The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1942, Page 1

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LVIIL, NO. 8941, HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED ' TEN CENIS - Ko bl ki it i B e 2 = MANY JAP SHIPS SENT DOWN IN BATTLE HOUSE GETS STAGGERING NAVY BILL Appropriatfi_ Largest in History, Expected to Pass Quickly WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — Qon- gress today 1eceived the $17,722,000,- 000 Appropriations Bill, the largest in the nation’s history, to finance the Navy's war objective of attain- ing unquestioned supremacy above, below and on the seas through a gigantic ship and plane building program. | In sending the huge proposed | outlay to the House for debate, the Appropriations Committee dealt| in the superlatives, ‘stupendous” and “staggering,” to describe its aims but expressed full confidence | that the aims will be accomplished ! with “unbeiievable dispatch.” i The bill was accompanied by a| 316-page trauscript of testimony be- | fore the committee in which Sec- retary of the Navy Frank Knox and high ranking Navy omcersj disclosed their conviction that 1942 | will prove a critical vear in the battle for victory. - e WAGE BOOST CLO. BOAI!I)l NEW YORK, Jan. 25—The CI1.0.! Executive Board today adopted a resolution recommending the de- ' mand by affiliated C.I.O. unions in current wage negotlations for “sub- stantial wage increases.” : The board decided that higher wages shoul doffset increases in the cost of living and higher taxes. B | British Caplure Big Ifalian Ship | LONDON, Jan. 26.—The British | Admiralty announces that warships “intercepted and captured” the 8,- | | 000-ton Italian ship Daosta. | i —_————— i ‘60 WASHINGTON—Charles Augus- tus Lindbergh will remember for a| question of re-entering the Army.' It was that kind of interview. ! When the America First cham-| pion wrote to Lt.-Gen. “Hap” Ar—i nold, Army air chief, offering his services to the Army, he was very hopeful of regaining the coloneley | he had angrily discarded in the| heat of his isolationist crusade. He, wrote this letter, instead of for-| mally applying for reinstatement, of his commission, on the advice| of certain friendsi some of them, in the Air Corps. ! They counselled Lindbergh that he first feel out his prospects be- | fore going on record as asking for) a commission. ! The reason for this advice was) that they had good reason to be-. lieve that the Army did not care to re-commission Lindbergh in the; That was why no formal appli-| cation was ever received from him;! also why he did not discuss the, matter of a commission in his in-; terview with Secretary Stimson.! Lindbergh was expremy-cautioned not to mention the subject. | The talk took place in stlmson's‘ office, where the balding flier, hal." in. hand, sat across the desk from| the veteran cabinet member, who, has grown white in the unstinting service of his country. Stimson opened the conversation. | For fifteen minutes, in precise, cutting words, he outlined his con-, cept of Americanism. | Stimson never mentioned Lind-| pergh. When he finished, the flier DEMANDED BY i | Navy, Army Commands Blamed for Dereliction Of Duty at Pearl Harbor) e | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — The sult and confer with one another full report of the Japanese sur-|about warnings that ‘“appropriate prise attack on Pearl Harbor, fix-| measures of defense were required ing responsibility and naming| by the imminence of hostilities.” names, was submitted to President | Showed Lack of Interest Roosevelt late Saturday afternoon| The report further said that the by Associate Justice of the Su- “attitude of each commander preme Court of the United States showed that he had not required Owen J. Roberts. The 51-page doc- | to inform himself and also he had ument, finding of facts and conclu- ; showed lack of interest in meas- was made public and re-|ures to be undertaken by the other nigh, | to carry ocut responsibility assigned | to each other under provisions cf plans then in effect and to have been demonstrated.” sions, leased 6 o'clock Saturday Pacific Coast time. The special commission, whica investigated the Japanese attack on Pear] Harbor on December 7, ac- cused Commander-in-Chief of the|Of each