The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA [ " PIR] “ALL THE NEWS ALL ’IIII‘ 'Il\ll VOL. LIX., NO. 9160. \II \IM R /\59()( I/\]l I) l’RlIS' PRICE TEN CENTS —— Nazis Making Supreme Fight At Stalingrad REDS THROW BACK FRESH AXIS TROOPS Russians Believe Germans | Making Last Big At- tempt to Take City MOSCOW, Oct. 10. Tank and infantry attacks so ferocious that observers believed them to be the German High Command's supreme bid for a quick decision at Stalin- grad, are reported to have been | stopped by Red Army troops. The Red troops are also en- trenched for positional warfare against the Nazi flank northwest of the city. | Front line correspondents for Izvestia, official Soviet newspaper, say that there is every reason to believe that Hitler's field officers expected finally to master the bat- tered industrial center. “The expectation was not fulfill- ed,” however, according to the writ- er. A tank division motorized and (Continued on Page Six) The Washmgiun Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — The backstage | maneuvering to ease Donald Nel- | son’s old Sears Roebuck boss, Less- ing Rosenwald, out of the WPB! salvage picture fizzled last week. | Plans were all set to have Rosen- wald demoted from the vital spot where he is responsible for scrap iron, tin and other collection cam- paigns. But in a showdown WPB conference, he flatly refused to budge. Rosenwald told WPB colleagues that he had two boys in the Ma- | rine Corps, and he was going to| stay right where he was. Donald‘ Nelson didn’t have the heart to, fire him. As a result a round-| Robbin-Hood's-barn shake-up has been arranged whereby Rosenwald continues as Director of Conserva- tion, but two men are put under him as deputy directors who will do the real work of collecting scrap iron and other strategic materials. They are: hard-working R. K. White, former automobile salesman,. formerly in charge of the tin can‘ drive, who now will be in charge| - of general salvage; and L. F. Kitting, a Shell Oil official. They | will take over, in fact, while Ro- senwald continues as titular boss.‘ This means replacement of Herbert | Hoover’s old friend, Herbert L. Gutterson, former executive secre- | tary of the Republican National! Committee, who was in charge of | general salvage, and who, on the| whole, has done a good job. Born | in India, Gutterson was one of Hoover's right hand men in Euro- | pean food relief during World War | I, having béen in charge of a $30,- ! 000,000 fund to feed European chil- | dren, Gutterson will now take | charge of salvage field operations. The scrap iron campaign lost one of its most hard-hitting and | dynamic figures last week when Bill Colvert, former Carlsbad, N.| M., editor, resigned from WPB's| Salvage Division and enlisted as| a buck private in the Army. Col-| vert was the chief author of the plan for collecting scrap iron | through the schools. Fed up with| fighting on the home front, Bill| fired this parting shot at his su- | periors as he entrained for Campl Lee, Va. “When I get in the Army, and I have to ride in a wooden truck, I'm coming back and.I'm going to blast you right out of Washington.” TRUST IN NEW YORK were complaining to Jesse dustries in the East. (Continued on Page Four) | Command A group of Western convressmen‘A“wd planes were shot down in Jones North Africa, 45 by German and | about the concentration of war in- ‘Imlmx;i' planes and nine by anti- | ing during the battle of Midway, he aircral “We used to hear a lot of talk Pats” Sees10 Day Ship Launched Kiska Being | ’ Camouflaged } By Japanese :Japs Feverwirsh'lfly at Work| Trying to Fool Defend- ers of Northland HEADQUARTERS ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Oct. 10.—Of- fice; losed from aerial recon- naissance pictures that the Japanese | are building feverishly amid great activity bn Kiska Island in the | Aleutians. The Japanese are $o busy that | they apparently haven't had time to | repair bomb damage or remove the wreckage of planes hit by American | aerial raiders. Some of their efforts at camoy- flage are a little laughable. Kiska is territory where a man’s trail through the tall grass lasts for days, and a wrecked plane, which catches fire, hopelessly shows up its | fate for weeks afterward. Nevertheless, the Japanese made desperate efforts. They made a beach look like a runway—and it had United States | airmen fooled for a little while They set dummy planes in rows that feoled