The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9150. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942 MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZI CHIEFS AT STALINGRAD SWITCHED Two Jap Subs Are Sent Down At Kiska Port Moresby Se_lmpaiqn FOLLOW UP ON SERIES OF ATTACKS. U.S. Canadian Fliers To Go Out Over Enemy Islands Often FIGHTER PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN Shore Installations Are Strafed, Bombed, in New Raids ¢ BY WILLIAM L. WORDEN | (Associated Press Correspondent) " HEADQUARTERS ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Sept. 29.—Two enemy submarines at Kiska are be- lieved to have been damaged hy: U. S. Army fliers which caught | them on or near the surface in| raids last Friday. Army air officers disclosed that one sub came up directly under- neath a squadron headed by Lieut. Col. Jack Chennault, son of Brig. | Gen. Claire = Chennault, former leader of the American Volunteer Group of Flying Tigérs in China | and now Commander of the U. S. Air Forces in China. | Chennault, whose squadron flew | planes with the Tiger jaws painted | on the sides, proceeded to strafe | the submersible himself, and mean- | while ordered the fighter squadron in a combat circle around the sur-| prised sub. Each of the nine planes made | three strafing attacks and the | undersea ship rolled to the surface, | (Continued on Page Two) The Washingto Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert §. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — This harvest season U. S. crops are breaking all records for the third successive year. But despite this, earnest, hard-working Secretary of Agricul- ture Wickard has issued a very| potent warning to war chiefs that next year’s crops will fall far short of requirements. The American farmer, Wickard has warned, is expected to feed the world, and he just can’t do it with- out (1) farm labor, and (2) ma- chinery. Furthermore, two other | factors are now becoming difficult: | Fertilizer, because of the large amount of nitrate going into muni- tions; and insecticide, much of which used to come from the Dutch East Indies. Wickard’s battle to secure more farm labor is pretty well known. He has been warning Selective Service Director General Hershey that not all farm labor can be drafted, and he has been battling with Manpower Czar Paul McNutt to keep farm labor from going to city industries. But Wickard’s struggle for farm machinery is not known. It has been waged backstage with Donald Nelson and WPB moguls to whom the Secretary of Agriculture has pointed out that farmers must have tractors, plows, cultivators, etc., to offset both labor shortages and to increase farm production. On July 22, Wickard wrote a let- | ter to Nelson suggesting that agri-|history of Alaska battered various yyq.» parts of the Territory recently,’ sy guideposts for the civilians |causing extensive damage as the yy, wang to help. Any one can get This figure represents 38 per | result of shigh winds and waves but them for the asking at their State cultural machinery to the value of $140,000,000 be manufactured for 1943, cent of the 1940 production. Wick- ard also recommended a much higher production of repair parts,| including plowshares — namely 151 per cent of the 1840 production. This was to permit farmers to re-| pair outworn machinery where new; machinery was not available. j g Admiralty Is Torres Strait Thursday Is.2* ursday Is.2' Cape York AUSTRALIA TRk » NEW IRELAND' NEW BRITAIN This map shows the relative positions of the locations in the Port Moresby campaign. The Japs are attempting to advance down the southern slopes of the Owen Stanley mountain range towards Porl Moresby (arrow) the great United Nations' advance base on the south coast. This map shows the in a death struggle and the northern battlefront. HIGH WINDS, HIGH WAVES, HIT ALASKA Extensive Damage Caused By Storm in Various Northland Areas (By Associated Press) resulting in no reported deaths. In Anchorage the wind blew out windows and caused considerable recover. This program was okayed by the Food Requirements Committee, on and several business houses were so-called which the War Production Board is (Continued on Page Four) Talkeetna was partialy flooded Battle to Death for Stalingrad area in which Nazi and Russian armies are locked for Stalingrad, Russia’s sprawling industrial city. Aside from its importance to the Soviet military effort, Stalingrad guards the great Volga lifeline from the Caucasus oil fields to Moscow 4 — Thousahds Ask How They Can Give Aid | To Nation's Defense | BY JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Add {up a million or so letters received at the White House, the Office of Civilian Defense, and the Office of War Information, and you will find quiry is: “What Can I Do?” The question applies, of course, effort?” Some of them are heart- breaking. The writers sometimes are almost illiterate, but their sincerity shines through. One says: “I work fense at nite.” Another: “I have served in prison, and I wants to do somthin for my Country.” A third: “Dear Mr. President, I am 7 years |old, I am in the second grade. I feel the urge to help.” OCD has tried to answer them all in a pmphlet called “What Can Its 48 pages are packed !and local defense council offices. 