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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
American Navy, Army Air Forces Bdtfering on
 Two Fronts Today LAND UNITS POSSIBLY ENGAGED IN BATTLES
Tokyo Makes Big Claims Regarding Outcome
 in Bofh Areas
cBy Associated Press)

United States Army and Navy Air Forces, Navy sea vessels and possibly land forces are engaged in offensive battles on two Island fronts as this week opens, in a fierce and determined effort to recapture the Solomon Islands northeast of Australia. and the three Islands at the tip of the Aleutian chain, especially Kiska.
 Reports indicate that both battles are still progressing fiercely and that probably American landing parties have set foot at least in the Solomon group.
 2 General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Australia today issued communique telling of the United States first powerful of- fensive of the war as it famed into it's fourth day.
 Against savagely resisting Japan ese in the Solomon Islands, the task forces are being supported by assaults by Allied airmen on enemy positions in New Guinea and the Bismark. Archipelago. The latest word indicates that the initiative remains in the hands of the Am erican fleet and other Allied forces which joined the battle on Friday.
 A Japanese Imperial communique issued today at Tokyo asserted that naval units have beaten off a strong Naval folce which on August 8 in Aleutian waters"
 There is no confirmation from any source of this claim. The United States Navy announced Sat- urday that naval force was att tacking Kiska. The communique indicated that there was an attack, but the results will probably not be known until the attacking force returns to its base. probably in two weeks.
 A Domei dispatch quoting Jap- anese naval quarters said also Am ericans aimed at what they con- sidered to be the weaker link of the Jap chain of occupied territor- ies in the Solomons and Kiska."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
Taught by Science
 To Bark Commands

MIAMI BEACH Fla. Aug. 10.-- Men at the Army Air Forces Tech nical Training Commands replace ment training center here are learp- ing to give orders scientifically To save wear and tear on vocal chords in giving commands to large groups of men, authorities have set up a voice control school. Powerful voices, the school teaches, result from CO., ordinated action of throat and stomach,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
VICE PRESIDENTS
 RECREATION

On a hot August morning, when residents of the Wardman Park Hotel had fans turned on full blast, they look with surprise to see four figures come out on the tennis court. They looked a second time. It was the Vice President and a party of friends out for set of doubles.
 Henry Wallace took off a pair of slacks, threw them into corr ner, and trotted out onto the court in white shorts and white sports shirt. It was o'clock as the game began.
 Wearing no hat or eye-shade, and yielding the racket in his left hand, Wallace entered into the game with the gusto of high school boy. It was not tennis of professional quality, but it was
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
ALASKA WAR COUNCIL TO
 INVESTIGATE
State m ent of Actions of New Body Released
 Here Today

The first meeting of the newly created Alaska War Council was concluded in Juneau Saturday afternoon after a three-day ses- sion and results of the Councils discussion and action were made public this morning in an an- nouncement released from the of flee of Gov. Ernest Gruening, chairman of the body.
 Among the subjects which came up for discussion are the following:
 l. The delay in granting entry to Alaskan residents and to war project construction workers under the Civilian Traffic Control system recently established in Seattle.
 2. The allegations that liquor was shipped to the Territory to the exclusion of food and other neces- sities.
 3. The securing of food supplies for the civilian population Of Alas ka.
 4. Competitive bidding for work CTS between various defense agen-, cies and private contractors. en- gagged in defense construction
 5. Censorship.
 Will Take Action
 A variety of other subjects deal ing with the war and civilian prob lems of Alaska also were discussed and were the subject of action by the Council, the announcement stated.
 The Council voted to take steps to speed up the action of the Se- attle office handling civilian traffic control to obviate needless delays. recommendations to the Western Defense Command, as well as to the Alaska Defense Command, urged that the sole direction Of the traffic control be placed under an officer familiar with conditions in Alaska, preferably one directly re- sponsible to the Alaska Defense Command rather than to the Western Defense Command. The
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
The w ashlngtun Merry -Go- Round
By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active dutyo

