The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9120. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. RUSHES MEN, MATERIA Brazil Declares War On Axis, Ready Snow Storm Hifs Alaskan Air Base NAFION GOES COMPLETELY, WAR FOOTING Tightens Control Over En- emy Nationals-Pa- frol Shores RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug.| 24—The government moved today | to put Brazil on & full war footing, | tightening its control over German and Italian nationals and taking special precautions against a pos- sible token attack by Axis submar- ines which are known to be lurking off the long coastline, | The noisy demonstrations which had accompanied Brazil’s entry into | the war Saturday died down tdoay | as the navy and air force s'.eppedi up their off-shore patrols. The first report of Brazil's action came early Saturday morning when it was announced that a state of “pelligerency” existed between Bra- | zil and the Axis nations, This was | followed by a declaration of war. President Roosevelt cabled Presi- dent Getulio Vargas of Brazil late | Saturday that Brazil's declaration of | war against Germany and Ttaly| “has hastened the coming of the inevitable victory of freedom. over | oppression,” and added, “as brothers in arms, our soldiers and sailors will write a new page in the history fo frieidship, confidence and -coopera- tion which has marked, since the earliest days of independence, the relations between your country and mine.” e Earth Shocks A SENATORS LEAVE YESTERDAY FOR RETURNTO SOUTH Senators Mon C. Wallgren of Washington and Harold Burton of Ohio, members of a Senate Sub- committee investigating Alaskan their way to the States after visit- ing here for several days. The group, headed by Senator Al- bert “Happy’' Chandler of Kentucky.- will submit a confidential report on their findings to the Senate Military Affairs Committee. . And Family Back | From Visit South Mr. and Mrs, Curtis G. Shattuck and their small son, Alien D. Shat- tuck, returned Saturday night from Seattle where they have been vis- iting. Mr. Insurance Agency, went south about | a month ago to join Mrs. Shattuck | anY young Allen, who preceded him | to Seattle by two months. They | Recorded; Originate In Western Aleutians’ defenses, left Juneau yesterday on| Shattuck, of the “Shattuek” GERMANS IN RUSSIA NOW FACING TEST University reports that fairly severe ‘Ba"le Near Stalingrad May earth shocks have been recorded in . . ’ la northwesterly direction at a dis- | De(lde Hlflel' S 1942 Drive | tance that would place them in the | vicinity of the westernmost Aleutian | (By Associated Press) Hitler's 1942 drive to the South- fI.slands, now occupied by the Japs. | | east, which started two months ago | The first shock was recorded at | | 11:44 o'clock Saturday night, others lat Kharkov, today drew porten- tiously toward its supreme test in at 1:05 Sunday morning, continuing |the fiercely defended 50-mile cor- slightly during Sunday. | ridor between the Don and Volga | rivers at the approaches to Stalin- grad, and in the spurs of the Cau= casian Mountains 100 miles from | Grozny's precious oil fields, only 200 miles from the Caspian Sea. | Sapped by staggering losses, bub | yet to be checked, the Nazi on- lin(hwarn slaught in these two months has i rolled almost 350, miles due east and | as far as the Germans 1941 thrust | which carried them across the | e(a ure Ukraine from the Carpathian Moun- | - By Chinese tains frontier of Rumania. | The Russians acknowledge | their defenses have been bent further back northwest and south- |Second Most Important ese Base in Kiangsi Refaken CHUNGKING, Aug. 24—Chinese re | I SOME DISTURBANCE Earth currents and static in the air raised havoc with communica- tions between Seattle and Alaska all day Sunday and up to early this morning. Whether this disturbance | was caused by the earth shocks is not officially announced. appear to be making another stand | such as the one that saved Lenin- | grad and Moscow. One major test is shaping up on the east bank of the Don wheve the Germans have Wwon a new bridgehead in terrific fighting southeast of Kletskaya, perhaps no more than 50 miles from the city | named for Stalin. fully 500 miles southeast, virtually | that | east of Stalingrad where the Reds | SR A 5. > Lo > - -4 A Navy PBY patrol bomber and a “pillbox” of sandbags at an Alaskan air base are almost obscured by Such snow storms add to the difficulty of flying in the northen Alaskan and Aleutian areas vy maintains patrols against the Japs established in the western Aleutians. falling snow. where the IS LARGEST OF THIS WAR Ameri(arrfroops Are "Anxious fo Get It Over With” WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY SOMEWHERE IN GREAT BRITAIN, Aug. 24. ~—The largest American convoy ever to cross the Atlantic dur- in this present war, has ar- The convey brought vast The Convoy brought vast quantities of war materials and crack fighting units obviously eager to “get it over