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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28

cation by army officials into the
air liners crash.
The army Is cooperating with
federal and civil agencies in max
Ing a thorough investigation. 1t
was said. 1t. Col. Warren Carey
is making an official investigation
on behalf of the air forces. col
laborating with officials of the
Civil Aeronautics Board. American
Air Lines and local and state Of
fleians.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28
Americas Leading Tenor Heard
By Tacomans in Civic Concert

with a hint of deep emotion. and
to which only a subtle voice can
do justice.
The Scott ballad. THE Jasmine
Door," in the closing group too,
had a lyrical quality to which
Peerce's voice gave unusual APP
peal.
OF the opening Handel
group. the second selection.
"Come and Trip II" is particu-
larry notable because Pcerce
sang II with such rich humor.
and because In II, as In the
numbers TO follow. the discern
Ing, light touch of his pianist
"a San Francisco. Lev Shorr,
could not be mistaken.
The old Caruso number 20 Para
disc" from ''L'Africana" was sung
with spirit and for the first time,
there rose warm response from
the audience which grew
ostensibly with the singing of the
famous clown song ''vesta La
Giubba" from II Pagliacci," Morn
ing" by Obey Speaks. "Ah Sweet
Mystery of Life" a clever ballad,
"Old Mother Hubbard" and the
lively La Donna Mobile" which
Peerce chose for his encores.
For a voice Of such rich quality,
radio is particularly suitable
medium. and those who look for
ward to hearing Jan Peerce again
will have that privilege tomorrow
night, Wednesday. October rs
when he will appear on the pro-
gram Great Moments in Music
from San Francisco. obtainable on
your dial over KIRo at 7 p. N.
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Win L q FORCES N THE
SOUTH PACIFIC - Dclased,--
slugs from = zero's machine gun
smashed tke nsvigator's window
md richochetfed through the nose
q our Flying Fortress.
Another Zero In front Of us
speeded to rake cut formation. AZ
! stared 1t the oncoming Zero q
stream az frscers burst from the
failgm of the Fortress ahead and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28
Arrest Army Filler Blamed
For Accident, Killinq IL

WASHINGTON - The war de-
partment Tuesday announced the
arrest of an army pilot whose
plane collided with a commercial
air liner near San Jacinto, Calf.
Oct %. causing the death OF II
persons aboard the transport.
The army pilot. whose name was
not disclosed, was placed under
arrest. the war department said,
pending completion of an investi-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28

Members Of Glendale camp of
Royal Neighbors Of America viii
meet Tuesday evening at Warren
hall on 9Th ave. for degree work.
Mrs. Edna Jensen win preside
and will be assisted BY Mrs.
George McCallum-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28
Large Scale
Battles in
EGYPT Rage

OAHMO-U<1l11a ana American
planes battered Field Marshal II
win Romme1's air forces in large
scale battles over the Egyptian
desert Tuesday while infantrymen
and tank forces drove deeper into
his AIamein Qualifications.
The combined aerial Offensive
was proceeding night and day,
blasting TIE Afrika Korps' troops
and supply concentrations and
concentrating the clear superiority
q the Allied air forces. A COM
munique isuusd jointly by the
Royal Air Force and the British
middle east command reported
that 10 more Axis planes had been
not down over tia desert and
three more destroyed over Malta.
Fssut nsss dlspatches indl-
ca&sd shas "a. Gen. =. l. Mont
gs@sry's pslygist eight army
- a1vanoed at least four and
. half niAss Int Remmel's
uans Il hnrbed wire and mine
fle11s n tws thrusts and that
. third lE1ve night b already
under way
The communjQue indicated that
the Allied forces held the upper
hand In the ground fighting. al
though no major tank clashes had
been reported yet.
Sunday night and Monday" II
aid. our forces extended the area
they had occupied within the en-
emy's dcfenses. Yesterday. our
gains were maintained, the fight
ing continues"
n official announcement
~ heaviest emphasis on TIE
s.r flgaelng. n saids And
ponsea. ansoag which were
mnay ADerscan ships and
crews. rangsd from Alamein
- Tobruk.
Their activities included an at
tack on IN Axis convoy of Tobruk
Monday. during which large en-
envy merchant vessel blew up after
Il had been hit BY bombs and aerial
torpsdoes.
The Allies had lost 10 planes In
their widespread operations, the
communiQue said.
The convoy attacked off the vul-
nerable port Of Tobruk was another
indication that Rommel was max
ing frantic efforts to get reinforce
ments to his Afrika Korps before
he was forced by the Allies to
make = stand.
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for such a program. Pointing out
that the campus : near the Puget
Sound navy yard TO which new
Waves were reported 10 have been
assigned, and TO the sand Point
naval air station. Magnuson said
Waves could Be trained near their
future posts at saving.
Your postmaster can tell you
how % invest n U. S. WAR
BONDS.
Rnv u. S. Bonds and Save
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28
STUDENTS REGISTER CARS