there was a lack of appre-| Fleet, Admiral Husband Kimmel ciation of responsibilities vested n| and Commanding General of the them and inherent in their posi-| Hawailan Department Lieutenant tons.” General Walter Short, of “derelic- Warning Was Given tion of duty. | The special commission noted in The commission, in the report, the report that on November 27, declared that these two comman- ‘'eD days before the Japanese sur- ders, previous to the attack, were prise attack, the Chief of the derelict as both had failed to con- Swiss Skating Star in Action (Continued on Page Five) | SRR e Al This pretty skater, Airane Le Vaillant, 18-year-old visitor from Basle, | Switzerland, who came here to appear in Américan ice shows, was photographed during a workout at Rockefeller Plaza's rink in New | York City. She is one of the top figure skaters of her eountry. The report said that “on the part| |place on Gen. Wavell's Southwest | Pacific {have been placed plainly before ~ MOPINGUP . ONNALIS | front after virtually wiping out Hit- {ler’s winter line. Australia | Makes War On Nippons Jungle Trained Militia Is Battling Invasion Forces on Wide Front MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 26 | —Civilians have been removed from |cities of New Guinea and Solomon |Islands as the jungle-trained Aus- | tralian Militia battled the Japa- }nese invasion forces in the hills |of Great Britain and New Ireland| Islands. | The Japanese have hurled new landing forces on the arc of is- lands protecting the Australian continent and are steadily broad- ening operations now covering a broken front extending almost 1,000, miles from the northern. New Guinea Island east to Florida Is- land. Prime Minister ‘Curtin declared | today that arrangements are al- ready underway to give Australia a Staff and further said Australia’s views on war strategy Churchill and Roosevelt. RUSSIANS Weather in Decades t —Hitler in Flight (By Associated Press) | The winter toughened Russian | soldiers, taking full advantage of | the coldest weather in recent de- | cades, are reported mopping up vast | {areas on the long German-Russian | Hitler Flees [ A broadcast report from Stock- holm picked up by the British radio said Hitler himself had fled west- | ward from his personal headquarters | at Smolensk. now endangered by the Russian attacks. Cleanup Operations | Dispatches from Moscow report | Hhige Jap Liner Sumk by U.5.5ub TRANSPORTS, 'WAR VESSELS SENT DOWN | ke U. S. - Dutch Sea and Air Forces Engage Nippon The massive and uitra-modern Japanese liner Yawata Maru, pictured above as she docked in San Fran- cisco in November, 1940, has been sunk by an American submarine operating in Far Eastern waters, the Government announced officially. Whether the Yawata—one of three great new liners formerly oper- ated by the N, Y. K. Line—the Nitta and Kasuga are the others—is the one of the Yawata class that was converted to an aireraft carrier, wus not disclosed. The Yawata was a 17,000-ton vessel. In the above picture she is being guided to a pier by a tug. Note the huge Japanese flags painted on her port side. Jabs Say Machrihurflflas3 DefenseLines it . . SANeS y ANTON!O “\24"{5 reme 4 > ASTILLEJOS et e 0" OLONGAPO, o = MT.NATIB ¢ o0 O Invasion Armada FOUR-DAY RUNNING FIGHT VICTORIOUS Enemy Craft Bombed, Tor- pedoed in Engagement in Macassar Strait (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The United States and Dutch sea and air forces, locked in a great running battle with the Jap- anese invasion armada in the straits of Macassar, have already sunk or damaged at least 27 trans- ports and warships in four days of fighting and may have shat- tered the Japanese attempt to in- vade Java, the heart of the Unit« ed Nation's defense in the south- west Pacific. The next few days will tell of what strength, if any, the Japa- A Domei News Agency dispatch from the Japanese army in the Philippines said that General MacArthur’s forces had drawn up these three main lines of defense across Batan Peninsula: (1), a first line from Abucay on Manila Bay.to Mt. Natib, south of Olongapo; (2), a second line based on fortified positions a few miles south; and (3), a third line across the pennisula in the Mariveles Mountains only a few miles from the southernmost