The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9097. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1942 MLMBl R AHS()( I/\TI [) PR}:bb _PRICE TEN CENTS ROSTOV FALLS; NAZIS PUSH TO CAUCASUS Germans. Raid Big English Industri - CONDUCTORETTES BIRMINGHAM IS ATTACKED INNIGHTTIME Nazi Bomh—e_r; Make Ex-5 tensive Assault on Midlands NINE ENEMY PLANES REPORTED SHOT DOWN Many Fires s Are Siarfed— Casualties “Fairly | Numerous” ‘ LONDON, July 28—The City n[; Birmingham, the big British in-| dustrial center in the midlands, was | bombed last night and the attack cost the Germans eight out of 50‘ 75 raiders. Incendiaries also fell in the (,xeru- er London district. to 100m.mued on Page Six) The Washmgtun} Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major nnb—n 5. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Behind the| President’s singling out of Admiral willlam Leahy as one of his most trusted advisers on war strategy is some vitaily important hackground which may affect the entire future strategy of 'ne war. t Not only is Admiral Leany one m the most rounded navy men around the President (Hull liked him as Ambassador to PFrance and Ickes paid great tribute to him as Gover- nor of Puerto Rico), but the Admir-| al also played a great part in try- ing to stop Japan before it was too late. | —Serdator In fact, if Admiral Leahy’s advice | washington had been foljowed in 1937 when he | Aleutian situation Francisco on the cars of the Market Street Railway, repl who have gone into the armed forces. g Alice Clark, a student con- ductor, rings the bell signalling the motorman, as she puts in her first day on the rear platform. Army Approval Neededl | Before Senafors May Inspecl Alaska Posts SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July ZK. Mon C. Wallgren of today described the as “without a was Chief of Naval Operations there | doubt very serious would probably ha:e been no war in the Far East, and perhaps none| don't know. and see for myself but I am await- {ing word from Washington. in Europe today. Leahy proposed, wnen the Japs first went into China, that the U.| 8. and British fleets impose a long “How sericus it is,” he said, “T I would like to go up “No matter hew many Japs there nre up there, or how few there are, distance naval blockade, cutting off | there ‘are too damned many and Japan’s oil, scrap iron, cotton, and copper, and starving out' the Jap- anese Military machine in three| montns. At that t‘me, Britain and | the United States had the strong- est navies in the world, were not worried apout convoys, attacks in the Mediterranean, the protection » She’s in Trammg of India. | All they had to do, Admiral Leahv, told the President, was station the : American fleet off the California Coast and the British fleet at Sin- gapore, and the Japs would be fin- ished. AY trat time they had had no chance to build up heavy re- serves of oil and scrap iron as they did later. However, the State Department blew hot and cold, finally undercut Leahy’s pian. Stop Japan One year later, however, he re- vived it, after the Japs sank the Panay in a deliberate slap at the U. 8. A. And on one Sunday after- | noon in December, 1938, Leahy spent three hours in Secretary Hull's office pleading with him that now was the time to stop Japan, be- tore it was too late, Leahy argued that a world war was certain, that if we waited too long Britain would be in it up to the neck, could give us no help, but if we acted at once, shcwed Europe we meant | business, it would serve as such an object lesson to Hitler that war in‘ Europe might be prevented. | But on that same afterncon, Hugh | Wilson, later Ambassador to Ger- | many and head of the appeasement | clique, pleaded with Hull that we | must not offend Japan, that she‘ needed her place in the sun, that!| (Continued on Page Four) BN fece In serious training for the coming beauty contest at Atlantic City to pick a Miss America is Lucille Lam- bert, current Miss California. She exercises regularly by swimming in a Los Angeles pool, to keep that figure trim. Here she is stretching her lithe muscles with a brisk walk along the side of the pool. She got that trophy when she won her title. b | the Japs.” | gren stated. we've got to kick them out,” Wall- The Senator from Washington | State, along with Senators Harold | H. Burton ,of Ohio, and Carl A.