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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 90. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, OCT. 1, 1941. Per c<w 1S*
Leningrad Battle Cost Nazis 100,000
Knox Asserts U. S. Insistance For Freedom Of Seas
Joe Louis Wins Over Lou Nova In Sixth Round
Germans Lose 100.000 Men In Battle
of Leningrad-Aazi Troops Reported
Approaching Industrial Kharkov
I A C
UNDATED, Oct. l (/Pi _ Ger
man s:ege armies attacking Le.n
ingrad lost 100.000 men on the
south and southwest approaches,
while Rumanian losses in the
sieee of Odes * reached a total
of 160.000 troop*, the Russians re
ported. The Red Star said “enor
mous German losses in Estonia
in the direction of Nwogrod”
were not included in the Lenin
grad tiirnto.
On The Southern From
On he sou‘hern front, G mm an
military di patches reported that
Nazi troops are approaching the
big industrial city of Khrrcv in
the heart of the Donets river
basin <nd which lies almost at
the eastern border of the Uk
ra ne i public. DNB said Nazi
fliers, “taking part in the ground
fighting' around Kharkov, blast
ed the railway network and de
molished 23 tra n filled with So
viet supplies. Kharkov is a city
of G45.000 and a center of smelt
ing. meta lurgic: 1 and o.her in
dustries.
Historic Poltava Falls
Top Russians, admitting the
fall of historic Poltava, 8J miles
southwest of Kharkov, where
Peter the Great rr.utpd the Swed
k'h invaders of Charles the 12th
in 1709, declared that Soviet
troops are forming along the east
bank of the Vorskla river to
block the Nazi onslaught toward
Kharkov. The capture of Poltava
a city of 130,000 on the west
bank of the Vorskla river, was
acknowledged by the Reds in a
bulletin. The Germans said it
fell along with Kiev on Septem
ber 19th.
Fighting at Gateway to Crimea
Soviet officials r pw.d that
large scale fighting raged with
unabating fury at the gateway to
iv Cr'mea Peninsu a. Advices
r-aching London said that Ger
man as'iult troops had reached
?. point rbout seven miles south
of Pertkop. city cn top of the
C 8". Isthmus where the Rus
sians Hove oken a stand behind
esters've minefields.
On ?' Northern Front
O.i the northern front, aside
fro r-L reporting a vast slaughter
Uf G -r. on seige forces, the Rus
sians said their armies recap:ur
scveral '.owns in the Leningrad
approa. es artd rout ’d two more
Nazi regime" ts. The Red Star
sa i German Ic.se- cf material
in the battle of Leningrad for
ten w .'us, includ d 400 tanks,
840 planes, 300 mine throwers.
117 armored cars and 200 field
§u ns.
Acknowledge
Abandonment
Of Poltava
MOSCOW. Sept 30 m — The
Russians acknow edged :he re
treat into the Doneth Busin ar.d
the abandonment of Poltava,
which ‘he Germans claimed since
September 19th A Russian com
munique indicated that this -im
portant city was evacuated only
Tuesday.
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Lou Mi;va is shown above in his ‘cosmic punch’ pose, with which
he hoped to beat Louis. The fijht was stopped in the 6th round.
Secretary Knox Asserts U. S.
Y ill Insist On Freedom Of
The Seas At Whatever Tost’
Navy Secretary Frank Knox
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1 <P. _
Navy Secretary Knox declared
that once the Rome-Berlin-Tu
kyo axis is defeated, the United
States and Britain rrust pool
their forces “to step new aggres
-ion at its beginnings.” In the
post war world, the United Stat
es, said Knox, “must provide
both a major power and a domi
nant leadership."
Future International Policy
The Navy c'.T f outlined his i
views of the nation's future in
‘ernat ional role in a speech pre
pared for the 64th annual con
- i> n of the American Bar
Asmcia’ion. He repeatedly em
pha i/'.’d American insistence on
h 'ed': ] of the seas. He said: "It
u - for this we fought two war
’d now a third time," lie de
1 . d, "we shall insist upon it
• whatever cost." Should war
me, he said "It is far better a
distant war, than one at home,
if we must fight, and mark this
11. there will not be, many
years until will come a time
when we may not have to fight,
then with modern weapons
Which are left to us to determine
we will fight elsewhere than on
our own soil."
He dwelt on the advantages
now accruing the United States
and Bri a n because of the com
bined control of the seas by the
two fleets.
Navy Sweeping Nazis from Eeas
Approp - the American Navy s
operation he reported, “We are
already sweeping the German
pirates from the north Atlantic
and are bringing England pro
ducts from the arsenal we have
set up here."