tip of Batan. Death Penéily Decreed For Trivial Offenses in Philippinesbylfl)anese FOUR AXIS CRAFT ARE TORPEDOED nese armada will be able to ne- gotiate on the narrow shortcut of the inner arc of the Netherlands East Indles. The Japanese, however, won at least one foothold in this sea road to Java, the Dutch oil port of Ba- lik Papan on the strait side of the island of Borneo. Shoot at High Stakes The size of the invasion fleet in~ Continued on Page Three) ENEMY SUB SINKS SHIP, N. J. COAST Makes Pre-dawn Affack “Only 35 Miles from Shore—Crew Saved SEA IfLE CI'TY, New Jersey, Jan 26—Striking without any warning, Rate (ase, Is Now Setfor ~ February 3; Order Issued American Forces in N. Ireland First Units fo Land in Brif- ish Isles Since War . Started, Reported WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — The arrival of American Army forces in Northern Ireland is announced to- |day by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Major General Russell Hartle is in command but the size of the force and other details is with- held. /This is the first to reach the British Isles sigce the war started aside from groups of technicians and staff officers, War Department official indicated. i — e \ LIEUT GEORGE A. LINGO HERE FROM SITKA SATURDAY Lieut. George A. Lingo was in Ju- neau over the weekend from the Naval Air Station in Sitka where he is stationed. ——————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS New Héarind; Sleamshib - - | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. — The Maritime Commission has ordered | new hearings on the question of | steamship rates between Washing- | ton State and Alaska ports to start | | cleanup operations are in full swing | in the area from Smolensk to 230 | miesve wom e Admission Tax for PEARL HARBOR ' All Events Given On REPORT CAUSES President's Birthday RARE B'nER“ESS dances or other celebrations com- Demands Made fOl’ Expul- birthday to be held throughout the country, the funds of which arc i TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 26 — All in Washington February 3 but that the emergency surcharge on freights | and passenger rates will continue in effect pending the outcome of the| investigation. | The Maritime Commission’s order | directed the three companies involv- | ed to file by February 2 balance | sheets of income and accounts of | opearting revenues for the year that | ended December 31 and also directed | statements regarding the cargo and | passenger trade during the last year. | Gov. Ernest Gruening testified be- | fore the. commission at the hearing | Friday that since the establishment of the surcharge on January 6, many Alaskans had told him'they intend- ed to leave for the States because of | increased living costs, | — Nomination of Knudsen Given Committee 0.K. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. — The | Senate Military Affairs Subcommit- tee has approved of the President’s nomination of William S. Knudsen to be a Lieutenant General and in charge of production for the Army. ————— Pew industrial processes have ex- Sion Of '|I'I(0mpefenis' to be used for victims of infan- . tile paralysis are subject to the —AlsoCourtmarfials admissions tax according to Clark | Esquire, Collector of Internal Reve- | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—Angry nue, in an announcement made to- demands came to Congress mem-| day, bers today for expulsion of "in-} Mr. Squire explained that while competents” holding responsible po-| affairs of this nature were not sitions in the Army and Navy and taxable in previous years, the courtmartial to mete out punish-|Revenue Act of 1941 eliminated all ment to those responsible for the chgritable entertainments from Pearl Harbor debacle. | this category and imposed a tax A furore of rare bi!.mrnesfi onloe 10 percent of the admission both sld:fl of Capitol Hill ‘°""“’f“"cost on all tickets soid. the weekend report of the Presi-| = ,pongion is therefore, being gf:::fi:g .:L‘,‘;if,‘:,‘:e‘:‘;‘{ion°":n“;“%.d;‘;.’_;c.ued to all President’s Birthday i i | Ball committees to add the fed- lict " e Ly e T eral tax to the price for which commanders T Navy, ’ for success 0‘;’ ::: gu:?n:;d sneuiw""’k’“ are being sold. Applications attack. | for proper forms or for further in- Senators and Representatives as- | fermation should be made to Mr. certed that the Commission’s con- Squire at Tacoma, or to any one clusions pointed to the pressing of the field offices. need of a Super Command over .