The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1942, Page 1

SSTONAL LIEI WASHINGTON, D. U, VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8948. "MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS "THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, I942 PRICE TEN CENTS ATTEMPTED SMASHES OF JAPS REPULSED ingapore Flaming, Awaiting Jap Assault ALLIES HINT COUNTER IS PLAN NOW Aussies at Forfress Told United Nations Scheme | New Thrust at Japs INVADERS MASSING AT PENINSULA TIP Direct Attack on Island Bastion Expected Before Long (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Australian Army Minister Forde today declared “a big mevement by the allies is under way” to counter Japan’s sweep in the far Pacific. | Even as Japanese dive mebel‘S\ struck violently at Singapore and‘ a Tokyo military spokesman said a direct assault on the island strong-| hold was imminent, Forde declared in a broadcast to Australian Imper-| jal forces at Singapore that each hour Japan's siege armies are held | at bay permits the massing and de- ployment of more reinforcements and the accumulation of more weapons. “Jt does not meed my words '.o' impel you, therefore, to hold on,” he said. | Forde did not specify the nature| or direction of the new movement. Flames Reach High High reaching flames, destruction and some casualties were reported | in Singapore as the Japanese (Continued on Page Two) _V—JB R I T I S H | N CThe Two big new weapons for the U. S. U.S. Navy Fleef 3. armed forces stand side by side in C fo Seek Out Enemy, Destroy Him; Adm. NlmllzfilveSOuISIaIemenl BYJAPANESE HONOLULU, H. Feb. 3—Every ship and every man of the United States Fleet, afloat and ashore, 1s now being utilized to the fullest ex- tent to bring the war to the ene- my's front door. This is the statement made by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz today. Admiral Nimitz also _said the Big Guns!orU S. ArmonBeTesIed hicago’s suburban Oak Park, as the Army’s 240-i millimeter howitzer pauses enroute from Milwaukee to the Aberdeen, Md., proving grounds. Front 1o rear are lhe ho\»ltzl:r wrru;e Lhc howitzer baml ind a 155-millimeter, gun. DUTCH BASE REDS FORGE | ONTOWARD VITALCITY | British Clalm Nazi Gener als Are Pleading for Fresh Troops (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russian troops dragging machine | guns and cannon on sledges N g.op t; determine if legislation is | temperatures 40 degrees Fahren-| . ..q and, if so, what form it { heit below zero today were report-'g o 1q take g \ed surging forward at several | peints, The drive was aimed against Smolensk, 210 miles west of Mos- | cow. | At the same time the British +&- 1dio said the German generals have | démanded that Hitler send 20 fresh, picked divisions to the Soviet front immediately, threatening that otherwise “it will be very difficult, | if, not impossible to prevent a gen- leral Russian break-through.” | Soviet dispatches said German lair and tank reinforcements arriv- {ing from the Ukraine front are {more than being matched by R‘d Army weapons. R (GREAT JAP War Set WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Repre- sentative S. O, Bland, Chairman | of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, announces the ‘cummluee will inquire into the op- | eration and protection of the Pa- |cific fishing industry at a hearing on February 12 Bland said the committee will | | Leaves Campus IS ATTACKED ™ FLEET SEEN Soerabaja Air Raided FoI- lowing Successful Raid of U. S. Force BATAVIA, Feb. 3—Strong Japa- nese air forces today smashed Soer- BY CHINESE ‘Heavy Troop Movement - . Off Amoy Profected by 41 Warships CHUNGKING, Feb. 3—A huge Hearing on Fishing in Alaskan Waters During 2 NIPPONESE ATTACKS ARE for February 12 BEATEN OFF The House committee will hear| testimony of representatives of ‘hc Alaska fishing industry and go h\'m to protect the ir If legisla- | it will be‘ MacArthur’s Forces Write New Heroic Chapfer in e o B Defense Annals " Alaska Delogate. Anthony JH;:.‘ LANDING FORCES ARE MET WITH GUNFIRE mond requested the hearing, ing that [ishing in certain waters| off the Alaskan Coast may be cur-| 15 'Picked Shock Troops Shot from Air, Land in At- tempted Raids | tailed during the war for W k | or War Wor | WASHINGTON, Feb, 3 — Gen. Douglas MacArthur's American- Filipino defenders have written a new heroic chapter in the battle of Batan Peninsula by beating off two fresh Japanese attempts to land jon the west coast of the peninsula last night. ki Successfully attacking the Jap- anese right flank, three lines of enemy trenches were also overrun, the War Department says today, and a large amount of Japanese equipment fell into American hancds. Regarding the attempted landing of the Japanese on the west coast of Batan Peninsula,- the War De- partmetit’s communique says that \Gen, MacArthur reports that picked Japanese shock troops first at- { tempted to land, only to be driven cff by artillery fire. Second Attempt Fails The communique continues: “A second and more serious attempt was made at midnight when a large number of barges, under na- |val escort, approached the coast, The attempted raid was discovered by a few of our night flying pur- |suit planes and they immediately |attacked the convoy with light |bombs and machine gun fire.” steps necessary