The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1942, Page 1

r—*_——______fi_‘ RS THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LIX., NO. 9148. . JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1942 ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE '\ll"VIH[ PRICE TEN CENTS R AbS()( IAI} D l’Rlle GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS CRUSHED Japs Are Driven Back From Milk, but Not in Bottles—and No Milkman RED ARMY WITHDRAWAL COMES WITH HEAVY RAINS First RelreaTS_in(e Enemy | Crossed Owen Stanley | Mountain Range GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- | QUARTERS, Sept. 26.— Aggressive | Allied patrols, aided by light artil- lery, have forced the Japs to with- | draw from some of their outposts | in the Owen Stanley Mountaing above Port Moresby, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. 1 This report came concurrently with | | the heavy rains. This is the first withdrawal since the enemy ad- [ vanced to within 32 air miles of | the Allied base ten days ago. Allied dive bombers demnlishc(l one end of a vital suspension bridge on the Jap supply muLe during yesterday's actions, the com- | munique said. HONOLULU.—Infants and small children are to be protected from poisonous war gases by “bunny” gas masks, distribution of which already has started. The name comes from the fact they have “ears” giving them a rabbit-like appearance. Winners at Beauty Pageant | (‘onmatulntmg one another after having been declared winners in two of the prelimina¥y contests in the Atlantic City, N, J., beauty and talent pageant are Jo-Carroll Dennison, ss Texas,” and Betty Brunk, * Chicago.” Jo-Carroll won the talent contest and Betty placed first in the bathing suit event. > BRITAIN’S WAR DOGS | LONDON. — Alsatians lead the way in Britain’s call-up of dogs for national service. Alsatians repre- sent 33.6 per cent of the dogs en- listed. Next come collies, then buH terriers and airdales. The Washlngtun Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Few people, even ‘ in the government, knew the back-' stage work that went into “Berny” Baruch’s efficient, rubber report. Inside fact is that it probably cost Baruch around $50,000, out of his own pocket. Few people know also that Baruch has maintained an office in Wash- ington and a corps of people to do Jobs like this for more | than a year. His other jobs have not received publicity. But many times the President or some other high official will ask him to do an important job. And Baruch,| without asking for clerks, steno- | graphers, or research ‘experts, goes | out and does it, paying the bill| himself. Almost no man in Washington | has contributed more to the war,| in his own quiet way, than Baruch. NOTE: Jesse Jones began shining up to Baruch even before “Berny” | was publicly named as rubber chief. | Despite this, the Baruch report is | considered the most caustic criti- | cism of a public official ever issued | in Washington. The only thing | Baruch omitted was Jesse’s name,! REBUFFED RUSSIANS One barb Baruch leveled at Jones —without mentioning' names—was the fact that Jesse’s Rubber Re- | serve ignored the offer of the Rus-| sian Government to send experts! and formulas regarding synthetic rubber. Baruch called this “inex- plicable administration” and said: “Had the offer of the Soviet Government been aceepted, it conceivable that plants for produc- ing rubber might,well be on the; way to completion.” When the Washington Merry-‘ Go-Round on Aug. 13 reported ex- clusively that the Russians had of-‘ fered their rubber information to Jones’ men last February, but, that‘ they never even got the courtesy of a reply, the story-was denied. ! However, on August 19, this coi-; umn further reported that retro- | | | comprehensive '§ research || Politics Kicked Out | Of Window by Chief Execuive of Nafion COMMANDER » | The War Department has an- nounced the appointment of Col. James A. O'Connor (above) to head a Northwest Service Com- mand to handle all construction and supply activities in connec- tion with the Alaska highway. He is a native of Bay City, 7 FOUR MASTER IS ANCHORED, (HANNEl A four-masted ship is zmchmcd in Gastineau channel and forms a pretty picture as the craft swings with the tides. The ship is the Scottish Lady, | formerly the Old Star of Chili and |15 now used as a barge under tow. The craft formerly belonged to the Alaska Packers Association. e (Continued on Page Four) BUY DEFENSE BONDS k|if Congress delayed beyond Octo- BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — The capital's political old-timers — the has-beens who no longer have any | irons in the Washington fire and are content merely to warm their| shins at the capital hot <toves | ve two opinions of the President’s recent speech and message to Con- gress: (1) That it was the rarest stroke| of political genius the President has | yet shown. | &) That in that speech and mes-| | sage the President kicked politics| out the window for the duration. The No. 2 men argue that Presi- dent Roosevelt