The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1944, Page 6

PAGE SIX JAP ATTACK BEATEN OFF, NEW GUINEA Americans énd Australians | Hold Snare Tight on Enemy ALLIED NEW GUINEA, July desperate Jap attacks River in British nea were turned back Sat- and Sunday by American and rifle , headquarters mnce. Isolated aged to wiped out are running man for said ap counted dead in the Wewak even before the latest at- numbered 1,400 of the 45,000 trapped between the Ameri- and Australians ADVANCED HEAD- | QUARTERS, 25.—Three the Drimor units which man- through are being enemy casualties | thousands, a Douglas Mac- Jap filter and into Gen ctor tacks Japs cans Gen. MacArthur's planes, mean- while, continued the aerial pound- ing of Jap bases in support of at- tacks in the Marianas Islands. They bombed Palua, Yap and Wo- leal. Two Jap interceptors were shot down over Yap. Two Jap supply luggers were sent down® off the western tip of New Guinea. The Jap attacks on the Drini- mor River began with columns of companies attacking Saturday morning, only to be driven back by the combined fire of 75 and 105 MM artillery and rifle fire| and the support of planes, Nav: destroyers and PT boats. An attack in the same area was attempted again at midnight and the battle lasted until mid-morning on Sunday ALASKA GOES OVER TOP IN BOND DRIVE Surpassing the three million| dollar quota, Alaska's total bond sales through Saturday are tabu-| lated at $3,339,659.50. The series E sales are $1,308,311, which total! is slightly below the quota set for| the Territory. Leading towns in the order of| their total sales through Saturday are as follows: Anchorage—$715,799.50 Fairbanks—$669,723 Juneau and Douglas—$343,78. Ketchikan—$290,281 MANY LEAVEON . OUTBOUND SHIP Incoming passengers from Skag- way this morning were as follows: | Raymond Cesas, Bert Dennis,r R Hutchins, John Hanson, T. Kelly, R. W. Kell, J. M. Parke, Mrs. Ruth Roach, Herbert Verhick, Earl Bel-| zer, Mrs. Belzer, Ashley Seitz, Ella Axelson, John Herman, Rapuzzi, Edgard Payne, and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley McNallen. Leaving Juneau were: Herbert Hill, Rudolph R. James, Alfred C. Colley, Natale C. Tramontano, William L. Bigham, Russell H. Walter D. C. Welty, Lloyd H. Long, Richard Thomas, Herbert Blum, Burr A. Hagarty, Anthony De Luca. Victor Kelso, Helen Johnson, Anna Gleason, Manuel Gularte, Maria Gularte, Claud E. Briggs. Jack Pierce, Lillian Pierce Esther C. Roberts, Wallace M. Roberts, Richard W. Roberts, Thel- ma McCorkle, Grace Sowers, Char- mion C. Robinson, Karl Robinson. Bernard Address, James O.Smith, Lester Housmann, Betty Reiten, Elliott Rowley, Eleber J. Dease. Robert Wilkerson, Henry W. Gil- cher, Irwin D. Beer, Winona Hoff- man, Loise Standafer, Jeanne Mil- ler, Alfred C. Haralson, Pearl Dore. | Claire J. Dore, Gerrard Bierhaus, | Bertha Bierhaus, Verla Bierhaus, Lee M. Carrigan, LeRoy Carrigan, Ella M. Cuffel, Neoma Kunesh, John R. Fisher. Emmett Connor, Mrs. Donald Hammond, Donna Mae Hammond, Ethel M. Wester, Joy Lee Wester John Conlan. | Florence D. Keaton, Theodore A.| Keaton, Mary Ellen Keaton, Sam | A. Ware, Harold W, Taylor, Edna A. Armstrong, Leota Windsor, Da-| vid Turner. For Ketchikan were G. Zorn, Mrs. Zorn, David Zorn, Mrs. Carl Benson, An M. Ben- son, Rev. Charles Railsback, Mrs Railsback, Charlotte Railsback, No- na Railsback, Kay Railsback, J. G Shepard, Adelia Isaacs, T. R. Cur- tis, Madge Hildinger, and Gary Oas. Lenore Campbell, V. H. Fi Charles More, and Richard Hajny| the Rev. E. Louis| were listed for Wrangell. This remarkable pheto, on Tokyo is well depicted in this wreckage of the city of Garapan, capital of the Ma Hardly had the the Japanese base of Yawata, near famed Shimonesel THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Yanks Leave Noth ng BehindinGarapan The raging storm oif the Yankee advance na island of Saipan. Yanks smashed this port than they began pounding the Bonin Islands, closest islets to nd by way of vanguard salute unleased lethal gifts upon the Japanese maval i, Japan proper. taken from the air, is its own capt mainland, a Yanks Gel French Lesson {rom Preffy Teacher Mel White (left) of Harlan, Iowa, and Vhllmm B.lrl\\ !)lll)u.n Ga. (right), get a lesson in correct Frénch gny, France. (AP wnrophm-_‘) from prcllv Odette Billy of I es—which the enemy in his haste to avoid capure, abandoned on the French invasion beachhead. This is a United States Army Signal Corps radiophoto. Phone 16 Watermelons for picnics. cutings, appetizers or dessert, for lunch or dimner. for 4 pickling. cocktails. eic Other mlans for breaklsst, PIOCLY WICOLY s Q walormelon preserves NAZIS PUSH PLANS FOR TOTAL WAR Hitler Prepanng for Home | Defense as Allied Armies Close In Adolf Hitler LONDON, July 25. mann Goering as Chairman of the Council for Defense of the Reich, and has issued a decree ordering | total mobilization in Germany and | |rx(\l])l('d territories. | Propaganda Minister Goebbels has | [ been appointed the Reich's Commis- | sar for Total War Effort, and earlier Heinrich Himmler was appointed | man Home Army. “Goering has to adapt the enure | public life requirements to total warfare at every possible moment,” the Berlin announcement said. | The German government reor» janization came with the Russian Army less than 50 miles from War- saw, less than 150 miles from Ger- man Silesia and within artillery range of East Prussia. American and British armies are | on the offensive in France and in ‘!