SEATTLE-Ih university on
Washington Tuesday began regis
tration Of students with cars and
those needing rides as the campus
prepared 10 operate ride-sharing
pool
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ABOARD soMsER IN SOUTH PACIFIC
Special Kind of Courage
Needed to Fly Over Area
Infested With japanese
6be Tacoma Zines


the Japanese plane crashed. ex-
ploding On what our bombs had
left Of Buka airfIeld.
This engagement vas a part of
two air battles that proved to ne
that II takes \ special kind of
courage TO fly over Japanese-in-
Tested territory in the Northern
Solomons. batter their major air
field a. Bnka with heavy bombs,
and then roar down and smash
concentration Of IS enemy ships
at Shorthand harbor. I know, be-
cause rode with them all the
way through a flock Of zeros
and antiaircrsft fire. And l
found out that these boys who
ny the big Bits have what It
takes.
PETRTFIED NEwsMAN
AZ we approached Buka. the
first objective. we took a last
cigaret before putting on oxygen
masks. Mine tasted bitter. Pilot
Major James v. Edmundson OF
Santa Monica, Cal. smiled re-
assuringly at me. and asked II
I was scared.
1 was pctrified.
We SKINNED across Buka pass
age. narrow strip of water
separating Bougainville and Buka
Islands- Down below saw three
zeros taking off from the sandy
runway. Bursts of anti-sircraft
fire blossomed In the sky 100 feet
ahead.
Seconds later our bombs fell.
Explosions ripped the runway.
throwing up geysers of sand and
dirt. One apparently hit a fuel
dump. for black smoke gushed up.
Then the Zeros hit us.
II seemed touch and 20 until
that first Zero was shot down.
The other two zcros disappeared
and we headed for the second part
of the mission.
AIM AT JAP SHIPS
Speeding straight down Bou-
granville Island. our formation
roarcd toward Shorthand harbor
where the Japanese had massed
n fleet including two battleships.
cruisers. destroyers. and trans
ports.
The battleships appeared much
fatter. They saw us coming and
opened up with ack-ack that piled
up higher and higher as they
found the range.
One shcn exploded below
tire bomber In which I was q
passenger and the concussion
blew m up 100 feet.
Then we dropped our bombs.
Several hit cargo ship:
cruiser circling nearby got q
bomb and another cargo ship |
blazed in the tropical sunshine.
All our planes went through |
the shrapnel-speckled sky safely.
but there still was more trouble
facing us. Ten more zeros swoop-
cd out of the clouds. coming from
all directions. This time we felt
like a cat about to lose its ninth |
life. Our guns chartered again.
One of the attackers exploded. |
and another seemed to disinte-
crate. Still they came. Then
large cumulous clouds doomed
ahead. and we ducked into II just
ahead Of the zeros on our tail.
When we came out. the zeros
were waiting for another pass at
us but we made another cloud
and lost them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28

Your postmaster can tell you
how to invest in Z. S. WAR
BONDS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-28