nobody. Dummy guns are peeping through | tail ginss: But, most of all, they've attempt- | ed to get underground; sinking| buildings into pits and then putting grass roofs over them; putting dirt | roofs on other structures; filling in of the island and cutting out others, However ,the Americans, in recent pictures, found the Japs had been 50 busy on such projects they haven't taken time to pull the Zero or wrecked seaplanes off the beach; to repair damaged barges or do much of anything olso 1 have Seated in his car (left) with ship-builder Henry J. Kaiser (right) President Roosevelt watched as the Kaiser-built Joseph N. Teal went down the ways, just 10 days after her keel was laid, to set a new rec- ord for shipbuildivg. The President was on a tour of war factories. " WEST COAST - DIMOUTRULE ALLIES MAKE MORE STRICT HEAVYRAIDS OVER AFRICA American Planes Take Par! in Sorfies Over Egypt Forward Lines DeWitt Issues New Order Tightening Previous Regulations SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10. — The Pacific Coast States have been plac- - ed under new and more strict dimout| CAIRO, Oct. 10—American regulations. British airmen have shot Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Chief and damaged 20 Axis planes of the Western Defense Command, |air battles and destroyed many has changed the regulations as of (more on the ground, besides scor- August 30 to provide that in re- ing near bomb hits on shipping stricted zones, essentially all light at Bengasi, today’s official com- visible from above, including street | munique says. lighying, must now be shielded. In the intensified Allied assaults Restrictions on lights visible from in the North Africa region, the the sea remain essentially the same | allies shot up enemy positions in The Army also broadened previous | the forward area of the Egyptian descriptions of areas visible from the | gon¢. sea to include northern Washing- ton, under the description of areas visible from waters of the Pacific Ocean or from the waters of the Straits of Juan de Fuca. and down in Americans made more than a dozen sorties, during which 2nd | Lieut, William Mount of Osawoto- | mie, Kansas, scored the first con- Sl s 02 1 5 G firmed .vicwry of the American | fighter pilots in the area, down- |ing a German Messerschmitt. The scope of the operations Is Iindicated by the report that ‘a MARI“ES' GETS jdozen aircraft are missing ¥ THEM OFF SHIP| coME WRECK Yorktowfi(ommander, PHOEN]X,‘ A_riz——:!. R. Griffin of Uses S'rategy 10 (:Iear Oxnard, Calif., can’t explain, but Sinking Carrier the Arizona Highway Patrol says his small coupe struck and knocked aside a heavy detour blockade o bk & 4 the highway. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10—Capt.| hen it climbed a sand pile, sail- Elliott Buckmaster, skipper of thefeq over a 12-foot ditch, landing aircraft carrier Yorktown, knows his Marines. When he told them for the second time to abandon the big ship, sink- KEYES FOR KEYS —Movie Actress Evelyn Keyes (above) was chosen “The Keys to Viec- tory Girl” by a trade association in the campaign to get keys for scrap. ITALIANS CLAIM ROME, Oct. 10—The Italian High has reported that 54 so solidly both rear tires blew put Next it rolled into the rear end ol a truck. Projecting lumber crashed through the windshield of Griffin's car. The coupe finally stopped witk Griffin’s nose almost nudging the timber, fire in “bitter air com- put it this way: “Come on, you Marines, get gon- |ing. Don’t you know I can't leave ! this ship till after you?” BUY DEFENSE BONDS President on Secrel Tour JAP FORCES CONTACTED, NEW GUINEA A”IBS Carry Out Biggest Air Raids of South Pacific MMARTHUHb HFADQUAR- TERS, Australia, Oct. 10 — Allied patrols have pushed into the gap leading to Kokoda in the Owen Stanley Mountains and have made contact for the first time in sev- |eral days with Japanese patrols. At the same time, a communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur dis- closed that “Allied bombers have smashed at Rabaul, Japan's inva- |sion base on New Britain in the Southwest Pacific's biggest air raid yet. | “Heavily bombed also was Lae, on the northern coast of Nnew Guinea, and a Jap merchantman at Saumlaki in the Tanimbar Is-* lands northwest of Australis was destroyed by our warplanes.” | Australian authorities said the gap through the mountains connecting the Allied base at Port Moresby with Kokoda on the nor- thern downslope is between these (wg ports. e