The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9117. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SMASHING RAID STAGED BY COMMANDOS 4 (4 O GERMANS HELD AS HOSTAGES Brazilian Government Takes Speedy Action Over Torpedoing SIXTH CRAFT SENT | DOWN CALLS FOR ACT | Nazi Nationals on Ex- change Ships fo Be Taken in Custody RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 20.—All| Germans, except diplomats, who | have embarked on exchange ships| at Bage Cuyaba, have been ordered | held as hostages by Executive Or-| der of President Vargas. | The order came shortly after official reports of the sinking of the sixth Brazilian ship in recent days was announced. The ships, already filled wi',h‘ German Nationals, were ready to| sail for Lisbon in exchange with | Brazilian Nationals. % The voyages were postponed ear- | lier in the week when a crisis arose | over the sinking of* five Brazilian | ships by Axis submarines in which | it was claimed that perhaps 600 persons, including Brazilian troops, were U-boat victims. The sixth sinking announced to- day was the coasta] steamer Jacy, sunk a few miles off the northeast coast after all aboard had been ordered to lifeboats by the com- mander of the submarine, | — e The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | | WASHINGTON—Behind the Jus- | tice Department's decision to place‘ before a grand jury the case of the Chicago Tribune and its cor- respondent Stanley Johnston for alleged revelation of war secrets (4 & First picture & 04 4 ne Third Of Nazi Air Defense Wrecked F.D.R. Godfather for Prince [SOVIET ARMY of the Duke of Kent's infant son, Prince Gcorge‘ of Kent, born July 4 ‘and christened Michael George Charles Franklin (the last name in honor of President Roosevelt, ene of his god- fathers) is shown above. The Duchess of Kent holds her child as the proud father stands behind her. In back is the duke's brother, King George of Great Britain, and front, the Dowager Queen Mary. The Kents now have three children, two sons and a daughter. This is a radiophoto from London. FREEDOM OF PRESS ONCE MORE UPHELD No Indictment Will Be Re- furned Against Three Papers for Article CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 20—William Mitchell, Special Assistant Attorney Nelson will - "Get Tough’ On Priority {To Give ReM Powers for Quickie Rafings to Forestall Shutdowns WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 — Posi- { tive, prompt action to forestall any is a story which goes back to Dec.| General, announces no indictment war production shutdowns due to 5, 1941, two days before Pear] Har-|Will be returned by the Federal lack of materials appears immin- bor, | Grand Jury that investigated the ent as Donald M. Nelson today en- At that time, the Tribune L‘ml‘pubncanon of allegedly confidential unciated a “get tough” policy. naval information by the Chicago The War Production Chief is ex- they intend to violate the maximum Tribune, New York Daily News and | pected to give his regional directors rent regulations.” | associated newspapers, the New York Daily News and Washmgcon: Times-Herald, published a sensa-| tional story about secret war plans of the United States to build np, an army of 10,000,000 men. The| story was documented by confi- | dential memos exchanged between| the President and his Secretaries | of War and Navy. Obviously the, Tribune had got hold of one of| the most important war secrets of | the United States, Some members of the Adminis- tration urged prosecution of the Tribune, but Pearl Harbor came two days later, and the matter was dropped in the hope that war| would unite all factions of the na- tion. After the battle of Midway, how- ever, the Chicago Tribune, New York News and Washington Times- Herald published a story written by Stanley Johnston which stated that the U. S. Navy knew in ad-| vance the complete strength of the Japanese fleet and the fact that it was headed for Midway Island. PUBLISHED EXACT INFORMATTION The Tribune story even pub- lished the exact number of Jap ships and gave their names. Ostensibly, the Navy’s possession of this advance information was due to superior intelligence work. Publication of the story was em- barrassing to the Navy. Advance information regarding the enemy is priceless in wartime and this par- ticular information had permitted | (Continued on Page Four) Washington Times-Herald. 1t is another incident in which the freedom of the press is upheld and also a direct smash at the present nefarious censorship in an attempt to throttle the newspapers in publishing news. (Read today’s Washington Merry- Go-Round in The Empire to get the background of the above case.) EVACUATION OF ALIENS IS STOPPED \Western Defense Com- mand Will Live Germans and Italians on Coast SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.