Current Events October 24, 1942; JAPANESE FLEET TAKING IT''S TOLL/ REDS BEAT OFF BLOWS/ R A F BOMBS ITALY/ ARIEL BATTLES WAGED OVER EGYPT:

        The Charleston Gazette

    Charleston, West Virginia, Saturday Morning, October 24, 1942.

10 Jap Vessels Including

Cruiser, Destroyer Sunk

Or Damaged by Bombers

WArthur Planes i

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Blow Dealt Foe's Fleet

In Low Level Attack

At Rabaul

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Definitely Destroyed

8 Transports or Cargo

Craft Badly Hit, Says

Communique

GEN. M'ARTHUR-S HEAD

QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA,

Oct. 24.—(Saturday).—(INS)— .

Flying Fortresses under Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's command'

were announced today to have

probably sunk one heavy Jap

anese cruiser, an enemy destroyer,

and two large Jap merchantmen

in one of the most destruc-.

tlve raids thus far in the southwest

Pacific war theater.

Attack Repulsed

On Guadalcanal

12 Rising Sun Planes

Shot Down as U. S.

Forces Lose 2

Yank Bombers Raid

Foe on Russell Isle

This Is First Revelation

Nipponese Had Landed

On Small Island

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—

(INS)—American defenders of

Guadalcanal have driven off the

second Jap land attack in as

many days, the navy announced

today, while U. S. airmen and

anti-aircraft gunners destroyec

another 12 enemy planes and

damaged two more in the air.

Concurrently, Douglas "Dauntless"

dive-bombers attacked enemy

positions on Russell island, about

30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal

to continue the devastating air raids

on enemy concentrations throughout

the islands.

The navy also announced that a

Jap ship, believed to be a submarine

has again shelled American

positions on Espiritu Santo island

in the New Hebrides.

U. S. Air Forces Supreme

Reds Beat Off

Factory Blow

In Stalingrad

But German Radio Claims

Overrunning of 'Red

October' Bastion

By Surprise

MOSCOW, Saturday, Oct. 24.—

— Thousands of German

troops supported by heavy tanks

artillery and planes struck yes

terday at a Russian-held factory

in northern Stalingrad, but th

Soviets announced early today

that "our units are beating of

the Hitlerite attacks and inflicting

heavy losses.

RAF Bombs Italy;

Genoa Left Ablaze

'Strong Force' Strikes

Embarking Point

For Africa

LONDON, Oct. 23.—(INS)—While

great fires still blazed in Genoa

after the heaviest air assault thus

far against that Italian naval base,

RAF bombers and fighters this afternoon

carried out daylight attacks

against objectives in Germany, occupied

Holland and northern

France.

Aerial Battles

Waged in Egypt

Allies Keep Air Initiative

Land Blows on Bases,

Supply Lines

CAIRO, Oct. 23.—(AP)—The aerial

battle for Egypt crackled on today

with United Nations airmen holding

the initiative and landing solid

blows on Axis air bases and supply

lines.

Two straight weeks of almost uninterrupted

raiding were completed

yesterday when United States desert

fighters and medium bombers raked

enemy landing fields while the RAF

and Australians reported a "very

successful" raid on an enemy air

base at Maleme, Crete.

Current Events October 23, 1942; JAPANESE OFF SCHEDULE IN SOLOMONS/ OFFENSIVE TAKEN BY RUSSIANS

LAWRENCE DAILY JOURNAL-WORLD

                  LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY^ OCTOBER 23,1942

Allied Bombers Appear to Have

Thrown the Japs Off Schedule

(by the Associated Press)

Japan's big new drive in the Solomon Islands appeared to have been

thrown off schedule as the invaders still withheld their main forces and

allied bombers continued to keep them off balance with heavy new blows.

Gen. Douglas MacArthiur's head-

quarters reported that United Nations

airmen dumped 10 tons of

bombs on Japanese ships at Buin,

in the northern Solomons, where

the enemy has been massing for an

all-out assault on the prize American-

held Guadalcanal air base in

the lower Solomons.

A communique said all the planes

found their' targets, weathered a

storm of anti-aircraft fire, and returned

to their bases safely.

So far, the navy declared, U. S.

planes and warships have sunk or

damaged four Japanese cruisers,

nine destroyers and six transports

since October 13.

In ground fighting, the navy reported

that American troops beat

off a "feeler" thrust by Japanese

forces in the heavy jungle on northern

Guadalcanal, October 20, and

said there was no material change

in the military situation.

On the New Guinea front, allied

troops driving thru heavy tropical

rains and over slippery mountain

trails were reported to have advanced

within nine" miles of the

Japanese base at Kokoda, at the

foot of the Owen Stanley range.