| Hateh, of New Mexico, are awaiting | Army approval of a contemplated | trip to Alaska as members of the Military Affairs Commiitee. Wallgren said that the “Army may find it awkward in a fighting zone to afford special protection to | Cengressmen,” and added, “the Japs | know at least as much about the | Aleutian waters as the Navy. They've had fake fishermen up there for years taking soundings and making charts of the who]vl‘ seacoast. “It's been very soupy up there, but the people say theyve never | heard of a one-way fog \‘.cll‘ that appears to be just what lhey‘ have. It's a queer fog that hinders | the United States more than it does | MAKE ARRANGEMINTS WASHINGTON, July 28 enator | Albert B. Chandler of Kentucky said | today that arrangements are bmng‘ completed for a Military Affairs | Subcommittee to inspect the de- fenses of Alaska and the Aleutians. He and Senator Henry M. Kilgore of West Virginia expect to meet Senators Mon C. Wallgren cf Wash- ington ,and Rufus C. Holman of | New Mexlco in Spokane. i Soldiers in Alaska Get Fishing Tackle SEATTLE, July 28 — Seattle sportsmen have turned the ws time motto to “keep 'em fishing.” | An appeal for fishing tackle toj provide recreation for service men| | “for | Hitler | flying al Center TRANSPORT BUILDING 1S URGED Major Seve;ay Asks Halt| | on Construction of Bat- tleships and Carriers LOS ANGELES, Calif, July 28— |Major Alexander de Seversky, flier, |plane maker and designer, today urged the United States to halt| work on all battleships and carriers | that cannot be completed by 1944, The major urged concentration on building long range air force |bombers with which to bomb Ger- |many from the United States and | bomb Japan from Alaska. | The Major suggested planes cap- lable of flying 8,000 miles striking | radius. R P e HUGEFLYING TRANSPORTS CONSIDERED Senalor Lee Offers Resos. lution for Cargo Plane Construction WASHINGTON, July 28—Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma proposes Lo the Senate the diversion of enough of the United Nations production capacity to construct sufficient car- £0 and troop transport planes (o Under the protec trekking the on watch in the Pacific area. Air Traffic | insure froops and supplies of reach- ing the fighting lines. Lee ofiered a resolution to cre- ate a new sunply board which wouid proceed immediately toward the |censtruction of such flying boats {and land-based planes for carrying troops and cargo as are necessary to supplement the shipping facilities. “It is utter folly,” declared Lee, the United States to continue try to build ships - faster than con sink them.” Henry Kaiser, Pacific Coast ship- builder, earlier had suggested the shifting to the construction of huge transports to beat the sub- marine menace to Alaska Road y 22, perience to wartime use, Discussed by Congressman Rep. Magn&fn SaysThree Routes to Territory Possible ASHINGTON, July 28—Repre- sentative Warren G. Magnuson ! Washir.gton told the House today that the Navy “knows what it’s do- ing in Alaska.” The Territory, hc |said, is needed as a springboard for an attack on Japan. In discussing the Army’s selection of the prairie route for the Alask1 highway he said that he believed the Army has realized its mistake Magnuson stated that the roac is wanted by Canadians to connect airfields which will be part of round-the-world route after th: war, and said that a survey for a railroad to Alaska will soon be com- pleted and that to construct the Miiss Batson is a licensed comin TINNETT WASHINGTON, July 28.—One of the better stories of World War II post-war annals of probably won't be until historians dig into the today’s aviation. It’s the story of glider flying. There are a few going on. A little more than a year ago, no Army pilot was allowed to soar around in a sailplane. The reasons are a little obscure . It was too dan- It was a fad, a sportsman’s in Alask: where there's a ht-up‘ more chance for fun at fishingi than at night clubs, has brought| in an a y of tackle that would make a boy's—or a salmon-snag-| ging sergeant’s—eyes bulge. | Rods, reels, lines, plugs and| leaders—just about everything |,utj bent pins—are included in the col- lection that has flooded in since an appeal was issued to sportsmen. - | ternational Highway Commission to , that had no military signi- ficance. railroad, it would be first neces- sary to construct a highway along the route recommended by the Iu Then came the German invasion of Crete. Now there are 27 Army training stations for glider pilots. There’s a new Army rating for men who earn their wings in motorless planes. The Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration has 18 schools where potential glider pilots are given the {get materials and men to the raud route. He said that the pilot road be ing constructed by the Army b (Conunued on Page Six) ng guns of a United States Coast Guard cutte h seas of the Atlantic laden with ai1 for Allie eyed watch continually over the expanse of sea while they escort the convoys to European waters. cutters are speedy and highly maneuverable and are equipped to battle to the death with enemy sub- mersibles, which have wreaked havoc along the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts. Nancy Batson of Miami, holding down an important job of con. toolling tiaffic at the Pan-American ciul pilot and holds an instructor's rating. Glider Flying Becomes New Issue