The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1942, Page 1

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MEMBER AS.SOUA TED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1942 PRICE TEN CENTS JAP GUN EMPLACEMENTS ARE BLASTED YANKPILOTS DESTROY BIG JAP ATTACK American Fliers Credited with 7 Certainties, 5 Probables RANGOON, Feb. 6 — American volunteers and British fighter pi- lots today shattered a big Japa- nese daylight raid on Rangoon, shooting down 10 planes and per- haps destroying 10 more, a com- munique announced. 8ince the Japanese planes num- bered 30, this was a certain score of one down out of three, but moze likely was two out of three, mak- ing one of the greatest aerial com- bat defeats inflicted on the enemv so far. ‘The American pilots alone shot down seven certain planes and were credited with five of those prob-| ably destroyed. raiders came back at daylight after pounding Rangoon for the third straight night. ‘The American and British pilots came through the battle without a single loss. e, J. J. HILLARD HERE J. J. Hillard, deputy collector of customs at Eagle, who came here this week, was a guest at the Fed- eral Employees Association lunch-’ eon today at Percy's Cafe. Hillard came here after a special detail a: ' The fierce blow was dealt as the Cordova, where he has been sub-| and now is _.—;.*tfs—r?— £ e BUY DEFENSE BONDS stituting awaiting orders. WASHINGTON—Two very sig- nificant long - distance telephone calls preceded the torpedoing of John L. Lewis’ blitz AFL-CIO peace maneuver. The first call was from CIO president Phil Murray in New York to war labor chief Sidney Hillman in Washington. Murray read Hill- man the letter he had drafted slapping down Lewis and inform- ing him that he (Murray) and no Lewis was boss of the CIO. Murray read Hillman the letter for his approval and suggestions. This was the first time in more than a year that Murray had sought .out Hillman's counsel ano support. Only a few weeks before, Murray had taken an indirext swipe at Hillman by urging the President to place all war labor activities in the Labor Depart- ment. For months mutual friends of the two leaders had labored un- successfully to establish a basis of cordial working relations between them. By one stroke Lewis accomplished what a score of others, including the White House, had been unable to do. The second long distance call was from the President in Wash- ington to Murray in New York. This call followed the publication of the letter Murray read to Hill- man. The President warmly congratu- lated Murray and assured him of complete backing. Roosevelt also invited Murray to confer with him at his earliest convenience. Murray said he would come to the Whit House two days later. FIGHT ON LEWIS At this conference, Murray stat- ed that notice had been served on top CIO officers who are on the United Mine Worker payroll that if they didn’t back Lewis’ scheme, they would be axed. | | ‘The officials mentioned by Mur- ray were himself, vice-president of the UMW as well as president of the CIO; Tom Kennedy, secretary- (Continued op Page Four) MacArthur Scores Again Artillery fire laid down by General MacArthur’s Philippine forces smashed a Japanese mass attack at an important jumtfin near Pilar (arrow). On the opposite side of the Batan Peninsula, the invaders were forced back to the coast along South China Seg and either de- stroyed, captured or drowned. MacArthur said the Japanese now occupy about half of the penlmula (dotted nea) Tokyo Mllllary Claims Dukh Fleet Destroyed; U.S. Cruiser Damaged | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Tokyo Military Headquarters | issued a high sounding claim today hat the Japanese naval planes * | have “virtually annihilated” Lhr: | entire Dutch West Indies fleet, | Netherlands East Indies cruises sunk and a third heavily damaged. The “annihilation” took place in an attack in the Java Sea south jof Macassar Strait. In addition to the attack on th: Dutch Fleet, a United Stat: cruiser, of the 7,000-ton Marbic- head type, listed as the result of being badly damaged. The Tokyo Military Headquarters also claims another war vessel was sunk, nationality nct given. Just Propaganda Star at Play The headquarters of Gen. Archi- bald Wavell, on the Island of Java, says the Tokyo claims are obviously propaganda as the ccmmunique makes no attempt to reconcile the claim the three cruisers made up the “entire” Dutch Indies fleet. It is known that a large part of the Netherlands European fleet, of considerably greater strength than that designated by