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VOL. 43. No. 105. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, NOV. 5, 1941 Pe.- Copy 154
Crimea Defenses Split Into 3 Parts
Japs Sending Envoy Attempt New Accord with U.S.
Second Draft Call Issued For 477 Additional Men
DISTANCES IN MOSCOW BATTLE AREA
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Map of Ohio (shaded) superimposed on a map of the Moscow front
in Russia, where Vyazma, Bryansk and Orel are the key points
in the new German offensive, shows distances involved. Germans
reported battle under way in the Vyazma and Bryansk regions,
and Russians acknowledged withdrawal from Orel.
Germans Split Russian Crimean
Defense Forces Into Three Parts
After 100-mile Advance In 8 Days
UNDATED. Nov. 5 </P) — Hit
ler’s armies were reported to
hive stormed across the rugged
Yuila Mountains and reached the
Black Sea, thus apparently spi t
ting Russia’s Crimean defense
forces into three parts, after a
hundred mile advance in 8 days.
The Berlin radio compared the
Red armies’ retreat to the British
and French withdrawal from
the bloody fie’ds of Flanders and
Dunkerque last year, declaring
the roads were littered with
smashed trucks and artillery,
while snow drifted on corpses
heaped in roadside ditches.
German Field
Batteries Shelling
Base at Sevastopol
UNDATED, Nov. 4 i^P) — Ger
man field batteries are reported
shelling Russia’s great Black Sea
naval base at Sevastopol. Nazi
front line dispatches declared,
after driving 90 miles across
Crimea in seven days, that Axis
troops are ready to storm the
city “within a very few hours.”
Powerfully fortified Sevastopol
resisted a British, French and
Turkish siege for 11 months in
1854-55, but advices reaching
London conceded that the Ger
mans already have immobilized
the port as a base of operations
for the Soviet Black Sea fleet.
How long it could withstand a
seige under the hammering of
modern weapons is another ques
tion.
A bulletin from Hitler's field
headquarters said that German
troops, knifing across Crimea,
captured the eastern coastal
town of Feodosiya, on the south
ern side of the narrow isthmus
leading to Kerch Strait, thereby
perhaps, cutting of! the eastern
escape to the Caucasus. German
dispatches said Red armies, trap
ped in Crimea, variously estimat
ed to number 250 to 500.000, fac
ed almost inevitable annihilation,
and that shattered remnants are
fleeing headlong into the sea in
the hope of duplicating the Brit
ish withdrawal at Dunkerque.
However, the Nazis made a sim
ilar claim when Soviet troops
were falling back through the
Ukraine and took a stand at Odes
sa where they held out for many
weeks before withdrawing.
Nazi reports from the front
said German bombers have al
ready sunk and damaged 26 Rus
sian transports waiting in the
harbors of Sevastopol, Kerch and
; Yalta.
James A. Hart
40 Years In Alaska
Passes On Seattle
SEATTLE, Nov. 3 UP) — Jam
i es Allen Hart, aged 83, who spent
40 years in Alaska, serving with
the United States Bureau of
Fisheries and as United States
Marshal, died Friday. He leaves
five children, including Mrs. Ed
na Smith of Ketchikan.
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Gov. Gruening Signs ( ail Second
Alaska Draft For Additional 177
Men Be Inducted December W
JUNEAU. Nov. 5 UP) — Cover
nor Gruening signed a call today
for the second Alaska draft, to
place an additional 477 men from
the Territory into the nation’s;
armed forces. The draftees are to j
be inducted cn December 10th.
This second call brings to 1160
the number of men called in
Alaska for service, the first call
havinb been made for Oct. 23 for
633 to be inducted. The Nome
qu. ta in the first call was 42.
The Nome draft board today
reported that the quota for the
Nr,me draft area will be 30 men.
16.000 Ton Navy
Tanker Torpedoed
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 </P> —
The Navy announced that the
16,000-‘on naval oil tanker Sal
inas “was torpedoed without
warning" off southwest Iceland
the n:g!ff of October 29-30, about
24 hours before the sinking of
the destroyer Reuben James. No
lives were lost and no serious in
jury to the crew resulted.
The Navy said the tanker
reached port despite serious dam
age. The Salinas is the fourth
U. S naval ship involved in a
torpedo attack in the past two
months.
The Salinas was in convoy
when attacked. “No details of the
damage will be released as it is
of no value except to the Nazis,”
the Navy said.
The Salinas was built in 1920.
Her commander is Harley Cope
and she carried a complement of
107 men. She is 463 feet long.
12 DIE IN CRASH OF
NAVY BOMBER AT SEA
WASHINGTON. Nov. 3 </Pi
The loss of a huge bomber in
the Atlantic with the death of 12
men was announced by the Navyj
tenight, in the the third report
within two weeks, of a major dis
aster.
The ship crashed and killed 2]
officers and nine men of the crew
also an army officer who was
described as a passenger.
