The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9176. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SUPERIOR JAP FORCES FIGHT AMERICANS Showdown HEAD CENSOR Alaska Highway Now URGES MORE WAR REPORTS | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. — The | entire Alaska Highway is now | open for traffic. This is the announcement made | today by Secretary of War Henry J L. Stimson. Open for Says Newsp—afiers, Radio May Draw Line in Cooperation | The opening is weeks ahead of NEW YORK, Oct. 29. — Byron Price, Director of Censofship, said | “°PedUIe: today that “unless ample warnews| Motor trucks started this week is given out by the Government, | moving supplies and oqulplnex1( to our voluntary undertaking by the |garrisons in Alaska, using the en- press and radio will collapse.” | tire 1671 miles of the roadway. Price declared in the New York| Secretary Stimson told the news- Times forum that “if the curtain . is drawn too tightly, if official se- crecy leads to widespread distrust and apprehension among the peo- | ple, I doubt seriously whether the | newspapers and broadcasters will be so willing to cooperate in bottling up news which always comes to them ‘through their own outside | sources.” Sinkings Announced Director Elmer Davis of the Of-| fice of War Information, mean-| while, told the audience that all sinkings of major United States naval vessels have been announced up to noon yesterday, and added that a full account of the Pearl Harbor attack is being readied for publication on its anniversary, next December, 7. AT AP AT . COP ) It is interesting to note that an account of the Pearl Harbor attack | containing much more than cor-| respondents were ableé to report on | was published recently by the Sat- urday Evening Post. | Davis also said that Secretary i tdonum:cdflor; 7Page V'I‘wo) i The Washifigtdn- Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) i | | i | WASHINGTON—It is certalnly| no secret among the Marines that there is terrific resentment over the fact that Army reinforcements | were so long in arriving in the} Solomon Islands. The job of the Marines primar- ily is to land, seize an objective, then let a larger occupation force, usually the Army, take over. The fact that this was not done in the Solomons has caused open criti- cism in: Marine Corps ranks. However, it does remain a secret why reinforcements were not sent to the Solomons from the Army long ago. Speculation regarding this | centers around a continuation of the old spirit of Army-Navy foot- ball rivalry, which definitely has hindered the war effort. Military strategists admit that Gen. Mac-| Arthur had enough troops in Aus-| tralia to have spared some for the Solomons long ago. But unfortunately there is no| unity of command' between the Army and the Navy in the South; Pacific. Gen. MacArthur runs his own show in Australia and there| L 3 Truc_ks Begin Moving MODEL OF RELAXATI!ON—_Aina Constant, native of London, England, and now a U. S. magazine model, strolls by the side of a pool in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was visiting from New York City for screen tests. Terrible Ruckus s Raging Over Spors; seems to be reluctance either in the War Department or the White House to give MacArthur orders regarding the movement of troops. ! Not long ago, the Admiral in command at New Zealand, flew to Australia and had a pleasant .and | profitable visit with MacArthur. He | informed MacArthur that anything further the Navy had was at his disposal, and MacArthur suggested that anytime some of the vessels under MacArthur’s command were needed in other waters, to say the word. It is hoped that this friendly visit will_have real results, be- By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—In case lyou haven't followed the sports | pages, there’s a terrible ruckus rag- ling about private profits being made out of the Army emergency relief sports events. It came to a sort of furious cli- max the other day when Secre- tary of War Stimson indignantly {cancelled the Louis-Conn heavy- weight championship fight in New | York in October and ordered Ser- geant Louis and Corporal Conn back to duty. He said simply, in (harfly&a_gl&l;Oll PN In So ¢ 4 RED ARMY GARRISON HOLDS ON |Soviets Clin?id Stalingrad on 66th Day of Siege in Stiff Fighting MOSCOW, Oct. 29.