The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9124. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRI PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICANS FORCE JAPS FROM SOLOMONS Nazis Have Reached Stalingrad Approaches Is Hit by ragedy} REDS ADMIT SITUATION IS GRAVE Germans Claim Ground Be- ing Gained as Soviefs | Annihilated MOSCOW, Aug. 28 — Battle- grimed German forces which have fought their way 400 miles through the Ukraine and Volga valleys have reached the approaches to Stalingrad, but Russian dispatche said that they have been blocked there by swarms of Red Army in- fantry, who have closed in on all| sides. | The situation is admittedly grave. | One German armored spearhead,! however, is reported cut off com-| | pletely. GERMAN CLAIMS i BERLIN, Aug. 28—German troops | have forced their way across several | more of the Caucasian mountain | passes and have -annihilated dis- persed Soviet Groups, the High Command declared today. | The announcement said that southwest of Stalingrad, the Ger- man offensive is gaining gmuud‘ against stubborn resistence. | - FISHERMEN ARE FINED AT WRANGELL Emphasizing the Alaska situation, issued by the 13th Naval District. posters to be distributed in places MORE Alaskan success. Part of the crew of the boat Katie, of Kake, have been fined | $150 when charged in U. S. Com-/ missioner’s Court in Wrangell’ with | illegal fishing. The crew of the| boat Eagle, of Wrangell, was fined| a total of $618 including the price| of confiscated fish. The Washington| Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) MEATLESS DAY, EVERY WEEK,LOOMS Presidenfidakes An- WASHINGTON — Some of (.hel‘ Presidents close friends are urging: that to avert tragic disaster inj| India, the United States, Russia| and China—all three disinterested | nations—intervene to mediate the| difficulties between India and Great| Britain. ‘ This idea first was discussed tentatively last December, but no-\l thing happened. Winston Chur-| chill was in the United States at; nouncement af News- that time and it was suggested o] men’s Conference him, delicately of course, that it} Sy might be a good idea to settle the| wASHINGTON, Aug. 28—Presi- whole Indian trouble immediately | gent Roosevelt visualizing the pos- before it got worse. sibility of the imposition of a meat- No suggestion was then made|jess' day each week, declared this that the United States, China and|would permit freeing of 30 or 40 Russia intervene, but later, as|cargo ships now used to transport an outgrowth of these talks, Gen- meat from Australia, New Zealand eralissimo Chiang-Kai-shek went to|and Argentina. y India to emphasize the common| The President, talking at the con- bond between China, Britain and |ference with the newsmen, said he India. did not know_whven the meatless Later, when the British did not day !‘l’flght be instituted as k.le fm' act, and things were drifting from i;::w:lse t::ldpr?glfn:;: Blr;n-sx;t:l; Mg 10 V'IOX‘SE, #hie Preaident dis- would be used for carrying tanks, cussed with Justice Felix Frank- Dinties hei -oiibions furter the idea of his going to i it e India as a sort of mediator. TIn- stead, however, the President sent' Louis Johnson, former assistant secretary of war, not as mediator but as U. S. Minister to India. |Says New Program Would Take in Farm Prices Now, however, with India on the verge of civil war and with the Japs ready to launch a new of- fensive after the monsoon rains in September, the idea of U. S.-Rus- stan-Chinese mediation has been suggested. GANDHI VS. INDIAN PRINCES This writer once visited at the| home of Mahatma Gandhi and at| the jail when he was imprisoned| STRESS ON ALASKA shipyard workers, it stresses uanity of Army, Navy and civilians for Former Residenfsof Juneau, Prisoners of 2 Japs, AreBackin U.S. SQVIETS IN | Reiton. during another serious disturbance in 1923. And there is no question| that Gandhi is worshipped as a saint by a great mass of the In- dian people—probably by well over 100,000,000. However, the fact remains that he is opposed by three potent| groups—not merely the Moslems, whose hostility to Indian independ- (Coau;fié& on P’afiefil’om) and Wages | WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 — Presi- |dent Roosevelt said today that a | program to combat inflation is con- templated as being a flexible rather |than a rigid stabilization of farm | prices and wages. | He also declared during a press SWEEP OVER EUROPE IN . THREE RAIDS 800 Planes Hit Poland- " Occupied France, Rot- | ferdam Bombed U 5. FORTRESSES SMASH SHIPYARDS Few Planes Lost in Great! Night Sweeps Over Enemy Industry - LONDON, Aug. 28—Twin raids on the key plane producing center of Kassel and the Baltic port or[ Gydnia, formerly in Poland, were| made last night by Royal Air Force | bombers massed in a great spread,| end to end, over Germany. The RAF had to fly more than| 1500 miles in the round trip under a moonlit sky. Probably about 600 planes made the flight, and 30} bombers are reported lost and two ! fighters also downed. In night sweeps over enemy-occu- | pied France, two ships were left! burning in the channel. | United