The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9136. JU\l AU ALASKA, SATURDAY, bl P"_l»lMBl R 12, 1942 ALLIED B Ihe Swoose' Refurns ™ EPIC SIEGE, VOLGACITY (ommum& Russian De—fe—nders Havej Declared Kefreat Impossible MOSCOW, Sept. 12.—Stalingrad’s defenders, for whom retreat has been declared impossible, held the besieging Germans at bay today in perhaps the greatest battle of this war. The fight for the great Rus- sian steel city overshadowed five | other battles flaming along the Rus- | sian front for more than 1300 miles. Despite the heroic stand of the Red Army for the last 18 days against the battering of Nazi steel, apparently without a backward step | | in the past 24 hours, fresh German | activity in the north of the city | brought a new menace. Yet the Russians found strength | to launch an offensive on the Len- ! ingrad front, 60 miles to the eas of the beleagured city, storming the railroad station at Sinyavino. | Soviet field dispatches, meanwhile, told of snowfall in the high Cau- | casus ranges, heralding the sum- mer’s end. But the Russians have acknowledged that Novorossisk on the Black Sea has fallen. In the past 24 hours, the terrors of modern war at their extremes have made Stalingrad a boiling pot of horror., The air has been black with planes, roaring over the city's defenders, spitting death from ma- chineguns and dropping explosives. The ground of the great Volga River bastion shakes with the clash of tanks and the thunder of bombs and shells. ! More than a million men are en- | gaged in the epic struggle. Hitler's legions are throwing everything they have into the assult in frantic at- tempts to take the ctiy at any cost And the defenders have resigned | themselves to hold the city until the end. - | | | { | | - Bullz.-riddiex and patched, “Alexander the Swoose,” Boeing flying fortress bomber returned to its birthplace at the Boeing plant in Seat- tle. The big plane brought Lieut. Gen. George H. Brett, Commander rces in the Southwest on an inspection tour m from Brisbane, Australia to San Franeisco in 36 hours and 10 minutes, a new flight record. General Brett is at the controls The three stars denote the plane is the genera here. s flagship. 1t e Laing §,0 (| AL | TE The Washington - ROBS STORE FOR WEDDING Merry - Go - Round Seaftle Youth, Son of By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert B. Allen on active duty.) | Wealthy Builder, Con- fesses to Crime [ W ASHINGTON—About three SEATTLE, Sept. 12.—Rodney Gwinn, 24, son of a wealthy Seat- weeks ago, Lou Holland, Deputy WEB Administrator for small busi- | ness, placed before his chief, Don- ald Nelson, an organization chart I showing how the small factories of ! the nation, hundreds of them now & | roads will be ! motored B-24 bombers produced at idle, could help produce war Sup- | plies. Holland worked out his chart to solve one of the most important problems of war —spreading Wwar orders among little business. Two people before him have tackled this problem, but failed. Because cf those failures, a disgusted Con- gress appropriated $150,000,000 spe- cifically for small factory war or- ders, and created the Small War Plant’s Corporation which Holland heads. But despite the importance of the problem, three weeks have passed and not even a péep has | come from Nelson’s office regard-|———— ing Holland's proposed set-up for small business. BRITISH BOOM SMALL BUSINESS Meanwhile, the British Govern- ment has shown how important it | considers small business by send-| ing to Washington Hedley Wil- liams, a regional administrator of the Ministry of Production. “If it had not been for small | factories,” Willilams has told U. S.' “we would have Frankly I production chiefs, been lost long ago. think one of your troubles has| been that of placing too much re- liance on big business.” “Big Business,” according to Wil- liams, it gets started it has terrific mo- mentym. But it is hard to start, and it can’t turn easily. And in (Continued on Page Four) “is like a rhinoceros. Once| tle builder and instructor in the University of Minnesota Medical School, planned to be married to- night in an elaborate society wed- ding. Instead he is in jail. Police De- | tective E, W. Yoris said he had confessed to the daylight holdup of a payroll clerk in a downtown store two days ago for $600 | Marines who made the landing on | | Makin Island, one of the Gilbert | Isles group, were under the com- mand of Lieut. Col. Evans F. Carl- son, 47, of