The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 26, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS % ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9173. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED Pthb JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1942 ERICE TEN CENTS JAP GUNBOAT SENT DOWN IN SOLOMONS HongKong Heavily Bombed Twicein24 Hours U.S. FORCES ‘ Ralse Flag on Guadalcanal |U. S. FLIERS NIPPON BASE‘ | I l Airdrome at at Canfon ls Al- tacked-Fires Started Targets Hit WITH U. S. ARMY AIR FORCES IN CHINA, Oct. 26. bombers cascaded explosives on Hong Kong early today for the sec- ond time in 24 hours, adding new fires to those started in the de- vastating Sunday assault. Smashed again was the freauently | raided White Cloud Airdrome near — American | Canton after the Hong Kong wai- | erfront was set aflame yesterday. Gen. Stilwell's headquarters an- nounced that today's raiders de- | stroyed the North Point Power Sta- tion there, planting every one of their bombs on the target area At Canton, many fires were start- | ed and a heavy explosion was noted in the vicinity of the airdrome. Both missions were accomplished without the loss of a plane despite | Jap efforts at interceptions. MINIMIZE ATTACKS Attempting to minimize the raids, the Hong Kong and Tokyo radios said the damage was negligible and that in the first one the “raiders (Continued on !;"age Six) The Washingten Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Here is the in- side reason behind British reluctance to take the offensive against Rom- | mel in Egypt, even though they have superiority of tanks and air power- a superiority they may not have long if the Italians continue sneak- ing supplies across the Mediter- ranean. The explanation goes back to the loss of 300 United States tanks in the Libyan desert, announced by Churchill after Marshal Rommel staged his spectacular drive which | captured Tobruk and came so close | to breaking through to Alexandria. Military magazines published by the German army shortly before the war pictured 88-millimeter guns bur- ied in the desert, their barrels pro- truding only a few inches above the sand, their breeches covered with brown canvas. These illustrated camouflaged artillery traps in the desert. As the enemy approached, gunners would throw off the can- | vas and open fire. | The German military journals had | been studied by the United States Army and must have been circulated | among the British. They were not secret. However, gun traps such as | those pictured swung the battle tor' Rommel. His tanks had charged British lines, then turned back, and the British followed — straight into the camouflaged artillery traps. United States tanks mount 75-mm. guns and can outshoot Nazi tanks. However, when the British ran them point blank against hidden 88-mm. guns, mofe than 300 tanks became desert junk. Having put them out of commis- sion, Rommel’s fast-moving forces moved north at top speed behind the British mine fields, toward Tobruk. The British had no idea where they were heading. For part of the Brit- ish force guarding Tobruk had mov- ed south because they thought—be- fore the 300-tank ambush—that they had Rommel on the run. So Rommel caught Tobruk com- pletely by surprise. Only a handful of New Zealanders were on guard outside the city. Since then the British have been super-cautious about taking the in- itiative against Rommel. They have been afraid of more tank traps hid- den in the desert. NOTE: British experts agree that this was no reflection en the Amer- ican tank, which has outshot Ger- man tanks when they meet in bat- tle face to face. Official reports from Russia, despite some repons to Marine Cory | S. Marines, as one of their first acts aiter ianding on Guadaleanal Island in the Solomons, raise the American flag. AP photo from U.S. ‘Whal D|d Roosevell Mean by ""Sententious Views" of Newsmen! LIQUORSENT NORTH ON FISH VESSELS Halibuters Chartered As Carriers fo Alaska; Good Price Paid cases of liquor at Seward. | to 3000 cases, the size of the boat. freight rate. The Franklin is captained by Ole | Moe and the boat is owned