The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LIX., NO. 9088. DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LASKA DEFENSE WILL NOW BE PROBED e . Makes Report on Aleutian Fighting WifePins MedalonHero GERMANS AT Navy 44 SERVICE PERSONNEL AMONGDEAD Only One Civilian Killed at Dutch Harbor, Says Resume NORTHWESTERN WAS ONLY SHIP BOMBED Navy, Coast Guard Vessels in Harbor Unhurt in All Attacks WASHINGTON, July 17—The Na- vy announced today in a resume of fighting in the Aleutian Islands that Army aireraft recently dropped 56 bombs on Japanése shore instal- lations on Kiska, one of three islands on which the enemy has landed. American losses in the campaign to date were officially disclosed to be 44 Army and Navy men Kkilled in Jap bombing attacks on Duteh Harbor and nearby Fort Mears and the Army post of Fort Glenn, about 70 miles west of Dutch Harbor on tne Island of Umnak. k JThe old station shipp Northwestern was lost in the attack on Dutch | Harbor early in June when it wus | hit by bombs and burned. Minor Damage Done | Some damage, although of a min- | or nature, was done to American thore installations. In addition to the 44 Army and | Navy personnel dead, 49 Army and | (Continued on Page Five) | The Washington | Merry - Go-Round | | | | A Navy cross was pinned on Lieut. Comdr. Francis J. Thomas, Naval Reservist of Buffalo, N. Y., by his wife in ceremonies at Bremerton, | initiative there, but further grain STANDSTILL, NORTH AREA/ | Further South Soviet En- emy Rolling Across Caucasian Fields (By Associated Press) if not actually in dif- south in a zone of deeper¢penetration to the eastward, the Nazis rolled like a tide across the waving Caucasian fields, perhaps a million strong. The Russians harassed them from land and sky, but fell back fighting to the eastward toward Stalingrad on the Volga River and to the southward toward Rostov on the Don River mouth. At Voronezh on the northern flank of this blazing 300-mile front, the chance for a successful side diversion against the Caucasus of- fensive rested in the balance of a | bloody struggle in which the Rus- sians are said to have cracked through two lines of their besiegers. IS 5 SR Wash. Comdr. Thomas took command of a burning ship at Pearl Harbor and saved it. U.S. Nears Dlplomallc Break with Finland in Closing of Consulaes WASHINGTON, July 17 — The United States thas moved one step | short of a break in diplomatic | lations with Finland asking the one time warm friend to close all Consular offices in this country Lefore the end of this month. This - SRITISH " HOLDING IN EGYPT Violent, Indecisive Tank Battle Raging in Cen- fer Desert Line CAIRO, July 17—British troops have been engaged in a violent but still indecisive tank battle since Alexandria, Target of Rommel Drive | The Germans are at a bloody | standstill, | ficulty before the town of Voronezh | and are reported to be losing the Gen. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korpa is attempting to smash its way towards the ba: terranean Fleet located at ‘Alexandria. This is an airview of Alexandria where it is | erican torpedo boats have arrived to strengthen the British Fleet. "Front Line General r_s of the British Medi- reported that Am- |WAGE LEVEL QUESTION IS . UNDERSTUDY {the . southernmost -point and pros . - Presideni SaysNo Message| Yet Sent fo Corgress on Subject (BY /\h'}()( IAll"D PRESS) President Roosevelt told a press | conference today, that the whole guestion of wage controls and in- | Hlation is under study. When asked his reaction on the |bread wage stabilizution policy laid ‘cown by the War Labor Board to maintain purchasing power and hourly wages at levels of January, SENATORS COMINGTO NORTHLAND ‘CoordinafiowrrPlans, Army and Navy, Are to Be Studied INVESTIGATION OVER ENTIRE WEST COAST Senalor Brewsfer Makes Announcement as to Trip Purposes WASHINGTON, July 17 — De- claring that the problem of de- fense and coordination on the. west |coast and in Alaska is “rather fan- | tastic,” United States Senator Ralph O. Brewster, Republican of Maine, said late yesterday that a special sub-committee of the Senate will fly to the area today to probe con- ditions. Senator Brewster said Senator Carl A. Hatch, Democrat of New Mexico, and Senator Harold H. Burton, Republican of Ohio, will make a three week inspection of |the whole west coast, starting at jecting into the Aleutians where the Japanese offensive activity has already left its mark. | “It is not clear just who is ‘n ccmmand out there,” Senator Brew- ster told reporters, { The Army Command, Senator | Brewster declared, is located at An- chorage, Alaska, and the Navy Com- mand is based in Seattle, It will be interesting, Senator Brewster said further, to know just how these two commands “get to- gether” and he