The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 27, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NE WS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9174. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TOUGH SOLOMON BATTLE PROGRESSING Two Raids Made On Enemy Bases At Kiska Big U.S. Aircratf Carrier Lost in Battle of the Solomons JAPS CLAIM BIGBOMBERS ALLIES IN MAKEATTACK | NEW GAINS, INALEUTIANS DESERT WAR Explosives Show ered on American Fliers Play Im- portant Part in Egyp- Shore Installation-Sub nt Part In Base Discovered tian Fighting _ wo| CAIRO, Oct. 27.—Slashing for- | QYASEIHE IO, (D00 2 {ward in hand-to-hand fighting | under the cover of darkness and new bombing raids on Jap instals lations, including a submarine hase‘beatmg off desperate Axis counter- attacks by day, the Allied Army on Kiska Island, in the Aleutians,| on the Nile has penetrated Field are reported by the Navy. ‘Marshal Erwin Rommel’s main po- Reference to a submarine base is the first mention of such an| enemy installation in the chin. However, the Navy on sev- eral previous occasions has men- tioned that enemy submarines are| operating in the Aleutians. Both of the new bombing raids were made by Army planes but no report of the damage inflicted is given. The Navy reports say that dur-| ing the raid, anti-aircraft shore batteries were active but no aerial resistance was offered. The first raid ‘occurrcd October wire flelds, 23 when Army Liberator Bombers,| ;o Army fighter planes and Suabied “by | Lagklieed Tdghining bombers, meanwhile, are taking an fighters, dumped 18 tons of bombs increasing part along with the ;"lsk:hin;“::;‘:se s s M‘Royal Air Force and the South Af- o e submarine rican Air Force in holding the base. \mas!.ery of the desert skies, The following day, Flying Fort- Throwing a tight protective cover s dropped bombs in the vicin- | ve; the British advance in ruin- ity of the submarine base. |ous battering of enemy positions, | ———————— 15 3 i in all aerial operations yesterday |over the desert and the Mediter-| DELEGAIE N 0 w ;nmean and Malta, Allied airmen | mandiauuck: through the enemy mine- | | fields, | Battlefront dispatches r no.%ed| | these gains while the battle of| |North Africa raged through its| fourth day of the new Allied air and ground offensive. For the first time, it appeared that the Allies | have taken supremacy of the air. | There was no word of a clash between the main armored forces |which was expected along with a | clearing ‘'by heavy fire of barbed l'..lol...oc‘ STORM WAR! G No Criticism, However, 27—In a In the statement, Delegate Di- it might be a regret that we did'lin D. Roosevelt today. clambered in command. Sometimes it is ciffi- Yescue her. |and heavy engineering work. under iron beams. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond says s Proviaed | said such a committee, according | Y coast for quicker access to Russia. | | fensive power for thousand of new | | o | authorization bill. nels. ® | Lieut. George S. Schwamm, US.| scored 18 to 10 over th2 Axis in U R GI N G UNIFIED planes shot down. | (OMMAND, ALASKA MRS . FDR i | M Of Army or Navy ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. statement issued by Alaska Dele- o R gate Anthony J. Dimond, he urges| ps . a unified command for Army and;Flrst lady Wfif(heS T“al Rescue by Those Who mond said: “There is no criticism | H of either the Army or Navy Com- | weni ThrOUgh Bl"l mand there, but if Alaska should | not have a unified command. As|over a half-wrecked building be- it is now, sometimes tne MNavy Bihfind St. Paul's Cathedral to watch in command of some situations|and praise London's defense work- cult' to determine who is in com-| The First Lady was impressed mand” ‘pamcularly with the versatility of |the crews doing delicate first aldl DIMOND wA“TS | She saw these anonymous he- {roes of London’s trial by fire whiz- |zing down firepoles, jumping mo- (o M M I I'E E Io torcycles through walls of flame, INSPECT HIGHWAY —— he will ask the House today to ap- point a committee to inspect .the Army’s new International Highway to his resolution, will determine whether the highway should be N extended to other sections of Al- WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Another fifteen billion dollars has been made o, planes and many new tons of float- . | ing craft as President Roosevelt to- The following storm warn- e z ing for Juneau and vicinity o | day signed the second supplemental | the U.S. Weather Bureau: L | Winds of a velocity of 30 e/ | miles per hour or more are ® |[LT. G. S. SCHWAMM HERE Small craft operators are ® | |Navy, was in Juneau for a short advised to remain in port for e \nme yesterday on official business. the next 18 to 24 hours. | AN ey | Dimond Issues Statement; SEES R AID Navy activities in Alaska. develop as an active war theatre| LONDON, Oet. 27.—Mrs. Frank- and in other cases the Army is|ers stage a mimic ah- raid and | extricating bombing “victims” from WASHINGTON, Oct. 2'1.