The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9157. MEMBI JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1942 ‘R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. FLIERS IN ALEUTIANS MAKE RECORDS Russian Counter-Attack Rolls Nazis Back i[m(o News Censorship Puls oo President on Spot But HITS GERMAN NORTH FLANK Stalingrad Defenders Mee New Fresh Troop Assaults MOSCOW, Oct. 7—Marshal Tim- oshenko’s counter-drive between the Don and Volga rivers today was biting deeper into the north fla‘nk of the German wedge hammer at Stalingrad, and Russian dis- patches said that the Germans are falling back desperately to trench | warfare in an attempt to halt the new Red onslaught and to save their positions. At Stalingrad, meanwhile, the fate of the Volga bastion hung in palance as the Germans hurled new divisions fresh from the march into bitter street fighting against the outnumbered defen- ders. The defending line sagged be- fore the impact but held n\rough’ the forty-fourth day of siege. { At the same time, dispatches battlefront said £ | | C: HeKe By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 ‘apital In Wartime: — The There are times when news cen- sorship ties some of the Washing- ton boys in knots. There must be times when it has the readers won- dering. But who would have thought there would be a day when it had the Chief Executive laugh- ing over futile efforts to unravel a verbal snarl. It happened several days back when the President was trying to tell quite seriously about how he drove his own car at 35 miles an hour and at that maximum speed for rubber conservation had 22 cars trying to pass him. (It's a Secret Service safety rule of the road that no car is allowed to pass the President’s car. It's also a Se- cret Service censorship rule that NO ONE can mention the where- abouts of the President when he is or was out of Washington.) The President was talking to his press conference—very seriously, PRACTICE ALERT 15 TO BE HELD IF WEATHER ALLOWS Unless the weather is extremely | bad, a practice alert will be held tomorrow, Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock, the Juneau Civilian De-| fense Coungil announged today. who won't The alert will not include a black- an hour. jout. “When I was in Hyde Park the| The problem of the Pirst sther farther eps Talking Out you—about these persons hold down to 35 miles mind Aid ' he said. He got no|Corps will be a shrapnel wound in xecutive Secretary Steveuypper right arm, resulting in a| Early interrupted to remind him|compound fracture. No ambulances that that was a censorship viola- will be used. Air raid wardens will tion. The President grinned, agreed.|act as patients at the 14 first aid He went on with his narrative | stations. “Well, anyway, I was driving| Warden sergeants should make down from Rhinebeck he report of the time required for said, but Steve was shush-shush-|treatment, also as to personnel 1n| ng again even before the press attendance at first aid stations and sonference started laughing. The at air raid posts. President tried again: t Guards Patrol All right. What I meant to say Squads of Territorial Guards will | s, coming down the Albanyialso patrol the streets; but, they | Post Road . . . [will not perform any of the duties When the laughter subsided that'of auxiliary policemen or of air time, the President gave up and|raid wardens. | censorship be hanged. He told his! Air raid helmets are now ready | story with names and places on!for distribution proratably in ac-} the record. {cordance with a letter sent by Di- rector of Civilian Defense R. Summer-weary, war-weary Wash- |Robertson to the Sergeants of an{ ington has little enough to laugh |Air Raid Posts, V. W. Mulvihil),| |Chief of the Juneau Fire Depart- |{ment and to the Directors of the (Continued on Fage Three) i | from the that | across the steppes nm’thwes‘t. of | Stalingrad the offensive is fu'mly‘ hands. | —— | Auxiliary Police, Pirst Aid, and away, however., Ome, which the|Rescue Workers Corps. American seaman called the Leap- | Holgar Larson, Director, Firs:| after an|Ald Coups, said today he will ke ing Lena, got its name in Russian ¥ In relief attacks of increasing scope against hastily dug German trench lines, the Russians are re-| ‘ported killing 1,200 Rumanian troops and capturing others try- ing to hold a small village. ThE; German trench lines are studded with half-sunken tanks as strong‘ points. ; { In other sectors, the Russian counter-thrust is reported gaining ground and improving the Russian | position. | The Washington Merry - Go- Roun FROMALASKA BATTLE ZONE Tell of HOV—IEQ Convoy Moved Out Info Aleu- fian Islands Two members of the crew of an | American tug which towed a four- | masted schooner full of troops in |the convoy which moved out into | American bomb cracked its plates at the City Hall tomorrow from $ s0 that it couldn’t crash dive. Am-|2Mm. to 6 pm. and Captains of erican airmen chased it for 70 First Aid Stations should callithere miles while it leaped under and during those hours and receive the out of the water like a porpoise. 