The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 2, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9153. M MBE R /\%O(“IATH) PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1942 NEW RAIDS ARE MADE ON KISKA ISLAND Allied Advance In New Guinea Continues Film Star Becomes Nurse JAPS BEING HARRIED BY TWOGROUPS Fighter Planes Strale Nip- I} pon Lines, Bases, with | Little Opposition | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS, Australia, Oct. 2—Without meetng any Japanese opposition, hardened Australian soldiers made progress through the l mountain || jungles of New Guinea today, clos- | ing on Menari, 46 miles north of ! Port Moresby. At the same time, Allied bomb- ers continued to strike on ahead, | destroying a large section of the important Wairopi bridge on the i Japanese supply line along which the enemy is retreating. The Japs are being hamed from the jungle and from the air by the Allied offensive in the Owen Stanley Mountains. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the Allied fighters strafed com- munications and supply i{malln— tions at Salamaua with cannon and machinegun fire, The Allied planes, he said, also attacked barges and supply dumps at Buna the Jap supply base fram which they mov- ed into New Guinea. ->-oo— The Washington Merry - Go-Round, By DREW PEARSON (Major Roben 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON Here is the| backstage story behind the savage Congressional battle over whether to compute farm labor costs in‘ parity ceilings on farm pficesw Preceding the battle were two hushed-up meetings held several days before the administration’s inflation control bill was debated on the floor. The first meeting was at the| White House. It was attended by seven men who have figured promi- nently in the President’s war against inflation, To them the| President made it bluntly clear that he would veto any bill passed by Congress providing for the in- clusion of any farm labor costs whatever in the computation of parity. Those present were: Price Ad-| ministrator Leon Henderson; Sec- retary of Agriculture Claude Wick- | ard; Senate Majority Leader Alben; Barkley; Chairman Robert Wagner i of the Senate Banking Committee; Chairman Henry Steagall of the House Banking Committee; Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan, co- sponsor of the administration’s' anti | inflation bill, and OPA General Counsel David Ginshurg. The President explained that he had called the meeting to clear up a “misunderstanding” of the proper formula for fixing farm parity ceil- ings, which he outlined in his in- flation message to Congress. Re- ferring to legislation introduced by Steagall which provided for the in- clusion of farm labor costs in the parity formula, the President said: “Apparently you were one of those who misunderstood me, Henry.” “Mr. Steagall isn’t the only ” broke in Semator Barkley . ‘ood naturedly. “Everybody in Congress misunderstood you, Mr. President. You stated in your message that calculations of parity should include all production costs, inctuding la- bor. We all took that to ncan farm labor.” The President explained that what he meant was labor and pro- duction costs in commodities which the farmer buys, not commodities which he sells. “Mr. President, 1 want to be pin from yearly. ‘hlaskan FrontMusiBe | PRESIDENT PAYS VISIT Prisoners from Rammed German Submarine | Roosevelt ifie'aflle, Near-'§ IS | |vealed yesterday by By Sections During Extensive Tour A most_astonishing story was re- the Associaed . {'Press in a dispatch ta the Empire | | stating that for the past two weeks'| i of telegraph operator { Empire, | |ous pi President Roosevelt has visited var s of the country on an in- spection trip and although hundreds pecial apers slipped guards, newsmen and new. knew of this, not a “line” i i out, showing how secrecy in a war | emergency can be absolutely kept. Late in the afternoon, too late for yesterday's last edition of the the following ! from the Associated Press was re- ceived: SEATTLE, Sept. 22—(Delayed)— President Roosevelt inspected the theatre of active military operations for the first time during the present | war today and saw sailors and ships that had been wounded in battle and other men and other ships radiogram | 1 exchanged shells with the U-boat Encountering a German submarine somewhere in the North Atlantic, and then, her rtarbeard deck to the destroyer after lhr encounter, ” killing her commander and capturing the crew. l)lanc-Carrymg { ready to join in the fight for victory. | He saw them in the Seattle and | { Tacoma area, the western extrem- Joan Fontaine (left), who last year was chesen as having given the year’s best sereen performance by an actress, received her Red Cross structor Olive Slocum at Los Ang eles after having com- pleted six weeks of intensive training in the Volunteer Nurse's Aides | Corps. She will serve three days a week at a hospital for 150 hours | |afternoon, the President is on the | ity of his cross-country tour of America at war. The President said here the trip made him vinced the people of the whole Na- tion are in this war to win it and win it just as fast as they can.” From morning until late in the |go, picking up first hand informa- “more and more con- | tion as to how the Army, then Navy and private enterprises are striving to win the war. The President started with a visit at Fort Lewis where tens of nu)umnds of soldiers are-toughened Held af all Costs, Says | Recenl NAZISFAIL MAKE GAINS, STALINGRAD {Red Army Keeps Resisting With Fresh Counter At- facks on 39th Day | (By Associated Press) Stalingrad’s