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VOL. 44. No. 133. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. OCT. 2. 1942. Per c°py
Order Reds Yield No More Ground
President Returns From 2-Week Tour War Plants
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President Returns From 8,000-Mile
Inspection Tour Throughout Country
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (/P) — The Whitehouse lift
ed a two-weeks censorship on the movements of Presi
dent Roosevelt, when it disclosed his return from an
inspection tour of war factories throughout the coun
try. The formal statement said “The Whitehouse an
nounces the return of the President to Washington 1
after a most successful two weeks inspection tour of;
the country.
The President left Washington Thursday, September
17, and returned shortly after noon, completing a trip
of 8,754 miles during which he inspected Army and
» Navy bases shipyards, tank and airplane shell produc
ing plants, Army, Navy and Marine training centers,
supply depots and embarkation points. The President
travelled through Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minne
sota, North Dakota, Montana. Idaho, and Washing
ton and down the length of the Pacific coast. He re
turned through the southwest: Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, Louisiana, thence to Washington, stopping at
army cantonments in Mississippi and South Carolina."
Ex-Alaska Boat
Former Chelan
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London — The ramming
and sinking of an Ialian U
boat by the patrol cutter
Lulworth formerly the:
Coast Guard Cutter Che
lan, which operated in Al
aska waters, was revealed
by the British Admiralty 1
spokesman. The Lulworth j
was on Atlantic convoy
duty early one evening
r when an alarm was sound
ed that submarines were
near. Within a few min
utes two U-boats were
sighted.
Starts In Pursuit
The Lulworth started in
pursuit of the nearer sub
marine, the Pietro Calvi.
The Italian U-boat crash
dived in an effort to escape
but was forced to the sur
face by depth charges. The
Lulworth opened fire, scor
ing several hits, with air
planes sweeping the sub
decks with machine gun
fire. The master of the U
boat and all members of
the gun crew were killed
by the first hail of bullets.
Gives Order Ilam
The captain of the cutter
then gave the order to ram.
The Lulworth caught the
submarine on her star
board quarter, pushing her
over and washing some of
the crew into the sea. The
Italians then surrendered.
A boarding party was sent
out from the cutter, but
the submarine sank before
the British crew reached
her. The Lulworth took 36
prisoners from he subma
rine.
The cutter searched for
several hours for the other
enemy Uboat and dropped
many depth bombs. How
ever, darkness prevented
the cutter from obtaining
evidence of a second sink
ing.
Aircraft Carrier.
New Lexington,
Is Launched
An East Coast Port—The
new United States Navy
Aircraft Carrier Lexing
ton, the second ship to bear
the proud name, vv a s
launched last Saturday a'
full year ahead of schedule
The Lexington will take
her place among the active
fighting ships as soon as
she can be fitted. The new
carrier originally was
scheduled to be named the
Cabot — her name was
changed to the Lexington
after the first ship named
for the Revolutionary war
battle was lost in the Bat
tle of the Coral Sea. The
original Lexington was
America’s first aircraft
carrier.
The new Lexington was
christened by Mrs. Theo
dore Robinson, widow of
the late Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy who chris
ened the first Lexington 17
[years ago
List General
As jap Prisoner
NEW YORK, Sept.—The name
of Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright
and 200 other defenders of Cor
regidor and Bataan were unoffic
ially listed as Jap prisoners at
Tarlac, north of Manila. Unoffic
ial estimates placed the number
of Americans interned at 6,000
but the Japs have not yet furnisih
ed prisoner lists to the Red Cross
in accordance with the Geneva
covenant.
The list of 200 names contained
not only that of Gen. Wainwright
who commanded American fore
es in the Philippines after Gen.
MaoArthur’s transfer to Austra
lia, but also the names of half a
dozen other officers.
"SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Short Score First
Came % orld Series
Seattle. Oct. 1 (/P)—Short1
score of first of World Ser
ies: Yankees 7 runs. 11 hits,
no errors. St. Louis, 4 runs.
7 hits. 4 errors. Yankees
pitchers: Ruffing, Chand
ler and Dickey. St. Louis:
M. Cooper, Gumbert. Lan
ier and W. Cooper. Ruffing;
was the winning pitcher
and M. Cooper the losing
pitcher.
Willkie Back In
Moscow from Front
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Mos ■ — Wendell Will
kie reurned from a visit to!
the Fahov front, before
Mosc ceompanied bv
Lt. G '. I.ilyusenko of the
Russian army.
The American Republic
an lead r made the trip ac
ross miles of mud in an Am
jerican built jeep. He said
he was much impressed by
the spirit of the Red army.
Willkie said German cap
tured soldiers with whom
he talked were thinly clad
indicating that the Ger
man forces in Russia are
not prepared for the rigors
of rapidly approaching win
ter.
Willkie said that his trip
to the front gave him a
really first hand opportun
ity to study Russian troops
He declared that he was
very much impressed.
Red soldiers frequently
■ asked him, as did Moscow
workers, when the United
States and British would
establish a second front.
30 U. S. EXPERTS
TO GO TO CHINA
Chungking — The Chin
ese information bureau an
nounced that the American
i government will send a
j corps of 30 experts in dif
ferent fields to China to as
sist. the Chinese govern
ment in establishing nation
al reconstruction.
The American experts
will aid national reconstrue
tion in the fields of agricul
jture, forestry, hydro-elec
tricity, com munications,
mining and public hygiene.
ALEUT EVACUEES TAKE
EMPLOYMENT IN MILLS
Six Aleuts from the Pribiloi
l Evacuatin Camp at Fun ter Bay,
haive taken employment at the
Juneau Lumber Company in Ju
neau, it was announced by the
U. S. Employment Service.
Those who are employed at the
lumber company are Elary S.
