The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9149. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU,ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1942 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS STALINGRAD STILL EVADES NAZI CLUTCH e ctm——— U. S. Makes Attack, Balkan Nations’ Capitals WAR CARRIED, STRAIGHT T0 OURENEMIES Forays are More Thar Ob- ject Lesson; Axis Sup- porters are Hif (8Y ASSOCIATED PRESS) \ Long range American bombers,! packing up to four tons of bombs each, in the past two weeks have | carried the war straight to the| capitals of every Balkan nation now at war with the United States. | 150 Japs Killed at Kiska; Installations Along Shore Damaged; Planes are Desfroyed | WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. — Th(‘ mn]ll'x | Navy Department announces that a high altitude. xuung force of United States Army | bombers and pursuit planes, Force planes shore installations on Kiska por fighter. Six other planes were strafed on ac- | were killed or wounded in Friday's | companied by Royal Canadian Air assault. attacked Japanese | last | or two ships in the harbor, Friday, damaging an enemy trans- | when last seen the vesse] was listing t and shooting down a seaplunt‘al attack was carried out at | The Navy estimated that 150 Japs Bomb hits started fires on one| and nd beached 4 This is the first report of Can- adian pilots cooperating with us| AMERICANS ARE SEIZED | ASHOSTAG Nationals in 0((upied’ Zones in France Sent fo Internment Camps BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 28, The Germans have seized some Amgricans in Occupied France 'u potential hostages, diplomatie quarters here have learned and the move has added to the tension Of Laval's Government in Vichy. |} The news of the seizures canie The Balkan nations, whose Cabi-|y, . "yter in the daring attack and in the Alaskan theatre. There was tals. have leen ;hombed, mclude\two submarines also were strafed no indication as to whether the Croatia, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. Allied authorities have not re- vealed the bases of the bombers but the bases are so located that the range will permit operations either to middle east Europe or aid to|” e 'Former Pacific Coast Guard Ship Sinks Sub In Mlanlic; Is Rammed Russia. | The nationality of the crews is not revealed but it is probably nm, wrong to assume that American fliers are participating along with | the British and Russians in the| bombing raids. ; Accounts of sharply increased| German and Italian troop move-| ments over the railroads of the Balkan nations now warring against the United States indicate the bomber forays are more than an‘ object lesson to Balkan govern-| ments. - THREE ARRIVE FROM SOUTH ON SATURDAY Thomas A. Ramsay, Dodson and Thomas E. Etue were northbound passengers for Juneau anlving here late Saturday. The Washmgiun Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—While the Sen- ate Finance Committee has balked ! at Roosevelt’s plea for a $25,000 ceiling on big incomes, some of the | | Canadian planes were bombers or | by pursuit planes. \ On the day previously, a small fighters. | force of Army heavy bombers at-| Several weeks ago, land-based |tacked Kiska, the Navy communique fighter planes made another smash- | said, but the results were not ob-|ing raid on the Jap-held Aleutian} served (AMERAMAN ) SlOWED c — Ralph J. I fattest salaries in the nation’s his- | tory are being paid to big execu-| tives. Never before, not even in the lush days of the Coolidge Bull Market, have salaries been so bountiful. This is true particularly among§ most firms getting war contracts. For instance, Curtiss Airplanes has received more han $1,000,000,000 in war orders—orders which require no great amount of salesmanship— by Guy Vaughn, President of Cur- tiss. Yet his salary has been upped from $25900 in 1935, when selling airplanes was much more difficult, to $175,000 last year. The increase was made possible by war contracts, yet the Senate Finance Committee now blocks the President’s plan to take $150,000 of this back for the government. Here is a list of some other firms getting juicy. war orders, and the salaries paid their executives: American Bosch Corporation, with many war contracts, pays its president, D. P. Hess, a salary of $100,000, though the company made | only $890,000 last year. The American Machine and| Foundry Company, pays its head,| R. L. Patterson, $166,800; the Am- erican Chain and Cable Company pays W. B. Lashar, $120,500; W. F. Wheeler $72,000 and W. T. Morris $50,240. The American Rolling Mill Com- pay pays Calvin Verity $122,000; the Bohn Aluminum and Brass Co. pays C. B. Bohn $142,000 and P. A.| Markey $122,000; the Budd Wheel‘ Company pays Edward G. Budd| $110,000; and Cerro de Pacco cop-‘ per pays H. Kingsmill $75,000. GENERAL MOTORS TOPS ALL General Motors, which has more; than $2,000,000,000 of war contracts from the government, pays A. P.