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VOL. 44. No. 113. * NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 17. 1942 Per c°Py 154
at Kiska Now 22
Germans Threaten Stalingrad and Port Astrakhan
Navy Hurls More Than 3.000 Shells
Into Japs At Iviska—Ship Toll Now 22
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15 (/P) — A Navy statement
disclosed that a Japanese destroyer and three cargo
vessels were severely damaged, and one cargo ves
sel sunk in the raid on Kiska on August ninth. The
Navy vessels hurled more than 3.000 shells into the
Jap’s main camp on August 8th in an attack .simul
taneous with the first thrust against the Japs in the
Solomon islands. The task force withdrew leaving
large fires at the main camp at Kiska, and left a Jap
destroyer blazing outside the harbor. Previously it
had been in a fleet of about ten cargo vessels and four
submarines in the harbor of a secondary camp. Anti
aircraft emplacements at several places on Kiska were
also bombarded. All enemy shore batteries were si
lenced. The toll of Jap ships at Kiska now stands at
22 sunk or damaged, including 14 warships.
Japs Admit II. S. Landing Solomons
Marines Reported In Full Control
UNDATED, Aug. 15 (/P) — Japanese dispatches
have acknowledged for the first time that United
States Marines have landed “on one of tire Solomon
i Islands,” 900 miles northeast of Australia, and that
Japanese troops are engaged in fierce fighting to ward
off the American sea-borne invasion.
In Washington, the Navy announced that the Ma
rines are “progressing satisfactorily” in consolidating
beachheads on three islands. There are indications too,
that Allied fliers have won vital superiority in the
southwest Pacific skies. English dispatches from Syd
ney said the Americans “have or soon will have com
plete control over the Tuiagi islands.”
Dependent
Pay Bill
Passes House
Washington, Aug.—Leg
islation permitting the
War and Navy Depart
ments to make immediate
payments to dependents of
service men under the re
cent enacted Allowance
and Allotment acts, was
passed by the House and
sent to the Senate.
The original legislation
provided that first pay
ments be made November
1 but the benefits started
to accrue June 1.
Rep. John E. Rankin,
Democrat, Missouri, spon
sor of the amendment said
it was intended to enable
the departments “to take
care of needy cases now.”
Oueen of Holland
Leaves Capita!
Washington, Aug. — Hol
land’s courageous Queen
Wilhelmina has concluded
her history-making visit in
Washington. The Queen
left the Washington cap
ital for an undisclosed des
tination. President Roose
velt and Secretary of State
Cordell Hull accampanied
her majesty to her point of
departure to bid her fare
well.
Tax Bill Is
Threat to Boeing
WASHINGTON. Aug. — H. E.
Bowman, treasurer of the huge
Boeing Aircraft Company of
Seattle told the Senate Finance
Committee in a faltering voice
that the pending revenue bill
will “probably end the exist
ence’' of the Boeing Aircraft
Company, asserting that the B
ing Company will have to turn
over 88.75 percent of its nex
profit to the government if 1!;
bill become - a law. Bowman
said:
"I’m here to plead with you
for the life of this company, be
cause in . our opinion this tax
bill will, if passed, in its present
form, end Boeing's existence I
say this m all seriousness.”
Suffered Heavy Losses
Bowman also testified that he
had been urged by members of
the Senate Defense investigating
committee to protest against the
heavy provisions of the revenue
measure and further said that
because Boeing suffered heavy
losses in its period of growth
from 1936 to 1939 when it we
preparing for today’s huge turn
out of airplanes, and while it
was developing the great Flying
Fortress it could claim only a
low invested capital credit.
Ninety-nine and six-tenths per
cent of Boeing’s net income will
be subjected under the proposed
90 per cent excess profits taxes. ;
Bowman closed with:
“It Ls curious that I am here j
before you to plead for the life 1
of Boeing Aircraft at a time
when right now in Seattle, the!
company and its employees are
being given the Army and Navy
production awards.”
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Hep. Magnuson
Says North
Is Still Safe
SEATTLE, Aug. — Congress
man Warren G. Magnuson does
not see a direct threat to Al
a k.i proper or the American
we;* c as' in the Japanese occu
py n of th • Western Aleutians.
