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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 128. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. SEPT. 21, 1942 Per Copy 114
Stalingrad Still Holding on 28th Day
RAF Bombers Devastate Broad Section Of Munich
Broad Section of Munich Lavs
Devastated bv Weight RAF Bombs
LONDON, Sept. 21 (/P)—A broad section of Munich,
birthplace of the Nazi party and site of important Ger
man war industries, lay devastated under the weight
of a smashing RAF attack. Returning pilots said they
touched off fires so fast that they could be seen for a
hundred miles. Details of the assault were unfolded
the night after as the air ministry analyzed reports of
bomber crews wtho winged their way homeward after
dawn yesterday after a daring 1200-mile round trip
foray, the 11th night aid on Gemany this month. The
attack on Munich was accompanied by another raid on
the oft-bombed Saar industrial region of western Ger
many. The British reported the loss of 10 planes in
the night’s raids.
Stalingrad, in 26th Dav of Siege.
Repulses All Attempts to Capture
UNDATED, Sept. 19 (TP) — The death stand of Rus
sians troops is credited officially with defeating the
Germans in a critical 5-hour battle for the hill com
manding the heart of Staingrad. As the struggle raged
a into its 26th day, the Soviet command announced “All
Germans attempts to capture this valuable position fail
ed.” At least two. other assaults by massed Nazi tanks
and troops were declared repulsed as smoke clouded
the city itself, and in the northwest outskirts amid per
haps the bloodiest fighting of the entire German-Rus
san war, German headquarters reported tersely that
the battle is being “successfully continued in the face
of stubborn enemy resistence.”
The Nazis declared that a strong diversionary at
tack. by tank-led Soviet infantry, north of Stalingrad
“collapsed with severe losses to the enemy.” This is
the first intimation that Marshal Timoshenko may have
launched a powerful flanking movement to sweep
around the Nazi seige armies. The German command
said the Russian troops managed to penetrate the Nazi
positions in the diversionary thrust but were annihilat
ed. A hundred Soviet tanks were destroyed.
Significantly, Hitler’s headquarters claimed no spec
ific gains at Stalingrad. Russian dispatches said the
Red armies yielded no further ground in the city. The
newspaper Izvestia said many streets were littered
with German dead. 400 bodies in grey-green uniforms
were counted on the lawns along one short street, af
ter Russian bayonet fighters drove back an attack.
Other reports said Nazi parachute troops are dropping
in the city and many German troops are disguised in
Soviet uniforms. German tanks are camouflaged as
Russian, even bearing the Red Army insignia.
Both Senate and House Approve Bills
(riving FDR Power To Control Wages
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (/P) — The President’s de
mands for prompt stabilization of living costs, is a step
closer to fulfillment, both Senate and House committees
approving bills to grant him unprecedented authority
to control wages, salaries and farm prices. The two
bills differed somewhat in their bestowal of authority
for the President, but both carried out in general, the
Administration wishes.
As two committees rejected farm bloc demands for a
new higher formula for parity and raising of ceilings
on farm products, legislation approved by the Senate
banking committee fixed November first as the dead-,
line for Roosevelt to exercise his proposed powers to ;
control the cast of living. It was detoured through the
Agricultural committee and Republican conference,
and is on its way to a Senate consideration Monday.
The House Banking Committee almost simultan
eously approved a similar bill, but with a provison
adopted by the War Labor Board from the Little Steel;
Case, forbidding a wage or salary increase to an em
ployee earning 15 percent more than on January 1,
1941, an amount equivalent to the rise of living costs
since then.
Jap Envoy
To Russia
Is Recalled
New York, Sept. 19 (.4°)
—The German radio broad
cast . Tokyo dispatch say
ing that the first secretary
of the Jap embasy at Kui
byshev has been recalled
for consultation. The dis
patch by Tranocean news
agency, said the diplomat,
Funao Miyakawa, will pro
baby leave the Russian pro
visional capital on Septem
ber 2’ Miyakawa is a spec
ialist issigned by Tokyo to
repre at Jap interests in a
long cries of negotiations
relate to incidents along
the Mr.nchurian-Jap bor
der.
