Two Japanese Minesweepers
Sank, 3 Submarines,
3 Large Cargo
Ships and Several
Small Craft Damaged;
Not One American
Plane Lost in Battle
Peart Harbor, Sept 16. — United
States Army plane* from Alaska
swept down upon Japanese-held Kiaka
Island in the Aleutians yesterday
and sank two enemy warships, destroyed
six planes and killed or
wounded BOO Japanese ashore, where
storage dumps were blasted, Admiral
Chester W. Nimitx announced today.
The only United States casualties
were'the pilots of two P-S8 fighters
which collided in mid-air, Nimitx'
communique said.
Other enemy ships , and plane
groups iq the harbor were hit directly
by bombs and subjected to
repeated strafing' Explosions and
fires were noted among shore installations
and the raid was called
officially "most successful."
Text of the communique, No. 9,
issued by Nimits:
"Sept. 16. — This afternoon our
Army Air Forces in Alaska delivered
a most successful .attack on
enemy shipping and shore installations
at Kishn. Enemy ships and
planes in the harbor received direct
bomb hits and repeated strafing.
At least two naval vessels
were sunk. Five enemy fighters
were downed in flames and one
four-engined patrol plane burned
on the water. *'»
"Installations and storage dump*
around the harbor were repeatedly
bombed and strafed, resulting in
large Urea and explosions. Enemy
personnel casualties are estimated
at around 606 whereas we lost two
pilots aa the result of two P-38's
colliding in mid-air."
Kiska is the easternmost of the
three Aleutian Islands occupied by
the Japanese this summer, the others
being Attu and Agmttu. It is about
660 miles west of the United States
base of Dutch Harbor on Uaalaska
Island, near the Alaskan mainland.
(This was at least, the third
United States air raid on Kiska. Delayed
dispatches received yesterday
from the Alaskan Amy air base
■aid the island had been reconnoitered
and bombed by a squadron under
Brigadier General William O.
Butler, Marshall, Vs., commander of
the Army Air Forces in Alaska,
early this month. They scored several
near misses on cargo skips and
three days later tWb American
fighter planes strafed the Kiaka harbor,
riddling a Japanese flying boat
and killing ft «!6mber otf enemy
troops.)
NAVY GIVES DETAILS
OF ATTACK ON KISKA
Washington, Sept 16. — United
States Aarmy bombers have dealt
Jap-heid Kiska Island hi the Aleutian
inmost devastating aerial Mow
—hitting eight enemv shins. nni«ir
or wounding 500 troops, destroying
six planes and * muting shore in—
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WAR IN BRIEF
Army heavy bombers and fighter
planes escorts, in devastating raid
upon Japanese base at Kiska in the
Aleutians, kill or wound 600 Japanese
ashore, sink two minesweepers,
damage number at other craft and
down several enemy planes. Not one
American plane tart In destructive
flttrflfki
Navy announces that Japanese attack
upon Guadalcanal Island in' the
Solomons has been reduced in intensity
by Marines and that Allied fliers
have damaged two mors Japanese
cruisers in the Southwest Pacific.
German forces attacking Stalingrad
have penetrated outskirts of
metropolis, where Russian soldiers
and civilians are battling desperately
to save city named for Premier
Josef Stalin. Fighting reported, also
on other sectors of - long Russian
front.
French governor-general of Island
of Madagascar approaches British
with request for armistice terms as
British forces conttarae fighting their
way toward island capital
Russia reported pressing Allies for
immediate opening of second front in
Europe, contending that delay may
prolong war, with resultant heavy
cost in lives and equipment.
Navy reveals loss during Battle of
Midway of aircraft carried Yorktown.
Damaged vessel was sunk by
Japanese submarine in June.
planes and killing and wounding
many Japanese troops, the Americans
set fire to storehouses and supply
dumps in the camp area during
reueated attacks. They used the
same low-level bombing technique
employed by Brigadier General Jimmy
Doolittle in the April 18 raid on
Tokyo. »
The Navy said the Japanese sought
to repel the September 14 attack
with planes and "weak anti-aircraft
resistance," but that no American
planes were lost through enemy actio^
RED CROSS CERTIFICATES
HOME NURSING RECE
- Mrs. C. Hubert Joyner, director of
the Home Nursing Class of the local
Red Cross, announce* that she had
received certificates for the late
graduates of her class, who can gfct
same by calling at her home.
h New fork
New York, Sept. 16.—A Japanese
who had maps of the New York city
water system and statistics on U. S.
war areas was one of 10 enemy
aliens apprehended In thia area by
the Federal Bureau ct Investigation,
P. E. Woxworth, assistant director
of the FBI, said tod®*,., ?
