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VQL- 43- No-91- NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 3.1941. Per copy is#
. 638 Alaskans Be Inducted Oct 15
Germans Driven 30 Miles Further From Leningrad
American Tanker Sunk 450 Miles East Of Brazil
► Red Armies Drive Germans Back
30 Miles From Leningrad--For First
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Time City is Defensively Stronger
UNDATED, Oct. 3 {/P) — Rus
sia’s Red armies were reported
to have thrown the Germans
back nearly 30 miles on the Len
ingrad front and to have over
run Nazi trenches around Lenin
grad and inflicted more than 3700
casualties on the long battleline
from the Gulf of Finland to the
Black Sea. The Berlin radio as
serted however, that Nazi troops
occupied Czarist p-laces south
^ east of Leningrad, presumably in
Tharicoye Solo, “a Cz.ar’s vil
lage,” 15 miles south of the city.
A British broadcast said the
Russians recaptured Strelna, 20
miles west of Leningrad and hurl
ed the Gcmans back nearly 30
miles on Lake Lodoga from Kol
pino and re-estabLished com
muncations between Leningrad
and Moscow. Soviet marines
were said to have executed a
bold landing west of Leningrad
and dug in on the gulf coast
where Nazi batteries bombarded
Kronestadt, Russian naval base
which guards the sea approach to
Leningrad.
For the first time since Marshal
Voroshilov proclaimed the death
defense of Leningrad. 44 days
ago, a Red Army bulletin declar
ed the situation around the siege
0 girt city defensively stronger.
The Russians said 1500 Germans
were killed and at least 1500
wounded on the Leningrad front;
3,000 killed and wounded on the
Moscow front; and 2,700 annihil
ated in the Ukraine in a violent
two-day battle.
Ukraine Soviet d.spatches said
the Germans left a field strewn
with corpses and smashed tanks
and guns, with the ‘ Dneiper riv
er carryiig away thousands of
the invader’s dead.”
Britain. Germany
To Exchange
1,509 Prisoners
A BRITISH PORT. Oct. 2 (TP)—
Brita n and Germany will take
time off from the war across the
Channel over the weekend to as
sure the safe passage of 3,000
wounded prisoners of war, half
British and half German, who
hadn't expected to see their
home before the end of hostil- f
ities.
Two British hospital ships,
each transporting 1500 men will
try to make the crossings in day
light but if tides prevent the
landings in time in port, lighted
ships will carry them. These
1 -girts will be the first such ex
ceptions to the blackout since the
war began. It will also be the
first Br.tbh and German ex
change of prisoners of war. The
agreement provides that fighter
planes, bombers and subs with
draw from the scene.
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The above map shows the far-flung: Russo-German battleline. In
the Leningrad area the Nazis were reported thrown back 30 miles.
Greek Uprising
In Macedonia
Snuffed Out
UNDATED, Oct. 2 <JP> — A
Greek uprising with machine
| guns and hand grenades in Bul
garian-occupied Macedonia was
reported and German firing
squads and public hangings were
credited with snuffing out the
lives of 170 anti-Nazi conspir
ators in Hungary, Belgium and
old Czechoslovakia.
A Swiss te'egraphic agency
quoted dispatches from Buda
pest as saying that the Greeks
attempted to revolt Monday Po
lice and military forces, it was
said, "re-established calm."
Forty-two persons were report
ed executed at Banat, Hungary,
the occupied part of former Yu
goslavia. where German military
authorities still exercise control,
on charges of attempting train
wreckings and kiiling.
Authorized Czech quarters in
London said ihe wave oi vxoou
lions in Bohemia and Moravia
were aimed at preparing that
Gorman-controlled country for
the transfer of Germany’s heavy
industries from bomb-scarred
Hamburg, Bremen and Ruhr Val
ley industrial sites. They said:
"It is our belief that the Germans
plan to reduce the population of
the Slav laboring class by killing
all leaders capable of carrying
on opposition, then move the
heavy industries of central Eu
rope where they will be out of
reach of the RAF.”