gl B JAP PLANE IN ALASKA IS TESTED Will Be Flown to Washing- ton-Trial Here Not Remarkable WASHINOTON Ocl. 10—A Jap Zero plane, forced down in the Aleutians, has begn repaired at a naval air station and soon will be flown to Washington for perform- ance tests. The Navy said that preliminary tests have shown that the Zero a speed of nearly 300 miles an hour, less than the best U, 8. | fighter planes. The early tests also showed that at about 200 miles an hour, the Zero responded to light pressure on the coutrols, but at a higher rate of speed they became stiff. The Navy said that the Zero also developed “a marked riutter vi- bration. “Otherwise,” the Navy said, “It is a stable, easy-to-fly plane with that has sident Rocsevelt recently made a lour of the nat cn inspecting preduction plants, ete. Upper picturc shows the President on a visit to the Mare Is'and Navy Yard looking at a captured two-man sub marine. Just before this picture was taken, the President inspected a U, S, submarine from whose con- ning tower nine Jap flags flew in token of nine enemy ships the sub had sent to the bottom. Lower picture shows the President, Henry Ford and Charles Sorenson while inspecting the Willow Run, Michi- generally good flying characteris- Itics and is well-designed." Afilazifig (hapler of FBI CHIEF i WarRevealedasFBl ~ GIVESOUT y_5.SuB'S AN AU\RM; VICTIMS ARE war Rounds up 50 Aliens 4 (rime Is on Increase Says ON JAD ISlE Hoover-Juvenile De- linquency Mounting WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, — When the Federal Bureau of Investigation | -~ picked up more than 50 enemy alien: What has mede the pre in Baltimore the other day, it added | | trol of fifth columnists anc another note to one of the more | ossibie? On the enfore amazing chapters of World War IL. | we can quote Hoover: “Ye: Without any serious witch-hunt- ‘Pr arl Harbor, we began the ing and with comparatively little | cataloguing of mames and activitie publicity, the FBI and cooperaling |of persons who would fight against | forcement alone is not the answer agencies have arrested more than|America rather than for America |J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the 10,000 enemy aliens since Pearl Har- | we publicly explained just what we | Federal Bureau of Investigation, said bor. That fact came out the other | were doing and why. . . . in a speech prepared for the war day in a little publicized speech | A far-seeing President of the|conference convention of the Inter- which FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover | United States stood firmly behind Association of Chiefs of made in New York before the In-|ys in our efforts to protect America ternational Association of Police | against the day when our enemie: Chiefs, within might attack. The value Never in the history of law en-|preparedness has since vindicated forcement in this country has any |our judgment. When war came. similar round-up taken place. In the | {housands of dangerous enemy aliens hysteria of World War I, such whole- | ywere promptly arrested before they sale arrests would have been a pre- | could move into action.” lude to riots and internal strife.| 1, 1939, the President issued a There would have been daily head- | gjrective which opened the way for | lines for months Court battles | the FBI to become the core of a|the Suez Canal, was founded inlg00 Bripish prisoners aboard, man would have multiplied into the hun- 1859 when work was begun on the o o " BRI G OOITC, many dreds. If there is any doubt of it, huge ditch. N |go back to the draft-dodger abolage cases of 25 years ago. Tokyo Saysmfl) rpedoed Ship Carried Many British Prisoners BERLIN, Oct. 10—A Tokyo dis- patch received here says survivors of the Japanese transport Lisbon Maru, 7,000 tons, reported to have been sunk in Chinese waters by a and WAlatews At e oisr Sohe United States submarine, has ar- we can expect another era 'ived at Moji on the island of lawlessness such as swept the Kyushu. Country after the last war.” Hoover| “AmOng the survivors” the broad- added in the address cast said, “was an unspecified num- il ber of British prisoners of war who " |were rescued by the transport Port Said, nmorthern terminus of |which i have approximately 1,- before reful NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Crime is | definitely on the increase and en- I national Police Juvenile delinquency is mounting of | rapidly better il ‘!‘uul.um;':i from Pu«e Three)