U.S. Navy
Already Is
Convoying
By Drew Pearson
and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON. June 25 — A
group of American naval vessels
have just returned from their
first experience at Atlantic pat-:
rol and or “convoying.” What
ever it is called, they helped to
get about 80 British merchant
men safely most of the way to
the west coast of Africa. There]
the British took’ over.
Just after the American war
ships left, Nazi bombers sank
four British tankers. They were
big, modern tankers capable of
making 17 knots, but held down
to about nine knots by the slow
speed of the convoy.
The manner in which the new
Atlantic patrol operates is un
ique in naval history. Here are
the mechanics:
How It Works
U. S. warships picked up the
British merchantment in a Brit
ish western hemisphere port—in
this case, Bermuda. (Sometimes
the north Atlantic route is used
via Halifax, but the route is sel
dom the same). Prior to that Brit j
ish vessels had been concentrat
ing for several weeks in various
West Indian ports — wheat and
meat ships, together with oil
tankers. The British merchant
men which awaited the U. S. pat
rol in Bermuda chiefly carried
munitions. Oil tankers comprised
the most important part of the
convoy, there being about 30 of
them, a number carrying air
planes on their decks.
Three U. S. airplane carriers,
six destroyers, and three cruisers
accompanied the convoy across
the Atlantic — but never within
sight of the 80 British merchant
men.
U. S. Warships
One airplane carrier steamed
ahead of the merchantmen, an
other to the rear, another to the
north. Each carrier was protect
ed by two destroyers, zig-zagging
constantly. The carrier perform
ed the most important part of
the patrol, keeping thier airplan
es constantly scouring the sky.
Once a plane sighted a Ger
man surface raider and radioed
its position to British warships,
which rushed up and sank her.
The battle took place so close to
American vessels that they could
hear the firing, though they nev
er saw the ships. U. S. radio oper
ator picked up a distress mes
sage sent to Berlin by the Nazi
vessel saying that she was sink
ing.
Submarine “Bombed”
On another occasion, an air
plane carrier detector picked up
the vibrations of a submarine,
and signaled it to come to the
6urface. When there was no an
swer, U. S. destroyers immediate
ly dropped depth charges. After
that the detector picked up no
more vibrations.
Later another submarine was
detected, and warned to come to
the surface. It did so and prov
ed to be one of the long-range
French submarines —the largest
in existence and manned by a
Free French and British crew. It
carried a small airplane aboard.
When the patrol reached its
meeting place with the British
near the Cape Verde islands off
the African coast, it turned north
and shortly after this, the 12 U.
6, naval vessels headed home.
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sold according to law.
Nome Common Council
By M. J. Walsh, City Clerk
Sailor Says
He Murdered
Missing Man
GRAND COULEE. Wash.. June
24 —The body of Douglas Smith,
missing for 12 days, was found
near Arlington, Ore., last night,
almost at the same hour as the
arrest near Nespelem of James
Harvey Thomas, 19-year-old sail
or who was accused of forging
Smith's name.
The two developments brought
to a sudden climax a widespread
manhunt that had moved into
parts of Washington, Oregon and
Idaho since the mysterious disap
pearance of the Seattle motorist
on June 11.
Smith’s body, shot through the
head, was found by a motorist
beside the highway 'near Arling
ton. After identification, Oregon
State Patrolmen estimated the
body had been there for 11 days.
Thomas, absent without leave
from the San Diego Naval Hos
pital, admitted his identity to
Washington State Patrol Ser
geant Wardall who said Thomas
said he had hitched a ride with
Smith and had taken Smith's car
after “knocking him in the ditch”
near Arlington.
Smith, 26, left Wallace, Idaho,
on June 11 going to the bedside
of his sick mother in Aberdeen,
Wash. He was traced to Walla
Walla through credit slips, some
of which were later pronounced
forgeries by his father, Freeman
Smith.
SrQith’s car was found wreck
ed near Tensed, Idaho, a week
later. Officers there learned a
sailor was driving it at the time
of the accident.
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Mad Slayer
Rapes, Kills
In Seattle
SEATTLE, June 25 — Author
ities seeking a mad slayer in the
northern suburban district here
were given a new mystery when
the body of Mr?. Blanche Linkv
33 year old widow, was found
raped and kicked to death in a
vacant lot in the district where
yesterday’s gun man-abductor dis
appeared.
Mrs. L'nk's body was found in
the underbrush a block from her
Wir chaster Heights home by her
brother-in-law and neighbor, Ro
bert Young. Her friends sought
her after her son, Howard, age
nine years, became alarmed dur
ing the night when she failed to
return home.
The murdered woman started
home about 11 o’clock last night
from an uptown hotel where she j
was a switchboard operator. Un-1
der-sheriff Bodia said he did not
believe her assailant was the ag
ed apparent maniac who commit
ted yesterday’s unprovoked at
tacks .n wh.eh Edward LaFoun
taine, 53 year old insurance sales
man, was shot to death and Mrs.
LaFountaine was shot seriously
through the neck. Another mo
torist, R. F. Bull, 43 year-old
plumbing salesman, was critical
ly shot and bludgeoned.
