The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9144. EAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1942 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PR PRICE TEN CENTS RED FLAG STILL FLIES OVER STALINGRAD The Japanese-developed air base on Guadalcanal island seized by U. as a base for American planes in attacks on other Japanese-heid base: The picture shows the runway. | Whew! Subs fo | Attack Tacoma, ‘ | Dutch Harbor S. Marines and now being used s in the southwest Pacific area. | Owners of these trousers were Japanese officers taken by surprise when the U. S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal island in the Solomon group. The Japs had to leave their pants or risk quick capture. They Jeft their pants. Jap Officers Take French Leave | Japanese officers’ tents are shown standing in what was once a Nip- ! ponese encampment on Guadaleanal Island in the Solomons. This official U. S. Navy picture was made after the Marines landed and took over the jsland and five others in a history-making sweeo. Ralph Cram Passes Away; [112 Weeks World Famous Architect, Also Writer of Books, Dies in Boston BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 22.—Ralpn Adams Cram, 79, world famous architect, died here today after an illness of two weeks. A blueprint , of the career of Ralph Adams Cram, one of the world’s foremost architects, would be sectioned into a six-fold pat- tern, describing him as artist, phil- osopher, teacher, writer on techni- cal and social studies, and a man of deep religious convictions. Structures such as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, and buildings of the Military Academy at West Point and at Princeton University stand as tan- gible monuments to him, the ex- ponent of Gothic architecture. But, in his writings and public F d I 0" e G Ils | terance ony that E | utterances there is testimony tha OnShort Vacafions,6o To Work, Eastern Farms BY JOHN GROVER (For Jack Stinnett, On Vacation) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Clean- ing the notes off the cuff: Some home-sick girls from farms in the Department of Agriculture have solved the short vacation problem that plagues Washington in wartime. Vacation leave has been limited to two weeks. Civil Service work- ers from the West wouldn’t have enough time at home to make the trip worthwhile, so close-by vaca- tions are the Washington rule. However, waritme weekly rates at mountain and shore resorts don’t square with low clerical salaries, The girls were up against it. They read that harvest labor was -scarce on the Eastern Shore Jof Maryland and in Pennsylvania, and worked out a plan for no-cost | vacations. They told several farm- ers they were farm-raised and would hefip in the harvest for board and room. They offered to pay their own bus fare. | When the farmers found the help was actually farm-raised girls who knew their way around a.barnyard, instead of rotogravure farmerettes, they kicked in with $21 a month in addition to board -+and room, and are doing everything possible to make the homesick rural girls _feel at home. The girls say it's swell, the next best thing to getting out with the (Ccniinued on Page Two) he sought also to blueprint the | facades of a new world civilization. New Civilization Theory | He envisioned a way of life in| which humanity would “return to| the land,” spiritual values would | dominate the material, the people | would be divided into craft “guilds” resembling those of the Middle; Ages, the mode of living would be stripped of many mechanical things, | and government everywhere would take on the ‘idea of the medieval| kingships, He was almost Cassandra-like in his profound pessimism regard- ing the fate of all forms of govern- ment. “The republican, democratic, | communistic, dictatoria] emeutes of the last 200 years,” he once said,| “were engendered by those impulses with * which, traditionally, hell is paved. All, however, were ener-' gized and established by the one| force that could not operate cre- atively and towards enduring ends: the limited, superstitious, second- rate proletarian mind.” WASHINGTON, Sept. - 22.