Thursday, September 30, 2010

Current Events September 30, 1942; RUSSIANS BEAT OFF NAZI BLOWS/ ALLIS RECAPTURE RIDGE IN NEW GUINEA:

          The Portsmouth Times
                      PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, WENSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1942

BATTLE INSIDE STALINGRAD
STILL TENSE; CRISIS NEARS

DETAILS MEAGER
OK PROGRESS OF
GREAT STRUGGLE
Russians Keep Pecking At.
Other Points In Effort To
Relieve Pressure
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Soviet headquarters reported
today that the Red armies, surging
down on the German left
flank, had defeated two Nazi divisions
along the flaming 40-mile
corridor between' the Don and
Volga rivers, while inside Stalingrad
the crisis remained acute.

JAPS BATTERED
FROM RIDGE BY
ALLIED ADVANCE

Offensive Seeks To Erase
Threat To Port Moresby;
Stiff Frghting Rages
By The Associated Press
MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. 30
—Allied mountain troops, sifting
through the difficult jungle and
mountain country of .the Owen
Stanley range, have captured the
first objective of their New
Guinea offensive and sent the
Japanese into a hurried northward
retreat, a communique said
today.
Consolidating their positions on
Ioribaiwa ridge, which was retaken
from the enemy, the Allied
troops are pushing the Japanese
toward Nauro, 10 miles north of
the ridge, where the Japanese
have established new defense po-
sitions
With the conquest of loribaiwa
ridge, which the Japanese had
prepared for defense with barricades
and field trenches, the Allies
have started successfully the
difficult task of driving the enemy
back over the 88-mile trail
to Buna and erase his threat to
the Allied advance base at Port Moresby



                   The Billings Gazette
                            BILLINGS, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1942

Red Army Beats Off Main
Nazi Blows at Stalingrad

By EUOY GILMOKE
Moscow, Wednesday, Sept. 30.—
(UP') — The red army, killing more
than 2,201) Germans, beat off all of
the main nazi blows at Stalingrad
Tuesday, the Soviet high command
announced Wednesday in the thir-
ty-seventh day of siege.
Every nazi attack in the northwest
sector was repulsed during the
day, The midnight communique said,
and "particularly heavy losses" were
suffered by the Germans in an
attempt to take a hill site in that
critical corner of Stalingrad where
the Germans had penetrated Monday.
It is against the northwestern
sector of the city that the Germans
are making their major assault.

Allied Troops Recapture
Ridge, Continue Advance
In New Guinea Offensive

By MURLIN SPENCER
(AP) General MacArthurs Headquarters
Writer Tells of Terrific
Battle Marines Put Up as
Japs Thrust at Solomons
The navy department an-
nounced at Washington Tuesday,
September 15, that the Japanese
were making a large scale effort
to recapture Guadalcanal and
other islands of the Solomon
group taken from them by United
States marines in early August.
The communique, which said
details wore lacking, reported
that "heavy fighting" had been in
progress by land, sea and air since
the previous Saturday night.
The following day, Wednesday,
a second communique announced
the intensity of the fighting, on
Guadalcanal "has decreased and
the marines are still holding their
positions." The Japanese had
been repulsed and withdrew.
Tom Yarbrough, A s s o c i a t e d
Press war correspondent who has
seen service in England, with the
Pacific fleet and in the southwest
Pacific since war started, was on
the ground at Guadalcanal when
the enemy made its big counterattack.
His eyewitness account,
delayed two weeks, vividly amplifies
the navy's official report of
the three-day action.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Current Events September 29, 1942; SPECULATION ON SECOND FRONT DISAPROVED/ NAZIS CLEARED FROM VOLGA BANK/ NAZIS INTERN AMERICANS:

Churchill Disapproves Speculation On Second Front


                          The Port Arthur News

              PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER ,29, 1942



NAZIS CLEARED FROM VOLGA BANK

FRESH HUN
MOVES ADD
TO PERIL OF
STALINGRAD
Expanded Flank Attacks
Relieve Pressure
WORKERS SECTION LOST
Victory And Defeat Are
Measured By Yards
By Henry C. Cassidy
MOSCOW, Sept. 29 (AP)—
A Russian offensive northwest
of Rzhev was reported today
to have cleared the German
from a bank of the upper
Volga while Soviet troops expand
flanking attacks from the lower
Volga to the Don bend in an
effort to relieve the embattled garrison
of Stalingrad.

FRANCE IS
WARNED TO
BE READY
FOR PUSH
British Occupy Tulear On
Madagascar Island

PIERRE LAVAL FLAYED
Suggestion That Rome Be
Bombed Is Ignored
LONDON, Sept.-29 (AP).—
'Prime Minister Churchill voiced
emphatic disapproval of
speculation on the time or
place of a second front, as the
subject cropped up in the house
of .commons today as the BBC
broadcast to France that an Allied
offensive "is in the making."
Churchill's remarks were pro-
voked by a question from Capt
Peter MacDonald which was prefaced
by the assumption that the
period of offensive operations by
he United Nations is now approaching.
French Soil landing

Nazis Intern 1400
More U. S. Citizen;
New Arrests Bring To 1780 Total Of Americans Now
Held By Germans In Occupied French Territory
VICHY, Sept. 29 (UP).—The United States embassy
learned through official channels today that 1400 additional
Americans 1 000 men and' 400 women—have been interned
by German authorities in occupied
France.
The new arrests brought to 178
the total of Americans now in Ge:
man hands.
Scattered Arrests Made.

