The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1942, Page 1

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL LIX.; NO. 9114. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MARINES EXTEND SOLOMON BEACHHEADS NazisAre A pproaching CaspianSea QOil Fields OPENING NEW ASSAULT ON STALINGRAD Russians Leave Maikop Wells in Ruins, Refreat Toward Grozny Area | REINFORCEMENTS IN AXIS DRIVE ON DON Powerful N;;Manpower, Material Thown Into Latest Attacks MOSCOW, Aug. 17.—The German offensive in the Don River Bend has flared into full force as a powelrul‘ new drive on Stalingrad opened over the weekend. | In the Caucasus, the Russians have | fallen back from the ruins of the Maikop oil fields toward the next | petroleum producing area of Grozny. | A Russian communique reports that a terrific toll of new Nazi man- power and material has been thrown | into the assault southeast of Klets- kaya and northeast of Kotelnikovski against the flanks of the fortified | i ARMY PLANE CRASH TAKES LIVES OF 17 line guarding Stalingrad. A battlefront dispatch said the Germans have rolled forward at tre- mendous cost in the Kletskaya | salient, which is 75 miles northwest | of Stalingrad, but were held firmly | in the Kotelnikovski flank, 95 mfles southwest of Stalingrad. In the Caucasus, the extendmg Axis lines appeared to be checked at Krasnodar where the Germam are thrusting toward the Novorossiisk but they have stretched even farther to the southeast along the rail and oil pipeline toward Grozny on the Caspian Sea. | panions from Burn- The Washington ing Ship Merry_Go_Roun PERU, Massachusetts, Aug. 17— Three soldiers, one of them a hero- |ic sergeant who dragged his two By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert §. allen on active duty.) companions to safety from a flam- ing army transport plane, were given a better than even chance to t recover today. They were the only survivors of ttacl the Solomon about the attack on a crash that took the lives of 17 Islands is that it was very Care-) ... ) three, Sgt. Robert Lee, fully planned six weeks in advance, PP PR e e Sk N and was different from any other | Pot Jathes Wern hutfered serious naval action in the Pacific. {burns when the big ship plunged U. §. Naval raids on the Gilbert jnio a mountain near Peru Satur- and Marshall Islands were hit and | day night while on a routine mis- run affairs. There our Navy had sion out of Pope Field, Fort Bragg, | no idea of enemy strength, but North Carolina. depended on quick surprise hits, The Army released no details as and speedy withdrawal. In the battle of the Coral Sea| also, we were able to take the Japs by surprise. And in the battle of Midway, we knew the enemy was coming, while the Japs did not| know we knew. But in the Solomon Islands bat- tle, our reconnaissance planes had made advance surveys and we knew fairly accurately the size of the| enemy—knew also that we were up | against a° tough job that would| exact heavy cost. | ‘There is every reason to belleve‘ too, that the Japs knew about our| preparations, because troop trans-| ports cannot be loaded and hrought: within striking distance without| enemy scouting planes sighting them. Therefore, this was a real| test in more ways than one. For instance, this was the fi time land, ‘air and sea forces all have cooperated in a single strik- F'rlday {0 “rogions whete?” indsc | ing force. | good supervision, they will be able | Upon the final outcome of that| i, 4o labor useful to European col- cooperation will depend whether lectivuy” the United States follows the ad- WASHINGTON — Inside fac 4,000 JEWS ARE SLAVES Taken from Unoccupled Zone in France fo Do "“Useful Labor” lrs!. papers report that 4,000 Jews, prev- | | lously arrested in the unoccupied | zone of France, were deported last ' vice of many high Army-Navy stm-- tegists and concentrates more on the Pacific than on Europe. i CAPITAL CHAFF ’ Madame Secretary Perkins re- cently put in a bid for an apart- ment already reserved for a young | naval officer. Apartments are s scarce, but being a member of the |, VALLETTE, Aug. 17—The British cabinet, she got it." Later it ludelA" Ministry announces that Royal out that she didn’t want the apart- | | Air Force fighters shot down one German fighter in broad daylight (Contfflu‘ed‘on Flle Four) |"°d;{ and two Axis bombers last night, Sergeant Rescues 2 Com-l | to the posslb]e cause of the accldem.‘ OF GERMANS VICHY, Aug. 17.—The Paris news- | In Daylight " DutchQueen Addresses U. 5. Congress Describing the rashtanre ol her people, Queen Wilhelmina tcld a joint session of Lnnmsb in Washington | that “the fight goes on.” To her left on the rostrum is Senator Alben W. Barkley (D.-Ky.) and to her right Representative Sol Bloom (D.