indomitable will to resist is reported today as pro- |ducing fresh counter-attacks, both inside and outside the battered| | city. | The latest power drive of the | Germans is said to be limited to only 200 or 300 yards and that in the northwestern suburbs. Out of the mad maelstrom on the 39th day of the sieze merges {the dominant fact the Germans, though straining full reserve pow- er, are still denied even a local- ized decision as the sorely needed salve and prestige. Beyond that it is virtually impossible to size up the situation on the basis of | overlapping and oftimes confusing|, dispaches reaching Moscow. i Reuting Germans The Russian claims today includ- ed a report that the Red Army Guard Division is routing the Ger- | mans in house-to-house counter-! attacks and synchronized the Rus- sian offensive action outside of Stalingrad, but, at the same time,! 1 ing deeper into the northwestern suburbs and progressively rormy-( ing lodgments inside the city. Whatever the outcome of the battle, the Germans now seemed (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Six) | Sena'or vlsllor |resses ready to fly to bases with \ CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 2.—United States Senator Harold H. Burton |of Ohio, who recently returned | from a trip to Alaska, told the Mortgage Bankers of America, | convention here, that the Alaskan‘ Front “must be held at all costs| and there must be a unity nr‘ command there.” Senator Burton said rmtherw “The direct route to the heart of| Japan is obviously the Alaskan route. We are there, only 2500 miles from Tokyo, | “The Japanese defenses to the north are far weaker than those | to the south, “The northern route is shorter and the United Btates must not| lose control of one foot of it nor neglect the opportunity we now| have to open and prepare this route so that some day it will be, suited to the needs of an ir-| resistible avalanche by air, land apd sea, to win our war with Japan.” SMOKE IN EYES BOTHERS NAZIS IS EXCUSE NOW LONDON, Oct. 2—The Germans, who have offered rain and a colos-| 'sal defense system as explanations for their inability to crack Stalin- grad’s 39th-day-old resistance to Nazi siege, added today also that smoke gets in their eyes. “Great clouds of smoke and flame render the operafions of the at- tacking troops still more difficult,”| a German military spokesman sald; in a Berlin broadcast. | “Torrents of blood have flowed | the past several days.” | e ——— NOME STORM DAMAGE The recent storm at Nome cansed property damage estimated at $75,- 000, according to reports received. ,b» weeks of training, awaiting or- ders which will send them to the |battle lines. He ended up to look |at a Boeing nest of flying fort- shattering attacks on enemy in- |stallations. I between, he paid a |lunch hour visit to the Bremerton Navy Ymd : ROOSEVELT IS PLEASED ATCOUNTRY wDecIaresTpirii Fine In Nation; Minority Gets Censored WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—Presi- dent Roosevelt’s inspection of bustling war establishments around the edge of the nation worked out so well that he is giving considera- tion for another tour or two |through the Central and South-| eastern sections. He missed those areas while traveling over 8700 miles through 24 States. President Roosevelt said today he got the idea arsenals are now operating at 94 or 95 percent ef- ficiency and they are approaching tremendous production goals set for them. Maximum Output The President said employers and employees are doing their utmost to obtain a maximum output but he stated he is going to ask a great deal more in the next few months, indicating the goals will be set higher than last January Finest Kind of Morale President Roosevelt said he found the finest kind of morale among the ‘Germans are reported gnaw-|through the streets of the city for|the people, their willingness to sac- rifice and accept any necessary war measures. He described the war spirit in the country he visited as on the whole very much alive, except the nation's capital, con- (Continued on Page Five) Did the Japanese use an over-size airplane-carrying submarine, built along lines of now Ore., fragments of a incendiary bomb, identified as of Japanese origin, had been found on Mt. Emily near Brookings, the Army's Western Defense Cominand said a mysterious seaplane had been “it is possible a plane of this type might have been carried on a sub- - submarine Surcouf, in the bom the area at the time and that marine.” of sub like the Surcouf, a deck back of the conning tower. Sub lee I his bing of a forest near Brookings, According to naval authorities, the Japs had been experimenting before the w: 2,800-ton vessel which carried a small seaplane, with folded wings, on the The Surcouf, shown above, was after the fall of France and lost in action last spring. The Jap 1,955 tons and had a cruising range of 12,000 miles. A-No. 1 Defender for Congress Is Revealed: LRS Gives Ouf Record CHUNGKING OPA ORDERS 20PERCENT CUT IN MEAT Civilian Consumption Cut Through Packers; Ra- tioning Slated 2 The | Office of Price Administration to- day issued an order to meat pack- ers cutting the ameunt of meat WASHINGTON, Oct. going into civilian consumption by | almost 20 percent. The order is a preliminary step |to the meat rationihg program which will cut consumers to about 2% pounds & week ‘a person by the end of the year. It goes into effect immediately. - eee —— VERN JOYER TO MAKE VACATION TRIP EAST Vern Joyer, accountant for the U. 8. Forest Service, is to leave on a two weeks' vacation trip for North Dakota. He plans to go by air via Whitehorse. PG L