| Show ' i 7 Suit £akc lrlbuncSub Sinks U S Pribilofs Fall Friday Morning' Cleric Tells How Jap Index to Top War News From World Sector ( Bluff Failed Relates Torture Culminating in Threat of Death officers of U S air force LONDON — Four arrive in Britain as speculation on second front continues — Story page 2 column 6 LONDON —British bombers sweep French coast in continuation of raids on continent — Story page 1 column 6 CAIRO —Axis planes bomb outskirts of Cairo while RAF blasts enemy positions along Egyptian battle line — Story page 1 column 5 top-ranki- By Joseph Dynan LOURENCO MARQUES July 28 (Delayed) UP) — Smilingly and without a visible trace of bitterness Dr Harry W Myers 68 told me Tuesday how he remained unbroken in the face of Japanese threats to shoot him unless he confessed to charges of espionage “Go ahead I am ready” Myers told his guards Their bluff called the Japanese gave up That was in February and alInterpretative— (Opinion) had ready the missionary-teache- r By Kirke L Simpson Wide World War Analyst started losing his toenails and his inankles were swollen with an There are intimations from Moscow and London that some from of threat gangrene n cipient action may be concerted Russian and long hours of sitting in the knee- form of straining fashion enforced by his impending to stem the nazi onslaught sweeping southward in jailers the Caucasus below the Don and eastward in the Don bend toward Moreover he was at the time from the crude prison the Volga to have betfare and had been slapped freHowever it would take quick gests that he expects in the east war examinaquently throughout the drastic action on other fronts to ter news of the tion in January and early Febru- offset the ominous import of the soon to ease growing British Germans’ claims that they have alarm ary Since boarding the repatriation severed the last Russian rail conThe vebjwsilence of the Churchill boat he has been told by a physi- nection with the Caucasus and ministry except for the cryptic cian that he barely escaped los- also trapped red army forces in disclosure that it has second-fro"intentions” is noteworthy It is ing both feet In all he had spent the Don bend six months in jail separated from A possible hint that allied help being maintained in the face of a his wife who suffers from paraly- was close at hand was given in rising clamor for action sis That was the final chapter of the British parliament by Sir StafMilitary urgency would dictate a career of teaching in ford Cripps Churchill’s spokes- that course if action is impending man He met pleas for a secret If it were not or if Churchill were Japan Myers a teacher at the Pres- session to discuss “second front” resigned to the probability of a byterian seminary at Kobe was possibilities with the assertion that crushing Russian defeat excuses arrested op Doccmber8 and taken it was unnecessary and explanations would be in order to a cold drafty detention house “I can say now that "we have Included in Citation A month later h4 was taken to the intentions” he said district station and thrust into a No Time for The Russian intimation of an Speeches raid barren cell where his clothearly change in the anticipated ing was taken and he was left to Coupled with Churchill's defer- war trends is in a way even more wear a prison kimono and sleep ment of a war accounting to par- direct and authoritative It came under one “futon” or Japanese liament the Cripps remark takes in the form' of a Stalin citation on added significance It implies to his countrymen of the deeds of blanket There he was examined for one at least that Churchill has no time Russian heroes who in the past month on the three charges for speechmaking because he is beat back invaders That Stalin rallying call is noteagainst him forced to sit on his engrossed with preparations to hit heels during the long periods of at Germany from the west and worthy for several reasons For possibly from Egypt It also sug- - one thing it follows persistent questioning rumors that he has taken the field in person as commander in chief h defense as he did in the of Moscow Stalin then issued a plea to which Russian troops and citizenry gave striking response He waited until Russian reserves had been mustered and until the sustained and exhausting German onslaught against Moscow coupled with the onset of winter offered the most favorable Allies Hint Concerted Action To Stem German Onslaught - Anglo-America- half-famish- ed nt 45-ye- ar last-ditc- backs-to-the-wa- ll Men’s Sport Shoes Entire Stock Prices Sharply Slashed to Insure Rapid Clearance Nunn-Bus- h