The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LIX., NO. 9135. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1942 Ml MBl R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPS STOPPED 44 MILES FROM MORESBY Stalmgrad Stumps Gigantic German Drive BELEAGUERED RUSSIANS IN CONTROL YET GreaterGer—nEl Forcethan | Hit at Moscow Is Attacking (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The most powerful army the Germans have ever assembled in Russia, surpassing even the great force flung in vain at Moscow last year, is reported commanded by Adolf Hitler and today is attempting to take Stalingrad at any price.. But— the Volga River bastion is still held by the Red Army. The Russian Army newspaper Red Star says today that the Axis forces before Stalingrad outnumber those of any prev- ious campaign. There were about 1,000,000 men on both sides participating | in the battle of Moscow last fall, | heretofore the largest single en- | gagement of the war, but the German forces at Stalingrad to- | — day are even greater. | Red Star dispatches said at- tackers and defenders are fight- ing in a maelstrom of noise, fire, smoke with planes filling the | sky and roaring and screaming | overhead and the ground shak- ing with the clash of tanks and thunder of bombs and shells. ——————— THREE DIE WAR PLANT | EXPLOSION HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, Sept. 11.—An explosion today rocked the war production plant of the | Essex Specialty Company, army € plosives branch, killing three per- sons and injuring five. - The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON, —The Truman Committee hasn't issued a report on it yet, but when some of its members investigated New Eng-| land war installations, they got a striking illustration of faulty, teamwork between different branch- es of the armed forces. Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles, com- mander of the First Service Com- | mand with headquarters at Bos- ton, travelled with them. At one point they came across a cavalry outfit riding in jeeps. They wert operating in Gen. Miles’ aréa, pre- sumably under his command, yet | he had not known they were there. The War Department had f:iled\ to notify him.¢ Traveling further Miles and the Truman Committee | bumped into a Signal Corps com- | pany engaged in interceptor wurki —listening for enemy airplanes. Again, Gen. Miles did not know | they were in his corps area. ‘ At a certain airfield, Senator | Brewster asked the commandmfl‘ Air Corps colonel what he would | do if a Nazi submarine was sighted | in the bay—as had happened not| long before. “Well,” said the colonel, “I'd run out and catch the commander of a | squadron and try to persuade him| to fly out over the bay and bomb! the submarine.” | The colonel was not as dumb as | he sounded. For he had no com- | mand over bomber squadrons on his field. They are sent from othorl points for practice training for a few weeks at a time, and there ap- pears to be little or no correlatiton between different commanders even when they belong to the Air Corps. south, Gen.| (continued on Pnza Eour) J And Many Happy Relums Adolf Bombs from U. S. Army Air Force flying fortresses head for the German-occupied airport at Abbeville in a raid August 19 which was preliminary to the attack on Dicppe bomb bursts. by New Service Command Sef Up for Alaska Operations FROM FOURTH U. 5. SCORES AR VICTORY IN SOLOMONS Nippon Planes Near Guadalcanal | JAP PILOTS, SHIPS INFERIOR TO OURS Tojo 'Flying_fi;leral Pyres’ Burst Info Flames Easily G BY CLARK LEE (Associated Press Correspondent) AT SEA WITH THE U.S. FLEET OFF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, | Aug. 24—(Delayed) — Three more | | American naval pilots fought their | ' L pwey into the winged circle of aces T e as the United States won its big- FEw RETURNS gest air victory of the war against British Commandos. Circled are Japan. Ninety-six enemy p]nnesi have been downed in the far-flung | battle fought at Guadalcanal Island and at sea by our task force, } Forty-seven of the enemy planes | were shot down by Navy fliers, 21 Iby Marines and Army pilots and the remainder by anti-aircraft guns. Our losses were eight pilots m g, three of them Marines. American Aces Down 96 By War Secrelary Stimson DIVISION IN Jeepsin Solomons THRUST OF NIPPONS IS - HELD BACK | Bitter Fighl'inofii-n Mountain { Pass Confinues-Bomb- | ers Are Being Used MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- |ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. 