The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 3, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LX., NO. 9180. ALLIES RECAPTURE NIPPON HELD BASE Tank Battle Is Raging Today In Egypt AMERICANS New York Race Means | VOTETODAY IN STATES Exercise Rifi for Which Sons and Brothers Are Dying ‘{By Assaciated Press) Upwards of 30,000,000 war-minded Americans today exercised the right and privilege for which their for- bearers fought and died a century- and-a-half ago and for which their sons and brothers are fighting and ! dying again — the right to shape their own goyernment. | In the first wartime election | sinte 1918, voters cast their ballots throughout the nation to deter-| mine what the political complexion of tile new Congress starting in January will be. | In two-thirds of the 48 state ad- ministrations, the Democrats were HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS holding a comfortable majority mi (Conunuad on Pan Two) ALL OUT FOR WAR . . . The Washingtufi Merry Go- Round DREW PEARSO! 8. Allen oo uem duty.) WAGHINGTON-—MOGL significant né,vu thit has come out of the Far/ East recently has been the con- ferénce between Genéral Wavell and, General Stilwell in India, to- gether with speculation that this may mean the launching of a new offensive to retake Burma some-/ time in the future. Behind this conference has been a long cam- paign by General Stilwell to con- vince the British that now is the time.to strike at Burma—while the Japs are busy in the Solomon Is- lands. | The size of the Jap forces in the| South Pacific makes it apparent that not too much of their fleet, can be in Indian-Burmese waters. General Wavell has just come back | from reconnoitering along the! Burma; border, and for the first, time seems optimistic. Hitherto, General Stilwell has up against considerable British inertia, has had a hard| time persuading the British that' with a large army now in India, they could not afford to sit wait- ing for the Japs. Lurking behind General SLUwells argument is the strategy of re-| opening the Burma Road, which many U.S. advisers consider to be| one of our most important pros- pective moves, if we are to reestab- lish bases in China from which to hit at the heart of Japan. How- ever, the big question is how soon such strategy may be launched, and some military leaders fear it may take time. At present, transportation over the highest mountains in the world, the Himalayas, is so difficult that not sufficient supplies for any real operatigns can be sent to China. | NEW. LEAGUE OF NATIONS This Burma Road strategy also was behind the return eof T. V. Boong, Chinese Foreign Minister, who probably has done more than any other one man, except Chiang Kai-shek, to keep China still fight- ing. Soong's chief accomplishments | have been prodding the United States to disgorge enough war sup- plies to keep Chinese armies going; helping create the Council of the Pacific, through which there is perhaps more unified strategy in the Far East than in Europe; and finally, setting forth his idea to get a League of United Nations es- tablished now, rather than wait- ing until after the war. This latter idea may be one of the most important to have been spawned from the war so far. Dr. Soong points out that victorious nations fall to bickering over the |® spoils; that it is much easier to weld nations together for pmelt PRl 0 s i A SRR TOEE (Continued on Page Four) 'Russians Say 2y Germans Un-| | chik, (L. to R.)-John J. Bennett Jr., Thomas E. Dewey, Dean Alfange, the respective Democratic, Republican ctarlll candidates. SMALLAXIS GAIN HELD AT NALCHIK | able fo Throw Full Of- fensive in Caucasus MOSCOW, Nev. 3.—A conglom- erate force of 50,000 German and Rumanian mountain infantry, ar- mored troops and sailors, edgec forward today in the narrow sec- tor southeast of Nalchik, but the enemy is reported on the defensivc in other parts of the flaming Cau !casus battlefront. The main Nazi thrust whick forced the Red withdrawal from Nalchik itself, apparently is aimed at Ordzhonikidze, some 60 miles away on the military road leading through the Georgian pass through the Caucasian mountains. The Army paper Red Star saic the Germans are weakened by enormous losses in Stalingrad, and are unable to mount the general offensive in the Caucasus. They are therefore throwing back the full available strength in a com- paratively local advance