The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9141. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1942 “MEMBL R . PRICE TEN CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS NAZIS ARE SWEPT BACK AT STALINGRAD Marines Land on Guadalcanal Island Grew Says Japs Are Our Most Formidable Enemy, Not Germans NEW TROGPS IN BRITAIN IS REPORT Arrival of New United States Contingent Re- ported in Daily Mail LONDON, S(;fl The London Daily Mail said today that another large contingent of American troops, including hundreds of Army tech= United States Mnrlnes start ashore from their landing barges on the beach of Guadalcanal Island in the Seclomons. In background are other boatloads of Ma.rh\es Marine forces attacked in taking over Japanese-held bases. Guadalcanal was one of several islands Marmes Search for Enemy Smpers Alert United States Marines, their rifles ready, f | American search for snipers and stragglers in a palm grove on Guadalcanal Island during mopnm' up operations in me battle of the Solomon lsluld.s American Gals Now Pinch - Hi fting for 14 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK Brothers in Crime BY OUR SUBS BY JOHN GROVER (For Jack Stinnett, On Vacation) ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Break- down of national erime statistics by the FBI shows that American gals are stepping right in to pinch- hit for their brothers in the law- breaking business. The records show that during the first six months of 1942, 10.2 per cent of all offenders arrested were women, an increase over 1941, when 9.1 of those arrested were females, (The FBI says, however, that the apparent increase may be due to better stutistical reporting of female crime by cooperating agencies.) The war is reflected in the marked increase in sex crimes. With thousands of men away from liome, and conditions generally up- set, the index of rape cases in- creased 99 per cent in the first six months of 1942 as compared with the similar period in 1941. More “party money” is in circu- lation, and the 9.4 per cent in- crease in negligent manslaughter mirrors increased drunken operation of motor vehicles. cause operation of a car without proper gasoline credentials is dif- ficult, showed a 1.6 per cent re- duction for the half y The Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion noted that there are 175 aux- iliary police for every 160 regular police officers in cities over 25,000. Over the whole country, the score of arrests showed criminals were arrested for 27.7 per cent of the crimes reported. Larceny and automobile theft were the “safest” crimes, from the standpoint of the criminal. Arrests were made in 244 per cent of the auto theft cases and 22.7 per cent of the larcenies. Murder was the toughest rap to beat, with 88.1 per cent of the murderers arrested. The same high percentage held in man- slaughter, where 86.6 per cent of the killers were caught, and in rape, where 762 per cent of the offenders were jailed. Murder was a favorite pastime in the southern part of the United States. ZThe east south central states reported 865 murders per 100,000 population for the highest This Raises Tofal Sunk or Damaged by U. S. Raiders to 107 WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 —The Navy Department announced today that submarines operating in the Western Pacific have sunk four en- emy ships and damaged four others in recent actions. A communique listed them as two large freighters, a medium-sized freighter and a small patrol boat sunk, and a large tanker damaged and left afire, a large freighter damaged, a large transport dam- aged and a medium-sized cargo ship damaged. These were not announced in re- ports of previous attacks and raised to 107 the total number of Jap vessels of all types which the Navy | has reported sunk or damaged by our submarines. ————,———— M. E. MONAGLE ACTING AS POLICE JUDGE HERE Juneau attorney M. E. Monagle is | homicide rate in the country. New presldmg as Juneau's Police Judge . Auto thefts, presumably because Englanders were the least lethal, while City Magistrate Grover C. fewer cars on the street, and be-| (Continted on Page Two) Winn is on vacation, nical experts and some air force personnel, anti-aircraft”and transs port units, have arrived in Britain, — .- PARATROOPS OF AMERICA INENGLAND u. S Parachufe Fighters Join Allied Offensive Forces LONDON, Sept. 18.