The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 1, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9127. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1, 1942 MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS .S. FORCES IN NEW B JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Marines Mopping U, ROTARY DISTRICT CLEANINGUP ¥coveonor wit ENEMY UNITS ISLE GROUPS New Clashes at Kokoda,| Salamaua Reported by Gen. MacArthur | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. 1.— Australian troops who have neatly trapped the Japs at Milne Bay a mopping up scattered enemy units, while other Allied ground forces have clashed with the Japs at Ko- koda and Salamaua. Is Expected Here This Evening RAID DETAILS LACKING WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—The few details of the Solomon Islands en- counter tell an epic story of hero- ism of the American forces, and also show that contrary to mili- | tary expectations, the forces storm- | ing the island shores have suffered | - few losses compared to those of | Juneau Rotarians today were pre- the defenders. | paring a welcome for Rotary Dis- The Japs poured men and sup-| trict Governor Fred K. Jones, of plies into these islands, evidently | intending them as a major air base, but most of the equipment and work fell almost intact into the| A club assembly hands of the Marines. { baan. aob Fred K. Jones Juneau club. has tentatively In charge of entertainment for ERSIR RONBING ATRACN | the "Visitor is Lu Liston, with Pres- MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- | 400t non skuse and all past pres- TERS, Sept. 1.—A severe Righl |ijen of the club assisting. ‘bombing attack was made on the! Jap air base at Lae. Ten tons of iarian activities behind him. He bombs were dropped among the was General Chairman of the Dis- grounded enemy aircraft. | trict Conference in Spokane in 1937, Buildings and installations, ac-|a member of the Rotary Interna- cording ‘to a late bulletin today,| tional's Finance Committee from said five large fuel dumps, many 1939 to 1941, President of Spokane VISIT IN JUNEAU Fred K. Jones of Spokane | for tomorrow evening in Percy’s Cafe to start at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Jomnes has a long list of Ro=7 'NEW FORCES FOR AXIS AT STALINGRAD Russian Dispatch Tells of | Fierce Fighting, Rein- | forcements on Way ; i MOSCOW, Sept. 1.—The Rus- sians said today the Germans have deepened the wedge toward Stalin- | jgrad from the southwest and have | infiltrated into the city's north-i western defenses. | | They emphasized that heavy cas- | ualties have been suffered by the |invaders all along the front and | that in the latest fighting, about | {400 Germans were Kkilled by one) | Soviet unit which was withdrawing (Continued on Page Three) BITUMINOUS - Spokane, who was expected to arrive | coAl pRI(Es } i | here this evening for a visit to the ~ 60 UPWARD |New Minimum Will Mean 715 Cents a Ton More | in Alaska Teugh British Command after returning from the v | WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—In | £ creased minimum prices on bitu-| ATTLE IN EGYPT rem their smashing attack on the German-O¢ eft In Solomons COMMANDOS RETURN HOME FROM RAID ON DIEPPE I rech coast at « picture sent by cable from London to New York AMERICANS | AID BRITISH, NEW ACTION Land, Air Forces Join Upin Eastern Desert Offensive BY EDWARD KENNEDY (Assogiated Press Correspondent) | WITH ALLIED FORCES IN EG- | YPT'S WESTERN DESERT, Sept |1.—~A new battle of the western | desert, with U. S. forces among | Britain’s allies both on land and |in the air opened at dawn yester- day with an assault by Nazi Mar- lsl'ml Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Corps | just north of Quattard depression. | (This dispatch, which was passed through Allied censorship, made no | reference to the size or type of American land forces involved.) At daybreak an intensive air counter attack began with Ameri- can medium bombers and fighters participating. | Commanding the U. 8. Air Force |B-25s is Col. C. 8. Goodrich, of | Augusta, Georgia, v Commanding the 8lst Squadron, |which went into action yesterday was Major Willlam Wilcox of Os- | kaloosa, Iowa. ROMMELON NEW EGYPT L | | | \ | ' buildings and aircraft have been‘R}Otta}:'y glub lxgfl)-fl. m;d, Ch‘;fll‘l‘flm’;’,,,mm,s coal, ranging from 15 to 30! destroyed and the flames from the'of the Committee on Procedure of | .,\is 5 ton for various sections of | | Prisoners from Dieppe Raid ~ MOVEMENT tires are visible 30 miles distant. I Nomination United States Directors | the country and averaging 15.3 cents | Sharp fighting is reported at the| by Zones at Rotary International, 940-41. Kokoda base on the towering Owyen “7 7% iy ol 8 OWED | ~W(i" Jones is well-known in the | state of Washington, having served An Ttali omestic radi t re-|2S @ membed of the Joint State NG 0 Nie Indloous pe { Board of Higher Curricula from cently boasted of the “high morale” | i 3 of the Italian people and then went‘lsglmt o Algn.' f‘vab ; member of the on to admit that “here and there a| . eI b e i from 1930 to 1931, and also was a little grumbling is heard in the cor- 2 9 ners of the alleys and stairways, the| Member of Spokane’s City Plan- halls and the sidewalks.” | ning Commission in 1929. | The District Governor is presi- dent of the Central Business Prop- erty Co. in Spokane, operating’ sev- The Washington s pfine o cociciv Merry - Go- Round | — .