The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 7, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9106. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRI DAY, AUGUST 7, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAP ALEUTIAN INVASION THREAT 10 U. S. Great Tank Battle Now Ragmg]n Russia STEEL WAR WAGONSIN BIG FIGHT Infantry Bei_tECrushed by Hundreds, Says Mos- cow Reports ENTIRE STALINGRAD LINE IS BEING HELD Defense in Caucasus Sag- ing as Dive Bombers Go Info Action MOSCOW, Aug. 7—Hurling its own huge tanks against the mech- anized Nazi onrush, the Red Army | has checked the Germans along the whole Stalingrad frent in one of the great tank battles of the war. Infantrymen have been crushed by hundreds under the treads of the steel war wagons. This information is given tonight in an official bulletin following receipt of battlefront dispatches. The reports admit the Caucasus situation is critical where the Rus- sian defenses are said to be sag- ging under the Axis- offensive es- pecialy in the Belaya Glina sector, 100 miles north. Nazi dive bombers are blasting ceaselessly at the Russian lines as the Germans are slowly advancing. In the Don River Bend section, | the Germans are being rolled back declares the night report. — e, —— NALZIS NEAR. MAIKOP OIL FIELDS NOW This rear view of a parade vantage point well occupied was snapped recently when 15 American and British war heroes paraded through ~ Hero Worshlppers Germans Cfii—m Advanceg—‘ Within 30 Miles of Caucasus Riches (By Associated Press) Hitler's “blood for oil” drive into the Caucasus has been” slowed in two key sectors, according to Rus- sian accounts: received today. Soviet reports say that the Red Armies have beaten off repeated mass tank assaults and have mopped up fresh swarms of Nazi parachutists and plane transported troops behind the Boviet lines. BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. . 7.—The Army has finally decided to un- leash the dogs of war. Nazis Close In In this instance, we are once An . entirely different version,| more several months or years be- however, came from German head-“h(nd the Nazis, who reportedly quarters and . declared that Von- now are using more than 100,000 Bock’s Armies have captured three|dogs for supplementary sentry ser- strategic towns and have advanced |vice and other duties connected to a depth of 480 miles on the!with prosecution of the war. road toward the Caucasus oil treas-| Now comes the quartermaster ures. corps to give full recognition to A bulletin from Hitler's head- Dogs for Defense, Inc., an organi- quarters asserted that Nazi troops|zation of owners, breeders, train- are swarming across the Kuban ers and handlers, backed by some River and have advanced to within of the biggest kennel associations 30 miles of the Maikop oil fields., |in the country. ‘The Maikop wells are 1mportnm‘ but far less vital than the huge| The idea is to supply the Army Baku Fields which lie across the and Navy with thousands of dogs towering Caucasus mountains, hun-;(about 2,000 have been supplied to dreds of miles to the southeast. |date) trained to contribute a sen- Have Reinforcements | sitive nose, an extra pair of eyes The Nazi communigue also as- and ears, and a canine sixth sense serted that Axis columns are ap- on sentry duty. proaching Krasnodar, 150 miles If Rover is a pure-bred dog (and southwest of Rostov on the rail line he can be a she) between one and to the Black Sea. . \five years old, is sound of wind and The arrival of Soviet reinforce-|limb, he's eligible for military duty. | ments for the critical struggle be-|There are, of course, a lot of ad- low the Don River was acknow-|ditional IFs. ledged by the German Command,; He (or she) must be of watch- which said that the Russians are|dcg disposition. That is, the Army counter-attackine north of tho Salldoesn’t want any stranger-sniffers River, apparently in the Kotelnls —they have to be barkers or, at kovski, . sector 95 miles souus of|least, growlers. He mustn’t be a Stalingrad. one-man dog either, because —— e — There are some 126 grades of iron | Master ‘every time he’s on duty. and steel in nmo:lem automobile. [He must be able to work as well| Dogs of War Are fo Be Unleashed by Army;New Unifs Being Organized t night as in the daytime. And what is of vital importance, he must be able to work as well| under gunfire as any of the best field trial blue ribbon winners. | Having answered all those speci- lications, the dog must also an- swer to the following commands (preceded by his name): “Heel"—standing steady or fol- lowing at the handler’s left heel. ! “Stay”—which means “as is” and | immediately. “Out”—which means rout ‘em out, hound, in whatever direction he handler, designates. “Come”—or get for papa, Bruno, and don't chase any rabbits on the way. If the family