The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9110. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1942 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS | ATTACK JAPS IN ALEUTIANS FIVE TIMES Killers Of Japs Battling In South Pacific | | | U.5. MARINES ENGAGED IN NEW FIGHTS Trained in Latest Twists-of | Dealing Ouf Death- Making Progress SHOCK TROOPS ARE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED Battling Nifi&ls in Hand- fo-Hand Encounters Is Latest Report (By Associated Press) ‘The seaborne American invasion forces, officially described as trained to “new twists to the busi- ness of killing Japs,” are battling the enemy in flerce hand-to-hand fighting in the Solomon Island jungles, 900 miles northeast of Aus- tralia, the Navy in Washington an- nounces, | The Navy communique says ‘he “Marines have opened the door of . the Allied offensive in the South | Pacific.” i A correspondent of the Austra- N lian Broadeasting Commission re- ports from an advanced Allied base that “there is a general feeling our forces are still making prog- ress in their objective that is the occupation of the islands of the Tulagi area.” The correspondent also said: “The United States Marines and ~ Preparedfo i 1% —— - i (Continued on Page Six) ‘ eries of completed Liberty ships. r Launchings g Pretty Betty Andrews prepares bottles of California champagne, dec- orated with red, white and blue streams for smashing at_ future launchings at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yards near Los Angeles, which set a June record of 11 launchings and 15 deliv- MARINESHAD | REHEARSALS FOR ATTACK Convided of Se&iiion, Silver Shirts Founder Is Sentenced fo Prison | IS MENACED REDS ADMIT STALINGRAD ' Germans Break Through | First Defenses of Vit- | al Caucasus City ' WHOLE TOWNS SET | AFLAME BY NAZIS Soviet Resistance Stiffen- | ing-Make Counter-At- facks in North | (By Associated Press) | Hitler's headquarters today arg | claiming sweeping new successes in the battles of the Don River and the Caucasus while the Russians acknowledged new German advan- ces on Stalingrad and declared that whole cities were set aflame by | Nazi invaders. Soviet dispatches said that huge masses of German tanks supported | by planes, have ripped the Rus-| | sian’s lines northeast of Kotelnik- ovski, 85 miles below Stalingrad, breaking through Red Army de- fenses. The assault finally was stopped the Red Star said, despit'c Nazi beasts of spectacular success- | €s. Soviet Resistance British military sources declared that Soviet resistance is stiffening jon all fronts. These quarters said |that Red counter-attacks in the | Voronezh and Rzhev sectors in the |south, and others northwest of Moscow, are beginning to worry the Germans, | Nazi claims were discounted as greatly exaggerated. German head- | |quarters flashed a series of bullet- |ins asserting that the bulk of the | Russian 62nd Army and the Pirsu Tank Army have been “annihila- ted” in the Kalach sector, 50 miles northwest of Staliizrad, and | that 35,000 Red Army soldiers have been taken prisoner. Since July 23. the Germans said the Russians nave lost 57,000 p: oners and move than 1,000 t- Alaska Hospiiql Hit by Ja_p Bo_mbs One third of the Bureau of Indian Affairs hospital at Unalaska just a few miles from Dutch Harbor, Al- aska, was destroyed by Jap bombs on June 4, but no lives were lost. Bataan to Australia in Canoe o Cgrefully Pr—epared Way‘ INDIANAPOLS, Ind., Aug. 12.— 3 2, . i The dapper Pelley, 52, was con- |, 4. flammg Don Rhver bend < After 98 days in a canoe five U. 8. Navy officers who escaped from for Raids on Solo- mon Islands WASHINGTON, Aug .12. — The - 3 Navy Department declared today °ase since America’s entry into the in & statement detailing the prep- | Present world war, ,William Dudley Pelley, founder and |leader of the Silver Shirts, was |today sentenced to 15 years in prison in the first major sedition victed a week ago on eleven counts of criminal sedition in connection| with publication of the Fellowshil Press which he headed. Judge Baltzell, in passing sent- ence, said he believed Pelley should p be imprisoned “for the duration.” arations for Marine landings on the Solomon Islands that “The Marines ] Mardi (,h.as | opened the door for an Allied of- Queen fensive in the South Pacific.” Invasion rehearsals were held day and night as a prelude to the attacks on Jap-held Tulagi. The rehearsals included practice in asaulting the objective under a barrage of live ammunition. 7 The Wéshingtun Merry* Go -Roundi By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — One sad - com= g mentary on the war effort is that : & the big brewing companies are now strong beneficiaries of the patri- otic campaign to collect tin cans.! Together with certain soft drink bottling companies, they are get—qi ting, for bottle caps, a large per-!