The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL, LVIIL, NO. 8934, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRES MOVIE ACTRESS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH U. S. Forces Resist Heavy Japanese Attacks RIGHT FLANK M’ ARTHUR'S FORCES HIT Batfleship and Artillery Fire Aimed at Penin- sula Defenders "OUR SOLDIERS" ARE GALLANTLY FIGHTING Tokyo Hea(mfiugriers Claim Americans, Filipinos Are Refreating WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 — The| War Department bulletin issued at| noon today says a “heavy Japanese attack is now in progress” against| the right flank of Gen. MacAr-| thur'’s forces on Batan Peninsula. The bulletin adds: “This attack is well suported by aircraft and also battleship and artillery. Although the assailant greatly outnumber the detenders, our soldiers are stub- bornly contesting - the attempted ) advance.” This Sailor Had a Close Call r e — o \ \ ! i | % 1 i | Official U. 8. Navy Photo In a sugar-cane field that borders Pearl Harbor, marines and blue- jackets from a battleship that weathered the treacherous Japanese attack on the mighty naval base have pitched camp as near their ship as possible. A bluejacket is shown pointing to a machine gun hole in his steel helmet. | JAPS CLAIM RETREAT i TOKYO, Jan. 17—Military dis- patches received here state that| Japanese' observation planes report that American- and . Filipino _artil- lerymen are abandoning their bat- | Ry e NII] PROTESTTO JAPS KILL - PROTETD e CHURCHMEN | of supporting forces are in a gen- | Joining the other residents of Al-| eral retreat ‘to Manila Bay from the west coast of Batan Peninsula. It is officially reported that Jap- anese warships bombarded the! western coast of the Peninsula for | 1‘ Malayan jungles. SINGAPORE CRISIS IS NOW NEAR Japa neséieport They Have Broken Through | Australian Defense NEW FOOTHOD IS | GAINED BY NIPPONS Malacca, C“e;ilal City, Is Reported to Be Occu- pied by Invaders TOKYO. Jan. 17—The Imperial | Headquarters assert the Japanese invasion armies have broken |through the Australian Defense lines in the Batu Pahat sector, which is 50 miles northeast of Sing-' apore and it is apparent that a {erisis is near regarding the fate of | Great Britain's $400,000,000 strnng-‘ | hold | | , | | | MAJOR BATTLE RAGING { | SINGAPORE, Jan. 17—The Brit-! |ish headquarters acknowledge that | Japanese troops have gained a foot- Ihold on the south bank of the istrategic. Muar River, 90 miles orth of Johore -Strait-whigh sep- . jarates Singapore Island from the Imumland, | i The British headquarters admit a |major battle is developing in the JAPS IN MALACCA TOKYO, Jan. 17—A military dis 36 hours continuously and under! | aska who are protesting the 45 patch received here says repo: the fire of guns landed some| N HAI“AN‘DHWM increase in freight and from the front linesflclflim the Jap- ; Hotel On forces on the peninsula. | passenger rates recently put into anese forces have ‘“completely oc- P | | effect by steamship companies on-|cupied” Malacca, Capital City of to tuberculosis cases and crippled children as funds for the purpose of sending urgent cases to the States for treatment are definitely imited. All other branches of the public health program, including the venereal disease department, will be necessarily be cut in like manner due to the added expense of bringing needed drugs into the :ountry and travel expenses of personnel who conduct treatments,” | |evening at 7:30 o'clock. the radio program for the Presi- dent’s Diamond Jubilee Birthray Ball to be held on January 31, with an address over KINY on Monday The radio program for the na- tional drive to raise funds for fighting infantile paralysis will be continued throughout the next two weeks according to Dr. Courtney Smith, Chairman of radio public- ity in Juneau. Dr. W. W. Council, Territorial The one-hour shutdown will b during funeral services for Valentin | Leonoff. | The American Legion will bowi the Baranof Hotel at 3 o'clock or ‘alleys Nos. 1 and 2., while the twc |Elk teams will compete on the |other two lanes. | At 6:30 o'clock, the Moose Lodgc pinmen will meet the Junior Elk nent of Labor: We beg you pro-! est forty-five percent .increase in | reight and passenger rates grant- | 'd Alaska steamship companies by Jdaritime Commission stop Many ave inadequate diets at present rices stop Many more will be orced below safety line if food osts are- increased Maternal and TICKETS ON SALE Tickets for both the Birthday Ball to be held at the Elks Hall on the evening of January 31 and for the bridge and pinochle parties to be given in the Gold Room at (o Baranof the same evening for the National Foundation for Infantile as the organization assures that air The big city is Sabofage, Espionage ottom left, they relax in the the Alert Servicemen at a New York hotel place sandbags outside office windows raids will not disrupt any services, slowly but surely girding for any