The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 5, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LIX., NO. 9131. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMRBER 5, 1942 — ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIETS STOP NAZLS ON BLOODY PLAINS o L4 L4 Axis Retreatin Brazil Decides on War RAF,RUSSIAN PLANES RAID NAZI CITIES Punishing Whi psaw As- sault Dealt Out by Allied Airmen BUDAPEST IS HIT FOR FIRST TIME British Fighters Chase Ger- man Bombers Over England LONDON, Sept. 5.— British and| Russian airmen administered al punishing whipsaw assault upon Germany from the west and east | last night, the Royal Air Force kindling big fires in Bremen and! the Russians scattering bombs over | eastern Germany and occupied Po- | land. Meanwhile, unidentified Allied raids on Eastern Germany, failed to name the cities attacked, but the British radio quoted Scandi- navian dispatches from Berlin as saying. . that .the . targets included Vienna in Austria, Koenigsburg, city in East Prussia, and Breslau in German Silesa. At the same time, it wss reported that four persons were killed and 10 injured by bombs jettisoned from Germa:: raiders being chased over an East Anglican town by RAF fighters. Three houses were demolished. e MR. AND MRS. SAM ASP RETURN TO TENAKEE TODAY Mr. and Mrs, Sam Asp, who have been in Juneau for the past week are returning today aboard ‘he Hyak to Tenakee where Mr. Asp is a cannery operator. In Juneau they have been guests at the Barnof Hotel. The Washingiufi Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — Standing out against some of the discouraging developments of the war is one very encouraging factor—the im- proved cooperation between the navies of Great Britain and the United States. Naval and military cooperation always 'is difficult between Allies. Different customs, different train- ing, sometimes different languages makes teamwork almost impossible at the start of any war. And it takes real statesmanship—military, naval and political—to improve it. To illustrate, cooperation between the United States, Britain and the Dutch touched bottom during the battles around the Dutch East In- dies. Since then tremendous im- provements have been made; but at that time the United Nations hurriedly had thrown together | what ships Admiral Tommy Hart| had in the Philippines; together | with what the Rritish had left after losing the Prince of Wales and the Repulse off B8ingapore; and finally the very small fleet the Dutch could muster around| Java and Sumatra. Admira] Hart, then ‘past retire- ment age, but with a good fighting record, was placed in command of the United Fleet, and in the Battle of ‘Macassar Straits managed to sink a large number of Jap trans-| ports. After this action, Hart’s scouts| saw approaching a much larger| Japanese fleet, including what ap-| peared to be 8-inch gun cruisers, guarding a great convoy. Hart's own fleet was inferior. So he faced one of the vital decisions of war: whether to save his fleet | (4 S President Getulio Vargas (upraised cony at Rio de Janeiro on the eve huge Brazilian throng the nation tacks on Brazilian ships by Axis U- and his wife (hand on chin), liste faced aides. Ala 1942 ALASKA SALMONPACK, §45 MILLION War Conditions Cut Million and Quarter Cases Off Tofal Alaska’s 1942 salmon pack totals an approximate 5,000,000 cases val- ued at an estimated $45,000,000, Clarence L. Olson, Fishery Manage- ment Supervisor of the Fish and wildlife Service, announced today. This compares with last year's total pack of approximately 6,700,000 | cases worth $57,000,000, but Olson | states that due to war conditions the 1942 pack has been cut by at least a million cases, because the Bristol Bay district would have packed a million and a quarter cases instead of 450,000. Southeast Alaska accounted for approximately 2,500,000 cases, about half of the pack. It is expected that this number will be exceeded. Olson said that the 3 percent over- age may bring the 1942 total pack above the 5,000,000 mark. The Kodiak district has an ap- proximate 485,000 cases this year, | the Cook Inlet district, 280,000. The | pack in Prince William Sound and Copper River. district already has exceeded the half-million mark. KILL NAZIS INHOLLAND | UPRISINGS LONDON, Sept. 5.—ihe news agency Aneta quoted the Swiss newspaper Sentinelle as saying that several Germans and Dutch Nazis were killed in the Netherlands in recent clashes which indicated that| the immediate events in Germany ember, 1918, when the German peo- (Continued on Page Four) ple overthrew the government.” 14 4 |ALLIED UNITS || Marines Hold Milne Bay- (4 4 4 CRUISER OF JAPS BOMBED, | Nippons Are Routed in Last Charge | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- | ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. 