The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1942, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LI BRARY Lo} wufimm'(m, D THE DAILY ALASK - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” A EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9079. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH HOLD FAST ON EGYPTIAN FRONT Nazis Sever Road Between RAIL LINE OF RUSSIA Vi l i | § ISCUTNOW Capture Imporfant City of | Voronezh on ‘Mos- cow-Rostov Road (RY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler’s Armies, executing a swift 120 mile attack, appear to have cut dirdtt communications between Rus- sia’s Northern and Southern Ar- mies, creating a grave turn in| events in the Soviet campaign. The German communique savs tank led Nazi troops have captured the important city of Voronezh, on the Moscow-Rostov railroad, which | system: is the principal rail com- | munication between the Red armies of the north and south. Simultaneously with this an- rouncement by the German High Command, the Nazi controlled Paris | radio esserted that the “Germans are advancing from Voronezh in the direction of Porovino,” 140 miles | east of Voronezh, which city has a population of 212,000. Porovino is 10 miles east of the Don River, about half way between Moscow and Rostov. | SOLDIER WINS HORSESHOE MATCH Orville Hansen, of the U. S Troops, proved he was an exper- ienced horseshoe tosser from Mis- souri when he took first prize in a match Sunday, defeating Joe Werner 30-25 and 30-27. Fred Geeslin pitched his way to take third place money. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Probably at the instance of the State Department, the eitieient Office of Censorship has been leaning over to untold lengths to censor newsmen from carrying even one scintilla of in- formation regarding the Churchill- | Roosevelt conversations other than the meager official communique saying that the two men had had| a profitable visit. | y Color Ceremony at Annapolis "I NEW FRONT | | | |CHINA ASKS Long Arms of Nippon's War Machine R o A g IN PACIFIC [Military Spokesman Ad-i vises Knocking Japs Out First WASHINGTON, July 7—Battered China has entered its sixth year of its struggle against the Jap in- | vader and renewed the plea that | the Pacific, rather than Europe, be made United Nations’ “second front.” Speaking for the Chungking Gov- | ernment, Major Gen. Chu Shih King, military attache, declared that the United States and China | cculd knock the Japs out this year | if full American power is concen- trated in the Pacific, i He said “a force warplanes of all types China to launch offe while is still available. Japanese advances, bases still re- | main from which Japan be | bombed. | “If the Japanese are allowed time'| to consolidate their gains, it mayj§ take a long time to defeat them. Meanwhile, the United Nations wl‘ilfi’ - throw the of only. 8004 would enable sive facilities Despite | AUSTRAIIA Australia and North Ame can —as well as scores of islands in the Pacific, have felt the blast of of communieatis apan’s offense in the last few months, and many military observers now believe that her lines Outlines of the United States here show the vast- 1 and supply ness of the operations; dark s dangerously extended. eas indicate Japanese occupied territory. he able to its full | eral wuthorities Presontation of colors during a full-dress parade is ofie of th&'h; lights of graduation week at the olis, Md. Girl,” presents the colors sup KUNZE HELD VIOLATIONS \Former U. 3 Fuehrer Re- furned to United States from Mexico NEW YORK, July 7—Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, described by Fed- as the former Fueh- rer of the German-American bund in this country, is being held on a $50,000 bail on a Federal charg of violating the Selective Service Act. Kunze, a 36, was arrested only U. S. Naval Academy at Auncp- Here Ruth Helena Reed of Madawaska, Me, the At the left is Rear Admiral J. R. Dea: itendent of the academy. (ommander OVER DRAFT | Named for U.S. Force | Maj. Gen‘TpaaIz Takes | Position in Air Branch in European Zone LONDON, July 7—Major Gen. i carl Spaatz, who in 1929 made avi- |ation history as commander of an | Army endurance plane, “Question {Mark,” has been appointed Com- mander in Chief of the United |States Army Air Forces in the Eur- lnpe:m theatre cof war. As his first public act in his new Any additional information they| .o gove aoo in Mexico and has|post, Spaatz awarded Distinguis conten, would be a “premature dis closure of diplomatic negotiations. ADMIRAL KING WARNS LIBYA Here is an excerpt from the| Washington Merry~Go-Round of | Nov. 4, 1941, oné month before Pearl Harbor, at which time we were slready sending supplies to Libya: “British demands for greater cen- sorship of the American press are| not new to executives of the U. S. Army and Navy. . There is a group inside the Army and Navy which demands move facts for themsclves