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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
PROBE
DEFENSES
OF ALASKA
Senator Hatch Says Tru-
man Com. Would
Investigate

SEATTLE, July 22.-InspeHtion OF
Alaska's defenses is primarily the
business of the Senate Military At
fairs Committee, but if it is pointed
out that an investigation is desired,
members of the Truman Committee
will join the party, Senator Carl
A. Hatch said today.
Hatch, along with Senator's Har-
old H. Burton and Mon c. Wall
gren are touring the West to in
vestigate expenditures for war pur-
poses as a subcommittee OF the
Truman Committee.
Said Hatch While the Truman
Committee would like to know what
the United States has received for
its expenditures in Alaska, our
committee is not the proper body
to investigate Alaska defenses."
A proposal that the Military At
fairs Committee visit Alaska IS now
before the Senate.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, July 22-Among
all the wartime food shortage sto-
ries floating about, one Of the most
surprising is the one about bananas.
TIE obvious lead, OF course, is
to quote that song ballad of some
years back: Yes, We Have No
Bananas" Which is now exactly the
truth But I wouldn't have known
about it if | hadn't gone
hopping one day when the dearth
of fruit had affected local grocer
les
Finally, I got around to, How
about bananas?" The clerk said,
oh. yes, we have bananas. Here
is a delicious one, almost oyer-ripe.
I can let you have it for Is cents.
The smaller one, slightly green,
YOU can have for a dime"
That was the first time l had
slipped up on bananas. 1t was
quite blow. Back in the pre-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
AIeutians
Battle Is
Continued
Navy Releases Story Of At
tack on Dutch Har-
Dor June 3
(By KEITH WHEELER)
Chicago Times, Copyright, 1912

AT SEA WITH THE PACIFIC
FLEET = delayed; Released for
publication by the Navy)-June 10.
The war mists of the Aleutians
began on June with the first Jap
attack on Dutch Harbor
That day, before the Stepsons of
Heaven commenced wholesale hara
kari of ships and men in the neigh
borhood of Midway, the Japs APP
peared in the morning murk at
8:09 a. m, with Is fighter planes
clearing the way for four Kokekiki
carrierbased bombers.
The fighters, identified as zeros,
came down and splattered machine
gun bullets on shore installations,
barracks, warehouses and the radio
station.
Got Flying Boat
Several Catalina flying boats were
in the harbor. One carrying mail
to Kodiak and the mainland was
caught in its takeoff run and filled
so full of holes that the pilot ran up
on the beach, carrying two dead
men among the crew. AS the sea-
plane went aground the strafers
came back and attacked again, in
juring another man and setting the
cab afire.
Bombers laid a stick of eighteen
200-pound bombs in the neighbor-
hood of Fort Mears, the barracks
and warehouses. The fort installa-
ton was hit and began to burn
with a fire which smoldered for
three days.
A Zero attacked another Catalina
in the air but the big boats gun
ners fought him Off
Pilot Got Zero
An American fighter pilot was
severly injured making crash land
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
REp.C0FFEE
MAKES URGE
FOR ACTION
Ask Troops, Combat Ships
Be Sent 10 Scene : AL
aska Invasion Hinfed

WASHINGTON, July % -
Representative John M. Coffee,
Democrat of Washington State,
demanded today on the floor of
the House that troops and Navy
combat vessels be sent to GUST
the Japs Immediately" from
the bases in the Aleutians.
Congressman Coffee told his
colleagues: Don't kid your
selves. The Japs are heading
for this hemisphere and intend
to occupy Alaska"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
Will Serve as Chief Of Staff
10 President, Com
mander in-Chief
CRAVE CRISIS NOW
CONFR0NT5 SHIPPING
Appoinfee May Sharpen
Warfare Off Alaska
Among Other Duties

WASHINGTON, July % = The
President has announced that he
has ordered William E .Leahy re-
stored to active duty to serve as
Chief Of Staff to him as Com
mander in-Chief of the Armed
Forces.
The President said that he be-
lieved the Admiral can save him
many hours by reading a lot of
opinions and doing other jobs re-
quiring leg WORK or have others do
ii for him.
Following the official announce
ment that bluff spoken Admiral Lea
by will become the Presidents
Chief OF Staff, came disclosures Of
d grave crisis in the shipping stu
alton and also sharpening of war
fare off Alaska.
immediate speculation is also re-
vealed the President may create
Supreme Army and Navy General
staff.
Shipping Losses High
AS Admiral Leahy took up his
duties a report was handed to him
from the War Shipping Admins
cration showing that shipping losses
for the week of July IL were the
highest since the war began. The
sinking of United Nations vessels
greatly exceeds new construction.
The report added: 1T can be
stated that no essential military
cargoes however have been left on
the piers because of lack of ships
as the Stripping Administration has
been able, by radical conversion of
cur shipping resources in war OPP
erations, to meet necessarily exact
ing requirements OF our armed ser
vices"
The report added that because of
shipping losses, the Shipping Adj
had to accelerate the
of its policy and limit
space On ships under its jurisdic-
ton to cargoes essential to the
of the war, whether these
cargoes were for export or import
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
What No Bananas! YES,
We Have No Bananas" III
Is a Fad; Reason Why

orange days, my Old Man the was
10 them worked the green-apple
trick on bananas. He ate two doz-
en- of them on his way home to
dinner on the back platform of
Chicago trolley. He was SO sick he
didn't know where to get off.
So are the banana growers of the
Caribbean today.
The story comes from the De-
partment of Agriculture and the
National Geographic Society.
In the first place, except for its
food value cit is very rich in car
hohydrates and minerals), the ba-
mana isn't important to war. It's
shipping Is The l00-plus ships
that have comprised the banana
fleet are now doing service else
where. The result: Billions OF ba-
nanas ripening on the trees -
green gold" turning to worthless
dry rotor more than 100000
Continued on Page Fiye)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
GERMANS ARE
NOW DRIVEN
OUT OF AIR
Axis Aircraft Not Seen Over
North African Bal
lie Area

CAIRO, July 22-The Allied Ait
Forces have virtually driven the
Germans out of the sky over the
,orth African battle area, British
filitary sources said today.
The military sources declare that
laroly any enemy air activity was
bserved yesterday as bombers and
ighters ranged over and far beyond
ne Ell Alemein front blasting large
concentrations of Axis vehicles and
$50 attacking the Nazi supply base
t Crete.
Ground fighting settled into ar
llery duelling, the British Head
uarters report.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22

WASHINGTON Most people
don't realize it but it is quite pos
sible today to make rubber in your
own bathtub, using isobutylene as a
base. ISobutylene is a by-product
which comes from the refining of
gasoline, and according to MEM
orandum by Standard Oil of New
Jersey, January 6, 1912, total of
% 900 barrels of isobutylene are be-
ing produced daily in the major re-
fineries of the United States. Stand
ard Oil also estimates that this
would produce approximately 1000
tons Of butyl rubber per day, or
around 100000 tons of rubber per
year.
Actually the transformation OF
isobutyiene into butyl rubber is not
so difficult when performed in a
bathtub. 1t is being done In that
manner every day at Bay Way, N. j.,
by Standard Oil The process briefly
is this Isobutylene is placed in
tub with about three to four hum
dred pounds of cracked dry ice, and
aluminium chloride plus methyl
chloride is run through it. The rub
Der floats to the surface and is skim
med off.
BY this bathtub process, Standard
Oil is now making $50 pounds OF
butyl rubber a day which is carted
off by the Army and used for gas
masks.
Interesting inside fact about many
of these original rubber patents lat
er controlled by Germany is that
they were discovered first by the
Russians. For instance, the Russian
Government Chemical Journal was
the first to publish the process for
making rubber which I. G. Farben
later is supposed to have given to
Standard Oil of N. j. as its great
and secret contribution to the Jer-
sey-I. F. Farben patent pool.
All it took to get the secret of this
process was Is cents to purchase the
Russian Chemical Journal and the
tCOntinued on Page Four
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July %. - Closing
quotation of American Can today
is 66a, Anaconda 26ls, Bethlehem
Steel 53B, Commonwealth and
Southern 3i16, Curtiss Wright 612,
International Harvester 48h, Ken
necott 303s, New York Central 8,
Northern Pacific 6, United States
Steel ASS, Pound $404.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
WILBUR WESTER MAKES
BUSINESS TRIP SOUTH

Wilbur Wester, Manager of the
Gastineau Hotel and Secretary of
the Juneau Chamber of Commerce,
left by plane today for business
trip to the States. He will visit his
wife and daughter in Oakland, Cal,
upon completion of his business
affairs.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
r. F. LEWIS ARRIVES
ON BUSINESS TRIP

R. F. Lewis, owner of the Juneau
Water Company, arrived in Juneau
last night to supervise the installa-
ton of a new $4,000 chlorinator for
the water system here. Mr.. Lewis
home is in San Francisco.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
WAGE FREEZE.
IS OFF,, FDR
NOW REPORTS
Will Send Message 10 Con.
gress Soon on In
fIation Curbs

WASHINGTON, July % - The
President told reporters that he
hoped to send message TO Con
gress in few days on the ques
ton of new initiation curbs anC
added it will go into the cost o
living.
He described this as the first rea
domestic problem of carrying OF
the war When asked DO you in
tend to freeze wages" he replied {
flat no.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
Cross Lower Don River
Situation Is Serious,
Russians Admit
C0VERGING ON
R0ST0v SWIFTLY
Come from West, North,
Northeast 10 Threat
en- Southern City
tBY ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Germans today proclaimed
that they have crossed the lower
Don on a broad front in a deep
step on the invasion route to the
Caucasus.
"Organizedv Russian defenses
near Rostov on the mouth of the
Don River, have collapsed and the
guardian city is half encircled. ac-
eording to the Nazi reports. Rus
sian and British advices, however,
sgree with the enemy as to the
trend of the battle. but not to such
degree.
The Allied communicates admit
that the strategic waterline has
been preached and that Rostov has
5een half surrounded.
Approach Stalingrad
The Army newspaper Red Star
yravely announced that the Ger
mans are pressing closer to Stain
grad and are now approaching the
border of Stalingrad Province. about
80 miles from the city itself
Terrible days face the country"
The Red Star said, calling upon
Ill Russian soldiers to emulate the
heroic band of % who died fight
ng German tanks barehanded III
The SHOWS before Moscow last win
ter.
Reds Bomb Port
In offensive action, the Russian
All Force bombed Konigsberg, East
russian port, again last night. Six
large fires were seen through the
heavy overcast. The Moscow radio
aid that four large explosions were
ouched off by the bombing and
10 fires were reported set in the
,ity in an attack late last Saturday
night.
British military sources concede
hat small German armored forces
nay have reached the lower Don
md said, There is no denying
he danger to Rostov.'
The Germans seemed to be con-
terging on Rostov from three direc-
IONS: from Taganrog, 40 miles to
he west, from Voroshilovgrad, 100
niles to the north, and from Mil
erovo, 1870 miles to the northeast.
lCnxtin,,o1i a.. In... ,r,....A
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
GRIFF NORDLING HERE

Griff Nordling has arrived in ju-
neau, coming from Chatham by
plane.
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now. ZONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow,
Jones' averages: Industrials, 108.03;
rails, 2608; utilities, lit.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22

The Spanish word granada,
meaning "pomegranate." is the roc
of grenade" because the explosiy'
resembles the fruit.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
MERRY GO ROUND

This is the third and concluding
MERRY GO-ROUND column on
the delays in the manufacture Of
synthetic rubber.-Ed.)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-22
The W aShingtUn
Merry Go Round