'Wo helmets which It is now the late Leaping Lena. |lotted to each First Ald Station. The Navy has released announce- Watch Empire ments of the sinking of several Jap subs in the Aleutians, AWYS T0 ACT AS DUGOUT HOSTESSES FOR THIS WEEK. American Women's Voluntary Services are scheduled this week ‘as hostesses for the regular night- ly open houses held in the Ameri- to KINY, because, If the weather is too inclement, he will call off ‘Ihr alert through thos> mediums; |but, unless notice ‘s so given, :he alert will be held. In any event a meeting of the Juneau Civilian Defense Council |will be held tomorrow evening at | ‘7.30 o'clock in the City Hall, ADVANCE IS CONTINUING Still No Opposition-Allied Bombers Work in Solomons MacARTHUR'S HEADQU AR- TERS, Oct. 7—The Allied coordi- nated land and air offensive against the Japanese in New Guinea con- tinues in its full course today, still without opposition. The Southwest Paciric Command announces that Australian jungle troops have pressed on from Kagi, only a scant four miles from the pass leading through the Owen Stanley Mountains, and are pick- ing up more territory in their so far unimpeded advance toward the enemy’s main positions on New Guinea, At the same time, Allied bomb- ers returned to the attack on Buin % |and Buka harbors in the northern Solomon Islands, and still other air units visited Ceram, far the west between New Guinea and Celebes in the Dutch East Indies > Presenied Arn]y B WILLKIEIS FORANALL ~ OUTPUNCH Says We Argieady for an Offensive to Deliver Knockout Blows CHUNKING, Oct. 7—Wendell L. Willkie, personal representative of | President Roosevelt, on a tour of | various nations, today called upon |the United Nations to give an “all- fout armed offensive everywhere.” Willkie said he expected to dedi- cate his life to urging a post war !program for a world “where all {men can be free and have govern- | ments of their own choosing.” In a statement regarding his tour |of 13 Nations, Willkie said: “It is my personal opinion the time has come for an all-out armed INEW GUINEA 'New Honor Awards Are fo Aleufian omber Crewmen ’ *HEADQUARTERS ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Oct. 7—Maj Gen, Simon B. Buckner has an- nounced the Award of the Purple | Heart to 16 officers and men, pre- [sumably lost in bombers in the Kiska area during raids made de- |<pite bad weather early this sum- | mer. The ships failed to return to headquarters and it is unknown whether the men are dead or prisoners. Ten “in one ship made up crew of the leading plane in flight of heavy bombers which at- |tacked Japanese naval forces. | Names Crew Men | The plane went over the target 'once but was shot down on its second trip. The crew included Major Jack Marks, pilot, 8441 Fountain Avenue, Hollywood, Cal.; 1st Lieut. Harold E. Mitts, navigator, Gig Harbor, Wash.; 2nd Lieut. John R. iiddens, co-pllot, Inverne, Ala. Staff Sgt. John E. Cane, bom- hardier, 1716 Micheltorena Street, Los Angeles; Sgt. Bill V. Diehl, dhotographer, North Platte, Neb.; Jorp. Edward P. Dwelis, engineeg, 1922 So. Rockwell St., Chicago; the & | 22 JAPS TO - 1 AMERICAN PLANELOST | S ST | | \Daring Group of Young | Airmen Are More than Match for Nippons 1 GOT A JAP” (LUB GROWING Review of One Month of Adtivity in Air Over Kiska Given | BY WILLIAM WORDEN | Associated Press Correspondent | | | HEADQUARTERS ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Oct. 7—Am- |erican fighter pilots who never saw a Japanese plane in the air be- |fore September 1 have finished | their first month of combat against |the Nipponese invaders with the remarkable average of 22 enemy | planes downed for every Ameri® |can loss, | This figure was revealed today have been al-| Mr. Robertson asked all Juneau | Civilian Defense members to watch |the Empire tomorrow and to iisten | | offensive. We are ready to deliver };mm» knockout punches if I can |believe what I+ have seen with my own eyes.” | Shortly after issuing the state- |ment, Willkie had an hour's talk with Chiang Kai Shek, his fifth | conference with the Chinese mili- tary leader, and then he left for an. undisclosed destination. At the press conference, Willkie