I DARE SAY ––
Wailing wall
By Florence Fisher Parry
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Clapper says U.S. faces a long war, great sacrifices
Columnist speaks here, tells of touring district steel mills; Greek Cabinet Minister vividly describes German pillaging and enslavement of his people
By Gilbert Love
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Warning given by Roosevelt on Lend-Lease
‘Strip civilian economy to bone’ to win war, President says
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Two seized at Buffalo with $10,000 in gold
Buffalo, New York (UP) –
U.S. customs agents yesterday arrested two men at the Buffalo Airport and confiscated about $10,000 in gold bullion.
The men were identified by the Customs Agency Service as Sam Stein, 46, Detroit, and Machael C. Minneci, 39, of Buffalo.
Special Agent James H. Page said the men were waiting to board an airliner when they were apprehended with the gold. He said the bullion was apparently smuggled from Canada.
America’s air-sea base in Jamaica is completed
Reporter visits British colony, finds Allied forces there ready for any emergency
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Japs’ main aim is to rule U.S., Grew believes
Ex-envoy to Tokyo warns America of danger of slavery
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Sex slayer’s story claims an accomplice
Authorities differ on truth of Army deserter’s new version
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U.S. troops in India stay neutral, Russian reports
By George Weller
Somewhere in Australia –
Contrary to Axis charges, American troops in India have not been used to stem demonstrations of Indian nationalists, according to Vladimir Mikheyev, TASS war correspondent and first Russian correspondent in Australian history, who arrived today from India to report the war.
Mikheyev spent nearly a month in India attending the All-India Congress Party meetings. He stated that American military commanders in India have not been disposed, thus far, to enter into Britain’s struggles with Indian nationalists which they appeared to hold as a domestic affair for settlement between the Indians and British alone.
Sailor arrested
Only one American had been arrested thus far, a sailor detained in Bombay for leading an Indian demonstration during the Congress sessions.
Rich Indian nationalists were among those supporting the Congress Party sessions by buying 1,000-rupee sets, Mikheyev said. The rich Indians snoozed peacefully even while M. K. Gandhi was giving his most stirring talks, said the reporter.
When the Soviet Union asked for the privilege of sending a correspondent to Australia, the Australian Commissioner in Moscow agreed on condition that the arrangement will be reciprocal and that an Australian correspondent be permitted to work behind the Russian war lines.
Race to posts
For the last two months, Mikheyev and Australian correspondent Tom Fisher have been carrying on a friendly race to see which would arrive at his post first. Mikheyev won the race.
Mikheyev is a square-faced spike-haired Russian in his mid-30s and he speaks some Japanese. From being a printer in a shop in Khabarovsk, on the Amur River near Vladivostok, Mikheyev passed through the Moscow Journalists’ School and was then attached to the Far Eastern Department of the TASS Bureau in Moscow. Later, he spent a year in Chungking.
Whether Japan would attack Siberia, Mikheyev declined to predict.
Jap spies arrested
He said:
We have been dealing with the Japanese for many years and know each other’s ways well.
…adding that a considerable number of Koreans, ostensibly refugees from their conquered country, have been rounded up in Eastern Siberia as employees of the Japanese espionage system.
In the absence of an exchange of diplomats – Soviet-Australian relations are still in the hands of trade commissioners – the advent of the first war correspondent from an official news agency is expected to be warmly greeted by the Australian public.
Student riot staged for newspapermen
By A. T. Steele
New Delhi, India –
Student demonstrators who picketed yesterday’s opening session of the Indian National Legislative Assembly admitted that their unscheduled sideshow was for the benefit of foreign newspapermen:
…so that America and England might know how the people of India regard this useless legislative performance.
The slogan-shouting boys and girls succeeded, in fact, in taking the spotlight away from the legislative proceedings. Correspondents spent more time outside watching British and Indian police deal with the non-violent but highly vocal student demonstrators than they spent inside listening to ponderous speeches.
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U.S. Navy Department (September 16, 1942)
Communiqué No. 125
The USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier) was sunk on June 7, 1942, as the result of enemy action during and subsequent to the Battle of Midway. The Navy Department, having good reason to believe that the loss of the Yorktown was not known to the enemy, withheld this pending developments which were vital to the operations announcement which have been in progress in the South Pacific since early August.
The Yorktown was put out of action by enemy aircraft attacks with bombs and torpedoes on the afternoon of June 4, as described in Navy Department Communiqué No. 97, of July 14. She was seriously damaged and heavily listed as the result of these attacks, and the crew was forced to abandon ship in view of the imminent danger of her capsizing. Tugs and other salvage vessels were sent to her assistance. A salvage party was placed aboard and she was taken in tow. Progress was slow, but it appeared that she might be saved.
By the morning of June 6, the salvage party had been able to reduce the list and the prospects of saving the ship appeared brighter. The USS Hammann (destroyer) was placed alongside to assist. Shortly after noon on June 6, an enemy submarine scored two torpedo hits amidships on the Yorktown and two torpedo hits on the Hammann alongside. The Hammann sank shortly thereafter, and the condition of the Yorktown became critical. The enemy submarine was attacked by destroyers throughout the day. Results of these attacks indicated that the submarine was certainly damaged and possibly sunk.
During the early morning of June 7, the Yorktown capsized and sank as the result of the cumulative damage from aircraft bombs and torpedoes on the 4th, and submarine torpedoes on the 6th.
Casualties in the Yorktown were few and were included in the total personnel losses in the Battle of Midway (92 officers and 215 enlisted men) which have been previously reported. The next of kin of those lost have been notified. The Yorktown and the Hammann were the only U.S. ships lost in the Battle of Midway.
Communiqué No. 126
South Pacific.
The intensity of the fighting on Guadalcanal Island has decreased and the Marines are still holding their positions. Marine patrols continue active.
On September 15, two heavy Army bombers (Boeing “Flying Fortresses”) attacked shore installations at Rekata Bay on the northwest coast of Santa Isabel Island. Fires were observed as a result of this bombing.
On September 16, Navy and Marine Corps dive bombers (Douglas “Devastators”) and Navy torpedo planes (Grumman “Avengers”) attacked Japanese cruisers and destroyers south of Choiseul Island. One Cruiser was damaged by a torpedo and a second by bombs.
Communiqué No. 127
North Pacific.
On September 4, two long-range Army pursuit planes (Lockheed “Lightnings”) accompanied by one Army heavy bomber (Consolidated “Liberator”) made a strafing attack on enemy ships, aircraft and shore installations at Kiska Harbor, in the western Aleutian Islands. A four-engined flying boat is believed to have been destroyed on the water and many casualties both aboard ships and ashore were reported.
On September 14, a large group of Army heavy bombers (Consolidated “Liberators”) accompanied by Army pursuit planes (Bell “Airocobras” and Lockheed “Lightnings”) bombed and strafed the same objectives from low altitude. The enemy attempted to repel this attack with planes and weak antiaircraft resistance. The attack resulted in the following damage to the enemy:
- Two mine sweepers were sunk.
- Three large cargo ships were damaged by bombs.
- Three submarines and several small craft were damaged by bombs and machine-gun fire.
- Storehouses and supply dumps in the camp area were set fire by repeated attacks.
- Four “Zero” fighters and one small plane were shot down.
- One large patrol plane was destroyed on the water.
- An estimated 500 troops were either killed or wounded.
No U.S. aircraft were lost as a result of enemy action.
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