WASHINGTON: When Lyndon Johnson of Texas returned from naval duty in Australia to resume his seat in Congress, the President subjected him to three-hour cross-examination on how things were going.
 One of the difficulties in fight ing the Japs, Johnson reported, was the superiority of Jap Zero planes to American fighter planes.
 This is due to the fact that the Japs put no armor on their planes, but risk the life of the pilot to gain speed and maneuverability. Thus Zero fighter can fly higher than an American pursuit plane, and can maneuver all round it. Once the two planes go into com- bat on the same level, American planes can make mince-meat out of the Zero. but present U. s. models cannot follow the Japs. into the high attitudes.
 Congressman Johnson reported that a fight between Jap Zero and a Navy PBY patrol ship (not a fighter plane) was like a race between a Model T Ford and a Lincoln Zephyr.
 Note: The Army and Navy are now trying to develop new types of fighter planes, but the problem always is whether to sacrifice speed or armor. It is almost impossible to have both.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
pARENT5N0T
 INFORMED OF
 HAUpTDEATK
Father Mother of Sabofeur Held in Chicago Jail
 for Aiding Him

CHICAGO, Aug 10.-The parents of Herbert Hans Haupt have not been officially informed of their sons electrocution, it was revealed today.
 They and four other Chicagoans are being held in the County Jaii here on $50,0O0 bail on Federal charges of aiding him.
 Marshal William Mcdonnell said that there could be no interviews with them without specific author ization from Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
Germans Claim Great Ad- vanees Along 25O-miIe
 Mountain Front
STALINGRAD FIGHT
 DESPERATE, REPORT
Russians Admit Situation Bad in Southeast
 Oil Center
(By Associated Press)

Dispatches telling of tremendous explosions on the Caucasus front today, indicate that the Russians are carrying out a scorched earth policy and are dynamiting the menaced Maikop oilfields, toward which powerful German tank for ces are smashing through the sag ging Red Army defenses.
 A Russian communique said that the lines guarding the Volga have held firm under assault north west and southwest of Stalingrad. but acknowledged the withdrawal close to the Maikop fields, into the jutting spurs of the Causasus foot hills.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
Prominent Fairbanks Man Arrested; Charged
 With $5,ooo Shortage

mount of the shortage is estimated t $5,000.
 The warrant for Growdens arrest vas issued in the Federal Court aturday afternoon and Growden urrendered to United States Mar hal Joe McDcnald Saturday eve hing.
 Had Loaded Revolver
 At the time of his surrender Srowden gave the marshal loaded evolver and said he wanted to be ocked up and did not intend to i've bail Growden is to be ar aigned sometime today.
 Growden is about 50 years old md a veteran of World War No. l. After the war he was a member of he Army Signal Corps in Nome, hen Sergeant of the Signal Corps Ruby, Alaska. He was elected so the Legislature from Ruby in November, 1882, and resigned from he Signal Corps. He served in the Territorial House of the Legislature of 1883.
 Had Many Offices
 Growden was appointed United states Commissioner of Fairbanks in 1883 after his return from the Legislature. A few years later he was elected a member of the Fair banks City Council and served four years, then was elected Mayor and was serving his third term when he resigned on July 3l.
 When Growden resigned as Mayor he said he intended going back in the Army, in the Signal Corps.
 Mrs. Growden and four sons live here All sons were born in Alaska, the eldest being l9 and the youngest IA years of age.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 10.-- William N Growden, who resigned as Mayor of Fairbanks and as Unit ed States Commissioner for the Fairbanks. Precinct, and also as Chairman of the Selective Service Board in Fairbanks last month, is in the Federal Jail here on a shargt of being short in his accounts as United States Commissioner. The
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
COMMENT ON
 B A I TIE IN
 ALEUTIAN5 }

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.-The attacks on the Jap forces in the Aleutians by United States naval forces are hailed by Senator Albert B. Chandler as possibly the begin ming of a grand offensive to drive the Japs back to their home bases"
 Senator Chandler is hartman of a Senate Military Affairs Subcom- mittee which is soon to visit Alaska on an inspection of defenses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
R. A. WELSH MAKE SHORT
 BUSINESS TRIP HERE

R. A. Welsh, President of the Icy Straits Salmon Company, was a Juneau visitor over the weekend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
REASONS FOR OCCUPATION

SEATTLE, Aug. 10.-Representa- tive Warren G. Magnuson says that it is generally believed in Wash ington that the Japs have occupied the westernmost Aleutians for three reasons.
 First" he says, because they wanted to beat us to it, knowing we would be there sooner or later for offensive action against Japan
 Secondly, because the enemy wanted weather information iron, that area.
 Last and most important reas- on," Rep. Magnuson concluded. "is so the enemy would be able to straddle the Russian supply line from the American West Coast"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10

Production of dried milk in the United States has been stepped up to 350,Ooo,O0O pounds year,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
NAVY WOMEN MAY SER VIZ IN ALA5kA
Bill Introduced by Hawaii Delegate to Extend Serv-
 ices 10 Territories