| Sloan $200,000; C. E. Wilson $288,- 178; O. E. Hunt $235,000; and Albert Bradley $205,000. International Business Machines pays its head, Thomas Watson (Continued on Page Four) Following a surprise Jap air raid on a New Guinea base, As- sociated Press Photographer Ed- ward Widdis had a bomb-dam- aged camera in his hands. A three-inch hole was blasted through the center, but the film pack was not damaged. Widdis, formerly stationed in Los An- geles, had been making pictures of emergency field repairs. MAY OFFER FARM WORK OR FIGHT Hershey Sugfie@ls Freezing Agricultural Workers or Drafting Them WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Freez- ling essential workers on the farm| by giving them a choice between agricultural production or mlm.nv service, has been suggested by Brig. | Gen. Lewis B. Hershey of Selective Service, as one possible means of | alleviating the growing farm labor shortage. He told the Housé Agricultural Committee, “I am willing agency of the government should decide it is advisable. e eee BUY DEFENSE BONDS This indicated that the island, killing or wounding 500 Japs.| [ crew, then rammed the sub, dump- |sank before a boarding crew ar- Iby, it was hit by shellfire before it {could dive, then crash dived and to do| |this” if the proper policy making | | i LONDON, Sept. 28—The former| oast Guard cutter Chelan, which | once operated in the Bering Sea,} has rammed and sunk an ocean | going Italian submarine ‘and pos- sibly sent another to the bottom, in a recent Atlantic bout. The Chelan was renamed the Lulworth when it joined the British Navy. The singlehanded feat, as told by the Admiralty, said the submarine Pietro Calvi was sighted and crash dived, and was then forced back to the surface by the cutter's depth bombs. The Lulworth’s gunners scored direct hits with shellfire, killing the commander and most of the gun- ing the crew into the sea. The sub rived. ‘When a second sub surfaced near- was not seen again. It was im- possible to ascertain whether or not it was sunk. Thirty-five survivors were taken from the Calvi. | | (Gas Rations To Start On November 22 Henderson Asks Nation fo Restrict Driving Unfil Cards Issued WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.— Motorists throughout the nation have been urged to restric their driving to about 50 per- cent of the normal, pending the institution of nation-wide gas rationing about November 22, as a tire conservation meas- ure, Leon Henderson announced this week-end that the national program will follow closely the system already in effect in the East. The basic ration is slightly less than four gallons a week, and supplemental rations are available in certain cases. But Henderson served notice that these supplemental ration cards will be issued “only on proof of need of gquantities of strictly limited degree for es- | sentiality to the nation’s war | effort.” J in private sources from Pa further stated the American diplo- matic quarters are without official | # word, but the news caused no sur- prise since Americans in occupied zones are liable to internment by the Nazis as enemy aliens. Those held are Americans whn!, for one reason or another remain- er in Occupied France pending né- gotiations for repafriation. It is asumed the repatriation will per-}| mit Germany to ask for the return ‘lof an equal number of Germans from the United States. — > ALLIES HIT JAP BASES, 50. PA(IFI( Forfresses also Make Al- facks; Big Enemy Ship Is Set Afire MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS, Sept. 28. — Allied bombers have pounded the bases and lines of supply of the strong Japanese forces striking across the New Guinea mountains toward Port Moresby. The ground situation is reported unchanged. Flying fortreses made a heavy attack on the Japanese basz atl Rabaul, scoring direct hits. A near miss on a 15000-ton enemy ship is reported but the explosion nearby caused a fire aboard the ship and as the fortresses left the scene moke was belching from the stern and also amidships. Warplanes also struck Solomon Island positions of the Japanese last night but the results are un- | known. FIVEAXIS SHIPS SUNK BY BRITISH Mediterranean Sea War-| fare Continues As Subs Are Active LONDON, Sept. 28.—British sub- marines have sunk at least five, and probably seven Axis supply ships recently in the Mediterrean- ean and are known to have serious-| ly damaged another. ———-—o—— HITLER IS STILL CERTAIN, VICTORY; ADDRESS IS MADE BERLIN, Sept. 28—Hitler “em- phasized his absolute confidence in victory” in an address to 12000 young officers and cadets of the German armed forces. The address was made at the Ber- lin Sports Palace and the state- ments have been broadcast by DNB ;over the Berlin radio. is um‘ Alrporl in Madagascar Is (aplured ! This is the airport M. lhv town nf \l.\Jllngfl. largest port in Madagascar, which has been taken over by Bagged NaziBirds U5 AIRMEN S BLASTSOUTH | | i ) Hit Salween River, Yun- nan Province Occupiers In Bombing Raids CHUNGKING, Sept. 28.