The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1942 VOL. LIX., NO. 9125. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE T—}_Z‘E CENTS 'REDS FIGHTING TO SAVE STALINGRAD 'RAF Pounds Germany In 600 Plane Raid BUERNBERG IS BOMBED BY BRITISH Report Hugfii—res Are Left Burning-30 Bomb- ers Missing (By Associated Press) The Royal Air Force staged its third big asasult of the week last night as perhaps 600 bombers pounded away at the war production centers of the Nazis in Buernberg, deep in southern Germany, and at Saarbruecken on the French bor- der. Thirty bombers were lost in the huge raid but many great fires were left burning in the damaged cities. | ——.—.——————— DYNAMITE TRUCKIN COLLISION Coupe, Loaded Carrier Hit " Head-On-Two Kiiied —No Explosion SEATTLE, Aug. 29.—A coupe and a truck, loaded with seven tons of dynamite, collided head-on last night near Kent, Washington, kill- ing Earl Hollenback, 21, of Puy- allup, and Aloysius Ducatt, 19 of Algona, who was riding in the front seat of the truck. Driver Marshall Oriard and his son were unhurt. The dynamite did not explode. L ON DUTY—Blonde Anita Louise, Aides to receive their caps at the of the American Red Cross. The Earns Nurse's (ap s it one of a class of twenty Nurses’ Santa Monica-Ocean Park Chapter screen actress is shown taking the temperature of Diane Batchelor, young hospital patient. (Soundphoto) Aleutians Described as “Natural Rat Trap” for Japs; Capt. LoveHt Talks Awaits Death The Washington | Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert §. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON. —So far Leon Henderson has fixed the price of almost everything from meat to mothballs, and done a pretty good job of it. But he has not yet moved in on fixing the price of military equipment. Regarding this, a bitter back-stage debate has been raging between some of the army brass-hats and some of Hen- derson’s experts. ! The debate got stdrted during a Detroit meeting of Henderson's OPA officials and tank and auto- | mobile manufacturers. Also pres- | ent was uninvited guest, Lt. Col. Ralph G. Boyd of the erter-‘ master Corps. | And while officials of the Price Administration were discussing plans to put a price ceiling over tanks purchased by the army, Col. Boyd suddenly interrupted and told the meeting that he was dead against the plan. The tank manufacturers tilted back their chairs and chortled be- hind their hands. Here was one' branch of the government flatly opposed to another branch, in fact undermining its work. | However, Col. Boyd, a Boston lawyer, continued, and put up a very persuasive argument against the OPA’s price ceiling plans. He| was in favor of the War Depart-| ment controlling the prices of all| military supplies. SOMERVELL OBJECTS Later, when Boyd's chief in Washington heard about his un- scheduled stump speech, the sparks flew. Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell, chief ¥f Service and Supply, called in Col. ‘Boyd, told him his be- | RECORD TIME Leslie Gireth, sentenced to die In the poison gas chamber of San Quentin prison for the murder of his co-ed sweetheart, Hammer, is pictured entering the prison’s death row. Gireth, who is married, murdered his sweet- heart after wooing her with love lstisia snd phonograph records. STOCK OUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 29. — Closing ' quotation of Anaconda today is 26%, Commonwealth and Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 7%, International Harvester 46'z, Kennecott 30, New York Central 9%, Northern Pacific ;fi-’&, United States Steel 46%, Pound |$4.04. Dorean | havior was irregular and warned | him that this was the kind of| DOW. JONES AVERAGES conduct which might result in The following are today's Dow, court martial proceedings. |Jones averages: Industrials, 106.41; Meanwhile, some of the War De- | rails, 26.23; utilities, 11.55. e . , - (Continued on Page Four) i BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ST. LOUIS, Aug. 29.—Capt. Le- land Lovett, Director of the Navy's Office of Public- Relations, described | | the Aleutian Islands as a ‘“great| | natural rat trap” for Japs. | { | “We have taken 12 or 13 vessels |in the Kiska area and have not| {lest one of ours. It is probably i the greatest spot there is to pick off ships day by day and when we | get ships we get a lot of troops,! | too.” Capt. Lovett made the statement |in an address at a meeting of the, | St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. 