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VOL. 44. No. 99. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY, July 27, 1942. P«r Copy is#
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U.S. and J apan Complete First Diplomatic Transfer
Nazis Claim 20-Mile Penetration of
(laucasus-Reds Assert Invaders Halted
UNDATED, July 27 UP) — Berlin announced a 20
mile peneration of the Caucasus south of Rostov, on
the main rail route to Russia’s greatest oil fields. But
farther up on the Don, in the Tsimlvansk area, where
the invaders forced at least two crossings, the Ger
mans were halted, Moscow said. South of Rostov, it
was said German troops stormed Bataisk after a day
of fighting in which a terrific aerial assault broke a
path for them. The Germans, without details, said)
farther east along the Don. mechanized detachments
continued their southward drive. It was there that the
* Russians said they were checked, in the Tsimlvansk
area.
In the northeast, German and Rumanian infantry
divisions, Germans said, are threatening Stalingrad
on a broad front, having reached the bend area about
50 miles from their goal. Stalingrad, industrial capital
of the lower Volga, lies near the elbow of that river,
within 50 miles from the Don bend. A vast area of
steppe land within the big bend is overhung with the
smoke of battle through which German planes and
the Red Air force, using numbers of U. S. bombers
and fighters, lunged with bomb loads.
In other sectors of the world conflict, apart from
the dominant Russian front, the RAF offensive against j
* Germany regained momentum, marked by further,
preparatory participation of U. S. airmen in actual
combat in a powerful over night assault on Hamburg,
while the battle of Egypt shifted almost wholly into
the air.
Heavy RAF bomber forces, following up a joint
British and American bombardment Saturday night,
blasted the Axis Libyan supply port of Tobruk again
last night, hitting enemy ships. Lone RAF fighters at
tacked barges off Sidi Barrani, Axis-held port in
Egypt. German and Italian troops on the El Alamein
line are digging in after last week’s minor rectifica
tion of positions in favor of the British. Ground action
consisted largely of skirmishing. The Italians claimed
* that the British lost some prisoners.
Aboard A Flying Fortress Bomber
Enroute To Kiska4* On June 26 —
by Keith Wheeler
Aboard a Fortress Bomber Enroute to Kiska, June 2G
4 Delayed, Released for publication by the Navy, July
26 (/P) — We are an hour from the target and the radio
man picks up a distress message from a PBY Catalina
flying boat scouting ahead of us. A Jap fighter caught
the “Cat” over Kiska and he’s trying to get home.
One gunner is dead, another is wounded in a leg,
a naval photographer has a bullet through his back.
He may die before they get in. One aileron control is
shot away and he’s having trouble keeping the big
boat under control.
In another hour we’ll be over Kiska ourselves and
• the five hundred pound packages tiered up in our bomb
racks will be paying off for that. We don’t know what
we’ll find in Kiska nor how much we’ll be able to see.
You never know in the eternal Aleutian fog, but we
won't be bringing the bombs home again.
—Copyright by Chicago Times
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, U. S. Douglas “Boston" Bombers Take
Part In Desperate Defense Caucasus
MOSCOW, July 25 (/P) — U. S. bombers took part
in the desperate Russian defense of the Caucasus as
the Germans drove dangerous wedges into the forts
guarding Rostov and struck ever nearer vital Stalin
grad. U. S. sources said swift twin-engined Douglases!
are flying wing to wing with Russian planes in fierce ‘
fighting with German tanks and motorized columns.
Presumably the planes were flown by Russians.
The Germans established hazardous bridges across;
♦ the lower Don, 120 miles upriver from Rostov which!
was reported still held.
Army Issues
m
first Alaska
Casualty List
Washington. July 25 (/I5)
—The Army issued its first
casualty list in the Alaska
are... announcing for pub
lication the names of 41
American soldiers killed in
the July 3rd raid on Dutch
Ha: b' r tnd subsequent air
operations in the Aleu
tians. Numbered were six;
office, > and 35 enlisted
men from 13 states. 3 from 1
Washington state.
Make Last
Ditch Defense
M jscow. July 24 (TP) — j
The Red Army took a
i stand on the banks of the
br ad lower Don in a last
ditch defense of the north
ern Caucasus against ai
still further reinforced
Axis onslaught which over
ran tile Donets basin, was
beat at Rostov, but height
ened the menace to Staiin
grad.
U. 3. built planes, espec
ially two-motored Douglas
Boston bombers, were
thrown into the fight for
the Caucasus in greater
number than ever before
on the Russian front.
The Russians reported
holding as best they could
positions to which they
withdrew from Novocher
kassk, 20 miles northeast
of Rostov. They said they
developed a flank attack
against the right wing of
the Nazi Don river front at
Tsimylansk, midway be
tween Rostov and Stalin
grad. The Red Army count
er attack bespoke the Rus
sians’ determination, at
any cost, to keep the Cau
casus from isolation, by
holding the Tikhoretsk
Stalingrad rail line, last
railway link to the far
j southern front.
Morgenthau Calls
For Bold Taxation
—
WASHINGTON. July 22 .(/Pi
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau'
called for a two and a half bil
lion dollar bold tax bill, warn-1
mg that only bold war taxation 1
will bring America a sound ec- j
onomic future. He appealed to
the Senate finance commitee to
increase the House-approved $6,- i
271,000,000 tax measure to a mini i
mum of $8,700,000,000. Substan
tially, the Administration asked
the same revenue from the same
sources and proposed it in the
House two months ago.
Morgenthau pointed out that
since the proposals were made, j
the schedule of war spending for
tiie current fiscal year has been
stepped up by fourteen billion
dollars while the houses kicked
about the $2,400,000,000 bill.
Japs Report Sink
in" 71.000 Tons !
i s
June I! to July 16
—
Tokyo, July 27 (/P) —
Headquarters said Jap
I subs sunk 8 enemy ships
‘totaling 71,000 tons be
tween June 8 and July 16.
One 1.000-ton vessel was
sunk off Seattle on June 8
and another of 7,000 tons
in the same area on June
20, the communique said.
The loss of one Allied ship
off Washington on June 7 i
| was reported by Senator
| Bone on June 9th.
Five others were report
ed sunk in Australian wat
; ers, including one of 20,000
j tons while a 6.000-ton ves
I sel was said sunk not far
from Dutch Harbor on
July 16th.
FBI Head Hoover
narn Nation Look
For 3 Saboteurs
Washington. July 25 (/P)
— J. Edgar Hoover, head
of the FBI, asked the na
tion to be on the look-out
for three men. identified as
expert German saboteurs,
trained in German schools,
who might come to the U.
S. with orders to destroy
vital industries. However,
the statement identified
the men as Walter Kappe,
alias Kappel, aged 37; Jos
eph Schmidt, alias Paul
Schmidt, alias Jerry Swcn
son; and Rheinhold Barth,
aged 35. All are natives of
Germany.
German (ommanri
Announces Rostov
Taken by Storm
Berlin, July 25 f/P)— Ros
tov was taken by storm,
the resistance of fresh Rus
sian troops broken in the
big bend region of the Don,
the German command re
ported. The fall of Rostov,
on the Don, 25 miles from
the Sea of Azov, was an
nounced in a special com
munique which said
“troops of the German
army, troops of the Elite
Guard and Slovak units,;
supported in a splendid
manner by the air force
have broken through on
the entire front of strongly
fortified and deeply eche
loned positions in the de
fense of Rostov, after hard
fighting and captured the
town by storm.”
3uy Defence Bonds and Stamps
I . S. and Japan Complete First
Diplomatic Transfer of Nationals
Returning Americans Report Certain Prisoners Were
Threatened with Guillotine by .lap Authorities
LOUBENCO MARGUES, Portuguese East Africa,
July 25 (/P) — The first diplomatic transfer of nation
als of the United States and Japan, since the start of
the war, was completed when more than 1100 North
and South Americans boarded the Swedish liner Grips
holm to take the places evacuated by Jap diplomats
and the families brought from America. The Ameri
cans arrived here on the liners Conte Verue and the
Asama Maru. The exchange was supervised by the
Portuguese Foreign Office.
Some of the returning Americans reported that cer
tain prisoners were threatened with guillotine by Jap
authorities seeking to obtain admissions of guilt from
men charged with espionage. There were no known
cases in Japan of physical abuse to women or child
ren among the prisoners, but some of the men were
told that their wives and children would be made to
suffer if they did not confess to espionage. The re
ports made by the individuals have not yet been brot
to the official attention of the U. S. government.
Jap Reporter Asserts Troops At
kiska Suffering From Loneliness
C
I’. S. Bombers Attack Kiska. Now Named Narukam:,
Three or Four Times a Day. Dropping Bombs Thru Fog
NEW YORK. Juiy 24 (/P) —The Tokyo radio broad
cast a Dome: dispatch in which a Jap correspondent
at Kiska reported that U. S. bombers at attacking the
Jap forces there two or three times a day, dropping
bombs through the fog.
The broadcast quoted the correspondent as saying
that the Jap forces which moved into barracks on the
island suffered loneliness and hardships and faced a
bitter cold winter which sets in in September. He re
ported that since the Jap landing they have changed
the name of the island to Narukami and said a road
is being built across the black tree-less hills.
The dispatch said “We are having the best weather
here now. The temperature is about the same as in
February in Japan proper. The foothills are covered
with a profusion of black lilies and mountain violets.
The loneliness of this remote northern base is hard to
imagine back home. We have received no letters or
comfort bags yet and only hear the latest news from
sailors off warships which call in port, our only plea
sure.”
Characterizes Neutrality
World-wide Fight By Lovers Freedom Against Those
Who Seek To Enslave Mankind
WASHINGTON, July 24 (/P) — The United States
is calling on all peoples who hope to keep their free
dom, regain their lost freedom, or win new freedom,
to help defeat the Axis now.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull sounded the call
last night in an address shorOwaved to all countries,
friends and foes of the defeated nations, and to those
still listed as rigidly neutral He stressed that the con
flict now raging ‘‘is not a war of nation against nation,”
but a world-wide fight by those who love freedom ag
ainst the would-be conquerors who seek to enslave all
mankind. Characterizing the .professions of neutrality
in such a conflict as “absurd and suicidal” he pictured
the world-wide war as a test of the caliber of nations
and individuals.
Hull asserted that in this vast conflict, the whole
hearted support of Americans is dedicated to those
who are: 1 — fighting for the preservation of their
freedom; 2—fighting to regain their freedom, of which
they have been brutally deprived; and 3—fighting for
the opportunity to achieve freedom.