The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOLIVERNO.O47, o NO. 8947. MACARTHUR BEATS OFF JAP INVADERS S. Bombs Dropped On Mikado’s Territory U. §. Pari-Ski Troops Ge! Training “ALL THE NEW'S JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FI:BRUARY 2, 1942 ALL THE TIME" MLMBER ASSOCIATLD PRESS PRICE TEN LLN 13 QUICK RAID !Airship Patrol fo Be Established on Coast; Blimps Are fo Be Used IS MADE ON. JAP ISLANDS Warships, “Planes Wreak Terrific Damage on Naval, Air Bases ENEMY SHIPS SUNK, | PI.ANES DESTROYED Pacific Fleet loses Eleven| Planes in Atfack-Two Ships Damaged WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Warships | and planes of the United States Pacific Fleet, striking suddenly and | fiercely, wreaked terrific damage upon the Japanese mid-Pacific bases lying across the route of| supply to the western Pacific com- bat areas. Many enemy auxiliary ships were sunk or damaged, many enemy planes destroyed and installations ashore were heavily battered. The Navy communique gave no| figures on enemy losses of life but American casualties were light. (Continued on Page “sio WASHINGTON — Representative Adolph Sabath, chairman of the House Rules Committee, got an earful of cheering news about plans for succoring war-hit little busi- ness during his talk with the Presi- dent. The President told the Il- linoian that two measures are in the works: (1) “Spreading out” of war pro- duction by mandatory = sub -con- tracts to the thousands of small firms being forced to the wall be- cause of material shortages and curtailment of civilian goods pro- duction. (2) RFC “distress” loans to en- able such firms to finance addi- tional facilities needed for war work. The President told Sabath that going to the rescue of little busi- ness will be one of the first jobs tackled by Donald Nelson in his new capacity as war production czar, Nelson is ideally equipped for this job, the President said, be- cause of his sympathetic attitude toward the problems of little busi- ness men growing out of the war emergency. “The little fellow has a real friend in Don Nelson,” Roosevelt declared. “That was one of the reasons I appointed him.” The President also disclosed that big primary contractors will be compelled to farm out a larger pro- portion of Army and Navy orders under a plan being perfected by Nelson. He and Nelson already have had one conference on the smaill business problem and others nrel slated in the near future. The President added that he had sent word to Federal Loan boss Jesse Jones that immediate steps be taken to “expedite aid” through RFC loans to small consumer-in- dustry plants now facing close-| downs, but which are capable nl conversion to war manufacturing. So far, however, Jones has not reported back on the matter. “I'm certainly glad to hear this,| {m | tabl SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 2 —B\st blimps, the dread of sub- e Commanders, have been es- Navy announces. ; An dluhlp pal.ro! squadron has|ing planes and de:uoyers hhed in San Prancisco Bay, the been commissioned from nearby Moffett Field and it is said that by the end of the year it is expected the .entire Pacific Coast will be under airship patrol to aid bomb- E Drastic Streamli Education Is ining of Under Way; Commissionin High Gear By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Drastic streamlining of education to meet war needs and avoid the pitfalls | which gave education such a set- | back in World War I is under way. The wartime Magna Carta of higher education will be the 15 resolutions recently adopted by the congress of 1,000 college presidents in Baltimore. The group which will administer it and work with individual col- leges and school systems will be the Office of Education wartime commission here in Washington. Appointed by John W. Studebaker, U. §” Commissioner of Education, at ! the request of Federal Security Ad- | ministrator Paul V. McNutt, the commission already is in high gear. | Some of the things in immediate prospect are: b % years, in order to give youth its degrees and a completed education before it is called into the army or | into civilian defense and wartime | industries. This speedup has been | Reduction of the college course | to three and possibly two and a half | |going on in West Point and An- napolis for more than a year. As in the case of those institutions, six day weeks, full summer terms, and an acceleration in all courses by |'stripping them of frills and non- | essentials are expected to do the | trick. 