The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 2, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9128. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, ALL THE TIME” 1942 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS RED ARMY BATTLING HORDES OF NAZIS LARGE AIR | OPERATIONS CARRIED OUT Allies Lock with Axis| Forces on African | Battlefield i CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 2. — British | forces locked heavily in battle with | Axis armored divisions yesterday in : the southern sector of the Egypuanl Front, British headquarters an-/| nounced in a war bulletin issued | jointly with the Royal Air Force. | The communique said that United | States Army Air Force planes par- | ticipated in the extensive air opera- tions throughout the entire area and ‘ reported that the British had made their own sally Monday night on | the northern flank of the El Alamein line and brought back a batch of | prisoners. | Despite the swirling sand of wind storms, the Allied air coverage was carried out on a large scale and & hail of bombs was rained on the enemy in intensive and accurate raids. Reports from the front, mean- while, say that Rommel is hitting at the southern end of the line with | 5,600 tanks. One of the spearheads advanced eight miles but the main column was reported turned back and north after striking eastward near El Himeimat. | AMERICANS IN DESERT FIGHT WITH THE ALLIED FORCES IN EGYPT'S WESTERN DESERT, Sept. 2.—United States forces are taking considerable part in this des- ert war now revitalized by Rommel’s offfensive, and accompanying British armored formations are American (Continued on Page Three) Evacuees in Southeast Alaska Can’ t Vole Says Allomey General Roden BOB HOPE IS (OMING HERE TOENTERTAIN Comedian Is Scheduled to Leave Seaftle Next Week on Tour HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2.— Bob Hope, radio and movie comedian, is to leave Seattle next week on the first leg of an 8,000 mile air trip to perform at military bases in the U. 8. and Alaska. He will return September 22, —————— REDS RAID WARSAW, SET MANY FIRES Soviet Fliers Hit Former Capifal of Poland with | Attorney General Henry Roden today said that the natives who have been evacuated to Southeast | Alaska from the Westward will not ! be allowed to vote as residents of |the First Division in the General | Election next Tuesday. The Attorney General stated that his office will follow the opinion found in Washington, that Japan- ese evacuees who were eligible vot- ers in the communities from which they were evacuated, would be al- lowed to vote in their former pre- cincts by absentee ballot, and not in the precinct where they are now located. | Mr. Roden said that the natives ‘have been taken to this division against their will and with the in- | tention of returning to their homes after the war. He said that the natives would be allowed to cast ab- sentee ballots in the precincts from which they were evacuated by re- questing that such ballots be mailed to them. Persons who have been evacuated from their homesites as a result of the war, the Attorney General said, are placed in the same position as soldiers, who still maintain their legal residences in their home towns | although stationed elsewhere WILLKIE IN - EGYPT NOW | CAIRO, Sept. 2. — Wendell L. Willkie, enroute to Russia, India land China to tell those nations just what the United States is doing in JAPS BEING STRAFED IN - NEW GUINEA Enemy Forces Reported Moving Toward Port Moresby Base ! GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, Sept. 2. — Jap ground | forces are fighting their way over= /land in New Guinea toward Port { Moresby, the Allied base, and have also attacked Allied positions at | Kokoda with increased strength but Allied planes twice strafed the Japs heavily. R g R ATTACK ON SIBERIA IS Strong Japacenlraiions Reported