The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1942, Page 1

h 'Y THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8925. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ISLAND DEFENDERS ARE UNDER BOMBING FDR PRESIDENT DEMANDING GREAT SUM Request Is Largest in His- fory of All World Governments MEANS NINE BILLION ON-TOP, ALL TAXES Magnitude, Com position | Asks INCREASED SHI Alaska - Officer Honored Capt. DOHOE;V—I, Fort Rich- RATES T0 RAISE FOOD (OSTS ONLY SLIGHTLY SEBASTOPOL Depends on Events | 5rdcon * Given Award ar Budget Of Fifty-Six Billion PPING | Under the authority of the United States Maritime Commission, the watchdog of rates charged for sea- | going commerce, the Alaska Steam- ship Company was last night auth- orized to increase all freight and passenger rates by 45 per cent, it was announced here today. Although no reason for the in- crease was given in the instructions | received here, added insurance costs | due to war risks plus other pros- | pects of advancing operational costs, | were believed to have prompted the | maritime commission in authorizing | the raise. It was apointed out that NAZIS ARE TRAPPED AT FDRIs Equallgq_in_fi_a@_g }mnstnny press conference general- | ship pleased the newspaper folk or President Roosevelt most. I have a little hunch that the President got a big kick out of the| situation. For going on nine yeais (he has met this journalistic horde twice a week. Many of them he |can call by their first names and he knows the questions they are going to ask before they get out the first words. To him it’s old stuff 10,000 German Dead Left on Battlefield in Cen- tral Front Sector REDS RECAPTURE | | Minister in his own bailiwick, never holds press conferences at all. Facing enemy guns is one thing. Facing one’s political enemies By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.— Pre |dent Roosevelt has not been su |passed but he has been equalled (at a game in which he was here- ‘tumre supreme—the handling of a | mass press conference. Hitler Says Russian Land- ing Parties on Crimean in| "Winnie" Is Right on the Spof But He Makes Good; | But he couldn’t have failed ‘o debate is another. But facing a|. .., eciate the pressure which his Dr. Whitehead U. 5. FORCES New President ARE UNDER Juneau C.of . BIG ATTACK 1942 Officers to Outline ' Japanese Use Bombers,: Program for Coming | Machine Guns Against Year at Luncheon MacArthur’s Units | ercsitont o1 e unens Gramber| HEAVY FIGHTING ON MANILA PENINSULA of Commerce today as the 1942 hamber board of directors held heir first meeting and orgamaed‘ L { — o the setivites of the coming| Eorfifications of Corregidor Elected besides Whitehad were John Jones, Pirst Vice President, ind J. B. Burford, Second Vice Also Are Assaulted on Battlefronts WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Speak- ing of the Nation’s determination to “pay whatever price it must to pre- serve our way of life,” President Roosevelt today called for a war budget of fifty-six billion dollars for | the next fiscal year. Nine billion dollars in new taxes on. top of all existing taxes and un- precedented borrowing will send the Federal debt to above one hundred ten billion dollars. President Roosevelt said in his annual budget message to Congress: | “This war budget, its magnitude and composition, depend on events on the battlefronts of the world. | “Nothing short of the maximum | can suffice. “I cannot prediot the ultimate cost. because I cannot predict the chang- ing fortunes of war. I can only say that we are determined to pay whatever price we must to preserve | our way of life.” | The President added at a press conference today that this is the | biggest budget in the history of world governments. Estimates indi- | NEXT YEAR cated that it nearly doubled Ger- many’s annual war expenditures. It called, the President said, to step up the rate of war spending from (Continued on Page Six) | Chhe [ and passenger rates on the Atlantic | increased some 600 per cent. | . . | for Heroism Display [ | The upping of rates will mean WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — Capt. gyhstantial increases in passage Jack N. Donohew, of Slater, Mis- | fares, it was pointed out by steam- !souri, now stationed at Fort Rich- ghip officials, but so far as increas- ardson, has been given the Distin- ing the living costs in Juneau, the guished Flying Cross by the War increased freight rates will add not | Department, for heroism in hand- more than three per cent to food ling a disabled bomber and achiev- prices, grocerymen and local food ing what is believed to be the first wholesalers