The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1942, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LIX., NO. 9119. ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_— - /ARMY BONER, 'ALASKA WAR IS REPORTED Jap Fleet Esc_a;ed Destruc- tion in Dutch Har- ; bor Attack CHICAGO, Aug. 22—John Jnke,‘ SEATTLE, Aug. 22.—Representa- the Barber, who made millions by tive Warren G. Magnuson of the State of Washington, who recently made a flying trip to the Alaska war zone on an inspection of de- fenses, told a Seattle newspaper upofl return that the Japanese sur- NAZIS NEARTwelve Are STALINGRAD, Indided in THROWNBACK Mail Fraud Germans R;Bo—n New Ad- John Jake,anbling Bar- vances in Northwest | ber, Among Those In- Caucasus Area | volved in Swindle (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | 's Red armies ar!;(u:l;:.gmots;\er‘;:os R | his wits, including a few bucks at launching a| g series of violent counterattacks in cards from the Duke of Windsor, the battle of the Don River bend, faced today a federal indictment 40 miles northwest of Stalingrad, charging him and eleven others throwing “the Germans on the de-| { | | | | with a million dollar mail fraud fensive. on twenty-four counts. iface forces, including a carrier, Meanwhile, the invaders rushed| The indictment W’_"c_h Was re- wpich smashed at Dutch Harbor great masses of reserves into action | turned in Cedar Rapids, Towa, al-1o4))y i June, escaped possible leges that the twelve defendants swindled some 300 persons, mostly Midwesterners, of a million dollars annihilation because of a “tem- to the south of the great Volga | porary and unfortunate failure of steel city. In the Caucasus, new Soviet re- treats have been acknowledged be- low Pyatigorsk and Krasnodar, but | the Red army headquarters said| that the Russians have wiped out| the German vanguards in the hills| southeast of Pyatigorsk and have| killed a thousand Germans in a; | since | receipts transactions. | Army and Navy coordination at the time.” | Said Magnuson: “Failure on the ,part of one Army command to |interpret liberally standing naval jorders regarding enemy contact re- sulted in a delay which gave the jenemy an opportunity to remove 1939 in whiskey warehouse RAID PROVES JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1942 MARINES WIPING 0 Reds Are Launching Violent Counterattacks BRAZILNOW | Army, Navy Have fo IS AT WAR Diplomafic~R_eporis De- clare State of Bellig- erency Exists BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 22 —Argentine Foreign Minister Ens rique Ruiz Guinazu announces thaé the Brazilian ambassador has in- formed him that a state of bellig- erency exists between Brazil and the Axis. Diplomatic reports from Monti- vedeo, meanwhilc, d ‘that Brazil has declared that a state of war exists between Brazil and Germany and Italy. TREEREL PV SE SOLONS VARY WITH AXIS Check Bars, Stripes, Leaves af One Club T - The BY JACK STINN| A | i | WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 :Cupitul in Wartime: | All of the camps and induction JAPS IN SOLOMONS FDR STOPS QUIBBLING OF CHIEFS Take Problems to Him 842ENEMY * CASUALTIES " THIS WEEK \Asks that Administrators| Annihilafe Force of 700 Nippons in Landing i centers have their officers’ clubs,| 2 |their non-com clubs, and their| Ins'ead Of PUbII( | wednesday recreation centers that are the| ——— —_— | privates’ private domain, but as a WASHINGTON, Aug. 22— De-| meeting place for officers and men |claring that the heads of some ONI.Y 3‘ M‘RMB in the ranks,’ the National Press . BESTRONGER . | | , |tenant-colonel and a private el- Bomber Strength from Bri- b to e & i maneer si- | © fain Strengtened by | Americans |ting side by side at one of the |luncheons where a cabinet mem-| \ber or war production official is speaking. Club here is rapidly developing a too much, President Roosevelt to- unique niche. 1(1&)' directed that all Government | It's nothing at all to see a lieu-| Administrators refrain from public |of divergent opinions in the public SWANSEA, Wales, Aug. 22.