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VOL. 44. No. 122. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT 7, 1942. Per Copy 15*
FDR Asks Stabilization Living Cost
President Asks Congress
To Stabilize Living Costs
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WASHINGTON. Sept. 7 (/P) — President Roosevelt
asked Congress in vigorous language for specific legis
lative authority to stabilize living costs, including
farm prices by October first, as a means of preventing
“economic chaos.” Bluntly, Roosevelt told the legis
latures, in a special message, that unless they acted, he
would accept the responsibility for the act himself and
“take measures necessary to avert a disaster which
would interfere with winning the war. Inaction on
your part will leave me the inescapable responsibility,
my responsibility to the people of this country, to see
to it that the war ecort is no longer imperilled by the
threat of economic chaos.”
Roosevelt pictured farm prices as the key to the in
flation riddle and said its purpose should be to hold
them at parity or levels of recent date, whichever is
higher. Explaining why he wanted Congress to pass
the anti-inflation act by October first, the President
said “We cannot hold the actual cost of food and cloth
ing down to approximately the present level beyond
October first.” No one could give any assurance that
living costs could be held down after that date. What
is needed, h.e said, “is over-all stabilization of prices,
salaries, wages and profits.”
In contrast to widespread predictions, the President
provided no administrative formula for controlling liv
ing costs and made no mention of any all-powerful
board. Apparently he thought Congress could work out
the methods for controlling an anti-inflation campaign
or leave it to him to work out later.
Allied Planes Inflict Havoc On
Japs Along 3300-Mile Battle Front
UNDATED, Sept. 4 (/P) — Delayed—American and
Allied warplanes smashing across the far Pacific skies
on a 3500-mile front, were officially credited with in
flicting havoc on Japan’s invasion armies from China to
the Solomons.
In China, a bulletin from General Stilwell’s head
quarters announced that Army fliers scored direct
bomb hits on the Japanese headquarters at Nanchang,
blasted a fleet of 25 big troop laden junks and probab
Iv sank 7 Japanese steamers. “Heavy casualties were
inflicted on the Japanese and a number of boats were
burned. Another flight straffed a Japanese troop-laden
train of 12 cars going north on the Kiukiang-Nanchang
railway. The train was loaded with army trucks and
artillery horses. A locomotive was destroyed and heavy
damage caused to materiel.
In the afternoon, American fighters bombed Nan
chang in the congested area northwest of the town and
many hits were scored with direct hits on headquar
ters and large warehouses.”
These highlights of the devastating United States
aerial offensive were carried out with the loss of only
a single American plane. Moreover, the American Air
Force, the sky dragons, as the admiring Chinese des
cribed them, are reported to have shot down five Jap
planes yesterday in a battle over Kweilin in Chekiang
province.
In the southwest Pacific, Allied bombers set big!
fires raging at the Japanese base at Salamaua, New
Guinea; bombed enemy seaplanes at Faisi; destroyed
fuel dumps at Buka and targets at Kieta, all in the |
upper Solomons; machine gunned Japanese troops in
the Kokoda area in New Guinea; and pounded sea
borne Japanese forces in the lower Solomons.
Attack Jap Cruiser Budapest Suffers
Off New Guinea Air Raid of War by
. , ' TT , Unidentified Planes
MacArthur s Headquar- _
ters, Sept. 4 (/P) — Delay- Berlin, Sept. 4 (/P) — De .
ed Allied bombers at- layed, Budapest, the Hun
tacked a Jap cruiser off the garian capital had its first
southeast coast of New air attack of the war when
Guinea. Results were un- during the night a few
known. There was no bombs fell in and around
change in the Milne Bay the city. The Berlin radio'
sector. announced that either Brit
: ish or Russian planes were !
Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps, believed the attackers.
WHERE ARE THE ELECTION BALLOTS?
Policy Censoring Alaska-Bound News
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Papers 'Tnnecessary, l njustifiable"
Jl NEAU, Sept, 4 (/P) — Delayed — Gov. Gruen
ing said General DeWitt permitted him to quote the
Western Defense Command as saying that the postal
cen« r's policy of clipping news from Alaska-bound
newspapers is “unnecessary and unjusitifiable.” The
Governor said DeWitt asserted there is no purpose in
censoring for Alaska, any news printed in the States.
Gruening said he considered clipping and censoring
injurious to the morale of Alaskans and members of
the armed forces in the Territory and that he will "con
tinue ■ > the utmost my efforts to cause its abrogation.”
Senator Chandler Reports Presence
Of Japs Constitutes Threat To U. S.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (/P) — Delayed — Senator
Chat her expressed the hope that the “high command
has ;-.wakened to the necessity of holding Alaska at al
. costs He submitted a full report to President Roose
: velt and Admiral Leahy, recommending that the Japs
. be dr ven from Kiska. Chancii: .- ar.d Senators Wallgren
| and H Jman will also repon their findings to the ex
ecute season of the full Senate military affairs com
mit!' > Monday.