below Nal- instead of carrying on the previously favored non-stop offen- sive tactics. The paper said the Germans arc now taking a breathing spell after each assault in order to bring up reinrarcemcn!s TWO BOMBS EXPLODE IN VICHY TODAY 3. LONDON, Nov. radio broadcast picked up here this afternoon stated that two bombs exploded in Vichy early this morning, the first in front of Pe- tain’s Committee of Social Propa- 3anda offices, and the second an hour later in front of the office of Jacques Doriot’s French People| Party. A policeman guarding one of the offices was injured, the broadcast > A German | In British Guinea, a tributary of | Spotliht or Dimout For Dewey or Farley | Rommell’sVaimted Afri- AND ALBANY and American Labor party guber- By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE | Wide World Features Writer | | ! WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. The No. 1 election battle of the year| is the contest between Thomas E. Dewey and John J. Bennett Jr. for the governorship of New York 1t rates first in national impor- |tance because the outcome may have a lot to do with shaping the | 1944 presidential pattern. If Dewey wins today he will be in a good spot to nurture White House as-| pirations. The New York governorship, be- cause of the state’s large electoral| vote, has been a traditional spring- | “oard to a presidential nomination. | seven Empire state governors have 2en major party standard bearers.| Another New Yorker, Wendell | Villkie, is regarded by many rank | nd file Republicans as the leader f the party. Willkie and Dewey | 1ave never been warm polmcal‘ riends. So if the former racket- | mashing district attorney be- omes governor he could be a| Jormidable chalienger of kaies eadership. On the other hand, a Bennett) dictory would ‘probably result in « political dimout, if not a black- out, for Dewey. Bennett's election Iso would strengthen Jim Fsr-i 2y’s power in the Democratic sarty in New York state and tend \ w0 weaken New Deal mfluence} there, Farley broke with President Roo- sevelt in 1940 on the third term | juestion. Mr. Roosevelt backed‘ 3enator James M. Mead for the jubernatorial nomination against Sennett, who was Mr. Farley's| choice. Several weeks after Ben- dent endorsed his candidacy, but there was scant indication of a| renewal of the close political friend- | ship between F.DR. and the for- mer national chairman of the| party. And Farley's apposition to | a fourth term, or a Roosevelt-| picked candidate in 1944, could be embarrassing to the President. A third candidate for the gov- ernorship, Dean Alfange of the American Labor party, compli- cates the situation. In the last election, the laborites gave Gov- ernor Lehman his slim margin of victory over Dewey, but they have indicated no friendship for the Bennett candidacy. Another hot battle in New York is that between Representative Ham Fish, pre-Pear] Harbor iso- lationist, and Ferdinand Hoyt, Democratic friend of President Roosevelt. Fish swamped his pri- \mary rivals despite opposition to | his renomination by both Willkie ‘ARMORED 1 UNITS ARE CLASHING! ) By JACK STINNETT {WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 Well, folks, we've been wrong. I mean can Corps Is Under Heaviest Attack BULLETI} IRO, Nov. 3. —British tanks, in force, have clashed with Marshal Erwin Rommel’s vaunted African Corps in the biggest tank battle of the Allied drive in Egypt. | | about the 77th Congress, Second Ses- Ision. ‘That'’s no name for a race horse, but 7T7th Congress, Second Session, was running true to form until it !got into the home stretch—the pre- election stretch. Since then, Old 77 has been running like a son of Man-o'-War, with Whirlaway and Alsab as godfathers. Fighting is swirling around Tel Al Akakir, the “Hill of Wicked Men,” where the British infantry assault has knifed a distance of 16 miles deep into the Axis defense zone. | | UNLEASHES ATTACK CAIRO, Nov. 3. — After cautious | Lieut. Gen. Montgomery has un- leashed a considerable portion of his | Nobody thought it could happen here in Washington, but it has. With the November elections on today, there probably are more Senators and House members in the Capitol than any time since “national de- fense” was first mentioned. Not only that, but Congress has taken those controversial hurdles ‘prome by his artillery and infantry, {}jge the man in the batrel took Niagara. A few months ago it /didn’t take much of a canvass to armored forces against those of |predict that anti-inflation, the 18- Rommel in the most violent battle of 19-year-old draft, taxes and several the 12-day-old Allied campaign and |other things would get no serious the Allies are scoring an important | consideration until after the elec- |erous German tanks were knocked | advance. 