The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ————————————0" VOL. LIX., NO. 9072. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIES TO DIVERT NAZIS FROM RUSSIA Grand Attack On Egypt Is Started By Axis STRONGHOLD OF BRITISH 1S CONTACTED Lightning Pace of Rom- mel’s Force Temporarily Stopped by Bombers (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Italian Headquarters today an- nounced that Axis motorized forces have “made contact with the de- fense of Matruh” indicating Rom- mel has opened the grand assault on Egypt. Matruh is 130 miles inside Egypt. It is the main British stronghold barring the path to the Suez Canal. Gen. Auchlinleck’s British Imper- ial armies are said to have been reorganized and reinforced. Cairo dispatches said damaging blows of the United States Army and Royal Air Force bombers have already gained the British precious T, MRS Treasury D;);riment Sec- * | refary Sends Wire | ‘ to Gruening 1 Foilowing the announcement in Thursday’s Daily Alaska Empire by ' ey gl oy By Washington |Morgenthau, Jr. in Washington, |that Alaska and Hawaii are lead- WASHINGTON, June 7—Twenty- ing the nation in sales of War!three U. S. Army fliers today re- Bonds on a proportionate basis,|ceived Distinguished Flying Crosses and that Alaska had been the first|for their April 18 raid on Japan sector to complete its June quota|gs they returned to the United |—which it did at the end of the|giates with additional details of, [third week—Gov. Ernest Gruening.|ine havoe and destruction wrought | Territorial Admnu{;trator of War ,o (he American fliers, Savings, this morning received the| It was disclosed that America’s ;‘;1"]‘:::\:5 telegram from Mr. MOr-|g. noue secret Norden bombsights “Hearty congratulations to the | Were left behind on the trip be- |members of the Alaska War Sav- cause of the risk of one of them falling into enemy hands. ings committee upon fulfilling your £ A " |June bond sales quota. Your suc-| The U. 8. pilots used improvised bombsights costing but 20 cents cess promises well for succeeding |months and the Treasury takes each but they made adeguate hit- (U, . Fliers Back Home Re- ceive Decorations in GERMANY IS | Reports SayC_h_annel Coast to Be Ready for Sec- ond Front LONDON, June 27—An unusually well informed foreign source said today that Adolf Hitler is being urged by his military commanders | to “arrange” occupation of all of | France to offset the projected second | front invasion in Europe by the| | United Nations. | The source declared that the re-| port came through the same trust-| worthy channels disclosing that | guns from the Maginot and Siegfried | lines are being moved to the English | Channel coast. i In addition, Hitler is said to have shaken up his military command, re- | placing 26 division commanders in| | | | Paris Housewives Wait for Meager Food Ration “brvorcetiay ONRAIDON PREPARING TOKYOTOLD FOR ALLIES | ' Churchill, After two years of Hitler domination, this picture made in Paris shows French housewives standing in line outside a dairy to receive their meager ration of food. Although the store advertises butter, cheese and eggs, there is none to be had by these women. The tins exhibited in the shop window are empty. CONFERENCE RESULTS IN AGREEMENT Roosevelt, Issue Joint Statement on Plans HOPE T0 REDUCE SHIPPING TOLLS United Nations in Com- plete Accord on Ways of Winning War | WASHINGTON, June 27-—Presl |dent Roosevelt and British Prime | Minister Winston Churchill declared im a joint statement that “coming operations” of the United Nations |real satisfaction in the splendid (ing targets on account of the ex- the last three or four weeks. | The milkman carries away the empty milk cans which are placed there by order of the ruling Germans. “will divert German strength from hours by striking the major beyanlwork your committees are doing.” tremely low altitude at which the bases at Tobruk and Bengasi thus; delaying the lightning pace of Rom- | mel’s advance. U.S.B-14's IN RUMANIAN AIR ATTACK Fifteen Arfiy_B ombers Raided Oil Center Recently LONDON, June 27.—Fifteen Con- solidated B-14 bombers based in| Egyptian air fields, took part in a United States Army Air Force raid on the Rumanian oil center Ploesti two weeks ago, it was disclosed here today. The Washington| Merry-Go- Round | i By DREW PEARSON— | and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Biggest under- cover wire pulling in. Washington, affecting millions of little business- men, is in the selection of the five- man board to spend the $200,000,000 | appropriated for small business | under the Murray bill. Big question is whether this newl Small War Plants Corporation is to be administered by real friends of little business or by the same con- servative big business men respon- sible for leaving little business out in the cold. This has been one of the biggest botches of the defense program. In