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Alaska Boys
Are To Enter
Naval Academy
Thre“ Ah’ka voutK« will enter
the United States Naval Acad
emy in the near future under ap
pointments by Delegate Anthony
J. Dlmond. Two of the appoint
ees have been ordered to report
at the Academy on July 2. They
are Keith T. Petrich, of Juneau,
•nd Beverly D. Staser of Anchor
age, both of whom qualified in an
examination on May 7.
Tire third appointee. Claud L.
Helgesen, of Juneau, is submit
ting a certificate for admission
on the basis of college training1
and will be ordered to report
when the certificate is oomplete.
One of the principal appointees
did not qualify for admission and
•his vacancy was filled by the ap
pointment of Staser, an alternate
candidate.
PRODUCTION AT LUMBER
MILLS IS NOW AT PEAK
The Juneau Lumber Mills re
port that the company is con
fronted with a new all-time high
in production. Orders for lum
ber are exceeding capacity out
put stated a Lumber Mill spokes
man.
A large part of the orders are
from the Anchorage branch
which is due to the extensive
housing program in progress.
The difficulty now hindering
the company in increasing pro
duction is the result of the short
age of skilled labor in the yard:
The Company receives most of
its timber from Kosciusko island
which is a little west of the
Prince of Wales island, 200 miles
south of Juneau.
^ ® Mp W^ NTS TO K N 0 W—While police stood around vigilantly, spectators
who had seen the Baldwin Locomotive Works company in Eddystone, Pa. turn over its first m-3
medium tank to the U. S. army Inspected the tank-but It was only an outsWe view that they go!
since the inside workings constitute a military secret. The heavily armed tank weighs about 28 tons.
The above map shows Constanta and Bucharest, Rumania, recently heavily bombed by Red Airmen
CBS Newsman
Brings Gavel
For Gruening
Carrying a good-will gavel
from Republican Gov. Dwight
Green of Illinois to Gov. Ernest
Gruening, Tod Hunter, CBS news
caster, landed in Juneau last
week.
A token of friendship and lib
erty, the gavel was turned from
wood taken from the Sangamon
County Court House in Illinois
where Abraham Lincoln and
Stephen A. Douglas once tried
oases, and from wood from the
stairway leading to Lincoln’s of
fice. The head of the judicial
hammer is from the Court House
and the handle from the stair
case.
Hunter is in Alaska on a va
cation trip, seeing the Territory
for the first time. He is with ra
dio station WBBM, in Chicago.
CAA Gets
New Stinson
_
I. K. McWilliams, Senior In
spector for the Civil Aeronautics
Authority in Alaska, accompan
ied by Eugene Gull, also CAA In
spector, landed last Tuesday at
the Juneau airport after flying
up from Seattle.
McWilliams has been on a six
weeks’ tour of the States which
took him to Washington on offic
:al business. Most of his time,;
however, has been spent on the
West Coast.
While in Oakland, McWilliams
picked up a Stinson Reiant air
plane, which he flew up for use
in Alaska. The plane was former!
ly the property of the U. S. For
est Service, used on forest fire
duty. The planes now at the dis
posal of the four CAA inspectors
in the Territory total three, two
Stinsons and one Fairchild, all
of which can be adapted for use
on land, water or snow.
Navy Dept.
Engineer In
Territory
j
Bound for Juneau, enroute to
his headquarters at Washington,
D.C.. R. A. Gridley head engin
eer attached to the office of the
Secretary of the Navy, left Fair
banks recently.
Formerly Public Works Admin
istrator for Alaska from 1935 to
1937, Gridley is now acting as ad
viser to the Navy Department on
administrative and policy mat-}
ters involving Navy-negotiated
fixed fee contracts on defense
projects.
The former Juneau official has
just completed an observation
tour of naval air stations at Sit
ka, Dutch Harbor, and Kodiak.
He was flown to Anchorage in a
Grumman Amphibian piloted by
Lieutenant Charles R. Burnett.
Lieutenant Burnett was Civil
Aeronautics Authority inspector
stationed in Fairbanks for four
years. He was recently transferr
ed to Kodiak from Pensacola',
where he was called into active
duty from the Naval Reserve sev
eral months ago.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Continued cloudy with occasional light drizzle tonight and Tues
day. Not much change in temperature.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 47 Lowest temp — 40 Precipitation — .01
Total precip this month 0.39 Total since Jan. 1, 11941 — 2.19
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight____ 42 96 NW 5 Raining
8am_- 43 95 NW 6 Raining
12:30 p m____ _ 44 81 SW 13 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 1:09 a. m. Sunset 10:55 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 50 Lowest temp — 42 Precipitation — T
Military Code
For Northland
Introduced
On June 13, Delegate Anthony
J. Dimond introduced in the
House of Representatives a bill
to establish a military code for
the Territory of Alaska. The bill
is intended to provide a com
plete legal status for the Nation
al Guard organization in the
Territory and provides that the
Governor of the Territory of Al
aska shall be ex-officio command
cr of the militia of the Territory
and shall have like command of
the National Guard.
Provision is made that the Gov <
ernor shall have the power dur
ing such time as the Alaska Na
tional Guard, or a substantial
part thereof, is in active Federal
service to organize by voluntary
enlistments a Territorial Guard
for civilian defense under such
regulations as to discipline and
training as the Secretary of War
may prescribe.
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