The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1942, Page 1

| THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LX., NO. 9182. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942 ALL THE TIME” LASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE_TEN CENTS ROMMEL’S ARMY IS IN FULL RETREAT U. S. Army STIMSONIS | 't RATEOVER [ LIMITATION War Secreiar_yCaIIs Year's ! Training Amendment || "Prewar Mentality’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — The | Army has disclosed plans for add- : ing five new infantry divisions in the next two months, and Secre- | tary of War Henry Stimson spoke i out against what he called the “prewar mentality” of those who insist on requiring a full year’s training for the younger draftees. He was referring to the Senate @& approved amendment to the bill to draft 18- and 19-year-olds, re-! quiring such minimum training for | them. Stimson told his press conference today “national disaster may re- sult” from such restrictions on the & Army. Activation of the five addition- al infantry divisions in November | and December will bring the strength of the Army to some four-score divisions, well past 4% million men. The Washi_ngtuil Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert B. Allen on active duty.) { { | | 3 t“ " PR passes over head. It was here that (Drew Pearson today awards | the Washington Merry-Go- | Round plastic ring to the grand old man of the Senate, George Norris of Nebraska.) America's Yankee Doodle Boy Dies; George C(ohan Passes. Away in New York Corner” Vs U. S. Marines sit in brush in “Hell's Corner” at the mouth of the Matanikou River on Guadalcanal Island as a U. 8. Navy scout bomber Japs retreated down river, attacked a numerically inferior number of Marines at night and were wiped out. WASHINGTON. — Last Tuesday, George Norris of Nebraska fought! a climactic battle. He lost. The odds were against him. But the! odds have been against him in! every other battle he has fought, and he never hesitated to give bat- tle. It was the same way when he CARRYING ATTACK ON fought to smash the “Ohio Gang” around Warren Harding; when he pushed the bill to autlaw “yellow dog” contracts, when he fought for passage of the “lame-duck” amend- ment, and when he battled the pri- vate power interests to harness the Tennessee Valley. The odds were always against him. But the tough- er the battle, the harder he fought. Senator Norris today is eighty- one. And until a few weeks ago he felt that he was entitled to hang up his armor. But friends in Ne- braska and Washington, who hated to see one of the nation’s greatest liberals retire, urged him to run— though he faced enormous handi- caps. This time both Republican and Democratic candidates were opposing him. His name had to be written in on the ticket. ” So, facing these odds, Norris took on what was his last great battle. NORRIS’ FIRST FIGHT It was just twenty years ago that the Senate broke into hilarious laughter over an amendment re- lating to the “lame-duck” session. Sponsored by the Farmers’ Union of Arkansas, the amendment pro- vided that Senators who had al- ready been defeated, but were still seated, should abstain from voting. As a joke, the amendment was referred to the agriculture com- mittee, because it was sponsored by farmers, and because it dealt with “ducks.” But George Norris took hold of the idea. He had often been struck by the absurdity of holding a ses- slon composed partly gf men al- ready defeated, while newly elect- (Continued on Page Four) ® 00 000w w0 oo WEATHER REPORT . (U. 8. Bureau) L Temp. Wednesday, Nov. 4 Maximum 31, minimum 27 P00 0000000 - JAPANESE U. S. land Fo?es at Guad- " alcanal Make Small Gains WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-—United States land forces at Guadalcanal, carrying the attack to the enemy, made several small gains and cap- tured about 20 machine guns and two small artillery pieces. | CAPTURE ENEMY PIECES WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — The Navy