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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1942
Page
2
The 1940 visitor tally reported 239 to the Devils Hole site in California, noting modest attendance for the year at the protected area.
Marines describe heavy combat where Companies X and Z attacked Japanese positions, facing camouflaged gun nests and snipers. Lt. Flaherty and Lt. (name uncertain) led patrols under fire, Gunner Rust knocked out a nest with a rifle grenade, and Private Silco kept firing as Japs retreated.
Private Frederick Norcross and Private Lawrence Gerkin were praised for coolness under fire during a night patrol near Mantanikao camp. Sergeant C. C. Arndt credited with multiple kills in the engagement on patrol boats and shore line. Navy medic William Liddle aided wounded under heavy fire as Captain Spurlock reported casualties and enemy losses. Colonel Whaling directed a decisive sniping action. Company Y cleared Japanese posts as flares signaled mission success with enemy resistance scattered.
Vichy forces mass in strategic spots including the airfield as authorities call the drills practice to test plans for possible disorders against Petain's government. Laval met the US chargé d'affaires to protest Washington over Madagascar fighting. Petain spoke to workers denouncing RAF strikes in the occupied zone as massacres.
US forces report repeated bomber and fighter assaults on Guadalcanal installations. Six bombers and one fighter shot down by US planes. Douglas Dauntless dive bombers hit Gizo Island in New Georgia. a small enemy craft sunk and damage to buildings noted. Marines with dive bombers and fighters press inland battles as enemy reinforces shorelines by night craft, with opposition but limited success in preventing landings.
The article portrays Portugal as a peacekeeping neutral, leveraging geography and modest defenses to resist war impact. It notes reinforced Atlantic outposts Madeira Azores Cape Verde and tight state controls on trade for coal oil medicines and fertilizers while facing public concern over wartime cruelties and shipping losses.
Seattle inventor Charles R. Pierce trod a path from old idea to patent and touts a device to revive burned out bulbs. His afterglow welder reportedly welds filaments by a 2100 volt surge, with over half of tested bulbs restored at half price, potentially saving tungsten and other materials for the war effort.
Russian communique reports continuous German assaults around Stalingrad with no gains, while 6,000 Germans wiped out west of the city and 5,000 losses in Sinyavino. Red Star notes heavy aerial bombing and tormented German forces as Soviets press on Volkhov and Caucasus fronts.
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