The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 14, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX.,, NO. 9163. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CRUSHING BLOWS DEALT PACIFIC ENEMY Jap Fighter Planes Chased From New Order Wipes Out Delay in Admitting OUR FORCES BOMB KISKA UNMOLESTED | Tra | A streamlining of the Alaska travel control system to do away |with all delay in securing admit- tance to the Territory was an- nounced today by Brig. Gen. Si- mon B. Buckner,, Commanding, Al- |aska Defense Command, in a radio- tgram to the office of Gov. Ernest Gruening. —_— The entire system of admitting HEADQUARTERS, Alaskan Army |persons to Alaska has been changed. Air Force, Oct. 14—American and In the future, those applying at Canadian airmen apparently have!the Seattle office will be given tem- run the Japanese fighter planes porary permits, valid for 60 days, out of the Aleutian skies. |and will be allowed to proceed at Army officers reached this con- once into the Territory. clusion today on the basis of late| The processing of the applica- Kiska bombing raids by our forces. tions will be undertaken while Jap floating fighters worried un-|passengers are on their way to Al- escorted American bombers during|aska and after they arrive attheir the summer raids, but late sweeps | destinations. over the Jap base have failed to| Then, if the investigations dis- bring Jap fighter opposition out. - - — Starting September 1, Allied air- men in Alaska ran up a remark- able 22 to 1 score in a month of combat with Jap fighters, and more important, seem to have ex-| hausted the supply of enemy| fighter planes. 1 The last opposition of this kind | (Continued on Page Four) Nippons Stfiying to Re- inforce Aleutian Outpost e —— By WILLIAM WORDEN (Associated Press Correspondent) Held With Holdup ooy The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — The President called Scott Lucas of Illinois to the | White House the other day to thank | him for his two-fisted support of the | adminjstration’s anti-inflation bill. | He also told the able young Illi- | noian about some of his experiences | on his cross-country inspection tour, | one of which was apropos of the | inflation fight in Congress. It dealt with the problem of manpower—es- | pecially the farm bloc’s argument that there would be a disastrous shortage of farm labor and resultant crop shortages unless farm parity prices were raised. “The manpower problem isn’t as serious as a lot of people are trying | to make us believe, Scott,” the Pres- | R L Chicago police held for questioning Sue Eldrington (left) and Peggy RAFMAKES HEAVYRAID | ~ OVERKIEL velers fo Alaska slose tha tentially d: rous or | i 7 e s oty canscro v, German Balfic Sea U-Boat the Territory, these persons will be | Base H" Hard by deported. The revised system will mean | 100 Bombers that the old stall in securing ad- — ! mission to the Territory for badly-| LONDON, Oct. 14.—A Royal Air | needed defense workers will be Force bomber fleet well over 100 eliminated planes, struck at Kiel during Ll\ei o ; . |night. ! The unwholesome delay, which | “mye rajq concentrated on blast in many cases kept workers roast- explosives. It was possibly as de- ing their heels in Seattle for sev-|stryctive as any of the 70 made eral weeks while their records were |ggainst the Nazi's battered Baltic checked, was one of the main naval U-boat base, British sources said. The results well compensated for the RAF loss of nine planes, mili- tary headquarters said. The cost was apparently considerably below 5 per cent, although the numbers of the raiding force were not disclosed. | The Evening News says: “Several | hundred bombers, including a large | number of four-engine heavies made the round trip of over 800 miles,” in an attack on the new “saturation” technique. | This means throwing so many | bombers over the objective in a | short space of time that anti-aircraft defenses are swamped and their fire | made relatively ineffective. - > COWGILLIS . NAMED USO HINTBREAK v, OFORNAR * ITALY SOON port to Juneau Nov. 1 | . fo fake Up Duties 9 | KE’I‘C‘HIKAN‘,—AK:RKR, Oct. 14 ;Hem'”(h .Hlmmler,Geslapo | J. 8. (8id) Cowgill, Director of the Chlef, in Rome 10 COH' fer with Il Duce | Ketchikan United Service Organiza- | tions, has been ordered by New York headquarters to report to Juneau on (By Associated Press) Berlin announced today Lhat Heinrich Himmler, chief of Hitler's points brought up for discussion at the last meeting of the Alaska War Council, and recommendations for improvement were then sent to Gen. Buckner and to Seattle Army authorities in charge of the travel system. Gang November 1, as Director of the USO | there. { G | cowgill has been a Ketchikan | | resident for four years, formerly jdent remarked. “I'm convinced we’ll be able to lick it in the American way—if we all put our shoulders to the wheel.” | To illustrate, the President cited a story he had heard while on the West Coast. The California fruit crop was seriously threatened this] year due to a labor shortage after the evacuation of Jap fruit workers. “No crop was harder hit than prunes,” the President said. “It look- ed for a while as if no prunes would | be picked, and they would be left to rot. But just in the nick of time, the people of three or four towns in the area got together and resolved | to do something about it. “Almost everybody in those towns, young and old, city officials and business people ,rich and poor alike, grabbed buckets and headed for the | orchards. As a result, the prune crop | was saved. That'’s the spirit of co- operation America was built on, and the kind that will win this war.” REPUBLICANS RUN WAR | Two close advisers were complain- ing to the President about the num- ber of “Republican dollar-a-year men” in the War Production Board. “These fellows, by and large, were, the backbone of the Republican op- | position to you in 1932, 1936, and | 1940, and they haven’t changed their spots,” the President was told. “They | devote more time to hating you and | your economic prineiples than they devote to winning the war.” “There may be something t0 what | you say,” replied the President “But what can I do? We can't confine; jobs in the war agencies to Demo- crats.” | With a grin, the President added | that he was reminded of William | Knudsen, when the latter was head | of the old OPM. | One day Knudsen submitted for White House approval a list of 24 appointments to key jobs in the (Continued on Page Four) Wells in connection with a $100,000 holdup gang. They were charged with disorderly conduct. One of the gang, who said he had been cheated by his companions, is said to have confessed and implicated his pals, This is a phonephoto. Breaks for Khaki s i Jack: Precautions STOCK OUOTATION | NEW YORK, Oct. 14. — Closing Taken '0’ Soldiers quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2, American Can 65. as a welfare worker before joining | the USO staff. He will take his wife him. | Cowgill will be succeeded here by | John Caragher, now Fairbanks USO director, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 58'%, Commonwealth and Southern | 5/16, Curtiss Wright 82, Interna- | as much as a Russian; and in the tional Harvester 51%, Kennecott 32 in a war have US. fighting | .ase of a private, 160 times as N€W York Central 11'%, Northern men been granted so many le- | much as a Jap. Pacific 7%, United States Steel 50'%, gal benefits and economic pro- | | Pound $4.04. tections. In three articles, Jack —_— Stinnett, Washington corres- DOW, JONES AVERAGES pondent for The Empire, dis- The following are today’s Dow. cusses many of the things Con- Jone§ averages: Industrials, 114.69; gress has done for the men in ,,ummes, 13.64; rails, 28.73. uniform.) (Editor's Note: Never before It hasn't been so widely publi- | cized that noncommissioned offi- cers and privates get a 20 percent (and commissioned officers a 10 percent) bonus for service over- seas; that he gets an automatic! five percent raise every three years; | hat if he is a paratrooper, he gets | $50 a month bonus; that there are| also bonuses for flying soldiers and Japs Now (lash By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. — Life for the fighting man of World |dread Gestapo is “in Rome on a visit as guest of the Fascist Gov- and two children to Juneau with |ernment,” but reports of German and Italian friction are current in neutral European capitals and sug- gest that this might be more than a social call. These reports indicate strongly German suspicions that Italy’s at- titude toward the United States is the source of the troubie. | A DNB dispatch from Rome broadcast over the Berlin'radio said that Himmler