The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9085. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MEMBER AS S8 PRICE TEN CENTS TUESDAY, JULY 14, OCIATED PRE AZl FORCES MAKING GAINS IN RUSSIA aval Turns Down Proposals of Roosevelt Accuse_d Saboteurs VICHY WILL NOT REMOVE | WARSHIPS U. 5. Asks French fo Take| Seven Ships from Al- exandria Base WASHINGTON, July 14—Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles | has disclosed that the Vichy gov-| ernment has rejected two proposals from President Roosevelt for the | removal of demilitarized French warships from the Egyptian war | zone. Seven warships were demilitarized by agreement with the British | shortly after the fall of France :n | 1940 and have since remained at the British naval base at Alex- andria. The President, Welles said, pro- | posed to Vichy on July 3 that the warships be moved through Suez under protective custody of the| United States and be sailed to an American port or to some neutral | port for interment until the end of the war. | The President pointed out that the ships are in precarious position and are always likely to be subject to attack, whereas if they are re- moved to another port far from the | war zone they ean be safeguarded and returned to France after the war. At the same time, Roosevelt warned Vichy that if this offer is rejected, the British are justified in ordering the French warships out of Alexandria through the canal and if they do not follow such or- | | (Continued on Pagé Five) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — While most people have their eyes glued on crucial events in the Near East, the politicos of the country ha\'e; their eyes glued on the New York| governorship. They know that the| man who gets this key post may be the next president of the United States, and in any event will con- trol New York’s big block of votes at the national convention, For instance, Herbert Hoover was dining with a friend in New York the other night and was asked what he was doing in the East. The ex-President replied that he was working for the nomination| and election of Tom Dewey as gov- | ernor of New York. “I thought I heard you say a couple of years ago that in no event should Tom Dewey occupy public| office,” remarked the friend. Hoover replied: “Yes, but if Tom | Dewey should be elected, I can through him dominate the Republi- can organization and the presiden- tial nomination in 1944. On the other hand if Wendell Willkie pre- vents his nomination, or if he is pominated and not elected, then Wendell Willkie would dominate| the situation. And I am out to do everything I can to prevent that.” Note:— Realizing the crucial po- litical question to be decided in New York, Roosevelt has given she pri- vate nod to Senator Jim Mead, who, although previously not anx- jous to run, will do so, with the President’s full backing. With this backing, and Willkie's tacit support in the background, White House advisers believe Mead can beat| Dewey—though the race should be extremely close. | JAP WEAKNESS Since his return from active duty with the Pacific fleet, young Repre- sentative Warren Magnuson of Washington has been asked many time, “What is your impression of the Japanese?” Here’s his reply: “I have lived among the Japs| (Continued on Page Four) PR o SR e R | ; plonde Is Winner Lucille Lambert, 20, won the titl of a statewide contest held in Los in the national contest at Atlanti e of Miss California in the finals Angeles and will represent the State c City, N. J. Rosemary LaPlanche (right), 1941 Miss California, presents Miss Lambert with her trophy. Represenative Fish In for Tough Baftle Skids for FDR Baiter AXIS LUNGE FRUSTRATED EGYPT ZONE British For(;fileported fo Have Again Staved Off Enemy (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Another lunge of the Axis forces in Egypt has been repulsed accord- ing to an official statement issued this morning from the British head- quarters at Cairo. The sector is not announced in the official communique but de- tails are expected to be given out later today. HUNDREDS KILLED IN REPRISALS LONDON, July 14—The Yugoslav Government in exile here an- nounces that 700 Croats have been killed in reprisals following the as- sassination of the Gestapo Chief, Reinhard Heydrich, at Zagreb. - Sweden has suspended motos- coach transportation on Sundays |~ conserve tires, BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 14—If there is any truth in political rumor— and sometimes there is—the squire- larchy of New York's 26th congres- |sional district is out this year to take the skin off Rep. Hamilton Fish. It's even said that the Squire of Hyde Park, one Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has