The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9083. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1942 - MEMBER AbSOLlAll D I’Rlbh PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS FORCES SMASH ALONG DON RIVER British Make Sharp Advance, In Egypt Area lel Nazi ’Chute Troops Try This in Egypt? VIOLENT. BATTLING RENEWED Critical Weekend Opens—: May Precipitate Allied "Second Front” (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Violent renewal of the Battle of | Egypt marked the beginning today | of one of the most critical w ends of the war phase that mignt! precipitate the opening of the Al-| lied “Second Front” in western Eur- | ope. ! At the outset of today's battling, | the British apparently gained the upper hand as British Headquarters | announced that Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck’s armies have reopened | the “Battle of the Bottleneck” and advanced five miles in a pre-dawn attack, | The = British headquarters an- nounce they have struck out west- ward along the railway to El Ala-| mein, 65 miles west of Alexandria, seizing an initiative break in a 10- day lull of the conflict in Egypt. FIVE ARRIVE FROM SITKA Arrivals here from Sitka morning were C. Bonat, Mrs. Bonat, D. Stockton, James McFs land and John Satre. ( [ [ | | | this | C The Washmgiun‘ Merry - Go- Round | By DREW PEARSON ‘ (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—It was not =o| very long ago that John L. Lewis on the floor of an Atlantic Cit labor convention, clenched one of | his sledge-hammer fists and sent it 3 full force against the jaw of his enemy “Bully” Hutchinson, head of the AFL Carpenters Union. Despite that quarrel—which con- tinued for some time—John L. Lew- is seems about to be enticed by Billl Hutchinson back into the arms of | the American Federation of Laborf —from which he departed seven years ago screaming vengeance and recriminations. | Some other strange bedfellows are lined up with the New Deal-hating Hutchinson in beckoning John L. back to the AFL, namely New Deal- | supporter Dan Tobin, head of the| Teamsters Union; and AFL vice president Matt Woll, who never has got over his thwarted ambition to be AFL president. The Tobin - Woll - Hutchinson | scheme, agcording to insiders, is to| sneak John L. into the AFL by the| backdoor route, namely by a vote| of the Executive Council, in which| they are potent big-shots, and which has the power to expel or welcome back. This backdoor route would avoid | an embarrassing debate on the floot of an AFL convention, when cer-| tain uncontrolled delegates might | sound off against Lewis and jar the| atmosphere of joy with which his| allies want to welcome ‘the prodi- gal son home. TWO MOTIVES Insiders attribute two motives to the Tobin-Hutchipson-Woll combine. | Tobin is said to want Lewis back | because that would be the most| effective way to bring the AFL and CIO together. The teamster boss has long been a sincere advo-. cate of unity, and in the days of bitterest AFL-CIO squalling, he maintained amicable relations witn both. Also, he and Lewis are per- sonal friends of many years stand- ing. Hutchinson and Woll are credit- (Continued on Page. Four) | Torpedoed; Mickey Marooned |JAP HOLDS ¥ s The water rose hizher and higher ah('m him as his ship slowly sank after being torpedoed in the battle of the Atlantic, while Mmickey, mascot of a merchantman, waited bravely but forlornly for help on a ship’s ladder while U. rescue of the vessels crew. Are Now Gi To Aid Microfilm Mail 8. Coast Guardsmen effected the Yes—Mickey also was hmuzht to safety. Oldtimers of Aviation ven Chance in Present War BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 11 The gates of the wartime heavens are now ajar for aviation’s “old-timers” and for those who have been told scores oé times that they are “too fat to fly.” y If you are an “old man” in your | middle thirties; if you wear specs |or squint a little if you just can't | quite get by the air corps physicals, I but still have a yen to kick a rud- bar for Uncle Sam, 'hc |answer to your problem. Under the direction of AcLh\g Administrator C. I. Stanton, the {CAA is launching a pilot training the Civil | # ‘Asmmun(w Administration has IN ALASKA DANGEROUS Former U. . Minister Says West Coast Is Threatened SAN DIEGO, Calif, July 11 —Hugh Grant, former United States Minister to Albania and Thailand, says that Jap land- ings in the Aleutians are ex- tremely menacing and present a real danger of an attack on the West Coast. He expressed this opinion in an interview shortly after Jap- anese broadcasts from Tokyo announced that a large convoy, escorted by cruisers and de- stroyers, arrived Friday in the Aleutian Islands. The broad- casts stated that “all forces reached their destinations with- out encountering enemy at- v vy RN wiant asserted that the “Japs are going to have to be licked in the Pacific, and that's not an easy job. “We shovidn’t let the Coral Sfea and Midway victories lead s to belicve that from now on it's going to be easy sailing,” he ated. “Japan,” he said, “is highly vulnerable to air attack. That will be the one means whereby we can bring the Japs' military power to a state of collapse.” - REVEALU. §. PLANTOBUY B. (. RAILWAY Would Use P. 6. E. as Part of Route fo