The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 16, 1942, Page 1

E | i HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LIX., NO. 9139. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1942 ALL THE TIME” MEMBI R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPS MOWED DOWN IN RAID ON KISKA New INVASION STEP NOW LOOMS UP Move May Be Made on | a5 Siberia or India, Pos- | ™ot s Suppis of neimets for H 3 |all defense personnel and as soon sibly on Aleutians |5 they are obtainea they wil be S |distributed to the members (By Associated Press) The Auxiliary Police Corps met in Today’s war roundup finds Japan the City Hall last evening when a hinting boldly at a possible invasion }number of new volunteers joined. The of Siberia or India. | corps will ®e increased to 25 mem- Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Pa- |bers and another meeting will be NO PRACTICE ALERT IS ON FOR THIS WEEK No practice alert will be heid to- morrow night, and probably not un- til sometime next week, the Civilian Defense Council announced today | The announcement also stated there would be no meeting of the Defense cific and Indian ocean theatres of |called in the near future by Walter | charge | war, the surrender of Frencn Mada- | P. Scott, Chief of the Corps Ar- gascar to the British appears im- 11‘angomcm.~ are being made to pro- minent, and in the Solomon Islands, | vide each auxiliary policeman with the United States Marines battle a !1 night-stick, it was announced. major new Japanese attack. | Official membership cards have Gen. Hata Speaks arrived, said Director of Civilian A Tokyo broadcast picked up by Defense R. E. Robertson today, and the British Broadcasting Corpora- |are now being prepared for delivery tion quoted General Hata, Japan’s | to all defense members who have Commander-in-Chief in China, as |taken their oaths of office. declaring “The East Asia War is | ———— . about to take an important step in | cooperation with the European 'I' A DAVEES 0“ War.” | Bn " For weeks past, high Chinese of- | ficials have declared repeatedly that wA! SOUIH FROM Japan is preparing an attack on | Siberia, probably to be timed to co- incide with Nazi victory over Stal- lNSpE(Ilo“ IRIP ingrad. ; Monows it ‘:‘l“"“"‘l‘l'x“ Jap| T- A Davies, well known fin- ”z;;e m:ml:p:rwdfl {n nh‘/;ar?é;flufi ;txlncicr 9( Seattle and President of i 5 he Chichagof Mine returned yes- near the Siberian border. b ; TLast' week, the Ghinese reports|terday from making -a. trip ‘of said that Russia had rejected “cer- inspection to the mining property. tain suggestions” made by Japan. Mr. Davies made the trip to Sitka Military observers said that it is and from there to Chichagof in a likely Japan made strong demands chartered Alaska Coastal Airlines to control Russia’s Pacific maritime plane. provinces. With these provinces | J. A. Goudie, who has been assn- under control, guarding against a ciated with the Chichagof Mine flank attack, Japan might even con- | for some time, will be in sider herself in a position to launch 'of the property as superintendent, a major offensive against the Aleu- ming October 1, Mr. Davies tians and even the western United 'saiq today. States. s | “We returned from the mine to * 4 Sitka in the company's speed boat and made what might be called a I-IEUT' R' A' BOA world’s record for covering the 59 'I'AKES (HARGE oF miles between Chichagof and Sitka. Our time for the distance was one IRAVE[ CONIROI. hour and fifty-five minutes,” Mr. Davies said. Jack Littlepage, for- - i imer general manager of the prop- Lieut. Ralph A. Boaz has succeed- | oryy and now in government im_ ed Capt. C .F' Sd_]dbnm in charge ice, accompanied Mr. Davies on thé of the Civilian Travel Control Of- Todnd 450 foath: BIEE fices in this section following the | "5 - B Diisa latter’s designation as Military Aide i E_’a‘““b is in Juneau at the to Gov. Ernest Gruening by Major | Baranof Hotel awaiting transpor- General Simon Buckner which was | tation to his home in Seattle where effective September 4. h_e is prominent in financial and Lieut. Boaz had previously been ‘ClViC affairs. in charge of the local office in | ——————— Juneau. | The Washmgiun:s IXTY HERE Merry-Go-Round FROM SITKA By DREW PEARSON | [ (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty) | WASHINGTON—Before he deliv- | NINETY SOUTH ered his message on wage and price stabilization, the President had a| 5 significant behind-the-scenes talk Arrivals