5—Al- 1 lied bombers attacked a Japanese cruiser off the southeast coast of B ' forts of the Japanese to retake the 1 | hand), spoke from the palace bal- of the declaration of war to tell a would “react” to unprovoked at- boats. His daughter, Alzira (left), ned to the speech as did serious- skaMustBeHeld At All Costs — Japs ~ Driven Quf—Chandler WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—Senator Albert Chandler of Kentucky ex- presses hope that the “High Com- mand will be awakened to the ne- cessity of holding. Alaska at all costs.” He said this upon his return to the nation's capital from an in- spection trip to Alaska. Senator Chandler submitted a full New Guinea early today but the ‘resul'.s are not known. | There is no change in the Milne 1’ Bay sector. The last report received in supreme occupancy and all ef- large section have been futile, in fact the last enemy movement was | on Thursday which resulted in a | rout. LABORDAY WILL SEE NEW SHIPS Part of Celebration Mon- day fo Be Launchings | and Keel Layings (By Associated Press) | More than 150 tough fighting ships and many other types of vessels will be launched or have their keels laid on Monday in the Labor Day program which the Na has termed “Another naval virtory won by the workers of Am- | eriea® LS ... Navy in announcing what 4 4 STALINGRAD, HOLDER OF RUSSIA’S DESTINY ! Russia's greatest industrial city, Stalingrad, above, now lies open to siege by the withering might has enabled them to advance more than 500 miles into Russian territory since the start of their all-out drive little more than two months ago. loss of Stalingrad might render the Red Army incapable of further resistance since production of tools of war may be cut much to continue battle against Germany's mechanized hordes. This view of Stalin- grad was taken when the city was being transformed into the industrial giant it now is. Houses seen at the left were being torn down and replaced with modern dwellings seen at right. 1,568Killed B " InReprisal NOWRAGING AMERICANS IN RAID ON OCC.FRANCE ng Forl@es Hit Rail Yards-All Planes | Back Safe LONDON, Sept Flyi | | 5.— American {report to President Roosevelt and probably will be a record day of (light and heavy bombers made two mans have executed 1568 C: Admiral Leahy, recommending that shipbuilding activity, did not specify 'attacks on targets in occupied 4 & 4 For Heydrich Czech Spoke_s?n_an Says 54 Whole Families Ex- ecuted by Nazis LONDON, Sept. 5.—The Ger- chs, including 54 whole families regard- the Japs be driven from Kiska pow' many of the total will be France early this morning and all Jess of sex or age in reprisal for Island. launched, but in at least 75 ship- American bombers returned safely. the ass: Senator Chandler, and Senators yq g jn 27 states, champagne will|8ix Allied fighters were missing. Mon C. Wallgren of Washington and ! Rufus C. Holman of New Mexico will also report on their findings to an executive session of the full Sen- ate Military Affairs Committee on Monday. “The continued presence of the Japs on Kiska,” said Chandler, “con- stitutes a menace and a threat to the safety of the people of the Unit- ed States, and they must be re- moved at the earliest possible mo- ment.” Chandler added that the commit- tee had recommended immediate improvement of Alaskan military establishments, including airplane ferry routes to Asia. CARDS GAIN HALF GAME ONDODGERS Chicago Blasts Out Victory Over Pitfsburgh Pirates ‘(By Associated Press) The St. Louis Cardinals took a third inning lead over Cincinnati in the National League yesterday and stayed in front to win and gain a half game on the idle Brooklyn Dodgers who now only lead the Cards by four games. Chicago, meanwhile, deteated Pittsburgh as Siram Bithorn held the Pirates helpless until the ninth when a single, walk and two doubles gave the Pirates their only runs. 5 5 Pierre Esprit Radisson and Me- dard Chouart, Prench explorers, are “as serious as those in Nov-|were the first white men known|Mediterranean Thursday night by to have set fool within what Is no Minnesota, be splashed against the prows of new ships, or keels will be laid { In some yards, there will be 1no| ceremonies so that the men can keep working. CHURCHMEN “ ARE KILLED BYGERMANS 'Nazi News Agency Repors Execution of Three af Prague LONDON, Sept. 5—A Prague dis- patch, broadcast by DNB, Nazi news agency, said today that ajf Czechoslovak chaplain, parson, and |a church elder, have been executed at Prague. | The dispatch did. not make clear {whether there was any duplication i between these victims and the 19 persons, including two women, who {Czech government circles said ear- |lier had been put to death. THREE AXIS SHIPS SUNK BY ALLIES , CAIRO, Sept. 5—Three Axis ves- sels, including a destroyer, were set: afire and probably sunk in the | | | | | | J | | Allied bombers and torpedo planes, British Headquarters announce, The planes bombed the docks at LeHavre during the morning and soon afterwards, three squadrons of Flying Fortresses attacked the railway yards at Rouen from a high level. ? — e Ballofs Fail To Arrive in 2ndDivisio With the Territorial General Elec-| tion slated for next Tuesday, ad- vices reaching the Empire today from Nome state that no election ballots have yet been received in' the Second Division. Although a | Territrial law states that in the absence of ballots, voters may write their own ballots, Second Division | officials fear that a very light vote | would result. ! It is understood that the Board| of Administration met in Juneau this morning, discussed ths ques- tion and authorized the Clerk of | the Court to distribute the ballots by plane to outlying Second Div- ision precincts providing the bal- ots arrive®in time, S e TAKU SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS AVERAGE YEAR Al Minard, superintendent of the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery at Taku Harbor, in Juneau on his way south, reports the conclusion of an “average season.” “It would have been an excep- tionally good season, except that the fish came in too late. The i | | ssination of Qlestapo hang- Reinhard Heydrick, Czech nmeft Spokesmen said today man Gover ROOSEVELT BROADCASTS ON MONDAY WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.