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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1942
Page
2
North Carolina remains cooler with a dip in eastern and central areas. South Carolina lowers temps in the north with light rain possible in the south. Georgia sees little temperature change with scattered light rain likely in the southern portion.
A wartime broadcast notes Japan and Germany rely on submarines and coastal ships for supply, while the United Nations maintains strong links across the Atlantic despite Arctic and cape routes. A rent-control movement emerges in Calcutta, India, as housing costs reach high levels.
Wartime dispatches describe stubborn Soviet resistance in Stalingrad as defenders repulse repeated German tank attacks across streets and intersections. Anti-tank rifles and artillery dominate street engagements while both sides reinforce. reports note growing violence and new German thrusts toward Grozny and coastal contests near Novorossisk.
Allied raiders engaged off Rabaul facing heavy anti aircraft fire but all ships returned safely. In air strikes near Timor and the Solomons light activity resumed with a Hudson reconnaissance plane bombing a Japanese merchant ship at Dili and a medium bomber hitting aircraft dispersal bays at Buka causing fires.
A British sailor was captured as a prisoner of war after the destroyer Sikh was sunk in the operation. He had earlier survived the sinking of the cruiser Galatea and was rescued by a rescue ship. He requested exchange for an Axis prisoner, but the demand must be carefully examined by competent quarters before any decision.
Pan American Airways trained Army and British airmen at the University of Miami to navigate by stars, turning graduates into a key war-time navigator corps. Cadets learn 52 star names, study in flying classrooms, and perform night flights with parachute exits and mock raids. Capt. Lunn notes 22 graduates earned Distinguished Flying Crosses.
National League games show St Louis sweeping Cincinnati while Brooklyn beat Boston and New York trailed. American League includes Chicago beating Cleveland. Syracuse leads Columbus 1 0 in the Little World Series. Pacific Coast League semi finals see Seattle 2 1 Sacramento and Los Angeles 2 0 San Diego. Only game scheduled features Boston at Brooklyn with listed pitchers and other matchups note probable starters.
NEW YORK. Sept. 25. A Berlin broadcast tacitly admits strong patriot resistance in Old Yugoslavia. For the two weeks ending Sept 8 Axis forces killed 3,000 and captured 4,000 in Bosnia. The announcer called patriots brigands and criminals and claimed only insignificant clashes remained.
In Nashville near Marshville late last night a car left the highway and struck a tree. Bryant Williams of Marshville route 3 and his brother John Henry Williams died, Clyde Little of Marshville also died en route to Monroe hospital. William Staten was severely injured with head injuries.
Luna pores over a stack of yellow cards listing histories of those who went out to meet the enemy and did not return. He insists the failures were not due to misreading stars or mixing up positions with his buddy BeetleJuice.
New York Sept 25 Wealthy investors seek safe hedges against inflation and wartime uncertainty. Experts urge buying U S government bonds to support the war effort, curb inflation, and provide stable value, noting government backing and redeemable savings bonds.
The British reported the destroyer Somali and the minesweeper Leda sunk in a convoy returning from Russia after guiding most merchant ships to Soviet ports. Allied losses included 40 German planes shot down two U-boats destroyed and four damaged. Somali torpedoed, sank after being towed in bad weather for over three days. Twenty thousand fruit trees to be distributed to farmers in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Imperial headquarters said Japanese naval units are operating in the Atlantic in close cooperation with Axis navies. A submarine was active in the region after visiting a German base, marking the first confirmed report of Japanese presence in the Atlantic. The bulletin described joint Japanese Axis operations as parallel to a German Indian Ocean operation and highly significant as anti Allied powers face coordinated naval action.
New Delhi reports General Sir Alan Hartley stating Indian mobs were machine-gunned five times from the air since the independence violence began. Flares failed to disperse crowds on railway lines, RAF used machineguns to clear tracks. He outlined minimal scorched earth use as a last resort.
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