- By DREW PEARSON | w2 zmarsoN. . BETTER TIME IS COMING, STATES FDR President Dedicates New Navy Hospifal with WASHINGTON—The Nazis’' fev- erish . boat building program along the Black Sea, plus various intel- ' ligence reports, now give a pretty accurate picture of what Hitler plans = next against Russia. It is a three- way attack — partly by water to squeeze the Turks, and two other drives ‘directed against Syria and the entire Near East. | According to diplomatic cables, | usually accurate, here are the de- | of the campaign. | One look at the map shows that | T the conquest of the entire Caticasus Stirring Words grows increasingly difficult as the P Nazj enters the towering peaks of ~BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 1.—Presi- the central region. Here Hitler can dent Roosevelt yesterday afternoon -advance only with terrific losses. dedicated the monumental new Therefore, it would be easier to g0 naval hospital here with the asser- by boat from Varna in Bulgaria, tion that America is wholly dedi- Constanza in Rumania, and Sevas- |cated to defeat the German, Italian topol, past the towering mountain |qnd Jap tryants and “remove from ranges, and land at the Wurkish this earth the injustices and in- ports of Trebizond and Samsun. ! equalities which cregte such tryants These connect by rail with other jand breed new wars.” parts of the Near East, and a Nazl| He spoke from & platform in front army could then get in behind the of the white, 270-foot high section | Russian army now entrenched in of the new medical center. the Caucasus mountains. ~ ‘A,Mo carried his words to all Simultaneous with this attack on ' parts of the world and he said: “Let Turkey, Nazi troops in the islands of | this hospita] then stand for all men Greece would drive against Syria.!to see throughout the years as a Simultaneously also, von Rommel monument of our determination to would launch another attack on work and fight until the time Egypt. |comes when the human race shall Thus Hitler would aim a three- have a truly healthy body and prenged drive against various pe ts mind” of ‘the Near East all at one . Participating in the program by And so far as ascertained, this cam- “ radio were Navy men from Iceland, paign is schedule for around Sep- Ireland, Panama and Hawail. tember 15. | - | BACK TO TENAKEE ALLIED PREPARATIONS | Joe Riedi and John G. Johnson, Naturally, feverish activities have oinpiovees of the Salt Sea Fisheries been taking place on the Allled side gy “menayee planned to return to to prepare for this, and thix "ili! the Springs today to be on hand for the fall fishing sason, ‘ a ton have been ordered effective | |October 1 by the Bituminous Coal | Division. | | Dan Wheeler, acting director of? the division, said the increases are | ireflected in the newly established {costs of the bituminous mining in- | | dustry and that by not ordering them effective until October 1, con- | sumers will have an opportunity to | ladjust “their affairs.” | | Under the order, increases above !me present minimum price schd- {ules which will be permitted in- |clude a 25-cent raise for Alaska, | Western Canada and WBshington‘ SEIZE ARMS IN IRA PLOT 1 This picture cabled from London {Explosivesand Armaments | Uncovered in Belfast from N. Irish Army BELFAST, Ireland, Sept. 1 Police declared a great arms and explosives dump captured last inight ,was to have been used by the outlawed Irish Republican Army for armed attacks on U. S.| and British forces in northern Ire- (1and. | Seventeen persons were detained for questioning. The plot had reach- ed the point where the organiza- (tion was able to mass explosives 'enough to wreck a hall'in this Ulster capital. | U. 8. troops were ordered to stay :;;e:l}::le;t;::t:mw::‘:m :F;h:fi {8 physical umpossibility, but when as Williams, 19, for the slaying Dx;El.mer L. Irey, coordinator o{v the |a policeman last Easter. | Treasury ‘Departmmlls investigat- 1‘ One man ,armed with a tommy, ing agencies, made a report to Sec- gun, was killed when the big ar- | retary Morgenthau the other day, |senal was uncovered yesterday. he set up a picture that's worth | The Irish Republican Army has|looking at. charged that the presence of U. §.