was “received by Il | Duce, with whom he held a lengthy | and cordial conversation.” May Ask Port But the broadecast gave no hint that Himmler is the man chiefly | responsible for bending the occupied Territories and even Germany's ‘Allies to- Hitler’s will. He may have told the Italian | Dictator about reports current in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, that (Continued on Fage Three) ing with | War II is no downy couch. He has to be rough, tough and a smart jack of more trades than one. But he can go off to the wars knowing that never in history has Congress taken so many precautions to see that service men (and women) |get so much in pay, legal protec- tion, benefits for dependents and assurance of economic security when they come marching home. Probably everybody knows that the service men’s base pay now starts at $50 a month; that with the exception of a few grades in the Australian army, the U.S. sol- dier is thesbest paid in the world, receiving more than four times as much as a British soldier; 12 times men in other hazardous branches; =it Tough American Forcesin - Solomons, Declares Nimitz the civilian equivalent of $1,700 .a year. That doesn’t take into considera- | tion either what total or partial | dependents get. It doesn't consider | that 1-cent a mile (on round trip! PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 14.—Ad- basis) that is deducted from hulmiml Chester W. Nimitz, discuss- train fare while on furlough or Lhe'inl his recent trip to the Solomons cash allowance he gets on his re-|Pattle zone, said he is confident turn for rations he didn't eat (42| We can hold what we have got to 56 cents a day). consolidate our positions and even- The Soldiers' and Sailors' Re-|" ually start moving ahead.” lief Act of 1940 covers a lot. Tt' The Commander-in-Chief of the authorizes the courts to stay exe- and visited Guadalcanal and other island bases and ithen remarked: “I did not see a Jap, not even prisoner. The Japs must now realize they are going against Am- erican forces in that area, particu- larly Marines, and meeting people a selves; just as well equipped and trained to jungle fighting as they are themselves,” Pacific Fleet said he conferred with | Vice Admira]l Ghormley, Naval Commander in the South Pacific (Continued on Page Two) y American airmen, during the battle of the Sol bombs. While it was burning furiously a U. 8. base. The photo was made off Tulagi strategic islands from the Japs, Stimson Urges Large | Air Force for Coming _ STILL HAS Year; Estimates Given STALINGRAD Destroyer Prepares to Shell Jap Solomons Base during the battle in which our n This is an official U, WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—8 tary of War Henry L. Stimson, ar guing for a draft for 18- to 19- year-old men, estimated the Army now has 4, 000 men and next year this will swell to 7,500,000 men to give a breakdown for the 1943 needs of the Army Stimson gave the following need- ed men for the Army to the House Military Committee as fol- lows: Air forces—2,200,000. Organized ground units—3,300,000. Services of Supply and related duties, 3,300,00. Secretary Stimson also told the | House Committee the United States just as tough as tHey are them-/ wants in 1943 the “largest Air Force with sustaining units that production and transportation will permit.” The War Secretary said the Air Force figures are a “conservative estimate” and any changes will be upward. Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, testified that because the Se- lective Service system does not now reach men younger than 20, the average age of the combat army has “risen to a point not at all accept- able to the War Department. Marshall said he is investigating the possibility of releasing clder draftees of the army after drafting younger men. Marshall said that the average age of new divislons now being formed and trained is advancing rapidly, citing as an instance on: division in which the average age was 26 in June/ 27 in July and 30 in August. WILLKIETO REPORT 10 ROOSEVELT MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 14 Wendell L. Willkie left this morning on the last lap of his round the world plane tour, during which he has visited most of the principal war sections. Willkie is expected to fly direct to Washington, arriving in about six hours, which will