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TuesdayJuly 21, 1942
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Major Battle Looms as Naiis linear Rostov
II W ill MM .1 II B
3 Army Planes
0 Crash Killing
All Occupants
Crashes Reported from
Tucson, Houston and
Hanford of Bombers
Tucson, Ariz., July 20 (IP)
An army bomber crashed at 4:30
a.m. today, carrying its crew of
eight to flaming death in the
desert three and one-half miles
southeast of its b a s e, Davis
Monthan airfield. '
The B-24, one of several
bombers on a night training
flight, burned and the officers
and men apparently were killed
instantly.
Col. Lowell H. Smith, com
manding officer at the airbase,
dispatched salvage crews to the
scene and ordered a board of in
quiry to attempt to determine
the cause of the crash.
Corvallis Officer Killed
The dead:
The pilot, First Lieut. Blair K.
Blacker, son of Mrs. William
Blacker (621 South 19th St.),
Corvallis, Ore.-
Second Lieut Earl W. How
ard, son of Mrs. Mattie M. How
ard, Cottonwood Falls, Kas.
Second Lieut. Bishop M. Toms,
son of Clayton W. Toms, Cog
gan, Iowa.
Corp. Richard J. Anderson,
son of Earl Anderson, Route L,
Marcellus, Mich.
Corp. William J. Brady, Jr.,
son of Mrs. Bessie Lee Brady,
Glcndale,. Calif.. .. . . , ,; .. . j..
... Private Thomas B. Fish, son
of Mrs. Pauline Fish, Vincennes,
Ind. '. : ..,
. Private Thomas P. McGrath,
grandson of Mrs. Mary Tyrell,
Chicago.
Private Howard A. Peterson,
, brother of Gerald Peterson, Jer
sey City, N. J.
Crash in Texas
Houston, Tex., July 20 (pj
An army pursuit trainer crash
ed three miles east of Highland
early today, killing all five oc
cupants. The public relations office at
Ellington field reported the
plane appeared to be from the
air force advanced flying school,
Lake Charles, La..
Hanford, Calif., July 20 (P)
An army bomber crashed and
burned today, killing all three
of its occupants, in the Delia
View district 12 miles east of
Hanford.
Roosevelt to
Stop Inflation
Birmingham, Ala., July 20 UP)
President Roosevelt soon will
"step on to prevent a general
break-through in the adminis
tration's anti-inflaion program,"
Senator Lister Hill (D., Ala.),
the democratic whip, said here
today.
"An overall ceiling covering
wages, commodities and all oth
er major factors in living costs
will be asked by the president,"
Hill said. "And if the president
asks for immediate action con
( gress will forego the proposed
measure he believes necessary
mid-summer recess and pass the
to preserve th war price struc
ture." Here to address a civilian de
fense loyalty show, the junior
senator from Alabama said In
an Interview that "at the tme
he sent congress hs first anti
Inflation plan, Mr. Roosevelt
recognized that a general sta
blization similar to the Baruch
plan of the last World war was
necessary."
"But the president is a mas
ter at timing," he continued.
"He knew that prompt action
was necessary if we were to
stop the living cost spiral. And
he knew too that if he laid the
entire plan for control before
congress that the pacifists, pro-
fiteers and selfish interests
would combne their pressure
groups to defeat it and that
long debate would ensue as pric
es soared,"
Captain Frank Douglas Sharp,
of Salem
Sharp Hero at
Burma Battle
Washington, July 20 W) An
army flying fortress bomber, pi
loted by Captain Frank D. Sharp
of Salem, Ore., fought off 23
Japanese fighters, shooting
down four of the enemy planes,
during a two-hour battle over
Burma, the war department re
ported today.
After bombing Rangoon, the
four engined Boeing B17 was
attacked by the enemy fighters.
One gunner was killed and four
other members of the crew were
wounded. All the bomber's guns
were put out of action, the rud
der controls were shot away
and two engines knocked out of
commission.'
Nevertheless, the department,
reported, after six members of
the crew, including two wound
ed, had- bailed out. Sharp and
his co-pilot, both wounded, man
aged to land the plane and make
their way back to their com
mand, The announcement did not
identify any of the crew except
(Concluded on page 9, column 5)
Pressure Grows
For Second Front
London, July 20 (U.B Prime-
Minister Winston Churchill has
offered Lord Beaverbrook a war
cabinet post which may be link
ed with the problems of estab
lishing a second front this year,
well-informed political quarters
reported today.