Alaska Is Report | VICTORIA, B. C., July 11—Pre- |mier John Hart said today that (the British Columbia government 1 ‘promam that dwarfs all past e“"””hns not received any offer to buy This pretty War Department work- ! er, LaVerne Renfroe, holds three recls of film on which are recorded 4,600 letters. On the desk &re two mail pouches which hold an equal | number in bulk. The letters on film are for soldiers abroad and are copied photographically to save needed cargo space aboard ships. When they reach their destination they will be enlarged anc distributed. This new system is soon to be put in general use by the army and navy. ARTHUR ADAMS OFF T0 ELKS' CONVENTION Arthur Adams, the Juneau lodge of Elks, left to- day for Omaha to attend the Elks National Convention which will he 'held July 15, 16 and 17, In Omaha he will meet Walter B. Scott, District Deputy, Who left several weeks ago. Another South- east Alaska delegate Adams will meet in Omaha will be F. G..Han- ford, of the Elks Lodge at Wran- gell. F S NPEIL, & ‘The Ruhr mines produce three-; fourths of Germany's coal. Exalted Ruler of ' along this line. The sky’s the limit,| because the CAA's 650 flying schools, can handle approximately 180,000 student pilots a year—al- most six times its present turnout. In will flying slanguage, “do their fighting sitting down” but they are no less import- | ant to the Army and Navy and |winning the war than the combat pilots who sink the ships bomb the cities of the Axis. AND |they’ll have one great advantage lover the heroes of the flying lines when this war is over. ‘thal‘s going to make post-war peace- aviation a miraclegof ‘transporta- tion. Pilots trained under the program, whether they atart from a taxi stand or pick up where their ama- teur aviation left off without previous experience may! g2t from 40 to 48 weeks of train-| ing; advanced pilots may have to! take only eight weeks) will become members of the Air Force Reserve Corps. They will be subject to call ‘any time. They will be assigned to one of four services, for any of {which they may express a prefer- ence. | These are: (1) Instructors the potential beitleneck in mass production of pilots. The civilian - contract flying schools (contraets by the Army for basic training) need all the in- structors they can get. (2) Glider Pilots something | brand new. They may fly freight or relief supplies to beleagured bands. It's a field that forward- lcoking airmen say will be one of the most fertile after the war. (3) Service and liaison Pilots— they will fly the Army mail, len-y (Continued on Page Five) l these men| and | They’ll be: experienced in the kind of rlying| (trainees | |the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, |and added, “if the government 's | apptoached in that connection, with a price to be paid in the interests of all parties, a survey should be | made by competent engineers with view to arriving at a fair price.” At Seattle on Thursday, a dele- |gation* which conferred with Ha't |on the possibilities of extending | the line quoted Hart as saying that | the offer made by American inter- lests was unsatisfactory. | The railway runs from just north of Vancouver to end 80 miles south of Prince George. It has been sug- |gested as a takeoff point for a railway to Alaska. Hart said, “no offer has been made to buy the railway.. Two men from the United States interviewed Attorney General R. L. Maitland jand myself and sought to obtain |an option on terms which were not acceptable to this government.” NO RETAIL - SALES TAX ~ ATPRESENT | WASHINGTON, July 11 — Rep- wresenmtlve A. W. Robertson of Vir- |ginia, leading advocate of the five | percent retail sales tax, estimated |to raise two and a half billion dol- |lars, said that a survey of Ho [members has convinced him, can't get a general sales tax" the present revenue bill. Robertson had sent a question- naire to all members of the House Wi in | | i | | | i | | i } L o According to reports from London, an estimated 250,000 German paratroops are massed on the ilend of Crete, ready to descend on Egypt, as they did in taking the Greek i parachute troops, according to reports, were used in the storming stronghold which was taken by the Nazis. paratroops last year. They are released by the German JAPTROOPS Three More FALL BACK | Merchantmen IN KIANGSI Hi Iby Subs Heavy AHacks Made bY‘ Brings Tofal Allied, Neu- Allied Bombers and fral Victims fo 351 Chinese Troops Since Dec. 7 CHUNGKING, July 11 — Allicd (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) bombers delivéred a second smash- The sinking of three United Na- ing blow to Nanchang, capital of tions vessels, announced by the the Kiangsi Province, cverrun by Navy yesterday, raised the unof- Japanese invaders. “ficial toll of - Allled and neutral| The attackers sank one Wrans- carge vessels sunk in Western At- port in the river and destroyed jantic waters since Pearl Harbor ‘o about 10 Jap planes on the ground. 