The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. LX., NO. 9190. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TERRIFIC SEA BATTLE RAGING, SOLOMONS | North Africa In Allied Hands; Nazis SIX KILLED INFLAMING DORMITORY Kaiser Shifia_rd Workers in Vancouver, Wash., Die During Fire VANCOUVER, Wn. Nov. 14. Coroners’ assistants searched today. for bodies in the smoldering ruins of a shipyard dormitary, which burst into sudden flame last night, trapping at least six persons. Officials of the Henry Kaiser shipyard had no idea of how many were caught inside the two-story wooden structure as the list of oc- cupants was destroyed with the building. Six bodies, burned beyond rec- ognition, were found. Forty other persons were injured, none grayely. Deputy Sheriff Fred Greenwood sald that the fire evidently started in a wastebasket in the building. He noticed the smoke while on an inspection tour, traced it to a linen storage room and as . he opened the door “it seemed to ex- plode all over the room” end he ran to warn the occupants. ———i AMBY FREDRICK LEAVES Amby Fredrick, Executive Officer of the Boy Scouts of America, has left for Petersburg on Scout busi- Dess. The Washington Merry-Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — Shortly after the Administration got word of its resounding electoral rebuff, a group of the President's staunchest sup- porters on Capitol Hill got together for a post mortem to see how and why it all happened. They also talked over plans by which the President could win back the wan- ing confidence of the public, be- cause, as one young Congressman expressed it: “Political leadership is just about as important as military leadership. You can’t run a war unless you have the country behind you. And if we aren't careful we'll have a political Libya.” Chief conclusion reached at this | session—and it included leaders who had sweat, bled and almost died for Roosevelt politically—was that he would have to sacrifice his “expend- ables.” When an army is retreating, a small force is left bheind to cover the retreat and be sacrificed to the enemy. They are “expendables.” The “expendables” proposed by the Roosevelt advisers were not val- uable shock troops, but the men who had been responsible for economic, political and diplomatic Pear! Har- bors, the men — and women — in whom the public has lost confidence. These, they said, are the “expend- ables.” . “Why sould we ask young men to give their lives at the front,” asked one Roosevelt rooter who himself has been under fire, “when old dodos in the Cabinet have made blunders which are going to pro- long the war. Their resignation may cause hurt feelings, but as be- tween that and seeing boys suffer at the front, I'm for hurt feelings.” So it was agreed unanimously to put their idea up to Roosevelt, and tell him that the resignation of the Joneses, the Perkinses, the Knoxes, the Hulls, the Weinbergs, the Nel- sons and the Rosenwalds was the only thihg which could restore con- fidence. But it was NOT unani- mously agreed to how the idea could be sold to the President. In fact, knowing FDR's well- known aptitude for being soft with his friends, it was even doubted whether he would listen. REASONS FOR DEFEAT Private estimates of election re- turns made for the White House by the Democratic National Committee (Continued, on Page Four) Eddie Rickenbacker | Is Safe After Three Weeks on Rubber Raft WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—Daunt- less Eddie Rickenbacker, famous American World War I ace, has Navy announces, three weeks after {his _plane radioed that it was about out of gasoline and then van- ished in the Pacific. Rickenbacker was picked up from a rubber raft bobbing. in the sea by a Navy Catalina flying boat, along with two members of his crew, about 600 miles north of Samoa. Three other Army fliers who were along on the survey of the Pacific were located on an island and res- cued. The pilot, Capt. Cherry, Jr., of Abilene, Texas, an- Inounced yesterday that the sev- enth man, Sgt. Alexander Caczmar- czyk, 52 years old, died of exposure | | One of the greatest stories the war has brought to Alaska has been been rescued in good condition, me" war zone in air’ force operations | Willlam T. i&ing Sea Eskimos | Will Give Any Japs V ery Warm Receplon several days ago. Col. Hans Adamson, Pvt. John| Bartek and others were on rafts. Adamson is in good condition, | Bartek’s condition is serious from | exposure but he’s expected to re- lcover | The three men who were locat- ed