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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 140. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. OCT. 19. 1942 Per Copy im
Stalingrad Facing Gravest Peril
U. S. Forces Sink, Damage 42 Ships Jap Aleutians
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German Daylight Raiders Attack
East Coast Britain, Some Damage
LONDON, Oct. 19 (TP) German daylight raiders,
taking advantage of low clouds, attacked several points
on the east coast of Britain causing considerable dam
age and some casualties and giving London three brief
alerts. The Nazis, flying singly and far apart, apparent
ly in an attempt to confuse ground defenses, machine
gunned and bombed scattered areas. The shopping dis
trict of one town was bombed by a low flying plane
w’hich circled back to spray the main streets with ma
chine gun fire. A number of persons were believed trap
ped in wreckage in an area of East Anglia near the
# Thomas Estuary. Hardest hit was one coastal towm,
when a raider machine-gunned a train at low altitude
as the train was pulling into the station. Several coach
es were damaged but no casualties were reported.
Fuel Oil Will Be Refused
To Plants Able to Use- Coal
OPA Decides to Deny Ration to Apartment, Business &
Industrial Buildings Which Can Convert and Do Not
WASHINGTON — A policy of l
£. complete denial of fuel oil ra- i
Lons for heating apartment hous:
es and commercial, industrial
e.rv! I*-'-iitutif A establishments j
which can convert to coal and j
fail to do so was announced bv
the Office of Price Administra
tion.
The drastic measure was adopt
od, according to Paul M. O’Leary
deputy administrator in charge!
of rationing, because the “deeper
ateness of the fuel oil situation”
demanded it.
He said that a large propor
tion of the fuel-oil users men
tioned had heating facilities that
^ could easily be converted to coal
firing. If they were not forced to
convert, he added, the oil they
would use would be denied to
score of homes where the furnac
es could not be converted and
the homes would be- “insufferably
cold” this winter.
Asserting that there was no
problem in getting equipment to
convert those heating plants
which were susceptible to con
version, he continued:
“The government has carefully
cleared the way for conversions
and arrangements have been
made for priorities on materials
ann the . manufacture of lugs,
shaker bars, grates and ashpit
doors. In fact, many of these
hings are now made, and wait
ing to be used.”
Mr. O’Leary said that commer
cial, industrial and institutional
■ establishments would be requir
ed to report on the convertibil
ity of their oil furnaces when
they register for rations of fuel
oil and rationing boards would
have advice from heating experts
in deciding whether to deny ra
tions.
No place will be eligible for a
fuel oil ration if a new burner
or equipment converting the fur
nace from other fuels to fuel oil
has been installed since June 1,
1942, or if stand-by facilities for
fuels other than oil are avail
able, such as coal-spraying equip
ment and idle coal boilers.
Rations for large buildings that
cannot convert will be set differ
ently from those for private
homes. The heat-loss -formula
based on floor area will not be
applied. Instead, the ration will
be a percentage of last year’s
consumption. In most cases the
[ curtailment will probably be at
least as great as that in private
homes.
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Exceptions will be made for
hospitals where a severe cut
might cause serious health haz
ards.
The Ofiftte of War Information
is offering some new suggestions
to householders on how to con
serve oil and keep moderately
warm this winter. It said:
“A room temperature of 65 is
warm enough for normal adults
if they are properly dressed. The
reduction of room temperature
from 72 to 65 degrees may out
fuel consumption by 10 percent
or more.
“If you insist on having your
bedroom windows wide open,
close the door tightly and plac.e a
rug or blanket before it.
“Lower the shades at night and
keep them down during the day
except when the sun is shining
directly on the window panes or
the light is needed.
"The insulation afforded be
tween window and shade by the
airpocket may save from 5 to 10
percent in fuel. It has been esti
mated that 500 gallons of heat oil
escaped through the windows of
the average home during a nor
mal Winter.”
WASHINGTON — Fuel oil ra
tioning probably will effect more
than 3,000,000 homes, the Census
Bureau reported.
In the 1940 census New York
had more homes heated by oil
than any othi r States in the oil
rationing area, comprising thirty
States and the District of Colum
bia, but Rhode Island had the
highest percentage of such
houses.
New York State had 652,820 oil
heated homes, or 18.6 percent of
all its homes, while Rhode Island
had 84,986 such homes, or 45.8
percent.
•The bureau recorded a total of
24,786,770 homes in the thirty
States, of which 2,850,175 or 11.5
percent, were heated by fuel oil.
In the unrationed area, having
9,080,490 homes, 6 percent were
heated by oil. Since 1940 many
homes have been converted to
coal heat, while around 1,000,000
new homes have been built.
Federal housing officials found
in a survey last year that on a
national basis 13 percent of
single-family houses were heat
ed by oil, 48 percent by gas and
39 percent by coal. On the East
ern seaboard the distribution was
30 percent by oil, 8 percent by
gas and 62 percent by coal
137 Die When
Sub Torpedoes
Canadian Ship
Sydney, Oct. 17 (/P) — A
submarine, lurking outside
the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
Wednesday night, torpedo
ed and sank the 2,200 ton
Newfoundland steamer
Caribou, taking the lives of
137 men, women and child:
ren, making the 8-hour trip
to Port Aux Basques, New
foundland. 13 of the vic
tims were Americans, in
cluding 8 U.S. service men.
A year-old baby was the!
only child survivor of the
15 children aboard. Thirty,
five Canadian service men;
were lost.
Underwood
Goes East
Well Armed
Possessed of loads of
data and a better know
ledge of the needs of Alas
ka and the Pacific North
west. J. J. Underwood, rep
resentative at Washington.
D. C., for the Seattle Cham
her of Commerce, returned
to the national captial sev
eral days ago after a sum
mer spent in this region.
