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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
GIBRALTAR ROAD5TEAD
 PENETRATED
Italian Speedboats Report ed 10 Have Sunk One
 Ship, Damaged 4

ROME, Sept 18-Italian storm boats," presumably swift, manned by one man and carrying a torpedo, which were used before against Gibraltar, have penetrated the road stead of Gibraltar in new attack.
 One steamer is reported to have been sunk and four other allied yes- sels were seriously damaged, says the High Command
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
Soldiers in Continental U. ,. Must Pay Strict
 IY Cash

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18- After preliminary tests, the War Depart ment has decreed that a strictly cash policy will stand for all sol diers at Army posts in the contin- ental United States.
 Secretary of War Henry Stimson announced that the new order ab- olishes credit privileges for per- sonal purchases, enjoyed by soldiers for decades. The order is effective November l for all posts in the United States except Alaska Local commanders will decide whether to apply the policy to posts abroad.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
JUGO SLAvIAN DEFENSE

Meeting in City Hall, 7:30 p. m,
 Sunday, September 20. ] MARKO DAPCEVICH, Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
ARMY ADOPTS Warprogram,
 NEW POLICY Schedules Are IN (ANTEEN5 To Be pushed
Charles E. Wilson, Presi. dent of General Electric,
 Gets Assignment

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. - War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson announces the appointment of Charles E. Wilson, President of the General Electric Company, as Vice Chairman of the War Production Board.
 Wilson is charged with. seeing to it that the war program and schedules for all phases of our war effort are met,' said Nelson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
LOCAL HUNTERS ACTIVE

Some of the first deer hunters of Douglas for the newly opened season have been out with varying success according to report and at least some venison is being enjoyed.
 For their usual hunting trip of several days MT. and Mrs. Eli Post left in their boat on Wednesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
Know Your
 Money Put
 Up 10 You
Counterfeit Currency, Even Coins, Are Being
 Circulated
BY GEORGE TUCKER


 NEW YORK-In the windows of certain banks around town you will find an interesting display of fed- eral currency called Know Your Money"
 These were prepared and dis tributed by the United States Se- cret Service and the Treasury De- partment, and were designed 10 help people recognize spurious or counterfeit bills, always plentiful in metropolitan centers. These dis plays carry, l, 5, 10, 20, and 100- dollar bank notes marked Gen uine," and their counterparts in counterfeit.
 The way to detect most counter felt bills, claims the Secret Service, is to examine the sawtooth points of the federal seal, which gener- ally are uneven. If you get hold of bill that seems phoney, com pare it with another of the same denomination. Thousands of dol lars in counterfeit money, includ- ing nickels, dimes and quarters, change hands daily in New York The approved way to pass off phoney $5 bills is to. work with confederate. One man carrying several good bills and. one coun- terfeit bill enters a cigar store and buys package of cigarettes. From the $5 phoney bill he receives $4 and some odd change in genuine currency. He then makes a ren- dezvous with his confederate, turns over the good money, takes another phoney bill, and the process is re- peated. The "spender" never, under any circumstances, ventures abroad with more than one phoney note in his pocket. If it is apprehended he can claim ignorance and at once make good the loss. If he were caught with more than one counterfeit note he would be taken into custody at once.
 The slot machines gum machines, turnstiles and other gadgets oper- ated by coins are not slug or counterfeit proof Buckets of pho- ney coins are, collected each day It is a simple matter to pass off fake money in large amounts of change especially in a town like this, where everyone hurries and seldom stops long enough to give more than glance at change.
 But here again the one coin ritual is adhered to. Police Se- tectives who are assigned to coun- terfeit cases say the idea is to pass ror1ly one bogus coin to each cus- toner. If he spends ten cents, and presents a dollar bill, one of the quarters is sure to be counter felt. AS rule, it looks more gen. uine than imitation dimes and less CT coins. More than one coin, be- cause of the difference in weight. is apt to excite suspicion.
 In a busy mart like New York it is commonplace to go home with few queer" nickles in your pock- ct. The funny thing is that mill lions of people take them and pass them along withut ever realizing they have been transmitting coun- terfet money.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
PAINT NAzI
 SYkB0L0N
 DESTROYER
ShipyaFd Workers Sought by FBI on Charge of
 Defaeine us. Property