as Nippons on Defensive | v | NEW DELHT, Sept. 2—Lfeut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell declared today he has just received unconfirmed re- ports that the Japs seem to be taking the defensive everywhere in |the Chinese and Burmese war the- |atres. | stilwell, United States Command- er-in-Chief for India, China and Burma, said that the Japs are known to have very strong troop concen- NOW NEAR DIES HIT BYBIDDLE INREPORT Claim Manfi? Un-Amer- ican Activities Com. Charges Unfounded WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Declar- ing that the broadside of allegations of disloyalty in the Government has not been proved, Attorney General Francis Biddle reported to Congress today that 46 Federal employees | have been dischargd and 13 other- wise disciplined after an investiga- tion of 4,579 complaints charging or affiliations. | The Attorney General- criticized | the sweeping character of the com- | plaints and stated that it was ap- parent that a large number of them were unfounded. This is “conspicu- ously true of the list submitted by Congressman Dies,” he said. He referred to the list of 1,100 names sent to the Justice Depart- ment by the House Un-American Activities Committee which Dies PRESIDENT 'MAY ACT ON - WAGE FREEZE Will Talk fo Naiion on Cost of Living on Labor | employees with subversive activities Navy Goes Info Huddle fo ForNewest Auxiliary [ RAF STAGES NIGHT RAID, 300 BOMBERS Saarbruecken, lron and| Coal Center, Under | LONDON, Sept. 2.—The Royal Air Force attacked Saarbruecken, the Nazi coal and iron center, in clear weather last night with outstanding success, the British Air Ministry nounces. More than 300 bombers were used in the night raid and only three bombers were lost. - ee RUBBER PROBE 15 COMPLETED | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Presi- dent Roosevelt's special rubber com- mittee has rounded out four weeks of investigation and authoritative sources said findings and recom- mendations will be submitted to the | President by Labor Day. : - - DISCOVER PLOT Big- Get Name American Tanks, Planes Join In Desert Fight DEFENSE AT STALINGRAD MAINTAINED BY JACK STINNETT S %, F ¢ WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 —The|0Viefs lgmlflg Hard as Navy really went into a Hollywood huddle in picking that. title, German Iaflks Pe"e' “WAVES,” for their women's aux- Mk, trate Defenses The simple title was, of course, | T Women's Naval Auxiliary Cm'])s,; MOSCOW, Sept. 2—In an un- or perhaps with the second and |usually gloomy communique early third words reversed. But in these days of alphabet agencies, that came down to WNACs or WANCs. | The first was unpronouncable. The second sounded like the bellow of a bullfrog with a Texas twang. Women'’s Reserve of the Naval Reserve was also considered and discarded. World War I had proved that “yeomanettes” (which what women serving with the Navy were called in those days) didn’t catch on, and besides in the pres- ent set-up the ratings were to be different. It was days before - some one came up with that “WAVES,” and the whole Navy started breathing | easier. They got it by that round- Robin Hood’s-barn method of des- ignating them: Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service. was | | today, the Russians acknowledged that huge German tank forces have |driven still closer to Stalingrad in |advances on two sectors of the | southwest key Volga city in a su- |preme effort to knock Russia out of the war. Russians are fighting fierce de- fensive battles northwest of Stal- {ingrad, but had withdrawn to new defensive positions on one sector in the southwest as Nazis drove a wedge' into Soviet defenses. Late this afternoon an official | communique says the Russians are | fighting hard on the front at Stal- i’mgrud against hordes of German tanks that have struck deep into the defense system, but nowhere