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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 124. NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY, SEPT. 11, 1942 Per Copy l*
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Most Powerful Army at Stalingrad
President Asserts Gas Rationing Take Effect Soon
Most Powerful Nazi Army Ever
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Assembled Assaulting Stalingrad
MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (/l3) — The most powerful army
the Germans ever assembled in Russia, surpassing even
the great force flung in vain at Moscow last year, was
reported commanded by Hitler to take Stalingrad at
any price, but the Volga bastion still held!.
The Russian Army paper Red Star said the Axis
forces before Stalingrad outnumbered those of any
previous campaign. About a million, on both sides,
participated in the battle of Moscow last fall, hitherto
the greatest single engagement of the war.
Dispatches said the attackers and defenders are fight
ing ina maelstrom of noise, fire, and smoke: planes fill
ing the sky with roaring and screaming; and the ground
shaking with the clash of tanks and the thunder of
bombs and shells.
( hurcliill Asserts Course of Events
in India Improving and Assuring*
LONDON, Sept. 10 (/P) — Prime Minister Churchill
charged that widespread Jap fifth column activity may
have been behind the All India Congress party’s drive
for immediate independence, but told the House of
Commons that the course of events in India is improv
ing and “*'*» fhe whole is reassuring.”
Churchill, in a review of the Indian situation, laid
special emphasis on the turbulent events of the past
two months and their bearing on the United Nations’
war effort. Churchill rejected the proposal of a vote
to show whether the House approved of his statement,
but suggested that a full-dress debate with a vote might
be arranged later.
He minimized the influence of the Congress party,
which he accused of disregarding Gandhi’s non-vio
lence principles, to which, he declared, 90 million
Moslems “are fundamentally opposed,” at which one
member cried “nonsense.”
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Churchill mentioned that more than a million In
dians have volunteered for war service and that 40,000
volunteers in the past two months made an enlistment
record.
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Gas Rationing
Soon To Go
Into Effect
Washington, Sept. 11 (.T>)
— President Roosevelt hop
ed by Monday to put into
effect practically all recom
mendations of the special
commht.ee which studied
the vital rubber problem,
and recommended nation
wide gas rationing. The
President indicated at a
press conference that it
might take some time, how
ever, to put into effect the
r a t i r ring recommenda
tions. He said it would
take time to set up ma
chinery and that it should
be handled by local boards.
Drive On Mada
gascar Capital
Vichy. Sept. 11 (/P) — Brit
ish motorized columns are
advancing on Tanaraive. in
land capital of Madagascar
after they captured the 3
west coast ports of Ma
.junga, Moron and Dava,
Crench reports said.
The French ackonwledg
ed that their troops were
able to put up little more
than token resistance
which “above all is intend
ed to save our honor.”
It was conceded that the
chief obstacle in the wav
of the British was the dif
ficult terrain.
Tananarive is some 350
miles southeast of Ma
unga.
British Take 3
^est Ports of
Madagascar
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1 >ndon, Sept. 11 (/P) —
British forces, encounter
ing but little resistance &
suffering small losses, cap
tured three west coast
ports on the French island
of Madagascar, against
which operations started
yesterday, Churchill in- J
formed the House of Com
mons.
Japanese reconnaisance
planes were recently sight-!
ed wer the island, a Brit
;sh military commentator
asserted and surmised they :
came from an aircraft car-:
rier.
Red Cross
Transmits
Messages
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sent from Riirnp. t.> ’
residents of the Fairbanks area,
some of them written as long ago
as last February, arrived recent
ly and are being transmitted to
the addressees, according to
George Preston, chairman of the
Tanana Valley Chapter of the
American Red Cross.
Two From Germany
Three of the personal messages
came from relatives in Denmark,
one from Norway and two from
Germany. They were transmit
ted via Switzerland.
Preston also said he had re
ceived a letter from Washington
headquarters of the Red Cross
explaining that the large num
ber of messages being handled
between residents of warring
Soviets Promise Every Invader
A Bullet and Two \ ards of Earth’
UNDATED, Sept. 10 (/I5) — The German storm beat
more fiercely around Stalingrad in a thunderous melee
of tanks, planes, and struggling masses of men. The
Berlin radio asserted that Nazi vanguards have driven
into the Volga steel city itself. Soviet headquarters
acknowledged that von Bock’s incessant power drives
have over-run two more villages west of the city but
dispatches said the Red armies, “fully conscious of the
danger hanging over Stalingrad, are defending every
inch of their dear land.”
At mid-day, the Russian command declared that
Soviet troops stiffened again in fighting which raged
throughout the night, exacting a deadly toll of Ger
mans.
Perhaps significantly, the daily bulletin from Nazi
headquarters cited action on the Egyptian front, in the
northwest Caucasus and the centrol Caucasus before
mentioning the great assault on Stalingrad. It then
briefly declared “in the fortress zone of Stalingrad,
more Soviet fortifications, bitterly defended b-- the en
emy, were taken. During this fighting 59 Soviet tanks
were destroyed yesterday.”
Cold rains are now sweeping the battlefield, break
ing the heat wave, signalling approaching wintery con
ditions which might bog down Hitler’s giant mechan
ized forces.
An official Soviet announcement declared that 73
Axis divisions, about 1,095,000 troops, were broken
with annihilation of*more than 70 percerrr ormeir ef
fectives from May first through August. The state
ment promised every invader “a bullet and two yards
of earth.”
Japs Push Thru
Mts.-44 Miles from
Port Moresby
Mac Arthur’s Headquar
ters in Australia, Sept. 9
(/P) — Thursday —Japan
ese troops have pushed
through the Owen Stanley
mountains and are now
less than 44 miles from the
big Allied base at Port
Moresby, keystone of the
New Guinea defenses. An
Allied communique said
the enemy “successfully
outflanked our positions at
Myola,” on the northern
side of the mountains, and
reached Efogi on the south
ern side, and did still an
other outflanking move
ment.
Allied airplanes bomb
ed and strafed the enemy
in cooperation with ground
forces, which are fighting
“tenaciously and gallant
ly under conditions of ex- [
traordinary hardship and
difficulty.”
The drive to Efogi repre-,
sented a 16-mile advance 1
from Kokoda where the
Japanese began their drive
several days ago. |
countries, and the fact that vol
unteers are handling this traffic
for the Red Cross, us responsible
for the slowness in transmission
of these messages.
25-Word Limit
The messages are limited to 25
words, explained, and those
which are to be sent abroad
should be accompanied by a
translation if they arc written in
a foreign language.
New Offensive
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Out nl Solomons
Washington, Sept. 10 (/P)
— A new American offen
sive to drive the Japs out
of the Solomons is appar
ently under way, and they
launched an aerial assault
on enemy troop installa
tions at Gizo Island. With
the U. S. captured base on
Guadalcanal Island, 215
miles to the southeast, evi
dently the springboard for
the attack, American air
forces bombed and strafed
the small heavily wooded
island.
The Navy Dept, announc
ed that a night attack was
carried out Sunday with
out enemy resistance, as
marines continued to mop
up Jap units which fled,
into Guadalcanal jungles,
from the first American
landing more than a month
ago.
The Navy also reported
the destruction of a large
Jap four-engined flying
boat and naval patrol
plane northeast of the Sol
omons on September 5th.
The loss boosted to 123, the
number of Jap planes de
stroyed in the Solomons
thus". _
Due to pressure of war traffic
on the Signal Corps few commer
cial wires have been serviced
and as a result the Nugget is
unavoidably late tonight.
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