The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1942, Page 1

» ‘Nazis Near First Major Goal In Caucasus Lend-Lease Tanks |HARDBLOW | \ "THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - VOL. LIX., NO. 9107. “ALL THE NEWS ‘ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1942 ) § MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE ENTS JAPS ARE UNDER A GERMANS ADVANCE, OIL AREA Break Through Red Army, Defenses-Situation | Is Very Tense { MOSCOW, Aug. 8.—German col- umns are today smashing at ap- proaches to the Maikop oil fields, the first major goal in the Cau-| casus drive, from the northeast, after a break through the Red Army defenses. The “situation is very tense” ac- | [ cording to front, line dispatches said the newspaper, Red Star. | The Soviet defenders are making a heroic but ynsuccessful attempt | to stem the Nazi tide in the loup on the Kuban River above the Mai- kop oil fields in the Armavir area east of Krasnodar. HGHT OFF FOR SOUTH { "Passengers leaving” Jufiedu south- bound on a steamer early today were R. Kirk for Vancouver and, for . Seattle, C. Fox, Mrs. C. Bates, A. A. Crosby, A. C. Johansen, M. A. Martin, C. O. Johnston, H. Coker. D e e o CONWAYS GO HOME J. J. Conway and wife left late yesterday atcernoon by plane for Sitka after visiting here several days. Mr. Conway is Union oil representative at Sitka and also as large property holder. The Washingiuni Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Eighteen months ago one of the biggest backstage fights in the Administration was whether to build more steel mills. The business-as-usual boys argued that we had enough steel, that after the war we would be over- produced, that the United States already was the greatest steel- . making nation in the world. Some of the so-called Brain Trusters took a different view. Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin plus Ad-' miral Emory Land demanded that more steel ‘mills be built immed- iately. Finally they won a partial | victory. One of the fighters for more steel production was far-sighted Senator Joe O'Mahoney of Wyo- ming, who on July 23, 1941 went on record with a warning which the $1 men laughed at—that raw material shortages would drasti- cally . handigap war production. Senator O'Mahoney also argued that big steel mills, covering acres of ground and in themselves using up tons of steel for construetion, were not the solution. Instead he proposed sponge iron furnaces which he contended were much| smaller, more efficient, and could be built at the mouth of the iron mines. O'Mahoney pointed out that in the Rocky Mountain states were mountains of iron ore untouched, partly because the big steel com- panfes of the east did not want competition to get started in the west. ! “O'Mahoney kept hammering this thesis until finally he has wiggled out of Congress a meager appro-, priation of $600,000 to set up two| pilot plants, one at the Umver-‘i sity of Wyoming, the other in| Missouri, to try out western ore in | sponge iron plants, ‘The experiment will be woefully small, but at least it is a begin- ning—which may revolutionize the Continued on Page Four) ST ——— e — Australia has received its first quota of lend-lease tanks, M-3's, mediums and Australia Gets Its Quota of 3 e lights, from the U. S. American instructors have been assigned to train erews to man these newly-acquired tanks. The crew members are mostly experienced men who saw service in Libya and Malaya. The boys down under call ouz tanks “honeys.” 7A Biaéting Messééé forrl‘—litlet o Exprea_:ing the sentiments of his shipmates and millions of others, a determined Coast Guardsman puts his message on the depth charge he is ready to drop overside to blast another Axis submarine out of action, This took place while the Coast Guard boat was on patrol duty in the North Atlantic. GAME BILL FOR ALASKA INTRODUCED Dimond Offers Resolufion Giving Soldiers Privileges WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Soldiers stationed in Alaska would enjoy low- rate hunting and fishing privileges after having been in the Territory a year, under legislation introduced in the House by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. House Resolution 7472 would pro- vide the soldiers with a residential three-dollar rate, and would also extend the special rates to nationals not eligible for citizenship, such as Filipinos, and provide that aliens who have taken out their first pap- ers be considered as residents for the purpose of issuing licenses. FISHING SEASON IS EXTENDED FOR SOUTH HUGE CARGO PLANES MAY CROSS SEAS Aircraft Industrialists Say Big Ships May Be - Built Now LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8—Gigan- tic cargo planes capable of the 1158 Tiansporting ofroops across the Atlantic