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VOL. 44. No. 102 NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY. AUG. 3. 1942 p-r
German Offensive Losing Impetus
Reports Renewal jungle Fighting In New Guinea
RAF Strikes Blow Dusseldorf
Nazis Cut Second Line to Oil Fields
UNDATED, Aug. 1 (/P) — Britain’s campaign to
scourge Germany city by city, hit the big war found
ries center of Dusseldorf, in the heart of the Rhine
land, before dawn, while the Germans surged ever |
deeper into the Caucasus.
A bulletin from Nazi field headquarters reported
that the Germans captured the Caucasian rail junction
of Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov , completing
the second cut in the line from the great oil fields ,
to Stalingrad and the Don River bend. Northwest of
Stalingrad, the German command reported ceaseless,
violent fighting is raging and indicated that the Rus
sians are sending up huge-scale reinforcements. The
communique said “Air units attacked, day and night,
the unloading of troops from trains as well as trans
ports, by train, roads and waterways.”
Dusseldorf is Center of Germany’s Steel Industry
The British communique said “a very strong force”
of RAF bomers, presumably at least 600 pounded Dus
seldorf for an hour and was highly successfuly for a
raid of its size. It was indicated that 31 planes failed
to return. Other planes attacked the Nazi-occupied
invasion coast, blasting airdromes in the Low coun
tries and railway yards and trains. Dusseldorf is Ger
many’s third largest inland port and administration
center of the German steel industry.
Alaskan Defenses
To Be Seen By
Senate Committee
Five Members Upper House’s
Military Committee To
Meet In Spokane
—
WASHINGTON — Members of
the Senate Committee on mili
tary affairs who will inspect de
fenses in Alaska, particularly
those in the Aleutians will ga
ther in Spokane, Wash., August
8, preparatory to starting for the
north. Senator Mon C. Wallgren,
Democrat of Washington, an
nounced in Washington, D. C.
Senator A B. Chandler, Demo-1
crat of Kentucky, chairman of j
the committee, explained that
tlie Alaska trip would be made
under the supervision of the1
army and that the trip would re-1
quire from 17 to 21 days. He
didn’t say when the party would
leave Spokane.
Chandler, whose term in the
Senate expires next January, is a
candidate for renomination in
the Democratic primary in Ken
tucky next Saturday. He will go
to Kentucky to vote in the pri
mary. He will take a train from
Kentucky for Spokane.
Other members of the sub-corn
mittee besides Wallgren and i
Chandler who will meet in Spo
kane August 8 are:
Senators Harley M. Kilgore,
Democrat of Texas, Rufus C. Hoi
man, Republican of Oregon, and
Harold H. Burton, Republican of
Ohio.
Heavy Timely Blows
Setting up of a unified com
mand under an unnamed naval
officer in the Aleutians was de
scribed by a Navy Department
official as an effort to strike the
enemy “the heaviest and timeli
est blows."
The Navy continues to with
hold details for reasons of secur
ity. pointing out that the name of
the officer in charge location of
his headquarters or the relation
ship of the Army and Navy
forges in the Aleutian area
would be welcome information
to the Axis.
Senators Want
To Mew War
In The Aleutians
——.
Wallgren of Washington De
clares Japs Mast Be Kick
ed Out of North
SAN FRANCISCO —Sen M- •
C. Wallgren, Democrat, of Wa.-'
ingten, while in San Francisco
described the Aleutian situation
as “without doubt very so: "
He added
“How serious it is I 1 mt
know. I would like to go up
there and see for myself but I
am waiting word from Wash a si
ton.
Too Many Japs
“No matter how many Japs an
up there or how few there are
they are too damned many. We
’ve got to kick them out.”
Wallgren and Senators Harold
H, Burton, Republican of Ohu
and Carl A. Hatch, Democrat
New Mexico, are awaiting army j
approval for a contemplated tri
to Alaska as members of th
Military Affairs Committe
the Senate, although the “ar:
may find it awkward in a fight
ing zone to afford special pro
tection to Congressmen.”
Enemy Has Facts
Wallgren said that the Jap
knew at least as much about
Aleutians waters as the United
States navy.