Gromotf, Ferapoint Sveetzof, Do
sofey Merculieff, Nicolai B. Mer
culief. Lawrence Galanin and
John Hopoff. Auxenty Stepetin,
first of the evacuated Aleuts to
take emplyment in Juneau, is
with the U. S. Engineers.
I
1 o Evacuate
\fcomeii. Children
From Dakar
Yvhy, Oct. 1 (/P)—An of
ficial source said Pierre
Boisson, governor of Dakar
ha.- redded to evacuate Eu
ropean women and child
ren. from the French West
African port. The an
nouncement said Boisson
issued an order on Septem
her 29th, that a census be
taken among the women
with two or more children
living in the Dakar region, j
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Axis and Vichy French i
pro’- g.mda have recently!
spread rumors about Da-;
kar. apparently to plant
th- idea of an Allied of
fensive against the tactical
ly important African port, i
and the impending evacua
tion pian may be part of
the build-up.
35 Miles Is i
Speed Limit
For Nation
Washington — Defense
transportation direc tor
Kastman issued an order
setting the motor speed
limit for the whole nation
at 35 miles an hour to save
rubber.
The order is effective on
October 1 for passenger
cars and on October 15 for
commercial vehicles and
was placed under wartime
powers by director of rub
ber czar Jeffers.
180 Merchant
Ships Built
In One Year
Washington — A friendly
rivalry has grown up be
tween British and Ameri
can shipbuilders over the
time it takes to turn out a
ship complete from stem to
stern. While the overall
American record has been
cut amazingly in individ
ual cases to under 50 days,;
the British still hold the
edge on the average. Such
records and the one recent
ly set in Kaiser’s yard are
pulling the American aver- j
age down fast. Shipbuild
ers say:
“Give us another year,!
and we’ll not only better j
the British building time, j
but in 1943 we’ll construct
more ships than Britain
has lost in the entire war.”
This would mean about
730 mechant vessels. In the
first year of the Liberty
ship program — which
came to an end Sunday —
American yards have turn
ed out 488 cargo vessels.
Russians, Under Orders From Stalin
Reported Co Forward, Y ield No More
MOSCOW, Oct. 1 (/P) — Backed up by a stream of
reinforcements moving across the Volga and barrages
by the roving guns of the Volga flotilla, Russian in
fantrymen, under fresh telephoned orders from Stalin,
yielded no more and are reported crunching forward
northwest and southwest of Stalingrad. Dispatches to
Red Star from Stalingrad frankly pictured it as “in the
most decisive moment," its trial as an increasing
weight of Axis troops and machines was thrown into
the fight. Counter offensive strokes on the wings of
the constricted front were designed to wipe out. or offset
a new wedge driven on the northwestern flank by fresh
infantry divisions. Even with the arrival of that pan
zer division and two fresh infantry divisions, the Ger
mans seemed unable to deal a decisive blow.
At the same time, Volga boatmen, keeping com
munications open across the river, are bringing up Rus
sian reserves under fierce German air attacks. Red Star
said COO to 1,000 planes are combing Stalingrad each
day.
Hitler’s high command declared that German shock
troops have driven several more wedges into the north
ern section of Stalingrad, scene of a grave new threat.
It was asserted that Nazi gunners destroyed 98 out of
100 tanks, mostly British and American made, which
led Soviet counter attacks further north.
Tokyo Told
j
Bombings By
l.S. Coining
London — Tokyo Govern
ment spokesmen warned
the Japanese people that
they must expect more
raids by American bomb
ing pianes. The spokesman
warned in a radio address:
“We must be well pre
pared for the time when
United States bombers will
, fly repeatedly overhead.
Every resources of Japan
must be utilized to the ut
most.”
In connection with the
Tokyo warning, it was;
pointed out in London that'
the American plane manu
facturer, Glenn Martin, re |
cently said that one squad
ron of the 70 ton Mars fly
ing boats could devastate
Tokyo in a single blitz
blow.
The Japanese felt the
first blow of the war last
April when an American
quadron direct
| ed by General Jimmie Doo
little heavily bombed Tuk
: yo and other major cities.
! The raid caused heavy dam
age and threw the Japan
ese Empire into great con
fusion and consernation.
line In Fairbanks
Is4 Stopped
FAIRBANKS— No more gaso
line is being sold here to pri
vate automobiles, with sales be
ing made only to commercial and
essential cars, according to an
announcement by O. J. Reinseth,
bead of the Standard Oil Com
American
Fliers Hit
At Balkans
Raid Every U. S. Enemy—
Their Base A Mystery
Istanbul — Long range
American bombers pack
ing up to four tons of
bombs for the past 2 weeks
have carried the war right
home to the capital of ev
ery Balkan nation now at
war with the U. 3., includ
ing Croaia, Hungary, Ru
mania and Bulgaria.
Allied authorities d i d
not reveal where the plan
es were based but their
range would permit their
operation either from the
Middle East or Russia. The
nationality of the crews
was not revealed but it
would probably not be
wrong to assume that Am
erican fliers were particip
ating along with British
and Russians.
Accounts of sharply in
creased German and Ital
ian troop movements over
railrodas in these countries
would indicate that the
bomber forays were more
than mere object lessons to
the Balkan governments.
pany here. The restriction is in
effect until further notice, due to
a gasoline shortage which in turn
is the result of disruption of rail
road service to Fairbanks.
Only such cars as ambulances,
i taxicabs. wood trucks, milk
trucks, and others serving essen
! tiai purposes, are being sold
gasoline.
; Reinseth said that the restric
' tion may be lifted if gasoline
i can be brought over the Richard
son Highway from Valdez.
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