The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9111. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICAN DEVIL DOGS BREAK JAP HOLD NAZIS CLAIM HUGE BATTLE CONTINUING Big American Vessel Limp- | ing Toward Malla, Germans Say RUNNING SEA FIGHT IN MEDITERRANEAN No Confirmation, Enemy’s Statements, from - | Allied Sources (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German Command an-| nounced today that the U. S. air- craft carrier Wasp has been set| afire by six direct bomb hits and is now “trying to reach Malta” as a | result of a running attack on a big Allied Mediterranean convoy by | German and Italian naval and air units. | There is no confirmation of the German claim from any Allied| source. 3 | The Wasp delivered planes at, Malta in June, however, and may be in that aréa now. The 14,000-ton carrier was com- ! | | PRETTY PRODUCER_Not only is Mapy Cortes (pro- nounced “Moppy”) from Puerto Rico 3 movie star but now she's o be & film producer as well. She will prodage a seri - cals designed for the Latin-American marke |NAZIS MASS FORCE NEAR STALINGRAD Report Capture of Elista in f March Toward Cas- pian Sea (By Associated Press) Hitler's invasion armies are re= ported today massing huge numbers of troops near the Volga steel city of Stalingrad and at the same time the German Command says other Nazi columns have captured Elista | | in the thrust more than hdlf way | across the Caucasus toward the Cas- pian Sea. Elista is the capital city of the Soviet Kalmuch Republic and lies | 230 miles southeast of Rostov, only | 175 miles from the vitally important city of Astrakhan at the Volga Delta. | The loss of Astrakhan will be a | serious blow to Russia’s riverborne |line of war supplies as the global | war exploded at peak fury on land | and sea and in the air. SENATORS . LAND IN. Islands. of musi- pleted in April, 1940, and carries a normal complement of 1,800 men, including the flying personnel. The Germans said that in addi- tion to the destruction of the Brit- ish carrier Eagle, previously claimed by the Nazis, nine freighters total- (Continued on Page rive, The Washington Merry - Go-Round - By DREW PEARSON { (Major Kobert 5. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—The cabinet room of the White House wit- nessed n'wugh-h.llflng debate the other night over the vitally im- portant question of stabilizing wages at their present level or permitting the 15 per cent in- crease recommended by the War Labor Board. | Judge Sam Rosenman, close per- sonal friend of the President, pre- sided at the meeting and did his American Fliers Sweep From English Bases in First Big Air__AIIacks Hero'’s Friend | am. Tuesday Nazi occupied “invasion” coast, 20 missions over the sea, interception flights off the coast of England. FAIRBANKS | Expected This Affernoon in Interior City fo In- spect Defenses FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 13— | genators Albert B. Chandler, Mon | C. Wallgren, Rufus C. Holman and (BY ASOSEIN ¥ ross) Harold H. Burton, members of the | United States headquarters in ' gengie Military Affairs Subcommit- | Europe announced today that during .o ¢4 jnspect Alaska defenses, were the past 48 hours, United States dia’ here . this S atternoon b‘v A% Army air fighting forces have en- tritil. BshontBe. . The art. ‘;“ tered the struggle on a large scale Bk Mn;nday Al: Azchm--l for the first time. | i b 41 b e o) age e members wi e guests O A communique states that Amer- 4 v | toan Hifers mad £ Wirties fron (07| MBI Genl Gimign B, Buckner. | 1942 BETSY RO and eight B Caption accompanying this photograph, received in New York from neutral Portugal, describes by radio from Tckyo to Berlin showing Jap troops with their rising sun flag after landing in the Aleutian B 5 $S_Joan Leslie, film star, displays the United Natlons flag she designed, with fields of red, white, blue and green. From the top of the staff ripple streamers of colors symbolizing the United Natlons. No losses are mentioned. These new actions coincided with including thrce sweeps over the | best to smooth out the differences between Leon Henderson, who flatly opposed the wage increase, and War Labor Board Chairman Will Davis, who. favored it. | Rosenman even called in Donald | Nelson to help him act as peace- | maker. Nelsan, however, cagily avoided taking sides, agreed there | was a lot to be said for both Henderson and Davis. In the end the meeting got nowhere. { Henderson didn’t budge from his, position that all wages in war in- dustries should be frozen and that' the 15 per cent increase ceiling (over the Jan. 1941, wage scale), announced by t he War Labor| Board in its steel decision, would have serious inflationary effects. 