The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9071. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1942 MEMBER Asso( ATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AXIS FORCES PRESS DEEPER INTO EGYPT Ship Attacked Off West Coast Of Canada JAPANESE SUBMARINE IN ACTION (anadian Navy Makes An-j nouncement-Vessel Reported Safe | \ \ ANKARA, Turkey, June 26—An e witness of the United States air attack on Tokyo on April 18, on a Tokyo street when the raid oc- curred, said the Japanese were thrown into a panic and were de- |pressed at the feeble defense. The eye witness, a national of a neutral country, told his story of how he had just arrived in Tokyo. “The daylight raid was a com- plete surprise and shook the people’s confidence as the Government boasted American planes would nev- er be seen over the Japanese Capi- tal City,” said the eye witness. “Tokyo's closely packed and high- inflammable buildings were OTTAWA, June 26—The Can- adian Navy announces that a Canadian built merchant ship has been brought safely to a west coast Canadian port after a “determined attack” by a Jap- ‘anese submarine. There was no loss of life. The Canadian Navy gives no | details of the attack because of security reasons but said the attack occurred “off Canada’s West Coast.” ., — "EXCHANGES' ARE COMING FROM JAPAN Over 400 Aboard Ship from Yokohama-Nippons | Will Journey Home 1y TOKYO, June 26—Japanese liner | Asama Maru has left Yokohama | bearing 416 citizens of North and South American countries to .be ex- changed for Japanese Nationals now interned on the Western Hemi-| sphere. | Included among those aboard the | Asama Maru are 142 diplomats m\d‘ 274 civilians. The Washington, Merry - Go-Round | By DREW. [ PEARSON— cnd ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—Amencan auto- mobile owners don’t know it, but| indirectly they had the British to thank for the final decision to build a new pipeline from the sSouth to the Middle-West. Secretary Ickes had been urging construction of this pipeline for| more than a year—always being rebuffed by the War Production Board. Part of Ickes’ argument was that it was foolish to waste American tankers by having them carry oil all the way to England from the Gulf of Mexico. . If, on the other hand, tankers could load oil and gasoline at a Middle Atlantic port, they could save 1,000 miles of trav- el and reduce the exposure to sun- marine attack. Tankers are gei- ting scarce these days, and chu\ shorter the distance they have 0| steam, the more trips they can make. | Ickes put forth this argument emphatically at the last hearing before the War Production Board, but was rebuffed by Lieut.-Gen. Brehon Somervell, head of the Ar-| my’s Service of Supplies. Somer- vell pooh-poohed the idea that| y England was hard up for oil er| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN gasoline, said that he had just re- | AUSTRALIA, June 26—Allied planes turned from there, and that Ickes’ swept both northwest and north- argument was pure poppycock. east of Australia yesterday, attack- Ickes made no immediate reply, Ing Japanese positions at Timor, but cabled the British Government. New Britain and New Guinea, Gen- The British were boiling mad, and eral MacArthur’'s Headquarters an- the reply he received clinched the | nounce today. matter. The War Producno,,‘ Japanese meanwhile raided Port Board decided Somervell didn't Moresby and a fight developed in know much about British oil Sup- which five Japanese fighters and plies. The pipeline was ordered | four Allied planes were damaged. built. | The Allies started large fires in | their raids on the capital of Portu- |guese Timor, at Rabaul in New and Salamaua New v Positions—Port Mores- by Under Fire WILLKIE SPIKES NYE Wendell Willkie’s luncheon with Britain Republican senators wasn't as cor- Guinea. dial as reporters were told it was. (Continued on Page Four) in —— v In parts of Europe, made from chestnuts. bread is | Bombing of Tokyo Was Big Surprise;Japanese Shocked | AtSuperiorify of U.S.Planes, INCREASING vitness FISHING IN COMFORT_Mary Jane Griffith wears » bathing suit for her rod and reel outing in Sun Valle: AUSTRALIAN BIG FORCE, RAIDS ARE (CANADIANS, (ONTINUING CROSS SEAS Allies Again_AHack Jap|Convoy Is ggfgly Escorted |ume by evaporation in an alumin- JAP - RUSSIA ' WARTHREAT .