— Korean sources here said that | Jap Premier Tojo told the Black Dragon Society on August 6 of “plans for submarine movements in the Pacific during the coming: six months, and particularly ¥ ! named Dutch Harbor, Alaska, = | and the City of Tacoma, Wash= | [ ington.” | P el SV 2 NEW NAVY WILL PUT U.5. AHEAD Vinson Says Huge Appro- | priation for Ships Will Make AmericaTops -, WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—"Diep- pe and the Solomon Islands are merely forecasts of the shape of things to come,” Chairman Carl| Vinson of the House Naval Affairs | Committee declared today in a statement on Naval Expansion. His statement, asserting “at we are beginniny to turn the cor- | German sources caption this Ra sea | i e e Destrudion of Germany Planned by Air Forces; U.S.Bomber ChiefTalks (COMEBACK $2,731,000 to bring the Navy's cur- | rent year's appropriation to $17 billion, vy Vinson said that the new Navy will give us “added escort and| patrol craft needed to put an end | to the U-boat menace and enable | us to take the offensive with a | superior force In any theater we choose.” - ! LONDON, Sept. 22—The convic- |tion that it is possible to destroy |Germany from the air was today ?vxpressed by Brig. Gen. Ira Eaker, ! Chief of the American Expedition- ary Force Bomber Command. | Brig. Gen. Eaker declared, in an interview with the London Daily Mail, “The enemy will fall before a sufficiently powerful s ries of ver- Mighly Ta nk BaIIIe Near Stalin grad - * . . e SRR X oundphoto as a } azi column advancing through ruins toward Stalin- arad, after the capture of Voroshilovgrad. One of th: mignuest tank batties in history is reported raging along the flat plain fronting Stalingrad, key industrial city, while an umbrella of Nazi fighter planes aided the armored units on the ground. KNOX SAYS JAPSPLAN | eat aseanie, By dentroring e e Navy Secrefary Assumes the enemy armies to a halt. Also by ' Nipponese Wi" ‘lry 'o Reconquer Solomons ' destroying his shipyards we thus can make it impossible for him to build WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.— Sec- | subs.” The American Bomber Command retary of Navy Knox today declared that it is a safe and sound assump- | Chief said there will be hardly a | corner of Germany that United States bombers will not reach with- |in the next few months. FEWHOURS T FLoHT IN enry Kaiser's Agents Shové New Yg;k Skpged Si SWING ON in Gefting Workers | — ~INFLATION NEW YORK, Sept. 22.— Giving | this city its first taste of ship-, puilder Kaiser’s speed and direct o W G Pl of e 20000 souent | House, Senate Farm State ity o et . oreeor- | Members Muster Forces for Battle on Parity room in New York City, the work- ers, many of whom have been through a long, period of unemploy-: . ment, passed through the Kaiser ywaSHINGTON, Sept. 22 A employment assembly line, blunt statement that the Admin- Fifty men were rejected in the jstration could have stemmed the first few hours because they were rising cost of living months ago already employed in vital industry, had it demcnstrated “courage and because they were classified 1»A‘strong leadership” came from Rep. under selective service, or were Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, as between 18 or 19 and facing pos- | the House opened a debate on anti- sible military training soon. inflation legislation. Thomas Murphy, in charge of | He was followed to the floor by hiring, said that 50,000 men are Rep. A. J. Sabath of Illinois, who being sought in New York, Indiana, | d€clared that under the powers Illinois and Texas. ‘delelzared in the bm,l the Prfsldvu; “If they know one end of a could “proceed to bli ng evqul y ;mr. monkey wrench from another, we'll ;‘w‘f:;ue:ron:hr,fi farmer as well as the take them as helpers. If they| Halleck maintained that Congress new attempts to the - ( . . I'Solomon Islands. ;w l WIllkIe Secretary Knox said this predic- | " . |tion of such action constitutes a | “safe and sound assumption” and | ] ] “we ‘are to operate on that basis— - JeesJignisin 'to ‘do otherwise would be foolish :.All(l a diip]n-y_ool_:\:r-cnnfidence." : -~ Red Capital pgap) ok N No Date Set_YeI for Con-| HGH"NG 0“ | ference with Russian ‘ Leader % | e | MOSCOW, Sept. 22.—Presidential Emissary Wendell L. Willkie spent s oo ay et o e <o- | Japs, Allies Exchange Aer- reconquer lection of captured German troop | . ial Blows-Other Ac- jazz band concert featuring Amer- | ican tunes. | date has yet been set for him to | QUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 22.— see Premier Josef Stalin. | Thirty-seven Jap planes bombed the Tonight he - planned to attend a | Foreign Commissar Molotov, but no 'GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEAD- nflicted no damage. | tion that the Japs will make major | ~ NEW GUINEA banners which are on display. | fivity Is Slight willkie was received yesterday by .- = area northwest of Port Moresby but AR don’t, we'll label each end.” itself “with a little encouragement from the Administration would have (Continued on Page Three) |\ 25 DROWN AS LAUNCH GOES DOWN MIDLAND, Ontario, Sept. 22. ‘Twenty-five men were drowned last night when a launch, return- ing from a picnic, sank off Beau- solei] Island, ,Georgian Bay. The group on the picnic composed of employees of the Mid- land Machine Foundry Company. Sixteen of the 41 men in the group were rescued. .