Sunday, October 31, 2010

Current Events October 31, 1942; U. S. VICTTORIUS IN FIRST ROUND AT GUADALCANAL / YANKS STRIKE AIR BLOWS IN EGYPT / FOE REPELLED IN STALINGRAD:

The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, Saturday Morning, October 31, 1942.

Japanese Fleet Has Retired
From Scene,' Knox Discloses
U. S. Victorious
In First Round
At Guadalcanal
American Soldiers There
Occupy Every Inch
They Ever Held,
Says Navy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—(AP)---
With pride in his voice. Navy,
Secretary Knox declared today
that the Japanese fleet has "retired
from the scene" of the
Solomons battle and that of the
first round of the struggle has
ended with American forces on
Guadalcanal "occupying every
Inch of the ground we ever controlled."
Some of the Japanese warships
which have been supporting the
foe's all-out drive to wrest the
vital airfield on Guadalcanal from
American marines and army troops,
have gone back to their base,
Knox said. He did not divulge
where the others have gone.

Yanks Strike
Constant Air
Blows at Axis
British Fighters Continue
Cautious Land Advance
Under Protection
Of 'Umbrella'
CAIRO, Oct. 30.—(INS)—American
fighters and bombers are
pounding enemy positions in the
Egyptian desert without pause, a
U. S. headquarters communique
revealed tonight.
On the ground, hardened British
desert fighters continued their
cautious, methodical advance under
this protective umbrella of high flying
warplanes as the Allied offensive
roared through its eighth
day.

Stalingrad's Army
Grimly Repels Foe
Only in Area of Nalchik
Do Nazis Register
Slight Gain
MOSCOW, Oct. 31.—(Saturday)
(INS)—Stalingrad's grim defend
ers repulsed countless Nazi as-
saults Friday and at the end of the
day still held firmly their positions
in shell-pocked streets, the
Soviet high command announced
today.
Further Russian gains were reported
near the Black sea port of
Tuapse, last large base available
to the Soviet Black sea fleet, where
a Nazi drive aimed at seizing
that city was checked, then thrown
into reverse.
Foe Gains In Caucasus
Only in the area of Nalchik, gateway
to the Georgian military road
in the Caucasus, were the Nazis
able to register a slight gain yesterday.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Current Events October 30, 1942: YANKS HURL JAPANESE BACK, YIELD AND REGAIN / GERMAN GAIN MEASURED IN YARDS:

     The Abilene Reporter – News
ABILENE, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1342-EIGHTEEN PAGES

Marines Lose Lives to Learn of Jap White-Flag Treachery
(The following account of action in the Solomons was written by
Sgt. Richard T. Wright, Marine Ccrps combat, correspondent at the
scene, and distributed by the Associated Press).
SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Sept. 21-(Delayed)-AP-
Stories of Jap treachery, one telling how as out of 30 Marines paid with
Their lives for honoring a Jap flag of truce were reported today by
Solomons Island casualties evacuated to the Navy Mobile base hospital
base.
Pvt. Raymond Paul Nunley. of Lancaster, O., nursing a leg wound received
In the early Solomons fighting, told of the massacre of the Marine
truce mission.
"A Jap officer carrying a white flag came riding into a Marine camp
one day," Nunley said, "and told the commanding officer a bunch of
Japs across a nearby inlet were belated and wanted to surrender. Our
C. O. took him at his word and 30 Marine officers and men piled into
a tank fighter and crossed about five miles of water to the point where
the Japs were located.
""Only two of those Marines are alive today. As the tank fighter
approached the beach, a few Japs were observed, and sure enough,
one of them was waving a white flag. As the boat scraped onto the
beach, the Marines let down the ramp and started to go ashore.
Without warning they were met by a terrific burst from several ma-
gunners hidden in the underbrush. They were mowed down like
stalks of corn, except for the two who escaped and swam to safely."
Another time. Private Nunley said, two men of his company on patrol
duty saw a Jap on horseback moving along the fringe of the Jungle, waving
a white, flag. The sergeant in charge walked out lo make the Jap a
prisoner. "He got within five feet of the Jap and was shot and killed,"
Nunley said. "This sergeant was a mighty popular guy and later that day
several ol his pals went out to avenge him. How many japs they killed with
their bayonets I don't know. They wouldn't talk about It when they
returned."

YANKS HURL JAPS BACK
Yield Once, Then
Regain Positions 
By FRED VANBERSCHMIDT
Associated Press War Correspondent
Counter-attacking the Japanese assault army which twice
had penetrated since Sunday, American Marines
and soldiers have won back their original positions around
the narrow rectangle of U. S. defenses on Guadalcanal Island,
an official Navy account disclosed Thursday night.
' At last reports, then, American aircraft still were flying
from Guadalcanal airdrome in attacks both near and distant,
and from the surrounding expanse of sea,, there was nothing
to indicate that big Japanese warfteet had struck again or
had tried to land additional enemy invasion forces.
And events chronicled in this latest Na.vy communique occurred
Tuesday, Guadalcanal timer-which' means many of them happened Monday,
Eastern War Time. .