the Japanese, made escape to the Far East Pa- cific waters before Germany even invaded Holland. - CONTINENTAL “~ FRONT OPEN SMAS:R::lotAsrmo T0 AIR RAIDS Brazilian Aulhormes Seize House Recommends Large Powerful Stationof | Sum Appropriated for Germans Civilian Defense , { WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — Wita a warning that the Home Froni could look for hostile aerial attacks. the House Military Committee to- oe Joan Crawford, Hollywood film star, goes wading in the warm water at Miami Beach, where she is on a brief vncatxon from the movies. RIO de JANERIO, Feb. 6—Bra- zilian authorities today seized the powerful shortwave radio trans- mitter im the German Embassy Building in what is declared to be 48y recommended $100,000,000 the first step in the drive to smash voted for a civilian defense pro- the web of wildcat radios operat- 8ram. ing tH/oughout Brazil and com- The committee members said: municating with Azis ships and “Enemy air raids on the continen- also direct to Berlin. tal United States are expected but TR s the general military opinion is they cannot be conducted on a scale approaching any degree of intensity or frequency of raids as have been made on England.” - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS More than three billion pounds of barley, corn, rye and rice, 150 million pounds of sugar and 163 million gallons of molasses weat into making of alcoholic bever- ages in the Unif'd States in 1939. | ITALIAN AIR FORCE JOINS NAZI BATTLE ‘German Stukas Fail fo Do Job, Mussolini Sends Assistance REDS SAY MANY PlANES WRECKED Shot Down in Fight- ing Wednesday (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany's famed air force, the instrument which pulverized resis- tance in Belgium, Holland France, has called on Italian war planes to help battle Russia, it was disclosed today by the Nazi com= mand. E The disclosure coincided with an | announcement that Air Force Chief | Hermann Goering | pleted a visit to Italy. | Soviet air force, | Italian air force {enemy planes were | destroyed on the ground,” in which took part, shot down or a bulle- tne |tin from Hitler's field headquurm';I | said. { It was the first time Itali planes have been mentioned in ac and | | has just coms “In fighting yesterday against the 28| @Pl_a‘nos_wllea'dy for ]a ko-ofl lrom (arrior i [ | i l t | | | | | { | | Clesely-packed U. S. Naval planes lined up on the deck of an aircraft carrier, ready for a quick take-off during patrol somewhere in the Pacific. U S Slrlkmg Power in Alr On Sea tion on the Soviet front. Whether ! |the Germans |shortage of inot disclosed, but recent Soviet communigies have emphas /heavy German air losses. Todav's Red Army bulletin reported 38 planes were destroyed by are suffering planes or a Soviet | pilots was i 'fliers Wednesday against 10 Rus-| 'sian planes reported missing Coincidentally, Germany’s Propa- ganda Minister Goebbels today ac- | knowledged that considerable dis- satisfacticn is stirring in the Reich over the campaign in Russia and Y also food and fuel shortages ot home. Goebbels exhorted all Ger- mans to maintain their “deport- ment and mm‘ale o INVASION IS NOW FEARED, AXIS POWERS Move by United States and " Brifain in Europe Is Predicted BERNE, Switzerland, Feb. 6 The Axis newspapers, for the first time, speculates that the United States and Great Britain mignt attempt an invasion of Europe dur- ing the coming spring. Italian Admiral Ducci, writing in the Review of Oggi, predicts the British and Americans will remain the defensive on the Pacilic !but their first offensive efforts wiil dikely be to prevent the Axs launching a new drive against Rus- Ista and the invasion, he said, wil most likely be directed against the Balkans or Northern Scandinavia. Berlin newspapers are also com- menting on next moves of the United States and Great Britain. — Skating On Two Lakes Is Enjoyed About 20 persons enjoyed skating on Mendenhall and Auk lakes last night. Ice skat- ing is safe directly in front of skaters’ cabin at the glacier lake and at the end of Auk Lake nearest to Juneau, accord- ing to the Admiralty Division of the Forest Service. These are the only areas thoroughly tested. e More than half of the automo- biles on the highways of the United States have a cash value of | less than $100, | west coast destination. 