The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1942, Page 1

. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL, LVIIL, NO. 8944, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY JANUARY 29, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ZERO HOUR NEAR IN SINGAPORE BATTLE Red Armies Sweeping On To New Victories “Big Three™ In East Indies RUSSIANS | ADVANCING | ALLFRONTS Hitler, Dem_nied, Makes Compromise with His War Generals | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Sweeping new gains by the Rus- sian armies are reported from the varfous fronts today as word cir- culated in London that Hitler, who five weeks ago ousted Field Mar- shal von Brauchitsch and assumed Supreme Command of the German Army himself, has reached o com- promise with his generals because “he is unable to carry on without the aid of experienced strategists.” In dismissing von Brauchitsch a few days before Christmas, Hitler declared his intuitions would lead him to reserve to himself person- ally all essential decisions in di- recting the war. The British Ministry of Informa- tion has circulated extracts from| dn article in the anti-Axis German | language newspaper Die Zeitung published in London declaring Hit- ler is now deranged of mind and | confirms reports that Generals von Bock, Von Rundstedt and von Lees and Others are in “charge of the new, German armies.” . TOUGH TIME NEW YORK. J-n 29 — The Brooklyn Public Library reports that the first librarian in Green- land's first library is typing a card catalogue with his mittens on. The man, Private Harold E. Fowler, wrote his former library to say he| was getting 1,000 books ready Ior soldiers to read. - WASHINGTON—If the President needed any further demonstration | of the ineffectualness of his dollar- a-year-men in the OPM, he got it within 24 hours after he announced his new war program. “Business-as-usual” minded mo- tor moguls, summoned to Washing- ton to draft belated plans for the conversion of their industry, in effect thumbed their ncses at OPM —with the support of ex-motor mogul OPM Director Knudsen. Inside story of this episode, one month after Pearl Harbor, is one of the most amazing of the amaz- ing record of OPM. It started last Monday when heads of auto management and labor met with OPM, Army and Navy chiefs. Knudsen opened the| conference with a brief talk in which he complained that he had been “kicked around” and that the motor moguls had been “kicked | around.” But despite this, he de- clared he was proud of their con- tribution to national defense. This brought a big hand from the auto executives. They then took the floor and announced they were willing tol convert their plants to war pro-| duction—provided the government met their terms. Foremost of these claims were one more month of auto production beyond Janua:y!| 31, plus escalator clauses in their| war contracts to enable them to raise prices to meet “unforeseen de- velopments.” In other words the auto mognls| were willing to make tanks, plflnes! and guns for the government pro- vided they were assured of a nor-; mal profit. | None of this got out of the | Nation over ithe war and all that the war in- |dertake a supplementary Congres- |ommission studying the tragedy be (Continyed on Page Four) Mrs. FDR Visits Polio Victim Phonephoto Florence Speis, 7, a victim of infantile paralysis, is showing her toy fish and submarine to Mrs. Franklin Lady’s annual visit to the Children’ D. Roosevelt. This was the First s Hospital in Washington in con- nection with the 1942 drive for the National Foundation for Infantile RODSEVHJ WILL GIVE WAR TALK __ Paralvsis. Alr Bame Is Won by AlliedMen HEMISPHERE SOLIDARITY s A(HIEVED |Pan American Confe#’!ntc \ Ends in Mediation Be- ‘ tween Nations 41 RESOLUTIONS © PASSED AT MEET ' Represemafifis of 21 Am- | erican Republics Act 3 Agamst Axis RIO DE JANEIRO Jan, 20— | Western hemisphere solidarity wu{ affirmed unanimously today when {Peru and Ecuador agreed to settle | ‘v,hcu 111-year-old boundary dispufo, \m a triumphant windup to the Pm] American conference. The conclusion came in post- con- | hnnc mediation of the Peruvian-i« }huddurmn differences several hours |after the foreign ministers of 21 | American republics formally ad- | | journed their two-week session. | The major fruits of the confer- ence contained 41 resolutions, \n-Q scribed in English, French, Spfln- |ish and Portuguese, ruommendhz ‘Axfis and setting up joint unll'-lrv, ‘economic ‘and” finatiolal. boards, and’ otherwise covering virtually the eu- ) i tire - field ol Pan American nlu- !lmnb ———-———— MacARTHUR'S To Tell Nation About Con-| ‘ Yanks and British Combat F OR ( ES B E AI flict in Fireside Chat | About February 22 | WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Presi- dent Roosevelt expects to tell the the radio about the| progress of the war effort around| Pebruary 22, the White House said today. The announcement also stated that by February 22 “it is quite possible we will have things of im- ' portance to say.” Presidential Secretary steph»n Early disclosed the President's in- tention to speak about the time of Washington’s birthday, Early also said the White House is receiving mail, telephone and oral requests that the President| make ancther fireside chat to the country and ‘dissipate poisonous | and troublesome rumors insofar as| possible and give the country a| clearer and better understanding of | volves.” FURTHER PROBE | PEARL HARBOR DISASTER IS OFF House Naval Committee| Refuses to Make Sup- plemental Inquiry WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — The| House Naval Committee has re- fused by a vote of 14 to 6 to un- sional inquiry into the Pearl Har-| bor disaster. i Thé vote came on a motion ‘o request the documentary evidence collected by the President’s special turned over to the cdmmittee. “This means no investigation at this time by the House Naval Committee,” declared Representa- tive Melvin J. Maas, ranking Re- publican member of the committee. - > | BUY DEFENSE HTAMPS Fliers Wipe Out 13 Japanese Planes (BY ASSOCIATED PRESE) In the Burma theatre of the war, | sharpshooting Yankee and Brmsn | combat pilots scored another 5pec- tacular victory over Japan’s air-| BACKNIPPONS | Headlong Japanese As-, - saults Repulsed by Am- men, wiping out at least 13 ana-; H 1 H nese planes, and possibly 1our‘ e"(an Gun F"e | more. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — | 1 ought over 2 H R:;::mfill vy i g The War Department today re- | Not assingle loss was suffered by the American or British pilots. ———e— AEF TROOPS IN IRELAND EXPLAINED Churchill Says U. S. Wants| Closest Possible Confact Against Nazis LONDON, Jan, 29—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that the| presence of American Expedition- ary Forces in Northern Ireland is| the fulfillment of the wish of the United States that American troops should establish battle contact with Germany as possible.” - .o NEW YORK, Jan. 20—You can lose a $500 bill in this big city and| zet it back again if you read the newspapers, Countess Humann { Guileminot found out the other! day. The day the money was to revert legally to the finder, the countess claim. She was so glad to get the money that she gave half to the finder, lz-yesr-cld June Mil- ‘lard, “as closely and as soon| ported that headlong Japanese infantry assaults on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's lines on Batan Peninsula have been brocken up by American mili- tary fire. The communique further states the enemy suffered heavy losses. e CHURCHILL - GIVEN VOTE, - CONFIDENCE Prime Minister Wins Ap- proval on Last Day of Three-Day Debafe LONDON, Jan. 29—British Prim2 Minister Winston Churchill today won a smashing vecte of confidence in his government, 464 to 1, on the | last day of the three-day old gen- eral debate on the House of Com- | mons. CAWKER CITY, KAS., Jan. 20— |A break in the city water main |wasn't such a bad break after all. i1t caused the water tower to drain |saw the story and established her but the water flooded a nearby ‘park and froze into a first class skating rink > | | BUY DEFENSE HTAIIPS J the severance of relations with lhe $ SILVERLINING e ————_— Ty I o s . Commanders of United Nations forces in the Far Ea it confer “somewhcre” in the Dutch East Indles. Left te right: General Sir Archibald P. Wavell of Britain, Supreme Commander; Admiral Thomas C. Hart, U. 8.'N., Naval Chief, and Maj.-Gen. George H. Brett, U, 8. A., Deputy Supreme Commander, ‘ P——— This is Fort Drum, a “battleship” of concrete built atop EI Fraile island at the mouth of Manila bay. With Corregidor and other island forts stretched across the channel, Jap warships can be kept from unlnz Manila bay. Henvxlv armored turrets mount huge 16-inch rifles on Fort AIRLINER Tire Bootlegging May Now Be Ha lted by the Work of "Big House” By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — Gov- 'ernment offictals and auwmobflm association leaders are in a huddle| over a problem that already has been reported from numerous sec- tions of the country—the theft and | bootlegging of auto parts, tires and | even cars. No sooner had Price Administra- tor Leon Henderson announced the rationing of tires, autos and the courtailed production of replace- ment parts than the whole country | broke out with a