The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9098. 29, 1942 SOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY NEW ALEUTIAN COMMAND ANNOUNCED Soviet Defense Is Stiffening In South Sector REDS RESIST NAZI TROOPS INCAUCASUS Uncle Sam’s Latest Tank Pl Germans Continue Drive | Toward Stalingrad- Cut Railroad AXIS NOW 45 MILES SOUTH OF ROSTOV Enter Don River Valley from South fo Cut Resistance MOSCOW, July 29.—Russian de- fense of the Caucasus showed signs | of stiffening as the steadily rein- | forced German drive across the Lower Don shaped into spearheads | toward Kushchevka, Salsk, and the | Tikhoretsk-Stalingrad railroad link- | | | " (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major rt 5. Allen on active duty.) ‘ WASHINGTON—If you are won- | dering what has been done about | bullding those 300 wooden barges to relieve the oil transportation prob- | lem in the East and New England, | the answer is—next to nothing. Though the President okayed the | program some weeks ago, during a | conference with Senators Ralph | Brewster and Wallace White of Maine, and though Donald Nelson also is strong for it, the Maritime Commission, which has $20,000,000 allocated for the barges, seems in no mood to get going. Senators Brewster and White in- | formed the President that New Eng- land faced an oil famine this winter because of the war diversion of tankers, which normally deliver 90 per cent of the petroleum for this area. The two Senators urgently suggested that at least 300 wooden barges be built at once to substitute for the tankers. “We can build that many in Maine alone and they can be used to haul oil, in barrels, anywhere along the Eastern seaboard,” Brew- | ster pointed out. “We have in Maine | a number of small yards which have been idle since the war began —also, plenty of lumber and expert | craftsmen who have had years of experience in wooden shipbuilding.” | The President was all for the idea. | He instructed Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chief of the Maritime | Commission, to get 300 wooden | barges built as fast as possible. So | far, however, contracts for only 35 barges have been let, and Maritime | Commission officials admit no more | are “in prospect.” o One inside reason for the delay is the Maritime Commissions deep- seated antipathy to any type of | wooden cargo vessels. The fact that | there is no steel for the barges | doesn’t seem to count. Members of | Congress who have inquired about the barge-building program have | been told that the Commission has | no experts in its employ who are “familiar with wood,” nor has an effort been made to get any—despite the President’s order. | Other excuses have been that | wooden barges were a menace to| navigation because of the fire haz- ard; and that oil, leaking from | wooden barges, killed fish. However, | until a few years ago, wooden, rath- | er than steel, barges were used al- most exclusively for hauling oil. Meanwhile, Thomas R. McDer- mott of New Orleans, and other Louisiana-Texas barge builders, have been cooling their heels in the Maritime Commission pleading for | a chance to build wooden barges, and to build them almost over- | night. DO-AS-DONE-BY DEPT. Realizing the vital problem pre- sented by the fact that mills have (Continued on Page Four) Ul sty S 1t Successor to the M-3, this new tank, the It has a lower silhouette outline that monster built for Uncle Sam. | i S R ] M-4, i8 the latest steel makes it harder to hit and bears a 75-caliber gun that can be raised and put in traverse turret to give better all-around firing powers | Sielfiaflors’GeIArmy Ok; For Inspection Tour fo Alaskan Defenses Soqp SAN FRANCISCO. July 29 Senator Mon C. Wallgren of Wash- ington State has been informed by Senator Albert B. Chandler of Ken- tueky, chairman of the military af- fairs sub-committee, that arrange- ments have been completed with the Army for them and Senators H ry M. Kilgore of West Rufus C. Holman of New Mexico and Senator Harold H. Burton of Ohio to inspect the Alaskan and A tubeless tire, goal of tire engi- neers for 50 years, has been an- | nounced by John L. Collyer, presi- dent of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company of Akron, O. The new tire, which makes use of a spe- cially-designed locking member which retains the air in the cas- ing, is the invention of Frank Herzegh, a Clevelander, who is tire construction engineer at the plant. Aleutian defenses 'soon. | Wwallyren sald: “We expect to find jout who is to blame for the Japs | being on Attu and Kiska and when we do we'll pull no punches.” Yesterday Wallgren remarked that if the fog is as bad up there as it is said to be, it must be 2 one-’ fog, since it hinders the United States more than it does