BY DREW PEARSON
major Robert S. Allen on active dutyo
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
Porents Of Fighting Men
Find USO Club Deputies
Mothers, Fathers Pleased Because
Club Takes Interest in Sons

efficient that the Army now has
its eye on him for the medical
corps.
A USO club near a Texas ma
val base has large registry cards
on the wall, one for each State
in the Union. In signing the
cards sailors frequently contact
friends from their home State
who happen to be stationed in
the region. The eighth Missouri
card is now in use but the origi-
nal still hangs. This is because
an old man comes in to look at
it every day. 1t bears the sigma
ture of his son who shipped out
from the post several months
ago and hasn't been heard from
since.
When the Fort Dix reservation
was enlarged, relatives visiting
men in camp had no pla.o to stay
overnight. The local community
of WrightstoWn, N. j., had a
permanent population of $50,
while the post numbers many
thousands. USO un e r took a
housing survey of the whole
county and there now is an in
dex, carefully kept up to date,
of all quarters available to par
ents and other guests of the men
in camp.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
LIEUTENANT ENTERS

KANSAS CITY, May 27 -
(AP)- The first entry for the
Missouri Valley A. A. U. track
meet to be held June 6 was re-
ceived yesterday from Lieut..
Richard (Dick) Ganslen, for
mer Columbia University pole
vault star.
GanSlen, stationed with a sig
nal corps unit at Camp Crowd
er, has a mark of IA f e t 6
inches in his speciality, and also
is scheduled to compete in the
broad jump and the hop step
and jump.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

The officer, through finger
prints taken in a gambling raid
several years ago, identified the
man as Kim Woo Wong. From
friends il was learned the man S
wife is in China and that he had
wanted 10 return there to fight
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

war against the United States.
II was a Chinese, and his last
act was explained today as a
scheme TO embrrass the hated
Japanese.
Detective 1t. Cliff Gillen
made the report after an inves-
tigation. The Chinese was Kim
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

Mothers and fathers of our
fight men are finding that they
have deputies" in more than
500 USO clubs and service units
scattered throughout the United
States and in the off-shore bases,
according to Francis p. Goodar,
Macomb County chairman Of the
1912 War Fund Campaign of
ESO.
Floods of letters reaching USO
headquarters come from parents
expressing gratitu d for the
work USO is doing in giving the
men in uniform a home away
Trombone" Goodar said. The
letters also show that nothing
helps morale at home so much as
a f e e in & of confidence that
somebody is taking an individu-
al interest in the men out front
PERSONAL ASPECT
This is one of the more per-
sonal aspects of USO clubs and
operations. Next year, as result
of its approaching S32,000,00O
War Fund Campaign, USO plans
to have more than 900 clubs and
smaller units"
Goodar pointed out that there
is no end to the variety Of re-
quests that USO receiV as
friendly liaison officer between
the service men and their fam
lilies. He said, "a man stationed
at the huge Fort Dix reservation
contracted debts which had to
be paid at once. He was being
kept on duty at a remote spot
in the camp and couldn't attend
to the matter himself. At his re-
quest a USO woman worker
wired his parents for the money
and delivered it to the boy him
self, taking part Of her evening
off to do so. The soldier refund
ed the money to her later"
SUBSTITUTE PARENTS
These substitute parents are
recruited from USO's six mem
her agencies, the Young Mems
Christian Associations, the Ma
tional Catholic c o m m u n i I y
Service, the Salvation Army, the
Young Women's Christian Asso-
Citations, the j e w S h Welfare
Board and the National Travel
ers Aid Association.
Another USO representative
received a letter from a Jewish
father who wanted his son, who
had been drafted year and had
not been home since, to return
for Passover. The USO worker
took the matter up with Army
authorities and the soldier was
given a furlough.
SEND CARDS
Many directors make a point
Of sending cards to the parents
of service men who call at USO
clubs, Goodar said. Almost in
WI ldDly VIC Pdi Sillo ltply at
some length. They usually apollo
gize for taking the directors
time, but say it means every
thing to correspond with some
one who is seeing their son reg
ularly and who regards him as
an individual, not just as SOL
der.
In one of these letters a father
wrote: Before he was drafted
my boy wanted to become a ply
sician. Now he thinks he won't
ever have the opportunity and
he wants to forget about it. l
know he would be a good doctor
and l wondered if there was any
place in your city where he
could study medicine in his spare
Nine. | live in the country and
l don't know much about those
things"
MAKE ARRANGEMENTS
Through USO, arrangements
were made with a local hospital
for the son to take medical
courses at night. He proved SO
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
ton of the exposition.

