The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ~VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8955. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1942 “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN1S SINGAPORE REPORTED STILL HOLDS OUT Japs JAPANESE ACTION IS INDICATED Large Forces Reported Preparing for New Assaulf on Batan SPECTACULAR AiR BATILE IS FOUGHT Six of Seven_ Enemy Planes Reported Shot Down- | One American Lost WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 — A movement of enemy troops indi- cate an early resumption of an attack in force against Gen.Doug- | las MacArthur’s American and| Filipino defenders on Batan Pen-: insula in the Philippines. The War Department also report- | ed that although fighting on Ba- | tan Peninsula has lessened in air| activity there have been intermit- | tent exchanges of artillery fire be- | tween the American island fortifi- | cations at the entrance of Manila Bay and the Japanese batteries on | the Cavite shore of the bay. The communique of the War De- partment said that six of seven| enemy planes were shot down yes- terday and one American plane was destroyed in one of the most spectacular air battles in the Philippines campaign. The battle took place over the bay. 3 —— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ——————— WASHINGTON — Next to the President, Jesse Jones has long been the most powerful official in Wash- ington. ~ Secretary of Commerce, head of the Federal Loan Agency, the Defense Corporation and half| a ‘dozen other potent government| nodies, the velvet-voiced Texan on| more than one occgsion even has distegarded the White House. .But it looks like at_last Jones has met. his master. Behind the scenes, he and War Production Chief Donald Nelson had a crossing of swords and Jones definitely came off second best. | It happened this way: In organ- jzing his administrative set-up, Nelson asked the Army, Navy Mari- time Commission and Defense Plant Corporation to designate an official to act as their top produc- tion, executive. These officials deal directly with Nelson on all pro- duction problems of their agencies. Lieut. Gen. Knudsen acts in this pacity for the Army; Admiral binson for the Navy; Admiral Vickery for the Maritime Commis- sion; and Director Charles Hender-| son for the Defense Plant Corpor- ation. In adcition to this, Nelson also informed the four agencies that he was attaching one of his per- sonal assistants to the staff of these four officials, to act as his personal representative and to/ keep him informed of what was going on. The Army, Navy and Maritime Commission readily agreed and promised cordial coop-| eration. But Jones, who had secretly had his cap set for Nelson’s job, balked| on such supervision of the Defense Plant Corporation. According to the inside story he declared he was not going to put| upwith any “snooping Gestapo agent.” ~ (Continued on Page Four) ed is % British A England Reports African| German communique “strong enemy reconaissance forces have been thrown back.” The British headgiarters report- situation. ber of The Empire mechanical force, To which Nelson is re- Will enlist in the Who Stole My Wheels! mphasized in an important manner to Walter Scott Hanson (above), who can’t quite understand why—on his second birthday of all days—someone stole all four rub- ber-tired wheels from his buggy. Walter’s mother, Mrs. Harold C. Hanson, said that the wheels were stolen when burglars ransacked aws iR Alie E. Rice Passes Away " AtHerHome Author of “Mrs. Wiags of the Cabbage Patch” Dies at Age of 72 LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 11—Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice, 72 author of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,”| died at her home here last night.| The book won international recog- nition and established the author in the field of American literature. Prior to the publication of ‘Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” in 1901, Mrs. Rice had written many }humerous sketches. Some of them found their way into print, but gained for her no more than local recognition. It was after her grad- uation “from Hampton College, a private school .in Louisville, Ky., |that she became associated with the Louisville Authors Club, many of the members of which later made names for themselves as writers. It was that group that first reviewed “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” and urged Mrs. Rice to submit the manuscript to a publisher. Gets Married The immediate success of the nevel was a factor ‘in influencing the author to take another import- ant step, her marriage to Cale Young Rice, a poet and dramatist. About that time one of his early volumes was published and their combined literary succésses pro- vided the necessary finances for| their wedding, which took place De-| ember 18, 1902. They established | their home in Louisville, where in| adjoining studios they did most of their subsequent literary work. | Mrs. Rice was born in Shelby| 1County, Ky., January 11, 1870, at the homestead of her maternal grandfather, Judge James Caldwell. She was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Hegan, and was a niece of Mrs. Fannie Mac-/ {auley, author of “The Lady of the| | Decoration.” , Although they always maintained their home in Louisville, Mr. and Mrs. Rice traveled extensively. They made frequent trips to Europe and two tours around the world, which provided background and, material for Mr. Rice’s poetry and his wife's novels. Other Writings | | | | i | | | i e Oranges grown in the Redwood Empire wiil be featured at the Forty-third annual