The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1942, Page 1

THE DAITLY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” o - VOL. LIX., NO. 9066. Ml-.M BER Abe(lAll D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKAREADY FOR ALLJAPS CANTHROW itler May Launch Second Fro " ASSAULT ON INVASIONOF | - MIDDLE EAST IS INDICATED Full Scale Ofienswe in Eqypt, lraq, Iran, Seen Possible HOLY LANDS MAY | BE NAZIS' CHOICE Cripps Said Allied Nations Will Attack in West in Time — 1 (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | British dispatches today say that | Hitler apparertly is bent upon a full scale invasion of the Middle East, having urgently requested Pierre Laval, Vichy French leader, to cede the million tons of French | merchant shipping in the Mediter- ranean. Other developments strongly indi- cate that the great battles of this summer will be fought in the an- cient lands of Egypt, Irag, Iran and possibly Turkey. This would be Hitler's choice of a second front, However, Sir staf- ford Cripps declared Bluntly at a London meeting observing the an- niversary of Nazi invasion of Rus- sia that Britain and the U. S. will Jaunch a great and successful at- tack on Hitler from the West when | the proper time comes. “The attack must not fail,” he said. Part of the indications that Hil- ler is planning to open up in the ! Middle East is the surrounding of Tobruk and the opening this week of what appears to be developmg into a lengtny siege on that town that may force the British defenses | back upon the Egyptian border. The siege of Sebastopol in south- ern Russia may be a threat of the proposed Middle East invasion, for (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW. / PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — The other day the President held a little-noticed conference with Maritime Chair- man Emory Land and Rear Ad- miral S. M. Robinson, chief of the Navy Bureau of Ships. Nothing was revealed as to the purpose of this meeting, but it had the ut- most significance. The President put the two ship- building chiefs on the carpet to ascertain why there had been such a long delay in getting started on the large-scale program of fast patrol and other small anti-sub- marine boats for which Congress ap- pmprlnted a big sum many months Por military reasons, details re- garding this program cannot be re- vealed. But it can be stated that only after more than 250 precious cargo vessels and tankers have been sunk off the Atlantic coast, has serious construction under this pro- gram got under way. During all this time, while the battle of the Atlantic was being| so tragically lost, Navy brasshats were stubbornly concentrating vast resources of material and man- power on the construction of battle- ships and other massive vessels which can’t possibly be completed before 1944. PT hoats and other deadly small craft that would have helped to avert the Atlantic dis- aster were largely neglected by the battleship-minded brasshats. What caused the President finally to put the heat on the admirals about this matter was a secret re- port made to him by Vice Presi- dent Henry Wallace. As head of the Board of Econ- omic Warfare, Wallace is vitally concerned with imports and exports, cspecially to and from Latin Am- (Continued on Page Four) YANKEE DOODLE [~} through her drum majorette act z ‘ Al RL’—_Evelyn Dinsmoor struts after she was chosen “Yankee Doodle Girl." at a home defense exposition at Long Beach, Calif. She led Rainbow Majorette Corps as part of patriotic ceremony. BRITISH ARMY T0 USE LARGE COASTAL AREA LONDON, June 20—The War Of- fice disclosed foday that the army is taking over an area over thirty- six square miles in extent in the East Anglia portion of England which is neavest Holland. Every civilian villager and farm- er is required to be out of the | district by Julv 20. Only explanation given for the move is that-the whole area, includ- | ing the villages is needed for train- ing purposes. War Office officials declared therc is “no story” in the move, One military source said the army needs such a large area for | “realistic training in present day warfare.” —— - JUNEAU COUPLE GOING T0 WED INKETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 20.