The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 31, 1942, Page 1

-~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ]UNFAU ALASKA, SATURDAY JANUARY 31, VOLLVILNO.896. . "LVIIL, NO. 8946. 942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENIS - BRITISH WITHDRAW T0 SIN GAPORE FORT Amerltan Troops Land on Old World Soil MacArthur | Resisting Attackers Defenders Drive Off Re-| peated Assaults — Take Some Jap Prisoners WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — Gen. Dougglas MacArthur's hard-hitting defenders have driven off repeated new Japanese attacks in the 29-day- | old siege, is the official announce- | ment today by the War Department, The communique says “determin- ed attempts at the infiltration of our lines have been frustrated and | some Japanese have been taken prisoners.” Washingfon | Just Noses Out Oregon The following are final scores of games played last night in both | Northern and Southern Divisions of the Pacific Coast Basketball Con-| ference: | University of Washington 40; Ore- | | | | | | ! gon ' 39. Oregon State 36; Washington | State 34. | Stanford 54, UCLA 43. e /CANDLE STARTS BLAZE An upset candle at the Harry Olds residence on Main and| Fourth Streets last night caused a small blaze which was promptly extinguished by the Juneau Fire Department. —————— CThe L) Ores Pearsos ! -l 0 WASHINGTON—Mrs. Roosevelt’s | days as Assistant Civil Defense Di- rector are numbered. She doesn't want to get out;! sincerely believes that she is mak- ing an important contribution to this vital war work. But others, among them some of her beat‘ friends, think otherwise and. under | certain plans quietly in the works,| she will depart. | Friends of the First Lady have' felt for some time that her pres-| ence at CD headquarters was not| helping the agency, or doing her any good. She works earnestly and unstintingly, and during the pre- war petiod, when CD was chiefly a! promotional body. she per(mmedx real service. But under war conditions, CD! has become a functional organiza- | tion and the public is demanding that this crucial war work be di- rected by experts. Members of Congress have received numerous letters complaining about Mrs, Roosevelt’s continuance as a CD executive and urging that she and | other “amateurs” be replaced. NOTE:—Since the first of the year, Mrs. Roosevelt has doubled her already considerable monthly contribution to the Red Cross. | | ROYAL NEIGHBOR Handsome, young Archduke Otto of Austria created quite a flurry (especially among the ladies) whien | he appeared in the House restaur-| ant recently and shook hands with| many congressmen, among them| John Sparkman of Alabama. “I know all about you, Congress- man,” said the refugee would-be‘ yuler, “I noticed that one of the| neighbors in my apartment build-| ing had congressional license. tags| on his antomobile. So I looked him up and found it was you.” | “Yes,” said Sparkman, “we live| on the same floor.” “Now that we've met formally, I would feel highly honored if you would drop in some evening,” said the Archduke. “That. will ‘be a pleasure,” re- g (Continued on Page Four) |accompanied by preference She Sells Stamps Enroute to Miami to appear in a night club chorus, Katy Paige and twelve other girls sold $500 worth of defense stamps. between Wash- ington, D. C., and Richmond, Va. aboard the Champhm, New Yor! Miami train, A customer at a Miami night club is shown peeling stamps from Katy at ten cents per. RECAPTOOLS NOW REQUIRE PRIORITIES Machine Manufadurers Ordered fo Halt Sale of Tire Refreaders WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — The War Production Board has prohib- ited manufacturers of tire retread- ing and recapping machinery to fill any further orders except those rating certificates, it was learned author- itatively today. The order follows complaints from small tire dealers that the larger companies have bought up all the 'n'dilmble mnlds Richardson Highway fo Be Improved President Asks for Over Two Million Dollars for Betterment WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Presi- dent Roosevelt has asked Ccngress in a supplemental budget estimaie to appropriate an additional $2,- 200,000 to improve the Richardson Highway from Valdez. ‘The Budget Bureau said the work will include realignment, wldenin'. surfacing and reconstruction of bridges to provide for additional transportation facilities. R Tanker Is Sent Down WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — The Navy Department announced last night that the tanker Rochester thad been torpedoed by an enemy submarine in an attack off the At-' (lantic coast, ‘The announcement further said the tanker was abandoned and survivors picked up. ARMY LEAVES VITALBURMA RVIRTOWN % ‘ Brmsh Announce Evacua-‘ tion of Moulmein After | Stores Removed RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 31 | Evacuatior: of strategic Moulmein, across the bay from Rangoon, was | announced officially today by the | British, who said “our troops have | | withdrawn over the Salween River after removing all stores and equip- | | ment.” | The British declared heavy cas-| 'ualties have