The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1942, Page 1

o ey e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LiX., NO. 9063. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDN SDAY, JUNE 17, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALEUTIAN WARFARE IS SHROUDED IN F0G American Airmen Strike At Enemy Ships 35HITSON AXIS SHIPS ARE SCORED Commander—()?U._ S. Group Says Two Baftle-. ships Down | ALLIED AIRDROME IN LIB- YAN DESERT, Jume 17 — United State’s Army's big Consolidated Bombers are credited with scoring 35 direct bomb hits on two Italian battleships in operations with the Royal Air Force in the Central Mediterranean. The commander of the forces said “It's like shooting fish in a barrel.” The U. S. fliers delivered their first blow in the Mediterranean war on Monday. Maj. Alfred Kalberer, who led the flight, said that they concentrated first on two Italian| capital ships and turned their bombsights on accompanying cruis- ers and destroyers only after hit- ting one of the battleships times and the other 15. In addition, they set ome cruiser afire and damaged a destroyer. Kal- berer, a former civil airline pilot from LaFayette, Indiana, said every one of the American bombers got back safely. ., — THIS WEEK'S TOLL ALREADY | TEN SINKINGS A Navy Department communique announces two ship sinkings in the Caribbean Sea this week, bringing the total ships announced sunk to 274 in the Atlantic and adjacent waters since Pearl Harbor. It also brought to ten the number of ships announced lost this week. Survivors of a medium-sized Pan- amanian and .a small Tonduran ship, the latest victims, are reported to have been brought to an East Coast port. — - — Richard Crooks, the tenor, listed in the aero squadron in the first World War. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Only those on the inside realize it, but most tragic neglect of the war probably has| been our failure to send bombing | planes and munitions to China. | If the situation continues, China will be to the U.S.A. what Singapore | was to the British Empire. And we will have to do some very embar-| rasing explaining as to why we sent China desperately needed mu-| nitions “too little and too late.” | Tragic fact is that although the| average American has read in the papers about U. S. supplies being | carried triumphantly into China by U. S. airplanes, actually a mere driblet of munitions has arrived in China in the last three months. | It is also a tragic fact that of| the 100 big transport planes taken| from U. . commercial airplanes to carry munitigns to ' China, only about a dozen actually were sent to China. Many of them still are in the USA. | Meanwhile, the Japs are taking advantage of U. 8. indecision by| staging a drive designed to put| China out of the war, meanwhile| holding up their attacks on India| and Australia. | WORRIED OVER DOOLITTLE ! Very significant is the fact that[ this attack on China began just| after Gen. Doolittle bombed annn.‘} The Japs suspect he used Chinese bases, so suddenly they have sv,op~[ ped all their other war efforts to| remove this danger. How right the Japs are in launch- ing this sudden new tactic is shown " (Continued on Page Four) en- ! James Montgomery Flagg, famous Painter’s Tribute to D ad» oy illustrator, hands his poster reflect- ing a traditional event in American family life to Albert H. Gregg, president of the cigar institute, in New York City. The poster is official for Father’s IN MOVIES 20 14 s Ester William (above), former Na- tional women’s 100-yard free style swimming champion, has embark- ed on a movie career at Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Studio at Holly- wood, where her first big role will be that of Mickey Rconey’s latest girl friend. AUSTRALIANS GLOOMY OVER LIBYA FIGHT Prime Minister Tells Peo- ple that War News Is Not Good MELBOURNE, June 17 — Prime| Minister John Curtin told the Aus- tralian people today that the war news is not good and that “Aus- tralia can lose.” The fall of this continent would lay Hawaii and the whole North American coast open to Japanese attacks, Curtin said in a radio ad- dress in which he appealed for War Loan subscriptions at the rate | \Cont{nued on Page Three) Day, June 21. AXIS TROOPS STORMING AT LIBYA PORT Tobruk Un&;Heavy At- fack as Germans in : Good Positions CAIRO, June 17—British |and guns are reported to have | beaten off two Axis attacks at Sidi | Resegh and Acroma, according to today’s communique from the bit- ter African theater of war. Meanwhile, Field Marshal Erwin | Rommel is seeking to storm Tobruk | before the vital supplies which have just been landed there under cov- |er of British and American wai- | planes from the much besieged | Mediterranean convoy, can be put |into the fight Military commentators here said that the “positions are substantial- |ly unchanged” and that the Brit- |ish are holding a semi-circular de- fense position to the west, south, |and southeast of the port The Germans are smashing stead- |ily at the line with tanks and ar- | tillery, and the commentator ad- | mitted that the Germans for the | moment are in