-N.Y.), Speaker Pro-tem, and Vice-President Henry A. Walhte to the cxtremz left is an unidentified Senate nttaehn _On ixiaskan Front | | | | | | CHURCHILL, STALIN IN CONFERENCE Two War Leaders Reach Many Decisions Regard- ing Conduct of Conflict 'V, 5. REPRESENTED 'Negoiiaiion;—lzeached at . Talkfest Which Was Cordial, Smcere MOSCOW, AII l'l — British Prime Minister Winston Churchill | was here August 12 to August 15 { conferring with Josef Stalin and it is officially announced they reached a number of decisions regarding conduct of the war and reaffirming “alliance of their nations against the | Axis. | The announcement of the confer- lence was made by Averill Harriman who attended the conference as President Roosevelt’s personal rep- resentative. The communique was issued after | Churchill left the Soviet Union on | the return flight to London. 7' The communique. said. unspecified | decisions were reached and it was emphasized that the “atmosphere of cordiality and complete sincerity prevailed in the negotiations that brought the two war leaders to- gether for the first time.” Great Britain was also represent- ed by Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Sir Alexander Cardogan, permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Of- fice. On the Soviet side with Stalin were’ Foreign Commissar Molotov and Marshal Voroshilov, former De- fense Commmissar, now Commander of the Soviet Reserve Armies. Gen. Wavell, British Commander in India, also took part in the dis- cussions. The man DECISIONS REACHED LONDON, Aug. 17.—Prime Min- ister Churchill’'s confererice with Stalin in Moscow was most satis- factory and a “number of decisions convering the war against Hitlerite Germany” were reached, the official British Government statement an- nounces. - FEAR JAPAN . MAY THRUST | Indicate Clfir;hill, Stalin Considered This at- Conference installations in Alaska. Navy photo. Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, commanding general of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, gets first-hand infor- matien from Commander A. J. Isbell, U. S. N, on Alaskan situation | during tour of inspection at the Sitka Naval Air Station. Armed with such information, General DeWitt returned to San Francisco and conferred with U. S, Senate Committee appointed to inspect defense This Soundphoto was taken from official (By Associated Press) While Russia’s armies in the |Caucasus and near Stalingrad fought for time until Germany could be struck on a second front, in London and Moscow, it is dis- closed today, strategical plans have | been worked out by a Moscow con- TWELVE ARRIVE ' FROM SITKA; 18 60 SOUTH Arrivals from Sitka last night were Mrs. Theodore Kettleson, Miss Ellen Brumbaugh, Mrs. Kenneth, Meier, B. C. Ohmert, Mrs. B. C.| {Ohmert, Charles E. Gilbert, Lyle| Godfrey, Willls Brown. George Gin- {at, Steve Vpkovich, Emmett Crane and E. J. Blake. Leaving here for the south were, for Wrangell, Mary Pets; for Ket- i | #cMonagle, Raymond J. Sundseth, — |ference between Prime Minister Os-| Winston Churchill and*Joseph Sta- M chikan, J. H. @nderson, Ole berg, Norbet J. Kempsnider, ./ lin. Wesley F. Caine, Joan S. Cocker-| In London the belief is expressed i, J. Cronin, I. Zwillich and E.| !that the possibility of a Japanese Fincher. attack on Siberia also came up for For Seattle * outgoing passcngers discussion. Russian-Jap relations were Mrs. John T. Halm, Katherine still are governed by a neutrality Varness, Kay Halm, Alice Halm, pact. In formal phrasing, the an- Invald <Varness, James P. McNeil, nouncement said, however, the Gordon K. Davis, Ellen G. Cha Moscow discussion covered only | James Polidaris, Delia Dull, James “the field ¢ war against Hitlerite V. Adams, Hazel Justine. Germany and her assoclates in Joseph Donald Rude, John Hill, Europe.” This would ostensibly Edward 1. Pedersom, George A. | eliminate Japan. b Speculation on how Britain and John B. Primeau and George GIndl.|the United States might proceed |to help Russia centered around the (Continued on Page Three) —_——eo— BUY DEFENSE BONDS AT MOSCOW MEET/ Al SIBERIA Double Atfack Made OnKiska;3,000 Shells Hit Jap's Main Camp; Destroyer Is Sef Ablaze WAbHTNGT()N Aug. 17. — The! | At Kiska, a Jap destroyer was 1m Navy Department statement issued | blazing outside of the harbor. Prev- last Saturday night disclosed that a | jous)y it had been in a fleet of about Japanese destroyer and three cargo | o cargo vessels and four submarines vessels were damaged, and one ¢argo | i, the harbor. vessel was sunk in a raid on Kiska, The secondary camp and anti-air- Aleutian Islands, on August 9. | craft emplacements at several places Navy vessels hurled more than 3.- | o,y Riska were also bombarded. 