Yards Gauge
German Gain
In Stalingrad
MOSCOW, Friday, Oct. 30 (AP) The
Germans hurled an entire infantry
division and dozens of tanks
against Russian lines in a factory
district of northern Stalingrad yesterday
to gain another 50 to 100
yards at a cost of 1,500 dead and
11 tanks and 33 planes destroyed.
The midnight Soviet communique
indicated most of the Red army
positions held fast despite attacks
from several directions.
"Only in one sector at the expense
of very heavy casualties the
enemy succeeded in advancing 50
to 100 yards-penetrated to the edge
of one factory's grounds," It
said. "About 1,500 were wiped out.
Eleven tanks Including three heavy
ones were burned out. Soviet gunners,
guards and mortar batteries
accounted. for about a regiment of
enemy infantry, and 33 planes were
shot down."
BATTLE IN BLJZZARD
Far south of the besieged

Friday, October 29, 2010

Current Events October 29, 1942; PACIFIC SHOWDOWN/ RUSSIA, DESPERATE SHOWDOWN / EXPECT NAZI BOMBS / SOLOMONS BATTLE MAY BECOME A REPETITION OF BATAAN / DEMAND AMPLE NEWS OF WAR: / rate


MOULTON WEEKLY TRIBUNE
MOULTON, IOWA, "THE TRUTH FIRST, IF POSSIBLE" THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29,
(E.T's. Note: there were no war headlines on the front page of this news paper.)

Business Men And
Legionnaires Join
In Big Junk Rally

There were a lot of tired muscles
and here and there a few complained
of trouble in their back, but—the
scrap was collected. Last Thursday
was the day set aside for the county
scrap holiday. Stores over the county
closed, business men donned
their work clothes, trucks were on
the job and by quitting time that
night over 900 tons of scrap metal
was brought in and is now ready to
be delivered to junk dealers. Look
at it from any angle and the scrap
drive was a big success—accomplishing
its purpose of getting the scrap
off the farms before snow and cold
weather hit.

Page 2
PACIFIC:
Showdown
There was a new name in the dispatches
and official communiques
reporting the results of the showdown
battle for control of the Solomon
islands and ultimate supremacy
in the whole South Pacific battle
zone. The name was Buin—a
strong Japanese base in the northern
Solomons. It was here that the
"United Nations learned the Jap had
concentrated a good share of his
striking power.
Buin is located on the southern
end of an island (Bougainville) and
is less than two hours away from
Guadalcanal by bomber and only
one day's run for Jap ships. Yet
to reach this point, U. S. planes
based at Port Moresby, New Guinea
had to fly over 700 miles of mountains
and then over miles of Jap controlled
sea. This was the same
problem that U. S. land-based planes
at Port Moresby and on the Australian
mainland had to face in helping
the marines, army and navy units at
Guadalcanal.

RUSSIA:
Desperate Nazis
Hitler seemed to have forgotten
Ms pre-winter policy of consolidation
and: defense as he continued
his smashing drive along the banks
of the Volga. Battling desperately
to- achieve its goal before winter,
the Nazi war machine; threw everything'
possable into the battle for
Stalingrad- and. into the Mozdok
area of the Caucasus.
The Soviet army announced that
6,000 German- troops' had been
kilted in one day's action on the
Stalingrad front. "Our troops repelled:
furious attacks by enemy infantry
and tanks," the Red communique
said.

EXPECT NAZI BOMBS:
Churchill Tells People
The British people have been
warned by Prime Minister Winston
Churchill that Nazi air action against
their homes this winter "may be
heavy and menacing enough to call
for everything that civil defense can
produce to defeat it."
His warning was considered pessimistic—
though true—when compared
with his statement of early October
that the Germans possibly would at-
tempt "a very small return" in
retaliation for smashing RAF raids
over the reich.
                The News
FREDERICK, MD., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1942

Will Solomons Battle Be A
Repetition Of Bataan Struggle?
American Forces Outnumbered On Land,
Sea And In Air; Ground Units Hemmed In
Pearl Harbor. Oct. 29 (AP)—A;
showdown in the southwestern Pa-
cific between American and Japa-
nese forces appears to be at hand.
The magnitude of the Japanese
push, with a superiority of sky.
sea and land forces mobilized for
months and stemming from their
power house on Truk Island, places
the security of the main American
position between the Hawaiian Island.
and Australia in peril.
On. Guadalcanal Island in the
Solomon?, American Marines and
Army troops are hemmed in on a
small strip of land six miles long
and three miles deep, with Japanese
forces in overwhelming numbers
on three sides and the enemy
having the advantage of heavy art
illery tdUh; (??illegible) ,and supplies.
Whether there will be a re-enactment
of the historic stand on
Bataan Peninsula in the early stages
of the war hinges on getting planes,
heavy weapons, supplies and reinforcements
quickly to Guadalcanal.
The American forces there are confident
they can hold out if such
supplies and reinforcements reach
them.