out of the rcach of .urking subs, ave not visions of the .uture but ‘may ‘oon Aecome an actuality ta quantity production. Even greater ships with a cap- wcity of 400 soldiers will be able to span the Atlantic in from 10 to 12 hours and have passed the speculative stage to a point where the industry could begin construc- tion. These statements were 1ssued last night by Tom Girdler, chairman of the Board of Consolidated Aircraft, and Maj. Reuben Fleet, the com- pany’s founder, as they told the SIDE OF PENINSULA ination in radic talks that the in- di ustry is prepared to tackle the The U. S. Fish fl;ld Wildlife Serv- |heavy transport problem. ice office in Juneau announced today that an extension of the salmon fishing season has been granted for the south side of the Alaska Peninsula. The deadline has been extended from August 10 until é p. m. on August 15. l i SITKA MAN ENROUTE TO CAA TRAINING John Ebing, in Juneau from Sitka on his way South to enter a Civil Aeronautics training school, is stay- ing at the Baranof. PICTURE Produdionfifiing Behind for Great War Materials Needed, Says OWI WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—A gloomy _PAINTED"U. 5..FORCE | STRUCK AT . JAPANESE Mlied Airmen Smash at Airbases North of Australia Mac ARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Aug—Strik-| fng the mightiest blow yet on Jap! held Rabaul, Allied airmen unload- | ed 15 tons of bombs on the New Britain naval base and also/ churned up destruction at Lae, New Guinea with 2,000-pound de- | molition bombs. | Seven of 20 challenging Jap zero| fighters are reported to have been | Allied plane was lost in the daring | |destructive assault aimed at the | Vunakanau airdrome, the main! |enemy air base in New Britain. DI- rect hits were scored. | CANTONTS | AR RAIDED, Japanese Planes Are Shof| | Down - Others De- | . stroyedonGround | CHUNGKING, Aug. 8.— United picture’of the American war effort States Army planes raided the to date was laid before the Nation Canton area again this morning today in a warning from the Of- fice of War Information that mat- erials are failing to reach the fight- ing fronts in time and volume needed to win the war. Reviewing the Military produc- Jdon situation, the Office of War Information asserts that the oul- put of fighting pplanes, tanks, most types of artillery and also naval vessels, fell behind schedule in Juneau. The review expresses doubt that “all of us realize how hard we are going to have to work to win his war.” NIPPONS, SOVIETS INFIGHT Congressman Magnuson, Coming to Alaska, Re- veals Information SEATTLE, Aug. 8.—Japan and Russia has been at war for some time and the Japs have already sunk several Russian ships in the Pacific according to “common knowledge,” Washington’s Repre- sentative Warren G. Magnuson said jon arrival here to join a Congres- sional party on a trip to Alaska to inspect Alaska defenses. Congressman Magnuson said the Japs justify the sinkings on the grounds the Soviet vessels carry American war materials. “War between Russia and Japan started when the Japs began strengthening their forces in Man- churia and then when they seized Attu and Kiska,” said Magnuson Magnuson is a member of the House Naval Affairs Committee and until recently was on active duty as Lieutenant Commander in the i Navy, i Bus and streetear ticket stubs are being saved by British people and contributed to the paper salvage campaign, and shot down two Jap planes ulsn‘ destroyed several more on the| ground. This is according to an announce- ment by Lieut. Gen, Stilwell's head- quarters. It is also announced that sti'i another aircraft :s listed as prob-| ably downed. i The raid was the second in there in three days. Thursday the Am-| erican airmen are credited with| officially destroyinz 10 grounded planes with no losses to them-| selves. INDIA VOTES YES ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Gandhi Supporfed by All| But 13 of 360 Party Representatives BOMBAY, Aug. 8.—Almost solidly | backed by the All-India Congress Party, wizened little Mohandas | Gandhi won authorization today to | lead a wartime Civil Disobedience | campaign for ence. Only 13 dissidents voted at the convention of 360 committeemen | who agreed to adopt his “Britain | must quit India” resolution after the passive generalissimo had appealed | to America to act “while there is yet time” to align the Indian people on the Allied side in the war. | G @ TIDES TOMORROW High tide 0:00 a.m.,, 14.8 feet | Low tide 6:29 am., 0.6 feet High tide 12:59 p.m., 13.7 feet Low tide 6:35 pm., 40 feet Tides Monday | High tide 0:43 a.m., 156 feet | Low tide 7:08 am., -03 feet | High tide 1:34 pm., 146 feet Low tide 7:15 pm., 32 feet | o SN L s i | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS national independ- | # T SR, EXTRA SIK SABOTEURS ARE EXECUTED IN CHAIR: TWO GO TO PRISON BULLETIN—WASHINGTON. Aug. 8.