\ul) two shattered German armies | {are reeling back, the Berlin broad- cast annu\mced MRS ENGLISH KIDDIES BACK FROM U. §. AP Features LONDON—It’s a wise father who knows his own child—particularly if | the father's English, and his child has just returned from four years in the United States, says the London Mail. Hundreds of English children be- | tween seven and 17 who met their i fathers again for the first time in years greeted them with “hi, ya, i pop,” and sticky chewing-gum kisses —after someone pointed out who Dad was. left England in 1940, but now they | treat anybody as a buddy, and al- most always find something to say for themselves. children and mothers Jmmedmtely |began to learn some of the dif- couldn’t find a taxi, arrange a com- fortable train journey home or get American table delicacies on the 5s. ($1) dinner, ing, contrasting with their own brightly colored smart apparel. to readjust themselves,” one of the mothers said, learn that life will be a bit harder, a little slower. And they’ll have to reshuffle their ‘ideas on lots of things.” N. W. Service Headquarters EDMONTON,, July 25.—Col. F. S. - Strong, Jr., announces the re- | organization of the Service Command and headquarters {will be moved from the Jesuit Col- lege base here to Whitehorse with- in the next 60 days by which time all districts will be inactivated. An echelon office will be main- with OCanadian authorities. The strength of the Command will be greatly reduced. has appointed Reich Marshal Her- | Commander-in-Chief of the Ger- TALK NEW LINGO They were shy when they | The more than 2,000 expatrlate‘ They saw utility cloth»l “They will have to' IinWhitehorse Northwest | 48y assault tained here to provide a laison IBROWNELL SAYS F.R.D. IS MISUING WARREGULATION NEW YORK, July 25.—Republi- |can National Chairman Herbert ‘ Brownellj Jr., charges Roosevelt \wlm cloaking in wartime secrecy his conference with a high Demo- | \cranc leader in Chicago, on his tup to the West Coast, whom he did ;nol identify by name. (After the President accepted his | renomination, he gave a radio ad- | dress from a Pacific Coast naval | base and revealed it was National | Chairman Robert E. Hannegan who | had boarded the President’s special train five days before the Chicago ‘convemmn. as the train stood on a | Chicago siding at a service stop.) | Brownell told the newsmen at a conference that it was a misuse of {an important wartime regulation for | partisan New Deal purposes and | was thoroughly objectionable to the | American peop]e APPEAL MADE BY GENERALS 10 STOP WAR ' Captured Nazns Ask Ger-! | man Soldiers fo Re- | i nounce Hitler MOSCOW, July 25.—Newspapers here printed, over the names of 16 captured German generals, an |appeal to all German officers and soldiers to renounce Hitler and bring the war to a close, refusing to fight further. Reproductions of the signatures were headed by that of General | Velker's, former commander of the 7th Army Corps, and the signers aid that through long service in the German Army through two wars, they have come to the con- clusion that the present struggle is hopeless. The Russians have begun broad- casting the appeal by shortwave radio and dropping thousands of printed copies from planes over |German-held territory. \ ficulties of wartime England: they AIR MEDA[S MAY ‘ BE GIVEN BOMBER CREW IN ALASKA i “It will take the youngsters a year | ‘ By NOKMAN BELL ELEVENTH AIR FORCES, HEADQUARTERS, July 25—Four members of a medium bomber crew which sank two enemy patrol | vessels off Paramushiro within six |days may be awarded air medals, |according to Maj. Gen. Davenport | | Johnson. | They are First Lieutenants Wal-} }lacc Wixham, co-pilot, of Laguna | Beach, Calif.; William Middleton of | |Corunna, Mich.; Elmer Scalet, nav- |igator, and bombardier, respective- | ly of Hartford, Ark., and Second| Lieutenant William Webb, bom- | bardier, of Kirkland, Texas. First Lieutenant Claude Wilson,| pilot, was previously awarded the! air medal for the sinkings, which were two of seyeral during a six- against the enemy guard ships off Kuriles. —————————— PERU RATIONS HORSES WASHINGTON—Horse power is at a premium in Peru. Exportation of ‘horses; which .can be used in ! agricultural, industrial or in Army service has been banned, according | to the U. S. Department of Com- merce. U.S. No. The Very POTATOES Market! the 1 Shafters Best on the Boat Orders Delivered Anytime! Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. and 2 P. M. Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. A BURNED CHILD dreads the fire no more truly than this wounded Eng- lish tot dreads the air from which one of Hitler’s robot bombs dropped recently among innocents. Her youn arms, the child still looks skyward in fear. 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