here yesterday afternoon with Jim Patton, head of the Na-|from Sitka were W. Burch, Mrs. R. tional Farmers Union. E. Starbard, Miss Ilene Starbard, The President wanted to get, the | Master Bob Starbard, Lloyd Sutton, farmers’ reaction before he made g’[s, S[;‘ll;flnck(:) D'Ez‘d“‘;;‘_zo"l-kMrS‘ his speech, especially from the yr o0 I;ié‘r-icks:; N;rsr C;:; smaller grass-roots farmers. So be | mond E. Johnson, Mas'.’ex' Ra‘ymond asked Gardner Jackson to bring inig jonhnson, Jr., Richard Shortridge, Patton, who represents Lllousal')ds‘KA J. Wittstock, Mrs. K. J. Witt- of small farmers. Accompanying|stock, Mrs. Myrtle Hagen, Mrs. Wil- him were Secretary of Agriculture ma Russell, Cyrus Williams, Miss Wickard, and Jackson. | Christine Sorrell. The President told Patton he had| Mrs. C. Hurley, Peter Williams, definite plans for curbing the ln-;Nlck Moses, Ernest Hellman, Jr., crease of farm prices and asked Mrs. Enest Hellman, Mrs. Mickey his opinion. Ingram, Fred Apsch, Charles Ashby, “The farmers will go along wm,iRobert Hartley, Louis Hill, Rufus you, Mr. President,” Patton re- | Iness, James MeGrath, William Rus- plied, “provided you give the na-|S€ll Mrs. Doris Tilson, Mrs. Martha tion two crutches to walk on. But:Ham’“"“- g so far you've given us only onefMMrS Nellie Aragon, Louis Selmer, crutch. You've tried to limit farm |g it erL"“‘,‘: SGOI"‘."V N]lflstf‘r Louis prices and labor's wages, but you|gzejen, o ETir;ldgbeet:: i;sl"“- John haven't done anything about in-|jonncon Tom Ma 2, A L duatrisl feafits. - And: whils waEes | ooear Tom Maxwell Ry prim‘a% Sy ‘a‘ Oscar Tilson, Ben Bellamy, Mrs. Hittle, St P & |Ben Bellamy, Sid Thompson, E. , the profits of factories and |Connors, Mrs. Orval Jaxton, Master munitions makers have gone up Gary Lee Paxton, Mrs. George Elia- 400 per cent. | son, Mrs. Einar Haugen, Ralph Wil- “I can assure you the farmers coxen, C. A. deTienne, Ben Leosche, will go along with you on anything|R. E. Starbard, Fred Starbard, of benefit to the nation,” Patton| George Barr, Nick Skoff and R. J. —— Harrington. Those taking passage for South- (Continued on Page Four) iReiniorced Jap | f J (By Associated Press) | Allied Air Forces again smashed “ul Jap bases on New Guinea, Gen. MacArthur's headquarters an- nounced today. Ground patrols in the Owen Stanley mountains were | more active yesterday, but the general situation is unchanged, the | communique said. The Navy in Washington an- | nounced today that reinforced Jap- anese troops with strengthened sea land air support have intensified efforts to drive the Marines from |the Solomon Islands. Forces - Try fo Push Marines Out of Solomon Bases | The Marines against these new troops, however. The Japs have lost 21 planes in the last five days, the Navy com- Our air forces have are holding off munique says. counter-attacked Jap bases north-| west of Guadalcanal, but the enemy is maintaining its pressure with an apparently increasing force on the surface and aerial bombard- ment, particularly against one air- field, at which some Jap reinforce- ments landed in the night and tried to recapture, but failed Suggest Send Rickenbacker - To Northland ‘Would Have War Ace In- vestigate Alaska Navy Planes SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16.—The Chamber of Commerce has pro- posed a Navy commission for Col. Eddie Rickenbacker, noted aviation expert and World War ace for the purpose of investigating the per- formance of American naval planes in Alaska and reporting his find- ings to the nation. The Chamber’s resolution fol- lowed the charge by Senator Mon C. Wallgren of Washington that Navy planes in Alaska are a “joke. | | east Alaska ports were: For Petershuyg—Mrs. J. G. Shep- ard. | For Wrangell — Byrdie McNeil, | Gladys Hudson and J. E. Boyle. | For Ketchikan—Christine Hansen, Claude Hirst, Raymond L. Wolfe, John M. Clark, Sigmund Einstoss, Ralph Mize, Wesley Overby, Walter | M. Bergt, Robert G. Brown and Mrs. ! Nellie Wicks. eph G. Ellson, Per Olaf Peterson, stance Rude, Charles H. Dils, Clara S. Brent, Pear] M. Johnson, Ruth | L. Brillhart, Mary C. Brillhart, John | M. Newmarker, Keith Reischl, Rex Eide, Harry Pratt, Cornelia Pratt, Henry Pratt, Frank Pratt, Ralph J. Angelesco, Matilda R. Angelesco, Marie Angelesco, Ralph Angelesco, David Angelesco, Charlotte Mum- ford, Jane Alexander. Harriet Johnson, Roland Lock* wood, Roy Winfrey, Sula W. Erick- son, Evan Vila, Francis Grant, Joe | C. Klouda, John H. Swisher, Alex