announced late this afternoon that American defenders on Gua- dalcanal killed 350 Japs in suc- cessful actions on the American western flank on November 3. The communique said also that |the Americans have opened attack fon reinforced enemy troops on the |eastern flank. It was announced that the suc- cessful attacks on the west also have resulted in the capture of three field pieces, twelve 37mm light artillery guns and 30 ma- |chine guns. It also said that U.S. naval forc- es shelled enemy positions near Kokumbona on the north coast of Guadalcanal. ——————— MR. AND MRS A. BEAUDIN TO VISIT IN SITKA Mr. and Mrs. A. Beaudin arrived in Juneau yesterday and left this morning for Sitka where they will visit for a ‘short time on their way south on a combined business and vacation trip. | . Mr. Beaudin was manager of the | Baranof Hotel Cocktail Lounge un- til a year ago when he left to take over the management of Richmond’s 1 Cocktail Lounge in Anchorage. They will return to Juneau for several days before continuing south, | NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—George M. {Cohan, 64, one of the most loved | characters in the American show | business, died early today follow- ling a long illness. The widow and | two daughters survive. George M. Cohan, once aptly | described as a “drama practitioner,” was dancer, actor, dramatist, pro- DEMOS STILL IN CONTROL fl.ate Returns Show 219 Seafs, Bare House Ma- jority-Have Senate ! (By Associated Press) | | Nearly complete returns ‘from | ‘Tuesday's general election disclosed today that the Republicans have | drained off the once formidable | Democratic majorities in Congress |so that the level might ebb in Re- }publican favor on important legis- | lation. The 48 state governorships are | divided about equally between Dem- | ocrats and Republicans, | GOP gains in congressional and state contests exceeded the bright- est hopes of Republican fore= | casters. They almost turned the Demo- crats out of even nominal control of the House. | Late returns showed that the Democrats have taken 219 House seats, one more than a bare major- ‘ity. | The Democrats, however, suf- |fered a net loss of 41 member: 'compared to the present House. ‘The Republicans elected 206 OF CONGRESS, ALLIES TO TAKE MORE OFFENSIVES . Americans, British Building SIKTY - NINE LEAVE HERE FOR SOUTH Sixty-nine passengers took pas- sage for the South last evening | Those leaving here were, for Ket- chikan—Phillip Sharp, J. E. Nee- dles, Sam Baker, W. Hesse, Robert Hume, Joseph Repik and Richard followed by other Allied offensives \; ' ; paas Mrs. Elizabeth Pura- to give relief to the embattled Rus- nen, Maria Osterbach, R. L. Gra- slans, Sir Stafford Cripps told an p,.; Tnomas Maxwell, Ida Bell audience of war workers this af- Heryford, W. J. Maloney. ternoon. | F. B. Ashby, Maybell Ashby, Ed- Sir Stafford said further: “This ward Kobals Charles Potts, W. K. is not the only diversion we can Tobias, Lyman Hake, Marvin El- dg' shall make to help our Russian more, Frank Johnson, Lee Farmer, Allies. Our strength and that of william Stolt, J. R. Kibbe, Jr., r American allies is being built jJohn Manitti, Gay Ashby, Evelyn | up ana offensives will be started in Maloney, 'W. F. Ulrich, Ernest Ty- other zones when this strength is ler, R. V. Brickeley, Carl Benson, manifest.” iA]Lon Frosberg, J. Derry. A s Merts Kristofferson, A. J. Caran- | {lanicia, James Fallis, Albert Wal- ‘lORD H Aur Ax’s |lace, William Caldwell, E. E. Clark, |McKinley Gibbs, Richard Emmons, representatives, a net gain of 41, In minor parties, the Progressi Bri 5 3 ':::{Hnlflu, the British Ambassador, 'elected two Representatives, loss of one seat. The Farmer Labor and Ameri- can Labor parties hold one seat ach. Six House races are still unde- | cided. In the present House, the Demo- | crats have a majority of 93 over the Republicans and five minor party members, The peak majority was in 1937, when the Democrats had 333 seats to 89 others. A LS NO WORRY ON RESULTS ‘An’red Willard, Ethel