given the consent of silence to a political strategy which, if it doesn't take Fish out of the New York political waters forever, will leave him there just | that long. | | with and Putnam) This strategy, so it's said, starts the Dutchess county Democratic machine doing all it can to hook| Mr. Fish in the primaries. This is |a little like trying to put a Demo- lecrat in the Republican creel in |Alabama. Besides, the Dutchess |county Democrats have been tr, ing to do that to Fish for 20 years. {Some of the more violent Demo- |crats have even been registering as Republicans just to get a whack |at Fish in the primaries. | However, this may be the year, |some think, that - calls for the igrand strategy. The idea would be follow up Fish's win in the primaries August 11, with the launching of a ‘fusion” or coali- tion candidate against Fish in the November general elections. He would be a Republican. The story | continues that he already is a picked man—A. W. Bennet, New- burgh attorney. With the full force of the 26th | District Democratic machine be- hind Bennet, plus the vote of the |anti-Fish Republicans, plus the just plain Bennetites, Fish might find | himself faced with an insurmount- |able obstacle. There are: two reasons why the Democrats of New York's estate- (Continued on Page Four) | BASTILE DAY (and Orange| FREE FRENCH - (ELEBRATING DeGauIIistmemenI Re- named "'La France Combattante” (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The “Marseillaise”, battle song uf the French revolutionists, was dis- creetly hummed today in the streets of Vichy but in London headqu: ers of the Free French and else where in the free world, it was swelling into a chorus. Today is Bastille Day, 153rd an- niversary of the birth of the French Revolution and the third such an- niversary in a France conquered and seeking a way of life with its conqueror. The France whose leader is De- Gaulle declares that “only a bat- tle, not a war, has been lost.” The DeGaullist movement has now been officially renamed “La France Combattante” and Free France forms an accompaniment on this Bastille Day, reillustrating the way the conqueror and new Ges- tapo rules Frenchmen, In France, Marshal Petain laid a wreath on a monument to war dead and “the Emperor of Japan sent hcliday felicitations to the Marshal. GUARDING AGAINST INVASION Germans Put Dufch land| Under New Rule - Also Belgium, No. France LONDON, July 14—Underground | reports received here today assert the German Occupation authorities in The Netherlands have put that country on an “invasion foothold,” and also enforced new defense pre- | cautions in Belgium and Northern France. These reports coincided with an increasing clamor of the British newspapers for the opening of < second front immediately to relieve Russia. | Will Make ~ RubberOuf Of Alcohol 'Nelson Say?fi0,000 Tons| fo Be Produced in 1943 WASHINGTON, July Production Board expects to |more syntheti¢ rubber from alco- | holic sources than from petroleur |in 1943, Donald Nelson told the Senate Agriculture sub-committee | today. Nelson said that facilities are 1available to produce in excess uf| 200,000 tons of elastic by an « | signed alcohol process in a pro |gram which is estimated to be ab! to produce 800,000 tons yearly —————— MRS. HOLBROOK LEAV T 14 — War ATES Mrs. Wellman Holbrook left neau today for a vacation trip Washington state where she wil visit in Walla Walla with Mr. Hol brook’s parents. She expects Lo gone about a month, Ju Six Commissioners Hearing Six of the seven members of a military commission, n»m- hv the President, to try the eight men accused of coming to this country in Nazi U-boats to sabotage { he United States war effort are above. Left to right (top row): Brig. Gen. John T. Lewis, Major Gen, Walter S. Grant and Major Gen. Lorenzo D. Gasser. Bottow row: Colonel Cassius M. Dowell, Major Gen. Blanton Winship and Brig. G Guy V. Henry. _ SENTH MEMBER | Married Men Last fo Be Called; New Draft Orders Are Issued WASHINGTON, July 14—Draft headquarters have specifically direc- NIGHT RAID ted all local Draft Boards to call up married men last, taking single | war workers before husbands and fathers. ‘ All local Draft Boards have been | instructed, by the orders sent out |last night, to fill quotas in the foilowing order: One—Single men with no depen- dents. Two—Single' men who do not con- i |tribute to the war effort but who (have dependents, | Three—Single men with de- | | pendents who have centributed to the war effort. ‘ Four—Married men without chil- dren who are hot engaged in war effort. | Five—Married men without chil- dren who are engazéd in war ef-|in the customary strong fashion fort. lon industrial