U.S. PILOTS HlT
2 ENEMY SUBS
ALASKAN DEFENSE COMMAND,
Sept. 28 (delayed) UP).—
Two enemy submarines in Japanese-
held Kiska harbor were believed
damaged by United States
army fliers who caught them on or
near the surface, air force officers
disclosed today.
One submarine came directly un-
derneath a squadron headed by
Leut.-Col. Jack Chennault, son of
Brig.-Gen. Claire L. Chennault.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Current Events September 28, 1942; AID TO SOVIETS ESSENTIAL/ JAPAN EXTRACTING OIL FROM CONQUERED OIL FIELDS:

DUNKIRK EVENING OBSERVER


DUNKIRK, N. Y., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1942

Nazis Try to Divide Stalingrad
As Reds Rush Up Reinforcement
Russia Can Not
Be Conqured
Wendell Wilkie
But American Envoy Warns

That Second Front Es-
sential to Victory.
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff, Correspondent
(Copyright, 1942, by United Press)
Moscow, Sept. 27—(UP)—(Delayed)—
Wendell L. Willkie told
the United Press in an exclusive
statement today that "Germany ;
w i l l never conquer Russia." I
Willkie summed up his conclusion
stems after 10 unprecedented days
of inquiry in Russia in a state
comment expressing fullest confidence ;
in the Soviet will to resist, but em-
phasizing again the urgency of im-
mediate, real and major aid to the
Russians.

JAPAN FEVERISHLY
TRYING TO EXTRACT
CONQUERED OILS
London. Sept. 28—(UP)—Brit-
ish Far Eastern economic expert
reported today that Japan
was feverishly attempting to exploit
oil facilities in conquered
territories because of the heavy
d r a i n on its oil reserves by far-
flung naval operations. : -The experts said. Japan was
now burning considerably more
oil than it was producing and
thus there was great activity aimed
at building up reserves in the
next six months from the captur-
ed oil fields in Borneo.
I In the first six months of the
war Japan used half her re-
serves, approximately 5 million
b a r r e l s of gasoline and crude oil.
the experts estimated, believing
that pre-war 'reserves might be
'exhausted' before next summer,
unless new sources and better fa-
cilities for its transportation
were developed.

FORTRESSES HIT
15,000-TON SHIP
AT RABAUL BASE
By DON CASWELL
Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters

Monday, September 27, 2010

Current Events September 27, 1942; UNREST IN VICHY FRANCE/ GAS RATIONONG TO BEGIN IN NOVEMBER/ AMERICAN AIR SUPERIORITY IN PORT MORESBY/ GERMANS NEARLY EXHAUSTED IN RUSSIA;

          The Portsmouth Times
PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1942
YES, SON, AMERICA WILL WIN THE WAR, IF WE DO THIS JOB! (E. T,'s note: This article would not copy, but a father is encouraging his son to conserve and help by doing his part by gathering scrap-iron just as he did when he was a young boy in 1917.)

Laval Fires Aid For Plot;
Trouble Flares In Norway
BULLETIN
VICHY Sept 26—Jacques
Benoist-Mechin, secretary of
state in the foreign ministry.
Is no longer a member of the
government, it was announced
officially t o n i g h t
without elaboration.
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 26 —Pierre
Laval was reported tonight by
Fighting French sources to have
dismissed Jacques Benoist-Mechin,
secretary of state in the Vichy
foreign ministry, because he plotted
to get rid of Laval for the
even more a r d e n t pro-Nazi,
Jacques Doriot, Paris editor

GAS RATIONING DUE TO START NOV. 22
MOST WILL DRAW
4 GALLONS WEEK
UNDER OPA PLAN
WASHINGTON, Sept. L'G — Price Administrator Leon Henlerson
announced tonight; that nation-wide gasoline rationing
probably will start about Nov. 22 with a basic ration of slightly
under four gallons a' Week.
Earlier in the day Joseph B. Eastman, director of the office of defense
transportation, called for a nationwide speed limit of 35 miles
an hour. Compliance with this, Mr. Henderson announced, will be a
basic requirement for obtaining both tire and gasoline rations.
In addition, tires on all cars must be submitted every 60 days after
rationing starts for on-wheel inspection to insure that proper care
is given them.
The 35-mile limit speed limit on all highways and streets was
decreed in an official ODT order. It did not carry enforcement or
penal provisions, but Mr. Eastman said he would request the governors
of all states to make it effective "through proclamation or
otherwise". The governors will be asked to call on state and local officials
for strict enforcement
           The Charleston Gazette
                     Charleston, West Virginia. Sunday Morning. September 27,1942
American Air Superiority Presages
Offensive in Moresby-Solomon Arcs
Nazis Hurl Reserves on Stalingrad
Germans Pictured
Nearly Exhausted
Siege Army's Storming
Of Volga Fortress
Said Ebbing
Nazis Claim Seizure
Of Red Headquarters
Heroic Defenders Beat Off
Repeated Attacks, Push
Foes Into Retreat
MOSCOW, Sept. 26.—(INS)—
The mangled German siege
army storming Stalingrad has
begun showing definite signs of
exhaustion in the face of continuing
Soviet counter-advances
both inside and northwest of the
Volga city, front dispatches said
tonight.
Accordingly, these advices related,
the German troops, tanks and
planes are engaged in what may
prove to be their "tinal" frenzied
effort to overwhelm the flameeaten
bastion that has withstood
33 days of assault.
Renewed Nazi attacks, fed by
fresh reserves of heavy tanks and
infantry, apparently were faring no
better than earlier onslaughts
which have been stopped and reversed.
Enemy Retreat Forced