zzhifele yiashlonccL Oxroxds $10 to $1185 Values finer sport shoes than you’ll see again until the war is over — better leather sturdier soles If you are wise you’ll buy for now and next TTiese are summer too Take your choice of brown and Ians and all whites brown and creams ventilated styles at this one low price $695 mm opportunity Stalingrad Headquarters? Rumor has several times placed ?talin in the west-ban- k Volga city which bears his name and is a prime nazi objective It would be a logical location for his personal field headquarters particularly if it is a holding action behind the Don and Volga for which he is rallying Russia The probabilities are that his nazi rival Hitler is posted in the rear of his troops somewhere in the southeastern Ukraine Yet the Stalin summons could have another meaning It could symbolize his belief that Hitler has now all but exhausted his available reserves and greatly extended his communication lines in Russia while Russia's own strategic reserves are relatively untouched There are reports from Moscow that Marshal Timoshenko is only now throwing into action along the Don and in the Caucasus reserves he has been withholding for a final stand once his foe was sufficiently extended and ex- Values transport with destroyer escort 100 miles off the northeast coast of New Guinea and scored five hits on ' the transport Nine other Japanese bombers raided Port Headland 300 miles southwest of Broome on the Australian northwest coast the communique said causing slight damage and one casualty n “Twenty-sevebombers and 22 zero fighters raided Darwin Thursday” the communique said “Allied interceptors shot down seven Japanese bombers and two Japanese fighters losing one plane themselves” suoisc LX Coast Doctor Reveals 3-in- Arthur Frank 208-21- 0 So Main St WASHINGTON July 30 Dimond of Alaska said Thursday “there is some slight circumstantial evidence” that the Japanese have occupied the Pribilof islands about 250 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor “I have had several reports to that effect” Dimond “Two of them came said from men who came into my office and said that from what they had heard in Alaska ‘the Japs have the Still Missing 29 Land Safely AN EAST COAST Tv July (UP) — Seventeen men were believed lost when a large German submarine torpedoed and looted a medium-size- d American mercv-n- t ship kidnaped "its captain and finally sank it with a barrage of Pribilofs’” gunfire survivors revealed ThursDimond said “it is hardly day conceivable that we would The atta-- ’ occurred in the Atsit by and let them take the men Islands unless we are lacking lantic July 9 Twenty-nin- e in power” were knowm dead survived t and 14 others who took refuge in one of the lifeboats were missing Prisoner of War Britisli-India- n Captain Henry Stephenson of 30 Larchmont N Y master of the vessel was taken aboard the “as a prisoner of wrar” Survivors heard the sub’s commander say Stephenson could “plan on about 11 days” aboard the undersea raider One torpedo ripped into ‘the ship’s side during the late morning attack The vessel was abandoned immediately “Before we got out of sight we saw the sub crew board our ship and carry something off — what we couldn’t see but it might have been food” Chief Mate Ernest U-bo- at -l Inoculations SAN FRANCISCO July 30 (Ah of immunizing children against three diseases at once was reported Thursday by Dr John J Miller Jr Stanford university medical school pediatrician Tbe single treatment provides protection against diphtheria tetanus an'whooping cough — A method Rift Moves Nearer’ Crisis By Mile W Vaughn United Press Night News Manager Relations between Britain and her Indian empire appeared Friday to be moving rapidly toward a crisis following a statement by Leopold S Amery British secretary of state for India that BritMacLellan of Hanson Mass said ain holds to her pledge of postwar Second Incident for India but reto to the demand of fuses yield (This was the second instance of in for immewhich survivors the congress recently sinkings have revealed the pillag- diate and complete Indian indeJ nt All-Ind- ing of Supplies by an enemy crew The small motorship Gertrude’ attacked and hijacked of its supplies within sight of Havana Cuba was the other victim) The 29 survivors spent eight days at sea before being picked up by a United States naval vessel and taken to a West Indian port U-bo- at RAF Fighters Blast at French Coast pendence It will be recalled that a working committee of the congress a fortnight ago adopted a resolution presented by M K Gandhi demanding immediate independence