The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8942. U.S. PLAN ES SHOOT DOWN JAP BOMBER zr Nipp AMERICANS, DUTCH KEEP UP ATTACKS Running Conflict Continues in Narrow Straits of Macassar TWENTY-EIGHT CRAFT ALREADY BEEN SUNK Imperial Headquarters Admits Encounters Are Now Taking Place BATAVIA, Island of Java, Jan. 27 — Another heavy Japanese war vessel, believed to be a battleship, has been added to the enemy’s dis- astrous effort to run the Straits of | Macassar. Aircraft bombers made direet hits, sending the vessel down. In a recapituiation of authori- tative Dutch sour¢es in the running American and Dutch air and sea assault on the Japanese war vessels, convoys and troop ships in the nar- | row, waters between the islands of | Borneo and Celebes, 28 ships have been sunk, many damaged and 13 | war planes downed, | The furious attack continues. FIERCE ENCOUNTER TOKYO, Jan. 27. — The Imperial headquarters announces that four | Japanese transports have been lost | in the battle of last Friday in land- ing operations at Balik Papan, Borneo, and that Japanese warships escorting the transports are engaged in a fierce encounter but that de- stroyers, submarines and aircraft have succeeded in sinking one en- emy submarine. \ The Japanese news agency, Domei, (Continued on Page Six) WASHINGTON — Five men and one woman had secret undercover hands in John L. Lewis's bombshell proposal that the AFL and CIO re- open the peace negotiations that he broke off two years ago. They were: Willlam Hutcheson, Roosevelt- hating, veteran head of the AFL carpenters. | George Meany, bulky AFL sec- retary-treasurer, who is ambitious to become head of the AFL, or a combined labor organization, and is willing to play ball with Lewis to dttain this goal. Daniel Tobin, AFL teamster boss, a sincere advocate of AFL - CIO peace. { Dr. John Steelman, director of the U. 8. Conciliation Serviece, who is on close terms with Lewis. It was Steelman who awarded Lewis | the closed-shop in captive mines’ last month and a year ago sup-) ported him in his knockdown fight | with commercial coal operators. | Secretary Frances Perkins, who' has made such a howling botch as head of the Labor Department that she is frantically anxious to chalk up some spectacular achievement and sees an AFL-CIO agreement as offering that chance. | Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Am- erica First champion and intimate political pal of Lewis. ! Of the six, Hutcheson had the on War Ship Is recked In Sea Battle Aimee’s Daughter Weds | The former Roberta Semple, daughter of the noted evangelist, Aimee Semple McPherson, is pictured with her husband, Harry Salter, a radio musical director, after their marriage at Nyack, N. Y. At the age of twelve, Roberta conducted evangelical services at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles. She was formerly married to William Bradley Smvthe, Queen Cotton With silk, wool, rubber, nylon and rayon on the priorities list, milady’s bathing suit this year will be of cotton. And here is the Queen of Cotton, pretty Mimi Barry, who won the title in a contest ap the Floridian. Miami Beach. NEW POOLING PLAN, BRITAIN UNITED STATES Creation of Three War| Boards Announced by White House WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — The new Britisn-! biggest hand in Lewis's surprise American War Boards to assure| LONDON, Jan. 27 — The Brit-| arghyr van Mavern, representa-| creation of three a steamship officer. NewFishing ' Regulations Prggosed; Wallgren Infroduces Dras- fic Alaska Fisheries Bill in Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—A bill to regulate fishing and conserve Real Fighter Takes Charg‘ of U. S. Troops in British Isles | NORTH IRELAND PORT, Jan. . | —Major General James Chane; \‘ed as both a.combat pilot.and | bat, observer of the United | Air Corps, has been made " manding ; General of -the | States Army forces in ‘the | Isles, ? 3. Chaney’s Chief- of Staff-is-08 i posed of Brigadier General Bolte and Major General Ru Hartle, who arrived here yes! with several thousand U. S. Al | troops. Hartle will command | American foroces in Northern land. OBJECTION INIRELAND 'Prime Minister Eamon de Valera Voices Profest | fo Sudden Move | DUBLIN, Jan. 27-~Eamon de Val- lera, Prime Minister of the Irish| Free States, has issued a statement protesting the arrival of U. S. | troops in Northern Ireland and de- |claring Eire was not consulted |either by the British or American | fishery resources in Alaska, which Government in regard to the com- {license. It authorizes the director | * ‘;amh. The director is also author- |ized to'specify the time, methods|for the fiscal year of July 1, 1941, | { move. A few years ago the two the most efficient