States Plying Fortresses bombed the, shipyards of RoUtEF-] dam yesterday and direct hits | were scored on the center ynrds" and two docked ships. This is the | seventh such American Air Force | foray, from which all the bombers returned. this morale poster has just been Most recent of a series of Navy frequented by Navy personnel and | | Two former residents of Junean have arrived in Jersey City aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm, after being held prisoners of the Jap-! anese. The two were among the 1451 Americans repatriated from Japan and the Orient. The former residents referred to are the Rev. and Mrs. Albert K. Reiton, who are also accompanied by their daughter Miss Esther NIGHT RAID ONGERMANY Berlin, Danzig, Koenis- berg Bombed - Fires | Mrs. Reiton is a sister of Dave Femmer of Juneau but the story| Reporfed Starfed | does not end there. Many years ago, Albert K. Reium} MOSCOW, Aug. 28 — Russian was the driver of the horse and Planes bombed military objectives wagon delivery of the B. M. Beh- last night in Berlin, Danzig and rends Company. Etta Femmer, Koenisberg and also attacked other now Mrs. Reiton, was also epployed towns in eastern, northeastern and in the store. A romance developed Centyal Germany. and Albert and Etta left Juneau| The Russians announced for the south and subsequently large fires were started in Berlin were married in Portland, Oregon.]and Danzig and ten fires were Later they went to China as mis- Sighted in Koenisberg. sionaries. That was about 30 years| EXposions were also reported us ago. The couple has been in China | heard from Koenisherg as result) since then and were in Hongkong |Of the bombing. when the Japs captured that city | and were held prisoners. During| the missionary work in China, a daughter was born and she has| also returned to the good vid USA| with her parents, ! FORTRESSES ARE FLYING ONBIGRAID nine | ———.—— | BRITISH IN U.5.TO AID INSUB WAR English Planes, Fliers Will Help Patrol West Af- | lantic for U-boats | LONDON, Aug. 28 — United \ States flying fortresses are again wASHINGTON, : _ The fiying over northern France late njyy nnmunce(;}‘thatugntz:n planes| this afternoon. and fliers have joined in the anti- The fortresses are escorted ihy submarine campaign in the west- | spitfires in the raid over a wideteyn Atlantic and have “already section according to official a"'iengnged the enemy.” nouncemient made by the Head-| 1n g reference to “aircraft” the quarters of the Allied forces. official statement was interpreted |by Navy spokesmen to mean both | | for the Federal Works Agency, left the U, 8. to aid in an intensifica- | conference on the inflation problem ! that he t | wages s |ration to living costs. yesterday afternoon with Alaska|tion of the war on U-boats which hought farm prices and Star Air Lines for the Westward Naval officials say has been in- St. Ann’s Hospital for surgical care, hould be kept within a fixedin connection with Federal Works | creasingly successful in the last Projects to the West and Interior. two months. ily 3 Royal am Above s a of the Duke of Kent, ’ plane crash in Scotland several days ago. George Charles Franklin, her son, named after President Roosevelt, an Edward, (right). iyewilness Slory of Makin Raid Told; Son Of FDR Seen by Sniper PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 28.—The first eyewitness accounts of the hand to hand fighting United _States Marines wiped out 350 Japs on Makin Island in the Gilberts last week, disclosed that the President's son, Major James Roosevelt, was shot at by snipers, but was uninjured. I Which 14 ihe raid, graphically ‘told the story of the 40 hours spent on the island, during which all the enemy forces, ships, and installations were devastated, completely wiped out. Acident Rate, Army Air Forces, Is Now Below !O-YearAverage CHINESE ARE BACK, CHUHSIEN Forces Enie;ay Early To- day-Take Possession of Airfield CHUNGKING, Aug. 28 The | Chinese forces have reentered Chu- hsien, in Western Chekiang Prov- ince, and reoccupied the great air- fiel djust outside the city. The air- field is the most important of the BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—When the Army air forces announced recently, and with some justifiable pride, that their accident rate was 68 per cent lower than 12 years ago and 10 per cent below the 1930-40 ten-year average,they didn't tell all the story, Some of the flying school safety records have been phenomenal. For instance, at Chico Field, Calif, istudent pilots have flown the equi- valent of 500 times around the equator without a single fatal ac- cident. At Craig Field, Alabama, an advanced flying school, of 1,179 times the earth’s equa- torial circumference with only one minor accident; and 23 million miles without any accident due to mechanical causes. This last is important beca se Commander John M. Haines, who | not only were the pilots lrmnees,i 9, youngest bratuer of the King of England, who was killed in a In the picture are the Duchess of Kent, helding Prince Michael INDICT FOUR ON ALASKAN MINE FRAUD Earle Knight, Alaska Weekly Publisher, SEATTLE, Aug. 28—Three