The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9104. SHIP SHELLED, SUNK OFF ALASKA COASI JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ————= Nazis Claim 125 Miles Gain Below Rostov Drowning Made Pleasant GERMANS ON MARCH INTO OIL DISTRICT Use Parachute Troops and Drop Tanks Behind Russian Lines ‘ REDS SAY FIGHT | STILL 0 NORTH Navy Is SMng Hifler’s; Troops Coming from Cri- | mea fo Baftlefront ‘1 (By Associated Press) Germany’s mechanized columns thundered deeper into the Caucasus | on the road to Russia’s vast oil treasures .today, as hundreds of | Nazi parachute troops and even small air borne tanks were reported | landing behind the lines in an at- | tempt to paralyze Soviet communi- | Gérman military dispatches said that Hitler’s elite guard troops have | captured Kropotkin, 125 miles below | Rostov on the railroad and pipeune; from the Caspian Sea and have | reached the Kuban'River along a ! 60-mile front. iy LS | The Nazis say that Axis troops | are continuing “the pugsuit of de- feated Russians on a broad front.” | Soviets Sink Ships | Soviet dispatches, however, still | declared that the main 8truggle is raging far to the north of Kropotkin but gave no inkling that the Nazis had advanced so far south as the | German communiques say. | (Continued on Page Six) | The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Mpjor Robert &. Allen on active duty.) (This week’s Plastic Ring — Brass Rings abandoned for the duration—goes to Howard and David Corcoran, two undiscov- ered members of the brain trust | family.) WASHINGTON—For a long time official Washington never knew that the celebrated Tommy “the Cork™ Corcoran ever had anyone else in his family. The public spotlight which beat down on him as the; most intimate adviser of the Presi- | dent was so intent that it put every- | one else in the shadow. | Recently, however, Washingmn! has discovered two of his brothers. In fact, it has become very much aware of them. One is Howard Cororan, Assistant United States District Attorney in New York, the man primarily re- | sponsible for the wholesale arrests in the German-American Bund. For more than a year, Howard Corcoran waged an up-hill battle to round up the Bund. Other Federal officials argued that the Bund could not be touched, most of the members being American citizens. Some of “ the leaders might be arrested, but | that was all, they said. BUND’S NEMESIS Howard Corcoran, however, main- tained that the proper strategy was not to arrest the leaders and scare the others underground, but to; watch the entire organization, then | make wholesale arrests. This quiet | surveillance was carried on for more than a year, and resulted in the Idrgest arrest in our history. David Corcoran, the other brain trust brother, is fighting the Nazis in a unique manner. He has become the chief American spearhead in| routing the Nazi drug trust from | South America. i To appreciate the importance of | this, it is necessary' to know that the drug industry for years has been CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla.— an all-girl organization, The influ: | bombers BRITAIN IS BOMBED IN NIGHT RAID Nazis Send Small Force% Over Southern Cities | of Island 1 LONDON, Aug. 5—German night dropped explosives on towns in southern and southwest England and flew over other parts of Britain in raids designed to keep | the greatest number of Britons awake with the fewest number of | planes. Heavy anti-aircraft fire met the | attackers and six German bombers | were shot down. - .. b ; The draft has made no inroads on the personnel of Clearwater Beach’s popular sunburn patrol for it's x of handsome soldier and marine bathers has made the work even more interesting. The -girls also double as lifeguards and display good form—fig- uratively speaking—in both capacities. The duties of the sunburn pal toast two long on one side before red before retiring to the shade. trol are to see that bathers don’t turning over, or burn to a lobster The patrol also renders minor first aid to person suffering cuts and bruises from shells and barnacles. 'MAY ALLOW INSURANCE DEDU(TIONSi Senalor Okays Plan Re-| garding Proposed In- come Tax Bill WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—A pro- | taxable income to meet life insur-, endorsed as “sensibly sound” by Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate ‘Finance Committee. The Senator made this observa- dent of the National Association of Life Underwriters, testified that unless such a tax credit is allowed, it will become “virtually impossible” for many persons to keep life in- surance policies in force, TWENTY-TWO LEAVE FOR SOUTH PORTS south this morning were for Wran- gel, E. A. Heiss, R. S. Green and F. Chrislin; for Ketchikan, S. P. {Hull, M. M. Wood, N. A. McEach- ran, Miss H. Nahaney and P. Thompson; for Prince Rupert, J. E. Helson and F. Clark. the chief undercover organization for Nazi propaganda in Latin-Am- erica. Nazi