The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1942 MHVIBL'}i ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CF VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8952. ) SINGAPORE DEFENSE BLASTS INVAMION Collision Sinks Sub; Only Actress Tells of Engagement BOAT UNITS Three Surviwvors Tragedy Hifs | | U. S. U-Boal | NearPanama 5-26 Founders in 301 Fee of Water — Two Officers | Thrown Clear of Deck WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — The Navy ' announced today the sub- marine S26 collided with another | naval vessel on the night of Jan-| uary 24 and sank off Panama with | the loss of all except three of the| crew during surface operations. The survivors were standing on| the bridge and were thrown clear.| They are Lieut. Comdr, Earle C. Hawk, commanding officer; Lieut.| Robert Ward, and Joe Hurst, sea- man, first class. i The Navy said the next of kin| have been notified, but did not dis- | close the number aboard. §ix Navy divers, sent from Wash- ington, established contact with the ship in 301 feet of water five days after the craft sank. No one was alive. The submarine was of the old type built after the last war. R DIVORCE GRANTED Elvi Stone was granted a divorce | in the District Court this morning from Lewis Leonard Stone. Grounds were incompatibility. g BUY DEFENSE STAMPS CThe o b @p;.a.. 160 ¥ Fogarty of Kansas City, former He's No Jap WASHINGTON — John L. Lewis has returned to the brooding silence from which he suddenly poppeg his boomeranging AFL-CIO peace | scheme, but while saying nolhmg‘; publicly, the power-hungry miner boss is not idle. i Under cover, he is busv organiz-| ing dairy farmers as members of the United Mine Workers. | The farmers are in Michigan and | they are being signed up as mem- | bers of Local 50, a sort of catch- all UMW branch, made up of units. of munitions, chemical coke, cos-| metics and gas workers. Head of | Local 50 are two Lewis appointees— | Ora Gassaway, old-time UMW henchman, and Lewis’ daughter | and former confidential secretarv‘{ Chinese workmen on the Pacific Kathryn. Gassaway gets $10,000 a| coast are doing their part to beat year; Miss Lewis, $7.500. | the Japanese and their Axis part- Local 58 was recently in the ners. And Howard Yip, a Chinese news as a result of a purge of a working at a shipbuilding cor- poration at Wilmington, Cal, is :;J‘;:‘I?ru:f e::fl:: et}),l;ga:(itz’e‘rs’-lx;:. making sure he isn't beaten up by [ i i im f 3 isolationist views. someone mistaking him for a Jap. ‘The si the trick. Directly in charge of the farmer PR dons & Howard Yip American, British Sharp- shoofers Bring Down drivé are two other Lewis hench-l men—Ray Thomason, another old- time UMW official, who attracted attention at the recent CIO con- ventionvention when he slugged‘ two - assistants of CIO president | Phil Murray. and Ralph Marlatt, labor publicity agent. | . | farmers have joined the United | BURMA SHOT Dairy Farmers of America, a new Local 50 union. The farmers, say Thomason and Marlett, could get | nowhere with their demands for; better prices from the bit dairy corporations, so they asked Lewis| to teke them under his wing. | 122 Planes start of a nationwide campaien Lewis to unionize 3,000,000 farmers. BURMA, Feb. 7— Sharpshooting Already activities are under way American and British fliers shot to branch out into Minnesota, Wis- down two of 24 raiding ‘Japanese consin, Towa, Illinois and Ohio. |planes and damaged two others. Friday ten Japanese raiders were STRANGE PEACEMAKER downed. . In inner CIO circles, Lewis' farm The past two days of battling According to Thomason and Mar- latt over 5,000 Michigan dairy Thomason and Marlatt alen br--t that the Michigan drive is only the operations are viewed as a direct brings the total of Japanese loss hostile move against the Farmers in the Burma sector to 122 planes Union, an established CIO affiliate. compared to five defense. planes| That is, it is charged, Lewis is lost and one damaged. E N R - ee— . (Continued on Page Four) BUY DEFENSE BONDS Ruth Hussey Engagement of Screen Actress Ruth Hussey, above, and Lincoln & football team, has been disclosed by Miss Hussey in Hollywood. No date has been set for the wedding. JAP CANNON THUNDER AT || THREE FORTS, Artillery Barrage Lasts for [ Three Hours-Inflicts No Damage WASHINGT(-)T\I—.—FGI). 7. — A War Department bulletin today reported Jap heavy artillery concealed on the scutheast shore of Manila Bay vio- Lend-Lease Aid lently shelled three American forts for three hours, inflicting no dam- | age, ‘The American guns answered in | blasting volleys “with undetermined results.” Over Batan Peninsula, the bulle- tin added, two American fighter planes battled four Jap bombers and shot down one of them. Voters Must Register in (oming Weeks Russian fishermen are shown at work in the icy waters near Kamchatka, Dafe Yet fo Be Sef - New| Ordinance Adopted . by City pouncil | DUT(H (lAIM at the City Hall before the next municipal election in April, cording to a new ordinance passed by the City Council at its regular | meeting last night. SUNK BY SUB Dates for the registration will pe East Indies Fleef Infact at there are hundreds of persons Sea Bnd Ready fOI’ listed on the register, some of A i whom are dead and some of whem cron have moved away. —_— After registering, the voter wili The Dutch acknowledged that the making ocut the rolls. J‘.