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VOL. 44. No. 123. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1942. Per Cof>v
Stalingrad Still Holds Before Nazis
All 1600 Passengers Saved From Burning Transport
Larj*e Naval Transport Burns At
Sea-All 1600 Passengers are Saved
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (/P) — The naval transport
Wakefield, formerly the liner Manhattan, was severe
ly damaged by fire at sea on September 3rd. The Navy
announced that more than 1600 passengers and crew
members were removed without loss of life from the
charred hull. The 24,000-ton ship, one-time queen of
the U S. merchant fleet, will be salvaged and towed to
the Atlantic Coast, the Navy said.
The fire was described as of “undetermined origin”
which broke out on deck level & spread swiftly thru
the 10-year-old $10,000,000 ship. It soon became nec
essary to remove more than 1,000 passengers, many of
whom were civilians, and others presumably men in,
naval service, the Navy related. In addition to pas- !
sengers there were 600 to 700 officers and crewmen
aboard. The ship was commanded by Commander Har
old Bradbury, of Port Angeles, Wash., a Coast Guard
officer.
The Navy said the rescue was brought about in a
thrilling manner bv warships protecting the convoy in
which the Wakefield was traveling from an East Coast
port. A cruiser maneuvered its bow alongside the stern
of the transport and a destroyer placed itself along
side and the passengers were then transferred.
V iews As
To Be"n**tt
Conflict
WASHINGTON —Senators and
other political observers in Wash
ington, D. C., are split on the
significance of the nomination of
John Bennett, Jr., as the Demo
cratic candidate for New York
over Senator James M. Mead,
who had the support of President
Roosevelt.
Most of the observers begged
to be excused from comment on
the victory scored by James A.
Farley, who backed Bennett, but
among those willing to talk on
or off the record, some beleved
the New York state convention’s
nomination increased Farley’s
political stature in 1944 president
ial picture which others thought
it would be a boomerang against
him.
When President Roosevelt was
asked at his press conference
what effect Bennett’s nomination
would have on the conduct of the
war effort, the Chief Executive
repeated a remark made by Rob
ert M. Patterson, undersecretary
of war.
When reporters sought a com
ment from him on the commando
raid recently he said:
“No worthwhile comment.’
Despite the support of such em
inent personages as President
Roosevelt, H. H. Lehman of New
York, United States Senator Ro
bert Wagoner of New York, na
tional democratic chairman Ed
ward Flynn, and the potent Tam
many hall organization Bennett
was nominated for governor by
an overwhelming majority at the
Democratic convention in Buf
falo.
Even when the Mear forces in
sisted on a standing vote, so that
even delegates would be record
ed publicly, a move that carried
the threat of reprisals from Wash
ington against Bennett support
ers. Farley held his forces fast.
. The roll call gave Bennett 623
votes to 393 for Mead.
The nomination was made un
animous on motion of Tammany
leader Michael Kennedy.
Buy Defense B“nds and Stamp*
Seattle Newsman
h On New Job
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SEATTLE - Appointment of
Howard MacGowan, Seattle news
* papermsn. as Manager of the
News and Radio Bureaus of the
| Office of War Information in Seat j
tie was announced recently.
I The Office of War Information
branch, headed by MacGowan.
I with headquarters at 440 Henry
Building, Seattle, will clear and
I issue all official information for
all Government war agencies in
Washington, Idaho and Alask, x
cept the armed forces, it was
announced.
MacGowan will head News an.i
Radio Bureaus which prepar
clear and issue news stories, ra
dio programs, educational mo
tion picture films, posters, pam
; phlets and simiLar material for
public information for some 14
! war agencies. These include the
; War Production Board, Office of
j Price Administration, Office of
| (Defense Transportation, War
Manpower Commission, War Re
location Authority and the War
Labor Board.
Since Pearl Harbor, MacGow
an has served Washington, Idaho
and Alaska as Branch Manager
of the Information Division of
the Offic for Emergency Manage
ment. He assumes his new title
as a result of the absorption of j
the OEM's information service
by the newly-created Office of
War Information, created by j
President Roosevelt when he ap
pointed Elmer Davis as National
Director.
Prior to MacGowan's service
as OEM infromation hear head,
he traveled throughout the na-l
tion on a Red, White and Blue
Defense Special train in charge,
of publicity.
ALASK A-YUKON PIONEERS
BUY $470,475 IN BONDS
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Seattle had another ‘gold rush’ J
recently. Sourdoughs holding
their international reunion there \
broke all Victory Square records
by buying $470,475 worth of War i
©onds during their day’s pro-:
gram. The Alaska-Yugoners fig
ured on buying and selling $384,
'000 worth—the value of the Klon
dike’s famous “ton” of gold—but
things panned out even better
than they expected.
Corporal Louis,
Private Conn to
Fidit for Title
c
Washington. Sept. 9 (.P)
— The War Dept, announc
ed that Corporal Joe Louis
and Private Billy Conn are
to meet in New York Yank
ee Stadium on October 12,
in the first heavyweight
championship match in
ring history between two
soldiers. The entire net pro
ceeds, ■ possible million
dollar gate, will go to the
Army Emergency Relief
fund. The fighters will get
nothing.
Practically l)e
stro\ Large Jap
Landing Force
Mac Arthur’s Headquar
ters, Sept. 9 (/P) — A Jap
landing force of 700 was
“practically destroyed” a*
Milne Bay. Allied torpedo
bombers and fighter planes
probably damaged a de
stroyer in attacks off the
Trobriand Islands. There
was ground fighting in the
Kokodamvola sector. 11
was stated that Allied
bombers scored heavily at
Buna.
