The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9090. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CE RUSSIANS STOP GERMANS AT VORONEZH Battle Of Aleutian Is Described By Writer NEW ACCOUNT Jap Troops Moving fo OF ALEUTIAN FIGHT GIVEN Delayed Story from Pacific Fleet Tells of Kiska Attacks BY KEITH WHEELER (Chicago Times Copyright, 1942) AT SEA WITH THE UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET, June 18 — (Delayed)—Japs are dying in Kis- ka Harbor as the war in the Aleu- tian mists begins again after three days of storms and glue-like thick fogs. United States bombers sank a Jap transport with a direct hit and six near misses in their first contact since Juve 14, when the fog broke leng enough for eight of this com- mand's Catalina flying boats 10 drop through the clouds over Kiska and dump six tons of dynamite 01 the Jap ships lying there. One 500-pound Crump fell square on a light cruiser and started a aaudy fire, while another dropped alongside a transport close enough for the bombardier to feel it would make serious underwater damage a certainty. * As usual, the Japs had their guns trained cn cloud breaks and five Catalinas came away as full of} hales as shirts back from the ship’s ‘aandry. | One was hit by a three-inch anti- aireraft projectile tearing a neat hole threugh the bull, but failing to explode Kiska Harbor may earn a place in history as the dreariest tomb wver to receive a corps of invaders hoping to conquer the world as the hopeful little men who have chosen the foggy bay under the (Continued on Page Two) 'i;hé Wéshinglun Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert B, Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — Inside factors causing the defeat in Libya show tnat American generals must shoul- der a share of the blame. It is wue that the British went in for too much tea and cricket; and the British generalship was pondervus, with too much backstage ruddliing with Cairo and Londoa. But, in addition, the big factor which hurt the British was that American tanks sent to Egypt car- ried only a 75-mm. gun, which had to compete with the Nazis’ 88-mm. gun. The mere size of the gun does not teil the whole story, however. The old French 75, mainstay of the Allies in the First World War, <hoots in a parabola. The projec- tile goes up and then down. Its destructive force comes from the explosion when it hits. But the 88-mm. gun used by the Germans is an anti-aircraft gun which is built to shoot straight ap :n the air with terrific force. Therefore, when the powerful anti- Two Fronfi DIMOND HITS| ers; Altack ~ ALASKA NEWS| Nose of First U. § On Alaska Is Delayed CENSORSHIP, NEW YORK, June 20.—The New |and Stalingrad. York Times in dispatch from Washington says that reports ceived in the capital from “usually reliable private sources in the Crient’ indicate that Japan is mov- ing more seasoned troops to the frentier of Manchukuo and Siberia This coincides with the belief held in Washington that there is an understanding between Japan and Germany that Japan will attack Russia if Germuny captures some specific objectives, possibly Rostov a FDR Gets ‘Win War’ Stamps Postmaster General Frank C. Walker is shown presenting the first sheet of the new three-cent “Win the Roosevelt at the White House. The stamps went on sale at the same time that the nation was celebrating the “Glorious Fpurth” by working to turn out more guns, tanks and planes to insure future Independence Days. This is Bayonet Expe o o rt A re- | Delegate Séfiavy Should ‘ Have Given Report | Long Ago WASHINGTON, July 20—Alaska { | Delegate to Congress Anthony J. | Dimond expressed the opinion that | | the Navy Department long ago | should have given the public a re~ i sume of Jap activities in the Aleu- tians, referring to the Navy's com- | munique of last Friday giving an | account of operations in the North- | ern Pacific. Dimond said: “The Japs have sent altogether too much power to the Aleutians for that move to be a | mere sideshow operation. I wonder why we had to wait this long to | find out the facts. It all could be | | made public without giving any in< | formation to the enemy as far as | enemy power is concerned. It does | | not help them if we told what they | have.” | Dimond said it has been reported to him that the Japs have 25,000 ! troops on the captured islands, but |that he is unable to confirm this| | report. GER CASE NEARS ~ COMPLETION FBI Agents Testify at Trial of Eight Saboteurs ‘ Today WASHINGTON, July 20.