SEATTLE, Sept 18-Federal au- thorities are seeking two shipyard workers charged by FBI agent H. B. Fletcher with painting Nazi swastikas on the deckhouse of U S. destroyer under construction here before it was launched on June IA. A formal charge before the U. S. Commissioner is of defacing U. s. property.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
LACY's BUY HOME

Wade Lacy is now a homeowner of Douglas, having purchased the cottage on Second Street belonging to the Grant Logans and near their own home
 With his wife and young son, Wade, Jr., Lacy expects to get moved into his new home this week end.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
THIN-pATRI0TI(

TOPEKA, Kans., Sept. l8.-Kan- sas airplane factories report that slender women are more in demand than fat ones. The smaller women can twist and bend into places on airplane assembly lines that the stout ones can't reach.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18
Song Was Entitled
 Asleep in fine Deep

SALTWATER, Okla, Sept. 18.- The story erred geographically when it said that George Dean, radio man second class, sunk" a baritone solo at graduation exer- clses for navy men here. His mates began greeting him with this parody of an epic submarine battle line: Sighted song, sank same"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-18

BUY DEFENSE STAMPS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
; Facing Trial
on Policy Sales

Admonished BY Judge Arthur
E. Gordon that they should have
more sense than 10 prey on work
ing people" three men today were
bound over for trial on gambling
conspiracy charges.
The defendants, Aubrey Free
man. is. of 90 Webb avenue; Alex
ander Maycock. 49, of 129 Sibley
avenue, and Joseph Warne. 81. of
1851 Lawndale aveiue, were ar
rested September q after police
alleged they spotted Freeman
writing out policy tickets.
The men are accused of operat-
ing policy games at three places
from Jaiuary, 1910, TO September
of this year Gordan continued
the bonds of each.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
Hitler Attempts
To Offset Fears
Of u. s. Might
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign Editor

Atlantic base despite the obvious
unimportance of one submarine
in the battle of Atlantic which
has been swinging against the
NaZis.
3-The elaborate explanations
by Hitler of the vast diff
culties in Russia and by Nazi
propagandistS of the specific
difficulties at Stalingrad-diffi-
culties which seem TO endanger
Nazi campaign strategy.
Foreign Minister Ribben-
trop's extensive and serious de-
scription of the hard fight
ahead" for the Axis; followed
by Hitler's hints that the Ger
mans are preparing TO 60 on
the defensive for an unstated
period while they seek TO or
ganize their conquests in Russia
and elsewhere.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
ALLIES Rule Sky
'0ver N. Guinea

LONDON, Oct. ! (INS).-The
correspondent for the Evening
STANDARD, somewhere in New
Guinea" said today that American
and Australian fiiers have unques.
toned air superiority in that the
alter of war.
One American pilot who has par.
'ticipated in the heavy raids against
the japanese base OF Buna com
Imented on the absence of enemy
planes.
"rve almost forgotten what q
Zero looks like" he said.
The dispatch said great num-
Der" of japanese planes have beer
destroyed in the last few weeks
particularly at the Buna airfield
which has been hit so many times
that considerable repairs must be
made before II can be used again.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
MARCH TOWARD MENARI