The report, although not con
firmed officially, tent emphasis
to the current British-American
talks here which are expected to
determine whether the allied
armies will attempt to invade
the continent before winter.
Russia is believed to be exert
ing considerable pressure on Bri
tain to open a second front im
mediately, warning of the pos
sible dangers if German success
es continue.
Further,, some allied quarters
fear Japan may soon attack Si
beria. .
Informants who sponsored the
Beaverbrook report said Beaver
brook now was considering an
offer from Churchill but that he
withheld h i s decision hoping
for some sort of assurance that
a full-scale invasion of the con
tinent would be attempted.
Biggest Tax Bill
Passed by House
Washington, July 20 (IP) A $6,143,900,000 wartime revenue
bill was passed by the house and sent to the senate today after a
last-minute floor fight which resulted in levying a 90 per cent
excess profits tax and a com-
bined normal and surtax of 45
per cent on corporations.
The measure was passed on a
rollcall vote of 392 to 2. The ne
gative votes were cast by Repre
sentatives Oliver (R., Me.), and
Moser, D., Pa.).
The ways and means commit
tee sought to have the excess
profits tax raised to 90 per cent
and the normal and surtax re
duced to 40 per cent.
On the excess profits tax in
crease, the committee was sus
tained on a voice vote.
But on the surtax revisions
the house decided, by a teller
vote of 180 to 160, to retain the I
Kiska Harbor
Dreary Tomb of
Japanese Hopes
Eye Witness Tells of
Continuous Bombing
By American Airmen
By Keith Wheeler
(Copyright by ohlcnuo Times. Inc.)
Distributed by United Press
At Sea with the Pacific Fleet
(delayed) Kiska Harbor may
earn a place in history as the
dreariest tomb ever to receive
the corpse of an invader's hope
to conquer the world.
It may be that Honshu's hope
ful little men have chosen the
foggy bay under the black peaks
of Kiska's hills to launch their
last serious attempt to invade
and conquer the United States.
It now seems more likely they
have chosen a place to die.
Ships Being Sunk
Midway was their first choice
and they failed there. Now de
spite repetitious punishment by
American bombers they are
doggedly assembling in Kiska.
Already the emperor's high
prowed ships are going down at
their moorings, victims of bombs
falling day and night from big
brown and gray planes running
a shuttle service of destruction
along the Aleutian chain,
The big PBY Catalina flying
boats first located the Japanese
in Kiska Harbor June 10. They
had moved in during a stormy
week. -
Battle of June 11 "",
The battle began June 11
when the firsf flights of navy
Catalinas and army fortresses
and "B-24 Liberators began
freighting bombs to Kiska.
Singly and in flights of two or
three, the workhorse Catalinas
slid across the mile high peak of
Kiska volcano and down on the
ships in the harbor. That day
one heavy cruiser, two- light
cruisers, a single destroyer and
half a dozen transports lay an
chored there.
Five Liberators launched the
first concentrated attack. They
came down to 1,800 feet where
they could see to work. The
Japs threw up an umbrella of
anti-aircraft and one Liberator
caught a chung apparently In
the bomb load. He was there In
formation one second and the
next he came apart in a searing
blast that rocked the other
planes.
One Cruiser Aflame
The remaining four planes re
vised their technique and climb
ed to 18,000 to drop their loads
As they left, one heavy cruiser
lay flaming in the harbor, hit
squarely by heavy bombs.
Before the day was over the
Catalinas made seven separate
attacks.
One Catalina caught a subma
rine on the surface en route.
Before the sub could rig for div
ing the Cat was on it with a load
of heavy bombs. The sub broke
up and sank without firing a
shot.
Another Catalina got two near
(Concluded on pare 10. column 4)
provision of 45 per cent.
Chairman Doughton (D.,NC).
of the committee, urged the re
vised corporate rates in the In
terest of the small corporations
which were not benefitting from
the war program. But Rep. Mc
Lean (R., NJ), said the changes
would "help those corporations
which are waxing fat by this
war effort."