the Japs Senator Wallgren was notified to- day by Senator Chandler that the trip will be under the supervision of | the Army and will require from 17 | to 21 days, but he didn’t say when | the party would leave Spokane. | gy H TO LEAVE AUGUST 8 | WASHINGTON, July 29—Sena- y | tor Albert B. Chandler said he would | leave Kentucky by train on Monday for the West Coast on the first | stage of the inspection trip of Al- | askan defenses to be made by the ' Senate Military Affairs Subcommit- tee. He said he would meet Senators Holman and Wallgren in Spokane | on August 8 for the plane trip to | ' Alaska. | He is going to Kentucky first to | vote in the primary elections on | Saturda} SELECTEES T0 REPORT AT 10 TOMORROW Selectees from Juneau report for| roll | Selective Service Territorial head-| | quarters in the Marine Building. All selectees required to report tomorrow are requested to have with them their original induction | papers. e | KODIAK STORE HOURS Grocery, meat and other stores in Kodiak open at 9 am. and close at |6 pm. except Thursdays and Sat- | urdays when they remain open un- |til 8:30 p.m. Sunday hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, SUDABAY ATTACKED | BY ALLES ijis Supm Harbor in? Crefe Raided by Joint | U.S., R.A.F. Forces CAIRO, July 29. — Allied heavy | bombers attacked the vital Axis, supply harbor in Suda Bay, Crete, at dusk last night while land opera=, | tions on the El Alamein front were; confined to patrol activities in the northern sector. H] | The British communique reports4 heavy bombers of the Allied Air ) | Forces tock part in the attack onj Suda Bay which almost certainly| means that United States bombers participated American bombers and the RAF | | together attacked Tobruk again | Monday night and also Port Matruh | last night. { Repair shops of the Axis at Galal, | between Elsaba and Euka, have also | | been raided. | Repeated attacks on Suda Bay | may be explained because of x-.-.mrl.sl from Turkey and elsewhere that the | Axis is constantly ferrying troops | and supplies to Crete for transfer | | to the Egyptian front. HAMBURG * BATTERED FROM AR Great German Port Again | Raided by Large Fleet ‘ of RAF Bombers LONDON., July 29—Hamburg, Ger- many's greatest port and most |heavily gnarded city, was battered {last night for the second time in | three nights ‘The Royal Air Force, in a ruin- ous raid. used high explosives and | incendiaries. The raid was made perhaps on |a 600 plane scale and for the sec- |ond time hit the sub building center | hard Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris promises that “we are going |scourge the Third Reich from end |to end.” The 1uid last night cost 32 bomb- ers, three more than the number lost last Sunday night. | NAZIS ADMIT RAID BERLIN, July 29—Hamburg w raided again last night accordi to an otficial German communique issued this morning but the “greal defense” of the big port shot down 45 of the enemy raiders. U.5. TROOPS ON AFRICAN GOLD COAST British Resi_d;nt Minister Tells of Americans call, preceding induction, ut; S'ationedThere 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the | LONDON, July 29—Reuters Brit- iish News Agency today quoted Lot |Swinton, British Resident Minisic |of West Africa, as saying in 4 broadcast from Accra, Gold Coa | Colony, that “Americans are her !with us. They are everywhere in | this worid-wide conflict. I have al- |ready experienced cooperation and frank partnership with United States General Fitzgerald.” ! — e - BUY DEFENSE BONDS Doughboys March Guatemala, Central American republic allied with the Uni niversary of the 1871 revolution with a big parade, Sixth avenue, principal thoroughfare, in Guatemala City, 70 per cent of the population of Guatemala is pure Indian. picture was taken on —Iié;lnited,'Figllt for éa;ne Cause japs pushéd _ ' | Ouf of Base After years of separation, Major Joseph C. Stehlin of the U, S. Army Air Force, and his son, Lieut. Charles F. Stehlin of the Free French Air Force, are reunited in New York. Major Stehlin had not heard from his son in twoeyears, since the day he heard him on a radio broadcast from London. Now, although wearing different uniforms, both are fighting for the same cause. UMW Having Tough Try For Convention Cily; Navy Changing Dress JAPANESE By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, D. C., July 29.