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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 131. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 28. 1942 Per c°Py 15«
Stalingrad In Fifth Week of Seige
OP A Directed Set Up Nation-wide Gas Rationing
Germans Employ Elite Shock Troops
In Climactic Effort Take Stalingrad
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UNDATED, Sept. 28 (/P) — Stalingrad still stands
after five weeks of battling siege. The Germans were
reported forced to bring up elite shock troops by air
transport in a mighty climactic effort to overrun Stalin
grad. Air borne reinforcements are needed by the foe
to replace the thousands falling every day that Stalin
grad holds out.
The Germans said several more districts of Stalin
grad have fallen to its troops and a northern section of
the city was penetrated while other areas are being
mopped up house by house, and that Russian diversion
ary attacks both south and north of the city had fail
ed. German propaganda was restrained about Stalin
grad, and was keyed chiefly to claims that three trans
port vessels were destroyed —sunk by U-boat attacks
on a troop and supply convoy enroute from the United
States to England. There was no confirmation of such
German claim which in the past have been shown up
repeatedly as exaggerations, but it is Germany’s first
claim of success against a troop-bearing convoy. They
claimed the destruction of one 19,000-ton vessel; one
of 17,000 tons and a third of 11,000 tons; also two others
damaged by torpedoes. A communique said 11 sub
marine sinkings in other parts of the Atlantic were
also claimed.
Stalingrad, battling with her back to the Volga still
dominated the war news and there was still fighting
from rooftops, windows, street corners and barricades
of tumbled rubble. Russian dispatches said they were
holding their own against air borne forces trying to
swamp defense positions.
A Pravda correspondent caught the picture of Stalin
grad in one dramatic sentence: “The whole city is in
convultions of incessant explosions of bombs and
shells.”
The defense of Stalingrad is becoming more than
ever the pivot of Allied strategy, and offered a heroic
parallel to the defense of Leningrad where for more
than a year, German siege forces were held off and ac
tually rolled back time after time in various places by
the northern Red army.
Kaiser in Drive
For New Labor
MEW YORK, Sept. — This east
era metropolis was given its first j
taste of West Coast ship-builder
Henry Kaiser’s speed and direct
action methods when in a few ]
hours this agents hired the first
400 men out of the 20.000 he
wants to work at Portland, Ore.
Lining up outside a vacant
storeroom, New York City work
ers, many of whom have been
through a long period of unem
plyment, passed through the Kai
ser employment “assembly line.”
Kaiser, the shipbuilder, also
wants the government to let him
have a crack at building giant
cargo airplanes.
In the first few hours, 50 men
were rejected, either because
they are already employed in
vital war industries, because
they carried 1 A Selective Ser
vice classifications or were be
ween the ages of 18 and 19 and
facing possible military training
soon.
Thomas Murphy, in charge of
the hiring, said 50,000 men are
being sought on New York, In
diana, Illinois and Texas.
“If he know one end of a mon
key wrench from the other, we’ll
take them as helpers,” he said.
“If they don’t, we'll label each
end of the wrench for them.”
Free Trip West
The workers will be transport
ed to the Pacific coast aboard 50
special trains, with each man
provided with transportation and
meals and permitted to pay for
it out of his earnings later.
A representative of Kaiser said
that he might return to the East
later to seek 50,000 women weld
Soviets In Need
Of Help Now
MOSCOW, Sept. 26 — Wendell
Willkie declared hat the United
Nations can best aid Russia by
opening a real second front in
Europe.
The Ai nerican Republican lead
er said hat a second front to
take the pressure off the Russian
army should be opened jiust as
soon as American and British
military leaders feel is feasible,
Willkie made his statement fol
lowing a visit to the Rzhev front,
west of Moscow, and following
conferenc s wih Russian Premier
Stalin, Russian Foreign Minister
Molotov’ and other high Soviet
leaders.
Willkie said in a wirtten state
ment:
“I now am convinced we can
best help Russia by establishing
a real second front in Europe
with Great Britain at the earliest
possible moment.