97 LIVES LOST IN THE
JAMES—45 ARE SAVED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 <(7P) —
Ninety seven lives were apparent
ly lost in the torpedoing of the j
Reuben James, it was disclosed,
as the Navy announced little1
hope for those listed as missing.
Only two firemen wexe listed
dead hut the missing numbered
88 men and 7 officers aboard the
warcraft which went down west I
of Iceland while on convoy duty.,
Forty-five men were saved.
Native Fisherman At Sitka
Held For Murder of Wife
JUNEAU, Nov. 5 </P) — Nick
Kiska, a native fisherman, is be
ing held by Sitka grand jury ac
tion in connection with the death
of his wife Nellie, whose muti
lated body was found in the
Kiska home last week.
The United States Marshal’s
office received a report of two
fishermen’s deaths at Pelican
; City: Ernest Stage, reported
found suffocated aboard a boat,
i and Ole Sirkland. who fell from
! a boat and drowned.
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Striking Welders
Seattle Area
Return to Work
SEATTLE, Nov. 5 </P) — By
telephone and radio, strike head
quarters of the Seattle welders
and burners Council began sum
moning welders to return to
work immediately, on receipt of
word from Washington this morn
ing of tlie settlement and end of
the 15-day welders strike which
crippled millions of dollars
worth of national defense works
in tliis area.
Jack O’Brien, Council presi
dent said he was notified from
Washington by Dave Brasor,
Council Executive Secretary, at
3.05 a.m.. Within 10 minutes he
and his aides were busy broad
aasting the word to 1500 strik
ers here and at Tacoma to go
back to work.
OPM To look Into Welders
In Washington, Associate Dir
ector Hit man of the OPM said
that Karl Morris, president of
the United Welders was designat
ed to call off the walkout. As
soon as the men return to work,
Hillman said, the OPM will call
a conference of Welders, OPM
labor officials and representativ
es of other labor organizations in
terested in the dispute, in an ef
fort to find a permanet solution
to the welders’ troubles.
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JAPANESE NOD FOR U.S.A —When the U.S. Luzon, flagship of the U.S. Yangtze river
patrol, entered Shanghai, China, sailors on a Japanese war vessel thus saluted her. 1
Japan Sending Former Ambassador
To Germany To Washington In New
Attempt Reach Accord With l.S.
TOKYO. Nov. 5 //Pi — The Jap
anese government announced it
was sending Saburu Kukrusu.
former Ambassador to Germany,
to Washington by trans-Pacific
clipper in a new attempt to
reach an accord with the United
States, "in view of the very ser
ious situation prevailing.” The
Tokyo spok .-man said arrange
ments for Kukrusu’s trans-Pacific
flight were made in radio-phone
talks last night between U. S.
Ambassador Grew and Secretary
Hull. As a result, he said, the
Clipper's departure from Hong
king will be delayed for two
days to ename tx.uKru.-u to catch
Japan Alarmed
On the surface the urgency of
Kukrusu's trip appeared to in
dicate that Japan is now thor
oughly alarmed over the possib
ility of an eruption in the Pacific.
There are indications, too, that
Germany. Japan's Axis partner
may be puffing heavier pressure
on Tokyo to assume an active
role ;n the European conflict, per
haps attacking Russia from the
East or hampering United States
aid to Britain by hostilities to the
U. S.
LaGuardia Vi ins
Over O’Dwyer
UNDATED. Nov. 5 UPi — La
Guardia won his third term as
Mayor of New York. The short,,
bustling mayor came from be
hind in yesterday’s balloting to
defeat William O'Dwyer. Demo
craic nominee, and assured him
I self of another four years tenure
at the controls of the nation's
largest city, bu't his plurality of
some 133.1)00 was the smallest of
his three successful campaigns.
Virginia Democrats rolled up a
landslide majority for their gu
bernatorial nominee former Rep.
Darden.
Maurice Tobin won reelection
as Mayor of Boston thwarting
the come-back campaign of Jam
es Curley.
Governor Edison's attempt to
wrest control of the New Jersey
legislature from the Republicans
failed despite th Governor's state
wide stumping tour.
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Should Not Delay
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Neutral. Revision
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -,V __
Administration and legislative
leaders reported after a White
House conference that the Presi
dent believes that Congress
should enact the pending neutral
ity revision measure in its pres
ent form rather than delay it by
tacking on amendments designed
o curtail defense strikes.
Subs Within Sight
Canada’s Coast
TORONTO, N v. 5 — Navy
minister Angus MacDonald said
submarine are operating ‘'off the
coast of Newfoundland within
sight of shore." The statement
was made when reporters asked
' him to give further details on
i his report to the House of Com
mons last that Canadian ships
have sunk more than one Ger
man U-boat. Rear Admiral Nel
lrs. chief of staff of the Navy,
who was present, gave his ap
proval to the statement. "The
eGrmnns certainly know where
they are,' he said.