The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1942, Page 1

3 - HE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LIX., NO. 9133. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 9, 1942 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIES FIGHTING JAPS WITH BAYONETS Hitler’s Reserves Now Enter Bloody Fighting UNOFFICIAL RETURNS - FIRST DIVISION - TERRITORIAL ELECTION - SEPT. 8, 1942 B1G DRIVE NAZI TANKS STORM WEST STALINGRAD Red Army Still Holds Strong-Beats Off As- saults in South GERMAN PLANESIN | MASS AIR ATTACKS Soviets Outnumbered in Caucasus Buf Resist Stubbornly (By Associated Press) Adolf Hitler, frenziedly driving his armies to capture Stalingrad, | *g today threw in fresh masses of men and armor to join the bloody assault, but the Russians declare that they are holding firmly on all sides. German headquarters asserted | that tank-leq Nazi troops have| stormed and captured the “domin- ating heights” of the fortified zone west of Stalingrad after swbbom% fighting. | On the southern flank of the battle for this great steel metropo- lis, the Russians said that Red | Army mortar batteries and rifle- BABY | . . week-old alligators at a Los Angeles alligator farm. U.S. AIRMEN | BOMB NALZIS IN DAYLIGHT RAF Official Calls It Most *GAT O R S_Gerrie Noonan sits beside a pen of twoe men have killed 350 Axis troops in beating off four successive assaults | supported by massed planes. | Soviet accounts sald that Axis | planes are so thick they “are lit- | erally hanging over our front line and bombing our positions,” but | the Russians waited them out and Registered Somewh WESTON, Mass., Sept. 9.— An earthquake of moderate intensity, apparently in the Aleutian Islands, was recorded last night on the Weston College seismograph. The Rev. Dani¢l Linehan, seis- (Continued on Page Three) The Washingion; Merry - Go-Round y DREW PEARSON (Major fobert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHKINGTON—Here is the in- side story of how Donald Nelson and WPB moguls blocked the Jus- tice Department from cleaning up the Black Steel bootleg market. Last spring Thurman Arnold’s Anti-Trust Division of the Justice Department became convinced that while shipyards were crying for steel, vast quantities of it were being hoarded in private ware- houses. This steel, Justice Depart- ment officials believed, was largely in the hands of certain big com- panies, which had dominated the steel market for years. ‘The Justice Department was con- vinced also that if all this steel could be got out of hiding and dis- tributed to war industries, the na- tion would have ample. So Thurman Arnold evolved & plan to post 50 Justice Department agents at the gates of every im- portant steel company early one morning, and make an immediate and surprise check-up of all steel on hand. The plan was prepared secretly so that no word would leak out ly fof war to the stecl companies. FHOWeVET,| vy ,\guyNGTON, Sept. §.—The Attorney General Biddle thought it | 3 . fttee today only fair to advise Donald Nelson,|S¢hale Finance Comiml since the inventory concerned Lhc‘ reamrmedv the adoption‘ol‘ a five War Producton Board and might|PSreent "‘C?"’zaz‘:" ‘;“u‘"::“';d:‘l‘slj ' earning over a ye reflect on some of Nelson's officials. npprovid a proposal for a joint congressional study that would en- |force compulsory savings to aid in financing the war. Chairman George lcommittee of five Senators and five Representatives is contemplated Ito study the latter proposal and Ithis also would include Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau. | The committee will report back to Congress by January 11. In again approving the five per- cent victory levy, the committee VICTORY TAXIS APPROVED BY COMMITTEE 'New Levy Would Hit Al Earning $624 Year- DONALD NELSON OBJECTS But when Nelson heard about the plan he objected vigorously. - He said the inventory would have a “disquieting effect upon industries operating under the war effort.” So Arnold, in deference to Nel- son, called off his 50 agents. Since then, however, the Justice Department’s suspicions have been justified. The Truman Committee of the Senate, plus the Boykin and Peterson Committees of the House, have revealed steel hoarding and | discrimination in