The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1942, Page 1

QONGRESST LIBRARY : vjA‘%H"( TON. ONAL THE DAILY A VOL. LIX., NO. 9113. “ALL THE NEWS, ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY AUGUST 15, 1942 ASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOC IATI~ D PRESS PRIU~ TEN CENTS JAPS ADMIT U. S. MARINES IN SOLOMONS U. S. Carrier Wasp Not Fired Says Germans AMERICAN CRAFTWAS | NOTBOMBED Nazi High Command Issues | Special Communique Denying Report BULLETIN — BERLIN, Aug. 15. — The ‘German High Com- mand, in a special communique today, corrected its report of last Thursday, August 13, stating that the American aircraft car- rier Wasp was hit by six bombs, was set afire in the Mediterran- ean and was speeding for Maita. Instead, a British warship and British aircraft carrier were damaged hy bomhs. DEER SEASON T0 OPEN SEPT. 16 The grouse and ptarmigan seawn opens August 20 and closes Jahuary 21 with a daily bag limit of 10 in | the aggregate of all kinds of grouse and ptarmigan set for a day, the | Alaska Game Commission an- nounced today. .Deer aad meuntain- geat season opens September 16 and closes No- vehmber 15 with a seasonal limit of two bucks and two goats estab- lished. A complete summary of open sea= sons on game, land fur animals and birds will be announced shorly. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Rabert S, Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—It will probably be denied, but last February the Soviet - Government offered the United States all its patents, in- formation and technical experience in making synthetic rubber —and now, six months later, still has re- ceived no reply. The offer was made by Russian officials at a meeting with Will Clayton, assistant secretary of commerce and Jesse Jones' right- hand man; and with George H. Hill, Jr., vice president of Jesse's Defense Supplies Corporation. This was shortly before the fall of the Dutch East Indies, but when its fall appeared imminent. Russia, realizing the danger to our rubber sources, and being then the biggest synthetic rubber pro- | ducer in the world, offered its in- formation to the United States. The Soviet uses an alcohol process for synthetic rubber, which it de- | veloped, and published in its m.(;e‘ Journal, even before Germany. { However the Rubber Reserve de- | cided to use a petroleum base for rubber instead of alcohol. It clung | to that thesis umtil recently when Congress raised such a terrific furor | over discrimination against mid- west grain and contended that Jesse Jones was favoring the big| oil companies of Texas. Note: The Russians asked no- thing in return for their synthetic rubber information, but, even so, got no reply. BASEBALL DIPLOMAT “Professor” Moe Berg, one-time Big League baseball catcher, is go- ing to Latin-America as an extra-| ordinary good-will ambassador. H|s‘ diplomatic mission is almost with- out paralle] in the annals of dip- lomacy. The big ball player is being, sent by the Rockefeller Office to) improve relations between Ameri- can troops and Latin-American citizenry wherever U. 8. soldiers Wed in White House | 120 STALINGRAD THREATENED BY GERMANS Russians Fighting Desper-| ately fo Stem Nazi Advance (By Associated Press) Russia’s armies battled desper- ately today to stem the grave new; threats to Stalingrad and the vital port of Astrakhan on the Caspian | Sea while in the Caucasus, Nazi ! columns are reported to have cap-j tured the rail city of Georgievsk, | miles northwest of the rich Grozny oil fields, after a 20-mile | advance. Soviet dispatches said that the German troops are fanning out from the Kotelnikovski sector, 95 miles south of Stalingrad, in menacing drive toward Astrakhan, The Germans said earlier this week that they had captured Elista, | 100 miles below Kotelnikovski and only 1% miles from Astrakhan. Stockholm dispatches, however, Doom of Jap Warship Seen Through Periscope FIGHTING AMERICANS TAKE OVER Navy Announces Offensive Is Progressing Most Satisfactorily (By Ammhlcd Press) Japanese dispatel have ack- nowledged for the first time in the current propoganda splurge that ‘n\.- United States Marines have landed “on one of the Solomon Islands” 900 miles northeast of Australia, and that Japanese troops are engaged in fierce fighting to ward off the American seaborne invasion. 