by San Francisco interests. CHARTERED FOR SEATTLE, Oct. LIQUOR 15 small fishing boats, been cleared here, ten in Septem- | ber and five thus far HERE ON BUSINESS William Travers, Jr., of the Unit- jed States Bureau of Mines, arrived in Juneau last night. He is staying at the Gastineau and will be in the city for about a week on busi- ness. B MAKES WRANGELL TRIP Leonard Taylor, merchandise broker, was a passenger for Wran- (Conunued on qu Four) gel! on business leaving here Sun- day. 3Y JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 — Wash- | ing hA\ to In | just after he returned from his ret was ton newsmen and commentators en’t been able to figure out yet | whether the President was praising the skies or—what. that tense press conference - said there the President writers trip, a minority of serve selfish sectional mteres'..s by giving out “sententious views.” Webster's International Diction- ary: Sententious, | meaning and wisdom. Obs. of A, (1) Full 2) adj. | Terse and energetic in expression. pit] KETCHIKAN Alaska, Oct. 26.— ayioms Halibut boat Franklin has called with derogatory implications; {at Ketchikan and is now headed narked by pompous formality. (3) Seattle-ward after delivering 1600 Given to aphorisms. B. Abounding and maxims, in sayings sometimes C. hy; In view of what went before, it's a One vessel is known to have re- | cations,” | ceived $3 a case upon delivery as | wondering. Most of them prefer lhe‘ obst The night before the opening of| | Washington's Stage Door |for the service men, the, promoters | \h('ld a \They planned it with little expecta- | 26.—The United |tion of really stocking the shelves| States Customs records here show |with coffee, sugar, cakes, etc. Ad-| chartered | mission was to be two pounds of for carrying liquor to Alaska, have/fcod or $2 in cash. Fishermen here say charter car- pretty safe to conclude that the goes have been ranging from 1000 President’s it all depending on, tentious” statement used ‘“sen- in the sense that it was “with derogatory impli- but the boy's are still saying, olete definition. Canteen “pound party” preview.| When the doors opened, the lines this month. | blocked A | Before the bars went up at mid-| 'OI'Y Area | nigl | through the canteen and dropped the tables or two bucks in the cash traffic in all directions ht, 12,000 persons had walked ir two pounds of viands on the drawer. One tells and commentators in Washington who,| like some members of congress of the local writing johnnies | this one on himself. He had|developed into hand-to-hand fig landed at the airport and was mg and the Nazi forces were exp: | SHOOT DOWN FOURPLANES of Battle Over Eqyp- fian Area WITH THE US. ARMY AIR FORCE, EGYPTIAN DESERT, Oct. 26—An American fighter squadron shot down four enemy planes and damaged three more over the des- | ert battlefield, making this the most successful day U.S. fighter pilots have had in this theater. Today's victories brought the squadron’s total to five Axis planes {f: destroyed, and all American fighter units in the desert is six planes destroyed, three probably destroyed and six and one-half damaged, one of the lat- ter being shared by an Allied pilot. The American fliers scored all of their victories today in a fierce dogfight over the enemy battlefield at Eldaba. It was fought from an two probably destroyed down to 1500 feet. The were sent to crash on their landing ground. ALLIES PUSH| EGYPT FIGHT, own Made in Line Along Nile CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 26. — Allied planes ruling the Egyptian skies hammered ceaselessly at Field Mar- shal Erwin Rommel’s forces as the attacking Allied army on the Nile battled to widen wedges driven into the main Axis defenses in the first phase of an all-out offensive Cairo dispatches published London said that British troops have overrun two Axis defense lines in one sector, have advanced two miles and are attacking a third in .'line. The enemy defenSes in this line are said to be' about four deep. The communique placed heavy emphasis on the aerial blows being aelivered against the enemy and declared that Rommel’s attempts to close the gaps