with” The movement with such a mass of men and material has been disclosed and gives sharp emphasis to the prospects of a second front this year. REPULSE JAP PLANE RAID, . TO BRITAIN o Fight LASTCONVOY igin Your Backyard AUSTRALIA " Russia I have been visiting Mrs. Shattuck’s forces have recaptured Linchwarn n (ampa Allies Knock Down 13 Nip- pon Ships in Dar- Willkie fo Visit China WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. — The White House announced today that Wendell Willkie will visit China as well as Russia and the Middle East on his forthcoming trip as 1 special representative for Roosevelt. The Washington, Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | (This is the second of a MER- RY-GO-ROUND series on the vital problem of combatting sub- marine warfare. The fifst dealt with the amazing Nazi intelli- gence system by which subs merely lay in wait for their vic- tims.—Ed.- WASHINGTON — Shortly after the war broke out, British shipping suffered terrific casualties from Nazi submarines. Ships were sunk with sickening rapidity. But today the " submarine menace in British waters is licked. Not a sub dares stick its nose anywhere near British shores. The British also have developed a bureau of submarine warfare which is one of thg most efficient branches of the war effort. It has used hundreds of small civillan yachts, fishing boats, airplanes — every possible weapon, working against the U-boat. In view of British success, many people have been eritical of the U. 8. Navy for not being more effective against the submarine. Doubtless some of that criticlsm is justified. On the other hand, the U. S. Navy faces a far tougher prob- lem than the British. In the first place, the British Isles are small. The area involved is not much | greater than the waters immediately adjacent to New England and the Middle Atlantic States. In contrast our submarine combat zone extends all the way to northern South Am- erica, including the islands of the Gulf and the Caribbesn. Another factor aiding the British is the shallowness of their coastal waters. You can fly over the English Channel and, for several miles out family. VICHY SENDS PROTEST OF ROUEN RAID VICRY, France, Aug. 24— The French puppet government has pro- tested to the United States against the American Navy and Air Forces raids last Monday on Rouen. PUBLIC URGED TO ATTEND GAS WARFARE MEET Tomorrow night at 7:45 o'clock a public meeting will be held in the grade school auditorium for the purpose of giving instructions as to the methods to be used in combatting gas warfare. Military experts will be on hand to give detailed information re- garding the different types of gas, methods of distinguishing them and, manner in which they can be most effectively be combatted. The meeting is called under the djrection of the Civilian Defense Council and the public is urged to attend. 0'Daniel Appears Elected DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 24¢.—Senator | W. Lee O'Daniel appears fo he as- sured of renomination by the slimest margin of ‘his whirlwind political career over former Gov. James V. Allred, who is trailing by 12,000 votes in Saturday’s runoff primary. . Mrs. Walter Wilson entered St, Ann’s Hospital yesterday for meai-| cal care. in central Kiangsi, the second most A Soviet communique sald that win Attack the Russian troops and tanks are | waging another fierce battle south- | west of Stalingrad with a German tank column which had pierced into | Russian defenses from Kotelnikov- | ski, also beyond the Don. .- RAF RETURNS OVER DIEPPE important Japanese base in that province. This is the announcement Imade by the Chinese High Com- mand. Linchwarn is on the Fu River, 60 miles southeast of Nanchang, main enemy base in the province and has | been under Chinese siege for two ;weeks. | United States Army: planes, sup- ported by Chinese ground forees, ‘were in the early phases of the siege. | Velma Bloom Is ON WEEKEND 1 Back in Juneau for the past year, has returned to tery Inadive, Few I Soldiersat Base | Juneau and will agair teach the i LONDON, Aug. 24. — Royal Air second grade in the grade school. Force Spitfires, flying at less than a | —l NE SAVINGS thousand feet, paid a return visit to | Dieppe this weekend and saw a few | o“ S H ' p p ING soldiers. They found the main| | Insurance Rate Reductions Must Be Passed On to Alaska, Says OPA WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.