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VOL. 44. No. 100. NOME. ALASKA. Wednesday, July 29. 1942. p-Copy
' the Caucasus
Allies Repulse Land Attack Toward Port Moresby
Russian Defense of (lausasus
Shows Sims of Stiffening
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MOSCOW, July 29 (,P) — The Russian defense of
the Caucasus showed signs of stiffening as the steadily 1
reinforced German drive across the lower Don shaped :
spearheads toward Kushchevka-Salsk and the Tikhor-1
etsk-Stalingrad railroad linking the oil fields with cen-j
tral Russia. A communique said the Red Army “is dis- i
playing stubborn resistance” after it was forced back!
in the Butaisk area, 15 miles south of Rostov along the
main railway from the port of Batu to Kuschevka.
This line is 45 miles south of Rostov.
The Germans are also meeting stiff resistance ag
ainst a second thrust developing down a spur railway
’ at Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov.
Back up Despite Stubborn Resistance
BERLIN, July 29 (A^) — The German command said
the Russians are being pushed back despite stubborn
resistance and reported their troops crossed the Sal
and Manych rivers, tributaries which enter the Don
from the south.
Russians Assert Pressure Becoming
’ Difficult To Meet'
UNDATED. July 28 (/P) — Hitler's headquarters
asserted that German troops, advancing within 50
miles of Stalingrad, “have reached or crossed the lower
Don at all points” south of Kalach. Soviet dispatches
frankly conceded this the gravest moment of the war.
Kalach is on the east bank of the Don where it curves
nearest the Volga. 50 miles west of Stalingrad.
The Red Star, Russian army paper, declared omin
ously that the pressure is becoming “more and more
"‘lcult to meet,” while other Soviet, papers hinted
;w at the need for the opening of an Allied second
nt in Europe. The Russians acknowledged the fall
Rostov, described by the Germans as “the spigot of
le Russian oil barrel,” also Novocherkassk, 20 miles
ortheast of Rostov.
German Armies Suffer Heavy Losses
Russian Armies are Mostly Intact
LONDON, July 28 (/P) — Military quarters said the
Nazis, throwing probably 625,000 troops into the as
sault slowed somewhat after suffering heavy losses.
These quarters said that the Russian armies are mostly
intact, but that German reserves are believed to be
considerable.
On the north flank, in the bloody Voronezh sector,
the Germans were described as “definitely on the de
fensive.”
Nazi military quarters asserted that German in
i fantry and mechanized forces swept across the Don
on a broad front east of Rostov and reached the Manych
and Sal rivers at several points. If true, the Nazi claim
indicates that Hitler’s legions, racing headlong across
the northern Caucasus toward Astrakhan on the Cas
pian Sea, are also turning southward into the Caucas-;
us itself.
t MARRIAGES BANNED
FOR TROOPS ABROAD
WASHINGTON— The War De
partment announced that the sol
diers of the American Expedition
ary forces cannot marry without
the approval of their command
ing officers.
This ruling, released in Wash
ington, is the latest turn of ev
ents in a long-standing argument
which originated in the last war
when some French brides were
brought through the immigration
bars and others were left sadly
behind.
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CAPONE GANGSTER
IN KILLING CASE
CHICAGO, July — A former
member of A1 Capone's gang,
Sam Hunt, was arrested in the
fatal shooting of a motorist.
Police believed the ex-Capone
lieutenant was involved in the
shooting escapade. Hunt was ar
rested when he appeared at a
Chicago hospital for treatment of
a bullet wound in the leg. He
won the nickname of “Golfbag
'Sam” when he was once picked
up carrying a shawed-off shot
gun in a golf bag.
PLAN OUR AIR FORCE
AS LARGEST AND BEST
GeneriU Tell Writers We Are
Also Striving to Make It
the World’s Safest
—
NEW -TYPE PLANES NE AR
Ferrv Command will Soon Fly
10 Times Distance Covered
b> Air l ines Before War
' New York Times)
WASHINGTON, July (/Pi—The
Army A.: Force, from the com
mander, Lieut Gen. Henry H.
| Arnold, the specialists in
. charg f tie various divisions,
has g: - n to the Aviation Writers
Assoc T on a clean-cut picture of
I a great t r force. Lectures and
' discuss.,.a.- -where held but much
| of what the experts said was of!
i the record.
The air force has combat plan
I es no w which have stood up not
; ably under enemy fire, and has
I neat '. completed new types
which. :u iy revolutionize aerial
! warfar .
It is a supply service, the
i Ferrying Command, which will
' »oon be spanning ten times the
I numb r f miles covered by all
j th» world's airlines at the start
of the warTarid which is rapidly
I bringing the a:r force to a state
of s- If sufficiency independent of
land or sea transport.
