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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
N|pp0N5 IN. NEW DRIVE,
 ISLAND AREA
Futile Attempt Made 10 Get Achievements 10
 Shattered Forces

In Washington, it is announced that desperate and repeated at tempts by Japs to reinforce the isolated remnants of their shattered forces on Guadalcanal Island have met strong American aerial resist ance.
 The Navy Department announced that the enemy suffered heavy losses of troops in small boats.
 The communique did not say whether or not all Japs were pre- vented from landing, and it is pre- sumed that some almost certainly did land Air attacks, however, are so devastating that their usefulness probably is not great.
 Allies Thrown Back
 From Gen. MacArthur's head quarters, yesterdays dispatches said that at cost of more than thou sand Jap casualties, the Japs threw back Allied troops in the Koko- damyola area, less than 50 miles east of Port Moresby.
 The Allied command communique said that the enemy, using both frontal attacks and enclrclement strategy, pushed westward toward a pass in the Owen Stanley Moun- tains to contact Allied defense posi- tions.
 
 Destructive Raids
 Last Sunday, Gen. MacArthur's headquarters reported that Allied air forces smashed at Japanese bases in New Guinea with three destructive raids on Buna in which numerous landing barges, boats and other equipment were destroyed. Attacks were also made at Kokoda to the west. Ground forces at Milne Bay continued to mop up remnants of Jap troops still holding out in the iungles near the bay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
HUNT FOR
 NEW TAXES
 CONTINUES
Senate Finance Committee Rejects Treasury Pro-
 posdI, Spending Levy

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-Reject- ing the Treasury's spending tax plan by a 12 to vote, the Senate Finance Committee today narrowed the hunt for new revenue largely to a proposal for new 5 percent Victory" levy on individual earn ings above $624 a year, or to the alternate 5 percent sales tax.
 Chairman Walter F. George oi Georgia, said the committee had rejected by voice vote, the $6la billion spending tax program sub mitted by the Treasury and is now considering the suggestion of a 5 percent tax raise for a total Of $3, $50 100000 yearly, of which sl.- 100000 will be rebated to taxpayers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
The W ashlngtOn Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-Here is an in side story on how different U. S. officials prosecute the war. The other day, the army needed 10000 bales of Egyptian long staple cotton and needed it quickly. Getting that much cotton out of Egypt at this time meant getting it practically out from under Rommels nose. It might get sunk, it might never leave Egypt.
 However, the War Department de- manded it, and Milo Perkins, head of the Bureau of Economic War fare. arranged for it's immediate purchase. He also wrote a directive, under his agreement with Jesse Jones, for the Reconstruction Fin ance Corporation to put up the money.
 Will Clayton, Jesse's right arm in the REC, was away. But when he came back, he stormed over to see Milo Perkins.
 I'm not going to do it. Clayton told Perkins flatly.
 "Yes, you are going to do it." Per kins shot back.
 "It's too risky" Clayton replied. you can buy that cotton with Ag- ricultural Department funds"
 Now look, Mir Clayton" said Milo .,,nder the president's order I have the power to set up a loan agency to buy things of this kind. So far I haven't set up such an agency, but have operated through you. However, if you're not going to cooperate, I'll set one up"
 And where will you get the money?" asked Clayton.
 "I'll get it from you. You forget, MT. Clayton, that it isn't your money. It's the taxpayers money and you are only the custodian. The War Department wants this cotton and they're going to get it.
 Finally Clayotn reluctantly agreed.
 NOTE: Will Clayton is one of the most charming and likeable men in Washington Before coming into the Government he was partner Tn Anderson and Clayton. worlds big gest cotton buyers A Democrat, he opposed Roosevelt on most things,
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
Air Forces Beating Of Japs Ln Solomon
President Demands ihai Congress Get Busy, Stall Initiation, or He Will Go
 Ahead Himself ;Dead|ine Eel