“They have had fake fisher
men up there for years takine
soundings and making charts
the whole seacoast. It has be<"
very soupy up there. People say
they never have heard of a on •
way fog. Well that appears to be
just what they have in the Aleu- j
tians. It is queer that fog hinders
us more than it does the Japs i
JOHNSON CANCELS VISIT
WASHINGTON — Rep Lyn- 1
don B. Johnson of the House Na
val Affairs Committe announced ,
that he has cancelled his plans
to visit the Aleutians on the
ground that the visit might inter
fere with the war effort.
Ass emble Special
Force vSipe Out
l. S. Fliers Hunan
CHI NGKING. Aug. 3 W? -
j the .-•• ■' recent Jap attacks on
S Army ardrorro at Hong
ya : * ■ '!.cites that the enemy is
as- •; :>j a special force of im
p. J fig'- 'a ;■ planes with high
y ' :\i. -i p lots for the express
| pur-' if wiping out this Am
or o' outpost in Hunan Pro
■ a ■ General Stilwell's head
q i -. - i d a total of 119 Jap
an- . - participated in a 36
| ho- • ick on the air field
: a a <■ : -i before daylight
Thtir-- • a .mmunique said. A
| buil ' - firmed previous of - ;
| fic. -p -r - that 17 attacking
jiphm . . re shot down and at
i to.---: more probably destroy
! ed.
Japs Land
Asain On Coast
c
Chekiang Province
c
Chungking, Aug. 1 (eP)-^-:
Jap troops landed anew on1
the Chekiang province1
coast, this time 30 miles
south of Wenchow, and
started a drive inland. The,
high command announced
that other Jap forces, op
erating from Wenchow
and Lishui, have recaptur
Tsingsein, 22 miles from
Wenchow.
Japs Extend
Hold s on Solomon,
New Guinea
MacArthur’s Headquar
ters in Australia. Aug. I
( P) — The Japs extended
their hold on the Solomon
Islands and east New Gui
nea and established them
selves at Guadalcanal Is
land, a suitable site for air
bases, it was reported.
A communique said Jap
installations at Kukum on
the north shore of the is
und were attacked yester
day by Allied planes which
also damaged a large car
go ship offshore. Other
bombers operating far to
jibe northwest, attacked
bind probably hit a Jap
cruiser in the Banda Sea,
south of Amboina in the
uteh East Indi.
Senator Albert B. Ghandler,
i Democrat of Kentucky, said that
! arrangements are being compl t
i ed for the Senate Military Af
i fairs Sub-Commitee to inspect
, the defenses of Alaska, partic
1 uiarly those in the Aleutians. He
i end Senator Harley M. Kilgore,
| Democrat of Texas, expect to
i meet Senator Rufus C. Hosman,
Republican of Oregon, and Sen
' a tor Wallgren in Spokane, Wash.
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Sa\age Fighting
?n New Guinea
\">htT's Headquarters in
Au •;*; 1 i. Aug. 3 </P» — The pos
sibility that the Japanese may 1
h r“inforced their garrison at
Buna wxs acknowledged by an
.VI i -d spokesman as MacAr
thur's headquarters reported the
renewal of savage fighting in the j
New Guinea jungles midway be- 1
tween the enemy base at Buna
and Port Moresby. A communi
que declared tlx at Allied troops
>uted Japanese outposts near
Kokoda, G.J miles east of Port
Moresby.
It was said that Allied bomb- i
r- set fire to enemy supply
dumps in that area. It is the
first reference to the existence of;
such supply dumps. The Allied
spokesman said it is not impos
ts, bio that the Japs are moving
rr n and equipment from Lae.
some 1<)5 miles north of Buna.
Two Officers
Killed In Crash
Army Plane
Newark, Aug. 1 (/P) —
An Army plane plunged
down over the rooftops lust
night with a terrific impact
on a parking lot, killing
Lieut. Col. George Smith,
autogiro and meteorologist
expert of Mitchel Field. X.
Y., and Major J. J. Sim
andi. assistant Post Ex
change Officer of Bolling
Field. Washington.
!Nazi Saboteurs
Denied \\ rits By
Sllj jreme Court
Commission Resumes
Trial Without Waiting
For Court Decision
Washington, Aug. 1 (/P)—
Seven alleged Nazi sabot
eurs lost their effort to es
cape the jurisdiction of
President Roosevelt’s mili
tary commission by appeal
to the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Stone an
nounced t hat the court de
nied the prisoners’ motion
to file writs of habeus cor
pus. Only 7 of the 8 ac
cused sought the writ. The
courts’ opinion found that
the charges of alleged of
fense or offenses which t h •
President authorized to be
tried before a military com
mission, that if the com
mission is lawfully consti
tuted, that the petitioners
be held in lawful custody
for trial.
