The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. LIX., NO. 9121. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1942 ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAVAL BATILE IS RAGING IN SOLOMONS 4 L4 L4 (4 4 (4 (4 (4 4 (4 4 (4 L4 (4 (4 4 & & L4 (4 U. S. Air Forces Battling Jap Sea Units Chandler Says Military Situation in Far North NAZI TANKS CLOSING ON STALINGRAD Invaders Force” Russians Back Near Great | Steel City PARACHUTISTS DROP BEHIND RED LINES Berlin Boa;ts’Hifler Will Have Volga Town This Week (By Associated Press) Masses of German tanks today advanced perilously closer to Stal- ingrad forcing the Russians in a new retreat less than 40 miles from the great Volga steel city. Other Nazi columns struck with- in 85 miles of the Grozny oil fleld.s; in central Caucasus. | A Vichy radio broadcast quoted the Berlin spokesman as boasting that the “fate of Stalingrad will be settled before the end of thig week.” Front line dispatches received in Moscow said the Germans have crossed the Don River and large numbers of tanks are pressing on and dive bombers are swarming the skies. : Nazi parachutists have dropped | behind the Soviet defense lines with anti-tank guns, trench mor- tars and motorcycles. The German communique said Luftwaffe is striking in “violent day and night raids” and setting parts of Stalingrad aflame and in- flicting havoc on the city's arma- ment works as the crisis mounted. | i MAKE 8-MILE ADVANCE | BERLIN, Aug. 25.—German. ar-! mored columns, driving toward ! Stalnigrad from the southwest, have | broken through eight miles of a belt of bunker defenses, the German radio declares tonight. - e———— HERE ON BUSINESS Baxter Felch, well known mer-| chandise broker is in Juneau for| a short time on business. — . The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) Editor’s Note: The plastic ring, in substitute for the brass ring, but still good for one free ride on the WASHINGTON MERRY- GO-ROUND, today goes to Col. Georges F. Doriot of the U. S. Quartermaster Corps.) WASHINGTON—Never was the ‘award of a plastic instead of a brass ring more fitting than this to Col. Georges F. Doriot, for it} is his job in the Quartermaster Corps to find substitutes for cri- tical materials. And he has done a remarkable job. He has developed plastic buttons, plastic combs, plastic safe- ty razors, and wooden beds. He has even found a substitute for military stuffiness, He goes bust- ling about his hot, bara-like office wearing suspenders and no coat— in violence to all regulations. The only thing this French war veteran can't find a substitute for is time. The first thing we saw around his office was the wooden doubles decker bed, to replace the iron cots of the hate-to-get-up-in-the- morning days. The cot required 49.8 pounds of iron. The new bed has only springs of iron—8 pounds. And the double-decking saves space too.| Before aluminum became short, the field range (army cook stove) was made entirely of aluminum and stainless steel. Now it is made of black iron, brightened in spots (EBntiI;uea onfiPrnger >15our) y Is Serio SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.—Sen- ator Albert “Happy” Chandler, Chairman of the Senate Military Subcommittee which recently com- pleted a tour of Alaskan defenses, said here that the military situation in Alaska and the Aleutians is seri- ous but encouraging. “The situation will continue to be serious,” he said, “as long as the Japs are on Kiska, but I feel a lot better about it than I did when I With boys who are up at the front. | left two weks ago. “I was alarmed then. I was afraid that full consideration hadn’t been given to the military dangers of us, Encouraging having the Japs in the Aleutians. | But I'm encouraged now,” he said. Senator Chandler said that the subcommittee “saw everything of interest in a military way. We got as far as Umnak and were flown as far in the direction of Kiska as anybody except actual combatants could hope to get. | “We got out in the dirt, slept in | barracks and ate in the messhalls | “We found that they all had their 'hands on their triggers, ready to | shoot, and boy, can they shoot,” he + concluded. Army Plane Crashes During Recent Visit 0f S MAN KILLED BY ALASKAN IN FAIRBANKS Second De_gTee Murder| Charge Filed Against Harry Ray, 74 FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 25.— Harry Ray, 74-year-old night porter at the Chena Bar and Grill, early this morning shot in the heart and killed W. R. Howe, 24 years old, a newcomer to Alaska from Des Moines, Iowa, who was a truck driver on a construction job near here. Ray claims self defense for the shooting gnd says that Howe was drunk and attacked him with a selzter bottle. A charge of second degree murder has been filed against | Ray and he has been released on $1,000 bond. ———————— ATTEMPT 10 OUST JAPS FROM LISHUI CHUNGKING, China, Aug. 25.— Lishui, important base from which Japan might be bombed, now is under direct attack by the Chinese and the Jap defenders have been driven inside of the city, the Chi- nese High Command announced late this afternoon. ———— — PAUL BLOEDHORN TO HAVE CHECK-UP AT ROCHESTER CLINIC Paul Bloedhorn, owner of Bloed- horn’s Jewelry store, left by plane today for the south on his way to Rochester, Minnesota. Mr. Bloed- horn will have a medical check-up at the Mayo Brothers’ Clinic and will be absent for some time, - GEYER GOES WAY TO CLINIC ARTHUR M. SOUTH ON MAYO BROS. Arthur M. Geyer, owner of the Geyer Sheet Metal Works here, left, | today by plane for the south. He will B2 absent for a month or six weeks during which time he js going ¢to Rochester, Minnesota, for a medical check-up at the Mayo Brothers’ Clinic. During Mr. Geyer's absence his sheet metal shop is closed. enaforial Parly | SEATTLE, Aug. 25.