The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9175. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDA\;()(;I'QBI'{ 28, 1942 ~ MEMBI JAPS APPROACH GUADALCANALAIR OPA Now Seeking To Ration Food In Ala DIMONDIN OBJECTION | T0 PLANS Delegaie Says Such Move Would Be ""Plain Screwy” MRS. HERMANN T0 VISIT WASHINGTON Must Have Good Explana-| fion for Exception, | ® Says Emerson WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — An official of the Office of Price Ad- ministration said today that it is reasonable to assume that general rationing will be applied to Alaska. | But Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond says that any such plan is "just plain screwy.” Rupert Emerson, head of the Ter- ritories Division of the OPA, said | that tires, autos and typewriters | already are being rationed in Al- aska, but that sugar and gas are | not. Said Emerson, “In so far as it is necessary we will apply the| national rationing program to Al- aska.* i Would Ration Coffee | “It is a reasonable assumption that it will have to be. If coffee is rationed in the remainder of the nation, there is no reason why | it shouldn’t be rationed in Alaska. “We have reached no flat de- cision. We are studying the ques-| tion. Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Ra- tioning Director for the Territory, is enroute to Washington. We will examine the situation here. { “It is reasonable to assume that | general rationing applies to Alaska if it applies to the rest of the country unless a very good reason is shown as to why Alaska should not be included.” | Said Delegate Dimond: “It would be just plain screwy to apply gen- eral rationing to Alaska. “I tried to find out, but hav, intends to do. Alaskans Stock Up ! “Interior residents of Alaska have to lay away supplies every summer to last the next 12 months. They ! can't run to the corner grocery store every time they need a pound of sugar. 1 “It might be necessary to ra- tion liquor, but the cost of a gen- | eral rationing policy for 80,000 to. 90,000 people in a ‘Territory the size of Texas would be tremendous and foolish.” MacDONALD'S BODY.FOUND, | PERIL STRAITS Mayor of Sil_ke_l—l.ocales Re-| mains of Logging Man Missing Two Weeks SITKA, Alaska, Oct. 28— (Special to Empire)—The body of Gordon | D. MacDonald, independent logger, | missing for two weeks, was found | on the beach of Peril Straits last/ night by Mayor Bob Hanlon, of Sitka, who was aboard the boat Isis. 1 No trace was found of the Gar- wood 19-foot cabin cruiser in which| MacDonald had left Sitka two| weeks ago bound for his camp on Peril Straits. The body is to be brought here on the Isis and will be sent from there to Petersburg, the family home, for burial by Gordon Mac- Donald, Jr. and Lewis MacDonald, sons of the former lumberman. Other survivors are Mrs. Mac- (Continued on Page Six) g been unable to learn what the OPA | ‘R _ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIELD San Franeisco’s volunteer air raid and rescue squads held a dress rehearsal and learned how to act in the event of a bombing or some other war disaster. A highlight of the practice blitz was the rescue of Herman Abramowitz, a “casualty,” from a hotel room with block and tackle while he was strapped in a chair. He is shown passing the [irst gtory on the way down. To Open Alaska Read In Official Ceremony Set for November 30 | | The Alaskan highway, connecting the interior of North America with the heart of Alaska, will be opened formally in ® ceremony at the Alaska-Yukon border on November 20. Brig. Gen. James O’Connor, chief of the Northwest Service Command, announces that crews are working from both north and south and are expected to cut through the final barrier of rocks, trees and ridges on that date in the vicinity )f the White and Donjeck rivers near the international boundary. Representatives of the Canadian, Alaskan, United States and Pro- vincial governments will attend the ceremonies. LEADER - i i | NEW WAGE " RULES ARE | APPROVED ;1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Presi- {dent Roosevelt has approved regu- Squadron Leader Ken Boomer |y, jimiting salaries to $25,000 (above) of Ottawa, Canada, ‘kd | yearly after certain deductions be- Canadian airmen in their first oy hine January J, and has asked encounter with Jap fliers in the |that his own stipend be so Aleutian area. He saw an enemy | trimmed despite the exception made A ride a plane within 50 feet of |for salaries fixed by Federal or the water, then lose his nerve |State statutes. and vainly try to parachute. ‘ The regulations were issued by | Director of Economic Stabilization | James F. Byrnes and apply to | both probate and public salaries 'except those fixed by statute. AvEs | The regulations freeze all sal- jaries and wages up to a minimum FORw Al ASK Amnu