The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LIX., NO. 9082. ' “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPI JUNEAU, ALASKA , FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS E PRICE TEN CENTS GERMAN TANKS CRASH SOVIET DEFENSES British Push Rommel Forces Back to the Sea German Submarines Off American Coast AXIS WAITS | NEW TROOPS FOR AFRICA Brifish Broadcast Reports Reinforcements ‘ Coming (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Reports today from Cairo say that British mobile columns south- .west of El Alamein have squeezed Marshal Erwin Rommel's srmored right flank back toward the seas, while United States bombers and British submarines seek to cut the Mediterranean supply line. Eyes of Hifler that Spy An Admiralty communique from | London credited a submarine with sinking one merchant ship of a strongly guarded Axis convoy bound for Libya, and with sending a na- [ val auxiliary to the bottom. | A British broadcast quoted a re- ‘port at Ankara, Turkey, that claims ‘the Axis is moving reinforcements | from the Balkans to North Africa and pulling German troops out of Yugoslavia and even Crete (o strengthen Rommel's lines. An official report from Cairo to- night says U. S. heavy bombers ranging over the Mediterranean in search of Axjs supply ships, have shot down two enemy fighter planes. WELFARE OFFICE CHANGES HOURS | : « il The Office of Puniic Welfare 1o. Juneau, in the City Hall, will now be open from 2 to 4 p. mon Mon- day, Wednesday and Friday, instead of from 9 to 12 noon, beyinning Monday, July 13. Miss Evelyn Gra- ham, social worker for the Depart- | ment of Public Welfare, will be in| The Washingion; Merry-Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — Rexford Guy! Tugwell always had an unhappy | faculty for putting his well-polished boots in the wrong place when he | was a member of the original Roosevelt “brain trust.” Now as Governor of Puerto Rico he is do- ing the same thing. Tugwell is busily engaged in purg- ing all U. 8. officials in Puerto Rico who do not agree with him. And as a part of this purge he has recently written a letter to the Navy Department suggesting that Comdr. Tom Henning, Tugwell’s naval aide and former gongressman from St. Louis, be transferred to Pearl Harbor, without being pes- mitted to come to the United States enroute. What Tugwell fears is that Comdr. Henning may fall within the White House spotlight and become gover- nor of Puerto Rico himself. Comdr. Henning served several years as one of the most forthright members of Congress, resigned to' become prosecuting attorney ol Su Louis and now is in the Navy. Last year he was sent to Puerto Rico as Tugwell's aide. While visiting the United States about a month ®8go, Comdr. Henning was inter-! viewed by ex-Senator Harry Hawes of Missouri and Walter Jones, both interested in sugar. HENNING SPURNS POLITICS After sounding out Henning on his views, Jones said: “I under- stand Tugwell is not getting along very well in Puerto Rico and I'd like to propose your name for gov- ernor.” To this Henning replied: “Abso- lutely no.” “Then would you give us permis- sion to work for you behind the scenes, without your knowing about it?” Jones asked. “I would not,” replied Henning emphatically. | sabotage. Peter Burger. “Thiny” McAuliffe Is Written Now Former M;r;ging Editori of St. Louis Is Dead- /| Had Lively Life ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 10—Joseph | | | | J. McAuliffe, Managing Editor of | the St. Louis 26 years until his retirement 1941, is dead here as the result o cerebral hemmorhage. in/ tions, McAuliffe had few equals. In the thirty years preceding his retirement in 1941 as managing, editor of the St. Louis Globe-Dem- | ocrat, he guessed wrong on only two presidential contests and one| Governorship. | His ability to prognosticate be- | came known far beyond the city where he spent all of his 44 years in newspaper work. Publications throughout the country accepted his | deductions. | His system was simple. He walked, | talked and listened to every cross- section of thought he could, studied | scattered returns on election night.l and from it all was able not only to| name the winners consistently, but| also the approximate margins of | victory. | Political work as a newspaper- | man was no chore to him. It was| a joy, and wherever politicians met | —in Jefferson City, the Missour| state capital—and elsewhere, he was| to be seen. | His investigations in the state exposed crookedness of men in high position. He once followed a man to Canada to get a statement regarding passage of a bill in the When Comdr. Henning got back to Puerto Rico he told the incident e (Continued on Page Four) legislature which favored a certain organization. lCt;nlinued on VPager Three) These pictures, made by the FBI, show closeups of the eyes of those German-trained men who were landed on