on an island by a U.S. Navy | officer are T. J. Whitaker of Bur- lingham, Calif.; Lieut. De Angelis, of Pennsylvania, and Sgt. Reynolds | of California. EDDIE'S WIFE HAPPY NEW YORK, Nov. 14—Mrs. Ed- die Rickenbacker said upon learn- | ing the good news of her husband’s | rescue, “I can't speak too highly of the wonderful cooperation of the Army and Navy. I wish Icould thank every one who participated personally.” | the one that works the best, accord- | ing to Major Marston, is to tell {escape from the pincer movemem{ | gomery : HITLER ASKS NIPPONS FOR AID IN WAR Jap Envoys H;ve Been in Berlin Confab for Four Days ‘ BERLIN, Nov. 14—All Japanese chiefs on diplomatic missions in Europe have been assembled in | Berlin since November 10, and for the past four days have thorough- ly studied the development of the sibuation in greater East Asia, as well as Europe, a Jap Embassy AXIS PLANES, FLEEING, ARE SHOT DOWN Eastern libyaitleared of Enemy to 40 Miles West of Tobruk BULLETIN—LO? 14. — British and American forces, working together - with superb tactics have practically completed total occupation in North Africa, meeting little re- sistance as Axis forces, shattered and . unnerved are being cut down in attempts to flee. Tripoli, | communique announces. ‘remaining Axis stronghold | Such a conference at this hour pointing toward Sicily and Italy, |suggested strongly that Hitler might | { is expected to be in Allied hands | e calling on his Oriental ally to momentarily. Tunisia is |"Vfld'fi_ | perhaps open a second front in| and capitulation of enemy iS |giheria or to begin diversion at- reported. The French are fight- ing with the Americans and British. tack upon the British in India or occupied Madagascar. This is directly in line with re- ports heard In Turkey at the out- set of the new North African cam- paign, but the Japs then declined, saying they didn't have enough shipping strength for such attacks. CIVIL DEFENSE NOW HAS TOTAL OF 343 MEMBERS CAIRO, Nov. 14—Long range Al- lied fighter planes have shot down seven Axis aircraft out of a for- mation of about 60 speeding from North Africa toward Sicily in their of Anglo-American troops The British Eighth Army mean- while has cleared Eastern Libya of Rommel's tattered Army to a point 40 miles west of Tobruk. With the words of Gen. Mont-| “On with the task and| good hunting to you all” ringing | in their ears, the tireless troops overlooked so far, mainly because | them that the Japs heed meat and officials have been a little reluct- | gre going #to take over the Bering ant to accept the responsibility of | Sea region if they can and make releasing the news. But the West- | 4) of the Eskimos herd reindeer for ern Defense Command several | them That one really brings them weeks ago okehed a story which|yp in arms. The Eskimo doesn't| irevealed that the Alaska Territorial | jike to herd reindeer. | Guard is being formed all over Al- | They're Tolerant aska, and since the Japs visited | |the region .this story is concerned ‘ wg;;‘ :::l:s t:x‘rtmthnemd::;a “;fifi‘ with only about 16 months ago. 1t} oq) gy tneir fish and take their |doesn't seem that the publication | L "o 4 throw them on the is going to tell them anything they | o, nq the organizers have found | clon’t alreddy know. < *_ lout. They're inclined to be slightly 1t is concerned with Major M. R.| 0 ¢olerant about the latter pos- | | Marston of the U. S. Air Corps, now | sibility than the first, lon detached duty for the Alaska |~ "L "o ‘Major - A job Territorial Guard, and the job he from now on out to distribute arms has taken on—that of organizing | .= o .;ition where ATG com- and equipping the 20,000 Eskimos l‘pnmes have been organized. He'll | ‘who live around the Irmge“?rt;he; do the job with airplane, boat and Bering Sea into military units that | ;.. "o m gepending on which is will resist any attempt at Jap In- |,y yapie ‘and adaptable. Ammuni- vasion with everything they have at | tion and guns will be .cached in| {helr- dispokal. !igloos in some places and a note sent into the village, which may be many miles across the tundra, tell- ing the Office of Indian Affairs teacher who is usually the captain, to send his men after them. Volunteer 100 Percent Already in 28 villages around the Bering Sea, the Eskimos have vol- ‘unteered for the ATG 100 percent, | men, women and children. Age limit Big Job Major Marston has taken on quite a job. His territory is large and the work has only just begun—and his duties with the Eskimos will continue until 16 months after the | war is over. As most Alaskans already know by now, units of the Alaska Terri- rial Guard have been organized 11 over the Territory—from Ket- chikan to Point Barrow and on St. Lawrence Island also, just a few miles from Siberia. The War De- | partment is equipping Alaska’s civ- ilian army with rifles and ammuni- | tion. | Gov. Ernest Gruening, their Com- | mander-in-Chief, and his aides, ap- ! point a captain and several lieuten- ants for each outfits. The arms are distributed as soon as possible. From | then on it's up to the Guards. Up in the Bering Sea, Major | Marston can tell you, the response among the Eskimos has been more | than terrific Eskimos Cooperate Here's a bird’s eye view of how the natives are cooperating: When the organizers of the ATG— Carl F. Scheibner and others—ar- rive in one of the far-flung settle- ments to the north, they call a village meeting. For years, Uncle Sam, the white man, has visited the Eskimos with calico and beads, missionaries and bibles, education. Now the organ- izers explain through interpreters, Uncle Sam is on the spot . The Jap {is on the warpath. This time Uncle Sam is going to give you something —rifles and bullets—but he’s going to ask something of you in return He wants your help in defending America. Several approaches have been tried on the Eskimos to get them pepped up about the project: But Gov. Gruening, Major Marston, Maj. | is 16, younger if you can pass for | |16. Even some women may be used. Some of the Eskimo belles shoot | better than their husbands. In a speech in Juneau several weeks ago, Gov. Gruening said that {if the Japs do attempt a landing on | Alaskan soil, it is expected that this | will be in the Bering Sea region. | The Eskimos will be waiting for | ‘them. And an Eskimo who can put | a bullet through the head of a seal, 'quite a bit smaller than a Jap's ! noggin, doesn’t miss very often. At on village, Major Marston ask- ed the chief: “We give you gun and ammunition. What you do?” “Shoot Jap like shoot wolf,” was | the answer. And the Eskimo pointed | significantly to a spot right smack | between his eyes. He's a Sourdough i Major Marston has been in Ju- neau for a brief visit before return- ing to the north. In Alaska when | he was a youth, he has spent most 'of his life Outside, but returned about two years ago in uniform and says he intends fo stay in Alaska. He's a qualified sourdough, too. Major Marston has found that if you want to keep from freezing to death at night in the Arctic, you do as the Bskimo does—crowd to- gether in the same shelter for| warmth. He slept one night with a hunting party including the squaws, jgot his reputation as a murdnugh‘ without losing his reputation. He | has fulfilled the other requirements | also, pursued the Axis forces beyond Ga- : Nurses’ Aides uass Have zala. Bombers and fighters continued to roar constantly overhead. The front line communique dis- closed that the Tunis airdrome, where the Germans were last re- ported in control, was heavily bombed and machine - gunned Thursday night in the third such attack. BERLIN'S ADMITTANCE BERLIN, Nov. 14—The German High Command announces the Brit- ish are attacking Rommel’s forces in eastern Libya” with undimin- ished force on a wide front.” e STUDENTS ARRIV HERE FROM SOUTH T0 ENLIST IN ARM To enlist in the armed forces in Juneau, three university students arrived here this week from the south. Lee Lucas, son of Mayor and Mrs. H. 1. Lucas, Paul Coke, who made his home here for several years when his father, an official with the Alaska Juneau Gold Min- ing Company, was stationed here, and Alex Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs Charles Miller. . Pictures Taken and Join First Aid Corps The instructor and fourteen out of the sixteen graduates of the| Nurses' Aide class took the official oath of office as members of the First Ald Corps of the Juneau Civ- ilian Defense Council last night, said Director R. E. Robertson today. A number of group pictures of the class with their instructor were taken by Lee Lucas in the Terri- torial Public Health Center offices; last evening. i Official OCD membership cards |were issued to each, and official arm bands will be given to them as |soon as a supply can be obtained. The new members will be asslgnedl for duty by Mrs. Jessie McCrary, Director of the First Aid Corps, to various first aid stations through- out the city. » | These new members increased the total official membership of the Juneau Civilian Deefnse organiza- tion to 334; but, a need still exists for air raid wardens, particularly in some districts where the residents | and property owners have failed to volunteer for service. A few more | Slélin Praises American British African Campaigns; ENGAGEMENTS TAKE PLACE IN Opens Way for Axis Collapse SOUTH PACIFIC as first rate organizers of the African campaign and expressed confidence the campaign will soon relieve the German pres- sure on the eastern front. Stalin pledged the Russian Army will carry out its part of the war task with honor. (COPYRIGHTED BY ASSO- CIATED PRESS) MOSCOW, Nov. 14.