Jones, R. F. |Johnson, Stella Johnson, Henry _ WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — The tish Embassy says that Lord! Hoff, Floyd Johnson, John Carlson, M. L. Adams, Paul Fritz, Jack | Caldwell, Verle Moore and C. G. | Burdick. |had received word that his seoond‘MTlvE Glnl GIVE" !son, Peter Wood, had been killed | bl | SIX-MONTH SENTENCE Details were not available, the lembassy said. It was understood | Inez Johnson, Juneau native, has (that the Hon. Peter Wood was & been rearrested and committed to | captain in the Yorkshire Dragoons. the Federal jail to serve a six | LONDON, Nov. S Lisut.. Pater months’ sentence for violating her 2 . 5.~ ¢ A i ) Wood, son of Lord Halifax reported x‘)e:::lion OGS MiponoRd nen killed in action, was serving with ¥ the Royal Armored Corps in Egypt,( Hailed into court a month ago He was twenty-six and was servlng'"“" a fire had taken the life of as a temporary captain. ‘her infant, she was given a sus- | Before the war he was a cnpuln]pe“dcd sentence providing she re- in the Yorkshire Dragoons Yeoman- ‘turned to Angoon to live with her ry of the territorial army. jmother, Instead she remained in| - | Juneau. | LEAVES FOR SITKA Amby Fredrick, executive officer, of the Boy Scouts, left today for' Sitka in connection with Boy Scout | Stalingrad, o Be Increased Five Divisions AXIS FORCES ARE FLEEING, DESERT FIGHT Once Proud_(;;.rman, Ital- ian Army Falling Back- NAZI BASES TAKENOVER BY SOVIETS Successful Etm_lller-atta(ks Up S'reng'h —To Re- Gl::v‘mg for Seattle were Ralph' Nor'h Of S.'ahn-grad S " . A PI 4 % Swanberg, Meatle Hanes, Leo Bfing VI('OI'IeS | (@ erlnfl ny ace ! Ileve Russlans | Steiner, Beverly Lane, Leila Lane, ooy LONDON, Nov. 5-—Defeat orj;‘vf" é.:;":" G:pnrt:sgr;;vef‘;\]:l‘ huhvdeo i(:g:n T;v'nii ;hflmizufi::ne::"lllfo AR FOR(E Rommel's n‘rmles ;xx ‘P‘ngpt will be g’:‘;e A;z;n;e‘:sm; V{ Jl‘)onw-l:l‘:i]:::" Nazi efforts to expand the inva- (oml"u[ HI"I“G LER . | sion sallent in northern Stalin- grad, and in some places, the Red | Army has forced the Germans to abandon several basic points. Today's official dispatches say | that while bitter attacks and counter-attacks have developed about the ruined Volga River city, Red Army troops are credited with ! iocal gains in the northwest of Rome Communique Admits Rout While Berlin Makes Denial CAIRO, Nov. 5.—Marshall Er- win Rommel's Axis Desert Army is “now in full retreat” after losing 260 tanks, more than 300 alrcraft, 50,000 tons of precious supply-laden ships, 9,000 prisoners and at least 275 guns, a special communi- que announces. On the Black Sea front and! Mozdok sector of the central Cau- casus, a successful Soviet holding action is indicated before the Cau-| casian slopes and passes south- east of Nalchik. The Russian news agency Iz-| vestia said today that the battle | IN FULL FLIGHT of Stalingrad is characterized by CAIRO, Nov. 5. — Weakened by Red Army units. tured, killed, wounded or isolated 3 |In desert strongpoints, the once WM | proud Axis Army is in full flight ( To I-ET |hunt for a position ‘to avert .de~ struction. | Only the rearward moving scieen {of anti-tank guns and tanks are | shielding the bulk of Rommel's sought to parry the combined blows lof the American and British air- men. WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—Sena- Rommel his Axis units have tor Mon C. Wallgren of Washing- lost 9,000 men in the 24-hour bat- ton announced today that Chair- tle, besides enormous losses of Manpower Commission has noti-|Jected, streaming aimlessly here fled him that fishermen who ac-|and there, trying to escape or con- cepted other essential work dur-|centrate. ° ted to return to fishing during the hitting the foe in the main coastal season. 