in Aviafion; Many Training Stafions can’t be written in detail now and | announced facts | that give some hint of just what is | Fagle-Eyed Coast Guardsmen Scan Seas for Subs Contkol Job Fla., is turning her avlauofx ese Alrways airport at Miami. same kind of training that | combat fliers get. In South Carolina, the Marine Corps has formed its initial glider group and just recently announced three other glider training centers will be established Out at Wright Field, Dayton, O the Army is experimenting with a device by which planes in flight can pick gliders off the ground. It works on a principle somewhat similar to the contraption for mail-pouch pickups. Glider trains already have been proved practical and four-, five- and six-glider trains towed by twin- motored planes are no longer a Jules Verne dream. Brig.-Gen. Harold L. George, new- ly appointed head of the ferrying non- and air transport command, made a | special point of the importance of development of glider trains as (Continued on Page Thrce) ¢ an American merchantman is pictured The Coast Guardsmen keep an eagle- " | been made out of REDS ADMIT - CAPTURE OF GREAT (ITY |German Tr&);); Advancing Within 50 Miles of Stalingrad 'SOVIETS CONCEDE WAR AT DARKEST Declare that Pressure Is Harder to Meet-Need Second Front at Once (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Adolpis Hitler's headquarters as- serted tcdav that German troops are advancing to within 50 miles of Stalingrad and have “reached or crossed the Lower Don at all points south” of Kalach. Sovjet ispatches frankly conced- €d that *lus is the gravest moment of the war, Kalach is on the East bank of the Don, where it curves nearest the Volga, 50 miles west of Stalingraa. Red Star, the Russian Army ’newspaper, declared ominously that {presure is becoming “more and more difficult t0 meet,” while other So- | viet newspapers hinted anew at the The ast Guardsmen are also Rommel’s -T;);)ps Appear to Be Digging in (need for an opening of an Allied SHIP TOLL | The Russians have acknowledged {stan oil barrel” and also of Novo- In London, military quarters said | was slowed somewhat after Victims of Subs BRI"SH IN ! by enemy submarines on the very | | lantic has hecome the grave of These figures, as unofficially tabu- f | show that wartime sinkings have sengers are missing and 11,766 per- for Defense |second front in Europe. | Rostov Falls ithe fal' 5f Rostov, described by the ER 4 0 0 |Germans as the “spigot of the Rus- | cherkassk, 20 miles northeast of Ap COUNI ' | that the Nazis are throwing prob- aby 625,000 troops into the assault, More than 2,000 Crewmen " ! 4 | (C (mlluued on Puge ‘Three) and Passengers Are | —— (By Associated Press) The toll of merchant ships sunk | EGYPI HOlD doorstep of the Americas has topped | d the 400 mark and the Western At- | sengers since Pearl Harbor. | lated by the Associated Press yes- terday as announced or reported | reached 401 and show also that ul‘J | least 1,620 more crewmen or pas-' rescued. ‘ For the four hundredth acknow-| CAIRO, July 28. — Harassed by sons were ledged victim, a U-boat chose the | new British land and aerial counter- smallest fry in 233 days of preying | thrusts, Marshal Erwin Rommel's off Allied or neutral shipping off | Amcnu Army appears after its lat- | American shores, taking the 16-ton | est flareup of fighting to be digging onion boat I Must, of Havana. rin in an attempt to hold its forward The submarine’s crew, apparently | positions, 75 miles from Alexandria, running out of rations helped them- | rather than to try to drive to the selves to 40,000 pounds of onions, | Nile Delta and Suez Canal. | canned goods and a quantity or Pighting went on fhrough the | Diesel oil I night, with the newest British blow The Mexican Government also at the northern flank front, where | announced the sinking on Sunday ' the battle has seesawed for weeks. [mmnmu in the Gulf of Mexico of Some prisoners were taken in the | the Mexican freighter Oaxaca, fifth |fight and losses were inflicted on Mexican victim of the war, the Axis forces, but there was no - indication of any large permanent JUNEAU (HERRY 3wndge driven into the Axis line. TREES LOADED WITH RED FRUIT Even if Alaska should find it-| self without bananas, as has been threatened lately, she’ll not lack for fruit, if the fruit trees around Juneau are any indication of the ability of the land to produce | Mrs. Olgat Anderson on Fourth Street, has cherry trees, all of which have |loaded with cherries which delicious pies. In the Ralph Martin yard at 1 Dixon Street are four or five large cherry trees, now loaded with the luscious fruit ready for picking | At the home of William Bosch, ! some of the best pies in years, have cherries picked { from the two trees in the yard. The o 5 g D lives pie been | made who four If you wait for the worm to turn in this day and age he's likely to bite you.