favor, of large steel companies. Also the Justl;geflln::;u‘ lw]o and a hnlr. billion ' dol- Department sent its own investi-| yearly by broadening the base (Continued on Page Four) rates, said that a/ rejected three substitute proposalsA[ | Thesp proposals would have raised | phenomenon is “Berny” Baruch.'two tubes, Moderate Earthquake Is Last Night ereinAleutians mologist, said the quake was reg- istered at 9:30 p. m., Eastern War Time, approximately 100 miles northwest of Boston, which placed it “somewhere in the Aleutians.” Low Down on Rubbes Situafion o Be Big Job for B.M.Baruch BY JACK STINNETT | | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—These |are strange days, but none Is stranger than that recently when | Bernard M. (for Mannes) Baruch, |the 72-year-old patriarch of war production, was appointed head of a three-man board to give the public the lowdown on the rubber situation. | Baruch has been in and out of | Tthe war picture for 25 years. He has bounced around in so many government advisory jobs that his| latest appointment as chairman of the rubber commission is something | of a laugh. | But don't toss it off so easily. | There are, in Washington, two ! schools of thought about Baruch’s| new job as chief of the B-C-C-| committee (B for Baruch; C for| Dr. James B. Conant, president of | Harvard; and C for Dr. Karl Comp- | ton, president of Massachusetts ln-s stitute of Technology). | One school leans to the idea that! the commission was appointed merely to give prestige (o the com- sued the following tires and tubes | mpyg pisprict faced a serious threat ing orders on conservation of rub- ber (mileage control, rationing, etc.). The other claims that Ba-| |ruch and his assoclates form the 'only team in the country that can straighten out the rubber muddle. | Take it any way you like, tne| | There is no more spine-tingling sight in Washingten today than to (Continued on Page Five) I [ | | | Startling Develop- ment Yet LONDON, Sept. 9—An “excellent start” was made by Flying Fort- resses in day raids on German oc= cupied Europe, a Royal Air Force commentator said today, declaring |that the trial fully justified the United States policy of daylight bombing. Foreshadowing “deeper penetra- tion of more vital targets’ by Am- erican bombers in daylight, this source predicted that German bombers would return “as soon as they can to take as terrible ven- as possible” for the heavy bombing geance as possible” for the heavy bombing dealt out by Allied bomb- ers on German cities. He said that the American day- | light bombing, which he called the most “startling recent development on the Western air front,” wils hid- den from the German people, TRANSPORT IS VICTIM OF FLAMES Former Lin er Manhattan Burns in Atlantic-All 1600 Aboard Safe WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The Naval transport Wakefield, formerly the liner Manhattan, was severely damaged by fire at sea on Septem- ber 3, the Navy Department an- nounced today. More than 1600 passengers and crew members were removed with- out loss of life. The charred hulk of the 24,000- ton ship, one-time Queen of the United States merchant fleet, has been salvaged and towed to an At- lantic coast port. | The Navy said the fire, described as of “undetermined origin,’ broke out on one deck level and spread swiftly through the ten-year-old, ten-million-dollar ship. It soon be- came necessary to remove more than 1,000 passengers, many of whom were civilians. Others were presumably men in naval service. The Navy Department related in addition to passengers there were 600 to 700 officers and crewmen aboard. The ship was commander by Commander Harold Bradbury,! Port Angeles, Coast Guard. Officers of the Navy said that the rescue was brought about in thrilling manner by warships protecting the convoy in which the Wakefield was traveling near an East Coast port. A cruiser maneuvered its bow alongside the stern of the trans- port and a destroyer placed itself alongside and the passengers were then transferred. el TIRES, TUBES ISSUED, WEEK The Juneau Rationing Board Is- during the week ending September 5. Juneau Lumber Mills, two tires for lumber jitney. B. H. Manery, two tires, obsolete. George Jorgenson, two tires and Chief of Police, e