WASHINGTON, Sept. B. Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt has asked Congress, in vigorous lan- guage, for specific authority tc stabilize living costs including farm prices, by October l, as means of preventing economic chaos"
 BIuntIy, the President told the legislators in a special mes sage, that unless they acted, he would accept responsibility to act himself and take meas ures necessary to avert disaster that would interfere with the winning of the war, and in- action on your part will leave me the unacceptable respOnsibil- ity. The people of this country will see to it that the war eff fort is no longer imperilled by the threat of economic chaos" President Roosevelt pictured farm
 
 prices as the key to the imitation riddle. The President said the purpose of the demanded legislation should be to hold farm prices at parity or levels of a recent date, which ever is higher.
 Explanation of Demand
 Explaining why he wanted Cong ress to pass an anti-inflation act by October l, the President said:
 We cannot hold the actual cost of food and clothing down approximately to the present level beyond October l."
 The President further said no one could give any assurances that living costs could be held down after October 1 and what we need ed, the President said, is an "over- all stabilization on prices, salaries, wages and profits" in contrast to widespread predictions.
 The President provided no ad-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
FORTRESSES PRAISED
 FOR EFFICIENT WORK

LONDON, Sept. 8.-American fly ing fortresses, once criticized as de- ficient in fire power, are praised again after a precision raid on Rot terdam and Utrecht in occupied Holland yesterday
 Every one of the formation ot fortresses returned intact by fighting off a swarm of German fighters and shooting 12 of the best German planes out of the sky.
 With more crews and aircraft like these. there can be no doubt about mastery of the air over Eur ope," said Maj. Gen. Spaatzy Con- mander of the United States Air Forces.
 "The fortresses amazed the ex- perts again." the air correspondent of the London Daily Mail, wrote.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
TERRIFIC
 ASSAULTS
 RESISTED
Red Army Beat Off Ger mans on BdffIefieIds
 Stained with Blood
(By Associated Press)

The defenders of Stalingrad are this morning reported firmly re- grouped against the reinforced Ger man shock troops seeking to enlarge the new dangerous salient in the western defenses by nonstop attacks.
 The southwestern lines were also held during the night.
 The battlefields are stained with blood.
 One Red Army detachment took the initiative during the night by raid and destroyed the headquarters of the Rumanian battalion below the city. Eighty Rumanian officers and men were slain and seven Axis ammunition trucks were blown up.
 Break Nazi Wedge
 The Moscow communique this morning said the Germans wedged in the Russian positions in the Novorossisk area in the western Cau- casus have been driven back or held fast in the Mozdok region.
 In the central Caucasus the Ger mans have lost positions to the Russians, also on the northwestern front.
 The Red Army on Monday was reported hurling back the Germans northwest of Stalingrad and beat- ing off two strong assaults south west of the Volga stronghold
 Burn Boast
 The Nazis had boasted that Stall ingrad would be theirs on Monday
 The Germans on Monday were trying desperately to crack the last Russian defense of Stalingrad.
 Moscow dispatches Monday pie tured the Russians as trading blow for blow with the Germans since the defenders could retreat no further and save the steel town on the west bank of the Volga.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
PRESIDENT TALKS
 IN PRESIDE CHAT


 WASHINGTON, Sept. g. - Presi- dent Roosevelt last night carried to the people battle for stabili- zation of living costs with a radio address, asserting that immediate action is necessary to avoid ser ious domestic economic crisis, warning that If we wait two, three, four or six months it may be too late"
 The Presidents fireside chat also contained front-by- front sum- mary of the wars progress, closing with a statement that in Europe, the "aim is an offensive against Germany toward which prepara- tions are progressing both in the United States and Tn Great Britain. "Germany's power must be brok- en on the battlefields of Europe" !" he said Certain vital decisions will be made in due time and you will know what these are and 60 will our enemies.
 T can say that all of these de- cisions will be directed toward talk ing the offensive" he concluded.
 The White House made no early announcement concernng the exact time that the President would speak, because it was feared that Axis nations would make an att tempt to interfere with reception. Late yesterday, it was announced that the speech would be given at 5:30 p. m, Juneau time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
I5
 RILED OVER
 FR'5kE55AGE
Wage StdbiIizdtion, Farm Price Ceilings. Raise
 Criticism

