The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 10, 1942, Page 1

/ ] Germans Claim Great Ad- ; i \ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9108. U. S. ATTACKS JAPS ON ISLAND GROUPS * JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS m—— Reds SCORCHING OLL FIELDS | - OFMAIKOP vances Along 250-mile Mountain Front STALINGRAD FIGHT DESPERATE, REPORT Russians Admit Situation Bad in Southeast | ‘0il Center (By Associated Press) 3 Dispatches telling of tremendous explosions on the Caucasus front today, indicate that the Russians are carrying out a scorched earth policy and are dynamiting the menaced Maikop oilfields, toward which powerful German tank for- ces are smashing througn the sag- ging Red Army defenses. A Russian communique said that the lines guarding the Volga have held firm under assault north- .west, and southwest of Stalingrad, but acknowledged the withdrawal close to the Maikop fields, into the jutting spurs of the Causasus foot- hills. (B (conm;z:iion- Pa;e 8ix) The Washing&m Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) ' WASHINGTON: When Lyndon _ Johnson of Texas returned from naval duty in Australia to resume his seat in Congress, the President subjected him to a three-hour cross-examination on how things were going. One of the difficulties in fight- ing the Japs, Johnson reported, was the superiority of Jap Zero planes to American fighter planes. This is due to the fact that the Japs put no armor on their planes, but risk the life of the pilot to gain speed and maneuverability. Backed A ALASKAWAR COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE 'Statement of Adions of | New Body Released s Here Today | The first meeting of the newly created Alaska War Council was | concluded in Juneau Saturday afternoon after a three-day ses- sion and results of the Council's discussion and action were made | public this morning in an an- nouncement released from the of- | fice of Gov. Ernest Gruening, chairman of the body. Among the subjects which came up for discussion are the following: 1. The delay in granting entry | to Alaskan residents and to war | project construction workers under | the civilian Traffic Control system | recently established in Seattle. | 2. The allegations that liquor was | shipped to the Territory to the j exclusion of food and other neces- | sities. 3. The securing of food supplies | for the civilian population of Alas- | 4. Competitive bidding for work- | ers between various defense agen- | cles and sprivate egntractors, en- gaged in defense construetion. 5. Censorship. Will Take Action A variety of other subjects deal- ing with the war and civilian prob- lems of Alaska also were discussed land were the subject of action by | the Council, the announcement | stated. The Council voted to take steps : > - 3 4 to speed up the action of the Se- . 2 A 3 " s | attle office handling civilian traffic GCETS MOVIE CONTRACT T _virginia Patton (above) | control to obviate needless delays | Recommendations to the Western Defense Command, as well as to [the Alaska Defense Command, urged that the sole direction of the ' traffic control be placed under an | officer familiar with conditions in | Alaska, preferably one directly re- | sponsible to the Alaska Defense | Command rather than tw the | Western Defense Commard. The of Portland, Ore., has been given a movie contract. Miss Patton, who was born in Cleveland, O., has done considerable amateur dramatic work. Here she stands by a floodlight in Hollywood. Prominénl Fairbanks ManArrested; Charged == With $5,000 Shorlage FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 10.— INDIAN MOBS, imount of the shortage is estimated | t $5,000. | Thus a Zero fighter can fly higher William N. Growden, who resigned than an American pursuit plane, as Mayor of Fairbanks and as Unit- and can maneuver -all round it. ed States Commissioner for the The warrant for Growden’s arrest | /as issued in the Federal Court | I' EA D E R l E S S 7 Once the two planes go into com- bat on the same level, American planes can make mince-meat out of the Zero, but present U. S. models cannot follow the Japs into the high altitudes. Congressman Johnson reported that a fight between a Jap Zero and a Navy PBY patrol ship (not a fighter plane) wa# like a race between a Model T Ford and a Lincoln Zephyr. Note: The Army amd Navy are now trying to develop new types of fighter planes, but the problem always is whether to sacrifice speed or armor. It is almost impossible to have both. VICE PRESIDENT’S RECREATION | On a hot August morning, when residents of the Wardman Park Hotel had fans turned on full blast, they look with surprise to see four figures come out on the tennis court. They looked a second time. It was the Vice President and a party of friends out for a set of doubles. Henry Wallace took off a pair of slacks, threw them into a cor- ner, and trotted out onto the coury in white shorts and a white sports shirt. It was 8 o'clock as the game | began. Wearing no hat or eye-shade,| and wielding the racket in his left | hang, Wallace entered into the game with the gusto of a hlgh? school boy. It was not tennis nfi professional quality, but it was‘ (Continued on Page Four) { Fairbanks, Precinct, and also as Chairman of the Selective Service Board in Fairbanks last month, is aturday afternoon and Growden} urrendered to United States Mar- hal Joe McDcnald Saturday eve- Arrest of Gandhi, Nehru ' Does Not Quell Civil ‘ Disobedience Growden is about 50 years old nd a veteran of World War No. 1. BOMBAY, Aug. 10.