The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1942, Page 1

- DRIVE HELD THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9123. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY ALLIED AIR FORCE H ‘Reds Throw Nazis Back On Two Fronts STALINGRAD TEMPORARILY Hurl Germans Back 25, Miles on Moscow Front in North Sector HITLER CLAIMS T0 BE NEAR DON GOAL Russians Afl_;cking Ger- man Held Rail Line to Recapture Rzhev (By Associated Press) Russia’s smashing counter - of- fensive on the Moscow front has | hurled the Germans back 25 or 30| miles, according to reports today from the Soviet Army, which inti- mate also that Hitler's furious drive against Stalingrad is at least tem- porarily checked. Red Army headquarters an-| nounced: “We are holding against | the enemy onslaught and wearing down his manpower.” A Vichy broadcast asserted, how- | ever, that the Germans have exe- cuted a new break through the _”{rom northwes have advanced to Within 81 miles of the Volga metropolis. Soviet dispatches said that this thrust was wiped out. Bitter Counter Attacks From German field headquarters came the admission that Marsha]‘ Timoshenko’s armies have launcherl‘ bitter counter attacks west of Stal- ingrad and also ncknowledged; heavy Russian assaults on the Cen- tral front. Front line dispatches said that| the Russians are attacking the‘ German-held Rzhev - Vyazma rafl‘ line 120 miles west of Moscow and | that there is fierce battling in“ the streets of this key Nazi strung-" hold of Rzhev. In the far south, meanwhile,| tank-led Nazi columns have knifed 30 miles closer to the rich Grozny oil fields. e ——— The Washmgiun} Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Raben S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—There is a lot‘ of backstage indignation over the; manner in which members of one Wall Street accounting firm, Has- kins & Sells, dominate the cost accounting work of the Army and Navy. Cost accounting, under cost plus contracts, is extremely important. PFurthermore, the Army and Navy are”both engaged in scaling down some of these contracts through Pricp Adjustment Boards. ~The men who rule on these price ad- justments can save the govern- ment billions of dollars—or on the other hand, they can permit i.m—I lions in profits to industry. Tt so happens that executives from Haskins & Sells occupy key wecounting posts. It also happens that Haskins & Sells is the ac- counting firm which handles the work of General Motors and iu| Pont, two companies which have| received very large government Or- ders. | On the Navy's Price Adjustment| Board is George P. Auld, a mem- ber of the Haskins & Sells firm.| High in the Army’s cost and sup—! ply service is Brig. Gen. An‘.hur‘ H, Carter, a partner of Haskins &‘ Sells, and son-in-law, of Sells. | Then in the cost accounting branch of the War Production Board is Dr. Thomas H. Sanders, professor of accounting at the Har-., vard Business School, who has been | close to Haskins & Sells and has done some work for the Haskins & Sells Foundation. + (Continued on Page Four) " t of Stalingrad a,nd L 'Oregon Professor, (hamplon Plow Glrl RAID MADE ON SUBURBS OF BERLI on Outskirts of Ger~: man Metropolis * | T i | (By Associated Press) One of several Soviet planes rnld- Miss Patricia Altree (abeve), 17, who operates a 70-acre farm near La Center, Wash., defeated nine male competitors in a three-State regional plowirg contest at Beaverton, Oregon. school miss took over operation of fob in a war industry. The attractive high the farm when her father took a Juneau Auverlusmg For Teachers; First Time in City's History ARMY LOSES KAISERIN COURT OVER OPARULES West Co as—iShipbuilder Violated Price Ceil- ings, Alleged CLEVELAND, Aug. 27.—The Kais- er Company, headed by West Coast Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser, who pro- poses to build giant cargo planes if he can get the materials, and a Cleveland concern, have been re- strained by a Federal Court order for their alleged violations of Office of Price Administration price ceil- ings on steel. The temporary restraining or dm has been signed by Judge Robert Wilkin on an OPA request. Regional OPA Attorney Gruener said they bought 504,000 pounds of steel in one order and shipped it in less than carload lots to evade OPA’s price maximums. e Renfal Director SEATTLE, Aug. 27.