The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA I\ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9166. JUNI AU, ALASKA, SATURD/\\ 'OCTOBER !7 1942 — | ME \H’l R \%SO( l/\Tl D PRI‘,SS PRICE TEN CENTS U. S. BOMBERS HIT JAP SHlPS A] KISKA Nazis Force REDTROOPS STILL FIGHT FURIOUSLY City Experie_n‘c;s Darkest, Hours Since Long Siege Began MOSCOW, Oct. 17 — Red Army troops, defiant against odds that forced them in four retreats through | the strategically important indust- rial section of North Stalingrad, to- | day battled fiercely to prevent l'*"‘ Germans from fanning out along the banks of the Volga River to break the flanks of the defense| lines. i The city was experiencing its | darkest hours since the siege began. The German force was of at least equal power with that used in the previous offensive when four in-| fantry divisions and a tank divi- sion were used to occupy the indust- rial settlement which has been a battlefield for weeks. The fourth withdrawal was an-| nounced in the noon communique. | BERLIN ANNOUNCEMENT | BERLIN, Oct. 17 — The High| Command reported that Nazi forces | overran numerous Soviet position: in Stalingrad yesterday in an ad-| vance which cut off the Red Army | troops northwest of the city and left them “facing annihiliation.” e The Washington' Merry-Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert B. Allen on active duty.) [ | WASHINGTON: Those who con- ! tend that only military and naval men should run the war, and that Congress is interfering with the ! war effori, should study the report of the House Appropriations Com- mittee, which last week voted out a 14 billion dollar naval appropria- | tion bill, with not one dollar pro- | vided for battleships. This was a big backstage triumph for far-sighted Congressmen, Senator Brewster of Maine. For four years, Brewster has vig- | orously fought the battleship and demanded that the Navy build more | airplanes—only to be overruled, un- til now, by the admirals. | When the 1938 naval authoriza- tion bill came up it contained the huge total of $100,000,000 for three new battleships plus a provision that the Navy could haye no more | than 3,000 planes. Senator Brewster, then in the House of Representatives, vigorous- | ly opposed. He contended that the | Navy should have more than 3,000 planes, certainly should not be limited. He also argued that battle- ships were out of date. But Admiral Leahy, then chief oi\ Naval Operations, disagreed. H"‘ insisted that the battleship was‘ not obsolete. He insisted 8o vigor- ously that the Naval Affairs Com- | mittee sided with him and votcd‘ the authorization. “I'll bet you that not one of Lhe»v‘ battleships ever will be built,” Sen- ator Brewster told Leahy, and wrote a separate minority report regard- | ing both battleships and airplanes When the bill got to the floor of Congress, Brewster also staged a battle for more naval airplanes— though the admirals insisted on| limiting the number to 3,000. Brew- ster fought so stubbornly that fin-) ally Representative Vinson of | Georgia, charge of the Naval Au- thorization bill, suggested to Brew- ster: | “Let’s compromise this thing. In-| stead of making the bill read ‘not more than 3,000 aircraft,’ let'’s make | it read ‘not less than 3,000 aircraft.’ " | So the bill was passed that way. led by| USS KENTUCKY Brewster and Leahy have remain- ed good friends, the Senator hav- ng a great admiration for the Ad- miral, and the Admiral being frank | enough to tell friends, “How wrong | I was about the battleghip.” ! But the other day when the Tru- man Committee, of which Brewster | (Continued on Page Faur) | enemy (CANADIAN VESSEL IS | Steamer Is Senf Down Off East Coast 'LIVES OF 135 ARE TAKEN BY SUB ACT Men,WomJ and Children Among Victims with Many Americans SYDNEY, NS, Oct. 17 submarine, lurking An outside \lhe Gulf of St. Lawrence Wednes= | day night torpedoed and sank the | steamer Caribou, | Port PEANUT HARVESTER_Madeleine Owen, 1942 Georgia Peanut Queen, helps solve farm of this year's record peanut crop. labor shoriage by aiding harvest . Peanuts are being used to make nitrogiycerin for the war effort, 2200-ton Newfoundland taking the lives of 137 men, women and children. The steamer was making what usually an eight-hour trip to Aux Basques, Newfoundland. Thirteen of the victims km)wn to be Americans. They llu(hr] eight United