regarding the British military position. They believe the British have been too optimistic, that American military strategists should have all the British facts, disagrecable as they may be, in or- der to cope with them. . “One very vigorous member of this school is Admiral Ernest J. King, commander of the Atlantic Fleet. “When Admiral King heard of Admirul Standley's glowing report on the Russian and British situ-| ations he went to the White House and registered an emphatic protest against the ‘Pollyanna stuff’ He told the President he did not trust Admiral Standley’s report and wanted to send his own observer to the Mediterranean to look over the British situation. “Admriral King can be a tough talker and he did not mince words with Roosevelt. He intimated that the President might remov¢ him if (Continued on Page Four) been returned to this country in great secrecy to be arraigned be- fore Federal Judge Sweeney on a charge of failing to notify the local drafi poard of his whereabouts. —— e Japs Give Account of December7 Claim EighiThips Sunk in Pearl Harbor Attack NEW YORK, July T—A Tokyo Flying Crosses to three member one of the American bomber crews | which participated in the first U. |S. air 1aid over German held West- ern Europe og July Fourth. - BRITISHTO KEEP HOME LECTURERS Information Ministers Say | They Do Mdre Harm ,fhan,Good LONDON, July 7—The House of never - SIXTH YEAR OF CHINA'S WAR STARTS lion, Chinese Five Million Dead CHUNGKING, July 7.—The Jap- anese have suffered casualties about a million dead and a million and a half wounded in the five years war against China, an Army spokes- man said today as the embattled Chinese went into their sixth year of war, cheered by blows struck re- cently by United States Air Force: against the Jap invader. The Chinese in addition, the spckesman said, have taken almost 30,000 prisoners during this period and 14 major engagements and 10,- 000 minor engagements have been fought. The spokesman said it is estimated that about 900,000 Jap troops are on duty in China and that the Japs could put about 1,000 planes in the air. The five years of war with Chira he added, have cost the Japs 2504 planes. In Tokyo, howgver, the Japs were claiming to have inflicted more than five million casualties on the | Chinese, including dead, wounded and missing, of which 2,338,000 arc Subs Enfer ~ AdionNear " Alfrica Area of radio broadcast from the Japanese|Commons cheered today as Bren-| Navy Ministry declares that the ‘compiete results” of the Pearl Harbor attack includes five U. S. battleships, two destroyers and one| instructed to force Britain down! tanker sunk, four battleships, six cruisers and two destroyers dam- aged. These figures are the latest of the Japs since the attack De- cember 7. They compare with ac- tual lo: December 15 as follows: One battleship, three destroyers, a in/ the progressively advancing claims | dan Bracken, Minister of Informa- | tion, declared: “The high-powered publicity mission which has been the throats of the American people” {will do more harm than good. No more British lecttirers, he said, will be sent to the United States because their efforts already have |turned out that way. | Bracken spoke in reply to criti- from both the Right and Left fac- ‘tions of Commons. He said “they 'Four Ships?tacked Near ' Portuguese East Af- ; rica This Week | LOURENCO MARQUES, Portuguesc | East Africa, July 7—Two ships, one | Norwegian and other Swedish, have | been torpedoed in the Mozambique es which were annoynced |cism of Britain's propaganda effort|channel. Two others believed to be Brit- ish also have been attacked by sub- target ship and minelayer lost, one|(the lecturers) do so much morelmarines, but results are unknow: battleship and a number of other vessels damaged. harm than possible good, I thought they should stay home.” ————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS r’! !lsought in eight states Licut. Gen. Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell (center), reached New Delhi, India, after a trip from the Bura area where he said: “We took a hell of a beating.” ground), were Brig. Gen. Majcr Gen. L. Squadron in In With him ¢n an American transport plane (back- rl L. H. Brereten (right), who commands the Tenth Air Phctograph was made by Preston Grover, Asso- cd Press correpondent in India. Naiden (left) Chief of Staff to Secret Can Be Kepl by (apital; Recent Visit 0f Molotov Proves If ¢..asc BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 7 capital can keep a secret, Rumors run rife. Tales are told out of school. Gossip splashes all over the place. But put the press, radio, government officials and that portion of the general public in the know on their honor to keep a military secret until such time as it should be released, and the tight lips in this democracy make the totalitarians, constantly under the threat of death for talking toc much, seem like a bunch of garrulous back - fence Lattlers. I'm talking about the “mysteri- ous” visit to Washington of that No. 2 man in the Soviet govern- ment, Vyacheslay Mikhailovich Mo- lotov. The His week visit here was nobody's secret — except America’s. The ant Russian bomber in which he and his party came flew over New York and landed there. It flew over Washington end landed here. He was four hours earlier than expected and the State Depart- ment and White House went into a tailspin to make connections at| the airport. Once arrived in all that hustle and bustle, Molotov calmly took daily constitutionals on the White House grounds. Once he inadvertently popped up in front of newsreel cameramen, wait- ing for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. He went off the reserva- tion far enough to buy a bag of peanuts from Steve Vasilakos, the White House corner vendor. He flew up to New York, wan- dered around Rockefeller Center | and dropped in to see the movie at Radio City Music Hall. When it became necessary for| Ste sarly, White House secretary, to ount to the news and radio orresponderits for the President’s time, he said he was in conference with “Mr. Brown' There wasn’t a man or woman who didn't know whom he was (Continued on Page Five) WILL ROUND UP BUNDIST © OFFICIALS All Offi(ersrand Leaders of Nazi Group to Be Tak- en Into Custody NEW YORK, July 7—Armed with warrants obtained from United States Attorney Correa, Federal {agents are rounding up every Na- | tional officer, sectional officer and | principal leaders of the German- | American Bund. The warrants were obtained after indictments were returned by the New York Federai Grand Jury. The defendants named are being All are ac- jcused of conspiracy, resisting ser- vice in the armed forces of the ;Umu-(l States, and concealing Bund | effiliutions in filling out alien reg- istration forms, | - e (ONVOY ARCTIC IS ATTACKED laim U.S. Heavy Cruiser Sunk with 28 Other Ships ‘BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) In an announcement from Ber- lin, the Germans claim they have sunk an American heavy cruiser and 26 merchantmen out of a con- voy in the Arctic waters betwe Spitzbergen and the Norwegian North €ape. There is no confirmation of the German claim from any other source. In tne last previous big convoy battle, the Germans they sunk 18 Allied ships. actually sunk six ships The special announcement of Hit- let's headquarters said the convoy |consisted of 38 ships carrying planes, tanks, ammunition and food supplies convoy was bound Arctic said They e |for Archangel under heavy escort of Allird warships. { - BUY DEFENSE BONDS Russian Armies AXIS FORCES ARE STALLED ON BIG PUSH Defenders Are Bolstered by Fresh Troops-Rom- mel Now Checked (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) On the Egyptian front, the Brit- ish report today that they have bent the Axis southern flank back | to the west in the third successive setback to German and Ttalian troops who were marching steadily a week ago toward Alexandria. The bulletin from British Head- quarters saild that Gen. Claude Auchinieck’s Army has been bol- stered by fresh troops and big American tanks and are “continu- ing their pressure against the en- emy who had extended his south- ern flank to the west.” This evidently means that Mar- shal Erwin Rommel has been forced to weaken his forward line, which is within 70 miles of Alexandria, to build a protecting or “extended” wall against the British flying col- umns which are hacking at his flanks. A German communique today as- serted tersely “In a fight at El Alamein, several enemy counter- attacks suported by tanks have failed,” > e AMERICANS IN COMBAT LIBYA ZONE \Manned American Made { Tanks—Knock Out Sev- |~ eral Enemy Craft WASHINGTON, July 7. — The | War Department announces that American crews manned American | made medium tanks in combat on | June 11 and June 12 during part of | the battle of Libya. The tank division was commanded by Capt. Charles Sterling of Augus~ ta, Georgia. . In two days of fighting the Am~ ericans knocked out seveiil German | tanks and although hit repeatedly [ their tanks were not seriously dam- aged and there were no casualties among the crews. STRENGTH OF JAPAN . ISSAPPED \Chian g Kai Shek Gives Broadcast on Sixth Year of Orienfal War CHUNGKING, July 7. — Chiang Kai Shek marked the sixth year |of the war with Japan by a broad- st and declared “By the end of this winter, Jap~ 1| an’s strength will be only one tenth of that of the Allies” The Chinese Generalissimo thank- | ed the Unitéd Nations for unfailing concern and collaboration and de- clared that Japan was plunging | deeper and deeper into the morass of Chinese resistance and is “now | beyond recovery PRINCE RUPERT - HALIBUT PRICES | PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., July 7. | ~~One hundred and eleven thousand pounds of halibut were sold here yesterday at 1860 to 1880 and 15 cents a pound.