hundred fourteen persons were
killed In accidents and other vio
lence over the holiday week
end; 416 of them in highway tra
ffic heavy with homebound va
cationists and tourists on their
final outing for the summer. An
Associated Press survey showed
that 73 drowned and 125 died of
shootings, stabbings, falls, fires,
airplane accidents and other vio
lent means.
Two Americans,
Belgian Count,
Die In Crash
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LONDON, Sept. 2 </P) — Two
Americans and Count Guy de
Baillett Latour. son of the chair
man of the International Olym
pic Committee, Count Henri de
Bail’ett Latour, were among ten
persons aboard a transport plane
of the RAF Ferry Command,
given up for lost by the Air Min
istry.
The Ferry' Command first an
i nounced that the Olympic official
| himself was aboard the plane,
but the Belgian embassy later con
firmed that it was his son, an
assistant military attache to the
Belgian Embassy in London, and
son-in-law of James Dunn, pol
itical advisor to Secretary Hull.
Count Guy has been in Washing
ton on a mission as a member of
the staff of the Minister of Col
onies for the Emigre Belgian
government. His father is still in
Belgium.
The Americans were Captain
Sherwood Picking of the U. S.
Navy and passenger flight engin
eer Charles Spencer, of Little
neck, N. Y., a member of the
crew. Picking, aged 51 command
ed submarine 0—10 during the
war. The Navy said he was order
ed to London as assistant naval
attache.
The plane left for North Am
erica, presumably Canada, yes
terday from England.
WALLACE CONVENES NEW DEFENSE BOARD
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The newly created economic defense board held it flr< meeting in Washington wish Vice-Presdent
Wallace. Seated. L-R, Secretary of Treasury, Henry Morgenthau: Wallace; Secretary of War Henry
I. Stimson; Secretary of Agrculture Claude Wickard. .Standing, L-R, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox
Assistant Secretary of States Dean Acheson who represented Secretary Cordell Hull; Secretary of
Commerce Jesse Jones, and Acting Attorney Gen ral Francis Biddle.
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Russian Counter Offensives Roll
Back German Thrusts Leingrad
Claim Edge In Aerial War In East
Names Five
Man Commission
Go To Moscow
WASHINGTON. Sept. 3 (#) —
President Roosevelt named a 5
man mission headed by W. Av
erell Harriman, Lend-Lease ex
pediter in London, to go to Mos
cow to discuss material aid t<v
Russia. The others are Major
General James Burns, executive
officer of the Lend-Lease Admin
istration; Major General Geortge
Brett, chief of the Army Air
Corps, recently ordered on a
special mission to Britain and
the Middle East in connection
with deliveries of American air
craft; Admiral William Standley
retired, former chief of naval op
erations; and William Batt, De
puty director of of the Office of
Production Management’s pro
• duction division. About nine
technicians will accompany the
mission but no announcement
was made as to when they will
leave.
ensk, routed -a German infantry
regiment rushed to the eastern
front from France only ten days
ago. It was officially announced
that the beaten regiment was the
161st German division. A Rus
sian communique stated that the
said regiment came to the east
ern front from the German-ocou
pied city of Toul, near Nancy,
close to the German border.
The Black Sea naval, air force
was described in action against
land as well as maritime objec
tives and fighting was reported^
along the entire front. Odessa
still held out under the German
and Rumanian siege.
Red bombers raided Axis port*
and troop concentrations for the
past three days, a communique
said, damaging a warship, des
troying 83 tanks and more than
50 armored cars.
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UNDATED. Sept. 3 (/P) —Twin
Russian counter offensives are re
ported to have rolled back Ger
man thrusts on Moscow and Len
ingrad. In this, was claimed the
resurgence of Red Army power.
The Russians said they have re
taken 22 vil'ages in a ten-day,
30-mile counter thrust on the
center and main front before
Moscow, and destroyed an en
tire division of Blackshirt Hitler
infantry, driving the Germans
back three miles from Leningrad
on the northern end.
On the main front, Leningrad
has been under direct threat, the
Germans claimed yesterday and
have driven to within 20 miles
of the city. The proximity of the
threat to Moscow has never been
clarified, but the Germans are
known once to have passed be
yond Smolensk, to the Vyaznia
area, about 125 miles southwest
of the capital.
A strategically important town
otherwise unidentified, was said
to have fallen in a counter at
tack by Leningrad’s newly inspir
ed defense, reflecting perhaps,
that new difficulties have been
encountered by the Grmans.
A Hitler communique, barren,
of details of the operations, say
ing merely that “successful fight
ing actions are in progress,” and
heading possibly for a deadlock
aground, and makes for the war
position^ attrition in the World
War tradition.
Russia and Germany stepped
up aerial offensives and at Ger
many’s rear, the western front,
the British aerial offensive, thus
far her principle active aid to
•Russia, gained hitting power. Dis
patches from Berlin itself, said
an RAF night raid on Berlin was
one of the livliest assaults in
months.
Claiming the edge Ln aerial
fighting on the eastern front, the
Russians said they shot down 198
German p'anes Saturday, Sun
day and Monday with a loss of
less than a third of that number
of her own air force. .
Germans Are 20
mi. from Leningrad
BERLIN, Sept. 2 (/P) — The
most advanced German units in
the Leningrad drive are stand
ing before Krasnogvardisk, 20
miles southwest of the second
city of the Soviet union, inform
ed German sources said.
Rumanian troops were declar
ed by DNB, as beseiging the
main waterworks of Odessa, iso
lated Rusisan city on the Black
Sea. Cutting off the Odessa wa
ter supply, DNB said, will ser
iously endanger the Red soldiers
>and civilian volunteers defend
ing the port, already said to be
suffering from a shortage of food.
A report of the German move
ment at Krasnogvardeisk, the
junction of the railways from
Pskov, Tallinn and Leningrad,
followed a DNB report that Ger
man infantry 'has stormed im
portant heights on a northern sec
tor of the front. '
Russians Route
Nazi Division
MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (/P) — Red
Army units, counterattacking on
the central sector toward Smol