States Service men. A one-year-old baby is the only child among the survivors. Fifteen children were aboard. Thirty - five Canadian Service men were also lost in the torpe- doing. Canadian is - e TORPEDOED iTwemy-iwb Hundred Ton|: are | in- | ¥ s Crewmen on a neutral rescue ship rig ladders overside as they | after torpedeing by an enemy submarine off the West Coast rescued from the tanker. SUNK 3 TIMES approa { \ ! w BRITISH IN. TS PASHON ciure FLIERS LOST 1y 5. PLANES | 8 certain | j ALASKA, Oct. IN ALASKAN FLIGHT SAFE (anadian Tells Dramatic Story of Trek from Wilderness WITH CANADIAN FORCES IN 17—The story of an 1l-day search for civilization by three survivors of a Royal Can- adian Air Force plane which crashed in the Alaska wilderness 200 miles from its base was dis closed today by Flight Sgt. Frank Baily, of Montreal, who led his two companions out of the wilder- ; ness after the crash-into a moun- Designed by Los Angeles manu- facturers for leisure hours, this three-piece jersey bathing en- semble, modeled by Shirley Hinze, was to be featured at an off-duty fashirn in Los Angeles. showing |MUST AWAIT ACTION : ON LARCERY CHARGE Tim Paul, arrested on a charge; of larceny in a dwelling in con- nection with theft from a Juneau hotel room, has been bound over to| the grand Jury on a bond of $1,000, Commissioner Felix Gray an-| nounced today. tainside in the fog in July. Flight A Lieut! Dick Preston, who flew in rescue of the two other survivors who remained with plane, received commendations for exemplary conduct and devotion | to duty. | v | It was a spotted Plane Aids United States the ground after the nine days signal, party An- that burning gasoline, had been lost for | other structions which ultimately i fliers to a coastal settlement I miles away. A son was born to Baily's wife |two days before the flight started. | Flight Sgt. R. Roberts, of Seat- | tle, and Flying Officer Peter Gault, {of Montreal, were flown back by Lieut. Preston. Corp. J. P, Donald, of New West- | minister, B.C., was killed in crash, and Aircraftsman J. Mac- Intosh, |'nz to ford a glacial stream. Aircraftsmen T. Maylor,, of Tor- and T. Silberman, of Van- r, found their way back with 30, onto, couv Baily. Gave First Aid | Although injured himself, |gave first |including Gault, chopped from the plane. With only one box of emergency rations with them, Baily sent Sil-' (Continued on. Page Two) the | plane | plane dropped food and in-| led the | the | of Penticton, B.C., died try-! Baily | aid to his companions, | who had to be| GUARD COAST America’s Shores Being, | Defended by English Fliers in Lockheeds BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 17. A battle-scarred squadron of Lock- | heed-Hudson bombers sent to Eng- land to raid the Axls has come | home, but not for retirement, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation an-| nounced today. The squadron, still flown by Brit- ish crews, is now patroling the American Atlantic Coast on guard against U-boats. The Lockheed spokesman this was the first instance wher in British flown planes have d fended American shores. The crews as well as the plane are all veterans, having taken part in much activity on the European | side of the Allantlc 'NIGHT SCHOOL T0 OPEN MONDAY IN JUNEAU SCHOOL Night Schm)l wl]l start on Mon- |day, at 17 p. m. in Junepu High | School., A. B. Phillips, superintend- lent of Schools, said today Shorthand and typing classes are on the schedule for Monday classes. Students provide their own books and other materials outside of typewriters. Phillips said today he hopes also to be able to schedule a class in trigonometry. A few more regis- trants are necessary, but because of the importance of mathematics |in the war, he expects other regis- trations soon. Registrations may still be made by writing to Night School, Box 1271, Juneau. Anyone writing should list the subject or subjects inter- esting him. e VISITING HERE R. R. Gebo of Anchcrage is visii- ing in Juneau, making the Bar- anof Hotel his headquarters. Nathan A. Astashkin (abo’ grinned after rcaching sho a West Coast port from a hit by a Jap torpedo. It was the third terpedeir g for the Sitka, Alaska, sailor. PRESIDERT REPORTS Ot WARDOLLAR ‘Says 92.4 Cens of Fach One Goes for War Expenditures One ma shortly after the attack ing the torpedoing by an cnemy Oct. 17 Congress A pre