The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8938 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1 942 ASSOCIATED PRICE TEN CENTS FIERCE ATTACK IS MADE IN PHILIPPINES Critical Battle Progresses In Malayan Front BIG SMASH ONAGAINST JAP FORCES Counter Offensive Launch- ed in Jungles by Brit- ish Imperials SINGAPORE IS AGAIN - SUBJECT OF AIR BLITZ Raid Made on Naval Base'! ~One Hundred Planes Reported in Attack (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A critical, perhaps decisive, bat- tle raged today in the Malayain junglés, 70 miles north of Singa- pore as the British, Australian and Imperial Indian troops launched A major counter offensive smash against the main Japanese inva- ' sion armies in the Muar River sec- tor. Behind the Malayan lines, Brit- ish fliers claimed a heavy toll on Japanese transport columns in the north part of Bulong, destroying many vehicles and machine-gun- ning troops. Singapore itself, under almost in- cessant aerial asseult, grimly counted a toll of 304 killed and 725 wounded as the result of yes-; terday’s 100-plane Japanese attack Comparatively, this surpassed the worst raids on London at the height of the Nazi blitz. (Continued on Pa Rescuers Reached Wr nE T AT, will have to run two years before it becomes equivalent to the price of one ticket to the States. Horace Adams, agent for the Alaska Steamship Company, said today that far from speeding the depart- ure of folks from Juneau, there has actually- been a decrease in res vations since the rate raise. the general advance of one hour in time throughout continental United | States, scheduled to take | February 9, will apply to Alaska. Goal of 200 Paid-up Mem- bers Se' bY |.0(a| C- 0' |In 1940, Carter pointed out, Juneau C.in 1942 Drive |k cime nere coineide wiih Pac. fliers. Rescuers with pack trains trudged laborio 22 victims. CHAMBER WASHINGTON — The hard-hit-| ting Truman committee hasn't got% around to the matter yet, but some.l ouI AF'ER hot sensations are in store when | the committee digs into the dollar-| a-year-man handling of the power | o phases of the war production pro-| gram. | For years one of the hottest is-! sues in Washington has been the’ power lobby. It has been repeated- ly investigated, and several years ago, after fierce legislative battles, | the Federal Power and Holding, Company laws were enacted to curb the lobby. i ‘ ‘The Truman commitise has €oN 1 with a goal of 200 paid-up mem-}a_hefl.d another hour “we’ll be get- fidential information that t0day|yer tne juneau Chamber of Com- |ting up two hours earlier,” he de- this lobby is more powerfully en- ,.... jaunched an all-out member- clared. SBlS N (Sl (e WL rp i i gose o) thelr | “Alaskacs sscCiien to st iip ore. For months, it has been operat-| Al members were given pros- necessary for national defense,” ing directly inside the government, pective membership lists and Carter said, but he asked that some formulating and running the power planks to be filled out by new inquiry be made to determine policy of the OPM, which was un- members. New membership cards whether the time change will affect til last week the key war produc-{‘were displayed, with colorful lime the Territory. \ tion agency. | American flags waving in their Three visitors in uniform at the DOW, JONES AVERAGES ecked Airline Rescue party examines the wreckage of the TWA airliner that struck the sheer sides of Table Mountain near Las Vegas, Nevada, killing twenty-two persons i ncluding Carole Lombard, her mother and 15 Army sly up snow-covered trails to bring out the bodies of the that the increase in grocery c%Ls‘ | | Ancther question was brought up by Charles Carter, who wondered it . place on; ific Coast Time. If they are pushed | leon meeting in the Baranof Hotel. in the middle of the night, if it's| | pointed out, that on an average‘ The following are today’s Dow, menthly grocery bill of $50, there Jones averages: Industrials, 108.92; will be a $3 per month increase, [rails. 