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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
New Service Command Set Up for Alaska Operations
 By War Secretary 5fimson

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson has announced that a Northwest Ser vice Command, similar to the nine service commands in the United States, has been established to handle all construction and supply activities connected with the Alaska highway.
 Only supplies peculiar to the air forces are exempted from the Northwest Service Commands jur- isdiction, Stimson said
 Col. James OConnor, native Of Bay City, Michigan, has been des- ignated to head the new service command. The operation of con- struction jobs is specifically men, toned in Stimsor's announcement, and jobs specifically mentioned in- clude the White Pass and Yukon Railway, the highway to White horse, and the Fairbanks base in- stallation.
 Whitehorse has been designated as the headquarters of the com mand which takes in Alaska, Brit ish Columbia Alberta and the provinces of Yukon and Mckenzie.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
American Aces Down 96 Nippon Planes Near
 GuadaI(anaI JAP PILOTS, SHIPS
 INFERIOR TO OURS Tojo Flying Funeral PYres' Burst Into Flames
 Easily
BY CLARK LEE Associated Press COrresp0ndent)

AT SEA WITH THE US. FLEET OFF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS Aug. 24.-(Delayed - Three more American naval pilots fought their way into the winged circle of aces as the United States won it's big gest air victory of the war against Japan Ninety-six enemy planes have been downed in the far-f flung battle fought at Guadalcanal Island and at sea by our task force.
 Forty-seven of the enemy planes were shot down by Navy fliers, 21 by Marines and Army pilots and the remainder by anti-aircraft guns. Our losses were eight pilots missing, three of them Marines.
 Enemy plane losses in the two day battle of Midway were esti- mated at 300, most of which made forced landings in the water, but today's were the greatest number ever shot down by our planes.
 The total bag now is nearly as big as the German losses in a single day during the Battle of Britain. The enemy now has lost more than 150 planes in the Battle of the Solomons since August 2.
 But the most encouraging feat ure of the battle is this: The Jap pilots definitely are inferior to those who took part in previous flights over the Pacific, and their planes continue to show "the fly ing funeral pyre" traits of bursting into flames and crashing when hit even with a few bullets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
BELEAGUERED RUSSIANS IN
 CONTROL YET
Greater German Force than Hit at Moscow Is
 Attacking
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)

BY ASSOCIAIED RhESSj
 The most powerful army the Germans have ever assembled in Russia, surpassing even the great force flung in vain at Moscow last year, is reported commanded by Adolf Hitler and today is attempting to take Stalingrad at any price But the Volga River bastion is still held by the Red Army.
 The Russian Army newspaper Red Star says today that the Axis forces before Stalingrad outnumber those of any prev ious campaign.
 There were about 100000 men on both sides participating in the battle of Moscow last fall, heretofore the largest single en- gagement of the war, but the German forces at Stalingrad to- day are even greater.
 Red Star dispatches said at tackers and defenders are fight ing in maelstrom of noise, fire, smoke with planes filling the sky and roaring and screaming overhead and the ground shak- ing with the clash of tanks and thunder of bombs and shells.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
LAVAL HITS
 MADAGA5(AR OCCUPATION

VICHY, France. Sept. 11.-Puppet Pierre Laval declared today that the United States has equal responsibil- ity' for the British attack on Mada- gascar.
 Hitler's French stooge read a tele- gram from Governor Annet of the Vichy controlled island, denying British charges that the island was used by the Axis or would be.
 Laval seemed to take particular offense over the British occupation. and said that the occupation is due to military necessity in the thesis. This may be supported or not, but that the British should try to justify their aggression by raising false pretexts is something that I cannot support"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
Cana dian In Support Of One Command
Says All Allied Peoples Should United Under
 Roosevelt

OTTAWA, Canada, Sept. 1.-The United Nations cannot win the war until the English speaking peoples unite under one leader, and that leader should be Roosevelt, Maj. William Herridge, former Canadian Minister to Washington, declared to- day.
 Speaking as "a Canadian British subject" Herridge said that Prime Minister Churchill, representing the British empire, should nominate Roosevelt for the Allied leadership that the President of the United States should then have dictatorial powers and great general staff, half British and half American, the members of which would advise him.
 Herridge said that Canadians should demand that such a step be taken by Churchill.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
FEW RETURNS FROM FOURTH DIVISION IN
Democrats Leading Field in 16 Out of 68
 Precincts

