The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 13, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9084. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIET ARMY BEING HAMMERED BACK Triple Murder U S. E_liers ivl_)‘___New Quinea : SUSPECT IS TRAPPEDIN MINE SHAFT Exchange Shots - Suffocat- | ed in Aftempt fo | Smoke Him Out | The story of the tragic death of three persons at Fairbanks, Alaska, and the subsequent hunting down | and death of the suspected killer | was told today by R. C. Vogel, Spec- | ial Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau | of Investigation. | Vogel said that last Saturday | morning the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. | Milo Saullich were found at Cache | Creek, 20 miles from Fairbanks, both | having been shot and killed. In- | vestigation was immediately insti- | tuted by special agents of the FBI, | assisted by local law enforcement officers at Fairbanks . Search for Mary Stay, 14-year-old ward of the Saullich’s, resulted in the finding of her body concealed in the grass near the Saullich resi- dence at Cache Creek. Bullets removed from the bodies of the victims disclosed that they | had in all probability been fired from a .38 caliber weapon. Further investigation disclosed that Pete Yabucavin may have been involved in’ the killings. It was learned that he had been seen in Fairbanks following the discovery of the murders, but had disappeared. Another Victim During the search for Yabucavin, | one Peter Mesich was found at the | International Hotel in Fairbanks, in | an unconscious condition as the re- | sult of a skull fracture, During a | lucid interval, Mesich said that he " (Continued on Page Two) The Was“hingtuni Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Behind the Ar- my-Navy attempts to blast the Japs out of the Aleutian Island is more| than natural antipathy to having| an enemy on American soil or the fear of an invasion of Alaska. These are important. But, in ad- | dition, events in Egypt may mean more than ever we shall have to use these vital stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands to carry the war to the heart of Japan. To get the full significance of the picture it is necessary to recall that ever since Pearl Harbor there has been an honest difference of opinion among U. S. war strategists as tq whether we should concentrate on fighting Japan ‘in the Pacific or Hitler in Europe. At one time, shortly after Pearl Harbor, high-up U. S. naval ad- visers worked out an elaborate war plan, which is no longer a secret, for concentrating almost all our naval strength in the Pacific and making a direct attack on the Jap- anese islands—at a time when the Japs had their lines dispersed to! Manila, Singapore and the South Seas. But the plan meant leaving the Atlantic coast relatively unguarded, also virtually abandoning convoys ‘o Britain and Russia. In the end it was decided that the Russian front was all-important and must be sup- plied at all costs. The wisdom of this decision seems to have been borne out by subsequent events. JAPS WORRIED However, those who urge the all- out war in Asia have persisted, and their argument has been streng- thened by recent developments. One is the fact that the Japs, obviously scared at the prospect of a sec- ond front in Asia, are fighting fev- erishly to clean out the Chinese before China gets important help from us. Fear of a second front in Asia also was why the Japs nipped part of the Aleutian Islands. . Main development, however, was (Continued on Page Four) ] | | Hoover said that arrests have been { |ing the last three weeks and that | | investigation of their activities and | U. S. fighter and bombing planes prepare for action, or take off to fight the Japs from a United Nations air base somewhere in New Guinea. Top: B25 bombers warm up for a raid. Below: Two P39 fighters take off for combat. Allied fliers have attacked Japanese bases at Lae, New Guinea and at Rabaul, on nearby New Britain Island. People Clamor ng for Real War News, Good e May Take Tax from Pay Check Scheme for—C_Mleding In- come Payments Ap- proved by Com. WASHINGTON, July 13 —- The House Ways and Means Committee has approved of a new six billisn two hundred and fifty million dol« lar tax bill. Representative Jere Cooper of ‘Tennessee, said the commi.ce ap- proved of the scheme of collectig individual income taxes at the source, starting in Jannary. haced on five percent deductions, taxable nel WCoule VN €acn puy CiieCa. Airfield of Japs Raided At Mlilkyina American Planes Fly Long Distance to Make Atfacks NEW DELHI, July 13.