The.aliens, all arrested for refusing
to serve in United States military
forces, included also seven
Germans and two Italians.
The Japanese is being held at ElK
Island for internment after the
maps and notebook* were found in
.his apartment The others will be
I investigated by the U. S. Attorney's
; office for possible proMcntion, Fox
A WEEK OF
THE WAR
(For Release September 16)
All motorists in the nan-rationed
areas of the country were asked by
Price Administrator Henderson to
observe the same rules in using their |
cars that sane enforced in the rationed
Eastern Area, as a means of conserving
rubber tires until a National
rationing plan can be put into effoct.
He said it will be several weeks before
coupon ration books can be
printed to carry out the Nation-wide
fas rationing recommended by the
Baruch Rubber Committee. Unless
the Nation's 37,000,000 motorists cut
thdr driving "to the bone," Mr. Henderson
said, "we're lflteJy to coast
right into Hitler's lap."
Hie White House issued a chart
prepared by the Society of Automotive
Engineers showing that the normal
life of a tire is doubled when
the average driving speed is reduced
from 40 to 20 rhiles am hour, or from
50 to 30 miles an hour. Thf President
said he thought the chart should
be brought to the attention of the
Country as a persuasive argument
for slow driving.
The Baruch Rubber Committee
recommended that motorists be curtailed
to a general average of 5,000
miles a year. Tie Committee also
recommended a National speed limit
of 85 miles an hour and compulsory
periodic ti»« inspection. Complete
reorganization of government agencies
concerned with the rubber program
and appointment of a rubber
administration with full responsibility
for conservation and synthetic
production programs were) also recommended.
Additional rubber must be released
to fully maintain essential civilian
driving, reclaiming operations
must be stepped up, and to increase
synthetic production, Committee
recommended immediate expansion
of plant capacity for Bunas, Butadiene,
Neoprene, and alcohol, and
elimination of any further substitution
in {dsns for synthetic production.
The President told his press conference
virtually all of the Committee's
recommendations except gasoline rationing
will be put into effect fnmediately.
The War Front.
General MacArthur's Australian
Headquarters reported allied force*
have kept the Japanese throat toward
Port Moraeby bottled in the
towering Owen Stanley Mountains
while allied aircraft gwept the seas
surrounding the Island, bombing enemy
ships. Gen. HaeArthur announced
September 14 that United
Nations Bombers Attacked three
Japanese cargo ships, apparently
bound for New Guinea, and American
Plying Fortresses bombed a Japanese
Cruiser off the Southeast
Coast of New Britain. Earlier, the
Fortresses hit two enemy destroyers
in the same area. Japanese Bombers
continued to attack U. S. Forces in
the Solomons and the enemy has
"reinforced and supplied" Japanese
troops far the interior of Guadalcanal
where U. S. Marines are engaged in
mopping op operations, the Navy reported.
The Navy said that 20 more
Japanese planes have been shot down
in three heavy bombing attacks
bringing to at least 143 the number
of Jap planes officially reported shot
down since operations began August
7th. \ .
U. S. Army Headquarters in London
reported Amsriean flying fortresses
and medium bombers successfully
bombed the Schiedam Shipyards
at Rotterdam, fiaiiway Yards
at Utrecht, an airframe factory and
the St Omer Airdrome in Naai-occupied
France. - Damage to inter
Beaming tobacco farmers, telling
on the Farmville market, pocketed
nice checks again this week aa prices
continued to remain at a high level.
Though tips continue to appear in
quantities considerable improvement
in the quality of the weed in general
has been noted each day in the heavy
offerings on the floors, which have
been crowded with farmer*.
Buying has been brisk weaverages
readng around the $38 Vnark.
Domestic companies:' are baying
heavy, though the Commodity Credit
Corporation, buying with lend-lease
funds, has. been obtaining a good
Governor Of
Madagascar
Seeks Terms
Requests British To
Cease Fire; State
Terms of Surrender
London, Sept 16.—A New British
landing on Madagascar has caused
the surrender of remaining French
forces in one northwest coast ana,
the British East Africa command
announced today, as radio reports
from the Vichy - controlled island,
still lacking official confirmation,
said its government was seeking
terms with the British.