—The British After the wAr he was a member of | Indian govenment faces one of the he Army Signal Corps in Nome, | gravest crises in its history as this hen Sergeant of the Signal Corps | week opened, as rioting and blood- n Ruby, A_laska. He was elected | gheq which accompanied the o the Legislature from Ruby in | jaunching of the All-India Congress Jovember, 1932, and resigned from | party’s mass campaign of Civil Dis- he Signal Corps. He served in the | gbedience imperiled the whole war Territorial House of the Legislature | effort of the vast country. of 1933, 4 | Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Had Many Offices | Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as other Growden was appointed United | Indian Nationalist leaders, were ar- states Commissioner of -Fairbanks | rested within a few hours after the in 1933 after his return from the | All-Indian Congress Party adopted Legislature. A few years later he |its resolution authorizing the mass was elected a member of the Fair-icampaign as a support for its de- banks City Council and served four \mands for immediate Indian inde- years, then was elected Mayor and | pendence. was serving his third term when| Although deprived of leadership he resigned on July 31. ! by the swift arrest of Gandhi and When Growden resigned as Mayor | his chief lieutenants, the rank and he said he intended going back in | file is responding eagerly to the call the Army, in the Signal Corps. | for “do or die” resistance to British Mrs. Growden and four sons live | rule. here All sons were born in Alaska, Forgetting or ignoring Gandhi's | the eldest being 19 and the youngest ' admonitions against violence, the | 14 years of age. | mobs surged through the streets of —— | Bombay and other cities over the | R. A. WELSH MAKE SHORT | weekend, burning busses, looting | in the Federal Jail here on a sharge | aing. of being short in his accounts as Had Loaded Revolver United States Commissioner. The| At the time of his surrender Frowden gave the marshal a loaded evolver and said he wanted to be ocked up and did not intend to ive bail. Growden is to be ar- aigned sometime today. 09 PACIFIC CHIEF — The squint that comes from years at sea is notable on the-face of Ad- miral Chester W. Nimitz, com- mander-in-chief of the United States Pacific fieet, BUSINESS TRIP HERE | stores and stoning the police. { —_————— R. A. Welsh, Vice-President of thef; Production of dried milk in the Icy Stratis Salmon Company, was a | United States has been stepped up Juneau visitor over the weekend, to 350,000,000 pounds a year. Women’s Army Head Reviews New Members Mrs. Oveta Culy Hobby of Texas, head of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, is shown reviewing some of the “Wacks” at Fort Des Moines, Ia., where the women's army is in training. Some of the girls are wearing fatigue suits, others the regulation WAAC uniform. Starled; Campaign Is AIIrainng Atienfion PARENTS NOT INFORMED OF HAUPTDEATH Father, Mother of Saboteur Held in Chicago Jail for Aiding Him CHICAGO, Aug 10—The parents of Herbert Hans Haupt have not been officially informed of their son’s electrocution, it was revealed | today. They and four other Chicagoans are being held in the County Jaii here on $50,000 bail on Federal charges of aiding him. Marshal William McDonnell said that there could be no interviews with them without specific author- ization from Washington. Taughl B;’Sc.ient To Bark Commands MTIAMI BEACH, Fla., Aug. 10.— Men at the Army Air Forces Tech- nical Training Command’s replace- ment training center here are learn- ing to give orders scientifically. To save wear and tear on vocal chords in giving commands to large groups of men, authorities have set up a voice control school. Powerful voices, the school teaches, result from co- ordinated action of throat and stomach, Donald M. Nelson twiddles pencil as he testifies at Senate hearing. | By JACK | WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — The capital and the country ordinarily | take only passing notice of national | campaigns against this or for that, | | but one attracting more than super- ‘ | ficial attention locally is the “war on the seventh column’-—careless- ness and accidents. ‘ The campaign was started by an insurance company, but it is being ta up already by the govern- STINNETT | 'n | ment. metropolitan newspapers, war production plants and even some of the larger cities. | The reason is simple. The insur- | ance company gathered these facts: | carelessness now causes the loss of 460,000,000 man-hours of industrial production a year; kills more than 102,500 persons; and injures 9,000,- 000 more. Immediately it became apparent | that if this could be halved or cut a third, the savings in manpower and dollars in the war effort would be tremendous. That's why the | drive is likely to assume the