|i centage of the tin cans which housewives in 140 different com- munities have been so faithfully collecting to be used for bombs and war weapons. | Furthermore, the two chiefs ol; WPB's Conservation Division, Ju- lius Rosenwald and Paul Cabot,, have given thelr OK to letting |p orpetic Mayor Fiorello LaGuar- these companies get a part of the tin cans. This has-aroused the vigorous op- position of lesser lights in the WPB, particularly the men charged with collecting tin. They are Burtpn M. Parks, chief of WPB’s tin can unit; (Continued on Page Four) |1ia of New York City is shown per- ‘orming one of his many and varied shores of office. This one—~crown- ng the queen of the coming Coney island Mardi Gras—met with the somplete approval of His Honor., Che pretty queen is 19-year-old Violetta Weems and she will reign |wver the week-long festivities at New York’s favorite resort. HAM FISH CWINS IN NEW YORK Pre-War Foreign Policies Don’t Have Much fo Do with Votes (By Associated Press) Pre-war foreign views as a gon- eral political issue were discounted in at least four states yesterday as primary returns .gave a -wide majority of office holders victories over their opponents, a large num- ber of them being assailed as iso- lationists. Number one in the national scene es the case of veteran Rep. Ham- ilton Fish, pre-Pearl Harbor . critic of the President’s foreign policy. He won the Republication nomina- tion in the President’s home dis- trict over three other candidates. Prominent Republican W:ndell L. Willkie, whe' had joined Fish’s in- | tra-party opponents, asseied, com- menting on the eongressi.n’s lead that “for the sake of both the country and the Republican Party we must fight for his elimination, (Continued on Page Two) sector. The Germans decla.ed thai | 11,044,000 Russians have been cap- |tured since January 1 wiong the| { whole battlefront. INDIA RIOTS MAY CAUSE MARTIAL LAW British Call Out More { BY JACK STINNETT" WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt probably can be rated now as one of the world’s Troops fo Attempt Quel- Img Of MOb vmlen(e foremost amateur military experts. | Wnile associates say Mr. Roose- BOMBAY, Aug. 12.—The British velt makes no pretense of being have called increasing numbers of |5 expert (he got quite a laugh troops and police to action to cope gt of Hitler’s “intuition” telling with the spreading violence and it|him to take direct command of ;5 now become a question of how|the Gérman army in Russia), as ;’]ngt "L‘““fll law can be forestalled{supreme commander of American urbulent India, |armed forces he has to know The worst new trouble spot is inlplenty about what it takes to New Delhi, where an official state-| wage war all over the world. zneml described the situation u.s'; Since . early summer of 1940, ugly.” The dispatch said that an!yhen the Nazis' conquest of west- Indian mob burned and virtually| sCar is c lesteimait tg Dot s = 0 | |ern Europe scared this country in- troops fired at civilian c When (o a big defense program, the terday, an crowds yes-| president has had extraordinary The fe {schooling in military problems. our-day-old tension als0|gince Pearl Harbor that schooling persisted in Bombay but the situs-| pas been intensive : tion at noon seemed to have calm=d | ? somewhat. Rioters were showiug signs of tiring although some Gov- ernment trucks were looted of 'heir food loads. ———-ee— The Department of Commerce es- timates that in the next two years consumers will have retired from six to eight billion dollars of their in- stallment debt obligations. He has almost daily discussions with the top men | the Pacific War Council and con- irerenoes with military missions from Russia, Britain and China. | He gets the “lowdown” on war | plans and developments from Ad- miral Ernest King commander-in- of the Army | |and Navy, frequeni meetings with| Bataan arrived safely in Australia! They relied on an alarm clock compass and a page from a school atlas to guide them through the Japanese-infested waters of the South Pacific. shown above. They are Lieut. Comdr. Carl Faires of Atlanta, Ga., left, and Lieut. D. R. Dorsey of Baltimore. Presiden Raes as No. 1 Amateur Expert On Milifary Affairs Two of the five are (1. 1. N. Radiophoto) chief of the fleet and from Gen- eral George Marshall, chief of staff |of the Army. He sees secret analy- |ses made by our military “best minds” of German and Japanes | power and weaknesses and of the progress of their campaigns. He studies confidential reports from Genera]l MacArthur in Aus- iv.rana. from General Eisenhower, *‘cummander-h\—chivf of U. 8. Forces {in Europe and from Admirdl Leahy, | recent ambassador to Vichy. He sees similar reports from military | leaders in the Pacitic, the Atlantic, | China, Iceland, the Aleutian islands iunu Hawali. | The extent of the President’s in- fluence on military decisions is a government secret. When, and if, | members of the joint Army-Navy | board disagree, the President’s sug- gestions undoubtedly have consid- erable weight because of his posi- tion as supreme commander. His