28.23: utlfities 14.05. J s dfe Regarding the claim that the £ L e freight raise is forcing families to leave Juneau, Burdick pointed out The OPM Power Division is not corners and it was announced that juncheon were members of the U. only manned with utility officials, |business houses holding chamber s Army engineers corps, now here but they are still on the payrolls memberships will be supplied With on a reconnaissance mission. They of - private power companies. In Window cards, displaying American were Col. C. T. Baish, Maj. T. E. other words, while presumably and Alaskan . flags. | Grmiston, and Capt. F. P. Brock. working for the government, thevg Mu(_:h or_Lhe meet&ng was taken| ———— are actually paid employees of the | 4P with discussion of the recent i 45 per'cent, increase in freight and S'O(K ouo"'lo utilities. passenger rates on Alaskan ship-| "S After being deluged with ':om'\’ping lines. A letter was read from plaints that the utility-ruled OPM| ;o geqpje Chamber of Commerce,| NEW YORK., Jan, 22, — Closing Rowee , Bosaion g8 secrezly. N_d-lte’“ of which appears elsewhere in quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ing independent rural power ©O-tnis issue of The Empire. ‘| stock today is 24, American -Can ops, the House Appropriations Com-| A great deal of interest centered 63, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel mittee questioned J. A. Krug, head in the report of Charles Burdick, 63'., Commonwealth and Southern of the division, on these charges. |who has checked on the actual in-|9/30, Curtiss Wright 8, International Krug defended his staff, but|crease in retail costs of articles as| Harvester 49%, Kennecott 35%, New the committee, unconvinced, or-ja result of the freight increase.| York Central 9%, Northern Pacific dered him to submit a detailed re-|Burdick said a complete check 64, United States Steel 53'«, Pound port on his dollar-a-year assis- showed that the average increase|$4.04. tants, including the amount.of sal-|of all prices will be less than six| aries they are drawing from utility [Per cent. This will mean, he companies while working for the government. Two months have elapsed since Krug promised to produce this im- (Continued on Page Four) BUY DEFENSE BONDS r--22 d ?. * RAMPAGE AT CRAIG Section of—V—I—arehousef | Loosed by Gale Injures | | Man, Damages Store | CRAIG, Alaska, Jan.' 22 — The| Peratrovich Cannery warehouse! !here was destroyed by the terrific | southeast gale here Tuesday, its roofing structures being blown to| splinters the entire length of Kla- :wock Inlet. Seines and seine ma-| ilcrin]s stored in the warehouse are| now being salvaged, apparently i1} good condition. The damage was estimated at| |$5,000, fully covered by insurance.| When the roofing first blew off the building, it struck George Demmert, who was on the beach nearby fastening a log. Demmert sustained a broken ankle which| was treated immediately by the| local government nurse. He is now awaiting transportation to Ketchi- kan by plane if the weather per- ‘mlm. Otherwise, a Coast Guard boat will call for him to take him to the First City for hospitaliza-| tion, Sand Point Company store ware- house, damaging a portion of the building and foundation. —————————— JOHN NOLAND HERE John Noland, well known Atlin nine operator, is visiting in Jun-| cau for several days. 'DEFENSE FOR ' Main Task of British Army 'Sirong Imperial Advance‘ E"G'NEER REDS SURGE | FORWARDAS NATIS FLEE Germans RJsfiroops from France in Attempt to Stem Onslaught MOSCOW, Jan. 22—While Red army artillerymen blasted the rear of the German army reeling back from Mozhaisk on the old Napol- eonic retreat road, dispatches today from both the northern and south- @n wings of the 1,200-mile front told of a continuing forward surge of the Russian offensive. Reports from the front indicated the Germans were exhausting every ready resource of manpower in an effort to stabilize the vast front. Among prisioners taken on one sector were soldiers just arrived fram France who said they came to Smolensk by train and were| carried from there by plane to a point, identified by the Russians as “R' to hel pthe invaders at- tempt a stand. Pravda, Russian newspaper, said that in the Volkhov sector of the Leningrad Front the Germans were bringing in wornout detachments from other sectors in their despera- tion. MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 22 —Rabaul, Capital City of New Brit- ain, reported eleven ships, includ- ing watships, have been sighted off | neighboring Watom Island. Immediately foliowing this brief report, communications with Ra- baul ceased and it is presumed here that the New Britain island has been evacuated by the military forces in anticipation of a prospec- tive Japanese landing. (Dr. T. V. Soong, now For- eign Minister of China, has been for two years a resident of Washington. He's the mys- tery man of the capital’s diplo- matic circles. In two articles, Jack Stinnett, Washington cor- respondent - for the Empire, gives an intimate picture of him,) By