The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE — - VOL. LIX., NO. 9142. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Enemy Offensi AIRRAIDS BY ALLIES CONTINUE Unending Mtacks by 0ur1 Planes Slowing Down | Jap Progress ‘ HIT SHORE BASES ; ON COAST AGAIN Adivity Reduced fo Owen| Stanley Mountain Sec- | for During Day GEN. MacARTHUR'S QUARTERS, Sept. 19.— Unending attacks being pressed by Allied war- planes against the Japanese bases in the New Guinea area, are giv- ing indication of a slowing of the HEAD- | enemy offensive aimed at Port Moresby. The newest of these offensives was carried against Buna, Lae and Salamaua and Japanese shore po- sitions on the northeast coast of New Guinea and Rabaul. Today's communique reports that activity has been reduced during the day in the Owen Stanley Moun- | tains, through which the Japs have pressed to within 32 miles of Port Moresby. e JAPS RECALL DIPLOMATIN RUSSIA CITY Manchuria mci alist of Kuibyshev Embassy to Return fo Tokyo NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Listening posts here have picked up a Ger- ' man radio broadcast of a Tokyo dispatch which says that the first secretary of the Jap Embassy at Kuibyshev has been recalled® to Japan for consultation. The dispatch, by Transocean news service, said that the diplo- mat, Funao Miyakawa, will prob- ably leave the Russian provisional capitol about September 25. | Miyakawa is a specialist assigned by Tokyo to represent the Jap interests in a long series of nego- tiations relating to incidents along the Manchurian Jap border. | REPUBLICANS AGREE WITH WAGE BILL SEy | Meet at Caucus on Anii-‘\ Inflation Legislation ‘ as Amended WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Twen- ty-three Republican Senators un- animously agreed at a caucus on the Administration’s anti-inflation legislation, as improved by amend- ments by the Senate Banking Com- | mittee, but reserve the right td propose additional changes them- selves. B — WILLIAMS TO KETCHIKAN TODAY M. D. Williams, District Engineer M. D. SOVIETS HURL Seck “Miss America” Title pictured above. South Carolina”; Dennison, “Miss Texas”; Barbara Jane Goerner, “Miss Minnesota ~VICTORY VENUS" e . iy ¥ Darleen Griffin war worker empleyed in an air- craft plant at Los Angeles, was chosen by the National Progres- sive Chiropractic Association in | 20th annual convention at Los Angeles as its “Victory Venus.” She beat out several hundred other competing beauties. (above), 21, a | STAMESBAY WANIGAN GONE The Admiralty Division of the | United States Forest Service wishes | to call Juneau -hunters’ attention to the fact that the wanigan which has been located in St. James Bay e e Ameng the many candidates for “Miss America” honors at the At- lantic City, N. J, beauty pageant, are the attractive young ladies From the left they are Nell Xermenia Owens, “Miss Virginia Pulliam, “Miss Columbia”; Jo-Carrell Patterson, “Miss Cincinnati,” and NAZISPYIS SENTENCED T0 DEATH ing, BiggestSpy in Am- erica, fo Face Fir- ing Squad HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 19. — A special tribunal has sentenced Heinz August Luning, 31, to death before a firing squad. Lun Luning was seized early in the month. Cuban police then described him as “one of the most important spies captured in America.” At that time, Maj. Gen. Bekitez, Chief of the Cuban National Police, said he made a complete confession Widespread authorities indicated previously that he might escape a firing sauad if he would turn gov- ernment witness. B s GiantBomb New Deadly Destroyer British Dropfig Huge Ex- plosive on Germany for Destruction LONDON, Sept. 19.—A giant four-ton bomb designed to smash steel and concrete buildings and shatter lighter structures and blocks, already is being used to blight German ecities, the British have disclosed. Some air observers have hailed the monster destroyer as the “war’s most deadly weapon.” In Karlsruhe, 270 acres were laid waste and more than a square mile at Dusseldorf was wrecked by the giant bombs employed Septem- ber 2, the Air Ministry said. Norway is almost three times as of the Public Roads Administration, 'guring the past two years has re- large as Tennessee, 124,556 square left this morning for an official centl# been moved and is no longer miles. | wwoit that of Tennessee, trip to Ketchikan, J available for their use Its population, 2,950,000, is BACK SWARMING NAZIS ve On NEW THRUST | | | | BYBRITISH INDICATED Large Area Is Taken for | "Military Purposes” | on English Coast | A LONDON, Sept. 19.