The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 4, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9130. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1942 ___MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e ALLIED WARPLANES SMASH ON PACIFIC 4 (4 (4 (4 & 4 & (4 & L4 (4 (4 04 L4 (4 L4 4 L4 4 4 Havoc Inflicted On Jap Invasion Armies DeWitt Tells Gruening Clipping of Newspapers Not Justified or Needed The morale damaging puzzle of why Alaskans have been receiving their newspapers, magazines and other periodicals from the States, so badly mutilated by censors’ shears as to be hardly worth start- ing the morning fire with, was on the way to being solved today with the return to Juneau of Gov. Ernest Gruening. Alaska’s chief executive arrived by plane yesterday afternoon, back from a trip to San Francisco on matters relating to the Territory’s defense and other problems. He brought word from Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, head of the West- ern Defense Command, that the commanding general's office has had nothing to do with the prac- tice of clipping incoming publica- tions, and, in additon, considers such censorship unnecessary and unjustifiable. No Military Reason ‘Thus, the discriminating proced- ure seems to be entirely placed in the hands of a civilian agency, the Office of Censorship. And the reas- on for such censorship, it is indi- cated by Gen. DeWitt’s attitude, has no bearing on the military se- curity of the Territory because the commanding general of the West- ern Defense Command, himself vi- tally interested in ‘the military se- curity, declares the practice of clip- ping publications unnecessary. The Governor's statement on the subject follows: “I think it important for the people of Alaska to know that as far as the Western Defense Com- mand—which has military respon- sibility for Alaska—is concerned, it has no desire, thought or purpose of censoring for Alaska any com- munications or publications that have appeared in print in the Unit- ed States proper and have there- fore presumably been subject to the rules and regulatons of censorship The Washingiun Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert &. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Now that Josef Stalin himself has publicly an- nounced that Russia stands in greater danger than ever before in history, it is possible to reveal that Stalin did some equally plan talk- ing to Winston Churchill in Mos- cow. Newspaper accounts featured the state banquet given to Churchill, the toasts, the champagne, the caviar, the pleasant social side of the visit. But in his across-the-table talks with Churchill, with only two in- terpreters present, Stalin was not at all rosy. He laid it on the line then, just as he did later in his public statement, and just as his ambassadors have to the British and American Governments—that Russia was in extreme danger and that a second front must be set up immediately. Stalin engaged in some extreme- ly tough talking, and despite the cheerful press dispatches cabled from London, Churchill felt any- thing but happy as a result of his Russian visit. KAISER PAYS PENALTY Donald Nelson, Admiral Emory Land, and Pulitzer Prize playwright Robert Sherwood were talking' at a luncheon given in honor of the Premler of New Zealand. Tough seadog Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, was growling about the press. “Damn these newspapermen,” he said, “playing up this man Henry Kaiser. “However, I don't blame them as much as I do Kaiser,” the Admiral continued. “He is the one who stirred up the whole rumpus, de- spite the fact that he ought to (Continued on Page Four) - existing throughout the country. DeWitt Sends Opinion “I have just discussed this mat- ter specifically in San Francisco with Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Com- mand. He assured me, and gave me permission to quote him, that he deemed such censorship un- necessary and unjustifiable. “Whatever clipping of newspapers or interference with news dispatch- es is now taking place or may take place henceforth may be ascribed directly to the Office of Censor- ship in Washington —a civilian agency. “As it is clear that no military reason or justification exists for this practice, I shall, needless to say, continue my efforts to the utmost extent to cause its abro- gation. I consider it not only thoroughly unjustifiable but in- jurious to the morale of Alaskans and of our armed forces here, and therefore positively objectionable. Asks Information “I desire to receive at my office in Juneau any information on the subject of and magazines arriving in Alaska which have been mutilated by cen- sors, and 'information concerning the deletion of material from news dispatches printed in