‘p "'{"“"‘"“ i"‘"cfls h:{;{e):‘on L(:C:‘;;' The ordinance provides that fail- ol Ll mn,'% Of. SEieanC, Sie ure to vote at a municipal election the island’s second biggest naval T p Gke will result in the removal of the s yo's assertion that non-voter's name from the regis- dents called from-Juneau at elec- tion time. In addition to routine business, the council ordered an inyestiza- B |'. h pl tion to determine how much work A | thorough investigation with Oity . Engineer Frank Metcalf. Bel"ln NeWSDaDefS CBI'I'Y The council also approved a mo- tion authorizing Grover Winn, city S'OCkhOIm Repori attorney, to codify and revise the nd hopes i -ave ine support of ditions, the council decided. he United States Fleet. . R aTh s - The dispatch, circulated ' by a The dried meat of coconut, Ta- semi-official Gernfan news agency, hiti’s leading industry, is a source aid Churchill is expected to in-|of nitro-glycerin and other ex- ing New York lower bay, houses in Canadian waters off British Cn- the most powerful maritime light|lumbia, are sometimes called “can- in U. 8, its beam being rated ot/ dlefish” because of a candle-like "9.000,000 candle-power and vxslbln,|brillian:e after they have been '22 miles at sea, dried, captain of the Brown university announced as soon as registration forms are printed, Mayor H. I. Lucas said. The purpose of the new ordi- nance is to bring the city’s voting {BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) be given a registration certificate A Dutch bulletin today said the stating that he is a legal resi- Netherlands East Indies forces sunk dent of the city. This will provide a Jap cruiser and transport and hit 5 ready means of identification for another cruiser in submarine opera- | persons travelling to the States, Countering Tok: the Dutch fleet has been annihil- 4 ated, the ‘bulletin said the fleet is the negligent voter will absolutely intact and at sea ready|re-resister. for action The ordinance also provides for |must be done at the City Wharf, |'where Street Superintendent Bert | Bybeck reported pilings and cais |in poor conditicn in several places | Jake Cropley, Juneau piledriver | municipal traffic ordinance, which | first was adopted in 1929 and since PERLIN, Feo, i—Cierman news_dms been‘ altered by amendments papers today carried a lengthy to several sections. Adapted from Stockholm report that Prime Min- the City of Seattle traffic code, the er Winston Churchill is laying Juneau ordinance needs a general plans for a large Scale landing revision to bring it up to date wi'h form the House of Commons of the plosives; the hard outer shell is plan soon in a secret session when treated to yizld a fine charcpal, he will request approval of the used as an absorptive and filter- hazardous undertaking. |ing material in gas masks. R register up to date. At present, tions off Amboina. as well as assist the city clerk in i L R absentee ballots to be used by resi- Germans Say | cperator, was asked to make a cperation on the Norwpgian coast changes in traffic and strect con- Navesink‘ Lighthouse, overlook-| Oulacho;ls,z;;i-i?lshvround only ter. To regain the voting privilez~, have to _ ac- ! ¢ Here is the reason why the British island of Malta, in the Mediterra- nean off Sicily, has been able to stand up under cotintless air attacks by the Axis. Shown is one of the thirty long underground galleries dug into workable rock where the civilian population sleeps and lives during air raids. Powerful anti-aircraft defenses and a large number of fighter planes have made the fortress impregnable thus far. Civilian Defense Program Is Spofiy in Some Sedlions Buf Going Strong Elsewhere civilian defense in Podunk is engrossing the best cfforts of the people, you can bet your shirt that the Podunk Clarion is full of the doings of its pco- ple in behalf of civilian de fense. To get the real his civilian defense uccess or failure, I abbed an armful of papers that come into my office from all over the country The verdict of Amerios sentative newspapers cseem: dicate the success of the defense program is spotty question of geography in some places, a question of “failure to That's unimportant. Washington | “self” the program to the people is cnly one gpwn. This civilian de-|in others. fense progrdm, in this time of war Out on the Pacific Coast, (or existence, admllt_cdl_v should Im‘ where ships have been sunk in fully