L«T. - SUNOCO. WEDNESDAYT bEPT, l6t 1942. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Here is news that we have been waiting for all day, the latest from the Battle <f the Solomons. Navy communique from YJashington^ jwt The furious Japanese attack did nothing to weaken the A strength of our positions at Guadalcanal. Uncle Sam’s marines are holding their own on that picturesque far away island. Evidently the^y^ex'iiausted the fighting fury of the\ . J a o s. \For the text of the Navy communique reaas:- "The intensity of the fighting on Guadalcanal Island has decreased. The marines are still holding their positions. Marine patrols continue active. The communique then tells of the widening of the American offensive. An attack was made yesterday on another island, Santa Isabel. Two heavy army bombers LEAD - 2 Boeing flying fortresses, attacked Jap shore installations at Rekata Bay, That^is on the northwest coast of Santa Isabel. When - oup —mea got through 4heir bombi4»f'y they—fires b i n g -where the-*“boinbs h-ftd:-'dropped'. that two more There is also the good Japanese cruisers have been damaged. Marine Corps dive- bombers, Douglas Devastators, together with Navy torpedo / planes and Grumman Avengers, spotted a fleet of Japanese cruisers and destroyers south of Choiseul Islcnd^ _. - y yyVW^ wp f 1 liuu4 two hundred miles northwest of Guadalcanal. A The Un-it^ed-^iates planes attacked, damaged one Jap cruiser with a torpedo^ and a second with bombs. yorktown So t/he Japs did sink "the aircrait/ carrier YORKTOVlJ, She was lost as long ago as June Seventh. In releasing the news, the Navy explained that at the time it happened there was good reason to doubt that the en^ny was really sure of what they had done. So for reasons of policy and strategy, our naval high command kept silent all this while. It was admitted theree months ago that the warship had been hit and damaged. The YORKTOWN, second of our carriers lost in this ^ar. She was not one of our newest or finest. In fact she Vas a craft of nineteen thousand tons, and five years old. V It jSsfiT happened in the epic battle of Midway Island. Previously one bomb had landed on her during the Battle of the Coral Sea, where the fourteen year old carrier LEXINGTON went to the bottom. But in that affair the YORKTOWN was not seriously damged. In the crucial victory at Midway, the YORKTOWN WAS FIRST HIT ON THE OPENING day, June Fourth. Jap YORKTOWN - 2 bobmers, mainly torpedo planes, made a desperate attack on the carrier, flying through a storm of anti-aircraft fire. The YORKTOWN took a terrible beating and was listing badly. An eye witness account describes the Jap attack as fanatical. They skimmed the water at barely fifty feet, which for worne meaiit suicide. But they got through to the YORKTOWN. The attack went on for hour after hour. Finally two Jap torpedoes exploded amid ships. When the YORKTOWN began to list badly, the order was given to abandon ship. Practically all the crew, two thousand and seventy-two officers and men, were rescued and taken aboard other men-o’-war. By which time, the Japanese were in full flight, More than twenty-three enemy ships had been sunx; or damaged and two hundred and seventy-five Jap planes destroyed. Even when she was listing heavily our men did not give up hope of saving the wounded aircraxt carrier. With a salvage crew aboard she was limping slowly towards yorktown - 3 port* But two days later, a Jap submarine located the YORKTOWN and fire five torpedoes, two of them into a vital spot. And the following morning "she rolled over like a tired whale." says an eye witness. "Only her ugly, torpedo-blasted bottom was visible in the early morning mist, and the gallant ship went down. Sailors and officiers on a warship standing by took off their hats and stood at attention. Some of the men saved from the stricken carrier could not hold back their tears. They had wanted to bring the YORKTOWN back and send her against the Japs again. The sinking of the YORKTOWN was at least partially avenged. Destroyers combed the surrounding seas for the Jap submarine that had dealt the final blow. They found the sub and indications were, says the Navy, that the under sea raider was smashed. KISKA Here is a still more exciting war bulletin. It comes from Pearl Harbor, hot off the wire. Uncle San^s Army planes attacked the Japanese at Kiska in the Aleutian Islands. They sank at least two enemey warships. The communique reports further that our men landed direct bomb hits on other Jap ships and seaplanes in Kiska harbor. five enemy fighter planes went down in flames. One four-engined enemy patrol sea plane burned on the water. It was the most su££ essful attack that we have yet made against the enemy at Kiska. MADA£iii£AS The Battle of Madagascar is over, and the itJt J British are now in control of ^the hng^ island/ The Vichy French forces put up a stroirg fight,/" Only this morning a bulletin reported that going on. But- later the British East Africai/ command announced that the remaining French forces between Aipbanja and Maromandia had surrendered. Maroma/idia being a port forty miles to the SK^thga south qtf Ambanja. Then came word that Governor Annet iflKfc asked the British commander for an armistice. This