utilization an men were fierce enemies, after ex- munitions, shipping and raw ma- loss of the 31000-ton British bat- changing blows at a CIO conven- terials, was announced at the White tleship Barham. tion. But they were reunited in House this morning. would extend regulatory power to offshore as well as coastal waters, was introduced yesterday by Sena- or Mons Wallgren (D-Wash.). Wallgren said the measure re- places a former similar bill and would give the fisheries officials power to effectively deal with Jap- anese or other interests which threaten American fisheries. This wvould be accomplished, he ex- d, by extending regulatory vowers to the offshore waters where it has been charged the Japanese interferred with American fishing rights. The new measure reqgfiires the director of the Fish and Wildlife ervice to make necessary scienti- | fic investigations and adopt proper; regulations. It divides the coastal waters intd fish areas and requires »ach fisherman have a license, but provides that the director can not vefuse to give any fisherman a license unless he is an alien. The measure further requires that each vessel and net must have ia permit and each fish trap and oyster cultivation area location a to strict types and number of els and nets and to limit the and extent of fishing. When the director reduces or restores the number of fishing Ho! nets and traps in an area, those who have actually been fish- three years shall have the first chance to obtain permits or leases. - Bafleship ~ Barham Lost ish Admiralty today admitted the The Axis has long claimed that tl |ing of troops. | The Prime Minister based ob- | jections that it lent a split between }Ll:e Eire and Northern Ireland. DIMOND ASKS FOR MORATORIUM ON | - MINE ASSESSMENT: {Delegate Infroduces Bill | Calling for Suspension of Claim Work The request that asséssment work | requirements on mining claims be |suspended for the duration of the |war in the United States and Al- aska was made in a bill introduced in the House of Representatives on January 14 by Alaska's Delegate to Congress, Anthony J. Dimond, it |was learned here today. | To be retroactive, the bill stipn- | |lated that the $100 per year assess- Iment work requirement on mining |claims also be declared suspended | i | to July 1, 1942 ——————— | 'Henderson Given |ing in the area during th t| F “ A ho J e : i Full Authority On ~ Rationing of Food WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Chair- man Donald M. Nelson, of the War | Production Board, today gave Price | Administer Henderson full author- lity to “ration all goods and com-' | modities sold on the retail market.” i N A T A VAN MAVERN HERE tive of the West Coast Grocery Company, arrived in Juneau from Ithe States today where he has been {for several weeks. CHANEY GETS | '(OMMANDIN;. ' NO. IRELAND)| o s British Women’s Air Auxi Tor 3 SO b The Women’s Air Auxiliary Force (WAAF) has progressed beyond the odd-job stage in England. These ‘women are the first class of WAAF mechanics to have passed their training course and are now carrying out the duties of the aviation trade, ferrying bombers and other combat planes from factories to airdromes, and performing other aviation tasks to lighten work of military pilots. hich Prey on ]ap Ship saiin S 4 i i ,.3 ; ; 4 Here are five of the fleet of Dutch submarines which is credited with sinking many Japanese troop ships and other Nipponese naval craft in the South China sea. ] LS . ‘When this picture was taken, the subs were being loaded with supplies and fuel from a mother ship at Sourabaja, Java. RAID IS MADE ON GERMANY Bombers Reach Oufer Dis- frict of Berlin - Is Acknowledged LONDON, Jan. 27—British air- men struck out at Germany last night, bombing many northein towns with disastrous results. STRIKE CLOSE TO BERLIN BERLIN, Jan. 27 — The official statement today admits that Brit- ish bombers ranged over northe:n sections last night and even reached the outer districts of Ber- lin. LIRS L ROBERT L. JERNBERG RETURNS TO SITKA R. L. Jernberg, City Attorney of | Sitka, who has been in Juneau for the last week in connection District Court, left for his home v nouncement from Hitler's with | cases in the present term of the| CLAIMED SUNK BY NALZI SUBS 12 MORE SHIPS | ports More Successes Off North America | ’ BERLIN, Jan. 27—A special an- head- quarters today said German sub: | have sunk 12 more merchant ships, aggregating 103,000 tons, off the United States and Canadian coast: Six large tankers were reported tc | make up half of the dozen vessels encompassed in this report The report followed a declaration | by the German High Command Sat- urday that U-boats sank 18 mer chantmen, totalling 125,000 tons, and two naval units torpedoed