The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9099. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1942 MEMBER AS 0( IATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANS RACING TOWARD CASPIAN SEA Urges Bayoneting Of Japanese On Aleutians U S-Vichy at Odds Over Warships at Alcxmdrm OLD METHOD FOROUSTING - OF NIPPONS Harold McCracken Ad-| vances Propoasl fo Get Rid of Isle Invaders | NEW YORK, July 30—Modern | warfare -vith its tanks and bomb- ing plares, won’t work in the Al-| eutions hut the old-fashioned bay- | onet will says Harold McCracken. | McCracken, nationally known | archeologist who spent several years ‘ on the Aleutians, declared here to- | day that the “only way to oust the | Japanese invaders from the land s | a sufficient force to chase them with bayonets into the Bering Sea. “The Japs know every inch of the country and in case of a bomb- ing, can disappear into their bac- baras lite gophers into their holes. The barbaras are native huts, part under ground and covered by vegetati-n. They are natural air| raid shelters™ - - | Expectation of life at birth has reached an all-time high of €342 years in the United States. The Washmgtun Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Msjor Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—The groundwork for the War Labor Board’s new wage stabilization policy, author- izing pay increases up to 15 percent of what workers received on Janu- im- ary 1, 1941, was laid at an portant meeting in the office of Board Chairman Willlam C. Davis a few days before the policy was announced. The meeting was attended by top officials dealing with war labor problems, including Manpower Chief Paul McNutt; Secretary of Labor Perkins; Wendell Lund, chief of the WPB’s labor division; John R. Steelman, chief of the U. S. Con- ciliation Service, and Richard V. Gilbert, OPA economic adviser, who represented Leon Henderson. All hose present were pledged to | secrecy, which turned out to be 2 wise precaution, for several of the conferees tangled furiously on the question of wage freezing. OPA economist Gilbert started the fire- works by declaring that both OPA Boss Henderson and himself were “unaltercbly opposed” to any wage boosts in war plants. | Man Pcwer’s McNutt and his chief | sieutenant, Fowler Harper, vigorous- | ly objected to this viewpoint on the ground that universal wage freezing | would be unfair to workers in in- | dustries with sub-standard wage| scales, and would encourage pirat- ing of labor from one industry io/ another. After a long wrangle, OPA's Gilbert finally relented andw agreed to a maximum hourly in-| crease of 5 percent in certain in-| dustries, such as aircraft, where| wage scales are relatively low. INFLATION vs. WAGES However, this brought a fresh blowun. Paul Porter,, chief of the| WPB wage stabilization branch, hot-' ly broke | “I won't be a party to any phoney | collective bargaining agreement hke‘ that.” Porter adced something to the effect that Henderson and Gilbert | wanted to establish arbitrary wage ceilings without regard for wage disparities existing among key war| industrics. | Gilbert replied that all he and| Henderson wanted to do was to stop inflation. | Porter and Harper contended that | the aircraft industry wouldn't “go along” on the 5 percent increase, which taey said wasn't sufficient| inducement to stem the excdus of eircraft workers, whose average minimum pay is 60 cents an hour, (Continued on Ptseilr?(;u;)‘ ]ap Zero Flghtevrv Downed | ‘ Forced down during a raid on Port Moresby, Australian New Guinea, a Japanese Zero U. S. and Australian flyers at the base. fighter plane, top, is given a good going-over by Below is the electrical instrument panel taken from another Jap fighter skot down by & U. S. pilot. The picture is a phonephoto. 'Houses of llifame Wil Be Closed in Ketchikan; Women OrderedfoLeave WronglyHeld 40 Yrs. For the last 49 years William F. Yott, 84, has been an inmate in the Elgin, IIl, State Hospital for the Insane—but—he should have been released as sane 40 years ago, according to a report to Pro- bate Judge John F. O'Connell. 'The report came from Attorney Thomas ‘F. O'Malley, Jr., in con- nection with a hearing in the $500,000 estate of Yott's late wife, Eliza, a portion of which O'Malley was instructed to reclaim for Yott. O'Malley brought out that it was through the demands of the late Eliza that Yott was kept in the asylum. Doctars have believed Yott sane for years. Yeslerday Was Hotiest Day Here This Year The mercury climbed high of 80 degrees in Juneau yesterday, according to the U. S. Weather Bureau, the hottest day this year. The maximum temperature for last July was only 72. The all-time high stands at 89 de- grees. ———————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS to a KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 30.