- —— operations of both armed services o this naton. ‘Mrs. MK. Cauthorne DR. AND MRS. ANDERSON 15 '|’ l '|' . STOP HERE SOUTHBOUND | 0 Leave on Irnp Dr. and Mrs. D. V. A,"dem.on' =4 Mrs. Mary Keith Cauthorne, Ad- Nome, are spending a week in Ju- yigory puplic Health Nurse for the neau on their way south from m”‘Terrlwrlal Department of Health, Seward Peninsula community. Dr.|gwi) leave this week for a trip to Anderson, who has practiced medi-|towns of Southeast Alaska, includ- cine In Nome for. the last siX ing Petersburg, Ketchikan and perienced a more rapid growth ‘v.hnn rayon fiber manufacturing. months, is leaving the city pe"- Wrangell. She expects to be away manently. for about two weeks, WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—It is re- vealed that a confidential report received from Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur by the War Department dis- closes that Japanese Lieutenant General Mashaharu Homma in the Philippines has decreed the death | penalty for numerious trivial of- | fenses not only in rebellion, but for the tearing down of military no- tices, concealing fuel and clothing to avoid confiscation and for de- clining to accept worthless “shin- plater” currency of the invaders. IMPERIAL UNITS ARE ON RETREAT Driven Back Still Further | on Libya Front by Rommel's Forces CAIRO, Jan. 26 — The British headquarters acknowledged today the Imperial forces have been driven still farther back in Libya by Axis forces under Gen. Rommel. Gen. Rommel is counter attack- inz armored columns and the Axis forces apparently aiming at a by- pass on Bengasi as the 'najor come- |back against Great Brit.in's Eighth lArmy. The center of the new desert battle is placed by the communique northeast cf Zouietmsus which means that Rommel has advanced more than 40 miles from the Ag- edabia - Antelat - Saunna triangle |where a big tank battle waged dur- 1lng the week-end. ' British Submarines Send Down 2 Tankers, Trans- port, Salvage Ship LONDON, Jan. 26—Four more Axis ships nave been sunk in the Mediterranean by Briti:h submar- ines the Admiralty anuounced to- qaay. The British Communigue an- two large ully laden tankers, one medium sized transport and the‘ Italian salvage ship Rampino. | -, . UNIDENTIFIED ’ CRAFT APPEAR | OVER SO. CALIF. All Broad(a-fl;rng Stations Are Silenced for Nearly Four Hours Today SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 26. —Southern California radio stations were silenced for nearly four hours while unidentified planes -cruised over the area. The alert warning was given and all stations were called off the air at 6:45 o'clock this merning when the planes were firs: heard ap-!| proaching the Los Angeles and Long Beach area. | Radio station broadcasters did not return to the air until 10:30 o'clock after unidentified craft left the area and the Interceptor Command gave the all clear signal. g oSSR an enemy submarine sunk the Nor- wegian tanker Varager in a pre- dawn attack only 35 miles off the Atlantic coast Sunday but the crew of 42 members were saved Three torpedoes rammed the 9300 ton motorship within 12 minutes. The attack was one of the closest to the United States Atlantic coast but for the first time since this nation entered the war, no lives were lost in the Atlantic waters. The explosions of the torpedoes shook hopses in several south New Jersey communities including At- ‘nounced the ships sent down were 1,40 City. AXIS RAIDER GETS VESSEL, EAST COAST .Torpedoes Ore Carrier Off Norfolk-22 Members of Crew Missing NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 26 — An Axis undersea ralder attacked the American ore carrier Venore off the North Carolina coast late last Friday and 22 members of the crew are unaccounted for, ‘the FPifth Naval District announces. Twenty-one members of the crew were brought ashore last night and landed here. The ship was owned by the Ore Steamship Company and was hit twice by torpedoes last Friday night and sank in the Atlantic Saturday morning, the Fifth Naval BUY DEFENSE STAMPS thmct sald.