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. H. Sixteen of the Fourth Divisions 6t precincts give the following re- turns for last Tuesdays general election:
 Senate
 Frank s. Gordon, Democrat, Al John Butrovich, Jr., Republican 354.
 John I. O'Shea, Democrat, 553 Mrs. Alaska Stuart Linck, Dem ocrat, 526.
 Leo Rogge, Democrat, 488. Jess D. Lander, Democrat, 419. Jacob P Drablos, Republican, 190 Henry P. Karstens, Republican 246.
 Irving Mex. Reed, Republican PAS.
 Guy Rivers, Independent, 268. Anthony J. Dimond received 75s for Delegate to Congress. Oscar G. Olson received 652 fol Treasurer.
 Walter P. Sharpe received GOT for Commissioner of Labor ano Michael Haas name was writer in on Is ballots.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
MINING TAX CHANGE IS
 REJECTED
Committee Refuses 10 Ae. Cepf Elimination of De-
 plefion Allowances

WASHINGTON, Sept. II. The Senate Finance Committee today rejected by 12 to 6, new joint pro- posal of the Treasury and Con- gressional staffs to boost the yield of the new revenue bill by $110,O00.- : 900 yearly through the revision of the present depeletion allowances of petroleum and mining enterprises.
 The allowances which have been permitted to be credited against taxes to offset depreciation or de- pletion of natural resources would be affected.
 The Treasury proposed to elim- mate double deduction" plus credits on intangible development costs.
 The committee declined. however, to eliminate the latter credits. Rep resentatives of the oil and mining industries said these have been al- lowed for taxation purposes for 25 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
Iron Censorship Rules
 For Alaska Are 10 Be
 Relaxed Says Senator

WASHINGTON, Sept. II. = Gov ernment officials have promised a considerable relaxation of censor- ship restrictions on the transmits sion of news in Alaska, Senator Mon c. Wallgren reported here today.
 Sen Wallgren, who has just re- turned from tour of Alaskan de- lenses as a member of the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee, said hat the report of the committee will be kept confidential because vital war steps are concerned, but added that the report that the Japs nave landed on the Pribilof Islands is not true.
 When Wallgren visited in Juneau on his way out of Alaska on the tour, he condemned the censor jhip practices as silly" and stated hat something will have to be done about this in Washing ton"
 At that time, Sen. Wallgren stated, Juneau correspondents were not allowed to mention in dispatch es that any senators were in Ju- neau, according to orders sent out by the Alaska Defense Command.
 Juneau correspondents wondered at the discrimination, because the Senator's tour had been reported from various other communities in Alaska, including Anchorage, head quarters of the ADO.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
THRUST OF NIpp0N5IS
 HELD BACK
Bitter Fighting in Mountain Pass Continues-Bomb :.
 CTS Are Being Used

MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- FRS IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. h. Japan's thrust through the Owen Stanley Mountains of New Guinea has been checked south of Efogi, A airline miles from Port Moresby, AL lied base.
 Bitter fighting Is continuing with casualties heavy on both sides. to- days communique says.
 Allies are attacking with bombers which continue to pour explosives on the veteran Japanese jungle fighters and supply lines leading through the mountain pass to Myola on the northern slope.
 The enemy made no luther prog ress in the area of Efogi, said the communique.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
The W ashingtUn Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON tMajor Robert 8. Allen on active duty'

WASHINGTON. IT he Truman Committee hasn't issued a report on it yet, but when some of its members investigated New Eng land war installations, they got a striking illustration of fauity teamwork between different branch es of the armed forces.
 Mai. Gen. Sherman Miles, com mander of the First Service Com mand with headquarters at Bos- ton, travelled with them. At one point they came across cavalry outfit riding in jeeps. They were operating in Gen. Miles area, pre- sumably under his command, yet he had not known they were there The War Department had failed to notify him.s
 Travelling further south, Gen Miles and the Truman Committed bumped into Signal Corps com- pany engaged in interceptor work listening for enemy airplanes Again. Gen. Miles did not know they were in his corps area.
 At a certain airfield, Senator Brewster asked the commanding Air Corps colonel what he would do if a NaM submarine was sighted in the bay-as had happened not long before.
 Well" said the colonel, I'd run out and catch the commander of a squadron and try to persuade him to fly out over the bay and bomb the submarine"
 The colonel was not as dumb as he sounded. For he had no con- mand over bomber Squadrons on his field. They are sent from other points for practice training for a few weeks at time, and there ap- pears to be little or no correlation between different commanders even when they belong to the Air Corps,
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Taxes for the Year 1942 become delinquent September 15. unless one-half is paid on or before that dateS the second-half then becom- ing delinquent March 18th of the following year. A discount of two percent is allowed if both install ments are paid on or before Sep tember 18th.
 A penalty of laa per month will be added to delinquent accounts.
 CITY OF JUNEAU,
 R. G. RICE
 City Clerk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
NATION WIDE RATI0NING OF GAS LOOMING
President 10 Put in Effetf Recommendations on
 Rubber Problem