Seattle men and one of Kansas City face charges of mail fraud in connection with the sale of $300,000 worth of jstock in Alaskan and United States | mining enterprises between 1933 land 1941, i Indicted by the Federal Grand Jury were Earle W. Knight, pub- {lisher of the Alaska Weekly; Mat- | thew Rease, mining engineer; Fred- lerick Vincent, of Seattle, and Simon Hedrick, of Kansas City. They are charged with promoting a series of enterprises which they operated “for their own purposes and without regard or interest to their investors.” The indictments also charged that sales made were “deceptive mis- leading, reckl and under false pretenses, Rease commented he had noth- ing to do with the sale of stock but was made President of one of ‘lh(- companies when it was in “bad | shape”. Five other persons were named v| participants in the alleged fraud.| Each of the accused maintained their innocence through their at- torneys or in person. The organizations named in the the indictment are the Mines Develop- pilots clicked off a total distance ment Association, started early in 11933; Northern Empire Mining | Company, organized in July 1939 |Desert Gold Production Corpora- | on, organized in July 1934; Rease | Production Corporation, organized |in December, 1940, Forty men named as participants, but not charged, are Paul B Towe ENEMY NAVAL FORCES ARE RETREATING London Dispatch Claims Invader's Fleet Is Shattered |ALLIES HIT NIPPON MILNA LAND FORCES Battle Is Raging in Cro- codile Infested Swamplands WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—A rag- |ing battle to break the Jap grip on southeastern New Guinea de- - veloped swiftly today in the croco- dile infested swamplands as Ameri- can naval and alr forces emerged apparently victorious in the second round of the Solomon Islands con- | flict. A terse Navy communique repbr:s “Jap surface forces appear to have withdrawn from the vicinity of our positions in the Tulagi area.” The enemy forces which landed two days ago In Milna Bay are keing pounded by an Allled attack, I destroying Jap planes, troops, sup- | plies and fuel dumps. Twelve Jap planes are reported shot down, and possibly more, & Meanwhile, admonition against any descriptions of the current op- erations in the Solomons as hav- ing brought about a major victory |for the United States came from {one of the highest government |authorities who sald he was wor- ried lest the press lead the coun- try into believing that a great and smashing victory has been | achieved. | This authority who preferred that his name not be used, said there has actually been two phases of Jap activities since the American forces established themselves in the southwest Pacific. Thé first was |the landing of 700 Japs who were wiped out at Guadalcanal Island and a series of smaller attacks by |planes. “We came off pretty weil, destroying 32 Jap aircraft and losing only four,” this authority | said. The second phase can not be (called a full scale offensive bul |2 reconnaissance in force. Units lof the Jap fleet have withdrawn. “We hit some of their ships and hope we sank some but we hate to have the people get the idea a major victory has been scored,” said the authority. | BRITISH REPORT | LONDON, Aug. 28—The London | Star reports from Sydney, Austra- |lia, that the Jap fleet “after a shattering defeat at the hands of Allied *sea’ power and air forces in the Solomons,” is withdrawing to (the Jap mandated islands to the {north. ! The dispatch was attributed to Selwyn Speight, Star correspond- ient, and estimated Jap losses of the |last fortnight at a total of 50 |ships sunk or damaged. Teachers Are | Secured; Pays To Agverfise It pays to advertise and ad- vertise in The Empire. Yesterday, Supt. A. B. Phil- lips was “down in the mouth” because of a shortage of teach- ers. east China bases from’ which Japan but according to the National Aero- | He placed an advertisement Earl McGinty, Project ENgineer |pjanes ang personnel dispatched to nautics Association, which gathers ! the records on such things, the ground crew mechanics also were students, could be bombed. Dispatches said Chinese columns 'began making their way into the city proper at 4 o'clock this morn- |ing. It's the little things that win a For years the Army has shipping its “G.L” (govern- ment issue) cans in nests of six cans, crated—and that’s the way (Continued on Page Two) ——.ee - war, been | Mrs. James T, Reed has entered e - BUY DEFENSE BONDS ) James C. Stephens, L. L. Warties, |the late R. A. Uhlin, and PFrank Cotter, all of whom ceased in part-| icipating more than three years ago. Paul Coles, attorney for Knight ‘aml Vincent, said apparently the | Government indicted Knight be- cause of some articles he published in his newspaper. Coles said the articles were “published in good faith,” obtained from sources on| | which he had a right to rely.” | in The Empire that “High School teachers are needed at once as follows: English, Alge- bra, Bookkeeping, Commercial, Band.” Oh boy—he’s got ’'em. So kids and others, the Ju- neau High and Grade schools will open on schedule next Tuesday morning. Bye, Bye, vacation.