The Dutch introduced the prin- ciple of enemy port blockades in labout 1584. By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 Con- gress has finally fo\wd itself an A- No. 1 defender. With election just around the corner and the Boys on The Hill |still bubbling over the coals that | have been heaped on their heads | this spring and summer, the time, to say the least, was rige. The Chammon of the 77th Con- |gress s the Legislative Reference | | Service of the Library of Congre | Since the Library of Congress real- ly belongs to Congress and since the Legislative Reference Service is just | what the name implies—that sec- tion of the Library that scours the records at request of congressmen fer all the myriad details that those gentlemen have to have at their fingertips—theé results in this in- |stance are slightly suspect. Nevertheless, Efnest S. Griffith the Library’s LRS director, and his staff certainly have done a job. In a 38-page single-spaced mimeo- graphed monograph, entitled “The War Record of Congress,” they've the back, the likes of which has rarely been delivered to Congress except by congressmen themselves Starting off with the simple statement: “The record of the 77th Congress in supplying the sinews of war Is without parallel” the congresses have appropriated ten billion dollars more for the Army and one billion more for the Navy than the President has requested in his budget messages. Quoting Rep (Continued on Pnge P‘lve) the Canadian destroyer ablaze, she rammed the undersea craft, This lifebeat is loaded with German prisoners being taken given the Boys on the Hill a pat on | LRS points out that since 1933, the | Assiniboine Used by Japs? . sunk French Sept. 92 In announcing that sighted over - with a type taken over by the Free French 1b of this type was said to be of WILLKIE IS GREETED IN [One of Biggest Welcome for Foreigner Is Ac- corded American f CHUNGKING, China, Oct. 2.— | Wendell L. Willkie, President | Roosevelt’s personal representative, | tepped out of a U. 8. Army trans- purt plane here today to end 2 ..um, flight from Russia over the |inner Asia route, seldom crossed by lm Occidental, to be received by |a welcome which was the greatest | demonstration ever accorded a for- eigner in this Pree China capital | city | More than a thousand represen- tatives of various organizations | were at the field when the trans- port, Heavenly Mountain, landed | with Moon Chin, Baltimore-born {ace flier of the China National Av- iation Corporation, at the controls.| Willkie said he didn’t know how {long he would stay in China, and |added that military authorities had pledged him to secrecy because ‘they don’'t want me to become a clay pigeon for the Japanese.” He disclosed that at one point enroute he was delayed by a Jap plane, but all he said of the in-| cident was that it “didn’t occur today,” and then quipped, “there is | much more danger of me*being killed by the kindness of the Chin- ese than by enemy bullets.” Preparations for his welcome to Ithe bullet-scarred China stronghold called for a group of women with flowers to welcome him at the air- (Continued on Page Three) TWOMORE JAP SHIPS SAID SUNK Army Bomt;rs, Pursuit Planes Continue Series Of Attacks |TWO OTHER SHIPS DAMAGED, ZEROS HIT |Submarine, Transport Be- lieved Sunk Near Nip- pon- Held Islands WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — The Navy Department announced today that two Jap ships were probably sunk and two others damaged and six Zero fighters shot down in the recent series of Army air attacks against the Japs in the Aleutians. Listed as probably sunk in the Aleutians are a submarine and a transport, and another transport and a cargo ship were damaged. ‘The only United States loss in the action was one fighter plane. The communique follows: “On September 27, seven Army Liberator bombers dropped their bombs on enemy ships and shore installations at Kiska. One Zero fighter was shot down. “Damage to the bomb objectives couldn’t be determined. “All our planes returned on the same date, “Near the Island of Attu, three Army bombers attacked a transport escorted by a destroyer, scoring near misses which damaged the trans- port, last seen stopped. “On the morning of September 28, a strong force of Army heavy bombers, escorted by pursuit craft, again bombed enemy ships and buildings at Kiska. “Zero fighters, anti-aircraft bat- teries and surface vessels attempt- ed to repell the attack. “A transport and a submarine were damaged and probably sunk, five Zeros were shot down. One of our pursuit planes was lost. “During the afternoon of Sep- tember 28, Army bombers again attacked the Kiska area, strafing and bombing ships and shore facil- ities. “The result of this attack also is unknown, “The same afternoon, Army planes attacked enemy cargo ships northwest of Kiska and a ship was bombed and strafed, and left in a damaged condition.” —_——a—— TOTALJAP SHIPS SUNK ISNOW 74 Navy Announces Five More Submarine Catches in West Pacific WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, The Navy Department today announced that United States submarines op- erating in the western Pacific have sunk five more Jap ships and prob- ably sunk two others and damaged one. Listed as sunk are a large sea- plane tender, a large cargo and passenger ship, a large freighter, land two medium sized cargo ships. Damaged and probably sunk are two medium sized cargo ships. Damaged was a large tanker. These attacks raise the total bag of Jap ships taken by submarines and reported by the Navy to T4 sunk, 19 prebably sunk and 22 damaged, a total of 115. e e BUY DEFENSE BONDS