The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA E _“ALL THE NEW'S VOL LVIIL, LVIIL, NO. 8936. ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1942 JAPANESE CRUISER BOMBED, SENT DOWN Depth Bombs Used To Attack Axis Subs Retreadmg Tires Will Help Solve the Problem US PLANES NAVY HITS RAIDERS ON EAST COAST Deparlment—AlimiIs As- saults Being Made But Mortality Not Given ONE CRAFT TORPEDOED BUT IS NOT SENT DOWN Eighly-lwo_lrundred Ton! Ship Keeps Afloat- Limps Info Harbor WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Sudden | death by depth bombs is making the Atlantic coastal waters unhealthy | hunting ground for axis sub raiders, but the Navy Department is keeplng mum at present on the subject of | enemy mortality. | The latest sub attack was an- | nounced as not as successful as its three predecessors, for the raider | which has been operating off the | coast failed to make a kill when it | torpedoed and shelled the 8200-ton | Malay yesterday. She managed to stay afloat and limped into port with a casualty list of one killed | and four missing out of a crew of 34. There are 83071 beauty salons in the United States. i ——— - CThe WASHINGTON — There is good news in store for the thousands of workers thrown temporarily out | of jobs because of shutdowns aris-| ing out of the all-out war produc- tion program. Under a plan submitted to the | President by OPM Associate Direc- tor Sidney Hillman and Federal Security Administrator Paul M(- Noutt, unemployment wmpensatlon' benefits would be considerably in- creased for these jobless. , This is what Hillman and Mc-! Nutt proposed: i The present pertotl of bene- | fit payments to be increased | from 13 to 26 weeks. The percentage of a worker’s i pay paid him while idle to be | boosted from 50 to 60 percent. ] The existing weekly maxi- | mum he can receive as job- i less insurance to be raised to | $24. | Under the Hillman-McNutt plan: these liberalized benefits would op-| erate for this year only. By 1943 it is expected that all change-! overs to war production will have been completed and that every person capable and willing to worg will have no trouble getting a job. The President has indicated his| approval of the Hillman-McNutt! plani and the necessary steps to' put it into effect will be takea shortly. ! NOTE: Hillman, original author‘ of the plan, also proposed to the, President that it be revived imme-! diately after the war to cushion| the re-conversion of industry to peace production. NOISY SECRETARY Edward Prichard, tall, smart young Kentuckian, who is a mem-; ber of the OPM legal staff, was selected by Chairman Will Davis| to act as secretary of the recent management-labor conference. As one of the sessions broke up for lunch, Prichard reminded the delegates that they were to be the, guests of Secretary, Frances Per-| kins. In the confusion and nois, (Continued on Page Four) ArmyTransportPlane Is Missing in Interior; Is DownenUnnamed River WASHINGTON, Jan, 20 — War Arter encountering heavy weath- Department officials last night said a search is being conducted for a cargo plane missing in Alaska since last Saturday. The cargo plane took off from Ladd Field, Fairbanks, for White- | er, two of the planes returned to the take-off point but the carzo plane, after several radio contacts, reported it was running out of fuel and was landing on an unnamed ‘Morrison - Knudsen’s $8, |caped without a scratch. river. horse, Y. T., with two other planes. Rehef (Ab) From War Photos Mrs. F. B. Sawdon Comes the time of season when publicity agents at the southern beaches flood the newspaper offices with pictufes of pretty ladies in pretty poses in the land of the waving palms, vying with one an- other for vacation trade. It is a relief, however, from war pictures, especially this attractive photo of Mrs. F. B. Sawdon of New York, taken at Palm Beach F! M Sawdon the former Mln-rv- bedyn New Defense Aides fo Pacific Northwest; It Is Barrage of Balloons SEATTLE, Jan. 20—A barrage of balloons has been added to the ane ras s defense weapons at some strategic points in the Pacific Northwest. The Army today was permitted for the first time to release lntor- mation regarding the barrage. Information, however, is with- held as to how many .balloons arz in the barrage or where they arc staked out. STOCK QUOTATIONS 000 Howard Craft De- stroyed-Men Escape quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 64%, Anaconda 28%, Bethlehem Steel 63%, Commonwealth and Southern 5/16, Curtiss Wright 87 International Harvester 50, Ken- necott 36, New York Central 9%, | Northern Pacific 6%, United States | Steel 53%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 120.45, rails 28.42, utilities 14.39. CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 20.