After occupying Nauro the Aus
trailan troops continued their
march toward Menari. four miles
distant, where Allied bombing and
fighting planes were constantly at
lacking the Japanese positions.
A communique was issued by
Gen. Douglas Macarthur stating
that the forward elements of
Allied ground forces made no con-
tact with the JapS throughout
yesterday, so rapidly were the
enemy units retiring.
The Allied drive has pushed
them back to points so miles from
Port Moresby.
Extensive fires were started as
Allied planes, including American
Kittyhawk fighters and twin
engined bombers, strafed and
blasted the entire length of the
Kokoda trail along which the
JapS had advanced through the
Owen Stanley Mountain range
toward the United Nations base
at Port Moresby,
Heavy bombers attacked both
ends of the Jap-held bridge over
the Wairopi River with demolition
bombs and left it sagging. the
icommunique said. Supply dumps
along the route from the Japa-
nese landing point at Buna toward
Port Moresby were strafed and
set ablaZe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
Wife B0|sters
Staying Defense
RsFlsttrsd U. s. Patent ONCE
Times stan Correspondents

PONTIAC, Oct. An attrac-
tive young mother of two children
took the stand here today to de-
fend her hush nd against the
states charge OF murder.
She is Mrs. Norman CrenShaW,
20, and defense counsel said her
testimony would bolster their con-
tention that Clarence Lockwood
Jr. died because she feared his
attentions.
Crenshaw. alleged by police 10
have slain Lockwood in a cold
blooded, premeditated shooting
will follow his wife on the stand
The state rested its case before
Judge II. Russell Holland and g
jury OF 10 women and two men
yesterday, with testimony that the
defendant threatened to kill his
victims father after the shooting
at the Lockwood home.
In statements TO the prosecutor
Crenshaw claimed Lockwood haC
been annoying his wife.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01

tense fire from its cellar. So they
extended their tunnel under the
building, packed 1t with blasting
powder and blew up both the
building and the Germans in II.
Alexander Chuyanov, secretary
OF the Communist Party in Stain
grad, disclosed in a dispatch to the
government organ, lzvestia, that
he had personally demanded at
the outset of the battle that all
panicmongers and towards be
eliminated.
In the Mozdok area of the east
ern Caucasus. where the enemy
was trying to drive through the
Terek valley and reach the nearby
Grozny oil fields, a Soviet unit am
pushed and killed so Germans. the
noon communicate said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
British Assault
AIamein Flank,
Axis Reports
Both Italy and Germany
Say Attack by Impsrials
Has Been Turned Back

LONDON, Oct. ! (UP)..Italy
and Germany reported a strong
British imperial attack today on
the southern end OF the Alamein
line in Egypt.
Italy's high command said Brit
ish Empire infantry and mecha-
nized forces attacked Italian po-
sitions.
1t was asserted that the attack
was repulsed and that 200 prison.
ers were taken.
Germany reported the repulse OF
"a British attack undertaken by
strong forces"
Italy said two British planes
were shot down in a bombing raid
on the Axis base of Tobruk, on
the Libyan coast.
-TndaY,s- communique of the Brit
ish middle eastern command,
issued at Cairo. reported only con-
tinued patrol activity. Allied
planes attacked the Axis bases Of
Tobruk' Bardia and Sollum, the
communicate said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01

LONDON, Oct. Adolf Hitler
has thrown his personal prestige
behind strange new trend in
German propaganda designed to
offset fears in German-occupied
countries of the armed might of
the United States, Allied experts
believed today after analyzing his
winter relief speech.
1t had been noted recently that
Paul Joseph Goebbels, German
propaganda minister, was making
strenuous efforts TO lessen the
long-standing respect of Europeans
for United States production and
Allied successes in transporting
men and material for future often
sive operations.
NAILS WORRIED
Today these experts believed
that HitlerS speech had confirmed
their suspicious that the Nazis
were worried about European
public reaction to the role of the
United States in the war as well
as by Germany's failure TO take
Stalingrad.
1t is important 10 emphasize
that nobody in London believes
that Hitler or his NaZi fanatics
have lost confidence in victory or
that the Germans are cracking up
The whole tone of Hitlers
speech was regarded as rejecting
his personal confidence.
But the biggest Nazi problem at
present is 10 convince the people
of Germany and of France and
other occupied countries that
United States power has been
nullified.
To meet this problem, Goebbels,
Foreign Minister Joachim Won
Ribbentrop and even the German
high command have resorted for
the first time 10 desperate meas
ures in an attempt TO persuade
Europe that the Axis is able TO
score victories over troop conveys
on the way to Great Britain. Rus
STA and The Middle East and that
the Allies can not invade Europe.
UNUSUAL DEVELOPMENTS
These unusual developments
were noted:
-1=GoehheiS made false claims
/ that American troop transports
! to Britain and big Allied con-
voy 10 Russia had been sunk.
/ bailyhooing the assertions
/ throughout Germany and the
occupied areas.
2-An unusual fuss was made
over the arrival of a single
! Japanese submarine at Nazi
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
; Villages
Retaken
BY Reds
CONTINUED from Page One)