2 Meanwhile, in Washington, the Navy Department announced that the fighting Marines are “prog- ressing satisfactorily” in consoli- dating beachheads on three islands There are irndications, too, that Allied fliers have won the vital battle of superiority in the Soutdi~ west Pacific skies. Late English dispatches from were on the brighter side. reports from the Swedish -capital |said that Hitler has been obliged |to rush The | This unique picture made by a Navy photographer shows, through the periscope of an American sub, a large Japanese destroyer in its death throes. The picture was made aboard the ship which launched two torpedos into the destroyer. It is the first combat action photo taken through the periscope of an American sub- marine and the picture was made with a secret type ¢ amera. Note the rising run insignia atop gun turret, Sydney report that the Americans “have or soon will have complete control over the Tulagi Isands,” part of the Bolomon gruup. (ensorshlp I Weapon HAPPY—Harry Hopkins, aide to Pi Macy Gi resident velt, and Mrs, Louise shown arriving in Washington on the eve of their mar- riage at the White House. Hopkins and his bride, a New York social- ite and fashion writer, were joined in wedlock at the executive man- sion July 30, with only ninetecen guests, including the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, in attendance. the historic oval study con the seco been married twice befcre. It was It was the first wedding ceremony per- formed in the White House since 1918. Scene of the nuptials was in nd floor. Hopkins, a widower, had ’V[rs Gill's second mawh[c. For Atfacking Enemy, Censor Chief Reporls Troops Dream Girl That pleasant swile worn by Mary | Marlin, 17-year-old singer and | model, is there for a very good rea- son. She is reading letters from | more than 100 soldiers at Fort Mac- Arthur in California telling her | why they chose her as their official Dream Girl. The title will be for- I nally bestowed at the army post. PRINCE RUPERT HALIBUT PRICES ¢ s IHDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 15.—Byron Price, Director of the Office of Censorship, described censorship as “a necessary evil in wartime” but |declared in a speech here, that lit is a vital weapon with which we can attack and hamper enemy, but one which must be used in the American way and for mili- |tary reasons alone. | “In a democracy,” he said, “the | public is entitled to know about the tough realities of this war and | |must not be subjected to such a blackout of news as that which now pervades the totalitarian countries.” | Price’s address was given before i"‘e Indiana Bar Association. { “The binding link between the! operations of censorship and the| operations of our armed (orces, he continued, “should -never be forgotten, nor should ‘any censor {be permitted to forget that he is | }processes of war censorship and neither a guardian of private morals or a snooper into the vios lation of peacetime laws. “Every member of our staff keeps | constantly before him this basic Hn‘ihciplc. What doesn’t concern |le war doesn’t coneern ship,” he concluded. R Charlie McCarthy Is Coming | HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15—Charlie censor- the | dealing simply and solely with thef reinforcements to meet, | Russian attacks in three key secs Jors_on the, long -looping. front. |Tore Moscow and before Voronezh, | northern anchor of the Don on' (the Caucasus front, The Russians are | striking furiously at Razhev, 130 | miles northwest of Moscow, at | Vyasma, 125 miles west of the ‘Sovlet capital, at Vryansk, 210 | miles southwest of Moscow, and at |Voronezh 300 miles southeast of | Moscow. | | | ~etehings. Rep. Magnuson said to be . IEll FRENCH - TOPREPARE FOR FIGHT Moscow RaRAppeaIs fo SEATTLE, Aug. 15.—Rep. War- ren G. Magnuson returned to Se- lattle late yesterday from a five- |day Alaska visit. with a feeling that “the war situation in Alaska is serious, but not alarming.” The Representative from Wash- ington previously had been told that he would not be able to make the contemplated inspection trip after the Navy had considered the request, and the fact that Magnu- son did make the tour was not known until his return. “We don’t need to worry about People for Open In- Sufre(fiOfl SOOH a unified command,” the congress- man said. “Alaska’s got it, I found LONDON, Aug. 15—The French Navy and Army commanders even/ people have been advised via the rooming together, eating together Moscow radio “to prepare for armed and in conferences constantly. | struggle because the real fight is Should Name Commander {at hand.” “But I do wish that the Navy Moscow dispatches quoted Roger Department in Washington, D. C., Garreau, Fighting French repres- would announce who the command- | |entative now in Moscow, in m#king cr in Alaska is. To name this man | ‘T piea Mfor preparation for “open wouly phe a wonderful stimulant |t:i‘:;;|exjr$:; inpllz::ig; dePcl:Iill)l‘lE: and a morale builder,” he claimed. ' Magnuson said that when he commem jreached Alaska, a Navy task force ‘ | was ‘engaged in shelling Kiska, but |added, “we don't know exactly what dnmage was done. “Before the attack, the PBY's rly over and count the installations that are firing at them, After the| Closes Public Hearings- e Shut Doors 1o Revise House Measure 'attack, they fly over again to see if fewer installations are firing at them. They're just human tar gets,” he said. The congressman sald that he noted at every gathering of the Army and Navy on an action day,, the quesuon mainly discussed was B He said that the “military dead- WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — The Wood” in Alaska is being weeded | Senate Finance Committee wound out and “things are moving fast. jup its public hearings on the new Desk sitters and men who stand| revenue