“The c ntinued presence of the Japs at Kiska con
stitute- a menace and threat to the safety of the peo
ple ;i the United States and they must be removed at
the caries possible moment." Chandler said. The com
mittee recommended the immediate improvement of
Alaskan military establshments, including airplane
fern routes to Asia.
RAF and Russians
Deliver Punishing
Blows To Nazis
London. Sept. 5 (/P) —
British and Russian air
men administered a punish
ing whipsaw assault upon '
Germany from the west &
and east last night, the |
RAF kindling big fires in'
Bremen and the Russians |
scattering bombs over east I
ern Germany and occupied
Poland, while unidentified i
Allied raiders made their |
first attack on Budapest. A j
German war bulletin re- j
ported the raids on eastern
Germany but failed to
name the cities attacked.
The British radio quoted
Scandinavian d i s patches
from Berlin as saying the
targets included Vienna, in
Austria; Koenigsburg, a
city of East Prussia and
Breslau, in German Silesia
Four persons were kill
ed and ten injured by
bombs jettisoned from a
German raider, being
chased over an East An
glian town by an RAF fight
er. Three houses were de
molished.
I DR Broadcasts ~
Speech Today
Washington, Sept. 4 (/P)
— Delayed — Pres. Roose
velt will broadcast at 6:30
p.m. Pacific War Time, on
Monday.
Time For Filing
Capital Stock Returns
Extended To Sept. 29
Tacoma, Sept. 7 — Time
for filing capital stock tax
returns for 1942 has been
extended to September 29,
1942, according to Clark
Squire, collector of inter
nal revenue.
He pointed out that since
changes may be made in
the present law, it will be
to the advantage of corpor
ations to withhold filing
returns until forms are
sent out by the bureau.
'Nazi announcement of the capture of Voronezh (B), was followed by Paris re
ports that Germans were advancing toward Povorino (broken arrow). Circle in
dicates fighting zone through which Nazis say they broke. Map of U.S.A. shows
corresponding distances. For comparison Detroit, Charleston, YV. Va., Greenwood,
S. C., and Orlando, Fla., are same distances apart as strategic Moscow (A), Voro
nezh (B), Rostov (C). and Russian oil port of Batuni (D).
Red Annies Rallv And Stop
Germa ns Be f < > re St a 1 i ng rad
UNDATED, Sept. 5 (/P) — Marshal Timoshenko’s
armies, rallying in the hour ofdeepest crisis, stopped
the Germans on the bloody plains before Stalingrad, &
even stormed into the lines northwest of the Volga
steeleity to capture booty and prisoners.
Further good news for the United Nations came
from the Egyptian battlefront where the British re
ported a new Axis retreat on the southern end of the
35-mile line and declared that British troops beat off 3
heavy counter attacks against newly won positions on
the center. A communique said Axis forces “again
moved slightly westward.’’
In the third straight defeat in the El Himeimat sec
tor on the rim of the great Quattara salt basin, on the
center, the British command said tank-led Axis in
fantry, attempting, to regain points captured by the
British Thursday night, ran into a withering barrage
of artillery tire. British troops then charged into the
wavering Germans and Italians and drove them off.
Cairo dispatches said the British supported, by Unit
ed States tanks andplanes. maintained heavy pressure
on the enemy all day yesterday amid “considerable
fighting.’’
On the Russian front, the Soviet high command re
ported in its midday bulletin that the Red Army stiffen
ed after three successive days of withdrawals, halting
the all-out Nazi assault on Stalingrad. Dispatches to the
Red Star said Marshal von Bock now is “assembling
his List forces in an effort to break thru to the Volga.”
Chinese Gain
Lpper Hand In
Chekiang Prov.
CHUNGKING, Sept, p >P —
The Chinese high command said
■evere fighting continued in the
outskirts of Kinhwa and nearby
Lanciu. “with the Chinese stead
ily gaining th upper hand.” Kinh
wa, 85 miles southwest of Hang
chow, provincial capital of Chek
lang province, 10 miles to the
north, was recaptured by the:
Japanese recently in the first
Japanese success in weeks of re
treat from Chekiang and Kiang
si provinces. Enemy troops in
bot cities were reinforced re
peatedlv but they tailed to break
the Chinese cordon md suffered
heavy casualties.’ a communi
que said.
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Reds Halt Germans
At Stalingrad
Moscow, Sept. 4 (TP) —
Delayed—A stiffening Red
Army halted the massive
German army beating at
the Stalingrad approaches.
Soviet troops are continu
ing “to decimate the en
emy's manpower & equip
ment and anti-tank gun
ners are pumping explosiv
ners are pumping explo
sive charges into German
tanks at close range.
Jap Troops Land On
Sunda Islands
Berlin. Sept. 4 (/P) —De
layed—The radio quoted a
Tokyo dispatch that Jap
troops sent from Timor oc
cupied several small Sunda
islands between Timor and
the Dutch East Indies.