—A1aska‘M Ore Mo“ey through Canada and Alaska. He aska or particularly to the Siberian available to sharpen the Navy's of- was ' {asued this sfternoon by wartime appropriations contract expected in the open chan- e MONDAY ON BUSINESS . oooooooooo-o] BUY DEFENSE BONDS |57%, Commonwealth and Southern |on |are getting a break this fall be- | sitions and widened road and mnk‘ i e Al N e A S. Wasp sent down by SEA'_S SKIN !Dancing Under PRICE DOWN AT AUCTION More Ihan¥ZA1_,000 Skins Bring Average of $24 in St. Louis Sale ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27—A sharp drop in price of more than 20 percent was registered at the an- nual auction for buyers of the last peacetime catch of sealskin furs. At the sale, more than 21,000 skins brought an average of $24 compared to the April price of $33. The skins were part of the rec- ord catch of 95,000 off the Pribilof Islands last year, taken before Ja- pan abrogated its treaty with the United States and Canada. ALASKA FURS T0 SELL AT points. OLD PRICES Nationwide Baltle | Agains! Indusfrial Accidents Now Waged OPA Puts Celllng of Sep- tember, 1941 Proceeds | on Seal and Fox Pelts WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. — The b3 3 Interior Department has received By JACK STINNETT authority from the OPA to sell| WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—In the dyed and dressed Alaska fur seal-| War Department, in the Depart- skins and dressed blue and white ment of Labor and in the offices Alaska pelts at the highest levels ©f the War Production Board these 1eceived for similar skins and pelts| 4ays, they are mapping plans for in September of last year. a nationwide battle against indus- -— - S trial accidents, SIOCK oUO'A"o"S ‘ The rise in accidents in |war plants of the nation since s 505 | got into the world fracas has some NEW YORK, Oct. 27. — Closing |0of our production chiefs gro quotation of Alaska Juneau mine, The War Department stock today is 2%, American Can issued a statement that if the 67, Anaconda 27, Bethlehem Steel|half of 1942 rate is maintained industrial accidents, the year will go off the calendar with more than 20,000 war workers killed, 90,000 more permanently disabled and 2,000,000 others injured. The man hours lost probably will run close to half a billion. Is it wonder that the production chief are perturbed? the we recentl first 9/30 Curtiss Wright 8%, Inter- national Harvester 51%, Kennecott| 31%, New York Central 11%, Nor- thern Pacific 8, United States Steel 49%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 113.80, |rails 28.70, utilities 13.77. ——— ‘WOLVES GET BREAK TULSA, Okla.—Oklahoma wolves In an Illinois factory, a wrer carelessly knocked from a scaffold fell into the cogs of a powerful machine. One operator was killed his assistant badly injured and about $6,000 damage done to machine, which was idle 110 hours while repairs were being made In a shipyard near Washingto rickety scaffold collapsed. One was killed, two injured. In cause of the tire situation. The 5 Southwestern Fox and Wolf Hunt- ers Association postponed its an- nual wolf hunt because the hunt- ers wanted to cooperate with the tire rationers, a man Jap Torpedoes; The life of a U. S. Army nurse in New Caledonia has its good and bad | ! Their ardwous daily tasks are compensated by being able to ishght gains within the city. dance to soft music under a tropical moon with handsome young offi- cers, Nurses generally bear the rank of lieutenant and according to rules are not permitted to dance with non-coms. So Margaret Hammer selects & Ilsulenunt in the air corps for her dancing partner | Announcement Is ade by Navy Tropical Moon REDS REPORI § MOREGAINS, - STALINGRAD Nazis Are Forced 1o Yield Ground All Around Volga City MOSCOW, Oct. 27—The Ger- | mans have lost their foothold in the southern industrial section of | Stalingrad and have fallen back 'to the barren steppes outside of the city under pressure of Red counter-attacks. At the same time, Nazi assaults are reported to be beating futiley |upon the restored defenses of the inorth side factory area and Rus- [smn pressure against German | flanks on both the south and northwest areas around Stalingrad | appeared to be growing. The invaders are struggling ! effectually to make more { | [ than | South of the Volga stronghold, | the Russians claim destroying 10 | machine gun posts and 26 block- | houses and dugouts, all on the | outskirts. The newspaper Izvestia said that the Germans have been thrown back behind the low, rolling hills |which rim the southern edge of Stalingrad, facing a front 150 vards from the city’s boundaries | where chimneys of battle-scarred Soviet factories continue to smoke WII.lKIE IS CRITICAL OF Washington itself the other day, | cement forms collapsed and buried | workers—11 injured. Multiply these | three items by hundreds and youll | have what is happening every weck ‘The Labor Department I fighting the industrial accident battle for years and had made | excellent progress until the w ,\ ame along. The terrific speed-up ! in production, the influx of in-| experienced workers, the against time, the relaxing of super- vision, has wiped all that out The Army engineers are now | swinging into the fight in earnest. | The Labor Department is making available to them all the records and case histories of their long battle. Where the Army engineers are in direct supervision of a job, they are instituting all known pre- cautions against accidents s been Reports on HIS Recent Trip| fo Allied and Neu- fral Nations NEW YOHK Ocl 21. L. Willkie last night reiterated his |demand for a second front in Eu- rope |of the war so far has not been such to inspire “any sublime faith n the infallibility of our military ind naval experts.” race | Where they are not, they are or- ganizing an army of 25,000 super- visors and foremen to take up the fight for safety. These supervisors are being trained under experi- enced safety engineers in night classes at universities and colleges in more than a score of states These supervisors will go back into the firing line armed with all the |dU¢t Of the war. knowledge they need to make their| B¢ m his recent globe-circling tour of Allied and neutral nations, Willkie !