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Wide- spread demands for statutory con- trol of wages came from members as an aroused Congress awaited the introduction of the legislative blue print of the Presidents new pro- gram to stabilize the cost of living.
 Roosevelt's statement that he would invoke his executive powers if Congress didn't act by October l to knock down the present statutory farm price ceilings and provide new taxes brought retorts that the Presi- dent is. pointing pistol at Con gress and waving a club setting out on the uncharted seas of Presi- dential authority.
 Criticism arose over the language with which he conveyed his ob- jectives to Congress in his message yesterday to the people in a radio fireside chat last night.
 These trends were discernable among legislators, but influential Democrats appeared agreed that overall controls over the nations economic machinery are needed.
 Many are contending that wages as well as farm prices should be stabilized by legislation, but farm state members rallied to insist that if ceilings be fixed for prices of agricultural commodities at parity levels. parity returns on all crops should be guaranteed the farmers by the Government.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
Defenses of Alaska and AIeufians Submitted by
 Senate Subcommittee;
 Is Highly Confidential

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-A con- lidential report on the Defenses ot Alaska and the Aleutians was given Monday to the Senate Military Af- airs Committee at a closed door session that lasted one hour and one-half
 The report was made by the Sub committee of Military Affairs headed by Senator Albert B. Chand- Ter of Kentucky.
 The report is known to have been embraced in last weeks rec ommendation by the President that Alaska must be held at all costs. ''
 Senators Mon c. Wallgren, Rufus c. Holman and Harold H. Burton were the other members of the subcommittee
 Very Confidential
 Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, told the report CTS later that the report was of such a highly confidential nature that the Committee agreed to make no comment whatsoever"
 Senator Chandler had previously told the reporters that he had rec- 9mmended to President Roosevelt immediate improvement in the Alaskan Military establishments, in- cluding airplane ferry routes to Alaska"
 "VitaI War Step"
 Senator Chandler said that ex- tensive development of agricultural and mineral resources of Alaska as "a vital war step" was recommend ed to Roosevelt by the Military Affairs b-committee, whose re- port included a comprehensive picture" of Alaska's potential ability to supply food for the military forces in the northwest.
 AS evidence of the agricultural resources which can be developed in view of the limited shipping for supplying this vast territory from United States farms, we looked over the Matanuska Valley colony and found this land growing nearly 30 bushels of wheat per acre, more than 21 of barley, and more than fl bushels of oats"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08

LONDON, Sept. 8. wins o n Churchill told the House of Com mons today that storming Hitler's Europe at Dieppe was an "indis- pensable preliminary" to bigger uu> dertakings.
 He said that Britain's army in Egypt is now stronger actually and relatively than 1t has eyer been."
 Britain, he reported in a war summary as Parliament reconvened, may be confident of our ability to maintain a successful defense of Egypt not for days and weeks, but for several months ahead"
 Continued Trend
 These specific details fitted into what Churchill termed the con- tinuing trend in the Allies favor since the last report, with complete accord between Britain and the U
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
ARMY TAXES OVER
 ALASKA RAILROAD

The Alaska Railroad, formerly under the Department of the In- terior. has been taken over by the United States Army to further the war effort. it was learned here today.
 The move has been expected for some time It is understood that the personnel will retain it's status quo,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
F0RTRE55E5
 MAKE RAID
 INDAYLIGHT
Operate Over 0e1upie q IeHifory-Roar Heard
 Across Channel

LONDON, Sept 8.-Flying fort resses, escorted by aircraft from the fighter command, operated over oc- cupied territory Monday morning.
 Presumably the fortresses were manned by Americans.
 The heavily armored four-motored bombers crossed the English coast heading for German positions in broad daylight Monday, continuing the offensive that was sharply chal- lenged by the German air fighting forces.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
BOMB DROPS
 ON I(ELAND;
 LONE RAIDER
Four Children Wounde d But No Military Damage
 Done Says Report

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. B. Four Icelandic children were wound- ed, one critically, by bomb dropped by lone German bomber near a village on the northeast coast.
 The United States Army Com mand announced the bomb caused no military damage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
BANKER MULLEN
 OFF FOR SOUTH

J. F. Mullen, President of the B. M. Behrends Bank, left Sunday for the south. He will conduct busi- ness in Seattle and San Francisco and will be absent for a month or six weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08

ministrative formula as to con- trolling living costs and made no mention of any all-powerful Board apparently thinking Congress could work out it's own methods of con- trolling an anti-inflation campaign or leave it to him to work out later.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
CHURCHILL ALSO HINTS
 OFFENSIVE
British Prim e Minister Times Speech with
 RooseveIf's Message

BULLETIN -- LONDON, Sept. 8.-The British Army is rapidly being strengthened in Iran and Iraq and may eventually give support" to Russia's imperilled left flank, Churchill disclosed this afternoon, indicating that British preparation to enter di- rectly in the battle for Russia if necessary is underway.
 Confidence was reflected by the British Prime Minister in the Allied situation generally in the air and at sea specfi- cally and also in the vital western desert in Egypt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
MALCOLM FAULKNER
 RETURNS TO SCHOOL

Malcolm Faulkner, son of MT. and Mrs. H. L. Faulkner, left by steamer over the weekend to re- turn to Lakeside School in Seattle, whre he is to complete his last year,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
MINARD GOES SOUTH

Al Minard, Superintendent of the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery at Taku Harbor, left for the south on Sunday,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-08
COOPER TO sITKA

J. c. Cooper. Public Accountant, flew to Sitka Saturday, on a pro- fessional visit,
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-12
Continued on Page 1O)
We||es Predicts
Huge Offensive
Marshall in London
Urging British On
BY MICHAEL CHINIGO
Intl New. Service stan Correspondent

Init News service stan correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 11.-Act-
ing Secretary Of State Sumner
Welles today indicated that Gen.
George c. MarShalls mission 10
London will result in offensiveS
this year to smash Axis and Japa-
nese forces on the worlds multiple
battle fronts.
The objective of the United
Nations strategy. Welles declared,
must be to crush the adversaries
wheRever-ti1c- opportunity pre-
sentS itself.
Welles made these statements
on London reports that General
Marshall and Munitions Car
Harry Hopkins are stressing 10
Britain's war leaders the impera-
tive need for smashing action now
For reasons of secrecy. Wellcs
declined TO be drawn out on pre-
cisely when or where a united
offensive might be undertaken. but
as 10 its advisability. he referred
10 the speech Soviet Ambassador
Maxim Litvinov made in Philadel-
phia last night in which Litvinol
asked for a united offensive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-12
Water Jeep
Ordered for
Mass Output
New Truck Exceeds
Present One for
Land, Seaeoine
WASHINGTON, April II INS'

WASHINGTON, April II GNS)
The war department today
placed orders with automobile
companies for mass production of
an undisclosed but large number
OF "seagoing jeeps.'
The amphibian trucks, which
will be built upon the chassis of
the quarter-ton "jeep" will be
capable of speed ranging from
10 10 so miles an hour.
To speed up production, Brig.
Gen. j. L. Frink. director Of motor
transport, placed the orders by
long distance telephone. Names of
the companies were not disclosed.
Army officials said that the tiny
truck is more fabulous in its
performance than its land counter
part"
1T does everything the ,jeep'
does on land and can duplicate
Ii In the water" an army an
nouncement said. 1T will go
through swamps. jungle under
growth, or ride the ocean
waves"
Army officials said that the
motor transport division has been
working since the spring Of 1871
on this land and water truck.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-12
I Jap Ships
Sunk by SUBJ;
Cebu Invaded
Nipponese Establish
8 Beach Landings on
Big Philippine Island
Corregidor defenders seek
revenge for Bataan. Page A.
BY III. o. THOMPSON
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE
sinking of two Japanese ships by
United States submarine was
reported by the navy late today,
while the war department reported
that a strong Japanese invasion
force had stormed ashore on the
Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
The ships sunk were a 7000-ton
merchant vessel and a submarine
chaser, accounted for by SUBJ
marine which was engaged in an
extended patrol deep into enemy
waters.
The same submarine. reporting
after returning 10 its base, torpe-
doed and probably sank 4,000-
ton freiChter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-12
Bud Can't Die.
Pals Aver
Spraeue, Youngest
Air 1t. COL, Missing
- By LEE VAN Alta