Offensive Taken

By Red Soldiers

Russians Announce They

Have Broken Up a Nazi

Tank Assault

PICTURE IS BRIGHTER

Food and Munitions Reach

Soviet Men Under At-

tack of Planes

(By the 'Associated Press)

On the Soviet front, Adolf

Hitler's armies suffered jarring

new setbacks in the 60-

day-old siege of Stalingrad as

the Russians announced they

had broken up a tank-led Nazi

assault in the northwest factory

district, captured a ma-

Jor position in the Don-Volga

corridor, and seized the ini-

tiatlve inside the city.

It was the fourth straight day

since the last Soviet retreat.

Current Events October 22, 1942; JAPANESE FLANK ATTACK REPULSED/ PROHIBITION IS DANGEROUS/ BLIZZARD SWEEPS OVER RUSSIAN FRONT:

             Tucson Daily Citizen

TUCSON, ARIZONA, THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 22. 1942

JAP FLANK ATTACK REPULSED;

Minor Thrust

Is Halted In

Solomons Area

By SANDOR S. KLEIN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. (U.P)—American forces defending

the vital island of Guadalcanal in the Solomons have repulsed

a "minor" Japanese thrust, which may have been a

preliminary to the long-expected all-out assault.

In announcing the action in a communique today, the

Navy said that otherwise "no report of any ™tenal change

in the military situation in the Solomon islands has been re-

ceived.

The minor Japanese assault was against the.western

flank of the American positions on Guadalcanal the navy

-said, and occurred Tuesday. Solomons

time.

Bomber Downed

The toll taken by American airmen

and anti-aircraft defenses of

Japanese planes was raised to 353

the night of Oct. 20-21 (Solomons

time), the communique disclosed,

when an enemy bomber believed

to have been on a reconnaissance

mission was shot down by antiaircraft

fire over Guadalcanal.

Allied forces Are

Poised For Drive

Vichy Says Americans

Among Troops Near

Lake Chad

LONDON, Oct. 22. (U.P) -

The London Daily Mail today

quoted Madrid reports from

V i c h y asserting that very

large Allied forces have been

concentrated north of Lake Chad,

presumably for a northward drive

across the African desert into

Libya.

Blizzard Now Sweeping Over

Russian Front

Reds Penetrate Second

Defense Line North

Of Stalingrad

SNOW HITS STEPPES

German Attacks Weaker

On Besieged City,

Soviet Says

By HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Oct. 22. (U.R) —

Marshal Seymon Timoshenko's

forces, driving through

the first blizzard of winter on

the desolate steppes northwest

of Stalingrad, captured an important

hill today and penetrated the

the second German defense line,

battlefront dispatches said.

Agrees With Stimson

That Prohibition

Is Dangerous

DANGER TO MORALE

Lee Insists He Will

Seek Passage Of

Amendment

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. (U.P—

Sen. Josh Lee, D., Okla., today

told the Senate that defeat of his

amendment' to the 'teen-age

draft bill to ban sale of alcoholic

beverages at Army and Navy

camps would "fan the flame for

national prohibition."

"This is a very mild measure

and yet its passage would take

away the best argument the so called

'dry' forces have," he said.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22

(U.R)—C h a i r m a n David I,

Walsh (D-Mass) of the sen-,

ate naval affairs committee

said today after a telephone

conversation with , Secretary of

Navy Frank Knox that the Navy

shares the Army's opposition to

the Lee prohibition amendment to

the pending bill to lower the draft

age to I8

Currwnr Events October 21, 1942;

               Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1942

Stage Set For Second Front,

Nazis Reeling, Says Smuts

Stage Set For Second Front,

Nazis Reeling, Says Smuts

Allied General

Demands Speed

Germany 'Bleeding to Death in Russia/

United Nations Now Prepared to Take

Offensive to End World War by 1944

By GLADWIN HILL

LONDON, Oct. 21.—(AP)--The Allies are at the threshold

of "the offensive phase of the war," Field Marshal Jan Chris-

tian Smuts, prime minister of South Africa, told 1000 memb-

ers of Britain's Parliament today in a session described by

Prime Minister Churchill as "in many ways unprecedented,"

The meeting, kept in strictest secrecy in advance, was an

informal gathering, not a formal

joint session such as the

United States Congress sometimes

holds to hear distinguished

guests. It was attended

also by representative of

the Dominions.

It was the first time a British Empire

statesman ever had broadcast

a speech before the combined membership

of the Houses of Common*

and Lords and Churchill hailed

Smuts' message as "invaluable."

