The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE " N VOL. LIX., NO. 9105. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1942 MLMB!;R ASSOC I/\TP D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LAN TO DRIVE JAPS FROM ALEUTIANS Nazi Pincer Threats Made A STALINGRAD THREATENED THREE SIDES Second Bigfiile Report- 1 ed Near Volga River Steel Center E RUSSIAN RESERVES GET INTO ACTION, Driving Back—PowerfuI German Tank Assaulls— | Caucasus Endangered | (By Associated Press) Germany’s mechanized armies | are fast closing an Octopus-like| stranglehold on the upper Cuu-" casus. | The Berlin High Command re- ports the fall of Tikhoretsk, on the Causasian railway, 90 miles south of Rostov and also reports! a new pincers threat is develophlg on the Volga River steel center of | Stalingrad. Tikhoretsk is on the smllngmd- Novorossisk Railway which termin-| atés on the Black Sea just below| Kerch Strait. Reserves In Action Soviet advices this forenoon said | Russia’s carefully saved reservcs} are going into action against the| terrific Nazi offensive and are fighting bitterly to stem the new (Continued un Pap s Six) = The Washlngiun[ Merry - Go-Round| | By DREW PEARSON l (Major Robert 5. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—One reason mil- | lions of young Americans are serv-, ing in the armed forces is to protect | our democratic right to vote. Yet,| it is an ironical fact that a grear.‘ e many men in the Army and Navy | will themselves be denied the right to vote this year because of the ob- structive antics of a group of pol- ities-as-usual boys on Capitol Hill. | A bloc of poll-tax-state Congress- | men, led by noisy Gene Cox of | Georgia, so far has been able to} prevent action on a bill sponsaredx by Representative Robert L. Ramsay ! of West Virginia, which would make ( it possible for service men to vote. | This bloc puts the poll-tax, by which 8 part of the south s disfranchised, | ahead of votes for service men. Ramsay’s bill would waive regis- tration requirements for soldiers, sailors and marines and hold special “gbsentee” elections in camps and naval bases 21 days before the regu- 1ar election. Every man in the mili- tary service, stationed in the U. S. A., would have a chance to cast his balfot. ! Rngm.mtlon is the chief stumbling block to soldier-voting because of the redtape involved in getting blanks through the mail and swear- ing to an affidavit of citizenship. Also, a number of States do not per- mit registration by mail, thus mak- ing voting impossible for many serv- ice men who have become 21 since. induction. In the last war, some States got around this by sending officials to camps to register absentee voters; but this is a costly and cumbersome | procedure. Ramsay’s bill was unanimously | approved by the House Electlon.s\ Committee and has overwhelming support in both the House and Sen- ate. But this powerful backing can’t | express itself unless the bill can be | brought up for action. Right Lhere, is where Cox ‘of Georgia and his gang got in their undercover ob- structive licks. ‘When the measure came up before the Rules Committee for a rule to; place it before the House, Cox and his close pal Representative How- ard Smith of Virginia, another Old | Guard poll-taxer, threw a monkey paitnesn Samilin, o s O RT (Continued on Page Four) -_ J o i M o b bt M AN T Closeup of Renault Plant Wreckage Left by RAF ALASKA WAR Ira"()f (0|‘|V|(|ed of How effectively the R.A.F. wrecked the Renault auto plant in Paris is shown by this photograph which nce. The factory had been turning out vast stores of war material for was smuggled out of occupied Fra ¥ workshop above before the British the Nazis. Motors, crankshafts and valves were manufactured in the bombers blasted it into a mass of twisted wreckage. IN TO A BU ' BLE_A U. S. army air force sergeant climbs into the gunner’s bubble underneath an army bom! l ber. (ampalgn Purposes HIGHWAY TO ALASKA 'MOVES ON {Under SecFary of War Says Very Good Progress Made WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.— Under Secretary® of War, Robert P. Pa‘- terson announced today that the Alaskan Highway is making “very good progress.” He also stated the anticipated. —_————-——— RALPH MIZE RETURNS FROM WRANGELL TRIP Ralph Mize, Construction Engin- eer for the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs, has returned to Juneau aner a trip to Wrangell on con- struction matters for the Office. —————— ARRIVES FROM SITKA Stanley Zuern. merchandise brok- er, arrived in Juneau this morning, —(remrnmg from a busiress trip to Sitka. (ongress Members Skip Business for | | I | that the exodus is already on. work has gone forward faster than | | tees, hoping that a few more will f { BY JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—It's go- | ing to take a heap of whip-crack-} ing to keep Congress in session until after the November elections. It may not, be ai“official vaca tion” as Senate Majority Leader Barkley hopes, but absentees will simply fofe thH#%two houses to postpone important business. The reason is, of course, the elections. The primaries in about two-thirds of the states are yet ‘o be held. They will not be cleaned | up