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-Presi- dent Roosevelt today said that he hoped by Monday to put in effect practically all recommendations o1 the special committee that studied the vital rubber problem and rec commended a nationwide gas ra- tioning.
 The President indicated at to- lays conference with the newsmen that it might take some time how ever to put into effect the ration ing recommendations and take some time to set up the machinery which he believed should be hand led by local boards.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
BRITISH IN ADVANCE ON
 FRENCH ISLE
West Coast Ports of Mddd- gds1dr Captured- Col
 umns Move Inland

LONDON, Sept. 1.-The British forces are reported encountering but little resistance and suffering small losses in capturing three west coast ports of the French Madagascar island against which operations were started yesterday.
 Prime Minister Winston Church. i'll informed the House of Com- mons today that Japanese recon naissance planes were recently sighted over the Island.
 The British Military commenta- tor later asserted that it is sur- missed the planes came from an aircraft carrier.
 ADVANCING INLAND
 VICHY, Sept. l1.-British mo- torized columns are advancing on Tananrive, inland Capital City of Madagascar after they captured the west coast ports of Majunga and Morondava. French reports as- sert.
 The French officials here ack- nowledged their troops are able 10 put up little more than a token of resistance which above all is in- tended to save our honor"
 It is conceded here that the chief obstacle in the way of the British is the difficult terrain be- tween the coast and Tananarive. some $50 miles southeast of Ma junga.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
CALIFORNIA HAS H0UR'5
 ALERT TODAY
Los Angeles Area Put on Guard at Dawn-CiviI
 Defense Called

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11.-Sou- thern California's defenses went on the alert for an hour and nine minutes at dawn today, until the Army made certain that an un- identified target was friendly.
 The areas first alert since Aug ust l brought mobilization of air raid wardens. auxiliary police, and utilities guards.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
THREE DIE WAR PLANT
 EXPLOSION

HACKETTSTOWN. New Jersey, Sept. l1.--An explosion today rocked the war production plant of the Essex Speciality Company, army ex- plosives branch, killing three per- sons and injuring five.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
JAKE GROSS DIES,
 CALIFORNIA HOME

Jake Gross, aged 50. died yes- terday at his home in Long Beach, Calf. according to advices received here last night by his brother, w. D. Gross. The deceased visited i'll Juneau several years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
T. A. DAVIES ON
 WAY TO CHICHAGOF

T. A. Davies, well known Seattle financier and president of Chicha- gof Mine, left this morning by plane for the mine. MT. Davies has been staying in the Baranof Hotel here and will return here after conduct ing his business at the mine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11
KARL sTRoMs HERE

MT. and Mrs. Karl Strom of Sitka are registered at the Baranof Hotel for a short visit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-11

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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
Soldiers Heart
Danger Foreseen

turely. or to contract organic heart
disease. the prospect for recovering
was not good.
CONFLICTING VIEW
Jones prediction offset the fore
cast made last night by DR.. Phil
R. Russell, Fort Worth, Tex, that
wartime rationing. priorities and
freezing will reduce our high speed
more of living and very likely
help to cut the frequency of high
blood pressure, heart disease and
other leading causes of death after
middle age"
DR.. w. G.. Douglas, Clermont, Fla,
believed that war neurosis probably
will be far less prevalent among
veterans of the present conflict
than it was after the first World
war because the armed services
were attempting to weed out those
susceptible to it.
THE problem of eliminating the
psychopath, the mentally unfit and
the borderline mental case from
military life is difficult task even
for those trained in this speciality"
he said. "but splendid progress
IS being made. Authorities are
getting at one of the greatest con-
tributing causes of war neuroSiS,
that is, an unstable psychic con-
Stitution."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
Club Offers Room
To Red Cross

