The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX,, NO. 9164. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, Y, OCTOBER 15, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SHOWDOWN FIGHT L4 14 & 14 (4 Control of South Pacific Hangs on Qutcome 'United States Base Near Japanese - held Kiska BATTLE OF STALINGRAD DEADLOCKED Agtions Are_A—ll on Small Scale-Red Army Still Holds Advantage MOBCOW, Oct. 15—The battle of Stalingrad is deadlocked today with comparatively small scale ac- tions. Every probing thrust of Ger- man itanks supporting infantry is reported repulsed by the Russians and the Red Army lines remain stable. Hundreds of Germans have been killéd on the approaches to the workers’ settlement and the as- saults on Stalingrad’s northwestern suburbs have fallen off. The Germans have falled reach, the factories, forming backbone of the defense. The invaders are now using — STATUTE MILES. »»fim}nvm: : BUIN [ suonfl.AupQ VILLA LAVELLA o Coral igeal CHOISEUL I. A to the STATUTE MILES (Continuec o The Washington Merry -Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Roberl 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Before Wendell Willkie left for Russia and China, he had an interesting conversa- tion with Harold Moskovit, of the Affiliated Young Democrats of New York, which sheds significant light on Willkie’s ideas for 1944. Moskovit asked Willkie why he hadn’t run for the New York gubernatorial nomination, as many of his friends had urged him to do, to keep Tom Dewey off the ticket, Willkie replied that he had con- sidered the matter carefully, but found that he had only about 30 percent of the Republican machine in New York with him, and his friends had advised him not to run without machine support. Then Willkie added: “My own party is getting more and more conservative, and I'm worried over what'’s going to hap- pen when it comes to writing the peace. We cannot make the same mistake we made after the last war and let the isolationists get control. Isolationist Republican ob- struction after the last war was the greatest contribution that was ever made to this war, and we can't go on fighting wars every 20 years. “But,” continued Willkie, “your own party isn’t much better. The conservative Democrats seem to be coming back into power to such an extent that there isn't much dif- ference between the Republicans and the conservative Democrats.” Willkie went on to say that he would watch the elections very carefully this November to see what the score was on the elec- tion of liberal Senators and Rep- resentatives. On the outcome of # the November election, he said, found his wife slumped in a cor- would depend whether or not it "¢ of - the b:xchr_oom, paxy. of & might be a good idea to talk about makeshift clothesline noose about an independent liberal third pm'ty.‘her throat Meanwhile it has become known|ShOrt line hanging from an eye- that Willkie’s old Republican POt In the wall. friends put a lot of pressure on! Officers believe that Mrs. Martti him just before he left to make Stood on the lavatory, fixed the a speech for Dewey. |rope, and then stepped off. She Persuading Willkie to support‘wa's clad in her pajamas. Dewey was not an easy Jjob, be- Called Doctor cause the ambitious young district| Dr. W. P. Blanton was called to attorney is the last man Willkie the scene by Martti and found that wanted to see nominated on the Mrs. Martti had been dead for Republican ticket, either for gov- some time, at least for six hours. ernor of New, York, or as presi-| Officers who investigated the dential candidate in 1944. tragedy included Chief of Police B. However, Willkie's friehds say H. Manery and Patrolman Harry they got a commitment out of him Murray, Deputy U.S. Marshals Wil- to speak for Dewgy, if he got back;llam Markle and Sid Thompson, from China in time. And they feel and several FBI agents. that in line with Roosevelt’s sup-| All testified at a coroner’s in- port for John Bennett, whose nom- quest this morning that there were ination the President opposed, Will- ‘no evidences of foul play. It was kie will not go down the line for brought out at the hearing that “(Continued on Page Four) ] TATUTE M of bases in the Andreanof group tralians in General MacArthur's JUNEAUITE TAKESOWN LIFE HERE Mrs. Mary Martti Commits Suicide by Hanging Yesterday Mrs. Mary L. Martti, old, committed suicide yesterday by hanging herself in the bathroom of her apartment in the Haven Rooms on Front Street shortly after her husband, John Ivor Martti departed for work. Martti returned from his job in the Alaska Juneau Mine late yes-| terday afternoon to find the door to his apartment locked. Using his duplicate key, he went inside and Aconunued on Page Two) i Jap Toeholds Now Traps NEW % GEORGIA v | RUSSELL u‘ft \.AG"B These are three areas in which Nippon’s warriors obtained footholds— and the evidence was that they were fast becoming traps of destruc- tion for the invadcr’s troops, planes and ships. American occupation clustered on Kiska:® A Navy communique bore wiiness to the costly