—The British | war Office announced today that |all inhabitants of “a considerable area” east of Riding of Yorkshire | facing the North Sea will be evacu= ated and the district taken entirely for military purposes. | further explanation is given | At the same time, a Belgian news No agency in London reported that | German authorities apparently are fearing another Dieppe-type raid, and have ordered families out of Osted, on the Belgian coast. Only three hours’ notice was given in | some cases. The part of Yorkshire affected by the British order is on an ap- proximate latitude with the Hel- goland bight, German naval strong- | hold off the northwest coast of the | Reich. | This is the second such requisi+ sition by England in recent months, The other is an area in East An- glia, facing the southern arm of the North Sea, across from the Netherlands and Belgium. | | | BRITISHERS ADVANCE ON MADAGASCAR Vichy Bro?dfast Reports Occupation of Town Brickaville | LONDON, Sept. 19.—The Vichy radio broadcast an announcement |from Madagascar that the British ave occupied Brickaville on the | east coast of Madagascar, 100 miles east of Tananarive. The announcement indicates that |another British landing has been made on the island. A commuypique issued by the British command in East Africa made no mention of any new landing, however, and re- ported only continued progress be- ing made. Columns are moving toward Tan- anarive from Majunga on the north- west and Tamatave on the east. HINT OF NEW ACTIVITY ON EGYPTFRONT Axis Reporls_lfidicaie Brit- | ish Moving Toward: | New Atfacks Soon (By Associated Press) A burst of British activity in Bgypt’s western desert is reported today by the Italian command. | Announcement was made in' Rome that Axis air forces inlicted heavy losses yesterday on Allied| tanks and troop columns making exploratory thrusts into the south- ern sector on the El Alamein front. Three British fighters were re- ported shot down. The Germans, likewise indicating that something big may be devploz)-l ing after the period of quiescence in| North Africa, echoed Rome’s report, saying that German and Italian airmen Friday carried out “con- tinuous” bombing and machine gunning attacks on British tank reserves and motorized columns, [ over'| | —coming down.” Moresby Slackens Aleutian Air Warriors Take Rest Period | { | In Seattle for a two weeks’ rest after dodging death abeve the fog-blanketed Aleutian chain of islands off scuthwestern Alaska, these Navy pilots, who made task flights eevry day for six months, told of their Seated, left to right, are: Lieut. Edward W. Bergstrom, Lieut. Com- pder Charles E. Perkins, Lieut, j. g, Luciue Campbell. Standing, . Ewing, Lieut. j. g, Marshall C. Freerks and Ensign Marvin Hart. exploits in fighting the Japanese. mander James Russell, Lieut Comm: left te right, are: Ensign Thomas AM. LEGION CONVENTION ASSEMBLES Issue at Kansas City Is Membership fo New Veterans KANSAS CITY, Sept. 19.—Am- ! | erican Legionnaires opened their ;) | national convention here today and were ready to plunge into the prob- |lems of a nation at war and to; b | deal with the question of whether |they will open their membership |to the Veterans of the present war. As National Commander Stam- baugh tapped the miniature Liberty | Bell openihg the session, the 1,500 | delegates sprinkled around the spa- cious hall were surprisingly quiet. There was no fanfare, no parade. | Secretary of the Navy Knox |spoke, telling the convention that | Axis subs form the major problem confronting the United Nations, but he is confident “in the long | run, the monthly total of ships HH HH {lost will be reduced to a point rl ls rl Ic e s | where the subs no longer will be Home from Jap Prison Camp LB Four of the five Navy nurses who were captured by the Japs on Guam Dee. 10, 1941, are pictured in Washington. The fifth, Virginia Fogarty, of £kron, 0., had married and was on her way home with her ht Ieft to right they are Doris Yetter, Philadelphia; Marion B. Washington, D. C.; Leona Jackson, lIJ:lillw;l. 24. and Lorraine Christians won Mavfiald Tlta ——— | that STALINGRAD DEATH STAND 'HALTS NAZIS Hill Commanding City Eludes Assault as Reds Hold Firm PILES OF ENEMY BODIES HEAP UP (By Associated Press) In a bitter death stand, Russian troops are credited officially with defeating the Germans in a critical five-hour battle for the hill com- manding the heart of Stalingrad. As the struggle raged for the twenty-sixth day, the Soviet com- mand announced that “all German attempts to capture this valuable :osition have failed.” Meanwhile, at least two other as- saults by massed Nazi tanks and’ roops have been declared repulsed in the smoke-shrouded city, itself, in the northwest outskirts, amid perhaps the bloodiest