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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 120

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Bomb Germany Out of the War! Nazis Tied Up In the East! It's Time to Strike

~ British ‘Raids Have Proved Hitler Is Not Prepared to Counter ThenmxJoint Offensive Would Ease Pressure on Russia.

This is the last of five articles on the possibilities of a concentrated

aerial offensive on Germany.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Copyright, 1942, Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reviewed by U. S. Office of Censorship) —Time is the all-important element, in a joint British-American air offensive to knock out Germany. Time is now on our side. British and American bomber production, already enormous, is steadily rising. Our

joint output of aircraft now powers.

far exceeds that of the axis

Official statements show this.

The time to strike is now, or as soon

as possible.

British mass bombings have disclosed that Germany is not now prepared to counter them effectively. Nazi air forces in western Europe, large as they are, proved virtually helpless in recent weeks when England sent her fleets over Cologne, Essen, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen.

Mr. Stokes with Russia.

Adolf Hitler is tied up in the east A joint offensive in the near future would “not only capitalize that situation, but would ease the

pressure on Russia, now so sorely beset.

Air Mastery Paramount Consideration THE DEMOCRACIES CANNOT afford to wait. Hit-

~ ler has proved he can take advantage of such waiting.

While it is. difficult to pierce the wall behind which Germany produces her fighting equipment, authoritative reports brought back recenily from Europe indicate that the Germans are concentrating now on long-range bomber

production.

From Berne, Switzerland, not long since, came dispatches to the effect that German war industry had been ordered to devote all possible attention to airplane production henceforth, even to the sacrifice of tanks and

other war materials.

Mastery of the air, the dispatch

said, was now the paramount consideration. 1t reported that German plane production, which had reached a peak of 3300 in June, 1941, now had fallen to between 2700 and 2800 a month, while Italy was producing not more than 700 a month. United States production

reached 4000 war planes of

all types in May, President

Roosevelt announced recently. British “broduction is also

on the rise.

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Norris Favors Day and Night Bombings

AN EARLY ALL-OUT air offensive, striking directly at airplane factories, would cripple German production. But time is important, so that the Germans cannot (recoup their productive strength. There are evidences of a growing public appreciation of airpower in the United States, and definite indications of public support for all-out bombing to destroy Germany. No one in Washington better reflects what the people

are thinking than the veteran Senator Norris (Ind. Neb.). {Continued on Page Four)

Rain, Ticks, Flies and Bugs Harass Yanks Hunting Flier

BALBOA, C. Z, July 29 (U. P.),,us and making us bleed. If is not

—Lieut. Ray Riseden, 24, of Thornton, Tex., today told of two weeks he and eight men had spent in the Jungle, fruitlessly searching for a lost army flier among unfriendly Indians, rainstorms, ticks, flies and

alligators.

Riseden’s party was flown into the Jungle after a friendly Indian reported that he had encountered an emaciated white man floating down the Chucunaque river in a log canoe. Army officers were certain that he was one of the crew of an army plane lost May 13 in the Darien region. With seven native canoes and 21 Indians carrying equipment, the party. set out. There followed days

jot difficult portages over muddy,

vine-tangled jungle trails, dangerous ‘river fordings, sleepless nights on river banks fighting off swarms of malarial mosquitoes, narrow escapes from poisonous snakes that slithered from overhanging trees. Alligators thrashed at the boats.

“The men were drenched by long rainstorms

“Yesterday and today,” Riseden’s report, written like a diary, said,

yet identified.” By the end of the sixth day, two men had malaria, and one had been sent back to camp On the seventh day, the party reached the spot where the Indian had seen the white man but there was no trace of him, and Riseden decided to continue along the river as long as rations he'd out. Later parts of a cayucc, identified as the one in which the man had been floating, were found on the bank and Riseden felt certain that he had not survived. On the 13th day, his expedition was forced to turn back, its provisions exhausted and more than half of its members, including Riseden, sick with fever. The party made rendezvous with an army motor boat in which they started back to the Canal Zone. Thirty miles from Panama City the boat's motors quit and it began to leak. Riseden’s party and the boat's crew set themselves adrift on two rubber life rafts. All day they floated, their fever intensified hy the sun. Late that nighs they were rescued by a Panamanian fishing