figured. |evacuation from a cabin type of The raise will mean that freight plane without the loss of a single rates on general merchandise will {life. |go up from $9.80 per ton to $14.21 | Capt. Donohew remained at the Per ton. No raise was announced, however, in wharfage or terminal charges. On that basis, grocerymen figured, a grocery bill which now averages 50 per month, will increase only $1.50 per month, so far as the con- INCOMETAX - 2255 T0 DOUBLE the crew plane while his controls of his seven men comprising parachuted to safety. Pointing out that the increase is inot nearly as drastic as it sounds, | the grocerymen said, for example, !that on a case of milk the freight | rate is now 26 cents, 0 the increase | will add but 12 cents to the cost of per case wharfage, or an increase of 21 cents per case in total cost. during the first World War, freight ! the case, plus the present nine-cent | WASHINGTON, Jan 7 — Presi- dent Rosevelt today asked Congress | to impose $9,000,000,000 in new taxes. Treasury proposals already in the making contemplate a basic income tax rate of more than double the present levy. | The President’s budget message |called for a record breaking total {of $26,852,000,000 for the next fiscal | year, which starts July 1 as a down ! payment on twice that much in war hkn | costs. -t | It is estimated that existing tax |laws will raise $17,852,000, leaving fobert S Alles 1$9,000,000,000 to be accounted for .G_Q' WASHINGTON—Here is the in- side story on what happened in| by the new levies. | In addition, Roosevelt asked the |public to lend the government, (through the purchase of defense | bonds and other securities, upwards of $33,000,000,000. The message also asked a $2,000,- all the fuss and furore over the|000,000 increase in Social Security Free French seizure of the tws|taxes and $7,000,000,000 from almost | On the same basis, the increase will | mean an increase of only a cent a | dozen on eggs, a cent a pound on cheese, three-quarters of a cent on a pound of butter, and so on. \ What Increase Means This increase is on freight rate only, not on wharfage. On a case of milk the freight rate is 26 cents plus 45 per cent increase or 12 cents | plus wharfage 9 cents or a total of | 47 cents. The increase is on the 26 | cents only. (Continued on Page Two) BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES SHOW INCREASE Vital Stafistics Filed with Peninsula Driven Off (By Associated Press) Sea borne Russian troops, striking ‘back in Crimea at many points are reported to be tightening a trap | around . Hitler's siege armies at Sebastopol, while on the central front, retreating Nazi forces are said to have left 10,000 dead on a battle- field which has seen the Germans yield 572 towns in five days. At the same time, Germans ac- knowledged a heavy Soviet push in the Donets River Valley sector of the Ukraine, against the industrial city of Kharkov, Russia’s Pittsburgh. A “bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters asserted that Russian troops have landed barges at Yevpa- toriya, west of the Crimean coast {and 40 miles north of Sebastopol and were wiped out in “brisk houses | to-house fighting.” t Countering the German version, a | London broadcast today reported the Russians have established a beach- | head in “heavy fighting going on to the rear. The German command |outrage this afternoon in a S'flw';dxvlded into two groups, active and also asserted that Rumanian soldiers | have smashed a small Soviet land- along the shore” near Yevpatoriya. {freight and passenger rates an- German forces, moving north of {nounced today by | Sebastopol, offered a combat threat Steamship Company was called "“nifltlendance at the meeting wee crowded room that includes S0Me | friond and colleague was under, of the world's best reporters fair-| e facing the situation for the first ly drooling over questions to belyyo “proor of ft is that in front asked is something else again. : of the ; ; ; Looking back on it now, I can't j oonferenon. be) warned Mt tell you whether Mr. Churchill’s| Gruening Says Rate Increase Is An Ouirage Governor W_igs Protest to Washingfon—"No Justi- fication,” He Says The 45 (Continued on Page Five) Nurses Meet for Duty Assignment For assignment to casualty sta- tions in case of emergency, nurses who are not employed at hospitals, or whose family conditions permit them to leave home at any time, met last evening in theé offices of the Territorfal Public Health De- partment in the Territorial Build- ing where ‘akslgnnients were made by Dr. William P. Blanton, Direc-; | tor of Emergency Medical Services. An emergency would include