T o Wa-h.ngton Democrat, pre
p nr 4 to leave Seattle for an
inspec'.on of Alaska defenses,
s; : 1 e finds it hard to believe
far are
si- n rr -juratory to invading far
tlicr t Their most important
object, he declared, is a desire to
str i 1 ■ Russian supply line
fr A ' erican west coast.
N'o Stepping Stone
A- far as an invasion stepping
sfoni' is concerned,” he said.
“Anu and Kiska are out. Tin
Jap- i ..Id just as easily as
semble a» invasion force in their
homr lands and sail by Kiska
on tin.-it >aay east. If they were
go iiu , invade Alaska, they
would go light on by the Aleu
tians.''
H‘ was generally optimistic.
“In fact." he said, I don’t know
of i batter place for 2j.OOO Japs
to be occupied than in Kiska or
Attu. They're no good until
they’re taken off again.”
Navy Parity
Magnuson asserted that, us a
result of the Battle of Midway
where from a fourth to a third
of all of Nippon's combatant
snips were either sunk or dam
aged, the American Navy had
begun enjoying parity with the
Jap sea forces.
"Of course,” he added, we
have further to go from our
bases than they do, and that giv
os them an advantage in th< ir
home waters ”
Referring to the Western Aleu
tians, Magnuson said, "Perhaps
we made a mistake in not oc
cupying those islands with some
force at the outset of the war,
but we had so many things to
do that it wasn't possible We
had to build Kodiak and Dutch
Harbor first as well as Silk and
ie other Alaska bases.
Serious—Not Alarming
“The navy regards the Aleu
tian occupation as serious but not
alarming. The navy has tl t
uation sized up pretty g<>. i The
navy knows wlvat it is <i • :■ .
Tlie Congre.-sman joined t -se
1 elieving that a -cond front ag
ainst the Germans is due shorty.
They are moving stuff over
there—all manners of stud as
fast as they can,” he said. "And
I think we will see action soon.
Personally I would like' to see
an invasion of France, and two
supporting invasions into Nor
way and Dakar. I’d like to set an
army move in upon Rommel’s
rear.”
VVash ington Worried
Magnuson, who returned to
Congress recently from active
service with the Navy, added
however that the Russian situa
tion has created a general feel
ing of depression in the nation’s
capital, due to the mighty blows
with which Germany is striking
the Soviet.
“This is the most crucial time
of the war,” he said. “The Axis
lues got to win this year, or lose
the war. Whether Russia can
stand up under this hammering
remains to be seen. In order to
destroy Russia, of course, Hitler
must destroy the Russian army.
Merely occupying Russian soil
and pushing the Russian army
back won’t do the trick.”
Primaries Are
WASHINGTON, Aug — As a
grural political issue pre-war
foreign view were discounted in
•it 1 eist four or five states as
pnnri'-y returns gave a majority
of victories to office-holders over
ipnonents who had assailed the
incumbents as isolationists.
Example number one in na
tional interest in the results of
primaries voting was the victory
by veteran Congressman Ham
Ton Fish, Republican, outstand
mg pre-Pearl Harbor critic of
Pr sident Roosevelt's foreign pol
'•ey, who won Republican re
1 ".'[nation in the President’s
I’omt New York State district
v i three opponents.
Comment Of tVillkie
Wendell Willkie, the OOP's
I t candidate for the presidency,
who joined Fish’s inter-party op
P m nts commenting on Fish's
h d. said: “For the sake of both
the country and the Republican
Party, the fight for his elimina
tion must be continued ”
Renominated by a three-to-one
vote. Fish observed:
“These pre-war issues were
-unk at Pearl Harbor. Every fair
minded American resents at
tempts to revive them.”
Sweeney Is Defeated
Tito vote of the 20th Ohio dis
trict, however, seemed to reflect
another view when Democratic
voters rejected Rep. Martin
Sweeney’s bid for renomination.
He was a pre-war opponent of
A tministration policies.
Veteran House members, par
ty 1 ad' rs and all three Cleve
land newspapers opposed Swoon
ncy. Michael Feighan, a Cleve
land lawyer, was the winner
But two Ohio Republican Rep
resentatives who also had been
attacked as isolationists, Charles
Elston, first district, and John
Storys, twelfth District, built up
strong early leads.