2. A vast expansion of military | training, with full college credit for such work. There has been no hint that colleges and universities again will be converted into full-time mili- | tary institutions as they were by the Student Army Training Corps in the last war. However, if it develops |later that such a drastic move is necessary, the nucelus of the S. A. |'T. C. will be ready to again turn | every fraternity house into a bar- racks and college campuses into armed camps. 3. A far greater emphasis on physical education with a view to building every youth into the | tough physical specimen that can stand the rigors of war in the field and at home. The re- port that a million young men | # (Continued on Page Three) FISHING BAN FORESEEN FOR BRISTOL BAY1 Territory's Wealthiest Sal- mon Grounds Prob- ably to Be Closed All fishing west of Kodiak I3- land probably will be banned dur- ing the 1942 season, Acting Gover- nor E. L. Bartlett late this after- noon said he had been informed from “an official source” inWash- ington, D. C. If the threatened curtailment is carried out, a drastic blow at the Territory’s chief source of salmon —the rich, teeming Bristol Bay red salmon grounds—will be struck, Bartlett declared. Bristol Bay an- nually supplies from one-fifth to one-third of the Territory’s pack and pays a tremendous share of the Territory’s tax revenue. The curtailment has been pro- iposed because of “lack of cargo space,” Bartlett said he was in- formed. Bristol Bay canneries pay approxi- mately $300,000 in direct taxesevery season. Bartlett said, in addition to the non-resident fisherman's tax. The Red salmon pack from he area averages a million cases a year and will be a heavily felt !loss, not only to the canneries and their employees but to the nation as well, which is heavily dependent upon the Alaskan canneries for |salmon throughout the year, Also affected by the order, pre- }or the Aleutian Islands and all {other fishing grounds lying west of Kodiak Island. — el | sumably, would be the fishing banks | AUSSIES HIT JAP SHIPS AT NEWBRITAIN Governmeni Puts Secret| Defenses in Effect as Planes Attack MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 2 —The Australian government today moved swiftly to put into effect secret defense measures decided ipon after Australian bombers lashed out against Japanese forces Jattling to extend their foothold on the island of New Britain on) the Bismarck Archipelago. A communique said Australian airmen twice attacked Japanese shipping in the harbor at Rabaul, capital of New Britain, but the re- sults were not immediately dis- closed. It was announced the Japanesc landed Saturday at Amboina Is- land, site of an important Dutch naval base some 635 miles from the north tip of Australia, and fought their way close to the Am- boina airport. WELLMAN HOLBROOK BACK FROM TRIP ON FOREST SERVICEWORK. Wellman Holhrook Assistant Re- | gional Forester with the United States Forest Service, returned this| weekend on a Forest Service boat from a two weeks' trip to Ketchi-| kan, Wrangell and Petersburg. The trip was made for general| administrative work for the For-/ SINGAPORE GUNS BLAST JAPVESSELS. [nvaders Nfla—ving Down Mainland for All-Out Attack on Isle SINGAPORE, Feb. 2—Singa- pore’s defenders, on guard against an expected Japanese thrust across Johore Strait, blasted three small enemy craft which appeared yesterday in the narrow waterway and sank one of the vessels, British headquarters announced today. At the same time, the com- munique said, artillery on Sin- gapore Island bombarded Jap forces moving into Johre Bah- ru, directly across the strait. The bulletin said air recon- naissance disclosed a consider- able Jap troop movement on the mainland, all of the troops headed southward in apparent preparation for an all-out as- sault on Slngawrv 4th Dmslon Places Many In Primaries | Flood of Candidates File During Final Hour | Last Saturday ‘ FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. A