The legislation would raise
about $2,400,000,000 in new tax
es from corporations and almost
$3,000,000,000 from individuals,
primarily through steeply grad
uated Individual surtax rates
and reduced personal exemp
tions. I
Waiting for Japs lo Try Again Jap bombing planes had been there once when this pic
lure of the attack on. the U. S. naval base at Dutch Harbor, Juno 3 and 4, were made,
witness the burning oil tank in the background. But these marines were alert in their
trenches for another attack, U. S. Navy Photo.
Americans Bomb
Canton Airfield
Chungking,. July 20 VP) United Slates bombing planes blasted
a Japanese airfield at Canton Saturday, planting their bombs
among between 50 and 60 planes on the ground and leaving-six
great fires blazing, Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell's headquarters" an
nounced toda?. In a .second,- attack
Drive for Scrap
Opened Today
Portland, July 20 (IP) Ore
gon's participation in a concert
ed scrap collection drive got
underway today with granges
playing a leading role in rural
areas.
Ralph Mitchell, executive sec
retary for the state salvage com
mittee, appealed today to farm
ers to cooperate and asked farm
implement dealers to assist.
Morton Tompkins, stale
grange master, said his organi
zation already had started col
lections but would intensify its
efforts. '
In Portland,' scrap metal and
rubber will be received at fire
stalions and auctioned, the pro
ceeds to go to civilian defense.
Dealers will buy direct from
those who prefer not to donate
their scrap, Hamilton F. Corbett,
Multnomah county chairman,
said.
.
Women Begin
Army Training
Fort Des Moines, la., July 20
(U.R) American women invaded
the last masculine stronghold of
the army today as they began
training that will release 25,
000 male soldiers for combat
duty by next April.
With 200 rookies of the wom
en's army auxiliary corps, awak
ened at 6 a.m. by a cannon, al
ready maintaining a lively pace
through the first day of army
routine for women, Mrs. Oveta
Culp Hobby,, trimly uniformed
WAAC director, explained how
the new women's army will
serve the nation at war.
The first three companies of
150 women will be graduated
from the four weeks of basic
training and eight -weeks of
specialist training, by Novem
ber 9, the director said. '
Mrs. Hobby, who has the rank
of a major, said the women sol
diers may be sent anywhere in
the world. But she specified that
plans for the first WAAC mem
bers who complete training call
for their transfer to eastern sea
board cities for air raid warning
duty and tq 11) regular army
posts to replace men for fight
ing. "By next April we will have
trained 25,000," she said. 1
.the American airman yesterday
t o m b e d Linchwan, Japanese
base in Kiangsi province. All the
planes returned safely from both
raids.
The communique said Japan
ese headquarters were attacked
with "excellent results" at
Linchwan in this second raid up
on that base. It first was at
tacked July 10. i-
Canton last was attacked by
U. S. bombers on July 4 when
the Whitecloud airdrome on the
outskirts of the city was the tar
get. Today's official announce
ment that an airdrome was at
tacked, without identifying it,
indicated a second field was vis
ited this time, since the Japan
ese maintain several around
most. of the larger cities under
their domination.
Chinese forces, inflicting ma
jor, setbacks to the Japanese
drive aimed at the heart of
China from the southeast, have
rc-capturcd the seaports of Wen
chow and Juian in Chekiang pro
vince and broken the invaders'
hold on a 15-mile strip of the
Chekiahg-Kiangsi railway by
seizing Iyang and Hengfcng, the
Chinese high command announc
ed yesterday.
The official announcement
said the enemy lost heavily in
casualties and that large stores
of booty fell into Chinese hands.
V-Army Awaits
Second Front
London; July 20 (U.R) Occu
pied Europe's underground V
army, mobilized by the myster
ious Colonel Britlon.a year 'ago
yesterday, is ready to strike the
axis a paralyzing blow the mo
ment the allies open a second
front.'
At least 1,000,000 patriots
have been shot, hanged or tor
tured to death by the axis, but
the multitudes who live keep
several million German and
Italian soldiers tied down in 645,
000 square - miles of occupied
territory, constantly fighting
increasing sabotage, shootings
and bombings.
Colonel Britton, who organ
ized the V-army by radio and
coached it Weekly in methods
of tormenting the Germans and
Italians, has not spoken to hs
followers for thrcc-and-a-half
months. The last time he broad
cast, he tpid.thcm his next call
would be for a mass, co-ordin
ated blbw at their oppressors.