SECOND BLOW REKINDLES BIG FIRES AT PORT

1200 Tons of Explosives Dumped on Germany in Week-End Raids.

LONDON, July 29 (U. P.).—More than 600 R. A. F. planes attacked

plants at Hamburg again last night, where officials disclosed today that more than 700 tons of explosives were dumped in one raid on Sunday nignt. A British military commentator said the total weight of 1200 tons of bombs dropped at Hamburg Sunday and Duisburg Saturday “far exceeded” anything the Germans ever . dropped during the battle of Britain. The weight of bombs at Duisburg Saturday was 500 tons, he said, and the next night this load was stepped up to 700 tons in the attack on Hamburg.

New Fires Are Started

Last night's raid in which Britain’s 4000-pound “block buster” bombers and thousands of incendiaries rekindled the still smouldering ruins of Hamburg, cost the British 32 planes. The commentator did not say how many tons were dropped in the latest attack. The British air fleet, including four-motor bombers, was preparing to take off for Hamburg when Air Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris was warning the German people in a broadcast that- both British and American bombers would lay Ger: many’s cities in ruins, one by one, unless they overthrow the Nazi regime and make peace. The air ministry said that “large fires” were started last night when the big planes . slipped through clouds like dive-bombers to carry out low-level attacks. Bomb-equipped British Hurricane fighters and American Douglas A-20 and A-20-A light bembers flown by British fighter pilots damaged well above 20 German freight trains in occupied Europe during the night, the air ministry said.

Test Mustang Planes

The Germans, meanwhile, dropped a few bombs on the east coast and midlands section of England. ~The air ministry, in a premonitory hint that a second land front was on the way in western Europe, announced that the rocket-like Mustang planes, made in America and powered by Allison motors, had held a dress rehearsal of invasion over occupied France recently. These P-51 North American Aviation Co. planes, are to be used when the invasion of fhe continent comes to scout for advancing army. forces. The air ministry revealed that in what it called their “day out” in France, they had flown at zero level, skimming the ground, to attack freight cars, army huts, barges and water towers.

U. S. ARMY PLANES BOMB CRETE HARBOR

(Fly 500 Miles From Bases With RAF to Attack.

CAIRO, July 29 (U, P.).—Heavy bombing planes of the United States army air corps and the royal air force have made a punishing attack on axis shipping in Suda bay, Crete, 500 miles from their bases, it was announced today. The big planes, believed to include four-motored American Consolidateds, flew over the Mediterranean at dusk to make their attack on the big 'aXis base at the northwest corner of Crete. Torpedo carrying planes scored a hit on a big enemy merchantman in the Ionian sea between Greece and Italy.

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PELVEY ARTICLE READ TO JURORS

Silver ‘Shirts Chief :Blame; U. S. for Starting War, | Prosecution Says.

By EARL RICHERT

William Dudley Pelley blamed the outbreak of the war on the United States, the government brought out today in the sedition trial of the Silver Shirt founder and two associates in federal court here.

Oscar R. Ewing, chiet government prosecutor, read to the jury an excerpt from an article in the Dec. 22 issue of Pelley’s magazine, “The Galilean,” which said: “We have indeed by every act and deed performable aggressively solicited war with the axis.” Pelley appeared in court this morning wearing a freshly pressed cream-colored suit and a white shirt.

Read Broadcast Summary

When Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell entered the courtroom, Pelley nodded to him and the judge returned the nod. Highlight of the evidence introduced by the government at the morning session was a three-page typewritten summary of an Italian short-wave broadcast on the night of Dec. 8, 1941, which Douglas Williams, FBI agent, testified he seized during a search of Pelley’s residence on N. Pennsylvania st. last April. Mr. Ewing read this summary to the jury. It said, in effect, that President Roosevelt had demanded that the Japanese withdraw their troops from China and the French possessions in East Asia and that the president wanted war and wanted it soon but on his own terms. Mr. Ewing then read an article] from the Dec. 22 issue of “The Galilean” which was strikingly similar to the axis broadcast in its statements pertaining to<the president’s demands and to the Japanese regard of heir emperor as a god. Defense akiothien objected to the (Continued on Page Four)

