The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” f——— VOL. LIX., NO. 9167. _JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TWO MORE JAP SHIPS HIT NEAR KISKA Solomon Japs Bombed In Night Attack NAZIS GAIN OVER DEAD, STALINGRAD Hundreds of—German Bod-| ies Litter Factory Area Site ATTACKS LESSENING OVER EARLIER ONES Believe Enemy Troops Are | Exhausted or Some Withdrawn MOSCOW, Oct. 19. troops, advancing over hundreds of their dead who lie in their own gore, added a new block of Stalin- | grad's crumbling ruins to their hold- ings within the city as the Russian defenders moved in fresh troops in a desperate effort to blunt defeat The latest Nazi assault is now in its sixth day. But the force of | the onslaught seemed lessened com- pared to the fury of the attacks WiConur;uc’dr on Page Three) The Washmgtun Merry -Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON A desperate backstage tug-of-war has been tak- ing place in Chile for the past two or three weeks to prevent President de los Rios from making his sched- | uled visit to the United States. Chief wire-pullers in this tug-of- war have been Axis agents, of them working through pre-Axis Chileans and Argentines. They an- | ticipated that President Rios’ mp would lead definitely to a Chilean break with the Axis, leaving Argen- tina as the one country still on diplomatic speaking terms with Ger- | many, Japan, and Italy. Until the last two or three weeks President Rios did not take a very active interest in foreign affairs; saw everything through the pre- judiced_eyes of his Foreign Min- ister, Barros Jarpa, a strong isola- tionist. But the other day, young Nelson Rockefeller, head of the Cultural Cemmittee for Latin America, called upon President Rios and gave him a first hand picture of the American atbitude toward the war and.toward those ecountries which did not co- operate toward winning the war. HARMFUL GOSSIP SPREAD Immediately after the Rockefeller visit all kinds of gossip spread along the diplomatic grapevine as to how the young millionaire had bull-dozed the President of Chile, threatening him with dire consequences if he did not break with the Axis. Chief spreader of this gossip was Foreign Minister Barros Jarpa, who reported that President Rios was so miffed with Rockefeller that he virtually had decided to cancel his trip. This story, however, seems to have been generously smeared with the Axis propaganda brush. Actually, Rockefeller’s talk was frank and friendly. He pointed out that the United States naturally would co- operate with those who cooperated with her. But he made no threats. Furthermore, President Rios seem- ed to appreciate his frankness. He had never received a very clear pic- ture of the situation through the somewhat distorted vision of his Foreign Minister, and he wrote a letter to a friend expressing his ap- preciation of the Rockefeller visit. ing to keep President Rios away from the charm of F. D. Roosevelt con- tinues. When Sumner Welles last week in Boston said that Argentina and Chile had “permitted” secret infor- mation to leak to the Axis, the anti- American bloc in Chile pounced upon this with alacrity. Twisting the Spanish translation of “permifted” (Continwed on Page Four) German | many | gland Atfacked, Dayl’ighl |En Low, Machinegun Var- ious Coast Sections LONDON, Oct. 19.—German day- | light raiders, taking advantage of |the low clouds, attacked several points on the east coast of England |and caused considerable damage | with some casualties and giving Lon- don three brief alerts. Nazi planes, flying singly and far npart in an apparent attempt to \conl’u:e the ground forces, machine | gunned and bombed scattered areas |and even the shopping district of | one town was bombed by a low-fly- ing plane that circled and sprayed | the main street with machine gun | fire It is believed a number of per- sons have also been trapped in the | wreckage The area east of Anglican, near | the Thomas Estuary, was the hard- | est hit. i One low-flying raider machine | gunned a train from a low altitude ‘at the train was pulling out of the | station and several coaches were ,damaurd but there were no casual- \m-:; reported BIGBLAST ON FACTORY INFRANCE | {Lancaster Bombers Make Day Long Atfack on Krupps Works LONDON, Oct. 19. — The great armaments factory at LeCreusot, the French Krupp Works, in Occu- pied France, was blasted by un- escorted Lancaster bombers during a day-long attack last Saturday, the Air Ministry announced early Sun- day morning. e, BIG ATTACK ISMADEON - JAPFORCES Allied Nation Units Bomb‘ Nippon Bases in Solo- mon Islands | MacARTHURS HEADQUARTERS | IN AUSTRALIA, Oct. 19.