purp fulfills all| these requirements and is that far Along in his training, he's ready | | for military service and the speci- fied agents of Dogs for Defense (they are in the process of being | fappointed in practically every city | and town in the country—ask your veterinary or ‘local kennel club) | will put him through the paces. | If he passes their tests, he's; | ready for induction, ‘This drive for dogs to use in o HITLER'S HEADED FOI THIS—_A forest of ofl derricks cover the Russian Caucasus land around Baku, Red port on the Caspian sea. Russians are fighting a Nazl drlve for thh area. e WIFE HELD INDEATH OF NATIVE Coroner’s JTry Declares She Fired Fatal Shot in Tragedy A coroner’s jury held today that William Watson, 41-year-old Peli-! can City native whose body was brought to Juneau yesterday after- nooh, met death as a result of a gunshot wound in the head, and that the gun was fired by his wife, Mary Watson, 43, alias “Black Mary.” She is being held in the Federal jail here pending further investigation in the case at the| scene of the tragedy by FBI agents and Deputy United States Marshal | Walter Hellan, According to the testimony witnesses and officers during this morning’s inquest before Coroner Felix Gray, the fatal shooting cli- maxed an all night drinking party in the three-room cabin in which of | the Watsons lived. Although Mrs. Watson did not testify at the hearing, officers questioned on the stand by U. S. Attorney William A, Holzheimer re- ported that she had admiied w them firing the 30-30 rifle which resulted in the death of her hus band. Report Quarrel Witnesses who testified in ad- dition to officers were Nels H. Mork, Norman FP. Nelsjon and Kalle Raatikainen. Mork and Nels- jon admitted attending a drinking ! {party in the Watson cabin on the night of August 2, and reported | quarrels between Mr. and Mrs. Watson, during which he is said to have struck her several times, accusing her of drinking and sol- iciting the advances of other men. Nelsjon stayed all night at the Watson home and Mork left early in the morning to return later in the day of August 3 with Watson who had reported to work and was sent home because he was not on Page S §1\(v |a nation of cowards. INDIA WILL CALL ALLIES - TO SUPPORT | Congress P;Iy Votes fo Appeal to U. ., China and Russia to Aid WANT BACKING FOR FREEDOM DEMANDS Gandhi Says India Is Great Britain's Friend-Does Not Want Japs BOMBAY, Aug. 7—The working committee of the All-Indiz. Con- gress party voted today to appeal to President Roosevelt, to Chiang Kai Shek, and to Ivan Maisky, Russian ambassador to Britain, to support its demands to Great Brit- ain to grant the Indians mmediate independence, Kazan Azad, President of the Congress, opened the meeting with a speech calling for immediate In- dian indeppendence, but saying that the committee does not want Brit- ish or India. “ Mchandas Gandhi, who followed him, told the committee he didn’t want the Japs in India because that would mean the end of China, and perhaps Ru-sia. | Gandhi continued, “As a matter of fact, I am a greater friend of | the British now than I ever was. | My friendship demands that li dake them aware of their mis- | takes. Never believe, as I have| never believed, that the British are going to fail. before they will accept defeal,t rificed.” — - — RUMORS OF VERDICTON SABOTEURS White Hou;gays, How-“ ever, President Still Studying Testimony | WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. The | White House said today the “Presi- dent has not yet concluded his ° reading of the testimony” in the | case of eight alleged saboteurs. The statement was read to the re- porters by William Hassett, assist- ant secretary, in response to in- has decreed death for six of the saboteurs and clemehcy for two of the Nazi agents tried by the military | tribunal on charges they came to the United States for sabotage of ¢ vital war industries. ———————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS WPB Grants West Coast Shipbuilder Order for 500 Huge Cargo Planes WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Donald iNelson said today that the War Production Board has approved l complished successfuily by .he | Kaiser shipbuilding piants. | Nelson added, “this is all contin-| modern mechanized warfarc Pas gongtruction by Henry Kaiser, West| gent upon construction not inter- | its funny side, too. It is reminis- cent of the story that Rommel, the Nazi genius of desert warfare, learned every basiec principle of the canine sentries might have a new|Strategy he knows from stucying |other 400 of the 70-ton cargo ca ‘ | P (Continued on Pnee Six) e | —_— | Coast shipbuilder, of huge, Mars type Flying boats. An initial order of 100 will be| placed by the Navy shortly. T 500 \rying planes will pe built, Ne M"‘ said, if n}e initial program is