Governor General Armand Annet,
the reports said, has asked for a
cease firing order and terms to end
the hostilities.
This was not mentioned in tk»
British communique, which reported
the invading troops proceeding
steadily toward the island capital
with more than half thq distance
covered.
Of the new landing, it said ornly:.
"Otn the northwest coast, the
pressure of our column moving down
from Ambanja, combined with a
further successful landing from the
sea in the Maromandia area further
south, has resulted in the surrender
of remaining French fortes between
those two places."
Got. Gen. Aramand Aimet of Madagascar
has asked for a cease firing
order and terms to end hostilities
as British troops closed in to within
100 miles of the island capital
after six days of operations, radio
reports from Madagascar said today.
Authoritive sources in London
lacked immediate confirmation of
the reports* which were heard by
British stations at Saptured Diego
Suarez and at Port Louis, Mauritius,
but military circles said such a
move by the French was not un
To an extent we have bean doing
this, bf* now the need is terribly
urgent and materials Kane. Now
we must have war goods in greater
volume than trfer—and to a shorter
time. Our enemies doat waft.
Steel mills, eating up almost five
million tons of scrap metal a month,
are naming op almost a day-to-day
bads. We are dangerously short of
copper, tin, and other non-ferrous
metals. »That's
why oar school children—SO
million eft them—are being enlisted
to coasb our homes, backyards, and
farmyards for scrap to feed the steel
giants. That's why our kitchens
must shower down old tin cans by
the million so that we can rea^h our
goal of 8,000 tons of household tin
a year recovered in 17 new "detinsring"
plants. That's why we must
Bave waste fats and greases, turn
in the half billion pounds we have
been.asked to salvage. These fate
would help make enough bombs to
cripple the German war machine, or
enough explosives to fire 1,260,000
IpffiffrTilfiiq shells.
Last year our production of allwire
coat hangers, if made into military
barbed wire, would have girdled
the earth six and one-half times.
We shall not be making win hangers
this year.
To do all that we moat do to atop
the Axis hordes, merely to get
enough skilled workers and fighting
/neat for. this gigantic job, Is going
to be a tough business for-all of us.
In 116 of 160 critical w production
areas there are serious labor shortages,
and in all these areas there
are shortages of some kinds of skilled
workers. Employment : in the
automotive industry, now making
weapons, has paaaed the 800,000
mark—bat not until it absorbs another
600,000 worken; will the industry
have, readied peak production. Then
will be almost five million women in
war industries by the aid of this
year. More millions of them will be
needed by 1948, not only in war
plants but in the fields. Small towns
and larger cities lacking war industries
are losing their young men to
the Aimed forces, thai* boys, women,
and older men to war work ' in
nearby or distant industrial area*.
These towns are short-handed, and
yet it is just such communities that
are turning in thousands of pounds
of scrap metal and rubber.
Farmers, on the whole; havent
found the going tough .so far-^excegt
for the shortage of labor. They're
buying more goods and making more
property improvements than at; any
time since the unlucky boom days of
the last war. Yet that . very fact
should give them pause. Inflated
war prices not only handicap the
whole war program, but endanger
post-war security. Wit£:l tobacco,
wool, and all meats hrfcjglng -prices
far above parity, producers might
well recaB tha tragic dump which
followed the lot war-created "prosperity."
,
Government Cracks Down en
. Sabotage of Price Central.
In its unending battle against the
Fifth Column threu* of inflation, of
high living costs, the Government is
cracking down on sabotage of price
control, illegal trading (the "black
markets"), rent gougers in warboom
towns, dishonest grading of
meats, other wartime trickery. Some
manufacturers hid price increases by
cheapening products &od ddisviiur on
measurements, claiming their diluted
srm® ■ ^ife^l'iose sold bo"
fore, or®
I CANT ANSWER
IFP- " •'< " ^ *
Naw York, Sept. 16.—An article
by PwiMgiBdt Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels, summarized in a Berlin
broadcast. < emphasized'" two
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points that the Germans am
asking when they will have peace
and that Herr Gotbktls cnuot answer
then. •
Concerning "the frequently voiced
Hii ci In ii regarding: the duration of
the war," the broadcast said the Propaganda
Minister wrote in Das
Weh: fa-'*? •; v . j|
"Just as in a time of crisis before
the outbreak of war, little usually
can *• said as to whether the war
will earns at all and when it will
earns, so little ussall? can be said
during war as to wfen peace may be
expected.
