The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX,, NO. 9078. JUNEAU, ALASKA, JULY 6, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MONDAY 3 JAP DESTROYERS SUNK IN ALEUTIANS L4 14 4 U. S. Subs Leave Fourth Burning Chposes Her Second Husbapd RAILROAD T0 ALASKA IS STARTED Will Follow Straight Route Up Rocky Moun- fain Trench WORK HALF DONE | INSIDE TERRITORY Will Supplement Highway System Now Under “Construction WASHINGTON, July 6 The War Department discloses that the Army has surveyed about a third of the proposed railway route to Alaska to supplement the highway. Engineers have been working since pring with wartime speed and ~ secrecy and have mapped in detail some 400 miles of a projected 1300- mile route linking Prince George in British Columbia with the existing Alaska Railroad in the vicinity of Fairbanks. | The War Department said that | plans call for an extension of the existing rail lines by the shortest possible route. Preliminary work is being carried on by the Corps of Engineers, which is also building the highway with complete cooperation from the Can- adian Government. Complete Air Survey “The survey follows in general the B route proposed by the Alaskan International Highway Commission in almost a straight line up the Rocky Mountain trench. The first step taken was a complete air re- connaissance of the route” says the War Department announcement. Primitive terrain has made com- " (Continued on Page Four) The Wasfiifigtun Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — There were some very peculiar things about the way Gen. Rommel caught the British napping in Libya—things which probably won't be explained for a long time. One of these was a mysterious short wave broadcast which came out of Germany in English, sup- posedly from an anti-Hitler under- ground station, congratulating the British on Rommel’s defeat in an early stage of (he campaign. | It is believed now that this| broadcast was part of the trap to| lull the British into complacency. 1t will be recalled that when the| Nazis first advanced, they met stifr: British resistance and turned back. This was hailed as a British vic- tory. And at exactly this moment, the strange voice out of Germany,| recorded by U. S. listening posts, told how Rommel had started this drive without the approval of Hit-| ler because the African commander was jealous of the publicity given the Russian front. The strange German voice, gloat- | ing over Rommel’s defeat, told how| his aides had tried to dissuade him| from the attack, and how he had finally obtained a promise that the| Italian fleet would attack Alex-| andria simultaneously. “But,” gloated the German broadcaster in English, “the sailors of the Italian fleet are now sitting in the coffee houses and brothels, of Tripoli.” | The broadcast, it is believed, was one of the several means used Lu; lull the British. At any rate, when| Rommel suddenly retreated, the| British did not follow him until they had sent back to headquarters near Cairo for instructions. These ordero‘ did not come for four days. So by the time they finally de- cided to follow Rommel, he had slipped far to the north, surprised a force of 7,000 New Zealanders near Tobruk, annihilated them, and (Continued on Page Four) 4 4 14 S Ty France’s top film star, Danielle Da make the grade in Hollywood, has an Rubirosa, Santo Domingo diplomat. rrieux, who tried but didn’t quite nounced her engagement to Porfiro She said that they will be married soon, Her first husband was Henri Decoin, French scenario writer and dir GREATJOLT GIVEN AXIS BY BRITISH Germans Admit Reserves Brought Up in Eqypt- Italians Surprised BEN, July 6—A dispatch has been eivea here from Berlin quoting German miltary circles as admit- ting the British have succeeded in bringiag up reserves to take the of- fensive in the Battle of Egypt. Reports also received here from Rome said that after the Axis break throug’s the lines near El Alemein, the italians did not expect such resistance as the British are put- ting up. S AIRMEN OF U.S. ATTACK INHOLLAND First American Assaulf in Western Europe Is Of- ficially Reported LONDON, July 6—United States Army airmen borrowed six Ameri- can made light bombers from the RAF and participated with the British in a low level daylight at- tack en three airfields in German held territery in Holland. Two American operated planes failed to return. This attack inaugurated on July 4 the American air assaults on Ger- man positions in western Europe and was disclosed in Communique No. 1, U. 8. Army Headquarters on European . theatre operations. The communique said light attack bombers, 3-seat midwing mono- planes powered by two engines were used. The weight, loaded is 19,050 pounds. The communique said the “at- tacks were pressed from low level in the face of intense antiaircraft fire.” The airfields at Hamstede and Alkmaar were hit, hangars de- stroyed and other points were heay- ily machine gunned. . g - ROTARY CLUB MEMBERS TO SEE FIGHT MOVIE Members of Juneau Rotary Club will meet at noon tomorrow in the Capitol Theatre to see pictures of the Joe Louis-Abe Simon fight. They will assemble in Per Cafe later for lunch &nd a business meeting presided over by George Sundborg, new president, ector. Hostess to Beauties ! Blonde, blue-eyed Margaret June | Maley, daughter of the champion | marksman of the Atlantic City Po- | lice Department, was chosen “Miss Atlantic City, 1942.” She will be the official hostess to beauties from | all over the country at the annual ) Atlantic City pageant of talent and | beauty to be held in September, | when “Miss America, 1942,” will be chosen. - .