ac-| e lieved that Kaiser pl» (ertnz with our combat plane pro- s to con-| '3 either or San struct the big sky freiy in Richmond, California, Prancisco Bay. American armies to leave|” Australians Demanding Adion; Japs Occupy More Islands fo North every soul in Britain will have sac- | —— ——-—— A new plastic tube for shaving cream, tooth paste and other such uses, to replace those of tin, now needed for the war effort, has been invented by Harry Waters of New York. giant model of the new tube in the picture above, There is no metal in Waters’ tube, ALASKA TRIP IS DETAILED BY CHANDLER ' Senafor Demands Nippons Be Chased Off West- ern Islands | PEOPLE OF NATION ARE NOW ALARMED Detlaresflcommiflee Has Direct Mission fo Be Performed SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7~The Japanese occupation of the outer Aleutians is a “direct threat to this country and whatever it takes, we must get those fellows off those islands,” declares United; States | Senator Albert B. (Happy) Chand- ler, Chairman of the Senate Mili- tary Affairs Subcommittee which is ° to leave for Alaska to examine the situation there. Senator Chandler's célieagues on the trip will be Senators Mon C. Waters holds up a SYDNEY, Aug. 7—-The Sydney Don't consider them pgjy Telegraph said today that I know that General Douglas MacArthur “must ell the Australian nnd Amerlcm\ "DISCOVERED" 2 quiries aobut reports the President DANCING TO FAME—Jan Mer- rill, ten-aged tap dancer who was “discovered” by a west coast the- | ! atrical impresario when she ap- peared recently in an Army camp show specially produced for service men. The attractive dancer, a she- nalist in the music of Latin Am- | i | tight arc north of Australia with jonly Port Moresby on New Guinea | | jutting into the Japanese posses- sions. i ALLIES MAY el'k:t, signed 'a five-year contract | with King Howard and was en- gaged for her first professional appearance by Joaquin Garay's’ Copacabang, one of San Fran- cisco’s col night spots. W l lin regard to the news, but it is re- | +ported that representatives of the | Wallgren and Harold H. Burton |and George Malone, former Nevada State Engineer and special consult= ant of the Subcommittee. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- | ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Aug. 7—Jap- | anese occupation of the islands of Kel, Aru and Tanimbariian and Arafura in the sea north of Australia has been disclosed by Allied aerial | reconnaissance, an Allied spokesmnn said today. Occupation gives the Japanese a | Indian Leader Says He Will Ask for Seftle- ment Again BOMBAY, India, Aug. 7.—Mohan« United States, Great Britain, the das Gandhi declared today that he tighting French, and Norway either |would plead with the British once are already in Moscow or enroute |more for avoidance of a conflict to.that ecity. before beginning his “mass move- Axis radios for the last week have |ment” to drive the British from been circulating rumors that Win- | India. !ston Churchill, along with Willlam He said he would address his plea Bullitt, as special envoy of Presi- |to Vieerov Lord Linlithgow, making dent Roosevelt, have gone to Russia. a statement on the eve of the open< e ing the All-inaia Congress com- BUY DEFENSE BONDS mittee session. ¥ Senator Chandler said: “This fs |no junket lark. We are not sure |up there to find out what is going on and we also want to find out ressing. We also want to learn ull |about the morale of the civilians peoples more about the develop-| ~People all over the country are ments on Australia’s northern front.|more alarmed about the Aleutians equal surety to both countries and Pphase of the preuent war.” carry to the American people the | interests of the United Nations in this part of the Pacific. warfare and is itching to act and | Australia is with him. | “Until we begin to fight this war, there is no chance of winning it.” | Large Fires Being Set P Among Shipping Force bombers ‘“effectively at- tacked” shipping in the harbor of Force Middle East News Service roy | ported. {but an earlier British communiqus | which identifed the Tobruk raiders fires, Reporls Clrculale that Con- LONDON, Aug. 7—It has been | major United Nations are gathering in Moscaw to “save Russia and wm‘ grand sl,rabegy of a second Allied | front. (of our itinerary but we are going (how the inland roadway is prog- |and troops. He is the one who can speak with situation than about any other one comviction of danger threatening the‘ u S AIRMEN “MacArthur believes in offensive | RAF Communique Tells of . CAIRO, Aug. 7—U. 8. Army Alr Tobruk yesterday, the Royal Alr No details were given of the raid, BE MEETING only as “Allled” said they set large ference on Second MAKE p I-EA heard here that delegates of lhel the war,” with conferences of the | British officials maintain silen