Spokesman For
Distilling Industry
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Passes Away
&
Washington. Sept. 8 (/P)!
— Dr. James M. Doran,
aged 57, who directed the
Dry Law enforcement for
three years, then became
spokesman for the distill
ing industry, died here last
night.
Japs Throw
Ulies Back
kokodamyola
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MacArthur’s Headquar
ters, Sept. 7 (/P) —Delayed
— At a cost of more than a
thousand casualties the
Japs threw Allied troops
back in the Kokodamyola
area less than 60 miles
east of Port Moresby. An
Allied command commun
ique said the enemy, using
both frontal attacks and en
circlement strategy, push
ed westward toward a pass
in the Owen Stanley moun
tains to contact Allied de
fense positions.
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*t The Nome Nuggei.
Stalingrad
c
Continues to
Hold Out
.
Moscow. Sept. 9 (/P) —
German tanks and planes
punched another hole in
the Russian defenses west
of Stalingrad but tht Red
Army continued to repulse
the Nazi onslaught south
west of the city. In the
Caucasus, outnumbered So
viet defenders continued to'
fight stubbornly against a
Nazi, wedge driven into ■
X voroshisk.
—
Report Earth
quake In The
Vleutian Islands
Weston. Mass., Sept. 8 (/P)
— An earthquake of mod
erate intensity, apparent
ly in the Aleutians, was
recorded last night bv the
Weston College seismo
graph. Rev. Daniel Line
han, seismologist, said the
quake was registered at.
9:30 p.m. EWT. approxi
mately 4100 miles north
west of Boston, which
would place it “somewhere
in the Aleutians.”
Wife Of
John Lewis
Passes On
Washington, Sept. 8 (.P)
Mrs. John Lewis, wife of
the president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of Ameri
ca. died here after a linger
ing illness.
Japs Attempt
Reinforce
Guadalcanal Is.
Washington, Sept. 7 (/P)
—Delayed —Desperate re
peated attempts by the
Japs to reinforce isolated
remnants of their shatter
ed forces on Guadalcanal
Island were met by strong
American aerial resistance
the Navy announced. The
enemy suffered heavy loss
es of troops in small boats
but the communique didn’t
say that all the Japs were
prevented from landing. It
is presumed that some al
most certainly did, but the
a i r attacks apparently
were so devastating that
their usefulness will pro
bably not be great.
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside,’ using Sour
lough Stationery They il get a
.ug kick cut of it.
Hitler Frenziedly Drives to Capture
Stalingrad Assault But Reds Hold Firm
UNDATED, Sept. 9 (/P) — Hitler, frenziedly driv
ing his armies to capture Stalingrad, threw fresh mass
es of men and armor into the bloody assault, but the
Russians declared they are holding firmly on all sides.
German headquarters asserted that tank-led Nazi
troops stormed and captured “dominating heights” in
the fortified zone west of Stalingrad, after stubborn
fighting.
On Stalingrad’s southern flank, the Russians said,
Red Army mortar batteries and riflemen killed 350
Axis troops in beating off four successive assaults sup
ported by massed planes. Soviet accounts said Axis
planes were so thick that they “literally are hanging
over our front line and bombing our positions,” but the
Russians waited them out, then charged and drove off
the Axis ground forces.
Russia Finds Jap Suggestions Un
acceptable-Open Conflict Expected
CHUNGKING, Sept. 8 </P) — Reports circulated by
foreign circles here said that Jap ambassador Sato pre
sented recent “suggestions” to Russia which the So
viet government found unacceptable, and as a result
a break into open conflict between the two nations is
expected at any moment. The reports didn’t specify
what suggestions _Japan was alleged to have made.
They said, ho we nfrar Hiey were laid before the
Russians since the resignation of Foreign Minister Togo
last week.
An army spokesman said at a press conference that
China had no new knowledge of Jap troop movements
outside of China, but reports reaching other quarters
here continued to describe the steady flow of Jap forces
to Manchukuo. across the border from Siberia.
Willkie Reports Allied Victory In
Egypt, Avis Losing 100 of 200 Tanks
UNDATED, Sept. 8 (/P) — A great Allied victory in
Egypt in which a hundred of 290 first-line Axis tanks
were knocked out in the opening battle, was reported
by Wendell Willkie soon after President Roosevelt
bluntly warned Germany to expect “second front” at
tacks at possibly a dozen points in Europe.
"Rommel is in a hole.” Willkie said, arriving at An
kara on his mission as President Roosevelt’s special
emissary. “He attacked Allied positions and had 100 of
his 290 first-line tanks knocked out by Allied forces in
the first battle. I saw the ruins of the tanks myself,
and I am convinced that Rommel lost 40 percent of his
punch.”
Allied capitals rang anew to second front specula
tion in the wake of the President’s broadcast which
disclosed that a vital military decision has already been
made. By implication, the President revealed that at
least 528,000 American troops have already been sent
overseas or more than three times the number sent to
France in the first nine months of the first World War.
Asserts Immediate Action Necessary
On Stabilization of Living Costs
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (/P) — Delayed—President
Roosevelt carried to the people his battle for stabiliz
ation of living costs with a radio address, asserting
that immediate action is necessary to avoid “a serious
domestic economic crisis,” warning “If we wait two,
three, four or six months, it may be too late.”
The fireside chat also contained a front-by-front sum
mary of the war’s progress, closing with the statement
that in Europe, our “aim is an offensive against Ger
many,” toward which preparations are progressing
both in the United States and Britain. “Germany’s
power must be broken on the battlefields of Europe.
Certain vital decisions will be made in due time. You
will know what these are and so will our enemies. I
can say all these decisions will be directed toward
taking the offensive.”