northwest of Stalingrad, where
two German infantry divisions and
two tank divisions-one OF them
newly thrown into battle--had ad-
vanced slightly yesterday, pressure
was little more intense, bu'
enemy progress was now insig-
nificant.
A critical situation prevailed,
however, in a workers settlement
in northwestern Stalingrad and in
the central part Of the city.
The Nazis constantly hurled new
forces into battle, hoping to gain
the victory that has been denied
them for 80 days, striving to make
good on Adolf Hitler's promise
that Stalingrad will be taken.
Bombers in waves of 70
smashed at the workers settle
ment from dawn to sunset. Inter-
Imittently, tank forces, twice the
size of those which attacked yes
Iterday. were driving against Rus
sian defenses.
Nevertheless, the Germans failed
TO smash the defense except at
individual points, and there their
progress was measured in yards.
BLOW UP BUILDING
The latest enemy tactic was to
concentrate an unprecedented fire
on a tiny sector. hoping TO smash
defenses into dust and gain a
little ground Dispatches said.
however, that the defenders were
unwavering.
The Germans had converted one
large building in the workers set
Element into an important strong
hold.
Civilians and Red Army sappers
dug a tunnel that came up near
one of its corners.
Shippers thus were able 10 wipe
out tommy-gunners in neighboring
houses, but the Russians could not
take the building because of in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
Paris Bombs XIII
Doriot Satellite

V1CHY, France, Oct ! (UP).-
One storm trooper of Jacques
Doriot's pro-German French popu'
lar party vas killed and seven
were wounded yesterday when two
bombs were thrown into French
storm troop barracks ground ir
Paris during drill yesterday, II
was announced today.
tThe British Broadcastfng
Corporation reported. in a
broadcast recorded by the
United Press in New York, that
one arrest was made)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
A|banians Trap
Italian Troops

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (INS) -
The British Broadcasting Corpo-
ration today quoted an Ankara
correspondent as saying that an
Italian convoy of troops and mu-
nitions has been captured by AL
bantam patriots In the Central
Albanian mountains.
Fourteen Italians were killed
when they were ambushed at
EIbasani, 18 miles from Tirana,
the capital of Albania" BIC
added. I'm Tirana the telephone
exchange has been blown up"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
Note to Bremen
Mystery Bomb You Dueked Was Plaster Cast
Hurled by Wounded RAF Raider

NEW YORK, Oct. I tINS1,-
Charley Baggs Of Admission. Ala. a
sergeant in the Raj, has been on
bombing raids against Bremen.
Last July 4, with one if his legs
in cast which covered wound
from anti-aircraft fire al Bremen,
he broadcast from London over
CHS telling about the raid.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
TWO TRANSPORTS LOST

WASHINGTON. Oct. ! uNS).
- Loss in the Solomon Islands
lighting of two United States
troop transports, including the
&, 378-ton former liner City OF Los
Angeles. was disclosed by the
navy department today.
A communique said that there
were few casualties on the City
of Los Angeles, which had been
renamed the U. S. s. George F.
Elliott, and that most Of the per-
sonnet Of the other transport, the
l ,060-ton u. S. s. Gregory, also
were saved.
The Gregory was sunk re
Gently by Japanese gunfire of
Guadalcanal Island.
The loss OF these vessels brings
to seven the total of United States
naval ships sunk by enemy action
in the Solomons. Five other Amer
lean ships have been damaged.
Japanese losses total about So
ships sunk or damaged.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01

