The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE '™ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIX., NO. 9091. NAZIS LEAVE FIERY TRAIL JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ON ADVANCE U. S. Bombers Sink Jap Ships On Yangtze CHALLENGE IS DIRECTED Successful Raid Made on Japan's Long-Held Con- trol of Waterway VESSELS SENT DOWN OF G0OD SIZED TONNAGE More Planes for Atta(ks' Will Be Urged by Chinese Govt. CHUNGKING, China, July 21.— United States bombers, escorted by fighter planes, sank two Japanese ships yesterday in the Yangtze River port of Kiukiang, southeast of Hankow. The raid challenged Japan's long- held control of the air over her waterway supply route to China. Not one of the United States planes were damaged, according to the official Chinese communique. The ships that were sunk were from 1,000 to 2,000 tons each. ‘The raid presents an ever increas- ing aerial challenge to the invaders, the Chinese Government spokes- man said, and added that the Unit- ed States will be asked through Laughling Currie, special adviser to President Roosevelt, that more planes be sent for attacks along this water route “rather than a long list” of other military supplies . Currie returned to China on July 16 and has had several conferences with Chiang Kai Shek, the nature of which has not been disclosed. In land fighting, the Chinese communique today says, the Japs are said to be fighting their way back to the Chekiang Provincial seaport of Wenchow after being dis- lodged by the Chinese army. — . — EXTRA! U. 5. SUBS GET THREE MORE JAPS Destroyers Sunk in Vicin- ity of Occupied Kiska by Our Forces WASHINGTON, July 21—The Navy announced today that United States submarines have sunk three more Japanese de- stroyers in the vicinity of Kis- ka. This brings te a total of 18 the number of Jap warships an- nounced by Army and Navy sources as sunk or damaged in the Aleutians. The Navy added that several air attacks against the enemy- occupied Aleutians have been carried out through the com- bined efforts of U. S. Army and Navy aircraft. The Navy said that attacks centered on the enemy encamp- ment at Kiska and on ships in Kiska harbor, but that it is im- possible to observe or appraise the results. ‘The announcement added that U. S. Army and Navy airera®i are continuing joint operations against the enemy forces oc- cupying the western Aleutians, H i Ph OtOg >, Looking at this photo it’s easy to understand why photography has become so popular these days. These Los Angeles enthusiasts, grouped around starlet Marie McDonald, are having more than their share of fun as they click away, Marie is one of the film beauties who graciously posed for the camera fans at opening of Ambassador camera gardens. Delegate Dimond Urges Driving o Japs Out of Aleufians fl Right Now WASHINGTON, July 21 — Alask.il Delegate Anthony J. Dimond to- cay called on the War and Navy Departments to send a “first class” force to Alaska and oust the Japs Actress to Wed out of the Aleutians. Delegate Dimond said in an in- terview: “We fought off the invaders &t Midway but we have not in the Aleutians. “If we had behaved the same |way at Midway the Japs would have Midway and some of the Ha- wailan JIslands by this time. “The Japs are becoming firmly established in the Aleutians on the | successes. “If we asserted ourselves, the Japs would not have made that vrogress.” Delegate Dimond said newspaper | accounts of the Jap landings tended to confirm his private reports the | Jap force on the Aleutians are at least 25,000. PROBE IN NORTHLAND URGED NOW | Army, Navm(ed fo Send Representatives fo Al- aska fo Study Needs WASHINGTON, July 21.