The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY AUGUST 18, 1942 VOL. LIX., NO. 9115. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE T NTS JAP FLEET DRlVEN OFF IN CHITNAZIS | T0 RECOVER | POSITIONS Parachufists Land Behind German Lines fo Cap- ture Enemy from Rear COUNTER - ATTACKS MADE NEAR MOSCOW Hitler Admifiussians Put- ting His Troops on Defensive (By Associated Press) Russia’'s armies are reported to have driven the Germans into re- tréat below Stalingrad, recapturing several miles of lost ground in the critical struggle for the great Volga | steel city. Elsewhere in the global war, other <igns appeared that the Allied star 1s rising. Soviet dispatches said that Timo- shenko's forces are launching one of the strongest counterattacks since the Germans crossed the lower reaches of the Don River and have ;enenlly improvead thetr position in (cantmued on Page Six) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Mafor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Diplomatic cir- cles are buzzing over the letter which Gen. de Gaulle, commander of the Free French, has written to the British and American Gov- ernments severely criticizing the manner in which the war is being run. Gen. de Gaulle used very pointed and picturesque language. He com- pared the war to a drum and said: No one man is beating the drum, but a host of beetles are bouncing up and down, and think they are beating it. Some of Gen. de Gaulle's critics attribute his letter to the fact that he is not on particularly good terms with Churchill. Others point out that de Gaulle is peeved be- cause the Free French were treated rather badly in Syria, given only cast-off equipment, and only sixty aged airplanes, though they bore the brunt of the fighting. However, others believe there may be some justice to Gen. de Gaulle’s criticism - and that the allied effort could have more unity as to battle fronts and command. HE DISCOVERED FDR i If any one person can claim credit for discovering Franklin D. Rocsevelt - it is Herbert Bayard 8Bwope, former executive editor of the New York World, and Frank Cobb, the late editor-in-chief of the World. The discovery came in 1912 ]usf. after Woodrow Wilson was elected and when Swope, then a political ! correspondent, was travelling with | him in New York State. Wilson| was so completely gt odds with most | of the Democratic Party in New York that at the Onondaga Hotel in Syracuse, he refused to shake hands with Charley Murphy, f,hen boss of Tammany. ‘ But Wilson asked Swope to lock over the field of New York Demo- crats and pick a progressive rox‘ appointment to his administration. Swope, at first was baffled, con- j Successful Operations Re- ROOFTOP R EV [V] E—_,lned up on a Manhattan roof are candidates for “Miss New York” in & Navy Relief benefit: (left to right) Maddy Lynre, Ruth Reed, Helen Lynne, Sherry Marsh. Renee Sommers. Hilda lelor. Billie rwin, Evelyn Malloy and Betty Grey. Mail Imrease s in Nation; Post Offices Are Now Boltlenecks | Charming Ann Miller, the screen dancer, has been selected as “To- bacco Queen” by the Winston-Sa- lem, N. C., Tobacco Market com- mittee. Miss Miller, now making personal appearances ~ in New York, waves tobacco leaves above. INDUSTRIAL CENTER HIT, NIGHT RAID ' RAF Sirikes af Osnabreuck ™ —Air Fields Are Also Under Atfack LONDON, Auy. 18.—British bomb- | ers last night struck Osnabreuck, rallroad and industrial center in, northwestern Germany, for the | By JACK STINNETT i WAS!HNU’!‘ON A“G 18 —Of all the fantastic stories told about this | war, one of the best is that which | concerns the District of Columbia | post office. | The name Vincent Burke probably | | doesn't ring a bell in the minds of {one out of 100,000 persons, but he !is ‘the No. 1 ity postmaster. Every | item of mafl going in or out of the ‘ District passes through hands super- | vised by Vingent Burke. | since Pearl Harbor, the mail reve- | nue in Washington has increased 20 {per cent a month, every month. ‘Pouch mail has increased 35 to 40 ! per cent a month. Sack mail, which involves that going out of the War Department as well as mail from local camps to ether camps and for- |eign stations, has increased 60 per | cent a month. | In addition, there has been an increase monthly of 35 per cent in money orders; plus increases in the | sale' of war bonds and stamps that | haven’t even been computed. | Add to this the loss of approxi- ! mately 250 postal service men to se- | lective service and voluntary enlist- | ment (the Army and Navy were | pretty keen to get experienced post | office men), the necessary replace- | ment of these losses and the hiring |of at least “several hundred addi- | tional employees” to make up for | increased work to date, and you will |have some picture of what the ]Washingwn post office has been up 1 against. ) If this were all, the Washington mail situation could be reduced to| | fundamentals. But it isn’t. Mail | trains (those scheduled to arrive for | certain local deliveries) and mail | planes are apt tQ be very late. That | means delivery times built up over the last ten or 20 years have to be | juggled. | Unofficially, I can cite an illustra- | | tion which applies to thingwn. | but which might well fit any city |in the land. -One of the most im- ‘pnrtant mail trains from northern metropolitan centers arrives here at 5 30 am. Most days now it is one |to three hours late. That’s just ! enough to make the important night mail uncludmg first newspapers (Comin\red on Page Four) ‘U S. Troops In India ""Molested” i I '5 VESSELS QF BRAZIL | SENT DOWN Smkmgs - Occur- Duringe Three Days Off Coast- Loss of Life Heavy RIO DE JANERIO, Aug. 18.— Five Brazilian passenger and cargo ships have been sunk off the coast of Brazil during the last three days according to an announce- ment made by the Brazilian Gov- ernment, One of the ships sent down car- ried soldiers, The loss of life is feared to he heavy although several lifeboats have reached shore. The Government - bitterly cized the Axis and promised the sinkings will not go unpum.sl-ned i The five Brazilian ships carried a total of 365 with 60 passengers reported saved. | The Brazilian sinkings now total 16 ships and three damaged. | Ships are being kept in the har- bor today and no departures are scheduled. ' Feeling in Brazil is running high and flared into open demonstra- tions against the Axis. s BIG CLAIMS OF SINKINGS BY GERMANS Assert 11 Allied Vessels, . Auxiliary Cruiser Sent « Down by Subs 1 (By Associated Press) The German High Command in (& communigue today declared of- | ficially that German subs sunk 'l | Allied vessels, totaling 72,000 tons; 12,000-ton auxiliary cruiser and two rows 'of troop-carrying barges on the Atlantic and Arctic oceans also the Mediterranean Sea during the past 24 hours. ‘There is no confirmation of this Nazi claim. | Last week’s announcement of Al- |lied ship losses by Axis subs in | the 'western Atlantic gave seven cnu- | | | | sulted Frank Cobb. Cobb also had | eighth RAF attack on Germany| KARACHI, India, Aug. 18.—Am- merchantmen, the lowest in six- a hard time finding a progressive | Democrat. At that time there this month. Five British bombers |are reported to be missing. The | crican troops stationed in India were “molested” during the recent| teen weeks. —————— were almost no Democrats in up- | Ajr Ministry indicated the raid was|disturbances connected with Gan-| JACK LITTLEPAGE LEFT state New York, and all of them in| New York City belonged to Tam- | many. | Finally Cobb said: “There’s a| young fellow named Roosevelt (Cohtinued on Page Four) | tack, other of moderate stréngth. While Osnebreuck was under at-| bombers and fighters bombed airfields in German occu- pied territory and one enemy bomber that arose to the attack 'was sent down, dhi’s passive resistance campaign. | 1nrcdy, Commander, who added that | no reports of Americans being in- jured have been made. He did | not explain however the nature of ihe disturbance, * FOR CHICHAGOF TODAY This report is made by Brig. Gen.| Jack th'tlepaze, general manager ‘;ot the Chichagof Mining Compa: left with Alaska Coastal Airlines to return to the mine after sp “lng the last several days in June . East Headquarters U S MAKING BIG RAIDS * ported on Tobruk and in Mediterranean lMERI(MI 'MEDIUM CRAFT GO IN ACTION German, Ifalian Fighters ~Put Up No Inferception on Heavy Planes 18.—The Middle | of the United States Army Air Forces today an- nounced that another series of suc- cessful operations by heavy bomb- ers against Tobruk and also in the * Mediterranean toox place on Aug- ust 14 and 15. It is also disclosed for the first time that American medium bomb- ‘ers, have gone into action in a raid on Matruh. Heavy bombers set fire to an Axis merchantman, guarded by two destroyers in the harbor at Tor-| kuk and also wrecked uu-tallauunsf ‘which were used to moor torpedo > CAIRO, Aug. boats there. The American announcement said | all bombers, both medium and| heavy, returned safely to bases. | It is also disclosed for the first time that in a series of raids the German and Italian fighters have made no attempt at interceptions indicating that the American bomb- | ers have been heralded as possess- | ing greater fighting ability than hargaincd for and are feared. e - SUBS MOVE SOUTH IN ATLANTIC Several More Sinkings An-/ erican Coast Recently These three candidates seeking titles as perfect photographic models for California camera fans are shown being given a preliminary exam- ination by Ear] Carroll, famous Broadway producer, at Los Anzelel. The lensmen want a “Miss Ideal,” “Miss Petite,” and “Miss Majestic.” The three early entrants are left to right; Terry Lauren, Carcl Winters and Llndn Scott. First MI Ameri m st Vg Raid Is (arried 0u| 0ver Nazi Terrifory nounced Off South Am- ‘ : (By Associated Press) Further indication that the bulk cf the Axis submarines have shift- ed their attacks from the Caribh- bean to the easier hunting grounds off the unprotected coast of South America came as the Navy an- nounced -another sinking area. A British merchantman was sent down off the northern coast .of South America early in July. The announcement came in the| wake of Brazil's statement that five of that nation's coast ships, including two carrying troops, have been sent down off its shore durlng !the past three days. Relatively few sinkings occurrcd; in the North