The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1942, Page 1

ANADL 15T o paston o. COEE‘,E;B«)Y‘: i W ASE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8949. . “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1942 ASSOCIATED _A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN ¢ MARINES, BLUEJACKETS AID MAC Japs Massing More Troops Near Singapore Southern Defense Triangl 0 WAVELLSAYS Fires, Bombings Reporied . YANKEES ON In Norway as Resentment WAY TO HELP Great Reinfo_raemtenhis Be- | ing Rushed to Island, General Decares SINGAPORE, Feb. 4—Heavy guns of embattled Singapore thundered into action today against the mass- ing ranks of the Japanese invasion army across the Strait of Johore| where Gen. Archibald Wavell de-! clared the enemy must be stopped cold. Gen. Wavell cheered on the de-| fenders of the mighty British bas-| tion with a promise that ‘“great reinforcements” of American and| British troops are being sent to| take the initiative against the Jap- LONGSHORE WAGES ARE BOOSTED UP Both Straiglfiéfid Overtime Increases Made fo Off- set Living Costs SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, Feb 4 —Pay increases of 10 cents an hour anese hordes. for straight time and 15 cents per - r for overtime, awarded to off- The call for a grm stand took|hour oV s 3 the form of an Order of the Day’“e‘ the rising price of foodstuffs |and spur the workers to increase | and was presumably issued ’mmlprrxiurnon, went into effect today Wavell's headquarters on Java Ts-|fo,"sone 12,000 Paciic Coast long- land. | shoremen. Despite the sudden flurry of ar-| qpe jncreases for straight and tillery and air activity, there is N0l uertime pay were granted by the sign that the Mikado's forces are!aypitrator's award yesterday. about to begin the expected ai-| pean Morse, Pacific“Coast arbi- tempt to cross the mile wide Strait of Johore. | OREGON STATE | TAKES 2 GAMES FROM IDAHO 5. In a game played last night in! the Northern Division of the Pacific! Coast Basketball Conference, Ore-| gon State defeated Idaho by a score of 34 to 29. On Monday night the Staters pulled an over time period win from Idaho by a score of 47 to 45. WASHINGTON—The Justice De- partment isn't the only govern- ment agency that is namby-pam- bying around on clamping dowi on fifth columnists and enemy aliens. The Federal Communications! Commission also could do a lut more effective work than it is. Tall, trigger - tempered FCC Chairman Lawrence Fly has done a lot of loud talking ‘about his radio monitoring system; how alert it is in detecting enemy messages, etd;, ete. The real inside fact is that there is a lot more talk than sub- stance to Fly's claims. | The FCC monitoring system could stand considerable improve- _ment and enlargement. Belatedly! some of this is now being done, but it should be done much faster and; on a larger scale than it is. For military * reasons, details of the weaknesses of Fly’s monitoring system can not be discussed. But there are plenty of them. The U.{ S. is vast and it is fighting a grim war on two even vaster oceans.; Also, the enemy is highly skilled and cunningly resourceful. The ut- most vigilance is needed to cope| with him. | Fly's monitoring system has a| lot of loopholes that need plugging | up—fast. . Also, Fly's squeamishness” about | infringing on “civil liberties” could stand some wartime overhauling. It didn’t come out in the pub- lished report, but the Pearl Harbor Board of Inquiry was informed that the FCC refused to allow Intelli- (Continued on Page Four) J trawr, said the decision fixes the | base, wage of longshoremen at all coast ports, except Port Angeles, Anacortes and Tacoma, at $1.10 per hour straight time and $1.65 for overtime effective today. e — 'ARGENTINA PREPARING DEFENSES Acting Pre;id—ent Castillo Announces Calling Up of Reserves BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 4—Acting President Castillo announced today that Argentina is taking extraor- dinary measures to defend her At- lantic coast. Castillo said the class of '20, thut normally completed service on the first of this year, will be kept un- der arms throughout 1842. In addition to the '20 class, two classes of reserve officer auxiliary services will be recalled to the service. The new services will give Ar- gentina, one of the two American republics which have not severed relations with the Axis, an army of approximately 100,000 men. NATURAIZATION DAY ON FRIDAY, DISTRICT COURT Anyone desiring to have their naturalization petition heard before Against New Nazi Premier: | STOCKHOLM, Feb. 4—Waves of | fires and bombings in German- occupied Norway, attributed to Nor- wegian resentment over the instal- | lation of Major Vidkum Quisling | as Premier, is the report received by Swedish newspapers frcm Oslo. | The rubber factory in Askim, one of Norway's largest plants, is said | to have been destroyed by fire. In Drammen, fire suddenly broke out and destroyed the National ‘Theatre. | In Oslo, a bomb was thrown =2t | the Parliament House but only minor damage was done. It isalso reported that a bomb was explod- ed in the Norwegign University in Oslo. Pires are also reported to have broken out in two railway smtionsl when trains were about to leave. | SMOLENSK TARGET FOR RED ATTACK Germans Are Cleared from Many Villages in Key Invasion