WASHINGTON, Aug. l0.-Service by members of the Women's Naval Reserve in Hawaii and Alaska will be permitted under new bill pre- pared by Delegate Samuel w. King. of Hawaii.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10

The first British settlement in Australia was established at the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
War on 7th Column Is 5farfed; Campaign Is
 Attfatfing Attention
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. The capital and the country ordinarily take only passing notice of national campaigns against this or for that, but one attracting more than super ficial attention locally is the war on the seventh column'-careless- ness and accidents.
 The campaign was started by an insurance company, but it is being taken up already by the govern ment. metropolitan newspapers, war production plants and even some of the larger cities.
 The reason is simple. The insur- ance company gathered these facts; carelessness now causes the loss of 460 100000 man-hours of industrial production a year; kills more than l02,500 persons; and injures 9,000,- 900 more.
 Immediately it became apparent that if this could be halyed or cut third, the savings in manpower and dollars in the war effort would be tremendous. That's why the drive is likely to assume the pro portions of an all-out battle.
 Because most accidents occur in the home and because these are just as expensive in manpower as acci- dents in the factory or on the high way, first attention is being directed there, with nationwide distribu- tfon of warning" stickers at the danger points. A set of simple but all-inclusive first aid rule stickers are being prepared for pasting inside home medicine chests.
 Factory surveys are being made with view to placing warning signs at every danger spot. Privately sponsored poster campaigns to cau- ton workers with catch phrases that stick in the mind are being con- ducted in nearly all plants working on government war contracts,
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10
WEATHER REPORT
eU. s. Bureau

. tU. s. BureaU . Temp. Saturday. Aug. 8 Maximum IS, Minimum 54 . Temp. Sunday, Aug. 9 . Maximum 6l, Minimum 52 . ee
 When the Civil War broke out. only about 13,000 men were under arms.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-10

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
DefendantSay
Girl Innocent

New York, May 25.-(AP)- Eli
ohohbrun testified today that his %
Eeaf-oId lover, Madeline Webb, had
no knowledge or part in the staying
o! Mrs, Susan Flora Reich but that
ne n bis uncle, Murray HllscheI,
murdered a woman entirely alone.
Shonbrun, who earlier had pro-
canned his love for Miss Webb:
piultcd out shortly after he had taken
ule stand N his fight for life that
Murray and | murdered a woman
entirely alone" adding that he ana
nIS uncle were along in the Hotel
sutton suite last March + when the
wen to do Polish refugee called.
FOR what purpose" demanded
general Sessions Judge Jonah j
GoldStein.
mcan,' replied Shonbrun, that
me woman ultimately died. We hac'
no intention Of killing her.
I'VE did things which unfortunate
y n ultimately resulted IN her
"eath, he continued.
ne had testified earlier that Ms
"eob had been sent out to do some
stopping the day MIS-. Reich was
IAN and added, Il wouio have died
" "Iadollne had hnuWu.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
Flood Toll
Now At %
Pennsylvania Towns
Wage Fight Against
Disease Expected in
Wake of Floods.

Honesdale, Pa, May 25.-(AP)-
This once gay mountain resort town
of 5.687, grleVing tOr its dead and
missing, Waged a grim fight against
disease today d ~ death toll il
eastern PennsylVanIas weekend
flash floods rose to 33.
Scores were stlll missing and fear
ed drowned in a devastated area y
tending from Chester county on the
south to Wayne county on the north.
In this hardest hit village III
northeastern Pennsylvania, the Red
Cross was feeding 5000 homeless
persons IN hastily devised canteene
after finding them shelter IN homes
still intact, Thirteen perls\ed mere.
Tons o.: chloride Of lime were
spread over mud lined cellars. Town
officials called upon all able bodied
men to help clean up, State santa
ton experts continued a check of
drinking water, which was found
safe yesterday.
Rivers and tributaries fed by tor
rental rains, surged over their
banks early Saturday.
The flood nit <-h industrial cities
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
Requested
W PA Funds
Ara uyasn he'd
President Hoosevei,
Asks congress 70 APP
@propriate S'Z8o,O0O,-
COO for Work Relief;
Social Security Pro-
gram Studied.