JAUK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Check- ing off Prime Minister Winston |Churchill as merely a temporary visitor, the three most important representatives of foreign countries 'in Washington since we entered World War II are England’s Lord Halifax, the USSR's Maxim Lit- vinov and Dr. T. V. Soong. Until the other day, Lord Hali- fax and Litvinov were the only representatives who have cabinct S'iled a' commons De' {rating at home. Then quite unex- . pectedly, Dr. Soong, for two yea.s bate Starfing Today oh s fnancial ana tend-lease —_— expediter here, was appointed LONDON, Jan. 22 — The mail poreign Minister, of China. task of the British Army is to Or- qpa¢ title 1s probably the head- “:::im 'h: c::‘f";;"“’;’::“;‘"s‘r ;‘;‘ ing for a new chapter in one of ggld nsim? e . nister Sir Archl- 1. most amazing political careers o in the turbulent history of modern This was the statement the Air s China—but & career which has Ministry made in the House of been pradtioaily i e ommons today at the start of unk b, YA . of the small tircle of Occidentals who the debate as to the adequacy of the British Air Force defense ag- Know their Orlent like a book. ainst invasion of the. British Isles. Even as recently as a few weeks ago, I have heard gov- JThe Air Minister said the RAF's new airdrome and defense regiment ¢rmment officials who should know say: “Dr. Soong? Oh, will be “second to none. - yes, he’'s 4 member of that oo i A i0 MILES IN BRITISH ISLES IS ANNOUNCE as good a place as any to put ln; that if it hadn’t been for the fi- nancial wizardry of T. V. Soong, Invasion of Ausiralia Is Indicated; Vessels Now Off New Britain T.V. Soong, Foreign Agent For China in the U. S., Is The last word from Rabaul came 10 o'clock last night. If the implications of the Rabaul at mesage are fulfilled, the Japanese | JAPS LAND BIG FORCE ON LUZON Estimated W),OOO Bat- ling MacArthur’s Fiery are in process of thelr first inva- sion of Australlan Territory. The Island of New Britain, of which Rabaul is the Capital City, was mandated to Australia and is an important segment of the Bis- marck Peninsula. | [ 1 1 l Brother-in-law Generalissimo Cli- | might have died a-borning. To understand the new Foreign Minister of China, one must have some. picture of his family and his background. ] | Philippine Island Defenders MORE SEA-BORNE TROOPS ON SCENE War Department's Com- munique Asserts Large Units Now in Battle WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—On the battlefront, the War Department today issued a bulletin which said that Japanese troops on Luzon Island are already esti- - mated to number 200,000, being re- inforced by more invaders again and heavily attacking Gen. Mac- |ang Kai-shek’s ~great revolution Arthur's fiery defenders. The communique reported that sea-horne Japanese troops are being landed at Lingayen. Gulf, 110 miles north of Japanese-held Manila and at Subic Bay, riear the Sixty-odd years ago, a penniless approaches to the Batan Penin- voung Chinese immigrant was sell-'gylq, .o ;| ing hammocks to help. work his As evidence of the touchnm‘d-"fx way through Trinity College (NOW MacArthur's lttle band, it was Muke University) and worshipping pointed out that the entire Japa- ardently in the Southern Methodist nese 14th Army and @ number of Church where shortly before ne other units are officially reported "had been christened Charles Jones Soong (Charles Jones was the name of his sponsor). A few years later, “Charlie” Soong was graduated from Vanderbilt and went hom= to Shanghai to become a mission- ary and a publisher of Bibles, It was there he married and it was in his house that “the Soong dy- nasty” and the great Chinese rev- olution which was to elevate its first great leader, Dr. Sun Yat- sen, to near sainthood, was born. | Every one of “Charlie” Jones: Soong's six children got their higher education in the United States, The two youngest are now promihent in banking circles, one in San Francisco, one in Chungking. The three daugh-: ters married the three greatest leaders of modern China. Ching- ling became the wife and inspira- tion of the late Dr. Sun. Mei-ling married Generalissimo Chiang and has fought shoulder to shoulder with him. Ai-ling, the political genius of the family, married Dr. H. H. Kung, former YMCA secre- tary, one of the 75th descendants of Confucius, and the member of a wealthy family that was operat- (Continued on Page Three) NEW THRUST LOGGING Guard Turns Back Ger- man 'Feeler Stroke’ CAIRO, Jan. 2z — Lashing out| from the Elagheila are with