Churchill Asserts Germany Mas
Lost Initiative Of Viar In Air
—
j UNDATED, Sept. 30 (TP) —
Prime Minister Churchi 1, disclos
ing that Britain has “several tim
es” considered an invasion of the
continent, predicted that the war1
with last at least through 1942.
He warned that Hitler might fall
back from the defensive struggle
in Russian and lash out simultan
eously at Egypt, Spain, Africa
or Eng and itself. In an optim
istic vien, however, Churchill de
clarcd that Britain now has seiz
ed tha initiative. The German air j
reich, he said flatly, suffered a
| serious shortage, presumbly pi
iots and planes lost in the 14
j week-old campaign in Russia.
Recapture City Approaches
As Churchill spoke, the Rus
sians reported that the Red arm
ies defending Leningrad recap
tured the city approaches there
and hurled the Germans back a
“significant distance.” A city de
signated only as B. fell to Soviet
troops after 12 hours of violent
hand-to-hand and house-to-house
fighting, the Russians said, an
nouncing also that many other
communities in Leningrad’s out
skirts were regained in the mass
counter attacks.
The Red Star said the Ger
mans made no gains in the fort
night siege of Leningrad, posing
the question of “where will Hit
ler turn next.’’
Possible Vast New Offensives
Churchill mentioned the possib
ility of vast new assaults against
I the Egyptian Nile, North Africa,
'
Spain and the British Isles. He
said “it certainly will be in his
power, while standing on the de
fensive in the east to undertake
all these enterprises on a great
sca’e, together and at one time.”
Coincidentally, German mili
tary quarters at Berlin stressed
the importance of statements by
the Nazi press that the Russian
campaign might run through the
winter months.
3rd Anniversary Munich Pact
Reviewing the war on the 3rd
aniversary of the ill-fated Mun
ich conference, Churchill declar
ed “the enemy's only shortage is
a very serious shortage—in the
air.” E sewhere, he said, Ger
many still holds the initiative.
V otes War Credit
of Billion Founds
_
LONDON. Oct. 1 (JP) — The1
House of Commons voted a new ]
war credit of a billion pounds,!
about four billion dollars and
, asked the Chancellor of the Ex
j chequer if this would meet the
rising cost of the war. British
war expenditures are now run
| ning to 44 million dollars a day.
He said the current expenditures
are more than 50 percent higher
than during the peak of the
World War when they ran only
I to 28 million dollars a day.
Champion Joe Louis who defeated Lou Nova. 19th challenger
Referee Stops Fight In Sixth
Round-Nova Belted Into Bloody
Submission By I istie Explosion
/ NEW YORK. S'pt. 29 IP) — lieved he could d > it with one
I Champion Joe L’ uis stopped Lou iynamite blast—he was right.
Nova with one fearful fistic ex- Referee Arthur Donovan stop
plosion in the sixth round, to ped the fight two minutes and
turn back the 19th challenger to 59 seconds of the 6th round after
his record reign. Louis was ex- Nova was belted into bloody sub
pected to -,;ke time in wearing m.ss'on after a n.r.e-count knock
down the challenger, but Jot* be- down.
36 Russians
Are Study ing
1. S. Planes
DAYTON. Ohio. Sept. 3:) UP’—
Assistant War Secretary John
MeClov revealed that 36 Rus
sians who flew over Alaska are
now studying the operation of
United States planes at Patterson
airfield, where they have been
■ since last Wednesday and are
due to stay for several more
days.
! _
SOVIET SHIP AT
PHILIPPINES PORT
MANILA, P. I., Sept. 25 — The
first Soviet ship to reach the
Philippine Islands since the
granting of export licenses to
Russia arrived at Cebu in the
?outhern part of the archipelago,
The ship is the 1672-ton Kovda
It is expected to proceed to Man
da to load a cargo of sugar and
miscellaneous supplies for Rus
sia.
Yankees Win 1st
Game of World
Series off Dodgers
NEW YORK, -Pi — Rod Rat
ing's brilliant 6-hit pitching and
Joe Gordon's slugging enabled
the Yankees to defeat the Dodg
ers 3 to 2 in the opening game
of the World Series. In the bat
tle before a record thrtong of!
68,540 spectators, Joe Gordon’s
homer gave the Yankees an early
lead which the dodgers never
were able to overcome.
Following Ls the short scores
and batteries:
Brooklyn — 000010 1 00 — 2
Lost one game, 6 games to go.
Pitchers Davis, Casey in the
6','h and Allen in the 7th. Catch
I ers Owen and Frank.
New York — 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 x — 3
Wone 1 game, six games to go
Pitcher Ruffing and catcher
Dickey.
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