11917-"18, when lon the inside of the problem and Jtically no transportation United States Navy scout bombers fly in formation over vessels of the fleet on an offensive patrol some- where in the Pacific. . Railreads of Nation Are Well Prepared fo Handle All-Out War Production NETT | FDR Reveals - War Council Established Pacific Board Has Head- quarters in London- Also Washington Uniteq States other than that pro- ided by the railroads and inl vaterways. Now, the railroads iandle abcut 60 to 65 percent of the intercity transportation. By JACK STI — The a WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 other day a friend showed me letter frem his mother who had traveled from Chicago' to the Pa- cific northwest on one of thecoun- try's crack streamline trains. The weather was perfect. There had been no wrecks. Yet her train was 30 hours late in arriving at her for scme 8 percent; waterways, including the Great Lakes, about 18 percent; the pipelines, nearly 12 percent; and the airlines about one- tenth of one percent. dent Roosevelt asserted today -that |a Pacific War Council has been in operation here and in Londox, | the two headquarters being need for close coordination of the coun- As strange as it may seem, therc| . aotivities, are 600,000 fewer freight cars roll-| ng today than there were in 1918 Yet in 1941, the railroads were ible to move 25 percent mMOTC|poth a military and political reight, without congestion or car|iure in its’ two offices. hortage, than was handled in the | of 4 purely military nature are re- eak year of war production 23|ferred to army and navy chiefs of vears ago. Not once was there the | gafs and those of governmental o1 lizhtest hint of congestion lik2 political character are laid before me © would one who remembered wartime transpor- tation demands caused a night- mare of congestion on American railroads which finally caused the government to take them ove:. Could it be that the railroads of the nation again were caught short? Since then, I have talked to a good many officials who are we.l What have occurréd heard the stery occurred to to any and the of na- question, the President said council is handling questions when 200,000 loaded freight cars|pogies in Washington and Lendon lled up in the eastern mrl\mn.xl\ b and shipping centers. | their answer is a unanimous “No.” : H Never im the history of this coun- { try, they will tell you, has trans- portaticn been better prepared to handle the demands of all-out wartime production. FLY TO HAINES The reasoms lie in the vast im-| mp and Mrs. Felix Hakkinen and rovement in equipment and speed. | phejr infant son were passengers on ‘Jm average freight car today cac-|flight to Haines today in an Al nearly nine tons more than|aska Coastal Airlines plane piloted he 415-ton freight car of 20 years by Dean Goodwin. ago. There has been a 60 percent | —lpr—r— BUY DEFENSE BONDS In World War I, there was prac- in the (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON, -Feb, 6 — Presi-| Replying to a press conference! Questions hat which occurred at one time ‘thv appropriate governmental, NEW. MOVE OF NIPPONS IS NIPPED ' Atfack on Corregidor Fort- | ressRepulsed by Artil- | lery of U. S. Units 'INVASION FORCES | LAND ON LINGAYEN Quiet 24 Ho;s Reported from Battlefront on Bolan Peninsula WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—Japanese gun emplacements on the south- eastern shore of Manila Bay, ap- parently designed to attack the fortress Corregidor, have been de- stroyed by artillery fire from Amer- ican fortifications, according to an official communique issued by the | War Department today. | The communique also reports | that nine Japanese transports are | debarking troops at ports on Lin- gayen Gulf, approximately 125 miles north of Manila Bay, to re- inforce large enemy concentrations already on Batan Peninsula and other parts of Luzon Island. On the Patan Peninsula front, the War Department further states it has been relatively quiet for the 24 hours, with decreasing MOVING ON IN UKRAINE One Imporfifi Town Re- ported Captured - Vio- lent Fighing Reported e MOSCOW, Feb. 6—On the fight- |ing front, Marshal Timoshenko’s | Ukraine armies armies are report- | ed to have captured Petropaviovka, ‘,70 miles from Dneiperoptrovsky, ac- | cording to a broadcast by the of-. | ficial Russian station here this af- | ternoon. The broadcast also report “vio~ | lent fighting” 1is raging in the \Kursk Charkova region and north- ivrest of Moscow. | S e | | Big Roundup - Of Aliens Is ~ Madein (alif. VALLEJO, Cal., Feb. 6 — Ralids last night and today by Federal Agents in areas adjacent to twn |large coast navy yards led to the arrest of nearly two-seore of Axis aliens, BUY DEFENSE STAMPS TODAY'S BLOW *frr UIBERTYy In times of rumor, keep ears | open and mouth shut,