menace from the air. America’s Air Guardians Ready for the Enemy P, Pilots of a U. S. Army pursuit plane squadron (top) are shown rushing to their ships during a drill at a strategic airfield on the Atlantic coast. crowd through the door as they dash for their ships to answer an aerial alarm. ir quarters. Bottom right, the pilots CHURCHILL FLIES HOME OVER OCEAN |Prime Minister Refurns After History Making Visit fo America \ i | | | { LONDON, Jan. 17—British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stepped prosaically from a train this morn- ing at his home town from his history-making visit to the United States and Canada. The British official flew across the Atlantic from Bermuda to | Plymouth. Four chief lieutenan‘s | accompanied the Prime Minister on | his flight. e e (GARRISON, - AXIS UNITS, - SURRENDER STAR CAROLE LOMBARDDIES IN ACCIDENT Iwenty-on;()filersVidims on Luxury Liner Ex- plosion Last Night BIG PLANE GOES DOWN IN FLAMES Fifteen Army Ferry Fliers Are Among Those Re- ported Perished LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 17 —Carole Lombard, star movie actress and wife of Clark Gable, and 21 others, including Miss Lombard’s mother and 15 Army fliers, apparently perished last night in an explosive crash of a TWA luxury liner - near Las Vegas, Nevada. The flames of the crashed plane were sighted from the air soon after the accident. There is no_ indication of life on the ground. Parties struggling with - culty today through the to travel afoot and have taken to horses. The Army Corps Ferry Com- mand at Long Beach, Cal, said the Army men are mem- bers of a Ferry Command re- turning to the coast for new assignments and they boarded the plane at Albuquerque, N. M., where four other passen- gers were put off to make room for the fliers. The luxury liner took off from Las Vegas at 7:07 o'clock last night and about 7:30 o'- clock workers at the Bilue Mountain mine saw a flare and then heard an explosion. A few minutes later, a West- ern Airlines pilot, Art Cheney, radioed he saw a fire on Table Mountain near the scene of the explosion and crash. Free French Destroyerin BigSeizure (Craft EM; Harbor on Spanish Islands-Grabs Three Merchantmen MADRID, Jan. 17 — The news- paper Arriba, in an article today, says a Free French destroyer en- tered the harbor of San Isabel, on the Spanish Island of Fernando Poo, off the West Coast of Africa, and seized three merchantmen. RN ! " CAIRO, Jan. 17—The Middle| war s oll Smnag‘ East British Headquarters an- Now Met by Swiss nounced this forenoon that the Axis garrison at Halfaya has sur- rendere: g t] s T d:x?(rondl ionally Bl - Gwitaertand, - Jan. 19" s .- Switzerland has stepped back to |the Paleolithic age in an effort to {solve its war-time fat and oil prob- Inevitable But FBI is Right On the Job Now Ame[i(an MiSSionaries Re-,ume Commission, officials of the; | , GOVERNOR WILL 'NDI(TMENTS i | have sent wires to Washington, D. ! CHUNGKING, Jan. 17. — An | hearing to be -held on January 21 missionaries on Hainan Island after | program throughqut the Territory. | Gov. Ernest Gruening will open The message mentioned the Charges fo Enter Pleas nurse. among those siain. Three indictments were returned| IoMoRRow Fok prisoners previously indicated were| ' James B. Sullivan was indicted from noon to 2 o'clock tomorrov |ial Department of Health stated KINY to the public on Wednesday minor, incest and rape. . His bond | Hagerup, league manager, said 10 | mp, gatharine ‘address will be given by D. W .S. for falsely representing himself to Two natives were arraigned be- of Hoonah, facing a second degree dicted for first degree murder, were |and the Jay High pinmen will meet |Child Health and Crippled Chil- Paralysis will go on sale today, it Nicholas Dixon, of Sitka, charged [between the Elks Ladies and Jun-|twenty-first. (Signed) Wayne s, received through this drive are di- Bates was appointed by the courtalleys. ment of Health. |infantile paralysis and the cure erating in the Territory with me’Mulucca Straits Settlement. poned Slai“ by _]ap. | Territorial Department of Heal " GIVE BIRTHDAY | R E T “ R N E D :,Army communique today declared| “The increaséd ratés will serious-i | Tad {names of Rev. and Mrs. D. H. {HEAVY today by the grand jury and fivei LODGE BOWLER' arraigned and times set for the) by the grand jury o n the charges|afternoon, and be closed from : |.oday. Wires sent by the Depnrt-'evening at 6:30 o'clock and on Fri- was. set at $3,000. | day. Lenroot, Chief pamsey of the Territorial Depart- be a citizen of the United States. fore the Court this morning on and manslaughter charge, and both represented by their attorney!the Jay High Alumni. dren’s programs jeopardized stop ! Was announced by Mrs. Charles G. with adding to the delinquency of|ior Ladies, while Jay High Giii |Ramsey, M.D., Director, Director of |ided with part of them remaining as his attorney. Harmon Ray Ab- To Mrs. Franklin' D. Roosevelt: | °f those crippled by it, Mrs. Bur- Hearing on Sitka IHREE ORE | sanction of the United States Mari- | = { |both as a group and individually anese Forces X : | C., asking representation at the that Japanese slew all American |ly cripple our entire public health | the outbreak of war in the Pacific.