Germany every little garage has been given a war order, a small part of an airplane to put together and | then send to the assembly line. In England, Beaverbrook licked the| bottleneck on airplane production by distributing the business among a host of small factories. But in the United States, the bigi motor and munitions moguls in-| sisted on taking the time and much | needed ' steel to erect brand new plants covering acres of land, in- stead of farming out production to small factories forced into idleness because of lack of materials. Finally Congress, exploding over the plight of small business, en- acted the bill for the Small War, Plants Corporation under the lead- ership of Senators Jim Murray of Montana and Jim Mead of New York. % | | { | | | | | QUESTIONABLE TRIUMPH This was a great triumph over the $1-a-year men and their big- business-minded bureaucratic pais: But now if certain of Nelson's $1- a-year generalissimos have their way, little business is apt to con- tinue just as much out in the cold as before. For the man strongly urged on (Continyed on Page Pour) U. §. FORCES flew. Two Japs Downed A plane piloted by Maj. Charles Greening of Tacoma shot down two Jap pursuers, and others are re- “It is extremely gratifying that bombers Alaska's support of the Treasury’s| War Bond program should be thus recognized, particularly since the Alaska War Savings Staff has been in official operation -only siX ported to have scored hifs on the months,” Gov. Gruening said. relatively low number of defending ‘That Alaska has been ahle to at- planes. tain and, even, exceed the quotas| «phe lack of pursuit opvosition which have been set, is ample testi-| 3,q the lack of warnings between jmony to the splendid work of ‘the ghe jap cities, the inaccuracy of various volunteer committees and;anti_ajrcraft fire were factors which also to the careful guidance which, mystified’ and continue to mystity has been furnished these groups by a1 who took part in the raid,” the the War Savings Staff in Juneau.|war Department said. It proves that organized and co-| The War Deparement shed no ordinated effort produces the best fyrther light on President Roose- results, and in the months to come| yelt's facetious Shangrila base for I am certain that this coordination|the attack. will help immeasurably in keeping| Tne decorations for the flyers Alaska in the foreground of the|were presented by Lieut. Gen. Arn- nation’s War Savings purchases.” old, Army Air Fotces commander, TR o 5 v Present at the cerémony was Brig. Gen. Doolittle who was awarded | the Congresional M®al of Honor {on May 19. | From Portland | Included in ithose decorated were | Second Lieuts. Dean Davenport, pi- |lot, and Robert 8. Clever, bombard- WATCHED BY 1%0 help the British armies repulse KING, QUEEN American Troops Give Demonstration in N. Ireland WITH THE U. S. FORCES IN| NORTHERN IRELAND, June 27 —| King George and Queen Elizabeth watched for the first time in this| war American forces demonstrate the power with which they h1Len(li VESSELS 10 AID BRITISH ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June 27— Speedy American built motor tor- pedo boats have arrived to augment the British Mediterranean fleet. The fleet is expected to play an| important rolé in what may be thcl decisive battle against the Axis| forces in their advance toward this British naval base. | (ier, both of Portland, Oregon. All who were decorated will return to their homes for local ceremonies The changes in the German mili- | tary organization, the source said, parallel moves to stiffen civman‘ ,morale in the Reich under a de- cree against = anti-social elements | who endanger the totalitarian state | in Germany. The sou:rce warned against con- | sidering these moves by the Ger- mans as signs of weakness and said that they should be taken as evid- ence of German preparedness wiic! the Allies must be equipped to over' come when they invade the contin- ent. BLAST JAP SHIP NEAR LAE HARBOR Most Successful Raid Yet Carried Out Over New Guinea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 27—Allied bomb- ers heavily attacked Lae and Sala- maua on partly occupied New Guinea Island north of Australia and blasted a Japanese ship com- |ing into Lae harbor, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’'s headquarters an- nounced today. The communique said that the NEw AI IA(K |raid was the most destructive of » lany previously reported. A'I' KH ARKov Meanwhile, 18 heavy Japanese | on the Fourth of July. Most of the other members of the| raiding party are still in combat zones. .