Ship losses reach 419
12 more Allied and neutral vessels sunk in week
By the Associated Press
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SPLIT INCOME PROPOSAL FOR TAX PURPOSES WINS APPROVAL
Senate group favors new plan 11–4
Affects husbands, wives in eight community property states
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Jap base bombed
Hengyang, China (UP) –
United States fighter planes, led personally by Col. Robert L. Scott, today bombed the Japanese base at Sienning with “great success.”
Japs jailed for plot to slow production
Honolulu (UP) –
Five Japanese workers at Hickam Field began prison sentences today because they ridiculed conscientious workers and tried to get them to work less hard.
Maj. Samuel E. Murrell, of Provost Court, sentenced one to a year in jail, and the others to nine months.
Prosecution witnesses said the workers had been told they were “suckers” for working so hard. However, this was denied vigorously by one of the defendants, Shichi Tao, who received the one-year sentence.
Tao said:
If we sat down, we were tired – not loafing.
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Army calls shortstop
Detroit (UP) –
Bill Hitchcock, regular shortstop for the Detroit Tigers baseball club, has been ordered to report to the Army Thursday and will leave immediately, Manager Del Baker announced today.
Baker said Hitchcock was a lieutenant in the Army Reserve Corps and had been instructed to report for active duty “somewhere in Florida.”
Bake said Hitchcock’s place at shortstop will be filled by Murray Franklin, utility infielder, who has one of the best hitting records on the club.
Hitchcock is married, but has no children.
Morris nominated Minister to Iceland
Washington (AP) –
Leland B. Morris, of Pennsylvania, was nominated by President Roosevelt today to be United States Minister to Iceland.
Morris, formerly charge d’affaires at Berlin, would succeed Lincoln MacVeagh, Who has been made Minister to South America.
Lindbergh isle home pillaged in Europe
Berlin (AP) –
A German radio report from Paris said today the Île Illiec home of Charles A. Lindbergh, off the Brittany coast of France, had been pillaged by “thieves,” who removed even the furniture from the villa.
U.S. Navy Department (August 11, 1942)
Navy Communiqué No. 103
North Pacific Area.
Information received by the Navy Department now makes it possible to report the following incidents in the Aleutian Islands:
On July 22, Army bombers dropped bombs through the fog in the area of Kiska Harbor. Results were unobserved.
On July 29, Navy patrol planes conducted a night attack on Kiska and Army bombers attacked shore installations and ships in the same vicinity.
On August 3, Japanese aircraft attacked the U.S. destroyer Kane off Atka Island, about 305 miles east of Kiska. No damage was inflicted. Army bombers again attacked the Kiska Harbor area, with unobserved results.
On August 4, Army pursuit planes shot down two Kawanishi-97 seaplane bombers.
On August 8, a task force of the Pacific Fleet, protected by Navy patrol planes, heavily bombarded a group of enemy ships, camp facilities, and shore installations at Kiska. The attack was a complete surprise. The enemy, mistaking the first salvos of shells for bombs, opened fire with anti-aircraft batteries on imagined planes. The intensive bombardment from cruiser and destroyer guns soon silenced short batteries, started fires and inflicted severe damage to the camp area. The only enemy resistance encountered was from aircraft. Our loss was one observation plane.
On August 9, naval patrol planes followed up the bombardment by an attack on two cargo ships in Kiska Harbor. Two bomb hits were scored on each of the two ships, resulting in severe damage. On this flight, observers reported sighting a sunken cargo ship, which is believed to have been sunk near the beach during the previous day’s bombardment by surface forces.
South Pacific Area.
While the action in the Tulagi area of the Solomon Islands continues, nothing further can be reported at this moment.
Völkischer Beobachter (August 11, 1942)
Einzelheiten aus der siegreichen Seeschlacht –
Ganz Japan in heller Freude
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The Pittsburgh Press (August 11, 1942)
ALLIES HOLDING GAINS IN SOLOMONS
Japs counterattack strongly, Curtin says, reporting on landings
Battle in crucial stage on 6th day; foe fights hard, UP avers
King lists losses
Cruiser sunk, pair hit, with two destroyers; foe’s planes smashed
By Murlin Spencer
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On Treasury patrol
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Mrs. Lilliam Lassiter is one of a number of efficient female Secret Service police whose duty is to guard the Treasury Department in Washington. She approves wholeheartedly of the idea that every woman should take part in the war effort and thus release men for the armed forces or war industry work. This is a phonephoto. (CP)