1t is also indicated that heavy | fighting is .raging near the center | of the El Alamein line, according to the official communique, and a | severe encounter is also underway in the northern goastal area where tanks and artillery have stiffened and pep- ned in a sizeable Axis force. It is| also said the Australian forces have fought off desperate counter-attack- ing In this pocket. Eight-Mile Front Montgomery's British Eighth Army is believed to be fighting on an eight-mile front, between Tel El Eisa and Sidi Abd El Rahman and about 18 miles west of the EI Alamein line. f New Wedge Driven Today’s communique said a new | wedge has been driven in the Axis positions near the center of the line by infantry and is termed an “im- portant advance,” in which many prisoners were taken. It is indicated that Allied tank forces then swarm- led throughout the breach. The communique says an armored battle of considerable scale has de- veloped, is continuing all day with heavy nghung 500 TANKS THROWNIN BIG FIGHT Berlin Admits Many Ar- mored: Cars Knocked Out in Steel Clash (By Associated Press) A Berlin broadcast attributed to, |DNB, German news agency, said nett won the nomination, the Presi- | | today that British Lieut.-Gen. Mont- ‘Bmwn, gomery has thrown some 500 tanks | into “the greatest tank battle of tne\ whole African campaign.” The scene is one of the hnghew‘ points along the center of the at-| present tightly hemmed battle zone | |between the ~Mediterranean and | | Qattara salt marshes. | Battlefront dispatches said num-! out in the clash of steel. | Elsewhere the battle zone is strewn in places with bodies of Germans who tried in vain to escape the trap. AXIS LOSSES HEAVY ROME, Nov. 3.—Axis logses are heavy in the violent desert battle in Egypt, which is still continuing In | force, the Italian Command reported today. The command said, however, that British losses are also severe, and| includes more than 90 armored cats|and written many articles about (‘uadalcanal Island during | destroyed. The communique said “an impos- ing Allied armored force struck with renewed pressure yeburday in the iand Dewey. The dopesters favor Fish to win he Karanang River drops over a precipice to a ledge 1,400 feet below. the finals because of his strong | primary showing. North African desert.” Axis troops I not only stopped it, but also “with| great valor, several times counter- | attacked.” | newspaper tions. There were 1numauom in pretty high places that Congress wouldn't even be consistently in session until the votes were counted. The boys )\g.lt had to attend the hustings, it was explained. No Congress ever had violated that political rule—not in World War T or even in the Civil | War when, on still nights, you could stand on Constitution Avenue and hear the Rebel yell echo from the hills of Virginia. Yet when I.he vote on the lB 19 77th Congress Runs True fo Form Even With Eledion Today draft was tallied in the House the | other day, a scant two weeks before election, there were 361 members on | the floor. Only in the case of the declarations of war have there been more members present in recent ses- sions. Both House and Senate have been tossing political dynamite around as if there were nothing to it. The wage and farm price control act has become a law and is in opera- tion. True, there was some haggling ! and the law, as passed, was called “a compromise measure,” but it was mostly a matter of saving face. The tax measure had been knock- nig around for mouths, but the sud- denness with which it came to a vote took the wind out of a lot of Congressional observers. There is, of course, a reason for all this and it's one that I've talked about before. Congress is the mir- ror of America. Let them know what the score has to be and they’ll come through with that taily. Early in the war, it became apparent that a No. 1 order from home was: Stay on the job. Tt took a while for some members to understand this. They had been taught differently. But by the time a few House members and Senators had -been renominated began to sink through. There already have been some changes made that will be apparent in the 78th Congress. There'll be others when all the votes are in. But it hasn't been so much a matter of party as it was of getting the job done as well and as quickly as possible. RETURNS OF TWO SMALL AREAS GIVEN Republicanfin didates Leading in First Re- ports Tallied BOSTON, M: Nov. 3.