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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 44. No. 116. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY. AUG. 24, 1942 p*r Copy 194
Marines Write History In Jap Blood
Hitlers Offensive In Russia Nears Supreme Test
Dimond Asserts United States Must
Advance on Japan Through Aleutians
Fogs No Worse In Aleutians Than Those Near Halifax
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (/P) — Delayed — When
the final battle of the war in the Pacific is fought it
likely will be waged in the Aleutian Islands area ra
ther than in the Solomon Islands, Delegate Dimond
predicted today. He said, “If the old strategic principle
that one follows the shortest line to advance against
the enemy, is valid, the crucial battle of the Pacific
will be fought in the north Pacific.” Dimond said the
late Brigadier General William L. Mitchell foresaw the
present war and warned that to win it the United Stat
es must advance against Japan through the Aleutians,
and thus carry air bombardment to Japanese cities.
Fogs in the Aleutians, Dimond continued, are no
worse than those near Halifax and he said the United
States forces have to fight in fog if this country is to
win the war. “There are no substantial grounds to
prove that we cannot fight as well in the fog of the
Aleutians as the Japanese can,” he asserted.
He declared the safety of the United States depend
ed largely on the provision of a unified command over
all Alaska. He explained that a unified command now
existed only in the Aleutians. Dimond praised the ac
tion of Army and Navy fighters in the Aleutians, and
said airmen in the Catalina flying boats put up a good
fight against Japanese planes.
Marines \\ ipe Out 842 Japs, Take 30
Prisoners--! lost 34 Killed 85 ounded
UNDATED, Aug. 22 (/P) — United States Marines,
writing a new type of South Seas drama in Japanese
blood, were credited officially with wiping out two en
emy forces in the 17-day-old battle of the Solomon Is
lands and inflicting heavy damage in the assault on
Makin Island. 1500 miles to the northeast.
Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the Pacific
fleet, announced that the leathernecks killed 842 Japs
and took 30 prisoners. American losses were small.
In the Solomons, the Marines crushed a night attack
by 700 Japs last Wednesday, killing all but 30 in sav
age hand-to-hand fighting which raged through the
night until Thursday afternoon, and the same night
annihilated an enemy force of 92 officers and men who
resisted until the last man wias killed. The total of
American losses in both actions were 34 killed and 85
wounded.
In the raid on Makin Island, Marines and Bluejackets
wrecked the enemy base, killed at least 80 Japs and
withdrew after completing their mission. Major James
Roosevelt, the President’s son, took part in this attack.
Command Studies Secrets Of
Nazi Defenses, Learned Dieppe Raid
UNDATED, Aug. 20 (/P) — Delayed — Secrets of
Germany’s anti-invasion coastal defenses were studied
by the Allied command amid predictions of titanic new
blows to fall as soon as the jittery Nazis awake to
yesterday’s history making attack on Dieppe. As the
first fruits of the raid, informed London quarters de
clared. probably one-third of Hitler’s fighter plane
strength in Western Europe was destroyed in the nine
hour assault. Dieppe itself, once a famous spa, trans
formed by the Germans into a bastion of anti-aircraft
defenses, was pictured as lying in charred and shell
torn ruins.
Eyewitness stories racing along the Vichy telephone
said fierce hand-to-hand fighting raged in the streets of
flaming Dieppe, under raid by British artillery fire.
Civilian estimates said about 10,000 Allied raiders,
striking in a huge wave along 12 miles of the Dieppe
coast line, landed in 300 to 400 small boats and self
propelled tank scows, on the fortified beaches, while
13 British warships hurled shells into the Nazi de
fenses.
The Berlin radio claimed that 35 transports stood
by in reserve, “to get into the action as soon as the
first landing wave succeeded in forming a bridgehead.”
Jjtlers 1942 Drive
Draws Nearer
Supreme Test
Undated. Aug. 24 (TP) —
Hitler’s 1942 drive to the
southeast, which started at
Kharkov two months ago,
drew portentously toward
its supreme test in the
fiercely defended 50-mile
corridor between the Don
and Volga, at the approach
es to Stalingrad, and in the
j spurs of the Caucasian
; mountains, a hundred mil
es f: m the Grozenv oil
fields and only 200 miles
from the Caspian Sea. Sap
ped by staggering losses,
but yet to be checked, the
onslaught in those two
months rolled almost 350
miles due east and fully
500 miles southeast, vir
tually as far as the Nazi’s
1941 thrust carried Ger
m m arms across the Uk
raine from the Carpathian
mountains frontier of Ru
mania.
1 The Russians acknow
ledged their defenses have
, been bent further back
northwest and southwest
of Stalingrad where the
Germans won new bridge
heads in terrific fighting;
southeast of Kletskaya and
perhaps no more than 50
miles from the city named
for Premier Stalin.
A Soviet communique
said Russian troops and
tanks are waging another
fierce battle southwest of
Stalingrad, with a German
tank column, which pierc
ed into the Russian defens
es from the Kotelnikovski
Salient, also beyond the
Don.
Nine Concerns
Indicted For Con
i
spiriii" to Defraud
Washington, Aug. 24 (/P)
The Justice Dept, announc
ied the indictment of nine
companies and six of their
officers on charges of con
spiring to defraud the gov
ernment i n connection
with the sale of 50 million
dollars worth of insulated
i cable to the Navy.