M. Anderson, Erling Oswald, Donn | B. Webster, Bert E. Stewart, James R. Gentry, Donald D. Willey, John L. McCorkle, William T. Lumpkin, Delbert W. Stephenson, Robert Newlon, George W. Johnson, Curt K. Munger, Magnus A. Hansen, | George F. Farnum. W. R. Ripley, Arnold O. Hansen, Marvin Aldous, Ralph N. LaFavour, Gunnar Swanson, John Clifford Reed, Robert G. MacDonald, Galyn E. Muirbrook, Irving Singer, Elmer G. Lamm, Stephen R. Kidd, Alex E. Davackervich, Vincent J. Doran, Vernon J. Bourcier. Leo A. Behm, Robert E. Rynning, John D. Lyons, Robert E. McCaffery, Frederick Maldies, Alfred Magnusen, Roland D. Stock, James K. Lymans, Tlvod M. Wickett, Alden Erven, Simeon Young, James Claypoole, Charles Robinson, James Robinson and Tom Rillis. For Seattle—Henry E. Green, Jos- | Charles Kestler, Jerry Vincent, Con- | 'Most Everyone Now ~ Wanted, War Work, | Defects Passed Up BY JOHN GROVER (For Jack Stinnett, on vacation) WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—There’s an amusing story about the Army finally -getting around to rescindiry; the rule—75 years late—requiring » recruit to have strong, opposed incisor teeth A check of the Army's musty rec- ords disclosed that the rule did have some meaning once, 'way back when the infantrymen were equipped with muzzle-loading rifles and paper powder cartridges. They needed their snappers then to bite off the tops .of the paper cart- ridges for quick reloading, and loss of the teeth was ample reason for of the rookie. rejection However, all actual need for cart- ridge-biting incisors passed when | the breech-loading rifle was adop- ted, but the regulation remained on the books until this year, when it was decided that a rookie didn't need any teeth, provided he had synthetic choppers able to masti- cate his chow properly. What makes the cartridge-biting tooth rule’s long retention even more incredible is the fact that an official Army publication in 1875 pointed out that “advances in mili- tary science,” such as the breech- loader, permitted service of re- cruits barred before that time, and specifically mentioned the outmod- (Continued on Page Two) STOCK GUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Closing IN WEST AT of Ground-Hold Firmly Elsewhere Near City (By Associated Press) Russia’s armies have yielded fresh ground at the bloody western gates of Stalingrad, the Soviets acknow- ledged today. But after 24 hours, there is still no confirmation from the defend- lers of the Nazi claim'that Ger- , man shock troops, fighting in the icity’s streets, have captured the main Stalingrad railway station. This claim was announced early !morning by the Germans. | “At heavy cost, the Germanshave | advanced slightly,” Soviet head- | quarters said today. ! Reds Hold Firmly | Elsewhere on the slowly contr; |ing defense arc, the Russians de- i clared they are holding firmly. | But a Berlin broadcast asserted }lhnt German troops have penetrat- éd deeper into the ‘SLalillgrml, but gave no further de- ijlS. DNB, German news agency, re- 1'por1.ed “bitter street fighting against “énemy nests of resistance” within |the city. : Is Bitter Struggle ! German headquarters reported merely that “considerable ild(hll()lh’ al ground has been gained in em- bittered struggles” grad. This headquarters commu- nigue also said that the Russians are attacking at Rzhev and Vor- onezh Battlefront dispatches to the Red Star, Russian Army newspapér, said that the Germans lost 3,000 troops when they attempted to capture a hospital in one outlying section of Stalingrad. INITIATIVE IS TAKEN ON NEW GUINEA Allies Again—Have Upper Hand in Patrolling Owen Stanley Range SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA. S ept. 14.—(Delayed) Australian patrols over the towering Owen Stanley range, appeared to have wrested the initiative from the Japs, but delayed reports showed the STALINGRAD Navy Kept News Soviets Ackifiidv)ledge Loss‘: “interior” of | around Stalin- ' E. Gruber, Thomas H. Hull, Leonard | :gx)?:t",g:;a otisA;u:; unneag' ““é‘; enemy is probably concentrated in : i , American Can 67, oongiderable force for a push to ~ Sunk by Ja BRAZILIS MOBILIZING FORBATTLE General Order Suddenly | Issued Today by Presi- dent Vargas ' RIO DE JANEIRO, Orders for a general mobilization throughout Brazil was suddenly ordered today by President Vargas. Immediately machinery was set in motion to follow out the executive’s decree. Brazil declared war against Ger- many and Italy on