fire, landslide or any other eventuality, | Dr. Blanton said. Well Attended Thirty-five nurses who were per cent increase on the Alaska! in President. No move was made to cither replace or re-elect Stanley Jackson as secretary of the cham- ser but it was understood that a vote will be taken on the secretary post of the organization at some future meeting. First meeting of the Chamber un- der the new leadership will take dlace tomorrow noon at the Baran- of Hotel, at which time the new officers are expected to outline their program of activity for the coming year. All Chamber mem- bers and friends were urged today| to be on hand. RAF and Royal Navy Raiding Norwa_! Coast by Raiders WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — The War Department said today that defenders of the Philippines are withstanding a continuous bombing and machine gunning along a tight fraont east of Manila and in fortl-. fications of the Corregidor Island defenses. Nearby Batan Peninsula was bombed again for several hours yes- terday, the War Department sald. Extent of the damage and casu- alties 1s not yet determined. At least 45 bombers rained ex- plosives on the fortifications, with several direct hits. Planes of the invaders were re- corded on the entire front yester- day with the American and Phil- ippine defenders drawing their: forces together. On a peninsula west of Manila there was heavy fighting, with in- creasing pressure, but the soldiers under Gen. MacArthur were said to be making a valiant resistance, ment by Gov. Ernest Gruening. The Governor called on every ing party southwest of Feodosiya, [Alaskan to make a vigorouvs protest in eastern Crimea. They also de-|and revealed that he has already clared that Nazi dive bombers have | wired officials in Washington, in- effectively attacked other Russian cluding Alaska's delegate Anthony troops landing on the Crimean |J. Dimond, regarding the move. Peninsula. The Governor acknowledged that e i, N |the increase had been made ap- | parently | Maritime Commission.” o n ' rac o rs Following 1s the complete state- lose ss ‘000 |denly imposed by the Alaska ’ !Sleflmshlp Company, apparently D S ."wnh the consent of the Maritime {ment of Gov. Gruening: ! “The 45 per cent increase in Commission, is nothing short of an outrage. It calls for the most Mrs. A. Lilllan Carlson was awarded a judgement of $5,400 from | freight and passenger rates sud- vigorcus protest on the part of every Alaskan consumer. Legislative Protest in a with the consent of the| reserve, Dr. Blanton said. Due to the large number of graduate nurses in Juneau it will not be necessary for those who are moth- ers of small children to receive assignments for duty, he stated. To Report for Duty | It will be the duty of those on the active list to report for imme- idlaw duty to one of the two cas- jualty stations established in Ju- neau in case of need, while those lon the reserve list are volunteers |who will be available for duty as isoon as possible following any call. | The casualty stations, which wiil be equipped with all necessary ma- ‘Eerlal, will serve as supplemenis ito hospitals and will in ‘all details ;possible duplicate hospital facili- | |ties. They are located in the base-| %ment of the Baranof Hotel and in |the B.P.R. garage at the head of the Siems Spokane Company this tiny North Atlantic islands of St. Pierre-Miquelon, The story illustrates a very im- portant point: That U. S.-British foreign policy has got to pull closer together in the future, and that State Department officials might have thought twice about slapping British policy in the face| —especially at a time when Win- ston Churchill was sitting in the White House working on plans for closer Anglo-American coordination. The crux of the situation was that the radio stations on these two French islands long have been suspected of giving information to Vichy—and then to Berlin—on British convoys crossing the North Atlantic; also on Britain-bound bombers hopping off from New- foundland. French fishing vessels from St. Pierre-Miquelon cruise all over the Newfoundland banks and are mn an excellent position to observe Allied activity in this vital part of the Atlantic. More recently, Nazi submarines have been prowling closer to U. S. shores and it was suspected they might be getting information — or even supplies — any source except a general sales tax. The President said he expected increases in the percentages levied for old age pensions and unemploy- ment insurance, also. .