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VOL. 44. No. 119. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 31, 1942 ?er Co^ 13<
Forces 1
Soviets In Stalingrad’s Defenses
Former Ambassador To Tokyo W arns
Japs Will Fight ’Til Utterly Crushed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (/P) — A solemn warning
that the Japanese will fight “With all the force and
power at their command until they are utterly crush
ed,” and that great sacrifices will be necessary by Am
ericans to avoid a stalemate, was delivered by Joseph
C. Grew, former ambassador newly returned from To
kyo. This ominous report was lightened only by the
declaration that we could win the conflict onh through
“the exertion of our maximum capacities, individually
and collectively, in the war effort.”
Grew offically confirmed accounts of atrocities re
ported by returning newspapermen andothers, includ
ing a detailed account, of the “water cure” administer
ed to three elderly American missionaries, and the re
cital of bayoneting to death of captured soldiers.
Russian Armies Slave Off Assaults
On Stalingrad City Now In Flames
UNDATED, Aug. 29 (/P)1— Russia’s armies, fighting
against the blackdrop of the beloved city of Stalin in
flames, beat off German assaults above and below
Stalingrad and battled desperately to wipe out a deep
wedge into the city’s center defenses and German dead
littered the steppes before the Soviet trenches. The
Russian command listed 2800 Nazis, Rumanians and
Italians killed in a single sector. German prisoners
were described as hungry and almost exhausted. Nazi
dive bombers showered incendiaries and high explo
sives on the heart of the city, setting many fires. Aerial
transports brought up reserves and parachute troops
far from the south.
The Berlin radio asserted that German troops reach
ed the Caspian Sea, in a 140-mile drive across the Kal
muck steppes toward the vital port of Astrakhan, at
the Volga. The village of Lineinoye, southwest of As
trakhan, was said captured.
On the Rzhev front, 130 miles northwest of Moscow,
the Germans said General Zhukov’s armies launched
new attack which broke down. Dispatches to Pr ivcla
said Russian troop held the northern section of Rzh v.
attacking the Germans behind a plane-laid smo •>.
screen.
RAF Stages Third Big Raid of Week
The RAF staged its third big assault of the week,
perhaps 600 bombers pounded war production centers
in Buernberg, deep in southern Germany; and at Saur
bruecken, on the French border. Thirty bombers were
lost and great fires were left.
Nazis Claim Dieppe Raid was 2nd Front OfTnsivc
The German high command claimed that an Allie
operational order, seized in the August 19 command
raid at Dieppe, showed it was intended as the open ■
of a second front. The communique ignored the f;
that before and during the raid, the British radio ad
vised the French people it was not a real invasion.
The Nazis said 2195 prisoners were captured ; ml
more than 600 killed; 127 planes, 4 destroyers and 7
transports were destroyed.
ICKES MADE
FISII CZAR
Washington — President
Roosevelt designated Sec
retary of the Interior Har
old L. Ickes as fishery co
ordinator.
In an executive order
under his war powers, the
President said the purpose
of the new job was for “de
veloping and assuring sus
tained production of aqua
tic food supplies essential
to the conduct of the pre
sent war, and for the fur
ther purpose of coordinat
ing the policies, plans and
programs relating to the
war effort that affect the
fishery industries and the
Well-Known Alaskan
Author Asks Divorce
Mrs. Larry O’Connor,
better known to Alaskan
and to thousands of Ameri
cans who have enjoyed her
writing as Barrett Wil
loughby, filed suit for div
orce recently and asks for
the return of her former
married name of Prosser.
The couple were mar
ried in Reno in July, 1933,
and for some years O’Con
nor has been engaged in
the furniture business in
San Mateo, California.
aquatic food supplies of
the United States, its terri
I tories and possessions.”
l.S. Planes
Attack Four
Ja?) Destroyers
i
\Y '- .higtm. Aug. 29 (/P)
— The Navy announced
tht t American planes, op
era1*1; mat of the Solomon
Island-. tacked a squad
ron r, ■’ f.-ur Jap destroyers,
sink; m one large destroy
er, probably sinking an
oth< ■ mi leaving a third
bad'* rf m*aged and burn
ing T • ■ destroyers ap
pear* 1 • ;> be loaded with
sups ad equipment
for J .) ends in Santa Isa
bel Is 1 :nd which lies north
west of Florida Island.
Av a aft patrol planes
sighted and attacked the
smallest destroyer, and
Doug: * > do. .• bombers, fly
ing !'r m Guadalcanal, at
tacked • • * 3 large ones.
Alaska Highway
Causes Virline
Base I hanj^e
—
Montreal — The growing
importance of Northwest
ern Canada in Pacific
Coast defense plans and
the great increase in air
traffic in this vital zone
make necessary the tem
porary transfer of western
headquarters of the Can
adian Pacific Air Lines
from Winnipeg to Edmon
ton, according to C II
Dickens, vice-president &
general manager of Can
adian Pacific Air Lines inj
Montreal.