—Repre- sentative Jack Nichols, of Okla- homa, Chairman of the Special House Committee investigating air accidents, called on the War and Navy departments today to send representatives to Alaska to study anew the needs. Nichols said: “I think they should go up there immediately to see for themselves where badly needed im- provements and additions are need- ed. There seemingly is a crying need for more air power, fighting power as well as trans- ports.” U ————— basis of articles telling about their| more | raphy Is Lots of Furi ’ ATTACKS ON | | | | | | | | | | | | AXIS EGYPT AIR FORCES Fifty Planes on Ground Destroyed by British in Two Assaults PORT OF MATRUH ONCE | AGAIN TARGET FOR RAID Installations [)uestroyed,i * Ships Damaged-No | Land Action Now CAIRO, July 21—The destruction f more than 50 Axis planes on the ground in two assaults on ad- vanced airdromes in a single day | are reported as the British raided Eldaba and Fuka, 25 and 60 miles hehind the Nazi lines for the ond and third time in two day A Reuter’s dispatch from Alex= | andria said that the British fleet | Believed First fo Take WAA( Oathin U.S. e T e e ¥ 4 r Boutell, 29, supervisor in a Minneapolis, Minn., arms plant, was believed the first officer can- didate for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps to be sworn in. She left a $55 a week job for the $50 a month post. Lieut. Eva.. S. Robbins of the Army Recruiting Station administered the oalh. %; 5 helled the Axis held Egyptian port |~ _ of Matruh again early yesterday in | |the third such attack in as m‘anvi nights. Installations were destroyed and | ships damaged in the harbor. Mean~| .other long range fightes | blasted axis barges northeast of Sidi Barrani, 185 miles behind the lines Land operations on the Egyptian ront were confined to patrols, while the British concentrated on anni- hilation of Marshal Erwin Rom- mel's air force - JAPS RAID AIRDROME OF ALLIES Twenty-six Bombers, Es- corted by Fighters, Make Attack MACARTHUR'S HEADQUAR TERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 21 — Twenty six heavy Japanese bomb- srs escorted by 15 fighters caused slight damage in a raid on the Allied airdrome of Port Moresby New Guinea, before driven off. The tald was staged shortly after day- break today. EVERYONE MAY HAVE NEW TIRES Plan Proposed by Rubber Industry fo Make Ra- tioning Easy WASHINGTON, July 21 — Th cubber industry has proposed o {plan which it is said can provide usable tires for everybody at lea.t for the next two years. The plan became known today, in connection with an exhibit pre- pared by the industry in a Wash- ington Hotel to demonstrate to Government officials and the news- papers the means utilized by the industry’s facilities to make many tites as possible under wa: conditions. " The plan, it was learned, would s ment. RIDING HIGH_rFlying in a graceful “V” formation, these planes carry aviation cadets over cloud banks as the pilots go through advanced training exercises at Moore Field, Mission, Texas. Aleutian Fliers Are U.5.15T0 Shewing Grealest of BUILDFOR | 1 Bravery Againsl Odds 4(~|m-:;yo '%::;"’ ‘:V::::;::‘ i ‘cummuupla(‘n. there has been noth- Wy W e ing to excell the stubborn courage AT SEA WITH THE UNITED | with which this handful of men who | STATES PACIFIC FLEET, June 18. | drove the brash Jap back from (Delayed)—Some day when the | Dutch Harbor are now pounding | are driven out of Kiska and the | day and night at his bases on bar- | itians are blocked as a road to | ren Kiska and Attu. conquest, people will become con- | cerned again with such things as to find time to hand medals to the men flying and fighting in this ccmmand’s Catalina Flying Boats In a war where bravery has been Cengress Is on Fence; Legislafive Body Gefs Swat for Many Doings 0il Man's Son Weds Attendani PHILADELPHIA, July 21—Walter | Motored Bombers W Monthly when the battle began nearly two |giates is planning to build weeks ago. If there are more today |, _;notored bombe: it is by reason not that the crews RAF. (Continued on Page Two) | issued today. | Many of the bombers | Consolidated and Boeings. will | 3 Jeading in aircraft production, Annefi'l;erg Publisher, BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 21 — The subject of the most muddled con- versations in Washington today 1s Congress. Locally, there has been a strong | reaction against the violent alluckyl on our legislative branch of govern- It has been conceded that Congress is vital to representative | government; that much of the snip- | ing against it has been unjustified; | Immigrant Peddler’s RAF FLEET |To Construct Thousand 4- Few of the Catalinas were there| [ ONDON, July 21 — The United Le The yearbook gives a general re- iew of fighting and civilian planes | uation. | and states the United States.is now | Passes Away Multi-millionaire, Former Screen Actress Marjorie Weaver of Louisville, Ky., has announced her intention to marry again. Miss Weaver, divorced last fall from | Lieut. Kenneth G. Schacht, U. 8. | Nichols was at Dutch Harbor four | provide the rationing of tires un- At Congress has, on the whole,|pew, Jr, son of the general man- | SOfl, D'ed l-aS'ngh' days before that locality was bombed | nop gn entirely new system which cocperated magnificently with the|ager of the Sun Oil Company, and b by the Japs. | would enable everyone to get tircs Administration in furtherance of|gophie Boychuck, attendant in one| ROCHESTER, Minn. July 21 NE\;;_T._O.