W. ~: n ~ NTN
"@'ii!iH'' -t"N w }
-NiaSNIn2 &ppf6AilldtPlN HloD,-
100000 from the total because
war rnrIitinnS nnrrit IL prasi-
du,,. p.--....1 ,.l.,l. r~.,,a,.n,.
..,an nnn
t'''"H ~ >'4,' "i',.'I'
wv WORN ltI!tI III l't NV"I
starting july |, plus -, lOV''
iOr administrative expenses.
He had pstjn,atpd tentatively.
:, III, hndyot ,os..ga tn Con-
a.. r,c-
600 WOUlU be nHpU40.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
TU0 Killed
On Highways

Charlotte. May 25.-(AP)-North
Cardinals highways, scene OF iiSH'
travel these days, counted VIZ Vlo-
lent deaths oVer the weekend, ana
three South Carollnlans were injured,
Near Rocky Mount, SlN-year olo
Rudock Ellis va KILLED by an auto
mobile as ne Started across a nigh
wav. The coroner said the accident
was unavoidable.
William Z. Coley, of CabarruS
county was killed near Concord IN a
truck-train accident, and three per
sons from Florence, S. c., were m
iured near there when their car
Struck a pole. They were Mr.. and
Mrs James White and Miss Jackie
Powell, en- route to kannpolS to visit
Whites father.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
Walter Smith
Gets Reprieve

Raleigh, May 25.-(AP)-Gover-
non Broughton today granted a re-
prjeVe to Walter Smith, 64-year old
White man who was scheduled to
enter the death chamber at Central
Prison on Friday.
The reprieVe moved up Smiths
death date 10 July II. The stay was
granted to permit the prisoner time
10 present petitions for clemency, the
governor said.
The elderly Smith was convicted
IN Wayne county in January of the
shotgun Staying of AlphOnso Price.
The supreme court found no error
in the conviction when the ease came
% on appeal,
d, Price was shot November =, zeal.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
Deferment Asked
For Family Men
UB0ats Want
Full Credit

Key West, Fla, May 25.-
(APJ-Thc hosting OF Il naIl lag
by d Submarine that Iorpcdocd
an American ship indicated that
German U-boats want fun credit
for their marauding, d rescued
seaman said today.
Leonard Shoar,r Of Newcastle,
Pa, third assistant engineer
aboard a vessel sunk Off Cuba
May 10, SAID that U-boat rev.
men raised their flag because
they wanted to be darned sure
we knew their IDENTIFY
Survivors Of several ships
have said recently they believed
their attackers were Italian
U-Doals.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
~ The Associated Prcss)

jH@ The Associated Prcss)
With Burma lost, the Japan
csc offensive in southeastern
China has become the cruical
sector of wal in the Orient.
Furthcring the successes Of
last week in the face Of a Chin
csc resistance which could check
or turn the enemy back in only
isolated actions, the Japanese N
Cnekan9 province had carried
ta.it drive dangerously near 70
the important communications
center and provincial capital,
hjnhWa.
The Chinese, estimating the
enemy'S strength at 100, 600
men, acknowledged his proX-
unity 10 kinhwa and a Tokyo
report said that the Japanese
actually were stormlng the
city,,
The Chekians drive, carried
to its logical end, would impair
the long range prospect OF set
ting M forward bases in CHINA
tor L direct air offensive against
Japan by the United Nations.
The Japanese offensive also bore
the rarmarks of an all out at
tempt to force the Chungking
goyernment to its knees.
I,n1o's s~trategical position h2o
5oCn tremendously improved by the
success N Burma, at the Chinese
buck door, through which supplies
had moved to Generalis5imo Chang
Na.-Saek'S forces.
Lieutenant General Joseph w
St'He.l, Chiangs American chief OF
Staff. arriving in India, was TYPICAL
~ ".-Ut about the battle Of Burma
m which he led Chinese forces CO.
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
Planes Sink


FortaIeza. Brazil, May %
(AP)--A submarine has been
sunk by patrol planes. authoriz-
ed sources announced here to-
day.
The announcement said that a
plane patrolIing BraZil'S north
eastern coast discovered and at
tackled a submarine the after
noon of May 25.
The submarine. while at
tempting to Submerge, fired with
it's guns and machine gun. The
plane unloaded all its bombs
ION the submarine the an
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
Congress Studies Pro.
posai to Give President
Roosevelt Broad Au~
thc1ity to Revamp
Selective Service Sys-
tenn.
Official U. S. Navy Photo

Washington, May 25.- -
Congress considered today pro
.2Sais to give President Hoo>c-
Wilt broad authority to rcVamp
the >elective service system by
classifying family men into
groups who Woa'd be called for
Army duty only after The rolls
of those with dependents bad
been exhausted.
Explaining that the SClCCtIVc sCrV-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
FIFTH COLUMNISTS
HELD IN AUSTRALIA