Province MOSCOW, Feb. 4—A fierce re- newal of the Russian power drive west of Moscow is hurling rein- forced German divisions back to their key invasion base at Smol- ensk, 230 miles west of the capital, | the newspaper Izvestia reported to-| day. ! The report said heavy fighting has been in progress at several vi- tal towns in the central sector, where front line dispatches report- ed many villages and towns in Smolensk Province already have| been cleared of invaders. | A powerful Red army counter- offensive in the Donets River Ba- |sin was said to be progressing without check, with the Soviet| !command’s strategy in constant| flanking and outflanking maneu-| vers and keeping the German di-/ visions off balance all along the line. | the southwestern front has been pierced. In the south, the enemy iwas reported retreating with the Soviet troops in close pursuit. IR e 1 MARINES | ICELAND AT FIGHT PITCH | By DREW MIDDLETON AP Feature Service H nounced today by Robert E. Cougn-|y, s. Marine Corps anti-aircraft land all interested in having their ground 200 yards away. {Johnson were held yesterday at | ter | Douglas on last Saturday. next June should go to the office, of the Clerk of the Un'ited States, REYKJAVIK Twenty - four | District Court at once, it was an- ou5 a day, seven days a week, lin, Clerk. gunners watch the skies of Iceland, Next Friday, February 6, at 10 waiting for a shot at the Luftwaffe.| am. will be Naturalization Day in' Tt is so quiet that you can hear the United States District Court ihe sentry's footfalls on frozen The lights petition heard at this classshould of Reykjavik glow against an iron- go to the Clerk’s office immediate- black sky. The blackout which has ly, Mr. Coughlin said. The next "hadowed Europe from London to naturalization day will be on June Moscow has not yet touched Reyk- 5. javik. PRI PO £ L S : All around in the silence are men JOHNSON FUNERAL RITES | With guns, men underground wait- ling for the word which would set in imotion a cleverly contrived defense ipping the skies with hundreds of rounds per minute; men sleeping or playing cards in Nissen huts, men standing in the darkness watching and listening. These marines can get their guns (Continued on Page Two) Funeral services for John 2:30 o'clock at the Charles W. Car- Mortuary. His body was taken from the Gastineau Channel at | The services were conducted by the Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman. ‘ ARTHUR A TRIO OF BASES, two Dutch and oge British, pack the land-sea- air wallop with which the United drive into the South Pacific. Soerabaja, Ambonina and Darwin Separated by Nations hope to halt finally Japan's hundreds of air miles, form a strategic triangle guarding the vital southern shipping lane between the United States and the Antipcdes. Darwin probably will power in Pacific war. theatre. Indian Ocean DISTANCES ARE SHORT along be the base for American striking the triangle in terms of long-range bombers. Here are some of the mileages: Darwin-Amboina, 630; Dar- win-Soerabaja, 1,200; Soerabaja-Amboina, 1,100; Soerabaja-Singapore, 850; Darwin-Singapore, 2,100 i NO. 1 DUTCH BASE is Soerabaja, at eastern tip of Java. Here is based the Dutch fleet but the harbor is too shallow for big British, U. S. battleships. This is cealed airdrgmes, big gur Take a Boarder Is Cryin scene in the city's business section. are ready for warfare. Con- Washington;Trim Vessels - Are Taken By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 — The capital in Wartime: They are taking a page from the The Kuibyshev radio announced y, conyention cities here and ask- | the German system of defenses”|;,, that every house-owner with | !in the Kursk and Kharkov area o0 |an’extra room take a boarder “for the duration.” It's estimated that 47,000 new government workers have rolled into Washington in the last year. Figure out for yourself what that means to a city that already was population-jammed before the big i defense wave started. If you are down around the wa- Iterfront these days and you are ilucky. you mjght catch a glimpse | of one of the trimmest yachts afloat and a graceful four-masted bark. It doesn't mean, however, that the multi - milionaires are visiting Washington. It’s just that the U. S. has come into possession of two more luxury boats. The yacht is the Nenemoosha, a floating palace, which Mrs. Jessie Ball DuPont has turned over to the Maritime Commis- sion. It will be converted into a training ship for maritime cadets. The Clipper is one-time Ambas- (Continued on Page Two) HILMAR JOHNSON DIES AT HOSPITAL Hilmar Jobnson, who was ad- mitted to St. Ann’s Hospital on February 1, passed away at noon today. He has been employed by | the Juneau Cold Storage Company for the past several years. Mr. Johnson is survived by his wife. No definite funeral arrange- ments have been made. The re- «. are at the Charels W. Carter Mortuary. : by Government 'TWO TRANSPORTS OF JAPANESE ARE TCRPEDOED, SUNK American Bombers Make Successful Attack Off Coast of Borneo (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A delayed report from The Vetherlands East Indies discloses hat seven American bombers sank wo large Japanese transports and yrobably damaged a third in an ittack on enemy shipping off Balik Papan on the east coast of Borneo. The military department said probably this is the same report - READY FOR ACTION: Gun crew camouflaged defenses at Darwin, Australia. f Allqie_d United Nali B & stands at the alert in the carefully Capital and lonely out- post of the Northern Territory, Darwin has no complete rail connec- tion with the populous South. NO. 2 DUTCH BASE is Amboina. terrain make it a tough island for ~%-Unitéd * States " raotor boat launched two torBetios al @iy A fine protected harbor and the r attackers to take, It is the first point of the triangle subjected to severe Jap attack, will be won only at a steep price. PAWNEE BILL PASSES AWAY AT HIS RANCH Last OId Historical Front-% ' iersman, Circus Man, | DiesatAge of 82 | Feb. 4 — Bill) and his PAWNEE, Cklahoma | Major Gordon W. (Pawnee |Lillie, famous frontiersman | wild west showman died at | ranch here last night. | The passing of “Pawnee Bill” | Lillie consigned to history the fam- yous school of Frontiersmen disting- uished by such names as “Buffalo | (Continued on Puge Two) 'DAMAGE SUIT IS | FILED BY SITKAN Through his attarney, Robert L. Jernberg, of Bitka, Stephan Tus of that city today filed a law suit viven out on February 2 by Gen.| Archibald Wavell from his Batavia| headquarters. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 4 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau min= stock today is 2'., American Can 64%, Anaconda 277%, Bethlehem Steel 64%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, International Harvester 52, Kenne- cott: 35, New York Central 9%, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 53%, pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 110.80 |rails 28.68, utilities 14.27. e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS in the Clerk of the Court’s office against Chatlotte Taylor, Charles Haley, W. H.\Rowe and Glenn Mo:- gan, asking dqtnlig!s amounting £ $3,000 he claims suffered when the defendants obstructed a trail known as the Silver Bay trail, 12 miles from Sitka. s The trail, the plaimtitf claims to have been’ used as a public trail for the last 40 years and a means of egress and ingress to his cwn property for the last 13 yi He further claims that the del dants, who are doing business as the Edgecomb Exploration Com- pany, by obstructing the trail pre- vented him from moving a smail mill onto his property. - BUY DEFENSE BONDS as . testified, Policg Judge Gets Told By 0ld Alaskan SAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb, 4 — Verne West, 53, made a part down payment on the purchase of the San Diego police court today. Arrested on a vagrancy charge, West told Judge Bren- nan that “in Alaska, a gold miner could buy this court.” The judge accepted a $10 in- staliment. Dimofili?ges Quick Action On Road Bill Says Intern;i;onal High- way Could Be Complet- ed by December WASHINGTON, Feb. 4'— Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond today urged the House Public Roads Committee to approve quickly his bill authorizing construction of the $50,000,000 International Highway to Alaska. The Alaskan road could be completed by December if started at once. “If a delay of as much as a month oceurs in making prepara- for construction,” Dimond “prac lly the entire year will be lost, The safety and security of the military establish- ment and civil population of Al- \ska well may depend upon prompt action.” Dimond was the first witness at hearing to deter- Delegate said the next tions the committe (Continued on Page Two) {from their last covering NEW UNIT I3 ORGANIZED ON BATAN Defenders Augmented by Strangling Forces from Abandoned Bases NIGHT ATTACK OF NIPPONS REPULSED Daring Litte Mofor Crafi Sends Torpedo Into Jap Warship WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—A local attack on Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur's left flank on Batan Penin- sula last night was sharply repulsed, the War Department’s communique states this morning. The Navy Department announces that MacArthur'’s command now includes a newly organized battal- ion of bluepackets and marines, These units presumably were left behind as the Navy bégan with- drawing when Manila Bay bases were threatened a month ago. The units recently joined MacArthur's forces and have now been organ- ized in defense units. The Navy also apuguices that ipr'p'edo Tapenese warship and probably scored two hits. The little vessel «scaped without any damage. B RO R LIBYA ARMY FALLS BACK FROMDERNA Obscure Communique In- dicates British Still Refreating LONDON, Feb. 4—British fo have abandoned Derna, fal back 50 miles in two days on the: coastal flank in Libya. A British military commentator declared this as his interpretation of a somewhat cbscure Cairo com- munique which sal rea have “completed their my uards nent sitions” about Derna, which is 160 miles northeast of Bengasi and 95 miles west of Tobruk, and have rejoined the main British columns. et ik < lod ; BABY BOY DiES Citriano Ardenia, age one year, passed away at St. Ann's Hospital early this morning. He is the baby son of Abelard Ardenia and was taken to the hospital on Sunday evening for medical treatment, His older brother is also receiving care at St. Ann’'s at this time. >-ee No official census has been taken im Argentina since 1914 TODAY'S BLOW frr LIBERTY, v to knit and I\ol kee, | boys, in the service warm, 2 P