The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9086. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942 MPIR n PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS RUSSIA ADMITS HEAVY LOSSES T0 NAZIS West Coast Safe as Result of Midway Battle U. 5. Navy Reveals Jap Losses at Midway JAP SHIPS SUNK AT MIDWAY NAVY ISSUES NEW ACCOUNT INFULL DETAIL Cites Many Instances of Heroism-by U. S. | Fighting Men OUR FORCES WERE READY IN AMBUSH Jap Losses Huge-Invasion | Armada Numbered | 80 Vessels ? WASHINGTON, July 15—Japan’s invasion armada ran into an Ameri- can ambush in the Battle of Mid-| way, official reports disclosed in a| communique issued which gives | the first official detailed account of | the battle in a supplemental re-| port. | The communique tells of how' our naval task force lay in am-| push and struck hard with carrier | planes when Army and Navy shore—{ based attacks slowed the enemy | fleet down. ‘ The great size of the armada which Japan sent out for the as- | sault on Midway in hopes of a further conquest of Hawail was dis- closed for the first time in the re- port. The Jap fleet consisted of | 80 ships, and official records give the following result for the battle and Japanese losses: Jap Losses Twenty Jap ships sunk or dam-| aged, including four aircraft car- Té;x‘;tihued on Page Five) The Washingtun| FOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS THREE OR FOUR DESTROYERS. atkishinr . coiutuniiibon _ csbtcnlilom TWO HEAVY CRUISERS ONE OR TWO TRANSPORTS: JAP SHIFC DAl TWO OR THREE BATTLESHIPS: _scdBNim. _enadihitene m FOUR OR FIVE CRUISERS M FOUR TRANSPORTS Japan’s naval losses in the Battle PRI T —ensabebabiitey GED AT MIDWAY Py Vi } alainl. mulainl. mlabl. ededel of Midway were even more serious than first reported, the U. S. Navy revealed. Besides the heavy toll in ships sunk or damaged, 275 Jap planes and their crews were reported lost with their carriers. The unofficial estimate of Japanese deaths was: Carriers, 6,000 lives; battleships, 2,000; heavy cruisers, 4,000; light cruisers, 500; destroyers, 1,500, and transports, 4,000 er more. SMALL SCALE ATTACKS ON - EGYPTFRONT No Indications of large Scale Offensive on Either Side CAIRO, Ju]yExis attacks on Tel El Eisa with tanks and in- fantry, the third successive enemy assault on the British held height of Egypt's corridor battle zone, was launched at dusk yesterday and last night, the British announced teday. A British commentato: the British military Former Alaskan Is Held on Espionage; Is Arresleq by FBI 1 TWO l_OOKS | NEW YORK, July 15—The Fed- et g 5 jeral” Bureau of Investigation has i . | arrested in Washington, D. C., Blen- dale Spiegelberg, 35, Berlin born, former American Coast Guardsman, {on a charge of espionage. | He was found to be in possess‘on ]oi plans for parts of a Ford bomb- |er. | Spiegelberg had been u mir | fisherman and sailor in Alaska fron | 1929 to 1935. He once applied nn !succvs:,fn]]y for a pilot’s license 1o | take ships into waters adjoinu | the Areutians, 14 HOME WATERS JAPAN FLEET HUDDLING IN jOfliciaI British Circles Ex- | press Opinion Follow- ing Losses of the Japanese is probably con- | centrating in “Japanese home wat- |ers” in the North Pacific as the result of the disastrous Midway |and Coral Sea battles. | ‘This is according to official cir- cles which also believe the Japanese will probably keep the big ships |in the home waters until “consoli- {dated” positions after aircraft car- | rier lo suffered in recent en- | gagements. i | i HOUSE 0.K.'S BELOW PAR WHEAT SALE Breaks Deadlock Between | {""Congress, Agriculture Department WASHINGTON, July 15. — The House today broke a two-month Congressional deadlock with the | Agriculture Department on the ap- ' propriation bill, agreeing with the | Senate proposal to allow sale of Government-owned wheat at prices below parity. After rejecting the new com- promise proposal, the House accept- ed the Senate demand which backed Roosevelt sales of Government-own- Thrilling Account of Adion Against Japs At Kiska [s Related evening after the Japs had oceupied Kiska, then for two days and two nights, McGee said the Navy pilots, working in two-hour shifts, dropped bombs on the Japs at Kiska, sink- ing a large transport, submarine and other ships, and downing two defending Jap Zero fighters. The attacks on Kiska and the sinking of Jap warships by Army and Navy aircraft were announced previously in Navy commmdques. Fliers Get Tough McGee itinued: “The Navy raid. The procedure was to high out over Kiska, dive throuz the clouds, level out and sight ob- jectives, then dive bomb as low as 300 feet (Continued on Page Five) (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) AN ALASKAN PORT, July 15 (Delayed 15 Days by Censor)—In the first eyewitness account of op- erations against the Japanese cupying Kiska, evacuees described the courageous work of young Navy fliers who blasted away at the enemy forces with taousands of pounds of bombs in continued at- tacks. They told, too, of the futile Jap- anese bombing of an unprotected Aleutian Island village, witnessel by natives hid nearby in a sod hut, awaiting evacuation, Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. McGee, teachers for the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs, said that a force of Navy pilots dropped their flying boats into their little harbor one Were Wed Three Months Ago young t fliers got tougher after each fly | RED ARMIES' STRENGTH IS NOW WANING | | Eidi Admit Several Nazi Divi- sions Released fo Defend Europe DIRE THREAT T0 | CAUCASUS AREAS ‘Bifterly Defending Road to Stalingrat, Indus- dustrial Center (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russia’s resistance to Hitler's blitz has been so sapped by the over- /whelming force of German man- |power that already several of the |Nazi divisions have been moved |back to the eastern front of Bel- |glum and France, Russia announces, |implying that the way is being jopened for a western European | front. | While admitting that territorial | losses constitute a dire threat of | isolating the vital Caucasus, and | perhaps force a general Russian | withdrawal in the south to the line |of the Volga River, Moscow said | that 35,000 of the enemy have been | killed or’ wouhded ‘in a 10-day per- |jod in the Voronezh sector. Desperate Defense | An important point west of Vor- onezh was today reported as re- | captured. This sector, about 300 miles south of Moscow, is the nor- thern anchor for the badly dented line of Timoshenko's armies op- ! posing the all-out German effort to break through to Stalingrad on the Volga, which would isolate the oil bearing Caucasus region and part of the main Allied supply route to Russia. The Russians, Moscow reported, | i | | | | hurled back reinforced German de- tachments In one sector of this front in the Don Valley and are maintaining a stubborn defense of ed wheat for livestock feed and in- | dustrial uses at 85 percent of parity | price and corn at about 83 cents a bushel allowed. M G B d‘in London said that . ] ! erl'Y- 0- Oun ! withstood the attack described as & - | | “small scale” and there is no indi- e i By DREW PEARSON [cation whether either the Axis ur|f i Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) . b ! British are ready to undertake P | WASHINGTON—There were some very important inside facts behind | the President’s recent warning that | it might be necessary to take auto- | mobile tires away from the Ameri- can public. It is doubtful if some of these inside facts were known | even to Roosevelt himself. | One is that of 31 synthetic rub- | ber plants contracted for by Jesse Jones with the Standard Oil of New Jersey group, not a single plant is much beyond the blueprint stage. A few foundations have been laid; but | almost no progress has been made in building the plantg, and they will not be finished and working until around 1944. Second is the fact that although there are several important patents | for making synthetic rubber, such as the thermo and Houdry processes | Jesse Jones has put almost all his eggs into one basket and is using what is called the “Jersey” or “I. G. Farben” process, so named be- cause it was developed by the Ger- man cartel, I. G. Farben, and Stan- dard Oil of New Jerey. Meanwhile many scientists, and even some of Jones's own experts, contend that the thermo or Houdry processes are much faster, cheaper, and will use less defense materials. CLOSED REFINERIES Finally, Jesse Jones's Rubber Re- serve is going in for the construc- tion of big new rubber plants—31 of them let to the Jersey group alone—at a cost of $10,000,000 each, whereas there are plenty of refin- eries, closed because of gas ration- ing, which could be converted to rubber plants in a very short time. These 31 big new rubber plants will require tons of steel and would take around 18 to 20 months to build even in normal times when steel is easy to get. Meanwhile, C. R. Starnes, 'Presi- dent of East Texas Petroleum Der- ivatives, contends that within 90 (Continued on Pn_geil’our) g large offensive at present, he said. ALASKA BILL GOING INTO (ONEE“REN(E‘ Increased Membership of Legislature, When Effective, Snag WASHINGTON, July 15.—Legis- lation to increase the membership | of the Alaska Legislature has been sent to a conference in an effort to adjust the disagreement over when it should be effective. The House has voted to make the bill effective next year but the Sen- | ate amendment, which the House declined to accept, makes the leg-' | islation effective immediately. ; OF TREATY { BY ALLIES . ‘ Foreign Minister Togo Says . ' Has No Provisions About Nippons TOKYO, July 15. — Foreign Min- ister Togo, speaking in Osaka, de- ‘clnred the Soviet Government has |assured Japan that Russia’s new i1.x*eaty alliance with Great Britain 3and her agreement with the United States, contains no provisions re- garding Japan. CHINA HAS LOSTPORT | i | | If members of the merchant marine cluster around movie actress Marjorie Woodworth (and why shouldn’t they?) it'll be difficult to forget that war- time admonition “Loose Talk Costs Lives.” Marjorie’s swim- ming suit carries the familiar poster in reduced size. The trouble is, whe'll bother to look | at the poster? BIOLOGIST WILL SPEAK TOMORROW AT CHAMBER MEET Charles E. Gillham, biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service who now is attached to the Alaska Game Commission, will be guest speaker at the Chamber of Commerce meet- ing tomorrow noon in the Baranof | Hotel Gold Room. A short report will also be given on the USO drive now in progress and part of the program will be