— The end of Ketchikan's notorious Creek Street Bordellos, once the rendezvous of the Pacific Coast rum runners in the Prohibition days, is heralded today as the women of 15 houses of illfame were given three weeks in which to pack and get out of the city. The authorities are cooperating with Federal agents and said every prostitute must leave town. Those desiring occupational training will be enrolled by the Federal Security Agency for classes in Seattle where they may learn stenography, beauty ! parlor work or cther useful occupa- tions. | Two of the women have already signed up for Seattle classes. Two other women announced they will carry on business as usual in new lccations in the Staes while | the remaining 20 women have not | decided just what they will do. The authoritles took the action | to curb venereal diseases. | It is indicated Ketchikan has been chosen as a ‘“test case” of the ! method and later the method will be appliod to all other Alaska citigs. PLANE CRASH AT TAKEOFF U.S. Army Cargo Transport . Caiches Fire - Many | Victims Burned MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 30— Ten Northwest Airlines employees were killed here this morning when |a United States Army cargo trans- \port plane crashed shortly before |8 o'clock during a takeoff. | Fire broke out when the plane | crashed and sc badly burned sever- !al bodie. that identification was not | possible. Later. however, the following lis% of those killed was released: Roy Josephson, L. D. Husby, James Painter, Robert Paulson, Wins- ton Luchua, all of St. Paul. Hubert Wiechman, W. C. Rose, L. O. Larson, First Officer Ken- neth Olson, 28, First Officer John| | Fisher, 26, all of Minneapolis. Unified Confrol Establish- | COMMANDIN | ALEUTIANS CLARIFIED Spokesman Says Joint Op- | erations Were in Ef- fect Long Ago SAYS YESTERDAY'S STORY MISLEADING | i | | ed Before June 3, Is Claim 1 SEATTLE, July 30.—The United States forces in the Aleutians, a high Thirteenth Naval Distriet authority asserted today, have been under a unified command since sometime before the Jap attack on Dutch Harbor June 3 He said that the unified command | has received “full cooperative as- nce” from both branches of the | e since the inception of a J()Ill( order by the Army Chief of Staff and the Commander-in-Chief | of the United States Fleet. The spckesman continued by say=- ing: “Reports which refer to the existing unified command in the Aleutian war zone have wrongly im- ! plied -that such a command Was | established only very recently i “The fact of the matter is that a unified command of all forces op- erating in the Western Alaskan area was established some time prior to the attack by the Japanese on Dutch Harbor. “All of the forces which success- fully repelled that attack and the | following attack on June 4 were under the sole command of a senior naval officer present in Western | Alaska “These forces, | clear in previous announcements by | the Navy Department, consisted of navy surface forces, army and navy | air units, garrisons of army troops | stationed at Dutch Harbor for its protection. ! “Similarly, all tactical operations | since then have been carried out | in the same manner in the Aleu- | tian area,” this spokesman con- tinued. ‘ | as already made | A dispatch from Washington re- ceived hy The Empire yesterday did imply that a unified command had been established only this week as | far as aircraft operations in the | Aleutians are concerned. The com- munique was from the Navy De- partment. NEWRUBBER DISCOVERED Ickes Says (;imdusiry (an | Produce 200,000 Tons Annually | WASHINGTON, Juiy: 30—Secre- |tary of the Interior Harold Ickes said today that the oil indust’y Ihas unccvered a capacity of Pro- | duction of 200,000 tons annually of Butadiene. Ickes said that this will make possible an output of 240,000 tons of synthetic rubber annually over and above *he presently projected rubber programs. “It’s brand new. Like an oil well,” he told the press ference and he said that the new production could be “prought in by the end of the year, by cor refinir | finding con- In neariy or he now has as healthy ever of his | Auonlmg to the state department in Waqmngton. President Roosevelt twice proposed to Vichy that seven French warships in Alexandria, Egypt, harbor be removed and twice the proposals were reject- ed. The rejections came in face of a warning that unless the proposals were accepted the British would be justified in ordering the warships out of port through the near-by Suez canal, and if disre- garded, in destroying the as Axis forces drove toward Alexandria, vital British naval base. vessels to prevent their falling into enemy hands. The ships, shown above, have been The proposals were made immobilized at Alexandria since the Franco-German armistice in 1940. Battle-Lme Beauty Shop 'l'hi. picture from New Caledonia Carson City, shows nurse Gertrude Morres of , having her hair washed in the good old fashioned way by Joan Douglnn (left), of Uumddphm, Pa., and Adele Bandy, of Oshkosh, Wis. The girls hold sfcond houtvnunts commissions in the Army, Be des hair washing the nurses wash their clothes and rough it as nny goldier does under the circumstances. :TE“ KILLEDIN OUTPUT | S Rumors Ihal Roosevells