disallows any increase except . | Board or the Treasuty. It pro- | yides for limiting personal salaries when approved by the War Labor With six passengers for Anchor- i, $25000 after deductions for Fed- |age, an Alaska Star Air Lines plane|eral income taxes on the whole |piloted by Chet Brown, with Jack salary and after the earner has | given the customary charitable con- | tributions, payments of life insur- |ance and other fixed obligations. Outgoing were Eric Clark, Dan e Urrick, Vincent Baronovich, lel\md; Mrs. Felix Toner and infant Gault, T. Thayer and Lt. J. Col-|daughter have gone home from St. lins, |Ann’s Hospital. Scavenius as co-pilot, left this morning for the Westward. WHITEHORSE, Y.T., Oct. 28— REDS TURN ~ TABLESON ~ NATiFOE | Smash Info German Lines| in Caucasus Forcing | Big Reireat . 'RUSSIANS ARE MAKING | | NEW COUNTER-ATTACKS | ' Relief Offensive of Soviets| | Bifing Deeper Info | Enemy Ranks MOSCOW, Oct. 28.—Red Army | defenders on the cliff-sided moun- | | tain road of the Black Sea port, of Taupse have turned the tables |on the Nazis in the western Cau- s, as a smashing counte {assault which forced the Germans a retreat, was begun several days ago. | Battlefront dispatches reported that in Stalingrad the German on- | slaught, renewed at deadly cost, has gained the invaders two more the debris-littered streets. { The main Russian lines still hold | northwest of the besieged ‘eity. The Red Army's relief offensive bit menacingly deeper today into the German flank across the sod- |den steppes. | | Timed with the resurgent Rus- |sian thrust along the road ap- |proaching Taupse through the | passes to the northeast, other Rus- “sian forces struck determinedly into of |the German guarded positions east of the port of Novorossisk, miles farther up the coast. 80 GABLE IS OFFICER, ~ AIR CORPS |Screen Star Talks in Behalf " of 2500 in Big Grad- | uating Class | MIAMI BEACH, Florida, Oct. 26 —Screen Star Clark Gable, gradu- |ating today with 2,500 others at the | Officers’ Candidate School, told the | audience at the ceremonies to “mul- | tiply us by millions of other Amer- |icans and you have what it.takes to | win a war.” | Gable, commissioned as a Second | Lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, | was chosen to speak in behalf of | the large graduating class. |- He concluded with the remarks “Your individual degree of discipline has a national value, a world value. If T learned nothing else in the Of- ficers’ Training School that will be a lesson to prize all the rest of my 1 life.” | ———-———- 19KILLED | | CINTRAIN, BUS CRASH Crowded Defroit Street Bus. Runs Info Path of In- | - coming Express DETROIT, Oct. 28. — Nineteen persons, including several school pupils, were killed this morning when a passenger train sliced ‘,Lhrough a crowded Detroit street " (Continued on Page Two) I A 4,000-Pound “Block Buster” Demolition Bom’ R This is one of those 4,000-pound “block buster” demolition bombs, used in Royal Air Force attacks The British call these bombs the “block busters’ because when they on industrial targets in Europe. Jet go there is usually no block where a block existed before. the technical division of the U. S. Army ordnance department, and Maj. Gen. L. H. Campbell, chief of ordnance, inspect the 4,000-pounder at Aberdeen, Md. Look at That Pistol Fly! Brig. This extraordinary photograph of how to disarm an opponent was taken at Paine Field, Wash., during a demonstration of commando tactics. ivst Lieut. D. I. Cad. through the air with a “ Corp. James Pearche’s revolver flying on the wrist. Of course, the wrist was a liftle numb for & while afterwards. Investigation of ManpowerLooming; Fast-Flight Made By JACK STINN WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 The rumor business goes on, but there| may be something to the one floting around now that the next| big job the Baruch committee will be asked to undertake is a report| on manpower. Vice President Wal- lace is said to be the chief advo- cate for a manpower report to the nation. The idea would be for the Baruch committee to lay the| cold facts on the line and fell the public just exactly what it must expect in the way of freezing jobs. drafting labor, etc Unheralded recently was the re-| cord of some kind set by an Army | Air Force officer. Hg had an early breakfast in Foynes, Scotland, and a late dinner in Washington. The| difference in time, a good tail wind and a fast bomber were re- ported to have done the trick. To the 300-odd soldiers in the cast of “This Is the Army,” get- ting stuck on a fatigue detail is an experience to be avoided, if possible. Generally, such assign- ments are meted out as punishment for minor violations of Army regu- lations, but often it is necessary to call for volunteers when the task 1+ big one. The other day, the captain sent word along that he wanted 50 men to report to the Treasury Buildjng. The sergeant asked for volunteers, The boys shied away In desperation, the sergeant went to the MP’s on duty at the stag door “When the matinee performanc is over, pick 50 men going out thg here for the Treasury de- he said men got wind of it. Some them “exited” by the fire es- others through the corri- of an adjoining building. Bu' door tail, The of capes dors (Continued on Page Six) Gen: G. M. Barns; left, chief of TANK CLASH {5 EXPECTED, AFRICA WAR Battle Will Be Test of Ar- mored Power-Brit- ish Push On CAIRO, Oct. 28.