I hope my call for that blow
will not be long delayed." he
laid. J
Raid Sub Plant
Near Bremen
London. Julv 20 (IP) Fnnr-
engined bombers of the royal air
force raided northwest Germany
last . night, including submar
ine building yards at Vcgesack,
the air. ministry; announced to
day; " , '' ; '
Vegesack is 10 miles north
west of Bremen.
"Three of bur bombers are
missing from these operations,"
the air ministry said.
The blow naninsr. nnt-iliwnt
Germany was the fourth in as
many days, having been preced
ed by three daylight smashes
against the Ruhr and submarine
construction .centers at Luebeck
and Flensburg.
(The German high command
said nazi nlanes scored riii-r.pt
bomb hits on a British war plant
northeast of London in a day
light raid. The Tlnllan mrlin
broadcast a Berlin dispatch iden
tifying the target of this at
tack as Chelmsford, small man
ufacturing center 30 miles north
cast of London.)
, Yesterday by daylight RAF
fliers in Boston bnmhnrs nllnnlr.
cd targets in the German-occu
pied Lille and Belhune areas,
including Dower stnlinnc ni
Chocques and Mazingarbe. Hur
ricane Bombers and Spitfires at
tacked enemy ships, an armed
freighter and a minnRwnnnnr
The air ministry said both ships
were nit.
Postmasters OK'd
Washington, July 20 (IP)
Oregon postmasters confirmed
by the sennle: Georgia G. Case
beer, Bly; Ruby O. Roberts,
lone; Uoorgo Larkin, Newbcrg;
Enrly Phillips, Scio; Frank II.
Laighlon, Seaside.
A ttacks on Convoy
Repelled in Arctic
Moscow, July 20 (U.R) Soviet destroyers, creating a wall of
fire as airplanes batllod overhead, repelled strong German aerial
torpedo attacks on the last stage of an American-British convoy
Innvnnu In T3 . . ..! ' A I - .'...-j-j.
the official news aucnev Tnss
said today.
The dispatch from a corre
spondent with the northern fleet
said that soviet warships and
fighto? pianos escorted the con
voys on its last three days into
port and that more than 220
bombs and 14 torpedoes fired by
the enemy failed to hit their
targets. At times each side sent
200 or more planes into the
fighting.
Captain Kolehln, soviet com
mander of a destroyer flotilla,
ordered his ships to close to the
convoy lo create a solid barrage
of fire. (German broadcasts
recently claimed that 35 our of
3B allied ships in a convoy to
Murmansk had been sunk or
damaged.)
At one time five enemy tor
British Capture
6,000 Prisoners
In Desert Battle
American Bombers Dev
astate Axis Airfields and
Bases
Cairo, July 20 (U.R) British
armed forces have captured
more than 6,000 axis prisoners
in the last 10 days, blasted
grounded enemy planes in one
of the greatest surprise attacks
of the desert war and maintain
ed the initiative of the desert
front, it was disclosed today.
The surprise raid by the royal
air force, with which the grow
ing U. S. middle east air force
has been cooperating, was car
ried out at the axis landing
grounds at, El Daba Sunday,
where a large force of light
bombers and fighter-bombers
plastered the field with high ex
plosives. Blast Grounded Planes
The El Daba field, just west
of the forward axis linos, was
so lorn and ripped by the bombs
that the great dust cloudes made
accurate observation of the dam
age impossible, but the fighter
bombers, which swept in behind
the light bombers, ' saw the
bombs fall accurately among the
grounded craft.
One four-engincd plane was
seen burning and several small
er craft were in flames. The
RAF, after sweeping the field,
intercepted ...axis ...planes, coming
in for landings and shot down
four Junkers-52s and one Stuka
dive-bomber. Then in a final
shot at the field, the RAF swept
over the dust clouds and releas
ed their last bombs.
Mostly Italians
Most of the prisoners are Ital
ian infantrymen, many of whom
do not appear to have much
stomach for further fighting in
the desert heat and sand.
In the southern sector the Im
perial forces of Gen. Sir Claude
Auchinleck's eighth army con
tacted the enemy at two new
points, a hill called Gcpcl Ka
lakh and the plateau El Taq.
Both are about 25 miles south
west of El Alamein.