“I believe our military leaders
approve of the idea but perhaps
some of them need some public
prodding
“Next summer might be too
late.
“Russian intelligence reports
show that our few raids on Ger
many to date had a devastating,
demoralizing effect on the Ger
man people.
“Russia wants raids by a thou
sand bombers against Germany
from England every night.”
ers and other skilled workers.
Kaiser will start csnstruction
shortly on three gigantic trans
port planes, built on an experi
mental basis.
Shake Up In
Manehukuoan
Government
Tokyo, Sept. 28 (/P) — A
shake-up in the Manchu
kuoan government, includ
ing the appointment of a
new foreign minister and
the elevation of the com
mander of the first army
division to a cabinet post,
was announced by Domei.
A Hsinking dispatch sad Li
Shoo Keng, Manehukuoan
ambassador to Tokyo, was
made foreign minister, and
General Shih Lien relin
quished his army assign
ment to become minister of
public peace.
Domei, in another dis
patch from Bangkok, quot
ed officials as saying these
appointments will “serve
to accelerate Manchukuo’s
defense construction.”
Manchukuo is the puppet
state carved out of China
by Japan on the border of
Siberia. There have been
reports that Japan is mass-*
ing forces there for an at
tack on Russia.
Japs Forced
Back Near
Port Moresby
Gen. MacArthur’s Head
quarters, Sept. 26 (/P) —
Aggressive Allied patrols
aided by light artillery fore
ed the Japs to withdraw
from some outposts in the
Owen Stanley mountains;
above Port Moresby, Mac-!
Arthur announced and
came concurrently with
heavy raids. These are the
first withdrawals since the
enemy advanced within 32
air miles of the Allied ten
days ago.
Allied dive bombers dem
olished one end of a vital
suspension bridge on the
Jap supply route.
Government
May Seize
Scrap Metal
Washington, Sept.—Prcsi
dent Roosevelt, urging
greater contributions to
the Government’s scrap
collection campaign, said
that the lack of adequate
cooperation might mean
that the Government
would have to just plain
take the metal away from
owners.
The President said that
he foresaw the possibility
that the Government
would have to act much
more drastically.
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Germans Seize
Vmerieans In
Occupied France
Bern. Sept. 28 (TP)—Ger
m ns seized some 300 Am
ericans in occupied France
as potential hostages, dip
lomatic quarters learned.
The move added to the ten
sion in Laval’s government
at Vichy. The news of the
seizures came from private
sources in Paris. Ameri
can diplomatic quarters
were without official word
but it caused no surprise, ’
smce the Americans in the'
occupied zone are liable to 1
internment by the Nazis as i
enemy aliens.
Those held are Ameri-1
cans, who for one reason or j
' other remained in occupied ,
; France, pending negotia-1
' tions for repatriation. It isj
assumed that repatriation
will be permitted, the Gerl
mans asking the return of
; an equal number of Ger
; mans from the United
^States.
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Pari? Says
Allies Block
ading Dakar
London, Sept. 26 (/P> —
The Paris radio said to
night that the “Allies are
blockading Dakar” on the
French West African coast
and “they will attack it
soon." The Nazis carried
on intensive propaganda re
cently regarding alleged
Allied aggressive inten
tions at Dakar but this is
the first claim of any overt
action.
Will Probe
Details of
Transportation
WASHINGTON. Sept. 26—The
Justice Department is (preparing
to launch a grand jury investi
gation centering in nine cities,
to cover the entire transporta
tion indulstry, including rail
roads, motor carriers, waterways
and airlines.
The plans are understood to in
elude grand jury probes in New
York, Washington, Atlanta, New
Orleans, Denver, Kansas City,
St. Louis and San Francisco
The investigation is reported to
have been prompted by reports
of transportation congestion
which has delayed the war effort.