-~ | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 7. — Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2, American Can 61%, Anaconda 64!, Common- wealth and Southern 5/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, International Harves- ter 47%, Kennecott 36, New York Centra]l 9%, Northern Pacific 5 3/4, United States Steel 53’2, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 113.90, rails 27.54, utilities 14.84. SUBMARINE SUNK, JAPS from the fishing vessels. | So the British gave the nod to| General DeGaulle to move into the islands. In fact they even let his associate, Vice Admiral Muselier, TOKYO, Jan. 7. — Imperial head- take three French corvettes to do quarters today acknowledged in a the job. There was no great secrsg communique that another Japanese about it, for Admiral Muselior Submarine has been sunk in the Sy Pacific and a cruisér slightly dam- (Continued on Page Four) aged. Auditor Reveal Up- jnere. ward Trend, 1941 During the year of 1941, Vital, Statistics for Alaska filed in the| office of the Territorial Auditor,| Frank A. Boyle were as follows: Birth certificates 2675. This was an increase of 557 over 1940. Death certificates 1383, an in- crease of 77 deaths during the year. Marriage ceriificates 1268, an in- crease of 325 over the preceeding vear. . The total number of ce:tificates| filed during the year 1941 showed| an increase of 959 certificates over, 1940. During 1941 a total of 1001 cer- tified copies of vital statistics rec-| ords were issued. These were | mostly copies of birth certificates. By Division, 896 children were born in the First Division, 432 in the Second, 946 in the Third and| 401 in the Fourth. Of the above| amount, 323 births of the First Division were births which occur-! red prior to 194Q; 74 in the Second | Division were prior to 1840; 254 in the Third and 53 in the Fourth Division were all pripr to 1940. Deaths reported in the First Di- vision were 392 with 274 In the| Second, 407 in the Third and 309 in the Fourth. ————— Bighorn* sheep prefer sweet mountain grasses and flowers and eat coarse food only when grasses Johnson, a contested divorce, Jan- _ ‘sev.tlemem& made in a docket of 116 |morning in Federal District Court| Mrs. Carlson’s husband, Rudolph Carlson, was killed in an explosive accident at the Sitka naval air base last summer, where he was em- ployed by the construction company. The award was one of the first civil actions called by the court |posed a further increase in freight| |rates averaging some 25 per cent.| “The Legislature of 1939, me! rial ' pXCes i morial, protested the excessive-yyen “gireet” Dostors will be in harea at both places and will be ness of the freight charges of the| Alaska Steamship Company and| assisted by graduate nurses, Dr. LONDON, Jan. 7.—An air raid staged jointly by the Navy and| 'MORE JAP WAR SHIPS SENT DOWN U, 5. Bombers Make Raid SET IN MINE . asNippons Plan Great DEATHS IN 41, Thrust Southward | ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—A sys- | tematic Allied bombing campaign is | believed imminent to balk Japan's | attempt to make the Philippine port | of Davao, on the island of Mindano, RAF was made on Hellefjord on| the Norwegian Coast and one Ger-| man supply ship of medium ton-| nage and two armed trawlers were | sunk. The raiders also sent down sev- eral small craft off the town of Floro near Aaelsund. | — e — | NEW LOW RATE Only One Person Killed in Operations of All Types demanded an investigation by the! tederal government., A year there-| after, in the spring of 1940, the| Alaska Steamship Company im- 1 thereupon sought an investigation foliowing the indication of the 1939 Legislature and in the summer of Blanton said. First aid graduates will have charge of the first aid posts where | only preliminary first aid will be| givex} and transportation furnished to the nearest casualty station, All cases will be taken to the latter | for examination and treatment, he | quist, a labor lien action, to be tried in its first session here yesmrday.llm BEts Iiteiisntion took pisos First action taken in the session * By with hearings in Seattle, Ketchikan, was the awarding of a divorce W' yuneay and Anchorage. Eiizabeth M. Nichols from Richard| wumy, . findings of the investiga- L. Nichols, on grounds of incom-|, . ¢ ors were wholly adverse to the in- patibility. The divorce was granted| o aacoq rate unz they r mmmdmed here yesterday afternoon. |that it be denied. Nevertheless the P'oudr dlzr;e “"ig,':s i db’s;‘MariumP Commission agreed to missed yesterday, while a numbeT | ypicinoreace in all but a few neg- of olher_dlsmmls were al‘”,“""""fimible items; thus adding substan- i oY yveitng oCollection® | tfally to the already high cost of other cwug cases ! {208 In- Alssks. Cases