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German Claim
Heavy Damage
Allied Convoy
Berlin, Sept. 21 (/P)—The
German command said
Nazi airmen hit three more
ships yesterday out of a big
Russian bound American
and British convoy, out of
which they claimed pre
viously 38 merchant ships,
totalling 270,000 tons were
sunk, and six accompany
ing warships destroyed or
damaged. The Nazis said
th s kitest action occurred
in Dvinskava Bay near the j
S'iviet port of Archangel.
B ti: German planes and!
ire declared to have
t: r. part in the running1
fi a There was no con
0: motion of any of these
ci . ms from any Allied
sc uree.
How to Ask Deferment Ivey Employes
(Employers are losing to the
draft key men who should have
been deferred. Selective Service
headquarters is becoming concern
ed & is asking employers to as
sume their full responsibility un
der the law for obtaining defer
ment for necessary employes,
Here are*answers furnished by S<-1
ect'ive Service to employers' que.
tions on how to seek deferment
of kr^- men.)
should employers take the in
itiative in asking deferment for
kej employes?
Yes, companies engaged in war
production or essential oivilian
work, particularly those employ
ing large numbers of men, hold a
definite responsibility in carry
ing out the intent of the law:
namely, to defer from military
service those men in critical oc
cupations in essential industries
so that their experience and train
ing may be best utilized to the
• ntry’s benefit.
Won’t companies that seek
draft deferment for their em
ph>> es bp risking public criti
cism?
N t half the criticism they will
1> risking if they permit their op
era1 ns to me impaired because
■f l i.lure to fulfill their duties
i.ndoi the draft law.
Specifically, what is expected
cl an employer?
T e management, of every com
pany should know the draft
status of its entire staff. Any em
ployer who hasn’t this informa
tion should make a survey of hi
male employees immediately.
How should this survey be
conducted?
The employer needs to know,
first of all, the birth date of ev
ery male employee. Then em
ployes should ibe brouped in 3
categories: (1) those born be
tween Feb. 16, 1897, and June
30. 1922, and who are liable to
be drafted; (2) those born before
Feb. 16, 1897, who were 45 or
older at the time of their reg
istration and who will. not be
dafted; (3) those born after June
30, 1922, who were under 20 at
the time they registered and who
will be subjeot to service when
they reach the age of 20.
When those subect to draft are
identified, then what?
From h - group separate tit."
j who a- absolutely essential v
the effective and continuous qp
oration >f th>.- business, either
because of a shortage of skilled
men in their occupations or to
the long period of training necos
ary to achieve their skill, train
mg and efficiency. These men are
he ones whose defermnt may be
iesirable.
What’s tile first step to get de
ferment?
Get information as to the draft
atus of all employees whose de
ferment will be asked.
Who has this information?
The employes involved. A brief
quesionaire asking local board
rumber, present classification
and dependency status can be
used. Not only will this inform
tion enable the company to deter
mine the basis of its request for
"ccupational deferment, but also
;t may enable it to obtain the co
I operation of the emplyes in keep
ig the company posted on their
-tatus with their draft boards.
Is the local draft hoard fam
iliar with the type of work done
liy every company that employs
men living within the board's
jurisdiction?
Don’t depend upon it. Instead,
utline in some detail the acti\ -
Hies of your company with re
eet to war production or sun
port of the war effort and send
tiris information to the local
board of employes under their
jurisdiction. This will serve as ,
mineral background in addition
to specific data to be filed on
behalf of each individual as the
case arises.
What should be done in the
ease of employee who alread\
have received questionnaire from
local boards?
Begin immediately to prepare
the affidavit to support a claim
for occupational deferment
(Form 42A). With this form file
such affidavits regarding the em
ploye’s training and experience—
the essential nature of the work !
he is doing, and the importance
of his production to the war ef-'
fort—>as may be helpful to the
local hoard in determining whe
ther or not he will be more sise
ful at home or in the Army.
I
'Russia Has No Idea of Quitting Says
! Willkie But Want Allied 2nd Front
UNDATED, Sept. 21 (/P) — Germany’s mightiest
battleship, the Tirpitz. sister ship of the sunken Bis
mark, was reported to have left the shelter of Trond
! heim Fjord, under cover of Nazi warplanes, and is chal
, lenging American and British naval power, to hunt
Allied convoys carrying aid to Russia over the hazard
ous Arctic route to Murmansk.