Sidney, Australia, May %
(AP)-Army Minister Francis
VI. FOrdc announced today the
arrest of 10 men and women. be
lieyed to have been associated
with tue ~So-caiIcd Australian
First Front, on charges of trea-
s0nahlc conspiracy to aid the ia
paneSe if they invaded Aus
tralia.
Fordc said documents which
were seized gave plans for the
assassination of LEADING Aus
tralians and for Sabotasing vul-
nerablc points.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
Reds Erase
Nazi Flank
Diversions
Conflicting Reports
Leave Question as to
Exact State Of Ukraine
Conflict; w e S t
Front Air Warfare In
tensified.

(By The Associated PresSl
RuSSia's kharkov offensive.
a major factor in strategjcal
planning on both sides of the
world conflict, was pictured to-
day as rolling forward once
again, the Red army having
wiped out the best the Germans
could offer in the way Of flank
diversions.
The wedge which the Ger
mans had driven into the Rms
sian salient curVing past
kharkoV on the south had been
shattered with "enomous losses
to the enemy" Moscow dis
patches said, and the Russians
had driven ahead once more
after consolidating newly won
ground.
This was the 18th day of battle
on the kharkoy front. perhaps
the most valuable of all German
Pooilioiio III huSSid ioI IL Dut-
tresSes h lasanrog threat of
the Germans 10 invade the eau
ca>us When and II they can get
their OWN major drive under
way.
The German high command,
not retreatlns from previous
claims that considerable Rus
sian forces had been cut off in
the salient thanking kharkov,
sad q mat the fighting south
of the big Ukrainian manufac-
turing city had developed into d
battle or enforcement
Inc DuIk OF three SOVIET armies,
mCluQing strong tan forces, have
been e~ncIrcIed, the German COM
munlque SAID. All attempts to break
out have Jailed with heavy losses Tor
me enemy.
OBVIOUSLY Doth the Germans and
russians could not be correct III their
descriptions OF the battle but since
communIques and the belIigerenlS'
own 'front.' line reports We're the only
sources OF news, cor~loboratl0n for
eilher SIDE must await tInal out
come OF the encounter.
Britain high flying fighters knit
N mId-Mornlh2, headed Tor new day
N mld-morNing, headed Tor new lay
IlSnt ATTACKS on targets IN German
occupied France.
U~nlaNorable weather had kept long
range Raj bomocrS at their bases
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
MEXICAN CONGRESS
CALLED TO

Mexico City. May 25.-(APo-
President Manuel AviIa Camacho
formally called upon congress
today to meet i'm extraordinary
session to declare wal on the
SIS powers and to approve en-
Urgency measures to defend the
nation against tOtalitarian ag-
erosion.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
Weeks Toll
Is 10 Ships
Axis Submarines Score
H e a Willy During
Period; 1875 Seamen
Dead, 101 Missing.

New York. May 25.-(lAP)--
On the proWl from the north
Atlantic's friaid waters to the
tropic Caribbean, enemy sub
marines were credited Off
cially last week with having >ui'i>
10 merchantmen for a western
Atlantic war toll of 2lO allied ~
neutral ships.
The Navy placed the casualties for
the weeks sea warfare on America 5
doorstep at more than 1875 dead and
lOl missing. and announced that
some 425 surviving seamcn and pas
scngcrs had been landed at L.. >,
Caribbean and Canadian ports.
Five sinkings off the L. ). east
coast during the week of May 1873,
brought to lO6 the total losses in that
area since Pearl Harbor; four more
off Canada made that Val total 30;
five in the Caribbean raised that
figure to SO, and five in the Gull Of
Mexico boosted that total to nine. no
losses were reported officially OF!
South America, where twelve ships
have been sunk.
The weeks total included scNcl-U
s. ships, two Norwegian, one Cana
dian, one Greek, one British, one
Dominican, one Mexican, one Hon
duran and four unidentified.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25
Japs Drive
Dangerously
NearKinhwa
Tokyo Dispatches De-
clare Japanese Ac-
tuaIIy Storming Che
kiang Capital; Air
Duel Continues Off
Australia.

(nungkine. May 25.-(AFD--
\ f~i!inrSr central news bulletin
ironi the lhekiang front said the
ldDaut>c launched a full scale
Offensive today in an attempt to
storm kllihWa, capital of the sea-
hoard r.0Vircc, but were rcpul-
scG with bloody losses.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-25

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