— Grace Moore and Clifford Swanson have arrived here by plane from Juneau and applied for a marriage license here. Both are well known in the Capital City. Swanson has been engaged in the fishing business there but is now operating out of Ketchikan. C(OMD. J. R. TATE HERE OVERNIGHT FOR CONFERENCE To confer with Gov. Ernest Gruening, Commander J. R. Tate, | arrived in Juneau yesterday after- noon by U. S. Navy plane from the | Naval Air Station at Sitka, of | which he is in command. Commander Tate is accompanied by Lt. Commander E. C. Renfro and Lt. Commander C. D. Bell, and ex- pects to leave early this afternoon | to return to Sitka. ——e——— | Germany in (wo weeks. AIR BASE OF NAZIS SMASHED Terrific NigFr Raid Made on Emden-Rail Junc- tion Bombed June 20—The Royal| Air Force blasted the docks at| Emden, German naval base, and the rail junctiun of Osnabruck last night in the heaviest air smash on‘ LONDON, Between 250 and 300 planes par- ticipated in the night raid. It is officially announced nine planes were lost. One hundred fighter planes re-| newed the assaults on the occupied coast early today. — e ——— tha‘ | NEW PURGE IS STARTED BY GERMANY “Antisocial Elements’ Over | Entire Reich and Else- where fo Feel Fist LONDON, June 20—A purge of “antisocial elements,” a phrase de-| scribing .all wlio disagree with the Nazis, has begun in Vienna and the lower Danube Province of Aus- tria. This is according to an an- inouncement made by the German | news agency DNB, The campaign, it is plainly in- timated by the DNB will also em-, FLYING WILDLIFE AGENT HAS ARRIVED IN JUNEAU Ray Renchaw, flying Wildlife Agent of the Alaska Game Com- mission, arrived in Juneau Loday {brace the entire German Reich and |the “antisocial elements” are de- fined as anyone who “owing to a 'criminal antisiate or querulous in- 'clinations, continually enters into | completed thewr encirclement of To- |bruk and have forced the main | ‘been captured in mopping up op- | | erations at scattered outposts on | the Libya descert front. | Britons at home clamored for ithe German reports. |the sector north of Smolensk. {Of Summer EGYPTLOOMS FROM LIBYA British Gird_fiorder De-{ fenses as Naxi Col- umns Move in (BY ASSGCIATED PRESS) London reports that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, now in Washinzton, is seeking quick | help from the United States for the Mediteranean theatre of war and this indicates that the British believe a great German drive against the Suez is developing. Meanwhile, British North African armies girded the defenses of Egypt, but Berlin reports said that German and Italian troops have British defenses back upon the/ Egyptian border. The German communique said | that a thousand more British have “an inquest” into the grave defeat f of British Armies around Tobnrk\ as Gen. Aunchinleck hastily mus- tered his forces to combat the ex-! pected Nazi ongleught toward Egypt. The British Imperial Headguart- ers dispatch says that two mamn Azis cclumns are advancing east- ward, but were turned back with- in 35 miles of the Egyptian fron- tier after a brief fight with Brit- ish mobile troops. It was also disclosed that the black day of the Eighth Army be- gan a week ago today when a strong force of British tanks fell linto an ambusn befcre 88-millimeter |guns and the | high. losses were unusually Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had cnou[,h tank strength left to drive the garrisons out of a series of desert outp SEBASTOPOL 'NEAR FALL, REDS ADMIT Germans Say Destruction of City Continues— Danger Great (By Associated Press) A British Broadcasting Corpora- ~ [tion broadcast yesterday quoted a Moscow correspondent as saying that the Germans have reached ihe high road leading into Sebastop: and that the “danger is very great Hitler’s Field Headquarters, mean- while, announced today that the “destruction of Sebastopol con- tinues.” Russian dispatches concede that the German pressure there is in- creasing, but remain silent as to Red Armiies have launched a big new offensive |against Smolensk, 200 miles west of Moscow, they say. The British broadcast said that the Russians have recaptured a large town on the Kalinin front in A German report said that waves of | Soviet infantry supported by planes are attacking. {Tomorrow Is First Day All of the military secrecy in the world can't prevent tomorrow June 21, from being the first day of summer and the longest day of the year. That's a fact. You can read it in your almanac. The sun comes up He will work out of the Juneau | ! ccnflict with the penal law, police about 3:51 a. m., and sets at aboul district for the rest of the summer. ] jor other authorities.” 10:08 p. m. in Juneau. 