Japanese Thrusts
Repulsed,Broken
Allied Position Improves
Daily While Enemy
Power Wanes ;
Big Drive Seen Coming
To Push Foes Into Sea
xmg-Range Army Bombers
Hammering at Bases
Have Cleared Way
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. —
(INS)—Reports from the South
Pacific tonight Indicated that
American forces have established
aerial superiority over the
Japanese in the vital Port
Moresby-Rabaul-Tulagi area and
that the next stage in the U. S.
offensive will not be long in developing.
Seven weeks of ceaseless battles
since the U. S. Pacific fleet delivered
its initial blow in the Solomon
islands finds the enemy still
without any adequate answer t»
the growing American power while
the Allied position in both New-
Guinea and the Solomons improves.

Current Events September 26, 1942; GAS RATIONING TO BEGIN/ SOVIETS ADVANCING NEAT STALINGRAD/ JAPANESE WITHDRAW IN NEW GUINEA;

        THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES
         RACINE, WIS., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 26,1942.

Nation-Wide Gas Ration Program to Start on Nov. I or Nov. 15
Jeffers Appeals to Motorists
To Reduce Consumption and to
Observe 35-Mile Speed Limit
Country Will Follow
Coupon Plan Now
In Use by East
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—(U.P)
The office of price administration
today rushed preparations to
ration gasoline to the nation's 27,-
000,000 civilian motorists as ordered
by rubber czar, William S. Jeffers,
to keep the country's economic
life from breaking down.
Jeffers did not specify a date
for starting the program but the
unofficial guess was either Nov. 1
or Nov. 15.
His order to OPA was coupled
with an appeal to motorists, to
curtail gasoline consumption until
the new restraints become effective,
and to observe a 35-mile-an hour
speed limit.
Hints More Curbs


Red Forces Drive Deeper
Into German Siege Lines
Timoshenko's
Flank Drive
GainsGround
Nazis Admit Soviet
Attacks for Third
Day; Blocks Taken
!≫Or"V, Sept. 26. —(U.B—
Powerful soviet tank and infantry
forces northwest of Stalingrad
crushed deeper through reinforced
German positions into a vital
range of hills today and inside
Stalingrad the Russians were reported
counter-attacking and
wresting whole blocks from the
enemy.
Front-line dispatches now made
it clear that Marshal Semyon
Timoshenko aimed to drive back
the German left flank and to this
end was throwing larger and
larger forces of tanks into a covin,
ter-offensive that steadily gained
ground.
Hills Are Objective

Japs Withdraw
On New Guinea
GEN; MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, Sept. 26.
(AP) Aggressive Allied patrols,
fighting in driving rain and aided
for the first time by artillery, have
forced the Japanese to withdraw
from some of their advance positions
in the Owen Stanley mountains
north of Port Moresby, General
MacArthur's headquarters announced
today.
It was the first officially reported
retirement on the part of the
Japanese in this theater since they
landed at Gona mission on the
southeast .coast of New Guinea
July 21 and launched an over-
land push which has been stalled
for the past 10 days near Ioribaiwa,
32-miles from Port Moresby.
An Allied spokesman warned,
however, against undue optimism,
declaring the Japanese still were
in force in, that area and that their
movement could not be considered
a general withdrawal.
Patrols Whip Enemy.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Current Events, September 26, 1942;

             Oakland Tribune


OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1942


Stalingrad Defenders Gain;

British Win Arctic Sea Fight
Russians Take:
Strategic Hills
Germans Thrown on Defensive by Fierce ^
Flanking Counter-Attack; New Attacks oil
Center of City Hurled Back; 25,000 Slain
By HENRY C. CASSIDY .
MOSCOW,,Sept. 25.—(AP)—Thrown on the defensive
Stalingrad's northwestern rim by the development of the
Red Army's flanking counter-attack, the Germans were re-
ported today to have failed in fresh infiltration attempts
directly against the city while battling desperately against
the menace from the flank. The epic battle centered on the
northwestern sector where the
Russians had recaptured two
dominating heights and near
populated sections, accord-
ing to today's Stalingrad dispatches.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Current Events September 24, 1942; RUSSIANS DRIVE NAZIS OUT; U. S. SHIPS LOST IN PACIFIC:

             The Brownsville Herald

                             BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1942

RED ARMIES DRIVE NAZIS FROM FORTS
IN STALINGRAD AS CITY STILL HOLDS
U. S. Destroyer Jarvis Reported Lost In Pacific

Willkie Says Russians
Disappointed Over.
A i d ; Australians
Hold In Pacific
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Bolstered by shell-fire
from Volga river gunboats.
Marshal Semeon Timoshcnko's
Red armies were reported
to have driven the
Germans from a series of
fortified points in Stalingrad
today, rolled up a
four-day toll of more than
13,000 Nazis killed, and
struck a sharp counter blow
northwest of the Volga
metropolis.