August 22 after incurring heavy losses as the result |of Axis attacks on her merchant i shipping. | since then, the Brazilian sea and air forces have been helping the Allies to combat the enemy sea men- ace. [ The general mobilization order extends steps already taken by the | Brazilian Government to put the | pation on a strictly military basis. | Brazil can place 250,000 trained infantrymen in the field at once 'BERT G. LOOMIS IS * GREAT GRANDFATHER | i Bert Loomis, City Harbormaster, "xs proud as punch over the birth |of a great-granddaughter on Sep- | témber 14, and for a double reason September 14 is Loomis’ own birth date. His great-granddaughter is Micel- la Fayette, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Howard Fayette, of Anacortes, Sept. 16— ‘Washington. Micella's mother 4s Loomis’ granddaughter, the former Leeta Bowen, who was born in Pouglas in . AIRCRAFT CARRIER YORKTOWN Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 537/8, Commonwealth and South- ern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, In- ternational Harvester 467/8, North- ern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 46, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 106.66, rails 26.45, utilities 11.75. o -ALASKA STAR PLANE ARRIVES FROM WEST Passengers arriving here from the Westward with an Alaska Star Air Lines plane piloted by Chet Brown, with Norman R. Weaver as co-pilot, yesterday afternoon were G. Festa, S. Moseley, J. Landherr, Capt. Akin, J. Shipp, R. Ankeny, Charles Rol- enson, James Rolenson, M. Clay- A, Ku- pool, R. Young, D. Dancey, kuhanson and R. Shon. The plane is expected to leave this afternoon or tomorrow for the | return flight to Anchorage. | g | “Y DEFENSE STAMPS carry him over the peaks toward |1919. With her parents Leeta moved Port Moresby. south when she was a small child. Information available here sug- Al Dl gested that the Japs have several MAKES EMERGENCY ‘(lih_ousand troops engaged in Uwi FLIGHT TO KAKUTAT |drive. More thgn half of them are be-| py Langdon White flew to Ya- |tween the bases at Buna and Efolgl, 'y ia¢ yesterday afternoon on an only about 40 miles from Port .. gency case with Alaska Constal Maregly, ouibost of Lh? Allpe here, | Airlines bringing Lawrence George The loss of the Allied initiative | o W= o B s ment Hospital lon patrol operations in the first! P3¢ 0 g Kerpmen ospn phases of the battle, evidently pav- for card ,Df a serious, but not ed the way for rapid Jap advances. |critical injury. . e e s : G.C. HENDERSON IS~ |™"veave e vow s HERE SOUTHBOUND - ' »:- " FROM KODIAK ISLE S, Seumer mus s on |a trip to secure medical attention G. C. Henderson. Superintend-'for Catherine, ent of the San Juan Fishing and| Packing Company plant at Uganik | INDIAN OFFICE OFFICIALS Bay on Kodiak Island, arrived here! MAKE TRIP TO KETCHIKAN with Woodley Airways yesterday - on his way to Seattle. | General Superintendent Claude The last season in the Kodiak M. Hirst, Credit Agent Raymord region was fair according to Mr.|Wolfe, and Construction Engineer Henderson who is staying at the|Ralph Mize of ‘the Alaska Office Baranof Hotel while waiting for of Indian Affairs, left Juneau by transportation to Seattle, lzsl,(-‘amt'r last night for an official business trip to Ketchikan and other Southeast Alaskan cities. John Brillhart, and twins, > e * known to have ps in June; Secret - A | WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. — The Navy Department announced today the sinking of the U. S. ‘aircraft [carrier Yorktown after the battle of Midway, the result of Jap bomb and torpedo attacks. The loss of | the 19,900-ton carrier With very few casualties has been a well-kept naval secret. The Navy Department said that the destruction of the ship appar- ently was not known by the enemy, fand this knowledge has been vitally linked with operations that have been in progress in the South Pa- cific_since early in August. | The Yorktown was first success- | fully attacked by the enemy aircraft with bombs and torpedoes on the afternoon of June 4, after the battle of Midway, a great American vic- tory, and after the battle had reached its full fury. Was New Job The vessel had a nomnal compic- ment of 85 planes and 2,072 men Only five years old, the big craft was then put out of action for a time, but tugs and salvage vessels succeeded in getting ner under con trol. She was being removed slow- ly, but surely from the battle zone when shortly before