- ' BUY DEFENSE STAMPS was | written overall controls against in- | flation last year when it passed the price control act. Meanwhile, in both the House and Senate, lawmakers from the farm States are mustering their forces in the fight to include the cost of farm labor in the Government form- ula for fixing celing prices on farm prices: and thus would put the partiy based ceilings higher .. - HIGHWAY UNIT, | ALASKA GUARD MEETS TONIGHT The Highway Unit of the Alaska | Territorial Guard will meet this evening starting at 7 o'clock in the Auk Lake Camp. Capt. John G Osborn urges all members to be in atlendance for drill. ARE MADE, - DAYLIGHT British Bombers Sweep | Over Nazi Occupied ‘ Countries LONDON, Sept. 22.—A broad day- Jight attack by British bombers was made today on industrial areas in Nazi occupied France and The Netherlands. This was disclosed tonight by the British Air Min- forry Targets also inciuded the power stations at Mazingarbe and Pon- taveullin, in occupied France and the iron and -steel works at Im- juiden, The Netherlands. Allied planes struck back, bomb- ing and strafing the Buna Jap base jon the northeast coast of New | Guinea and Buka. There is no change in the Owen | | Stanley Mountains area where the | Japs have been stopped approxi- mat 40 miles from Port Moresby and s believed that the invaders are facing a shortage of ammuni- ion | i gl 'BERGEN AUTOGRAPHS FOR ALASKA SOLDIERS | e | On nis tour of Alaskan and Aleu- |tian bases, Edgar Bergen visited eight posts and did 51 shows. ' When he got back to Hollywood, the comedian said he was going to ‘!md and sleep for three days. Be- | fore he hit the sheets, however, he {ordered 781 stills from his latest picture, “Here We Go Again,” to send to soldier admirers whom he couldn’t supply with autographed pictures because he didn't have room to carry them in his baggage. f L INTENSITY OF BATTLE INCREASES Soviet For(;s_tounter At- tack in Rubble Heap- ed Industrial City FIGHT HAND-TO-HAND IN STREETS, SQUARE Lull Brings Out Terrified [ . Survivors with Pails for Water | | (By Associated Press) | The Red flag still flew over rub- ble-heaped Stailngrad at noon to- | day, the Russian Command an- | nounced. Soviet troops, counter-attacking in some districts have forced the invading Germans to retreat. | German headquarters, meanwhile, asserted that Nazi shock troops cap- tured an additional number of for- tified blocks of houses in the burn- ing Volga city after violent close quarter fighting. Dispatches to the Moscow news- ipnp"‘ Pravda, said: “Attacks have been halted. Hand-to-hand clashes, | however, are going on in the Square, at street crossings and in houses.” The reference to “the Square” | perhaps indicated that the Germans | now are battling near the heart of the eity. Nazis Admit Délay Dispatches to the Gérman news- paper, Frankfeurter Zeitung, admit- | ted that the “fall of Stalingrad, and | | therewith the final breaking up of | the Russian Front has been delayed i but has not been put off until after " the winter.” Heavy Russian guns are reported shelling the Germans on the east bank of the Volga River. Fresh Soviet reserves are said to be crossing the river in canoes to | bolster the eity’s hard-pressed de- fenders. Berlin reports reaching the Swiss newspaper National Zeitung, said “the intengity of the battle is in- creasing. No one can estimate how many still are living in the city which once was the home of half a million inhabitants. But if the bat- tle lags for a half hour, the black- | ened streets dre ‘swarming with human figures creeping out of hid- | ing places with terrified faces, car- rying buckets and trying to reach (Continued on. Page Two) RAILROADTO ALASKA NOW - CONSIDERED 'Attempt to Requisition Colorado Line Brings Some Profests | WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — Four fimen, among them, Senator Edwin C. | Johnson of Colorado, are seeking to | forestall the junking of the Denver- | Rio Grande Western Railroad, a | narrow gauge line running between Alamosa and Durango, Colorado. The Senator announced that the war Production Board is requisi~ | tioning transter of the rallroad to | Alaska in connection with the con- | struction of an Alaska-Canada line. Protests were made to the Office of Defensé Transportation by Sen- ;ulor Johnson, and by Judge John | O'Rourke, of Durango, who said the [railroad represents 65,000 people in | the Colorado area and around. Said Johnson, “We have had no |assurance from officials with whom |we have conferred and presented everything we could to show that the operation of the road was vital to the war effort.” Johnson sald that he had learned I that the War Department requested |the requisition order and withheld | approval temporariiy to permit pro- | tests to be made. | The proposed railroad to Alaska |would run from Prince George and |would greatly aid in the transpor- 1|,auon problem to the Territory. The lproposed route has been surveyed.