In the siege stand at Sevastopol, the Red Army
fought on desperately.
At Stalingrad, amid shell and bomb-torn wreckage,
, stemming a Nazi onrush for the fourth consecutive
day and in some place .hurling the Germans back by
the furv of its counter attacks, despite the disadvantag
ecus position, the defenders have their backs to the
Volga. The outcome couldn’t be foreseen of stubborn
; street-by-street and house-byJhouse battle, of the same
, sort which saved Moscow and Leningrad last fall.
An early winter isolated Sevastopol which fell in
27 days. Salingrad, is in the 28th day of battering
tanks, guns and a ruinous rain of bombs. German long
range artillery took over the work of destruction, s/hak
ing the shell-pocked city to the end that the thunder
ing barrage all but drowned the clatter of rifle and ma
chine gun fire of troops lucked in close quarters and
fighting in the streets of suburbs.
In Moscow, Wendell Willkie declared that he found
the Russians had “no idea of quitting.” The bearer of
; a written message fr< a President Roospv<;f Willkie
said the Russians appreciated the aid received from the
United States and Britain bui “Didnt thing our aid was
enough." He said the Russians think a second front is
the "kind of aid to which they are entitled to. A sec
ond front has become almost like a symbol to them.”
I S. WAR ACTION
HITS NAZI MORAL!'
RICHMOND, Va . R - Alvin
.1 Steinkopf, veteran Associated i
Press foreign correspondent,
said in a radio talk that the dec-!
ratioi if w ar by the United
States was the greatest single
blow to the G- man .morale in
the present war.
"But until the German leader
ship is replaced,” ne said, “they'
w: 11 battle us tn the death.”
The fi ght of Rud !ph Hess to
England was described as pro- j
bably the second • i blow to
1 German morale.
Steinkopf said the German peo
pie were not particularly angry
at the Americans but that ‘t'heir
.sense >f duU will make them
fight us the bitter nd.”
Should a company wait until a
local hoard begins reclassifying
in employe before filing its re
quest for deferment of that man?
No. When your company has'
t> i did upon tin employes for
v tom it will ask deferment, the
1 nl beard- of each of the em
plyi -. can be notified and told
that at t proper tin the com
pany expect- to file up-to-date
information as to the essential
nature f the employ ’ service.
What about employes for
whom a company decides not to
ask deferment?
Steps should be taken to start
training replacements immed
iately Thos e replacements
should be picked carefully. Pre
ferably they should be married
men with children or men over
' 45 years of age. Selective Service
also requests that, who rev r pos
sible, women be employed to fill
jobs previously held by men.
Has Selective Service head
quarters any . manual for em
ployes on procedure for request
ing deferment?
' No such manual is available at
. headquarters. However, the pro
1 cedure outlined here has been
I suggested officially by Selective
| Service officers.
|Canadian Destroy
er Ottawa Sunk
With Heavy Toll
Ottawa, Sept. 2 (/P) —
The Canadian destroyer
Ottawa was torpedoed and
sunk. Her commander and
four other officers and 107
men are missing. They are
believed killed, Navy min
ister MacDonald announc
ed.
C. I. (). FIGHTS
FIXED MESSAGES
NEW YORK Carrying for
ward its light against singing tele
grams, the Ainer. am Communi
cations Association. C. I. O., an
nounced that it would ask the
Postal Telegram Company in
contract negotiations, to abandon
all singmg telegrams, kiddie
grams and other messages of the
fixed text variety on the ground
that they interfered with war ser
vice. The union appealed to the
Federal Communications Com
mission to order elimination of
messages tin- in n regards as non
essential.
In the contract talks covering
14,000 Postal Telegraph employes
the CIO group also asked for
'higher wages to stem a “mass
exodus" of workers from the com
pany, rehabilitation of plant fac
ilities, institution of “an ade
puate training program" and es
tablishment of twenty-minute
telegraph service from sender to
receiver. The union acknowledg
ed in a statement that .the com
pany’s own financial position
| would bar some elements of the
war conversion program and it
called upon the government to
provide financial a id “as an im
perative wartime emergency mea
[ sure."