The Germans asserted that the
incipient Czech revolt in Bo
hemia and Moravia is in hand,"
j as 39 new death sentences were
| handed down in the Nazi protec
I torate. However, two German
! aviators were reported shot in a
dark street of Zagreb, capital of
the o'd Yugoslav state of Croatia.1
A recent government decree pro
vides the execution of ten “Com
1 munists' for each such attack.
Other major developments on
1 the international scene included:
1— Russia's Red armies are re
l ported smashing an attempted
j break through by great masses of
German troops on the Ukraine
front.
2— Advices reaching London
said violent fighting raged in the
bottleneck gateway to the Cri
mea Peniusula, key to the con
trol of Black Sea waters, with
I the Germans making extremely
slow progress southward
3— Hitler's command asserted
that Nazi warplanes, silencing
Russian bunkers, field guns and
tanks east of the Dnieper River,
are blasting a path for the ad
vance of German troops pressing
toward the great Donets river in
dustrial basin.
71 Are Executed
In occupied France
VICHY, Oct. 3 i/P) — 21 more
persons were executed in the
German occupied zone of France,
German authorities announced.
This raised the acknowledged to
tal to 71 since the reprisals be
gan against what the Germans
called an agitation campaign.
Hiller Declares In Speech In
Bei ’lin Russia Is So Stricken
"She Will Never Rise Again"
BERLIN, Oct. 3 (/Pi — Hitler,
home from the Russian front,
to launch Germany’s ninth win
ter relief campaign, declared Rus
sia is so stricken that she will
“never again rise up. A gigantic
new development" has opened
up on the front in the past 48
hours and that development, he
said, made it especially difficult
for h m to leave his field head
quarters.
» "A decision is now being
fought out for tlie next hundred
year he shouted to thunderous
cheers of thousands assembled at
the Sports palace to greet him.
Hitler declared that Germany, be
fore the war, sought practically
to reach a settlement with Brit
ain. but Churchill asked for war
and Russia failed to live up to
her non-aggression pact with
Lc».n».onj/ an/J mohiJi^prl rtn th«-»
Reich's borders. Hitler said “by
, August and September of Last
1 year it became clear that, "I had
an enemy at my back, ready to
stab at any time."
He sa d Russian foreign min
ister Molotov came to Berlin late
in 1940 to seek a commitment
fr 'ii Germany on Rumania and
F 'iirnd. Hitler said he "declared
all Russian suggestions were us
ed to extend her influence west
ward. including the Dardanelles.",
‘Russians Are Beasts’
In an address that lasted 65
minutes, Hitler asserted that ev
erything proceeded according to
plan since June 22 when the
German armies struck at Russia
To illustrate Germany's military
position ho said Russian prison
ers now number two and a half
million. He called the Russian!
forces "not human beings but
r what tile Bui
shcviks have mack* of them.
638 Alaskans To
Be ( ailed Military
Sen ice Oet. 15
JUNEAU, Oct. 2 iJP)—The War
Department notified Governor
Gruening that 683 Alaskans will
be c lied for military duty on
October 15th. Selectees will be
attached to territorial military
units: 154 in the Ketchikan dis
trict; 13£ from Juneau will be
trained a! C! ilkoot Barracks: 155
at Anchorage; 175 from Fair
banks \\ ill* b • traini ! it Fort
Richardson and other attached to
medical corps and headquarters.
American Tanker
Is Torpedoed 450
Miles East Brazil
RIO DE JANERO, Oct. 3
freighter WestmYus Ve‘bot?98r,.¥Sfl
17-\ ear-Old Is i1
Murder Suspect
LEXINGTON. Oct. 2 (/Pi—Last
night police chief MeCloy said a
suspect had arrived at Shelvy
ville. for the slaying of Marion
Miley, nationally known golf]
star and for the fatal wounding I
of her mother, Mrs. Elsa Miley,
Sunday. The suspect, about 17,
was held without charge.