showed supreme con- tempt for political dallying. He | named names. He said that farm ‘pnces and wage controls had to| | be established. He said that war- time taxes had to be levied. He| {gave Congress three weeks to get| | the job done. He served notice that| ber 1, he would exercise his powers | las chief wartime executive and do them himself. This solemn pledge to regulate; farm prices and wages in less than| five weeks before the national elec-| | tions, the No. 2 men continue, proof that the President is NOT in- terested in politics. He has served | notice, they say, on the powerful farm and labor blocs—just before| election—that this is WAR; that he will play no favorites; that he ! will bring all of his great wartime | powers to bear to see that Congress | plays no favorites either; that only the future victory of our nation is lon his conscience and he doesn’t | give two whoops in a voting booth | how the voters cast their ballots. | | Those who argue Theorem No. 1/ get a political glint in their eyes, rub their hands in gleeful appwcm—l tion and shout, “By the whiskers of Uncle Sam, he's done it again” What they see in the President’s| speech and message to Congress is something different: | By issuing his ultimatum to Con- gress and placing the deadline on| October 1, five weeks before elec-| tion, he has given the farm and| labor bloc boys in the Democratic jranks a perfect out. He has taken! (Continued on Page Three) RAF RAIDS NAZI 05LO QUARTERS Daring Dayhght Aflackers Score Hits on Ges- fapo Buildings LONDON, Sept. 26.—Striking at lh(' rising Axis dissension in Nor- !way and violent new anti-German outbreaks in Oslo, the Royal Air Force made a daring daylight as- sault on Nazi headquarters at Oslo | | yesterday and sent followers of Quisling’s puppet regime scurrying to cover from a nearby rally. Four raiding British bombers swept low and dropped bombs from about 100 feet altitude and scored hits on the Gestapo Buildings, the | | Air Ministry announces. Quisling, who had summoned membe; of his party in Norway ' to a rally in an effort to quell the | discontent, denounced the raid be- fore his followers as one by “RAF murder ‘ planes.” He said casual- ties were four dead and 40 injured. Stockholm dispatches, meanwhile, ! reported another flight of 25 planes, believed to be British, swept Thurs- day night across the Swedish west coast over what might well have been the region flrolmd Oslo. “ALLIESTO HITDAKAR, PARIS SAYS 'Broadcast Claims United Nations Blockading Africa Port LONDON, Sept. 26.—A Paris radio broadcast reports that the are blockading ' Dakar” on French West African coast “they will attack it soon.” The Nazis have carried on an intensive propaganda campaign re- cently regarding alleged Allied ag- gression intentions on Dakar, but this is the first claim of any overt action. Axis reports that the Allies con- template attacking Dakar have been followed by other rumors that Ad- miral Darlan, Commander-in-chief the and jof all Vichy French Armed forces held a long conference with Gen. | Nogues, Gov. Genera] of Morocco. The Algiers radio announced the “Allles | | | | Officers of the United States Army Air Forces stationed on a South Pacific island sample the local The cocoanuts are a far cry from the containers in which their milk once was delivered. For that matter, the native in foreground bears little resemblance to the conventional milkman. milk supply. Po FDR'S (hari of Tlre Wear 400 % (2 2rc ;"fl'ne WEAR VS. CAR spseo iy 7 Sl NGy ¢ ATy, s frag m £y ts dans! Ladd Al can’ riclane l//-w /4 § VI ol P & A(L,Au‘,q ALy P Y ) 7‘& «ys P PR L /61. -V, I ST bk Bl Ko s A S 7o . i NORMAL TIRE LIFE $0 wizge dion 30 wies vin i o n. EXPECTED 'IRE LIFE 40 ores P | meeting, but didn’t mention: where | it occurred or what was discussed. | The German radio simultaneously broadcast the announcement that Lieut. Gen. Yoldihig, Commissioner of Spanish Morocco, is expected at Rabat in a few' days to confer | with Nogues, FOUNDER OF e ENGLISHARMY| CHURCH DIES 'Rev. WiIsmTCarIiIe, 95, Succumbs Shortly After Death of Brother LONDON, Sept. 26 — The Rev. Wilson Carlile, 95, founder of the Church of the Army, a branch of | |the Church of England, and de- |voted to the needs of slum dwell- ers, died today three shours after’ the death of his brother, Sir Hil- dred Carlile, 90, former member of Parliament. | WAR WORINERING BOARY (Yol 1), s wide publlcil.y mmmrm ineaiy PIRES AND YREADS, VM 1 TAE AUTOMGBILE AND WUBIEY umsmu TIRE COWITYRR OF Yau t on tire wear for . The chart shows the expected life of tires at various speeds from 20 to 80 miles per hour. 60 s 400 velt The chart was prepared by | - the Automebjle and Rubber Industries’ Tire Committee of the Society of Automotive l’,rglnver\ Here from England, Food Is "Beaumul" Sept. 26 “heautiful,” Steele LOUISVILLE, K American food is 21-year-old Hcather arrived recently from surre land. Miss Steele came here tc marry Noel Merritt, tobacco company au- ditor, whom she met two years ago while he was serving as an air raid warden in