rash of pe!ty‘ thievery of tires and parts and the‘ theft (already a felony on bozh‘ state and federal statute books) | of cars. Officiols fear that big-time crooks | and racketeers, taking a page rrom‘ the days of prohibition, might try 0 organize the petty thieves into rings and by wholesale operations ccriously undermine ment program. Henderson's OPA s interested in the problem only in so far as it would, through its psychological and moral effect on the driving' public, place a stumbling block in the smooth development of tire, car and parts rationing. Realizing this, the American Automobile Association and ‘creatlng a bootleg market for soveral other agencies have asked Henderson to propose a bill to make the theft of tires, parts and accessories a federal offense. - | Thomas P. Henry, AAA presi-| dent, in his appeal to Henderson, | said, ‘The widespread thievery is il- licit trade in these important com- modities. This situation will de- velop into worse proportions unless | strong measures are taken to count- eract it.” - This may look fine in print, but reducing it to actual application | in everyday prosecution of com- munity and state offenders is an-| |other matier. To make the thefts| of tires, tubes, parts, etc., a fed-| eral offense when committed |m intra-state traffic, would require a| constitutional amendment. The only | comparable one we have in the| the curtail- | Constitution now is that applying | for jury duty told Superior Court |to narcotics. I den’t think the AAA or any | other organization or agency really hopes to see any federal law passed which would elimi- nate this threat against one of the all-out war measures. What they do hope and expect " (Continued on Page Five) | |hand because he was to be mar- PLUNGES INTO SEA Delegaies 1o Pan Amer- | ican Conference Repori- | ed Rescued and Safe RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Ruiz Guinazu, Minister, and other delegates fell into the sea this forenoon but all aboard have been rescued and, are safe, a brief radio dispatch in- dicates. The Judge, a Man Of Great Foresight | GREENSBORO, N. C., Jan. 20—/ A dreamy-éyed young man drawn |Judge Wilson Warlick that his |mind was not on hte subject at} ! ried next day. i ‘Ex‘cused from duty,” said the judge. “And you also may need the time to get money for necessary expenses.” B BUY DEFENSE BONDS Jan. 29—An airliner carrying Enrique Argentina Foreign to the Pan American conference here, INVADERS 30 MILES FROM FORT Fate of Gre;réasticn May Soon Be Decided as japs_lfih On REINFORCEMENTS "RUSHED TO SCENE Complete Evacuation Ord- ered from Mile Strip on Island (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The fateful Battle for Singapore rages today only 30 miles away in the jungles of southern Malaya as the “zero hour” approached amd the world awaited the answer re- garding the mystery island’s $400.- 000,000 stronghold defenses, In London, British Prime Min- | ister Winston Churchill told Par- liament: “I cannot tell how the Jo- hore, battle or attack on the is- land of Singapore will go but there |has been a steady flow of rein- forcements for several weeks past.” milés of Johore l'-rm 'hk‘h up— arates Singapore Island from M | mathland 'but’ declared thdt bayo- cessfully counter-attacked and in-, | flicted heavy' casualties on the . | vanguards. On the Malaya east coast, other | Japanese columns have apparently driven to a point 40 miles north- east of Johore Strait. Heavy fighting is reported in | Ula Sedili, Clearing Mile Strip ‘The British headquarters said I'the Imperial defense troops are | “in contact” with the Japanese on \ the central front, a spearhead negr | Layang, & town on the ‘main Sing- 'apore railvoad, 30 miles above Jo- hore Strait. | The British communique u.yl a ‘'mile strip is being - cleared alorg the strait in preparation for the Battle of Singapore Island itself. The deadline ‘time for complete .evacuation of clvilians and live- iswck'ls tomorrow noon. s S STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 20 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 2%, American Can 64'%%, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 63%, Commonwealth —and | Southern 9/30, Curtiss Wright 8%, ,lnte’rulflonll Harvester 497%, Ken- necott 35%, New York Ccm.ul 9%, | Northern Pacific 6'%, United States Steel 53%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The follawing ‘are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials. 100.90, rails 28.37, utilities 14.19. e BUY DE!‘ENSE B'I‘AMPB raony: BLOW| *frr LIBERTY, Rtmmbor Pearl Harbor, and enlist for civilian defense work, - | | net-wielding Australians have sue- . °