| The war, it seems, has caused troops in Northern Ireland is an/the counterfeiters and dope ped- act of aggression and asserted the dlers to shift bases of operations right was reserved to use “what-|/to Mexico. The far-flung borders ever measures present themselves of the United States now ave to clear the territory of such forces.” guarded as closely out as in. BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. — Not even in fiction have there been | better crime and mystery stories !written about this war than in the routine reports of the various in- | vestigative government bureaus. To deal completely with a small | | ! i 1 AG AINST u S | Commandos suard blindfolded Ge 8B | where Allied raiders struck at the German-held coast. percentage of them here would be: ans, brought ba k to England as One prisoner to New York. law Violalors, Various - Kinds, Are Giving U. S. - Operations Wide Berth { Smuggling has become a two-edged |sword. Our enemies are as to get information and stratlc materials out as they are to get propaganda, diamonds, explosive and “funny money” in. War stamp and bond counterfeit ers have mushroomed. So have the moonshiners (increased fede:n taxes on liquor give them a grea's | margin of profit) but the illicit distillers are running into trouble —priorities—they can’'t get the su- gar and they can't get the copper | tand other metals for the stills. Striking before the war stamp counterfeiters could start trading, the Secret Service seizetl $52500 worth of the stamps in New York, sent six men to prison for from (Continued on Page Three) prisoners from the Dieppe area, (right) is wrapped in a blanket. ;Produdion Of Liquor Will Halt | Industry Io_V%rk for War | -large Stock on Hand CHICAGO, Scpt. 1 facture of whiskey, gin and other erage spirits has been ordered 1, but the na- enough dis- tip- The manu- ey nalted by November tion is said to have | tilled spirits on hand to last | plers for five years. Matthew Macnamara, the War Production Board’s whiskey conver- sion' branch’s chief, has informed the National Aleohol Beverage Con- trol Association that all 128 dis- tilleries will be converted into war production of alcohol, half of which needed to make synthetic will be rubber PATERSON, N. J,, Sept. 1.— Workers in two plants of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, who re- fused to work yesterday morning because of a wage dispute, returned xciuaeain e {After Two Months’ Pause | . Instructions Issued fo Place LONDON. sept. 1—ater o two sert army has begun an advance WASHINGTON, Sept, 1.—Maj. May be the start of the long~ structed Selective Service Directors nounced today that Rommel, using In some localities single mén are S0uth of El Alamein, and was im- Directors to arrange calls for local the most single men, men with ¥ LONDON, Sept. 1.—An eight-mile Alamein line in Egypt, rimming the { United States Air Forces have gone Wage Dispute Causes Near The German thrust evidently was |newest American medium bombers, | with complete American air crews. Shapiro, Conciliation Service Com- |are dispersing unusually large Ger- during the last five weeks. between El Alamein and Bengasi are use as much water in the course Befmuda was settled by a party Dieppe, throng a pier in England Married Men L] i . . - NewDra "ng Axis Troops in Desert . Take Offensive 4 months’ pause, Marshal Erwin Heawes' l_oad on Rommel’s reinforced and rested de- Slngle Men |against the southern flank of Al- lied defense lines in Egypt, which Gen, Lewis Hershey, Selective Ser- expected offensive there. vice National Director, today in-| The British War Office an- to arrange induction calls so mar- irmo:ed units, “has pushed for- ried men need not be drafted. | Ward” near El Himeimat, 25 miles still uncalled, mediately engaged by the Allies. Director Hershey instructed State 00 U s . Boards “so as to place the heaviest | NEw “All load right now on Boards having collateral dependents only.” i it i Go J;Germln drive into the minefields ion the southern flank of the El BA(K ON joB‘ Quattara deptession is reported from Cairo in a Reuters dispatch, and new into action in what appears to be developing into a major battle. S"|ke » con(lha'or | seeking a soft spot in the center of ' . | the British line. ngps Em Rollmg | Meanwhile, a report says that the ] B25's. like- those which bombed Tokyo, have gone into. their first |action on the North African front These are reported to have bom- to their jobs in the afternoon after |barded Axis transport columns, and listening to a plea from Irvin supporting American fighter pilots missioner. | man dive bomber formations. There have been three other sim- | At the same time, armored van- {lar work stoppages in Wright plants | 8uards of perhaps 141,000 Axis troops —e sald to be locked in tight combat Only 12 American cities, includ- With the British forces. ing New York and San Francisco, SERSSEY of a day as is used daily by one Of colonists who were headed for of the big new smokeless powder Virginia, but were wrecked on the plants, islands.