\])de by the American bombers as and hnmhvd \'nkz)~ hama and other important indus- trial centers.” | The eye witness said foreigners| were not permitted outside of Tok-| yo to inspect the damage done| which he said was apparently heavy. | “Some Japs commented on the superiority of American aircraft. | Japanese newspapermen quoxuonv'll(““ e why the Japs could not locate where | the Japanese the planes came from and intercept | S‘:‘”)"\ i e . them and were told they flew too e Russian crawqfh mow Iy high and too fast,” said the N_c:bin. Manchuria, on its way homo.‘ Members reported that two Japan- ese subs came to the surface im- mediately after the Angarstroi had | |sunk at a point 32 miles off the | Japanese coast. | The submarines stayed with the survivors in their small boats un- ’ til another Russian vessel ])Kkl'(l‘ +f |them up. | | Relations between Russia and Japan, already tense because of the ever present possibility of war be- tween these ancient enemies, be- | came definitely strained when lh-" Moscow - radio definitely charged | that the Japanese sunk the Rus-! sian freighter. Private information received from | Chungking is that the Japanese have a million troops in Manchuria ready for an attack on Siberia next month. This brought the| shadow of the threat of hostilities | much nearer to reality. - KHARKOV IS SUBJECTTO NEW DRIVE Fierce Figthg Between Russian Defenders and Nazi Troops Reported MOSCOW, June 26—Against pow- erful Red Army resistance, the Ger- man offensive in the Ukraine hos developed into a reinforced major drive to the East, with the Rus- sians being forced back slowly by the sheer weight of the troops and |tanks past Kupyansk on the Oskol River, dispatches say today. | The communique says that after abandoning Kupyansk, 60 miles daho. ‘southeast of Kharkov, the Russiaos | have repulsed a series of fierce as- saults in which the Germans tried | tanks and planes to force a weduc into the defense line. 'Soviets Accuse Nippons of Sinking Fréighter 0ff Coast MOSCOW, June 26—A Japanese, submarine torpedoed and sank the 4761 ton Russian freighter Angar-| on May 1 off the coast of the Soviet charged in its| ntion of the sinking, the planes went targets between Tokyo and on stroi Japan, which | blamed on the Unn,vd l BERLIN, June 26—German and | Rumanian troops in an encirclement | maneuvers southeast of Moscow have captured 21,000 Russians, 100 |tanks and 250 guns and quantitics |of other weapons, the German command reports today. | RCAF NOW OPERATING WESTWARD Over Atlanfic by Uniied States Warships SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND June 26—Army camps in southern! England, already bulging with Can-| @an soldiers, made room today' for fresh contingents of Dommmnl troops that have been landed. The troops landed from convoyed | ships that had been safely escort- ed across the Atlantic by United States warships. Included in the contingents land- ed are 1,000 infantry and artillery men and reinforcements for ar- mored units assembled from a score of Canadian training centers. Several Squadrons Patrol- ¥ ling, Fighting in Al- aska Islands’ Area OTTAWA, June 26—"Several com- plete squadrons” of Royal Canadian Air Force are operating in the . Alaska Island’s area. Air Minister Gasoline loses 25 percent less vol-|power made this statement here | today. um tank than in ‘a tank painted biack. —— e | | | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS 5 Ifarm hand who went about in his i DECISIVE " BATILEIS INDICATED |German, Italian Columns Penefrate 100 Miles Across Border ' BRITISH ARE T0 MAKE FINAL STAND AT MATRUK jMiIitaryiEkberls Make | Statements Regarding Present Big Drive CATRO, June 26—British Head- s today announced that the leading elements of the Axis forces ,|are within 30 miles of Matruk af- ter advancing approxlmntely 100 miles into Egypt. ‘The . British covering forces are engaging the advancing enemy troops the communique said, but the lat- ter have not yet engaged the main " | body. The British Eighth Army is re- ported drawn up before Matruk for |a decisive stand. The main Axis column is moving along the coast. Dig for Shell Fragmems Near Seasndev Ore_gomn north of Seaside, Ore, in the middle of the searched for shell fragments in a ne dropped nine shills Col. P. T. Gregory (extreme left), A craft believed to be a subma: ht, but did no damage. Licut. ater caused by one of the shots. Oregon Child Finds}heil Fragmeni iifler Al_lac!