flood of last hour entries last Saturday boosted the roster of can- didates for one Senator and four Representatives for the Fourth Di-| vision primaries next April. There are 14 Democrats, five Re- publicans and two mdependem candidates as follows: FOR THE SENATE Frank S. Gordon, Fairbanks mer- chant, retiring Representative, Democrat. b A C. H. (Alabam) Laboyteaux, of | Livengood, whose term has expxred 1 | Democrat. | John J. Butrovich, Jr., Fairbanks, insurance agent, Republican. Harry G. Watson, Fairbanks, surance business, Independent. | FOR THE HOUSE Democrats Harry M. Badger, ]L 9 in- Fairbanks, | Herbert S. Fink, Fairbanks, USS RM fireman. Paul F. Glasgow, chicken, miner. (Continued on Page Three) NAVY WARNS 'WEST COAS OF JAP MOVE 13th District Headquarters Foresees Enemy Af- tack on Ships [ SEATTLE, Feb. ?r—»RepeEtmg :1 |warning issued a week 8go, Naval District Staff headqumu:ns ’(oday reported that “a Japanese attack in some force on West Coast | shipping” is an early possibility. ? Attention was called to known |presence of an enemy sub off the Southern California coast. Conferences between Lieut. Gen. s by 2 4" o M it @«.‘m This Soundphoto frem Salt Lake City shows Pari-S8ki members of the 503rd Parachute Battalion getting their first ski training in the snow blanketed mountains and valleys of Utah. Some of these para-troopers had never seen snow until they arrived at Salt Lake City, IV strating to the hardy squad of American parachutists the ‘proper way to do a kick turn. Bauer reported Instructor Hugh Bauer is pictured demon- his students to be enthusiastic in their eagerness to learn how to handle themselves in event they some hzd tn land in snow covered areas. Wi ar Risk Insurance Rales, ~ Third Division PugetSound o Alaska, Cui Is Mosily All Ind Division Filings Are | Very Limited Only One Candidate for‘ Senate, Four for House | on Each Primary Ticket NOME, Alaska, Feb. 2. — Ther will be no contests in the Democratic | and Republican primaries in the | Second Division election on April 28, both parties filing only one car didate for the Territorial Sen: only four for the House of mpu ‘ sentatives. The filings, which closed Satur- | day, are as follows: | DEMOCRATS For Senator—Howard Lyng. l-!eJ was & Representative in the last| Legislature. } For Representatives — Frank| Whaley and Tolbert Scott, both of | Nome; C. H. Rouse of Candle, and | Wallace Porter of Haycock. Whaley | was a member of the last Legisla- | Wilbur Cartwright of Oklahoma, | i ture. REPUBLICANS | For Senator — Stuart’ L. Stan- groom. He was a Representative in the last Legislature. For Representatives Miller, Dudley Warner, Ken Rood and Walter Taylor. | ———-— { Henderson Nominated WASHINGTON, Feb, 2 nomination of Leon Henderson (o be Federal Price Administrator has - Henry G. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif,, Feb. 2. —Improved Allied naval positions in the Pacific apparently are behind the decision of marine underwrit- ers to cut the cargo war risk insur- ance rates, effective immediately. ‘ The war risk insurance rates are | cut from three quarters of one per- | cent to one-fourth of one percent from Puget Sound to Cape Spencer | ard from one and one-half percent | m one-half percent between CJ])L« spencer and Seward. £ g A I 'Burma Road’ Is Proposed In Norfhland 'House Committee Will Give Hearing During Coming Wednesday WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — The proposal to build a “Burma Road” in Alaska will be given a hearing| next Wednesday by the House| Roads Committee, Representative; i | isaid today. He is chairman of the| Committee. Representative Cartwright Gov. Ernest Gruening and sum thre |other members of the Alaska High-| way Cemmission, now in Washing- ton, are anxious to present their views. son disclosed that President Roose- velt has set up a Cabinet committee to study the proposal. ITALIAN TRAIN SERVICE IS CUT LONDON, Feb. 2.