most' Bringing north with him James of the tanks still remaining to him, W. Girard, Chief Logging Eneinvorf Axis Commander General Rommel for the Forest SefVice, B. F. Heintz- | struck about 10 miles into the Brit- leman, Regional Forester, returned ish Imperial positions, the British here yesterday from a trip to the acknowledged today, but informed Pacific Northwest. | sources held that this was probably Heintzleman said he met Girard little more than a feeler stroke. in Portland, where they conferred Besides testing the strength of with logging associations in the | the advanced columns facing him Northwest, relative to increasing | in the last Axis foothold in Ciren~'and coordinkting the production of | aica, it was said Rommel might be spruce in Alaska with the produc- trying to relieve the pressure on his tion” of the same material in the Elagheila positions and thus gain Pacific Northwest and British Co- | Murder Trial Will Start | On Monday First criminal trial in the current court session here will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, when selection of jur- ors is slated to start in the case against Samuel Johnson, Douglas native indi¢ted for first degree murder, Johnson is charged with the slay- ing of Roy W. Barnett, white long- shoreman of Juneau. Immediately following the John- son case, the trial of James B. Sul- livan, of Skagway, charged with a series of morals counts, is scheduled tigpe to consolidate them for a real lumbia. 4 | stand: It s felt thet it will be possible to get under way. The Sullivan case will be followed by the murder twial 1 ol 1 The same roofing section which| The latest, although unofficial,'; sunstantially increase the amount | Of Roy Fawcett, of Hoonah, who struck Demmert also struck the|Teports from the Libyan deserl of spruce shipped out of Alaska, faces a second-degree murder in- |front said the day-long Axis thrust Heintzleman declared. The two ex- | dictment for the shooting of a fel- |was turned back last night. It jsting mills at Ketehikan and Ju- | low crew member on a fishing boat was believed Rommel found stiffer neay for the past year have been near Excursion Inlet late last sum- icpposition by the Imperial forward producing considerable high grade mer- guard than he had expected. spruce, now urgently needed by war PR g R | industries, he pointed out. ‘Without a breathing spell, Mildred now operating on Luzon. NEW PACIFIC DEFENSE NOW ESTABLISHED ed Sream of Reinforcements Also Started to South- west Pacific WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—A high Government official reported to- day that since the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7 the Army. is able to fortify Hawaili and the Pacific Coast more formidably than ever before and this while starting a stream of reinforce- ments to the southwest Pacific. What constitutes this stream ia terms of men and material is not disclosed. Within the United States more than 600,000 troops have been shifted to new positions within léss than seven weeks with speed and efficlency, the official said and also termed “miraculous” by a railroad President. This official also said that the advantage gained by the Japanese over the Navy on December 7 in & surprise attack has been largely offset by the mounting flow of American long range bombers. New Hours for Customs Office The Customs office in Juneau will be opened 44 hours a week starting next Monday and Cus- toms Inspectors will work corres- pondingly longer hours, according to orders received here from the Treasury Department today. The office is to be open from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. each day, in- stead of the curreni schedule of 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., the orders set forth. Saturdays the office will cpen at 3:30 a. m. and close at 12:30 p. m., rather than the 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. times observed now. The new schedule is being made effective because of the increased | Hermann, local attorney, will defend RIFLES FOR HOME GUARDS | Girard is expected to spend about Johnson, Sullivan and Fawcett in Rifles for the proposed Home six weeks with local members of the these first three criminal cases, Guard at Ketchikan arrived there Forest Service, making an extensive scheduled for trial at a court ses- on a recent steamer, Istudy of the situation here. | sion here this afternoon. work due to the wartime emergency, it was understood. R e e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS