The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9089. ® “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME i JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIA’S LINK WITH ALLIES IMPERILLED { _ Bbeing Flying Fortresses, American Takes Command In Middle East WHEN 3,000 BOMBERS GO RAIDING 5 U.S. FLIERS AID FIGHT FOR EGYPT Consolidated Liberat- ors Take Part -~ | FORMER BURMA AIR | CHIEF NOW LEADER| Big U. 5. Bombers Have Been Operating There | for Last Month CAIRO, July 18—The battle oi‘ Egypt was still indecisive as Maj. Gen. Lewis Brereton, who headed the air defense of the Philippines . and later commanded American air operations in Burma and China, as- tumed comand of the United States Air Forces in the Middle East. Axis forces are reported to have , suffered heavy losses in two unsuc- cessful counter-attacks in the last 36 hours in the south central sec- . tions of the desert front, 75 miles west of Alexandria. Heavy bombers raided the Axis supply port of Tobruk and hit a . large ship and tanker and started ' a fire in the dock storage area. . for 36 days, big American bombers _ have been operating in the Middle ' tical missions. The Washingten & | savings, Maj. Gen. Brereton discloséd that East and have accomplished 21 tac- They bombed enemy convoys in (Con‘tinuedit;ni ;ge— Two) Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON, July 18 At their regular weekly conference last } week, the President gave congres- sional leaders some important news f on new moves he plans to head off } inflation. They also got a sizzling earful as . to what he thinks of the house jarm bloc for sniping at the anti- inflation program. The President told his leaders that he was planning to order a nation-wide survey of prices, wages, investments, installment buying and all other factors in- volved in the inflation picture, pre- paratory to asking congress for ad- ditional legislation. The survey, he said, will be made to find out “just where we stand,” and will be conducted within the next two months by the Office of Price Administration and other gov- ernment agencies, One anti-inflation step congress/ will' be asked to approve, the Presi- acnt said, will be the granting of | subsidies to manufacturers to en- | able them to keep within govern- | ment price ceilings until such time as increased labor, transportation | and raw material costs are adjust-| ed. | Subsidies have worked out well| in England and Canada, the Prest-i dent explained, and have prevent- ed many smaller concerns—caught .n the middle of higher preduction | costs and enforced price ceilings— | from being driven out of business.! “What about wage stabilization?” ure congressional leader asked. | “I think it is absolutely essential that wages in the higher brackets; pe frozen,” FDR replied, adding that the War Labor Board soon would take some action in this di- rection. | After denouncing the house farm bloc the President dropped some acid comments regarding the sub- stitute agriculture department ap- propriation bill which banned the sale of government grain stocks at below parity prices. Farm bloc Rep- resentative Clarence Cannon of Mis- souri and his cohorts had railroad- (conuinued on Page lour) Yool JOIN BOND rin dresses up o LAST POSE _ma Ray Hut- ton, swing orchestra leader, makes a final pose in her rubber bathing suit in Washington, D. C., before donating it in rubber scrap drive. New Aftack By Germans Off Iceland REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 18—A | German bomber attacked an Allied wrawler in northern Icelandic wat- ers but no damage or casualties resulted. This is according to an announcement by the Headquarte:s ¢f the United States Army. -+~ BUY DEFENSE BONDS DR !V E—pancing Instructress Tanya Wid- her dachshund fo help war bond drive. ATTACKS 0 DESERT AR BEATEN OFF 'Counter Movements o Axis Repulsed-Aerial Raids Reported CAIRO, July 18—Two Axis count- «r attacks on the desert front some £0 miles west of Alexandria have ALLIES IN SUCCESSFUL DAY ATTACKS | Japanese Planes Are Shot | Down Off Australia- | Shipping Bombed |} | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS | |IN AUSTRALIA, July 18—Two of | three Japanese fighter planes which attacked Allied reconnaissance planes over the Solomon Island aroup northeast of Australia were downed according to an official communique The - official communique also says that Allied bombers have at-} tacked dock installations and ship- ping in Japanese held Rabaul har-| tor, New Britain, and a Japanese zero plane was shot down by Alhed} Nation planes over Timor Island to the northwest. | All attacks were made in day-| light. TWO JAILED BY FBIFOR . EXTORTION | Song-writing Pair Tried to Get $250,000 from Movie Executive | WASHINGTON, July 18. The FBI has announced the arrest of a song composing team n Los An- | geles, on charges of trying to extort $250,000 from Louis Mayer, motion picture executive. They were named as Channing Lipton, C'ifi‘ former prize fighter | turned lyricist, and Meyer Grace, | 25, ex-filling station employee. | The Justice Department said that | several of their songs had been published. The two were arrested when they called in a Los Angeles hotel July 13 to pick up an extor- | heen beaten off with heavy losses tion package. to the forces of Marshal Rommel. Heavy and medium bombers, Erwin sun- Mayer received a letter June 25 | postmarked Beverly Hills, and | signed “spokesman for six,” de- NAZIS ARE THRUSTING DEEP TODAY One Force GBTng Info Rich 0il Fields Threatening Aid from Allies NEW ADVANCE IS HITTING AT ROSTOV American Made Douglas Bombers Striking at German Tank Corps (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) After a change in the course of sme of the strongest elements of (Germany’s million man Caucasus offensive there now appears a stab- hing movement close to Rostov al- 50 toward the deep Caucasus, the latter thrust imperilling Russia’s ks with the Allied Middle East torces. The Germans proclaim today th-t me drive has cut the oil riches of the Caucasus while Russian and German advices both tell of an- other advance upon Rostov and along the main railway route from oy $onad RO EAS LOAD WOULD SEND FLEET OF 3600 AUTOS ONCE AROUND EARTH OR OPERATE THE AVERAGE FAMILY AUTO FOR 18000 A MouLo rRequire 300,000 MEMBERS OF GROLND CREW T the norto, ACED NOSE TO RUDDER, First ‘appearances on this domin- ent world front of American-made PLANES WOULD EXTEND Douglas bombers is reported as they FORTY-THREE MILES we sald to have been flung into the battle to blast the onrushing Gierman {anks. The Mrscow radio reports the Rad Army is striking savagely in the Lattle of Voronezh, have recaptured iive communities and attacked and surprised garrison protecting the Don River Crossings. The German High Command communique does not precisely lo- cate the claimed foothold on the iower Don River but says that east 'f both Donets and Rostov the Ger- man forces which thrust through “illerovo 130 miles north of Ros- tov, have split, one force advancing southward and the other southeast. Millerovo was the threat that ap- peared aimed at Stalingrad, 175 miles e TORPEDOED, BOMB LOAD, APPROXIMATELY 300,000 POUNDS, EQUALS CARRY- G CAPACITY OF FIVE FREIGHT TRAINS OF 70 CARS EACH. Wide World B Cafass Even if you're accustomed to thinking of war operations in term of hundreds of thousands or milli these days, there’s something super-colossal about the idea of a mass raid invelving 3,000 bombers—and that’s what British and American military leaders have promised Germany. Reduced to everyday terms, such a raid would mean in men, missiles and equipment. In addition, experts have figured st—including planes lost, the expense of training pilots lost, and the gasoline and bombs used— ns here’s wl that the ¢ would be approximately $50,000,000. porting British land Jtroops with|Tending the money. aerial thrusts behind the Axis lines, | | have also attacked Tobruk and have raided shipping with good results - cording to an official communique STRIKERS IN by the British Headquarters. ! DETROII Go AIRBORNE (oMMANDgs - BACKONIOB 'Bus Drivers Threatened by TRAINING ““wayor o Vitai ve- 1 fense Center DETROIT, July 18.