The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9158. ; JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1942 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NO JAPS ON ATTU, AGA Russian Tanks Are Breakin Commissioner Issues | Own License fo Wed Juneau Health Nurse COMPLETED RED ARMY FORCES IN NEw MOVE ETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 8 — | United States Commissioner Arthur Bogue yesterday applied to him- Veteran Prussian Units, : Hiller's Elite, Are |oin.i" muis Moo Mt dtage- Being Divened ‘hlld Oygard of Juneau. Bogue accepted his own applica- |tion only after Assistant District MOSCOW, Oct. 8. — Red Army ECONOMICS BOARD I§ | Attorney Robert Jernberg signed the affidavit affirming the truth| of Bogue's application statements. | This is an odd legal formality re-; quired because a Commissioner le-| Management, Agricul- gally cannot accept his own ap- | “"e Men Named plication unless it is vouched for' T by some other official. | . 'WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 Byrnes Takes VOaih—Labor, James §4 BILLION BOND ISSUE OUT TODAY us. Treasu-ry_DeparImenf Makes Largest Borrow- ing Move of War WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. The | Treasury Department announces it | will offer for sale today $4,000,000,000 worth of securities, comprising the largest. single borrowing operation of the present war The offerings will be either | percent eight to ten-year bonds, or‘ 1% per cent four-year and two-1 month Treasury notes. | Departing from the usual prac- tice, the Treasury assigned no quota , " |for either type to be issued, and {Continied 88 Eage QIO lannounced that the $4,000,000,000 | will be divided between the two | issues according to the proportion of | preference shown by investors for | the two types. The financing contained another new idea, designed to further the Government’s policy of borrowing as | much money as possible from all| other types of investors before bor- | rowing from the banks. ‘The borrowing will raise the Treas- ury debt to $95,000,000,000. i Nazis Claim tank forces are breaking the forti- | fied German left flank northwest of | Stalingrad and are reported to have | forced the enemy to divert veteran | Prussian units, elite of Hitler’s army, | on other fronts in an effort to stop the push aimed at relieving Stalin- | grad. | The Russians, however, maintain- ed the initiative, even as the Ger- | mans poured more and more men | and machines into the holocaust. Latest official report said that German attacks were beaten off both northwest as well as inside the | ruined city during the last three | days. i Official dispatches say that the Germans lost thousands of men and | hundreds of trucks and armored cars and scores of tanks, without com- | pensating gains. | Documents taken from the newly | captured of the offensive indicate that even the Hitler Command had hoped to win the entire war of the East by occupation of the Volga | metropolis. But now Pravda, Russlan news agency, says prisoners no longer talk of the end of the war, but only express fear that the coming | | | 2l The Washington Merry -Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON Vernon O'- Rourke, Swarthmore College pro- fessor, walked into the Democratic Campaign Committee last week and asked how much was allotted to him as Democratic Congression- 36 alent to that of a Cabinet member, took his oath of office in the White House late yesterday | It was learned then that his |salary is to be $15,000 a ye | less than he received as an A TO Ho USE‘J‘““(T' but as much as a Cabinet member makes. Byrnes was sworn in just after it b |was annonced that the President | had appointed the last six members About 90 Percent of New of ‘e 1s-man boara to neip him | control economy in the entire na- tion during the war. Expenditures Will Go ' N F d | The objective of the board is to 0 Navy run Ihold down living costs, preventing b | inflation. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 The| Two representatives each from $6,236,000,000 appropriation bill, labor, agriculture and management swelling the country’s cost of arms |have accepted membership on the to more than six times the bill of board. World War I, has been sent to They include the following: the House floor. | From Labor—Philip Murray, CIO Approximately 90.percent of the oW oxppenditures are earmarked | pgriculture—Edward Odal, Presi- b TR dent of the American Farm Burean The House appropriations com- pederation and James Patton, Presi- mittee has authorized 14,611 naval dent of the Farmers Cooperative planes as a complement for the Union. unprecedented aircraft carrier| For Management—Ralph Fiend- building program now under way. |ers, President of Jones Lamson Ma- The measure granted the Navy chine Company of Springfield, Vt., authority