000 ment to newsmen nt Himself Aussie fiirls PutOn Sh@w rican soldiers staticned in Australia put the eagle eye on the chol . troops in Australian camps. The girls w : DROP A TRICK? IT'LL FLOAT—_ves, cards were waterproofed when a bridge tournament was played in the water at Pasadena, Calif. Players (left to right): Gwenn Crawford, Muriell Royce, both of Pasadena; Sonia Henius, San Mateo, Calif.; Jane Chapin, Salt Lake City. Will Extract HITLERTO Income Taxes ~ GIVETALK From Payroll INBERLIN: Dedudtions from Checks| Dictator Reported fo Give Address on Invasion Probably Will Start January 1 Anmversary s e el u. | NEW YORK, June 20—The New WASHINGTON, June 20 — The| oo mimes has received a dispateh House Ways and Means Committee RN i ot Stk has voted not fo consider the pend- | | from the correspondent at Stock- e [holm stating that it is strongly inz tax bill on any form of con-| umption or sales tax, Chairman| , M Robert L. Doughton announces. | ¥ill speak elther Sunday or Mon- Doughton made the announce-| 9&¥ on the anniversary of the Ger- after a morning | man invasion of Russia. | rumored in Berlin that Adolf Hitler session of the committee and .,.udi TR the committee also has decided ten- AR | DR. RYAN I8 BACK atively l:u adopt the Treasury De- | FROM TENAKEE TRIP partment’s scheme to pay-as-you-| arnde T e Territorial zo in $hE eollection’ of. individual| DF- Jomes G Ryan, IerriarAl) Commissioner of Education, re- income taxes through payroll de- ductions starting January 1. The bill, he said, will probably reise $6,640,000,000 as compared (o the Tregsury request for $8700,000- turned to Juneau by air last night after a short t1ip to Tenakee where he insvected the school there, made arrangsments for some repairs and checked up 2n equipment. AIR FORCE CHIEF HAS - PUNCH TALK ‘Declares Nippon Planes | Have Already Been ; Met, Downed | SPOKANE, Wash, June 20— | Maj. Gen. Robert Olds, Second Air Force Commander, says that for Yanks | the United States is “ready te meet anything the Japs can | throw at Alaska—and they | know it.” | He told members of the | Northwest Aviation Planning Council “within the last few days we have had airmen from Alaska through here who have Jap planes to their credit.” Gen. Olds added that shortly | the United States will be fly- ing even gieater quantities of | men and supplies to Alaska’s theatre of war than are already being sent up. JAP PLANES cuBA,U.5. DESTROYED LINING UP BY ALLIES MILITARY ‘Exfensive Raid s Made by Australian Forces Cooperation Treaty Sign- | 0n Rabaw! ed LY Plan Fighi on ALLIED HFADQUA’IFRS N rus line as it rehearses for a show ork in Australian munitions plants | AUSTRALIA, June 20—Allied fliers, | blasting at Japanese forces and in- Smeal'IfleS | stallations at Rabaul, have destroy- gt ed an undetermined number of HAVANA, < ub‘c‘ June 20—The | Japanese bombers, fighters and sea- | United States and Cuba today planes and also scored three direct signed a trecty for military co- hits on a 10,000 ton transport. | operation providing for the estab- | lishment near Havana of an alr | base for training United States and | Other Japanese vessels are also believed to have been damaged dur- ing the raid. The Allies suffered | British fliers and for opvrzninns no losses. ‘ugnimt enemy submarines, R < - : SUBMARINES Capfain John OF BRITISH n Livingsfon r Passes Away SINK SHIPS | | | Make Successful Atfack on Japanese in Malac- ca Strait LONDON, June 20.—British sub- Capt. John (Jock) Livingston, 67, | with the Alacka Steamship Com-\ | pany for 45 years, has passed away | “uundnu, to advices received l,oduy‘ in Juneau from Seattle. Capt. Livingston is one of '.htn | best known navigators to oldtimers | navines have sunk three large Jap- on the Soutneast Alaska run. He gnese ships in the Strait of Mal- was pilot on eral of the Alaska 'acca, the PBritish Admiralty an- Steamship Company's ships, es- nounces. pecially the Doiphin, and was lat- | The Admiralty’s announcement .r promoted to a captaincy and |said one of the subs attacked a was master of the Dolphin, then |convoy consisting of three ships and su(‘d('luilnx to the command of the 'the “most importnt, a very large | Jetterson. <‘ve$\tl was torpedoed and sunk.” Capt. Livingston was also at one| The announcement further states time master of the Northwestern, |that another sub sank two large |He received Lis navigation educa- supply ships in the straits which | tioh, Opetathl oo Ehiliali stesmers| *TRATAe MAlkys AU Buowtrey both Capt. Livingsion was always on the w o3 & Wright Wins ings of his ips. He had a fine J. E. Weides, co-owner of the :.pendmg a l«v. days in Juneau BALTIMORE, June 20. — Chalky | b Zato oot 40" the Talted Sthten.| TTTTED M0 npanse caEly th e bridge and his commands could be personality and had hosts of friends | in the, Northiand. j Fea I h er II“ | Arcade (‘.m- u: Sitka, 1«!1 by .n..m .o - | | Wright, Los Angeles negro, success- When a steamer arrived in port, i heard distinetly during the land- LEAVES FOR SIIK\ ® b oo 00 0 0 0 0 00 s Lkt ORT % |fully defended the worlds feather- 8- Py weight crown, winning by a tech- e Temperature, Friday, June 19 | pnjeq) knockout in the tenth round Maximum 56, Minimum 48 e @0 e 0000000 e over Harry Jaffra. The challenger weighed 124%, Wright 124 pounds, i