The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL LIX., NO. 9096. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1942 MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPS CLAIM THREE SHIPS SUNK ON COAST Nazis Are Within 50 Miies Of Stalingrad PENETRATE CAUCASUS 20 MILES Claims Arfig Marching Along “Rail Route to Oil Fields (By Associated Press) Berlin announced today a 20-mile | penetration has been made into the | Caucasus south of Rostov on the | main rail route to the Russians’ | greatest oil fields. But the dispatches received today from Moscow say that farther up | the Don in the Tsimlyansk area, where the invaders have forced at | least two crossings, the Germans have been halted. The Nazi communique described | how south of Rostov the German troops have stormed Bataisk and after one day of fighting with a | terrific aerial assault combined with land attacks, have broken a path. Without further details, the Ger- | mans said that farther east along the Don, mechanized detachments continue their southward drive. It | is there, however, that the Russians | said they had checked the enemy tide in the Tsimlyonsk area in the | northeast. | German and Rumanian infantry division, the Nazis said, are threat- ening Stalingrad on-a- broad front, having reached the Don Bend area about 50 miles from their goal. Stalingrad, the industrial capital of the lower Volga, lies near the elbow of that river within 50 mfles of the Don Bend. A vast area of steppe lands within the big bend is overhung with the | smoke of the battle through which German planes and the Red Air Force, using numbers of U. S. bomb- ers and fighters, are plunging with their bomb loads. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 5. Allen on active duty.) i | ‘WASHINGTON—Few people real- ize how totally different this war is from the last in regard to di- versity of war fronts, In the last war American troops fought on vir- tually only one front—France. But today U. S. troops are fighting or stationed in the amazing total of 31 foreign countries or territories. This is one thing which has to be carefully considered when it comes to setting up a Second Front in Europe. For actually it would be not a second front, but the 32nd Front. The troops scattered over these 31 | different fronts are not numerous, | except in some areas such as Aus- tralia and Ireland; so mulziplicny‘ of fronts is not a drain on man- power. But it is a drain on ship- ‘ping—still the Achilles heel of ‘Sec- ‘ ond Front plans. As long as ships are engaged in supplying U. S.| troops in 31 different areas, it is| difficult, in view of submarine loss- es, to send heavy shipping across the | North Atlantic for a major front. The 31 different war fronts cover | only the army. The list is even | more impressive when the Navy is{ included, too. But here is a sum- mary of the battle stations of the | AEF of 1942: | Largest forces are in AUSTRALIA | and IRELAND, which incidentally, | are about as far apart as any two points on the globe. The size of these forces is a military secret, but they are large. NEW GUINEA | New York Prepares, Too e First ‘air raid shelter in the heart of New York City's east s has been completed and is shown being tried above. The shelter runs a half block in length and holds 550 adults and children, Note the sandbazs. ngress (o man Says hir Atfacks Net Enough fo Rid Aleutians of Japs HOUSE GOES ~ INTO SHIP CONTRACTS Comm memvesfigating Higgins Corporation Cancellation WASHINGTON, July 27 — The House mercnant Marine Committee shelved a resolution calling on the Maritime Commission to stay its cancellation of contract with Hig- gins Shipbuilding Corporation of New Orleans, pending completion of the Committee’s investigation. Chairman S. O. Bland announced after a closed session that the committee felt more good could be accomplished in proceeding with the investigation without assuming the responsibility of the action con- templated in the resolution. ————e——— Report Five Jap Vessels Sunkby UuSs. Navy Announces Damage Done by Subs in WASHINGTON, July 27. — Men, not air attacks alone, must be used if the Japs are to be ousted from | the Aleutians, Representative John M. Coffee told the House. Coffee is from Washington State. “The weather should impede the | Japs as well as our own armed men,” he said. “It seems to me that the United Nations defer too much on adverse weather conditions. The enemy does not allow the United States to wait for a convenient and favorable climatic atmosphere.” Coffee explained that he did not wish his remarks to be construed as “belaboring the courageous men of the Army and Navy who are per- | forming such heroic work in at tacking the Japanese in the Aleu tians,” but added, “no results can be obtained without adequate num- bers of men and equipment.” FBI SEIZES ARMS, RADIOS INROUNDUP ‘Enemy Aliens in Defroit | Area Raided by Fed- eral Agents DETROIT, Mich,, July 27—FBI | agents, in swift raids in the Detroit Benton Harbor area, have