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Chinese Capture
Japanese Base
Kian^si Province
Chungking, Aug. 24 (/P)—
; Chinese forces captured
| Finchwan in central Kiang
I si province, the second
I most important Japanese
base in the province, the
Chinese high command an
nounced.
State of Viar
Exists Between
Brazil and Axis
Buenos Aires, Aug. 22 (/P)
— Argentine Foreign Min
ster Enrique Ruiz Guin
azu announced that the
Brazilian ambassador in
formed him that a state of
belligerency exists be
tween Brazil and the Axis.
Diplomatic reports from
Montevideo said Brazil de
clared a state of war ag
(inst Germany and Italy.
Government Moves
To Put Brazil On
Full Wartime Basis
Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 24
(. P) — The government
moved to put Brazil on a
full war footing, tightening
its control of German and
Italian nationals, and tak
ing special precautions ag
ainst possible token attacks
: by Axis submarines known
to be lurking off the long
; coastline. The noisy demon
jstration which accompan
ied Brazil’s entry into the
war Saturday died down to
day as the Navy and air
; force stepped up their off
i shore patrols.
Convicted Of
Conspiring Violate
Freezing Order
r
—
New York, Aug. 24 (/P)—
Werner von Clemm, aged
44, former German artil
lery officer was sentenced
: to two years imprisonment
and fined $10,000 for con
spiring to sell Dutch and
Belgian diamonds in this
country in violation of
| President Roosevelt’s freez
j ing order in 1940.
Flying Fortresses
Undated, Aug. 21 (/P) —
Delayed — Giant U. S.
Army Flying Fortresses
j are reported launching a
big attack on Jap warships
off the Solomon Islands as
the enemy apparently mov
ed to strike back at the Am
erican Marines now oc
cupying at least three is
lands in the southeast of
the 900 miles long archi
pelago.
A British broadcast in
dicated the attack is devel
oping and said details were
being awaited. Previous re
ports from New Zealand
said the enemy was mass
ing naval forces for a coun
ter blow against the Ma
rines in the Tulagi area.
Marines In Solomons Kill 670
Of Attacking Force of 700 Japs
PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 22 (/P) — United States
Marines, mopping up the Japanese in the Solomon Is
lands yesterday killed 670 of an enemy force of 700
and captured the remainder. A communique issued by
Admiral Nimitz, United States Pacific fleet commander,
said tonight the action occurred after night time when
i the Japanese attempted to land 700 troops from high
speed boats in an effort to break through the Marines’
lines. Marine losses in the fighting were 28 killed and
72 injured. During the darkness, only hand-to-hand
fighting was possible but with the breaking of day, the
Marines were able to maneuver. While one battalion
held the front line another battalion moved to the
flank and drove the then withdrawing Japanese to the
beach. The action continued until late afternoon.
Said Admiral Nimitz: “The Marines in the Solo
mons, who are under the command of Major General
Alexander A. Vandergrift, added another page* to their
history of outstanding achievements.”
Mai. James Roosevelt, Son of President
Participates In Raid on Jap-held Island
PEARL HARBOR. Aug. 22 (/P) — American sea
fighters with Major James Roosevelt, of the nation’s
first family among them, belted the Japanese a crip
pling hit'and run attack on Makin Island, of the Gilbert
group, on August 17th, Admiral Nimitz said today. Af
ter the purpose of the attack was “accomplished in its
entirety," the raiding force was withdrawn
Major Roosevelt, son of the President, was second
in command and he and other top officers came off with
i out a casualty.
At least 80 Japanese were killed in the Makin at
tack, seaplane installations ashore and two seaplanes
on the water were destroyed, while American naval
guns succeeded in sinking one small enemy transport
and one gunboat.
Red Armies Launch Attacks In Rattle
Of Rend. I hrow Nazis Onto Defensive
UNDATED, Aug. 22 (/P) — Marshal Timoshenko’s
Red armies are reported launching a series of violent
counterattacks in the Battle of the Bend. 40 miles north
west of Stalingrad, throwing the Germans back on the
defensive, while the invaders rushed masses of re
serves into action south of the great Volga steel city.
In the Caucasus, new Soviet retreats were acknow
ledged below Pyatigorsk and Krasnodar, but Red
Army headquarters said the Russians wiped out Ger
man vanguards in the hills southeast of Pyatigorsk and
killed a thou.'mid Nazis in a 3-day battle south of Kras
nodar.
German tieid headquarters said Axis columns strik
ing into the northwest Caucasus, had captured the rail
town of Krymskaya, only 20 miles from the Black Sea
base at Novorossisk, while other forces dislodged Rus
sians from fortified mountain positions.
July Output Of
Munitions Runs 7
Percent Behind
Washington. Aug. 22 (/I1)
— Production Chief Don
ald Nelson reported that
i while munitions produc
tion has increased 16 per
cent last month, the July
output ran 7 percent be
hind the expected perform
ance and "We must re
double our efforts if we are
to make our goal by the
| year’s end.”
Have The. Nome Nugge’ sent tr
| /nut mining claim.
Zest of German
People For ar
Has Berlin to Fail
Swansea. Wales, Aug. 22
— Air Minister Sir Archi
bald Sinclair said in a pub
lic speech, that the British
intended to continue bomb
ing Germany and that thou
sand plane raids would be
less infrequent in the next
months. Augmented by the
United States Air Force,
. Allied bomber strength is
increasing steadily and al
ready the “zest of the Ger
man people for war has be
(gun to fail,” he said.