The Dominican Republic occuples lof the income tax and increasingsee this gaunt, white-haired old two-thirds of the island of Hispan- Now a Federal judge. . jola. Haita occupies the other third. | i 'Democratic Candidates for {«House Ahead-Republi- | can Leads for Senate | | NOME, Alaska, Sept. 9—A total |of 365 votes were cast in Nome in | the general election yesterday and Democratic candidates for the House |scored victories over the Republi- cans. Both parties had full tickets. Stewart Stangroom, Republican, received 217 tallies over his Demo- cratic opponent for the Senate, How- ard Lyng, who garnered 144. Democratic candidates for Repre- | sentatives came out on top in Nome. Frank Whaley led with 217, Tolbert Scott received 212, Wallace Porter 178, and Christian Rouse 147. Republican candidates for the House ran in the following order: Dudley C. Warner 138, Ken Rood 137, Walter Taylor 112, and Henry | Miller 108. REPUBLICAN MAY GET BID, WASHINGTON C. C. Dill Makes Successful | | Comeback in Pri- = mary Race | SEATTLE, Sept. 9—The possibil-| ity that Washington might send a Republican to Congress for the first | |time in 10 years attracted attention' as unofficial results of yesterday’s |light primary showed the Fourth District Republican candidate had :polled an aggregate of nearly| idouble that cast for Democratic| | candidates. | Four of Washington’s five in- ‘cumbent Democratic Representa- | | tives, including the Fourth District’s |Knute Hill were assured of renom- ination. Rep. Martin Smith of the |in Cecil Callison, 39, Chehalis busi- nessman and former state legisla- tor, but Smith pulled ahead after trailing in the early returns. Another feature of the Evergreen State’s election showed former Sen- ator C. C. Dill in an apparently suceessful politidal dpmeback in |his bid for the Fifth District nom- iinatfon to succeed Charles Leavy, (Continued on Page Two) Dele. Treas. 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Il | — | — | — | = | Totals | 1609 || 1495 || 1541 25 || 1230 || 417 | 500 | 1051 | 420 | 1194 | 1188 | 1054 | 405 fmmm e . e Pty o il Sgetoreit Bt % NOME POLLS Give Resulfs, LIGHT VOTE 1ve Kesulls, 365 IN 2ND | 24 Precinds, IS CAST IN, | recands, 1) IN ELECTION| First Division JUNEAU AREA Labor Senator Representatives 'Democrals Gef City Tallies; as Only 589 Persons Visit Polls Democratic Candidates for House Are Leading Two-to-One Unofficial retyrns from 24 of the| In the Mghtest Juneau vote in approximate 57 PFirst Division pre- | many years, most of the city’s eligible | cincts indicate one of the lightest voters stayed at home yesterday as First Division votes in history is only 589 persons cast their ballots in the making. The 24 precincts in the three Juneau precincts. This which have reported in to The compares to 1,579 votes cast in the Empive so far bring out the follow- general election two years ago, to ing trends: |the 727 votes in the Territorial pri- In the only contest—that of which mary last April 28, and also was candidates will sit in the House less than the 652 balloted in the next year—the Democratic candi-|city election last April 7. dates are leading in the Iollowinn‘ A total of 323 votes was cast in order: Andy Gundersen 1194, R. Precinct No. 1, 131 in Precinct No. E. Hardcastle 1,188, Crystal Snow 2, and 135 in Precinct No. 3. Jenne 1,054, James V. Davis 1051.| The appalling lack of interest The two former are Ketchikan resi- apparently was due to the fact that dents and the latter two are Ju- the only contest offered on the bal- neauites. ‘lot was the race for the Territorial Republican candidates for the|House of Representatives in which House are running in the follow- both parties had full tickets in this ing order: Ralph A. Bartholomew | division. In this phase of the elec- 500, Frank L. Garnick 420, Grant|tion, the Democrats gained a two- A. Baldwin 417, Edmund J. Krause to-one majority in the three Juneau 405. Garnick and Baldwin are Ju- precincts. neau residents and the other twol Davis Leads Democrats ars. oF BALOEED. | James V. Davis led his running Dnzflfiflfifivzofirfiofimfly 6(;]9 mates in Juneau on the Democratic votes in the 24 precincts, Bmi 4 side with a total of 396 tallies. R. E. ; confidimas: Vete of- 1405 A given Hardcastle ran well in Juneau and o Tréasurer Obriar .G Olson |came up next with a total of 367. ? % | Crystal Snow Jenne ran third with Walter P. Sharpe received & large vote of 1,541 for Commissioner 32&8"23}1‘:;‘1:“3‘;:?'”