—U. 8. Army headquarters have disclosed parachute troops have, joined the offensive forces in the British Isles. Their commander, Lieut. Col. Ed- son, of New York City, has been| in England for some time train- ing British parachute troops. The American formations received original lralmng in Georgia RAFBOMBS DOCKS AT new | their BORDEAUX oor We;fi\er Keeps| Flights from Hitting at Germany LONDON, Sept. 18 —~While weath- er shielded Germany proper rroml air attack, planes of the Royal Air Force's Coastal Command bombed the docks at Bordeaux, German- held port and submarine base in southern France in the Bay of Biscay. Preceding this assault, Beau-| fighters of the same command, on| patrol in the Bay of Biscay yester- day, destroyed three enemy bombers and lost one of their own planes. Meanwhile, considerable damage and some casualties were reported on Britain’s own coast when at least four Nazi planes strafed a south- west coast port with bombs and machinegun fire. At the same time, southeastern Europe was kept in a high state of jitters when an air raid scare resulted from reports of mysterious balloons, laden with explosives drifting over Hungary. - \JUNEAU GUARDSMEN | 60 ON MANEUVERS | Juneau's platoons of the Alaska Territorial Guard carried out tac- tical maneuvers near the Douglas |Bridge last night in the pouring rain, under the direction of Capt. George F. Freeburger. With uniforms of 1918 vintage still able to hold off soaking, the Guaids stuck it out for about a ‘half-hour. Further maneuvers will be held in better weather, Capt. Freeburger reported. Wwill that | SYRACUSE, N Y., Sept. 18.—De- scribing Japan as our most for- midable enemy, far tougher than Germany, former Ambassador Jos- eph C. Grew told a war rally lun- cheon ‘here that the Germans cracked in 1918 and they'll crack again, but the Japanese will fight until’ théy are utterly crushed Grew indicated that he was pro- foundly shocked to hear people in | this country talk as if Germany, in time, will be defeated and “then lwen mop up on the Japs.” He agreed with those who be- lieve that the German morale will not survive ® series of setbacks, but added, ‘“the Japanese will not crack. They will not crack morally or psychologically or economically. | Even when eventual defeat stares them in the face, only by utter physical destruction or utter ex- | haustion of their men and mat- erfals can they be defeated.” It is difficult for Americans who have never lived in Japan Grew continued, to form any conception of overwhelming confidence in the ,Japanvse Army and Navy and their |ability to subjugate not only large |areas in Asia, but in the Western hemisphere, too. Grew asked: “You realize ithe Japanese already are in the !Alouu..m don’t you, not far from Alaska? “I mention it merely as a con- crete indication of what the armed forces of Japan hope to do, what they intend to do, and what they do if - they can—first, bomb |important American centers, then, eventually invade America.” .- BRITISH IN NEWLANDING, MADAGASCAR 'Port of Tamative Taken by | Strong British Forces i Which Land LONDON, Sept. 18.—Strong new British forces have landed on the east coast of Madagascar and oc- cupied the port of Tamative after some French resistarice, the British East Africa Command announces. Tamative is 130 miles northeast of Tananarive, the inland Capital {City of the island of Madagascar. The landing on the east coast is the first British beachhead and came after the French Colony turned down the British terms for |an armistice. Both British and French radio | broadcasts report the occupation |of Tamative but the communique is the first disclosure it was taken by newly landed forces rather than offshoot columns moving on Tan- anarive through the interior. [FRENCH WILL STILL FIGHT F a z FOR ISLAND LONDON, Sept. 18.—The French Governor General of Madagascar, who yesterday asked the British for terms, has decided to defend the sland “to the 'extreme limit,” a French communique broadcast over the Vichy radio said today. The communique announcing that resistance will be continued against British columns converging on Tan- anarive, capital of Madagasgar, said that British terms of surrender “appear to be unaccpetable to such extent” that Gov. Gen. Armand Annet has not even considered them and will continue to lead the forces ———- Alvin Rudolph has been admitted to the Government Hospital for medical care, ‘ that Red Lady Sniper Here Viadimir E. Bazykin, First greets Junjor Lieut. Liudmila P: arrival at Union Station in Washi retary of the Soviet Embassy (right), chenko, Russian sniper, on her ngton. She is credited with having destroyed 309 German officers and men. “Phe lady sniper came to the _capital as 3 delegate to the Inters "Duration” Vil national Student Assembly, Built by Native Aleuts In Three-Week Projed CANADIANS RAP DIEPPE RAID PRICE Governmefie'plores 3- 350 Casualties as Not Worth Gams Made OTTAWA, Sept 18 —The Can- adian GoVernment said flatly today that “a very heavy price” was paid, considering what was gained by the Allied forces raid August 19 on Dieppe. g A 4000 word review Defense Minister Ralston up the raid as follows “For the lessons learned and ad- vantages gained, the forces, par- ticularly the land forces, paid a very heavy price.” The Canadian Army, which fur- nished all but a small part of the land forces, suffered 3,350 casual- ties; 170 killed, 633 wounded 7 missing. It was the costliest >anadian milifary operation of the i These losses, the statement said “were probably due in part to the misfortune,” of a chance encounter with an escorted German tanker in the English Channel This mis- (hap marred the “complete ment of .surprxse” | -e