U.S. Airmen

Stall Japs

In Solomons

Bombers Keep Up

Steady Slugging of

All Enemy Bases

By .1OHN' H. WIGGINS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — AP —

Allied domination of the skies in

the vast Pacific battle front appeared

growing mightier today »s

American bombers slugged Japanese

invasion bases from the Aleutians

to the Solomons.

The fury of the Allied bombing

of enemy troops and supply concentrations

in the Solomons seemed

thus far to have stalled, at least

temporarily, the full force of a

Japanese thrust lo retake the American-

held Guadalcanal air base and

win control of the Southwest Pacific.

JAP BASES BLASTED

DRIVE ON STALINGRAD

REPORTED DWINDLING

By the Associated Press

Adolf Hitler's latest week-old offensive against Stalingrad

was reported dwindling today as cold rain again drenched

the cemetery streets, and Russian headquarters announced

I that the Red Armies had held their lines unbroken for 48

hours.

It was the 53th day of siege, just five days short of equaling

the historic Russian stand in the nine-week siege of Odessa

List year.

('Front-line dispatches from Stalingrad today reported

that German legions near Stalingrad were '"starving," according

to the United Press.)

As the din of battle subsided, with Nazi attacks growing

successively weaker, the Soviet command reported that the

city's reinforced defenders had beaten off a series of attacks

and "hurled back the enemy to his original positions."

German losses were estimated as high as 70 per cent of

their effectives in the new drive which began last Wednesday.

"At the end of the day, our troops firmly held their positions,".

Soviet headquarters reported in its midnight communique.

French Labor

Uprising Grows

Gen. De Gaulle's Plan

For 'Revolt' Brings

Action From Workers

BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 21.—(AP)—

All Serbia was reported under martial

law today as a tide of unrest and

uncertainty continued to sweep occupied

Europe from Norway to

France and the Balkans.

LONDON. Oct. 21.—(U.P)—Advices

from the Continent indicated today

that the appeal of Gen. Charles De

Gaules fighting French leaders

for "revolt against treason," was

likely to have more success than

Chief of Government Pierre Laval's

demand for 150,000 m o r e skilled

Frenchmen for German war factories.

Current Events October 20,1942; SCRAP DRIVE A SUCCESS U. S. WARSHIPS SHELL JAPANESE LAND POSITIONS gUADALCANAL:/

The Charleston Gazette

Charleston, West Virginia, Tuesday Morning, October" 20, 1942.

Million and Half Pounds of Scrap Piled Up

As People of City, County Exhibit Will To Win

Anti-Axis Holiday

Amazing Success,

OCD Chief Asserts

Thousands of Patriots Celebrate Great Day Here,

As Mayor Lights Mammoth Victory Bonfire;

Newspapers Praised For Their Effort;

Children Aided Their Elders

(E.T's note; This was typical news from all over America as patriotic citizens participated in scrap drives.)

By Harry G. Hoffmann

Charleston witnessed a gigantic demonstration of the will

to win yesterday Its its citizenry turned out en masse to give

tons upon tons of scrap needed so vitally by the nation's

steel mills.

With truck-loads continuing to roll in at midnight, officials

of the United Newspapers Scrap Metal committee estimated

that the Charleston scrap heap alone approached 1,000,000

pounds, while the salvage material was piled high also in

every other community of Kanawha county, for an estimated

500,000 pounds additional.

U. S. Warships

Shell Japanese

At Guadalcanal

American Navy Bombards

Foe's Land Positions,

Sets Off Explosion

Of Ammunition

11 'Zeros' Knocked Out

By Grumman 'Wildcats'

Nipponese Land Offensive

Not Reported Begun;

Kiska Hit Again

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—

(INS)—American warships have

joined In the battle to blast the

Japanese oft Guadalcanal, the

navy announced today, and in a

heavy shelling of enemy land

positions exploded ammunition

dumps and started large fires.

This appearance of American

naval surface units is the first reported

since a task force sank one

enemy heavy cruiser, four destroyers

and one transport in a brief

engagement off Save island north

of Guadalcanal on the night of Oct>

At the same time the navy announced

that a total of 21 Jap

bombers and fighters have been destroyed

and 12 seaplanes strafed

and burned in air battles over

Guadalcanal and in a bombing raid

on Rekata bay. This brings the

total number of enemy planes destroyed

since the battle of the Solomons

began to 340.

Kiska Again Bombed

While American Forces in the

Solomons were pounding out these

telling offensive blows, army Liberator

bombers in the Aleutians

dropped 15 tons of explosives

the Jap camp area at Kiska and

bombed ships beached in the Harbor.

No American planes were lost

in the raid but an overcast prevented

the observation of results.

The shelling of the Jap position

The shelling of the Jap positions

on Guadalcanal by American naval

units took place on the morning

of Oct. 17. Throughout that .day,

the navy stated, American aircraft

made continuous raids on enemy

shore positions.