trading salesmen, pene- 'R. W. Mosher, L. Kere, J. C. Eth- | ypjcp ridge, Archie Shiels, Mrs, Archie prench “chaudiere,” meaning “ket- SR A SR L Wl ALl (Continued on Page Four) Leaving for Vancouver were J. | Much, Mrs. J. Much, A. F. Vele, {Shiels and E. Brashears, Passengers leaving here for the! President “ ~ IsStudying Nazis’ Fale Will Take Several Days for Roosevelf fo Com- plete Review WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. — Presi- two or three days his review of the eight alleged Nazi saboteurs. The President gave over most of { yesterday to the study of the docu- ! ments handed over to him by the ed the trial. GEN. PERSHING'S SON_PROMOTED AT CEREMONIES FORT VELVOIR, Virginia, Aug. |5—Private Warren Pershing, son of Gen John J. Pershing, was to- day commissioned a Second Lieu- tenant in the Army Engineer School. Gen. George Marshall, Chief of Army Staff and other notables at- tended the commissioning of sev- eral hundred officer candidates. Gen, Pershing, now 81, was un- able to attend the commissioning PSR R s S “Chow” stems from “chowder,” in turn comes from the | tle or pot,” MOVING JAP INTERNEES 10 INLAND 12,500 Being Shiffed from | Washington and ! UNCLE SAM'S MANPOWER POOL 1Yo EXAMINATIONS FOR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND MORAL FITNESS FULL MILITARY SERVICE LIMITED MILITARY SERVICE Here is how United States manpower will be tx}neq under the new -seléetive service set-up. Figures In | black circles indicate the order in which men will be ca'led from the seven categories. The general policy, | theugh not ircnclad, is to call married men only after the supply of single men has been exhausted, but California SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. — Ad- ditional Jap relocation centers near | Eden, Idaho, and Cody, Wyoming, have been opened to receive the first detachments of Japanese evacuees from the Pacific Coast. Within a week, the Army said, the plans call for the 7,200 Japs now in the Puyallup assembly center to be moved to the Idaho camp, and the 5300 on the Los Angeles County fair grounds at Pomona to be taken | to the Wyoming center. SUBS SINK 2 VESSELS ~ OFF COAST | | | | 1’ 413 Allied Ships Now Have Gone Down in North 3 Atlantic (By Associated Press) | Fourteen men are reported miss- “ing after the sinking of two mer- { chant ships of the United Nations | by Axis submarines at the extreme posal to permit individuals to de- | dent Roosevelt said this morning ends of the sub battlefield in the duct a fixed percentage of their that he expects to complete within | North Atlantic. Ninety-five men, however, were ance premiums, pay old debts and | evidence and findings of the Mili- | rescued. The two vessels brought to buy Govenment bonds has been | tary Commission which tried the the Associated Press total of an- | nounced sinkings in these waters i since December 7 to 413. One of the ships, a United States | cargo vessel, was torpedoed early in tion after John Witherspoon, Presi- Military Commissoin which has end- | July, 200 miles off the New England coast. It went down with a loss of |10 men after 47 survivors fought | their way clear of the blazing ship. v e ee———— NAZI PLANES HIT ICELAND LIGHTHOUSE ‘ REYKJAVIK, Aug. 5.—German |planes attacked the lighthouse on 'tiny Grimsey Island. a half mile off Holmavik, on the northeast coast of Iceland, the United States |Army authorities announced today. | The lighthouse is operatec c |tirely by Icelanders and the -ezi is known as “The Claw.” DR i = BUY DEFENSE STAMPS , Labor, located lecal circumstances may vary. Three points emphasized are (1) Married men are not eligible for defer- ment unless married before December 8, 1941, and at a time when induction was not imminent; (2) the new directive does not mean a cut-off on induction of married men—many already had been classified 1A and most of these definitely will financial dependency of wife and DIVORCED FREE—Mae West, famous come- up-and-see-me-sometime star of the films, finally was granted a divorce from Frank Wallace, dan- | cer and her one time vaudeville partner, whom she secretly mar- ried at: Milwaukee, Wis., in 1911, Wallace had filed a $1,000 separate maintenancee suit against his blonde wife, but he suddenly with- drew the action and allowed Miss West to obtain the decree without contest. TOPI PEKONE REQUESTED TO CONTACT LABOR DEPT. ‘Topi Pekone is requested to con- tact the Territorial Department of in the Assembly Apartments, as soon as possible, M. J. Haas, Commissioner of La- "~ bor, stated this morning. go into the army; (3) local beards children. ( [ | [ | 1 i | | ;iNle HINTS AT BARGAIN Congress Party Outlines i Resolution for Barfer | with England | (By Associated Press) | India’s dominant party, the All- iIndia Congress Party, hinted today at a barter offer with Great Britain { | pledging that the government at the | first sign of Jap aggression would | be “wholeheartedly and unreservedly ,on