—Air IMinister Sir Archibald Sinclair said |#n a public speech today that the \Bfitish intend to continue bomb- three-day battle south of Kras-| p 0 SS i“ " nodar. | 5 : g field | IBlE To 1 ‘The Army command was located AL the site e, Seme | within operating distance of the is col-| headquarters claimed that Ax | Japanese task force. I have infor- ing Germany in thousands of raids. | ,, tai 3 ON NEw YORK He sald that these raids will be| Oorteinly’ less infrequent in the next months| At one of the social functions, al captain, feeling a touch on his urm} and hearing a “May I break,| please?” may turn to face a corpor-‘ al with a fresh pair of stripes—and the answer is never anything but, ‘The reason for this military de- umns are striking into the North- | west Caucasus and have captured | the rail town of Krymskaya, only 20 ixfles from the Black Sea base ‘at Novorossisk, white ‘other forces dislodged Russians from fortified mountain positions. ———— WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 — War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson reported today that while muni- tions production increased 16 per- cent last month, July ran 7 per- cent behind the expected perform- ance. Nelson also said: “We must re- double our efforts if we are to make our goal by the end of the year.” The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. allen on active duty.) | effort WASHINGTON—Behind the Sol- omon Islands battle are some op- timistic naval facts, entirely aside from the announcement of victory. These facts had to be very care- fully considered even before U. S.| naval chiefs started to invade th2| Solomons. | One of these naval facts is that the Japs have suffered very se- vere losses in cruisers. Although it has escaped public notice, U. S. forces have been bumping off this fast, important type of warship with deadly regularity, so that Jap crui- ser strength is now cut at least in palf, perhaps more.* | (pressed the belief today that the| ‘Nnvy PBYs had a Japanese car- rier under continual observation, and that they were waiting for the arrival of Army land-based air- Foreign Milifary Experts » Say Full-Scale Invas- "o command, nowever, IOfl can Be Made believed its orders were not suf- | ficiently broad enough to warrant |sending out a bombing force at this BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 22.— phase of the battle without def- Foreign military specialists eX- jnite instructions. $ “As a result,” Magnuson con- Sli]e‘;ge l:;‘:‘l"ir;gg Ll;:td ao:‘ec:rl:; tinued, “the Army planes remained front could be opened in France ,on the ground, and before naval -, 'authorities could traighten the Essential to its success, these % & sources said, would be a sufficient toatter out, ShiEdess had: slinped away from observation. superiority of land based planes, ™" " adequate transport facilities and a LAter the Army did succeed in making contact, but not under as strong eiement of surprise. Published neutral descriptions of favorable circumstances as they might have found if the response the recently completed German system of channel fortifications in- had been earlier.” dicated a full-scale Allied invasion! Magnuson said that he under- would cost heavily, but stood “this particular Army com- would have a chance of advancing mand has been relieved.” to the Meuse and Rhine provided ——————— i‘,’,‘em‘iffi’:?:'; azlrxil:hbe aucwexsnethRNES,[ p ARSO“S RESIGNS POST AS K. W. MARSHALL, STAR - CITY COUNCILMAN 'Council Will Appoint New AIR LINES DIRECTOR, HERE FROM NEW YORK Member af Next Reg- ular Meefing . !mation that it was notified soon Ia(ter the Dutch Harbor attack that head office of Alaska Star Air Lines at Anchorage, and coveringl the various routes covered hy the; company, R. W. Marshall, Director| of the company is in Juneau on his Anoftier kam mevalfect 8 Luat way to his headquarters in New| After spending sometime in the Ernest Parsons last night supmitted :;f -‘l):p:hei‘l:v-eumengfi::m ,:z York City. He expects to leave his resignation as a member of the i within a short time for the south. City Council, giving as a reason his with air power what it is today, ' Alagka sStar Air Lines now op- increased business problems which this is the type of vessel they ¢an erates 27/ planes with 10 leaving necessitate “his absence from the least afford to lose. | the amport in Anchorage every|city quite often. The Council ac- On the American side of the mornine on schedule fights, Mr. cepted the resignation and deferred picture is the fact that U. S. re- Marshall said. “We have a vastly appointment of a new Councilman pairs of ships sunk or damaged increased service and thoroughly until the next regular meeting. at Pearl Harbor have been mir- cover the entire Kuskokwim, Bris-| Parsons was elected to the City aculously swift. | tol Bay, in fact practically every Council in April, 1941, and his term All