—American planes, raiding far northern Burma from their Indian bases, have re- peatedly attacked the Jap airfield at Myitkyina during the past week. These attacks have.prevented the Japs from repairing or using the runways. :Maybe (oming' f ! By JACK STINNETT w. of all that has been written or said, 1 doubt if the reading public, as a whole, is much excited over the ap- pointment of Elmer Davis as chief | of the Office of War Information. If it isn’t, it’s one of those mis- takes which democracies sometimes make. There hasn't been a man come to Washington since the war effort started who has had such whole-hearted support—in advance —as Elmer Davis. If he fizzles in his broad task to give the public all of the news, clearly interpreted, which won’t seriously damage us by providing information to the enemy, it will be because there is something incurably wrong with our informa- tion system — and not necessarily with Mr. Davis. | | The press relations battle in our | government is a four-cornered fight. The people, who after all are en- titled to the first say, have as their No. 1 complaint *that they are not peing reliably informed; that much information is conflicting; and that _too much of it is delayed. There is a second group, centered in Congress but not exclusively there, which contends that the pres- ent set-up is costly, inept, and con- cerned principally with grinding its own agency axes. A third faction in the battle royal feels that the public shopld be fed only propaganda—should be told only what is good for it in the light of |our war effort and that all press ‘relations agencies should be co- | ordinated with this in mind. The fourth battalion is composed | of certain “ins’ and their supporters and some of these, sadly enough, |would be willing to sabotage any | change to prove their present set- ups are the most effective. i Davis enters the arena a '0p- flight favorite with all but the last | proup and those who think the news | should be buttered on both sides be- fore it's handed over for public con- sumption. Davis, in his journalistic endeavors both in print and on the radio, has proved that he belongs to (Continued on Page Five) | 1 ASHINGTON, July 13.—In spite | 14 HELPERS - OF 8 SPIES ARE TAKEN Assisted Saboteurs in Hid- ing in New York, Flor- ida and Chicago WASHINGTON, July 13. — The" arrest of 14 alleged associates of the eight Nazis standing trial for their | lives before a military commission, | has been announced by Attorney , General Francis Biddle. The group includes six women, Biddle said. The fourteen are “im- | mediate contaéts” for the German agents landed on Long Island and Florida coasts by German submar- ! ines in June. ; At the same time, Federal Bureau | of Investigation director J. Edgar | | made in Chicago and New York dur- ‘OLhel’ possible contacts is still under | way. Those announced held in custody | | are Belmut #Leiner and Herman | | Heinrich Faje, of Astoria and Long | hsland. New York; Anthony Cramer, | | Miss Hedwig Engemann, Mrs. Marie | | Kerling and Ernest Herman Kerk- | hof, of New York; Hans Max Haupt, | | Mrs. Haupt, Harry Jaques and wife} Emma, Mv and Mrs. Otto Richard | Wergin. Mr. and Mrs, Walter Wil- | helm Froehlinger, of Chicago. Hoover said, “the individuals ap- prehended are known to have given shelter to the saboteurs after their |arrival in New York and Chicago, jand to have furnished them with ; assistance. They also probably would |have aided the foreign agents in (Continued on Page Two) MORE SHIPS SENT DOWN, - TWO AREAS | i | Cargo War Risk Insurance Rates Are Ordered Increased NEW YORK, July 13 — Marine Underwriters of New York have ordered sharp increases in cargo war risk insurance rates as the, Navy announced the sinking of | two medium sized United States and the other in the Caribbean and also a medium sized British v vessels, one in the South Atlantic off the Atlantic coast. The sinkings brought the un- official Associated Press total ship losses since the Pearl Harbor raid to 356. FRENCHMEN FIGHTING IN VICHY HOUSE Gallant Band Barricaded Against Nazi Police in Streefs VICHY, Jul$ 13.—French gen- darmes have joined German police in a pitched battle against the defiant hand grenade Frenchmen holed up in a house in | partment reports reaching Vichy The reports said that one group reported a bystander was killed and another wounded before French and Nazi police stormed the house in which PFrenchmen, described as “Communists’ were barricaded against- the Germans. explosives was found in the house Axis Surge Over Deserf Toward Alexandria NN - 4 Ax invision threéatened thut area. BAYONET FIGHTING Australian Infantry, Brif-| ish Eighth Army, Push Axis Troops Back (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Bayonet fighting Australian in- | fantry, bolstered by the British | Eighth Army, are keeping the Ger- | mans on the defensive in the Egyp- | tian front and have pushed the | Nazis back 10 miles west of El Alamein, This badly blunts Marshal | Rommel's potential threa: to uid in the German campaign for the Cau- | casus.’ | | | ————— BRIT.NAVY IN ACTION INEGYPT Units of miterranean Fleet Bombards Axis Supply Base,Matruh ALEXANDRIA, July 13 — The Royal British Navy is intervening in the Battle of Egypt and has Depression armered columns surged over the desert some 0 miles short of the Nile Delta in a menacing ap- proach to the great British naval base of Alexandria (A.) The British conceded an ‘advance beyond El Daba, and official circles in London hinted the Suez Canal (B), might be destroyed as a waterway if the CONTESTANT —Diane Mason, “Miss Conservation” in & Los Angeles beauty contest, planned to enter further compe: tition for title of “Miss Victory and a free trip to San Francisco. bombarded Matruh, the most ad- vanced Axis supply base on the North African Coast. Sweeping close inshore, fleet un- | its raked Matruh harbor with salvo | after salvo. | This is the first reported action ' by the Royal Navy since Marghal! Rommel launched his offensive. | Numerous fires were started emong the harbor installations at Matruh. i | ) This is the fleet’s first appearance tossing jn the Battle of Egypt and belies |si Province, north of Fukien Prov- the Axis radio broadcasts that left the Mediterranean Sea, .o MISSES HANFORD LEAVE FOR WRANGELL SATURDAY After visiting their father, Brooks | Hanford in Juneau, the Misses! h and Prances Hdnford left in Wrangell. JAPS TRY T0 AID FORCES NOWTRAPPED CHUNGKING, July 13—In Kiang- lince, the Japs are rushing air forces th B % de- e Pas De Calais according to de- | poasted that the British Navy has|to rescue 30,000 troops trapped be- |tween the Kan and Fu Rivers, This !is the force that attempted to make |a southward push toward Fukien Province. e The 3,895 grade-crossing accidents that took place in 1941 resulted in They said a cache of firearms and Saturday to return to their hume;fllfl persons killed and 1,908 in- Jured. | |on Is Reported From Fairbanks | GERMANS IN DEEP DRIVE INRUSSIA flérrific, Stubborn Fighting Taking Place in Sev- eral Sectors | | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Russian Army is giving | ground but is keeping the front un- broken although hammered back into the big bend of the Don River. The Germans, in their deepest drive Soviet soil, have carried the swastika war flag to within 200 miles of the Volga River in their sweep towards the Caspian Sea. A new threat on the southern front of the Russians has developed | at Boguchar, 50 miles: beyond Ros- | sosh, 200 miles east of Kharkov, ! where the German drive began and is barely 200 miles short of Stalin- | grad on the Volga River. | To the mnorth, the Russians are | reported still holding Voronezh, al- | theugh under an intensive assault. In the southwest, the Russians have been forced to give up Lisich- ansk and drop back east of the Donets River against a third Ger- man spearhead which is being driv- en south of Izyum between Kharkov and Rostov, the front door of the Caucasus. ’ Boguchar is where the Don River veers sharply east and within 50 miles of the broad Volga River and 435 miles from Astrakhan, where the Volga pours into the Caspian Sea. A radio broadcast from Vichy re- ports the Germans have occupied 100 STATUTE MILES JAPS STARVE BABIES HELD ON AMBOINA Escapee Tells of Use of Bayonet in Nippon Prison Camp LONDON, July 13—Conditions in a concentration camp on the Jap- occupied island of Amboina in The Netherlands East Indies are de- ¢ |scribed as “terrible” by a prominent Hollander |from there. Interviewed in London, he said that suffering among the children was particularly acute because of an insufficient supply of milk, vegetables and meat. The lack of medical and hygenic facilities, he said, caused a number of deaths, many by dysentary. The Hollander also accused Jap soldiers of forcing Europeans at the point of a bayonet to sell their watches, rings and other such ar- ticles. Other escapees from Jap con- centration camps have told of how the Japs used their bayonets in other ways. who recently escaped ’ ;NewsmenAr Admitied fo | Spieilrial | Brief Visit Is Allowed Re- porters - Hear No Evidence WASHINGTON, July 13.—Eleven newsmen and two Government press officlals were admitted over the weekend to the improvised court- room where eight Nazis are on (rial for their lives before a commission of seven generals. The brief visit was the first time reporters have ever been admiiled |to such a scene, but although the court was in session with a govern- ment agent on the witness stand. it was not actually proceeding with evidence during the time of their visit. | Pokrocsk, 40 miles northwest of Rostov in the new fourth spear- head by the Germans and the Rus- sians “are being pursued on a broad front on the southern sector.” The broadcast also claims a new encirclement, southwest of Rzhev, 135 miles northwest of Moscow, has resulted in the capture of 30,000 Russians. NAZIS MAKE NEW GAINS, TERRORISM Threaten fo Shoot All Male Relatives of French Sabofeurs VICHY, July 13 —The Germans have announced in Paris that they will shoot all males over 18 who are members of families of fugitives from military justice accused of terrorism or sabotage. This applies to “all near male rel- atives in an ascending line, as well as to brothers-in-law and cousins.” ‘Women in the same degree of kin-~ ship can be sentenced to hard labor. |Children of adults thus punished will be sent to reform schools. the 6 NIPPON AIRCRAFT SHOTDOWN Allied Forces Repulse At- tempt of Japs fo Hit Moresby Shipping GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, July 13.—Allied forces shet down three bombers and three fighters in aerial action Sunday when 19 enemy bombers, escorted by eight fighters attempted an at- tack on the shippmg in the harbor of Port Moreshy, New Guinea.