Transport Little
Also Sunk During
Solomons Fight
250 Men Lost; Navy
Says Today; Ships
'Disappear' A f t e r Battle
WASHINGTON — (AP)
—The Navy announced today
that the United States
destroyer Jarvis had. disappeared
in the Southwest
Pacific without leaving ^ a
trace, presumably sunk by
enemy submarines or aircraft,
and that the auxiliary
transport Little had been
sunk during recent operations
in the Solomons.
Possible loss of life on the two
ships was estimated at 250 men.
Going For Repairs

War At A Glance
By The Associated Press
MOSCOW—Stalingrad defenders
recapture some fortifications,
kill 7,200 invaders as Germans
rush reinforcement: by air.
MOSCOW — Presidential envoy
Willkie expresses Russians'
"disappointment and dissatisfaction"
over lack of a second
front.
LONDON'—British bombers raid
FIensburg submarine yards, hit
three Axis ships off Dutch
coast..
BERLIN—High command claims
submarines sank 22 Allied
ships.
PACIFIC — Australians h o l d
firmly in renewed fighting in
New Guinea, 32 miles from
Port Moresby; raiders blast
Japanese supply bases.
WASHINGTON—Navy announces
destroyer Jarvis disappeared
in southwest Pacific, auxiliary
transport Little sunk at Solomons.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Current Events September 31, 1942; PLEDGE, STALIGRAD WILL BE HELD/ RUSSIAN CONVOY SAFE/ JAPANESE STALLED AT PORT MORESBY:

        Red Pledge on 30th Day of Siege

        STALINGRAD WILL BE HELD

                  The Bakersfield Californian

                  BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1942

Red Drive Shatters Nazi Line
Fighting See-Saws
in 30th Day of
Historic Siege
By HENRY SHAPIRO 'MOSCOW, Sept. 23.—
United Press Staff Correspondent
Front dispatches today-reported
that a Red army counterattack
smashed through Nazi
lines in northwestern Stalingrad,
regaining a dominating
height, but in other sectors
German pressure drove the
Russians out of positions
along several battered streets.
As the siege entered the thirtieth
day, the Invaders were still trying
desperately to break down Stalingrad's
defenses.

BIG RUSS CONVOY SAFE
Ships Weather
German Sea,
Air Attack
Fantastic Enemy
Claims Denied
by Admiralty
LONDON, Sept. 23. (UP)—The
great majority of a big
convoy of United States, British
and Russian merchant
ships heavily laden with
war supplies for Russia has
reached its destination in north
Russian ports despite Nazi air and
sea attacks, the admiralty announced
today.
It acknowledged some losses, hut
a communique remarked acidly that
German- claims to have sunk 38
out of 45-merchantmen were
more exaggerated than actual.

MADAGASCAR CAPITAL
CAPTURED BY BRITISH
Japs Stalled in Port Moresby Drive;
U. S. Airmen Batter New Guinea Bases
By Associated Press
BRITISH troops were reported to
have captured the capital city
of Tananarive on Madagascar island
today after breaking through
artillery-supported Vichy French
troops drawn up for a major stand
15 miles outside the city.
A Tananarive radio broadcast,
heard at Port Louis, Mauritius,
conceded the British had occupied
the Island capital.
Earlier, a British army communique
said British forces overcame
stiffening resistance by the
French 15 miles north of Tananarive.
Other British columns advancing
on Tananarive from the east coast
of the 1000-mile long Island, which
lies off southeast Africa, were reported
making good progress.
In the southwest Pacific battle
theater, American and allied warplanes
were officially credited with
battering four key Japanese bases
in the New Guinea zone and dam-
aging an enemy cruiser northwest
of Guadalcanal in the lower Solomon
Islands.
A navy communique In Washington
said navy and marine divebombers
hit the cruiser in an attack
Sunday.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Current Events September 22, 1942; RUSSIANS MAKE SMALL GAINS/ JAPANESE PUSH IN SOLOMONS EXPECTED:

THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

                                  RACINE, WIS., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER22,1942.

Reds Make Small Gains;
Reports Are Optimistic
Hint Germans Hope
To Freeze' Front

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 22.—(U.P)—
Adolf Hitler, abandoning hope
that Germany can crush Russia,
has started building defenses to
hold his eastern gains so the bulk
of his army will be free to meet
the threat of a second front in
the west, unusually well informed
sources said today.
The same sources expressed
belief that Hitler might start a
peace offensive this winter and
tell the German people that a
separate peace with Russia was
necessary without the total victory
he had promised them.

Knox Expects
Big Jap Push
Into Solomons
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—(U.P)
—Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox said today that the navy
expected the Japanese to make
a "big push" to retake the Solomon
islands.
Asked at his press conference
about "continued rumors of a big
Japanese drive on the American
positions in the islands, he said:
"Of course, that is a safe and
sound assumption. We operate on
that basis. To do otherwise would
be foolish over-confidence."
Knox, who. returned last night
from the American Legion convention
at Kansas City, Mo., said
he was tremendously "inspired
and gratified" by the action taken
by the convention. He said he was
in sympathy with "about everything
they did."

