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VOL. 44. No. 53. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY, MAY 4. 1942 Per Copy 15*
Threaten Envelope Allies In Burma
Britain And Germany Exchange Battering Blows
Britain and Germany Exchange
Battering Blows At Sea Power
UNDATED, May 4 (AI5) — In a battering exchange
of blows at seapower, the British declared the RAF
left the Hamburg docks and shipyards ablaze and
pounded the Nazi U-Boat nest at St. Nazaire last night,j
and the Germans said their air force raided Alexan
dria, the British eastern Mediterranean fleet base.
The German command said, in other operations off
Euroye’s far northern coast, German warships, subs,;
and planes fought a running battle for “days on end
in storm, high seas and ice” against strongly guarded
Allied convoys along the supply line toRussia. With
the Allied account of the sea fight yet to be told, the;
Germans hurried in first with version and claimed,1
during the attacks, a 10,000-ton British cruiser was
sunk by a sub', six of nine convoyed ships totalling!
37,000 tons were sent to the bottom; several destrov
ers and four supply ships damaged. The attacks ii>
volved more than one convoy, the Germans said, and
reported that one German destroyer in the flotilla was
said to have “accepted battle with a superior force of
enemy destroyers,” and was serously damaged.
The RAF, continuing day and night attacks as the
spring permits, struck back over the English Channel
after daybreak on the heels of the night raids on
Hamburg, St. Nazaire and Nazi-used airdromes in
northern France and the Low Countries. About 30
German night bombers concentrated on the southeast
ern English cathedral town of Exeter for the second
time since the start of the raids, in what the Berlin
communique flatly called a reprisal bombing. The
British said five raiders were shot down and two others
knocked out of the sky over northern France.
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Sleeper Transport Crashes, killing |
14 Passengers and Crew of 3
SALT LAKE CITY, May 2, 8:29 a.m. — 6:50 a.m.
(AP> — A sleeper transport of the United Airlines
ploughed into a storm lashed ridge within sight of the
airport here late last night killing 14 passengers and
the crew of three.
George Gearhart, watchman at an inn about a mile
below the site, who was the first to reach the scene,
said one man lived for a few minutes. Scars on the
ground indicated that the plane hit near the summit
of the ridge.
The pilot was Captain Donald Brown of San Fran
cisco and the victims included Navy Commander John
Burrow, Navy Lieut. Junor Grade Claire Tucker;
Army Leut. Herman Frankenburg. Three women were
killed, including the stewardess, and a year-old infant.
Former Governor of Alaska,
John Wier Troy, Passes On
JUNEAU. May 2 (AP) — John Wier Troy, aged
72, former governor of Alaska, died this afternoon in
the hospital here after a year’s illness. The former
collector of customs and at death, the owner of the
Juneau Empire, is survived by a widow in Hollywood.
Calif.; a sister at Long Beach, Calif.; two daughters,
Mrs. Al Munson and Mrs. George Lingo, both of Ju
neau; and a granddaugher, Joan Lingo, of Seattle.
Funeral For Troy Will Be Held On Wednesday
JUNEAU, May 4 — Last rites for former Governor
Troy will be held Wesdnesday afternoon, probably un
der the auspices of the Elks, of which he was a charter
member of the Naval Lodge of the Elks at Port Angel
es. Members of the Juneau Empire force will be active
pallbearers.
British Withdraw
North Big Bend
On Irrawaddy
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New Delhi, May 2 (AP)
— Battered by a Jap thrust
the British are withdraw
ing north of the big bend
on the Irrawaddy, virtual
ly on the outskirts of Man
dalay, destroying, they an
nounced, the important
rail line & highway bridg
es ten miles south of the
former capital of the Bur
ma kings.
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U. S. Troops
Are In Africa
It Is Disclosed
CAIRO, May 2 (AP) —
Maj. General Russell Max
well, chief of the U. S.
North African mission con
firmed that U. S. troops are
in the eastern Mediterran
ean. Talking at a press con
ference, he said they were
all service personnel.
Execute Thirty
French Officers
Oil Suspicion
MOSCOW, May 1 (AP)
(Delayed) — Saturday —
Thirty French officers were
executed in Germany as
suspected accomplices in
the escape of General Hen
ri Honore Giraud, a Tass
dispatch from Stockholm
said. The Moscow radio
said a Nazi commission,
headed by Gestapo Chief
Heinrich Himmler, arrived
in Dresden to inquire into'
the circumstances of Gi-'
raud’s escape.
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/Allies Bomb
Jap Dromes
New Guinea
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Allied Headquarters in
Austarlia, May 1, (Delay-j
ed) (AP) — Saturday —
Allied airmen successfully
bombed Japanese air
drome installations at Gas
mata on New Britain Is
land and shot down one of
seven Jap fighter planes
which sought to intercept'
them. Another Japanese
plane was destroyed when|
five enemy craft attacked
Port Moresby, New Gui
nea.
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kill 1,00(1
Chungknak, May 1 (De
layed) (AP) —New Chin
ese field headquarters from
Honnan Province battle
front said 1,000 Japanese
were slain attempting to
drive by the invader north
west from Sinyang. The
entire Japanese force, re
ported to number 6,000,
were trapped near Min
cong and forced into dis
ordered retreat.