(;u\'e‘rnment should refrain | making suggestions about the con- (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) in-| Wendell | and asserted that the record | Reporting to the nation by radio| said that the United States 6 AMERICAN SHIPS SUNK ‘T-okyo Rep&fifl Solomon Battle Not Confirm- ed in U. S. KNOX SAYS REPORT FALSE LIKE OTHERS Enemy Saysflf Our Ships Lost There Since Aug. 25 (By Associated Press) A Japanese version of the big |naval and air battle in the Solo- mons yesterday was picked up |from a Tokyo broadcast in New York today and the Japs claimed the sinking of six American war- | ships, including four aircraft car- |riers, one battleship and another |not identified in type. In Washington, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said that the |Jap claims were another “rmpng ‘expedmon This enemy report did }recall others emanating from Tok- | yo after the Midway and Coral Sea | battles ‘which turned Out’ to be \grently exaggerated. | From Headquarters | The announcement was credited | to imperial headquarters both in | Tokyo and Berlin broadcasts and | said that American casualties also included another battleship and three cruisers and a destroyer heavily damaged. On the other hand, comparative- ly minor losses were acknowledged by the Japs. The report said that the Japs suffered only slight dam- age to two of their aircraft car- riers and a cruiser in an engage- |ment said to have taken place Monday to the north of Santa Cruz Island which lies just east of the | main Solomon group. | Was Battle Yesterday This would indicate - that the Japs are describing the same bat- tle which the U.S. Navy said yes- terday was in progress northeast| of Guadalcanal. | Tokyo also broadcast a summary of alleged losses for the two sides !in the Solomons area between Aug-| ust 25 and October 25, admitting |for the first time the loss of 17 Jap warships and transports. The summary claimed 22 American war- ships and transports sunk in that| period and a total of 28 including the action claimed yesterday. - GREW WARNS . OVER WAR EFFORT O PTIM I ISM Former Ambassador fo Ja- | pan Says Do Not Under- estimate Enemy NEW YORK flLt 27.—Americans were cautioned today by former | Ambassador Joseph C. Grew of | Japan to guard against “foolish op- timism and complacent self-confi- dence” which he said, would “pre- pare the way for unnecessary de- spair” in the war with Japan. | In his address, prepared for an author’s luncheon, Grew listed | among “psychological minefields and ambushes” to be avoided such | described as misdirected censorship assumptions as that the Japs are; the idea that non-military experts less or persons not connected with the [0t from formidable because they are free; that the cities of Japan flimsy and incapable of stand- ing up under incendiary air raids or that the Japs can be starved into submission. | .- | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS are LAND, AR SEA UNITS IN BATTLE Struggle Breaks Out in Full Fury Between Amer- icans and Japs |NAVY DISCLOSES LOSS OF BIG PLANE CARRIER Nippons Also Lose Heavily -Many Warcraft Re- porledfimaged WASHINGTON, Oct., 27.—A tre- mendous land, sea and air strug- gle has broken in all of its full fury in the Solomons, where the attacking Japanese and the de- fending Americans both are suf- fering severe blows, the Navy re- vealed when it disclosed the loss of the aircraft carrier Wasp in the same area on September 15. The current phase of the battle is expected to be the crucial phase. It started Sunday when the enemy unleashed its coordinated efforts to capture Guadalcanal and the vital airport there. Japs Get Blows Marines and soldiers held, but the Americans suffered severe dam- age. An unidentified carrier is lost, the destroyer Porter is damaged, and an unspecified number of other ships suffered blows. The Japanese suffered two car- riers damaged, two heavy cruisers damaged, one light cruiser dam- aged, and five bombers and seven- teen Ilgmmg planes shot down. Warship Is Sunk The Wasp was lost while cover- ing other warships in a movement of reinforcements and supplies to the beleaguered United States forces. A Japanese submarine rammed three torpedoes home near the powder magazines and the 14,700- ton vessel exploded and the fires forced the crew to abandon ship. Three hours later, United States destroyers finished the Wasp off. Ninety percent of the crew of 1800 were rescued. KNOX TALKS ONSOLOMON SITUATION Says Nothing Definite-- Hints of Stiff Fight Coming WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.--Secre- tary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that in the battle for the Solomons the “Japs have a lot of strength but the outcome is not clear.” One day after the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp was annouriced, Knox said that the Navy is “putting up a gamer fight” than in anytime in its history He told a press conference, “I'm not forshadowing results and cer- tainly am not forshadowing de- feat.” The Secretary further described the campaign in the Solomons as a war of attrition. In response to requests for any comment he might make on the frequent arrival of Jap reinforce- ments generally, Knox said that the Pacific situation is “about the same as before a darn tough stiff fight.” = e — BUY DEFENSE BONDS