—Senator Mon C. Wallgren, of Washington, on his return here, revealed that Charles Clark, Assistant Counsel for the Senate’s Truman Committee, nar- rowly escaped serious injury when a bomber crashed in Alaska during |the recent inspection trip of the | subcommittee of the Senate’s Mil- | itary Affairs Committee. Senator Wallgren said the bomb- er overran the runway in landing jand Clark was thrown around vio- lently. - The Senator also said some of the Army personne] “were not 5o lucky.” — e, 14 MILLION DEAD IN 11 " WAR YEARS University Professor Esti- mates Casualties Since 1931 NEW YORK, Aug. 25. — Fourteen | million persons have been killed in |the war since 1931, when Japan began its invasion of Manchuria, | Professor Atwood Townsend of New | York University, estimates. | e MR. AND MRS. M. DABO HERE ON WAY SOUTH | Mr. and Mrs. Mifchel Dabo, who formerly operated the Gastinean Cafe and now operate a restaur- ant in Sitka, -are in Juneau today on their way south. — e GEORGE PARKS MAKES TRIP TO FAIRBANKS George A. Parks, District Cad- estral Engineet for the Public Sur- vey Office of the Department of the Interior, left Juneau yesterday by plane for an official business trip to Fairbanks. ——————— HERE SOUTHBOUND Carl Hall, well known merchan- dise broker, passed through Juneau today on his way south from a business trip to the Interior. ———————— RETURNS TO WORK Miss Nel McCloskey, secretary in | the office of the Territorial Com- missioner of Labor, returned to [ work yesterday following her an- nual vacation. e HERE SOUTHBOUN! Mrs. Virginia Newlin, business |woman of Fairbanks, was in Ju- neau last night on her way south, U. 5. Navy in Alaska Has Jap ‘ Lero Plane SEATTLE, Aug. 25. — The United States Navy has a Jap zero plane, almost as good as new, in Alaska for the men to study and released pictures prove it, Congressman Warren G. Mag- nuson reveals. The Jap zero plane was forced down by a Navy patrol plane and landed almost intact in an Aleutian swamp. The pilot was | killed. | The plane was “brought down | in such good shape that it was comparatively easy to put it back in flying condition,” Magnuson said. A LA A o) BRAZIL HAS SEIZED 17 AXIS SHIPS RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 25.— | Brazil has marshalled her military | strength for the test of war and | moved quickly against Axis enemies | within her border: America neighbors acted to aid her. Argentina, Chile, Peru, Paraguay, | and Bolivia granted her the status | of non-belligerent as Brazil seized 17 Axis ships and closed three of | the largest Axis-owned banks. The I ships seized had previously been under an arrangement for purchase. The granting of non-belligerent rights has given Brazil unlimited use of airports and harbors as in times of peace. JAP LOSSES CONTINUING DOWN UNDER MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS, Australia, Aug. 25—The sec- ond air battld in two days in which the Japs-have lost more than a fourth of their planes and the Allies none at all is reported in today’s communique from Australia. Thirteen enemy fighter planes were encountered over eastern New Guinea, the communique states. Four were shot down and others ‘were damaged. The only Allied cas- ualty was one plane which re- turned to its base damaged. This followed yesterday's nouncement which related how of 47 enemy planes were shot down with no Allied losses in a battle over Darwin on Sunday. CALIFORNIA HAS BATTLE an- 3 i i ; [ fionists Are Put ‘ on Spot | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) l Voters of California, Mi and South Carolina chose | | andi- | dates for state congressional offices| today with the most important is- ’sues appearing in California. | cCalifornia saw the pre - Pearl Harbor issue crop up again when opponents of six of the 19 congress-| Germany as an espionage agent in| his adopted country, awaits a Fed-|won't be anything else produced 'n| | y eral Court sentence on Sept, 2,|the medium tank field. aged In @ big offensive scourge; which may forfeit his life. meen seeking renomination accused |them of going against the Presi- {dent’s foreign policies before the | war. | Attorney General Earl Warren is |seeking the governorship nomina- tion for the Republican Party while | Democratic and Progressive tickets |attacked the defense program of {incumbent Gov. Olson who seeks the Democratic renomination change | dropped divorce plans. WWhenflMa‘rminesu Mgde Landing in Pacific g away from a naval transpert (top), U. 8. Marines in a landing barge start for shore to set up a base on an island somewhere in the Southwest Pacific. forces were present on this island, so the landing was a peaceful ene—far different from the action in the Sclomon Islands where U. S. forces are fighting to dislodge the Japs from the Tulagi Harbor area. Bot- tom: Marines carry supplies ashore from barges pulied up on the beach of the island as they began set- ting up a base. These pictures were made by a Marine combat photographer. CAMOUFLAGED — skiiful