Southampton. She was & member of the Women's Am- lbuhance Detense Corps. Miss Steele’s first. Atlantic cross- |ing was made in a convoy of ships, |'one of which was torpedoed by an enemy submarine. She could not decide which was the more mem- orable expérience—falling flat on the deck during the sheling or a five-day round of seasickness. says who Eng- lYSMAN SIMSON AND FAMILY, OF FAIRBANKS, HERE Lysman Slmaon‘ l(mg time mer- cphant of Pairbanks, with Mrs. Sim-| son and their daughter, Louise, are in Juneau on their way south from the Interior. Mr. Simson has sold out his business in Fairbanks and they ex- pect to make their home in the States. While in Juneau, they are staying at the Baranof Hotel — e ee e 00 000 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Priday, Sept. 25 Maximum 64, Minimum 41 e 00000000 B The University of Chicago was founded in 1891. rt Moresby ’ BEATS BACK - 32ASSAULTS Soviels Gain Fresh Ground | in Fighting at Volga ; River Metropolis | 'NAZIS NOW TELL OF BUILDINGS CAPTURED 'Hitler Warplanes Called 0ff for Fear of Bomb- ing Own Troops E (By Aumlaitd Press) | Vietory edged further from Hit- ler's grasp today in the siege of Stalingrad as the Red Armies |galned fresh ground northeast of ime Volga River metropolis, crushe- :ing 32 German counter-attacks {in 48 hours and recapturing strat- egic positions within the city itself, By Soviet account, it is the [fourth consecutive day that the German assault has been stopped leold. Nazis Fall Down Hitler's High Command, long ac- |customed to proclaim the swift fall iuf city after city, now focused |attention on the capture of single buildings and an official statement says: “In the fight in Stalingrad, build- (ings belonging to the Communist | Party, situated near the bank of the Volga River, have been torn in embittered fighting with the Soviets. Also, Soviet relief attacks against the northern barrier have been repelled.” The German High Command says the Vichy Radio Broadcast, notor= iously unrelable, has said that the 1 German shock troops have been driven through Stalingrad to the |banks of the Volga “at several |points,” indicating their defeat in ‘meh purpose. Street Fighting Dispatches received by the Red Star, the official newspaper of the |Red Army, said the «Germans are system of nation-wide gasoline ra- |attempting to wear out the Soviet tioning on the same basis as the troops in fighting in street barri- coupon rationing system now en- |cades, charred buildings, fox holes forced in the 17 Atlantic seaboard|and damp earth, but the defenders |show no faltering and are holding grimly and firmly as the tide of in (Seventh Air Force Photo) NATIONWIDE " GAS RATION TO BE NEX Rubber Director Issues Di- rective to Henderson for Move WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. — Rub- ber Director Willlam Jeffers has issued a directive that the Office of Price Administration start a states. He left up to Price Administrator | 4 Leon Henderson the decision as 'o‘ Pu.ltle sways back and forth whether the rations will be based Street by street. on four gallons weekly as provided | | Orswl over Dead in the east, or whether some other| The dispatches also said that will be set on the coupons. ']""d“"y local ';“dns I;JO""" by She invader: ade i Pending inauguration of the ra-|yeroc™s, A6 thade by erawing tioning program, the date for which| | burned trucks.” has not yet been set, Jeffers il))— 3 1 ) pealed to motorists to ration ther| Gcrm:{:r:::;;::le:mor:e rted [own driving and cut speeds to 35| i ning attacks to the p\l;olgl miles an hour. | River crossings where Soviet re- While the speed limit suggested |inforcements are coming up. The already is being enforced in Alaska, | stoppage of dropping bombs on due to the small amount of gaso- Stalingrad evidently is caused by line consumed in the Territory and the fear of dropping bombs on the value the restricted use of vehicles brought confused battle scene lest they {about by rubber rationing, it 1S anpihilate their own German | believed that gasoline rationing will {roops, not be enforced in Alaska at pres- S TR E | ent | s 3 ‘ MAY BE 60 DAYS { H I N E S E SEATTLE, Sept. 26.—State Ra- tioning Director Floris Nagelvoort ww)-mh that it may be 60 days be- A l N N |fore the rationing system for gaso- | |line will be set up " .o SURPRISE CHUNGKING, Sept. 26—Engin. |eering a smashing two column sweep on strongly fortified Jap po- sitions for gains of 40 to 60 miles, ’Llunese troops in Chekiang Pro- | vince have driven to the gates of Chuki and laid a siege on Chengh- sien, cemmunication center below Hangchow. Frontline dispatches said that Chuki, rail town 40 miles south of the Hangchow-Chenghsien highway junction, is the most important en- emy occupied port. | ‘FEMHERWEIGHT i ~ CHAMP WRIGHT | DEFENDS TITLE NEW \'URK 9’;)' 26.—Ancient 1( halky Wright easily held onto the | featherweight championship last night by outpointing Young Lulu Constanting in a 15-rounder. Wright entered the ring weigh= ing 125% pounds and Constanting tipped the scales at 125 pounds.