—The {Morrison-Knutsen’s $8,000 Howard {plane, used to cover the contrac- tor's operations in Alaska, crashed and burned at the Cordova Air- port yesterday afternoon. Three aboard miraculously es-| Those aboard the plane wele Frank Kammer, the pilot; Fred B. Craddock and L. B. DeLong, - ,——— Morrison-Knudsen executives. Pilot Kammer refused to give| ON NEW JOB {out any details but apparently the brakes were frozen and the plane/ Norman J. Melberg, for some flipped, then back fired instantiy. time employed at Bitka, has been — > |assigned to the Engineering Re- placement Training Center at Fort There are in Japanese territory peonard Wood, Missouri. 231 mountain peaks over 8,000 feet = - 24 high, | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS NEW YORK, Jan.. 20 — closln‘a" ENEMY SIX MILES FROM SINGAPORE! Sea-borne Invasion Forces Cut in Below Main Ma- laya Battle Line: Crisis Imminent as Japan- ese Drive on British Base Strengthens (By Associated Press) Japan’s invasion troops, attacking only six miles north of Sihgapore Island, were officially reported today ! exerting “heavy pressure on the en- | tire front.” | A Western Malaya crisis in the defense of Britain’s $400,000,000 | stronghold was apparently immm-| ent as sea-borne Japanese forces cut in below the main battle line. l A Dutch East Indies official dis- patch said that Japanese patrols and landing parties were swarming | along a 30-mile coastal belt in West- | ern Malaya from the Muar River, 90 | miles north of Singapore, to Batu | Pahat, barely 60 miles away on the Malayan east coast. Japanese forces were also report- | red-to have reached the Endau avrea, ’ 75 miles north nl Johore strait F.D.R. SIGNS BILL MOVING: CLOCKS AHEAD, Daylight Saving Measure, | Becomes Effective at2 | A. M., February 9 l | | | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt today signed the Daylight Saving Bill, which hecomes ' effective at 2 a.m. February 9 in all interstate conimerce and Fed- , eral government activities. During the Congressional debate it was said that it was assumed ob- servance of daylight time by moving all clocks ahead one hour would be- come general throughout the nation. The measure becomes inoperative six months after the war ends, un- less Congress votes to terminate it before then. R 1 Rit Russ Winter Approaches LANDING PARTIES, | PATROLS ACTIVE, Vulcanizing a new rubber top Rubber is indispensable in modern warfare. But the supply is very The old and the new limited now because 75 per cent of the world’s rubber comes from Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies, which are under attack by Japan. or recapping old tires. of the mileage built into the original tread is added to the life of the tire. shown above in a New York station. - Replace anadnan Men in U. S. These three girls are the first members of the Canadian women’s army corps in Washington to take over duties formerly performed by men at the Canadian Legation. Left to right: Company Sergt. Maj. Jac- queline Mineau, of Ottawa; Compauny Sergt. Maj. Mary Fowler, of Ottawa, and Company Sergt Maj. Enid Clark, of Vancouver, B. C. ~ Coldest Peak Auto Curfailment Is Golng To Hit Uncle Sam's Income; CutIs Anybody's Guess Now 6 AS DE ALERS KUIBYSHEV, Jan. 20.—The Rus- sian winter is now approaching the peak of temperatures. It is officially announced that more than 25 de- grees below zero prevalls in the battle sections and extending 100 miles from Moscow in all directions. The temperature in other sections is reported to average about 20 de- grees below zero with high, cold wmds prevamng in :everal areas. | e Insulls British ng . By Talk, He Gets His VANDERHOO¥, B. C., Jan. 20— Convicted of having made insultiny and vile statements against the King, and the Dominion of Can- ada, William Kearn of Fort St. James, has been given thr month with hard labor, at Okalla. Kearn is said to be a Bwiss, (Second of a Series) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 — The rationing of tires production may eventually the public fallen arches but already is giving the tax experts| on Capitol Hill one of their worst headaches. A quick glance at the revenues anticipated from motor transporta- | tion in this country will make zms‘ clear. u easury an estimated $436,000,000.. hicle taxes are suppd appmxlmately $116,000,000. The new and tubes and| | $5-a- -year