|It will severely curtail the aid given Two Facing Murder _ !Thomas and Miss M. Burkwall, Tuesday Aft ‘ aamial uesda ernoon Y ‘ PROGRAM in Pederal District Court here| entering of pleas. Elks bowling alleys will be oper | Dr. W. S. Ramsey of the “Perritor- ' Health Commissioner will talk over of adding to the delinquency of alto 3 o'clock, and then reopen, Erv| nent follow: |day the President’s Birthday Ball b s Yo | Benjamin’ Buseniis was indicted ‘hildren’s Bureau, U. 8. Depari-'ment of Health at 6:30 o'clock. Bond was set at $500. murder indictments. Roy Fawecett, Samuel Johnson, of Douglas, in- Mildren Hermann. Last matches of the day will be |Hearing in Washington January Burdick, Jutieau Chairman. Funds a minor, was arraigned and Harold|and Alumni meet on the othelr|MCH and CC Territorial Deparc-”" the Territory for use in fighting bott, Jr., and Vernon Donald Brown, | Please help us stop Health of aur | 1CE Hatea, Sitkans indicted for breaking into children jeopa i ve » " jeopardized if forty-five By JACK STINNETT dwellings, were arraigned and Gro- i line if food costs are increas kY | percent increase in rates granted costs are increased all . . b v s lem. ver C. Winn was appointed to rep- Harbor Smdu'ed Alaska steamship ~companies by Public health programs jeopardized SRASHROGON, Jan. 17 ,n. NATERE oL L it neccssnry ! In those long ago days the prim- resent them. ! | Moritime Gommission. is mot fe. St0P Hearing in Washington Janu- would be inconceivable in this War to make life hard for the sabo- NEW YORK, Jan. 17 — ClosIng j4ive people who inhabited pile All five who were .arraigned to-| ‘ Maritime Commisslon s nob ¥~ iary twenty.first, (Signed) W. W, [0 e United Stetes nof to have |ieurs and spies. J: Edgar Hoover, QUotation of Alaska Juneau mind|pyis in the Lake of Zurosk gok day will enter pleas at 2 p. m.| Improvements of Sitka Harbor i Hop: e e o Con 3 4 . sabotage and espionage, for those| % stock today is 2%, American Can : > & arbor| y . nuar twentyfirst (Signed uncil, M.D. Commissioner of ., ivities i, .| | director, started the FBI crime de- 5 most of their edible oil from Tuesday, it was ordered by the now going forward will be the topic g i ¥ H are twin activities considered vital | 64, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel - oourt. 'of discussion at a public ma“‘; Members Nutrition Class, Juneau Health. to the effective operation of any | bection laboratory in 1932, not wit m' commonwml;h Tad - ki pyseed. Switzerland now is again e — to be held at the City of Sitka nf% Worad's. Olub, TR war effort. [out a lttle derisive sniffing from g)16 “1nternational Harvester 48%, encouraiing. FMeE o JOUGERR BANKRUPT DISCHARGED |fice at 10:30 a. m., January 29, it| 10 /homas Parran, Surgeon p,.4 . g b enelands Bub the spy and saboteur are some government officials, 1aW- gonoooon 36 '+/for that purpose, as well as mus- | y 3 P Pub Health Se eaverbrook, England’s sl Kennecott 36, New York Central ¢;.9 rapeseed, hestn: |was announced today. General, U. 8. Publip Hea IV~ \riniter of Atteraft Production S0 to be up against something |makers, and particularly the police g, "y ieq States Steel 53%, Pound i , chestnuts, maize, Elmer LaChance, of Juneau, was! Purpose of the hearing, it is un-|i¢: We beg you protest forty-five oopogion ‘porn worked his way PO With which they never. had of the land. 5 3 |soya beans and even tobacco. discharged as a bankrupt in Fed- derstood, will be to ascertain percent increase in passenger and up from newsboy to publisher of to cope in World War I—the most | In nine years, the sniffers L | i o s eral District Court here today. |whether any modifications in the freight rates granted Alaska steam- o = 0" "0 Gt o complete scientific crime laboratory | have quit it and the police of | e | Eddie Cantor in his youth was ——— | present harbor® improvement project|Ship companies by Maritime Com- ... 7" in.the world. the land now send about 2,000 | DOW, JONES AVERAGES |a singing walter in a Coney lsland Plums are generally used as are desired by local interests. The|mission stop Many have inadequate N s o (- o ~ab--thic-aderal » Bureim of | - shestaming’ i Thmail te {he - | The" Iollowing. sre. lodey e Dow, beer garden. pickle in Japan and almost every hearing will be held by the War|diets at present prices stop Manv! Investigation, a group of 65 scien- | G ey T Jones averages: industrials llo.u,l L household has them. d IDepartmcnt. Jmure will be forced below safety) BUY DEFENSE STAMPS tists, every one of them specialists | (Continued on Page Three) ‘l‘lill.w' 28.01, utilities 14.58. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS