The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1942 0 “MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. LIX., NO. 9081. PRICE TEN CENTS JAP DESTROYER TORPEDOED, ALEUTIANS Air Attacks Pounding Nazis Egyptian Lines FIGHTERS IN House Differs with GERMANS BOG APidure of aSoidier's Farewell FIFTH ENEMY DAYATTACKS ~ Senate Over Alaska ~ DOWN IN DON VESSEL IS HIT ON GERMANS Organic Ad Measure RIVER AREA OFF KISKA Smash Assaults Made, Es- WASH'NGTO(:;‘;.::\\; Bw,“, qlm ‘,..li’.til..ff,‘]‘é"fihififij:é‘:i?g“i,i;‘: Cf\'% Navy Makes Report of New " R act effective immediately imond < ik age pecially 70 Miles West om0 - | _Aflack_— Visibility of Alexandria Base Continues Low | said that such an amendment would | duced several months ago by Alaska : require a special elsction, since the | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond m‘(., rdidates already have filed for | amend the Organic Act of the Ter-|office, and urged that the bill not wAs}uNcToflr‘r; e e CAIRO, July 9—British fighters u!(l\: and .sim‘ the mh;sulg.rlrnl‘l) l?(‘ n.mllopsl-:in“cotli‘\e until the next Ter mightiest. offensive .of 1343 Has R 5 ol e and bombers in day long assaults|conference to iron out the differ-|ritorial election. : failed thus far to‘'gain any broad ke i v e spi . | at | ences. | He said that he expected the i | S 8 ] gt B e e T} ides for an in-|Benate woukd agtes to this proposal | [00thol1 19 the East s i | pedoed and is belleved to have sunk is vehi r 1e measure provides for a 1- e Wi s sal | | f\XlS hasaied iy la"mng- %10\““15; i a Japanese destroyer in the vicinity “‘A‘(l::; We.&[}ern de:selrt‘ ye:‘;el 4 ‘ of Kiska Island, Aleutians, on July r a sharp night raid, ground & troops this morning destroyed a number of German cannon and| sreased Alaska legislature to 1o when the situation is explained to S Senators and 24 Representatives. it. The Red Army counter-attacks | on the fizuks have endangered the Nazi drive West of the river, battle- The communique says this is the front dispatches reported today. | fifth enemy destroyer believed sunk killed or captured some of the en-| Witn massed tanks and infantry or damaged by United States sub- emy. { forces i eavily padded with Ruman- marines in this area in a two day Today’s communique reported that ians, Hungarians and Slovaks for period, July 4 and July 5. the British planes concentrated par- | numeriea' superiority, the Germans Visibility continues low ticularly on the southern sector 70| | Aleutians, the Navy says. miles west of Alexandria, where Previously the Navy said the Japs Marshal Erwin Rommel has folded have lost five ships sunk and nine back his line to avoid being out- flanked. ~ 'Mightiest Offensive of| | 1942 Fails to Gain Foothold Yet MO&COW, July 9 — Germany'’s! | House | Senate amendment today Governor General Visits in the are reported still forcing crossings in sma'l groups in an effort to re- gain footholds where the -earlier o § 2 |damaged in the invasion of the at an embarkation pofnt. That is | western Aleutfans, vements are military secrets. But | brid¢eheau was smashed. of these the Russians said e — | | | [ ] L ‘ [} Damaging Atack Made on Hankow in China-Eight Fires Left Burning CHUNGKING, July 9—Braving advecse weather, American bombing planes made another damaging at- tack on Hankow, Japan's main base in the interior of China. The raid was made last Monday . night aeceording to a communique issued by Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stil- well's lieadquarters. The il storage wharves were raide.dl and eight fires were left burning in the target area of the great city on the Yangtze River. w ouses were also damaged is well shipping in the Monday raid (he communique states, ¢« SECRECY I This picture of a soldier’s farewell was all the army could say about it since embarkation points and troop m Soaic ade by an Army photograpl they F:ve wiped out, but other of DAUGH“R IS BORN 0 G the Axis advance forces are hold- words are wasted here. Seaitle Salvages 4 Tonsvol Rubber Hee ing on gimly in the face of in- |tense artiiery and machine gun fire. Ruseian dispatches say that as a result of the tank-led Russian count blows which recaptured sever»! communities on the flanks of the Nazi wedge West of the ri er, the Germans have been forced to divert iarge forces into the drive on Voronezh. LIEUT. COMDR. AND MRS. J. W. MALEN WEDNESDAY Lieut. Commander and Mrs. J. W. Malen are the parents of a baby girl born at St. Ann's Hespital at 10 o'clock last night. The baby weigh- | ed seven pounds eleven ounces at birth and both she and her mother are reported to be getting along nicely. Lieut. Commander and Mrs. Ma- len arrived here from Sitks V‘v-‘y January and have an apartment at the Assemoly. COliliauues waick was transferred several months ago to the US.C.G. cutter Haida on which he is executive oficer. The Washington| Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Alien on active duty.) GIRMAN REPORTS BERLIN, July 9—The German breach into the southern sector of the Russien front has “shaken” Soviet defenses west. of the: Don | River for breadth of more than 300 milcs and has sent the Red Ar- into Aisorderly retreat, closely Nazi mechanized and the Germans re- my pursued by air fornations, ‘portun roday. (The amunique dealt with broad generalizations, iraplying that a greal German victory is in the | making, but giving no supporting details or specific locations and leavuug the situation open to specu- lation by the use of the unusual Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice wanada’s governor general, the Earl of Athlone, and his wi(e: Prin- cess Alice, are shown at Windsor, Ontario, as they made their first visit to that city. Detroit and Windsor city officials were on hand to greet the visitors in a flag-presentation ceremony held at the ine word "shaken” in reference to Rus- ternational boundary line on the Ambassador bridge. sian defenses, These defenses are e - - placed “wcst of the Don” and again ther= 15 no reference to the Ger- man claim in Tuesday’s com- muniare of the capture of Vor- onezh, which is ten miles East of Huge Nazi Batfleship | the Don.) Se""‘s'::::av':i'filg;'z;'; ub AGRICULTURE Navy Secrefary Knox * GERMANY IS HEAVY OVER 'DEPARTMENT Siaris Somelhing; Has SUBJECT 10 SPY TRIALS " ISUNDER FIRE Siarfling New Policy NEW ATTACK & the Admiral Von Tirpitz, now on Morale among Navy civilian work: WASHINGTON—Matters of per- sonal prestige in the army some- | times get sc belligerently entangled that you wonder whether we''e fighting - foreign foe, or ourselves. For ‘nstance, Gen. Walter Weaver, cominander of the Air Corps Tech- nical Command at Pinehurst, N. C. want. i ar educational film showing the many phases of ground work conuectec with the Air Corps—how a plane cannot get off the ground without mechanics, the duties of weather experts, supply men, etc. So Le ordered one of his aides Major Si Bartlett, formerly an ace Hollywecod writer, to take the mat- ter up with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. M-G-M was glad to produce the film, staitec several film writers on the job, and Major Bartlett went out o Hollywood. as e i, " | Four tons of rubber heels, en from old army shoey’s effort in the nation-wide campaign to turn in Seattle’s rubber salvage collection as part of thaf cits, some cf them of the 1917 vintage, were added to scrap. rubber. e Ford Kin to Wed ¢ . rthe loose again from its Norwegian ' S % jord refuge and ranging along the Jniteu Stetes-British supply route Give Information on Saboteurs STINNETT Before he left, however, he phoned Col. Afthur 1. Ennis of Air Corps’ public relations and cleared the idea with him. But shortly after Major Bartlett reacned the Coast, he got a phone call frora Col. Mason Wright, chief of the Army’s Division of Pictures ordering him to drop work on the Air Corps picture immediately. Very irate, V/) been cicaicd through him. Col. Wright is a West Pointer in the regular army, not the Air Corps who has taken quite a fancy ‘e Hollywond and has contributed a story idea to Universal. Hollywood literally shakes in its shoes when he raises his voice above a whis- per. So, affter several long distance phone calls at about twenty bucks a throw. Major Bartlett and Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer dropped the Air Corps picture and Col. Wright turned it over to Darryl Zanuck of 20th Century-Fox. MADAME SECRETARY recent meeting of the War Power Board was discussing a for joint labor-management in every industry o A Marn plan cominittees (Continued on Page Four) to Notthein Russia, ,has been twice orpedo=d and seriously damaged Jy a Russian submarine, a com- munique announces today. TFue 35000-ton battleship is the oride of the Nazi fleet and is the istex sbip of the Bismarck which he Britisn Navy harried to her loom. The Tirpitz is said to have been hit by two Soviet torpedoes n the Barnets Sea, in the same vaters where the Russians are said 0 heve sunk a German transport ind demaged another, The Tirpitz was attacked in the jenera. area where the Germans slaimed Tuesday and Wednesday that thev had sunk 32 vessels and a heuvv United States cruiser out of 38 a ship convoy carrying supplies und war materials to Rus- sia. NAZIS DENY CLAIM ik —Ira L. H:l Studio BEPLIN, Germany, July 9—The High Command today issued & de- nial of the Russian report that Germary biggest battleship, the Tirpitz, was attacked and damaged by a Rnssian sub. e The United States Marine Corps was formed by the Continental Con- gress on Nov. 10, 1775. Josephine Ford Engagement of Josephine Ford, daughter of Edsel Ford and granddaughter of Henry Ford, the automobile magnate, to Wal- ter Buhl Ford (no relation) nas been announced at the bride-to- be's home at Grosse Point, Mich. Walter Buhl Ford is a senior at Yale university and has en’ . *’ in the U. 8. Naval Reser President Tries fo Break | Deadlock in Congress Over Money | WASHINGTON, July 9 — The Presideat today made another at- tempt to persuade Congress to bre: the lu.g aeadlock over Agriculture Departinent operations, declaring, |“Our war needs don't permit com- |pronuse or partisan discord.” | The issue in such matters Kdisagrecment between the House (and Senate is that it is prevent- ing “more abundant production of thing: we need.” He acded: “We can't afford |cripple any part of our productive |effort with unnecessary legisiative | shackles.” ] The statement accompanied his ‘slunazure of a stop-gap bill to s |ply tunds to the department for {the monta of July. Congress is | still wrangling over the Depart- ‘menl's fuil-year appropriation | Tl‘.e main points of disagreement are on the gquestions of selling |whee* at sub-parity prices, livesto feedirg. 4and the size of the ap- propriatien for the Farm Secur! Admini~tration, of to BY JACK WASHINGTON, July 9 Shadow of Things to Come: The Navy has pointed the way and unless every other wartime agency ignores the lesson taught by the Navy experiment, our bur- ic government is in for a treamlining of personnel and elim- ination of red tape which will save millions every month of war. In mid-April, the Navy Depart- ment had 17,500 civilian employes here and was talking in terms of iring 1,000 a month “for the dura- tion.” In the face of this Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox did a dar- ing thing. It went practically un- noticed at the time—except among the big war agency employers— and to say that they were shocked is to puf it mildly. He froze Navy personnel for 45 days. In other vords, he said there would be no more hiring until June 1 (he later extended the freeze 30 days to July D, The The result is that in two months, Navy civilian personnel was DE- CREASED to around 17,000, in pite of the rapidly expanding naval forces at sea. Efficiency in handling office routine and paper work has mounted. Red tape has been cut is outstripping that of almost other department. And some ¢ other war agency personnel directors ar biting their nails and wishing their bosses had fired that gun instead of allowing Seccre Knox to point the targel w brace of tracers. In calling a halt to all new ¢ first ptary 1 hi ivil ian hiring in the face of the gre; est expansion in naval hi Knox ordered incompetent ped; eager but untrained emp) given special training or refre courses: misplaced employes tr ferred to the jobs where their ciency and experience would count; | and unnecessary paper work cu Within a few days after the c bad been issued, approximately fulsome reports had been eliminated | cupies personnel | from the daily routine was being juggled; and the ciency hounds , inspired by pi ises of bonuses and promotion, working right through the outs trying to wi ngold That’s the Navy. But think this would mean in terms of total| wartime government. The civilian employees (ust a (Centinued on Page Four) tor drop loyes sher ans- effi- t order etfi- rom- | were black- | stars their various offices and themselves. | | tor what govern- | ment now has more than 2,000, 000 little First Air Raid Since July 2 Made on Wilhem- | shaven Base LONDON, July 9—A strong force| of, hoyal Air Force bombers last| nizkt uttucked Wilbelmshaven, Ger- | man naval base and sub building | ‘This was the first attack rmany since the night of| according to the Alr Min- center on G July Istry Four bombers are missing added | the anncuncement. | Fighter Command Aircraft at m»i same time attacked enemy air- France. The rard Germany followed five r on | its of bad weather ’ | e MARSHAL LOUIS DESPERREY DIES VITHY, 9—The d | Louk, DeSperrey of | ar- | ath is July ixchet |nounced. He IMarshal of Prance with the excep- tion of Chief of State Marshal Pe-' tain, lof Wau WASHTWGTON, July 9 — The Military Commission trying the eight Cierman-born men who be- came N22i plotters against the United States, clung tightly to its veil of secrecy today despite the continuing discussions as to wheth= er or not the public should be let in on al least a part of the pros ceedings, Ef’crts to break the impasse on infori..ation concerning the trial reachiwa tihe White House where Director klmer Davis of the Office Information, and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, conferred with the President 50 |dromes and other chjectives in oc-| Litue word came from either of | them, Lut Davis said that if there to be news, it will come from IWMilitary Commission. - D ANKARA, Turkey, July 9-—For- eign Minister Saracoglu has been was the last li\'mgiappom:efi Premier of Turkey by e Presidont Inonu. Saracog'u succeeds the late Pre- miey Suyaam,