—~The next phase of the new battle in North Africa appeared .to be shaping up today as the Allies made widening gaps in the Axis desert defense lines and Britain’s Army of the Nile rolled up an increasing weight of tanks as Field Marshal Erwin Rommell pre- pared his armored forces. The first tank clashes are expect- ed to be the crucial test. But in the meantime, United States fighter pilots are reported to be striking harder each day. They have downed seven of the total Allied bag of 18 planes. A single member of the American Black Scorpion Squadron Capt. Lyman Middleditch, is credited with dropping three of the Axis planes. A PBritish communique reported “further progress” Monday night in unabated attacks on the German and Italian lines and says the on- slaught continued yesterday. ‘The British came. out on top in the first main test of armor, the communique said. “Yesterday, an ar- mored clash on a scale larger than hitherto developed after conslder»‘ able fighting. The enemy was driv- en off after considerable loss. “Our own losses in tanks were light. Fighting continues,” the com- munique concluded D GOVERNOR LEAVES ON JOURNEY 10 ska SOLOMONS MANEUVERS ARE RAGING Navy Says';flp'—orl Must Be Held Against Invaders at All Costs ENEMY GETS CONTROL OF SECTOR SEALANES Destroyer. Penetrates Tu- lagi Harbor to Sink U. 5. Small Boafs WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Amer- fcan troops on Guadalcanal beat back another enemy thrust which penetrated their lines yesterday, while their comrades in the sea and air struggle inflicted heavy damage on enemy warships, sink- ing two destroyers, hitting a battle- ship, and damaging a cruiser and destroyer. New hits have been scored on two previously damaged cruisers, | and torpedoes were put in the hull of a previously damaged aircraft carrier. Japs Pierce Lines ‘The Navy announces that “ene- my troops are active in the Gua- dalcanal area, and have succeeded in plercing the lines on the south side of the airfield. “Army troops threw back the attack to regain their positions. Marine troops are active on the western flank and reported small gains in the heavy fighting.” Military men emphasized the ex- treme importance of the fighting ashore. The armed forces are de- termined to hold the airfield at | all costs. Control Sea Lanes Loss of the Guadalcanal field would be an irreparable blow as it bears upon both land and sea fighting. Planes are operating against the Japanese fleet from the field. The Japanese apparently have fairly secure control of the sea- lanes in and around the Solomons, for any enemy destroyer penetrat- ed close enogh to Tulagi Harbor to sink the U.8. fleet tug Seminole and a patrol boat. - TOKYO STILL CLAIMS BIG - SEA VICTORY (Japan Admits Solomons Battle Not Yet Over- { Result Unforeseen NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—The Tokyo radio this afternoon continues to | broadcast its claim of a victory over the American forces in the Solo- | mons, but mixes with them the warning by “naval quarters that the battle still progresses and the final result therefore cannot be foreseen.” ; Nevertheless, a naval commen- tator added: “It can be said that this is one of the greatest naval . WASHINGTON, D.C. Gov. Ernest Gruening left Ju- neau by plane this afternoon on the first leg of a trip te Wash- ington, D.C., on official husiness for the Territory. He planned to travel Whitehorse, where he with Northwest Service Comman- der Brig. Gen. James F. O'Connor on the progress of the Alaskan highway, and then continue on the Interior route to the States and the nation's capital He will be gone for at least one month, first to will confer | | battles since the outbreak of the | war.” " This comparatively sober note ap- | peared midway of a lengthy Domei {dispatch, most of which was devoted to newspaper comments and pictures of Jap victory in the extravangant ! claims. The Tokyo press, unmindful of the naval caution, celebrated with- out restraint yesterday's announce- ment from Imperial Headquarters still unconfirmed from other sources, that in Monday's air and sea fight northeast of Guadalcanal, the Japs sank four American aircraft car- riers, a battleship and an unidenti- fied warship.