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VOL. 44. No. 125. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, Sept. 14. 1942. Per Copv W
Stalingrad Offensive Reaches Peak
Legislation Stabilize Cost Living Introduced Senate
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After Three Weeks German Offensive
At Stalingrad Reaches Peak Ferocity
UNDATED. Sept. 14 (/P) — After three weeks of
already frightful struggle on the immediate approaches
to Stalingrad, the German offensive achieved a peak of
ferocity against the elastic Russian defenses. The Ger
mans claimed two penetrations of the city itself, but
Russian accounts, however, said Stalingrad still flew
the Red banners. In the battle, the foe was checked
once more at the outskirts.
The Germans said Stalingrad was entered in both
the southern and northwestern sections. The southern
penetration was first reported yesterday and the north
t western today. The latest German claim said the dom
inating heights northwest of the city were occupied
after a bloody fight, typical of repeated rectifications
in the semi-circle of defenses.
An official Russian admission said that precious
ground was yielded southwest of Stalingrad, but only
until strength could be marshalled to stop, then blunt
the new penetration.
Legislation Authorizing President To
Stabilize Wages, Salaries Introduced
* WASjjlINGTON, Sept. 14 (/P) — Legislation spec
ifically authorizing the President to stabilize wages and
salaries as of August 15, and farm prices at levels not
below parity, wa introduced in the Senate in response
to the President’s demand that Congress act by October
one. Control of inflation was offered by Chairman Wag
ner of the Banking Committee, and Senator Brown,
pilot of the previous administration price control legis
lation.
The resolution would give the President broad power
to deal with other factors involved in the cost of living.
In stabilizing wages and prices, Brown said, the
Presdient is authorized to take into account substand
► ard condtions and correct any “gross inequalities,”
which might arise. He couldn’t, however, force agri
culture prices below parity levels.
MISS LIBERTY AND OLD GLORY —Beneath the
towering Statue of Liberty hangs the Stars and Stripes of the U.S.A.
Three Men Die
In Anchorage
Hotel Fire
—
Anchorage, Sept. 13 (/P)
—Three men died in a fire
which destroyed the Pio
neer Hotel early Saturday
I morning but about 40 occu
pants escaped, aided by
firemen, policemen, sol
diers, and civilian spectat
ors. The dead are Henry
An ins. formerly of Nome;
Clifford Olson, seaman of
Seattl ; aid Jose Aviles of
Egegik, Alaska.
Albert Leo Cysewski
: is re prrted in a critical con
dition from smoke. The po
lice blamed the fire on gn
unextinguished cigarette.
Ge mums Held at
Bay In Perhaps
Greatest Battle
^ 4*,,
Moscow, Sept. 12 (/P) —
Stalingrad's defenders, for
! whom retreat was declared
impossible, held the be
, sieging Germans at bay in
perhaps the greatest battle
I of the war, which over
shadowed the five others
on the flaming Russian
front of more than 1,300
miles. Despite the heroic
stand of the Red Army for
18 days against battering
Nazi steel, apparently with
out a backward step in the
past 24 hours, fresh Ger
man activity north of the
city, became a new men
ace.
The Russians found
strength to launch an of
fensive on the Leningrad
front, 60 miles east of the
beleaguered city, storming
the railroad station at Sin
vavino.
Field dispatches told of
sonwfall in the high Cau
casus ranges, heralding
summer’s end.
The Russians acknow-1
ledgeh that Novorosisk on
the Black Sea had fallen.
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Bombers Blast Two
Jap Destroyers Off
New Guinea
Mac Arthur’s Headquar
ters, Sept. 11 (/P) — Allied
I bombers fired a Jap de
stroyer and left her in sink
1 ing off eastern New Guinea
and blasted Buna,
t The enemy made no fur
' ther advance in the Efogi
area 44 miles from Port
Moresby, where bayonet
wielding Australians are
fighting the invaders.
A near miss was scored
on a second Jap destroyer
which probably was dam
aged. Both ships were en
countered off Normandy Is
i land, north of Milne Bay.
