The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1942, Page 1

| | " St o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9132. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Air Forces Beating Off Ja NIPPONS IN NEW DRIVE, ISLAND AREA Futile Aftempt Made fo Get Reinforcements to | Shattered Forces | In Washington, it is ahnounced that desperate and repeated at- | tempts by Japs to reinforce the isolated remnants of their shattered | forces on Guadalcanal Island have | met strong American aerial resist- ance. The Navy Department announced that the enemy suffered heavy losses of troops in small boats. | The communique did not say whether or not all Japs were pre- vented from landing, and it is pre- | sumed that some almost certainly | did land. Air attacks, however, are | 50 devastating that their usefulness | probably is not great. } | | Allies Thrown Back From Gen. MacArthur's head- quarters, yesterday’s dispatches said | that at a cost of more than a thou- | sand Jap casualties, the Japs threw | How the B-26 Bomber Carries a Torpedo [ Barksdale Field, Louisiana. & practice torpedo attached to the B-26. torpedo attack on a Japanese aircraft carrier. With a dummy torpedo in firing position beneath it, a Martin B-26 medium bomber is shown In flicht over This is the first photo to be released by the War Department showing even This type of plane made history at the Battle of Midway i a This is an official U. 8. Air Force photo. Defenses of Alaskaand |FORTRESSES Aleutians Submiifed by back Allied troops in the Koko- | damyole area, less than 60 miles | east of Port Moresby. | The Allied command communique | sald that the enemy, using both | frontal attacks and encirclement strategy, pushed westward toward a pass in the Owen Stanley Moun- | tains to contact Allied defense posi- R o M M E l I S tions. Destructive Raids Senate Sub-Commitiee; IsH E_hly (onfi(_lenlial Last Sunday, Gen. MacArthur's headquarters reported that Allied air forces smashed at Japanese bases | in New Guinea with three destructive raids on Buna in which numerous | landing barges, boats and atheri equipment were destroyed. Attacks were also made at Kokoda to the | west. Ground forces at Milne Bay | continued to mop up remnants of | Jap troops still holding out in the jungles near the bay. | The Washington Merry -Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON | WASHINGTON—Here is an in- side story on how different U. S. officials prosecute the war. The other day, the army needed 10,000 bales of Egyptian long staple cotton and needed it quickly. Getting that | much cotton out of Egypt at this time meant getting it practically out from under Rommel’s nose. It might get sunk, it might never leave! Egypt. | However, the War Department de- manded it, and Milo Perkins, head of the Bureau of Economic War-| fare, arranged for its immediate purchase. He also wrote a directive, | under his agreement with Jesse Jones, for the Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation to put up the money. ’ Will Clayton, Jesse’s right arm in the RFC, was away. But when he came back, he stormed over to see Milo Perkins. “I'm not going to do it,” Clayton | told Perkins flatly. “Yes, you are going to do it,” Per- kins shot back. “It’s too risky,” Clayton replied, “you can buy that cotton with Ag- | ricultural Department funds.” i “Now look, Mr. Clayton,” said Milo, “under the President’s order I have the power to set up a loan agency to buy things of this kind. So far I haven't set up such an agency, but have operated through you. However, if you're not going to cooperate, I'll set one up.” “And where' will you get the money?” asked Clayton. “T] get it from you. You forget, Mr. Clayton, that it isn't your money. It's the taxpayers' money and you are only the custodian. ‘The War Department wants this cotton and they're going to get it.” Finally Clayotn reluctantly agreed. NOTE: Will Clayton is one of the most charming and likeable men in | Washington. Before coming into the | Government he was a partner in | Anderson and Clayton, world’s big- gest cotton buyers. A Democrat, he opposed Roosevelt on most things,' | | i fli(Confinued on Page Four) SETBACK ON EGYPTFRONT Axis Marshal Given Knock- out, Opening