until late September. That's going to leave only about six weeks for the general election campaign- ing. And just try to keep a Con- gressman awag from the hustings back home when he thinks his job is endangered. There are indications daily now ‘The Senate roll calls are tedious af- fairs. The clerks have to call over and over the names of.the absen- answer to their names and provide the necessary 49 for business to continue. When the supplemental defense bill came to a vote recently in the Senate, the quorum couldn't be ob- tained and the vote had to go over for a day—a contingency that probably hasn’t arisen since the defense effort started. On that day a check-up revealed that 37 " (Continued on Page Six) | people will be given an opportunity Ct ,Wilhelminao—fl he Nether- | | of the Netherlands. COUNCIL HAS Present The newly oxgnnlm Alaska war | Council, created last June under | President Roosevelt’s executive order, was in session in Juneau this morning and this afternoon in the Governor's Oifice, meeting to con- sider matters . pertaining to the defense and security of the Ter- ritory. The duty of the Council is to maintain a close liaison with mil- | tary authorities in Alaska to the | end that for the duration of the war, the conduct of Federal civil activities shall be brought into the closest possible conformity with military requirements. Under the ed the Council, the President manding officers of such forces and other military authorities shall, to the fullest extent possible, give con- sideration to civilian needs problems arising from the war situ- tation ih “Alaska:* Members of the CRIPPS SAYS NO FREEDOM FOR INDIANS British Leader Insists that| body meeting Gruening who also is the repre+ sentative of the Department of the Interior, include the following: Hugh Wade, Juneau, representing the Federal Security Agency; How- |ard Thompson, Anchorage, repre- Isenting the Department of Com- Independence Must Wait Until Later merce; Secretary of Alaska E. L. '| Bartlett, Juneau, representing the Stafford People of Alaska as an Alaskan the |Tesident; M. D. Williams, Juneau, |representing the Federal Works LONDON, Aug. 6—Sir | Cripps, whose mission to settle Indian preblem failed last spring, | declared in a statement today that |Agency; Ralph C. Vogel, Juneau, Britain intends “to preserve law and | the Department of Justice; Lieut. order” in India until the war ends. Commdr. J. 8. MacKinnon, Kodiak, After the war, he said, the Indian |liaison officer for the Navy, and !. Hobart Murphy, Anchorage, son officer for the Army. to attain self government. li ——eto— | Regional Forester B. Frank ‘Hcintzleman, who is the other | | member, representng the Depart- | | |ment of Agriculture, now is in Portland, Or egon FIRSTLADY | IRKED WITH LABORPARTY American l;FWing Group Uses Mrs. Roosevelt as Endorsement NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—In rebuke to Eugene Connolly, left wing leader of the American Labor Party, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared to- day “I do mot wish to be controlled in this country by an American group that in turn is controlled in this country by Russia and Russia’s interests.” Mrs. Roosevelt asserted that she was surprised to find another letter she had written endorsing a state- ment she believed to be made by the party as a whole had been used as a leaflet in the primary fight between the right and left wings of the party. “I do not wish you to use my name or my letter again in any publication whatsoever,” she said. AT DINNERIN WHITE HOUSE lands Is Honored by President WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.'— Presi- dent Roosevelt rose last night at a state dinner in the White House to toast the ruling Queen of the home- land of his ancestors, Wilhelmina She responded with a toast to his health as the head of a great country and to the success of its armed forces. Queen Wilhelmina is conducting her Government in Exile from a summer home on the East Coast ANTHONY KARNES IS IN ARMY AIR CORPS Anthony E. Karnes, former Com- missioner of Education in Alaska recently residing in California, has been commissioned a Captain and is in the United States Army Al ——o——— Corps. This information has been OUT_FOR I_UN(H MEET HERE 1 gl | All Representatives Except | B. F. Heintzleman | terms of the executive order which | ordered that “in connection with | the activities of the Army and Navy forces in Alaska, the com- | and |- today uhdeér Chairman Gov, Ernest | Treasontfo U.S., Goes To Gallows; Sentenced DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 6. lives of millions of our boys will Max Stephan, the first person be taken in the course of this in 159 years convicted of treason war, this court does not hesitate to the United States, was today in taking the life of one traitor sentenced in the Federal Court for the sake of the cause.” to be hanged. | Stephan was accused of aiding Judge® Tuttle directed that | Lieut. Peter Krug to escape from Stephan, German - American | this country after the German born citizen, be hanged on No- flier had fled from a Canadian vember 13 within the walls of prison camp. Krug was recap- the Federal Detention Prison at