—Joseph Stalin asserted teday the Am- erican and British campaigns in Africa have turned the mili- tary and political position in Europe radically in favor of the Allies and are opening the way for the early collapse of the German-Italian Axis. The Soviet leader praised the American and British leaders The statements were made in the second exclusive letter to Henry Cassidy Associated Press correspondent in Moscow. $5,560Bonds GENOA H Sold Through IN BRITISH Band Concerts AIR ATTACK in LONDON, Nov. 14—Home-based last British bombers returned to attack Italy’s supply port of Genoa last night and started many large fires, In the last public concerts Juneau, the Fort Ray Band evening appeared at the 20th Cen- tury Theatre in a War Bond Drive and gave a concert in the Alaska the Air Ministry announces. Native Brotherhood Hall. | Every plane returned from the On the program following the hazardous 1,500-mile round trip. first show at the 20th Century -The Itallan High Command ac- last ntght: Mrs. John McCormick, knowledged that Genoa was bombed representative of Frederick Ayer, heavily and severely damaged in Deputy War Bond Administrator, the second such blow in a week. introduced the leaders and Major -+ M. R. Marston, who gave a short talk on how the Eskimos are help- ing the war effort by purchasing - bonds. | A feature of the program was the introduction of the son of the bandmaster and the threé pairs of | brothers who are members of the| band. Then the 14-piece orchestra | played a group of numbers with/ one'of the band members, nick- named “Porky” as soloist. The bandmaster Introduced the or-! wASHINGTON, Nov. 14. — Last chestra leader and the audience learned that the band includes three {‘,ifi":ee:_'::,dmz,m:e::; o::;‘::: orchestras as well as a churchl, study of a program that will en- orchestra. able them to resume their educa- The purchase of two $1,000 bonds tjon after the war. rated a special number from the| The President also plans to send band. Total purchases for the WO ceftain soldiers, selected solely on :;g:;s of bond programs Were tnejr ability, to colleges during in bonds and $1730 in the war for “highly specialized stamps. Buyers of bonds may el quties” in the armed forces. them the first of the week at the| p, signing the men-nce‘ draft m:;::r.McCormlck S s bro bill, the President said the “suc- gram with a short message from oo 5 i AR the War Bond Staff, thanking the American Legion, the 20th Century Theatre, the Fort Ray Band, news- papers and the public for the co- operation in the Bond Drive this week, year-olds.” e FLIER DEAD, Appear at School Other concérts during the day .quires the drafting of 18- and 19- auxiliary polfcemen are also needed - 2y the bgnd included an appear- ance in the afternoon at the, school FIVE HURT STOCK GUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 73%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem| | Steel 57%, Commonwealth and| | Southern 11/30, Curtiss Wright 8%, | International Harvester 55, Ken- ARC OFFICIAL, AND . MRS- “ER“"G HER Inecott 20%, New York Central 12, | Northern Pacific 74, United States Hawley Sterling, Assistant Chief | Steel 49%, Pound $4.04 Engineer of the Alaska Road Com- mission, returned to his Juneau headquarters last night from the | Westward. Mr. Sterling has been in | charge of construction work on the mer Highway with the Richardson Grant Highway, connecting the Pal- | Mr. Lucas and Mr. Coke were both students at U. C. L. A., while Mr. Miller has been attending the | University of Washington. | HAWLEY STERLING, DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 116.24, rails 2827, utilities 14.44. 4 PRICES FRIDAY Highway, where he has spent the| 0500 Juneau mine stock closed | Mrs. Sterling returned to Juneau Friday at 2%, American Can 73%, with her husband after having |Anaconda 26%, Bethiehem Steel| spent the months since spring at|57%, Commonwealth and Southern Copper Center. ,11/30. Curtiss Wright 8%, Interna- — | tional Harvester 54%, Kennecott| |29%, New York Central 12, Nor-| EMB AR ASSI“G ern Pacific 7%, United States Steel | 149, Pound $4.04. | | Dow, Jones averages Friday were | NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Sept. 20.