Battle- "Second Front” (By Associated Press) In a great Allied victory in Egypt, 100 out of 290 first line Axis tanks battle, reported Wendell L. Willkie, soon after President Roosevelt had warned Germany to expect “second front” attacks possibly at a dozen points in Europe. “Rommel is in a hole,” Willkie said after arriving in Ankara, Tur- key, on his mission as Roosevelt's special emissary. “Rommel attacked the Allied posi- tions and had 100 of his 290 first line tanks knocked out by the Allied forces in the first battle. I saw the ruins of the tanks myself and am convinced that Rommel has lost 40 percent of his punch.” Allied capitals are ringing anew with Second Front speculations in the wake of the President’s broad- cast which disclosed that vital mili- tary decisions have already been made. By implication, the President re- | vealed that at least 528,000 American | troops have already been sent over- seas, or more than three times the | number sent to France in the first nine months of the first World War. g BOMB DROPS ON ICELAND: LONERAIDER Four Children Wounde But No Military Damage Done Says Report REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 8.— Four Icelandic children were wound- ed, one critically, by a bomb dropped by a lone German bomber near a village on the northeast coast. The United States Army Com- mand announced the bomb caused no military damage, - MAKE RAID (Operate Over Occupied . Territery—Roar Heard - WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—A con- A(fOSS Channe' fidential report on the Defenses of | LONDON, Sept. 8—Flying fort- Alaska and the Aleutians was given | Monday to the Senate Military Af- LIGHT VOTE IS SEEN IN JUNEAU AREA Voted by 3 o'Clock This Afternoon One of the lightest Juneau votes in years was predicted today as resi- dents cast their ballots in this divi- sion to decide only the question of whem will take seats in the Terri- torial House of Representatives next year. All other offices were not contested and a total of only 250 { persons had cast their ballots up to |8 o'clock this afternoon. Of this total, 158 voted in the City Hall in Precinct No. 1, com- Precinct No. 2, the PAA office, only 53 voters had visited the polls com- pared to 221 at the same time two Typm's ago, and in Precinct No. 3, at 1731 Willoughby Avenue, only 39 had | voted up until 3 o'clock, compared ‘!w 135 at the same time two years | Today's balloting will decide which Only - 158 Ersons Had( {pared to a like number of 419 for | | the same precinct two years ago. In | ps In Solomons President Demands that TERRIFIC Congress Gef Busy, Sall Inflation, er He Will Go Ahead Himself;Deadline Set WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.— Presi-| dent Franklin D. Roosevelt has asked Congress, in vigorous lan-| guage, for specific authority to | stabilize living costg including farm | prices, by October 1, as a means |of preventing “economic chaos.” \ | Bluntly, the President told | the legislators in a special mes- | | sage, that unless they acted, he ; | would accept .responsibility to | act himself and “take meas- ures necessary to avert disaster | that would interfere with the | winning of the war, and in- action on your part will leave | me the inescapable responsibil- | ity, The people of this country will see to it that the war ef- fort is no longer imperilled by | the threat of economic chaos.” | President Roosevelt pictured farm | prices as the key to the inflation | riddle. | The | mary of the war’s progress, -closing INDAYLIGHT * four of the following will be elected | President said the purpose to the four seats in the House: of the demanded legislation should | Democrats—James V. Davis, Andy be to hold farm prices at parity | Gundersen, R. E. Hardcastle and lor levels of a recent date, which! Crystal Snow Jenne, and Republi- 'ever is higher. ca A. Baldwin, Ralph A. | Explanation of Demand Batholomew, Frank L. Garnick and| Explaining why he wanted Cong- Edmund J. Krause. {ress to pass an anti-inflation act Two years ago, a record total vgf/e | by October 1, the President said: of 1,579 was ‘cast in Juneau to de-| “We cannot hold the actual | STALINGRAD DEFENDERS STILL HOLDING ASSAULTS RESISTED 'Red Army Beat Off Ger- mans on Battlefields g eosts ana mads mo | Stained with Blood mention of any all-powerful Board, —_— apparently thinking Congress could | (By Associated Press) work out its own methods of con-| The defenders of Stalingrad are trolling an anti-inflation campaign |this morning reported firmly re- or leave it to him to work out &rouped against the reinforced Ger- later, i man shock troops seeking to enlarge B | the new dangerous salient in the PRESIDENT TALK | western defenses by nonstop attacks. IN FIRESIDE (."l“.{ The southwestern lines were also WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. — Presi- | held during the night. iy i 3 The battlefields are stained with dent Roosevelt last night carried pa0q to the people a battle for s|,nbm—| One Red Army detachment took zation of living costs with a radio | the initiative during the night by a address, asserting that immediate raid and destrgyed the headquarters action i§ necesary to avoid a “ser- of the Rumahlan battalion below jous domestic economic crisis,” | the city. Eighty Rumanian officers warning that “if we wait two, three, | and men were slain and seven Axis four or six months it may be too ammunition trucks were blown up. late.” | Break Nazi Wedge The President’s fireside chat also| The Moscow communique this contained a front-by-front sum-| MOrping sald the Germans wedged in the Russian positions in the with a statement that in Eumpe"-Novor;ulsk:’eaén‘mewest:mcuu‘; the “aim is an offensive ugulnsu:““t“‘: ;:'" u;"‘, oI: "'““’“ & b Germany,” toward which prepara- | ‘g :‘he it o.;ec::: the. Clete Hons are progressing both in the yyans ngye lost positions to the United States and in Great Britain. | pyssians, also on the northwestern “Germany's power must be brok- | gront. en on the battlefields of i:umpe."; The Red Army on Monday was he said. “Certain vital decisions | reported hurling back the Germans will be made in due time and you ‘nonhwest of Stalingrad and beat- will know what these are and so ing off two strong assaults south- | west of the Volga stronghold. will our enemies. P airs Committee at a closed door session that lasted one hour and resses rted by aircraft from the fighter command, operated over oc- cupied territory Monday morning. one-half. | The report was made by the! Sub-committee of Military Affairs Manned by Americans. The heavily armored four-motored headed by Senator Albert B.Chand- | : ¢ ler of Kentucky. bombers crossed the English coast - kg g | heading for German positions in The report is known to havely, ., gaylight Monday, continuing been embl:aced in last u‘geks YEC- | the offensive that was sharply chal- ommendation by the President that jengeq by the German air fighting “Alaska must be held at all costs.” | forces. Senators Mon C. Wallgren, Rufus C. Holman and Harold H. Burton| were the other members of the FORTRESSES PRAISED sub-committee. FOR EFFICIENT WORK Very Confidential | Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Presumably the ‘I'ort,resses were LONDON, Sept. 8. —American fly- 5 R ing fortresses, once criticizeq as de- Chairman of the Senate MIlitary |y ient in fire power, are praised ers later that the report was of terqam and Utrecht “such a highly confidential nature | gojiand yesterday. that the Committee agreed to make| Every one of the formation of a0 comment whatsoever.” | fortresses returned intact By fighting Senator Chandler had previously | off a swarm of German fighters and in occupied >mmended to President Roosevelt | planes out of the sky. “immediate . improvement in the| “With more crews and aircraft Alaskan Military establishments, in- |like these, there ‘can be no doubt cluding airplane ferry routes to about mastery of the air over Eur Alaska.” ope,” said Maj. Gen. Spaatz Com “Vital War Step” mander of the United States Air P | Forces. Senator Chandler said that ex- “The fortr B kea’ the ‘ex- Lel:iswex dev?lupmenl, of agr:cv}l(tur.al perts again,” the air correspondent and mineral resources of Alaska as| . the London Daily Mail, wrote. e “a vital war step” was recommend- | ed to Roosevelt by the Military| Affairs Sub-committee, whose rc-IHuNT FOR port included a “comprehensive picture” of Alaska’s potential ability | to supply food for the military| Senate Finance Committee Rejects Treasury Pro- posal, Spending Levy forces in the northwest. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Reject- “As evidence of the agricultural | resources which can be developed ing the Treasury’s spending tax plan by a 12 to 0 vote, the Senate in view of the limited shipping for | supplying this vast territory from Finance Committee today narfbwed the hunt for new revenue largely | United States farms, we looked over the Matanuska Valley colony and { found this land growing nearly 30 bushels of wheat per Aacre, more| Jl,lmn 21 of barley, and more than to a proposal for a new 5 percent “Victory” levy on individual earn- ings above $624 a year, or to the |alternate 5 percent sales tax. Chairman Walter F. George of 41 bushels of oats.” R ! Georgia, said the committee had rejected by a voice vote, the $6' 'BANKER MULLEN | | - OFF FOR SOUTH billion spending tax program s mitted by the Treasury and 'is now | J. F. Mullen, President of the B. | M. Behrends Bank, left Sunday for considering the suggestion of a 5 percent tax raise for a total of the south. He will conduct busi- |ness in Seattle and San Francisco $3,650,000,000 yearly, of which $l.- 100,000 will be rebated to taxpayers. land will be absent for a month or six weeks. e — MALCOLM FAULENER RETURNS TO SCHOOL Malcolm Faulkner, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Faulkner, left by steamer over the week-end to re- turn to Lakeside School in Seattle, whre he is to complete his last Year, told the reporters that he had rec- [shooting 12 of the best GermanJ | cide races for the positions of Dele- | gate to Congress, Attorney General, | Auditor, Highway Engineer and Sen- 'ator and Representatives. | Most positions were contested in 11940, however, and today’s ballot |finds Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond running alone, Territorial | Treasurer Oscar G. Olson, likewise, land Walter P. Sharpe for Commis- |sioner of Labor unopposed along | with Arthur P. Walker, Democrat, | for Senator from the First Division. | The Republicans have no candidate for the Senate. j The polls opened at 8 a. m. and will close at 7 o'clock this evening. ‘ e { were knocked out in an opening | Affairs Committee, told the report-| o.in after a precision raid on Ro«~7WAR VIEws | ~ IN PICTURE IN VOTING Three States T_esting Pre- Pearl Harbor Poli- 1 cies Today (By Associated Press) | Support of the Presidents for- | vign policles before Pear] Harbor was again tested today as the po- litical issue in three of seven states where voters picked party nomi- nees for Federal and state offices. The pre-war records of Congress- men were campaign issues in Min- nesota, Washington and Colorado Primary balloting also was con- ducted in Maryland, Arizona, Lou- {isiana and Vermont. Pre-Pearl Harbor views figure in the contests in Washington to un- John Coffee. Former Senator C. C. Dill is seeking the Democratic fnomination to the seat vacated by Representative Charles H. Leavy, new Federal Judge appointee. The usual ponents have failed to support the Administration’s foreign views went into reverse in Minnesota, how- ever, where Walter Mickelson, pub- lisher, sought the Republican seni- { torial nomination on the claim that his opponent, Senator Joseph H. Ball, voted against the views of 20 percent of his constituents in sup- porting the President. — e COOPER TO SITKA J. C. Cooper, Public Accountant, flew. to Sitka Saturday, on a pro- fessional visit, cost of food and clothing down “I can say that all of these de- | Burn Boast | cistons will be directed toward tak-| The Nazis had boasted that Stal- approximately to the present |ing the offensive,” he concluded. |ingrad would be theirs on Monday. level beyond October 1. seat Representatives Knute Hilland contention that op-, The President further said no one could give any assurances that living costs could be held down after October 1 and what we need- ed, the President said, is an “over- all stabilization on prices, salarics, wages and profits,” in contrast to widespread predictions. The President provided no ad- CONGRESS IS RILED OVER FR'S MESSAGE Wage Stabilization, Farm| Price Ceilings, Raise Criticism WASEHINGTON, Sept. 9.