automobile the drastic reduction in new car|slated to become effective give | ruary 1, it |around $160,000,000. revenue of Tire, tube and other federal ve- ed to yield Lax, Feb- is supposed to bring in use In other words around three- quarters of a billion dollars was to roll inte the treasury coffers in 1942 as result of taxes on new cars, tires and fuel. Just that how much is going In 1941, the 11/2 per cent tederal to be cut is anybody's guess. The, tax on gasoline and lubricating oils | - ,was made permanent to give the| (Continued o¢n Page Three) The average person won't be able to buy new tires, so the next best things are retreading By the process of retreading, rubber companies claim, as much as 80 per cent ‘The retreading process is A new rubber top is vulcanized to the old casing to give & new’ grippitig timad. -Price varies aceording to the' size of the tire to be treated. REDS CLOSING [FOR GERMANS Line Smashed at Two Points by Russians (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russia’s armies, executing a gigantic crack-the-whip move- ment, today were reported to have further narrowed the “es- cape corridor” of 100,000 Ger- man troops at Mozhaisk and smashed Hitler’s winter defense line at two important points. | The Battle or Kharkov, in the Ukraine, also is reported enter- ing a decisive phase, ! Soviet dispatches said Red | troops, supported by hard rid- ing Cossack cavalrymen, scored gains on both flanks of the Moz~ haisk holdout garrison, 57 miles west of Moscom Red Star, Russian army jour- nal, said Mozhaisk is burning and hand-to-hand fighting rag- ing in the streets. Meanwhile, in tones ap- proaching panic, the Berlin press declared “the onrushing enemy must be stopped, no mat- ter when, where or how!” A bulletin from Hitler’s head- quarters, tersely reiterating the Germans are fighting “defensive battles” along the 1200-mile front from Leningrad to the Ukraine, claimed success only in the Crimea -Impll(n. GET WARNIN OVER PRICES WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. — Retail dealers of all grades of gasoline have received notice from Price Admin- istrator Henderson that prices must |remain at or below the level of November 7. If this is not done, a price ufllmu wll] be imposed. s -t BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ESCAPE ROUTE Hitler's Winter Defense. ~ IN ACTION N PACIFIC “Warship D;slr—oyed - Also Tanker Is Hit, Left i n Flames 'RENEWED ASSAULTS ARE MADE, M'ARTHUR FORCES ‘War Deparfment Discloses American Units Fight- ing on Mindanao | WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. — Six | American bombers have sunk a Jap- { anese cruiser and scored direct hits ! on a tanker, leaving it in flames 100 | miles off Jolo. This is given out this | morning in a War Department bul- {letin reporting the conflict in the Philippines. | The War Department’s bulletin also says three Japanese bombers have been shot down in making re- | newed attacks on Gen. Douglas Mac- l Arthur's valiant American-Filipino | defense forces battling on Batan Peninsula, northwest of Manila. The department’s communique also disclosed for the first time that American forces are still resisting the Japanese on Mindanao Isiand, 600 miles south of Manila. Sh | fighting -is -reported. in: progress 3 | miles north of Davao, on the south~ lcrn end of Mindanao Island, where ( the Japanese have been using the locauon u a base for attacks. APARTMENT FIREKILLS 14 PERSONS Disaster in_ll;ssachusells City to Bring Investiga- fion, Says Mayor LYNN, Mass., Jan. 20. — Flames ‘wmch today swept through a five- story apartment - rooming house, | sending the fire from basement to | roof as if it were a huge brick furn- Jace, left 14 persons dead and 21 |others in hospitals while firemen | worked through the smoking debris in search of eight persons still miss- | ing. | The fire started in the basement {and swept upward so quickly that | dozens of tenants, many of them (aged and infirm, were trapped on | the top floors. The structure was | Melvin Hall in the city center. Mayor A. L. Cole said he would demand a State investigation to de- termine why fire escapes were nob | uvmlable to the tenants. - e BOMBER OF ARMY GOES INTO CRASH Three Airmen Are Killed in Accident at-McChord Field Near Tacoma TACOMA, Wash,, Jan. 20. — A medium sized Army bomber carried three airmen to their death in a crash a mile from McChord Field, southwest of here, yesterday after- noon, The bomber burned after the crash. | | | | i | | | | l ———————— Tahitl is on the side of France,” “Free i ! i