Plymouth, Conn. The ‘start. married life.” | Leathernecks accounted for eighty His unbelieving father asked him Japs, the destruction of the island’s gy sea base, radio installations and military stores. Maj. James Roos velt, eldest son of the President, was second in command. jand the son said he didn't want his father or girl to know huw‘ |little he was earning. STRIKE AT SENATORS BIGSTEEL KNOCKOUT | (OMPANY BETS TAX WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—'rhe‘ Senate Finance committee reversed its previous action to knock out Carnegie Ilinois Corpora- "on PrOduchon Held of the House-approved bill for Up by Workers revenue the five percent tax on' | (i aflil parimutuel Detting. GARY, Indiana, Sept. 12. strike of cranemen, loaders an hookers, has halted production at o0 the amount of annual revenue | | the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corpora- involved and said that there is tion’s 160-inch plate mill, largest strong opposition in states wheer this side of the Alleghenies. such betting is legalized. |eraple progress” lof Madagascar against negligible didn't you. come to me?” © OMBERS FIRE Reds Holdmg In Greatest KNOX WILL VISITMANY 5. A. CITIES | Secrefary of Navy to Llead | Inspection Trip of Latin Bases | i | WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—Secre-| tary of the Navy Frank Knox said | I'he will lead a delegation to Rio de ‘| Janeiro and other leading South American cities within the next| six weeks on a two months trip. | Knox said that it would be “a| ! 'general inspection trip of all South American bases, as well as a visit| to important Latin American coun-| Lnes 4 | WILLOW RUN FACTORY IS DEDICATED Huge Ford Airplane Plant Opened Today by Un- | dersetrelary of War DETROIT, S(-'pl 12. — Under Sec- | retary of War Robert Patterson fore- cast that “one day soon, traffic will jam the air and rails from Willow | Run to Tokyo and Berlin. Those crowded with four- Willow Run.” He made the remark as he ad- dressed an audience gathered for ceremonies dedicating the opening of the plant. He praised the per- formance of the $-24 and also the Flying Fortr saying that there are “still lmllel ones on the way.” BRITISH, AFRICANS PUSH ON Invading F_(;(—es Moving Toward Inland Capi- tal of Madagascar LONDON, Sept. 12.—British and African troops are making ‘“consid- into the interior opposition and are pushing on to- ward Tananariva, the interior Ca- pital City of the French Island. Other key points, which the | Axis might covet are also being (raptured and the British flag hoist- Commander-In-Chief Gen. William Blatt also reports Sir that | Vohemar, on the northeast coast (of the island, 80 miles from the inaval base at Diego Suarez hus | been taken. ———.—— NAZIS FEAR ' NEW THRUST AT AEGEANS | | | | | I 1S'PANBUL, Turkey, Sept. 12 Travelers arriving from the Bal- kans report that Germany is heav-| |ily reinforcing the Nazi air force| Senator George F. Clark of Geor- |in the eastern Mediferranean, ap- been filed in U. S. District Court | Pishery Division of the Pish and 4 gia said that there is a dhpute parently because of uneasiness over in Juneau this week: |a possible British move to recap- {ture some of the Aegean Islandt e | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Battle Of The War How Allies Threaten ]apan s Pacific Strategy et 2 SRR ouTER MONSOLIA S FHARIANAS I5. NIZA Gouam wZINN o ¥ e® GTRUK IS ¢ © Y CAROLINEGIS, &0 SWAKE IS, This map shows how Japan’s pincer movement on Hawaii through a series of island stepping stones which had seemed foolproof, has been chopped off since U. 8. forces set foot on Guadalcanal and Tulagi Islands. Thus, the first offensive move had been made by the United Nations in the Pacific and by that move Japan’s right or lower prong of tho pincer movement hnd bun brok.n. STANGROOM 'LEADS 2ND DIVISION For | i | Ten Precincts in Addition to Nome Send in Results NOME, A]a.skn hnpl 12, Ten precincts outside of Nome sent up general election returns today with the following results: Senate Howard Lyng, Democrat, 130. Stewart ' Stangroom, Republican, | House Wallace Porter, Democrat, 198. Christian Rouse, Democrat, 115. | Tolbert Scott, Democrat, 165. Frank Whaley, Democrat, 199 Henry Miller, Republican, 75. Ken Rude, Republican, 54. Walter Taylor, Republican, 64. Dudley C. Warner, Republican, 58. Dimond’s Big Vote Anthony J. Dimond received 218 First checks for family allowances to dependents of men in the armed forces are shown ready for mailing in the allotments division of the War Department at Washington. In the picture are Col. T. Hughes, chief of allowance and allotment; J. Carney, clerk, and Col. John W. Clark, of the finance department, Flaming Plane Crashes OnPlanePlantRoof; 10 Men Killed, 47 Injured BUFFALO, N Y Sept. 12—A flaming plane crashed late yester- | day afternoon on the roof of one| of the buildings of the Curtiss Wright plant here resulting in the| RO, Sept. 12.