1 e ee—— | | SHIP BUILT, 'LAUNCHED IN ‘kaiser Shipy—;;r—ds Set New Mark of 36 Days- Predict 18 RICHMOND, Calif,, Aug. 20—Up to a year ago, no merchant ship of 10,000 tons had ever been buiit in less than 10 days, and until ! this week, none had been launched in less than 36 days. | But a Liberty freighter slid down | ‘the ways at the West Coast Ship- yards yesterday just 24 days to the ! dot from the time the keel was put down. | Henry Kaiser, chief of the ship-| yards, said “I'm told by our boys: that a record of less than 18 days will be established within the next few months.” i | | | ATKA NATIVE BOY DIES IN HOSPITAL! R.aymond Kavoroff, ' 5 -.year - old | son of Peter Kavoroff, native of| Atka Island of the Aleutians, died during the night in the Govern- | | ment Hospital after being brought here from his present home at Kil- lisnoo. ‘The child’s body is at the Charles | W. Carter Mortuary and funeral BATILEIN JUNGLE 1S ' KEEPING UP Veferan Australians Strike at Japanese in Milne | Bay Sector MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- { ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Aug. 20. Heavy fighting between veteran Aus- | | tralian and newly-landed Japanese | troops in the tortuous jungles: sur| rounding Milne Bay in southeastern New Guinea, is reported today. | A small number of United States troops also is in the area where the Japanese first landed on Wednés- | day. - Low flying Allied bombers are giving heavy support. to the defend- ers by attacking the Japanese posi- | tion. s All bombs fell in the target area {and numerous fires were started. | No Japanese aerial support was | mentioned nor is there any indica- | tion that Japanese ships were back- ing up the invasion. Sl L DIEPPEWAS IND.FRONT ~ SAY NAZIS \ Claim Operational Orders| Were Captured, Com- ! mando Raid * (By Associated Press) The German High Command | claims that an Allied operational ' order which was seized August 19 in the Commando raid on Dieppe showed that the attack was intend- | ed as the opening of the second front. But the German communique | seemed to ignore the fact that be- | fore and during he raid, the Brit-| ish radio advised the French peo- | ple that it was not a real invasion., ‘The Nazis said that 2,195 prisen- ers were captured in the attack and more than 600 killed, claiming the destruction of 127 British planes, four destroyers and seven | transports, FUNERAL IS ™= SOLEMNIZED NEW ATTACK FOR KENTBY CHINESE Four Kings,_Two Oueens,mEAR (A“ION Queen Mother Attend | Simple Seri(es | CHUNGKING, China, Aug. 20— | The Chinese today launched vig- pAlavy {orous new attacks against the Japs LONDON, Aug. 29.—Four ngs.jm miles north of Canton to match including George VI of England, an offensive further north which Haakon VII of Norway, George IT|brought about the recapture by of Greece, Peter II of Yugoslovia, Chinese troops of Chuhsien and Li- and Queen Wilhelmina of Holland Shui, the Central News Agency re- attended the simple funeral service POrts. for the Duke of Kent, held in St.| e Do ot et enierea EVERYBODY'S OFF FISHING THIS WEEK with Queen Elizabeth and Queen All the fish in the ocean will Mother Mary, all wearing heavy veils. The Duchess sobbed through- ! out the brief rites and sank to her probably be in the Territorial Build- knees in prayer. |ing the first of this week, for from S |the offices there today, Hugh J.| MRS. ALEX HOLDEN AND {Wade and his family, of the Soeial SANDY WILL LEAVE FOR Security Department, with John SOUTH ON PR. NORAH McLaughlin of the Unemployment Compensation Office, were leaving {on a trip. | Mrs. Alex Holden and her son.| poencoie pe w. w. Council was | | j tion given by Norway, on . | e the south today on the Princess enq “whaling” and the fishing fever His father, Peter Kavoroff, is in lJunesm to handle arrangements, |8andy in school and return ‘Juneau in several weeks, to of the offices in the building up to | | noon today. Off for a Fighting Front—They Arrived Safely Taken somewhere at a United States port, U. 8. soldiers are ing front. The soldiers have arrived safely, it has been announced. Norwegian Ambassador to the United States, Wilh T shown pinning the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olaf, highest decora- | Mrs. J. States minister to that country. The cer Haakon’s seventieth birthday, at the Nor ington, NAZIS DROP FIRE BOMBS IN APPROACH ' Germans Efiging More Reserves fo Throw Info | Desperate Battle | (By Associated Press) | Russia's armies are fighting today | against a backdrop of their beloved: | city of Stalingrad in flames. They |are beating off German \assaults above and below Stalingrad as they | battle desperately to wipe out the deep wedge into the city’s defenses {and the Germans' center on the death-littered steppes before Soviet trenches. The Russian command listed 2~ | 800 Nazis, Rumanians and Itallans I killed in a single sector. Start Many Fires Germdn prisoners were described |as being hungry and almost ex- | hausted. | Nazi dive bombers showered in- cendiaries and high explosives into | the heart of the city, setting many | fires. Aerial transports meanwhile brought up reserves of parachute troops from the far south. In South Sector The Berlin radio asserted that | German troops have :eached the | Casptan Sea in their 140-mile drive across the Kalmuck steppes toward | the vital port of Astrakhan at the | mouth of the Volga, and thé village |of Lineinoye, to the southwest. As- | trakhan is said to have been cap- tured. On the Rzhey front, 130 miles to the northwest of Moscow, the Ger- mans say that General Zhukov's armies have launched new attacks which have been broken down. Dispatches to Pravda said that shown boarding a ship for a distant fight~ (1. 1. N. Phonephoto) AP FACES MONOPOLY CHARGES | | | .‘Euulan troops held the northern | sector of Rzhev, attacking the Ger- Government Says Service mans benina s plane-iad smoke Vitally Important to Ly elm Morgenstierne is (By Assoclated Press) | NEW YORK, Aug: 20—The Gov- ERR/A ernment, depicting Associated Press | E‘ |as a premier among news services | of the United States, and contend- jing that a newspaper without it | suffers competitive disadvantages, asked the Federal District Court| for an order which would forcei —_— Associated Press to serve any 1 H ovepapes g 1oy e cour RECApHure of Big Chuhsien |of service. | F' E " (k The Chicago Sun was specifically | ‘eldeay gsy Abla Borden Harriman, former United | mentioned as having been unable RIODY. ']‘::"kb"l‘“‘:“wm“' [to obtain membership, and like-| on ap?_n»_OSSI e wegian Embassy in Wash- | wise the Washington Times-Herald.| ~HUNGKING, Aug. 29.— The ARG 180 The ?llelbcomplalm charged that ;... Chuhsien airdrome, within the provisions of the by-laws which (1,66 and a half hours bomber exclude competitors and existing fligny from Japan, and the walled ¢ { members. from memlberflhlp and the | ojty of Chuhsien itself, have both ‘”M;'l of AP "fws ltlegnlly restrain peen recaptured, with Chinese AR monopolize interstate com- | 1yo0n¢ pursuing the fleeing Japan- ’"‘E'ce in news. The comphxm;%‘, soldiers to the east, report Chi- [BISO Ch’"g“‘ that the provision|nece gigpatches from the front. which requires each of nearly 1300, e dispatches said that the |members to furnish local nNews| japanese are withdrawing toward F I ( E R S ‘l‘“‘h;”‘fwhy “:l“ i "“’”c 9’:““’""; Kinhwa and Lanchi, with the Chi- y egally restrains andipnese close on their heels. | monopolizes interstate commerce In| A Chinese news. agency said the el of Chuhsien gives the ; | recapture Board of Directors’ statement | chinese control of nearly 220 miles s A i | A 436 Women's Army AuXil-issued by President Robert McClean of e onekians-tiansni raiway, the Nazis in Posen poisoned the! |Alex, Jr., (Sandy) will leave [OF jiching to get started for a week- | chickens and pigs of his “employer” by adding artificial fertilizer arrangements will be made later./Norah. Mrs. Holden plans to place was fast spreading through the rest | their fodder. He was executed. e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS to | 4 said “AP has invaded the lawful “ et iary Corps Members | rignus of no one in the great ana ! g unsurpassed service it has rendered R'TISH SU BS Have Official Ranks [to the reading public in the last| @ ey |42 years.” FORT DES MMOINES, Iowa, In Chicago, Mashall Field, found- HAv u (Es !N Aug. 29—With two Generals par-|er of the Chicago Sun, said that ticipating, 436 WAACs swore 10 the suit against the Assoclated MEDITERRANEA“ “well and faithfully discharge their press would, if successful, “prove d}‘:“”" as ?“’Y were c:m"‘;l‘-“"’""d to be one of the most important et the first officers of the Women's strokes for the freedom of the| ArmylAuxmary Corps with rank press in the history of American one Tankef, One Supply equivalent to that of Army second ' journalism.” | H H £ o ; i Ship and Others Hit Maj. Gen. J. A. Ulio, Adjutant| Genera] of the Army, administered L ' by Undefsea Cra" the oath. Included were seven u eran ur( LONDON, A_ o Brittal b women from the state of Washing- | e ax . Aug ritish sub- o ! L d A di M ' marines in the Mediterranean are H R i a Ies I 0 ee plursumg a ('um).mlgn A.lgulnwl both A farm laborer conscripted by| A German and Italian shipping. They | The Ladies' Aid Society of the have sunk one large tanker and Resurrection Lutheran Church will one large supply ship and scored Imeet at 1:30 p. m. next Thursday torpedo hits on three other supply |1n the home of Mrs. Olaf Bodding, vessels the Admiralty announced. 822 B Street, with Mrs. A, Rosness Four undersea craft have re- I(‘Gl\'t‘d citations for successes, as co-hostess,