—A com- munique issued Sunday mornmg‘ said Allied Nations’ units on Sat- | urday heavily bombed the Solomon | Islands where the Japanese forces are attacking the American-held in- | stallatiéns. It is disclosed that MacArthur's| air forces are giving powerful sup-| port to the Americans in the Solo-| mons by hampering Japanese base ships and this is accompanied bf the | announcement that Allied ground troops have captured Templeton’s| Crossing, high in the Owen Stanley | Mountain Range, of New Guinea Shortland Island in the tack was not then known. anese bases on Buka Island, and | also at Buin, at the northern tip | of the Solomons on Bougamulle Island. >oes BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ‘THREE (RU|SERS SEVERAL OTHER VESSELS ARE HIT; ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED | Marine Corps, are engaged in meet- | \gerously narrow waters of the Solo- Detailing the air action, the com- Oct. 19—Three hundred and eighty | munique said that a big Jap trans-'six medals were pinned on Ameri- However, the back-stage wire-pull- | port was attacked by bombers off can air heroes at an advanced op- Western erational base last Saturday in the Solomons but the result of the at-| greatest mass presentation of awards | for valor the Army has made in the The communique also mentioned gouthwest Pacific area. The pres- that attacks were made on the Jap- \en!,auons took two hour: | 1De1;a. German Raiders Swoop SEATTLE GIRES ARE TRAINING FOR CAA TASKS Marjorie Winchester is pictured abeve at a transmitting key in the Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tratica’s communication tr ing class, newly opened to « in Seattle. Twenty-four of the students in this class, the firt CAA course to which girls have been admitted, are women. Only three are men. Women will re- place men drawn into military service and will man and open new CAA communicalions sta- tions. MANY UNITS ARE ENGAGED VITAL FIGHT Army, Navy, Marine Corps Are Battling Japs In Solomons WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. — All types of arms in the southwest Pa- cific were reported bys the Navy Department late last Saturday night as having been thrown into the vital battle for the Solomons. The communique made vutuall) for the first time the significant mention that Ameriran sea forces were engaged in the preliminaries | of the battle phases which began last week. The communique said: “Our land; and sea forces, Army, Navy and| rls mg the serious enemy assault of a battle which might be in the making with each fleet maneuvering to the best advantage, awaiting for the rlght moment to strike in the dan- mon Archipelago, In results so far announced, the Japanese have suf- | fered the most damage to ships and our losses are declared small.” g DECORATE AIRMEN IN AUSTRALIA SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, FROM BIG DELTA Mrs. Marfe Cecile Sauer of Big Alaska, is in Juneau for several days, staying at the Bar- i anof Hotel, MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS | IN AUSTRALIA, Oct. 19. — Allied heav; bombers, supporting embat- !tled American forces on canal, made four large scale attacks 1ast night on the Japanese naval nits at Buin, enemy base on Bou- gmmvllle Island, north of the Solo- mons and are believed to have hit three cruisers and several other Jap vessels. The official communique says 22 | tons of bombs were dropped, includ- ing many 1,000 pounders. The bombings were made after flares had been dropped in the water to illuminate the crowded harbor. Seven flying boats are knewn to have been destroyed or damaged and several of the bombed enemy vessels 04 were observed burning fiercely the scene. This was the second night 'ma(k on Buin. .- NAVY POUNDS NIPPON CAMP IN SOLOMONS Blast Japs on Guadalcanal -U. S. Bombers Score Heavily LLETIN — Washington, Oct. 19.—The Navy reported early tonight that American surface ships have bombarded the Japs in northwestern Gua- dalcanal Island, causing heavy explosions and fires with direct hits on ammaunition dumps. This is the first mention of the presence of American naval ships in the Solomon Islands area since the Japs began land- ing heavy reinforcements on Guadalcanal on October 13. POSITIONS POUNDED The Navy announeement also said that Jap positions are being pounded heavily and steadily by American planes, with Allied heavy bombers slashing at a concentration of enemy warships in the Short- land Island area, and Navy and Marine planes joining the attack on enemy positions in an attempt to deal the renewed Nippon offense - a knockout blow that may decide the war in the Southwest Pacific. One flight of approximately 20 enemy bombers, escorted by an equal number of fighters, bombed American positions on Guadalcanal yesterday. The Navy said the raid resulted in the destruction of eight of the Jap bombers and 11 of the es- corting Zero fighter