given over to a special feature for the USO drive. - e JEWS GIVEN TOUGH SWAT BYGERMANS TO ENEMY ‘Wenchow,fith of Chek- ian: Province, Is Ac- knowledged Gone | CHUNGKING, July 15. The {Chinese High Command today ac- s knowledged the loss of Wenchow ! seaport in the southern part of the VICHY, July 15—The Govern- | Chekiang Province, but the spokes- ment today published a sweeping |Man pledged that with increasing decree taking over the management | 8iF support, the Chinese Army will {of all Jewish controlled prumny,;‘"w}sfly counter attacks and im businesses and lease rights in the | Mobilize more Jap troops in Chinu | French colonies. than ever before. The edict came on the heels of a | e Gestapo order barring Jews from | The current flow of income to it | \ | 1 | The compromise proposal offered by Rep. Clarence Cannon, of Mis- souri, would have set a minimum sale price on wheat at full parity and on corn at about 97 cents. Previously the House insisted that such sales be made at not less than parity, which is for wheat about $1.35 a bushel. e — Oklahoma Democrafs ‘Are Ahead Josh Lee Renominated as; Choice for Refurn fo Senafe OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, July 15.—Democrats, who renom- inated New Dealer Josh Lee for the | United States Senate, built up a lead ! for a Rcosevelt backer as their | choice for Governor of Oklahoma with three-fourths of the unofficial | returns for yesterday'’s primary elec- ’ tion tabulated. .I.m' Former Screen Actor Stirling Hayden has disclosed that he and Madeleine Carroll, the film actress, were married three months ago in an undisclosed New England town. Hayden revealed the mar- riage to newsmen at Nassau, the Bahamas, after Miss Carroll ar- rived there to vigit him. Hayden, an experienced seaman, suddenly tossed his acting carecr aside several months ago to return to the sea. Nobody Loves a Censor Who Has a Tough Life; Then That Is Not All BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 15 On mest of the workman walls in the Office of Censorship, there is this caution: “A censor needs the eye of a hawk; the memory of an elephant; nose of blood hound; the what to do in the case of th young lady from Florida who com plained that she had received letter, “Opened by Censor,” whicl enclosed only an oblong memo, or which was written: “Dear young lady: Your soldier still loves you but he talks too much.” The eye of the hawk was work Robert Kerr, Democratic pm.(ylheart of a lion; the viligance of National Committeeman, continued |an Owl; the voice of a dove; the today to add bit by bit to his nar- |<agacity of Sclomon; the patience | row margin over second place Hom- |0f Job; and the imperturbability er Smith, attorney and former Con- |0f the Sphinx.” gressman. | In spite of the fact that that Lee won the nomination to the deseribes a masterpiece of conglom- Senate over nine opponents and erate genius, I think the author clung to a clear majority. Only two |should have added: "A Jovian of the six Democratic Congressmen |sense of humor.” who filed have any opposition. Director of Censorship e Price has had to do a lot MRS, FORBES HUFFMAN HERE ON WAY WEST |y ote o song and dedicated it to Mrs. Forbes Huffman, of Anchor- nhim, entitled: “They May Censor age, arrived here last night fromn Al My Letters Dear, But Read a4 month’s vacation in the States. Between the Lines.” | | Byron of grin- Indiana was discovered by La every public gathering place, jn.‘dIVIduan is at the highest level 1 She is staying at the Gastineau Ho- | Salle in 1671 and constituted part | doors or outdoors, in Nazi occupied | the history of the United States, tic (el of New France. ! regions. |Department of Commerce says trans-| Without humor, Solomon wbuld have been hard put to figure out while awaiting plane portation to the Westward. {ning over the fact thal some one: ing all right (in this case’ ear) when the telephone censor twice broke a long distance .call fron southern California to Mexico be cause the Californian insisted o discussing the *“arrival of th bombers,” But it was a se humor that kept the censor’s face from being very red when the iratc native son bellowed: “WI th others, after giving up more ground | on the steppes within the Don Riv- | ex bena. German Claims German communiques today re- , peat claims of rapid progress along the whole vast battleline in south- | ern Russia, reporting further sev- | erance of Russian communications. | Qualified sources in London said that Russia is pressing anew for a prompt opening of a United States and British land front in the west to dilute the potency of a German drive in the east. RS AN U i i 'Former Preside of Arginlina Dies BUENOS AIRES, July 15.—Form- er President Ortiz of Argentina, who resigned June 24 after being in- active for nearly two years because of ill-health and near blindness, is dead. Ortiz was 55 years of age. He had suffered from diabetes for several years. | > Most grade-crossing accidents oc« cur between midnight and one Yeclock in the morning. matter with you? I'm talking abou cur pro football team, the Sos Diego Bombers. Patience takes an awful beat Ing too when the censor boys hay |to weed out all those letters d rected to “The Bureau of the Cen (Continued on Page Three) M What Washinim\ needs is red tape snipping and less sniping.