NEW YORK, July 29 (U., P.).— There was a cold wave in Brooklyn today—in one spot. Forty below zero. © Just like the Russian front last winter, Practically everybody was perspiring except for a little band which donned lambskin flying suits—helmet, jacket,” trousers and boots— and stood around thinking wistfully of steaming hot buttered rum while watching the frost form on their companions’ eyebrows and . lashes. The thermometer registered 39 below zero and was doing down. They were in the Sperry Gyroscope Co. all-weather laboratory, where it is possible to turn a crank and travel climatically from the sands of Libya in July to Leningrad in January, from % below to 150 bi i

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NAVAL OFFIGER GIVEN ALEUTIAN COMMAI

Operations of Fleet and | b ir Force Combined.

WASHINGTON, July 29 wl | I 5), ~The navy announced today | ijat current joint operations by tial units and army aircraft in | he [Aleutians have been placed urlier

officer in that area. ig Because details as to the come

they cannot be revealed at time, the navy said.

Hot? Well It Was 40 Belowl] Zero in This Brooklyn Spot

ments, subjecting them to con i= tions exceeding the 48 below found at 30,000 feet to ‘temperat ay higher than they might encoun in the tropics. The army and navy’s new Ww. flying suits, made of 12 to 15 eo shearlings, were to be tried out the laboratory. Charles S. So ward, test. engineer, an donned the suits and entered room. Southard braved the frigid mosphere without a hat. His turned white with frost. The temperature on the street 86. When the laboratory’s door wi opened to admit reporters the ten perature inside rose eight degr Even so the mercury registers

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A Story That Aunt Mamie’s Sure to Like

Upper Left—Ben H. Pry: « «+ he was afraid his son was gone,

oo “he’s awful quiet ti you get

. he told his mother he and his pal

Tell Her How

Hubert Dar gled by Heels

By FRE MONT POWER

Pryor thought his boy was dead. nid he and his boy had been great pals. Itewas a fine combination,’ Ben and

Of course, a father has |¢ 1? say goodby to his boy sometime, but

with Mr. Pryor it was a hard job.

Then, early in the summer, it looked as if he'd been killed in the war, serving with the American air forces in the South Pacific. Yesterday morning, though . . But maybe we ought to start at the beginning.

Believing his son dead, Mr. Pryor of 3429 E. 26th st. was reading The Times on July 6 when he came across a story headlined, “Dangle From Plane by Legs to Keep: It Aloft in Battle.”

u o. SOUNDED interesting and so Mr. Pryor decided to read it. It was about how a big B-25 bomber was flying along, helpless from a lucky Jap bullet and in imminent danger of crashing. “Under heavy fire from Zeros coming in for the kill,” it read, “the sergeants, identified only as Pryor and Tyler, cut a ‘hole in the fusellage. “Then one held the other’s legs ° while he leaned out among the bullets and held a long rod against the elevators. It worked. Tyler and Pryor took turns hanging by their heels and holding the rod until the Zeros gave up the chase.” The ship got away, made a crash landing and after a month the crewmen were rescued. Pryor, huh? Mr. Pryor wondered if maybe it could be his boy.

MAYBE yes. Maybe no. Mr. Pryor thought his boy might be.out there some place. He'd been a member of the Na- > tional | Guard = 113th observation squadron here and went into active service with the outfit several (Continued on Page Four)

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HURL BACK JAPS IN NEW GUINEA

Allied Patrols Give Invaders First Real Setback Since North Coast Landing.

Allied patrols have driven the Japanese back from the Kokoda area in their first real clash with enemy forces advancing from the new Buna-Gona invasion base in New Guinea, it was announced today. The Japanese, moving into the

‘foothills of the Owen Stanley moun-

tains, had reached a point near the native village of Oivi when allied troops, ‘specially trained in jungle fighting, moved down the mountainside yesterday from Kokoda and attacked. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's united nations air force in three separate raids yesterday on the Buna-Gona base smashed more enemy installations with numerous direct bomb hits. In the northwestern sector of the Australian zone, allied planes made their second attack in two days on the Koepang area of Timor island. ”

On the War Fronts

July 29, 1942

MOSCOW: Germans throw 20 panzer divisions of about 10,000 tanks in supreme bid for quick Caucasian conquest; Russians retreat south of Rostov.