—An Exchange The Telegraph News Agency dispatch | from Zurich reported information est Service and several day stops ' Dewitt, commander of the Fourth been submitted to the Senate bY| was recelved: from Rome indicating | Ci | Last week Secretary of War Stim- | |Both lntern;IEonomy and ‘ For Democrals epublicans_Mhster Only Two Candidates, Both for Representafives CORDOVA, Alaska, keb. 2—Fil- ing for the April 28 primaries are very much all Democratic Third Division. Don Carlos Brownell, H. H. Mc- utcheon and Karl A. Drager, all Democrats, have filed for the Sen- ate seats. No Republicans filed. Brownell was a member of the “e nate in the last Legislature, Democrats filing for the House R Kehoe Harvey J. Smith, Willlam . Egan, Joseph B. Diamond, Wal- ter E. Huntley, Stanley McCut- cheon, Clyde Speers, Michael Hat- ton. | Republicans filing for the House {are Almer J. Peterson and Moritz {A. Andresen. | Egan, Smith and Peterson were members of the last Legislature. e FDR REQUESTS HALF BILLION 10 AID CHINA | War Efort fo Be | Helped by Loan WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Con— igress for a $500,000,000 loan m ‘Lhum to provide tance.” will “in President said, China's position regards in the BIG LOSSES INFLICTED ON NIPPONS Enemy’s Best ‘Tr00ps Re- pulsed in Battle on- Batan Peninsula FRONTAL ATTACK ON MANILA BAY SMASHED |Fighting Takes Place on Both East, West Coasfs, Says Communique WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Gen. | Douglas MacArthur reported the defenders of Batan Peninsula have |repulsed with heavy enemy losses |the latest in a series of Japanese | attacks made, with the foe’s best | troops employed in new tactics. | The War Department communi« que, summarizing savage fighting in the past several days, said two Japanese divisions were hurled si- multaneously against the Ameri- can Filipino lines. | On the west coast, on the shore |of the South China Sea, the in- vaders were forced back and either .destroyed captured or dmwned tha | communique said, ! On the east side of the peninsu- la, facing Manila Bay, a frontal mass attack was smashed by ar- | tillery fire before it got well under way. The communique made clear, however, that the Japanese have fought their way, in the past three weeks, about half way down the | peninsula. | The fighting on the east coast teok place in the area of Pilar.The Wnr Department said this point is an important road junction only 17 miles from the end of the peninsula opposite Corregidor Fort- ress. This latest report from MacAr- thur's staunch defense lines coin- | cided with the belief in Washing- {ton that the Pacific’ Fleet has re- |covered a considerable measure of its striking power, which was lost (at Pearl Harbor December 7. A new offensive action against Ja- |pan’s position in the mid-Pacific |was regarded as entirely probable. CASES SETFOR TRIAL U, 5. DISTRICT COURT |of Representatives are Joseph W., Cases set for trial in the present | term of the United States District Court on Saturday are as follows: A. W. Quist vs. W. D. Gross, | hearing on demurrer set for Feb- |ruary 7. Alaska Personal Service Agents vs. Sam Opich, set for trial Febru- |ary 17. Lloyd Capp vs. Robert Smith and Gus George set for trial February 19. Nell McCloskey vs, Alaska Steamship Company, set for trial February 25. Michael J. Lynch vs. Alaska School of Aeronautics, set for trial Murch 12. ———— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS TODAYS BLOW | ‘economic a.ssn— 1 Extension of American credit, the strengthen to Mr. President,” said Sabath. “The| big fellow can get all the money, he wants from Jesse Jones, but the little man has to go through| - (cwmfiéd on Page Pour) ‘| sharp restrictions have been impos- 85 eq on passenger train service in | Italy. > | Such restrictions frequently indi- | cate large scale troop movements. J COUNCIL TO MEET were made at the three towns vis-| Army at San Francisco and Reur President Roosevelt. The Juneau City Council will ited. On the trip down the party Admiral Preeman, 13th Naval Dis- Henderson has been acting hold its regular semi-monthly meet- |ran into extremely stormy weather trict commandant, have been held |Administrator. ing at-7:30 o'clock Priday evening Which ‘delayed them more thantwo regularly for the past year, v.h-L IR e ] in the City Hall, days, Mr. Holbrook stated. ireport revealed. both her internal economy and her 5 to function ot M capacity in general 5 with great military effectiveness in Look your best—there's l blackout on beauty. our common effort.” BUY DEFENSE STAMPS {