—May | ward J. Jeffries ordered disc | action against leaders who staged |an unauthoriged strike yesterday | Striking Force Being Prepared Here |and partially disrupted street car e ! and bus service in this vital defense WASHINGTON, July 18—Amer-| entor. | ican air commandos, with power to| girikers estimated at a number {reach the enemy in a strike move, | patween 200 and 350 of 5,000 work- | are fast getting into trim, Lieut.Gen. | ars yoted to return to work last | H. H. Arnold, Commander of the Air | njght, Forces, disclosed today. ; Jetfries said “I'm still mad.” Airborne Commandos are being e seast. proparea ‘;’;2}.‘;;"“’“ | SALMON RUN AT SITKA While carefully guarding certain | AND IE"AKEE |s GOOD REPORTS U.S.MARSHAL details of the new combat organize- tions, he said that troop transports and gliders would take men to their objectives where their speed and! firing power will make them a| yots of salmon for mild curing spearhead of action against enemy .. poing prought ‘into Sitka by | trollers, reported U. S. Marshal | william T. Mahoney who returned Jast night from an official trip ! the Island city. The salmon run headquaters, A troop carried command to trans- at Tenakee was also reported i be excellent by Marshal Mahonev A New Weafi of Speedy port air commandos has been sct up in Stoutfield, Indiana, under Col. Fred Borum. —————————- BUY DEFENSE BONDS BLAST RUHR FOR THIRD DAYS' RAID Big New Four - Motored Bombers Make Daylight Attack on Germany LONDON, July 18. — Great new | four-motored Lancaster bombers | roared over Germany to blast the Ruhr in broad daylight for the third successive day yesterday. | All returned safely despite fighter opposition, the informant said. Each carried several tons of bombs. F. A. METCALF BACK | WageLevel . - Pregram Is ~ Under Way | Congress Promises Speedy Consideration of Rec- ommendations WASHINGTON, July 18 — Con- | zressional leaders promised a | speedy consideration of any recom mendations President Roosevelt may | nake to link wage stabilization au- thority to the all-over price trols in the fight against the cost of living. Apparently authentic reports are con- risiug FROM TEN-DAY TRIP| Reporting a limit catch of trout practically every day of his absence, F. A. Metcalf, City Engineer, re- turned last night from a ten-day wip to Warm Springs Bay and sitka. Mr. Metealf made the trip on the Betty Ross with Capt. Hollis Evans | and sald the outing was enjoyabie | in every way. At Warm Sprines| Bay he encountered two fishing par- from Juneau. including Mr and Mrs. T. J. McCaul and Mr. and Mrs. Willilam Reck. e .- BUY DEFENSE BONDS current that the President will ask broad, flexible authority to put eilings on wages and clamp down further on farm prices. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, | Republican, said “Any realistic plan | that gears wages to price control s desirable - SPEEDER FINED Carl Pellin was arrested on a speeding charge by Highway Patrol- | man E. M. Botelho and paid a fine lof $10 in the U. 8. Commissioner's Court yesterday afternoon. Pellin | was charged with driving at a speed of 45 miles an hour on the Doug- | las Highway. SHIPS OF SENT DOWN WITH MEAT British Shipmk,fiermans Declare-Ninety Per- sons Are Missing BERLIN, July 18—The German radio stations in broadcasts last {night quoted dispatches from Por- tugal saying the British passenger ship Avila Star, 14,000 tons, was mk by German torpedoes on July 5 and 90 persons are missing. NAZIS ARE SENT DOWN Soviet Planes Make Attack| on German Vessel Concentration MOSCOW, July 18—Soviet planes, attacking a concentration of Ger- man ships in the Gulf of Finland, sank three gunboats, one armed | The Avila Star was enroute to transport and one ol ql ¢ s - le patrol ship and|p, g from Argentina with a damaged 16 otner vessels in a three | cargo of frozen meat - B s day action. This was announced | over the radio this morning. | U. 5. MARSHAL MAHONEY RETURNS FROM SITKA TRIP After an absence of three in Sitka on official business, U, Marshal William T. Mahoney turned to Juneau last night. s Two prisoners, Nick Malacho!( and Rachel Scott were brought davs to Juneau by Marshal Mahoney o serve seatences on drunk and dis- orderly charg Malachoff is to serve 175 days and Rachel Scott was given a sentence of five rionths, The sugar situation being what it e is, that “good neighbor policy” | BUY DEFENSE BONDS J takes on added significance,