ALEUT EVACUEES TAKE EMPLOYMENT issued by summed and achieve- IN LUMBER MILLS| Six Aleuts from the Pribilof E acuation Camp at Funter Bay, have taken employment at the Juneau Lumber Company in Juneau, it was announced by the U. S. Employment Service today. Those who are employed at the local lumber company are Elary s. Gromoff, Ferapont Sveetzof, Do~ M.reulieff, Nicolai B. Mercu- lief, Taurence Galanin and John Hopoff. Auxenty Stepetin, first of the evacuated Aleuts to take em- ployment in the city, is with the U. 8. Engineers. sofey For people who come irom the lmd where lumber doesn’t grow on trees, Alaskas Aleuts, evacuated from |the bagtle zone of the Aleutian Islands, do pretty good with ham- mers and nails. Three weeks after one group had been moved from temporary head- quarters at Wrangell Institute to the old CCC camp at Ward Lake near Ketchikan, the natives erected 16 new cottages, a warehouse and quarters for thefr teachers. Many »f the houses were built foundation to roof in a single day Fred Geeslin, Administrative As- istant to General Superintendent from | RED ARMIES ON THRUST ~ ON ENEMY 'Stalin Issues New Orders to Push Germans Back -Soviets Do That FRESH SIBERIAN TROOPS ON FRONT 'Bifter Sireet Baffles Con- tinue in Steel City's Supreme Effort (By Associated Press) | Hitler's siege armies have been twice hurled back in bloody street fighting and are reported hastily |erecting defenses on the northwest | outskirts of Stalingrad as the Rus- sians seized the initiative in a dra- | matic eleventh hour rally. Dispatches said that the Red {Army defenders were backed down |three lined avenues to the cliffs toverlooking the Volga waterfront, at one time, and then with the bluffs behind them and Nazi tanks in front, the Soviets struck back {in a supreme effort to save the | big steel city and forced the in- | vaders to retreat. Significantly, Hitler's headquart- lers made only a broad general | claim that Nazj troops had scored | “further successes” in the battle of | Stalingrad. The Germans again emphasized |the “embittered” nature of the ‘nghung There was no repetition ur previous Berlin claims that Ger- ‘mun troops are thrusting deeper into the city’s streets, Advices from Moscow said that’ | Russian tanks have gone over to | the offensive in two neighboring sectors on the Stalingrad front, on orders from Stalin, High Com- mander, Tass news agency reported that Ywundreds of fresh Siberian troops {are now moving into the battle. | Bodies by the hundreds, German dead, hulks, burned out Nazi tanks litter the street, dispatches said today as the Russians obeyed Stal- in’s order to sweep the Nazi tide back north. | | | | | | | | BUNABASE Claude M. Hirst of the Alaska Of- | fice of Indian Affairs, supervised the | construction. The Aleuts asked for plans and he told them just to be | and get in four windows and | sure door. They went to work. . It ook them 21 days to double the size of the camp, and most of the cottages are three and four fairs. complete with electrical wiring and hardware. S8ix of them already painted. Low Cost Job Geeslin estimates that the total cost of each house is under $150. a The natives at Ward Lake include | those from Akutan, Kashega, Maku- | Biorka and Nikolski — 164 of | them. Forty-five of the workmen will be ready Monday to accept employment elsewhere and Geeslin believes most of the natives will be (Continued on Page Two) ARRESTED ALEUT COUPLE TERRIFIED BY ELEVATOR RIDE shin, 1Man and Wife Taken Info| Custody at Kefchikan on Drunk Charge | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 18. Mr. and Mrs. Leonty Sivoroff, Aleut couple recently evacuated to a Ket- chikan camp from the Aleutians, did not objeet to being arrested for drunkenness but were completely terrified by the time they reached the jail on the fourth floor of the Federal Building here. They were fined and released The couple explained it was the t time they ever rede in clevator but used it again for the lduwn trip and liked it. BATTERED BY ALLIES Cannon, Milfinegun Fire Sets Barges, Fuel Dumps of Japanese Aflame room af- | GEN MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, Sept. 18—Allied planes |dumped 85,000 rounds of cannon |and machinegun fire into the Jap- |anese invasion base at Buna and derude or damaged at least 15 barges and started fuel dump fires visible for 25 miles. | Allled ground troops locked again today in sporadie fighting with Japanese jungle troops, 82 airline nriles from Port Mmesby remain B e 0, HAPPY DAY! LOS ANOELESY Sept. 18.—Several |hundred disgruntled taxpayers | swarmed into County Assessor John |R. Quinn's office to protect their | assessments. Too bad it was all hapnening on Quinn’s birthday, re- marked Supervisor Gordon McDon- ough. Arguments halted and the crowd sang “Happy Birthday to You” with fervor. Then everybody started protesting again. ONE DEER TO AN ALLEGAN, Mich., Sept.'18—One Michigan county-—Allegan—will per- mit archers to take one deer of either sex during the bow-and- arrow season, Nov. 1 to 14, ARCHER