organized and in full blast all| ggnt of. shore and hostile ovep Mo cauntry. planes have flown oyer U. S. Isat? soil, there’s mo fooling about There's one certain way t0 | gjyilian defense. It's hot stuff / find out. Check the home town i’ dally newksders there. E ncwspapers of America. They tors know what their commu- mirror completely the activities of the pecple in each town. If By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb, 7—Pros and cons concerning the su ss of the Civilian Defense Program under Di- rector LaGuardia have kept the air circulating in Washington for wecks. The woods are full of opinions on whether it’s a success. The capital, however, often mistakes a political ideshow - for the main attraction. The rumors of LaGuardia’s alleged arguments with the President’s wife, congressional potshots at the Little Flower and the attendant recks and counter - cracks have kept Washington thrilled. on its lowdown busine. repro to in civilian It's a (Continued on Page Three) S for Kamchatka Peninsula? Siberian mainland to the north of Japan. At a press conference it was hinted by President Roosevelt that | lend-lease aid might even go to Kamchatka, The hint was dropped by the President at a time when Japa- nese warships were reported operating. ir; the vicinity of Kodiak, our Alaskan base. While Planes Blast at Wta REPULSED BY BRIT. FIRING | First Afiemawto Land on . Fortified Island Re- ported Frustrated | TRAP OF FLAMING OIL SET ON JOHORE STRAIT Nippon Long Range Guns Shell Residential Sec- tions-Some Damage (By Associated Press) | The defense guns of Singapore | have blasted a small invasion type |of Japanese boats on the Strait of | Johore on the eight critical day of | the siege of the island fortress. The | boats quickly returned to the shore. For the first time, Japanese long | range guns from the Malaya main- | land batteries lobbed shells into the the peninsula jutting out from the | residential sections of Singapore and | some damage was done. 1t is believed the small boat sortie | attempted on the Strait of Johore !was a feint to test out the pur- | ported death trap of flaming oil the | British devised. A Vichy broadcast, quating Tokyo ’aupnmhu. ‘said the British poured | thousanls of gallons of ofl on the (o u N ( Il | mile-wide stretch and apparently in- | tend to set it afire if the Japanese 'Washington Becomes Of- YANK p'l.oll's | ficial Center of Prosecu- | imafpntos | DOWNTHREE JAP PLANES Eight American Pursuif Ships Battle Heavy Enemy Force (By Associated Press) city became the official war capi-| tal of the United Natlons last nignt when the combined Chiefs of | Staff Board was set up to take| charge of an all-point and all-out Anglo-American action in prosecu- tion of the struggle that is in- tended to assure coordination of war effort. The jurisdiction will in-/ clude production and distribution of war supplies and will work in| Advices from Dutch headquarters collaboration with representatives at Bali, Dutch East Indies, today of other United Nations'as follows® |said that eight P-40 American pur- For the United States, members | suit planes which were “attacked by are Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief |greatly superior forces of Jap fight- of Naval Operations; Gen. George | ers and bombers,” shot down at least C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff; | three of the enemy. Admiral E. J. King, Commander-| One United States plane was lost in-Chief of the United States, and | 2nd another is missing. Lieut. Gen. H/ H. Arnold, Chief| “or tne moain. memvers 1+ SPECIAL PHYSICIAN Field Marshal Sir John Dill, for-| DE lIE" I" m‘u mer Chief of the Imperial Gen- eral Staff; Admiral Sir Charles P Little | Licut. Gen. Sir Colville| Dr. Horace De Lien, special phy- J Air Marshal sician for tuberculosis with the In- The new agency is similar in|dian Service, returned to Juneau many respects to the Inter-allicd|this week from an extensive trip Command of the first World War through towns of Southeast Alaska but apparently possesses more ac-|on a general study of the tuber- cular situation, and reading and |taking x-rays for the service. GOOD SKATING AT Tbeff' e e e W0 lAKES SUNDAY anof Hotel. TODAY'S BLOW *frr LIBERTY, of the year, is staying at the Bar- Skating conditions at Auk Lake ind Mendenball Lake will be good over the weekend, the Forest Serv-! ice reported today. | The skating areas have been test- | ed directly in front of the Menden- | hall Skaters’ Cabin and at the | Juneau end of Auk Lake. -ee THOMAS LONG GIVEN SIX MONTHS SENTE Thomas Long, of entenced to serve a Sitka, term of six| months in jail on a charge of as-| sault and battery, by United Sl,atus. Commissioner W. W. Knight, of , according to word re- ceived by the United States Ma:- shal's office here today. - BUY DEFENSE Remember the second line of STAMPS defense is the family cogkstove, W,