fighting of the entire Geman-Russian War, Nazi Claims German headquarters reported tersely that the battle is being ‘successfully continued in the face of stubborn enemy resistance,” and declared that a strong diversionary attack by tank-led Soviet infantry in the north of Stalingrad has “collapsed with severe losses to the 2nemy.” This is the first intimation that Russ Marshal Timoshenko may have launched a powerful flanking movement to sweep around the Nazi slege armies. The German command said that the Russian troops managed to penetrate Nazi * bositions in a diversionary thrust ut were annihilated and hundreds of Soviet tanks were destroyed. Significantly, however, Hitler's headquarters claimed no . specitic jains in Stalingrad. Dead Litter Streets Russian dispatches said that the Red Armies have yielded no fur- ther ground in the city, and the newspaper, Jzvestia, said many streets of the Volga city were littered with German dead. Four hundred bodies in the Nazi grey- green uniforms were counted on the lawns along one short street after Russian bayonet fighters drove oack an attack. Other reports said that Nazi sarachute troops were dropping in the city, and many German troops were disguised in Soviet uniforms, ind German tanks were camou- laged as Russian, even bearing the Red Army insignia. .o SlapinKisserOver R d (I ‘Slamat U. . Planes Reds tiaim | 1,300,000 - ment and still reach base has been Nazis Dead ! amazing. | Don’t he at all surprised if there’s an official slap in the kisser MOSCOW, Sept. 19.—A Com- unist Party announcement stated today that German casualties in | administered to the critic vrote so wisely and was made to the drive for South Russia alone| (have reached 1,300,000 killed. look like a monkey by the work e e SRS LAGERGREN IS BY JOHN GROVER (For Jack Stinnett, On Vacation) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Thal British semi-expert who cast slur on ‘“inferior” U. S. four-motored bombers certainly got a quick and pointed answer to his charges that the American “big boys” lacked armament, fire power and speed In four forays unescorted over enemy territory, not a big bomber manufactured in the U. 8. was lost. His crack that the Flying Fort- resses and Liberators “lacked speed” who of the big bombers. | Incidentally, it’s about time that| somebody stepped on these stories that American military airplane de- sign is inferior to Allied and to enemy wageraft. It's a cockeyed | |LIEUT, The facts are, American airplanes | BUBBER B AVAILABLE, ' EVERYBODY New Boss Efbeparfmenl Makes Promise-Pleas- ant News, Anyway NEW YORK, Sept. 19.— This country’s essential vehicles, civillan as well as military, are going to have some form of rubber and plenty of it, the new boss of that department promises. He indicates —actually U S. big bombers are i ail theatres of operations have| VISITOR IN JUNEAU faster than’ any others—got the a plus batting average. They've al- retort discourteous from an Air e ways downed more enemy than they've lost. Operating with U. S. planes considered obsolete, the Flying Tigers knocked down a dozen Jap ships for every one lost the Westward. It mu‘ be said aulhumam‘xflv‘ Lieut. Lagergren who is in the that U. S. planes are more sturdily ‘s g pullt than @By in the air o Army Engineers, recently completed e 10daY. | gining in California. While there No other ships will take the punch- .. s 1 | g around and still get home, This 7>, Lagergren and their three oo Az children, Nancy, Charles and Don- | vital factor in a war where \ | flying personnel is LMuul(! visited him Mrs. Lagergren | Bt i "““and the children are living in Kingman, Kansas. planes| gy, Milton Lagergren, former | Juneau City Engineer, is in Juneau |visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Lagergen, while enroute to Force’s sergeant when the raids came in: “Yeah, they din’t as fast as theirs reports of It’s the inside report that the RAF is hoppihg mad over the be- littling of the American hes bombardment planes. Actually, they're tickled silly with the per- formance of U. 8. ships in the raids over Germany. The ability of the U. S, planes to take punsh- ' is a trained (Continued on Page Three) that it won't be long coming, either. Willlam Jeffers, in his first con- ference with the newsmen since be- oming the Nation’s Rubber Admin- istrator, asserted today that pro- duction of synthetic rubber will be started swiftly in accordance with known processes while the search for improvements continued. On the side, Jeffers said the plants that will turn out synthetic product will be rushed to comple- tion and their output stepped up to any required degree,