Health Is Bad Just Lot 0f Nazi Hooey; He's Fine INNETT | BY JA(‘K § WASHINGTON, July 30 — The rumors floating around that Presi- dent Roosevelt isn't in the best of health are a bunch of Naz hooey. | toree years of covering ‘me President’s press conferences, |1 haven’t ever seen him more fit in bpetter spirit Incidentally, a tan as he had on return from one veacetime fishing junkets. Where he got this one is a milita:y secret. OFF THE RECORD: The rubber salvage drive was the biggest dis- |version of existing gas b i;v])l)uinlment on the home front plants. He said the materia “‘ 1, he government has had to date, would be gasoline. He declined with the one over-shadowing ex- say whether he expected such program to make more rubber av fable for civilian use. —————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ception of the setbacks in the anti- inflation drive, The two things tie together. There have been so much confusion and 50 many conflicting statements about the rubber snortage that Mr. A. Citizer hasn’t taken it very ser- jously. It isn't Mr. A's fault buf it'’s pretiy unfortunate The npext big “scrap” be for copper and I do mean pen- nies. . If it becomes that neces- sary “coppers” will be made out of some sort of zinc alloy and ev- ery householder will be asked to chip in Lnose-copper ash-tr: and pans, ete. Memo to Broadway: Don't think that all *he good phrases are made on 52nd Stieet This was over- heard in a conversation betweea two buck privates in a Pennsylvania drugstore--"Oh, sure you and Johnson. Those the jackpot with a avenue krmow Olsen guys who hit wooden nickel.” (Continued on Page Six) ys, pots | of GERMANY IS BOMBED TTH NIGHT | Bnhsh Make Raid on Saar- | bruecken, Steel Center LONDON, July 30— strong force British bombers striking Ger- many fcr the seventh time in ten |nights did great damage. | last | German drive may A concentrated attack was made night on Saarbruecken, the steel manufacturing cen- ter near the French border. The British Air Ministry nounced that nine planes were in the raid an- lost -ee - AR RAIDERS - OF NALIS IN NEW ATTACK Widely Separaled Areas of England Bombed During Last Night LONDON, July 30 — Nazi air ralders attacked widely separated sreas w1 England last night, drop- ping a few bombs on the Gxemer London area for the first time blllLE June 3. The raiders stabbed at several points n tne Mldmnds and East Anglica ‘The raiders did some damage Lo the industrial center of Birmingham | again. 'MERCHANTS MAY GET COMMODITY LISTS| INVASION OF - CAUCASUS IS - MORE ACUTE (Nazis Repo_rgd fo Have 1 Cut Last Major Rail Line o Fields |EFFORTS MADE T0 ISOLATE OIL AREA | Gigantic Se@-day Battle Raging with Troops, Planes, Guns (By Associated Press) Past the barrier of Rostov, Hitler’s invasion armies are once again rac- ing in high gear toward the Caspian Sea and are reported today to have cut the last major rail line from the Caucasus oil fields to the north, Farther to the north, the Rus- slans declare today, however, that they have beaten off all Germar attempts to hammer wedges into the Soviet lines above Stalingrad. Late dispatches indicate that the Germans have found a “soft spot” in Russian defenses east of Rostov and are now exerting their main efforts to drive into and isolate the Caucasus. | Situation Acute - The situation appears to be grow- ing rapidly more acute in the north- ern Caucasus and the Russians have acknowledged fresh Nazi advances at several points. In a message from Josef Stalin to the Russian people he invoked the names of Russia's great heroes of the past as an inspiration for the present crisis, recalling such fig- | ures as Alexander Nevsky, who beat | the ancient Teutons, Mikhail Kutu- | 20v, who: sistance helped to turn Napoleon’s Russian invasion into disaster. Retreat Cut Off The German Command aserted today broadly that the Russian line of retreat to the East has been cut off at the great Don River Bend, but gave no details ‘in their dis- patches, The Red Star, Russian Army newspaper, said that in the gigantic seven-day battle raging at the Don River Bend above Stalingrad, in- volving thousands of troops, planes, field guns, tanks, the Germans have reached the eastern bank of the river in one sector but have been driven back. Pravda, official Communist news- paper, said that Germany is now throwing its last resources into its great summer offensive. > 000000000000 WEATHER REPORT ‘U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Wednesday, July 29 Maximum 80, Minimum 53 i e e e 0000000 ' TIDES TOMORROW | High tide | Low tide | High tide | Low tide 4:06 am., 10:24 am.. 4:47 am;, 10:47 a.m., 175 feet -1.9 feet 17.2 feet 08 feet i.‘DoodhbM The local War Price and Ration- ing Bosrd has on hand a number of copies of cost-of-living commodi- ties. If any merchant in Juneau wishes a copy he may obtain one by calling at the office of the Board | If you think it’s lnd catching in the Council Chambers in thel |City Hall | fish without proper bait, try win- | & - - ning a war sometime without BUY DEFE proper guns.