Monday, September 20, 2010

Current Events September 21, 1942;

               Panama City News-Herald
                                                           PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1942



GERMANS REGROUP FOR NEW CHARGE

Battle of Stalingrad Goes
Into 27th Day And Russians
Drive Nazis Out Of Streets
U S. Army Flying: Fortresses Bomb And Pos-
sibly Hit Two Of The Battleships In Japanese
Capital Fleet Near Solomon Islands

By FRED VANDERSCHMIDT
Associated Press War Editor
Stalingrad still stood last (Sat.) night as an^integrated
unit of ferocious Soviet defense after a 26-day battle of unceasing-
and destructive movement. . .
as the battle went into its 27th day the Russians
announced that Soviet troops had driven the Nazis out
of several streets in the city and in one instance Had wiped
out a company of automatic riflemen. , . . . , . .
On the west of Europe there were multiplying signs
that the western allies, in their careful plans for a second
front, were neglecting no moment of the days of grace which
are offered by the prolonged and valiant Russian stand on
the Volga.
From the Pacific, the U. S. Navy revealed that a Japanese
capital fleet, including both battleships and cruisers
had approached the U. S. held Solomon Islands area
last Monday, but retreated northward after army flying
fortresses had bombed and possibly hit two of the
battleships.

     Lose Buna Fleet
Neither in the Solomons nor
in the Port Moresby area of
New Guinea was any important
ground fighting reported, but
Allied aerial action was distinctly
ascendant. One British report
said the Japs, as the result of
ferocious U. S. bomber action,
had lost almost the entire fleet
which they had put into Buna,
main base of the enemy drive
on port Moresby.

CURRENT EVENTS SEPTEMBER 19, 1942; U.S. SMASHES JAPANESE BASES/ REINFORCED RED ARMY BATTLE IN STALINGRAD:

               Oakland Tribune

      OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1942

U.S. Smashes Jap Bases;
Stalingrad Still Holds
Rabaul Fired;
Aussies Hold
Out on Timor
Flying Forts Hit
Key Posts; 6-Month
resistance Revealed
By the Associated Press
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Head-
quarters reported today that U-S.
Army Flying fortresses and other
Allied warplanes were striking for the
second consecutive day, pounded
four key Japanese bases in the
islands above Australia and set fires
visible for 50 miles at one of them.
At the same time, a spokesman
at United Nations headquarters disclosed
that Australian troops still
were resisting on Japanese-occupied
Timor Island in the Dutch East
Indies.

Nazis Aim for
City's Heights
Reinforced Russians Also Get New
Air Support; Defenders Renew Vows
To Fight Invaders to The Last Man'
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW, Sept. 19— (AP)—Reinforced Red Army troops
battled vigorously within Stalingrad and upon the exposed
Nazi left flank there today in a supreme effort to halt and
turn back German divisions whose vanguard is dangerously
close to the city's heart.
Guns flamed in other sectors from the Karelian front to
the Central Caucasus, and
Russians emphasized Soviet
gains in a diversionary offen-
sive in the Voronezh area, 300
miles northwest of Stalingrad.
The Germans, however, developed
continuous attack both the
northwestern section of Stalingrad
and against Soviet-held height
dominating the center of the city.
Some of the invaders were reported
arrayed in Red Army uniforms
.(United Press dispatcher trim-
Moscow today said that Russian air
reinforcements, both fighters and
bombers, had reached Stalingrad to
help beat off the swarms of German
war planes assailing the city.

Current Events September 18, 1942; RUSSINAS LAUNCH DRIVES, STALINGRAD/ NEW GUINEA BATTLES NOW SPORADIC:

       The Lethbridge Herald
                    LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I8, 1942

REDS SMASH, TWO DRIVES, STALINGRAD
GERMAN' CHUTISTS
Shower City AsRussians Attack
Moscow Launches "Large-Scale" Attack from Tour.
Directions in the Voronezh Sector in An Effort
to Relieve Stalingrad—German Wedges
in City Wiped Out

LONDON, Sept. 18—(C.P.)—A Reuters dispatch from
Moscow said tonight that "German commando troops
were being dropped at dusk from troop-carrying planes all
over the terrain before Stalingrad and at the outskirts of
the city."
Another Reuters dispatch said that "on the northern,
flank of the southern front"—in the Voronezh sector—
"the Red army has unleashed a new offensive from four
directions with a view to relieving the Stalingrad posi-
tion." The offensive was "on a large scale."
WIPE OUT TWO DRIVES
(By^Henry C. Cassidy, Associated Press Staff Writer)
MOSCOW, Sept. 18—(A.P.)—Taking a stand, with the
precipitous banks of the "Volga at their very backs,
the defenders of Stalingrad have counter-attacked and
wiped out two enemy wedges within the city in a supreme,
last-ditch effort to save the great manufacturing centre
from the Germans, the Russians said today.
The Germans precipitated this bitter and thus far
successful Russian counter-action by rushing into the cityproper
from the northwestern outskirts, and pushing almost
to the cliffs overhanging the west bank of the Volga.
With no choice between counter-attack and surrender,
the Russians took their stand.
TERRIBLE BATTLE


        Cumberland Evening Times
                   CUMBERLAND, MD., FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1942

BATTLE IN NEW
GUINEA AREAS
NOW SPORADIC
Both 'Allies and Japs Are
Maneuvering For Pos-
ition During Lull In
Ground Fighting
ENEMY BASES RAIDED
Allied Fighter Planes Strike
Smashing Blows at Bun
to Ease Pressure On
Defenders
General MacARTHUR'S Headqua-
rters. Australia, Sept. I8. (AP) While
Australian troops battled Japanese
forces in the New Guinea jungles
only 32 miles air line from Port
Moresby. Allied fighter Planes
struck a smashing blow yesterday
at the enemy supply base at Buna
General MacArthur's headquarters
I announced today.
Approximately 35.000 rounds ol
cannon and machinegun fire were
loosed by the Allied raiders in a
concentrated attack, destroying or
|damaging 15 landing barges and set
tting fires in supply dumps which
were visible for 35 miles. a cum-
munique said.
Buna Pounded 45 Minutes