— Presi- dent Roosevelt will broadcast Mon- day evening according to an of- ficial announcement made at the White House this morning. The Chief Executive has been busy with his message that may cover severgl very important subjects. oot REDS LOSE: TO BROWNS, AMERICAN (By Associated Press) Led by veteran John Niggerling who hurled & four-hit shutout, and youthfub Vernon Stephens who blasted -out his thirteenth homer, St. Louis defeated Cleveland in the American League yesterday in twin bill, the only contests in that league. .- K. C. TALMAGE IS CRITICALLY 1L Kenyon €. Talmage, Junior Ad- ministrative Assistant for the Alaska Game Commission, is said to be in a critical condition today in St. waters are still full of them, but Ann’s Hospital, where he has been lthe season is over,” Minard said. 1l since last Saturday. Military experts have cl (4 4 & L4 4 g Before Allies In Egypt " . | BIG ATTACK,. STALINGRAD, NOW HALTED Russians Even Storm Into German Lines, Cap- ture Booty WAVERING ENEMY IS UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE U. S. Tanks and -Planes Crash Rommel’s Forces in Three-Day Atfack (By Associated Press) Marshal Timoshenko’s Armies, rallying in the hour of their deep- est crisis, have stopped the Ger- mans on the bloody plains before Stalingrad and have even stormed into Nazi lines northwest of the Volga steel city to capture booty and prisoners. Further good news for the United Nations came today from the Egyptian battlefront, where the British reported a new Axis retreat on the southern end of the 35-mile Jine, Today's . dispatches declare ‘that ‘British troops. have beaten off three heavy counter- attacks . against newly won posi- tions on the center. Pushing Axis Back This communique said that Axis forces “again moved slightly west- ward” from their third straight de- feat in the El Himeimat sector on the rim of the great Qattara salt basin on the center. The British command said that tank-led Axis infantry, attempting points captured by the night, ran into of artillery German armies whose med that the ATTLE IS | ATKINHWA (Chinese Officially Report- ed Gaining Upper | Hands on Japs lto_regain British Thursday a withering barrage CHUNGKING, Sept. 5—The Chi- nese High Command today said| fire. British troops then charged the severe fighting continues in the outskirts of Kinhwa and nearby, wavering Germans and Italians and drove them off. ‘Luuchi “with the Chinese steadily| Cairo dispatches said that the gaining the upper han British, supported by United States | Kinhwa is 85 miles southwest of tanks and planes, maintained heavy | Hangchow, Provincial capital city pressure on the enemy all day yes- of Chekiang Province. The largest terday, “amid considerable fight=- ’uirport of the Japanese is situated (at Kinhwa. It was recently recap- | ing.” tured by the Japanese, ‘The Chinese have thrown a cor- don around the area and although the Japanese reinforcements are |arriving, they have been unable to|successive dayssof withdrawals and break the Chinese lines, the com- | are halting the all-out Nazi assault | munique says, on Stalingrad. Dispatches to the Red Star said that-Marshal Von Bock is now “as- |sembling his last forces in an |effort to break through .to the | voiga.” The Soviet bulletin declared that their troops are continuing to e ey pA S S ES I N “decimate the enemy's manpower [ !and equipment” and that anti-tank HollywooD‘gunnem are pumping explosive | | i On Russian Front On the Russian front, the Soviet High Command reported in its midday bulletin that the Red | Armies have stiffened ‘after three I | charges into German tanks at close range, —————— CANNERYMEN IN TOWN FROM EXCURSION INLET HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5.—Death, 1t 43, today claimed J. Walter Ru- | ben, who began his motion picture jcareer as a studio film distributor| Mr. and Mrs. Ole Syre and A. C. I;m(l rose to become director and Adams are in Juneau from Excur= producer. He was the second hus-|sion Inlet where Mr. Syre is sup- band of screen actre: Virginia erintendent of the Astoria and Pu- Bruce, |get Sound cannery and Mr. Adams -e il |1s bookkeeper. | | They are staying at the Gastin- g 2 | their business here. 0f Nippons ‘A Mother to Me Sure” cast picked up here from Tokyo as- o er o e u’e Sunda Islands between Timor and Jewell Rickerson game preserve ment, however. |and a bantam rooster which passes women are actively employed in| Just before the start of the |eau Hotel and will return to Ex- | cursion Inlet at the completion of : ——— "Daddy You' "Daddy You've Been BERLIN, Sept. 5—A radio broad- serts Japanese troops sent from Sr— Timor have occupled several small| DURANT, Okla., Sept. 5—At the the Dutch East Indies there is a male pheasant which There has been no official state- |insists on setting on a nest of eggs, - | his time mothering two baby quail. Approximately 95000 Russian —— . the oil industry at Baku, on the European war, United States cus- Casplan Sea. tom receipts were $359,000,00 a year,