11— Japan's thrust through the Owen | Stanley Mountains of New Guinea has been checked south of Efogl, 44 airline miles from Port Moresby, Al- lied base. Bitter fighting is continuing with casualties heavy on both sides, to- day's communique says. Allies are attacking with bombers | which continue to pour explosives on the veteran Japanese jungle fighters and supply lines leading through the mountain pass to Myola on the northern slope. “The enemy made no futher prog- ress in the area of Efogl, said the communlque BRITISH IN ADVANCE ON FRENCH ISLE - ‘Red Cross Girl’ Selected as the “Red Cross Girl of the Month” for September to epito- mize the campaign for an additional | 100,000 women to become nurses’ aides, Christine Gawne (above) of Washington, D. C., is shown dem- | onstrating her woik of mercy. With | the Army and Navy requiring about ,000 registered nurses a month, it becomes necessary for the country | to have a plentiful supply of aides to help the remaining nurses care for the sick and civilian wounded in case of raids, CALIFORNIA HAS HOUR'S ALERT TODAY 'Los Angelefirea Put on Guard at Dawn—Civil Defense Called LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11.—Sou- thern California’s defenses went on the ,alert for an hour and nine minutes at dawn today, until the Army made certain that an un- identified target was friendly. ‘The area’s first alert since Aug- ust 1 brought mobilization of air “ Enemy plane losses in the tw |day battle of Midway were esti- mated at 300, most of which made | forced landings in the water, but | | today’s were the greatest number | | ever shot down by our planes | WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson hxn announced that a Northwest Ser-| vice Command, similar to the nine’ service commands in the United! |Democrats Leadmg Fiel in 16 Out of 68 Precincts United States Marines landing at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands used amphibian tanks and jeeps to effect their transition from sea- faring soldiers to land fighting men. Top: An amphibian climbs on the beach and the Marines have landed. Bottom: More Marines pour ashore from landing barges bringing with them jeeps and other equipment to reinforce the beachhead. West Coast Ports of Mada- gascar Captured—Col- umns Move Inland LONDON, Sept. 11.—The British States, has been established to The total bag now is nearly as handle all construction and SUPPIY | L vbp s el T g gy Ibig as the German losses in a ivities connected with the Alasi S, o aisd, SEbh. 0 |single day during the Battle of | | Sixteen of the Fourth Divislon's % pritain. ‘The enemy now has lost / supplies peculiar to the air| PIeC i T"‘“w\d‘fw‘,’\“"IZ“'_m.’“.l more than 150 planes in the Battle e exempted from the| . ..on. s Ciacts of the Solomons since August 7. | Northwest Service Command’s jur-| Senate Elt the most encouraging feat-| isdiction, Stimson said. } Prank S, Gordan, Democrat, 441 ure of the_bnmc is this: The Jap Col. James O'Connor, native of | jonn Butrovich, Jr., Republican, PHOLS definitely are inferior to Bay City, Michigan, has been des-| 354 those who took part in previous ignated to head the new service command. struction jobs is specifically men- tioned in Stimsor's announcement, and jobs specifically mentioned in- clude the White Pass and Yukon Railway, the highway horse, and the Fairbanks base in- stallation. Whitehorse has been designated as the headquarters of the com- mand which takes in Alaska, Brit- ish Columbia, Alberta and the provinces of Yukon and McKenzie. —eo—— MINING TAX CHANGE IS REJECTED Commitfee Refuses to Ac- cept Elimination of De- pletion Allowances WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. — The Senate Finance Committee today rejected by 12 to 6, a new joint pro- posal of the Treasury and Con- gressional staffs to boost the yield of the new revenue bill by $110,000,- 000 yearly through the revision of the present depeletion allowances of petroleum and mining enterprises. The allowances which have been permitted to be credited against taxes to offset depreciation or de- pletion of natural resources would be affected. The Treasury proposed to elim- inate “double deduction” plus credits on intangible development costs. The committee declined, however, to eliminate the latter credits. Rep- resentatives of the oil and mining | industries said these have been al- raid wardens, auxiliary police, Amd‘m“!.d for taxation purposes for 25 utilities guards, years.. The operation of con-| to White- | Howte | flights over the Pacific, and their John 1. O'Shea, Democrat, 553, |Planes continue to show “the fly-! Mrs. Alaska Stuart Linck, Dem-ing funeral pyre” traits of bursting . 526. |into flames and crashing when hit Leo Rogge, Democrat, 488. |even with a few bullets. Jess D. Lander, Democrat, 419. Jacob P. Drablos, Republican, 190. Henry P. Karstens, Republican, 1246, Irving - McK. Reed, Republican, 248. | Guy Rivers, Independent, 268 | Anthony J. Dimond received 755 for Delegate to Congress. Oscar G. Olson received 652 for CanadianIn ‘SupporlOf | Treasurer. Walter P. Sharpe received Gffl for Commissioner of Labor and| ne omma“ Michael Haas' name was written !in on 16 ballots. —_— e sSays All Allied Peoples NA"ONW'DE Should United Under | RATIONING OF GAS LOOMING OTTAWA, Canada, Sept. 11.—The United Nations cannot win the war until the English speaking peoples unite under one leader, and that |1eader should be Roosevelt, Maj.