planes. SMASH AT JAPS On last Friday, the Navy said, our dive-bombers smashed at the Japs at Rekata Bay, bombing several anti-aircraft batteries and leaving fuel stor- age facilities burning, strafing and burning up 12 enemy sea- planes, apparently on the water. The destruction of enemy planes in the Solomons brought the total losses in that area to 340. The American forces have also sunk or damaged 57 enemy ships in the battle for the Solomons. R A. M. GEYER BACK FROM MAYO VISIT A. M. Geyer, owner of the Geyer Sheet Metal Works, returned to Juneau yesterday after a trip East to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He has been gone for about two months, but is “back to stay, thank gosh.” e — BUY DEFENSE BONDS Guadal- | successivey |chatka on their voyage of discov- |ery. A few days later they ran into It Fits “June 1942 brought to the Aleu- Itian Islands 4 force of Japanese |invaders, It seems strange, does it |has a habit of repeating | June 1741 was the month that Ber- AU . 8. Marine Corps gunner formed the one-man reception Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands, Jap Recepllon Post” on Guadalcanalrlsiand committe: The Marine crouched behi to pour hot steel into attacking Jap planes. U 8. Marine Corps photo. Northernmost Service (ommandaf Bng Gen RAT ISLANDS APPROPRIATE FOR NIPPONS Archie Shiels Gives Alaska Day Speech in Bellingham The following Alaska Day speech was delivered in Bellingham on the date of the seventy-fifth anniver- sary of the celebration of the for- mal transfer of the Territory to the United States. It was written and presented by Archie W. Shi President of Pacific American Fisheries: “Last year there was celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Alaska by Bering and Chirikov. It is a strange thing how, from time to time, history itself. ing and Chirikov sailed from Kam- dense fog and the vessels became | separated. For three full days they endeavored to locate each other, but without success, then each Commander decided to continue on his voyage independently. The sults are too well known for ther discussion here. re- fur- not, that they should have chosen the Rat group of islands as their landing 'place; at least nothing could be more appropriate. And here again, is where history re- peats itself. Fog made it well nigh impossible for our boys to locate the invaders, and greatly hampered their work. | “There was much criticism over | the Aleutian Islands affair in its early stages, but not from those who knew the country and its con- tinuous fogs from June until Sep- (Continued on Page Three) at this anti-aircraft post on nd his .50 caliber weapon walting [ | BOTH ENEMY 'DESTROYERS ARESMASHED | Low-flyingmium Bomb- ers Pin Nip Vessels to Water ENEMY (REWS LEFT FLAMING WARSHIP) Crafed Plan_es—Are Noted Aboard Invaders’ Battle Wagons By WILLIAM L. WORDEN (Associated Press Correspondent) HMEADQUARTERS, ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Oct. 19.—Dar- ing United States pilots of B-26 bombers, flying so low they had to pull up' to clear the masts of Jap ships, have reported the probable destruction of two Japanese destroy- ers in an attack a few miles west of Kiska. As the swift medium bombers zoomed low across the water the Nippon warships desperately were trying to steam out of range, but the first destroyer was struck with at least five bombs loosed from almost at deck level, and the second enemy destroyer took at least four | hits from the same level. Planes on Decks The American fliers, after press- ing the attack for 45 minutes despite heavy anti-aircraft opposition, said [ 5 3 iNAZ' FOR(E | that as they left their quarry, the | 'deck.s of both Jap destroyers were }mtered with large crates of planes |and the crew of the first destroyer | was clambering overboard to. escape {explosions, one of which was es- <pecinlly heavy and occurred just be- Whitehorse; 0'Connor Head WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory, | Oct. 19. Brig. Gen. James A | O'Connor has arrived here to head | the northernmost service command ever established by the States Army. He is organizing the Northwest Service Command whieh will direct | and coordinate supplying the Am- erican Army in Alaska and the vital North Pacific area. Under his command is the Alaska | Highway and other roads, railways and inland water routes, pipelines of the region. United He supervised construction of the Alaska highway’s southern sect with headquarters at Fort St. John in British Columbia. Fifty-seven years old, O'Connor's Army career has taken him around the globe. He was in charge of the tunneling on Corregidor Island in the Philippines when that fortress was being built and has supervised engineering develop ments in man: States, HIGHWAY SOON OPENED WHITEHORSE, Oct. 19.