Friday, September 17, 2010

Current Events September 17, 1942; CLERGY TAKES STAND ON JEWISH PERSECUTION/ STALINGRAD IN PERIL/ GUADALCANAL RETAKEN NIPS REPORT:

RED CITY'S DEATH NEAR

Germans Are Within 9 to 12 Miles Of Stalingrad
LAVAL HITS CHURCH
Tells Clergy to Handle Religion.. He'll Handel State



                                               THE LOWELL SUN

                                                Lowell Mass. Thursday September 17 1942

Retaliates For Church's
Jewish Stand
Orders Cardinal's
Aide to "Fixed
Residence"
ON THE FRENCH FRONTIER,
Sept. 17. (UP) —
French Premier Pierre Laval
has struck back at the Catholic
church for opposing
Jewish persecution in France
by interning one of its leaders
and warning the clergy to
"handle religion—I'll handle
the government," it was disclosed
today.
It was learned that Laval
had ordered Father Chaillet
of the staff of Cardinal Ger-
lier, archbishop of Lyons, interned
in ''fixed residence"

Powerful Nazi Army Fighting
Like Devils, Says Moscow
Russians Fighting Street-by-Street,
House-to-House as Germans Keep
Advancing on Stalingrad
By M. S. HANDLER
MOSCOW, Sept. 17. (UP)—A powerful Nazi army,
described as "fighting like devils," battered into the northwest
outskirts of Stalingrad today, but the Red Army made
plain its intention to fight house by house, street by street
and pillbox by pillbox to the last defender before relinquishing
the Volga river city.
The assault on the northwest outskirts of Stalingrad
carried the Nazi to within 9 to 12 miles of the center of the
city. It was reported that out of a total German assault
army of possibly 1,000,000 men some 450,000 troops were
hammering at the narrow northwest front.

Main Allied,
Jap Forces In
Bitter Combat
Are 32 Miles,
Airline, From
Port Moresby
GEN- MacARTHUR'S
HEADQARTERS, Australia, Sept. 17
(.AP) — The main bodies of the Allied
and Japanese forces in New
Guinea were locked in bitter combat
today approximately 32 miles
from Port Moresby following
a new enemy advance
down the southern slopes of the
rugged. densely -wooded Owen
Stanley mountains
The immediate scene of the
battle was the tiny hamlet of
Jorihaiwa, which the Japanese
reached yesterday after
pushing forward eight miles
from Efogi, where they had
been stalled for a week after
crossing the summit of the
mountains with the aid of
their familiar infiltration tactics.

Claim 4,000 Jap Troops
Have Retaken Guadalcanal
Enemy Report Says Nips Have Taken
Airfield There After "Ferocious Tank
Battle" of Eight Hours
STOCHOLM, Sept. 17 (UP)
—Dispatches from Japanese held
Shanghai to the Swedish
t e l e g r a p h agency today
claimed that 4000 Japanese
troops fighting on Guadalcanal
in the Solomon Islands had retaken
The airfield there after
a "ferocious tank battle" lasting
eight hours.
The Japanese claimed that
they were also advancing on
the island of Malaiti while
lighting from Tulagi harbor
was "still indecisive"
A Japanese source estimated
Allied forces on the three
southernmost Solomon Islands
at 10,000.

VICHY RADIO
Stalingrad In Nazi Hands
LONDON, Sept. 17 (INS)—Reu-
ter's (British^ news agency today
I picked up a Bucharest report
broadcast by the Nazi - controlled
Vichy radio claiming that the city
of Stalingrad has been occupied.
The Vichy radio is notoriously
inaccurate and invariably
far ahead of actual developments.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Current Events September 16, 1942; JAPANESE LAUNCH POWERFUL DRIVE TO RETAKE SOLOMONS/ BOREDOM & COMPLANTS SET IN/ GERMAN SMASH BY RUSSIANS IN STALINGRAD;

            The Billings Gazette


                                             BILLINGS, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1942

Reinforced Japs Try to Oust
Marines From Solomons,
Losing 21 Planes in Attempt
Washington, Sept. 15.—(AP)—




          The Montana Standard
           BUTTE, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1942

Japs Launch Powerful Drive
to Recapture Solomon Islands
Defenders Are
Countering in
Hard Fighting
Reinforcements
Landed by
Enemy Forces
PEARL HARBOR, T.
II., Sept, 15.—(UP)—A
large Japanese fleet soon
may clash — perhaps already
has clashed — with
formidable U. S. Naval
forces in the Solomons.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—
(U,P) —The J a p a n e s e have
launched a powerful drive to
r e c a p t u r e Guadalcanal island—
main American position
in the Solomons—but defending
forces are countering
the blow In "heavy fighting,"
the Navy disclosed Tuesday
night.
Reinforcements have been
landed by the enemy, whose
planes and warships have intensified
their bombing and i
shelling of American-held positions.
Marines have been engaged
in "heavy fighting" with the
reinforced Jap troops since
the enemy turned loose U. S. attack
the night of September
12-13.