be late this after- noon Willkie received a White House message stating President Roosevelt would like to see him soon and it is expected Willkie will probably give a report to the Chief Executive on his observations made during the tour, omons, set this Jap military installation on fire with their destroyer moved in (left) to finish the job by shelling the RED ARMY Alaska SIX INVADER SHIPS SUNK INSOLOMONS Jap Attempt fo Reinforce Guadalcanal Ends in Big Rout | WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—From the tropical Solomons to the chill Aleutians, the United States forces have dealt the Japs a terrific beat- ing on land, sea and in the air in the last six days, the Navy De- partment disclosed today in three communiques. The Army's huge four-motored bombers showered incendiary and demolition bombs on the Jap base at Kiska in successive raids on Oc- tober 8, 9 and 10. New fires were started on Kiska, which has been bombed steadily now for several weeks. No Jap planes took to the air to attempt to intercept our airmen. Anti- aircraft fire was light and none of our planes were lost, although sev- eral were damaged. At the same time, a task force of our cruisers and destroyers way- laid a Japanese force trying to land reinforcements on Guadal- canal Island in the Solomons Sun- day night, The results were terrific. We sank a heavy Jap cruiser, four de- stroyers and one transport in a sudden attack. Ome unidentified United States " T | destroyer was lost. Soviets Continue fo Roll| orpedo planes and aive bomb- N |ers, chasing the battered and flee- Germans Back in Volga |ins saps on tne next aay, badiy River c“y Ba"le |damaged at least another enemy cruiser and probably sank another destroyer, the Navy related MOSCOW, Oct. 14.—The blunted German salient reaching in toward i the Volga has been hemmed in west and south of Stalingrad, battle- | front dispatches report today. | SHIPS ARE Even in the debris-strewn streets New Reports of Undersea aval forces wrested a number of the S. Navy photograph of the city, Red Army counter-at-| tacks rolled the Nazis back | | Thus in the fifty-first day of Stal- | ingrad'’s siege, Hitler's mightiest 1942 onslaught appeared to have lost its momentum., It is barely another month until the present biting chill of autumn on the steppes gives way to a second winter of the war in Russia | Aside from sharp street fighting | in which Stalingrad’s defenders re- claimed positions, the fight for “win- ter shelter” in the ruins of the city is reverting to artillery dueling. other Jap heavy cruiser and four - e other vessels, probably sinking an- {other, and damaging two. T A ( K l E 1 0 | This report on successtul undersea attacks on eight enemy vessels in . | recent operations raised the an- nounced U. 8. sub toll of Jap naval | and merchant shipping to 79 vessels sunk, 20 possibly sunk, and 24 dam- aged, a total of 123. — Besides the cruiser and other ves- 2 sels listed, cne medium sized cargo U. S. Fliers Shoot Down Two Germans in Middle . sized cargo ship damaged and prob- Eas' AII’ warfare ably sunk, one medium sized tanker P B damaged, and one small trawler CAIRO, Oct. 14. — US. fighter sunk. Messerschmitts over the German lines and shot down two. The statement of the U.S. Army Headquarters said that a third almost constant stréam of Axis bombers over Malta and shot down 17 Axis planes yesterday, making the three-day total 58 planes de- Attacks in West Paci- fic Given by Navy | WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. — The | Navy Department announced today |that United States submarines in the Western Pacific have sunk an- | | | | e —— More Awards To Aleutian Fliers Told ADC Gives Air Medals o tory ship was sunk, one small cargo ship sunk, one small tanker sunk, one large tanker damaged, one medium planes won their first major vic- in the Middle East war yes- ay when 12 of them fought 20 German plane was damaged and the rest forced to disperse. RAF fighters were beating off an troyed and more than- 50 badly damaged. F Fi . S ive Fliers Who At- ROBERTS IN COLORADO ‘ e tacked Japanese Elliott Robertson. son of Mr. anid e Mrs. R. E. Robertson. of Juneau, i HEADQUARTERS ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Oct. 14.— Afr " (Continued on Page Six) now at Lowry Field. Colorada, where he is in the Army Air Corps Mechanie School