—Bomb- ers and fighters of the U. 8. Army Air forces blasted Jap bases and lines of communication west of the Salween River and southwest of | Yunnan Province yesterday, inflict- ing - considerable damage without loss of a single plane. This announcement came from | Gen. Joseph Stilwell's headquart- ers here today. The bulletin said that numerous direct hits were scored on buildings | start- | at Mengshih and Tengyueh, ing a number of fires. { | | Shakeup In Government, Manchoukuo Acceleration of Pu ppet Nation's Defense Con- struction Reported TOKYO, Sept. 28—A shakeup in the Manchoukuoan Government, including the appointment of new Foreign Minister and elevation of Army Division to a Cabinet post, is These two officers of Uncle Sam's Air Forces were credited with being the first pilots to destroy encmy planes in the European war theater. They got together in England, Left is Second Lieut. Sam Junkin of Natch, Miss,, who shot down a Focke Wulf 190 off Dieppe, and right Second Lieut. Elsworth Shahan of St. George, W.Va., who marked up a Focke Wulf Courier in Iceland. VICHY COUP ATLANTIC ISNIPPED SINKINGS ByPREMIER AREFEWER {Laval Fires_Secretary of Less Shipslo?t - Marine State Who Would Insurance Rafes Unseat Him Going Down dispateh Li Shao Ambassador to Tokyo, eign Minister and Gen LONDON, Sept. 28—Vichy Pre-| bas relinquished his army assign-| |mier Pierre Laval has sacked Jac-| The announced sinkings in theiment to become Minister of Pub- |ques Benolst-Mechin, Secretary of | Western Atlantic since Pearl Har-|lic Peace. | State of the Vichy Foreign Ministry, | bor stood at 477 today, according) Domel, in another dispatch from because he was the ringleader of a|to the Asociated Press count. Bangkok quotes officials as saying plot to supplant Laval with the Only five merchantmen were these appointments “serve to a more pro-Nazi, Jacques Doriot, sunk last week, the smallest over a cclerate Manchoukuo's defense con- Paris editor, Fighting French seven-day period since America en- struction.” sources have reported tered the war. | Later in Vichy, decrees signed by The smaller number ot ] Laval AMavea: T shall under no|Was reflectad in’ s teduction of|carved out of China by the Japan- circumstances allow the authority marine insurance rates for Atlantic ¢s¢ and is on the border of Si- of the government to be attacked. | coast shipping — from $15 to $1250 beria. There have been reports that The government stands and h (m each $100 worth of eareo. Japan is massing forces there to, firm reason, I believe, to continue,| Underwriters credited the reduced attack Russia. “I am fully determined to see|rates to the “new and improved 2 this task through to the very end.” Keng, Manchoukuoan is made For- sinkings| Manchoukuo is the puppet state D e Timber is provided by two great| methods of convoying and other LN SRR dicotyledons, I BUY DEFENSE BONDS rapid expansion of the Coast Guard woods, and and its use in escorting convoys. hardwoods. \ I CHINA JAPS | the Commander of the First| announced by Domei in a Sinking| Shih Lien' ENEMY CALLS - BESTTROOPS INTO BATTLE Embarrasse—d—G—erman Pro- paganists Avoid Russ Scene ALLIED STRATEGY IS NOW INVOLVED Battered—Red Bastion Taunts Foe for Fifth Long Week (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The battered city of Stalingrad still stands after five weeks of bit- ter slege. The Germans are reported now to have been forced to bring up gthelr elite shock troops and air Itrnn.sport might in a climactic ef- — (fort to overrun Stalingrad before the Russian counter-offensive on |the northern flank turns the city [into another Leningrad. Air-borne reinforcements are |needed by the foe to replace the thousands falling every day Stal- ‘n‘rw h l?.b"ln e e The Germans claim that several more districts in Stalingrad have fallen and Nazi troops in the I northern section of the city have penetrated further, while other areas are being mopped up by house-to-house fighting. The in- vaders also reported that Russian | diversionary attacks both south and :north of the city have failed. | Stalingrad is battling with her (back to the Volga. The eyes of the world are turned on the epic fight which still continues on roof- lops, from windows and on street (Continued on Page Three) ——————— JUNEAUMAN IN APPARENT SUICIDE HERE :Body of John Siermala Found in Blood Spat- tered Cabin Jack Siermala, 59-year-old Jun- eau Finn, apparently committed suicide in his cabin between Lower PFranklin Street and Gastineau Avenue yesterday by first hacking himself about the head with an lax, and then strangling himself |with a heavy fishing line, officers | reported today. i The body was found by John {Engstrom, a neighbor, who reported |it to Arne Frederickson, caretaker, who called the police. Patrolman Cleo Commers and John Monagle FBI agents, Coroner Felix Gray and Deputy U. 8. Marshal Waltex Hellan were called to the scene. | Murder Indicated | Officers were first inclined to be« lieve that Siermala was murdered, Hellan said that the door to the one-room cabin was locked from the inside, but that a window near |the door had been broken out. iTrnces of blood were found on the railing going down the steps out- |side of the cabin and also all over |the cabin’s interior. ; Hellan said the body was found face down on the floor, the head in a pool of blood. A short-handled ax was found nearby, covered with blood There were evidences of nu- merous ax cuts on the head. A thick fishing line had been looped around Siermala’s neck in a slip-knot and the end of the line was tied to the top of the foot | brotective measures” including the Classes of trees, conifers, the Softiof the bed. The line was pulled the (Continued on Page Three)