Drew Dearsos d fobert $. Alles | "GO~ WASHINGTON — They are not advertising it but congressional| probers are putting the microscope | on the personnel of the several- | score three-member Alien Enem;y abaja, one of the East Indies great Japanese concentrations on me'nmal bases, and its flanking air- Marshall and Gilbert Island groups| fields in an evident attempt to on Sunday was in accordance with | cripple the United Nation's strik- the characteristic tradition of the ing power. United States Navy to seek out the| The attack followed in the wake | enemy and destroy him. lof an American aerial attack in | The Commander-in-Chief said which two and possibly three in- i!he attack by “our ships and | vasion transports were sunk 1 fleet's spectacular assault on the Impenal Forces Concen- frate on Destroying * Japanese convoy, including 41 warships and enough transports to carry an entire division today was sighted steaming south of Formo- s4 Strait, off Amoy, in one of sev- eral moves by the Tckyo command to make up its heavy losses of manpower in the Southwest Pa- cific, a Chinese army spokesman said. Rev. John W. Tynan, 8.J., director of athletics at Fordham University, New York City, i inducted into the New York Guard as a lieutenant colonel and chaplain. Front, left to right, are Lieut. Harlan D. Tucker; graduate manager Jack Coffey; Col. Walter X. Stanton, Commander of the Eighth Regiment; Father Tynan and Jim Crowley, coach of the I' ‘'ordham football team. Fordham lettermen |nnk on in th\- backeround. Bomb-Pocked England _Enemy Equipment (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) British North African troops, thrown back 225 miles in less than !two weeks, today were reported at- | ‘wherever | ;iz;‘;ggei'::fs;m i:w;i dz.‘l,e Ab tacking Rommel,s armies * The boards, one dor every Fed- |they are found” in western Libya ,-!in an attempt to check the head- oFAY, court. districk yere spt, LD 0‘101]" Axis counter cffensive. pass on charges against alien ene-| " pyjiign spokesman, emphasiz- mi;: c h |ing the prime ne y of destroy- ceiv::‘b:\:tne‘:i)us Og;:iin;veab;;xlng the enemy’s forces by desert individuals put on these boards. “The area is not important, Bome °§ o 2" Spcyped o :m\ jlanks men and trucks are.” :ghb::er:;sa;:mm;cnl:l .?:252 l::s Cah]o headqu;\rtixl's emdu:}:eg. 3 Rommel’s vanguards have reache | northeas ghila, cefi‘::'p’;:’;:s s‘;:“: ’;‘I"’em':’e“m;f;mark of the British January of- members themselves are not native llensive born Americans. | One congressman from a big city| has a number of letters from irate constituents charging that when a wealthy alien enemy business man was taken into custody on evidence of espionage, several members of the local Alien Hearings ' Board evinced marked friendliness toward him. Congressional curiosity warfare, declared: but | e | Sllver Fox Farmmg Covers 38 States WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The next silver fox 'round your shoulder! probably will come from a U. S. farm. The first fur-farming census abaul.by the government- shows 2655| these Alien Enemy Hearings Boarnb,sflver fox farms in 38 states with| is part of a mounting undercover |a production of about three-fourths| feeling on Capitol Hill that the[of the pelts on the U. S .market| spy and fifth column problem n even before the war. Wisconsin the country is not being met with led all the rest of the states with the rigorous realism needed. Pri- 1493 farms producing 101,439 pelts. vately, members of Congress are|gyTKA MAN SERVES saying that certain Administration-| OUT FINE IN “A"“ ites seem more concerned about! pyr] Wilson, of Sitka, was fined | what they term ‘“civil liberties”|g100 on a drunk and disorderly! than the security of the nation. |charge by United States Commis- The inside fact is that our sioner W. W. Knight, of that city. counter-espionage authorities are He is serving out the fine in the being frequently hampered in thur|Sitka jail according to word re- work by other officials obsesscd ceived here by the United States with “civil liberty” theories. |Marshal’s office today. It will take | him fifty days to complete the "(Continued on Pns; Four) lsentence, |9/30, Curtiss Wright 8 |planes on the islands was a, | splendid achievement ‘o INSURANCE FUND SET UPBYU.S. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Senate has passed, the bill setting up a four billion dollar fund to insure private property against - |damages resulting from bombing or other attack. ee——— STOCK QUOTATIONS i, | NEW YORK, Feb. 3 — Cll)sfihlt!1 quotation of Alaska Juneau m; stock today is 2%, American Car 63%, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem | steel 64, Commonwealth andSouth- | ern 9/30, Curtiss Wright 8, Inter-| Kennecott | , New York Central 9%, North- nall(mul Harvester 50% 34 ern P'rm: , United States Steel 53%, poeund 84 04 DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow,! Jones averages: industrials 109.99, {rails 28.31, utilities 14.26. PRICES MONDAY Alaska Juneau mine stock closed, Monday at 2%, American Can 64, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Stesl 631, Commonwealth and Southern' tional Harvester 497, Kennecott |34%, New York Central 9%, Nor- thern Pacific 6!, United States| Steel 53'%, Pound $4.04. Interna-! Macassar Strait. | The strike at