The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EM VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8930. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1942 ER ASSOC SSOCIATED PRESS CENTS U.S. FORCES SHATTER JAP BATTERIES Singapore Under Bom Just So Theres No Mistake BRITISH : BASTION RAIDED Japanese Bombers, in For- | mations, Make Ter- rific Assault AIR BATTLE FOUGHT | AT HIGH ALTITUDE Bursting Bombs Rock City But Property Damage | Reported Slight | | | SINGAPORE, Jan. 13.—Japanese | bomber formations, lashing out ahead of enemy troops, only about 150 miles north of this defense bastion, literally shook Singapore with their bursting bombs. Preliminary surveys disclosed little damage was done, however, unlike yesterday when an air battle was fought high in the clouds at some distance. i The city of 750,000 population was | aware of the air battle yesterday and in view of the terrific firing knew that a battle was on in earnest. There were intense explosions of bombs and also intense anti-aircraft barrages that shook buildings. Today the attack was miore pro- nourniced, the bombs exploding shak- ing the very foundations of the city and rattling windows in the suburbs. SALUM, IN AXIS NET, CAPTURED Hold-out of Enemy Forces in Halfaya Sector Is Precarious CAIRO, Jan. 13.—The capture of | © Salum, tightening Great Britain’s encirclement on the hold-out Axis troops in the Halfaya sector, is | e Ruth Lee An American girl of Chinese parentage, Ruth Lee of New York, is taking no chances of being mistaken for a Japanese while she does her beach lounging at Miami Beach, Fla. The Chinese flag does | the trick. | IN COMMAND 3 “a S announced by the British as the|:.” Imperial vanguards, more than 300 miles west, pressed on the retreat- ing enemy’s heels. Between 7,000 and 8,000 Axis troops are believed to be in the isolated area near the Egyptian- Libyan frontier. The British commentator said the loss of Salum will cost the Axis garrison in the Halfaya sector. thz valuable source of the water sup- ply. The garrison is suffering al- ready serious food and water short- ages. WIFE SEEKING DIVORCE FROM J.R. REYNOLDS Prominent Kefchikan Busi- " nessman Termed "Mil- . aec . lionaire’ in Suit SEATTLE, Jan. 13—Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Reynolds today filed suit for divorce from John Robert Rey- nolds, 64, whom she pictured as a millionaire, She charged cruel treatment and said she married Reynolds at Bill- ings, Mont., in October, 1938. The suit declared she believed he had about $250,000 on deposit in the Pirst National Bank of Ketchikan and that he holds a large interest | in the Annette Island Packing Com- pany and is a partner in the Saw- | yer-Reynolds Logging Company of Ketchikan. ——————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons (above), is the newly appointed Commander of the Hawaiian Department. He is 53 and has been in training for winged war- fare since 1917. New Defense Lines Given Big Bombing Brifish Undfiire of Japs on Retreat from Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE, Jan. 13.—Japanese bombers have smashed British troops attempting to hold new de- fense lines after abandoning Kua- la Lumpur. Official advices report the re- treat from Kuala Lumpur was car- ried out in good order and with relatively few casualties. - e - MRS. PETTYGROVE HOME FROM KETCHIKAN TRIP Mrs. F. W. Pettygrove, of Douglas, | health nurse, will serve temporar- Place Clyde G. Baker, who is being ifax, who likewise has retained his|ing to refuse an answer who has been in Ketchikan for a short time, returned to her home this week. e - — The island of Martinique has an|mMrs. Marjorie ' Hedsig, resigned, it| Weather Bureau to go into the the area of 385 square miles. slightly more than one-third of that cf Rhode Island, FDR OBJECTS 10 EXTREME FARM PRICES President Criticizes Agri- cultural Parity with Industrial Wages BULLETIN—Washington. Jan. 13.—President Roosevelt was reported today to have told a group of House members that form smendments to the Sen- ate Price Control Bill will lead to a spiral of increased prices. Both labor and farmer mem- bers of the Banking Commit- tee said earlier, as they left the White House conference, that the Precident left them #a free hand.” Weil intormed Congressional sources said Roosevelt told five Congressmen that the O’'Maho- ney amendment, written into the bill on the Senate floor last week, typing parity prices di- rectly at the level of industrial | wages was the most objection- 1 able action the body had taken. | i WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Mem- |bers of the House Banking Com- | mittee early today said the Presi- dent gave them “a free hand” on| the controversial price control bill| |at a White House conference. |” Chatrman H. O. Steagall (D {Ala) of the Banking Committee | | [ ' Is Burned in | isaid the President “recommended | | | MS (leveden Gas Saving Envoy in Australia | But Steagall offered no hint as| | Tofal Loss War Depart- }on farm prices. Army trans- | farmers all he could and yet keep | |we get the best bill we could and {m what the President expected on | ment Reporis ‘ Rep. J. P. Wolcott (R.