confis- cated a number of guns, cameras, radios and ammunition held illegal- ly by German and Italian aliens in 120 different places. Agent-in-Charge, John | Bugas, | JAP TRIES : : Beware, Axis Raiders, or These'll Get You AT SAVING FACE TOLD ' Nippons Fake Wreckageof U. S. Plane fo Satisfy False Claim ' RETURNING WRITERS TELL OF TREATMENT | Prisoner Ekfiiénge Bogt Leaves Africa for New York Tomorrow (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Accounts of how a Jap face sav- effort backfired, of the vast of Oriental intrigue whi:h Japan used in preparing for con- quest, and the bitter sufferng of Americans and other nationals who fell into Jap hands were given over the weekend by Associated Press i(mll'.s]mlul('n[) who have just been | freed from Jap detention camps. The dicpatches came from Lours [enco Marques in Portugese East | Africa where an exchange of some 1.100 citizens of the United States {and other American nations for @ | similar number ‘of Japs and na.e | mg web | tionals has just taken place. Coming Home The liner Gripsholm will sail for | New York tomorrow with American ;diplmnul,,. newspapermen, mission- laries and others. How tie face saving effort flopped was related by Max Hill, chief of the Associaled Press bureau In | Tokyo. He said that after [first trumpeting to the world that nine of the American bombers which raided Tokyo had been knocked |down, the Japs reduced their claim to one, and put the “wreckage” on display in Tokyo to prove it. But the Japs who came to gape at the wreck smelled paint. Sure enough, Hill said, they found that the red, white and blue of the U. 8. Air Force had been freshly daubed on. Hill told of the long weeks spent in solitary confinement in freezing weather, bereft of shoes and with little food. The taunt, sullen guard told him: “American, this Japan.” Oriental Intrigue Relman Morin, Associated Press hief of bureau at Tokyo from 1937 |to 1940, who traveled through south- |east Asia on a pre-war assignment, told of the workings of the Japs there and of the intrigue and fifty column activities there. Morin said the Japs’ fifth col- umnists laid the groundwork foi | (Continued on Pa—;;; 'i'\vn)r ATTLEIN EGYPT NOW AIR FIGHT RAF Bombers Back Affack on Tobruk, Sink Ships at Sidi Barrani (By Associated Press) The battle in Egypt has shifted said that all but one of the owners almost wholly to the air. detained were questioned and re- | p Flanked by PT torpedo boats, a U. S. aircraft carrier moves to sea, against enemy vessels, Trying Out New Canadian Gun . e This soldier is shown trying out Canada’s newest and lightest weapon. It is an all-metal Sten sub-machine gun, somewhat similar to the Ameri- can Thompson. The Canadian piece weighs only seven' pounds and is specially designed for use by air borne troops. WFfllighI Over Kiska Is Described by Writer In DelayedP_ispaIch OF NEW YORK OPPOSES TAX ER ENROUTE TO KISKA, (Re- leased for publication by the Navy) June 26.—(Delayed)—We are an Urges Sales Levy Instead| of Removal of Per- sonal Exemptions ing the.big boat under control hour from our target and the radio- WASHINGTON, July 27 — ReP-| 15, another hour we'll be over scouting ahead of us. A Jap fighter has caught the Cal over Kiska and he is trying to get home with one gunner dead, an other wounded in the I Naval photographer ha: through his back and may die be- fore they get in One aileron control has been shot away and he’s having trouble keep- Official U. S. Navy photo. eady to unload its cargo of planes | | | HAMBURG IS RAIDED BY BRIT. FORCE Offensive Beinfi Prepared | for Parficipation of U. S. Airmen (By Associated Press) The Royal Air Force offensive against Germany that has regained momentum in the last few days, has been further marked preparatoyy to the participation of United States airmen in actual combat, Powerful overnight assaults were made on Hamburg following up raids made on Saturday night. Hamburg, Germany's second larg- | est city, and its greatest submarine | building center, was hit hard dur- | ing the night in the heaviest assault | by the RAF on the Reich since the | thousand-plane bombing of Brem- | :n late in June. Weather Was Perfect Although the number of planes | 1sed was less than the thousand- | plane standard set in June ,the | toyal Canadian Air Force Head- | quarters quoted a member of one of squadrons as saying the results were squadrons a ssaying the results were “better than the thousand-bomber job on Bremen.” | | | | | I | (Continued on Page Three) | e |from a ten days’ trip to the West~ TOKYOSAYS SHIP SUNK ON JULY 16 ’N'iApponesepA;nourice 6,- "000-fon Is Vessel Hit Near Dutch Harbor 'EIGHT 1S TOTAL OF PACIFIC SINKINGS Only Three Claimed fo Be Torpedoed by Subs Near U.S. Mainland TOKYO, July 27.