The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 12, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE VCL. LIX., NO. 9161. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, ()C'l()BlfiR 12, 1942 MIMB R /\SSOCIATH) PR[LSb PRICE TEN CENTS WENDELL WILLKIE AND PARTY IN ALASKA Russians Are Holding Nazis At Stalingrad RED FORCES LASHING OUT AT GERMANS Nazis Abandon Assault in Favor of Artillery Duelling 12. — The Red army lashed out at the Germans and gained ground northwest of the city of Stalingrad and in the Caucasus as the third day of the latest bloody and destructive Ger- man assault within the city was confined to artillery and mortar attacks. A Soviet communique said that after throwing 1,000 Nazi troops to their deaths in a furious seven- week effort to take the city, the Germans have abandoned at least temporarily the costly plan of storming the city in favor of ar- tillery and air assaults. Dispatches indicated that with the pressure off Stalingrad, Red army detachments have attacked in the battle area northwest of the city between the Volga Don rivers and have captured vantageous positions.” The communique also said in the immediate Stalingrad area, “artillery and' mortar duels con- tinue.” { - HAS BIRTHDAY DINNER Six young guests were invited to dinner Saturday night in the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Carter, honoring daughler Carla on her fourth birthday. MOSCOW, Oct. “ad- that The Washlngtun Merry - Go- Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | WASHINGTON—Few people, even | inside the government, realize the ! extent to which telephone wires are | tapped today. The good old days when wire-tapping was done only by | big-time gangsters are gone, and al- | most no telephone line around | Washington is safe today. Even the private wire from Sec- retary of State Hull to the President | of the United States was found to have been tapped some time ago by an unfriendly newspaper. The FBI, which has been doing the job of chasing down criminals for years, is scrupulously fits like Naval Intelligence or Mili- tary Intelligence, which suddenly | have come into lush funds and have | inexperienced men spending them, | it is a different matter. Latest wire-tapping development | is the system of tapping the wires of army and navy officers by the army and navy itself. In some offices | it seems to be a common custom to | i take down a wax transcript of tele- ! phone conversations of officers, not because they suspect them of dis- loyalty, but in order to check on all | transactions. For instance, here is the tran- scription of a dictaphone recording in the Navy Department of a con- | versation on May 26, 1942, between | Captain John D. Crecca of the Bos- ton Navy Yard, and Commander E. E. Roth of the Bureau of Ships in | ‘Washington, regarding tank landing | boats. | HIGGINS LANDING BOATS ! The conversation shows that the navy finally yielded to Andrew J.| Higgins of New Orleans, who had a | long controversy with the Bureau of Ships over the design of Y.ank‘ landing poats. The Bureau of Ships | had deslgned its own boat, called | the “Bureau tank lighter,” which Higgins claimed was not practicable, and the two designs were tried out at Norfolk, Va., on May 25. Here is Was appointed Inspector Territorial an excerpt from their conversation: CAPTAIN CRECCA (in Boston): We just got some disconcerting ‘in- Haas the first of this month, has | possible | completed an inspection of condi- change in the design of the tank tions at Ketchikan and is now in | Petersburg COMMANDER ROTH (in Wash- g, formation regarding a lighters. ington) : Possible—it's a sure thing. | " (Continued on Page Four) | New and Old Auxiliary Chiefs Mrs. Alfred J. Mathebat of Alameda, Cal,, (right), ident at the annual national convention of the American Legion ry in Kansas City, Mo, is shown with her predecessor, Mrs. W. Previous to her election Mrs. Mathebat had held high office in the California state organization. This is a phonephoto, Murrill. and | - 18 Persons Are Excduded From WD( Area; Prominent Men in List Remarks Bring Ban NEW RAIDS ONRABAUL, JAP PORT Allies Leave Shlp in Har- bor Afire-Also Bomb New Guinea Trails i GEN. MacARTHUR'S | QUARTERS, Oct. 12—In a HEAD- | heavy | | Allied bombing raid on the Jap-held | | port of Rabaul on New Britain Island on the weekend, a ship in| | the harbor was left smoking, Gen. MacArthu communique said late | Saturday, revealing new attacks on | the enemy stronghold on New Bri= tain. The communique on Sunday said | that in New Guinea there had been | no further contact with retreating Japanese in the gap area of the Owen Stanley Mountain Range. Nevertheless, Allied bombers straf~ ed the bombed trail through the Kokoda area, along which the Jap- anese ox'lginnnv advanced. - HITS SCORED ON JAP SHIP BY BOMBERS U. S. Craft Attack Enemy Plane Tender Near New Britain Island M'\(‘ARTHUR’S HEADQUAR~ TERS, Australia, Oct. 12. — Allied medium bombers, following up two successive nights of assaults by Flying Fortresses on the Jap base of Rabaul in New Britain, heavily bombed a 10,000-ton enemy sea- plane