—The Western Defense Command has an- make further mass evacuation of the Pacific military area, except ‘| “dangerous or potentially dangerous persons.” This statement appeared to indi- cate that no effort will be made to move German and Ifalian nationals collectively from the coastal strip. —,—— BUY DEFENSE -BONDS power to issue “quickie” priority ratings to provide needed small | quantities of materials or parts. Thus holders of War contracts, | threatened with a stoppage of out-| . put because of the interruption of| ithe flow materials or breakdown |of machinery could readily obtain | | materials they need to keep going.| { “From now on anyone who crosses imy path is going to have his head| | taken off,” Nelson said in discus-| |sing statements from Congressional land other sources that WPB is mis- 1 handling its job. TRAVEL CONTROL SUGGESTIONS OF L OFC. AIRED President Chares W. Carter today read a lettér received from the office | | of Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commander | lof the Western Defense Command, | |saying that the Chamber’s resolu-| tion concerning the Civilian Traffic | Control office had been received and‘ that the suggestions offered will re- Inounced that it does not intend to | ceive full attention. | The Chamber members voted to| | enemy aliens and other groups from accept a publicity project recom-| mended by the Executive Board. Guests included Capt. George | Mack, and Lieut. A. E. Murphy, U. S. Army, and Carl Danielsen. Both Army representatives spoke briefly and Wellman Holbrook, As- sistant Regional Forester, spoke | briefly on his recent trip to Ket- ich&an. S L4 ON OFFENSE MANY FRONTS Bafllefronlifi)akhes List | Four Key Central Russian Fronts (By Associated Press) The Red Army has taken the in- itiative in the battles developing along four key dentral Russian fronts along a 400-mile stretch from Bryansk to Lake Ilmen, while they continue to hold doggedly beiore Stalingrad in the Caucasus. Battlefront dispatches reporting the centers of the Russian attack, listed the Bryansk front, 210 miles southwest of Moscow, a salient 130 miles west of Moscow, the Vyazma area, and the Kalinin-Rzhev salient, 130 miles northwest of the capital, as well as the Lake Ilmen front, south of Leningrad. This is the first specific mention of Red Army offensives on these fronts in Russian dispatches, al- though German communiques for | days have told of desperate resist- ance there by Nazi forces hurled onto the defensive now by the strong new Soviet attacks. LANDLORDS ARE FACING GOVT. ACTION OPA Says Maximum Rent- al Regulations Will Be Enforced WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The Office of Price Administration to-| day served notice on landlords in defense rental areas the Govern-| ment is prepared to control =l sales and rentals of dwellings, if necessary, to force compliance with | rent céilings. | Paul Porter, Deputy OPA Ad-| ministrator in charge of rents, said | his office is facing a “serious en- forcement problem because sales are now being made by landlords on conditions that plainly indicate ———ev—— (LASS 1B MEN TO BE INDUCTED Army Is fo Take Men of Slight Physical Defect (lassification } WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—Select-| ive/ service registrants, rated as | having minor physical defects, of-| ficially became eligible today for military service with the elimina- tion of the 1-B classification as the| Selective Service System announced | the abolishment of the “limited service’ ’class. The Army is nearing the exhaus- tion of 1-A registrants and recently| called for induction men of the 1-8‘\ group. Consequently, the reclassifi-| cation of the men in this group will begin Sept. 1 and be completed by Jan. 1. They will be rated either in the 1-A group as being free from any known physical defect, or will| be placed in class 4-F, comprising| those totally unfit for service ‘ > | Wilbur Irving was a soul)mrmnrl! airplane passenger for Seattle, today. ] | n 04 o L4 S L4 04 & ( X Director Oveta Culp Hebby (right), Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, congratulates Rose L. Wagner, Los Angeles, company commander of auxiliaries judged best in a WAAC review at Fort Des Moines, Ia. Platoon commanders directly behind Miss Wagner are (left to right) Clare Pirie,"Ruth Ihle, Caroline Hennicke, all U.S. Fliers Cycle Air_v Base oo ) A\ RAIDS ON JAP SHIPS | Atfack War Vessels in Northern Solomons- Cruiser Lost to L Yo gk R GENERAL MacARTHUR'S| HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Aug. 20. — Allied planes nuacked{ Japanese warships in the northern Solomons yesterday in support of United States invasion forces in the southeast of the islands. The loss of the 10,000-ton Aus-| tralian cruiser Canberra was offic- ially disclosed in today’s commun- ique. The Canberra was apparently