It has the largest air training
program ever undertaken by any
■country, the scope of which by
1943, will be of “astronomical"
dimensions.
It is manned by young men
who, in the words of Major Gen.
Barton K. Yount, head of the Fly
mg Training Command, are “the
cream of the land—if we can’t
rain them, we couldn’t train any
! bod y."
Glider Program Being Pushed
While it was caught short by
tin Nazis in the use of gliders
for troop and cargo carrying, it
has under way a program that is
i making up ground at a satisfying
| pace.
In its striking arm, bombard
ment, it is working on the prin
ciple that the United States has
he world’s best bombsight, and
aat this bombsight should be
i used fior highly selective attacks
on the enemy’s most strgategic
centers, rather than in indiscrim
I mate bombing
L has, m the Boeing B-17, ‘t’he
best daylight bomber in the
world today," in the words of
I M ■ r Gen. O. P. Echols, chief of
the materiel command, and in
’ the Consolidated B-24 (Liberat
or) another four-motored craft
which, while slower, can carry
more bombs a greater distance
and which “we hope and expect
wu be almost as good, just as
i good or better” than the B-17,
j according to the guage of com
parison employed.
It is striving for the goal of
being not only the world’s larg
est and the world’s best air force
but also the world’s safest.
Most Planes Tried in Battle
With two'exceptions—the Lock
heed P-38 and the Republic PA
47, both high-altitude fighters — I
the A. A. F.’s warplanes have
been tested in battle. Curtiss
P-40s and Bell P-39’s have un
dergone enemy fire over the
Southwest Pacific, Burma, Russia
and North Africa Douglas A-20’s
have prqvod themselves in Lib
ya; North American B-25’s bomb
ed Tokyo without a loss; Marlin
B-2(j’s raised havoc with the Jap
fleet off Midway; B-27's
r, ■ make the enemy keep a re
sp distance wherever they
appear, and B-24’s have swung
into action over the Mediterran
ean.
In addition to General- Arnold,
Yount and Echols, these were the j
men who helped put together a
composite picture of an air force
which they declared had unshake
able confidence in its ability to
handle its tremendous task.
Major Gen. M. F. Harmon,
Chief of the Aar Staff; Major
Gen Alexander Surles. Chief of
; Army Public Relations; Brig.
; G* Harold L. George, head of
tb" Ferrying Command; Colonel j
I Luke Smith, director of individ-j
i. ■. training; Colonel D. M.
; Schlatter, director of ground air •
| support; Colonel S. R. Harris, di
i rector of flying safety; Colonel
: S. P Sorenson, director of bom
j bardment; Lieut. Col. W. F. Mc
Kee, chief of anti-aircraft, and
Colonel Wentworth Goss, chief
of the fighter division.
Ferry ^ork Is
Greatly Increased
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WASHINGTON'. July (U. P i
— Brig. Gen. Harold L. George,
chief of the Army air ferrying
command, said that the United
States was not far behind Ger
many in technical development
f gliders. He foresaw tremen
dous possibilities in their use as
transports but emphasized that
the use of gliders for long-dis
tance overseas hauls was hardly
i feasible at this time.
The ferrying command, organ
ized a year ago to help fly Am
erican-made bombers from fac
tories to the British Isles, had
expanded rapidly into a world
wide service, flying combat plan
es, supplies, personnel and mail
to American troops stationed
abroad and to our allies, he stat
ed.
General George told the con
vention of aviation writers that
the ferrying command’s foreign
1 routes alone measured one or
| ’wo times the distance around
1 the earth. The domestic service
of the ferrying command, he
-.dded, was greater now in pilots,
planes and stations than was the
1 entire Army air Corps four years
; igo.
General George said that at
1 many stations at home and
I abroad the command must main
tain accomodations for 100 plan
es each, together with crews, sup
plies, facilities for repairs, hospit
alization and recreation. He re
lated several experiences of the
ferrying command.
Once, he said. General Douglas
MacArthur needed about 2.0OA
pounds of small parts to main
tain certain planes in reserve.
The parts were assembled on thi
Pacific Coast and two days and
twelve hours a plane landed
them in Australia. The plane
spent -only six hours on the
ground enroute, for fueling and
servicing. The crew ate and slept
on board.
Hospital Delivered to Nome
He said that in Nome, Alaska,
a hospital was destroyed by fire
In 36 hours the ferrying com
mand laid down a 24-bed has
pital complete.
When the command started de
livering supplies to the Middle
Allied Patrols
Drive Japs Back
In New Guinea
MacArthurs Headquar
ters, July 29 (/P) — Allied
patrols have driven strong
aggressive Jap units back
from advanced posts occu
pied in the vicinity of Ko
koda. New Guinea, only 60
miles from the most ad
vanced Allied base, Port
Moresby.