the side of the United Nations” in return for immediate independ- ence. | As an alternative it was indicated there will be a mass Civil Disobedi- ence campaign among India’s 390 ! millions against British rule. Amid considerable confusion over | his intentions, Mohandas Gandhi, | powerful nationalist leader, is re- | ported to have addressed the work- ing committee of the All-India Con- gress Party for an hour and a half Dimout Oflrder'édvAIong Pacific Coast; Night Baseball foBe Stopped FORFREEDOM still must pass on the bona fide SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5—Gen. John L. DeWitt today issued an order to stop all night baseball and other night outdoor sports on | the Pacific seaboard and order:d every electric sign and theater marquee extinguished. | The order prescribes some form of shielding for virtually all other types of exterior lighting effective August 20, for the duration of the war, The proclamation creates a zone | of restricted lighting along west- | ern Washington, Oregon and Cal- ifornia, in some places 150 miles wide, which DeWitt said the pres- ent situation requires as a matter of military necessity. “Enemy armed forces have made ittacks upon United States vessels trayeling along Pacific Coastal wa‘- | ers and upon land Installations. Tt is necessary to ptovide maximum protection for war utilities, war materials and war premises lo- cated within and California against enemy at- tack by sea and air.” Shipyard lights are* ordered shielded as much as possible. »»»»» R WOODLEY PLANE ARRIVES HERE this morning after the new “barter resolution” had been placed before the committee. Civil Disobedience | Subsequently the committee draft- ed a resolution recommending that | Gandhi be given full power to lead ! civil Disobedience if British rejects !the demand for Indian independ- ence. ! The committee also adopted a 1,- | 200-word resolution demanding the “withdrawal of British power so as I to enable India to become an ally (Continued on Page Six) FROM WEST Bringing eight passengers from Anchorage, a Woodley Airways slane piloted by Don Glass arrived here last might at 6 o'clock from ‘.!he Westward. [ Incoming passengers on the plane were R. Layton, J. T. Mrs. Vera Pierce, Dallas Schmi | | Robert Eaton, Charles Bartley, Pilot Glass expected to leave this afternoon or tomorrow for the re- jturn flight, Washington, Oregon | Johnson, | AMERICAN VESSELIS SENT DOWN Japanes;'gubmarine Makes Atfack During Night on N. Pacific 'SURVIVORS ARE THEN " RAKED, MACHINE GUNS {Eight of Crewmen Die Dur- | ing Assauli-Rescue ; Finally Made | ~WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. — The | Navy Department announces that a small United States merchant ship | was shelled and sunk by an enemy | submarine in the North Pacific, sev- eral hundred miles off the West | Coast, more than two weeks ago and | survivors have landed at a West Coast port. SURVIVORS ARE UNDER { MACHINE GUN FIRE OF | JAPS; DETAILS RELATED SEATTLE, July 5.—How a Jap submarine crew machine gunned survivors of an American freighter, sinking in flames after severe shell- |ing in the North Pacfiic, is told by members of the crew evacuated recently from a hospital in Alaska. The interviews of the crew mem- bers have been approved by the Thirteenth Naval District head- quarters here. Attacked at Night Eight members of the crew died in the attack, which occurred on the night of July 14, two died from gunfire, six died from exposure on the life rafts and two were wound- ed by shell fragments. Twenty-four survivors were suf- fering from exposure when rescued after drifting from four to eight days in a lifeboat and two life rafts. The shelled vessel was a medium sized cargo ship owned by the Pacific Coast Company, commanded by Captain Christian Evenson of San Francisco. Sub Is Sighted The lookout aboard the freighter first sighted the submarine at 8 o'clock in the evening and im- mediately a report was made to Capt. Evenson. Capt. Evenson ordered a zigzag course. The sub dived, then surfaced half (Continued on Page 8ix) CARGO PLANE PRODUCTION IS ALL-OUT Gen. Arnofi,— Army Air Force Chief, Says Many Now Being Built WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. — Lieut. Gen. “Hap” Arnoid, Chief of the Army Air Forces, told a Senate Military ‘Subcommittee today that the output of eargo carrying planes |is being stepped up in an all-out program. He testified: “We believe the program now developed represents an all-out effort, taking into con- sideration the present status of tools, facilities and-riuw materials. We be- lieve it will be possible to get more tools, facilities and raw materials, but they are wot in sight at pres- ent.” He disclosed that the Army Is using some of its long range bomb- » ers for cargo transport work and W. E. Cruse and Irving Sullivan. | | said that plans are under way to divert a certain percentage of bomb-~ er construction to long range cargo planes. . i EETRAEES