to enter contract obliga- | and Eric Johnston of Spokane, tions estimated at approximately President of the United States $9% billion for building carriers Chamber of Commerce. and hundreds of other surface| BT i craft. . . The previous legislation author- WIllkle on President. ized fleet additions, but did not set aside any funds for them or| permit contract obligations to be assumed by the Navy for them. Simultaneously, a bill to furnish fresh financial reserves for war projects of a dozen different gov- ernment agencies including rubber o, \Byrnes, who gave up a lifetime job | - i(m the Supreme Court bench to be- come Director of Economic Stab- ilizatien, assuming a status equiv-| | President and William Green, AF]. al Candidate in Delaware County, Pa. | “We put you down for nothing,” | replied Congressman Drewry of | Virginia. “We figure your district | is hopelessly Republican.” | On the record, Congressman | Drewry was right. For more than a decade, Pennsylvania’s Eighth District has been rock-ribbed Re- publican. There has been no chance | to elect a Democrat. | But now there is a change. And| 3 Jap Gains on Guadalcanal No Confirmation of Report, and a war machine to roll on the air lines to carry the Allies’ mes sage of victory to homes of war workers. SENATETO LOOK INTO (h@gking (FDR's Re;;resentative | Leaves China’s Capital ~Next Stop Unknown | CHUNGKING, Oct. 8: — Wendell | Willkie, touring the world war fronts {as the representative of the Presi- However, from Any | Source | the change is symbolic of what may happen this November in| other parts of the U.S.A., whether they be Demoratic or Republican. " | LONDON, Oct. 8—A German For there s & rising tide of sen- |, 400y quoting what the an- timent for any man who is all- g |nouncer said was a Tokyo dispatch, z‘;tn:::wfwm:l}?: of the War—| reported today that Jap troops Arg ool Cm's |are advancing against stiff Ameri- |can resistance on Guadalcanal Is- e James Wolfenden OP-|yq i the Solomons. ;);)lsied pre-‘;:: z:r Swery _singie, Nothing from any other source ense MEASUre.| . firmed the broadcast. No Tok- Seaxch _the Saimelanal ] |yo broadcast, itself, was heard to 3 as carefully as you can, and you|® Siten e 5 will find not one vote by Wolfen- M2ke any similar claim. den for defense before Pearl Har-| Con- e g 'COURT LENIENT To add insult to injury, Wolfen- den even went duck shooting on | the day Congress declared war| wIIH MOTHER OF against Germany. | As a result, many Republicans‘ BUR“ED I“FANI will vote against Wolfenden this, year, and for 32-year-old O'Rourke, ! S the Swarthmore College professor| TWwo Juneau natives, held in con- who already has applied for en_:necuon with a recent fire in which listment in the Navy. It is one of [# one-month-old infant lost its the healthiest signs of national life, were arraigned in U. S unity. | Commissioner Felix Gray’s Court NOTE: One factor hurting Re_‘late ye..st.erda_v on charges of drunk publican Wolfenden is that he|80d disorderly conduct. 5 the stooge of the long-entrenched | 1% Johnson, 18, mother of the McClure Machine. When John Mc- | baby, was given a susPe“‘:":t:;c Clure ran for the Pennsylvania ths providin 5 Senate, practically only the red| tence °f s”:o")‘:,: with her mother light district in Chester and swank | she Feturns h - reactionary Swarthmore voted for‘mG::;!:: b e ovht;rr:\e: B |tive, had his sentence ;i: eesw, e tive, e GEN. MacARTHURS' BOX | pending the ;::wod?‘:itml-? still is b acAr i for s : el oo e’ ;nirt\‘;nhe\d, The baby's raother has (Continyed opn Page Four) ibeen releasd l Committee said today that a na- exacted by unions from job appli-! ‘drnt, left here by plane yesterday, | ending his five-day visit here | His next stop was not immediately [ disclosed. UNION FEES Nationwide Invesfigation WhaiH;ppenS When May Be Instituted, May Says WASHINGTON, Oct. 8— Chair- man May of the House Military Big Com tion-wide investigation of the fees cants for Army projects may be BY JACK STINNETT undertaken if specific evidences of ~WASHINGTON — Capital dilem- exorbitant charges are found |ma: What happens when a big The fee issue was revived by committee goes out of business? Representative PFaddis who asked| Specifically, what happens now the Military Committee to look |that the rubber investigating com- over payments made by workers at|mittee, composed of Bernard Bar- the Army’s huge ordnance plant|uch, Dr. James B. Conant and Dr at Meadville, Pa. Karl T. Compton, has gone out of An investigation of this plant al- | business? I don't mean what hap ready has been authorized by May. ens A8 A RESULT of the com- - eee mittee report? That's up to the 4 B { President, to Nelson, to Hender- PR. JOUN C. REED. BACK son, Ickes, Jesse Jones, Congress FROM TRIP TO SITKA Br. John C. Reed, of the United | States Geological Survey, has re- turned