- — bombers attacked the Allied air |base at Port Moresby without ser- jous damage and between six and ten enemy planes were shot down Hurl Large Reserves of wnie four Aniea planes were ios Tanks, |flfdfl'l'y 'nlo E'hvn pilots were rescued. Sebastopol wopel | JAPS SINK are synchronizing into a violent| offensive below Kharkov according to the latest advices received. How- |ever, it is declared that the Rus-| sians have checked the new drive, repulsing Nazi attacks in the area| east of Kupyansk, counter-attack-| m‘éozitetonfio:?ml:fie dispatches sw‘SUrVivors I_anded at AUS' that Nazi Marshal VonBock is hurl- ¥ fralian Port Affer Drifting Days knowledged that Nazi shock troops e driven momentarily into. the GOERING KIN | i IS KIllED I" inortheast fortifications, but said |they have been driven out again. AF ' | R AIR FIGHLG!LMM AIRWAYS PLANE | ARRIVES FROQM WESTWARD LONDON, June 27—An announce- ment by DNB, German news agency,| Harold Gillam, of the Gillam picked up here, said Walter Goer-| Airways, arrivad in Juneau from ing, 21, nephew of German Air|the Westward shortly after 11 Minister Goering, has been killed in| o'clock last night. He is staying at an air battle with the RAF on the the Baranof Hotel while in the city. western front. e | ————————— The imperial palace is in the BUY DEFENSE BONDS center of the city of Tokyo. I ing large reserves of tanks and in- fantry into the 23-day-old battle| of Sebastopol. : | The Russian communique ac-| | SBOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, June 27—Two Allied merchant ships have been sunk by Jap torpedoes in the Pacific, it was disclosed today |as survivors reached an Australian port, including all of the crews ex- cept the anti-aircraft gunners. T reached port after many days of drifting. The second ship was torpedoed | after it attempted to tow the freighter into port. The Jap sub-| marine rose to the surface and the| vessel, then sanx it, Enemy Would Like io Gef Us Hysferical on Rumors; JuslAppIy(ommon _SeLse (Second Of Two Articles) BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 27— There is' only one thing to do about the kind of rumors floating around in our war effort. The enemy would like to have us get hysterical about them. Therefore apply a little com- mon sense to every one. If they aren't absolutely authen- ticated statements from govern- ment and war officials, give them the raised’ eyebrow. And don’t re- peat them. From the vast store of case his- tories which the Federal Bureau of Investigation is collecting as a result of digging into practically every one that comes their way, there are many to avhich this cau- tion can be applied. Over the south Atlantic coast re- cently went the story that a big Nazi submarine, operating three miles off shore, had hijacked a 48- foot diesel motored yacht of its fuel oil. Common sense: How far would the fuel oil from a 48-foot vacht carry a-sub? What kind of a system would it be to sink tankers Senate Group Okehs Record War Measure Would Build 23,550 Planes for Army-Also More Ships WASHINGTON, June 27 — The $42,820,000,000 military supply bill, to provide funds to purchase 23550 warplanes for equipping the army, has been aproved unanimously by the Senate Apropriations Commit- tee. The record breaking measure al- ready has passed the House by a vote of 352 to 0, and is expected to go before the Senate Monday. Included in the total is $12,700,- 000,000 for lend lease aid. Late yesterday, the naval expan- sion bill authorizing the construc- tion of 1,900,000 additional tons of building new aircraft carriers, rode through the Senate by a voice vote| after members spent 80 minutes in closed sesion discussing the ques-| tion of additional battleships. At the close of the last fiscal of fingerprints on file. ! and diesel-motored ships of high tonnage and hijack little yacht for their thimbleful of fuel? The New York waterfront is sup- posed to be alive with Axis agents who ply stevedores and sailors with drinks to find out sailing dates and destindtions of our war cargoes. There's no doubt that there is some information to be gathered from stevedores and sailors, hut Common Sense: A stevedore may Kknow what’s in a cargo, and when the ship is loaded, but he can't know when it will sail, or where it's. go- ing. A .sailor may know approx- imately when a ship will sail, but in this wartime he never knows the destination until he's on the high seas, perhaps not until dawn of the day he lands. There was the case of the unfor- tunate west coast farmer who was suspect for weeks because he was supposed to have plowed a message to enemy bombers into his land. Common sense would have resulted in the accusers waiting for the first sign of green in the “fifth column- (Continued on Page Five) U.S.FLIERS 10 GO INTO MASS RAIDS Report Army Air Force Is Preparing for Partici- pation in Brifain LONDON, Jl;;;7—ll has been reliably disclosed that United States Army Air Force units in the Brit- ish Isles c.ce laying the groundwork for American participation in the mass raids on Germany The dispatches implied that Americans now make up a sizeable | establishment of their own, although nothing has yet been said to indi- cate whether or not sufficient