Demand Ample
News Of War,
Price Says
Censorship Head Says
Press Is Tiring Of
U. S. Handouts
New York, Oct. 29 (AP)—Byron
Price, director of censorship, says
that "unless ample war news is giv-
en out by the government, our
voluntary undertaking with the
press and radio will collapse."
Price declared last night at a
New York Times forum that "if
the curtain is drawn too tightly,
official secrecy leads to wide
spread distrust and apprehension
among the people, I doubt seriously
whether newspapers and broadcasters
will be so willing to cooper-
ate in bottling up the news which
always comes to them through their
own outside sources."
Director Elmer Davis of the Office
of War Information told the
audience, which included government
and news executives, that all
sinkings of major U. S. naval vessels
had been announced up to noon
yesterday.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Current Events October 28, 1942; GUADALCANAL CANAL LOSES SLEIGHT/ EGYPT RUSSIAN FRONTS SEE ALLY ARMY VICTORIOUS

The Brownsville Herald
BROWNSVILLE,.TEXAS, WEDNESDAY,. OCTOBER 28, 1942

GUADALCANAL LOSSES SLIGHT
Egypt, Russian
Fronts See Ally
Arms Victorious
Outcome In Pacific Is
Still In Doubt;
Tokyo Extravagant
In Claims
WASHINGTON' — (AP)— The
Navy reported today that troops
on Guadalcanal Island in the
Solomons have been inflicting
"very heavy" losses on the Japanese
in comparison with what
a naval spokesman said were
comparatively light casualties
among American forces.
Besides the enemy casualties,
the Navy reported that U. S.
soldiers and Marines have caused
heavy damage to Japanese equipment
in land fighting which has
been under way for a, week, with
the Japanese endeavoring to gain
control cf Henderson airfield
The Navy said that reports
from the Solomons have not told.
of any additional action in the
sea battle which has been under
way off the islands.
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Britain's desert armies
were reported to have
knifed through 'Axis for-"
ward defenses in the battle
of Egypt today, while tie
Russians turned the tables
on German forces in. the,
western Ca u c a s u s and"
American troops held firmly]
in the Solomon Islands.
Latest reports' from the South
Seas battle zone said the conflict
was developing at a furious pace,
with the results not yet clear.
In Washington, the Navy announced
a score sheet of 70 Japanese
warships and transports sunk:
or damaged in the Solomons campaign
against approximately 20
American ships lost or hit.
These included 12 Japanese vessels
definitely sunk, three probably
sunk and 55 damaged: compared
with 14 U. S. ships sunk, three
warships and "several other" unidentified
types damaged..

Coffee Hoarders Warned
Ground Coffee Won't Keep
Old Style Home Grinder Would Solve Problem
But Green Berries Won't Be Sold
DALLAS, Tex.—(XP)—Hoarders who already are rushing, the grocers'
coffee shelves to .stock up before rationing begins at midnight Nov.
28 will be: sorry.
Grocers Association. Issued'- today.
Ground coffee, he explained, doesn't keep well and the home coffee
grinder practically has 'disappeared.
from the market.
''When our sires went to market,
sometimes twice a year, they,
bought . their coffee in the green
berry," Clark said, "It .was -roasted
in small quantities in the kitchen
oven, then ground as needed. But
we no longer stock' the green
berry. Our customers have been
educated to buy their. coffee, ground.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Current Events October 27, 1942; FRENZIED ENEMY HURLS MIGHT AT YANKS IN SOLOMONS/ AIRCRAFT CARRIER WASP SUNK:

      
        The Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, WEST  V I R G I N I A , TUESDAY  EVENING,  OCTOBER 27, 1942

FRENZIED JAPS HURL MIGHT AT YANKEES
Knox Sees Battle 'Tough'
Navy Fight
In Solomons
Is 'Gamest'
Honors Strength
Of Japs, Stalls
Result Not Clear

Americans Damage
5 Enemy Warships;
One U. S. Ship Sunk
22 Enemy Planes Are Shot Down;
Japanese Tank Attacks Repelled;
If U. S. Soldiers and Marines Hold
WASHINGTON', Oct. 27 (UP).--The battle of She Solomon has
erupted in a thunderous and possibly decisive clash of ships,
planes and artillery over the watery grave of the United States
aircraft carrier Wasp- --victim of three torpedoes in a few minutes.
U.S. Carrier
Loss Bared
Jap Submarine
Blasts Vessel
VASHINGTON*. Oct. 27 (UP)
The U. S. aircraft carrier
Wasp sunk m the South Pacific
while covering reinforce-
ments en route to Guadalcanal,
it was the third American ship of
of that category to be destroyed
by the Japanese in this war. A fourth
carrier was ' severely damaged
Sunday.