price the Japs were paying. in the Solomons, and in New Guinea, Aus- toward the np in the Owen Stanley Rln(e. 39 years| and the rest of the| 4 4 L4 (4 L4 T ’ARMY LANDS - NEW FORCES INS. PACIFIC. ‘New Hebrides and Fiji Islands Reporfed Occu- pied by Sec. Stimson WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Secres :ury of War Henry L. Stimson dis- |closed at a conference with the | newsmen this afternoon that Amm: V{urces are now in the New Hebridi | andy Fiji Islands on the route tweent ‘the United States and A tralia as well at other points. i< | Stimson sald the Army and Navy | forces are fighting in the closest | possible cooperation under a unified STA ISABEL | | command in the Solomons | The Army forces arc in command of Maj. Gen. Millard Harmon of the Air Forces. Gen. Hamfon's headquarters have been In New Zealand but he has spent most of his time at the advance base in New Caledonia, Secretary Stimson added. TLonIDA MALAITA 1. s - TIRE SALE BEING HELD IN NATION Government Buying lo | Keep America Rolling- | | Owners Respond WASHINGTON, ©ct. 15. — The !largest tire sale in the Nation’s | history is underway today # and | there is only one buyer, Uncle | sam. | The sellers of the tires are mo- |torists everywhere who have more |than five tires. | The sellers numbered into | hundreds of thousands as the | Government called for every ‘“ex- |cess” tire in .an effort to keep America rolling. | Uncle Ssam is ready to spend $150,000,000 for the tires. The wamount has been advanced by the Defense Supplies Corporation which has designated hundreds of ware- | houses throughout the country as |the delivery points, ) All the prospective seller has to ‘du the OPA says, is to ask the | nearest office of the Railroad Ex- | press Agency to send a truck and puk up the tires. Owners of the |tires will recelve a check or war CAIRO, Oct. 15~The aerial bat-|Stamps. The sum. paid for the tle of Malta, stumbling block of 'ires is $150 up to $11.25, depend- the Axis convoy route to Africa,l ™% N the size and condition of has cost Germany and Italy at the tlre. least 81 planes since last Sunday. | TR - Many attacks on Malta have been \ wIllKIE l“ brought new smashes at the Japs command had pushed past Kaki the Beat Oll AirRaids OnMalfa Axis LoseE—igth-one Planes Since Last Sunday, Report | made by the Axis but all have been | ,beaten off with disastrous results| | to the assaulters. American planes | | have been engaged in defense and have been far out at sea making attacks, AMERICANS HIT TOBRUK | IN DAYLIGHT WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. Back from his globe-circling tour, Wendell | L. Willkie conferred with the Pre ident and emerged from the White House late yesterday still sticking to his stand that there has been needless delay in the opening of a second front, Although he said that in his judg- | CAIRO, Oct. 15—United States|ment, “Germany will never con- Army Headquarters announce that!quer Russia,” Willkie hammered new blows against Tobruk harbor |away again on the second front have been struck in daylight as- theme in a session with reporters saults. He said that he based his appeal Heavy bombers yesterday made |for a second front on an analysis of | direct hits and scored two on a!the recommendations of military large merchantman in the har- | leaders cf Britain, Russia. China and bor. | the United States. He told report- jers that he had considerable ex- wperience in judging recommenda- Graphite occurs mainly in the tions of technical experts and that [older 'crystalline rocks — gneiss, he had his own idea of where a granulite, schist and crystalline second front should be opened, but ilimesmne. kept it to himself, - PRESIDENT AGES IN SOLOMONS S L4 g Unllcd b(«ulfi troops pitched their tents, whleh blended in with the landscape, within a short time after they occupied an island in the Andreanof Gmup of the Aleutians, moving United States forces much -mrcr the Japanese on Kiska,—U.: Alaskan Occupahon Troops Stop lor (how ,.j b L4 4 & S. Army s‘lm-l Corps Photo. L4 4 ‘| 8eas archipeiago. (4 S & JAPS TRY TOREGAIN AIRBASE Reported Ni-p;;ons Have Landed Some Forces on Guadalcanal BIGGEST INVASION OF CONFLICT UNDERWAY (. §. Marines Set Guns Against Reinforcements ~Losses Are Reported (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A showdown battle for control of the*Solomons is apparently de- veloping. The United States Marines have their guns against the Jap reinforcements newly north shore of set, seaborne landed on ‘the Guadalcanal. The reinforcements are the third and perhaps the biggest Jap attempt to recapture the prized Guadalcanal air base at the lower.: end of the m—mlle long South The American forces seized the air base in the counter-offensive on August 7. Enemy Landed ’ The Navy communique today says an enemy contingent landed on the island early today, Solo- mon’'s time, under cover of war- ships. The communique further stated the landing was preceded by a | bombardment of the air field and hore Installations. The commu- nique does not reveal if the enemy fleet was engaged by the Ameri- can warships. Only iast Sunday, the Marines |routed a similar landing attempt (Continued on Puge “Two) U. §. FORCES Troops of the United States occupation force that toc k over the island of the Andreanof Grouly In |hr Aleu- tian chain tock time out to gather around a fleld kitchen for chow.