— Danie] D. | Gage, Jr., University of Oregon faculty member, has been ap- pointed Director of the Portland- Vancouver Defense - Rental Area Office of the Rent Division of the Office of Price Administration, it is announced by Harry F. Camp, Regional OA Administrator. — - BUY DEFENSE BONDS The Juneau School Board is ad- | vertising for teachers, the first time in the history of the city. In the Empire today, Supt. A. B. Phillips has placed a display ad, listing teachers and others the opening of the high and grade schools scheduled for next Tuesday, September 1. Supt. Phillips thought he was all set for a commercial teacher and English 1 and 2 instructor but two resignations have been re- ceived. Miss M. C. Holtom, whose arrival was didn’t arrive although her name was on the steamer's passenger list. She was to teach Commercial. Her resignation came by radiogram to Supt. Phillips. Then on top of this came the | resignation of Mrs. Pauline Monroe Pederson, who was scheduled to instruct in English 1 and 2. She is now in Portland and radioed she will not return to Juneau. Read today's school ad—you inlay be able fo qualify and at good pay. BB s voh 7 G ARMY OFFICERS WEAR INSIGNIA ON CAP, COLLAR Interferes with Use of Mili- fary Equipment on Shirts, Jackets WASHINGTON, D, C., Aug. 27— The War Department announced that Army officers will no longer | field jackets because it inter- it inter- or or field jackets ecause feres with the use of gas masks, car- | bines ment. The insignia will be placed on the and other military equip- collar of shirts and also on garrison | caps. When the gervice coat is worn, they will continue to display the insignia on shoulders. i ing Germany last night succeedi |in reaching the outskirts of Berl |the German radio announces.- | A Reuters report from smckhhlm | said the Berlin outskirts were suburbs of Zehlendorf and Dahhm, V\hlch were bombed. PR AU T (HINA BASE EVA(UATED EJapanese Set Fire fo Chuh- sien — Now Making General Retreat CHUNGKI,NG Aug 27.—The vap- antso Aorces af -Ohuibsien” =ite begun a general retreat eastward under the heavy attack of Chinese forces. | ‘This is according to a report.is- sued by the Chinese News Agency. | The agency also reports that fires jwere started inside the city last | Monday night, apparently in prep- | aration for the Jap withdrawal. Tnc fires are still burning. | A counter offensive has also farcf‘d further Jap withdrawal in the ad- | jolnm;, Kmngsi Provmce - GRANTINGOF required for | Nelson Repor!ed fo Have|— Withdrawn Right from Procurement Offices WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—Chair- reported yesterday-— map ponald Nelson, of the War| Production Board, is reported to have notified the armed that he is withdrawing from their hundreds of procurement offices ! over the country the power to grant priority ratings. This is the first major result of Nelson’s newly anunciated “get tough” policy of dealing with the materials shortages and is expected | to be announced formally within the | "next 24 hours. ;sole control over the issuance of priorny ratings, plugging up the 'major loophole in the effort to bal- ance short supplies against the de- mands for materials by the Army, Navy and essential civilian use > ALARMS CALL OUT Two early morning alarms called out the Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partment this morning. Both were the result of stoves and in neither At 6:15 o'clock the Department answered a call to the Home | Boarding House where an oil range in the kitchen had exploded. There was no damage and the \slight blaze was extinguished when the department arrived. | The second alarm, at 7:15 o'clock, was from the Imperia] Pool Hall, where a burned out chimney causcd concern, but no damage was donc. BY NIPPONS| ot The biggest air field in China, have | PRIORITIES services | This action will give the WPB| FIRE DEPARTMENT| case did any serious damage result.! AY, AUGUST 27, 1942 MEMBEI R ASSOCIATE l) PRESS PRICE Tl:N CENTS IT JAP SEA FORCE Evacuees leave Coast for Inland Relocahon |Soviet Plan;s—i)rop Bombs§ A u TON 1 EERS—Japanese technicians and laborers boarding the train which took the first contingent of ipponese evacuees from the Puyallup, Washington, assembly center to the permanent relocation center M Midideka, in southern Idaho. from Alaska are included in those | [ (BY JACK STINNETT) WASHMINGTON, Aug. 27.— That (gloomy report of the Office of War Information about our being only ankle-deep in this war so far | wasn't eye-wash. At least, a good many govern- ment officials in the highest plac —armed with all of the informa- | tion available on this war—think just that. Recently I sat through | an off-the-record session with such {an official. He has been twice (o England and in many conferences with Churchill. He has been pfes- ent at most of the war cabinet meetings here. He is consteatly in touch with the British aand Rus- slans. He was not talkirg for pub- lication so his name can’t be used.| | “On my calendar,” he fold me, “this war couldn’t possibly he over before 1946 and probably nct be- fore 1948. After we defeat Hitler, it will take two years at the mini- mum to knock out the Japs and I doubt very much if we can begin to push Hitler around in Europe before 1945.” He said that those persons who 'anticipate a collapse of Germany (or Japan either) because of short- ages of materials or manpower are J They will prepare the Idaho center for others to follow them. transferred. ‘Where Gérmans Créééed the Bloody Don River Durafion—How long' | Off-the-Record Talk Is Given by Olliciali | just wishful thinkers. And that the facts are that German pro- duction and manpower are at their | highest peak and growing daily. In spite of his prediction about | the length of the duration, he ex- pressed the opinion that casualties wouldn't nearly