Meeting Tuesday night with their
president, Mrs. BEN Hulse. and the
club board of directors, standing
committee chairmen and section
chairmen of the Women's Ten
Thousand club voted to offer the
club tea room to the local Red
Cross chapter for a surgical dress
ing station for the duration of the
war.
The club women we're glad to be
able to offer the room, the preSi-
dent said. summarizing the opinion
voiced at the meeting. She appoint
ed Mines. A. w. Vie, l. N. Hitch
cock and NJ. o. Simms a committee
to solicit financial support for the
venture, since heat. light, quanti-
ties of wrapping paper. thread and
other items must be found for such
a dressings station. Gauze and cot
ton and the other materials for the
making of dressings and bandages
will be furnished by Pacific Head
quarters of the Red Cross. accord
ing to Mrs. H. R. Anderson, Red
Cross production chairman, who
represented the chapter
II is believed the committee will
have at least partial report to
make at the regular Red Cross
chapter meeting Monday night at
chapter headquarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15

CHICAGO, July Is. CUP)-Dr. J..
Leland Jones of the Kansas City.
Mo, College of Osteopathy and
Surgery predicted today that the
tempo of modern warfare probably
will result in a sharp increase of
soldiers heart" in both civilians
and service men.
Jones, in an address before the
46th annual American OSteopathic
association meeting, defined soldiers
heart as psychological angina pee
toris." a functional disorder caused
by excessive physical effort or men,
tai stress which often was mistaken
for true organic heart disease, an
ailment of the heart itself.
The high speed of trucks. auto
mobiles and airplanes, the noise of
tanks and high explosives and the
general increased tempo of modern
warfare" he explained. ARE bound
to produce conditions that result
in functional heart troubles even
among sturdy, trained athletes"
Civilians. he believed, were apt
to succumb to functional ailment in
time of war because of overwork.
worry or fear Jones said that while
there was no tendency of people
with soldiers heart to die prema-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15

Slow Nozi Drive

up ON the Kalinin front and north
OF Lake linen. The Russians made
gains on both sectors but we're
fighting losing battles in the south.
The German high command con-
tinued to send fresh troops into the
fighting, including some divisions
hurriedly withdrawn from France.
Russian dispatches said the enemy
was making a great effort to speed
up the attack. regardless of COST to
isolate the Caucasus and reach the
Volga river before a second front
can be opened by the United Ma
tions in western Europe.
The Axis columns were less than
80 miles from Rostov on the north
and were reported to be using long
range guns in the Taganrog sector
on the west to pave the way for an
attack from both directions. NaZi
airplaneS again heavily bombed
RoStov.
ROMMEL REFUSED
On the Egyptian front, the Axis
forces of Marshal Erwin Rommel
made a third stiff assault on the
British lines at the hill of Jesus,
five miles west of Ell Alamein. but
again were repulsed and severely
battered by British artillery and air.
planes which ranged as far west as
Tobruk to damage or destroy enemy
concentrations and supply bases.
In the Far East. the All-India
Congress (nationaliSt0 party work.
ing committee adopted a resolution,
sponsored by Mohandas K Gandhi.
calling for an immediate end to
British rule in India although no
effort would be made to oust Al
lied troops as long as there is a
japanese threat of invasion
Gandhi's plan must still be accepted
by the congress as a whole but he
apparently is about ready to start
a mass violent movement
against Britain.
The exact form of the new
Gandhi movement has not been
made clear but he said he believed
it would be even more successful
than some of his past maneuvers,
such as passive resistance.
In China, the Japanese had a
firm grip on the port of Wenchow,
230 miles south of Shanghai, and
the nearby town of Julian. leaving
Foochow as the only important port
remaining in Chinese hands. Japa-
nese airplanes bombed Kientou and
Kienyang in Fukien province.
Allied airplanes from Australia
bombed the japanese at Alor island,
$50 miles northwest of Darwin, sink
ing a small vessel and damaging
installations. The japanese base at
Salamaua also was bombed again.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
Officials Disclose
Grapefruit Totals