Soerabaja is the | first enemy thrust on Java de- {fenses of the Dutch. The Dutch |admit the raiders scored some dam age on the naval establishments. oerabaja lies close ‘to the south- mm gate of Macassar Strait. The Aneta News Agency says the | batteries and mobile anti-aircraft g\ms defending the base went into laction and bagged at least onc ! bomber of the Japanese and sev- eral fighter planes escorting the 26 bombers in the enemy armada. R Dread Typhus Spreads Info German Area Lousy NazisTarry Disease Home from Front, Berlin Says BERN, Feb. 3 — Spotted typhus spread from the eastern front |ically or comfortably successful as ito Germany and Nazi - oceupied areas, the German Health Ministry fanncunced today, listing 126 cases |in Germany and 138 in the oc- ‘cupied eastern countries. ‘A demarcation line has been es- tablished, at which persons coming {from the east are examined for lice, primary typhus carrier. The village of Pernik in Bulgaria was mentioned as one place where the |disease has broken but. e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | The spokesman said the convoy consisted of 69 ships in all, in- cluding nine large ships, one me- iilum vessel and 11 small trans- ports, and six launches and a hos- pital ship in addition to the war- ships. CIVILIAN PLANE IS SHOT DOWN Governor Gruening fo Be Heard by House Public | Land Committee WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 HIGHWAY BILL TESTIMONY T0 Japanese Flghier Planes Bring Down Flying Boat ~13 Persons Killed take testimony tomorrow from Gov- MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 3— ernor Ernest Gruening and other Japanese fighter planes brougnt Territorial officers on a bill to con- down an Australian civilian flying struct a $25,000,000 highway to Al- boat, killing 13 persons. |aska from the United States. The attack took place last Fri-| The bill was introduced by Dele- day near the Timor Island port gate Anthony J, Dimond, who urged of Koepang. ! construction of the road, particu- This is apparently the reason for larly in view of the approval given the unexplained announcement by the War Deparv.mem to the that, the Empire Air Mail Austral- project. ian line has suspended service for the time being. Those killed were the crew und civillan, not military, passengers. e > 4 — The - e, GOES UP IN FLAMES The Atlin Co-Operative store on Spruce Creek, Atlin district, was recently destroyed by fire. Frank DIVORCE GRANTED Kivi, the manager, believes the fire Margaret Birkenbach has been might have been started by gaso- granted a divorce from Arthur J.'line lamp used in the cellar. Birkenbach in the United States e e—— District Court by Judge George F.» TO EXTEND OPERATIONS Alexander, The Mayukon Gold Placers Ltd., eee |in the Mayo District, intends to The only known deposit of cryo- vmploy 25 men during the coming ,nw is in Greenland, | season operating on Haggart Creek. Furnished Information The communique further says |that the American troops and ar- tillery gunners waited on the beach and as the Japanese approached ’mey “let’er go" inflicting bloody ‘casualnes with their deadly fire ‘nnd_ “none of the invading group |reached shore.” Gen. MacArthur later reported, |the War Department communique says, that in the morning a num- | ber of shot and smashed barges, scme burning, and others adrift, , | were found along the coast. ToBe Used by the U.S. BE PRESENTED House Public Lands Committee will | ). . RETTIE LEAVES FOR WASHINGTON,D.C. To attend conferences concerning regional problems with the head- country aren't prepared for the na- | quarters of the National Resources llimml emergency, whether it's sim- |Planning Board in Washington, D. ply convoying motorized troop C. J. C. Rettie, Counselor for the movements through their respective | National Resources Planning Board bailiwicks or handling an all-out in Juneau, will leave this week by air raid and gas attack, it won’t!plane. be because they haven't already| He expects to be detained in becu told. ‘Washmgwn for several weeks on No sooner had the United sv.atnswomcial business. gotten into World War II, thun| 5 B ¥ the Federal Bureau of Investigation BUYS IN WHITEHORSE jumped into print with its “FBI| George Landers, of the Atlim dis- |Law Enforcement Bulletin” witn|trict, has gone to Whitehorse and everything it had been able to !purchased a bakery and cafe which learn from first-hand observation |Ne Will operate. |of the activities and responsibilities R —— |of police in bomb-pocked England. roo‘ y,s Bt ow *for LIBERTY, By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—If state, county and local police in this Some of this information, through the national and local of- fice of civilian defense, has already been made public, but much of it/ hasn't and some that hasn't is of more than passing interest For example, sandbagging has always been considered a pretty efficient defense precaution. The FBI points out that it is only so temperarily. Bags rot, the sand washes out, the pro- tective wall collapses. Besides, it has been found in London that they become ideal homes for a legion of rats. More permanent and far more | satisfactory in the matter of pro- tection are offset, brick walls, 14 I | Keep your head during air raid (Continued on Page 8ix) e scares and save your neck,