this obviously was taken into part 9! Alaska except the area di- would have expired _1n April, 1943. consideration before the Umledi rectly north of Fairbanks which A new Councilman will be named to States started a major engagement S served by the Pollack AII‘WBYS,“‘fIll the unexpired term. and the offensive in the South Pac- | e declared. | Other business which came before ific. For Admiral King had to ‘'We have very ambitious plans the Council last night included a calculate -the risk of the Jap nd-;‘or the future of Alaska Star Air petition by A. 8. Glover for transfer | Lines which cannot be made public of a liquor license to F. M. Kardan- mirals rushing a large force to| at this time,” Mr. Marshall said. |off. This was approved by une the Solomon Islands. 2 - Simultaneously he also had tujm!: gehexb,m:fix:c.of le:;::;: figure the risk of a Jap attack giar Air Lines is now in Anchorage on various other vital points— from the New York office and Mr. Midway, Alaska, Hawaii, even the Marshall is concluding his annual continental United States. ijnspection trip over the company’s Top Admirals, these days, do not' routes. t;\ke chances. Not when the fate; Considerable improvement work, of a nation depends on them. including remodelling of the An- Therefore, it requires only a mathe- | chorage office and construction of matician to figure that.the scale|a new hangar is now being done of American strength in the Pacific|by Star and it is hoped to add has turned. It reached its low | DeW equipment in the near future, Council and must now await the action of the District Court. The following election officials were appointed for the September 8 general election: Precinet One—Mrs. William By- ington, Dean C. E. Rice, Mrs. Myrtle Turner, Mrs. R. L. Davlin, Mrs. Ed- win Sutton. Precinct Two — Nellie Simpkins, Mrs. Robert W. Cowling, Mrs. Fred Barragar, Mrs. George B. Rice, Mrs. Howard Button. Precinct Three—Mrs. Mae Kilroy, ebb just after Pearl Harbor, when |8ccording to Mr. Marshall. the Navy was unable to do any- o thing about the Philippines, Singa-|® ® ® ¢ ¢ ©® ¢ ¢ ¢ & ¢ ¢ o pore, or Java. | WEATHER REPORT . . But now the Battle of Midway : (U. 8. Bureau) L] Mrs. E. L. Hunter, Mrs. Gudmund Jensen, Mrs. R. H, Burns and Anna Rodenberg. foaons. . ST LA | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Temp. Friday, August 21 waii has shown that Hawall and the , \/ovimum 56, Minimum 44 o The Suez is a sea-level canal without locks, (Continued on Page Four) NOMINATICN President, Wh—o Backed Loser, Says No Worth- while Comment WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Sen- ators were split today over their comments on the significance of the nomination in New York of John Bennett, Jr., for Governor over Senator James Mead, who was supported by the President. Most of the legislators begged to be excused from commenting on the victory scored by Bennett who was backed by Jim Farley, but among those who were willing to talk on or off the record some believed that the state convention will result in increasing Farley’s political stature in the 1944 pr dential picture while others said they thought it would boomerang against Farley later. When asked in today’s confer- ence with newsmen what effect Bennett's’ nomination would have in the conduct of the war effort, the President repeated the remarks he made to Robert Patterson, Un- dersecretary of War who sought the President’s comment on the Com- mando raid on France: 5 “There is no worthwhile ment.” FOOD PRICES com- SHOOTING UP OPA Administrator Says Some Arficles to Cost More WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.— Price Administrator Leon Henderson pre- dicts that if the June 15 to July 15 rate of increase in prices is.con- tinued in foods over which the of- tic® of Price Administration has no control, it will cost housewives 30 percent more a year from now. Uncontrolled food prices rose 2.5 percent between mid-June and mid- July, Henderson reported, on top of a 48 percent increase during the month previous, compared to the increase of only .3 percent for the period from June 15 to July 15 lin food prices under OPA con- trol. — et — DIVORCE ASKED Suit has been filed in the U District Court in which Agnes Wel- come asks a divorce from Charles Welcome on the grounds of in- compatability. “because the British Royal Air FOIce | yoeraey is two-fold. At last count, has been augmented by the United | {he National Press Club roster listed | States Air Force. 