objectives in Six—Married men living with wife| many’s Ruhr Valley. or children or children only who| Returning pilots make the report are not engaged in war effort Ithe raid was most successful. Seven—Married men living witn| The official statement issued by (wife or children or children only, | the Air Ministry | Industrial Objectives Are Bombed - Fires Left Burning Is Report TED PRESS) Brig. Gen. Jehn T. Kennedy (abeve,) was named to the sev- en-man military board by Pres dent Roosevelt to try the eight | persons accused of landing on the Atlantic coast from German submarines to attempt sabotage. (BY ASSOC The RAF made an overnight raid | | | | ident!if; Germal 3. C., July 14 | who are engaged in war effort, To|0f RAF bombers cut a new swath registrant must be married before|aCross the Ruhr Valley, frequently or ’en( December 8, 1941, and must be liv-|bombed heart of Hitler's wartime R The statement fails to o | Ispecific targets but the 'Needed Autos f Addresses Message fo| N€OBH AUIOS 10T Lcrrr o o o e | Observers on the bombers said a . : |fires were left burning in the big tile Anniversary Soon Be Taken Over waua >-oe e | WASHINGTON, July 14 —PIesi-| wASHINGTON, July 14—Senator pRE“(E RUPER' messdge yesterday to the New York|congress to empower the President French language newspaper, said:|to take over needed autos and | o deep a significance to every 1ov-|war purposes. He presented a bill] PRINCE RUPERT, { eighty five that thé people of France may scon |five-billion dollars to pay the own- thousand pounds of halibut were igain enjoy the blessing of liber-|ers of the cars and equipment ac- sold here yesterday al 1760 to | be classified as a married man, the[cf fiery destruction last night ing with wife or children "wm'\' industry. | statement says bombs fell on Duis- Nazi Victims on Bas- | War Purposes May oo o vl s area. lent Roosevelt, in a Bastille Day|popery R, Reynolds today asked HA”BU]’ pRl(Es On this annivers other transportation equipment for - -r of demoeracy, T express the hope|to authorize an apropriation of -—One hundred and ly, equality and fraternity.” quired by the government. '18.10 and 14 cents a pound RUHR AREA 5 a strong force | GERMANS CONTINUE DRIVING 'Invasion Juggernaut Keeps Moving Toward Vital Soviet Sections INVADERS PLOUGHING INTO NEW SECTIONS Enemy, Reports Moscow, Breaks Through Dis- frict on Upper Don (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler's invasion juggernaut ap- pears to be slowly gaining moment- um in its drive toward Russia’s in- dustrial belt along the lower Volga and toward the oil fields of the Caucasus and Russian activities seem more than ever only great diversions at the flanks or in the rear as the Red Army attempts to beat down the resistance and halt Hitler’s all out effort. The Russians’ once successful winter counter-offensives changed the vast battleline to their ad- vantage .in. some .places, but thoy now seem unable to seize the initia- tive save in isolated sectors. Russians Discouraged As an {llustration, today’s Mos- | cow reports say that the Germans | have been put on the defensive in one sector on the Kalinin front northwest of Moscow, but admit that the Germans are ploughing ‘mm the Volga and toward the Caucasus on the south. Russian reports y that in the German attempt at “vertical envel- opment” of Russian positions north- |west of Moscow many airborne troops have been liquidated and | many of them shot-down before {landing, the remainder being wiped | out aground, Little Optimism Despite this, it is conceded that |the Germans, with numerical su- | periority in German chosen zones lof offensive action have gained | ground both near Rzhev, which lies southwest of Kalinin and 130 miles from Moscow, and in their drives |across the Don Basin and lower command of all American Ground Troops in Great Britain, The supply organization of the American forces in the European theatre are in command of Maj. (Continued on Page Two) CHANGE IN ~ COMMAND i OVERSEAS l‘ Headquarters of American Forces in London Makes Announcement | alda | LONDON, July 14—The United | States Army Headquarters today announced that Maj. Gen. M. W. “lark, of New York, is now in |Velga in the upper Caucasus re gion | Russian reports show that little optimism js left and while there are scant territorial claims for the sermans to make which have not sready been conceded by Hitler's command, they have announced that the trans-Don offensive has extended their gains further to the south. In the encirclement of a body of Russian troops farther northwest at Voronezh, the Russians have ad- mitted that the enemy has broken through that district on the upper Don River, which is about 300 miles I;.uulh of Moscow.