nv NeNs NffNlre SIAN tOffrspOuuruh
MELBOURNE, April 11.-Ten
minutes before the death-dealing
wings of his plane roared into
sunny, blue Java skies, 28-year-old
Maj. Charles Bud Sprague be-
came the youngest lieutenant col
onel in the United States Army
Air Corps.
But Bud Sprague has never re-
turned 10 pick up those silver
leaves of rank-only the boundless
waters and the lonely islands of
the Southwest Pacific know his
fate.
Officially, Bud Sprague is miss
ing I'M action, believed shot down
while on a dangerous mission over
Bali. Yet no officer or man of
the pursuit or bomber sections
would admit that Sprague is dead.
Every clue, no matter how small,
is snatched up To his fellow
ficrs he can't be dead.
This week new hope was aroused
when a dispatch TO Darwin re-
-vrafUd- that an unknown flier who
crashed on a. lonely etherlands
East Indies island had been nursed
back 10 health by friendly natives
before being taken prisoner when
the Japanese took over the island
Every man in Uncle Sans South
Pacific air force is praying that
Bud Sprague is not dead, but has
been taken prisoner. If he is a
prisoner they know that somehow
he will rejoin them, and in the
words of American ace Buzz
Wagner. hero of the Philippines:
"Sprague alone is worth two
groups of pursuit pilots to any
Allied unit today
Perhaps no officer in the history
of the air corps is more universally
loved and respected than Sprague
No mission of the pursuit unit
which he commanded took of
from Java without Sprague per-
sonally in command.
Sprague was no armchair of.
ficer-he was a hot-blooded, gal,
liant fighter. No problem of the
Ilowliest enlisted man was toe
small for him, and no tactical
problem too great
One fellow officer said:
Bud had MacArthur's charm
and daring, the air corps mind
of Billy Bishop and the sane
ness OF tactical skill OF General
Pershing."
If these words sound extrava'
CANT they are supported by Brig
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-12
Ickes Asked to Restrict
All Filling Stations Hours

The War Production Board al
ready has restricted TO II hours
a day six days a week, operations
of filling stations in IL eastern
states. the District of Columbia.
Washington and Oregon. in order
to curtail gasoline consumption.
The council said a 12-hour day
should be ordered for all other
filling stations but IL did not ask
that these stations be required 10
shut down one day a week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-12
States Rifles Go
To Arm Allies
Government Appeals
TO Owners for Resale

WASHINGTON. April II (UP)
guard units and army mill
tary police will be issued shotguns
to replace rifles. which will be re-
called for troops of the United
the war department an
nounced tonight.
Every American soldier en-
titled To carry one" has been
equipped with the Garand rifle.
il was said
Shotguns will fully meet" al
arms requirements OF domestic
guard organizations, while the
long-range rifles are ideally suited
to meet an urgent need OF fighting
men OF the United Nations th'
department said.
Serviceable rifles will be pur
chased on sliding scale of price!
according TO their condition. will
the maximum price for model 100;
set AT S4765 and for model 1917
$3.50.
The army is depending upon the
patriotism Of private owRers fol
resale of their firearms/
Owners willing to sell these fire
arms should communicate with the
commanding officer of the neares'
army post.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-12
couragements

WASHINGTON, April II CUP(.
The Petroleum Industry War
Council today urged oil co-ordina-
tor Harold l.. Ickes to restrict the
operating hours of all filling sta
tions in the nation.
The council said this was neces-
sary TO conserve electricity for
war industries, because OF a grow
ing shortage of experienced labor,
and TO give the service station
operator the opportunity Of lead
ing q more normal life"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-12
Rep. Hoffman M0difies
Judas Cry at President
BY FRANK MORRIS

Now the most famous Of all
Michigan congressman, Rep. Clare
Z. Hoffman stretched on a hotel
bed in Detroit Saturday and said
that he is not pro-Nazi and that
when he referred TO President
Roosevelt as "a Judas" he did
not exactly mean that President
Roosevelt was a Judas.
He said that what he meant to
say on the floor of the Congress is
that if the President is not a Judas
then the men who are his spokes-
men are a bunch of Judasss be-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-12
Lumber Sheds Swept
By Two-AIarm Fire

a two-alarm fire broke out al
$50 p. m. Saturday in the rear
lumber storage sheds Of the Wells
Lumber Company. 14301 Meyers
road. A half hour later the firemen
had the blaze under control.
Cause OF the fire was not known
No one was injured. Damage was
centered in the mill and one truck
was destroyed. The company is
owned by Ernest J. and Edgar r
VOLS. who arc in Lansing.