Allies Make
Progress In
Madagascar
c
London, Sept. 12 (/P) —
British an American troops
are making “considerable
progress into the interior”
of Madagascar against neg
ligible opposition, pushing
swiftly toward Tananarive
and other key points which
the Axis might covet. Com
mander-in-chief Gen. Sir
William Blatt, also report
ed that Vohemar, on the
(northeast coast. 80 miles
from the Diego Suarez na
va ibase, was taken.
Blow at Japan Cited
By Australian Aide
Honolulu—The war might
last ten years and if it
should, the Allies would
win during the last 6, Sir
Earle Page, Australia’s rep
rescntative in the British
War Cabinet, said here. Sir
Earle, who has been on the
War Cabinet the past eight
months, is on his way to
Australia.
“The time for an Allied
offensive in the Pacific is
coming fast,” he said, “but
the United Nations must re
member that they are fight
ing a tremendously clever
enemy.
“Japan is no pushover.
We have got to fight like
blazes all the time. It is
my idea that the war will
last ten years, with the Al
lies losing the first four
then winning the last six.
But if hostilities end soon
er than that, all the better.
A blow at Japan this
year would be “three times
as effective” as one next
year, Sir Earle said.
“We must keep Japan
British and Russians Deliver Blows
At Germany Thousand Miles Apart
LONDON, Sept. 14 (/P) — British and Russian bomb
ers. delivering new twin blows on the flanks of the
Axis, a thousand miles apart, smashed at the north
west German port of Bremen in a night attack. The
RAF, with possibly a hundred planes strong, raided
Bucharest and the Ploesti oil region in Rumanian from
bases deep in Russia. Long flying British bombers
flew back over northwestern Germany against at dawn
in a follow-up attack, the Air Ministry reported, an
nouncing that the total loss was 19 British bombers.
The Air Ministry said the 100th attack of the war on
Bremen was delivered “by a very strong force.”
The Berlin radio, broadcasting a German communi
que, said there were Russian bombers over eastern
Germany the same night and quoted dispatches from
Bucharest that Rumanian capital and the Ploesti re
gion to the north were ^.acl. d by Soviet bombers. The
[dispatches described the'Ploesti attacks as ineffective
and said had Bucharest had two alarms during the
night. Some bombs were dropped but no damage was
caused.
Flaming Plane Crashes
Into Curtiss Wright
Plant, Killing Ten
| Buffalo, Sept. 11 (/P> — A
flaming plane crashed into
! the roof of a building of the
; Curtiss Wright plant kill
led 10 workers and injuring
47 others. Test pilot Bert
. rand Furness parachuted
to safety two miles away.
He said it was like the
bombing had exploded.
The burned plane
caught on fire at a high al
j titude from an unknown
cause.
from throwing tier full
strength against Russia,”
he stated. “It is inevitable
that Japan will attack Rus
sia.”
S i r Earle emphasized
that the United Nations
must not allow Japan to.
consolidate the areas she;
had won in the Pacific
since last December. j
Groom Lands (n
Jail Instead Of
In Church
oealtle, Sepl. Iz {hr) —
Rodnew Gwinn, aged 24,
son of a wealthy Seattle
builder, and an instructor
in the University of Minne
sota Medical School, plan
ned to be married tonight
in an elaborate society wed
ding but instead he is in
jail. Police detective E. W.
Yoris said he confessed to
the daylight hold-up of a
payroll clerk at a down
town store, two days ago,
of $1)00 to “start married
life.”
His unbelieving father
asked him “Wh didn’t you
come to me.” The son said
he din’t want the father of
the girl to know how little
he was earning.
Buv Defen.se Bonds and Stamps
HERE’S A GERMAN U-BOAT GARAGE” IN FRANCE
This waterfront view, which came from a neutral nation through London to the
United States, was described as showing a German submarine “garage” on the
French coast. Atop the concrete-covered U-Boat docks a fortification was being
built. Aircraft were to be assigned to protect the structure.