It is believed that some of the
government information came
from Irvine H. Williams and Jos
eph H. Smyth, who recently
pleaded guilty at Brooklyn to a
charge of acting as Japanese
agents.
Now is the time to lock over
/our joD printing needs for the
spring and summer. The Nug
get Office will be glad to consult
with you as to your wants and
orices on same.
Rubber Director Directs OPA Set
l p Nation - ide Gas Rationing
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (/P) — Rubber director
William Jeffers tonight issued a directive that the Of
fice of Price Administration start a nation-wide gaso
line rationing on the same basis as the coupon ration
ing system now enforced in 17 Atlantic seaboard states.
He left up to Price Administrator Henderson the deci
sion whether the rations will be based on four gallons
weekly as provided in the east, or whether some value
be set on the coupons.
Pending inauguration of the rationing program,
whose date was not set, Jeffers appealed to motorists
to ration their own driving and cut speeds to 35 miles
an hour.
60 Days Before Rationing Set I’p In Seattle
SEATTLE, Sept. 26 (/P) — State rationing director
Floris Nagelvort said it may be 60 days bef< re a gas
rationing system can be set up.
Victory Further From Hitler's Grasp
32 German Attacks Smashed 48 Hours
UNDATED, Sept. 26 (/P) — Victory edged further
from Hitler’s grasp in the siege of Stalingrad as the
Red armies gained fresh ground northwest of.th Volga
metropolis, crashing 32 German counterattacks in 48
hours, and recaptured a strategic position •”ithin the
city. By a Soviet account it is the fourth consecutive
day that the German assault was stopped cold
Hitler’s headquarters, long accustomed to proclaim
the swift fall of city after city now focussed their at
tention on the capture of a single building. “In the
fight for Stalingrad, buildings belonging to the Com
munist Party situated near the bank of the Volga were
torn from the Soviets in embittered fighting, and Soviet
relief attacks against the northern barrier were re
pelled,” the German command said.
The Vichy radio, notoriously unreliable, asserted
that German shock troops have driven through Stalin
grad to the Volga at “several points.”
Dispatches to Red Star said the Germans are wear
ing out. the Soviet troops fighting from street barri
cades. charred buildings and fox holes in the damp
earth are holding on grimly as the tide of battle sway
ed back and forth and from street to street. The Red
Star said any local gains scored, the invaders made by
“crawling across mountains of bodies and burned
tanks. German warplanes are reported switching their
attacks to Volga river crossings, evidently fearing to
drop bombs on the confused battle scene lest they an
nnhilate their own troops.
Some Price Rises Are Gut Down
The first violations of the price
control act in Fairbanks were re
vealed by Edgar Russell, member
of the local price-control and ra
tioning board- they involved in
creased prices on candy bars and
beer.
Russell said that after receiv
ing the complaints, he visited the
merchants and some of them fol
lowed his suggestion to modify
their prices.
"Nickel candy bars being sold
for a dime were put on a four
for-a quarter or two-for-15-cents
basis,” he said, and added:
“I informed bars and liquor
stores that they could justify rais
ing beer prices from 25 cents a
bottle to 30 and 36 cents only
by posting ceiling prices based
on increased costs to themselves.
Mixed Drinks Unaffected
“While straight shots of liquor
and bottles of beer are not in the
list of Cost-of Living commod
ities, nevertheless, they are un
der price control. This does not
| apply to mixed drinks.
"All cases of complaint have
been remedied so far merely by
pointing out their duties to the
merchant-, At present, the local
office has only an advisory and
informational capacity —enforce
ment is vested in the head Ju
neau office.
Expect Enforcement
"But enforcement is expected
when a branch OPA office is
opened. Ail citizens with com
plaints should write them out
and submit them.
“There are four types of pen
alties faced by violating mer
chants -an injunction padlock
ing their business, suspension of
license, criminal prosecution, or
a civil suit.
"In the latter case, a person
who has been overcharged can
sue either $50 or three times the
amount of overcharge — plus
court costs.”
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