The development of the j
Alaska highway and oth t!
military projects in the•
rea north of Edmonton!
s resulted in an eno -
>us volume of air t.r:>r
ration being required h
.* governments of Ca -j
a and the United Sv
order to successful!
:et these urgent air tran.s
port requirements the of
fice of G. W. G. McCon
f HITS USSD TO COMBAT U - 3 0 AT 5_1 \ns such as this J-4 based at Lakehurst, N. .1., are being used to help
combat enemy submarines preying on United Nations commerce oil America's rents. Observation is the traditional duty of blimps.
ileutian Island
'reat Natural
I Trap for Japs
Louis. Aug. 29 (/P)—
C plain Leland Lovett, Di
r. • r of the Navy’s office
Rublic Relations, de
scvibed the Aleutian Is
i mis as a “great natural
‘rap” for the Japs. “We
vo sunk 12 or 13 ves
A in the Kiska area, and
have not lost one of ours. It
probably the greatest
-oi. there is to pick off
m day by day, and
i "re get ships we get a
f troops too.” Lovett
>i i. in an address to a
meeting of the St. Louis
C -bor of Commerce.
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section provides that fr mi
time to time the minister
may furnish to selective
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dustri ' or servicing activ -
ities. di 'mad to be essential
to the successful prosecu
tion of the war. An employ
er ei ig< d in any activ
so listed is termed a “war
industry.”
achigeneral manage •
Western Lines, has been
moved for the duration O'
the v ar from Winnipeg t >
Edmonton.
The Northern air servic
es operated by Canad n
Pacific Air Lines rad > , <
from E lmonton and by
transfer the company pi n.
to coordinate schecl
and per. onnal and to
vide increased air serv
to meet the needs of
various government dc
mends engaged in buih ■
essential defense proiv '
throughout this region.
Americans Smash Japs, Save Port
Moresby, and Inflict Heavy fosses
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MacArthur’s Hesadquarters in Australia, Aug. 31
( P) — Monday—Outguessing the Japanese and smash
ing them in carefully prepared ambush, Australian
and American forces have hurled back the Japanese
spearhead thrust into Milne Pay, thereby saving Port
Moresby for the fourth time, Gen. MacArthur announc
ed in a special communique handed out with smiles
all around. He announced that. “Milne Bay is rapidly
being cleared of the enemy. His losses have been heavy
as all his heavy supplies and equipment, including
tanks were lost."
Shortly afterward, in a regular communique, the
Allied command announced that Japanese ground
troops were repulsed with heavy casual tie- in the ‘
Kokoda area just 60 miles east of Port Moresbv. in
land from the Gona-Buna area.
Capture i ll Japs Which Landed
WASHINGTON, Vug. 29 (/P) — The Navy announc
e 1 tonight that ma: m for.es holding six islands in the
southeastern Solom ns had annihilated or cr >*urcd all
Japanese troops which landed on the islands todate.
The communique d-clo ed that at least 71 Japanese
planes of various t pe; were destroyed, the fighting
b ostm f the total tM/.-g 69 d:;c'r • wli- . ‘ there
is no information on either enemy r American war
ship and transport casualties.
The six islands were named as: Guadalcanal, which
has airfield facilities which the Japanese had almost
completely developed; Tulagi with its magnificent har
oor; and the adjacent islands of Gavutu, Tanambogo,
Makambo and Florida Islands. The Marines captured
large quantities ef ammunition and supplies and
equipment
Old 1 anana Helps
keep ’em Flying
Sons of a nam r of Alaska’s
best kn u-n pioneers are now
moi arn i 1 naval re
cruits p tra it! • o various
c oups :n tic- Pacilje Coast area.
It is not<-w ri: • that three avia
: i i id ; r '. . i Santa Ana,
» Tanan
T. ■ ■ I ■ i.: G' O’Farrell,
Ana, son
Fi i O'F rho lived foi
and later was
in mining
: dunks area.
Hill m no.
fat.i r. residing in
T ana trio is
; a of the late
- ni Harp' ' iid grandson of
\rth r 11 rp r. wh., was one of
the fair- .. - group of pioneers
t u < 'in int Yukon Valley
in I 7 < unong the Jack Me
Quo Ai M Fred Hart,
and J McK•
T t boy at Santa
Ana is Henry V. whoso father
v. as a Si it:!- . • -i Chinese and
lived for years at Tacoma.
Bill Str- ek r. son of E. H.
Stro eker. ; 1 -it of the First
N ’ oi il B u Fairbanks, also
is a flying cad ‘ -t Santa Ana.
Tanvia 1 ; • c ntributed in an
1 y to the a my personnel.
‘ distinguished
-> stationed at
oi l F; i is, aero i the rt
e 'own, in early
ted one who is
1 1 Emmons,
wad, and the
H rrv L.
nm.'.md.ng the
11 xass, He was a
lii ut m .nd later captain in
the First W id War,