— Allied field killing of ten workers and injuring | 47 oth The pilot parachuted to safety ind landed two miles away. Ber- trand Purnell, test pilot, was pxluLi bauerles in the southern sector of the Fl Alamein front line shelled Rommel’s positions yesterday witn little other ground activity reported. - of the plane, The plane esught fire while at a DIVORCES ASKED high altitude. the cause of the blaze The following divorce cases have | is unknown. Workmen inside the plant said it | was like a tremendous bombing when the plane crashed and explo- ded | | e | FISHERY COORDINATOR TO | RETURN TO HEADQUARTERS W. E. Crouch, coordinator for the | Wwildlife Service, plans to leave Ju- Anna Jackson vs. Edward L. neau tomorrow to return to the| J_;ckwn Arline Rembusch vs. Ed- Chicago headquarters after spend- | gar G. Rembusch; Howard C. ing the last several months in} Hayes vs. Evelyn A. Hayes. | Southeastern Alaska., for Delegate to Congress. Oscar G. Olson received 197 for Treasurer. Walter P, Sharpe garnered 178 for Commissioner of Labor. Eleven precincts are yet to be ! heard from to decide the hotly con- tested battle for the Senate. Stan- groom, Republican, now leads Lvng, | Democrat, 306 to 274, counting the Nome vote. No official printed ballots were availbale and voters resulted to mimeographed and unnumbered pallots. Not all precincts received ballots. The grand jury will convene here September 28 R STALINGRAD RESISTANCE IS TERRIFIC BULLETIN, Berlin, Sept. 12.— The German High Command tonight says heavy fighting is continuing “within the fortifi- cations” of Stalingrad and “it is believed all Soviet attacks are repulsed although resistance is terrific.” D BUY DEFENSE STAMPS JAP CRAFT - SET AFIRE BY ALLIES Air Forces Again Blas! a Buna-Bayonefs Hold Nippon Advance MacARTHUR'S HEARQUART- ERS, Sept. 12—Allied bombers fired | | | | i | | | | {a Jap destroyer and left her sink- | ing off Eastern New Guinea and blasted . again at Bana, yesterday and today. The enemy made no further ad- vance in the Efogi area, 44 miles from Port Moresby, where bayonet wielding Australians fighting the invaders. A near miss was scored on a {ond Jap destro; but probably damaged it. Both'ships were countered off Normandy north of, Mune Bm JAP GRADE OF FLIERS LOWERING Lafest EneW Pilofs Far Below Early Stand- ards of War | WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—James | Forrestal, Under Secretary of the Navy, reports after a closeup view of Jap aviators that both their “fly- ing skill and determination are be- low the grade of what our fellows met” early in the war from the Nipponese pilots. Forrestal, returning from an in- spection trip to the Paci nre sald that "American airmen hold these opinions and added that the Jap Zevo fighter plane, while highly maneuverable, nevertheless is ver vulnerable because of its lack of armor. He said fhat American airmen have outmatched the enemy not only with superior craft, but also with skill and courage. are en- Island PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR LESS SPEED Chart Proves Tires Last Twice as Long at 30 Miles an Hour 12 WASHINCITON ‘-upi Presi- dent Roosevelt appealed today for wide publicity on a chart showing that tires on a car driven 30 miles |an hour last twice as long as those on one being driven 50 miles an hour, The Bernard Baruch Rubber In- vestigating Committee has recom- mended among other things that the national speed limit b t 35 miles an hour. The President indicated that he expects to put most of the recommendations into effect Monday. The chart was made public at the White House today. ' It was pre- pared by the Automotive and Rub- the ber Industries Committee of society of Automotive Engine Presidential Secretary Stephern: E: ittached to it a note from the Presi- fent. which read: s is worth utting before the eyes and ears of il car drivers all over the country Won't the news, photo and radio people do this?” - Almost one-third of the popula- tion of Panama depends on Panama Canal for its livelihood.