as the "price for Indian support of Britain's war effort A full committee of the congress is scheduled to meet in Bombay on August 7 to approve Gandhi's proposal which Britain'' now haa rejected in advance Look for U S Aid Against this background New Delhi reported Thursday many Indian leaders were looking to the All-Ind- ia All-Ind- ia (Continued from Page One) their submarines with Condor flying boats British between Dogfights bombers on the one hand and the boats huge German flying heavand Arado-19- 6 ily armed seaplanes on the other have become almost a daily occurrence the British said Running fights between Condors and bombers frequently take place hundreds of miles at sea with little hope of rescue for the vanThe Arado-19- 6 armed quished with two cannon and at least three machine guns usually does not go out so far “Great damage” was done in e the foray to Saarbrueck-e- n near the French border- where renascent German nationalism under Hitler scored one of its first victories in the Saar plebiscite of January 1935 Canadian bombardiers w’ho participated said they saw their bombs drop from 4000 feet into the closely packed steel mills along the river and that they believed a huge gas container blew up (Other towns besides Saarbrueck-e- n were bombed the Germans said They said a nazi theater was Mes-serschmi- tts 700-mil- - smashed) four-motor- ia ed - By United Press LONDON July 30 — Four officers of the U S army air force which would help spearhead any invasion' of Europe have arrived in Britain it was revealed Thursday night a few hours after Russian Ambassador Ivan Maisky had made a “full and frank statement” on Russia's war situation to a closed session of parliament Just before Maisky’s appearance Sir Stafford Cripps government spokesman told the house of commons that the government's promise to invade Europe still held good A communique from headquarters of the U S army’s European theater of operations announced the arrival of Brigadier General top-ranki- oy De-Witt- ’s ad-il- 1 HONOLULU July 30 'UD— All previous rainfall records on MtJ Waialeale great central mountainmass on Kauai island were broken in the year ending July a recorded fall of 61875 inches The previous year’s total was! 48569 inches the situation” The figures were made public! If events make it advisable to today by Howard S Leak assoc!-- 1 resume carryfng masks the pub- ate engineer in the United lic will be informed he said geodetic survey : J - j j ng II II Frank O D Hunter commander of the U S fighter command Brigadier General Asa N Duncan chief of staff of the army air force Brigadier General Robert C Candee chief of the U S ground air support command and Major General W H Frank commander of the U- S air service corps Purpose of the visit and the nature of whatever conferences they planned were not revealed The arrival of a large contingent of Canadian reinforcements including fliers and technicians also was announced Thursday night Canadian military headquarters said the Atlantic crossing was “uneventful” Second front speculation was rife and newspaper comment took a new turn today when the Daily Telegraph which strongly supports Prime Minister Churchill asserted that the appointment of an American general to command allied land forces on the continent would be welcomed in Britain Whether Maisky in his appear- ance before commons discussed a d second front to relieve the Russian armies was not revealed but a statement issued after the meeting asserted that he gave the “frankestreplies” to all questions asked hiritf and "greatly impressed those present with his description of the war” hard-presse- Axis Bombers Blast Cairo United States for intervention fearing repercussions if Gandhi launches his campaign designed to force the British to leave- India There were some indications that the frail little Indian nationalist has got himself out on a limb and is looking to President Roose(Continued from Page One) velt for rescue Since the meeting of the work- area has been raided before nevconing committee of the gress early this month tremendous ertheless) The interior ministry said only pressure has been brought to bear one person was killed and a little upon Gandhi The Chinese par- property damage done in Thurshave appealed ticularly repeatedly It said alerts sounded to him not to do anything which day’s raid the Suez canal the during nightin would aid the axis and informally and in some provinces of uphave promised to make every areaand lower Egypt effort to see that India’s demands per on the desert front west are accepted as soon as the war of Activity