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.

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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.