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Alaska Holds More
Opportunities
Than Hawaii
1 1
SEATTLE. Aug. 1 — <;P) — A I
business man from Hawaii said (
here the Territory of Alaska held
far better opportunities than the
sunlit isles. Frederick Lowrey,
president of Lewers and Coode,
Ltd., of Honolulu, came to Seat
tie to purchase building materials
for his firm.
“Practically all of our fertile
land is already under cultivation,
whereas there is virtually unlim
ited possibilities of expansion in
Alaska if people can adapt them
selves to the climate.” Lowery in
[ Seattle told the Congressional
! committee on Territories going
north to “study the possibility of
Alaska becoming a state as well
as other matters.” Its chairman
is Representative Peterson, Dem
ocrat of Georgia.
Jap Plane And
Ship Destruction
“Just Beginning”
By MORRIS LANDSBERG
GUAM, Aug. l--(iP)—Combined
carrier and landbased plane at
tacks have cost Japan, by con
servative official accounts, at
least 1,546 ships and small craft
sunk or damaged in her home
waters in July and more than
thirteen hundred warplanes de
stroyed or wrecked—but that is
just the beginning.
Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet,
carrier planes, including some
two hundred fifty British aircraft
alone destroyed or damages 1,035
Japanese ships and small craft in
twenty-one days of almost cease
less assaults with torpedoes,
bombs, rockets and fifty calibre
bullets.
They accounted for one thou
sand two hundred seventy-eight
aircraft, most of which was caught
on the ground. Halsey's units
have reduced the remnants of the
Japanese fleet to a shambles—99
warships have been sunk or dam
aged, including three disclosed to
day by land-based aircraft.
Admiral Nimitz' Command
sank another 85 vessels, mostly
freighters and cargo ships and
damaged one hundred seventy-six
destroyed or damaged fifty-three
Japanese planes.
An Associated Press tabulation
showed the Far East Airforces
have immobilized two hundred
fifty Japanese ships or small craft
totaling two hundred fifty thou
sand tons after they began opera
ting from Okinawa bases early In
July. General Mac Arthur's com
munique said the totals include
many barges, luggers and other
small craft, but exclude many.
The communique reports of
“several" or “a number of ves
sels sunk or damaged also ex
clude the number of Japanese
planes wrecked by B-29s or ac
companying Mustangs.
The figures which are not
available for July are just the
pre-invasion beginning of the
devastation to be wrought on
Japan, who has been warned by
nearly every Pacific commander.
Radio Tokyo said Admiral Hal
sey’s fleet still prowled off Hon
shu island, where it already has
spent twenty-two unchallenged
days.
Elliott Roosevelt
Alone Responsible
Financial Affairs
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1—<>P>—
Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt de
clared he alone was responsible
for his “business affairs.” Any
statement that the late President
Roosevelt helped him promote
them is a “deliberate and infam
ous lie.”
The President’s son issued a
statement denouncing what he
termed “falsehoods, half truths,
and sly Implications" about hU
business transactions. The House
Ways and Means committee has
been investigating the report he
borrowed two hundred thousand
dollars from John Hartford, pres,
ident of the Great Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company to finance
a Texas radio venture. That debt
was later settled for four thou
sand dollars. Hartford listed the
remainder as a bad debt deduc
tion in his 1942 income tax re
turn.
Westbrook Pegler, columnist,
had said there was “no doubt the
President knew of the loan and
approved it"
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