—Prose- | cution is “practically completed in | the case” against the eight alleged | Nazi saboteurs, Major Gen. Frank | McCoy, President of the Military Commission said, as eleven Federal {Bureau of Investigation agents tes- | tified today. | The Times also said that few in| the capital will be surprised if Japan should immediately attack Vladi- vostok, pointing to the recent Navy communique saying that the Japs are still occupying Kiska, Agattu and Attu. The Times says {is is interpreted as more likely a prelude to an at- tack on Siberia, perhaps at Kam- chatka, than against Alaska at this time. e e War” postage stamps to President a phonephoto. | FLOODSIN =i EASTTAKE AIR FORCES 11 Lives STRIKE AT I Traffic Par;yTzed, Heavy' EGYPT BASE Damage Done-Church ‘U S, Bomt@s—, with RAF. Is Wrecked Royal Navy, Atfack RIDGEWAY, Pa,, July 20. — A | TObI’Uk, Matruh violent flash of floods rolling through north and central Pennsyl- CAIRO, July 20.—Big four-motor- ed bombers of the United States vania and New York States have taken at least 11 lives, damaged and destroyed hundreds of homes, busi- | Army Air Forces and bombers and ness establishments, industrial | fighters of the Royal Air Force as plants, railroads, highways and wash- | Well as warships of the Royal Navy struck at advanced Axis airfield and bases in a series of-devastating | ed out bridges. raids and bombardments over the Traffic this mornihg was para- ed, power and telephone services MANSPY | disrupted. weekend, the British announced to- " the above a trio discussing her trial flight. Left to right: Ray.C. Ohio, plant manager, and Test Pilot “Red” Hulse. Seek Miss Philadelphia Title B i You edn see why the judges who are to select Miss Philadelphia have their hands full, Pictured are Fritzi Howard (left) and June McAdams, two of the sixteen girls who turned out for the contest. The winner will represent the Quaker city in the beauty pageant at Atlantic City. Sloganners Are Having Regular Field Day in Presenf War;Some Good TWO MORE BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 20—All wars | are a fleld day for the sloganeers— but this one is tops. There ure thousands of war pro- Blaylock, designer; "Helldiver"” Bomber Navy's newest dive bomber towers Vaughn, Columbus, JUNEAUMAN WITNESSED - JAP RAIDS Claude J. Smith, Former Dutch Harbor Work- er, Living Here | A mai who wa: wedged between | two boulders on the top of a small hill where he could see Dutch Har- { Lor, Foru Mears and Unalaska un- | der the whip of Jap bombers and | zero planes June 4 is now in Ju- | neau, ready to settle down once | again and make his home Here. The man is Claude J. Smith. He | left Duich Harbor a short time ago und traveled by ship to Wrangell chen came north to Juneau. He is now employed by Rice & Ahlers Co, Mr. Smith is a heating and fur- e expert and went to Dutch Harbor last March to help install heating equipment in the buildings under construction. He lived on the ship Northwest- jern Even before the Japanese attack on June 3 life was not all peaches wnd cream at Dutch Harbor. Of course there was the discom- fort of the weather and then there was, the uncertainty of also plies I was in the Northwestern, but 1 got out quick. The raid came at 5:40 o'clock in the morning. The Lombers came in very high and the sup- NAZIS ARE * CHECKED BY ~ RED ARMY ! | Momentary Repulse Given fo Invaders in One Important Sector | BATTLE LINE EXTENDS T0 STEPPES IN SOUTH | | | | Fierce Decisive Fighting Reported in Areas Along Rivers (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Rostov, whose armed citizenry nelped the Russian Army drive out the Germans eight months ago, 's menaced anew as Hitler's great of- | fensive, repulsed at Voronezh, and checked momentarily toward the |east, veered southward in a tre- |mendous onslaught to force the | Russians back toward the gateway |to the Caucasus. | Driving through Voroshilovgrad, 100 miles north of Rostov and Mil- lerovo on the Rostov-Moscow rail |line, the Germans are converging at a junction of the rail line on |the Donets River near Kamensk. | Rostov i‘es 85 miles south. Exceeding even the Berlin ac- counts of German gains, the Paris |radio said that advange forces have 1eached S8hakhty, a coal mining and railroad town 40 miles north of | Rostov. Russian dispatches said that Marshal Timoshenko is drawing back his troops in an orderly with- drawal for a new defense stand 'somewiiere north of Rostov at a confluence of the Don and Donets Rivers | Although the Russians have wrested back the initiative at Vor- onezh or the northern flank of th: 500 mile battleline through ti grain ~overed steppes of the Don's big bend, they declared that the Nazi thrust to the south is a ser- ious threat, U. 8. und British made tanks and planes are being thrown into the" fight in an attempt to stem the Axis onrush. A Russian communiqus2 reported “to the south of Millerovo our troops are engaged in a fierce defensive battle against the ad- vancing German troops.” Revenue Bill Now Readyfo Be Submitted House Ways and Means | Committee Makes Last | { zero planes came in about 300 to| aircraft guns are turned against tanks, and shoot straight ahead, it 1s easy to imagine the havoc they | wreak: } But the amazing thing was that| neither the British nor American | generals had planned ahead long ! vnough to meet this German gun.