was confirmed by the radio at Tananarive, the capital. Governor Annet sent a plenipotentiary to the British commander and firing ceased The news was finally confirmed by Radio Vichy. So^that Is over. ) This puts^ an end to the menace of Jap submarines operating in the Mxdtagxx ivlozamb ique Channel from bases on Madagascar^ against British an^. American shipping. _ — - — - - - --- RUSSIA Uhe Fed Army and the Nazis are still locked in \ that desperate battle for Stalingrad. According to the Berlin radio, every house in the beleaguered city is now a barricaded pocket of resistance. Whole blocks are converted into fortresses and strong points. But the Nazis claim their infantry and engineers are advancing | step by step in the southern portion of -- 0---- Further south, in the eastern Caucasus, the Nazis and Russians are fighting in the mountains ten thousand feet above sea level. Those highly trained German and Austrian Mountain divisions. The Russians themselves admit they they have been obliged to retreat. Again there are indications that the Nazis are in control. SECOND FRONT More second front talk. First, the fear was expressed in London that the offensive power of the Russian Army might be reduced to a dangerous point. That is, unless the Allies let loos®,a second front.in \ ” , Europe soon enough to compel Hitlerfs generals to withdraw at least thirty or forty divisions from the eastarnThe Soviet Government sticks to its conviction that this must be before Nineteen A /> Forty-Three if the war in Europe is to be won "within JL the forseeable future." A Eighty per cent of the Nazi army, some two is . hundred divisions, xxk now concentrated on Russian soil., A In addition there are forty or fifty divisions of Axis Allies, Rumanians, Hungarians, Finns, Italians. A Russiah spokesman in London declared that if a second front is not established now, it will be immeasurably more difficult to do so next, year. For there is a danger SECONDJIRONT - 2 that by next year Hitler might be able to detach plenty of divisions from the eastern front without weakening it. An encourating answer came from a member of A the British cabinet. Captain Lyttleton, Churchill’s Production Minister, made a speech in Sheffield in which he hinted that the opening of a second front was o^ite near. He reminded the British public that as long ago as July he had prophesied that the next eighty days would be most serious. Now, said Lyttleton, nineteen or twenty of those days remain, at the end of which the war definitely will enter a new phase. Then he continued:- "We are approaching a breathless moment. If Russia can hold her present position a few more weeks, the balance will swing in our direction.” CONVOY_ It is true that a flock of U-boats made a heavy attack on an Allied convoy in the Atlantic. Th was admitted in London today. Bu'tr the Nazi claims that A t ^ c ■ i,«» are -nowhere near the. In fact, a British spokesman described^them a« nineteen Allied ships were sunk^ "bloated to the bursting point." EAGLES Some of most colorful stories of the air fights in Western Europe have been about the Eagles, the sharp-shooting, fast flying squadrons of American volunteers in the Royal Air Force. The Eagles are only a memory now. Today they became Yanks in name as well as in fact. I mearr> they were transferred from the British colors to the United States Army Air Force, transferred bag and baggage, pland and propeller. The famous R.A.F. target insignia t&wt (Tk. their Spitfires will be replaced by the star which signifies a war plane of Uncle Sam. Incidentally, the change is costing the boys money. They have to discard their British unilorms. h a ret ^ time getting tailors to make their new American uniforms fast enough efor them.- A MEXICO This has been a big day in Mexico. For this date, September Sixteenth^ is to our neighbors below the Rio Grande what U1 July Fourth is to us, Independence Day. There was a glittering parade in Mexico City. President Avila Camacho reviewed a parade of forty . ^ A thousand troops which celebrated^the one hundred and > /V A thirty-feecond anniversary of ths Mexican Independence. The folks below the Rio Grande consider this the A most important anniversary they have had. It was the first since they* entered the war which they consider their second fight for freedom. At Los Angeles , , A. ^ XkKxaaxk \ there was a celebration \ Mexican Independence on the soil of the United \ \ States. The Vice-President, Henry A. Wallace was the orator of the occasion. He recalled that September Sixteenth in Eighteen Ten when Father Hidalgo \ raised the cry of liberty in a little church at Dolores. It was that which began Mexico's fight for NORWAY President Roosevelt took the air today to speak a word of encouragement and respect for the Norwegians. The occasion was the presenting of a new to- submarine chaser United St'iMm s the Norwegian Navy. He said this gift was a tribute to Norway's valiant resistance against treachery OoULJ and brute force. And the President; said^ "If there anyone is MyikkiHgx who still wonders why this war is ^ A being fought, let him look to Norway. If there is anyone who has any deliberations that this war could have been averted, let him look to Norway. And if there is anyone who doubts the democratic will to win, again I say let him look to Norway." INFLATION At least one large part of the labor union world is in frvor of the Brown-Wagner cost of living bill. William Green spoke up for the American Federation of A Labor. He appeared before the Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate and’told the Senators that the Brown-Wagner measure appeared to conform to the ideas of labor leaders. “e tfsed these Words:- / ✓ «^finil:-e-^a^.