added the commit- tee is anxious to avert any condi- | tions such as existed before Pearl | Harbor, | Coordination in defense activities By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 5. Allen on active duty.) is of paramount concern, declared | Senator Brewster. Senator Brewster is a member of 1942, he said no decision had been | reached as to when he might send‘ o message to Congress on the sub-| General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander of the British Eighth Army in Egypt, talks to his men on the battlefront from his command car in which he has been constantly touring the fighting zones. This yesterday in the center of the El Alamein desert line and it is re- yorted they have brought up the is the announcement made by the | State Department. WASHINGTON—In a previous Merry-Go-Round column it was revealed that Jesse Jones's Rubber * Reserve, which is supposed to pro- vide the nation with rubber, had | jet 31 contracts for big synthetic | rubber plants to one patent pool; that other, quicker patents for mak- ing rubber had been ruled out; and : that the 31 big new plants, each | costing $10,000,000, would not be finished and working until around 1944, This, it House warning that civilian tires | might have to be requisitioned. | Continuing the story, it is neces- | sary to.go back and review some | significant and not generally known background. Two years ago there was a loud public clamor when it was dis- covered that Torkild Rieber, chair- man of the board of the Texas Oil company, had loaned an automobile to Dr. Gerhard Westrick, a Nazi commercial agent in New York. So great was the outery, that the Board of Directors forced Rieber’s resignation from Texas. But what is not generally known is that the president of the Texas | Develop:nent Company, a subsidiary of Texas, is now in the Govern- ment and is Jesse Jones's key man on rubber contracts. Furthermors, this man, Richard J. Dearborn, was at the Hague in October, 1939, one | month after war broke, where he Pelped negotiate with the Nazis a| new contract continuing Hitler's| monopoly on synthetic rubber — a monopoly which is charged with preventing American development of synthetic rubber. Dearborn’s company, Texas, is a part of what is called the “Jer pool, or the group of oil companies dominatea by Standard Oil of New Jersey which received the contracts for the 31 new rubber plants from Jesse Jenes's Rubber Reserve. n helping o award these contracts to'wartime, President Roosevelt at to- Magnuson day's conference with the reporters «Com.lnued on Page Four) was revealed, was one of the reasons behind the Whlt,e4 RIVER QUEEN —st.Law- rence river cruise boatmen chose Jackie Miller -(above) as their lllver Qleen tor 1942. YOUTHS NoT BE CALLED INDRAFT WASHINGTON, July 17 — Ai- The official statement says the Finnish Government is now on an “undetermined basis upon which American Consular representation is maintained in Finland,” and had denied American Consular officers ireaty right status. The American Legation at Hel- sinki and the Finnish Legation mn Washington remain unchanged. | The announcement did not men- tion Finland’s participation with Germany in the war against Rus- | sia, | Finland maintains 14 Consular of- fices in the United States and ter- htolies ‘Ask Women's « Auxiliary in Territories ' Representative Urges Sen- : ate fo Remove Amend- ment to Navy Bill WASHINGTON July 17—Delegate Samuel W. King of Hawaii and Representative . Warren G. Magnus- lon of Washington State are urging I_Clmirman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Committee to ask the Senate to recede its amendment to the Womens Naval Auxiliary bill restrict- wng formaticn of the organization fo continental United States. ‘The bill passed the House and American-made General Lee tanks o give additional power to the de- fense. The General Lee tanks are an improved version of the Generil Grant tanks and mount 75 milli- | meter guns in the turret instead of |the side. The tanks also have streamlined armor. The British are making stubborn efforts to hold the newly won po- iticns 1 the center line. Sharp fighting is also reported on the southern end of the line where the enemy is said to have with- drawn slightly. In the coastal sector in the north, i the official communique gave no hint as to how the battle in the | center is gomg LEND, LEASE AID SWELLS 10 BIG SUM {u. S. AssistaTce fo United Nations, Other Coun- fries, Is Reported WASHINGTON, July 17—Presi- dent Roosevelt discloses that lend and lease assistance to United Na- tions and other countries reached $708,000,000 during June, the high- est monthly total yet. This is compared to $662,000,000 in May. The total lend and lease assist- though Administration officials have, was amended by the Senate and 's!ance since inaugurated on March been speaking repeatedly of the fact'now before a conference commit-|y, that this country always called the youths of 18 to 19 to the colors ia said such a step was unlikely now. tee. Delegate King and Representative contend the auxiliary Hawaii and Alaska. 