| | william Herridge, former Canadian | | Minister to Washington, declared to- | President fo Put in Effed subject,” Herridge said that Prime | Minister Churchill, representing the Recommendations on |that the President of the United States should then have dictatorial dent Roosevelt today said that lLie members of which would advls',-‘ hoped by Monday to put in effect him. the vital rubber probem and rec- | taken by Churchill. A SR S ommended a nationwide gas ra- (u. iay’s conference with the newsmen, 0 Davies. well hilowit Beatile ing recommendations and take for the mine. Mr. Davies has been | some time to set up the machine!V staying in the Baranof Hotel here dny ll!l'msh empire, should nominate Rubber Problem powers and a great general staff, practically all recommendations of | Herridge said that Canadians | tioning. T. A. DAVIES ON | that it might take some time how-| flnancler and president of Chicha- | which he believed should be hand-|and will return here after conduct- Roosevelt |l I Speaking as “a Canadian-British | Roosevelt for the Allied leadership. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Presi- (half British and half American, the the special committee that studied should demand that such a step be The President indicated at MAY 20 ORMBACDY | ever to put into effect the ration- gof pMine Jeft this morning by plane | led by local boards. |ing his business at the mine. ron (ensorshlp Rules ;s For Alaska Are fo Be Relaxed Says Senafor Nemesis of Nazis g Credited with the killing of 152 [ Nazis with 154 shots while a sniper at the Russian front, Lieut. Pche- /intsev is shown on his arrival in washington, after traveling by bomber, clipper and train. He will attend the International Student Assembly in the nation’s capital. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS axes for the Year 1942 become delinquent September 15, unless one-half is paid on or before that date; the second-half then becom- ing delinquent March 15th of the following year. A discount of two percent is allowed if both install- ments are paid on or before Sep- tember *15th. A penalty of 1% per month will | be added to delinquent accounts. CITY OF JUNEAU, R. G. RICE City Clerk. ! | Calif., according to advices received | D. Gross, forces are reported encountering but little resistance and suffering small losses in capturing three west coast posts of the French Madagascar island against which operations were started yesterday. Prime Minister Winston Church- ill informed the House of Com- |mons today that Japanese recon- |naissance planes were recently sighted over the Island. |tor later asserted that it is sur- ymised the planes came from an 11. — Gov- | aircraft carrier. ADVANCING INLAND WASHINGTON. Sept. rnment officials have promised a| considerable relaxation of c:snsm'-: VICHY, Sept. 11.—British mo- ship restrictions on the transmis-| torized columns are advancing on sion of news in Alaska, Senator Tananrive, inland Capital City of Mon C. Wallgren reported here Madagascar after they captured today. {the west coast ports of Majunga Sen, Wallgren, who has just re- and Morondava, French reports as- turned from a tour of Alaskan de- sert. fenses as a member of the Senate! The French officials here ack- Military Affairs Subcommittee, said | nowledged their troops are able 10 hat the report of the commitiee put up little more than a token of will be kept confidential because resistance which “above all is in- vital war steps are concerned, but tended to save our honor.” wdded that the report that the Japs, It is conceded here that the nave landed on the Pribilof Islands chief obstacle in the way of the is not true. | British is the difficult terrain be- When Wallgren visited in Juneau tween the coast and Tananarive, on his way out of Alaska on '.he}some 350 miles southeast of Ma- tour, he condemned the censor-| junga. ship practices as “silly” and stated hat “something will have to be . done about this in Washington.” At that time, Sen. Wallgren stated, Juneau correspondents were not allowed to mention in ai:sp:au:h-l A H S es that any senators were in Ju- by the Alaska Defense Command, Juneau corespondents wondered at the discrimination, because the Senators' tour had been reported from various other communities in | VICHY, France, Sept. 11.—Puppet R | Pierre Laval declared today that $e | United States has “equal responsibi!- | ity” for the British attack on Madu~ Alaska, including Anchorage, head- quarters of the ADC. JAKE GROSS DIES, i+ CALIFORNIA HOME | Hitler's Prench stooge read a tele- {gram from Governor Annet of the Jake G aged 50, died yes- Vichy - controlled island, denying terday at his home in Long Beach, Bitish charges that the island was used by the Axis or would be. 2 A 5 ¥, Laval seemed to take particular pere last gt by B romer W |offense over the British occupation, i eceased visited N g,3 said “that the occupation is due JURISU Beveral JOBEE ape- |to military necessity in the thesis. AR Dl | This may be supported or not, but KARL STROMS HERE |that the British should try to justify Mr, and Mrs. Karl Strom of their aggression by raising false Sitka are registered at the Baranof 'prel‘.exls is something that I cannot Hotel for a short visit. support.” The British Military commenta-