— | | Thoughts in Wartime: The war is really giving John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers fits on their convention plans. Their first idea was that the October conven- tion city would be Washington and | they bid for space in a new capital hotel. Priorities,. labor shortages, etc (one of the etceteras being a honey of a fire that ran riot though sev- eral floors of the superstucture) now make it appear that the hotel won't be completed in time. The UMW shifted to Atlantic City, made reservations there for their 1,000 or 00 delegates and the several thousand others expected to show. Then along came the Army and took over those buildings for training quarters. Cincinnati is the latest choice but it isn’t the city that's worrying the UMW managers now as much as | transportation facilities No one | would be surprised here, if. any day now, the Office of Defense Transportation came out with an order putting a ban on ALL con- | | ventions for the duration. Speaking of labor: The Navy, which has been ahead of the Army in a lot of things, but far behind in its “labor relations,” has finally decided to do something about it It has set up a new “Incentive Section,” with Admiral Clark Woodward in charge, and Lieut.- Commander Sam Singer, as his as- sistant. The new section has taken offices in the sumptuous old An- derson mansion on Massachusetts which until recently was the head- quarters of the Society of the Cin- cinnati I asked one of Washington’s ace labor chservers what he thought the Navy section is planning to do. “T don't know,” he answered, “but if they'll just see to it that when those 'E' awards are made for out- | standing production in naval con- i tract plants and shipyard, some of the commendatory remarks include the laborers as well as the man- agement, they!l go a long way to- ward improving labor realtions.” (Continued on Page Six) ted Nations in the war, celebrates an an- featured by the appearance of U. S. soldiers. The the capital. More than Near Moreshy Enemy Advances fo Within 60 Miles of New Guinea Post GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 20—All patrols have driven strong | und aggressive Jap units back from | advanced outposts cccupied in the | vicinity of Kokoda, New Guinea, |and onuly 60 miles from the most advancea Allied base, Port Mores- by. | From the newly occupied base at Gona Mussion, on the northwest- ern coast of the Papuan Peninsu:a, in Guatemala’s Big Parade ‘STRATEGY IN WEST ALASKA NOW UNIFIED Naval Officers Are Placed in Charge of Joint Operations AIRCRAFT OF TWO FORCES TOGETHER System Same as Employed in Other Sections of Frontiers “’.\SIIINFTO‘ ., Jully 29—The creation of a unified command of all aircraft operations in the Aleutians was announced today. The Navy said that details of the Command, the relationship and exact location of headquar- ters will not be disclosed since the informaticn would be of value to the enemy. The Navy reported, however, that naval officers now in the the Alcutian area have been placed in command of the joint' cperations by naval and army aircraft authorities. This is the same system of aperational control under one head which unified the com- mands and joint operations for Hawaii, Australia, the Canal Zone, the Eastern Caribbean and various other sea frontiers. ALEUTIAN SITUATION DISCUSSED Pacific War Council Meets with Roosevelt at White House WASHINGTON, July 29. — The Pacific War Council met with Presi- the Jap patrols advanced 50 miles dent Roosevelt today and canvassed inland in less than a week. They clashed with Allied patrols near the at Kokoia and troops Douglas MacArthur's pushed hack the invaders yesterday. Meanwhile, Allied bombers three different attacks smashed en- emy installations and supply storss Gona Mission and Kokoda, a town, an airdrome, rubber md a few buildings. o of Gen at small plantation BARBARITY SHOWN UP Most Revol?ifia Practice of Nippons Now Being Revealed Wide World Features NEW YORK, July 20—Thirty-two years before Pearl Harbor, a Jap- anese raiding party struck without warning at an American island only 800 miles from Honolulu and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths The surprise assault, recalled by Alfred M. Bailey in the current issue of Audubon magazine, directed at nesting birds and was {accomplished with a degree of cruelty rarely recorded in this °ra The island is Laysan, a little was I (Continued on Page Two) | the whole Pacific war area, includ- ing the Japanese invasion of the ¢mall Government station Aleutians. Canadian War Minister McCarthy command told the reporters following the con- ference that information the Coun- ;n cil received “is not of a character that I can divulge.” - KETCHIKAN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT RESIGNS POSITION Notice was received this morning by Territorial Commissioner of Ed- ucation Dr. Janies C. Ryan that Hobart R. Kelly, Ketchikan Super- intendent of Schools has resigned his position. A successor has not been named by the Ketchikan School Board. oodlebind When the father and son draft- ees return, who's going to do the buuins about let. from Armentieres