53,000,000 Americans live in the that the most frequent civilian m-; to “what can I do to aid in the war| all day but I could inlist in Dif-} ALLIESIN OFFENSIVE ~ ONPACIFIC Allied Air Commands Have Conference 'THREE BIG FRONTS INVOLVED IN PLAN New Guinea, Solomons, Aleutians Forces Make Heavy Raids on Japs New Drives Reported As| * WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—A de- termined Allied offensive appears | |to be definitely under way in the far flung Pacific War Theater this| week. | The United Nations forces have already cauced the Jap mvuders: to fall back in New Guinea, have inflicted heavy losses on enemy | troops and planes in the Solomons | and Aleutians and are unleasmnxi Allied air and ground power on | two of the three strategic Pacific fronts. - ": The announcement of the new | drives coincides with an announce- ment of a conference of U. S. Navy Air Forces High Command | somewhere at sea. The new attacks have brought destruction to 49 Jap planes in the Solomons and Aleutians, and ! damage to five ships, in four days. The raids take the offensive into the hands of the Allies for the first time on New Guinea, where Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s ground | forces hammered back Jap troops |in the Owen Stanley Mountains in lan infiltrating, outflanking attack |about 32 miles north of the im- | portant Allied base of Port Moresby. | MacArthur’s headquarters said ‘[haL night attacking forces are | “making progress” for the first |time since the invaders landed at |Gona Mission on July 21 and be- gan their push through the heavy, rocodile-infested jungles towarc | Port Moresby, which, if captured, could serve as the springboard of |an assault on Australia. - eee 2ND FRONT TALK GIVEN " FRENCHMEN British Officer Makes; Broadcast; Churchill Re- | | sents Any Tip Given } LONDON, Sept. 2. — British| Prime Minister Winston Churchill| | today veiced emphatic disapproval | of the speculation for the time or | place of the second front. | | The subject cropped up in the |House of Commons as the British | Broadcasting Company broadcast to | France that an Allied offensive was :"in the making.” | | Churchill's remarks were also | provoked by a question by Capt.| One of the worst storms in recent 'y p, he Citizen's Handbook for Peter MacDonald, which was pre-| faced by an assumption that a “pe- riod of offensive operations of the | United Nations was now approach- |ing.” | | As Parliament met for the first| |time since September 11, a high| |officer of the British Army broad-| property damage. One woman was The text is the ABC's of coopera- cast in French that “foday more struck in the back by a flying piece tion in the war effort, illustrated|than ever before, the possibilities of glass and a gash five inches deep with 64 drawings by Gluyas Wil-/of the British and Allies landing comiissioned officers school of the was cut but she is expected to liams, who did them free. A lot of on French soil must be forescen’ Alaska Territorial Guards will be | it is elementary. It points out that! Capt. MacDonald asked when 1"~ “second front was to be established” |fied as Mary Cullom Here are the leading twirlers of the St. Louis Cardinals, champions of the National League, who will face the New York Yankees in the 1942 World Series. White, Mort Cooper, John Beazley and Harry Gumbert. Cooper and Beazley are the aces. NAVYLISTS CASUALTIES OF SEA WAR Iwenfy-ihr;e_Hundred 0f- ficers, Dead or Missing, Torpedoed Ships WASHINGTON, ‘Sept. 29.—The Navy disclosed today that more than 2300 officers and men of the American Merchant Marine are either dead or missing as the re- sult of enemy actions of the war at sea. . This total is composed of 410 known dead and 1891 missing in- cluded by unofficial count of 61 ships and mentions that Captains are among those dead or missing. The dead or missing list includes one woman, a stewardess, idenci- Kimbo of Nashville, Tennessee. There has been no wounded list- ed, since the report issued covers casualties only. The list as issued contains only the casualties up !o August 1 and does not include the dead or missing resulting from attacks on the American Merchant Marine ships to date. ——.—— NAZIS BOMB SCHOOL; TEN BOYS KILLED LONDON, Sept. 29.—A German raider, diving out of the clouds thi: morning, bombed a Boys' School in a small town near the south coast and killed at least 10 boys. Two teachers and many boys were injured. NON-COM OFFICERS OF GUARD TO HAVE SCHOOL TONIGHT At 7:30 o'clock tonight the non- other held in Elks' Hall, it is announced. Preliminary instruction for new “target greas™ and ex-|and said he was also anxious lest members will be given out at to- forced to move their stocks. Resi- plains how they can black-out, etc.'someone with inside information night’s session and others inter~ dents of Talkeetna as well as those Such subjects as “civilian mobiliza- indiscreetly tipped off the enemy ested in hearing the 'may attend. (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) with “too free talk.” instructions The slab sta left to right, are Max Lanier, Ernie World Series Opens Tomorrow as (ards Meet New York Yanks CARDS' BOSS ¥ € 15 Manuger Billy Souto- worth (above) of the St. Louis Cardinals, champs of the Na- tional League. 