bill and prepared to take still are being passed by. What a ten-day redpite before starting a difference than when I was there work behind closed doors on ex- a year ago. [tensive revisions of the House- ap- “The Navy is using some of that hat did we do with aviation?” Avlnflon he sald was foremost in | proved measure. ingeniousness which we must ad- —————— th discussions. Weed Out Deadwood { 1 | Two men (circled) in white scramble over the connin g tower. Markings on the left and llne are P!rlseo B e Makes Alaska Trip; Reporls (ondilions Are Fine‘ Rep. Magnuson holds a lieut- enant commander’s rank in the Naval Reserve, and although being called to active duty some time ago, was relieved to continue his congressional service. NINE DEAD IN FLAMING PLANE CRASH | Army Bomber ber Goes Down U S P I I.o TS in Corn Field in Ne- braska Last Night HASTINGS, Nebraska, Aug. i5.—~ Nine officers and crew members were killed in the flaming crash last night of a multi-motored Army Air Force bomiber. ‘The bomber erashed in a corn- [field south of here. An uwesnnuon has lm-n ordered SHIP TOTAL NOW 425, EAST COAST {Three More Vessels Sunk-| Survivors Landed in Brazil Port (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Reports recelved from survivors of two British and one Norwegian- JAP CONVOY HITAGAIN ISLAND BOMBED INPACIFIC |Allied Bombers Atfack to Briish Shell Area Close fo| Prevent Reinforcements Turkey for Twelve fo Solomon Islands Minutes s GEN MacARTHUR'S HEAD- LONDON, Aug. 15.—A British Na- | | QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Aug. val squadron bombarded the Ital- | 15.—Allied heavy bombers bent on ian Island of Rhodes for 12 min-| checking the arrival of Japanese |utes last Thursday morning, setting [reinforcements to the Solomons, !many buildings afire and doing|Where United States Marines have yothe: damage. driven wedges into three enmy po- This is according to a Reuters |sitions. 'dh.pau'n received today. Yesterday, the bombers pounced Rhodes Island lies in the ex-|on a small Japanese convoy off treme eastern Mediterranean close' New Britain to the northeast. to Turkey An Allied spokesman said that the convoy is the same one which | was attacked three times on Thurs- day by airmen protecting the flank of Vice Admiral Ghormley's inva- sion forces in the Solomons. Re- sults of the attack have not besn observed because of bad weather, but Allied Airmen shot down two more escorting Japanese fighter planes and damaged three others in the latest engugemuu OUR AIRMEN IN FIGHTING OVER DESERT {Ten Axis Planes Are Shot Down in Atfack on Big Convoy e o OAIRO, Aug. 15.— Participation S"m“ (AlVERI {of United Stales Army fighter mv“ 'OR SOU'H pilots in combat over the western | \I desert ‘is announced as the British | Starr H. Calvert, President of the! - p disclose that at least 10, and prob- iSan Juan Pishing and Packing ably more A i company, arrived with Alaska ably ? Axis planes were. shof Coastal Airlines from visiting the 9°WR during the enemy attack on RHODES | HAVEDOWNED 190 NIPPONS Report of Aerial Combat for Five Seven Months | WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Lleut.| ()rn Henry H. Arnold reponeu‘ wu»duy that 1,010 American planes ' have engaged 1,459 Japanese planes in the last seven months of war-| fare and have definitely shot down | | 190 Nippon planes. This. number does not mcludv‘ n-nnny planes damaged, probably | xlesl.royed or lost on the ground, | | he said. L | | | | [ i mit the Japs are showing,” he stated. “The other day they slap- ped an ensign’s uniform on an old ship have been'landed in Brazl, company plant at Todd and left the big Mediterrancan convoy this which brings to 425 the Associated|this morning for his headquarters Week. Press tabulation of announced/in Seattle. | The American pilots went M fishing boat character at Kodiak.|sinkings of United Nations and! Mr. Calvert has completed a trip 8ction with the Royal Air Foroe Now he's telling them how to navi- | peutral ships in the western At-lnl several weeks to all cannerigs vesterday amid intersification of gate in the fog banks of the Aleu-Plantic since Pear! Harbor. Eighty-lin the Territory operated by his air fighting in this ¢vea since tians.” seven survivors were landed. company. | Thursday noon. are stationed below the Rio Grande. He will also try to boost morale among U. 8. troops.s Moe Berg is a Princeton gradu- ate, was captain and shortstop on (Continued on Page Four) | McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, ac-| companied of course, by Edgar Ber- gen, are to leave by plane Monday| Mrs. E. B. Clayton left for Sitka for Seattle and then will swing today by plane to join her husband through the stations of the Armed|who s now localed there. He was forces in Alaska and the Aleuuanl!armerly operator at the 20th Cen- Islands on an entertainment tour. tury Theatre. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Aug. 15 GOES TO SITKA —One hundred and sixteen thous- and pounds of halibut were sold here Friday at 16 and 14 cents a pound. — e BUY DEFENSE BONDS