ideas on grand strategy by the United Nations, based largely on information obtained from his mili- tary advisers, obviously have much influence with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin. (Continued on Page Five) 3 J NAVY, ARMY CHARGE ON ' INVADERS One Nippo:TC;rgo Ship Is Sunk in Kiska Harbor- Others Damaged ENEMY AIRCRAFT REPORTED DOWNED Camp Facilifies and Shore Installations Also Bombed WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The Navy has announced that five air | attacks . and one naval bombard- | ment of Jap forces in the Aleutians | recently have resulted in the sink- |ing of one enemy cargo ship, the damaging of two others and heavy | damage to shore facilities. | our loss ‘was one observation ‘plnne. ‘The Japs also had two four- | motored seaplan® bombers shot |down by American pursuit craft, jbuz it is not stated whether they were caught in attacks on Jap held territory or some separate action. The communique said that Army bombers on July 22 dropped bombs through tHe fog in the area of Kiska Harbor, but results were un- observed. On July 29, Navy patrol planes conducted a night attack on Kiska, and Army bombers attacked shore installations and ships in the same vicinity, Send Task Force Japanese aircraft attacked the United States destroyer Kane off Atka Island August 3, but no dam- age was inflicted and Army bomb- em again attacked the Kiska Har- NNURSE TELLS OF BOMBING - OFHOSPITAL Juneau Visitor Narrowly Missed Death at Dutch Harbor When the Japs took two cracks at Dutch Harbor June 3, they laid’ a B00-pound ‘“egg” approximately |two feet from the end of the | Office of Indian Affairs Hospital. The bomb blasted two wards and a private room to bits, lifting the end of the hospital into the air. It blasted out a crater 20 feet deep and about the same distance across at the top (see cut above). The hit was what is known as |a “near miss.” If it hadn’t been a near m Miss Margaret Quinn, who was “inside of the building when the blast occurred, wouldn t be in Juneau today, on her way back to the north to serve in an- other hospital at Kotzebue The 14 patients who had been in the hospital had been removed the day before, some of being dis- charged and the others carried to + bombshelter by the three nurses who * were serving there at the «me, Miss Quinn, Miss Grace Moore and Miss Tennie E., .Harris, Miss Harris also is in Juneau, on aer way to the hospital at Bethel. 1conunued on Page S8ix) 'HELL OF A WAR' RAGES, ALEUTIANS ‘ Col. Zanuck Gives Great Praise to Americans qu in W. Alaska The ¥anks in the Aleutians are equal to the English Commandos is the declaration made by Col. Dar- ryl F. Zanuek, who has just returned to Seattle from the island peninsula of Alaska from placing motion pie~ ture cameramen on the strategic Aleutians “as far as they can go without running into the Japs.” Zanuck, according to an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of August 1, said, “The soldiers and sailors on the Aleutians have the most difficult job of any men in the armed forces anywhere in the world. “There’s a hell of a war up there.” Col. Zanuck, who not long ago was 'making pictures like “How Green /as My Valley” for Hollywood, is making other pictures now, the great pictures that will some day give a 500-reel history of the See- ond World War. In June he was in England, or- ganizing photographic crews for the Signal Corps, of which he is chief of the field photographic staff. Assigned to Commandos He was assigned to the Commando operations as a military observer. What he saw and what he did 18 military informaticn. But he can re- veal that he thought he was seeing Moved Patients the best trained and most efficient: Even while the raid continued,|fighting men of the world . she said, arrangements were being | n’?tll:nl ::zztw"e:::rm:;r' he ';;‘;: made to move the patients from 2nOther front, where the war the bomb shelter to a safer dug- mL«s}ls s beldy waged. Col. Zanack: out on higher ground. The all x"" ";e:e % :'t;:uon m: first @ clear sounded before this shift was | L%, Ploture photographers sssigned to the Aleutian war, completed. None of the patients| = anq pe found there men who are Was Second Raid Miss Quinn had returned to the building after the [first morning aid to secure some needed medical supplies. The hospital was dam- aged in the second raid which was previously described in an official announcement as merely a ‘“recon- | nalssance ' flight by the Japs. According to later reports, how- ever, it was no ‘“reconnaisancz flight” Miss Quinn can tell you that. When the bomb hit, she was on her way into the basement. Another occupant of the bullding was Eric Ericson, the janitor. He wasn't injured either. After she had secured tne medi- cal supplies, Miss Quinn left the damaged building and ran for the bomb shelter while a Jap pursuit pilot strafed the ground near her with machinegun fire. (Continued on Page Three) " (Continued on Page Pive)