—Mount Washington, fi Massachusetts | community to report on the elec- tion, gave Republican Senator Ca- bot Lodge 32 votes to 4 for Rep. Joseph Casey, his Democratic op- ponent in a town normally strong- ly Republican. MORE RETURNS POINTE AUX BARQUES, Mich.,, | Nov. 3.—This small community in| eastern Michigan, the “thumb” of | the district, traditionally the fivst precinct to report its vote, had a complete tally this morning with| the following results: US. Senator Homer Ferguson, | Republican, 7; Senator Prentiss M. Dgmocrat, 6. | 'RICHARD NEUBERGER VISITS IN JUNEAU Lieut. Rx(,hnrd L. Neuberger, Pub- lic Relations Officer on the staff | of Brig. Gen. James A. O’Connor, Commanding, Northwest Command, Whitehorse, arrived in Juneau today for a visit,of several | days. Lieut. Neuberger, well - known man and magazing writer from Portland, Ore., now 1s busy making preparations for cere- |monies which will mark the for- mal opening of the new Alaskan highway ori November 20. He has traveled widely in Alaska the Territory, including sketches of | Gov. Ernest Gruening and Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. e The practice of inhaling snuff, became common in England in| the 17th century. | plans were E. L. Keithahn, C. {for the Territory, and Mrs. Service | 'ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM IS SET BY LEGION POSI Full celebration of Armistice Day November 11 was planned last night at a meeting of Alford John Brad- ford Post of the American Legion, with Army personnel joining the meeting to discuss means of cele- orating the anniversary of the nding of the last World War. With the announcement that theé Fort Ray Band, 28 strong, will make the trip from Sitka to. be here for Armistice Day, Legion and Army men last night made plans to hold a big parade, prob- ably to be in the afternoon. Several concerts will be given by the band, some scheduled for the schools. A speaker will be asked to give a talk sometime during the day, probably in the morning, it was | decided. At the meeting last night, named |as committee members to complete the formulation of Armistice Day C. Carnegie, Waino Hendritkson, Bert Lybeck and Al Zenger. Committee members will meet with Col. Frederic Nichols again tonight, as well as with Fred Ayer, Deputy War Savings Administrator John McCormick, chairman of the Gas- tineau Channel War Savings Com- mittee, in a session to be held in the Governor's Home. At the Legion meeting last night, Major C. F. Scheibner, Lieut. How- ard L. Granby and Frank Sprat- lin of the armed forces became |members of this post ———————— LONDON, Nov. 3—It has been disclosed that two Catholic priests and two nuns were brutally mur- dered by Japanese soldiers in the the fighting for Ametican occupation The four missionaries were bayo- netted in the throat. One was Am- erican. The news was withheld un- til it couid be confirmed. PRSI Sl i BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | | ) without even leaving Washington, it o NEW TAXES UP PRICES ONLIQUOR (Cigarettes and | Cigars Also | Effected by Fed- eral Levy Topers will have to be rich men before this war is over. The latest ‘ederal tax on whiskey, effective in Alaska as well as in the States, amounts to $2 on each gallon of 100 proof whiskey—50 cents a quart. And the same tax applies to brandies and other strong li-| quors from a strength of 24 per-| cent on up. Wines aren’t exempt from the| new excise taxes. Taxes which the consumer will have to pay range from 2 cents on a gallon up to 35 cents a gallon, Most wines will have a 10-cent a gallon tax which applies to those in the 14 to 21 percent bracket. The new taxes also apply to to- bacco, but the increase amounts to only a fraction of the price of a good cigar and % a cent a pack- age on cigarettes. Take Inventories Meanwhile, the Juneau Office of Internal Revenue urges all retail- ers who have not. already done so, take inventories of their floor stocks. The new act imposes & floor stock tax ‘on these articlés which will call for payment of the differences between old and aew rates affecting all large cigar and small cigarettes in the hands | of dealers and manufacturers at the close of business October 31. The inventory of cigars should be hbroken up and listed at the retail prices of not more than 25 cents each, more than 25 cents and not more than 4 cents, more | than 4 cents and not more than J cents, more than 6 cents and Jot more than 8 cents, more than cents and not more than 11 cents, more than 11 cénts and not more than 15 cents, more than 15 cents and not more than 20 cents, more than 20 cents, and not more han 30 cents, and more than 30 cents. Forms Will Come Inventory figures should be re- -ained for insertion in the return| corm when received and for the nformation and assistance of dep- Aty collectors in verifying the re- urn and the inventory. The law requires filling of a complete and accurate return of Joor stocks taxes with the Collec- -or of Internal Revenue, Tacoma, Wash., by December 31, such re- urns to be accompanied by remit- tance of the floor stocks tax due. Forms are not yet received from the printer. Further and more detailed in- formation may be received by call- ng on the Deputy Collectors in the Office of Internal Revenue in he Federal and Territorial Build- 1ing. VICTORY TO (OME SOON, SAYS SOONG Chinese ‘Foreign Minister Optimistic on Pa- cific War CHUNGKING, China, Nov. 3. Foreign Minister Soong said- today n his first press conference since ceturning from a trip to Washing- ton, D.C., that he left the United States “fully and completely as- that victory is not In the distant future.” He said that he came China with the impression that he “greatest difficulties are over uter leaving with a feeling of re- *strained optimism,” sured back o KOKODA IS TAKEN: JAPS CHASED OUT 'Bombers in_lanning Fight with Convoy Through- out Entire Day GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, Nov. 3.—Allled ground forces have recaptured Kokoda, the chief inland base of the Japanese on New Guinea, and have frus- trated Japan's attempt to land strong reinforcements at Buna, strategic coastal base, 60 miles east of Kokoda, the Allled Command an- nounced. The Jap forces at Kokoda fled. The midday communique told how Allled bombers chased away an en- emy convoy and carried on a run- ning fight with it throughout the day yesterday. ‘The Allles damaged two transports carrying about 7,000 men by many hits and at least one direct hit on one vesel. JAP BASES, SOLOMONS BOMBARDED But Enemy Still Landing Reinforcements on Guadalcanal WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.~United States destroyers today were mov-s : ing in to belch projectiles at Jap: camps on Guadalcanal Island, the Navy reported, and American aerial attacks against the enemy con-, tinues full blast. But at the .same time, despite our air and sea attacks west of vital Henderson Field, the Japs have succeeded in landing troop; reinforcements east cf the Ameri-. can flying base on the north coast of Guadalcanal, Revises Report Repomnl in more detail on the battle off the Stewart Islands on October 26, the Navy said that two urcraft carriers, one battleship and five cruisers of the enemy's Tleet were bombed and damaged. This latest report on the Stewart Islands battle, about 26 miles northeast of Guadalcanal, revised the Navy's original statement of’ damage to the enemy by eliminat- ing from the list of ships hit, one battleship, substituting a cruiser and adding another cruiser, Substitute Craiser One heavy bomb hif a u.m cruiser, the Navy said, previously reported as a battleship. Also added to the previous re- port was an account of how four heavy bomb hits were scored on a Jap cruiser of the Mogami class. KETCHIKAN FISHERMAN GETS GIANT KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 3.— Handline fishing on the Ketchikan wharf for three-pound cod, long- shoreman Roy McDougall thought at first he had snagged bottom. He then borrowed a dory and brought a huge halibut to the surface where he killed it with an oar and hauled it up on the pier with a half-inch chain and wind- lass. The fish proved to weigh 405 pounds, the largest ever caught on a handline here. Although worth forty to fifty dol- Iurs the legal halibut season is |over, and McDougall must eat the fish all by himself or give it away to friends. BUY DEFE!s€ BONDS | J