| They had known about it for some; t'me, but still they were putting 47-fim. guns in our tanks. | As to why the change had not been made, that is the army’s se-| cret. But a représentative of Chrys- | Jer, now making army tanks, was| asked: | “Why don't you put somethlng‘ stronger in place of the 75's? Andl why don't you make the turrets s0 that ttey revolve in every dh'ec-! tion?” To wiich the Chrysler man re- Dlied: “If we ask too many questions, (Continued on l;née"l?our) Lieut. James A. Harden Meet Lieut. James A. Harden who has been proclaimed the “bayonet expert” of the 31st division. Harden now is engaged in teach- ing a regiment the finer points of bayonet fighting. He is a former athletic star in school. MAGNHILD 0YGARD ILL IN KETCH!KAN Miss Magnhild Oygard, Senior Itinerent Public Health Nurse, was seriously ill in a Ketchikan hospital last week, friends in Juneau learned today. Miss Oygard is now home and recovering from a throat in- fection. Fires, landslides and disease | threats have been caused as flood waters swirled dpwn the upper | tributaries of the Susequehanna, larion and Alleghany rivers. At Port Alleghany, where six are reported drowned, the Alleghany | smashed the Free Methodist Church | building Sunday while 150 persons | were attending a conference. The ' convention delegates clung to trees, | roof tops and wreckage until T "cuud. - ASP IN JUNEAU; CHUMS, COHOE RUN NOT 8 Sam Asp, owner of the Salt Sea Fisheries Company, registered at the | Baranof Hotel during the weekend | from Tenakee. He will be in juneau until tomorrow on business. Mr. Asp reports that the chum and cohoe run hasn't reached its peak in the Tenakee area but that fish are coming in well from the Sitka and Port Alexander regions. day. A heavy attack by U. S. bombers now commanded by Maj. Gén. Lewis H. Brereton, recently transferred |from India, was delivered in day- light against Tobruk on Sunday The Admiralty in London said | that the Royal Navy's sallies agains! | the Axis in two consecutive bom-| barments at sea were carried ou! Friday and Saturday against Mat- ruh. Rommel’s most advanced sea base. No details of damage were given out. e | NURSE WILL VISIT [ DOUGLAS TOMORROW | The Juneau Public Health Nurse | will spend tomorrow in Dougla Miss Stephenie “Bogdon announced today. Miss Bogdon will make hoti calls in the morning and will hol¢ i a well-baby nursing conference fron {1 to 3 o'clock in the afternoon A S e N i BUY DEFENSE BONDS Minute Changes WASHINGTON, July 20. — The House Ways and Means Committee, in a last change of attitude, has decided to recommend to the House a 90 percent excess profits tax and 40 percent combined normal and surtax on corporations. The committee has abandoned previous schedules of 87 per cent cuction plants in the United states. The War Production Board jas a production drive division. | r'he 'sol2 purpose of this division is to stimnlate maintenance of pro- duction schedules, An important phase of its work is promotion of logan campaigns. 500 feet, strafing civilians and sol- | TORPEDOED rovided, Smith said. There was no place to hide unless the men could to In 313 major war prants, slogin contests already have been held. In many of them, cash or war bond orizes are offered for winning slog- In the Cadillac factory in Michigan, 3,323 workers participated in the contest. The Stromberg-Carlson plant at itochester, N. Y. waged a battle tor slogans under the inspiration )f a corps of attractively-uniformed qirls, More than 2000 employes ubmiteed slogans. Some of the sloganeers are pat- ently amateurish. But many pro- said 7 Smith done was ns. scored on the says many were was set. to the hills, but most of them had time only get out of the| buildings into the open, scurrying Announcements Made by ke chickens when a nawk s Ay . i wver ex profits tax and 45 reent : 8 0f \ie AMmage Chairman Rebert L. Doughton ex lan“(, Ba‘{ Of Beflgal Fort. Mears pressed the opinion mmbme last He saw a direct hit minute changes make little differ- WASHINGTON, July 20 The | barracks. Smith ence in the bill's total revenue but Navy Department has announced killed, and one who tanding «in the long run our charges in- the sinking of two more ships, one i the doorway shot forward as the crease revenue hecause it lets cor- of them ,a medium sized Unitcd concussion of the explosion inside porations continue to live and that States merchant ship sunk in the pushed hum out means more employment and more Bay of Bengal on April 7 when en-| Another small group of soldiers dividends.” emy aircraft bombed a cruiser, was walking to reveille when the i Shelled survivors landed at & U. sjpgt raid surprised them. Smith saw | KIRK RETURNS SOUTH S. port from the other ship, a small | o ponn arop right in the midst of ~ W. B. Kirk, who has been assist- British merchant vessel, for- !ing H. L. VanderLeest at the Butler- nedoed and shelled in the Atlantic Mauro Drug Store for several weeks, everal weeks ago. ; has left for the south, (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Three)