approach those of | the World War. “There will, alties. In some cases they will be shocking. But this is a war of materials and machines and ship- ping such as the world has never seer” In this war, he explained, it will | be the men who get their fustest with the mostest of those things | who will win it. To knock out 1,000 medium tanks might wreck a huge | offensive, but in those tanks would only be 3,000 men. of course, be casu- As for the second front, official refused to join in the mor of other armchair generals. Disclaiming any knowledge of mili- tary strategy, he expressed grave| doubt that a second front would | have the desiréd effect ot diverting | the Germans from their Russian offensive, If it did, even if it cost a half (Continued on Page Two) this | | sinking of Evacuees A glance at this pieture which reached London from the Russinn front will give you an idea of the heavy price that the Germans paid for the first crossing of the River Don, The Nazis cr bridge made by the wreckage of their own equipment. Russian planes and artillery took a frightful toll of lives before the crossing was forced. The Russians are battling desncrately to keep the Nazis from captur- ing the rich Grozny oil fields and refineriss. ed the river on the 3 VESSELS SENTDOWN ONE NIGHT Navy Reports Losses as| Taking Place in West- ern Aflantic (By Associated Press) The sinking of a medium sized American merchant ship in the Caribbean Sea early this month is announced by the Navy Department | as survivors were landed. This is the third ship to go down in that area in a single night. The two other ships was disclosed yesterday. The sinking raises to 443 the num- | ber of United Nations and neutral ship losses in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor, according to the Associated Press tabulation. Of the ship sent down as reported by the Navy today, seven persons are listed as lost. Capt. H. P. Smith died in a Cuban hospital R BAXTER FELCH LEAVES Baxter Felch, well known merch- andise broker, left Wednesday for the south after spending the last few days in Juneau. Mr. recently completed a business trip| through the Western and Interio: Lsf:ctmns of the country. Pelch | NEW BATILE IS FLAMING Sea Unifs Have Suf- fered Damage (STIFF FIGHTING IS~ (ENTERED, NEW GUINEA |Shock Troob;T’ounded as They Attempt Landing in Milne Bay (By Associated Press) Encouraging reports on the flam- ing new battle of the Solomon Islands reflects a sharply brighter trend in the global war for the Allies today, as Tokyo acknowledges for the first time that the Jap fleet has suffered damage in the sea bat- tle with “reinforcements of the United States Navy” off the Solo- mons. Fourteen hours after the Navy De- partment in Washington had an- nounced damaging blows on at least 13 Jap warships, the Japanese Com- mand conceded that one destroyer was sunk and a small aircraft car- rier damaged. Claim U. 8. Damage The Tokyo dispatch sald that U. S. losses for the first three days of the battle which started on Sun- day included damage of two United States aircraft carriers and a battle- ship of the 31,000-ton Pennsylvania type. The claims lwged eonflrmnuon elsewhere. The Navy, meanwhile, indicating Japan’s furious efforts to recapture the Guadaleanal and Tulagi bases have failed, said: “Our forces are holding their positions in the face of strong enemy thrusts.” Land on New Guinea To the west 600 miles, Allied troops and planes are savagely bat- tling against a new Jap landing on New Guinea. The Jap shock troops landed on the southeastern tip of New Guinea, less than 500 miles from the Anus- tralian mainland, despite heavy Aly lied air action which destroyeu one enemy transport, six landing barges, and probably & heavy cruiser. This (Continued on Page Two) ———e ——— (. McCARTHY, BERGEN HERE 10 DO SHOW VentriloquisITamed Dum- my in Juneau on Army Enterfainment Tour Edgar Bergen, with the irrepres- sible Charlie McCarthy pressed into {a trunk alongside of his arch- |enemy Mortimer Snerd, arrived in Juneau early this afternoon, had lunch at the U. 8. Army camp and {repaired to the Baranof Hotel to \vn]oy the comforts of a tiled bath nlv.er two weeks spent in Army bar- | racks. Bergen, with his two side-kicks | Ophelia, “a naughty eld gal” wha ldnesnb appear on his radio shows, ‘wfll have dinner at the Army camp !tonizht and give a show there im the mess hall at 8 o'clock. The ventriloquist was just climb- ing out of .a shower this after- noon when interviewed, but his voice through the door, sounding | sometimes like Charlie McCarthy and sometimes like Edgar Bergen, |carried on in answer to questions. Been in Yakutat Charlie McCarthy's precocious tones made the remark that they |had just grrived from a town called !something like “Ipecac, ack-a-cack, |or Yakutat.” | Edgar Bergen’s gentlemanly, |slightly reproving vaice told of the respect he has gained for the fgreat importance of Alaska, its size, its beautiful scenery, and the genuineness of its people. Both |Charlie and Bergen have enjnyetl 1 (Continued on Page Two) INSQLOMONS | Tokyo Admits for First Time