—|as follows: industrials 11626, rails Noblesville police asked state v.roop-.;28v22. utilities 14.46. i ers and Indianapolis police to help| —— - | find a stolen automobile. It was| | black, contained a sawed-off shot-| ‘In 1787 the first Shaker Soclety gun, and had “Noblesville Police|in the United States was organ- Department” painted on the sldes.;hed, where grammar school students were entertained. C. C. Carnegie| introduced the leaders and Lieut Sidney George, who gave a short talk In the evening, Waino Hendrick- son introduced the leaders at the ANB Hall an4 Lieut. George spoke Today the band is appearing at the Duck Creek Camp and tonight members will be guests of the AWVS at the Service Men's Dance in the Elks Ballroom Sunday the band will appear at Douglas and Monday, Rotary Club members are treating members of the band to a trip out the Glacier Highway. Juneau residents willing to donate their cars are askea Lo telephone Hank Harmon. ~ IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, Nov. 14.—A Navy two- motored flying boat crashed on the beach at the north end of Lake Washington yesterday, ing the co-pilot, Ensign W. C. Davis, others of the nine-man crew. The injured were carried to the home of Dr. J. R. Binyon. Mary Daniels, lake resident, said: “The nolse was terrible. I rushed out and saw the big ship lying broken right in two.” Four officers and five men were aboard the ship on a routine flight i |from the Sand Point Naval Air station |E i e , 1 - ! LONDON, Nov. 14. — Official BERLIN, Nov. 14. — A Bangkok Yugoslav quarters, quoting travel- dispatch fromDNB said that a lers from Italy, say that the first fierce typhoon has killed 11,000 four raids on Genoa caused dam- persons and destroyed 700,000 dwell- age aggregating $200,000,000. ings in the past week in southern - Thailand, | BUY DEFENSE BONDS | kill- ! USNR., and injuring five 1 ?Navy Com—rfinique De- ' clares Both Americans, | Japanese Suffer Losses STRIFE CONTINUES; DETAILS WITHHELD Nippon Headquarters Ad- mit Conflicts Taking Place,Guadalcanal /ASHINGTON, Nov. 14. — The Department reports a serles naval engagements are in proyress in the Solomon Islands area and “both American and Jap- anese forces have suffered losses.” The Navy communique says the actions began on November 12 and November 13, Solomons’ time, but suld no details will be reported while the battle continues. The communique pointedly used the term a “serles of naval engage- ments” to make it appear,that a number of scattered encounters are taking place between the forces which' have been trying for three months to win domination of the watres in the Solomons area. JAPS ADMIT BATTLES TOKYO, Nov. 14—The Japanese Imperial Headquarters announced today that two Japanese destroyers have been Bsunk and a Japanese battleship’ has been damaged in tierce battles that are continuing off, Guadalcanal. The Japanese state-- ment declares Allied losses are six cruisers and destroyers that have been sunk, two cruisers and three destroyers heavily damaged, three transports set afire and 19 planes shot down. ‘There s no confirmation of the Japanese statement from any other source. b o BLASTTW JAP SHIPS, SEA FIGHT MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Nov. 14— Heavy Allied bombers today blasted two light Japanese cruisers and set fire to a transport in the same | Buin Faisi area, north of the Solo- ! mons, where only Friday four troop laden transports were bombed. The Allied High Command makes the report in a communique today and also told of continued success of Allied ground troops fighting | thelr way toward the northeast New Guinea coast in the Gorarl area, where a Japsv.ese force was surrounded an¢ Lanihilated earlier in the week. The bodies of five officers and more than 500 men were counted in the jungle. At Ofivi, where another Jap force was pocketed, several hundred ad- | ditional dead were found. ALASKA COASTAL ' BRINGS FOUR ~IN FROM SITKA | Passengers arriving here from | Sitka yesterday afternoon with Al- |aska Coastal Airlines were A. D. Stewart, John Cooley, James E. Gurine and Peter E. Shannon. This morning Alaska Coastal made a flight to Sitka with mail and express. i - It is estimated that Japan suf- fers four minor earthquake shocks (every day. - Ousted