favorable positions |and have superiority in the num- ber of tanks and tank guns, | . CAPTURE OF * EAST CHINA ~ R.R.NEAR | Two Jap Columns Only 50 Miles Apart, Driving tanks’ WARCRAFT OFITALY ~ SET AFIRE Direct Hits Made in Medi- terranean by US and | RAF Bombers | CAIRO, June 17—The RAF head-} quarters announce that a second, | attack last Monday night resulted in another direct hit on one of two | Italian battleships and the ship was| set afire by U. S. Army and RAF| bombers and torpedo planes.. On Monday morning an Italian ‘bunlvxlnp was hit despite a heavy | | smoke screen laid down. The bat- tleship was accompanying four de-| stroyers which were also attacked ‘b_v the U. S. and RAF forces. k | Fourteen Axis planes have been | definitely shot down in Central |* | Mediterranean and many more “so | | severely damaged that it is not | likely they returned to their bases.” NAVYSQUAD OF ITALIANS IS BATTERED ‘Craff Sent Out fo Intercept | British Convoy Beaten by US, RAF Bombers LONDON, June 17 — An Italian Naval squadron in Central Mediter- ranean was so battered Hy United States Army Airmen and RAF that it never made contact with a To- bruk bound British convoy.. The squadron was sent out to intercept the convoy. British sources declared officially that early this week convoys deliv- ered necessary supplies to both Mal- ta and Tcbruk but at “considerable cost.” What this cost was in ships and men is not disclosed but the convoy operations are described as a “lim- ited success.” A British radio broadcast said there have been- Allied losses but | these losses “will be withheld un- til revelation can no longer help the enemy.” > BOMBERS OF BRITISH IN NIGHT RAID Ol NIL. PHILIPPINE ama Japanese Marshall Isalnds. w ' Is an | | | | (First of Two Arti | i i H BY JACK SIINNETT ‘NaziPlantsin Ruhr, Rhine- ., SCrox "sune 17 — wor the first time in history, so far . land Attacked Dur- . ing Bad Weather as 1 can find out, this nation is publishing at its own expense a monthly magazine and @ twice- ! monthly “News Letter” for con- LONDON, June 17—British bomb- sumption solely in western hemis- Anti-Aircraft Crew in Act Along Road CHUNGING, June 17—Shangjao, important station on the Chekiang- cleared yet. Kiangsi Railway, has been aband- Eight British bombers failed o oned to the Japanese, but only after return from the night raid. an all-day battle when 8000 cas-| s ualties were inflicted on the m-iMCK MELLQUIST HERE vaders. ON WAY TO WESTWARD The Chinese announced that| Jack Mellquist, representative of hangjao, 50 miles within Kiangsi Carrington and Company, is in Ju province, fell on Monday to thel/neau for a few days and will con- | Jap column driving, westward along|tinue from here to the Westwar }lhe railway from Chekiang Prov- for his company. He is staying at ince seeking a junction with the the Gastineau while in the city \second line which has been driv-| e gt ing eastward from Nanchang, thel TO VISIT IN PORTLAND western terminus of the line. | Donald Jones, son of Mrs. Felix The Chinese admitted that the|sybuchon, left for the south by gap between the Jap columns has |been cut to 50 miles. - e BUY DEFENSE BONDS |plane to visit his grandmother in | Portland, Oregon. | B | EFENSE S¥AMPS BUY D lers smashed again at the Nazi phere countries outside our own plants in the Ruhr and Rhineland porders. |sectors in Germany last night al- If this were purely a propa- |though bad weather has forced a ganda effort shoved down the | week long lull and it is not fully reading throats of our sis re- publics, it wouldn't be worth men- tioning. But “En Guardia” a 10- by-14 inch slick paper magazine, tilled with beautiful black-and- |white and color photographs, tarted nine months ago with a timid 50,000 circulation, has now reached 200,000 and the demand far exceeds the supply. “The American News Letter—Circulated for Private Information in the Western Hem- isphere” is no older but just ac much in demand. It's a four-page, un-illustrated pamphlet, printed in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The magazine is printed only in two latter languages, although there has been one edition recently in French, also for Latin Amer- Jican consumption. Behind these two publications is! Where Strategisis Lock for Adlion %, | > m‘o»;uovsx ‘e ALEGTIAN HAWAIIAN 5. i © Y Samoa .~ . Fl. .~ 2l NEW CALEDONIA Naval experts think the Jap attacks on Dutch Harbor and Midway (solid arrows) may foreshadow (1) an attempt to conguer Alaskan bases, or (dotted arrcws 2 or Hawaii, or (dotted arrow, 5) an attempt to attack ion | . An American anti-aircraft gun crew is shown in action during an alert in Australia. U. S. anti-aircraft gunners established an enviable record during the siege »f Bataan and Corregidor and are now rated among the world’s best marksmen. Gun crews stationed on the continent down under are working hard to live up to that reputation. Magazine Diplomacy Being Tried by U. §.; Amatzing Story an amazing publishing story. Under a contract let by Nelson Rockefeller’s Office of Inter-Amer- ican Affairs, they are published and edited by the Business Pub- lishers International