been inflicted on the | Japs in Burma, the one gateway | to India and vital to China as Lhc‘\ back door of (he Burma road STORM SAVES' CONVOY FROM‘ JAP ATTACK Tropical Cloudburst Hides Singapore-Bound Ships from Planes | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 — A tropical rainstorm saved a large convoy of troops, planes. and war supplies headed for Singapove {rom a heavy Jap aerial attack, Aus- tralian Army authorities revealed ' today in a broadcast picked up by the C.B.S. listening post here. “Sixty enemy planes were circling ' about and dropping bombs,” the! broadeast said, “but when the| stcrm . broke it completely bloted out our shlpx i ‘WAT(HMANS 'BODY FOUND | IN CHANNEL 7 John E. Johnson Believed: to Have Been Dead ; Two fo Four Days | | A body, identified as that of John | ‘I E. Johnson, about 60 years old, was | | discovered this morning floating in ithe channel waters near Douglas Island by Alex Misoff, who lives in a small house close to the shore. Misoff secured the body and re- ported it to the U, 8, Marshal’s of- fice shortly before 10 o’clock. Deputy U S. Marshal Sid Thompson and | U. S Commissioner Felix Gray went to the scene where identification took place An investigation is being ' made by the U. S. Marshal's office.' Identification was established’ by E. M. Polley, of the U. S. Forest Service, by whom Johnson had been This group of United States troops was part of the steel-helmeted contingent which arrived in'Northern Ireland as the vanguard of the AEF of the second World War. This pieture was cabled to New York from London and telemated to The I-mplre Yanks Amve Over There" e 3 m In this picture cabled to New York from London, and telemated tc The Empire, two of the States doughboys whe arrived with the AEF in Northern (center). Ircland shake Chief Exeutive of U.S. . | Proves o Be One of the Maior Prophels, This War asserts 43 ships Vicims of By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan.: 31—In the | employed as watchman until shortly |in Washington these days around after the first of January, and by in Washington these days around rental receipts found in the dead the luncheon tables, over cocktails, man's pocket. lower Front Street. . The receipts were or on from the Martin Apartments on would be impressed by the great| number of times President R,oo.sr-‘ “off evenings,” a visitor 1t is believed that the man had | e is quoted as one of the major been in the water from two to four days, Don Skuse, mortician, said.| | The presence of rusted keys in the man’s pocket also indicated the time | of death. "TORPEDOED" SHIP - SAFELY IN HARBOR {to do with politics, |(|ghts kproval of domestic policies. {an expression of confidence friend and foe, alike, that in the theater \temuimml conflict, prophets of this war who has beeu almost invariably right. It is something that nas nothine with fac tional or " disap- | I with approval by of world affairs and in the President 'has done a neat piece of turn- WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — The, calling. {Navy announces that the 7,200-ton tanker Panmaine, reported to have! wwhen winston Churchill stood been attacked by an enemy sub- marine, has reached an Atlantic harbor safely. - e — FORMER ANCHORAGE MAYOR ON WAY SOUTH George Vaara, merchant and former Mayor of Anchorage arrived in Juneau this week by plane and will continue south on a two months’ business trip. He is staying at the Baranof Hotel while here. |ago and ‘said that by 1943 the de- ‘mor.mne; would be able to take (the initia those words were considered throughout the world-- and rightly so—with special grav- ity. But in the days since then, there are many those small Washington circles who remem- ber President Roosevelt said all in the Seffate chamber not so long | that and more way back last summer. They are wondering now if he didn’t anticipate himself by more than four months—and if he didn’t thus say in August what the United States would come o fuil awareness of in January. | It was at a sweltering Tuesday afternoon press conference he President, lolling back in shiri- sleeves, began what at first seemec a rambling discourse on the state of the nation and the world. He used, as he often does, that in- direct method — drawing parallel: from other days and other crises He talked of World War II, con- |tinuing through 1943 and said | plainly that the people of the | United States were not yet aware of the staggering task ahead of them. | iy Then, he shifted to a quotation | from Carl Sandburg’s great bio- graphy of Lincoln. The time was 1862, September. The Union had| suffered some of its severest re-| verses. The Battle of Antietam-— {“the bloodiest singe day of fight-| |ing of the war'—was just over, |Lincoln was talking to a delega- | g T e SRR vl (Continued on Page Two) first United hands with a British sergeant BERLIN CLAIMS MANY VESSELS ARE TORPEDOED U-Boats Off U. S. and Canada Coasts BERLIN, Jan. 31—A special com- munique, preceded by a German radio fanfare of trumpets reported that U-boats operating off the United States and Canada have sunk 43 ships totalling 302,000 tons sinees the ginning