4 ‘The 15 per cent formula, the Price Administrator contended, would create $3,550,000,000 of extra spending power if universally adop- ted. With so much more money | in circulation, he said, it will be| extremely difficult to hold down; price ceilings on scarce consumer commodities. ! War Labor Board Charman Da- | vis hotly refuted this argument.| He contended that the board's for- | mula would result in not more than $300,000,000 in" increased wa- | the arrival in England of several high U. S. military officials and have aroused new speculation about an Allied offensive on a new huge ! DRESIDENT . PUTS VETO ON ACTION Coast and Geodetic Survey Men Denied Mili- | fary Status ‘ ! WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—Presi-| | dent Roosevelt today vetoed the bill | which would have authorized the | [tempm‘ary appointmenl or advanc- ment of commissioned officers in! the Coast and Geodetic Survey in | time of war or national emergency. Roosevelt noted that the measure provided that commissioned officers ' on the Survey’s active list “deemed Alyce Nelson, girl friend of John | Cullen, the U. S. Coast Guards- | man who trapped ‘he Nazi sabo- | teurs who landeC on a Long Island beach from a submarine, is shown in her Jamaica, L. I, home. (I.1.N. Phoneyphoto) TEACHERS SOON LEAVING FOR SCHOOL AT KASAAN Mr. and Mrs. David Morgan, who have been in Juneau since early RABAUL BAY Australian Hea dquarters Announces Success- ful Raid in North GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Aug. 13. — Allied bombers attacking the Japanese harbor at Rabaul, north- west of the Solomon Island actions, have left a large Japanese ship in a sinking condition. The Allied fliers also set three other ships afire, the official an- nouncement says. 930 Men of WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—A com- Eag I e Sa'e‘plete drastic reorganization of the NEWS OFFICE OF U. S. ARMY Will Cut Down on Duplica- Jion, Inconsistencies of Public Relations | Public Relation agencies of the War Department to eliminate du- plication of efforts and inconsis ges, .or spending power. This, he June following the close of the said, would not be an inflation Office of Indian Affairs School at hazard if it were coupled with ad- Tatelik, of which they were teach- ditional rationing of consumer ers will leave soon for their new to be in active military service.” He said he had been informed | that under the provision, all active commissioned men in the Survey, British Aircraft Carrier's Commander Is Among encies in “promotion” ngws is an- HAW Going Down in History as Nafion's Tie-Breakingest V.P. 'REORGANIZE o~ Cla it as one sent BOEING CORP. WOULD RUIN Treasurer of Aircraft Com- pany Says Bill Would Mean End WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. — H. E. Bowman, Treasurer of Boeing Air- | craft Cerporation, told the Senate | Pinance Committee in a faltering voice today that the pending reve- nue bill would probably *“end the existence” of the huge company. Asserting that the Boeing com- pany would have to turn over 88.75 percent of its net profits in taxes | if the bill becomes a law, Bowman said “I'm here to plead to you for the life of this company, because in | our opinion, if this tax bill is passed in its present form, it will probably end its existence. I say this in all seriousness.” Bowman testified that he was urg- ed by members of the Senate De- | fense Investigating Committee to | protest against the provisions of the » | revenue measure. | He said that because Boeing had | suffered heavy losses in the base | period of 1936 to 1939 while it was CLAIM TAXES | developing the famous Flying Fort- BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 No matter what other little niche Henry A. Wallace gets in the hall| of fame, he’ll do down as the tie- breakingest wice president this country has ever had The “ninety-seventh senator” as the V.-P, is sometmies called can vote only in case of a tie Some vice presidests have never i l | , had an opportunity to toss in their | deadlock-breaking nay. | Vice President Garner, for in-| stance, stuck around eight years with only one chance to knock the| bottom out of a tie vote. But in| some 20 months in office, Mr.' Wallace has cast his vote in the, Senate five times. That may not| be the 160-year-old record. But senate historians think it is. aye or Mr. Wallace made a very poor start as a tie-breaker. When his | resses, it could eclaim only a low | invested capital credit, that 96.06 percent of its net income would be subjected to the proposed 90 percent excess profits tax. id Bowman: “It's curious that T should be here pleading for the life of this cogpany at a time when in Seattle the company and its em- ployees are being given an Army and Navy production efficiency award.” ~—>o—— DUTCH SUB SINKS TWO JAP SHIPS Netherlands U-Boaf, East ern Waters, Announces Attack on Convoy LONDON, Aug. 13.