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Tokyo Announces
Fall Of
Tokyo, May 2 (AP) —
Imperial headquarters an
nounced that Jap forces
yesterday captured Man
dalay on the now-closed
Burma road to China, and[
that the city’s vital milit
tarv establishments were
Washington, May 1, (De
layed ) (AP) — Growing
manpower requirements of
the army led to the call for
enlistments by youths 18
and 19 years old, a group:
not subject to call under
the selective service law;
and the first order for the
draft of men whose minor
physical defects bar them
from front line duty.
Crew of 7 Die
In Crash Of
4-Motor Bomber
Cimarron, N. M., May 1
(Delayed > (AP) — A cow
boy reported that 7 crew
members of a four-motor
ed army bomber were kill
ed when it crashed atop
10,000 - foot Trail Peak,
southwest of here during a
storm 9 days ago.
ARMY PAY BILL
PASSES COMMITTEE
Washington, May 1 — The
House Military Affair's
Committee approved late
yesterday the Army pay
bill, doubling pay of pri
vates, raising salaries of
certain officers, and mak
ing other changes in Army
salary structure.
The bill will place Army
privates on a base pay rate
of 42 dollars a month, with
a twenty percent increase
for foreign service. A ten
percent foreign service in
crease is allowed officers.
In addition, the committee j
voted to strike from the;
bill the overall limitation
placed on salaries of high-1
er officers.
This limitation had the
effect of preventing many
officers from receiving
their regular subsistence
allowance.
The Senate - approved
measure is expected to
come up for action in the
House early in the week.
Jap Campaign In Burma Threatens
Both India and China Envelopment
UNDATED, May 4 (AP) — The Jap campaign in
Burma developed swiftly into a stark invasion threat
to China from the south and to India from the East, as
the enemy pushed China’s expeditionary army within
30 miles of the Yunna frontier and forced the battered
British troops back less than 150 miles from the Ben
gal border of the fire-blackened ruins of Mandalay.
The center of the Japanese wedge up the broad Irra
waddy valley separated the allied defense forces.
British military commentators dscribed the Japanese
thrust up the severed Burma road toward Chungking,
700 miles to the northeast, as the heaviest assault of
the campaign and is said to be slowing the flow of sup
plies to China since the fall of Rangoon, and apparent
ly sapped the strength of the Chinese army. The Chin
ese spokesman declared however, that the withdrawal
was made because of “strategic considerations,” and
pledged that the Chinese troops will win back Man
dalay.
At the same time new penetration invasion units in
land started across New Guinea, timed with increa,s
ed Jap air raids on Port Moresby. It was suggested
the Japanese might be ready for the big struggle for
control of the important south coast of New Guinea,
across the Coral Sea from Australia. On both fror*
there are indications that defense forces, one led
an American and the other including U. S. men ar.
equipment, are being marshalled for stiff resistance.
16 Persons 10 Prom Anchorage
Share $80,000 Nenana lee Pool
FAIRBANKS, May 1 (Delayed) — Eighty thousand
dollars divided by 16 is the approximate amount each
of the winners of the 1942 Nenana Ice Pool winners
can look forward to as soon as they awaken from the
shock and establish their claims as the champon break
up experts of the year.
Three of the 16 who will share in the cash award
for excellency in guesswork are Fairbanksans, part
ners with B. A. Klesinger on his ticket marked for
1:28 p.m, April 30—the winning time on the nose.
Ten of the winners signed themselves with Anchor
age addresses. Joe Johnson and “Lucky” Mary Olin
are the other two Fairbanksans who will be comput
ing government taxes and calculating how much to
invest in War Bonds.
Winners’ List
Other individual winners and “combination” ticket
holders on the right minute, as listed by Manager
Mike Cooney, are:
Leslie J Kelm and Otto Huggins, both of Anchorage.
Tom Winn. B. O. Namur, and Mary Sharpe, all of
Anchorage.
Adolph Schauec, Anchorage.
P. L. Heitmeyer and Mrs. M. Lofness, both of An
chorage.
Johanna Van Zanlen, Anchorage.
R. D. Olander, Valdez.
Olev Eikland, Anchorage.
J. W. Mutch. Sitka.
And Warren K. Locke, Naval Air Station, Kodiak.
155 Tickets From Tunnel
M. J. Cooney, manager of the Ice Classic, telephon
ed the Fairbanks News-Miner saying there still are 155
tickets to be received and tabulated by him. The tick
ets are on their wayfrom Tunnell on the Alaska Rail
road, but have not yet reached Nenana. They were put
in the express office at Tunnell April 6. Cooney said.
Defense Worker To Stay Till Job Is Finished
KODIAK, May 1 (Delayed) — Ice pool winner
Warren T. Lock, defense worker, aged 30 and single,
with his home in Wenatchee, Wash., came to Alaska
two years ago and formerly resided at Fairbanks. He
started working here in February and he said he is
“going to stay right here until the job is finished.” He
was informed after a fake arrest in which he was hand
cuffed and mugged by U. S. Marshall Paul Herring,
then released.