of the war with the United State: ————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 31. — Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at 2% at the short session and last one in January. Other closing prices were American Oan 63'z, Anaconda 27, Bethlehem Steel 63%, Common- mealth and Southern 9/30, Curtiss Wright 8, International Harvester 497, Kennecott 34%, New York Cen- trad 9%, Northern Pacific 6%, Unit- ed States Steel 52%, Pound $4.04 DOW, JONESA VERAGES The following are today's Dow Jones averages: Industrials, 109.11; rails, 28.24; utilities, 14.02 - B S The Swedish Tobacco Monopoly is buying substantial quantities of American tobacco for future de- livery, I ARMY FINALLY ~ TELLS ABOUT 2 LOST FLIERS Here, in Fairbanks After Mishap | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif,, Jan 31 Alded by Indian trappers, Lieut. Col. Hareld H. Carr and Corporal Richard Pompeo have returned safe- | ly to Fairbanks after being lost al- o8t two weeks in the Alaska wildernbss north of the Aretic Circle, the Army disclosed today. Col. Carr's plane was forced down January 17 about 250 miles north of Fairbanks, after Carr had encount- ered thick weather during a flight to Whitehorse and became completely lost, Whitehorse is more than 300 miles southeast of Fairbanks. Lieut. Gen. DeWitt, Commanding General of the Western Defense Command, commended the men for their resourcefulness and soldierly qualities. The Army said the pair landed on a frozen river unhurt. The plane was damaged, out of gasoline and | the radio was out of commission. Carr and Pompeo waited two days, then started down the river on foot, carrying packs of bedding, food, camping equipment and firearms. After a long trek they were relayed by successive trappers and finally reached Fort Yukon, where they obtained transportation to Fair- banks. Both men apparently are in ex- cellent physical condition. While they were lost, Army airmen scan- ned thousands of miles in searches, but because of fogs and storms they were unable to make an effective searchs | OLD STORY HERE Although the search for Col. Har- old H. Carr and Corporal Richard | Pompeo has been common know- | ledge in Juneau in recent days, The Daily Alaska Empire refrained from printing any details until the Aslo-‘ ciated Press acted upon The Em- pire’s suggestion to obtain an official release from Army head- quarters in San Francisco, Colonel Carr is well known here, | having visited Juneau many times on military matters. ARTHUR BOGUE GIVEN POSITION, KETCHIKAN U. S. COMMISSIONER Arthur Bogue, States Deputy Marshal was appointed United States Com- missioner” in Ketchikan by Judge | Colonel Cafilell Known'| formerly Unitpd in Craig, PENINSULA “ ABANDONED, NIGHT TIME Troops Cross f from Main-: land Onto Island’s Great Forlress TO WITHSTAND SIEGE | UNTIL HELP ARRIVES Tile Causeway Is Partially Destroyed by Re- treating Forces (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Weary Malay Peninsula 'defend- ers have withdrawn onto Singapore Island and have destroyed half of the tile causway from the mainland to the island and are ready to with- stand Japan's slege armies ‘“until help can come.” Thrown back 350 miles in two months of blood fighting and out- numbered, the Australian and British Imperial troops retired to the $400,000,000 island fortress un- der cover of darkness last night. Lieut. Gen. A. E. Percival, Brit- |ish Commander of Malaya Penin- sula fighting, said the “Battle of Malaya has come to an end and the battle for Singapore has Simultaneous with the announce- ment, Japan struck a new barb |into the Indles as seaborne troops |landed at Amboina Island, the lfit lof the big Dutch Naval b " futtous- babtté s~ ¥epor b!o- gress, Japan ‘dispatches sald the Mik-. ado’s armies have seized control of {the mainland water reservoir serv- |ing Singapore but the island has iwo large impounding reservoirs but there seems little danger of the Singapore Island defenders being forced to surrender like at Hong- kong. * Bum Shoofing ByGermanSub Is Story Told Takes TonJpedoes, 13 Shells fo Send Tanker Down, East Coast NORFOLK, Virginia, Jan. 81.— The story of “bum shooting” on the part of unusually polite German U- boat crewmen, was told today by 30 | survivors of the tanker Rochseter when they landed at the mnl op- erating base here. The 6,800-ton tanker was riding light and was sunk yesterday in broad daylight off the coast. ‘Two torpedoes first hit the tanker |and then 13 shells were fired into | the hulk. | Capt. A. L Clark said three men {of the “black gang” were killed when the engine room was hit by one of the torpedoes. L Profiting by experience of World War I in the importance of beer |to morale of the troops, Army of- \nclals now make it a regular part |of rations for armies in the East and in Northern Anw- | TODAV.S' BLOW George F, Alexander in the United States District Court this morning. He will succeed E. C. Austin who served as U. 8, Commissioner since September 1, 1931, until his recent resignation. i A The Army bought 1,500,000 Walk to work and help conserve pounds of Turkey for Thanksgiv- ‘qnol‘ ne and fires. ing.