the 48 states.” The practice of censorship was | American newspapers FIGHTING IN SUBURBS OF STALINGRAD Reinforced Germans Thrust Info Immediate Ap- | proaches of City (By Associated Press) On the Russian front today, Nazi headquarters asserted that German troops have fought their way to the western suburbs of Stalingrad. Tass, the official Soviet news |agency, acknowledged that fighting| Aleutians. is in process on the “immediate ap-| Citations were given Capt. Elbert proaches” to the city and their|Meals, Salt Lake City; Frederick dispatches said that battles with- Andrews, Omaha; Major Robert out precedent in violence are l'agAiMason, Houston, Texas; Major ing on the northern and southern|Philip Durfee, San Anselmo, Cal- | approaches to the city. |ifornia; Major Russell Cone, Cham-~ General Ledor Von Bock threw:pagn‘ Illinois; and Captain Henry 25 divisions, or upwards of 375,000 Taylor, Abington, Mass. troops into the assault. | In addition, Captain Ira Winters “Hitler's tank columns, decimated:mute, of Salem, Oregon, was award- | previous gagements, have been ed a Disfinguished Flying Cross for | considerabiy replenished,” Tass said.|coolness and courage under fire. German planes are reported at-| Additional awards announced late tacking the city regularly in waves this afternoon included a posthu- of 150 or more. mous award of a Flying Cross to | In the Caucasus, Hitler’s field|Capt. Jack Todd of Shreveport. headquarters say that German Also Distinguished Flying Crosses troops have crossed the Kerch to First Lt. Kenneth Dorthamer; | strait between the Crimea and the First Lt. Manley Chancellor of Ma- Caucasus mainland and are now con, Mississippi; Second Lt. James Cite Army Fliers for {Seven Air C?ps Men Hon- ored for Distinguish- ed Service ;‘seven more United States Army Alr |Corps officers have been cited for | distinguished service and heroism |in attacks on the Japanese in the hazardous flying weather of the Aleutians| | | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 4. — ROMMEL'S © COLUMNS GETJOLT Falling Back Under Ter- | . rific Fire and Power | of Allied Forces (By Associated Press) Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s attacking Russian defenses on the Black Sea coast. - e | Lt. Herbert White, of Lufkin, Texas. The Order of the Purple Heart larmored columns, jolted by terrific Allied fire and power, are reported | to have fallen back in the Battle | 'of Egypt under another record breaking assault by British and American warplanes. The British communique this morning said the main Axis forces _ are retreating slightly to the west- ward. - e — NAZI TANKS WITHDRAW INDESERT naf Allied Forces Tighening ““Vise About Germans one of the chief subjects for dis- cussion at the recent initial meet- ing of the Alaska War Council which adopted a resolution con- demning the practice of clipping. The resolution charged among other things that the scissors work »n the part of the postal censors was a waste of time and the taxpayers’ money. All Alaskans wishing to submit examples of such censorship should mail or bring their complaints in person to the Governor's Office, Federal Building, Juneau, Alaska. PRO-AXIS MINISTER | IS FIRED Gen. Franco Removes 0wni Brother-in-law as | Foreign Official 1 In Beauty Contestfi (By Assocaited Press) ! It is officially announced in Ma-| drid that ardent pro-Nazis Ramon Serrano Suner, brother-in-law of | Generalissimo Franco, has been ousted as Foreign Minister by Franco himself. | The ousting of Suner is accepted | in the United Nations as a slight lifting of the clouds in that corner of the Mediterranean and on the other hand, Axis sources showed was awarded Second Lt. Edward McIntyre, Fayetville, N. Y.; and Second Lt. Verne Peterson, Denver. A Distinguished Service Cross was awarded posthumously to Capt. George Thornbrough, Boise, Idaho, and to Col. Willilam Eareckson of Reno went a Distinguished Service Cross. HITLER IS EXTENDING WAR DRAFT Scouts Conquered Coun- fries for Manpower- Compulsory Service BERN, Sept. 4—Reports of Ger- man efforts to raise troops in oc- " in Egypt Warfare BY EDWARD KENNEDY (Asscciated Press Correspondent) WITH ALLIED FORCES IN EGYPT, Sept. 4.—German tank columns withdrew - this morning ‘rom part of the stovepipe shaped wea into which they have been pushing since dawn on Monday. British tanks and armored cars noved forward, tightening the Al- ied vise about the Germans on hree sides. . 816 FLEET IS ASSEMBLING AT GIBRALTAR LONDON, Sept. 4.