1841 is now fifteen billion, two hundred and five million dollars. e | Subscribe to the Daily Alaska" houid be permitted branches in Empire—the paper with the largest| paid circulation. picture was radioed to New York from Cairo, WPB Press Relations Man Helps Out Sugar Situation, Yessir, How! BY JA(,K STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 17 — The apital in wartime: Shed a tear for Bob Strauss, WP3 press relations man. He wanted o wo something, himself personal, for the sugar situation. He decided w acquire some honey bees. He went to his boss, Donald Nel- | son, formerly top executive in Sears Roebuck. “I understand that S-R has bees for sale,” said Straus |*Do you think I could get some? “Certainly,” replied Nelson. *“If T remember my catalog correctly, you can get a queen bee, the rest of the swarm, a hive, a head net,| and a smmlu- pot for a very mod- | rate s Strauss pu' in the order. It was lelivered. The hivé, however, was inissing and in its place was a aotation that materials in the hive | were under pricrities and that same could not be supplied at the mo- en. With Eees swarming fl” over his vard, Strauss dashed back to his| chief. Nelson suggested he contact the Department of Agriculture ayd iind out how to build a hive. | Ctrauss did. "His plans arrived. He! studied them thoroughly and was | ubeut to start work when he came | upon a footnote. . It explained that \ails absolutely necessary to con- | struction of this type of hive are inder prigrities and not obtainable. | (Continued on Page F‘oun { | SUCCESSFUL RAID MADE ON HANKOW U.s. Bombérsidake Attack on Great Japanese Inland Base CHUNGKING, July 17 AU. S bomber attack on Hankow, gre: Japanese inland base on the Yang- tze River yesterday, scored “very atisfactory results” the official communique from Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell's headquarters said. Fighters escorted the bomb m the raid on Hankow and also an attack on the Nanchang airdrome. The communique said the bomber attack on Hankow's waterfront was the fourth by the U. S. Air Force since taking over the work of the Flying Tigers, - Matt Johnson has to St. Ann's Hospital for treatment. been admitted medical Mrs. A. Roberts has entered St. Ann's Hospital for medical care. s JJecL. The basis cf all the policy on the program is to xeep the cost of liv- |ing from going up. | Even he talked, | pressed dissatisfaction on the, L | Board's 1uling which laid down an |8 to 4 decision yesterday permit- ‘lmg an in¢ se of only 44 cents {a day in wages of workers on Lhc‘ | “Little Steel” case, who were seek- | ling a dollar a day increase lhruugh' |the CIO United Steel Workers. | Labor members opposed the rul-| 'ing and there are also work stop-| | pages over the nation which are! hampering the war effort, as steel unionists quickly protested thel Board declsion, Republic Steel Corporation, one| f the four firms affected, said “the | ,vage increase is a long step in the| direction of inflation” and said it/ would have to study the opinion before deciding its future course of | action In another the board 'by with industry | part of itsedecision,| another 8 to 4 vote| members dissenting, pranted union security through maintenance of the membership clause with collection of union dues by companies. who | unionists ex-| the Senate Naval Committee and also a member of a special Sen- lute Committee to investigate the ,‘Nuunnul Defense pmsmm DAYLIGHT ALERT IS SOUNDED London Gefs Alarm This Afternoon-First Time Since March 16 LONDON, July 17—The first da- light alert since March 16 was sounded here late this afternoon |when a single raider was reported heading for the city. The all-clear signal followed half an. hour later without anything happening. The enemy raider was said tu have been within 15 or 20 milsg Ixrum the British capital city. f3 GEORGE FOLTA, JR., | TOOK PART IN CORAL SEA NAVAL BATILE Ensign George W. Folta, Jr., was graduated from December, 1941, and has since been on duty with the U. 8. Navy forces in the Pacific, took part in the Coral Sea battle und has since tak- en part in numerous task force actions in the Pacific cording to word just received by his father, George Folta, senior, in Juneau Ensign- Folta was appointed to Annapolis by Delegate to Congre's Anthony J. Dimond and prior to leaving for the academy had spent the greater part of his life in this city. Annapolis in | shouldn’t | Reople living in hulrar i 5. yo Hhmw lighted matc | papers se copy!