Tough quality. durebIe army mete-
rial; imperseetions slight. Wind and
roin-resistens. ideel for school. spon.
or knoek-ebeuf! 6-butfon fly front.
Full. pIeeted beck. siosh pockets,
convertible eolIor, doubie-ssitehins ct
~eer points. Small. medium. Jorge
Sizes.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-20
Momenfary RepuIse Given
10 Invaders in One
Important Sector
BATTLE LINE EXTENDS
TO STEPpE5 IN SOUTH
Fierce Decisive Fighting
Reported in Areas
Along Rivers
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rostov, whose armed citizenry
helped the Russian Army drive out
the Germans eight months ago, IS
menaced anew as Hitler's great Of
fensiye, repulsed at Voronezh, and
checked momentarily toward the
east, veered southwark in a ire
mendous onslaught TO force the
Russians back toward the gateway
to the Caucasus.
Driving through Voroshilovgrad,
100 mile, north of Rostov and Mil
lerovo on the Rostov- Moscow rail
line, the Germans are converging
at a junction of the rail line on
the Donets River near Kamensk.
Rostov i'es IS miles south.
Exceeding even the Berlin ac-
counts of German gains. the Paris
radio said that advance forces have
reached Shakhty, a coal mining and
railroad town 40 miles north Of
Rostoy.
Russian dispatches said That
Marshal Timoshenko is drawing
back his troops in an orderly with
drawal for a new defense stand
somewhere north of Rostov at
confluence of the Don and Donets
Rivers.
Although the Russians have
wrested back the initiative at Vor-
onezh or the northern flank of tn.
500 mile battleline through the
grain covered steppes OF the Don's
big bend, they declared that the
Nazi thrust TO the south is a SER
ious threat.
U. S. and British made tanks and
planes are being thrown into the
tight in an attempt to stem the
Axis onrush. A Russian communiqus
reported ito the south of Millerovo
our troops are engaged in fierce
defensive battle against the adj
vancing German troops"
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.D|M0ND HITS
ALASKA News.
CENSORSHIP
Delegate SaYsNavY Should
Have Given Report
Long Ago

WASHINGTON, July 20--Alaska
Delegate to Congress Anthony j..
Dimond expressed the opinion that
the Navy Department long ago
should have given the public a re-
sumo of Jap activities in the Aleu-
tians, referring to the Nays COM
munique of last Friday giving an
account of operations in the North
ern Pacific.
Dimond said: THE Japs have sent
altogether too much power to the
Aleutians for that move to be a
mere sideshow operation. I wonder
why we had to wait this long to
find out the facts. 1t all could be
made public without giving any i'm
formation to the enemy as far as
enemy power is concerned. 1t does
not help them if we told what they
have"
Dimond said it has been reported
to him that the Japs have 25,00O
troops on the captured islands, but
that he is unable to confirm this
report
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AIR FORCES
RIkE AT
EGYPT BASE
u. 5. Bombers, with Raj,
Royal Navy, Attack
Tobruk, Matruh

CAIRO, July 20.-Big four motor
ed bombers of the United States
Army Air Forces and bombers and
fighters of the Royal Air Force as
well as warships of the Royal Navy,
struck at advanced Axis airfields
and bases in series of devastating
raids and commandments over the
weekend, the British announced to-
day.
A heavy attack by U. S. bombers
now commanded by Maj. Gen. Lewis
H. Brereton, recently transferred
from India, was delivered in day
light against Tobruk on Sunday.
The Admiralty in London said
that the Royal Nays sallies against
the Axis in two consecutive bonn
garments at sea were carried out
Friday and Saturday against Mat
rub. Rommel's most advanced sea
base. No details of damage were
given out.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-20
Revenue Bill
Now Readyto
BeSubnnitted
House Ways and Means
Committee Makes Last
Minute Changes

WASHINGTON. July 20. - The
House Ways and Means Committee.
in a last change OF attitude, has
decided to recommend TO the House
80 percent excess profits tax and
40 percent combined normal and
surtax on corporations.
The committee has abandoned
previous schedules of 81 per cent
excess profits tax and AS percent
normal and surtax on corporations.
Chairman Robert L. Doughton ex-
pressed the opinion that the last
minute changes make little differ
ence in the bills total revenue but
lin the long run our charges in
crease revenue because it lets COR
porations continue TO live and that
means more employment and more
dividends"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-20
JUNEAU MAN
Wit MESSED
JAP RAIDS
Claude J. Smith, Former
Dutch Harbor Work
er, Living Here