"Bat experience teaches us that
just as war, *o also peace often does
not come wh« it is believed near and
that just as often it is suddenly at
hand when one hardly expects it"
The only time a nation can lose all
the final battle, Goebbels said, was
"when a victorious nation—as we
were in 1918—commits the fateful
error of voluntarily giving up the
trump card of battles won."
Now, he said, Germany "need not
fear the outcome."
His eomment that Germany's enemies
"wait for winter net" suggested
that he might be giving the nation
a pep talk in preparation for
another winter of frosen inaction in
Russia. '
Big Increase Seen
In War Cotton Use
Philadelphia, Pa.—With the realization
America's 8,000,000 man
Amy, the cotton industry will be
called upon to supply approximately
992,000,000 yards of eott$a> fabrics
tor annual reDlacemcort of clothinfir
alon®- "V',.,
Purchases of fabrics for uniforms,
fatigue garments, underwear, raincoats,
socks, neckties, handkerchiefs,
shoelaces, belts and other personal
equipment have already run into
astronomical figures. The approximate
doubling at .the size of the
army during coming months wiU
create vast ilew demands for these
cotton clothing items. ■
Last Night
Washington, Sept. 16.—William 1L
"Bill? Jeffers, bald, stock, office boyto-president
off the "Union Pacific
railroad, stepped in swinging today
as the nation's new rubber caar.
"I am all ready at work," the 66year-old
railroader declared last
night, as production chief Donald
M. Nelson announced Jeffers had
been picked for what Nelson called
"one of the toughest" jobs in the
war progrsafei"';' ■
Charged with reorganising, eon
S&ve Big Soviet
into the northwestern outskirts of
Stalingrad, where the Bad army and
civilians were Battling desperately tO
save that southern arsenal city which
is the gateway to Astrakhan on the
Caspian Sea.
A "Afciiglft communique, which
for the first time placed the fighting
in the city's outskirts, said:
"On the Northwest outskirts of
Stalingrad our troops fought heavy
actions against the enemy. In aw
sector individual groups of enemy
tanks drove wedges into our defeases,
but were wiped but in the
heavy fighting that ensued."
(The German Propaganda Ministry
has informed the German press
in Berlin that a special annoum*ment,
presumably dealing with Stalingrad,
would be issued from Adolf
Hitler's headquarters within 84
hours, Exchange Telegraph reported
from Zurich, Switzerland.)
Stand or Die.
The Russians, fighting against the
flaming backdrop of Stalingrad,
which has been assaulted heavily by
Nasi dive-bombers, were umfer orders
to stand or die. There appeared
to be no retreat, either, for the civilian
army inside the Volga river city
named for Premier Joseph Stalin.
The Germans were bringing up reserves
steadily to replace the thousands
of fallen Nazis, the Rusriaaa
said.. Among these were Rumanians,
and the communique said Me whole
Rumanian regiment was routed in
the fight outside this city.
In another sector Soviet artillery
was-said to have wiped out IB Nazi
tanks, 34 mortor vehicles, and a battalion
of German infantry. Thirtytwo
German planes also were reported
shot down in sir combs*.
Down in the middle Caucasus the
Russians reported capture of a "tactically
important populated place"
in the Mosodok area, and the repulse
at German cenuterattacks on
the south bank of a river there. The
Gertaan goal in this area i* Grosny,
less than 60 miles southeastward
Industrial Demand
For Cottons Heavy
Memphis T«nn. — The industrial
use of cotton fabrics-still stands at
a level M about 4» per cent of the
total output oil American spinning
mills, despite ever-growiag demands
for other types of fabrics.
The National Cotton Council and
Cotton-Textile Institute State that
the *ljarp step-dp in hmvy war Industries
is responsible for the record
breaking consumption of industrial
cottons. These indafa such,, *
Hems as conveyor bete, abrasives,
polishing -cloths , fiHero, laminated
gears, and moulded rubber products.
IjTbe
monthly expanding output of
guns, planes, munitions and other
military supplies has bean such as to
require more industrial cottons than
at any time to the past, thus making
these cottons keep peace with fabrics
going into bags, uniforms, and civil