'NO TRANSPORT ~ OF US. SENT ~ DOWNBY 5UB ‘British Ministry Denies | Claim Made by Ger- man Authorities LONDON, Sept. 29.—T Briush Ministry of Tnformation toci | clared that the German claim they sunk an American transport in the Atlantic is “quite untrue.” Yesterday, a Berlin communique announced that three large trans- ports had been sunk by German submarines in an attack on a con- voy moving from the United States to England g e DARVIN HOEL RETURNS POSITION AT BARANOF | that | the demand. Darvin Hoel, popular and ac- comodating engineer at the Bar-! | World Series, | St. Louls, with the St. Louls Card- The 1942 Baseball Classic, opens tomorrow the in ., champions of the National League, going against the New York Yankees, champions of the Amer- icun League. Schedule The following is the schedule of the World Series: September 30, October 1, Wednes- day and Thursday—in St. Louis. October 2, Friday—Traveling. October 3, 4 and 5, BSaturday, Sunday and Monday—in New York. October 6, Tuesday—teams trav- eling. October 7, Wednesday — at St. Louis. October 8, Thursday — open for ticket distribution. October 9, Friday—in St. Louis. Hour for Starting All games will start at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon, War time, except on Sunday when the game will start at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon Baseball Commissioner Landis has announced that if any game postponed before it wert the legal (Continued on Page Two) HITLER TO FORCE LAST BIG DRIVE Winter Dra-vfig Near As Summer Offensive of Nazis Fizzle 'REDS STILL HOLD "~ VOLGARIVERCITY Soviets Counter - Affack | Furiously in Northwest Seclor of Batle (By Associated Press) Marshal Semion Timoshenko's | Armies are reported to have wid- ened their counter-assault in the siege of Stalingrad and are ham- mering at the Germans on the north bank of a forty-mile front between the Don and Volga rivers. Meanwhile Nazi tanks press a new threat within the embattled metropolis. With winter fast approaching, the great German summer offensive is | apparently stalled on all fronts. | Report Shake-up | London heard today that ditler has launched a new purge his top ranking Nazi Generals, ousting Field Marshal Pedor Von Bock from the Stalingrad command and re- placing Field Marshal Von Leeb at Leningrad. The Nazi inspired Vichy radio sald that Field Marshal List, who directed the 1941 Balkan campaign, has replaced Von Bock. Previously, Von Bock was report- ed to have quarreled with Hitler over the Fuehrer's insistence on the costly siege of Stalingrad syn- chronized with the drive on the Caucasus, London military quarters say that Field Marshal Von Kuschler has replaced Von Leeb on the Lenin- grad front, where the German arm- les have slowly been driven back in a series of Soviet counter-at- tacks. London informants said that List is a ruthless tactician, the leading exponent of lightning war, and is expected to open a savage new as- sault at Stalingrad, with a total disregard for losses. German Reports Hitler's command again spoke of “embittered fighting” at Stalin- grad. The , German communique de- |clared: “The Soviets vainly con- | tinued their relief attacks in.the | north.” | Berlin's broadcast today asserted {that German troops have occupied (Continued on Page Five) | | | | | | | | | Touigh War Baby s ; The Meat e Wha BY HERMAN ALLEN (Associated Press Writer) Why is there a meat shortage? What can be done about it? confabbed with a couple of Agri- culture Department experts about that “Well, heck,” said one of them, “here’s why there's a meat short- age—" He jotted down a few figures. “Look,” he said. “Last year we produced 19,500,000,000 pounds of meat. * Lend-lease and supplies for the armed forces took only 200,000,- 000 pounds, leaving a civilian sup- ply of 19,300,000,000 pounds. We were operating under a ‘free price’ tem then, without ceilings, so supply was just equal with Problem; t Does It Mean? «ix billion pound$, leaving 17 bil- lion for civilian consumption. “Average domestic consumption for the five years 1937 to 1941 was 17,800,000, slightly more than the supply for this year. However, men who will be in the armed forces by the end of the year nor- mally would account for about 1,- 00,000,000 pounds a year in civ- ilian life. On that basis, you would expect the demand to be about 16,400,000,000 pounds this year, “In spite of that, we figure the demand is going to be 200 billion pounds—three billion more than the supply. “What we really have is a nor- mal supply but a demand far |above normal.” There have been statements in anof Hotel, is back on the job The total supply is bigger than the shortage is that packers have after an extended leave of absence ever—23 billion pounds. Lend-lease '© pay ,high prices, for livestock which he spent salmon fishing. and armed forces will take about (Continued on Page Five)