Mrs. Miley, aged 50, died late
yesterday from three abdominal
bullet wounds about 7 hours af
ter the funeral of her daughter.
Several Are
Killed in Prague
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BERLIN. Oct. 3 (/Pi — It was
reported in Prague that “several
persons, including a colonel of
the former Czech army” were
sentenced to death by court mar-;
tial and executed in Prague on
charge of preparation for high ;
treason, sabotage and possession
of arms. 13 army officers were I
] shot yesterday, accused of organ
. izing terroristic bands which
planned to assassinate Czechs
! who collaborated with the Ger
, mans
Mayor Of Prague
w
Condemned Death
I BERLIN, Oct. 3 </P) — The
j mayor of Prague, Otakar Clapka,
' was condemned 'to death in a peo
pie’s court, on charge of plotting
; a rebellion and apparently con-!
{ spiracy. Also condemned was the
Premier of Bohemia and Mor
avia protectorate, General Elias.
The Dienst Aus Deutschland re
ported that Elias, under sentence
of death, had taken the only pos
sible appeal of its verdict to
Hitler himself.
German Bombers
Assault Anew
British Cities
UNDATED. Oct. 3 (/Pi — Sig
nalling perhaps the end of thej
long summer lull in the battle of
Britain. German bombers smash
ed for hours at five cities on the
island kindgom's southeast and
northeast coasts. During the
night, bombs also fell on south-!
east Scotland, attacking by the
light of the harvest moon. The
German raiders were reported to
have dropped bombs then return 1
ed to machine gun the fire fight-j
ers and rescue squads in the'
streets. At least ten persons were
killed and 50 wounded in one
town and damages and casaulties!
elsewhere w ere admittedly
heavy.
RAF bombers countered with
assaults on docks in German-oc
cupied Brest, where Nazi war
ships lie at St. Nazaire.
japan Resents
Indies Sending
Supplies Russia
TOKYO. Oct. 3 (/P> — The Jap
anese, unsuccessful themselves in
obtaining the greater share of
the rich resources of the Nether
land East Indies, expressed
strong terms of resentment ag- j
ainst the colonial government for
shipping oil and rubber to Rus- j
sia. Koh Ishii, cabinet informa
tion bureau spokesman, told for
eign press representatives that
! the high government will regard
; as evidence of an “unfriendly
! attitude’’ the large scale exports
! of such vital war materials from
the Indies to Russia, inasmuch
as Japanese trade with the Indies
is virtuallv at a standstill.
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me American-own^' a. t'anama
registered. 7.000-ton tanker, I. C.
White was torpedoed 450 miles
east of Recife, Brazil on Septem
ber 27.
The Westnilus rescued 18 of
the crew of about 41 The surviv
ors were all picked up a single
lifeboat and brought to Rio. The
Westnilus is said to belong to the
Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey with a crew made up of
all United States citizens.
Canadian Bomber
Lost, Makes
Lucky Landing;
GRENLAND, N. H.. Oct. 2 CP)
— A big twin-motored Canadian)
bombing plane with borrbraeks
still half loaded skidded to a
near miracle pancake landing in
a hayfiield in early morning dark
ness here, all members of the
four-man crew escaping injury.
The gas was nearly exhausted
ed and the plane landed by the
light of its own flares, after a
mission which apparently carried
it out over the Atlantic.
The bomber plowed a deep
furrow more than 201 feet long
in a hundred-acre hayfield be
fore coming to rest badly damag
ed but still intact. The four
voung Canadian fliers would say^
little except that they remained
on the ship and “we were off the
track.”
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Strong Quake Felt
At Eureka, Calif
—
EUREKA, Calif., Oct. 3 (TP)--A.
strong quake was felt at Eureka
but caused no appreciable dam
age.
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