tured in San Antonio, Texas, Milan, Michigan. | He appeared before the grand Judge Tuttle, in pronouncing jury in Detroit that returned an sentence said that since “the | indictment against Stephan. @"j} | NEW YORK CHAPTER BLOOD DONOR SERVIC Turned down by all of Uncle Sam’s armed forces because he was “too big,” Dave Ballard, seven feet, seven inches tall, is doing his share for the war effort by contnbutmg a pint of blood. He is shown leaving the Red Cross donor service building In New York accompanied by Mrs. Samuel Wein, a hn-piul ltlfl' [t Silver Shlrl Leader ConvidedonEleven RUBBER IS PUT UNDER NEW GROUP President Names Commit- fee in Charge of En- fite Problem WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Assel ing that it will block the progress | of the war effort, the President| today vetoed legislation to create an independent agency to stimulate | INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. G.VWlllinm Dudley Pelley, former leader of the | Silver Shirts of America, has been and conspiracy. Pelley’s two associates, Lawrence A. Brown and Miss Marian Agnes Henderson, tried with him, were the acy. Each count carries a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment | and a maximum fine of $10,000. indictment, charging conspir- | i Ll Conway and Mrs. Conway Visit Here from Sitka the production of rubber from| To spend a short time in Juneau grain jon business and viciting with friends Simultaneously he created a| here, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Conway of ceived here by William A. He: Territorial Highway Engineer. Karnes is a veteran of World War I. While in Juneau took 1D he army gg g private. aviation. That he has been take g came to the next Council ses- into the Army and in his favoril® gion jn uniform,and told the august division, being commissioned poard: Captain, will please his score ol “If you have any meeting planned friends not only in Juneau but i1 for Fridey, count me out—I'm as- all parts of the north. signed to kitchen police all day.” | EL PASO, Tex Aug B8—City At-| torney Brooks Travis is enlisted in committee to 100k after the whole | Sitka, arrived this morning. They rubber problem. Bernard Baruch,|expect to return to their island head of the War Industries Board |home by plane late today or to- |of the first World War, is to be MOITOW chairman of the committee, named Mr. Conway is Standard Oil Com- to recommend the best program to pxnflv representative un‘l‘l 1;“ Nlcn]-l produce synthetle rubber necessary|51Ve property owner in Sitka as we: '_, y\ns former Mavor of that cny | e | (Continued on Page Six) BUY DEFENSE BONDS Counts of Sedifion convicted by a Federal Court jury | on eleven counts of criminal sedition | convicted only on count twelve of | gainst Soviets MAY WAGE - FFENSIVE IN - WESTALASKA - To Hang November 13 sexstors Coming on In- . vestigation, Issue | Statement 'MILITARY PROBERS ARRANGE ITINERARY Chandler H_a—s—Conference with DeWitt im San Francisco on Trip | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, Aug. 6. | —Members of the Senate Military | Sub-Committee charged with in- vestigating the military situation in Alaska, expect to leave tonight jor tomorrow from Spokane, Wash., |to begin the first stage of their {trip by air, | Senators Mon C. Wallgren and Harold H. Burton are awaiting the | arrival of Senator Albert B. Chand- ler following his conference in San Francisco with Gen. John L. De- | Witt regarding the itinerary before fixing the hour for departure ‘from Bpokane, 1 Bemtors “Wallgren and Burtor (are both eof the conviction that the Japs in the footholds In the Aleutians represent a “direct threat” to the North American mainland. In a joint statement they said: | “A vigorous prosecution of ad offensive to clear the Aleutians and neighboring waters of enemy con:: trol is essential to our war pro gram, TWO SUPER SPECIALIST UNITS MADE | First of Larg_e_ Number of Air-Borne Divisions | fo Be Trained WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Forma- tion of the first two of an undis- closed number of divisions of in- | fantry which can move to the battlefront by air, has been an- |nounced by Under Secretary of War Robert P.. Patterson, along with the creation of a new Ameri- | can-Canadian Force of super-spe- cialists in offensive warfare, The 82nd and 101st infantry divisions, of Camp Claiborne, Loui- |siana, will be the first air borne units to be streamlined down to {a strength of about 8,000 men. All weapons and equipment will ib" moved by planes and gliders. The new super speciaiists will be designated as the first Special Ser- vice Force, described as a unique ‘vombal unit, composed of specially qualified men skilled in all offen- sive operations, including marine |landings, mountain and desert war- € | A training camp is to be estab- lished at Helunu. Montana, FOURTEEN IN FROM SITKA THIS MORNING Passengers arriving here this morning from Sitka were Mrs. Pearl L. Clark, Joe Holifield, Capt. C. R. Culpepper, Stanley Zuern, William Willard, Miss Anna Harquell, R. G. Schild. J. J. Conway, Mrs. J. J. Conway, Mrs. V. W. Porlier, W. R. Peterson, Mrs. W. R. Peterson, Jerry Powers and W. E. Higginson,