()_;LD i)l'OVldéd he took good care of the the war effort; and that making of his father's service stations, were M. L. Annenberg, 64, who rose from Congress and certain congressmen married here in a surprise cevemony an immigrant peddler’s son to the 1ubber. HOLLYWOOD—ALt the age of 39, the “goats” for everything that his by 4 Justice of the Peace, ruler of a multimillion dollar racing A feature of the program is thi RICH DONETS BASIN ABLAZE AND WRECKED jRussians Desfrb‘ying Coal Fields as Mass for New Attacks 'ROSTOV, STALINGRAD | UNDER ASSAULT TODAY | Soviets Attemhpfing fo Trap | Invaders on Two ‘ Bridgeheads | ok | MOSCOW, July 21.—The forward wall of German tanks and motor- ized infantry today pushed south- east frem Voroshilovgrad toward Rostov and down the rich Donets Basin in the coal field region, left |ablaze and wrecked by the Russians falling back to a new stand at the northwest gate of the Caucasus. At the north of the curving 300- | mile battleline, Red Army forces are battling hand to hand with Ger- mans on both banks of the Don River in a fight to sweep the Nazis off their last bridgeheads and to trap those holding on to newly for- tified positions between the river and Voronezh, ten miles to the east. The Germans are apparently | massing their forces in the great grain area between the Donets River and the Don River from Boguchar to south of Millerovo in an all-out effort to take Rostov from three directions and Stalingrad from two. Today's German communique said that Rostov is already aflame and under assault from the west, north and east, and that German forces farther north had pushed about 50 miles closer to Stalingrad to take | Watchdow on the lower Volga River. | JAPSREADY 10 ATTACK [N SIBERIA {Need Only to “Press But- | fon to Throw Half Mil- lion Men Into Fight | LONDON, July 21.—Jap prepara- | tions for an attack on.Russia’s Si- berian maritime provinces and Vladivostok are almost complete and 1"’“0‘ if necessary the Japs could “press a rs monthly for the This is according to Janes |, gritish source declared today. |“All Th? World’s Aircraft” yearbook S button to start a move on Siberia,” ource, whose identity is not ted to be disclosed, said that occupation of the islands at the | western tip of the Aleutians has resulted in a useful strategical sit- The Japs have since placed them- | sel “on the flank of a possible American attack on Japan.” Japan has massed an army of about 30 divisions in Manchukuo. Her military activity in Burma and other areas necessarily is lim- ited, it was pointed out, as the source predicted that Japan is pré- paring to throw at least a half mil- lion men overland into an onslaught on Siberia. E MAN TOWN! METEOR CITY, Ariz., July 21.— “Meteor City, Population 1" says the sign beside U. S. Highway 66. The figure checks eéxactly with the fact. Jack Newsum is the popu- lation. He always had a desire, he declared to live in a city, so started his own. It's a desert service sta- tion and trading post between Flag- staff and Winslow on the trans- continental route across northern Arizona. naval officer, will marry Midship- | Babe Hermann, Hollywood man Donald Briggs in Chicago, baseman and former National first | new tires would be made out of Aug. 6. Briggs is a former stu- | League star, is leading the coast Thiokol substances, heretofore be- dio directer, league at bhaf, hieved usable only for recapping gone or goes wrong is one of the (Continued on Pégev'rnreefi Both gave their ages as 23 when they applied for a marriage license Jlast week the last and of died publications dynasty Philadelphia Enquirer, |night in the Mayo Clinic The state highway department ade it official by putting up the sign.