is |there any sign of the Soviets weak- | ening, which might lead to a Ger- |man break-through on the seventh |day of the terrific battle. German Marshal Fedor von Beck Whoever thought that up (the|js throwing in waves of tanks and Navy won't tell but his namethe Nazi Air force Is in ceaseless is Lieut, Jack Allen) must have bombings. started with [‘waves” and worked back. The CIO has chased the Repub- lican National Committee right out of the house. There really are no political im- plications involved. It’s just that the CIO has bought the building at 718 Jackson Place Northwest and told the tenant National Re- | SOVIET MARINES A | MOSBCOW, Sept. 2. — A night |bulletin says Soviet Marines have | defeated the 56th Rumanian Cavalry divisions, destroying 70 percent of their strength and the battle is |growing in severity in Black Sea | coast positions. This is according [to the dispatches from the Red | Fleet. WO S . s pom, o oo oy { . i DeStI’U('IOH the present war, has arrived here by trations in Manchukuo. Day | AIMED AI GOVI. publican Committee to vacate.| | ¢ he waShlngion plane. | He added in answer to question- | The item would hardly be worth | ] MOSCOW, Sept! 2.—The Rus- . ing that he thinks there is a good — F E recortifg:. i 'thiv iwdtenit wastinio| | A s i chance they are getting ready to ~WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — From . | | sian radio has announced that a | 4 t ek Washington and office space | errY B 0 = Oun Kt 2 attack Siberia. usually reliable Administration ARG weriR kL LN it o s "heav‘) fiuge: DEIBORIEE Iniheieies: | e sources it was learned today thal QurTO, Eeuador, Sept. 2. — The |G.O.P. nati hfl.' s e | By DREW PEARSON 24 big Qres at War§aw last m‘ght‘ 1 President Roosevelt has about de- dlscuvcry. e l'tzv(rIuLlom.u' St s national headquarters is up| (Major Robert §. Allen on active duty.) in an air n_ssnult directed against | cided to stabilize wages and is de- goqi,4¢ the Ecuadorian GOVEr{)ment against it. | German miltary and industrial . . h bating as to whether this will include " annonced. Retired Army Com- ¥ WASHINGTON—The mskki‘e s;ory :urge;;Pml u;e Nazi-occupied capi | Alrmen Dle | aal}:ries as well as the control of yonder Virgillo Molina has been| Leéave it to Leon Henderson to | ; can now be told of why the Japs tal of Poland. | | farip prices. St . arrested and accused of being the |get the job of prige administration were able to land in the Aleutian All planes returned safely. | These and other major decisions . ee conspirator. done in spite of those drastic cuts Islands and bomb the U. S. Naval Besides setting major fires, the | - will probably be made by the Presi- el g 4 g 4 | base at Dutch Harbor with so raiders are said to have touched | ane ras i dent before he delivers his Labor mol:::i‘;;' ‘:;“"bh'm ry ‘Coxlsl;rg;s. I — ' little opposition. As with most off explosions and caused 30 lesser | | Day message on the cost of living. RED (Ross HAS | tion jobs in tehe ‘c‘o‘uex:tr c:‘:x;:/ml‘x;‘: H ' hings in this war, the problem fires, including two railroad sta- | U S SE(RH R eoe ton dobs n the country 15 now in Force Arrives Near Cenfer , k of foresight, and tions. | T o] 2 » o :oac:o o :(cten: Smosign. Al Sl | ‘BATON ROBER Bept: 2-—Seven | N ‘ NEw OFH(E Fon go that simple nee doudle-taced| of Africa. on Allied . iy ration. i i |Army airmen from Harding Field | brochure titled “What You Should! ; -k Navy coope! ; k A b fant |were killed last night when a two- | i % L | —_— Supply Rou'e Hot gemeniiy -knowe e 2 ol " motored bomber crashed in flames warHSVesseIApproachmg (Continued on Page Three) “ that t"he N""Yt;"l:te;;efie :l S near Angola, the State Prison of | | | wo months a - . 