to Juneau with Alaska ! Coastal Airlines from a trip t.o‘ Sitka on which he was away for several days. and others. I mean, what happens to the committee and its reports? Almost before the ink was dry on the President’s order setting up |the rubber investigating commit- | tee, Baruch, Conant and Compton D | | were holding outdoor conferences HERE ON BUSINESS |In Lafayette Park, across from the Del FPett, merchandise broker, White House. arrived in Juneau from a busi-/ Less than five weeks later, ness trip to Sitka, Baruch, Conant and Compton had Through With fllileporI! NOALERT TONIGHT No practice alert will be held ‘ this evening, it was announced | late this afternoon by R. E. | Robertson, Director of Civilian | | Defense. The Civilian Defense Council | will meet tonight, at 7:30 o'- clock in City Hall, Mr. Robert- son stated. Platoons 1, 2 and 3 of the Alaska Territorial Guard are to | meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight at | the grade school auditorium for | a lecture on instruction and platoon 4 is to report at 7:30 oclock at Elks Hall. Platoon | members are not to wear uni- | forms tonight but all are to | take their rifles to the meet- ings, Capt. G. F. Frecburger | ' said today. ‘ Alaska WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—~The War Production Board today ordered the shut down of 200 or 300 of the nation’s largest gold | mines in order to release man- power to work in copper and other vital war metal produc- | tion. | The gold min | taking out new ore within seven | | days. | i es musl cease The order covers all mines producing, including those Alaska and other Territorie except mines previously accord- ed preferential priority treat- ment by the War Production | ——e | | | | Board because of by-product { | output of copper, lead and zinc. { Certain small mines are ex- ! cepted. The mines ordered to suspend l are divected to halt operations at the “earliest possible date,” with the latest stop at breaking out new ore after October 15. Sitka Spruce Project Will | | .~ (Call for Loggers by | ‘ Next Spring | \ 60 days except the minimum ac- Away from' All operations must stop within | | BEATTLE, Oct. Gen. | | Winsor, Regional or of the! War Manpower Commission, said (IO Strings |today that a proposal to include {Alaska in the Pacific Northwest's | | “critical area” of war production | " e e Miners Shout Approval of |day. | John L. Lewis’ Breach Stand He commented on the problem after Charles G. Burdick, of Ju-| neau, Assistant Regional Forester, h United Mine Workers of America planes. Burdick said the men can't | yesterday voted almost unanimously |be sent to Alaska from Washing- |{; withdraw from the CIO to com- ton and Oregon because the Terri- | pjete the two-year widening breach |tory is not now a critical area, | John L. Lewis, UMW chieftain Four hundred men will be need- and former CIO president, virtually ed on the Alaska spruce project|told the miners to decide between by next spring, Burdick added. |him and the CIO, although most of SR the speakers previous to Lewis had RICHARD SNEDDON, OF |asked the delegates to vote against CANADIAN FIRM HERE | the split. ON BUSINESS TRIP' Only a scattering of the men pro- | Richard Sneddon, Public Rela- |tested against the split after the |tions Manager for Bechtel, Price Majority shouted approval of Lewis |and callahan, of Edmonton, Al-, btand: | berta, arrived in Juneau last night ———— {and is at the Baranof Hotel for u S R A F |N several days while he is g ays while he is here on | 8 7 . ad » business. | - - | The New York Acuarium was vicited by 84,000,000 persons from 1902 to 1941. IN AFRICA American, British Fliers Blast Enemy Concen- frations in Desert CAIRO, Oct. 8—U. 8, fighter pi- lots escorted RAF fighters and bombers in a raid behind the Ger- mittee Is dropped their bombshell In the| . n " nes yogterday, taking part President’s White House office.| ;" excentionally heavy air blast- Within 24 hours, the three mus-|y"or gio enemy, it is disclosed keteers of investigation had fold-| o, 15 rips over enemy terri ed their tents and gone home. tory made during the day, the In that five weeks, thelr offices|pamp waid heavy damage was caused had spread from a split-slat park | ¥ " |to German afrports, convoys, and hench to a whole floor of that I‘"Hrmp concentrations. Salle building—a floor big enough | - to house a battery of bowling al- 1SN0RSE leys. Their staff had expanded from o Negro shoeshine boy to stenographers, clerks, secretaries, scientists, engineers, financiers. Their files started with notes on the back of an envelope from a pocket of one of Baruch's natty summer suits. You should see them now. For instance, take that minor paragraph early in the report:| July 1, 1942 to Jan. 1, 1944—53,000 tons; estimated military needs for | the same period, exclusive of