sunk in the first stages of the Allied invasion. Of her complement tof 816, 74 men are missing and be- lieved killed while ten died from wounds. ,Capt. Frank Getting is included among this list of fatally wounded. GOVERNMENT All Federal Workers TO ALLOCATE MEATSUPPLY Not Overworked; One - Parasile Gives DopejPrice Ceilings, Rz:gional‘ Distribution Arranged to Prevent Rationing found — hundreds of them. They are no', the ones that the Presi- WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 — Gov- dent was talking about, however, ernment allocation of meat supplies |when he suggested some months | to adjust inequalities of dxstrlbuuuu‘\ Gaby E. Lampkey, Todd Filipino|ago that the capital parasites in various regions of the country,| arrested yesterday in connection'should get out of town to relieve has been recommended by the Food with the shooting and wounding of | congestion. | Requirements Committee of the Jose Urate, also a Filipino chn-| They are not ones that many war Production Board ery warker of Todd, was charged | government officials would talk| The Committee also directed the| today with assault with intent to|about, if you can take the word cgpa to proceed as rapidly as pos- kill. |of a young lady employed here. gple in organizing procedures for The complaint was filed by U. 8, | Abd incidentally the youn€ 1ady|p,yoning meats with the under- Deputy Marshal Sid Thompson who | UPsets the oft-repeated plaint that gq,qing tnay such rationing will| investigated the case with the aid ALL federal war workers are over-|, . applied in the future “only in of & special agent of the Federal|¥orked |case of allocation by the Govern- Bureau of Investigation. Urate was j,,,(.m of meat purchases among wounded in the left wrist and| when Jerry Klutz, The Wash- packers, and the adjustment of band, and was brought to Juneau ington Post authority on federal price ceilings combined with re-| for medical treatment irmploy(*s and their activities, went gional allocation shouldn't solve the - on vacation, he asked some of the problems of equitable distribution. To make her home in Seattle, persons he writes for and nhouti Mrs, John Alstead was a passenger to fill in for him. An employe [ a mile-long strip of tarmac to a landing fleld are these U. S. fliers. They are members of U. S. bomber crews who fly the giant flying fortresses. While waiting for word to part e in the aerial offensive against Germany !nd German-held territory, they take their planes aloft regularly of practice bombing flights. Pictured cyeling dow) somewhere in I “TT — Those | ave been FILE CHARGE IN - SHOOTING CASE BY JACK STINNI WASHINGON, Aug. 20 Washington parasites | e, 04 L4 4 DIEPPE LIES SHELL TORN, SMOULDERING 191 German Planes Shot - Down, Damaged in Onslaught NEW HUGE ATTACKS MAY FOLLOW SOON Enemy Ne\a&pers Claim Big Vidory fo Calm People (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The secrets of Germany's anti-invasion coastal defenses are now being studied by the Allied Command amid predic- tions that titamic new blows will fall soon on the jittery Nazis. In the wake of yesterday's history making attack on Dieppe, as the first- fruits of in the furiods mine-hour as- sault, SMOKING RUINS Dieppe itself, once a famous spa, (summer resort), has been transformed by the Germans into a bastion of anti-aircraft defense, but I now lying in charred, shell-torn ruins. Eyewitness stories reaching Vichy by telephone said that fierce hand-to-hand fighting raged in the streets of flaming Dieppe under a rain of Brit- ish artillery fire, Civilian estimates placed at 10,000 the number of raiders striking from the sea in a huge wave along the 12 miles of coastline near and in Dieppe. The Allied crack troops landed in three to four hund- red small boats, accompanied by self-propelled tank scows on the fortified beaches while 13 British warships hurled shells at the Nazi defenses. BERLIN VERSION The Berlin radio claimed that~ 35 British transports stood by in reserve, ready to “get into the action as soon as the first landing wave succeeded in forming a bridgehead.” An announcement last night said that a German radio sta- tion had been wiped out and an anti-aircraft battesly de- stroyed. Descriptions reaching Viehy said that Allied beaching par- ties, including American Ran- PLANES LOST FLIERS SAFE, DIEPPE RAID | Americans [isTed for Three Probable Victories in Big Action LONDON, Aug. 20.—Eight spit- ires flown by United States pilots vere lost in the Dieppe air actions yesterday but the pilots are safe according to an announcement by the United States Army Headquar- ters. i It is also announced that prob- ably three victories were made over German Fockewulfs and one 90s by American fighters during ten - | by airplane to Seattle today. (Continued on Page Two) BUY DEFENSE STAMPS i [ 4 squadron sweeps.