LONDON: Six hundred R. A. F. planes hammer Hamburg in second attack on Nazi port.

AUSTRALIA: Allied patrols drive Japanese back from Kokoda area of New Guinea interior.

CAIRO: U. S. four-motor bombers and R. A. F. planes bomb axis shipping in Suda bay Crete.

CLAIM NAZIS SLAY BABIES LONDON, July 29 (U.P.).—The Moscow radio, quoting the newspaper Pravda, said today that German troops on an unidentified front opened fire and mowed down nearly 100 Russian women, some with babies in arms,. who had been ordered to march ahead of the Nazis as a shield.

“'MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR™ | TERS, Australia, July 29 (U. P).—

CRUSH

SOVIET POWER, BEAT 2D FRONT

Might at Caucasus;

Report 10,000 Tanks in Use Against Oil Region and Stalingrad.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The axis war lords are shooting the works in a climactic attempt to break the Russian army’s fighting power before they are smashed from the rear by an allied air or land onslaught on western Europe. The aerial second front against the Germans already is striking telling blows, including another 600-plane R. A. F, raid with block-buster bombs on the Nazi submarine base and port at Hamburg last night. These bra far exceeded the worst that the luftwaffe

could heap on England’s war centers during the battle of Britain, but experts still were divided on whether anything short of a big-scale invasion would hélp the Soviet army. Moscow dispatches, renewing calls for. a second front, left no doubt. that the war had reached its most critical phase in southern Russia, with the Nazis reported using 20° armored divisions of possibly 10,000 Ftanks “and 11 “fresh infantry ‘dis visons in an effort to force a de-. cision.

Objectives Now Clear

The decision which the German

high command seeks is now clear. The Nazis want to reach the Caucasus oil fields and the Staline grad industrial region on the Volga river in order to cut off the main. routes for Russian oil, interrupt supplies from America and split the Soviet fighting forces. But these are means to an end. The ultimate objective is to weaken the Soviet army and push it back toward the Urals until it no longer can be the main military threat against the axis in Europe. If that goal is achieved it would be possible for the Nazis, even if they had to keep many second-rate divisions on a Russian front next winter, to swing their greatest striking power back to the west against Britain or to the Near East against the key allied communica, tions lines.

Russians Still Retreat

On the Don river fighting front, the Russians still were resisting bug retreating in continued heavy bate tles south of Rostov, and in the. river bend that curves to within 10 miles of Stalingrad. A Russian communique admitted, for the second time in 12 hours, a Soviet army withdrawal in the Bataisk area about 15 miles south: of fallen Rostov along thé main railroad through the rich oil fields to the Caspian. The Soviet communique said thas the Germans had thrown other. force across the Don, apparently about 32 miles northeast of Rostov in the Tsimlyanskaya sector, and also across the great bend of the river facing Stalingrad.

pronged' Nazi drive is clawing closer to Stalingrad. One is against Kachalinsk, 65 miles northwest of. the industrial city, another at. Kalach about 75 miles west and the third against Novochirskaya, 110°

miles southwest.

By GLEN M. STADLER United Press Staff Correspondent

German troops marched along the Avenue des Champs Elysees in Paris again today, apparently as part of another Nazi propaganda attempt to convince the united nations that a second front in western Europe is impossible. A year ago I witnessed a similar enemy military demonstration in Paris, shortly after the Germans invaded: Soviet Russia, and it was largely phony. According to a Paris report broadcast today by the.German official news agency at Berlin, veteran Nazi units paraded in Paris to demonstrate that not all of the German forces were in Russia.

A year ago I watched tanks, guns

Paris Parade May Be Nazi Bluff Against a 2d Front

units roll down the Champs Eiyseen; their heavy treads chopping up the wood paving blocks. Thousands— nine-tenths of them German sole. diers and civilians—cheered as the parade whizzed by Gen. Ernst von Schaumburg, military governor of the Paris area. The French didn’t pay much ate. tention. But those who did dise covered two things:

About 300 tanks bearing the swastika were actually French; the

| soldiers were mere boys—proof that

the seasoned troops had been hure ried to Russia. Presumably today’s parade was staged in an effort to of ‘Russian announcements of the rival of German divisions fi France, Belgium and 2

The British reported that a three«