3 i s o o R BO Louisiana | Baltimore that Wat- g | Now pelting established in their | LONDON, Sept. 2. — American i atr base’ 5o Omnak Island to i, R T | s . new offices, th ecenter office on the e am | troops have arrived in the Belgian thé Navy's Dutch Harbor ers Are Mmed second floor of the First National Congo, according to advices received ::::d é Navy's - E1~ 4 Ex SEATILE f M | NE SHAFT Bank Building, are Kenneth Mac- |by the Belgian Government news & . s Cormac, Territorial representative agency which reported the troops What happened was that Sen- LISBON, Sept. 2—The crew of " " ;Pe o T amhet | the Portuguese freighter San Miguel 5 for the American Red Cross. and e were welcomed warmly by L{w Leo- « ~AtoE Brewster: of Maine, 2] 1 or ] i Miss Juanita Kay, Assistant Field | poldville population which: “admir- i d of | | said on arrival here that a German of the Truman Committee and o i | submarine stopped their ship outside RENTON, Wash., Sept. 2—Ben Director. ed the spirit and magnificent equip- # the Naval Affairs Committee, flew| lof Baltimore, Maryland, on July 19 Geary, airplane mechanic, made a This office will now be head- ment. 10 Alasks Inst September with Brig. PR and gave warning the waters were Search last night when his two 9uarters for the Territorial Red ar on s The Congo is near the center of . g | e i + Gen arthur wison to ascertain (rowd Restless as Youth |“strongly mined" and to accept an sons falled to return home from Ooss. All Juneau Red Oross busi | Atrios, L atimach th Allieg supply whether Alaska needed further for- Ay American escort. |an outing. He found the bodies ne&si owever, will continue to be | | rou “t‘f‘, caunArZL_ ¢ tifications. At Kodiak they met| Hangs for KI"mg The U-boat captain made a “cor- of Willard, 15, and James, 6, at ;‘:’;"dr:“ i "é{’cew"f dohn . g g e Brig. Gne;x Sh‘nu:xhnonvar Bu;:kner, Policeman dial visit” aboard the San Mi‘guel‘me Bottom of an abandoned mine M:::Ki; wfi?ex:‘;,ke e, o {Business Men Pay 41/z M|I_1‘ commander of e Army’s forces, Ll iand said he had sunk four ships, shaft, victims of “black damp gas.” % i . . ! whose father, a famous Civil War' Offi Seek § {—|Including the Greek steamer Leon- | o L fice her headguarters for the time | |ion in Bond fo Take | \ 2 | Icers Jee u Spe( | § v being, although she expects soon to | commander, once helped to Pay| BEIFAST, Ireland, Sept. 2.—All idas. The U-boat captain told the | | Ulysses S. Grant's way home from | shops and 'busrn}::s ’ofg‘c’,; él:;:d Body Is Found on - |san Miguel officers where the sur- mr‘w omceskat, e Anmy post. Mos"l‘ Star '0 lun(h | | ¥ West Point and later surrendered to| from 11 a.m. until noon today and | y vivors eould be, picked up and 20 B MEN A(E ‘w(()'n::lse :le‘:res:;t:}xv;fl:x:a] Wl?:;l — ‘ plA“ES l“ t | 2 « Grant in Tennessee. services were held in a number of Downtown Stree' ;:::lr:noo‘::d' PIcked.up snid Janded members of the armed forces. Until | PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.—Busi- Gen. Buckner wanted to go on churches for Thorn_ns Williams, 19, | P | an office is set up for Miss Kay at (ness men paid $4,547,350 today to ¢ from Kodiak to Dutch Habor with who was executed in Belfast today | gpaprLE, Sept. 2.—His head the post, any service men having [take movie star Hedy LaMarr to; Senator Erewst‘er, and although the| for the slaying of .a policeman last badly beaten, Norman Berentsen, | a problem to take up with the Red lunch. The price of admission was [ ?;v;;“b\:,;ns \;Ji;l]lélgwwm:ulgty‘“::‘hxs‘;e;r e IR 41 years old, who resigned as police | I o S E N D | ¥ |cCross may stop into the office in |2 pledge to buy $5,000 or more war they balked st having Gen. Buck. Slones at an automobile in whicn [PAUOImaR four months ago, izl R A R a0 1 ke g ‘ s = g ! Capt. C. Turner, U. S. Al i found dead this morning on a 4 4 » | RS WP | eas ner go along, referred to him as| ©apt. C. er, U. S. Army officer, headquarters in this office when he | . ‘Fll I Re 0" d '0 H v + a “hitch-hiker.” was riding along a business street. |downtown street. - is in Juneau. He plans to leave in (Flers p e ave Pinally. however. the party, ‘in.| The driver speeded up and no one| Four men have been afrosind fh | | another week for an inspection and | SIO(K 0“0““0"3 , Sh D 234 w ¥ cluding (}}‘en Buckx‘m' went on to| Was injured. connection with the killing and a ;Dn. Rum GRUBER ';urganlzing trip to the Interior, and | ek ' & I 0' own ar Dutch Harbor and located an =x.| , A 8féat arms and ammunition |fifth man with a crutch cane is | the Westward, planning to go to! NEW YORK, Sept. 2.— Closing Crafi Of Ja anese ¥ cellent site for a flying field on dump was captured Monday night |being sought. 1 lEAVES IODAY 0“ Fairbanks, Anchorage, Nome, Dutch |quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine | p f R Iind” Trnkdiately, e | in Belfast and police said the arms | Witnesses said that a crippled | “H‘“,,‘,,‘ Kodiak, and other potss. dtock todsy & 3. American Tan O, B eir return, Senator Brewster ar- atiacks ,,ha“;"“lf;"s usad £oe: ASIRGd. (DN jained Rereniyen and s Aty WAYTO VMSH.,D.(.( st | Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel 52%, CINCINNATI, Sept. 2—Asserting ranged for a Benate appropriation | f SEnLnn Eubita Mol BTOA | pantons. 0.0, neRCUE VST GRETRE vy A MiSS DOROTHY NELSON Commonwealth and Southern 4/30, that Americans should ‘f'eel more * L % e k‘ orces in Northern Ireland by the |and that the crippled man had| WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — Th?i WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—Secre- ARRIVES IN JUNEAU Curis Wright 7%, International encouraged” about the new war bill to build an air base at Umnak, | outlawed Irish Republican Army. threatened harm to all of them. [CIO has sent to the White IIowse lyopy o tye Nay .'Pmnl; K;mx sald | s Y Harvester 46%, Kennecott 29%, Planes soon to be in action, Assist- while the War Department pre-| The Irish Republican Army has ., a resolution expressing opposition to | ¢4 y Miss Dorothy Nelson arrived in noo' vou Gen f . lant Secretary of War John McCloy, by a8 charged that the presence of U. §. the Executive Board in naming “any | (2487 I his first press conference | ;... by steamer from Seattle Inst pif, *C1 e auoHe™ | reported that Army fliers have shot _— "‘:‘"’5 in Northern Ireland is an| The electric generators on a big|czax or supreme dictator” to regulate | ve months that the submarine | i.,i 15 pegin work with the Alaska Pound “'0'4 i o5 Bleel 4674, | jown 224 Jap planes since February NAVY SAYS NO act of aggression. U. S. battleship or carrier could [the economic affairs of the nation.|™eRace could be reduced to a point | ofrice of Indian Affairs as a clerk FOUNC $L0% 1, while losing only 109. ” The War Department also noti- i T fill the electric power requirements| The resolution has been dispatch- | Where it would not interfere Wwith in the voucher department. Miss | | MecCloy addressed the Veterans of . | fied the Navy of its move, since M‘?r an explorer reported a tribe |of a city the size of Néwark, N. J.|ed to presidential advisors who arc"'fl victory ‘in the war,” and noted Nelson is the sister of Miss Elizabeth | DOW' JONER. AVEnAqu Foreign “Wars at the encampment € (e Army 15 charged with protect- of fighting women in Brazil, the Such warships have power plants|drafting tentative new economic | that there has been a “steady di- Nelson, now head nurse in the Ju- The following are today’s DOW, yere He sald he based his figures 7 o arged with protect- ;ome Amazon was given to that generating an output two-thirds aslcontrols which the President may [Minution in the number of ships neau Office of Indian Affairs Hos- JODes averages: industrials 10649, on gccurate reports received up to » (Continued on Page Four) Inver in south Amer ;great as that of TVA's Norris Dam. disclose on Labor Day. sunk along our coast.” | pital. irails 26, utilities 11.66, | August 30. P s