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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 96. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. July 20. 1942 Per Copv 15«
Rostov Again Under Serious Threat
Account of Navy Air Attack on Japs Kiska, June 18
Account of Navv Air Attack On
Japanese at Kiska On June loth
By Keith Wheeler
At Sea with the U. S. Pacific Fleet, June 18th. De
layed — The Japs are dying in Kiska harbor as the
war of the Aleutian mists begins again after three
days of storms and glue-thick fogs.
United States bombers sank a Jap transport with a ;
direct hit and six near misses, in the first contact since
the 14th when the fog broke long enough for eight of
this command’s Catalina flying boats to drop through
the clouds over Kiska and dump six tons of dynamite
on the Jap ships lying there. One 500-pound crump
fell squarely on a light cruiser and started a gaudy fire
Another dropped alongside a transport, close enough'
the bombardier felt, to make serious underwater dam
age a certainty.
As usual the Japs had their guns trained on the'
cloud breaks and five of the Catalinas came away as
full of holes as shirts back from a ship’s laundry. One
was hit by a three-inch anti-aircraft projectile, tearing
a neat hole through the hull but failing to explode.
—Copyrighted by Chicago Times
Casus Offensive Imperils Russia’s
With Allies In Middle East
UNDATED, July 18 (/P) — After a change in the
course of some of the strongest elements. Germany’s
million-man Caucasus offensive appeared to be stab
bing close, t.fi Rostov and also toward the deep Caucasus
in thrusts imperilling Russia’s links with the Allies in
the Middle East. The Germans proclaimed that one
drive cut off the oil-rich Caucasus, while Russian and
German advices both told of another advance upon the
city along the main railway route from the north.
In their first appearance on this dominant world
front, American-made Douglas bombers were flung
into the battle to blast the onrushing German tanks.
Major General Lewis Brereton, who headed the air
defense of the Philippines, and who later commanded
the American air operations in Burma and China, as
sumed command of the U. S. air forces in the Middle
East.
The battle of Egypt is still undecided but Axis forces
were reported to have suffered heavy losses in two un
successful counter attacks in the last 36 hours in the
south and central sections of the desert front, 75 miles
west of Alexandria. Heavy bombers raided the Axis
supply port of Tobruk and hit a large ship tanker and
started a fire in the dock storage area.
The Moscow radio reported that the Red Army, strik
ing savagely in the battle of Voronezh, recaptured five
communities and attacked surprised garrisons protect
ing the Don river crossings.
The German high command did not precisely locate
the claimed foothold gn the lower Don but said it is
east of both the Donets and Rostov. The bulk of the
German forces which thrust through Millerovo, 130
miles north of Rostov, split and one group is advanc
ing southward, the other southeast. The original Mil
lerovo threat appeared aimed at Stalingrad, 175 miles
to the east.
FBI Arrests
Son®; Writers
For Extortion
WASHINGTON, July 18 (JP) —
The FBI announced the arrest of
a song composing team in Los
Angeles on charges of trying to
extort $250,000 from Louis Mayer
motion picture executive. The
FBI named them as Channing
Lipton, aged 35, former prize
fighter turned lyricist, and Mayer
Grace, aged 25, ex-filling station
employee. The Justice Depart
ment said several of their songs
have been published.
The two were arrested when
they called at a hotel in Los An
geles on July 13th to pick up an
extortion package. Mayer receiv
t ed a letter on June 25th post
Navy Announces
Sinking Of
Two Ships
WASHINGTON. July 18 </P> —
The Navy announced the sinking
of two more ships, one of them
a medium-sized U. S. merchant
ship, sunk in the Bay of Bengal
on April 7th when enemy air
craft bombed it and a cruiser
shelled it. The survivors landed
at a U. S. port.
The other ship was a small
British merchant vessel torpedo
ed and shelled in the Atlantic sev
eral weeks ago.
marked Beverly Hills and signed
“Spokesman for Six,” demanding
j money.
American Losses Aleutian Campaign
One Civilian Rillled
ARMY AIRCRAFT RECENTLY DROPPED 56
BOMBS ON INSTALLATIONS AT RISK A
WASHINGTON. July 18 (/P) — The Navy announc
ed, in a resume of fighting in the Aeutians, that Army
aircraft recently dropped 56 bombs on Jap shore in
stallations at Kiska. one of the three islands on which
the enemy has landed.