Corporation A Washington editorial staff, headed by J. C. Stark, works hand in glove with Frank Jamieson, in charge of public relations for the Rockefeller office. These two staffs produce and edit ‘En Guardia” and the “News Letter.” Turned into foreign tongues by a staff of translators, the copy Is laid out in New York, printed in Philadelphia, and circulated mostly by airmail to a selected list of officials, educators and industrial-| ists in the Latin-American repub- lics. The first twec numbers of ‘En Guardia” were put out entirely by the Rickefeller office. They were something of an experiment. Never before had the United States spoken to Latin America through its own publication. The ‘“experiment” got out of hand almost immediately Popularity of the magazine zoomed 1 It bad to be placed in the hand of a publishing house. There is one amusing story in| ccnnection with the sudden pupu-} (Continued on Page Three) j 4) attacks on the western U. S. ited Nations’ bases south of Hawaii and the These bases protect U. S.-Australia supply route, Other experts think Japs now turn west and attack Russia. NOREPORTS OVER FIGHT iTO WESTWARD {Bad Weather Apparently | Stops Hostilities-State- ments by Observers | WASHINGTON, June 17—Devel- |opments in the warfare in the North Pacific, especially in the Al- eutian area, are shrouded in bad weather, especially fog. Latest reports unofficially an- nounced, were that Kiska was peing bombed by Army planes in |an effort to dislodge the invading |Japanese and Attu had also been raided. No reports have been received, it s unofficially stated, regarding the size of the Japanese fleet, after | the recent attack on the Nippon | unit in which it was officially stated one enemy cruiser was sunk, and !und a torpedo had been dropped lon an aircraft carrier and also | three Japanese cruisers, one des- | troyer, one gunboat and one trans- ___ |port had been damaged. | It 15 considered feasible that the | damaged vessels might have left for | repair port in one of the Japan- |ese islands, unless repalrs were | made on the high seas. Observers take cognizance of the coast, Pan- INVASION is imminent and if there is apy basis for this belief, the Aleutian Island Japanese fleet might have started on this move, abondoning a further move on Alaska. Other observers believe the attack on the Northern territory air bases has only subsided temporarily and has not been abandoned. IMMINENT Chinese Cabinet Meels fo Discuss Report-Troops Are in Manchuria NAZ'S ROI.I. LONDON, June 17—A Reufbrs dispatch reports that the Chungking BA(K FROM Chinese Cabinet has met to discu: the report that the Japanese inve sion of Russia is imminent. Jap troops are reported to be pouring into Manchuria by the thousands 4“"' ATTA(K Soviet CgugIr—A"acks Re- i ful | IN 4 DAYS polr(lfark:\:(egzcllloron ~ ONDARWIN - MOSCOW, June 17—Soviet count- attacks on the Kharkov front are reported to have forced the Germans to abandon several lines in one sector where they tried to dig in on new positions. While the Nazis rolled back there, Russian dispatches tcld of other Red Army counter attacks in sev- Large Force of Jap Planes Repulsed by Allied | Air Squadrons eral other Kharkov sectors. In the battle of Sebastopol, fierce MACARTHUR'S HEADQUART- | fighting swirled around the import- ERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 17 — ant highway against which the Twenty seven bombers, escorted by Germans have launched masses of 25 fighters, attacked Darwin yes- troops, tanks and planes in six vain terday for the fourth time in four, assaults. lays. The attackers were driven Soviet dispatches also state the off without causing serious dam- Germans attacked the southern de- age. fenses of Sebastopol five times only The Allies lost two pilots and two to be repulsed in every case. planes. The Red Army still holding One Allied interceptor shot down Balaklava. & Jap bomber and also a Jap fight- er plane. Pa»y~ for Soldiers Gjing Up WASHINGTON, June 17 — The measure for boosting the minimum base pay for the nation’s fighting men to $50 a month has been signed is SIEGE ARMIES MOVE BERLIN, June 17—German and Rumanian siegé armies around Se- bastopol have “largely extended’ the breaches in the Russian de- fense system and thrust new wedges deeper into fortified lines but are meeting “bitter resistance and dif- ficulties of terrain.” This is the of- ficial announcement of the Ger- | man Command. | The communique also says Fort | Siberia, one of the important de- }rou.»e bastions, was stormed early this morning and one other forti- | fication on the defended heights is 1eported to have been captured af- ter heavy fighting by President Roosevelt - - The bill means that most men ® © € ¢ ¢ @ o @ ¢ ¢ & o o will get at e $20 more each|® WEATHER REPORT . month for necessities, vxnvrtumxmn-,1 . (U. 8. Bureauw . time off or to send home to their|e Temperature, Tuesday, June 16 ® dependents. e Maximum £3, Minimum 46 e The pay increase is effective as|e Rain—.13 inch . from June 1, P 0 00 00 0000000 | | OF RUSSIA ’luport from Chungking that. the .. _. | Chinese fear an invasion of Russia i