pro- portions of an all-out battle. Because most accidents occur 11} the home and because these are jusi !as expensive in manpower as acci- | dents in the factory or on the high- | | way, first attention is being directed | there, with a nation-wide distribu- tfon of “warning” stickers at the danger points. A set of simple but all-inclusive first aid rule stickers ! are being prepared for pasting inside | home medicine chests. | Factory surveys are being made |with a view to placing warning signs at every danger spot. Privately sponsored poster campaigns to cau- tion workers with catch phrases that stick in the mind are being con- ducted in nearly all plants working on government war contracts, | :Cunfln;ledi on Page Six) . area under attack in which opera- War on 7th (olvumn Is | |a Senate Military Affairs Subcom- gainst Caucasus Mountains FIGHT ON SOLOMONS - ALEUTIANS [ American N—a_vy Army Air | Forces Battering on Two Fronts Today 'LAND UNITS POSSIBLY | . ENGAGED IN BATTLES Tokyo Makes Big Claims Regarding Ouicome in Both Areas (By Associated Press) United States Army and Navy | Air Forces, Navy sea vessels and | possibly land forces are engaged (LLN. Pbpnephgfo\ _|in offensive battles on two Island fronts as this week opens, in a fierce and determined effort to |recapture the Solomon Islands northeast of 'Australia, and the three Islands at the tip of the | Aleutian chain, especially Kiska. | Reports indicate that both battles ]Bre still progressing fiercely and < | that probably American landing E . parties have set foot at least in ithe Solomon group. ' ; General -~ Douglas \headquarters -in Australia today issued a communique telling of the | United States’ first powerful of- fensive of the war as it flamed into |its fourth day. Against savagely resisting Japan- in the Solomon Islands, the 1tusk forces are being supported Ly (By Associated Press) | assaults by Allied airmen on enemy Information from Admiral Ches- positions In New Guinea and the ter W. Nimitz, Commander of the‘ma"k Archipelago. The latest 1.8, Paeirtc _T?"P'; l':"vcmems' L’:' word indicates thai the initiative veals few details of e scope or the remains in the hands of the Am- erican fleet and other Allied forces and Navy on the Japanese in the Which joined the battle on Priday. Aleutians, A Japanese Imperial communique The brief statement says enemy |issued today at Tokyo asserted that ships and shore establishments at | Jappanese naval units have “beaten Neither Admiral Nimitz Nor Washington Reveals Scope, Operations tions are being pressed by the Army | Kiska Island have been bombed. No ' off a strong Naval foice which details are given regarding bomb-|appeared on August 8 in Aleutian ing of other areas. waters.” It is indicated that a major of- ' There is no confirmation from fensive is developing, however. |any source of this claim. The The ‘brief communique from | ynjted Stajes Navy announced Sa‘- Washington said: “Considerable en- | ,,.qay that a naval lorce was at- emy resistance has been t’"c"“““":““‘tm-kmq Kiska. The communique but it is too early to announce re- |y,qiqeq that there was an attack, sults 0"'“5'?"“_’{"" either our OWN |y . ihe results will probably not or enemy losses. !be known until the attacking force | returns to its base, probably in two weeks. A Domei dispatch quoting Jap- anese naval quarters said also “Am- !ericans aimed at what they con- |sidered to be the weaker link of the Jap chain of occupied territor- ies in the Solomons and Kiska.” e — COMMENT ON BATTLE IN ALEUTIANS NAVY WOMEN SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.—The attacks on the Jap forces in the M A v SE R vE Aleutians by United States naval| forces are hailed by Senator Albert | B. Chandler as possibly che begin- | IN ALASKA ning of a “grand offensive to drive | the Japs back to their home bases.” | Senator Chandler is -hairman of 'Bill Infroduced by Hawaii | Delegate to Extend Serv- REASONS FOR OCCUPATION | i(es '0 ]’errifories SEATTLE, Aug. 10.—Representa- WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Service mittee which is soon to visit Alaska on an inspection of defenses. tive Warren G. Magnuson says r.h'-t} it is generally believed in Wash- | , ington that the~Japs have occupied |y members of the Women's Naval the westernmost Aleutians for three Reserve In Hawali and Alaska will reasons, be permitted under a new bill pre- “Pirst,” he says, “because they Pared by Delegate Samuel W. King, wanted to beat us to it, knowinz Of Hawall. we would be there sooner or later s for offensive action against Japan. D - 000 v 00000000 “Secondly, because the enemy WEATHER REPORT . wanted weather information fron. e (U. 8. Bureau) ° that area. ‘. Temp. Saturday, Aug. 8 . “Last and most important reas- ® Maximun 75, Minimum 54 e on,” Rep. Magnuson concluded, “is | ® Temp. Sunday, Aug. 9 ® 50 the enemy would be able to ® Miximum 61, Minimum 52 straddle the Russian suppiy line ® @ ¢ ¢ & @ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ o o o from the American Wesc Coast.” | e - | When the Civil War broke out. The first British settlement in | only about 13,000 men were under | Australia was established at thelarm& i o i PRICE TEN CENTS - MacArthur’'s - 5