—Official So- viet dispatches state Stalingrad’s garrison is still holding on during the 66th day of the siege Traffic as men at the conference today that “thousands of trucks will operate on the route all during the winter | carrying soldiers and supplies to Alaska and plans are also under way to bring loads of strategic ma- terials on their return trips.” The formal opening of the high- | way has been advanced tentatively to November 15 instead of De- cember 1. Ceremonies are planned at a point on the Alaskan-Cana- dian border | capitalize on a 200-yard gain in bloody fighting yesterday but that short advance is estimated by the | Red Star, Soviet newspaper, to have | cost the enemy five battalions of | troops killed or wounded. Twenty tanks were either wrecked or ‘uut of commission in the attack. | The Gesman forces made | factories ending a forward advance, |yard by yard, until they were fin- }nlly stalled, the dispatches state, by | a cross fire of machine guns camou- ‘!Iuged in factory buildings. | - ‘GAINS MADE BYGERMANS N CAUCASUS Make Sutce;sfil Attackson Red Forces - Nazis Freeze to Death MOSCOW, Oct. 29.—Soviet mili- tary advices said the Germans are gaining ground by a large offen- sive in a new sector in Central Caucasus by attacking the Red Army defenses across the Nalchik Plateau, Tanks and artillery are being used in the new offensive and planes are also engaged. This shift of the invasion pres- sure southwestward from the Moz- dok area is poted. Dispatches also state blizzards have been raging in the Caucasus Mountains and a bitter cold wave has set in, It is also stated that many German soldiers, thinly clad, have frozen to death in the caves in the mountains. ATTACKS OF AXIS BEATEN OFF, DESERT British EigmArmy Suc- cessful in Moves-Tanks Hit Rommel’s Units by declaring that after Novm‘nbm ‘ CAIRO, Oct. 29. — British head- 15, there would be no more private quarters announced this morning benefits of any kind staged for that-the Eighth Army has beaten Army and Navy relief. off all Axis counter-attacks in the In the muddled background was Egyptian desert and also reports the charge that our own Wash- that air attacks on enemy supply ington Redskins pro football team \line bases, including Crete, are be- had collected better than $13,000 ing successfully carried out. for a game against the Army All-| The official communique also re- Stars in Los Angeles, where the ports further losses have been in- gross gate was around $82,000, | flicted on Rommel's forces by a Also that the Chicago Bears gotlserles of minor tank engagements. $15,000 for a similar pre-season iy 8 EAAYS game with the Eastern Army team | R, W, mmv’ PAA thwestern The Germans are attempting to| put | a charge through a gap between two vy s 4 J Trek Tropic Junglesifilap Hunt | RADIOPHOTO VIA HONOLULU: This eery view is one of the first action photos to show “what things are like” on the Guadaleanal Island in the Solomons, where American and Japanese land, sea and air forces today are locked in a gigantic struggle Tor possession of the isle's strategic airfield. United States Marines, wearing battle helmets and’carrying full ‘kits, are glimpsed along a rough stretch of road as they ! (rek through the dark, tropical jungle 0 get into position for an attack on the banks of the Matanikou | River.. It is in_just guch dense jungle country as this that the erucial encounters rage, with bath sides . Jfooving cautiously and determinedly in'a showdown, fight that_may setile gibe fate of the southwest Henderson Field, Fulcrum of Guadalcan | | 5 SOLOMON ISLANDS—Here’s why that airport on Guadaleanal (Henderson Field), is being fought for so savagely by U.S. and Jap forces in the Solomons. It is the only field in the southern Solomons where U.S. Flying Fortresses and other big bombers can take off and land for operations against the enemy. Two big Fortresses roar down the long runway. WPBRevokes NEW RAIDS TESTIFIES 7 PowerJob HONGKONG INGHICAGO Priorities Companions Landed asuINGTON, Oct. B — e Jap Radio Reporis U. S. from Submarine Planes Over Captured British Island City NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—A the priority ratings given seven power irrigation projects in the West, including a section of Grand Coulee dam, in line with the WPB policy of curtailing the use of cri- al Fight ARE TOLD radio acific Now On GREAT PUSH INDICATED IN SOLOMONS AlLU.S. Positions Between Hawaii, Australia Now in Peril PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 29.— A showdown in the Southwest- ern Pacific between the Amer- ican and Japanese forces ap- pears at hand, it is officially stated. The magnitude of the Japan- ese push, with superiority of sky, land and sea forces that have been mobilized for months, is now seen. These forees are now steam- ing from their power house on Truk Island and other places of security against the main Am- erican positions between the Hawaiian Islands and Australia which are now in peril. This is the first time since the conquest of the Philippines that the Nipponese have put in mo- tion such superiority of power against . American positions in the Pacific. Truk Island Is in the group of Caroline Islands, north of the New Ireland, New Britain and Solomon Islands groups. ‘MacARTHUR - WON'THAVE PRESIDENCY General Denies Poliical Ambitions-Hopes Only for War Vidory MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Oct. 29.