Peaceful Cruise
Was Ended
Scribe Tells of
Solomons Attack
By CLARK LEE
ABOARD A UNITED STATES
AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THE
CORAL SEA -EN ROUTE TO THE
SOLOMON ISLANDS, Aug. 8.—
(Delayed)—(AP)—We are going Into
battle tomorrow as the United
States launches Its first offensive of
the Pacific war.
The date of attack—the seventh
of the month—Is exactly eight
months after Japan's assault on
Pearl Harbor,
Since this morning there has
been a sudden change In the atmosphere
aboard, .as If the ship Itself,
the planes and all the personnel
were tensing their muscles
like a fighter getting set to swing
his Sunday punch.
We have been riding around the
ocean for what seems like 30 years
and everybody aboard has reached
the complaining stage, griping
about' something.

MOSCOW, Wednesday, Sept.
16.— (AP)— The Red army defending
Stalingrad smashed
successive assaults by fresh
German troops west and
southwest of the embattled
Volga city, which already Is In
flames from steady Nazi dive-
bomber raids, it was announced
officially today.
Although the G e r m a n s
succeeded in advancing yesterday
southwest of the city,
the Russians later threw them
back in a counter-attack
which disabled seven Nazi
tanks and dispersed two infantry
companies, the midnight
communique said.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Current Events september 15, 1942; NAZI ATTACK SMOULDERS/ U. S. HOLDS UPPER HAND IN PACIFIC:

        Redouble Troops, But Stalingrad Meets Every Blow


                     The Portsmouth Herald
               PORTSMOUTH, N. H. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1942
Nazi Attack
Smoulders
As Soviets
Punch Back

Moscow, Sept. 15 (AP) —
Backs to the Volga, the defenders
of Stalingrad stood to their
guns today under the heaviest of
pattern bombing and still held
hills looking down upon the
heart of the city against the redoubled
assault of Nazi troops
and tanks.
"It is impossible to retreat any
farther," a Russian correspondent
reported from the war's bloodiest
battlefield.
But even while the bomb-splattered
city fought for its life, the
Red army kept up its own dogged
punching at the German defensive
lines on the Moscow front to the
north, and reported the annihilation
of about 4,000 Germans and the
capture of a fortified' town in a
three-day fight.

Planes And Tanks Battle
U.S. Holds Upper Hand
In far Pacific, Blandy
Asserts In Washington
(By The Associated Press)
The United States has gained the
balance of military and naval
striking power over Japan in the
Far Pacific, Rear Adm. W. H.
Blandy declared In Washington today,
while other reports said American
forces were nearing the halfway
mark in their fight to destroy
Japan's aircraft carrier strength.
Admiral Blandy, returning from
a 26,000-mile inspection trip, said
that "for the time being, most certainly,"
the United States had
gained the advantage over Japan.
Asked if the Allies were in a
position "to hold the Japs
against anything they might
throw," Admiral Blandy replied:
"Yes, I think we are. But we
can't do it by merely holding.
We've got to keep pushing. The
best defense is a strong offense.
We can't remain static."

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Current Events September 14, 1942; RUSSIANS REPEAL NAZI SURGE/ NAZIS STORM STALINGRAD/ WAR STRATEGY IS CHANGING:

                    Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1942

Russians Repel
New Nazi Surge
Von Bock Hurls Fresh Panzer Troops at
Volga Bastion Without Avail; Germans'
All-Out Assault Met by Bayonet ChargeBy EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, t Sept. 14.—(#)—Fresh hordes of Nazi troops
smashed today at the approaches to Stalingrad in an obvious
all-out effort to storm the city whatever the cost in blood,
but the Russians said that after yielding precious ground the
Red Army halted and pushed back a new penetration southwest
of the city. Both to the west and southwest the Germans
were pouring tanks and armored
cars and new reserves
into the struggle, but the midday
communique indicated the
Russians were holding.
Earlier the 'Russians had reported
the capture by the Germans of an
unidentified populated place
southwest of Stalingrad. From all
reports it was apparent that the
crucial test for the beleaguered city
was at hand.
SOVIET BAYONETS FLASH



       The Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1942.

Nazis Storm Stalingrad
Regardless Of LossesMoscow, Sept. 14 (AP) — Fresh

hordes of Nazi troops smashed today
at the approaches to Stalingrad
in an obvious all-out effort to storm
the city whatever the cost in blood,
but the Russians said that after
yielding- precious ground the Red
army halted and pushed back a new
penetration southwest of the city.
Both to the west and southwest
the Germans were pouring tanks and
armored cars and new reserves Into
the bloody struggle, but the mid-day
communique indicated the Russians
were holding.
Earlier the Russians had reported
the capture by the Germans of an
unidentified "populated place"
southwest of Stalingrad.

