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Pan American
Seeks Air Line
To West Africa
WASHINGTON, Sept. — The
Civil Aeronautics Board met in
closed session to consider an ap
plication by Pan American Air
ways for a service to West Af
rican points—a service which has
received favorable comment from
President Roosevelt as an aid to
national defense.
The board pointed out that the
hearings were closed to the pub
lic because of the national de
fense issues. The sessions had
been scheduled last week, but
were postponed at the request
of the War Department.
The proposed new Pan Ameri
,, can route would extend from
Miami, Florida, to Leopoldsville,
Belgian Congo by way of San
Juan, Puerto Rica, Port of Spain,
Trinidad, Belem, and Natal in
Brazil and by way of airports
serving Monrovia, Libya, and
Lagos, Nigeria.
$1,000,000 BLAZE
RAGES IN MANILA
MANILA, P. I. Sept. 15 —More
than a million dollars damage
resulted from a fire than swept a
section of Manila’s waterfront
area. Heaviest damage was to
buildings housing the Ford Mo
tor Company and the Manila
Trading and Supply Company.
Numerous new automobiles were
destroyed.
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WEATHER FORCAST
Fair and continued cool tonight
lowest temperature about 32 de
grees. Increasing cloudiness to
morrow with light easterly
wind. Warmer Tuesday night,
probably with rain.
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FRONT STREET, NOME
ARMY TO FLY FREIGHT FROM
SACRAMENTO TO FAIRBANKS
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept.
15 — Big aerial freighters soon
will be racing with vital defense
supplies to Alaska on regular
schedule over a 2,000-mile route.
This is the Army’s answer to
the necessity of whipping up de
fense preparations at isolated Far
North bases.
United States Air Crops pilots
of the 15th Transport Wing will
fly the freight, using twin-engin
ed transport planes.
The route will be between Sac
ramento and Ladd Field Fair
banks, with three stops, one of
which will be at MeChord Field.
Tacoma, Wash.
At the start the plan calls for
weekly trips.
Transports in Operation
Freight flights by Air Corps
transports are already in opera
' tion between Ladd Field and Me
Clellan Field, Sacramento, L3dd
Field headquarters reported to
day.
One freighter, camouflaged in
the maner of war planes abroad,
left Ladd Field this morning on a
return flight to Sacramento.
The big twin-motored ships
are transporting large’.y light air
craft parts and rush materials
necessary for the day-to-day rout
ine of Air Corps activities in Al
aska. Heavier freight continues
to arrive by boat and rail.
German troops are engaged in battles with Russian forces on a
front from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Berlin claimed the Ger-i
mans had broken the Stalin Line (dotted line) but did not specify
where. Moscow declared the Red Army had seizcyl the offensive
with fierce counter fighting. Principal battle between Germans
(black arrows) and Russians (white arrows) were in the Ostrov
Pskov area; The Polotsk-Lepel area; the district around Bobruisk;
the vicinity of Novograd-Volynski. Berlin claimed capture of Cer
nauti in Bessarabia and said Axis columns had pushed deeper into
the former Rumanian province.
Germans reoprted they were closing a ring of steel around Lenin
grad (1) and that on the sea front Leningrad’s only protection was
the fortress of Kronstadt and the remnants of the Red Baltic fleet.
To the south the Germans reported heavy air attacks on new Rus
sian defense east o the Dnieper River (2) and the first air attack
on the Crimea (3).
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Lined up in review formation at Manila and surrounded by their planes, Filipino airmen and flying
cadets take their oath of allegiance to the United States after Lieut. Gen. Douglas McArthur, act
ing on orders from President Roosevelt, ireerporat d the flying corps within the structure of the
American Army.
Hitler’s Office
Is On Truck
MADRID, Spain, Sept. — The
grst eye witness description of
Hitler’s field headquarters at the;
eastern front was given in a dis-1
patch to the official Spanish news
agency by its Berlin correspond- i
ent.
The Spanish newsman was al
lowed to visit Hitler’s headquar
ters recently. He reported that
Hitler no longer makes his head
quarters aboard a special rail
way train as he did during the
French and Balkan campaigns.
Headquarters on Truck
Because of difficulties of rail
transportation in Russia, the
Spanish correspondent writes Flit
ler has been forced to make his
modified headquarters in a spec
ially fitted truck. Hitler was
said to never stay more than a i
day or two at any given point,
and his whereabouts are always
kept secret.
News From All World
The Nazi press chief, Dr. Diet
lich, has a special office where
news from all parts of the world
is received by radio so that Hit-!
ler can follow current events.
The Spanish newsman said Hit
ler’s camp is always pitched near
a mountain or in a forest so that
the Nazi leader can take the soli
tary walks to which he was ac
customed at his mountain home
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I in Germany.
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and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse LetteT
{heads and Envelopes”, have bee;
brought strictly uptodate, and ar>
now available at the Nugget offi
ce.
CAPTURED RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
Trudging along a road in a suburb of Tallinn, Estonia, according
to German sources, are Soviet prisoners. The automobiles are de
scribed as wrecked Russian vehicles. This is a radio picture sent
from Berlin. The Germans claimed they captured 11,432 prisoners
in the battle for Tallinn.
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Capture of Tallinn, the long besieged capital of Estonia, was announced by the German high com
mand, and a heavy naval batle was believed under way in the Gulf of Finland. Black arrows here
indicate direction of reported German and Finnish drives in the northern sector of the war front,
I where Leningrad is the prime objective.