U. S. shores to spy out vulnerable industrial or transportation centers which they might From top to bottom: Edward J. Kerling, Werner Theil, Heinrich Harm Heinck, Richard Quirin, George J. Dasch, and Ernest Globe-Democrat for |1as MacArthur's headquarters an- f a |have bombed Japanese barracks at | Dili, capital of Portuguese Timor. | As a forecaster of political elec|y o "o pyjidings, the announcement | said. Timor lies northwest of Aus- | | tralia. JAPS MOVE | of destructive raids on the Japs in GERMAN SPY SEIZED FROM CHANGESHIP Nazi Agent Aftempted to Slip in on Diplomatic | Vessel-FBI Alert | NEWARK, July 10—Swift prose- . |cution of German-born spy suspect *{Herbert Karl Friedrich Bahr, 29, seized in an attempt to slip into || the United States posing as a Jew- | ish refugee expected after his 1! arraignment on charges of espion- % | age. | The 20-year-old suspect, an Am- | erican citizen through naturaliza- tion, seized by FBI officials aboard the diplomatic exchange ship Drottningholm, was educated in | | Buffalo, N. Y. ; According to Assistant FBI Direc- || tor P. E. Foxwerth of New York, “Bahr admits having been enlist- ed in the German espionage ser- vice in October of this year, for | the purpose of returning to the United States and securing and | transmitting to Germany informa- is H “ e e i < T nounced today that Allied fliers Direct hits were scored on a num- | Off the northeast coast both en- emy and allied activity was limited | |tion pertaining to the war effort lin this country.” | He had about $7,000 in currency and was to report to persons in Spain, Switzerland and South | America, | ————————— {Russian Air Force Atfacks | . . . | Nazi Airdromes in Nor- way and Finland | MOSCOW, July 10.—The bombing of German airdromes in northern Norway and Finland by the Red Air ‘Fm'ce is announced officially. | The announcement states that | heavy damage has been inflicted on bases which German planes have used for raids on ports and shipping on the Arctic supply line and also |attacking on the Russian Arctic 5 b g ., War front. Allies Make Bombing Raid . . | ] on Timor Island Big | More Shms | Jap Base ‘ —rm- mmaanensns o FTOM CONVOY AUSTRALIA, July 10—Gen. Doug- | UnK, Liaim P . ol Nazis Assert 35 Vessels of 38 Sent Down by to reconnaissance. | Slle, PlaneS - | | BERLIN, July 10, — German mili- tary headquarters today reported : that Nazi submarines and warplanes | have sunk more ships in attacks on | a British-American convoy enroute T I N D I A ‘ to Archangel. Y | The announcement then say: P” . |“Thus 35 ships have been sunk out ;or a convoy which originally con- 'sismd of 38 ships.” ! ——————— ‘FORMEB. JUNEAU GIRL o 4 GETS LEGION AWARD : H H Ouida Ward, former Juneau con'mual Bomblng H“S chool student, now of Anchorage |was one of the two young people convoyls'l Trooss adnd ‘Selected as winner of the official P American Legion award medals {0 Supp Ies on oa lhonor, courage, leadership and ser- i ice, spONSOre NEW DELHI, July 10—The Royal ‘1., "1 8Wards were sponsorc Air Force, announcing a new series | by the 40 and 8 Society in the name of American Legion 'Henry Post No. 1. The Burma, have disclosed that Jan award was granted Donald Morr conovys, troops and supplies are moving steadily toward India under a continual rain of British bombs. During the last 46 days, 200,000 pounds of bombs have been dropped {on them, the communique said, Both were eighth grade students With her parents, Mr. and Mr Milton Ward, Ouida lived at Auk According te the N caption accompar U. S. coast. Light clothirg worn by sailors indicates subs were in southein waters. U. 8. from Lenden, where it was received from 2 neu tral nation. - Sally Visifs Hubby in At:my : Bormer Fan Dancer Sally Rand, now Mrs. Turk Greeriough, visits Ler husband at the Cavalry Replacement Riley, Kansas, and finds him doing “K. P.” dutys Training Center at Ft. Greencugh was a cowboy star with a rodeo before he joined the Army. National Capital Has NotLost Humor: Stories Are Told with Laughs By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 10. — The capital hasn't lost its sense of humor. There is, for example, the story of Leonard Herman, Department of Agriculture clerk, who for two years has been the cause for a lot of leg- pullingsamong the agriculture ex- perts. Every year, the department em- ployees get up a pool on the wheat referendum vote; each, employee who participates chipping in for the privilege of guessing what percent- age of.the farmer votes will be for “ continuation of the wheat control program. Last year, young Herman walked | off with the pot and this year dup- licated his 1941 feat, making hun in all some $40 richer. The reason Bay +until her family moved to An- ‘or the ribbing of the experts is that chorage a year ago, Leonard Herman is a Brooklyn lad, born and reared in Dodger town, and by his own admission wouldn’t know a