A man who wa. Wedged between
two boulders on the top OF small
hill where he could see Dutch Har-
Lor, Foit Mears and Unalaska un-
der the whip OF Jap bombers and
zero planes June is now in Ju-
neau, ready to settle down once
again and make his home here.
The man is Claude j. Smith. He
left Ouch Harbor a short time ago
and Travelled by ship to Wrangell,
then came north to Juneau. He Is
now employed by Rice ~ Alters Co,
Mr.. Smith is a heating and fur
mace expert and went to Dutch
Harbor last March to help install
heating equipment in the buildings
under construction.
He lived on the ship Northwest
ern.
Even before the Japanese attack
on June 3, life was not all peaches
and cream at Dutch Harbor.
OF course there was the discom-
Tort OF the weather and then there
was also the uncertainty OF sup
plies.
Il was in the Northwestern, but
got out quick. The raid came at
$40 o'clock in the morning. The
bombers came in very high and the
zero planes came in about 300 to
500 feet, strafing civilians and SOL
diers alike"
There were no air raid shelters
/ rovide6, Smith said. There was no
place TO hide unless the men could
get to the hills, but most OF them
had time only to get out OF the
buildings into the open, scurrying
like chickens when hawk flies
over.
In the first raid, Mr. Smith said,
most OF the damage done was at
Fort Mears.
He saw direct hit scored ON the
barracks. Smith says many were
killed. and one who was standing
IN the doorway shot forward as the
conclusion OF the explosion inside
pushed HIM out.
Another small group OF soldiers
was waking TO reveille when the
sirst raid surprised them. Smith saw
a bomb drop right in the midst OF
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TWO MORE
SHIPS ARE
T0RpED0ED
Announcements Made by
Navy Of Sinking in At
Ianfit, Bay Of Bengal

WASHINGTON, July 20. - The
Navy Department has announced
the sinking OF two more ships, one
of them a medium sized United
States merchant ship sunk in the
Bay of Bengal on April z when en-
envy aircraft bombed cruiser.
Shelled survivors landed at u.
S. port from the other ship, small
British erchant vessel, tor
oedoed and shelled in the Atlantic
several weeks ago.
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S|oganners Are Having
Regular Field Day in
Present War;;5ome Good
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, July 20--All wars
are field day for the sloganeers-
but this one is tops.
There are thousands of war pro-
auction plants in the United
States. The War Production Board
has production drive division.
The sole purpose of this division is
to stimulate maintenance of pro-
duction schedules. An important
phase OF its work is promotion of
slogan campaigns.
In 3l3 major war pants, slogan
contests already have been held. In
many Of them, cash or war bond
orizes are offered for winning slog-
MS. In the Cadillac factory In
Michigan, 1898 workers participated
in the contest.
The Stromberg- Carlson plant at
Rochester, N. Y, waged battle
Tor slogans under the inspiration
of a corps of attractiyely- uniformed
girls. More than 1000 employees
submitted slogans.
Some of the sloganeers are pat
emily amateurish. But many pro-
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IN
EAST TAKE
II LIVES
Traffic Pardylzed, Heavy
Damage Done-Chureh
Is Wrecked

RIDGEWAY, Pa, July 20. = A
violent flash of floods rolling
through north and central Pennsyl-
vania and New York States have
taken at least II lives, damaged and
destroyed hundreds of homes, bust
ness establishments, industrial
plants, railroads, highways and wash
ed out bridges.
Traffic this morning was para
lyzed, power and telephone services
disrupted.
Fires, landslides and disease
threats have been caused as flood
waters swirled dpwn the upper
tributaries of the Susequehanna,
Clarion and Allegheny rivers.
At Port Allegheny, where six are
reported drowned, the Allegheny
smashed the Free Methodist Church
building Sunday while $50 persons
were attending conference. The
convention delegates chung to trees,
roof tops and wreckage until res
cued.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-20
new ACCOUNT
OF ALEUTIAN
FIGHT GIVEN
Delayed Story from Pacific
Fleet Tells of Kiskd
Attacks
BY KEITH WHEELER
Chicago Times Copyright, 1912


AT SEA WITH THE UNITED
STATES PACIFIC FLEET, June 10
-Delayed)-Japs are dying in Kls-
ka Harbor as the war in the Aleu-
tan mists begins again after three
DAYS of storms and glue-like thick
fogS.
United States bombers sank Jap
transport with direct hit and six
near misses in their first contact
since June IA, when the fog broke
long enough for eight of this COM
inands Catalina flying boats 20
drop through the clouds over Kiska
and dump six tons of dynamite Oh
the Jap ships lying there.
One 500-pound Crump fell square
on a light cruiser and started a
gaudy fire, while another dropped
alongside a transport close enough
for the bombardier to feel it would
make serious underwater damage d
certainty.
AS usual, the Japs mad their guns
trained en- cloud breaks and five
Catalinas came away as full OF
holes as shirts back from the ships
laundry.
One was hit by three-inch anti
aircraft projectile tearing a neat
hole through the hull, but failing
to explode.
Kiska Harbor may earn place
in history as the drearieSt tomb
ever to receive corps of invaders
hoping to conquer the world as
the hopeful little men who have
chosen the foggy bay under the
Iitun
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The W aShingtUn
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
major Robert s. Allen on active duty)