any | LONDON, Oct. 8—Fifteen more have been executed at Trondheim, Norway, bringing the two-day total to 25 hostages killed, the Oslo ra- |dio reported (Continued on Fage Three) TU, SAYS NAVY Juneau Exempi tivity necessary to keep build- ings, equipment, repair workings in safe condition. | % | ORDER DOESN LASKA JUNEAU M1 TO OPERATE AS US UAL | Because the Alaska Juneau Gold | Mining Company has been operat- ing with a P-56 preference rating | granted by the War Production Board for some time, the order does | not apply to the Juneau operation. The preference rating was grant- ed because the Alaska Juneau pro- duces a sizeable quantity of lead in he gourse of its cperation, a metal | greatly needed in the war effort he Juneau operation also has an igreement with the Government's Metals Reserve Company to mine, and treat in Juneau, chromium, an- other vitally strategic war metal. The WPB's order stated that mines which were previously ac- corded preferential priority treat- ment by the WPB because of by- product. outputs of copper, lead or | zinc, are exempted from the shut- down ruling. CAPTIVESARE MANACLED BY GERMANS Brifish Hear Canadian Pris- | ers of Dieppe Have Hands Bound LONDON, Oct. 8—In a quick re- ply to German action of binding the hands of British prisoners cap- tured at Dieppe, Britain threat- ened to take similar measures against an equal number of Ger- man prisoners in British hands. Only a few hours had elapsed g German Flanks Mines Producing Gold - Orderedtfo Shut Down; ENEMY 1S QUITTING 2 ISLANDS Aerial Reconnaissance Re- veals No Signs Seen of Nippons WASHINATON, Oct 8—The Navy Department announces that an aerial reconnaissance has failed to show any signs of enemy occupancy or activity on Attu or Agattu islands in the Aleutian group for several weeks, indicating the Japs have with- drawn. Attu and Agattu were two of the islands first invaded. The Navy says the enemy is still holding out on Kiska Island. The communique further states new attacks by Army bombers on the Kiska camp area have met, however, only light anti-aircraft resistance. Ne;ma Advancels Slowed Down Allied Air ATatks on Sup- ply Lines Forces Japs Back acARTHUR'S HEADQU AR- | M TERS, Oct. 8—The Alliled ground offensive through the Owen Stan- ley Mountains in New Guinea has been slowed by difficulties of “the terrain, a communique said today. The announcement was devoted solely to the Owen Stanley advance and explained for the first time why the Japanese threat to the Allied base at Port Moresby has collapsed. Said the communique: “The enemy, as we had expect- since the Berlin radio announced ed, discovered that his supply prob- that British captives, mostly Cana- lems were aggravated by our con- dians, were manacled. stant alr attacks which were im- The announcement, made at noon possible to meet with an imme- today, said that this was in re- diate solution.” prisal for similar treatment of| The announcement did not state captured Nazis, a claim which the how far the Allled forces had ad- British vigorously denied. vanced, bt earlier reports said The German action of fettering that the Japanese had withdrawn prisoners “is expressly forbidden to the northeast down-slope of the by Article 2 of the Geneva con- mountain range and that Australi- vention” the British sald. |ans were in firm control of the - - (ALBROSIUS 1S MANGLED IN ACCIDENT Seward Pia;l'eer, Wellj Known Alaskans, Badly Injured-Caught, Shaft SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 8—Cal M Brosius, Alaska pioneer for 44 ars, leading Seward business man Jumber and planing mill op- erator, was badly injured Tuesday evening when he was caught on planer shaft. Both legs were broken, his head hurt and body bruised. Brosius is known to oldtimers throughout the Territory. He was in Whitehorse and Dawson in the carly days and before coming to Seward lived in Valdez. Brosius is a former member of the Territorial Legislature. - N. A. McEACHRAN HERE N. A. McEachran, merchandisc' broker, returned to Juneau last night from a business trip to Skag- way, and a narrow pass leading mile-high barrier. MacARTHUR DECORATES AP WRITER Vern Haugland_GeIs Silver Star Medal Pinned on Pajamas BOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, across the Oct. 3— (Delayed)— The U. 8, Army’s Silver Star was pinned on the pajamas of Vern Haugland, ‘Associated Press correspondent, by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in an unprecedented recognition of civil- lan courage. Pausing in his visit to New Guinea's war front, Gen. MacAr- thur made the award in a hospi- tal tent where Haugland is recov- ering from exhaustion and fever after 43 days of fighting his way out of the mountainous jungle into which he parachuted from a bomb- er during a storm on August 27, Haugland is a former Seattle man. e BUY DEFENSE BONDS