another ship and its escort vessel in North American waters. —————— CLITHERO PAYS VI | Russell Clithero, manager of the ;Snka Hotel, paid a brief visit to | Juneau over the weekend, arriving Saturday and returning home on Sunday. NAT FLANKS BATTERED BY - REDTHRUSTS j "Hitler's Headquarters at Smolensk Object of Russian Atfacks (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russia’s triumphant armies to- lay pressed a series of deadly lanking thrusts against Hitle:'s 1eadquarters at Smolensk, 210 miles west of Moscow, and advanced through a howling blizzard to threaten the German winter lin2 anchor at Velikie Lukie, only 80 miles from the Latvian frontier Front line dispatches said the recapture of German-held Rzhev, 130 miles northwest of Moscow, was “expected any minute.” Heavy Soviet pressure was being exerted against Okel, southwest of Moscow and against Belgorod at the. north end of the | Donets River industrial basin. -ooe 200 miles| AIR BATTLES TAKE PLACE OFF BATAN ' Gen. MacArthur Reports Successful ‘Engage- menfs with Enemy ONE FORMATION GETS SHOT UP, SHORE ATTACK Daring Motor Torpedo Vessel Enfers Subic Bay, Sinks 5,000-fon Ship WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — Two American pursuit planes shot down two Japanese dive bombers and dis- | abled a third in the Philippines dur~ ing the past 24 hours, according to a communique issued by the War De~ partment this morning. The communique also says that Gen. Douglas MacArthur reports that two of his Batan Peninsula motor torpedo boats engaged a for- mation of Japanese dive bombers off | Subic Bay and three were hit. When the formation was last seen by the :\merium the bombers were smok- ng and losing altitude rapidly. The big information, ace to tered Sublc Bay, and under terrific gunfire from enemy ships, t- ed by dive bomber fire, sank a 000-ton ' Japanese ship, and then escaped with only machine gun bul- | let marks showing on the little craft, and no casualties. This is the see- ond successful raid by the small craft in Subic Bay. "Pearl Harbor Check-Up fo Be (glinued House Naval Affairs Cam- mittee fo Investigate, ' Maas Promises WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — A | sweeping supplementary study of | the Pearl Harbor disaster and “all {that led up to it” by the House Naval Committee was promised to- |day by Rep. Melvin S. Maas (R.- Minn.), World War veteran and ranking Republican member of the | committee. | Maas's statement followed a iclesed meeting of the committee. | Chatrman Carl Vinson (D,-Ga), | declined comment. ! Earlier, Sen. George W. Norris | (Ind.-Neb), démanded that the |Army and Navy commands be uni- lned into a single defense depart- | ment. | Laying a share of the blame on 100n¢reas for the success of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Norris decldred the, time has come |to abolish the War and Navy De- partments as such and place the |Army, Navy and their -air forces under one defense depqrAtmen'L JRBSSR MRS % | | 1 . STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 27. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can |64, Anaconda 28, Bethlehem Steel 46'%, Commonwealth and Southern !4, Curtiss Wright 84, International Harvester 50%, Kennecott 357, New York Central 9%, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 54, Pound $4.04. 1940 b’;" their mutual hatred Of, Tne arrangements contemplate|the battleship was sunk in the| kR T ST by plane Monday. | NTNN]:’BE’“ ot G Roosevelt. i gt | Mediter: | ————eo——— TURNS L STEIN BAC! DOW, JONES AVERAGES the ling of the “entire munition ! Mediterranean. | After Lewis's sensational bolt-to- ,.w,:::esngf Great Britain and the ———,——— | Jolrm‘éolli:ll;:e:gr Afllfsll‘:n trav- | MRS. TRIPP ILL | Elroy Ninnis, City Councilman . The following are today's Dow, Willkie broadcast, Hutcheson wrote 1 ...q states: pooling, in principle,’ Both natural and synthetic| elling man, arrived from the States Mrs. H. T. Tripp is said to be 3nd head of the Juneau Motors| Isadore Goldstein, Juneau mer- Jones averages: Industrials, 110.63; rails, 28.78; utilities, 14.16. ————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Lewis a hurrahing congratulatory letter. Later they had several secs (Continued on Page Four) |seriously ill at her home in the Company, returned to Juneau by chant, returned here by steamer Assembly Apartments. She has u Steamer this afternoon after a today after a brief business jour- severe attack of the flu, lmonlh's absence on business, ney to Seattle, 1n | teday by steamer. il L o P S BUY DEFENSE BONDS of the shipping resources” planned expeditious utilization J“rnw materials,” and | camphor are used extensively of [the pyroxylin and safety-glass in- ' dustries,