—A radio broadeast from Vichy, picked up restraint and suggested that Gen. Franco is being asked to explain why he has ousted the ardent pro- Nazist. cupied Norway, Alsace-Lorraine and Estonia, indicate that Hitler is starting his fourth year of war by scouring Europe for manpower, with no source too small to be tapped here this afternoon, says a large number of merchant ships bearing huge fuel cargoes have arrived at Gibraltar, { German newspapers generally be- trayed surprise at the shift in the Foreign Ministry particularly be- cause Suner just recently returned from important conversations in Rome and the Vatican City. Scandinavian newspapers attrib-| uted Suners dismissal to Franco’s determination to keep Spain neu-| tral. NEW YORK GAS BLAST - KILLS ONE Others Criti?lly Injured in Fashionable Apart- ment in Gotham NEW YORK, Sept. 4—An explos- lion in the fashionable Buchanan | | apartments on the East Side killed |Mrs. Davis Oswald and critically linjured her maid and also several Mrs. H. Gilligan became the mo- |others. jther of a son yesterday in st.| The blast, believed to have heenj Ann's Hospital, the baby weighing caused by gas, was heard for 10 | selected to represent Baltimore at the annual “Miss America” beauty contest in Atlantic cCity. | Bettye, 18, has blondish red hair i and blue eyes. Bettye Mitchell, above, has been | i | A Berlin dispatch said that Nazi civil administration in Alsace-Lor raine has extended compulsory mili- tary service to that former French region, whose men previously could serve only on a voluntary basis. | In Estonia, Nazi administrators announced Hitler has “given his D e CStADShlent Of wa|COtt 207/8, New York Central 9, an legion. Volunteers once|wounern pacific 6, United States signed must serve for the duration.| gy o) se Saund “0'4 & In Norway where the call for ‘ sk volunteers is said to have had vir- | tually no response, Quislingites of military age are reported being mo- | bilized for action against the Sov- iets. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—American can 67, Anaconda 25'%, Bethlehem Steel 53, Commonwealth and Sou- thern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, In- ternational Harvester 46%, Kenne- DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrals 103.39, rails 26.25, utilities 11.57. No-S-A;Year Man s That Man Murphy of U.S. Supreme Court BY JACK STINNETT the annals of the U. S. Supreme WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—He's the | Court, you would never find a jus- Army’s only no-dollar-a-year-mahn. |tice who “took a vacation” to join If you went back through Army |the armed forces as he did. - | annals to the days when men| I'm talking about bushy-browed,! fought for glory or convictions and |[52-year-old Frank Murphy, the not for booty or pay, you might|bachelor associate justice who is But if you searched (Continued on Page Three) 7 pounds, 1 ounce, ]blocks. |find his equal. Slump of Jap Aerial Strength Is Mystery; May Plan New Move; /(By Associated Press) The mystery of the slump in Japanese aerial strength in the Southwest Pacific, coupled with the continued withdrawal of enemy im on Armies in China, has renewed speculation that Japan is preparing to soring a big scale attack else- where in the Pacific. Siberia, India, or even the United States have been cited as likely objectives for the at- tack. A communique from Mac- Arthur’s headquarters today Maj. Kermit Roosevelf Takes Part in Alaska Adion Against Japs Wash? | Drink, Shave, Corporal Walters, member of an American tank crew in North Africa, appears to be having a difficult time deciding what to do with his day’s ration of water. While on the desert this is all he gets and it's tough deciding whether it's worth going without a shave and wash or to drink it, or, vice versa. FRANCE HAS T0 CUT HER COFFEEMORE Maximum Reduced to Thir- ty Percent-Substitutes Are Announced VICHY, Sept. 4—France has cut her coffee mixture from a maxi- mum of 30 pereent to 20 percent, it is announced. Some 16 products are announced that may be mixed with real cof- fee including , Jerusalem ar- tichokes, 'pulp and chicory. —————————— TO ABSENTEE VOTERS If you are & qualified voter of Juneau, and are leaving town before Election Day, Tuesday, September 8, g0 to the United States Commissioner’s Office in the Federal Bullding and cast an absentee Vvoter's ballot be- fore 1 o'clock, Saturday— to- morrow—afternoon, Be sure to vote! DIRECT HITS ARE SCORED MANY AREAS Enemy Trofis— Strafed by, Devastating Atfacks, Aerial Offensive | (By Associated Press) | American and Allied warplanes are smashing across the far Pacific | skles on a 3,500-mile front, and are officially credited with Inflicting havoc on Japan's invasion armies from China to the Solomons. In China, a bulletin from Gen. Joseph Stilwell’s headquarters an- | nounced that Army fliers have scored direct bomb hits on Japanese head- quarters at Nanchang and have blasted a fleet of 25 big troop-laden junks, probably sinking seven Jap steamers. On Other Flights “Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese and a number of boats were burned. “In another flight the fliers straf- ~ ed a Japanese troop-laden train of 12 cars going north on the Kiukiang- Nanchang Rallway. The train was | loaded with army trucks, artillery AT AN ADVANCED ARMY BASE | ang horses. The locomotive was de- [IN ALASKA, Aug. 24—(Delayed)— stroyed and heavy damage was !Major Kermit Roosevelt, son of |caused to material. |“Teddy” and veteran of the first| “In the afternoon, American that Allied fliers have been un- challenged by enemy planes in attacks on two big Jap bases in Burma and the northern tip of the Solomons, Lae and New Guinea, Landbased bombers ranged far over the Pacific to attack Buna and B 26s attagked Lae. Meanwhile, on the China war front, Jap invasion armies have abandoned another key point, apparently in voluntary retreat, as Chinese dispatches reported recapturing an important high- way and river center of Lupao, 25 miles northwest of Canton. | World War and various European 1fronts I this one, took part in his- first action with the Japanese as! his enemies when he rode on a tighters bombed Nanchang in the ocongested Japanese area ¥ of town, where many hits were scor- ed. Direct hits were made on head=~ quarters and large warehouses.” bomb Kiska Island. omber mission over a Island. One U. 8. P i | Major Roosevelt saw at first hand These are highlights of a devas- | the difficuities of aerial battle over [ e Alatitiains - whih: B losed in | tN8 United States aerial offensive | B o L g en‘ s Shoeg |carried out with the loss of ‘only a and prevented any sight of K‘“k"'\slngle American plane. Moreover | The Japanese fliers did not brave o American Air Force Sky Drag- |the clouds or the bombers’ guns ons, as the admiring Chinese de- and offered no opposition to the gerihe them, are reported to have | reconnaissance. Anti-aircraft guns ghot down five Japanese planes yes- on Kiska also were silent as they |terday in a battle over Kweilln in usually are when bombers hover Chekiang Province. over the island in fog. | In the southwest Pacific, Allled Major Roosevelt returned to his bombers set big fires raging at the quarters here, expressing regret Japanese base at Salamaua, New that he was unable to get a chance Guinea, and bombed enemy sea- to drop bombs on the N‘pmnew_‘phnea at Faisl. They destroyed b | fuel dumps at Baku and targets at | “I never had the pleasure of hav- | the upper Solomons |ing them as enemies before. Kleta, all in the uppe 3 In' the last war, you will l.emembm_"and machinegunned Japanese troops they were glorious allies.” in the Kokoda area on New Guinea |and pounded seaborne Jap forces in | Roosevelt warned against under- :;\ A m; g:lnmons. » estimating Japanese ability. and | | said, ,“When I returned from Meso- | ————————— potamia during the last war on my |way to transfer from th Britsh to | |the American Army, I traveled on a small, 640-ton Japanese cruiser which was doing convoy duty with |the Allies. They were very effi- icient.” Roosevelt received his commission |as a United States Army officer |after he returned from European fronts, including Finland, and Nor- | way. Roosevelt helped organize | FOR POLICE 4] tension in Ulster, | British commandos. Polifi(al Ba"‘e in Noflhefn e | Republican Island WORKER | . u Continues | BELFAST, North Ireland, Sept. \IS KIllED o“ 4~—The explosioh of a time bomb |outside police barracks at Randals- | town, in northern Ireland, ,precipi- 4 tated a sharp gun battle between F E joB the police and the Irish Republi- | can guerillas at the Northern Ire- \land Eire border, heightening the the capital of ‘ SANDUSKY, Ohx, Sept. 4—One northern Ireland. member of the crew of the sand| No casualties were reported from |sucker on Kelley Island was scalded the gun battle. Two of the ate to death in the boiler room in an tackers escaped during the night, explosion, it was reported today. but the police pressed their round- The victim was Louis Gessner, of up of suspected political agitators, Sandusky. Coast guardsmen said which by morning resulted in 80 he was cleaning out fires when a arrests. steam line broke. He was alone in the room. R B ] " FIREALARMS A small fire, resulting from the ol range in the Royal Cafe was Two Juneau men were fined $20 :::.;D:: ez:‘:l""‘:‘:“':‘l°“'"::l“u‘na’;;“°m' each in U. 8. Commissioner Felix i) Gray's Court yesterday on charges ::pr:t:‘z“'l:‘m Uittle damage: The of speeding on the Douglas High-| During the mid-forenoon a teles way. Arrested by Territorial lvllgh--‘“,hone call caused the same number way Patrolman Emmett Bothelo, |4 to pe sounded but the firemen they are Harvey Sims and James’could not find any smoke even when Demeer. Both pleaded guilty. they reached the scene, JUNEAU MEN ARE FINED | OGN SPEEDING CHARGES |