dis- WASHINGTON, idential report to closes that 924 cents out of every dollar which the v spends during the year will go for the war effort Non-war activities will get only 5.2 cents, and interest on the debt will require 24 cepts The President requested the re- port from Budget Director Harold D. Smith to “provide factual back- ground for informed public ion” on the question of expendi- tures for non-military purpose Many individuals and two spec- ial congressional committees have urged a reduction in these expen- ditures in recent months - WELSH ON VISIT R. M. Welsh of Sitka is a Ju- neau . visitor, staying at the Bar- anof Hotel, pr (BY JACK STINNETT) WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 Capital City is the senal of rumors. Some interesting are as follows: (1). That Gen, George C. hall, chief of staff, soon to England to take over personally econd front activities. g | That President Roosevelt in coming weeks will be seen and heard more often—personally, on the radio and in the newsreels. 1 (3). That Mme. Chiang Kai-shek Thi: opin- | National ones Mar- 2) ch a tanker (background) ntad LT, LOL P which arrived . ta “ st ship on n wa submarine, Inferesling Rumors That Persist, Going Rounds in Washinglon on her t States 4). That will civilian armed forces go in drafting men f and essential ind way to vist the od see the and ar duty life will be something ’itizen doesn’t now e That *Perdinand E. Wilson, the c and X | A Four Stalingrad Retreats TankerBurns After Torpedoing Off West Coast THREEENEMY VESSELS ARE BLASTED AT {B-26 Planes, Marauders, in First Action in North Pacific | WASHINGTON, OCct. 17.—Army B-26 bombers attacked and prob- ably sank one destroyer, damaged another and set a cargo ship afire, the Navy announces, in attacks on Jap shipping and naval forces at | Kiska and near the Jap Aleutian | | @ | base in the Rat Islands. burning One member of the crew was killed and 47 Survwe Tanker Torpedomg e he scene killed and 47 rescued follow- the United post-election per manpower into high military and | or dustry that ven dream Eberstadt new vice- The Navy communique, which reported medium bombers in ac- tion in the North Pacific for the first time, said: “On October 15, Army Marauder [bombers and Martin B-26s attacked nml damaged a cargo ship in Ger- trude Cove on the south coast of ‘thn Island. | “At least oni direct hit set the ship afire, and it was seen still burning several hours later. “One US. plane was shot down I by anti-aircraft fire. “Marauders also attacked two Jap destroyers northeast of Kiska. Both were damaged, one by three | bits and the other by one hit, re- sulting in the probable sinking of the first.” The Japs now have had at least 42 ships sunk or damaged in their efforts to hold a base in the Aleutians. BIG BATTLE | STILL RAGES INSOLOMONS Outcome o??truggle for Quadalcanal Base Not Known WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. The terrible battle for control of the Solomon Islands area centered around Guadalcanal teday and the outcome of the fl‘ht for the possession of the _strategic southwest Pacific base still hung in balance. The Japs were reported to have landed large reinforce- ments on Guadalcanal Island late yesterday and were still shelling American positions this morning. Large concentrations of Jap ships were reported massed near Shortland Island, just 25 miles west of the American base and important airfield on Guadalcanal, Althcugh the enemy lzunched several surprise attacks on the U.S. airfield, American forces have retaliated by sending out air raiding parties to strike at Jap naval concentrations. Reports from the area where the strengthened forces of beth sides are striving for crippling blows were meagre this morn- ing, indicating the terrific mo- mentum of the battle. Naval Department Secretary Frank Knox, however, said he would and could give announce- ments of the battle only as they were received in Wash- ington, and expressed confi- dence of an American victory. > i - e ARRIVEE FROM SOUTH i Richard W. Sellars: of Seattle arrived in Juneau last night from will go the resultant upheaval in everyday |the south and is staying at the Baranof Hotel. e e KETCHIKAN VISITOR Marjorie Northrop of Ketchikan arrived in Juneau last night by chairmen of WPB, are really mak- [Steamer and is now staying at the Continued on Page Two) Baranof Hotel,