From the newly occupied
base at Gona Mission on
the northwestern coast of
the Papuan Peninsula, Jap
patrols advanced 50 miles
inland in less than a week
and clashed with Allied
patrols near the small gov
ernment station of Kokoda.
Troop of MacArthur’s com
mand pushed the invaders
back yesterday while Al
lied bombers in three dif
ferent attacks, smashed en
; emy installations, and sup
, ply stores at Gona Mission.
Kokoda is a small town
with airdrome, rubber
plantation and a few build
ings.
Hamburg Bombed
Second Time
In 3rd INight
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London, July 29 (/Pi —
Hambur g, Germany’s
greatest port and most
heavily guarded city, was
battered last night for the
second time in three nights
by the RAF with a ruinous
rain of explosives and in
cendiaries. The raid, per
haps again on a 600-plane
scale, upon the already
hard-hit sub building cen
ter, drove home Air Mar
shal Arthur Harris’ prom
ise that “We are going to
scourge the Third Reich
from end to end.”
The raid cost 32 bomb
ers. 3 more than the num
ber lost in Sunday night at
tack. The Germans said 45
raiders were shot down.
East an airdrome was needed in
the center of Africa 250 miles
from ordinary communications.
General George stud that “a
youngster just out of school a
few months” was set down by
plane the wilds, with a half
dozen assistants, and told to fix
up runways, install quarters and
get gasoline 250 miles away. As
he departed, the commander of
the plane told the young man:
“Boy. it’s on your shoulders.
Gold bless you.”
When the first regular Might
was made to the base it w?as
I ready, with sleeping quarters, a
mess and supplies of gasoline. U1
i innately a bill for transportation
came from the head sheik of the
* area.
“Apparently lie rounded up all
the camels in Africa to bring
'the gasoline,” General George
i said. “And I’d say the bill was
j reasonable,”
Pound of Fat
Means Bullet
For Soldiers
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(Seattle P-D
j Mayor William F Devin put
| the weight of city officaLdom be
1 hind Seattle’s drive to salvage
1 house-hold fats and greases re
; cently after a conference with
i Leo Weisfield, chairman of the
Civilian War Commission sal
' vage committee, and Arnold
Drimmel, representing Seattle
I meat packers and renderers
"A pound of fat from the
! kitchen us another bullet in the
, hands of a soldier," said the
mayor, "Here is an opportunity
for Seattle women to play a vital
part n this war effort True, it
may be inconvenient to strain
the grease and conserve it. but
it's a small sacrifice to make for
such a cau.-w. As mayor, I urge
• every housewife to support this
effort by saving fats and deliv
ering them to her meat dealer."
Campaign Dramatized
The opening of the local fats
1 campaign was dramatized at Vic
tory Square by Miss R th White,
president of Home Economics
Women in Business S e was as
sisted by Stephen Skub: manag
er of the Lincoln na'1 ••
Tiie skit stressed the fact that
.’ fats should be strained into wide
| mouthed tin containers and de
' livered to the nearest market.
Drimmel and l W R nger, rep
resenting retail meat dealers,
were speakers in behalf of the
' drive. I. J C Haly, Tacoma,
Washington, state salvage com
mittee chairman stressed the nec
! essity of saving other strategic
j materials such as copper and
! brass.
Mayor Devin expressed inter
est in how the fats campaign
is being handled during the con
j ferenco with local salvage chiefs.
At one time he suggested:
"Why not tell every thrifty
housewife that every pound of
grease she saves means 4 cents
a pound less for the meat she
t is buying?"
Insist On Paying
Drimmel said the meat dealers
insist on paying for the grease,
! but said he saw no objection to
! their deducting the f cents from
; the customer's purchase.
Mayor Devin also inquired
about meat trimmings
"We can’t pay for fat trim
mings if not rendered," Drim
mel said, "but that doesn’t mean
we won’t accept them. The house
wives will find their meat deal
ers glad to cooperate. After all,
the butchers, the packers, and
the soap makers, who extract the
glycerine, are handling these pro
ducts at a loss. This is a patriotic
effort not a profit-making effort.’’
400,000 INDIANS
GET OUT OF BURMA
LOS ANGELES, July — Al
most half of the Indian residents
of Burma have arrived safely in
neighboring India following Jap
anese occupation of the British
colony.
The New Delhi radio reported
that approximately 400,000 In
dians made their way out of
Burma on foot to India proper.
Seventy thousand were evacuat
ed by sea and 12,000 by air,
British Royal Air Force planes
dropped more than 250 tons of
food and medical supplies to the
ovaduees who made the long jour
ney overland.
An estimated 500,000 Indians
still remain in Burma.