000 shells into the Jap’s main camp | A}l enemy shore batteries were on August 8. silenced. The attack on Kiska was s!mul~‘ The toll of Jap ships at Kiska taneous with the first thrust against | now stands at 22 sunk or damaged, ithe Japs in the bo]omnn Islands. ln(ludmg 14 war vvssol'« i _ Motor of Jap Iero & A U. S. Marine guards the huge motor of a carrier-based Jap Zero fighter which crashed in the mountains near Dutch Harbor, Alaska, during a Jap stab at that Alaskan port. been mounted for shipment to the U. aeronautical experts. Second Front Hintls " Dropped by Big Chief 0f U. S.-European Unit Red Forces ~ Losing Out, - Stalingrad Germans Claim Capture of Important Approaches fo Great Volga City The recovered motor has 8. mainland for study by LONDON, Aug. 17--Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eiesenhower, United States Commander in the European war theatre, dropped a significant hint of the urgency with which diversion- ary actions on the new European front are being considered. The commander declared in a con- ference with newsmen that the “time is short” in discussing the United States forces in Great Bri- tain. He said: “Training in all of its phases must be intensive. This is true, first, be- cause the time is short; second, be- cause the problems we have demand the ultimate perfection ir the train- ed personnel; third, because our ened physically to stand the most rigorous of operations.” BERLIN, Aug. 17.—A communi- (k2 que issued tonight declares the JAMES POLIDOURIS entire Don River Bend area guard- TO HAVE TREATMENT James Polidouris, employe of Morrison-Ksutsen Co., who suf- fered a brain injury in an accident recently, was sent south for hos- | pitalization during the week-end. ing the approaches to Stalingrad, is now in the hands of the Ger- man troops as the result of heavy defeats inflicted on the Red Army. The night communique also says Nazi columns are advancing stead- ily northeast of the Caucasus, par-,Nurse Delia Dull of St. Ann’s Hos-| pital was to care for him on the| ticularly south of the Kuban River where they are moving in the di-|trip. She will return to her duties rection of the Black Sea port of |here after seeing that he is en- Novorossisk, terd in a Seattle hospital. ] ) men must be toughened and hard- | FIGHT GOES 1011THDAY; NAVY QUIET Gen. MacArthur’s Bombers | Harass Jap Bases, Sup- ply Lines in Pacific ALLIED TROOPS IN " INTERIOR OF TIMOR 'Set Up Line of Nafural De- fense for Port Mores- by in New Guinea (By Associated Press) The battle of the Solomons, now 11 days old, is as obscure as ever, but it appeared likely the United States Marines are extending those beachheads already officially an- nounced captured. While this exclusively Navy op- eration continued, MacArthur sent bombers out on an almost ceaseless harassment of Jap bases and supply |lines in the Southwest Pacific. A town oh the southeast coast of Timor was bombed. The Melbourne Herald, saying that Allied troops are still operating in the interior there, ated that the Timor attacks meant to assist the guerilla forces on land. The communique from Gen. Mac- | Arthur also reported continued pa- | trol skirmishing in New Guinea be- tween small enemy forces. Allled outposts beyond Owen and Stanley range into a line of natural defense for the Allied base of Port Moresby. REPORTER SAYSU.S. IS VICTOR London Co;r?spondent in | Australia Claims Japs Routed, Solomons LONDON, Aug. 17. Selwyn | Speight, the London Star’s corres- pondent in Sydney, said that despite the cautious tones of United Nations communiques “it seems clear that the Allies have already won in land and sea and air operations in the Solomons, the greatest victory yet achieved against the Japanese.” Attributing to Washington the re- | luctance to give details of the action | for security reasons, Speight said “it | is reasonable to assume that U. 8. Marines have achieved their. major initial objectives.” ‘ This apparently was done by seiz- ing control of Tulagi Harbor and |the big air base on Guadalcansl Llslnnd. which was nearly ready for | use by the Japs when taken. He sald when American and Aus~ tralian fighting planes are able to operate from that field in substan- | tial numbers, the Japs will have | 1ost all chance of driving them from the jsland. He asserted that “that stage may | be very near.” DOOLITTLE - INLONDON | LONDON, Aug. 17.—Presence of | Brig. Gen, James Doolittle who led |the United States Army Air Force bombers in the attack on Japan last April 18, is disclosed here. He will return to the United States within 10. days. It is stated authoritatively that Doolittle will not be attached per- manently to the American Com- 'mand in the European war theatre.