““ w3 of Labor, and Michael J. Haas, in-| "p Republican candidates for cumbent, had his name written in| . pouse ran as follows in the on 25 ballots. three Juneau polling places: Frank Arthur P. Walker, Democratic L. Garnick 179, Grant A. Baldwin candidate for Benator from the g paph A. Bartholomew 152, Ed- First Division, received 1,230 votes.| .. .4 j Krause 117. He was unopposed. | Walter P. Sharpe, unopposed on Further returns will be received, the ticket for Commissioner of La- but the picture seems fairly w’?”‘bor, polled a fine total of 498 votes drawn as Democratic candidates for i, juneau. Michael J. Haas, in- | the House held an easy two-to-one! ,mpent who was defeated by | majority over the Republicans. | Sharpe in a close primary race, had R * |his name written in on 10 Juneau MARS“AL MAHONEY ;ba']lz;)l':iargest Juneau vote, of course, B‘(K FROM S]'A"’B’wns cast for Anthony J. Dimend, |who received 512 tallies for Dele- fsaansamd gate to Congress, unopposed. Ter- U. 8. Marshal Willlam T. Ma- ritorial Treasurer Oscar G. Olson, honey returned to Juneau by also unopposed for re-election, re- steamer early this morning after | ceived a large confidence vote of 498 a trip to Seattle and Portland with | in Juneau. prisoners. He brought four pris-! Walker Gets 379 oners to Juneau from other South-| Democrat Arthur P. Walker, un- east Alaska stations between here OPPosed in the First Division for and Ketchikan. Territorial Senator, received 379 Bl o S E R, votes. The name of Allen Shattuck, who was defeated by a hair by Joan Lingo, daughter of Ms. oo ‘ine bid for nomination | George A. Lingo of this city, left ;o brimary last April, was writ- today for Anchorage, her [Ormer| e, j;, on four Juneau ballots. home, where she will visit for & attorney General Henry Roden,| few days before continuing north|ang Juneau High School teacher | to Fairbanks, where she is to enter Gerald Williams, each received one the University of Alaska for her yote for Delegate to Congress. Ter- | first year, (Continued on Page Two) | (ed that the Allied troops, ON MORESBY SLOWED UP ! Fierce Conflict ka gingin Mountain Passes in New Guinea ROCKY APPROACHES " SCENE OF BATTLING Nippons An?t;l_shed, Mow- ed Down by Guns or in Hand-to-Hand Fights (By Associated Press) In the Far Pacific, Gen. Mac- Arthur’s Headquarters today report- often fighting with bayonets, have slowed up the Japanese drive up the rocky approaches of “The Gap,” the 8,000 foot pass in the Owen Stanley Range, 50 miles west of the United Nations outpost of Port Moresby, New Guinea. ‘The Headquarters spokesman sald fighting raged about 2,000 feet be- low “The Gap” on the west side ° of the range, Dispatches sald the Jap losses are heavy as the Allled patrols de~ fended the jungle bordered trafl in flerce hand-to-hand fighting. One single Australian Patrol, of about 20 men, opposed 300 Japs effectively from ambush with machine guns, tommy guns, and rifles. Allied patrols have also raided Jap posts killing scores with hand grenades. JAP FORCE AT MILNE WIPED OUT Solomon Islands Fighting Confinuing in Allies Favor- Today MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. 9.—A Jap landing force of 700 has been “practically destroyed” at Milne Bay, General MacArthur's, communique today says. Torpedo hombers and fighter planes also have probably damaged a destroyer in attacks off the Tro- briand Islands. Ground fighting in the Kokodamyola sector is statie, but Allled bombers again scored heavily at Buna. LOUIS WILL MEET CONN IN OCTOBER Will Be FirstTieavyweigM Champ Bout Between . Two Soldiers WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The War Department announced today that Corporal Joe Louis and Private Billy Conn will meet in the New York Yankee Stadium on October 12 for the first heavyweight cham- pionship match in ring history be- tween two soldiers. The entire net proceeds, a pos- sible $1,000,000 gate, will go to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. The fighters will get nothing. e e e BUY DEFENSE BONDS