for wh|c.h trial dates were | That cost of living in. Alaska set were as follows: % :;e;.uflolus ""’”’]’";l a‘gw;mz the 1 5 3 re of every individual. A re- Eugene Wacker versus J. P. NY-|song siugy by the National Federa- tion of Federal Employees based on conditions existing nearly a year ago and before the present emer- dency show that the difference in January 31. Wilhelmina Swendsen versus James Swendsen, a contested Pet- ersburg divorce action, to be tried at 10 a. m. February 27. Morris Erwin versus the Arctic Blue Fox and Fur Company, of trasted with New York and Wash- ington was 3552 per cent higher the cost of living in Alaska as con-| Alaska Personal Service Agents versus Sam Opich, action over a bill of goods, January 21. Walter Rolfe versus Edwin A Kraft, a wage-hour suit, March 5. Annie Johnson versus Charles S. are not available, uary 8 at 2 p. m, said. Purely Precautionary “These measures are purely pre- cautionary and are in line with similar arrangements being taken in other parts of the country. They will be equally effective in case of fire or landslide and it is sincerely | hoped that Juneau residents will be reassured by the knowledge that Juneau is efficiently carrying onut the same programs established else- where,” Dr. Blanton said. RE - REGISTERING OF ENEMY ALIENS | | was substantially greater than dur- the major base for a naval thrust Department SGYS {on the Netherlands Dutch Indies. 3 Davao’s enemy role in the enemy's Only one fatality occurred in 8'&nd strategy, ls clarified and am- plified by the report of a successful raid by United States Army bombers |carried out against the Japanese connection with mining operations | of all types in Alaska during the an an-| year 1941 according to | nouncement made today by the‘m.:.;le m:::f“:?":”: Mg:l:;y.;mv. Territorial Department of Mines. | communique credited the American This 1s by far the lowest fatal- pompers wish sinking one Japanese ity record yet achieved by the mln-“da,.,my"‘ scoring three direct hits ing industry of the Territory. The‘on a Japanese battleship and in- lowest previous record was made | flicting damage on other Japanese in 1939 when four men were killed | vessels. at operating mines. The average | Heavy Jap Toll Taken number of mine fatalities during| A supplementary report of the the past decade has been eight per War Department indicated the Am- year and for the 20-year period erican bombers had taken even prior to that the average was 14, |heavier toll. The record made in 1941 has| Simultaneously it was disclosed by added significance because of the|'he War Department that the Jap- fact that the number of men en- ®Dese navalstrength concentrated at gaged in mining during that year | Davao. Bay Siow sesms Lo have e {more badly damaged than first re- ing any year prior to 1937 and was s{;:;w:un‘kniu?ogu?;? :::e :Srm about equal to the average num-|g o, by direet hits and other eraft ber since that time. | were badly damaged, probably three The one fatality of 1941 occurred | {ransports.” at the Lucky Shot mine in the Wil- | The Japanese fleet assembled in low Creek gold-lode mining dierch‘nggo Bay, up to Monday, is be- No fatality occurred during the |lieved to have been one battleship, | BEING CONSIDERED . in Ketchikan, 4940 per cent in| :f::efsbzuam‘fl labor lien action. Feb- juneay, 5982 per cent in Sitka, WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Attor- ry 23. 60.73 per cent in Seward, 75.59 perlney-Genenl Francis Biddle said cent in Cordova, 88.85 per cent in| Anchorage, 10945 in Nome and| 116.16 per cent in Fairbanks. This | was, as I say, of about a year today that the government is con- sidering re-registration of 1,100,000 enemy aliens in this country to| provide “tighter control” along lines followed in the first World War. —————— 0. “Since that time shortages, act-! (Continued on Page Two) BUY DEFENSE STAMI | year at the Alaska Juneau mine |five cruisers, six destroyers, twelve where approximately one-half of |submarines and twelve transports. the total lode miners of the Ter- New Japanees Thrust ritory are employed. There were no| Japan's next goal is probably the fatalities either among the placers Dutch East Indies. This was indi- mining or coal-mining operations. |¢ated early this afternoon and ap- The Department of Mines is now |Peared evident in the War Depart- making a study of the non-rav.alj"‘ems communique reporting that accidents which occurred during m°‘ Mikado ’mi':“r’me Invasion the past year, the results of which |7Mies in the Philpp net has massed will be announced upon comple- 5 Tonee. pow etadd v tion, (Continued on Page ‘i\'o)