Strategic
Mines May
Be Favored
Washington. Aug.—S n
ator Walter F. George. (D
Ga.), chairman of the Sen
ate Finance Committee
said today it might be able
to exempt from excess pro
fits taxes those companies
that are mining such strat
egic materials as tin and
chrome for the war effort.
The Georgia Senator
made his statement after
Senator Pat McCarran (D
Nev.) had testified before
the committee. McCarran
suggested the tax group
permit establishment of
non taxable funds by pri
vate mining interests so
that they can develop ur
gently needed new ore
bodies.
McCarran added that
the cjaulity of ore now be
ing mined has dropped off
and that new fields are not
being opened up, largely
because of the stiff federal
taxes which mining operat
ors must carry.
Russia Battles to Stem New 1 hreat to
Stalingrad. Caspian Port Astrakhan
UNDATED, Aug 15 (,’U) — Russia’s armies battled
desperately to stem grave new threats to Stalingrad
and the vital port of Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea,
while in the Caucasus, Nazi columns are reported to
have captured the rail city of Georgievsk, 120 miles
northwest of the rich Grozny oil fields, after a 20
mile advance.
Soviet dispatches ^a:d German troops are fanning
out from the Kotelnikovski sector, 95 mile< south of
Stalingrad, in a menacing drive towards Astrakhan.
The Germans said earlier this week they captured El- .
ista. 100 miles below Kotelnikovski, only 160 miles
from Astrakhan.
On the brighter side, Stockholm dispatches reported
that Hitler has been obliged to rush reinforcements to
meet the Russian, attacks in three key sectors on the
long looping front before Moscow and before Voro
nezh, northern anchor of the Don-Caucasu.s front.
The Russians are said to be striking furiously at
Rzhev, 130 miles northwest of Moscow; at Vyasma,
125 miles west of the Soviet capital; at Bryansk, 210
miles southwest of Moscow; and at Voronezh, 300
miles southeast of Moscow.
AEF Is In
Britain For
Second Front
Headquarters of U. S.
Ground Force in Britain,
' Aug. — Major Gen. Mark
Wayne Clark, Commander
of American land forces in
Europe, said that the Am
erican Expeditionary Forc
es in Great Britain is there
for the express purpose of
opening up a Second Front
Gen. Clark made his
statement in a lengthy in
terview with newsmen,
which it is believed will go
a long way toward clear
ing up the atmosphere on
both sides of the Atlantic
and in Russia. Declared
Gen. Clark:
“We are not here to sit
on our back ends and be on
the defensive. We arc here
( n the [Tensive. They talk
about a second front. All I
can say is the sooner the
better/’
Clark heads a so-called
super training school in
Britain. It is a school in
which earmarked m e n
from America are sent to
learn the grim business of
carrying the war to the en
emy in conjunction with
the British. As Gen. Clark
puts it:
“We are prepared to
carry the war to the en
emy. We cannot go on bi
i cycles. Our men must be
trained in amphibious war
fare.”
Clark said that while the
troops sent from the Unit
ed States are chosen for
special adaptabilities, they
! actually are not picked. He
described them instead as
the composite of American
1 manhood.
Churchill Said
To Be In Egypt
111
Berne. Aug. — A Ger
news agency dispatch from
Milan, Italy, said British
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill had arrived in
Cairo, Egypt from Moscow
The dispatch broadcast by
the Berlin foreign propag
anda radio quoted the It
alian newspaper Popolo
d’ltaliu as the source of its
information in a dispatch
from its correspondent at
Ankara. Turkey.
' According to the Axis
story, Mr. Churchill is to
confer with the British
Middle East Commander,
General Sir Claude Auchin
lock, on the Allied position
in Egypt.
Cana! Zone
Gets Guardian
New Base Established On
Taboga Island At
Pacific End
Panama Canal Zone, Aug.
— Final trimmings are be
ing given, it was revealed
here, to Uncle Sam’s new
guardian of the invaluable
Panama Canal, link be
tween the Atlantic and the
i Pacific.
The new guardian is a
naval base on Taboga Is
land, which has joined the
defenses at the Pacific Oc
j can approaches to the can
al. And its new trimmings
! consist of a fleet of zipping
PT boats, small but danger
i ous to the enemy.
The Taboga Island base
is located 10 miles out
from the canal, in the Pac
ific.
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