When the grapefruit shipping
season closed here June 80, Imper-
ial Valle% had shipped 67l ,254 boxes
of fruit, officials said Wednesday,
These were uniform pack IS pound
boxes.
Of this volume, 76.7 per cent went
to the fresh fruit market, according
to Byron Showers, secretary of the
Desert Grapefruit deal and 1913 per
cent went into by-products.
Coachella Valley shipped $50, 1853
boxes, of which 1871 went to the
processing plants; 205 per cent of
the California tree crop in the des-
ert area went into by-products.
The Yuma Valley shipped 447,911,
sending 24.5 to be processed.
To date, Salt River Valley has
shipped 2,543,045 boxes which is 88
per cent of the current crop.
Grand total of desert fruit moved
up to June 80 was 4342,387 boxes,
of which 318 per cent went into
by-products.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
New Type Milo
Proves Valuable

Manko milo, developed at the
Mesa, Arizona, experiment station
may prove a valuable feed for I'M
perial Valley stock, according to
H. Lee Landerman, assistant county
agent, who sees in its extra sweet
cane an exceptionally palatable
feed for livestock.
The manko type of milo has the
same seed as the regular sort but
carries an extra amount of sugar
in it's stalk. Cattle are said to eat
these stalks down to the ground
and to leave manko fields clean
for the next planting.
Some of the seed is available here
for planting in plots with other
milo where cattle are to be fed
following the grain harvest. These
plots will determine its adapta-
bilitv here and its value in live
stock feeding The seed is said to
have some resistance to rcct rot,
but it is not yet known how much.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
Farmers Face New
Insect Problem

With an unprecedented volume of
grain stored on the farms of Cali
fornia. growers are finding insect
control an increasing problem,
Frank G. Beyschlag, far madvisor,
said Wednesday.
So, after a study OF the sltua-
ton, the University of California
College of Agriculture is issing a
bulletin on control methods which
is expected to be available to local
farmers within a few days. 1t is
profusely illustrated and describes
procedures in detail, Beyschlag said.
In the fall the county agent ex-
poets to hold several meetings on
pest control in storage bins, with
the aid of entomoligists from the
university.
The extension division staff will
aid farmers in this respect and the
county agricultural commissioner
will have charge of control methods
in commercial storage warehouses
Wheat, barley and milo are the
grains most infected. although If
any difficulties develop with flax
these should be reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15

good order and discipline.
g. Violation of a lawful regula-
ton issued by the secretary of
Navy.
"A Falsehood.
The trial will be held at the re-
ceiving ship. San Francisco. las
early as practicable" the Navy said.
Aroff was relieved of duty in April
with the explanation that the NAVY
was investigating unsatisfactory
conditions" in the procurement Of
flee administration.
His immediate superior. Capt. Rob-
ert A. White, director of the office.
also was detached from duty, a Gus
tomary procedure when a subordi-
nate is under investigation.
Before going on active duty with
the Navy Aroff and White had
been associated in Los Angeles
plumbing concern.
Aroff was a member of the 1892
American Olympic games team as
weight litter. and competed as an
amateur boxer for University of
Southern California and Los An
geles Athletic club.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
Sales Agents for
War Contracts Hit

WASHINGTON, July Is UP)-
Thomas Hinkel. counsel for the
house naval affairs committee. told
that group today that a firm of
washington sales engineers COL
lected more than 100000 over six
month period as agents of compan-
les receiving government contracts.
Hinkel made his statement at a
committee hearing on a bill by
Chairman Carl Vinson, D.. Ga. to
outlaw contingent fee commissions
for agents obtaining government
contracts for their clients.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
81 Teachers TO Be
Employed in City
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Continued from Page II
r. A. Chestnut, Gerald E. Dennerlein,
Alice Fakes, George Egling. Virgil
G.. Fulmer. Myron Carver. Annette
Gillett, Olin r. Gresham. Guy L.
Hatch, Richard E. HuddleSton.
Erma E. Keller, Leila Liesveld
c. w. Martin, Lucille Miller, Frank
lin Moon. Evalina B. Moore, H. K
McCracken, Mary Jane Neal, Mar
garet Newcomer, Ethel F.. Parent
Bessie w Proudfoot, James B. Ran
kin, Gerald Shepherd, Hazelle Sor-
enSon. G.. E. Spencer.
Robert Stein, Gladys Trask, Eu-
gene Waterman, Dorothy Wilson,
W. A. Payne, R. c. Anton, Helen
Dundee. Gladys Robinson, L. j.
Stewart, T. c. Schmidtmann, Helen
Dowd Helen Stengel.