Monday Evening, September 14, 1942.
Get your heart into your work, whatever
it may be, for work without heart is
dead,-—Ramsay MacDonald.
New Phase Of War
Currently the war is reaching that
phase where Axis aggression, depending
heretofore on dash and dispatch, is
resorting under compulsion to slow,
dragging attack. This is the present
outstanding feature of the conflict in
the European, African and Asiatic
campaigns. It is the barrier against
permanent progress to which Yamashita
has come—likewise von Bock and
Rommel.
Modern mechanization of military
power packed an illusion in the early
days of the war. It appeared to favor
the audacious offensive. The tank, the
plane, the motorized gun and the gasoline-
driven transport emphasized the
factor of mobility to the point that
advantage seemed on the side of the
strategist who struck quickly. The
strategist who was fooled by this illusion
put most reliance on machines and
least on manpower. A small force thoroughly

mechanized was rated by him
superior in attack to a numerous force
acting defensively.
Today after three years of this strategy
Hitler finds himself falling back
to the old tactics of massed advance. He.
is abandoning mechanized dash because
it no longer works. Von Bock is hammering
desperately in Southern Russia
because the day of sensational assault
belongs to the past. Rommel is frustrated
in Africa because impetuous
advance is no longer possible. Yamash-
ita is proceeding ponderously
because he found the headlong plunge
into the Solomons fatal.
The new phase of war is preliminary
to the exhaustion of Axis aggression
with the change of United Nations
from a deliberate defensive to a final
crushing offensive.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Current Events September 13, 1942; NEW GUINEA, SOLOMONS, BUNA BLASTED BY ALLIED BOMBS/

                 Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1942


37 More Jap Planes Destroyed By U.S.,
Allied Airmen in New Guinea. Solomons
Buna, Invasion Base Blasted
In Four Bombing Attacks;
17 Grounded Ships Smashed
By MURLIN SPENCER
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia.
Sept. 13 (Sunday)—(AP)—Allied heavy and medium bombers
escorted by fighters, struck one of the heaviest blows yet del-
ivered in the Pacific yesterday when they blasted the Jap-
anese invasion base, Buna, in Eastern New Guinea with 26
tons of bombs and more than 28,000 rounds of cannon and ma-
chine gun fire, a communique;
said today.
In four bombing attacks, followed
by seven strafing runs
the Allied airmen destroyed at-
least 17 Japanese planes on the
ground, in dispersal bays and on the
runway of an airdrome from which
the enemy had been operating in
the drive against Port Moresby.

A.A. GUNS SILENCED
ENEMY LOSSES
MOUNTING AT
GUADALCANAL
WASHINGTON. Sept. I2--(AP)—
Paying a high, price in planes and
pilots, the Japanese are still trying
unsuccessfully to dislodge the American
forces in the Solomons, the Navy
reported tonight, and losing
better than one out of every five
bombers they said over.
The Japanese sent two waves of
25 bombers and one of 17 against the
Guadalcanal installations on Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday. Of
these 79 bombers, 15 were destroyed,
along with five of the Zero fighters
supposed to protect them, bringing
to 143 the number of aircraft the
Japanese have lost In the Solomons
fighting.
     AMERICANS BAG 16
Of the latest bag of 30, American
fighter planes accounted .for at-
least 16; whether the other four
also were downed by planes or by
anti-aircraft was not specified. And
if the Americans suffered any
losses in these aerial combats, they
were not reported.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Current Events September 12, 1942; GAINS AND LOSSES REPORTED BY RUSSIA/ RUHR CITY LIEFT IN RUINS/ NO FURTHER GAINS BY JAPANESE REPORTED AT PORT MORESBY:

               The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, Saturday Morning, September 12, 1942.

Russians Again Stem Mighty
Force Hurled on Stalingrad!
Reds Admit Novorossisk Fall

Retreat Cut Off '
At Volga Citadel
Stalin's Historic Order
0f Civil War Day
Again Invoked
Enemy Asserts River
Reached Above, Below
Slav Host Must Hold City
Or Die at Epic Climax
Of Vast Struggle
MOSCOW. Saturday, Sept. 12.
---(AP)— Russian troops defending
Stalingrad under a "fight to the
death" order were reported officially
today to have stopped
the Nazi tide In one of the
greatest struggles of history, but
the Red army of the Caucasus
has abandoned Novorossisk on
the Black sea coast.
Courageously holding their
ground under constant artillery and
live-bomber charges, the Red army
west and southwest of Stalingrad
beat off constant German infantry
charges, destroying 31 more Nazi
tanks and killing hundreds of the
enemy, the communique said.
Death at Russian hands was promised
for any Red exhibition of
cowardice in the epic struggle on
the western bank of the Volga.
First Halt in 4 Days
Ruhr City Left
Flaming Ruins
100,000 Incendiary Bombs
Shower on Dusseldorf,
Rhine Rail Point
LONDON, Sept. 11.—INS)—
Dusseldorf, left blazing lUqsia (illegible)furnace
after an estimated 600 to 700
British planes showered the western
German industrial city' with
more than 100,000 incendiary bombs
was digging itself out of smouldering
ruins tonight.
Carrying out the heaviest RAF
raid yet made on a moonless night,
the formidable force winged its
way across the channel under
cloak of darkness last night for
another in the devastating series
of around-the-clock smashes against
Nazi Germany and the occupied
countries.
31 Fall To Return

Bombers Fire
Jap Destroyer
Foe Has Made No Further
Gains Toward Moresby,
Communique Says
GEN. ' M' ARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Saturday. Australia,
Sept. 12.—W)—Allied bombers fired
a Japanese destroyer and left her
sinking off eastern New Guinea
and also blasted Buna, the enemy's
supply base for the overland drive
toward Port Moresby, a communique
said today.
"The enemy has made no further
advances." the communique said, in
the Efogi area, 44 miles short of
Port Moresby, where bayonet wielding
Australians were fighting
the invaders