- NIPPONS IN ONMORESBY 'Two Raids Are Staged by Japs-Allied Bombers Continue Assaults ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. July 6—The Japanese have s‘epped up air attacks on Port Moresby, sending 33 planes against the ithern New Guinea port as Allied bombers stabbed anew at :nemy bases in northeastern New Timor and Solcmon is- Twenty heavy Jap bombers es- orted by six fighters launched the itack on Port Moresby and this vas followed by a second wave of seven bombers. The raids were directed against he airdrome but caused only light damage and casualties. Allied bombers carried out other heavy attack vesterday on Lae and Salamaua which have been .argets for almost daily attacks,” S an-| & & AMERICAN -~ AIR FORCE & L4 & & & 4 (4 Japs Strafed il HITS JAPS \Destructive by Airmen Now Oper- ating in China Blows Struck CHUNGKING, July 6—Swinging | quickly into action the newly es- tablished American Air Force China has inflicted destructive in- in| itial blows on the Jap airfields at| Hankow Canton, made Nanchang and This is the announcement by the United States Air China in Communique No. 1 The Flying Tigers, now absorbed from the American Volunteer Group with other American airmen, op- ened assauits by a raid on Hankow on July 1, another at Nanchang the rext day, and the third on Canton on July 4. At all three places hangars and runways were pummelled At Hankow and Nanchang direct hits were scored on Jap planes on the ground. D SPY TRIAL IN EAST TO BEGIN SOON Four Forni;Charges of Violation of War Laws Filed Against Eight WASHINGTON, July 6—Four for- mal charges including a violation of the laws of wars. two articles of Conspiracy, have been filed again:t the eight alieged Nazi saboteurs ar- rested after having landed from German submarines recéntly on the East Coast and Florida. The defendants are facing a pos- sible aeath sentence. They will be tried before a military commission appciuted by Presidential Order last week, including seven Army Gen- erals The trial will begin this week Charges and specifications again:t the spies are made public by the Attorney General and the Judg: Advocate General of the Army. STUDY WILL BE MADE ON ' Discuss Rigfiaf Territory to Elect Own Gov- ernor WASHINGTON, July 6 — Whit House Secretary Stephen Ear! today that President Roosevelt ha approved the suggestion that o study be undertaken on propose: legislation to give Puerto Rico U} right to elect its own Governo: Discussing reports that Rexford Tugwell. Governor, recommend such a study, Early told reporter that while the President has proved the suggestion by Harol Ickes that the question be studied 'he has not received any results Ickes made the suggestion recent cabinet meeting. Secretar |of State Hull told newsmen tha |he had no objection to the pro |posal and added that he assumec | conditions were ripe for such a sten | which would be a move toward ul timate statehdod or independence - .- - Houses on the island of are mostly of stone, « saic ap- at Malta Force in | The first shipload of wounded Alaskan soldiers, sailors and civilians and a group of women and ghildren evacuees b arrived They told of Jap fighte safety in the hills. There we tr; John W. Fleteh fi cates numbe ispert. Mayo members of the armed forces who wi ¢ right): Bert Browne, Al planes fly 98 persons from U truck loads of women and children into the hills. after the June bombing and strafing. Pictured above leaning on the ship’ wounded in the attack on the Aleutian cutpost. Zettel and Orvill Watlen, - {International Tlustrated News Photo.) aska r of Unalaska (Dutch Harbor is Fletcher said applic ttle, bringing with them the story of the hombing attack on Dutch Harbor. ¢ low and strafing civilians in the streets, many of whom sought 1d from othe sections of Alaska on the Army laska Bay) directed the flight of tions for civilian death certifi- rail are several They are (left to Plane Used Against Japs in Aleutian Islands Phonephoto Shown in flight is the latest production model of the P-39 (Airacobra) fighter plane which was used successfully again general of the U. superior performance of th the Japs who atts ked the Aleutian Islands. Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding Army Air Forces, telegraphed the builders of the plane, the Bell Aircraft Corp., of the ship against a squadron of Japs. The general said, “With your forces produc- ing such planes and our forces flying them we cannot fail.” Sneak Raid Is Made by Nazi Craft NEW ATTA(K pUERTORI(O Vessel Suna Dock by 3 President Torpedoes-24 Workmen Trapped and Drowned JOSE, Costa Rica, July 6 n submarine sneaked into arbor at Puerto Limon, launched three torpedoes and sunk 1 3,300 ton freighter in the service of the United Fruit The vessel wa the dec t the and men were trapped in the hold the daring attack and drowned Such an a ant pated and the harbor a had bee blacked out Puerto L SAN A Gern the Company discharging ¢ time work by ack had been i- n for sometime. mon is about 220 mile y north of the P: uspicious elements” been arrested. - OF MAKE TROUT TERRITORY Executive Of r Frank Dufr and Special Wiidlife Agent Cha E. Gillham of the Alaska Game Commission, made movies of Alaska rout fishing over the weekend. The films are for distribution in Alaska. WORK KEPT GOING OVER 4TH HOLIDAY Called for Con- | tinuation of Assem- ‘ bly Lines WASHINGTON, July 6 Rooseelt declared that the spiri democratic freedom symbolized America’s Independence Day over the entire globe The Fourth of Jul celebrated this ye of make dealing President of pread was but tanks, believe. in works death rea oA plane and 1al of the he the Chie that day by running of lines to one blow. the assembly “Not stop woduction interruption hour, not to to hold mark cne back hot, not one That va nal the of our great holiday this year.' - .- HOLIDAY TRIP T0O SEE GLACIERS es Skuse, Charles W. Carter and Bill Carter made a trip to see the giaciers in Tracy Arm of Sum- Bay the MAKE Geurs dum ing iJerry fire-| | with Forest Ranger J over the weekend, mak- and irip in Skuse'’s gas boat! have been i Alaska in connection ‘Al Unifed Nations in (elebration Fourth of Ju]fis Observed Throughout Allied Countries (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A grim proud, United States ob- erved the 166th Independence Day of friendly lands chimed n and as the nation's youth fought to insure more Independence days. as voices In England,*China, Australia, Ire- Mexico, Ecuador, Cuba and othel distant places, Old Glory. was and cheered in the Nations this country of production land, saluted all United the as in wheels war d on At Canberra, United States Min ister Nelson Johnston laid the cor- ner: e for the $300,000 American Legation building Comununities e United States staged celebrations here in the and sane ve afe - - Forest Service motor- arrived in Juneau M. Wyckoff ctors who The U ship T S orester ha teur logging contr with & new spruce project o 4 4 Fiercely Civilians in Streefs of Duich Harbor ARMY, NAVY BOMBERS IN A ASSAULTS Raid Made ;)fihree Trans- ports, Escorting Vessels Off Agattu Island 'INSTALLATIONS ON KISKA ISLAND HIT [Communique Tells of Op- erations in North Pa- cifi-Weather Bad BULLETIN, Washington, July 6--The Navy announces United States submarines sunk three Japanese destroyers in the Al- eutians on July 4th and left a fourth destroyer “burning fiercely.” Three destroyers were at- tacked at Kiska where two were sunk and a third left burning. The fcurth destroyer was tor- pedeed and sunk at Agattu Is- land where enemy transports | and escorting vessels were lo- | cated on July 2 and attacked by | i | Army bombers. Today's Navy report raised Japan’s losses in efforts to es- tablish occupation forces on the western Aleutians to five ships sunk, three destroyers, one cruiser, one transport and nine damaged including an aircraft carrier. All attacks, prior to the In- dependence Day submarine of- fensive, were made by Army and Navy aireraft. | WASHINGTON, July 6. — Four new attacks on the Japanese forces in the Aleutians are announced by | the Navy Department. The attacks | include one bombing raid on three transports and escorting vessels off the island of Agattu, 30 miles south of -Attu, on which the Japs made their first landing on June 12. The Navy said other bombing at- | tacks were on enemy shore instal- | lations at Kiska, also occupied by | tha Japs. | The island of Agattu is 145 miles | west of Kiska, | The telling attacks, the Navy De- partment said, were made on July 2, when a patrol plane observed the transports off Agattu. Army bomb- | ers made the attack that afternoon, including damage, the extent of | which the Navy said could not be | observed. | Under Anti-Aircraft Fire | “Our aircraft returned safely, | having suffered only minor damage | from anti-aircraft fire,” the Navy | said The Navy communique further said: “In the North Pacific area, | since issuing communique number |90 on June 21, the situation in the | Aleutians has not changed mater- ially. Long range Army and Navy |aircraft have engaged in recon- | naissance and attack missions | whenever the weather permitted. ! “On June 21, planes dropped | bombs on shore installations at Kis« ka but due to fog, results could not | be observed. “On June 25, the Navy reconnaissance flight over the Kis- | ka and observed one large cruiser and three destroyers in the | harbor and also the bow of a Jap- anese transport which had been |sunk by an Army aircraft on June 118, clearly visible near the center of the harbor | During the operations a Navy | patrol piane was attacked and dam- aged by enemy aircraft but the plane returned safely to its base. Attack Shore Installations “On June 26. two Army planes attacked shore installations at Kis- ka again but fog did not permit the results to be observed. “On June 28, Army bombers at- tacked Kiska, doing further dam- | age to shore installations. “From June 28 to July 2, weather | was such as to render flight ob- servations inadvisable. made a (Continued on Page Pt;ur!