air- craft has arrived for actual offen- sive operations. ¢ The contemplated cooperation of the RAF formations, according to precedent, will probably be heard from by public announcements, first with a blast of bombs over Ger- many. ———— A well known admiral ance said There were 443 convictions un- Jap commander ordered the crew year the Federal Bureau of Inves- der the White slave traffic act in of the second ship to abandon the|tigation had nearly 22,000,000 .sev.s;the United States in the last fiscal year. | | 1 { i - |the attack on Russia,” ‘ “While exact plans for obvious URGE"I (All | reasons can not be disclosed,” said o 0 |the statement, which has been re- Women Asked fo Repor Monday Morning to Rush Bandages for Posts leased simultaneously here and in |London, “it can be said that com- |ing operations which were discussad lin detail in the Washington con- ference between ourselves and our | respective . military advisers, wiil f divert German. strength from the at- |tack qn Russia.” | The statement also said it is {hoped that as a result other steps | “planned” at the week-long confer- |ence which concluded last Thurs- day as to the “respective navies, Urgent call for all women on |will further reduce the toll on mer= Gastineau Channel to report for chant shipping.” Red Cross work at Elks' Hall at 10| withholding other details as to o'clock Monday morning to work on | what may come next the state- bandages for First Aid Stations Was | ment declared that the United Na- issued today by Mrs. R. H. Willams, | i wpave never been in such who is in charge of bandage WOk |y detailed agreements “; to for the local Red Cross. 4 . plans for winning the war as they important that the bandages be cut, fl:;h';n:l‘:’l ‘l’“l::f.; :';n‘:gp;“;;d.‘zn“:“; folded, sewed and wrapped for ster-| " 7 gt ilization immediately in order Io‘“““('k being made by Oermax_ly and rejoiced over the “magnificent equip the stations on the Channel for use. Want Evening Workers | resistance” of the Chinese Army. They said that detailed discus- Because of the large amount of |sions were held with military ad- work to be done, the Elks' Hall will | visers on the “methods to be adop- be open from 7 o'clock until 10 |ted against Japan for the relief of o'clock Monday evening as well as | China.” during the day and all office women and others unable to work during | the day, are urgently requested to| report in the evening so as to com- | plete the quota as soon as possible. Work hours will also be maintained on Tuesady from 10 oclock in the | morning until 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon, at which time it is hoped | F l I E s B A ( K that the entire quota of bandages will be completed | Tables for all women who report | will be arranged and instructors will be on hand to start each woman on her duties immediately. All who report for work are requested to | take with them pinking shears, if | possible, and if not, ordinary scis- sors as well as large white handker- | chiefs or scarves to wear about the head g a— British Prime—Minister Re- furns to London-No Details Given First Aiders | LONDON, June 27—British Prime It is particularly important that lMimster ‘Winston Churchill returned all women trained in PFirst Aid work to London today. turn out for the bandage making in | Official announcement was made order to learn how it is done, so|of Churchill's safe arrival but gave that in case of emergency the sup- no details of his return flight. ply of bandages at each station —— e - — could be ;‘:Yplenislwd if needed. Supplis sepeved are 1o the foi- HMI%‘ SALES TAL 55,000 . POUNDS FRIDAY lowing equipment, which each Pirst Fifty,five thousand pounds of Aid cabinet must contain: 800 ster- ilized 40-inch triangular bandages; halibut were sold here yesterday, 480 small sterilized bandage com- presses; 480 medium-size sterilized ) bandage compresses; 240 large ster- ilized bandage compresses and pack- ages of sterile gauze. All of these must be cut, folded sewed and wrapped for steriliza- tion before the First Aid Stations can be equipped, Mrs. Williams sald Hope All Answer Call “I hope the women of Gastineau Channel answer mediate duty as wholeheartedly as they did that of several weeks ago and feel sure that with complete cooperation, this large amount of work can be completed by Tuesday afternoon,” Mrs. Willilam said. — e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS this call for im-| bringing 1320 and 1105 cents & pound. Vessels selling vesterday were the Tundra, Capt. Pete Oswald, 13,000 pounds, sold to Alaska Coast PFish- ies; Louhelen, Capt. Andrew Hildre, 13,000 pounds, sold to Booth Fish- eries: Margaret T, Capt. Peter | Hildre, 10,000 pounds, sold to E. E. Engstrom; Marie, Capt. Ed Skaret, 10,000 pounds, sold to E. E. Eng- | strom, and the Fern II, Capt. John Lowell, 9,000 pounds, sold to Booth | Pisheries. R LR BB L BUY DEFENSE BOND3