Amene n losses in the campaign to-date, were dis
close.I uffieially as 44 Army and Navy men killed in
. ihe Jao bombing attacks on Dutch Harbor and nearby
For. M ars army post, and Fort Glenn about 70 miles
west Dutch Harbor on the island of Umnak. The
old siation ship Northwestern was lost in the attack
i on Dutch Harbor early in June when hit by bombs
and burned. Some damage, although of minor nature,
was done to American shore installations. In addition
to the 44 Army and Navy dead. 49 Army and Navy
' personnel were injured and one civilian killed so far, •
the Navy said.
No Material Change in General Situation
The Navy’s review of the situation said “There is :
no mater'al change in the general situation" since:
July II. Several new bits of information were added
t.o what was previously announced. These included
that the force which attacked the Aleutians on June
third, the day before the Jap attack on Midway, con
sisted of approximately two small carriers, two sea
plane tenders, several cruisers and destroyers, and
from four to six transports. At the time of the Dutch
Harbor attack, three U. S. destroyers, an Army trans
port, a mine sweeper, and a Coast Guard cutter were
in the harbor, in addition to the Northwestern, which
was beached and used as a barracks by contractors’
personnel. ♦
The day after the first Dutch Harbor attack, Army
bombers and Navy patrol planes attacked enemy cruis
ers, launching bombs and torpedoes but the results
"couldn’t be observed.” On June fourth, the same day
that American planes counter attacked, the enemy’s
carrier-based bombers and 16 fighters attacked Dutch
Harbor and Fort Mears for the second time, and simul
taneously assaulted the army post at Fort Glenn where
9 enemy fighters straffed shore installations. Two
fighters were shot down and the other 7 withdrew
"Without inflicting damage.”
Rostov, Gateway To Caucasus,
Which Drove Nazis Away Eidit
Months A»o. Is Menaced Anew
NAZIS, CHECKED AT VORONEZH, VEER SOUTH
IN SERIOUS THREAT TO ROSTOV
UNDATED, July 20 (/P) — Rostov, whose armed
citizenry helped the Russian army drive out the Ger
mans eight months ago, was menaced anew as Hitler’s
offensive, repulsed at Voronezh and checked moment
arily toward the east, veered south and a tremendous
onslaught forced the Russians back toward the gate
way to the Caucasus.
On the Other Fronts of World War
On other fronts of the World War, the British are
holding new-won gains in the Egyptian desert, and
announced they captured 4,000 Germans and Italians
in last week’s fight west of El Alamein. RAF four
motored bombers battered the Vegesack sub-building
yards, 10 miles from Bremen, and the U. S. air force in
China smashed the Japanese airfield at Canton, and
the invader’s base at Linchwan in Kiangsi Province.
Driving through Voroshilovgrad, a hundred miles
north of Rostov and Millerovo, on the Rostov-Moscow
rail line, the Germans are converging on the junction
of the rail line with the Donets river at Kaanensk. Ros
tov lies 80 miles to the south.
Paris Radio Exceeds German Claims of Gains
Exceeding even Berlin's accounts of German gains,
i the Paris radio said advance forces reached Shakhty,
coal mining railroad town, 40 miles north of Rostov.
Timoshenko Making Orderly Withdrawal
Russian dispatches *aid Timoshenko is drawing back
his troops in an orderly withdrawal to a new defense
j stand somewhere north of the Rostov confluence of the
Don and Donets rivers. Although the Russians wrested
; back the initiative at Voronezh, on the northern flank
of the 300-mile battle line through the grain-covered
steppes of the Don’s big bend, they declared that a
Nazi thrust south is a serious threat.
U. S. and British Tanks and Planes Thrown Into Fight
U. S. and British - made tanks and planes were
thrown into the fight in an attempt to stem the Axis
unrush. A Russians communique reported "To the
south of Millerovo, our troops are engaged in a fierce
defensive battle against the advancing German troops.”
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l.S. Asks Finland
( lose All Consular
Offices In U.S.
WASHINGTON. July 18 (/P> —
The United States moved a step
i short of a diplomatic break with ,
Finland. asking her one-time
| warm friend to close all consular |
offices in this country before the
end of the month.
The State Department announc
i ed that the Finnish government
has “undermined the basis upon !
! which American consular repre- j
sentation is maintained in Fin
land,” and had denied American
consular officers treaty rights.
; The status of the American leg
1 ation at Helsinki and the Finnish
i legation in Washington remains
unchanged.
The announcement made no
mention of Finland's participa
tion with Germany in the war
against Russia. Finland main
tains 14 consular offices in the
United States and territories.
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Home in Portland, Ore., on furlough, the seven Patten brothers, who survived
the sinking of the U. S. S. Lexington in the Coral Sea, were with their father
(extreme left), on the old battleship Oregon, now a museum piece at Portland.