-Mich) in Alaskan'prices within reasonable bounds | | : | " [Former Cannery Ship Is|we saia we woua. | the controversial provision bearing WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 — Des- 5aid Roosevelt wanted to help the and not stir up dissension. ‘ are 69 | truction by fire of the | port ship Cleveden waters was reported late yesterday| hen > — | ‘The ship is a combination pass-| enger and freight vessel of 7,300 Itons and is said to be a total loss.‘ lAll personnel was saved. | | Cause of the fire is being inves-| | ‘wlthuut indicating whether it is/ SENT Dow“ | | believed to have resulted from en-| emy action. | | i The Cleveden was a $3000,000 IN ATLANTI( inallan vessel, taken over by the | U. 8. Government during the first | Columbia River following a colli- sion several years ago and was later 2 |raised to be used as a cannery SCOha COGS'-94 Pef- can Fisheries Company, under Sons Los‘r 92 Saved whose flag is has been a frequent —— visitor in Alaskan wate) EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, M | torpedoed and sunk by a submarine 1160 miles off the Nova Scotia coast upp y p within the past 36 hours according 2 'y this morning. A ' Survivors reaching here estim- ated 94 persons aboard lost their ibut these totals may be changed‘f o' i The sinking is nearer the North American continent than any other Among those rescusd Chinese and 23 whites. 1 | Chinese crewmen and passengers Minesweeper Downed | o fect. HH Those lost are believed to be by British Subs ing on rafts and small boats . LONDON, Jan. 18—~The British — ton Italian supply ship has been Ne w 'he torpedoed and sunk, and anothcr w ea rmen Axis supply ship of medium size! minesweeper sent down by gunfire ! as the result of attacks:made hyl Two new weather observers for| British submarines in the Medi- Weather Burcau stations at the e |this morning enroute to their jobs.| THELMA BROWN TAKES | W. K. Schneider, formerly sta- TEMPORARY POSITION tioned at Casper, Wyoming, is on | i |by the War Department. | | itgated the War Department said.‘ | !W-.:rld War. It was sunk in the cra" Torped—oe‘d 0" Nova tender ship by the Pacific Ameri- ———————- Jan. 13—A large steamship was to an official Government report lives and 92 persons were saved | e hitherto reported. \Anoiher Ship IS Se' Af|re,I Four white crewmen and 90 | victims of near zero weather, float- Admiralty announces that a 5,200-) has been set afire and an Italian FO’ "cme, Be'hel terranean. % | Westward passed through Juneau Thelma Brown, former public|bis way home, where he will re- moved to Fairbanks. G. F. Grafton, formerly at Butte, Montana, is going to Bethel to re- place Martin T. Honke, leaving the ily on the Juneau-Douglas nursing staff of the Territorial Department! of Health until the arrival of the! permanent appointee to replace was announced -this morning by service. Mrs. Mary Keith Cauthorne, Ad- visory Nurse fof the Department.' | e — BUY ULEFENSE STAMPS | A Nelson T. Johnson, U. 8. minister to Australia, joins the citizens there in reducing gasoline consumption. He’s shown riding his new bicycle through a Canberra suburb. This is the way he travels to conferences, social functions and diplomatic gatherings. War Makes Big Changes In Diplomafic Circles in Washinglfll; Latest Event By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 — The war has made more changes in dip- lomatic circles than it has in the on the man from Communist-land map of the world but none and there’s good reason for it. Tn stranger than that which has his conferences in the big Sixteenth brought round, graying Maxim Lit- Street embassy, Litvinoff greets the vinov into the Washington spotlight ladies and gentlemén of the press as one of the most popular figures With a big smile that deepens the in the nation’s capital. creases in his heavily lined face If this were Hollywood, it would and threatens to displace his oval- be a safe bet that only President:shaped spectacles. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill| His manner is easy. It impress- (during his visit) wou.d be any|es one as being more frank than more sought after by the autograph |that of official spokesmen of our hounds than the paunchy, smiling even more firmly established Allies ambassador from the U. 8. S. R, |in the war on the Axis. Al times who, because he also holds the titie it s almost confidential of Deputy Commisar for Foreign| When a question treads too close Affairs, outranks all diplomats | to subjectsshe does not wish to dis- here with the single exception of |cuss, he displays a Russian genius the British ambassador, Lord Hal- | for skirting the issue wiihout seem- That kind status as a member of the British of double-dealing the newspaper cabinet. men can understand—and appre- That, however, is a protocol rat- ciate. ing and has nothing to do with| Tt is difficult to say if. in taking fact that ex-revolutionary,|over the reins here, Lilvinov has one-time exile in Siberia, and in-| made any great difference in the again, out-again favorite of Josef | - N Stalin, rates tops in popularity with | (Continued on Page Two) official and unofficial Washington. ‘The capital press corps ~ . —From March of Time’s “Battlefields of the Pacific” Carrying the American flag as well as their own, Filipino soldiers are seen marching on one of the islands of the Philippines. Officers of the Philippine army were trained by U. 8. veterans, especi- | ally has placed its approval stamp b Attacks For 2 Days FILIPINOS WIN FIGHT Enemy Armored Units and Infantry Dispersed in 24-hour Battle ' RELENTLESS SHELLING HANDED TO NIPPONS sForly-four Field Guns Are Silenced by Fire Pow- er of Defenders | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 — The { American Filipino artillery batter- |1es have “proved definitely superior” to that of the Japanese, the War | Department said today in announc- |ing that columns of enemy tanks (and other armored units, together with Japanese infantry, “have been |shattered and dispersed” in a 24- hour battle. Eleven Japanese batteries were :sflenced and others were forced to fall back under the relentless shell- !ing of the American-Filipino guns |on defensive positions on Batan Peninsula, ‘west of Manila Bay. The officlal communique of the War Department says the usual artillery battery in the World War !mfll:qcomg of four n‘imm\\w jon this basis of the 1eport, the Philippines defenders are credited with wiping out 44 field guns, a con- sidevable measure of firc power In. a comparatively small fighting area. ‘The Japanese losses are called “heavy” while the losses of the | defenders are “relatively slight.” Japanese dive bombers supported Immeasurable Military Value SGYS Delegaie the enmy artillery fire, the War e |Department communique an- | WASHINGTON, Jan. i3 — Con- hounces but no enemy attacks were |gress was urged Monday by Dele-|made on the fortificatizns at the gate Anthony J. Dimond of Alaska'southern tip of Batan Peninsula or | to expedite construction of a “Bur- on Corregidor Island. ma Road” linking Lhe United States| ————— with Alaska. For $25,000,000 Dimond told meEWIllKIE IHouse of Representatives the road |could be constructed from Prince |George to Fairbanks. Fifteen hun- President Makes Selection . of Arbitrators on 12- Man Labor Board dred miles of it could be rushed| to completion within a year or more, the said. The road can be built to provide landing areas for airplanes and with the highway complete it would be 'easy to establish a strong air force in Alaska, the delegate said. Di- mond reminded his colleagues that it is less than 2,500 miles by air ‘{rom Dutch Harbor to Tckyo. - e————— WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— Presi- dent Roosevelt today selected Wen- dell Willkie as one of & number of umpires and arbitrators to as- sist the new 12-man National La- bor Board. Roosevelt discussed the job with Willkie today, but Presidential Sec- ;retary Stephen Early indicated | Wilikie had not definitely accept- ed the position. Early said the ap- | pointment list was incomplete. - risn, \anada | Willkle had no comment to make !when he left the White House. The labor board, with William \Twenty-five Thousand Nip- pon Nationals Barred from Industry o o Davis as chairman, was created The Canad- jate yesterday on the President's an order| . acutive order and armed with OTTAWA, Jan. L ian Government is today prohititing persons of Jap-, g anese origin from fishing in Can-‘wmom.y b IURES. Inow - GpUia adian waters or serving on Can-| > Dinding.aiRiestion fo koe e adian fishing boats. r | industries operating at full speed. 1t is estimated that some The. boasd Siuperasded. the. D fense Mediation Board and will {Japanese live in Canada and nearly {all in British Columbia and many|absorb its functions and most of of them made their living fishing. 1S employees. - e : Second Canadian s al Alr , Sitka Vidory War Loan ;. u xevu air siaion, stas B “w ooo ooo the defense base. e 1) 1 ., SOLDIER TAKEN TO OTTAWA, Jan. 13 — Canadian HOSPITAL FROM BOAT Finance Minister Ilsley announced| Pvt. William Morgan was last today that Canagla’s second Vic- Dight taken to St. Ann's Hospital tory War Loan, $600,000,000 will be from a steamer in port and is placed on sale to the public next being treated for threatened pneu- ‘munth. 1monh. i US.-ALASKA ROAD URGED BY DIMOND International Highway of | | | | | JACK McDONALD HERE FROM SITKA STATION Jack McDonald, Chiet of Police