4 illne of retreat described as a veri- McNutt said that it has been re- table graveyard of smoking, twist- the growing maneuverability of Uhe l0ss of thousands of men, cap- |across Western Egypt in @ frantic African Corps, Impotent air forces RESUME JOBS . It is officially announced that man Paul V. McNutt of the War equipment. The Axis forces are de- ing the off season will be permit-| The Allied air forces keep up ported to him that many fisher-|ed tanks, armored cars and trucks. Rome acknowledges severe losses, ‘ducer, manager, composer and lyri- | cist, motion picture and talkie star |in a career that extended over more |than 40 years. Also he was some- |thing of a poet and was always a | baseball fan. | Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, | | quoting Victor Hugo's dictum that | melodrama was for the crowd, A tragedy for women and comedy for Abou' Ele(flon the thinker, once said that Cohan’s zenial satire and fun-provoking WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.— Vice- lines and antics had helped men' president Henry A. Wallace this {and women to become thinkers in | gfternoon declared the “President the modern American theater. |is in excellent spirits” despite the Cohan's efforts ran the gamut| gepublican election success. from being a boy prodigy violinist Coming out of the President's at the age of 5 to recognition inofrice Wallace told the reporters his mellow years as America’s ne had given the President a news- keenest stage interpreter of con-|paper clipping in which he said the temporary life. “There aren’t 20 argument was made that an unu- people who really know the man,” sually small number of the voters one commentator wrote, “but he g4t the election favored the Repub- knows more than 5,000 intimately.” jjcans, Owned Broadway | He said: “It is only by a mir- In New York he was “the man acle that the House isn't Republi- who owns Broadway.” To the can and under those circumstances theatergoers of a generation ago:ic doesn't look to me to be fishy. I n other cities he was the embodi- am not trying to make something ment of his “Yankee Doodle Boy” out of a fantasy, it's statistics.” song in “Little Johnny Jones.” To H | liernouse | his countrymen generally he was § f he composer of the World War Keeps Quiel song “Over There!"” | All told he wrote some 40 plays, On Election OF TUESDAY Vice-Presid;tFH. Wallace Talks with Roosevelt :ollaborated in the framing of 30 xore, turned out more than 100 songs, close to 200 vaudevnle" ’ketches and about a score of! soems. | Born on July 4 Cohan was born in Pl'ovu‘lem:e,l 1, to the popping of firecrackers WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — ind the waving of flags on Julylwmw House is silent on the Re- 1, 1878. His parents were troupers|puplican gains in Tuesday’s elec- >f old school variety shows, Jerry|tion. Johan g@nd Helen Costigan. A iaughter, Josephine, was also born o them and the family later be- came noted for its “act” as The Four Cohans. retary, when asked about the elec- |tion results, said to the newsmen: “I have not talked with the Presi- dent about the election and I am sure you would not be interested iin my own views,” (Continued on Pue Hve)" work. .. MRS. HAZEL KIRMSE Mrs. Hazel Kirmse, owner of gift and curio shops in Sitka and Skagway, arrived with Alaska Coastal Airlines today from #Sitka where she has been for several weeks in connection with her store there. She will leave soon to re- turn to Skagway. .- GREEN MAKES TRIP Richard Green, Sanitary Engi- neer for the U.S. Public Health Ser- vice assigned to the Teumritorial Department of Health, left last night for Ketchikan for a short business trip. - eee MRS. CAUTHORNE BACK Mrs. Mary K. Cauthorne, advis- ory nurse for public health nurses in the Territory, returned today after a week’s business trip to Sitka. e - FIRE BOYS TO MEET Members of the Juneau Volun- teer Fire Department are to hold their monthly meeting tonight in the Fire Hall in the City Hall Building. — ewve — SAM BAKER LEAVES Sam Baker, merchandise broker, left last night on a business trip to Ketchikan. FRANK A. METCALF HERE FROM SITKA ON BUSINESS Frank A. Metcalf, formerly City The Engineer of Juneau and long time | resident of this city, arrived yes- terday afternoon with Alaska Coast- al Airlines from