was limited to paAlamein El against Japan and Germany has trol action and the bombardment been won of axis positions in the central sector a joint communique of the V’on’t Trust Britain eastern command and the middle Gandhi himself has made it clear force said air royal a united nations favors he that were said to have Imperial victory and has warned the Jap- engaged in guns a successful duel with anese against an effort to invade guns and motor transport the Indian subcontinent His posi- enemy Patrols! returning from tion apparently is that India fa- convoys in the northern sector duty night vors all the principles of the united said saw bodies of many they nations — notably President’ Roose- enemy dead in the no man’s land — freedoms but feels velt’s four which interDespite sand storms that Britain cannot be trusted to fered large-scal- e air operawith meet Indian demands when the tions British fighter-bomber- s war is over made two successful attacks in the southern sector toward the Qattara depression it was announced and fighter planes made sweeps over forward positions non-viole- nt - In Night Raid All-Ind- ia ‘ D&RG Gets Okeli On Engine Buying DENVER July 30 UP) — Federal District Judge J Foster Symes Thursday approved a Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad petition to purchase six heavy steam to haul increasfreight locomotives ing war traffic on its line through Colorado and Utah The huge engines will cost (Overall Don’t Buy That di a ri o n d ! & to- c o o tal of Jl666650 and will be delivered late in 1942 or early in 1943 by the Baldwin Locomotive works Jurist Charges Army Neglect Of Evacuation Plan for S F SAN FRANCISCO July 30 UP — Lieutenant General J L DeWitt and the war department were accused Thursday by Judge William Denman of the Ninth United States circuit court of appeals of failing to develop an adequate plan for evacuatingSan Francisco in theevent Japanese bombs set the city afire The jurist made public his correspondence with John J Me-Classistant secretary of war under the caption “General Ghastly Seven - Month Plan or Lack of Planning to Prevent the Burning Alive of the City’s Women and Children Sick and Aged” DeWitt is commanding general of the Fourth army and of the western defense command Judge Denman said Japanese combined incendiary bombs with the city’s wooden structure v and prevailing wind coulJ ’ repeat on an even ''greater scale the San Francisco fire of 1906 when 28188 buildings were burned down 618 Inches in Year LONDON July 30 (A) — Britons now need not carry gas masks with them except when they leave home overnight Home Secretary Herbert Morrison told the house of commons Thursday saying "I do not anticipate a gas attack immediately for all I know it may never come but we will watch Air Generals Arrive in Britain if 'Mountain Rainfall Hits Abate in England Ranking American (Ah — Delegate Nine planes of the large bombing forces which included many machines were big lost in the attack regarded by the hausted ’ITiat presumably refers British as of great importance to the tactical reserves of the in their campaign to hamstring southern armies he commands the reich however not to the general strategic reserve the Russians have LONDON Friday July 31 UP) — been gathering behind the fighting German raiders gave Londoners lines for more than a year two quick alarms Friday morning the fifth and sixth of the week in the British capital and struck at the west Midlands their favorite target of the weef- and western and southern England No bombs fell here but the capnew antiaircraft ital’s secret guns were in action against the GENERAL MACARTHUR'S fliers HEADQUARTERS Australia FriThere were some casualties in day July 31 MUP) — Allied inter- one west Midlands town ceptors shot down nine of 49 Japanese planes which raided Port Darwin on the Australian north coast Thursday an allied communique announced Friday The communique said allied bombers attacked a Japanese 49 Jap Planes Raid Darwin two-lon- e Fourteen of Crew ng Gas Raid Dangers Move by U S Fans Talk of ToJaps Says Second Front Alaska Report Boat Takes Chief Aboard MOSCOW — Red army hurls Germans back in their "thrust at Stalingrad — Story page 1 column 8 July 31 19121 - ?TIjc Mad e Bitter to Wear Betterl 0 0 0 He assered that General Witt had not developed an adequate plan of evacuation had not informed civilians of his plans had not agreed to practice evacuation and had not asked for civilian aid He termed DeWitt’a evacuation plan “cruel in its imDe- 0 You can treat them rough! 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