tender southeast of that is- land yesterday. Headquarters reported that two direct hits were scored on the ship and that when it was last observed it was motionless and apparently badly crippled. Pilots participating ih the at- tack reported that 12 planes were visible on the tender’s upper deck, and observers believed that the craft might be carrying planes to outlying Jap bases, perhaps in the Solomons or New Guinea where who was elected Ordered SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 12. ‘The Army discloses that 18 persons have been ordered excluded from the Western Defense Command area under regulations which provide that ql] dange!ous or potentially izens or aliens may be (-uludvd from three coast lines of the country Three of the 18 ordered excluded are as follows: Sylvester Andriano, Draft Board Chairman of the Italian colony here and former San Francisco Supervisor. Ettore Patrizi, editor of the San Francisco Italian language news- paper. Renzo Turco, attorney. All are natives of Italy but are naturalized American citizens. The 18 must leave the area within ten daw careful | about wire-tapping. But with out- | enemy troops are suffering from an acute lack of air support. e LEADER OF | nists will rule the world, so he | |A. P. WALKER MAKING Because of anti-British remarks | ascribed to Theodore Dxcism. well-known writer and lectur Canada has forbidden Dum-r from making any public state- ments or spéeches in that coun- try. Dreiser was scheduled to speak in Toronto. In an inter- view he said that he would rather see the Germans in England than | the ‘“aristocratic, horse-riding snobs” who, he said, are running England now. Dreiser also was quoted as saying: “Churchill has no intention of opening a second | front. He's afraid the Commu- | does nothing but send thousands of Canadians to be slaughtered at Dieppe.” INSPECTION TRIP FOR | LABOR DEPARTMENT Senator-elect A. P. Walker, who for the Labor M. J. Department of by Commissioner of Labor making an said. anpect-on Haas | Glenn Voliva, . BUY DEFENSE BONDS RELIGIOUS U.S. VESSEL SECT DIES 15 SUNK OFF WiIbur Glen_nVoIiva, Self- Styled Prophet of Zion City, Passes Away CHICAGO, I, Oct. 12—Wilbur self-styled prophet | and religious sect leader who once | pictured the world as a giant pan- ‘Navy OO el et announced late cake that was doomed to a sud-|Saturday night that a medium-sized den and drastic end, died in the United States merchant vessel, a Billings Memorial Hospital Sunday |tanker, was torpedoed and sunk by Six Seamen Lose Lives As Jap Sub Torpedoes Mer- chantman, a Tanker WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 The {nfght after a short illness. He Was an enemy submarine several da 72 years of age. previous off the Pacific Coast a For more than 20 years Wilbur |survivors have been landed at Glenn Voliva ruled over a strange West Coast port. | religious empire. Four men of a Navy gun crew Then foes turned upon him, de- lost their lives, as well as the chief political candidates at lengineer and the third mate of the vessel. tried to throw him in| and brought about ! of the industrial .. A ‘"y’ and ‘eylt, i Flames set off machinegun am a little village of 6,000 munition, adding to the havoe of persons tucked between subdivi- |ahandoning the burning ship. sions on Lake Michigan’s shore| The four members of the gur north of Chicago, was his seat of |crew who died were Jim Dillehay government. Smith and W. D. Boyett, both of Zion’s Magnate |Alabama, Victor William Novak, of name was emblazoned on |Texas, and Alphie Rice Worthy, of its temples; above Sacramento, Calif. Four other members of the gun crew escaped injury. feated his the polls, bankruptey eorganization system of his Zion, Thirty-eight more men aboard the tanker which was hit by a Jap sub His its shops and (Continued on Page Two) U. S. Marine Direds Japs al Guadalcanal | A United State canal Island in tured when the the & Mari a newsreel, Husband and Wife ]om Army MORTESSES Marine (center, shirtless), slomon Tsland group t es stormed the island. They are gives orders to Ja build an airpert and There will be 100 per cent representation of the Dragoo family in the U. S. Army. Both Mr. have joined the army. of the WAACe, and he as a pri Maurice is hold ng a mirror as b at the Philadel; and Mrs, Maurice Dragoo of Holm They were sw urg, Pa., n in together, she as a member in the Aviation Cadet Corps. > tries on her WAAC headgear cruiting center WEST COAST Prisons hre Now Playing War Role: Inmates Are Doing "All Oul" Stufi By JACK WASHINGTON, Oct probably isn't a lad 12 going There a off to | directed the wars these days who isn't pack- | something country’s using in this ing something or that was made prisons. Already more than 100 prison; (and at least one in each of the 48 States) are going all out on war materials. Prison farms and dairies are contributing to the food pro- duction program. Prison shops and achines are turning out hundred: rticles that go into the sine war: tent stakes, camou cloth, airplane casting, bomb parts, ammunition boxes, tool chests, and what not, The prison industries section is