in his lines have failed. “The enemy has been unable to dislodge our troops in the areas already gained " the bulletin said. RED FORCES HOLD FASTAT miles 'Drive Germans from Posi- tions Gained in Fac- { MOSCOW, Oct. 26—Red Army troops held fast in blackened Stal- ingrad today the German {launched another assault after fur- ‘;mus artillery preparation. The fierce engagement at tim: hustled into a city-bound cab with ed from the factory property which a young man in uniform. By way of pleasantry, the capi-| tal newsmen opened conversation an assault in the fficlory area with neau; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Collins, that xCuanuu.l on Puge Two) |they penetrated yesterday. The German army moved to push ! (Continued on Page Six) Score Bigg_esi Air Victory | three damaged. The score of | altitude of 16,000 feet all the way | vietims | GAIN GROUND Enemy Unamto Fill Gapsg STALINGRAD . _l/dral but friends may call at _ Charles W. Carter | An American of Tenaru. weapons. Mai AP plmtu from U. ITALY GETS BOMBED BY \RAF Slashes War Bases-| | Drop Exira Heavy : Explosives i | LONDON, Oct. 26.—At the c.m‘ | of only eight bombers, the Royal Air | Force is reported to have done un- | told damage to war industries in Hu" supply center of Ttaly, | slashing a new the | home bases. | The aircraft struck across the Alps for the fourth time in three days, | capping the attacks with a he .ww assault on Saturday night on Mil An.‘ site of the Caproni Bomber Works, | where four-motored bombers un- | loaded a vast weight of bombs, in- | cluding two-ton block busters. Only a few hours earlier a large | force of Lancasters raided the same | city in broad daylight. It was the first daylight bombing .»pun..m.‘ against northern Italy since the be- ginning of the p ent war. MRS. HOLZHEIMER - PASSES IN JUNEAU - SUNDAY MORNING | Active, Beloved Resident| of Territory Succumbs | fo Week's lllness | northern offensive on Mrs. Georgia Holzheimer, 66, | fe of Judge William A. Holz-| heimer, and much beloved and ac- | tive Juneau resident in her own right, died at 3:45 o'clock yester- |day morning in St. Ann’s Hospi- |tal, after a week’s illness. Funeral services will be held at rights and 11 am. tomorrow in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, with Dean C. E. Rice giving the eulogy and Mrs Crystal Snow Jenne singing. Inter- ment will be in the Masonic Plot of Evergreen Cemetery. The casket will not be opened at the Cathe- the Mortuary from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight. Also surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Mary Catherine Gregory, of Ju- (Continued on Page Three) Marine Tries Japanese FOUR RAIDS | New York Times, [a 14,000-mile tour of ine Corps. (rew ofU S. Bomber | o o ey in Aleutian Battle Eams 15-Day Leave Willkie Will 'Make Repot On 'Air, Recent Tour W YORK, Oct. 26.—Wen- dell L. Willkie will make a re- port to the Nation at 7:30 o'- clock p.m., Pacific war time, on his recent globe circling tour of Allied Nations. The broad- cast will be over all major net- works. - 'WRITER RAPS AUSTRALIA WAR EFFORT ‘Says Labor's Affitude and Other Things Hamper Gen. MacArthur NEW YORK, Oct. Baldwin, military 26. editor of says that vided military command, “compla- cent” Australian labor and other nternal problems greatly are hampering the military efforts of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Baldwin has just returned from the Pacific war zone. Said the writer: “There s no question but what the opin- ion of many Australians and Aus- tralian labor's insistence upon its its determination to work no longer than a stated num ber of hours, and to knock Saturday Hanson the a di- toward the approach of the witr has hampered the full development of the United Nations’ war effort in Australia.” AUSTRALIAN COMMENTS SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 26. — Forelgn Minister Evatt said today Baldwin was “inaccurate and (Continued on Page Three) me-Thrower | ine demonstrates the effectiveness of a Japanese flame-thrower nnplund after the battle Marines who landed on Guadalcanal found the Japanese well equipped with all