And If any one wondering today
what became of the cast. which
was covered with autographs, Ser
geant Baggs gave an excellent ex-
PLANTATION in ano I er broadcast
from London.
After he dropped his bombs in
a recent raid on Bremen, he leaned
over picked up the plaster cast
and hurled il down on the city.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
BY ROBERT MILLER
United Press stan Correspondent

HEADQUARTERS, UNITE d
STATES PACIFIC FLEET,
PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 1.-The
24-year-old George F. Elliott was
the only transport sunk of the
original invasion fleet which cap
tupred the southern Solomon
Islands in the first United Nations
South Pacific offensive, IT is posi-
BILE To reveal today.
A japanese torpedo plane, Grip
pied by the Elliott's machine guns,
lcrsshed accidentally into its for
ward hold and set il afire.
Before IL burned out, hours later,
the old Baltimore mail liner dis
charged every one OF its troops
and most of its supplies.
The first landing parties of ma
lrines had gone ashore August Z.
At noon. August 8. feet of up
wards of 40 japanese torpedo car
rying planes. attempting to re-
itrieve what was already serious
defeat. roared over the harbor In
which the George F. Elliott and
other ships of the convoy were at
anchor.
The planes. closing in at low
level. met what seemed TO us a
wall OF anti-aircraft gun fire.
Bomber after bomber dived into
the sea or blew up in the air.
The navy claimed only IL planes
shot down by the ships guns and
protecting fighter planes, in addi-
ton TO two shot down by shore
guns. But the gunners OF the
supposedly extremely vulnerable
transports believe they themselves
rhnf dOnx,n
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
laps Fleeing
Before Aussies
In New Guinea
Pushed Back TO 30 Miles
From Moresby as Planes
Blast Entire Kokoda Trail
BY LEE VAN Alta
International New. Service star Writer

International News Service stan Writer
GEN. GLAS MacAR-
THURS HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Oct. 1.-The Allied
counter-drive against the Japa-
nese in New Guinea moved rapidly
forward today with Australian
ground troops closing in on the
village -Menari after retaking
the hamlet of Nauro.
Nauro. 10 miles north of Iora-
baiwa Ridge, which the Allies
retook at the start of their often
Sive, was evacuated by the Japs in
the face of the strong Allied drive.
The Japanese in their haste to de-
part abandoned valuable stores
and equipment, as was the case
when they scrambled from Iora-
-haiRa Ridge
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
Advance in Madaaa,ear

VICHY. France. Oct. ! (INS).-
British invasion troops in NADIA
gascar are advancing in noun
famous region so kilometers south
~ Tsnsnsrive. The capital. q Vichy
French conmunique announced
today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
Crashing Jap
Sinks Old
j. 5. Mail Liner
Elliott Only Transport
Lost When Marines
Invaded Solomon,

tRobert Miller. United Press
war correspondent, reveals for
the first time the details of
the sinking of the navy trans
port George +. Elliott, which
was announced al Washington
yesterday. He has Just re-
turned from the Solomon
Islands, where he landed with
the marines August -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
RAF Rips Akysb, Burma

NEW DELHI. India. Oct. !
tfNSt.-Successfui bombing and
machine-gun attacks on Japanese
held Akyab. on the Bay Of Bengal,
were announced by the Royal Air
Force today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
M0keshift Bonn BIS

LONDON, Oct. l 1NS).-Ger-
man planes were reported today TO
be dropping sewing machines,
plowshares and barrels Of tar on
Stalingrad because Of a shortage
of bombs. dispatch 10 Reuters
News Agency from Moscow said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
Ddkdr Prepares
For Evacuation

VICHY, France, Oct. ! GNS).
Pierre BoiSSon governor general
of French West Africa. has or
dered the governor of Dakar 10
prepare for the evacuation Of
women and children, it was dis
closed TODAY.