said: “The statement I have is- sued is my own, my own personal statement.” | wasHINGTON, Oct. 7 — The | |apparent Jap desperation to regain ' seemingly at any cost the Guadal- | canal air base in the Solomons, has driven the U. S. Marines to-| ward a portended new struggle for | - - |by Col. Phineas K. Morrill, com- Jorp. Hubert D. Smith, radio, op- |manding all fighter units of the rator, Lineville, Towa; Pvt. Theo- 'Aleutian war. ore A. Alleckson, gunner, Willis-| Additional details of the 30 days on, N. D.; Pvl. Robert G. Brown, of combat made a big and gaudy sunner, 1538 Clarendon St., Niles, |story, apparently weighing heavily Mich.; Pvt. Concetto Castagna, Jr. on the side of the theory that 16 Schnieder Avenue, Highland United States and Canadian pilots, @alls, N, Y. |given any kind of a break, are Lest on Mission more than a match for the little The six in the other ship were | yellow men, on the crew of a bomber sent on| Daring Fliers + photographic mission Two pilots led the list of success- rround installations and enemy 'ful airmen who engaged in such varships toward Kiska. The last odd activities as chasing a com- lio report was made while they pany of Japs down a Kiska hill- re near the island. The wreck- side in order to get in one burst, over control of the strategic island. Striving to halt the mounting and costly losses inflicted on their e of the plane was later sighted ainst a . 200-foot cliff, | | ‘STANDLEY The crew included Major Mar-| | vin E. Wallseth, pilot, 3922 Bagley | and forcing enemy airmen to jump from burning planes at 50-foot al- titudes, These two, both not long out of |air and navy strength by American | Avenue, Seattle; 2nd Lieut. James ended the month |the mid-Aleutians late in August, as the Alaska forces launched their offensive against the Japs in the Aleutians, were in Juneau this afternoon after spending three flying - school, with each, 1st Lieut. Pat M. Debetry, Route 2, Austin, Texas, got his two on TERRITORIAL GUARDS WILL Jplmles operating from the re-won | can Legion Dugout. (base, the Japs, under -cover | The Dugout is to be open every evening this week beginning to- night, for the entertainment A. Daughtry, navigator, Boston, | Mass.; 2nd Lieut. William R. Ware, | co-pilot, Allen St., Marion, Mass. Staff Sgt. Norman Holm, radio oo two Japs to the credit of | darkness, have enlarged their Gua- | |dalcanal forces, but only at the TO CONFER - By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) | WASHINGTON—Russia’s refus- al to permit US. observers negr the Red Army fighting lines still irks the War Department, and it is hoped that Wendell Willkie usgd his persuasive charm to get Stalin to yield on this point. Ve However, a backstage look at cer- tain Russian negotiations here makes you understand why the Russians still are suspicious. One of these is the manner in which we have delayed six price- less months in selling two old‘ oil refineries in Tyler and Longview, Texas, while the big oil companies jockeyed over how much royalties the Russians should pay them. If these refineries had been shipped to Russia and set up behind the lines when first proposed last March, the Russian army would not be paralyzed—as it will be after the fall of the Caucasus. You can understand Russian sus- picion even better when you exam- ine some of the behind-the-scenes maneuvers with both Japan and Russia before Pearl Harbor, The Japs were treated with more friendship than the Russians. Here are two examples: EXAMPLE NO. 1: Early in 1940 the Japs had contracted with the M. W. Kellogg Company to pur- chase a $3,000,000 oil cracking plant to manufacture aviation gasoline in Japan. They had paid $20,000 down and considered the deal closed. However, Secretary Hull pre- viously had urged that American oil companies’ not sell gasoline to Japan in view of its bombing of China, and the Kellogg Company finally decided that the construc- tion of a gasoline plant in Japan might violate the spirit of Hull's request. JAPS GET U.S. SECRETS €0 Dr. Maurice Cooke of the months in operations to the West- | ward. | The story of the convoy's trip, one of the largest ever assembled {in the North Pacific, was released by officials Monday for publica- tion in The Empire and was re-| ported by Alaska Associated Press correspondent William Worden. The tug crew members were busy this afternoon getting ac-| ‘quaint,ed with civilization in Ju-‘ neau, awaiting further orders. They service men of the area, who ar invited to drop in and make Dugout their headquarters. Hostesses are: Wednesday, Mrs.