Earlier today, the mili
tary commission resumed
the trial for final argument
without waiting to hear the
Supreme Court’s decision.
iuy Defense Bonds and Stamp?
Hitler's Offensive Appears Losing
Impetus Vgainsl Tightening Defenses
UNDATED, Aug. 3 i.-P— Hitler’s Russian offensive
appeared to be losing impetus against the slowly tigfyt
ening Russian defenses at the Don bend approach to
Stalingrad, along the last rail line to the oil fields of
the Caucasus, as the Red Army lashed back in a new
1 show of strength along the whole 30()-mile arc from
Kietskaya. BO miles northwest of Stalingrad, to Kush
chevka. 50 miles south of Rostov. The Russians are
stsll on the defensive but strengthening of their stand
was indicated by counter attacks which were reported
to have hurled the Germans back with losses of 6.000
dead in a single day Don and Kuban Cossacks led the
counter attacks at the critical salients at Kushchevka
and Sa’tsk. 100 miles southeast of Rostov, in the first
intimation that the big garrison of the noth Caucasus
may have been thown into the fight. It was in this
1 sector that the Germans made their deepest penetra
! tion of the northern Caucasus.
The German conr»ua;U said one of its tank columns
is “nearing the upper e mrse of the Kuban river." How
far the Nazis are from the northern curve of the nver
was not specified.
The Kuban rises from the western glaciers of El
borus, highest peak m Europe, and curves to the north
within 70 miles of Saisk before turning wes; to em
pty through broad marshy deltas into the Black Sea
just south of the Strait of Kerch
i
R \} Drops 150 2-Ton Bombs On
Dusseldorf In Fifty Minute Raid
LONDON, Aug. 1 (rP?— The Air Ministry announc
ed that the RAF dropped 150 two-ton bombs and “hun
dreds ol' thousands of incendiaries on Dusseldorf in
50 minutes last night in probably the most concen
trated attack that the bomber command has yet made.”
Reconnaissance planes confirmed that many fires were
still burning at 11 a.m. today
Sla\ er Hides
Out In Tiny
Attic 9 Months
Denver. Aug 1 (Ah —
Trapped in the tiny attic of
a house which children be
lieved to be haunted was a
wispy, half-starved man
who admitted, Detective
<lapt Jam< ; Chillers]
said, to beating to death
the aged home owner. He
lived furtively in the cub
by-hole attic for 9 months.
Gaunt and clad in old cloth
os held togethed with a
rope, the man said he was
Mathew Cornish aged 59,
once advertising salesman
of Tonawanda.
Philip Peters, aged 73,
: was found beaten to death
in a blood-spattered bed
room last October 17th.
The man foraged for
food in neighbors’ icebox
jes and prowling in stores.
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Axis Bombers
Raid Alexandria
—
Cairo, Aug. 1 (A5) — Axis
bombers raided Alexan
dria last night, killing four
and injuring 13 and caus
ing slight prperty damage,
the Interior Ministry an
nounced.
U.S. Air Force
Active Middle East
Cairo, Aug. 1 (/P) — Nu
merous Axis harbor facil
ities in several areas of the
Middle East war zone as
well a.-> Axis Mediterran
ean convoys were targets
for the U. S. Army air
force during the week end
ing today, an official an
nouncement said.
Included in the opera
tions were daylight attacks
on a large transport under
convoy of 7 destroyers and
one cruiser off southern
Greece. At least one bomb
er scored hits in the trans
port. Many medium fires
were set in the Tobruk
dock area and several ships
were hit in raids on Suda
Bay, Crete.
Bolt Lightning
Kills 4 (hardeners
Philadelphia, Aug. 1 (/P)
Eight men were killed by
lightning, a 6-year-old boy
was drowned, and trans
portation systems disrupt
ed temporarily yesterday
when a shattering electric
al storm hit the metropol
itan area. A single bolt
killed 4 gardeners on the
estate of Alfred DuPont
at Rockland, Delware.