The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASK VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8954. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1942 A EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN1S JAPANESE ARE SWARMING ON SINGAPORE American Forces Landed In New Zealand 'DEFENDERS, BLUEJACKETS ARENOW IN WELLINGTON Forces Go Ashore from De- | stroyers as Hafs and Flags Are Waved | AMERICAN VICTORY IS NOW CLAIMED Supply Roue Is Fully Es- tablishd-Leary New Commander | BOSTON, Mass., Feb, 10 — The arrival in Wellington, New Zea- | land, of a vanguard of a United | States Naval force is reported by the Christian Science Monitor to- | day from its correspondent, Joseph Harsch. | Harsch also described landing of American reinforcements at ‘“way stations along the route” from Pearl | Harbor. | In a copyrighted story, Harsch told of the landing of American bluejackets at Wellington from a destroyer, described as the first| unit of Admiral Herbert Leary’s American forces. He said: “Land- fall was reached even before the announcement of Admiral Leary’s appointment as Commander of all Allied Forces in the Anzac area.” In Attacking Party Harsch said he traveled partway ! from Pearl Harbor with forces that CThe " (Continued on Page Two) : ' WASHINGTON—Sensational evi-| dence about Japanese subversive activity in the United States is| due soon in a report by the Dies| Committee. | The report will disclose how a | systematized fifth column, directed | by Japanese consuls, engaged in widespread espionage and Axis| propaganda for several years prior | to the war. The “front” for the fifth col- umn was the Central Japanese A: sociation, with headquarters. in Los Angeles, which numbered many Japanese-American business men in its membership. Several of them are still at large, the committee will reveal, presumably still active. Dies investigators seized some highly interesting documents in the Association’s files, including a report to Tokyo on the amount of money raised in the United States to buy warplanes for the Jap army and navy—planes later used to bomb Pear! Harbor and the Phil- ippines. Another amazing discovery was a cablegram sent by the Association to the War and ‘Navy Ministries in Tokyo early last year. It read: “We resident countrymen from afar express our wholehearted gratitude to the officers and men of 'the Imperial army fighting throughout China for the establish- ment of everlasting peace in East Asia and we pledge ourselves here- after to exert more and more ef- forts from behind the lines here in the United States.” BUREAUCRATIC BRASS Price .Controllef® Leon Henderson was given a new idea for a “col- lection drive” the other day, which, if carried out, would affect thou- sands of bureaucrats. It was submitted by Represenia- tive Albert J. Engel of Michigan, (Gontinued on Page Four) : IN GOOD COM - i ween Ch. Heidi of Plantree and Ch. Fabian of Warrendane, who are Somcbody in the dog world ~ "SUNSHINE GIRL" - By % / The little ray of sunshine is Evelyn Dinsmoor (above), 18, who has been chosen from hall a hundred competing beauties to be the “Sunshine Girl” at the winter season of outdoor sports and other events which are part of Califernia’s All-Winter Sun Festival at Long Beach. STOCK QUOTATIONS ¥yana Yankwich- wearing a California-made. playsuit; it's in vivid green and brown tones with a gay leaf motif. AXIS SPRING | DRIVE NEXT ~ GREAT MOVE %‘ Offensive Is Predicted for - Capture of Suez Canal | -Also Gibraltar | LONDON, Feb. 10—A great spring | offensive by the Axis to capture the | Suez Canal and Gibraltar is pre- | dicted by informed military experts. | The object of this spring offensive |is to deprive the United Nations of | two major bases on gyhich Allied # | strategy rests cn attacks by the Ger- { | man armies. | This drive is predigted to be staged to coincide with the maximum Jap- . | anese efforts against the South Pa- | cific and Burma Road jn the vast | pincer operations to hem in the % i fi‘British forces in India. To combat these Axis schemes, the | British will be forced to fight Field { Marshal Rommel’s African Corps | with forces now stationed in the “ | Arabian regions. | Reinforcements either from Great { Britain or the United States will be difficult because of the shortage of | shupping forced by the spread of the | war. BIG CHIEF - OF CHINESE 15 ININDIA NEW YORK, Feb. 10 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine American Can Bethlehem and stock today 62%, Anaconda Steel 65, is 2%, 26%, Commonwealth Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek at Delhi for Con- sounem . curss wrignt 75, ference Wil British International Harvester 49, necott 33'%, New York Central United States Steel 50%, $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES pound ! Ken- | $ NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 10— Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek has arrived in India with staff officers for consultations. | The General’s meeting with Brit- The following are tcday’s Dow, ish and India officials is hailed with Jones averages: rails 27.54, utilities 13.84. -~ BUY DEFENSE »TAMPS industrials 106.75. | enthusiasm and the meeting “bodes our enemy no good and this they {will soon learn to their cost.” —————— I’ BUY DEFENSE STAMPS 'NORMANDIE TURNS OVER INHUDSON Huge ShipTapsizes After Welding Torch Starts Disastrous Fire | 'TIDE PRESSURE TOPPLES BIG VESSEL 220 Wokma,— Navy Per- sonnel Injured-One Man Killed NEW YORK, Feb. 10 — Like & great wounded monster but still somehow majestic, the fire seared,! waterlogged Normandie succumed to the surging tide this morning! in the Hudson River mud. Ravaged by flames and with a gaping hole in her hull, in a vain attempt to counteract the pressure of the incoming tide the $60,000,000 vessel rolled over at 2:40 A. M. and now lies on her port side in 40 feet of water alongside the pier. | The Navy, however, has not abandoned hope of still using the; liner. Queried on reports that/the: Normandie is beyond salvage, the! public relaticns office of the Third! Naval District said: “the Nuvy sup- ports no such contention ‘at this time.” ! As fireboats continued to throw| treams of water on the still buyn- | ing ship, Navy officials planned to' “eet later to determine what to do with her. | Touched off by sparks from a welder’s terch, flames raged| through the craft for three and| sne-half hours yesterday. Before h were brought under control, »very available piece of land ana sea fire fighting equipment in Man- | wmitan was called to the scene. Two hundred and twenty of the 2,200 workmen and Navy personnel aboard suffered injuries. One welder, Frank Trentacos, 36, died of a fractured skull received when he jumped from the deck to the pier. TORPEDOED OFF HAWAII Transport SeWDown -29 of Crewmen Are Re- ported Lost e | WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — The United States Army transport Roy- | al T. Frank, 2400 net tons, is re-| ported to have been sunk by a torpedo in Hawaiian waters on| January 28. | Twenty-nine persons are repurlcdj to have been lost. Thirty-three survivors of the crew reached a Hawdiian port, the War Department announces. ——— U.S.FIGHTER PLANES GET IN ACTION WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—In The Netherlands East Indies, the War | Department today reported that a |small formation of American fight- er planes shot down one* enemy plane in minor action cf a flight cf Japanese bombers. | - > 2 BUY DEFENSE BONDS and toppled to an ignominous rest| ~ destroyed it. invasion attempt would come. The : New Yorkers -S.ee Bigéé#t U. S. Field Gun en the shore line of the state of use’ Singapore Causeway Before If Was Blown Up e 8 | Here is a view of the famous Singapore causeway as i1 appeared from Singapore Island before the British Across Johore Strait is s Johore—from where any Japanese y was surveyed by Carveth Wells, The biggest mobile field gun in the world, Aberdeen, Md., proving grounds. 240-mm. Howitzer, is shown in New York City, enroute to the Two ten-ton army trucks towed the gun-barrel and carriage and were followed by a large traveling crane, two heavy army trucks, five smaller trucks with soldiers and a gun personnel numbering about five officers and fortv-five men. ARMY s||||i Gel Acquainfed with "The Fox,” Who Runs Argenfina NOTE—Drew Pearson, of The Mcrry-Go-Reund team, recent- Iy bhas been in South America ard he will write a series of articles on ihe outstanding problems and personalities with which the United States must deal in this vital area. Here is the inside story of the new President of Argentina and the Confercnce of Foreign Minis- ters at Rio de Janeiro. By DREW PEARSON RIO DE JANEIRO-—The Ameri- can public is geing to hear a lot more about Ramon 8. Castillo, 71- year-old Acting President of Ar- gentina, so it might be a good idea to get better acquainted with him now. Castillo is the man who tried (o throw a monkey wrench into Pan- American unity }amnst the Axis at Ric,"and who is the semi-dictator of 13,000,000 Argentines. e Actually Castillo was only elect- ed vice-president of Argentina and has precipitated