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur today disavowed that he had “any political ambitions | whatsoever” and said the “only hope and ambition I have in the world |is for victory for our cause in this war.” He issued the statement in com- | menting on newspaper reports quot- |ing _the ‘Washington correspondent |of the Christlan Science Monitor | that “political Washington is largely responsible for the establishment of two separate commands in the Pa- | cific, partly because of the conserva- | tive opposition which launched the MacArthur for President campaign.” Gen. MacArthur also denied re- ports that the Australian war effort is not being pushed as it should be. | He announced today that Allied | bombers have hit two Jap ships in | the harbor of Rabaul on New Brit- ain Island, northeast of New Guinea, and also bombed Baku Island at the | northern tip of the Solomon Archi~ | pelago. DIVIDED COMMAND cause heretofore there has been all |effect, that it was “for the best in- kinds of backing and filling be-|terests of the Army,” but the con- tween the Army and Navy in theliroversy according to sports writ- South Pacific. When the Battle Of |ers, came out of the fact that cre- the Coral Sea began, the Navy|gitors of the two fighters (mostls complained to the White House ypcle Mike” Jacobs, the New that Gen. MacArthur was gIVIng| york boxing king) were to get ap- out the press communiques. Natu-|proximately $135,000 from the ex- rally this gave the public impres- pected $1,000,000 or so gate. (Continued on' Rage ¥ The Army’and Navy followed this g = OFFICIAL, ARRIVES The right or wrong of all this is beyond me. The AER civilian committee chairmen in charge of these events, Grantland Rice and John Kieran, are above reproach. Every one on the Army side, from Secretary Stimson down, has said so. In fact, no one but the sports promoters, team owners, etc., have } FROM WESTWARD ’ R. W. McCrary, Radio Service En- gineer for Pan American Airways in | Alaska, arrived here last night from i the Westward. | Mr. McCrary will be in Juneau for | several days before proceeding to his headquarters in Seattle. | CHICAGO, Oct. 29.—Ernest Peter Burger testified in Federal Court yesterday that he and seven other Nazi sabateurs landedin the Unit- ed States from submarines last June with approximately $153,000 in cash to finance their mission of destruction. Bwger was the first witnes called in the Government's prose cution of three middle-aged couple: who are charged with treason. He said that each saboteur |given $1,000 in American currency in $50 bills, and $400 in smaller bills. In addition, he related, the leaders of each two groups of fou had an operating fund of between 550,000 and $60,000. Burger is one of the two sur- viving members of the sabotage squad. wa ———————— From 1777 to 1821 mayors of New York City were appointed by the governor and four senators con- y;Li'.uung a council of appointment. tical materials in construction pro- jects ..o Bases in . IndiaAre Fired On NEW DELHI, Oct. 20.-—The Japs wnounced in a broadcast sere today that they have destroy- ed or damaged at least ten ground- “)mu" in raids on American air- | fields attempts to smash these bases for U.S. Army bombers in ferry service for China, are regarded here as futile heard ' ed fighters besides “scveral trans- | in northeast India, but their | WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — Gen. broadcast from Tokyo was picked o 100 MacArthur's statement is- up here in which the Jups report-| . g today denying that-he has any ed another United States bomibg o ivical ambitions and asserting for the third and fourth days at . .0 hic aim in life now is victory Hongkong. in war, is regarded by many sourc- | The broadcaster said the attacks es here as at least an indirect ap- were made by seven B-25 medium peal to eliminate any political con- bombers, escorted by five P-40 giderations which might be ham- tighters. He sald the bombing pering his direction of the war in caused no damage. the South Pacific. - Bvs | Mounting protests against the S ‘ ¢ o |divided command in that part of Herolt Dog Slaln- the world appear today to be head- [} 'ed toward climactic action, to take " the form of an appeal to give Gen. (l" Seeks Ki“e MacArthur united direction over Ithe entire embattled area. | LYON, Prande, Oct: 28, — Dick,; . Louder and asiee Gemands are a dog hero of the present war, has Deing heard on Capitol HU! for been poisoned and all Lyon has better teamwerk in the Pacific war joined the hunt for his slayer. | theater. Holder of several citations for, It is pointed out that MacAr- heroism, Dick was credited with thur's statement is highly unusual saving 22 PFrenchmen and with for @ commanding officer in the rounding up and bringing in s field and is almost bound to pro- | prisoners five German army dm.“’m some decisive action.