noon on June 6 an enemy submarine suddenly attacked the stricken vessel, scoring two torpedo hits amidships. The enemy submarine then put two more deadly torpedoes in the U. S. déstroyer Hammann, escorting the Yorktown, and the Hamman sank. Shortly after being hit, the con- dition of the Yorktown became crit- jcal, and early on June 7, the “York- town capsized and sank as a result of cumulative damage from aircraft bombs and torpedoes on June 4, and torpedoes from a submarine on the sixth” before ald came. The Navy Department, said that the sub which delivered the fatal blows was hunted down by Amer- ican destroyers which were escort- ing the Yorktown, was repeatedly attacked throughout the day and was possibly sunk. Enemy Wouldn’t Know The sinking of the submarine thus would have prevented the en- emy from knowing that the York- town had been sent down. As for casualties, the Navy said that they were few and, already have been included in total personnel losses previously announced for the Battle of Midway-—92 officers and 215 enlisted men. The Yorktown and the Hammann were the only U. S. ships lost at Midway, while the Japanese lost at least 10, including four aircraft car- riers sunk, and at least 13 other ships including three battleships lost for action. The Yorktown is the second car- rier lost to the United States. “The first was the Lexington. The United States now has five left of the seven entered the conflict at the start of the war—the Enter- prise, Saratoga, Wasp, Hornet and Ranger. - - ‘New Rubber Administrator Is Appointed WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.— Donald Nelson today appointed William Jefferson, President of the Union Pacific Railroad to be National Rubber Adminis- trator, War Move is Now Hinted by Japanese REDS YIELD |[U.S. Carrier Yorkfown U.S. FIGHTER [PLANES MAKE QUICK ATTACK Both Shippin?md Nippon Troops Are Strafed on Kiska Isle SHORE INSTALLATIONS ALSO REPORTED HIT Enemy Runs to Cover as Diving Aircraft Use Machine Guns BY WILLIAM L. WORDEN (Associated Press Correspondent) AN ALASKAN BASE, Sept. 7.— (Delayed)—American fighter planes have strafed Jap shipping and men on Kiska Island for the first time since the island was occupied. In a spectacular raid by two fighters on the heels of a bomber trip made personally by Brig. Gen. William O. Butler, commander of the Alaskan Air Force, who led a low-leve] attack three days prev- iously, two Alaska pilots sent the Japs to cover. Gen. Butler's three ships strad- dled several cargo vessels in. the harbor with near misses and es- caped into the clouds before the Jap gunners recovered from the surprise of seeing the ships almost at eye level, Strafe Troops The raiders also strafed a col- amn of troops on shore and hit shore installations. The two fighter planes in the subsequent raids were ships which have small cockpits, and the small- er men in the air force were ‘hosen to fly them. Their reports stated that they arrived at Kiska under low clouds and machine- sunned a four-motored flying boat n the water, also setting afire and demolishing a Jap fighter plane irawn up on the beach. ‘The pilots’ report said that they ‘mowed down like straws” what appeared to be a line of Jap sol- diers outside of a messhall and 1lso put out of action an enemy (Continued on Page Two) CLAIM HALF JAP CARRIER FLEET GONE Correspondeays u.s. Goal fo Wipe Aircraft Ships Out By CLARK LEE (Associated Press Correspondent) PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 16.—The destruction of the Jap aircraft car- | rier strength is the most important and immediate objective as the war in the Pacific now nears the half- way mark in this connection with the sinking of the small, 7,500-ton Jap carrier Ryujo, probably sunk in the big battle between carriers off the Solomons on August 24 Our pilots got four bomb hits and |one torpedo hit on this ship, and | patrol plane pilots, several hows | after the battle, saw the carrier dead |in the water, listing. Our pilots who were on the spot also believe that two Jap destroyers iand one Jap submarine were dam- |aged. Our own losses were minor. In addition, two Jap cruisers, one [battleship and a transport were se- | verely damaged. | One of the cruisers and the trans- port later were seen abandoned. All of these facts were compiled |on the spot by this Associated Press reporter ,and from all available of- ;H(:ial information and the reports of pilots who participated in the attacks.