a situation which might have happened in the Unit- ed States if Jack Garner succeeded Roosevelt or Charley Curtis had replaced Hoover. Castillo is just as ut of step with President O snd with the American people : Curtis or Garner were with Hoover and Roosevelt, The present Argentine situation might also be compared to the last part of Woodrow Wilson's ad- ministration when a committee With Isolilioni'sl Power from the Senate visited his sick bed to decide whether or not he was capable of carrying on the duties of President. In the case of Argentina, a Senate committec visited President Qrtiz, found him suffering from blindne: and reactionary Vice-President lo in as Acting President. Eyes Election—Not War President Ortiz was a great lib- eral, an enemy of the Axis, and a put friend of the UB.A. Acting Presi-| dent Castillo is no friend eithe of the Axis or the United States He is a Coolidge-like type of local politician, who knows his country intimately, keeps his nose to the grindstone of domestic politics, and is more concerned about winnir the elections in March than he is about the war, Castillo was a judge from province of Catamarca, located over against the Andes, with some of the isolationist tendenc of our Rocky Mountain states. Then he stepped off the bench to run the for the Senate, later became presi- dent of the University of Buenos ires at a time when it was dom- student inated by a turbulent body ? to Argentina when he succ restoring corder in the Uni y The story is told that one day = mob of students was yelling out- side the bullding demanding that he resign. Castillo’s office aides had ( Contl’mi;xrl’Tn P;;ge Six) Castil- | DEFENDERS j IN ISLANDS - GET PLANES | it 'Seven Jap Aircraft Shot i Down by American Forces WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — The American forces in the Philippine: |chot down seven Japanese planes | during the past 24 hours, according to the War Department communi- que this morning. The communique says the de- fenders are battling against in- creasingly heavy odds on the ground, however. coe — PACIFIC COUNCIL MEETS, LONDON, TO DISCUSS CRISIS LONDON, Feb. 10 — Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill presided to- night over a meeting of the Pacific Council at which representatives of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands met to discuss the deepening crisis. in the Orient. The Council acts in concert with the British and American Chiefs of Statf with headquarters in . Washington, D. C PRI Three smail Geposits of cobalt. one of the few minerals not pro- duced commerciall in the United States, have been found in Ari- zona GREAT BASE RETREATING Imperial Forces Withdraw- ing Info Heart of Brit- ish Stronghold INVADERS ARE FROM 570 10 MILES AWAY Black Pall of Oil Tank Smoke Hangs Over City -Radio Station Off Air (BY ASSOCI Overwhelming iD PRESS) masses of Japa- nese troops have. swarmed Singa- pore Island, forcing the British Imperial defenders to execute a withdrawal in what appeared to be the dying hours in the struggle for Great Britain’s last great strong- hold in the Far Pacific. Informed quarters in London said itt is possible. the Japanese have infiltrated into Sngapore City it- self and attacked the radio sta- tion there. The station was sud- denly blanked out. Black Pall of Smoke Early morning dispatches from Singapore said the din of battle was inlensified after dawn and a yreat olack pall of smoke hung over the scene of fighting. Japanese planes flew low over the outskirts of Singapore, and, ac- cording to the early morning dis- patches, the residents of Singa- pore heard the whine of machine ;un bullets and artillery fire rum- Jded heavily to the west. The pre- awn skies were a red glow from ourning oil tanks. * _ TIn Heart of City Dispatches from Tokyo and Jroadcasts from the Italian radio said the Japanese assault force, have driven to within five miles rom the down town heart of Sin- gapore city. (Continued on Page Three) LONDON IS GLOOMY ON BAD NEWS BULLETIN — London, Feb. 10—Gloom pervades London to- night as reports from Singa- pore tell of the grave situation of the defenders. Authoritative quarters be- lieve, however, that carlier sug- gesticns the Japanese have penetfated as far as Singapere itself are incorrect. he latest unofficial reports indicate the Japanese are about 10 miles from the fortified city. Reuters said the Singapore radio station went off the air at 4:30 o'clock this morning, Pacific War time. TODAY'S BLOW *frr LIBERTY, Stay away from windows during an air raid—curiosity can kill, 4