| Alaska Territorial Guards will W. A. Holzheimer; Thursday, Mrs. |meet tomorrow night to rejoin R. G. Maynard; Friday, Mrs. Ray|Civilian Defense activities, it was Saturday, Mrs. El‘ne.‘»l“unnounced today by Capt. G. F. Gruening; Sunday, Mrs. William T.|Freeburger. At the practice alert Mahoney. | which is to be held, unless weather | e is too inclement, the Alaska Terri- | WAYNE JOHNSON BACK 117" et pucra ™ AFTER LONG HIKE IN “i; “5ive: All platoons will assemble at FROM ANNEX CREEK | | GO ON PATROL the | their usual meeting places at 7| |o'clock for the alert and follow- | ling the alert platoons 1, 2 and 3! Wayne Johnson is back at the|will attend a lecture of instruc-| expense of 11 planes and the dum-} aging of their heavy destroyers. | The landing of enemy reinforce- ments was reported by the Navy vesterday as being accomplished October 3 and 4. But in doing so, the Japs raised their total losses in the two-months' old battle of the Solomons to 230 aircraft de- stroyed, 30 vessels sunk or dam- aged. It is reported that a Nipponese the ' cruiser which accompanied a force | of destroyers engaged in the land- ing operations was spotted by Navy and Marine Corps dive-bombers and at least ape hit was scored on the warship” One U. 8. plane operator, Hazard, Neb.; Sgt. Leland | E. Taylor, gunner, 418 86th St. | Ri side, Cal.; Corp. Kenneth E. R | Nelson, aerial engineer, > | MOSCOW, Oct. 7. — Admiral| e Car e sia, c hat he will leave | Buckner al J soon for the United States to confer | award of air ::éd xlxsm;oun:ed |the the utmost war efforts between the | ¥ o B A St acts of essential service in| oem ¢ | ous ,il;')::i.t.ed States and the Soviet Un-| o o e e e The announcement followed dis- | °Ver-Water instrument flights dur- | cussions yestreday between him and | ''% icing conditions in the Western the British ambassador, which are|Aleutian area to attack the armed | believed to have taken up Premier|€nemy of the United States in ac- | | Stalin’s letter to Henry Cassidy tion” to 21 men, :urglng that the Allies meet their| These included Mitts, Ware, Holm, |obligations fully and on time. Dwelis, Nelson, Smith, Alleckson, | Standley spoke with Foreign Com- | Brown and Castagna. successive days in a maelstrom of aerial conflict over the Japanese occupied islands, which resulted when big fleets of bombers and | fighters attacked ships and shore batteries, trying to make the Japs’ stay as short and unpleasant as possible. Deberry is also one of the new- est members of the elite group who are able to claim enemy planes as their prey. His victories came on October 2 and 3, in raids which ended his first month. He had previously been over the target, but never before had a good shot at enemy fighter planes. said they have been serving in all set to go back out again. released by military officials. They up after a walk over the mountain a secret rendezvous and proceeded |which he spent in an improvised v was downed but the crey was missar Molotov yesterday and ad- [tion at the grade school auditor- | saved. ¥ vised him of his Zhn. 7 ium. | Navy and Marine Corps torpedo! The Ambassador also intended to | i l Platoon 4 will meet as usual at|planes renewed the attack on the |¢€ Stalin before leaving. The Ad- the fog-shrouded Aleutian area‘j since June without pay, but were ! No Opposition 3 Their story bore out the account Triangle Cleaning Shop today rested |from Annex Creek which took him said that the convoy assembled at!gpnoximately 24 hours, fourteen of to its equally-secret new base in the Aleutians without catching a | glimpse of a Jap plane. The new |a vacation at Taku Lodge on Sunday base was occupied without opposi- tion. See Jap Subs The men also know the story behind the dramatic capture of five Japs, but that story hasn’t been released for publication as yet. Yesterday's Empire, however, ' carried a page one story released by the Navy which told of the| prisoners arriving at a “Pacific Northwest Port,” and stated that the prisoners were “taken in naval | action.” The boat which their tug towed in the convoy was an old codfish schooner and offered easy prey for a wandering Jap plane or a rov- ing sub. !spent the night there and Monday |Elks Hall, after the alert Thurs- day. shelter on the mountain. . Mr. Johnson was returning from N Bl R. E. ROBERTSON GIVES ADDRESS ON (LUB PROGRAM |evening when the river boat Mary | J, on which he was a passenger, was |storm bound at Annex Creek. He noon left for the long hike to Ju- neau, arriving here shortly after noon yesterday, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 1%, American Can 65, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 57'%, Commonwealth and Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 8%, Interna- tional Harvester 49%, Kennecott 317, New York Central 10%, North~ (ern Pacific 67, United States Steel An address by R. E. Robertson, | Director of Civilian Defense, or “What Women Can Do to Aid in| Juneau Civilian Defense,” formed the weekly radio program sponsored i\ by the Juneau Woman’s Club this | {morning, | This was the first weekly Wom- | an’s Club program for the month Committee of which Mrs. John Mc- | Cormick is chairman. { cruiser at daybreak. They found |™iral said he will tell the President the ship still smoking from the earlier bombing and drove in two more torpedoes. At the same time, American pur- suit planes bombed and strafed |enemy troops and supply dumps on Guadalcanal. R \Mrs. Carl Loftsfeldt Here on Way South Mrs. Carl Lottsfelt arrived Juneau today with Alaska Star of October during which they are!Air Lines on her way to Seame" Volney Richmond, Jr., of the being planned by the War Service | where she will spend the winter |Northern Commercial Company, is e | She will join her daughter son, Frances and Carl, Jr., and who jof the loyal support the Russian | people are giving their country’s war | effort and try to get all possible aid to them. | Others not reported lost and receiy- |ng awards are lst Lieuts, Richard | E. Leow, Bombardier, Port Clin- | lowa; Phillip Cosevilla, navi-, ator, 870 Loma Verde Road, Palo {Alto, Cal; 2nd Lieuts. Frederick A. Albanese, navigator, 944 E ARI |Y NEEDS Second leader is Capt. Arthur T. (Continued on Page Six) | ton, x in| J‘ Lawrence W. Hanson, navigator, ‘ Greenfield Hill, Fairfield, Conn.; | | e Septemus R. Hughes, bombardier, | BLYTHEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 7 | ! 11306 North Dale Avenue, Oklaho- | [John Wisdom was not so wise when |ma City; Billy E. Moon, bombar. | | he left his ear parked on a dark |gier, Hotel Continental, Kansas street. He returned to find all the Jarvis E. Prichard, naviga- ;m'?.s and wheel stolen. Thies 3 { oo Thief River Falls, Minn.; VOLNEY RICHMOND, JR. HERE ON WAY SOUTH WISDOM WISER City; | tor War bombardier, Fulton, Ky.; PFC Len- wood E. Benham, gunner, 620 East Elm, Winston, Ariz. in Juneau today on his South from oo 00 the Interior and Westward districts ® e e 0 0 00 nt Officer Herbert G. Spees,|® Prairie Road, Evanston, Il1.; Thom- | |as F. Armstrong, navigator, 7 Pros- | FOR oll ARE Plenty fo Gs_t for 1943, Official Tells Sen- ate Group WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 — Brig, Gen, Walter Bryon told a Senate Next Wednesday the subject of the | have been living with their grand- |Where his company operates a larg: The men told of seeing Jap subs‘ during the three, months spent to | the Westward and said that a fa- | vorite Jap trick when the sub was attacked by our airmen was to dive under the nearest American Kellogg Company told the Jap " (continued on Page Four) boat to hinder the airmen in drop- ping their depth bombs. | Some of the Jap subs didn't get | 49%, Pound $4.04. {program will be the American Red Cross, with Mrs. J. C. Thomas broad- icasliug; the third program will be |on the subject of war stamps and bonds by Fred W. Ayer and Mrs DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 111.86; rails, 28.41; utilities, 12.80. Mildred Hermann will give the ————————— fourth program, “Women's Organi- The first successful flight across zations in the War Effort.” the Atlantic was made in 1919 by’ b A the U. S. Navy flying boat NC-4. BUY DEFENSE BONDS mother, Mrs. 8. C. Lottsfelt, and going to school in Seattle for the last year. ! Mr. Lottsfelt, who resigned from chain of trading posts and stores - e | WILLOUGHBY AVE. FIRE DOES LITTLE DAMAGE Fire, breaking out in a house near [the Alaska Road Commission sev- | Home Grocery on Willoughby “”erul years ago and purchased a avenye late this afternoon, was |trading post in Ophir, expects 10 | quenched by members of the Ju- |80 south to join his family inlneau Volunteer Fire Department be- | anvembar. fore little damage was done, subcommittee today that the Army has plenty of oil for its war needs |for 1943, but that there might be |a petroleum shortage on the West | Coast if the war lasted “too long.* | As the first witness for the sub- o COmmittee on mineral resources, o |Bryon told the Senators that the s use of oil products is con- this year than 'ORM WARNING U. 8. Weather Bureau advises The Empire that a wind of about 30 miles per hour in velocity is expected in the channels in the vicinity of Juneau, Small craft operators are advised to remain in port for e AM the next 24 hours, o |siderably higher oo e 000000 0 0 oflast The