—Military head- quarters in Japan announced today that Japanese submarnes sank eight enemy ships, totaling 71,000 tons, between June 8 and July 16. The communique said that one 6,000-ton v 1 was sunk off Seattle on June and another, about 7,000 tons, in the same area on June 20. (The loss of one Allied ship off Washington on June 7 was reported by Senator Homer T. Bone on June ) Five others were reported sunk in Australian waters, including one of 20,000 tons. The dispatch also claimed that a 6,000-ton vessel was sunk not far from Dutch Harbor on July 16. - U.S.Brifain Are Going fo Be Destroyed Gen. Tojo Makes Dedlara- tion — Talks on Aleu- tian Occupation BERLIN, July 27—Japan’s Prime Minister, General Tojo, told an audience of 20,000 in Osaka that “Japan is determined to destroy the United States and Britain.” A Transocean News Agency re- ported in a dispatch from Tokyo that in addressing a meeting of a league to support the throne, Tojo said that Japanese occupation of some of the Aleutians “has greatly strengthened Japan's strategical po- sition.” e DR. NEVEL IS BACK FROM BUSINESS TRIP Dr. Harry 8. Nevel, U, .8. Pub- Health Service, has returned ward where he was visiting centers of evacuation for Aleut natives. He bas been finoculating the natives against various communicable dis- TINY CRAFT IS VICTIM OF U-BOAT small Fishing Schooner Is| Shelled by Nazi Sub Off Nova Scotia (By Associated Press) man picks up a distress message from a PBY Catalina Flying Boat resentatives of the New York Board | priopo ourselves and the 500-pound of Trade have proposed that the| The tiniest craft yet-sunk by an Axis submarine, a 30-ton Canadian cases and making inspections of liealth facilities for the Territorial Department of Health, N. A. MCEACHRAN LEAVES N. A. McEachran, merchandise broker, ‘eft this morning for a business trip to Petersburg. An RAF bomber force, following < senate Finance Committee amend packages tiered up over our bomb | : ks will be paying off for that | fishing schooner, was disclosed today the tax bill removing personal in-| .. | to be number 399 among Allied or come tax exemptions to raise an| . oan't find ' neutral war victims of the Western | Atlantic, tabulated unofficially by and NEW CALEDONIA supplement the Australian front. . leased, but that the possession of up the joint British-American bom- the illegal articles might make them bardment of Saturday night, madc liable to custodial detention for the another heavy attack and blasted Western Pacific | ¥ N know what we’ll wdditional $5,000,000,000 in revenue, | SUN NEVER SETS ON FLAG WASHINGTON, July 27. — The, U. S. troops also are located E""Na\vy Department announces that nine British bases in the Western | e in the Western Pacific are Hemisphere — NEWFOUNDLAND, | reported to have sunk five Jap ships, LABRADOR, BERMUDA, THE BA- | including one modern destroyer, and ;*“A;?%:STEGU“-%NTQI:}‘;%; | have damaged and possibly sunk a GUNIANA | sixth vessel. ¢ | In communigue No. 100, listed as There are also eight U. S. Army | giners sunk were a medium-sized outposts in Latin ?x:enca. thanks | yoner and three cargo ships, and a to the Good Nelghbor DOUCY—|medium-sized cargo ship is listed GUATEMALA, NICARA yA' CQS- as possibly sunk in the first report (Continued on Page Four) ;;1“ :‘l;':yitreks of operations in the C . duration of the war. DICK SURATT IS ON OFFICIAL TRIP HERE R. J. Suratt, known to scores of | Juneau residents as Dick. when he was a newsman on the Empire, ar- | rived in Juneau Sunday on official business. Suratt is now and has been for several years, United States Commissioner at Wrangell. | the Libyan supply port of Tobruk in Kiska nor how much we'll be able | the Associated Py uggesting a sales tax as an altern- ative, - M. L. Seidman, chairman of the Board’s Taxation Committee, urges the imposition of a flat 10 percent war tax on all net income now free om Federal levies because of per-| onal exemptions or credits for de- again last night, hitting enemy ships. Royal Air Force fighters also al- tacked barges off Sidi Barrani, Axi held port. German and Italian forces on the El Alamein front are digging in after last week’s minor rectification of positions in favor of the British, pendents Ground aetion is consisting large The New York Board of Trade 1y of skirmishing. is a businessmen's organization The Italians claim some Britich formed to promote trade and com- have been taken prisoners. merce. to see. You never know in the | eternal Aleutian fog, but we won't be bringing our bombs home again. | B RIGGS Kl 5 FROM SS IN NORTH John R. Riggs, accountant for the Unemployment Compensation Commission, has returned from an official, routine -blisiness trip for the Department in Anchorage and Fairbanks. BU The crew of 11, all of whom sur- vived the attack, rowed 100 miles to an tern Canadian port, and re- ported that their schooner, the Lucille M., was shelled and peppered | with machine gun fire by an enemy sub off the Nova Scotia coast A total of 108 seamen have been killed and 548 passengers and crew- men have been rescued in 15 mer- | chant ship sinkings, it was an- nounced last week. \ B & The Japs who said “road under destruction, travel at your own risk” hadn't reckoned with Yan- kee tourists. -