~Wldc-5 spread demands for statutory con- | (rol of wages came from members | as an aroused Congress awaited the | introduction of the legislative blue- print of the President’s new pro- gram to stabilize the cost of living. Roosevelt’s statement that he | would invoke his executive powers | if Congress didn’t act by October 1 to knock down the present statutory | farm price ceilings and provide new’ taxes brought retorts that the Presi- dent is’ “pointing a pistol at Con- gress and waving a club” setting out on the uncharted seas of Presi- dential authority. Criticism arose over the language with which he conveyed his ob- jectives to Congress in his message sterday to the people in a radio fireside chat last night. These trends were discernable among legislators, but influential Democrats appeared agreed . that over-all controls over the nation’s economic machinery are needed. Many are contending that wages as well as farm prices should be stabilized by legislation, but farm state members rallied to insist that if ceilings be fixed for prices of agricultural commodities at parity levels. parity returns on all crops should be guaranteed the farmers by the Government. - e MINARD GOES SOUTH Al Minard, Superintendent of the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery at Taku Harbor, left for the south ‘on Sunday, The White House made no early; The: Germany on Moridap were announcement concernng the exact | trying desperately to -c"ck e time that the President would ™ B gl ol Fiaingtell speak, because it was feared that ¢ Md m' ndup?.wheu Mpndag ];lc- Axis nations would make an at-:f‘;f,e blow. w;:: ;:e flé::nl::f :’x:c: Taie. pustadly, % web numounced | enat SRR o ok ’ ced | further and save the steel town on that the speech would be given at|the west bank of the Volga. 5:30 p. m, Juneau time. i e e alEEB e RUMORSAYS JAPS READY FOR RUSSIA Chinese Believe Break Be- CHURCHILL ALSOHINTS OFFENSIVE British Prime Minister, € Times Speech with tween Two Nations Roosevelf'sMessage | Is Imminent | CHUNGKING, Sept. 8—Reports are ‘circulating in foreign circles |here that Jap Ambassador Salo presented recent “suggestions” that |the Soviet Government found un- |acceptable and as a result a break into open conflict between Japan this afternoon, indicating that |and Russia is expected at any mo- British preparation to enter di- |ment. rectly in the battle for Russia if | The reports do not specify what necessary is underway. | suggestions Japan is alleged to have Confidence was reflected by 'made. They said however, that the British Prime Minister in | they were lald before the Russians the Allied situation generally since the resignation of Foreign in the air and at sea specfi- |Minister Togo last week. cally and also in the vital An Army spokesman here sald western desert in Egypt. in a press conference that China {has no new knowledge of Jap troop LONDON, Sept. 8.—Winston movements outside of China, buf Churchill told the House of Com- 'that reports reaching other quarters mons today that storming Hitler’s here continue to describe a steady Europe at Dieppe was an “indis-|flow of Jap forces into Mancho- pensable preliminary” to bigget ums ukuo across the border from Si- BULLETIN — LONDON, Sept. 8~—The British Army is rapidly being strengthened in Iran and Irag and “may eventually give support” to Russia’s imperilled left flank, Churchill disclosed dertakings. beria. He said that Britain’s army in| ——————— and relatively than it has ever IAKES ovER been.” [ Britain, he reported in a war| AlASKA RAII.ROAD summary as Parliament reconvened, to maintain a successful defense of | The Alaska Railroad, formerly Egypt not for days and weeks, but under the Department of the In- for several months ahead.” |terior, has been taken over by the Continued Trend | United States Army to further the what Churchill termed the con- today. tinuing trend in the Allies' favor| The move has been expected for since the last report, with complete some time. Tt is understood that accord between Britain and the U.|the personnel will retain its status Egypt is “now stronger chnuy‘ARMY “may be confident of our ability —— These specific details fitted into war effort, it was learned here (Continued on Page Three) quo,