Underwood renewed many
public and person contacts
while on his vacation and
returns to his station far
better informed and pre
pared to deal with the nu
merous important subjects
concerning this region and
the vast territory to the
North, on behalf of which
he has labored for years.
Cooperating with Alaska’s
delegate to Congress and
others in position of influ
ence at the capital, Under
w o o d keeps constantly
alert to the best interests
of the Northwest and Alas
ka.
German Air
Are Killed
In Afriea
London, Oct. — The Ber
lin radio reported that one
of Germany’s Air Aces,
Captain Hans Joachim Mar
seille has been killed in
North Africa.
According to the radio
reporf Captain Marseille
died in a flying accident
and was not shot down by
an enemy plane.
The radio report credit
ed the flflyer with having
shot down a total of 158
planes. !
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’*u> Defense Bonds and Stamp;:'
386 Medals Are
Awarded Airmen
Down Under
Somewhere in Australia,
Oct. 17 (/P) — 386 medals
were pinned on American
air heroes at an advanced
operational base, in the
greatest mass presentation;
of awards for valor by the
Army. The ceremonies, in
the southwest Pacific area,
took two hours.
Bi<* Maneuvers
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At Gibraltar
Oct. 17 (/P) — The Brit
ish fleet, air force and
ground troops at Gibraltar,
carried out their biggest
maneuvers there last night
since the start of the war,
the German radio reported
in a dispatch from La
Linea, Spain, facing the
British base.
King George Limit
Heat In Palaee
To Save Fuel
London — King George
has started a fuel saving
plan at Buckingham Pal
ace and Windsor Castle
whereby every one on the
Royal staff, all guests and
all servants will be allow
ed only five inches of water
each when they take a tub
bath.
Every bath in Bucking
ham Palace and Windsor
Castle has been painted
with a black or red line at
the five-inch level and not
ices are posted in all bath
room emphasizing the nec
essity for fuel economy.
Moreover, only one light
is allowed in each bedroom
There is no steam heating
and fires will not be allow
ed in bedrooms Ixcept by
doctors’ orders.
The number of boilers in
Windsor Castle have been
so reduced that on certain
weekdays there is no hot
water supply in some resi
dential parts of the castle.
All unessential lights in
Buckingham Palace corri
dors have been eliminated.
All restrictions apply to
the King and Queen as
well as others.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
That unique and humorous,
and typical Alaskan stationery —
“Sourdough Roadhouse” Letter
heads and Envelopes, have been
brought strictly up to date, and
are now available at the Nugget
office.
Russians Move In Fresh Troops In
Desperate Attempt Save Stalingrad
MOSCOW, Oct. 19 (/P) — German troops, advanc
ing over the bodies of hundreds of their dead, added a
few blocks of Stalingrad’s crumbling buildings to their
holdings within the city, as the Russian defenders mov
ed in fresh troops in a desperate effort to blunt or de
feat the latest Nazi assault, now in its sixth day. Nev
ertheless, the force of the onslaught seemed lessened
from the fury of the attack of the earlier siege, and
some observers here questioned whether this was due
to exhaustion or to a German shift in strength to the
west to face a possible second front danger. Stalingrad
still remained acute to German attack, concentrating
on narrow salients in a desperate effort to achieve a
final break-through.
Earlier reports placed the fiercest fighting in the
northern factory area and it is assumed that new Ger
man gains were registered there. A midday communi
que said “Hundreds of enemy dead were left in the
streets and 18 tanks were knocked out.”
ans Forced Make Four Retreats
Stalingrad Faces Darkest Hour Siege
MOSCOW, Oct. 17 (r'P) — Red Army troops, against
odds that forced four retreats through the strategically
important industrial section north of Stalingrad, bat
tled fiercely to prevent the Germans from fanning out
along the banks of the Volga and break through the
flanks of the defense lines. The city is experiencing its
darkest hours of siege as the German forces at least
equal the power of a previous offensive which four in
fantry divisions and a tank divisions were used to oc
cupy the industrial settlement which was the battle
field for weeks. The fourth withdrawal was announced
in a noon communique.
In Berlin, the high command reported that Nazi
forces overran numerous Soviet positions at Stalingrad
yesterday in an advance which cut off Red Army troops
northwest of the city & left them “facing annihilation.”
I. S. Forces Sink or Damage At
Least 12 Jap Ships In Aleutians
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (/l3) — Army B-2G bomb
ers attacked and probably sank one destroyer and dam
aged another and set a cargo ship afire, the Navy an
nounced, in attacks on Jap shipping and naval forces
at or near Kiska Island. Navy communique 157, re
porting medium bombers in action in the north Pac
ific for the first time, said “On October 15th, Army
medium bombers, Martin B-26’s, attacked and damaged
a cargo ship in Gertrude Cove on the south coast of
Kiska Island. At least one direct hit set fire to the
ship which was ,seen still burning several hours later.
One U. S. plane was shot down by anti-aircraft fire.
The marauders also attacked two Jap destroyers north
eastward ,of Kiska and both were damaged, one by 3
hits and the other by one hit, resulting in the probable
sinking of the former.”
The Japs .now have had at least 42 ships sunk or
damaged in efforts to hold their base in the Aleutians.
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Britain Sending
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Hungry Greeks
London — A spokesman
for the ministry of econom
ic welfare told the House
of Commons that Britain is
now sending food to
Greece without interrup
j tion.
The spokesman said that
j the first three ships carry
ing Canadian wheat to the
population of the starving
Axis-occupied Balkan king
dom arrived at the Port of
Athens at the end of Aug
ust. Two more ships arriv
ed September 18, and 3
more will sail shortly from
Montreal.
The spokesman said that
while no exact figures on
deaths from starvation in
Greece are available, the
toll among children is
t known to be high.