73 men in the armed forces and| | The Allied bomber strength. is|they range from privates not yet | Jincreasing, he said, and already the|out of induction centers to the “zest of the German people for'Commander-in-Chief of the Army war has begun to fail." &nd “Navy. himself. 1 don't know ————————— of any case yet wheré a formr| Ehumble employe is the superior of ¢ lms former boss, but it could well happen. 1 . | Some correspondents serving| | without benefit of bars outrank | Isome of the Army, Navy and Ma- OF joNES 0“ |rine officers in length of service |as Washington newspaper men. | Another reason is that a good }many civilian newsmen here have formed the habit of dragging sol- { diers or sailors on leave up to the |club for a few beers or a steak |dinner. The effect would be ruin- Veferan Indian Office Em- 5 1 367 "2 ployee Trained Na- g five “"Army”’ z Over the 13th floor portal might |Well' be placed for the duration, SEATTLE, Aug. 22—Don Pickard ye who enter here—and check your and his wife, Ginger, former boat pars stripes, leaves and stars at operators between Dutch Harbor the door.” and Attu, who arrived in Seattle| The other afternoon, a young recently, are wondering what has para-trooper, with fuzz on his happened to their friend, C. Foster cheeks but hair on his chest, was Jones and his 47-man native holding forth on the different scn- “army” on Attu, when the Japs sations between his first apd fifth invaded the Aleutian outpost. |jumps. One of his most attentive Pickard disclosed that Jones, em- | listeners was a colonel in the field ployed by the Alaska Office of In- s dian Affairs on Attu and operator of its radio station, was drilling the | men among the natives as a little military force when the Pickards last visited the island in Aprli. HERE | ; EXPECTED ’ (Continued on Pnie 'l'l:xree) % Jones had a rifle and a shotgun in his radio station and told the Government agencies are talking debate on controversial questions. The policy asks them to slup‘ criticizing each other in such con-| troversies. l‘ Roosevelt said that such airing press is being seized upon and ex- ploited by the enemies of the Unii- ed Nations. In letters to the heads of each department agehcy, the President! said: “Disagreements either as to| fact or policy should not be pub-| licly aired, but be submitted to me ! flicting agencies. The policy of the Government should be announced by me as the responsible htaad1 by the appropriate heads of con-| KILLED IN ACTION Wreck Base on Makin Isle, Northeast of Solo- mon Group (By Associated Press) United States Marines, writing a new type of South Seas drama in Japanese blood, are credited offi- cially with wiping out two entire enemy forces in the 17-day-old bat- tle of the Solomon Islands and in- flicting heavy damage in an as- sault. on Makin Island, 1500 miles | to the northeast. Admiral Chester Nimitz, com- mander of the Pacific Fleet, an- nounced today that the Leathere ithe legend: Abandon the salute 'u'lng today that the Allies lost 3500 necks have killed 842 Japs and taken 30 prisoners. American losses bave_ been small thereof.” A S RGP S v '(HY SAYS {in the Solomons. The Devil Dogs crushed a night | attack by 700 Japs last Wednesday, 3 Soo Alll[s | killing all but 30 in savage hand- |to-hand ‘fighting, which raged [ ] | through the night until Thursday > n |afternoon. The same night, they D ED IN RAIDjnnnlmluwd an enemy force includ- {ing 92 officers and men, who re- | sisted until the last man was killed. —— Total American loss for both MGJOII'Y Are Canadlans—,gfif‘”” are 34 killed and 85 wound- 1 . | In the raid on Makin, Marines Few Fren(h K|"ed ‘nud bluejackets wrecked the enemy 1800 Caplured base and killed at least €0 Japs, S }wmldruwmg after completing their VICHY, Aug, 22— Pernand De,""‘““’"" Mnj‘or James Roosevelt, Brinon, Vichy Kepresentative m]me Frofidenty son, (ook. hetk;in this attack. Paris, told the French cabinet meet- | . DESTROY JAP' MAKIN ISLE PLANE BASE Major James Roosevelt Second in Command of paring Raid men killed and 1800 captured at; Dieppe, a majority of Canadians, and a few DeGaulle French, de/ Brinon sald. JUNEAU GIRLS, SERVICEMENTO DANCE TONIGHT Juneau girls, acting as Junior Volunteér Hostesses, will dance this evening with service men of the area as the American Women's Voluntary Services sponsor a dance in the Elks' Ballroom, donated by PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 22.