—The White House announced this afternoon that six of the*eight saboteurs H:\‘ {shot ‘dowa over Rabaul and one were executed in the electric chair at noon today. The lives of two of the saboteurs were spared. Ernest Burgen was given life in prison at hard labor. George Dasch was sentenced to 30 years at hard labor. The statement said the prison terms were granted rather than death “because of their assistance to the Government of the United States in conviction of the others. The six who paid the death penalty came to the United States in Nazi U-boats to burn and blast vital war instal< tions. They: were electrocuted in the Distriet of Columbia jail 2t “noon toda¥" ‘The” executions were ‘carried out- 4 month 1o the day after the Military Commission began trying the Nazi agents on espionage and sabotage charges. The eight Nazis came equipped with explosives and other materials for incendiarism, four of them landing in Florida, and four at Long Island. The White House announcement said that the President had completed his review of the findings and the sentences passed by the Military Commission and had approved them. The unanimous recommendation of the Commission was concurred in by Attorney General Francis Biddle and the Judge Advocate General. These officials also concurred in the recommendation that two of the accused be imprisoned. The records in all of the cases will be sealed until the end of the war, The six who were etectrocuted were Edward John Kerling, Herbert Hans Haupt, Richard Quiren Werner, Theil Her- man, Otto Neubauer and Henry Harm Heinck. . Earlier in the day, the arrival of the District of Columhi:l' Corcner Magruder MacDonald at the closely guarded jail | holding the eight prisoners furnished newsmen with new | evidence that all or a number of the Nazis would seon pay the death penalt, Traffic Cop Needed Fire base was a pretty congested spot during a recent New York Yankee-Cleveland Indian game at Yankee Stadium. Roy Weatherly, Indian outfielder, races over the bag, looking questioningly at Ugpire Joe Rue but Roy has been put out by Buddy Hassett, Yank first sacker, who took Roy's grounder and beat him to the cushion. Pitcher Ernie Bonham, No, 20, thinking he'd take the throw from Buddy, has come over to execute an adagio step walting for the ball he didn’t get. ) ke anss i ACK IN ALEUTIANS NAVY HINTS LARGE SCALE FORCES USED |Both Air and Surface Unifs | Are Carrying Fight fo Invaders BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Heavy attacks by Unit- | ed States naval forces against Jap installations in the Aleutian Islands, and also in the Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pa- cific were announced by ‘the Navy Department this after- noon, Air and surface forces have joined in the assgult on the | southeastern part of the Solo- mon Islands. The Navy emphasized that these attacks are in “force,” and stated that the battle Is con- tinuing, indicating that large scale operations are being thrown against the invaders in both areas. Referring to the Aleutians where the enemy has landed on three islands, the Navy said that our forces have bombarded enemy ships and shore estab- lishments at Kiska Island and stated - that_surface units also are playing a major part in the assault. This was 4he-first announce- ment hinting of any large scale attack by both surface and air units agaist the Japs in the Aleutians. Although no additional in- formation was given out by the Navy, further news of the battles is expected momentarily. JAPSPAYING FOR ALASKA OCCUPATION Navy Oflici—aTSays Aleu- tian Invaders to Have More Losses SANTA MONICA, Aug. 8. — The Japs paid heavily for their oceupa- tion of Attu and Kiska islands in the Aleutians, says Artemus Cates, Assistant Navy Secretary for 'Air, and they’re going to pay more. He told a press conference here that the Japs “have lost heavily in ships and men to date and we hepe to believe that their losses will be even .greater. I'm putting myself out o a limb when I say that,” he o concluded, Gates is making a tour inspecting West Coast ‘plane plants. STARTRIOT N JAPANESE PRISONCAMP 1200 Military Police Called [ Outin California Disturbance LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8.—Two | hundred military policemen were called inside of a Jap assembly |camp at Santa Anita Tuesday to quell a disturbance, the Wartime Control Administration disclosed | today. One of the Jap evacllees appar- |ently was suspected of being an in- former and was set upon and {beaten by a huge crowd of Japs | before being fand taken to a hospital, the an- rescued by soldiers nouncement said. ‘The center now contains 19,000 Japanese. REEP FROR 1