Atlantic and Carib- bean recently, The Associated Press toll of sink- ings in the western Atlantic since| the Pear] Harbor raid is now 434, JAPS ADMIT MARINES IN SHORE FIGHT Tokyo Dtspakh Gives First| Admission that Amer- icans Have Landed NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—A Tokyo dispatch through DNB, broadcast in that' | TWIRLER — Mildred Bryan of Wilm , Del., known for her skill in handling a baton, demonstrates for the benefit of delegates to the Dancing Masters of America convention in New York City. She also gave the teachers a few pointers. over the Berlin radio, said today that bitter fighting is taking place both at Guadalcanal and the Tu- {lagi Islands. This is the first Axis admission that U. 8. landing forces have fought their way ashore on the islands guarding the Tulagi Har- bor bullseye in the Solomons. The Tokyo dispatch said: that sappers and engineers have land- cd und are taking part in opera- ’lhe following presence of ock troops oshore in- | | | i ON SINKINGS dicate a strong American landing' . force. e BUY DEFEN SE STAMPS AN AMERICAN BOMBER STA- TION IN BRITAIN, Aug, 18 — Powerful Flying Fortress crews, led personally by Brig. Gen. Ira Eaker, dropped tons of explosives yester- day in a daylight raid on the rail- way yards at Rouen, France. It.was the first full-fledged all- American bombing blow against the Nazis. It was accomplished witn- out the loss of a single bomber. One gunner bagged a new Ger- man Fockewulf fighter. Maj. Gen, Carl Spaatz, command- er of the U. 8. air forces in the| European theater of war said “we will as often as possible until we win the war.” BRAZILIANS DEMONSTRATE : South American Capilal's Schools, Businesses Closed in Memory RIO DE JANERO Aug. 18.—Ris- ing fury of Brazilians over (he sinking by Axis subs of five Bra- zilian ships in three days bmuah:‘I himself to de-| President nounce the piracy” tumultuous crowd which paraded before the presidential palace. Another crowd of 500 demon- strated In front of the U. 8. em- bassy cheering for United States Vargas sinkings as “acts of President Roosevelt and for Am-| the, bassador Caffery, urging that American nations unite against the Axis, All commerce and schools in Rio were closed this afternoon in hom- age to the victims of the sinkings The latest tabulations showed that the five vessels carried 336 157 reached land. -ee Income payments to individuals |on a nationwide basis increased 20 penem from 1940 to 1941, bomb Germany as fast and | in an address before a SOLOMONS U. 5. FORCES HAVEREWON LOST AREAS Fighting Marines "Now Well Established” Navy Says ENEMY TURNS TAIL AFTER SEA BATTLE 36 Nippon Planes Are Shot Down, Communique - Relates WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — The Navy Department announces today that the shore positions taken by the fighting American Marines in the Japanese-held Solomon Isalnds are “now well established” following a naval engagement between Amer- ican warships and an enemy force of cruisers and destroyers in which the enemy fleet was forced to re- treat, Naval Engagement The naval engagement, it is re- ported, was fought during the night of August 7 and 8 as an enemy force States transports and cargo ships which are supplying the Marine |landing parties. This enemy force was intercepted and engaged S. warships. Close rafge figl resulted, Enemy Retreats The Navy reported that the enemy was then “forced to retreat before reaching the vessels engaged in the landing operation.” Both Japanese and American ships were hit, the | Navy saig, but it was impossible to determine accurately the damage in- | flicted on the Jap vessels. Enemy Plane Losses | The Navy’s communique report- |ed, however, that the Japs lost at least 36 planes, Eighteen of these were destroyed in the initial Navy | attack .August 7, and 18 others were | destroyed when enemy air forces at- tempted to attack American ships engaged in landing operations Aug- ust 7 and 8. | “Campaign Continuing” | The communique made no men- tion of the current situation in the Solomons except to say that the shore positions now are well cstab- lished, but one naval spokesman who declined to permit the use of | bis name added to this statement | that “the campaign in the Solomons |is continuing.” ALLIED BOMBER RAID | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- ERS, Aug. 18.—Allied bombers raid- ed Kavieng, New Ireland, striking at Jap shipping in the harbor yes- |terday and also sftacked Dutch Timor, Twenty-four Jap bombers, | meanwhile, were reported to have struck back at Port Moresby. New General (ommands in Middle East \Gen. Auchinleck Replaced | by Gen. H. Alexander | of Burma | | [ | LONDON, Aug. 18.—General Har« old Alexander, former commander |in Burma, has been named British | Commander in Chief for the Mid- | dle East, succeeding Gen. Sir Claud | Auchinleck, according to a British War Office announcement today. There was no mention of any the engineers persons including 274 soldiers. Only N€W assignment for Auchinleck, mt ,mv.o command when the Allied Ar- |mies had retreated from Libya almost to the gates of Alexandria before the German and Italian attack, attempted to attack the United | ..