—A Nethor- nounced by Secretary Stimson. first opportunity came last Year,jands submarine has torpedoed two he was out having lunch. It Was jap supply vessels “which must be a measure important to the admin-' o qered as total losses,” the Ne- At least 75 ¢ the more than istration, too, But the boys fixed ¢, .uande Government announced Henry L.! goods. S | HITCHED TO LIVING COSTS Davis added that the 15 per cent wage increase was equitable, in his oppinion, since it was based on the P e e | (Continued on Page Four) ' school. Mr, and Mrs. Morgan are to teach during the coming year at the Indian Affairs school at Ka- saan. whether in time of war or peace, would be eligible'to benefits to which | dependents of military personnel are 1 entitled. i | It would be different, the Presi- | dent 'said, if the majority of the Survey's functions were clearly mili- tary or naval, | | — e Sumner Welles is a distant rela- tive of President Roosevelt. Survivors Listed LONDON, Aug. 13.—The British Admiralty announced foday that 930 survivors of the torpedoed aircraft carrier Eagle have been accounted for, including Captain Mackinto-h Commander, regular War Depaprtment Bureau of Public Relgtions under Maj. Gen. Surles will be reassigned Y gy v possible to duty with the troops. l Do reconsideration saved him falling into the class with — | That from (Continued on Page Five) 100 public- relations officers of the it up. They reconsidered. And on today various arms of services and bur- the second vote,Wallace was in the s A \ b, ting with the eaus in Washington, outide of thc'chnlr. The -y PeraLlg attacked a vessels, R BUY DEFENSE BOSDS Eastern fleet, convoy of Jap supply U. S. Aircraft Carrier Wasp Reported Afire Japs Landing in Aleulian_s Says Tokyo MARINES IN | BIG VICTORY " INSOLOMONS | [Reinforcements Aid in Driving Nippons Out of Positions ' TULAGI HARBOR IS BELIEVED WON OVER \Parachute Troops Report- | edtoBeUsed as Shock Forces in Attack (By Associated Press) | American “Devil Dog” Marines | appear today to have won the first round of the seven-day-old battle | of the Solomon Islands, beating off furious Japanese counterattacks on three invasion beach-heads in the 900-mile-long island chain. A correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Commission said it is believed that the Marines, strongly reinforced, have hroken the Jap hold in the Tulagi area. “Japanese have been driven from many of their defensive positions ~after fierce hand-to-hand fighting" | the correspondent said. g Tulagi Harbor is one of the finest naval base sites of the Southwest Pacific. An unconfirmed Australian report said that American parachute troops have been used as shock forces in the assault. Dispatches from Yorkshire, Fng- land, report that the Japanese fleet has “lost control of Tulagi Harbor to the Allies’ air superiority and the Allies are now using it as a sea as well as land base.” NAVY'’S NIGHT REPORT WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. — Hard hitting United States Marines have successfully effected landings on three of the Solomon Islands in the vicinity of Tulagi, the Navy De- partment reported last night. Operations have advanced to the point where the Marines are con- solidating their positions in the face of fierce enemy resistance. The strength of the resistance is indi- cated in the Navy statement that sea forces supporting the landings have been engaged in bitter fight- ing, a fact suggesting that the Jap~ anese have rallied powerful air and surface units to the defense of their beleaguered troops. U. . BOMBERS SCORE HITS ON AXIS SHIPS American I;Ia;l;es Damage Three Warships Off Greece Coast CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 13—Amers ica’s huge bombers, swooping out of the setting sun, yesterday evening scored great damage on three Axis warships at Pylos on the west coast of Greece, The United States war birds made two direct hits on one cruiser, set a sccond afire and caused an ex- plosion on a third. A terrific ex- plosion also was caused aboard the cruiser on which the two hits were scored, and black smoke was seen to be pouring from the second cruis- er, the result of either a direct hit or a near miss. - > e 00 -. e e 00 0 0 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) ® Temp. Wednesday, Aug. 12 |® Maximum 61, Minimum 51 . Rain—46 inch leeseooseoeeoovee {