part of the War Production Board It was organized by Maury Maver- ick, chief of the bureau of govern- mental requirements, and is one of | which Congre It 1 Sormer the pets of the former man and San Antonio Mayor by Dan Turner, Governor of Iowa. Having had to overcome the hurdle prisor labor is always up against of not infringing on the rights of organized labor, prison war production still is in its infancy It has, however, been given green light by a Presidential di- rective just issued. This remove some of the legal obstacles sur | rounding the sale of prison made goods. The point is that everything turn by the pris now operating under the program’ goes directly the Army, Navy, or lend-lease. Mav- erick and Turner hope eventually to put the whole force of 168,000 "t prison laborers, many of them skill- | ed mechanics and machine tool op- (Continued on Page Six) iese labore other behind a barbed-wire the | pr to | { them EMISSARY OF FDR IN FAIRBANKS ' Personal E;Eresentafive g of Roosevelt Makes Flight from China BULLE‘HN—-’I‘hem is a re- port circulated in Juneau that Wendell L. Willkie and his party may come to Juneau. There is nothing official in the } report and at noon today Will- ’ kie had not left Fairbanks. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 12— | Wendell L. Willkie and his party larrived here at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon by plane from China via Siberia. l Willkie said all members of his | party and crew are in the best of health and said the flight from China on this route was superb. Willkie said he will arrive in the | States within the next few days. The big four-motored bomber |came out of the sky and made a | perfect landing after an unheralded | flight to this big base. | Willkie, personal representative of | President Roosevelt to various na- tions to tell them of the “all-out” |aid policy of the United States, has +been on various war fronts. He has 'men in Egypt, Iran, Moscow and | Chungking. On the flight to China his plane 'was once endangered by Japanese war planes but no harm resulted. In Chungking, during an inspection, |he had just arrived at one locality following the bombing of that area | by the Japanese. When in Chungklng, Willkig came mn for a Aecnnd front at once. ——————— who had been sent to Guada- installations. They were cap- fence. This scene is from LILLE RAID VINDICATIO London Express Admits u S pI-A“ES S ity of Amer- onpssion | HIT SHIPS NEAR CRETE LONDON, Ockti 12,—Friday’s pun- ishing raid on Lille by big Ameri- can four-motored Flying Fortresses iy Rl Bombers Get Two Freight- ers — Shoof Down De- fending Air Force and Liberators which cost the Na- CAIRO, Oct. 12—S8triking anew as to the ability of U.S. heavy bombers to carry out day raids, said in an editorial, “there has been some criticism of American designers, who, in producing Fort- ress zis at least 105 fighter planes de- stroyed or damaged was “vindica- tion” of American aircraft en- gineering, the London Express de- clares. . in an almost non-stop attack on Axis supply shipping across the Mediterranean, United States heavy bombers scored hits on two freighters escorted by three de-~ The Express, whose air corres- | pondents have been most doubtful | es sacrificed bomb load capac-'stroyers off the coast of Crete and ity for. gun power and armor.This|a few minutes later shot down two Lille triumph is a vindication of | Messerschmitt 110's and a Junker their policy and an answer to their gg critics.” i | By bringing down the German Reprisal Attack | planes, American gunners destroyed Single Nazi raiders attacking a'one-third of the attacking force of outheast coast town about noon the land-based Nazi aircraft which today killed at least four and in-|rose to defend the freighters, which jured several others. Their bombs were estimated at about 8,000 tons it houses and ships. Rescue par-'each, - e OUCH! BANG dug into the debris where others believed trapped in a l)ulldmg | .- | | ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Oct. 12. — A lady with a glint in her eye and an outthrust jaw went into an Eighth Ward polling place and ‘TWO BOYS (AUGHT BY TIDE SATURDAY, MEIDEMALL FLATS ot Sium Wi, SR David Satko, 11, and Dudley Smithberg, 12, were marooned Sat-|!NE against every one of them,” irday on a log in the icy water !she sald as she straightened her »f Mendenhall River \hat and slammed the door after hall flats, from 10 am. until 6 her finally being rescued by ! He Miers, who rescued the boysflple”dem (took them to his dairy home,! |warmed them and sent them home Goes On ia Army truck. i boss v out nuniing sac-| A Tonight morning, but were marooned@ V)u- when the tide caught lost their lunch and | but after a good | sleep Saturday, were liule; the for the experience on| Sunday | -~ tie are flattened on Menden- - WASHINGTON, Oct. 12— President Roosevelt will make a radio address beginning at 6 o'clock Juneau time this eve- ning. It will last for about an hour, the White House said, and probably will cever both domestic and international subjects. |on log They un in the river, worse BUY DEFENSE BONDS