( SITUATION IS CRITICAL LONDON, June 26—A swift Axis | advance into Egypt coupled with a new German drive pointed to Russia’s Caucasus, is likely to make next week one of the most critical ’m the present war for the Allies according to a declaration made by Allied military experts. These quarters estimated that Axis General Rommel could throw | approximately 100,000 men in an | attempt to smash the British de- fense lines before Matruk on which |the fate of Egypt seems hanging. The entire Allied position in the Middle East may depend upon the outcome of this battle, A former member of the War | Council today declared in an inter- | view thas “if Egypt goes our con- | trol of the Middle East, our chances of aiding Russia through Persia |go with it. The defeat of Egypt will open the way for Axis control a, Europe and Asia through | possession of the Eastern * |sphere’s main crossroads.” Informed sources in Cairo are ‘quahd in London as saying the Bumh position at Matruk repre- | sents the “lnsl. ditch” stand. Hemi- handed Colonel C. S. Doney a piece of shell that was fired by an enemy sub- Her sister, Joan, 9, locked on. The projectile burst near their home. TORPEDOED U.S. SHIP IS Dera Jean Heffling, 3, marine on the Oregon coast, Rumer Rides High in Unifed Stafes; Is Nazi Percursor of Hysleria | spare | anything | became, FIRES SET BY RAIDERS SAFE, PORT OF BRITISH Vessel Makes Incredible| I Mai [ ‘German Port Under De- Trip with Gaping | vasfating Assault by Hole in Side RAF During Night —A sturdy American cargo vessel,| LONDON, June 26—Great fires half of fits starboard side blown|¥ere set by the Royal Air Force away by an Axis torpedo, complet- |35t Dight in the big German port, ed an Incredible 12-day voyage the city of Bremen, the principal home, the Eighth Naval District re- | {Arget of the devastating assault, vialad. todast | probably the largest in the history of Even the officers of the shi serial mysny “ven the cers of the ship Were | mu o ;v of planes partd s A A SR ) Lotormancel; ot M DI RETNSEIM o thi Tiad -the Gimage. af-| 5, 2 e Shack | RS PN e ey i veeded the flights ef 7,130 und 1,036 ter the ship was taken into a Gulf bombers that laid Cologne and Es- port. drydock. sen in ruins on May 30 and June 1, The Air Ministry communiques told that one bomber force con- sisted of more than 1,000 planes. The main target was Bremen ready to take her out but intensive attacks were also Cnly two men were injured, neith- | made on airfields in the low coun- er seriously, when the siip, was tor- | tries by the second force of bomb- pedoed May 22 in the Caribbean.| ers and fighters. The missile struck the vessel amid-| Tt is announced that 52 planes ships on the starboard side }m-‘. missing e eee { e —— Columbin has 1000 miles of| A battleship is called “she™ be- coastline on the Pacific and 1,100 cause she rests best on the heart jon the Atlantic lof a swell. | { | | time snapping that caught through rumor, agent who was mapping strategic roads, bridges and grain concen- trations. The poor fellow turned out to be just another camera fan who | wouldn't have known an Axis agent if one had bitten him on the ankle. In another locality, the death of canary gdve rise to the widely spread rumor (and some hysteria in this instance) that the city's water supply had been poisoned The FBI called a veterinarian in on that one and found the canary's feeding had been neglected for s0 many days that it died from overeating when it was finally given | food - and water. A report that ground glass had been found in sponges for banda being prepared for the armed for sent the agents scurrying--especi- ally since the report carried de- tailed information on how the ground glass was being smuggled into the bandage rolling rooms in the pockets of workers., That one started in the lecture of a con- scientious instructor who, in cau- pictures his fancy an Axis (First Of 1wo Asticles) BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 26 In spite of all the common sense with | which every American is supposed | to be born, that Nazi precursor of hysteria, Dame Rumor, has been riding wild in the United States— and still is. No government agency has to| weat over the wanderings of that|, old crone through the maze of ex iggeration like the Federal Bure: of Investigation. Sooner or later every rumor sifts into the FBI files. The FBI considers it from two viewpoints. There might be an ele- |ment of truth in it; or, it might an Axis planted story, designed and circulated to te contusion, mncertainty, hysteria, or distruct of responsible governmental agen- ies In either event, the rumor has be ed to its source and in file at the FBI, an analysis of he sources reached is rapidly grow- ing into one of the most amazing tatistical studies on “RUMOR” that ever has been assembled. 1 The ship will sail again, however gaping hole in her| and the crew are las soon as the steel plates is officers and men of repaired her In a mid-western community, a (Continued on Pagc Five)