camoufiage blends this West maneuvers, Point plebe into surrounding brush in pre-academic Verbal Battle Over 1 Superiority of War Wea BAHR GUILTY ~ INPOLITICS g5 spy, sAYS Pre - Pearl Harbor Isola-’"EWARK JURY Renegade American Who Came Back in Conspir- acy, Is Convicted | NEWARK, N .J., Aug. 25 — Her-| !bert Karl Bahr, 30, convicted’ last night as a renf:gadp American who chose to cast his lot with Nazi|battle conditions, the army came pons Amplified ‘BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Of u!l the guff being kicked around abcut | this war, the argument over whe- | ther our planes, tanks, guns, etc., are superior or inferior to those of the enemy should be the most | quickly ignored. I'm going to put the cart in froat of the horse and say this now: In spite of all past stupidities, resist- ance to change and cleavage (o old-fashioned ideas, our military forces won't insist on yesterday’s weapons when today’s have beep proved superior on the fields o: battle. When' the M-3 tank was found (to have certain flaws under actual out with the M-4 and soon there | When i was found that the old French-7 The jury of six women and six —the greatest “anti-tank gun ever men returned the verdict of guilty developed —lacked armor-piercing last night. ! qualities that heavier enemy guns His wife, whom he left behind had, engineers increased its muzzle student, is when he went to Germany more velocity (and hence its armor-pierc- | than three years ago as an eX- jng force) said to have without sacrificing its (Continued bn Page Three) Reconnaissance had reevaled that no enemy e TOM DEWEY NIPPONS ARE REPULSED IN BIG ATTACK Making Futile Attempt fo Regain Lost Bases and Oust Marines ENEMY CRUISERS, OTHER CRAFT HEAVILY BOMBED Great Counter Atfack of Enemy Develops— Is Being Met WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — The United States Navy announced to- day that the Japanese have counter- attacked on American forces hold- ing the southeastern Solomon Islands and that a great sea and air battle has developed. The battle began developing on the afternoon of August 23, and al- ready Army and Navy carrier-based planes have effectively bombed two Japanese carriers, one battleship, one transport and one cruiser, as well as an unspecified number of other cruisers which -the Navy De- partment describes only as “several.” It is estimated that the enemy has elready suffered more than a half dozen ships damaged. Now in Progress A transport and one cruiser were left burning fiercely after our air- craft had attacked them north of Guadalcanal yesterday, during the main action of the battle which the Navy communique indicated is currently in progress. The Navy said it is a “large scale battle” between American sea and air forces and a strong Jap striking BY GOPERS ‘Unanimously—Chosen asv: Candidate for Gover- | nor of New York | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.,! Aug. 26.—The Republicans last night | {nominated Thomas Dewey, former | Manhattan District Attorney, for Governor of New York State by ac- clamation. He thus becomes the par- |ty’s candidate for Governor for the |{second time. The delegates to the Republican | State Convention made the nom- |ination as the keynoted demands for the party’s right to “help save | the nation.” Joe Hanley, keynoter, said: “The | Republican Party not only seeks but demands the right to serve and give | lits best brains to the nation with- | out surrender of its convictions.” Dewey renounced any 1944 Presi- dential aspirations. The_Republican candidate will be opposed by John J. Bennett, Jr., At- torney General, whom the Demo- | crats last week nominated for Gov- ernor. RAF CRASH force which approached thé south- eastern group of the Solomons from a northeast direction. Army and Navy units backing up the Marines who have landed on the islands had expected a violent attempt by the Japs to recapture Yheir lost bases in the Tulagl area and so the Navy said, were appar- ently fully prepared to meet it. The Navy said: “This counter-at- tack has developed and is now being met.” 3 Hit Jap Carrier Preliminary reports “indicate the enemy striking force has been at- tacked by U. 8. Flying 'l'orueuu Af:t;nilndod on Page Three) 'DEVIL DOGS' TRAINED T0 MAKE RAIDS Specially Equipped 'Raid- er Batfalions’ Used WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Heavily armed, highly trained Marines or- NAZi CITIES LASTNIGHT LONDON, Aug. 25—During night, the Royal Air Force last | en- | ) Germany, city by city, and struck with force the Rhineland |war centers of Prankfurt and Wies- | baden. | Sixteen bombers failed to return indicating perhaps that 300 bomb- len took place in the scourge. | BUY DILFENSE BONDS ganized into “raider battalions” bat- tling the Japs in the Solomon Islands carried ‘out on August 17 & raid on Jap-held Makin Island of the Gilbert group in the Pacific. This Marine Corps announcement today is the first official disclosure of the existence of the raiders, whose equipment and training methods have been closely guarded secrets against the time when they would go into action. The first known attack of these specially trained Devil Dogs is in the Solomon offensive beginning August 7 and the second their own show at Makin. Major James Roosevelt, son of the President, was second in com- mand at the Makin attack, which damaged installations and killed Jap defenders.