—The 1.- 630-mile Alaskan Highway will be opened late in November, Brig. Gen James A. O'Connor said today mdl he expects pilot trucks will make test runs all the way from Dawson Creek to Fairbanks Col. James Wheeler, ecutive Assistant of the ailroad, now an officer in charge of the road, said pilot trucks have been running over 1,030 miles of the highway for the past two weeks testing between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse to determine the condi- tion of the roadbed and the most \dvisable methods for operation The only section uncompleted al present. is a 40-mile stretch over a rough section between Whitehorse and Fairbanks U.S. TROOPS INLIBERIA, WESTAFRICA LONDON, Oct. 19—-A Reuters dis- patch from Monrovia, Liberia, says United States troops have arrived at that Negro Republic, on the bulge of West Africa. former Ex Burlington 4 rin increasing numbers and making INNORWAY Two Concemrahon Camps| | Set Up - Mutinies, | Sui(ides Grow | LONDON, Oct. 19. — Mutinies, | desertions, suicides and a general ‘lawering of morale are on the in-| crease among the 200,000 German troops of occupation in Norway, the | Norwegian government in exile has | been informed fin fresh reports | brought out of the homeland Two large concentration camps have been opened for the mutineers {ulnng the Finnish frontier, and at |least 1,400 Nazis are said to he | confined in them., | One authoritative account said | that 1,000 German soldiers stationed | at North Kirkenes mutinied against | an order for them to go to Russia and one out of every ten was order- led executed. | Order Changed | But the order had to be counter- manded, the report said, because Nazi firing squads refused to shoot |down their own men. The rebels | iwvn- sent to the concentration camp instead. Suicides are declared to be mounting at an “alarming” rate. | Deserters are reported to be leaving their way across the Finnish border along routes outlined in leaflets dropped from Russian planes. Accounts of Hitler'’s troubles with own army, coupled with the growing unrest of the conquered | peoples of Europe who are H’blrllmgH against the Nazi campaign of re-| cruiting labor for war industries, | both in oceupied and unoccuped France, amplify the increasing pres- | sure being brought against the 245 | Many New Agents Five hundred Gestapo agents are | reported to have been assigned to the job of rounding up workers in the Vichy ruled zone, alone, This report followed on the heels of dispatches from France which told of wholesale rebellion by French workers who had been ordered to | German war Industries. Several hundred Prenchmen were killed in riots in several cities -> MARSHAL MAHONEY BACK FROM TRIP TO STATES U.S. Marshal Willlam Mahoney has returned from a trip south, during which he accompanied sev- eral prisoners to Portland, Ore. | 1 hind the smokestack. The crew of the crippled ship could be seermr in the water, strung |out in the wreckage. Some of the crew of the second ship also could be seen in the water when the bombers left. Both Left Burning The first destroyer was burning with a heavy blanket of smoke pol- luting the air and explosions adding |to the havoc. The second enemy vessel was loosing smoke through holes in its stern and was lying dead in the water. Five bombers carried out the smashing raid. The pilots included Warren A. Beth, of Fremont, Michi- gan, and the leader of the flight was Capt. Richard Salter, of Elm- house, Texas, whose hits on the first destroyer immediately preceded the heaviest explosions. ——————.——— NEW ENEMY CAMP SEEN, KISKA ISLE HEADQUARTERS, ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Oct, 17.—(De- layed)—The Japanese are still re- inforcing the Kiska Island garrison and are building new installations on the south side of the island at | Gertrude Cove where a medium- sized cargo ship was hit by American bombs in a raid carried out last Thursday The possibility exists that some Jap troops may have been brought from the other Aleutian Islands which the invaders found inhospit- able and unfit for bases. Army planes already have bombed | and strafed the nen shore installa- | tions which resemble thosc aban- doned at Attu Island. Last Thursday's attack on the car- go ship by B-26 bombers left the vessel flaming in a column of smoke which was about 500 feet high when our fast planes visited the Jap in- stallation again three hours later, flying at about 100 feet The Gertrude Cove installations are separate from the main enemy camp on Kiska, and the possibility also exists that the new location may have been chosen because parts of the main camp have proved un- suitable, especially under repeated American attacks. ——————— There are 562 East Indian States, many no bigger than a plantation.