Daily Post - 14.11.1943, Blaðsíða 2

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SUNDAY POST
News From America
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Sunday, Nov. 14, 1943
Nazis In Greeniand
WASHINGTON. — Secretary
of the Navy Knox told the press
recently that United States for-
ces destroyed a German radio
weather base on an islund off
Greenland’s west coast. Two
coast guard cutters completed
the mission and returned after
a journey of hundreds of kilo-
meters through ice-jammed
waters.
Said Secretary Knox, “Small
but of solid construction indi-
cating a plan to remain there
permanently, the German base
included a radio station, power
house, emergency * generator
and transmitter separately lo-
cated, defensive machine gun
emplacements ánd food caches'1.
Iie said the base was dicov-
ered early in 1943 by United
States Army sled patrol (a force
of Danish hunters patrolling
Greenland’s coast). Knox said
“the patrol was attacked bv the
Germans, but they managed to
report i’ts discovery. Two of itá
members were taken prisoner
by the Germans and a third
Dane, Eli Knudsen, was shot
and killed. The Nazis tnen sent
a force against the small
weather station well above the
Arctic circle manned by a nand-
ful of Danes armed iwith hunt-
ing rifles and some, pistols. As
the Germans attacked with
machine guns, in the dai’kness
of the long winter night most
of the Danes escaped.”
A German officer attempted
to force one captive Dane as
guide. The Dane overpowered
the German and delivered him
to the United States army after
a 40-days sled trip.
The base was deserted when
the army coast guard forces
landed. Secretary Knox said
that the Germans had probably
evacuated in May after the
bombing had destroyed their
ipstallations. A German techni-
cian who had been away a long
time arrived several days after
the Americans. He had lcst his
dogs and sled through the ice
WASHINGTON: — United
States exports in the first 9
months of this year were 14
percent greater than all of last
year. Total value of the exports
for the 9 months was 9-billion
9 hundred 97 million dollars.
September was the 5th consecu-
tive month in which they ex-
ceeded 1-billion dollars. These
figures include lend lease goods
but not shipments to Unitcd
States armed forces overseas.
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WASHINGTON: The Navy
Department today announced it
is expanding its force of land-
based aircraft for long distance
reconnaissance and patrol.
Ships used in anti-submarine
work are an armed version of
the armys Liberator. Eight
squadrons of these ships so far
have been formed. Deliveries
also are being increased on a
Navy adaptation of the Mitchell
bomber, designed primarily f: r
fighting submarines.
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NEW YORK: —- The National
Association of Manufacturers
has urged large and small
business to make every effort
to provide jobs. for servicemei*
now being released wi'cn medi-
cal discharges. The group urged
employers to make a special
effort to find pmploymem for
those who have bcen wounded
or discharged for medical rea-
sons resulting from their mili-
tary service.
WASHINGTON: — The or-
ganization of a USAAF Tactical
Center to teach uir lessons
learned in actual combat has
been announced by the war de-
partment. The ný?w organization
will be located in central
Florida, with headquarters at
Orlando.
WASHINGTON: President
Roosevelt has set up a war ad-
visory council of business. The
new board is simiiiar' to the
agriculture and labor groups
which see him periodically to
discuss war problems.
* # *
WASHINGTON: — Estima- !
ted war expenditures for the
current fiscal year totalled 9-
billion, the United States
Chamber of Commerce ar noun-
ced.
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CHICAGO: — The world's
largest hotel, the Stevens, has
reopened its doors aíter 13
months of Armv occupation. 1-
thousand 1-hundred of the
hotels 3-thousand rooms were
ready and rented.
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WASHINGTON: — Members
of the Senate Military and
Naval Affairs committees liave
announced they are determined
to inaugurate a large scale re-
habilitation program ícr dis-
charged veterans. Senátor Kil-
gore West Virginia said: We
have been tóld that 500.000 inen
have already been discharged.
Perhaps a million more will be
released in the next year. We
find ourselves right now in a
position in wh;ch we are not
able to do anvthing for these
men. Senaior Chandler of
Kentucky said he was going to
confer with the war department
and the veteran s adminnistra-
tion offjcials on a program.
Senator Smith of South Garo-
lina said rehabilitation pro-
grams should be arranged so
veterans ?an drop right back
int'o civil life. President Roose-
velt has proppsed that Congress
provide the cost of education
or vocational training for ány
veteran who wants it. Other
proposals include bonuses in
war bonds up to a total of 1 1:50
dollars for vetefans who have
served 500 days abroad.
X X
GRAND COULEE, WAS-
HINGTON: — Another giant
generator has been put ihto
operation at the Grand Coulee
Dam. This brings the installed
capacity of the dam on the
Columbia river to more than
700,000 kilowatts., making the
dam the third biggest prcducer
cf electricai power in the Uni-
ted Sfates and t’ie fourth l?igg-
est in the world- Grand Cimlee's
present capacitv is exceeded in
t.he United States only. by
Boulder Dam and bv the steam
piant." servicing the New York
metropolitan area.
WASHINGTON: — Secretary
of Commerce Jesse Jones re-
portet that income payments
to individuals in September
were 20-percent higher than in
the corresponding months last
year. He predicted that total
payments for 1943 will reach
142 billion dollars. Consumer
expenditures in the third
quarter of the year reached an
all-time high running at an
annual rate of 91 billion doll-
ars.
WASHINGTON: — Rubber
director Bradley Dewey warn-
ed that the next six to 9
months will bring the most
critical rubber shortage of the
war. He told gasoline A an R
card holderg to cut their driv-
ing to’bare necessity’ becausc
they will nct get any new tir«
es. Dewey stated that synthetic
rubber production is going acc-
ording to schedule but facilit-
ies for making tires are still
incomplete.
WASHIGTON: — A presi-
dental unit citation was award-
ed the ill-fated destroyer
Borie, two other destroyers and
an American escort carrier for
what was termed the “destruc-
tion of more submarines than
any team in naval history. The
destroyers Borie, Barry and
Goff, and the escort carrier
Carde were convoying on the
United States North African
run when they stacked up their
record, beginning in July.
Although no definite figure on
the number of U-boats destroy-
ed by the team was listed, it
was recalled that an escort
carrier designated as “Baby
Flat Top B” was credited with
sinking or damaging 11 Axis
U-Boats in the Atlantic.
Facís . . ðdditles .
Qnotations
BOLIVIAN TIN MINES
HIGH UP
Bolivian tin, a source of the
valuable metal for the United
Nations, is mined at altitudes
from 12,000 feet to 20,000 feet
(3,600 meters to 6,000 meters).
and this fact has resulted in
development of unique tran-
sportation methods. The aerial
(Cont. on p. 4>
and had to await a thaw to row
back along shore. He was taken
prisoner.
Knox said that during the
mission two coast guard cutters
encountered German reconais-
sance planes three times and
engaged them twice. One of the
enemy planes was believed
damaged.