WASHINGTON = Inside factors
causing the defeat in Libya show
tnat American generals must Shout
der a share of the blame.
1t is true that the British went
in for too much tea and cricket;
and the British generalship was
ponderous, with too much backstage
uddliing with Cairo and London.
But, in addition, the big factor
which hurt the British was that
American tanks sent to Egypt car
ried only a 75-mm. gun, which had
to compete with the Nazis' 88-mm.
gun.
The mere size of the gun does
not tell the whole story, however.
The old French rs, mainstay of
The Allies in the First World War,
shoots in a parabola. The projec-
tile goes up and then down. Its
destructive force comes from the
explosion when it hits.
But the 88-mm. gun used by the
Germans is an anti-aircraft gun
which is built to shoot straight lip
n the air with terrific force.
Therefore, when the powerful anti
aircraft guns are turned against
tanks, and shoot straight ahead, it
is easy to imagine the havoc they
Wreak.
But the amazing thing was that
neither the British nor American
generals had planned ahead long
enough to meet this German gun
They had known about it for some
time, but still they were putting
17-rflm. guns in our tanks.
AS to why the change had not
been made, that is the army's Sc
cret. But representative of Chrys-
Ter, now making army tanks, was
asked:
why don't you put something
stronger in place of the ISIS? And
why don't you make the turrets
so that they revolve in every direc-
tion?"
To which the Chrysler man re-
Piled:
If we ask too many questions
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cattle OF Aleutian Is Described By Writer
Jap Troops Moving TO
Two Frontiers; Attack
On Alaska Is Delayed

NEW YORK, June 20.-The New
York Times in a dispatch from
Washington says that reports re-
ceived in the capital from usually
reliable private sources in the
Orient indicate that Japan is NOV
ing more seasoned troops to the
frontier of Manchukuo and Siberia.
This comedies with the belief held
in Washington that there is an
understanding between Japan and
Germany that Japan will attack
Russia if Germany captures some
specific detectives, possibly Rostov
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-20
ASP IN JUNEAU; CH{iMS,
COHOE RUN NOT STARTED

Sam Asp, owner of the Salt Sea
Fisheries Company. registered at the
Baranof Hotel during the weekend
from Tenakee. He will be in Juneau
until tomorrow on business.
Mr.. Asp reports that the chum
and cohoe run hasn't reached its
peak in the Tenakee area but that
fish are coming in well from the
Sitka and Port Alexander regions.
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and Stalingrad.
The Times also said that few in
the capital will be surprised If Japan
should Immediately attack Vladi-
vostok, pointing to the, recent Navy
communique saying that the Japs
are still occupying Kiska, Agattu
and Attu.
The Times says this is interpreted
as more likely prelude to an at
tack on Siberia, perhaps at KAN
chatka, than against Alaska at this
time.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-20
GERMAN spy
CASE NEARS
COMPLETION
FBI Agents Testify al Trial
Of Eight Sdboieurs
Today

WASHINGTON, July 20-Prose-
cution is practically completed in
the case" against the eight alleged
Nazi saboteurs, Major Gen. Frank
Mccoy, President of the Military
Commission said, as eleven Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents tes-
titled today
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-20
MAGNHILD 0YGARD
ILL IN KET(HIKAN

Miss Magnhild Oygard, Senior
Inherent Public Health Nurse, was
seriously ill in a Ketchikan hospital
last week, friends in Juneau learned
today. Miss Oygard is now home
and recovering from throat in
lection.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-20
NURSE WILL VISIT
DOUGLAS TOMORROW

The Juneau Public Health Nurse
will spend tomorrow in Douglas
Miss Stephenie Bogdon announced
today. Miss Bogdon will make home
calls in the morning and will hold
well-baby nursing conference from
to O'Clock in the afternoon.
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KIRK RETURNS SOUTH

w b. Kirk. who has been assist
ing H. l.. vanderLeest at the Butler
Mauro Drug Store for several weeks.
has left for the south.
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