—U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. Government Trying To Keep Families of Men In Army (Editor’s Nof Never before in a war have U. S. fighting men been granted so many legal benefits and economic protec- tions. In three articles, Jack Stinnett, Washington corres- pendent for The Empire, dis- cusses many of the things C gress has done for the men In unifeorm. This is the second article.) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 There probably isn't a person who will read these lines who doesn’t know of onc or more hardship cases as a result of the man of the house being off to the war but never has any nation in any major struggle tried so hard to avoid them. In the first place, Selective Serv- ice has delayed (and still is delay- ing) the induction of men with| families and dependent. Some have already been called; cthers will be called socn. But it is doubtful if | any nation has ever put an Army of more than 4,000,000 men in train- ing in ten months of total war and held injustices to the family to such a minimum. In the second place, Congress, through the Servicemen's Depend- ents Allowance Act and other meas- ures, has taken considerable precau- tions to see that the hardship cases from Hardships are kept from actual want For the purposes of the act pendents are divided into Class A a wife and child or children; Clas | B, parents, brothers, sisters and | grandchildren who are all or in part dependent upon the enlisted man Every man in the service in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh | grades (a new selectee is normally |rated seventh grade) has to con- tribute $22 allotment from hi monthly pay to Class A dependent | Whether he does 5o to Class B de- pendents is voluntary. In the case of contributions to dependents in both classes, the allotment may amount to §27. To this the government adds an illowance of varying amounts de termined by the degree of depend- ency, so that monthly checks from the government varying from $27 for a partially dependent brother, sis- { ter or grandchild, to more than $100" in some instances, keep the soldier's | family from dire want, | In addition, widows, children and | parents of men killed in World War 1I or in extra-hazardous gervice be- fore we entered the war, may apply | receive pensions ranging | | British for and from $20 to $133. (Continued on Pao; Six) de | tribunal HESS SEEMS LIKELY TO FACE JUDGE Talk Over Tribunal fo Try! German War Leader in Captivity Now MOSCOW, Oct. 15.—The Russian (un(]nll’l!‘lll contributing to Josef alin’s views on punishment of Axis war leaders, proposed a specis to undertake at once to punish “any one of the leaders of Fascist Germany, who in the course | of war have fallen into the hands of | the States fighting against Hitlerite | Germany.” While Rudloph Hess was not mer tioned specifically in this passage | of the Russian announcement, he seemed to be the most important if not the only captive Axis-adherent falling into the category of prison- ers against whom immediate action is sought, Hess landed in England in the spring of 1941, having made a mys- terious plane flight from Germany, and was taken prisoner on May 10, | 1941 The Russian proposal startled London and a British Foreign Office commenator said, “Hess, of course is regarded as one of the Nazi lead- ers who might be effected by the Government's own earlier (Continued on Page Two) _| ARELANDED, SOLOMONS ‘ReinforcemeTis to Combat | Jap "All-Out” Effort fo } Drive Americans Ouf WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. — The Navy Department, in a special com- | munique this afternoon, announced |the Japs have brought up heavy naval units in their apparently all- |out effort to drive the American | Army and American Marines out of {the Solomons and gain control of the South Pacific, if possible, des- pite considerable enemy losses dur- ing the past four days. The Navy lists enemy losses dur- |ing the past four days in the pre- liminary stages of the attack as seven ships, including a battleship damaged. and 33 planes shot down or damaged Scene of Attack ' The two chief actions of the new attack took place over the Amer- |lcan airfield at Guadalcanal, the ‘('um(‘l Japanese air base that re- cently was seized by the Americans, An unintercepted bomber made the first raid on the American air- field and some planes were damaged on the ground and two fighter planes were lost. The damage done to the airfield is not given, neither i{s there any ex- planation why American fighters failed to repel the first air attack. The second attack was beaten off and that was when enemy planes suffered terrific loss. Reinforcements Landed ‘The Navy Depcrtment says rein- (Continued on Page Two) — 1