wheatfield from a Loulsiana cane-brake. T¥'s just that to any one who has spent his youth trying to figure out what a Brooklyn Dod- ger was going to do next, figuring out what the farmers are going to do is as elementary as two times two. One of the better yarns circulated is that which Rep. Luther Patrick, the Alabaman who was defeated for reelection tells on himself. Explain- that while cther Congressmen ing like to relax by fishing, hunting or | plaving golf, he enjoys most going over to one of the radio stations and doing a little broadcasting. And that's how come that Patrick told the yarn that bomeranged. (Continued on Page Five) S NS ———) ving this picture, these are German submarines operating off the Photo reached the AR SRS ROOSEVELT NAVY BILL Will Give U, S. Powerful | Sea Force in All ‘ Seven Seas WASHINGTON, July 10—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed legisla- | tion authorizing the construction of 1,900,000 tons of additional combat ships, and 1,200,000 tons of auxiliary | vessels, | The new combat ship tonnage raise will bring to 5649480 tons navy ships authorized and expected to be in service by the end of 1946, Chairman Vinson of the House Nava] Affairs Committee said, “it will give us the largest navy in the world, and provides not only a two- ocean navy, by a seven-ocean navy and one that will win the war and keep it won.” 1e new tonnage includes 500,000 tons of aircraft carriers, the same amount of cruisers, 900,000° tons of destroyers and destroyer escort ships >-es Flying Boat Takes Tests In Seattl New Boeir? Built “Sea Ranger” fo Be Over- seas Bomber SEATTLE, July 10—The Navy has approved the announcement that a new long range experimental fly- ing boat, built as a heavily armed overseas patrol bomber, made its first test flight in Lake Washington today. Veteran test pilot Edmund Allen and a crew of five took the plane into the air. | Built by Boeing scribed as able to carry a larger bomb load than any naval plane now in use. The plane carries the the ship is de- (ONDITIONS SERIOUS AT DON RIVER { Russians Adfii?Bafllefronl Near Voronezh Is Complicated (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) German tank forces which crossed the upper Don River have bit into Soviet defenses before Voronezh, while a hundred miles to the south | a second furious battle rages in full | force at the approaches to Rossosh. Reinforced German troops have driven a new salient into the Rus- sian line at Rossosh. Red Star, organ of the Soviet | Army, said that conditions west uf | Voronezh are becoming “more com- plicated” while those near Rossosh are “very difficult” and the com- | bat is close to the city. Important Red Army counter- attacks however are reported to be threatening the German flank in an effort to relieve the pressure at Voronezh. NAZI PLANES DESTROYED MOSCOW, July 10—A force of planes, striking simultaneously at several airports are said to have ‘n‘rsu‘nyed 30 German bombers and ‘thters and damaged 27 others. Hangars and warehouses, were E | damaged according to tonight' | communique. None of the Russian | planes were lost in the various at- | tacks. | It is also announced officially |the Russian fleet has sunk two trans- ports and a tanker in the Baltic. RUSSIANS PURSUED BERLIN, July 10—Russian forces lare retreating and being pursued fon a broad front by German troops |the German High Command an- nounces tonight and the pressure {around Voronezh has been broken 1down. . Enemy tanks have been put out of commission in various parts of the fighting sector. e U.5. ADMIRAL SAFE AFTER PLANE (RASH 'Nimitz Decorafed af West Coast Port-Mishap Kills One WASHINGTON, uly 10 — The | Navy Department reports today that Admiral. Chester W. Nimitz recently es~aped serfous injury” in a plane crash at an airfield on the West Coast, The crash cost the life of | the plane’s co-pilot, Lieut. Thomas Morton Roscoe, 29, of Oakland, Cal. Admiral Nimitz, normally located |in the Hawaiian area, came to the mainland to meet Admiral Ernest |King and to receive the Distin- }gmshod Service Medal. Roscoe's | widow survives. MEDAL AWARDED | AT A WEST COAST PORT, July ‘]0 ~The Navy disclosed today that | the Distinguished Service Medal has |been conferred on Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Commander-in- Chief of the U. S. Pacific Fleet. He was decorated by Admiral Er- nest King, Commander-in-Chief of the U. 8. Pleet, in short cere- monies aboard a warship. The hon- or was conferred for “exceptionally meritorious service” since the out- break of war with Japan, particu- larly in connection with the bat- tles of the Coral Sea and Mid- {way Island | -~ MOOSE MEET TONIGHT A regular meeting of the Moose |will be held tonight in the head- H quarters in the Seward Building. | -Buttalo have declined from 60,- All members are requested to ai- )000,000 75 years ago to 5,000, tepd, name “Sea Ranger P