The RAF, working In cooper
ation with the ground battle
force in this same sector, scored
direct hits yesterday on six out
of seven enemy tanks and des
troyed a gun trailer and one oth
er vehicle. One of the tanks
burst into flames.
Transport Attacked
An enemy transport In the
central sector also was attacked
yesterday by RAF fighter-bombers
and the action was so close
to the forward British lines that
the ground forces attested lo the
accuracy of the bombing.
Reinforced by a steady flow
of British and American tanks,
the imperial forces had made
further gains on all three sec
tors of the front and yesterday,
(Concluded on pngc 10, column 5)
pedo planes approached the
head of the convoy and one
piano attempted 'to attack the
leading transport, the dispatch
said. The accurate fire of the
destroyers forced the plane to
swerve and its torpedos went
wild.
Another plane attacking from
the rear twice dropped torpe
does which missed.
Another plane was driven off
by machine gun and anti-aircraft
fire and three soviet fight
ers chased it until they saw a
cloud of black smoke coming
from under its wings.
During one fight, an enemy
plane fired two torpedoes at the
soviet flagship but Kolchin
dodged them by quick maneuv
ers and shot down the German
plane.
Red Army Wins
New Successes
At Voronezh
Timoshenko Withdraw
ing for New Defense
Stand North of Rostov
(By the Associated Press)
Rostov, whose armed citizen
ry helped the Russian army
drive out the Germans eight
months ago, was menaced anew
today as Hitler's 1A42 offensive.
repulsed at Voronezh and check
ed momentarily toward the east,
veered south in a tremendous
onslaught which forced the Rus
sians back toward the gateway
to the Caucasus.
Driving through Voroshilov
grad, 100 miles north of Rostov,
and MUlorovo, on the Rostov
Moscow rail line, the Germans
were converging upon the junc
tion of the rail line and the Do
nets river at Kamensk. Rostov
lies 85 miles lo the south.
Exceeding even Berlin's ac
counts of the German gains, the
Paris radio said axis advance
forces had reached Rhakhtv mnl
mining and railroad town 40
miles north of Rostov.
Reds Regain Initiative
Russian disnatches said Mar
shal Semcon Timoshenko waj
drawing back his troops in or
derly withdrawal to a new de-
lense stand somewhere north of
Rotov and the confluence of the
Don and Donets ive'rs.' ' " '
'He was drawjng upon .the
strong armies garrisoning ' the
northern Caucasus lo form a de
fense lino which London mill.
tary quarters predicted would
be hinged at Rostov and design
ed lo hold both banks, of thn
lower Don.
Such a line, said these sources.
who must remain anonymous,
would extend from Rostov to
Rasponnsk. about SO m 1 1
northwest of Stalingrad nn Hip
Volga, guarding the last rail link
between Moscow to the Caucas
us.
Gain at Voronezh
Although the Russians had
wrested back the Initiative at
Voronezh, on the northern flank
of the 300-mile battle line
through the grain covered
steppes of the Don's big bend,
they declared the nazi thrust to
the south a serious threat.
United States and British
made tanks and planes were
thrown into the fight In an at
tempt to stem the axis onrush.
"To the south of Mllerovo,"
the Russian communique report
ed, "our troops engaged in a
fierce defensive battle against
advancing German fascist
troops.
"In one sector the Germans
drove a wedge into our posi
tions. With a blow from the
flank, our troops frustrated the
enemy attempt to break our de
fense. In this battle the fascists
lost over 1,200 killed. . .
(Concluded on page 9, column 5)
Gasoline Cut
In Buffer Zone
Washington, July 20 (U.R)
The war production board to
day announced establishment
of a "buffer zone" in 162 coun
ties adjacent lo the western
boundaries of the cast coast ra
tion area, in which deliveries
of gasoline to filling stations
will be cut by 25 per cent be
ginning Wednesday.
Purpose of the buffer zone,
officials explained, will bo to
discourage motorists living in
the rationed area from driving
over Iho ration lino and pur
chasing unlimited quantities of
gasoline.
Buffer zone dealers are ex
pected to be able to get enough
gas to meet most of the needs
of their own customers but not
enough to supply border "tour
ists," the WPB said.
The WPB announced that the
existing 3314 per cent cut In de
liveries to filling stations In
Washington and Oregon will re
main unchanged.