Current Events October 19, 1942; CRITICAL POSITION AT GUADAL CANAL/ GESTAPO TO ENFORCE LABOR IN VICHY FRANCE/ U. S. TROOPS IN LIBERIA:

            THE DAILY NEWS

HUNTINGDON, PA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1942. THREE CENTS

ZERO HOUR IN SOLOMON ISLANDS BATTLE

U.S. FORCES READY

TO MEET JAP DRIVE

FOR GUADALCANAL

American Airmen And • Anti-Aircraft

Gunners "Dealing It Out" To Japs-

Navy Reveals Position Critical

—Losses To Be Expected

By SANDOHS. KLEIN,

United Press Correspondent

Washington, Oct. 19. —The zero hour was at hand inji

the Solomon Islands today.

American marines, soldiers and sailors were braced toj

meet a "strong assault" by heavily-reinforced Japanese^

troops on Guadalcanal Island,

American, airmen were "dishing it out." They and;'

anti-aircraft gunners bagged 17 more planes with the loss/

of only one of their own. But the Navy made no attempt

to hide the fact that the

Americans' position is critical

and that "in a battle of

this nature losses must be

expected."

The battle was for the airfield

on Guadalcanal—a clearing:

chopped out of the dense jungle by

the Japanese and captured By U.

S. Marines early in August before

the enemy had a .chance to use it.

The battleground was a 25 mile

stretch of ant-infested beach between

Cape Esperance at the

northwestern tip of Guadalcanal

and Tenaru, near; the middle of the

north shore.

AXIS ASTIR OVER

ARRIVAL OF U. S;

FORCES IN LIBERIA

No Confirmation As Yet

From Washington On

Reported Landing

Of Troops

By NED RUSSELL

United Press Correspondent

London, Oct., I8. — Dispatches

from Vichy said today that the

reported arrival of United States i

troops in. Liberia, ..on -the .west

coast of Africa, .was a source 'of

provocation" and a menace to the

west and Equatorial French African

colonies especially Dakar,

still loyal' to Vichy.

LAVAL CALLS IN

GESTAPO TO FORCE

LABOR FOR NAZIS

500 Agents Get French

Citizenship To Give

Them Full "Legal" Rights

By JOHN A. PAUKIS

-United Press Correspondent

London, Oct. 19. — Vichy chief

of state Pierre Laval was reported

today to have called in the

dread Nazi Gestapo in his frenzied

efforts

to force French' workers' to

take jobs in German 'war factories.

There were reports in fighting

French circles here that Adolf Hitler

was displeased with Laval's

services to the Axis cause and

would soon call him to account

for increasing anti-Nazi sentiment

in France. It was believed

Laval might be dismissed.

Current Events October 18, 1942; GUADALCANAL FIGHT STILL WAITS/ CONVOY ARRIVES THANKS TO BIG PLANES:

         The Portsmouth Times


            PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1942



U. S. SHIPS READY AT GUADALCANAL
ISLAND, FIGHT STILL
WAITS; AIR FIELD
IN U.S. HANDS YET

QUICK GLANCE AT WAR DEVELOPMENTS
Solomons, Navy reveals U. S. ships arrayed for battle; land fighting
still on small scale.
STALINGRAD: Russians crush new German thrusts into lines; peril
of city called critical.
LIBERIA: U. S. troops reported ashore on west coast of Africa, 780
miles milesof Dakar.
FAR EAST: V. S. General Stillwell, British General Aukinleck confer
with all in India,
By The Associated Press
The navy has gone i n t o action in the battle for Guadalcanal
along with air and land forces of. the marines and army and the
combined forces are"meeting a serious enemy assault
A navy communique Saturday night, in fairly optimistic!
tone, declared the issue of the battle still is undecided, that no
large scale land fighting; has developed, and that American
losses thus, far have been small.
The fact that U. S. men o' war were ready to slug it out with two
concentrations of Japanese warships reported earlier in the week off
Guadalcanal was indicated in this passage:
"Our land, sea and air forces of the army, navy and marine corps
arc engaged in meeting a serious enemy assault, the outcome of
which still is undecided."

CONVOY FIGHTS
PAST U'BOATS

Big Planes Come To Rescue
Of Ships, Beat Off Pack
Of Axis Submarines
By The Associated Press
A BRITISH PORT, Oct. 18—,
(Sunday)—A large convoy h a s
arrived safely from the United •
Slates after eluding a German
submarine pack in a four-day
hide-and-seek chase.
The air ministry news service
said escort work of United States
navy planes, the British navy, and
the RAF coastal command were
so effective that the pursuing "U"
boats were unable to close in for
torpedo attacks.