ton of the exposition.
Ed Ole, business manager O
Longhorn athletics, said tn,
contract for the game at Dalla
does not expire until 1848. ant
that 1--WE feel the game attract
fair visitors rather than vics
versa"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

Woo Wong, 80, who hanged
himself and left a note signed
"Iyamma Satos II read
My country goes greatly
wrong / can not face my good
friend America anymore, so /
had 10 die. Please bury
quietly"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

DALLAS, Ma 27 -(AP)-
The annual Texas Oklahoma
football game, a feature of the
Texas State Fair, will be play
ed next Fall despite cancella-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
Embarrassed Hangs Sell
Because OF Lost Face

LOS ANGELES, May 26-iP)
1t wasn't a Japanese who
committed suicide here last
week in protest of his country's
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
Fights
Last Night
BY the Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. - Will
lie Pep, 1877, Hartford, Conn,
outpointed Joey Iannotti, 1913 p,
New York 90.
NEW YORK - Chester Rico,
1871, New York, outpointed
Billy Davis, 1861, Minersville,
Pa. G0).
LOS ANGELES-George Lat
ka, 1871, Gary, Ind, outpointed
Richie Lemos, 1875 u, Los An
geles (10).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

the japanese, but was unable TO
arrange the trip.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-24
Gar RoY1I III

Gar Royal is recovering after a
weeks illness OF ear infection. He
is having treatments ~ st. Joseph
Hospital, Ann Arbor.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-24

Daughter Born
Word has been received here OF
the birth of a daughter to Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Robbins, Nashville.
Tenn. The Robbins family former
ly lived here.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-24

The western hemisphere, accord
ing to reports from London and
Washington, may furnish the
commander Of the United Nations
forces when a second front in
Europe is established. In London
some quarters believed Gen.
George c. Marshall, above, chief
Of staff Of the Army Of the United
States, may be asked to take
command. Meanwhile, a Wash
lngton dispatch published in Can
ada indicated Lieut.. Gen. A. G.
L. McNaughton, bottom photo.
commander Of the Canadian corps
overseas, was also favored as pos
sible chief of Allied forces on the
second front.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-24

Mr., and Mrs. Murray Day. Jr,
Whitaker Rd., are spending a few
weeks at the Graham Day home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Colts, Milan,
were visitors hero Thursday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Felzer and
daughter Sondra returned to their
homo in Detroit Thursday after
spending the week at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs, Clarence smith.
Mrs. Clarence Smith. Mrs.
Blanche Ellis and Mrs. Fred Marvin
visited Mrs. Lester Hall and son.
Robert, at Boyer Hospital Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Kenneth Freeman and son.
Detroit. were Friday dinner guests
of Mrs. Sauna Simon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Micah Crawford
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Har-
den. Ypsilanti, Thursday.
Mrs. George Hurlburt, Dearborn,
and Mrs. Clyde Service. Detroit.
were Friday visitors of Mrs. Nina
Sherman and daughter Catharine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Marvin visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Bailey,
Rochester, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Royal.
Detroit. were week erd guests OF
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs William
Royal. Miss Melvynne Royal re-
turned home with them for a
weeks visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Townsley,
Ypsilanti, were Sunday evening sup
per guests OF Their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William Royal.
Mrs. Clyde Service, Detroit, visit
ed her grandmother, Mrs. Lois Har-
dy. Friday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. George Colts visit
ed the latter's sister, Mrs. Bertha
Wagner, Ypsilanti. Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Welker. De-