-2--'Anl-he-«ildeA< "We have discussed this matter -vith the ^resident during the last few weeks and / / / / / -JL it will betrayno,confidences to say that at these f / Jr S / / y ^r ^r yr ^r conferences/we arrived at an understanding." And he said / f-urther:-111—-think yon--have~«mbodied that understanding. ij^/this_jaeasure. " But the President of the American Farm Bureau , .x Ho told the Committee that Federation did not a ree. e the Brown-Wagner Bill will not do the job. bo far as controlling .ages, he said, the hill left plenty of INFLATION - 2 / loopholes, but, he dec-lSTed» that those loopholes do not exist for the farmers. He was followed by the master of the National Grange, who took the same line. ■Meanwhile, in tfhe House of Representations, the Banking Committed^voted to hold no hearings but to £et to work immediately on^the draft of a bill. Congressman 'Steagall of Alabama, Chairman of the Committee , s ai( i^he would invite spokesmen for farmers, labor and, consumers, also government departments, to give the Committee their ojrihions^ in writing. A spokesman for the C.I.O. also spoke up in favor of the bill. But he wants the Senate to add something to it, an amendment to put ^ twenty five thousand dollar ceiling on individual incomes manpower / It ifi 1 i ni»i-——lonr boforc The government will to draft people, for work on the home f r ont^^Thfi-e^ isrd&ard ly" a surpirise. r::it has been foreshadowed and hinted for severclr months. ’fbday it became almost official. r Paul ?«!cNutt, Chairman of the Manpower Commission, appeared before a committee of the House and told the Congressmen that the voluntary system will soon be inadequate. Labor shortages are becoming more acute, ) in no fewer than thirty-five centers of war production, r\ particularly to* Detroit and Seattle. There is also an increasing tendency of employees to stay away from their it. bust In short, McNutt says=it=is -4nevi-t-ab^» that A ' Congress must sooner or later pass a law authorizing the government to make people work wherever, th^y can be ^ ±ho w?r effort. “Between now and of the greatest use to the w. e"1 a next year, we will have to find something like four MANPOWER - million new among not o old for mil 2 workers. Many of them will have nly men,but also women, too young v A itary service. to come from sHd or too FARM X A group of farmers in Georgia have an idea. They A want to rent their farms to Uncle Sam, they themselves to (y\_ tb. uZ'* d function a5 foremen,. X ^ .K J "I- '^9^S These farmers live near a place in Georgia with ** ^ % f\ JL_ '■ the unusual name of Social Circle. The Social Circle farmers declare that the prices tha't are being paid for farm products are all out of proportion to what is paid people in other locations. So they^addressed a petition, ———* 4 *: • \A "* * rs. •sdtgnsd-by thirty-seven names, to. AgrioultHre Secretary ^ Wickard. 'ttLo-y , would undertake to plant such crops as the K Secretary would direct. These cropsj- when harvested, L q would become the property of the government. Each farmer ~fs& ^ —J- i would orcvide his own equipment and livestock. And the A idea is that they should be'paid according to the acerage and fertility of each farm. The pay, of course, to come from Uncle Sam. A fight Spectators at ^bbetts Field this afternoon saw not only a ball game but a free-for-all fight, with zgTBxal several of the Brooklyn players, "Our Bums", in there slugging. The fight began when three of the cash customers grabbed seats in a box for which they had not paid, a box just behind the Dodgers' dugout. This, an hour before the game between the Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates. A couple of ushers tried to put them out. But the three intruders got tough. One of them pulled a knife. According to bystanders, he cut one of the ushers in the mouth. Another shouted an insult at Outfielder Dixie Walker. Whereupon Dixie bounded into the box, folloued by Mickey 0 «en, Pitcher Ihit Wyatt and bhort Stop Poe.ee Beeee. thereupon there .as a wild melee. Our reporter tells us ho. Mickey O.en bo.led over t.o of the distrubers, and Dixie V.alter FIGHT - 2 whaled the third. All this seems to have annoyed Manager Lippy Leo who informed his trucculent Dodgers that they were \ engaged as ball players, not as fighting policemen. :l”/ Meanwhile, the Pirates just looked on. How did the game turn Out? Fine, if you live in Brooklyn or happen to be one of the many Dodger fans in other places. Our Bums went back to their old mid-season form. They took the Pittsburgh Pirates, ten to three. But that still leaves them in second place, two full games kK±KiixxxS®x behind. For meanwhile the t&u? and beat the Braves r. /V S rampaging Cardinals were in Boston and bea' A six to t’”''