— Price Administrator Leon Henderson to- aay ruled that savings through the reduced war risk insurance rates recently announced by the War Shipping Administrator must e passed along through price reduc- tions to purchasers of all price controlled products in Alaska and the Virgin Islands. i New rates are substantially below | i o i e, S IS G Mawy Officers Taken After Big Com- | important part of the shipping cost, he pointed out, reduction NAZIS FEAR REPEAT NEW YORK, Aug. 24—The Ger- man High Command’s communique | today suggested that the Germans | iare fearful the United Nations will follow up the Dieppe raid by an-| other commando attack or a full-| fledged invasion, almost immed-! ] | iately. .. — CANADIANIS PRISONER OF DIEPPE RAID SANN ANTONIO Place an outline map of the United States over the t:eatre of war in Russia, with San Francisco superim- pesed on Berlin, and you get a picture of the immensity of the campaign in terms of distances and areas familiar tc Americans. Thus Denver is just west of Moscow, and the German line of advance runs roughly southeast throvzh Denver into Texas, with Stalingrad die north of San Antonio. Nazi penetration south of Rostov teward the Caucasus takes in a large porticn of Texas, and the whole conquered area corres- ponds to ahout a third of the territory between the Pacific Coast and the Mississippi River. The Urals, where the Russians would be forced if Hitler's campaign should be completely successful, stretch along the east bank of the Mississippi River. . AFLLEADER WILL VISIT INENGLAND Teamsters” Chief, Daniel Congress Hanging Up Service Record; Many Members Are Fighting (have returned to run for re-election. BY JACK STINNETT | Since there has only been eight| WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—As a|Months of war for the U. 8. and | s0 far the supply of military man-| result of the President's order tha“power s 1a8 Baciiiod o' d T b. ' I '. t , s ‘of ’ di v as fal e e- #llmegbers \ot Congrose’ i, MK mand, the 77th Congress has hung 0 m' 0 Inves lga e with the armed forces return to ol 7 n their posts in the legislative branch ;"&y“w:{"": p:fi‘:" of which it P[odudlon of government, three Congressmen have announced that they will throw | 1 over their $10,000-a-year jobs to| First of the congressmen to bolt | | | | \ WASHINGTON, Aug. 2i.-Daniel | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART: ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Aug. 24—Ai~ lied fighter planes shot down four Japanese bombers and nine fighters during a raid on Darwin, Australia, esterday, without loss of any Allied machines, it was announced this orning. In addition to frustrating the Jap- nese attack, the Allles took the nitiative by bombing enemy posi~ tions at the northern end of the Solomon Island group. Allied heavy bombers dropped ight tons of bombs on the run- way and hangar area of the airfield at Rabual, New Britain, one of |Japan’s major invasion bases. Fires were started and the Jap planes on the ground at nearby Lae JAP SHIPS IN PACIFIC Non - Combafant Vessels, Possibly Destroyer, Are Victims of U.S. Subs WASHINGTON, Aug. 2¢. — The Navy Department has announced that American submarines in the acific have sunk four Japanese non-combatant ships and have pos- iibly sunk one destroyer and dam- laged another non-combatant ship. A merchant vessel was sunk in the Aleutians area and the others were it in the western Pacific. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 24.— Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2, American Can 87, should result in a corresponding| reduction on commodities shipped to these territories after August 29.| SR et R Mrs. Henry Nelson has been dis- charged from St. Ann's Hospital, where she was a medical patient. at sea, look down on the propellers o o, R R (Continued on Page Four) Ann's Hospital for surgery yester- day, [ Private Lee Musseter has been Mrs. Angelo Astoni entered St. discharged from St. Ann’s Hospi- Dieppe. tal where he was under surgical care, b £l write their names in blood, sweat the Presidential order was Lieut.- |and tears on the battlefronts. |Com. Robert T. Secrest, the 38- Three others, still with the armea‘year-old Caldwell, Ohio, ex-coal forces in parts unknown to Wash- miner, and father of three children ington, have made no public dec- who announced recently that he laration of intention despite the wouldn't wait for the end of his nearness of elections. mando Affack BERLIN, Aug. 24—On a German | broadcast over the Berlin racio it has been announced that Brigad Gen. W. W. Southam, Toronto pib- lisher. was captured with 101 other British officers during the raid on| Five others have bowed to the his post with the Navy. lPresldent's judgment that they will! The two who have announced |be more valuable to the war effort they will not be candidates for re- ;in their legislative positions and (Continued on Page Two) R oA BUY DEFENSE STAMPS {term but would resign to cqntinue | “,in'x‘::na':’m“,‘:::fp‘;:ai;l"(:?”‘(’l::;Anacondn 26%, Curtiss Wright 7%, | International Harvester 48, Kenne- | American Pederation of Laber, will e eaer: for England with the full [00% 30%; Naw Xwk Cenftoet Sy approval of President Roosevelt to | Northern Pacific 6%, United States investigate British war production | Steel 467/8, Pound $4.04. and explain to them the production effort being made in the United States DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 107.25, lx'lfls 27, utilities 11.70, —t e BUY DEFENSE BONDS %