Sitka where he Stephen Early, presidential sec- 15 hydrographic engineer with the| ppynpyirim Seims-Drake Company. Mr, Metcalf will be in the city for several days on business. SR The word graphite comes from the Greek “to write” - 26 Sinkings HERE FROM SITKA | | ol i | BERLIN, Nov. 5—A special com- munique from Hitler’s headquaiers | declares that “in far-flung opera- | ations extending from the Arctic o the waters south of Madagascar, German subs have inflicted fresh and heavy loses on enemy transport fleets,” claiming the sinking of 28 \rreighters totaling 168,000 tons. IT. COL M. E, MOLLET | " JOINS STAFF OF LT, | " (OL ROY W. RIEGLE Lieut. Colonel Mark E. Mollett | arrived here yesterday to join the staff of Lieut. Colonel Roy Riegle as Executive Officer. .- H. M. HOLLMANN HERE H. M. Hollmann arrived here yes- terday from Seward where he has been connected with the Army Transport Service for the last nine months, Mr. Hollmann, pharmacist and formerly owner of Hollmann's Drug Store here, expected to remain in Juneau. —————— MRS. F. P. KNAPP JOINS | HUSBAND IN SITKA Mrs. Forest P. Knapp arrived here from Anchorage this week and left this morning for Sitka to join her husband who is USO representative in the Baranof Island city. CRIME NEVER PAYS Ore.—Burglarizing | in Prineville is a discouraging busi- | ness. Police reported one prowler spent haif the night breaking inta three business houses. His total haul: $2, ] [ | azistiaim | |men are hesitant to accept work land the unique admits the | Italian German armies have they fear they might not be re- “Withdrawn to new lines in the leased when the fishing season West.” opens. “ ‘The Germans still deny the front McNutt said that he has ordered has been hreached but the Italian Alaska placed under the Seattle communique however, indicated the office of the WMC and has direct- | British Eighth Army has “spear- ed the Seattle director to see that headed the line with tanks that the viewpoints of the interests of | keep pressing on in flerce and the fishing industry are represent- | bloody fighting.” ed in planning action of the WMC | The British, early this afternoon staff in that district. |have not announced their present et positions. It is believed that Rom- us 0 S ' " mel has no large reserves behind To Arrive ‘him either in western Egypt or At today's Chamber of Com- Libya. merce meeting Harry Sperling an- | nounced that Juneau's USO staff lis scheduled to arrive here for sure by November 10. Transporta- don and other difficulties are re- |in lumbering and mining or any other essential activity because e GOING T0 GIVE AXIS sponsible for the delay. | Ho' TIME President C. W. Carter an-| nounced that the 28 members of . ne sika Army Band, seneauled EQYPTian Rout Is Only Sam- .0 arrive here next week, have been | avited 0 be guests o tne cnem-| PI€ Of What Germans ber at the next meeting. Closing of Juneau's liquor stores Gave 'o Fren(h wnd cocktall bars at 11 o'clock in| — he evening to help reduce delin-| LONDON, Nov, 5. — An official juency among service men ‘was|British source sald Rommel's Army proposed at the Chamber of Com- |18 “busted” and predicts the fate merce meeting in the Baranof Ho- Will be finally sealed soon. tel this noon. | This source said the United But no action was taken on the|States and British air forces and proposal. It was discussed briefly the British Army and Navy are and voted to bé the special order NOW engaged in what amounts to of business when the Chamber & MOPPIng up process. meets next Thursday. | This informant declared: “We Guests included Capt. O. K. Han- | ar¢ giving Herrenvolk a uniform sen of a boat in port, Seymour taste of what they gave the civil- Mouber, Office of War Information |1an population in France. We .in- radio representative for Alaska,|tend to keep on giving it to them. and Chief Clerk Ronald Brust of | This is only a prelude to what the the Alaskh Office of Indian Af- Germans and their Italian lackeys fairs, can expect in the next few months.” 5\ 1 4