kinds of BIG BATTLE UNLEASHED, 50. PACIFIC Guadalcanal Scene of At- tacks - Five Nippon | AMacks Repulsed . | MXM'ARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Oct. 26— American Flying Fortresses sank a Japanese gunboat and heavily damaged three merchant ships on Sunday, it is efficially an- nounced. BATTLE AT FULL SCALE ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — Full { scale fighting has started on Guad- alcanal Island with American sol- diers and marines beating back five heavy Japanese onslaughts, the Navy Department reported last night, but, the Japanese landed fresh reinforce- ments. The Japanese opened the big push on Friday night, laying down a heavy artillery barrage, then throwing tanks and troops against the Am- ericans. The western defense lines held firm throughout the four attacks !um night, repulsing the Japanese |and destroying five tanks. The enemy again attacked Sat- urday and was repulsed. "7 | 'The United States forces had the support of artillery themselves and TWOENEMY SHIPS ARE SENTDOWN U s Reton-;na—issante Unit Encounters Jap Force, Gives Battle WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. — Late ™ last Saturday the Navy Department This crew leads its squadron and reported that Navy forces, raiding possibly all units on the Alaskan |gur north of the Solomons, sunk two front in combat work. It made 14 |enemy patrol vessels and damaged By WILLIAM L. WORDEN (Associated Press Corresponlent) | HEADQUARTERS, ALASKA DE- FENSE COMMAND, Oct, 26.--Crew members of a combat aircraft, who | earned 15-day leaves the hard way‘ with approximately 20 flights over Jap-held Kiska Island, are on their way to homes tered from Bel- ton, Texas, to Brooklyn bombing missions and was sent gne destroyer and one merchant back from others because the ghip. weather was too bad and also The Navy reported the action was made photographic trips. in the Gilbert Islands area, ap- The ship came back once with proximately 1,100 miles northeast of the controls riddled and the cab- Guadalcanal and 1500 miles east in pockmarked with shrapnel frag- | of the big Jap base on Trub Island. ments. The side gunner, Sgt. Henry | Just what American units took Sarinske, of Glenwood City, was PAartisnot disclosed. It is indicated, wounded | however, they are part of a recon- The pilot, Capt. Collier Davidson, | naissance force which ran into the of Georgia, credits the crew with Japanase ARt enzag:d th‘er‘n. one Jap plane shot down and xm-i No ieavy. eneml SRS T 0 ll flight. other probably destroyed in the mu"wred 5 Ig air in addition to the damage done 1 S DENTS by bombs. On one flight through terrific anti-aircraft fire, one shell went '*Inuuuh the bomb bay, pierced the top of the ship and exploded. The a souvenir, About that time, three Zero fighters appeared. The bomber w A R N E D was already badly shot up and the rudders were only partly us~ able. One anti-aircraft shell ex K i ploded practically in Sgt. Sarins face, but he stuck by his guns TOld '0 wakh A"emo's Of 1»! off | afternoons and holidays, | little in addition to its general attitude | ] and drove the Zeroes away. Sgt. Walter Baldassare, of New. Jersey, got off two 50-round blasts at point blank range at one of the ap fighters, sending it hurtling into the water. i The crew agrees that the Zero pilots are good marksmen, but has respect for the Jap ground Enemies fo Land Sa- boteurs, Spies SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, Oet. 26—Watch Axis efforts to land spies and saboteurs, is the warning issued today to Pacific Coast resi- s dents by Gen. John L. DeWitt, 3 "4 i Commander of the Western De- fense Area, JUNEAU COUPLE MARRIED Gen. DeWitt, in his warning, Eli Howard and Minnie James, said: “Our enemies know the ex- both of Juneau, were married here tensive coast line of California, last Saturday night by U.S. Com- Oregon and Washington, and it missioner Felix Gray. Witnesses is entirely probable they will at- were Anna B, Gothberg and Frank tempt to land saboteurs somewhere Wilson, along the coast, possibly, although not necessarily, at some sparsely populated point.” 1 e e U BUY DEFENSE BONDS