351, Chinese dispatches report thdtl‘ A United States cargo ship was Allied planes heavily bombed the sunk off the coast of South America base lasg week and all returned)with a loss of 11 of its 29 man| safely from both attacks. jerew. A medium sized Belgian Meanwhile, Chinese forces in Ki- merchant vessel was sunk in the angsi Province are reported to be|Caribbean and a medium sized pushing the Japanese back in sev-) British vessel off the Atlantic eral places. The official com-|Coast. munique confirmed Chinese reports PRI 2, 0 (S, of Thursday that a Jap force of 30,000 has !;)eeu ambushed and is SIO(K ouoIAIIONS being beaten back in heavy fight- i NEW YORK, July 11—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ing in the Kmng%l area. ;wck at Loday’n' slmrt session s ovER IHREE Io"s 55 ",‘ Communwealll\ and Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 6%, Interna- OF SCRAP RUBBER » lso‘ Pound $4.04, the drive which ends today. The|Jones averages: industrials 108.70 613--1,604 pounds; Troop 614—629)® WEATHER REPORT [ owners who turned in their rubber'y ® e o o 8 o o o o o tional Harvester 491, Kennecott Juneau Boy Scouts, up until last o S troops competed in a contest withT@ils 25.70, utilities 12.00. pounds; Cubs—206 pounds. . (U, 8 Bureau) tire bumpers in the eampaign, and ————————— sland of Crete last year. Some of Tobruk, the British Libyan These pictures show the actual invasion of Crete by Nazi propagandn bureau. BIG AERIAL ASSAULTON Allied Planes Will Bom All Chinese Cities in Enemy Hands CHUNGING, July 11 Allied planes have blasted Jap head- quarters at Linchwan, main base| of the enemy drive into central Kiangsi province, with “satisfactory | results,” yesterday. Lieut.-Gen. Joseph Stilwell’s headquarters announced in today's communique that two planes failed to return. This is the first official |reference to any Allied losses since the Flying Tigers were incorporated into the U. 8. Defense Forces in | China. | Linchwan is in the Kiangst area | vhere the Chinese have reported they have ambushed a scattering of 30,000 Japs. Warfront dispatches say that the Japs are retreating leaving a great number of dead. Brig. Gen. C. L. Chennault said that ‘these initial raids can airmen on Jap occupied cities rerial assault on every Chinese enter in enemy hands, - MAJOR GENERAL 5. B. BUCKNER, ADC HEAD, HERE Major General Simon B. Buckner, :ommanding officer of the Alaska Defense Command and Col. E. D, Post, Chief of Staff, ADC, arrived in Juneau last. night from Anchor- age and left this morning for Naval Air Station, Sitka 30%, New® York Central 8%, Nor- thern Pacific 6, United States Steel night, had collected a total of ,”'f"wl-fl-'_o,"" f‘VxL‘““"-‘ 6,667 pounds of scrap rubber for le following are a, results as follows: b .3 RO Troop 612—4,228 pounds; Troop|® © © & & 6 6 o o o '® The Scouts now are engaged in|® Temperature Friday, July 10 e making rope bumpers for boat:® Maximum 60, Minimum 53 e 1ave made 25 of the hemp bumper: A sparrow eats more than Ilve o far, pounds of znln a year. - eee BUY DEFENSE STAMPS JAPS START by Amer-| ire only the beginnin gof a mighty | GERMANS IN ADVANCE OF 220 MILES 'Now Rushin_g_l_oward Cas- | pian Sea-Timoshenko's ! Army Is Refreating (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hiuler's Headquarters asserted this morning that the German armies smashing toward the Caspian Sea | have reached the Don River on a 1220 mile front and are within 80 ;’mllc\s of Stalingrad at one point, The communique says a “great and destructive defeat” has been suffered by the Russians. The Nazi Command claims an advance to a depth of more than 200 miles since Hitler launched his grand offensive in the Kursk- | Kharkov sector two weeks ago. The news up to noon today from | Kussia continued grave under the Nazi assault. Timoshenko’s armies fell back ‘n a stubborn retre#t as the Germans captured Rossosh, 100 miles south of Voronezh, on the vitally import- ant Moscow-Rostov railway and pressed simultaneous offensives |against Voronezh, Staryioskol, lm- emirovka and Lisichansk. ] The Germans assert 88,000 RI.IS‘ |sians' have- been tuken prisoners jand 1,000 tanks destroyed or cap- |tured in fighting west of the Don River between June 28 and July 9. i s e oo U.5.ENVOY 15 ON WAY 10 JUNEAU Canadian Minister Visits | Briefly in Kefchikan | on Trip KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 11— Terming his visit to Alaska as “en- tirely informal,” U. 8. Minister to Canada Jay Plerrepont Moffat paid |a brief call to Ketchikan enroute to Juneau to “renew and old friend- ship” with Gov. Ernest Gruening ‘flnd then fly to Ottawa with stop- ofla at Whitehorse. | At Whitehorse, he will inspect | the progress being made on the Al- aska highway to Edmonton and will make a speech. “I have just visited Vancouver and Victoria on routine business land decided to see the Alaska-Yu- |kon territory on the way home,” he told reponers NIPPONS - LEAVING ~ EUROPE towards Nanchang and Linchwan | ‘Japanes;Take Route Avoiding German-Rus- sian Fight Zones ANAKARA, Turkey, July 11—Jap armpy and navy observers, business- |men and special business agents (and government officials . started |their exodus from Europe through Turkey todav on the only remain- |Ing eastward route home without crossing the Russian - ‘German Front. Their departures are interpreted as part of the Jap program teo bring home all useful Japs not |strietly needed at European points to avert their being stranded in the event of an extension of the war. ———e——— Seventy-five per cent of Ger- many'’s war industry is located in the Ruhr region.