_______________________________________________________________________
      

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Current Events October 26, 1942; ARMY BLASTS GAPS IN ROMMEL'S DESERT LINE/ COFFEE RATIONED ONE CUP PER DAY / BOMBS SPILLED ON JAPANESE AT HONGKONG:/

The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1942.

BRITISH ARMY BLASTS GAPS
IN ROMMEL'S DESERT LINE
Armored Units
Move Forward
For 'Big' Test
Cairo, Oct. 26 (AP) —Pressing its attack, Britain's
army of the Nile beat off German and Italian attempts to
close the gaps driven into the El Alamein line, and moved
infantry, tanks and mobile artillery forward today under
strong aerial cover for the expected test of strength with
Field Marshal Rommel's main tank forces.
Much of the battle still was being fought in the air
where the "Black Scorpion" squadron of United States
fighters shot down four of yesterday's Allied bag of seven
Axis planes.

U. S. To Ration Coffee
To One Cup A Day
Users Get
One Pound
In 5 Weeks
Portsmouth coffee drinkers
will have to resign themselves
to one cup a day—and
maybe an extra spoonful—
starting midnight, Nov. 28.
Coffee will be rationed at
a rate of one pound a person
every five weeks for each
person over 15 years old, the
Office of Price Administration
announced today. It is
estimated that a pound contains
35 to 40 cups to the
person.

U.S. FLIERS SPILL BOMBS ON NAPPING JAPANESE
IN SMASHING HONGKONG ASSAULT, SAYS EYEWITNESS
EDITOR'S NOTE: J. Reilly
O'Sulllvan. 41, Associated Press war
correspondent who served as an air
corps lieutenant In the first World
war, went along aboard an American
bomber Sunday in the first
Allied raid on Hongkong. He tells
In this dispatch of his bombardier's
eyeview of the destruction Inflicted
yesterday upon the former
British Crown colony at Hongkong.)
With the U. S. Army Air forces
In China, Oct. 26 AP)—American
bombers cascaded explosives
on Hongkong early today for
the second time in 24 hours,
adding new fires to those started
in a devastating; Sunday assault,
and smashed again at the frequently
raided Japanese White
Cloud airdrome near Canton.
After setting the Hongkong waterfront
aflame yesterday, Lt. Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters
announced, today's raiders destroyed
the North Point Power station there,
planting every one of their bombs
in the target area.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Current Events October 25, 1942; ALLIES RULE AIR IN EGYPT/ R.A.F. RAIDERS BLAST MILAN:


                    Oakland Tribune
              OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1942
Allies Crack Alamein Line, Rule Air In Egypt;
U.S. Shakes Up Fleet, Blasts 4 Jap Ships
Fleet Shells Matruh
As Great Drive Starts
Fliers See Allies Pour Through Breach in Drive to Clear
Mediterranean for Assault on Axis Coasts in Europe
By DON WHITEHEAD
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 24.—(API—The British Eighth Army cracked through German
Marshal Erwin Rommel's Alamein line before dawn today, front line dispatch**
said tonight, after opening the long-expected Allied offensive with the aid at sea of a
roaring fleet of new type American-made light warships and American airmen in the
thick of the desert battle.
What is likely to be the decisive battle for the Mediterranean was joined with the
Axis forces of Marshal Erwin
Rommel last night in the}
light of a full moon when
Gen. Sir Harold Alexander's
Allied army moved forward
along the front 80 miles west
of Alexandria.
Advices from advanced air
bases tonight said Allied airmen
already appeared to have
clear-cut superiority in the air space
even before the outset of what
doubtless -will be a tough, bloody
struggle.
MATRUH BOMBARDED

R.A.F. Raiders
Blast Milan
By Daylight
Vichy Charges British
Plane Machine-Gunned
Montlucon, Injuring 3
By The Associated
LONDON, Oct. 24. (Sunday)—A
large force of R.A.F. Lancaster
bombers made the first British daylight
attack on military objectives
in Milan, Italy, yesterday, it was
authoritatively stated, here early
today, several hours after the Vichy
News Agency charged that British
Bombers had machine-gunned a
town in the unoccupied zone of
France.