—Unit- the Elks' Lodge for the purpose. ‘ Pickards that he and his army Io EAVE were going fo fight it out wich l Soo" No the Japs if they landed. The Japs!® T lIMIT.ED landed. fenators Mon C. Wallgren of “He showed me how he could Washington, who is rapidly becom- ruin the whole radio so it would|ing known as “Alaska’s Senator,” be useless to the Japs,” Pickard|and Harold Burton of Ohio, mem- said. “If they landed, he was go- bers of a Senate SBubcommittde in- ing to destroy the stores of avia- vestigating Alaskan defenses, re- tion gasoline and diesel oil.” iturned to Juneau last night after Pickard added that “he had a lot @ short trip to Sitka. They were of courage but T kind of hope that 8ccompanied on the trip to the Is- This may be the first in a series | of such dances, to which girls 16/ vears or over will be invited under | the sponsorship of a group of Ju-| neau women. i Rules generally followed through- out the country by JVH organiza- tions will be in force at the dan-e onight. Girls are expec ted to at- ed States Marines are mopping up on the Japanese in the Solomon Islands, yesterday killing 670 of an enemy force of 700 and capturing the remainder. In a communique issued by Ad- miral Chester Nimitz, Commander ot the United States Pacific Fleet, to- day, he said the action occurred after a night time attempt by the when he saw it was hopeless he didn’t fight. If he did, he’s prob-| ably dead.” | | | OHIOAN’S COMMENT ST. PARIS, Ohio, Aug. 22.—Old- land City by Gov. Ernest Gruening. The congressmen expect to make, the return trip to Seattle as soon as weather permits. Two members of the subcommitiee, Senators Al- bert ‘Happy” Chandler of Kentucky, chairman, and Rufus C. Holman of timers in this Campaign County New Mexico, already have left for village believe that if there was |the States. a chance for Mr, and Mis. Foster | Jones to evacuate Attu before the |invasion by the Japs, “Chalkey” Jones made the most of it. Letters arrived here monthly from the Jones couple until May. The relatives here heard that June 13 an amateur-radio oper- ator in Atlantic City picked up a short-wave broadcast via Califor- nia saying, “Mr. and Mrs. C. Pos- | ter Jones of Ohio, and some na- ‘W. A. BATES, KETCHIKAN 'BANKER, IS IN JUNEAU| W. A. Bates, well known banker | of Ketchikan and Sitka, arrived in | Juneau with Alaska Coastal Airlines yesterday from Sitka where he has been for several days on busniess. | He is staying at the Baranof Hotel while awaiting transportation to his tend the dance with their sponsor-|Japanese toland the 700 troops from ing hostess, and will leave with her, | Mighspowered speed boats in an ef- Each Junior Volunteer Hostess in- | fort to break through the Marines' vited to attend the dance has been |!Nes- i | Marine losses im tha fichtine ~va given a card with her name and, the name of her sponsor. 28 killed and 72 injured, During the 2 darkness, only hand to hanuu i.,..o= Non-commissioned, service men ” oyt are invited to the affair, which will ing was posmiiay bul wilty e Btale : 3 ing of day, Marines were able to start at 8:30 p. m. manenver. While one battalion held e |the front line, another battalion Io mm Iml‘" ‘wnlndrnwinz Japanese to the beach. AH"RS S(HOO[ | The action continued until late | afternoon, e |under the command of Major Gen. Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Long, who |Alexander A. Vandergrift, added an- Indian Affairs at Tuluksak, on the 'standing achievement.” Kuskokwim River, are in Juneau LA moved to the flank and drove the AI Bun"!" I“lflv Said the communique, “The Ma-~ \rines in the Solomons, who are formerly taught for the Office of |other page to their history of out= ROOSEVELT COMMANDS this week awaitimg transportation to Burnett Inlet where they will |teach the Office of Indian Affairs tives, have left Attu—whereabouts home in Ketchikan. unknown.” ; e Relatives expressed belief that| IN HOSPITAI Jones, himself, might have sent 1 the message before making a get-| Natalia St. Clair has entered the away to another of the Aleutian Government Hospital for medical | Islands. ' care. X school this year. Natives from Un- alaska will form the student body at Burnett Inlet. I Mr. and Mrs. Long came to Al- x aska from South Dakota. PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 22—Am- erican sea fighters, with Major James Roosevelt of the nation’s first family among them, belted the Japanese a crippling hit and run attack on Makin Island of the Gil- (Continued on Page Three)