Cloverdale, Cal,, Citrus Fair, February 20-23, together with other citrus fruits, heme displays and varied enter- tainment, geared to “victory” and “national defense,” says comely Marie Vadon of Clover- dale, pictured above. Thrown Back | Say Germans Front Lines Are Holding Own (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) On the north African front the reported there is “no change in the - GENE LLOYD GOES SOUTH Gene Lloyd, who has been a mem- sauthbound for Seattle where he armed forces. Planning New Attack PROFITEERS ATTACKED IN [ | - NEW REPORT House Comfiee Accuses! Defense Brokers of Grafting WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—A Con- gressicnal committee today charged that defense brokers have amassed “untold millions” in profiteering on war contracts and demanded im- mediate steps, both to get the pro- fits back and prevent exorbitant commissions in the future. The report was based on weeks | of investigation and public hear-| ings. The committee told Congress | it uncovered evidence that com- mission brokers, some of them| without previous experience in this| work, obtained commissions rang- ing from 3 to 75 percent of de- fense sub-contracts. The House Military Affairs sub- On Mac Arthur JAPS FAIL T0 CAPTURE GREAT BASE Invasion Armies Making Determined Try to Take Over City BRITISH DEFENDERS KEEP ON RESISTING Bitter Daymg Fighting Reported - Eleventh Hour Rally Staged (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Japan’s expected Foundation day |F. D. celebration on the fall of plomats’ Plane at Rio de Janeiro i S— 4 Salvaging Di committee, studying procurement of defense material, requested com- | plete reorganization of the control| |of performance on cost-plus-fixed- fee contracts in the operation of ordnance plants. [ Also recommended was action by the War Department or Depart- ment of Justice to obtain reim-: bursement for losses fo.the gav-' ernment resulting from faiiure “of | corporations, individuals or part- nerships to perform properly the services stipulated in their con- tracts. D GERMANS STIFFEN DEFENSE Weather Mfid_er, Fighting Fiercer in Russo- Nazi Conflict (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler’s invasion armies, thrown back nearly 200 miles in some tors, today were reported ‘“defin- itely stiffening” their resistance. As the paralyzing grip of winter abated, the fighting increased in violence along the 1200-mile front. London military quarters said the Germans now are making a deter- mined stand. Soviet dispatches, however, de- clared Red armies are continuing to advance, capturing a number of villages and German fortifica- tions on the Ukraine front. For the second successive day, Hitler's command cited new Rus- | sian attempts to break out of Len- ingrad and declared they were re- pulsed. * s SEWARD T0 GET PRIORITIES FOR BUILDING UNIT WASHINGTON, Feb. 1l1—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond an- nounced today the Defense Hous- ing Division, Office of Emergency Management, has approved of pri- orities for the building of 200 fam- ily units at Seward, Alaska, by a private enterprise with the possi- bility the FHA might assist with loans. — e — DARNELL GOES SOUTH Rod Darnell, cperator of the Tri- angle Cleaners and President of the | Juneau Rotary Club, left for the south by steamer today. He plans to be gone about six weeks. [ In Sweden both employers and workers are nationally organized ————————— BUY DEFENSE Mrs. Rice also wrote a sequell to J Continued on Page Three) to bargain collectively on a na- | tionwide scale. MAN ABOUT TOWN_Bilonde K. T. Stevens of the movies seems currently to have an inside track toward the heart of the millionaire turf enthusiast, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, with whom she appears at a dinner party in the Waldorf, New York. er-espionage—refused to pass it in spite of recommendations from the White House, the Army, Navy and Department of Justice. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 In spite of all the palaver over the Justice Roberts report on responsi- bility for the Pearl Harbor episode, one of the most significant phases af the report has been very lightly touched upon, namely: If counter-espionage actlivilies « of the United States hadn’t been hog-tied and hobbled by restric- tions in the Federal Communi- tions Act there might well never have been any catastro- phe at Pearl Harbor, no matter how derelict in duties were the commanders of the Army and Navy. Let’s examine the facts: (1)—Al- though it was considered positive by our counter-espionage agents there that Japanese consuls and other spies were sending informa- tion in code messages by commercial cable and wireless to Tokyo, the law forbade the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation or Army or Navy Intelli- gence from obtaining copies of these messages without a court order. To heve obtained a court order would have been to bring our own efforts into the open and of course Kill the goose that was laying those secret eggs. Attempts to circumvent that law met a legal stone wall (2) — Although telephone com- munications between Japan and Ha- waii were maintained until AFTER the first blows were struck, it was impossible for the FBI, Army or Navy to tap the wires and make records of the many long distance calls that shuttled back and forth between Tokyo and Honolulu right up to the morning of December 7 Why? Because Congress last sum- mer refused to pass a law to permit wire-tapping even in cases of count-l As a matter of tact, one such| ‘Lelenhone message was intercepted | TODAY'S BLOW *frr LIBERTY, - CHINE FAMILY LEAVES Frank Chinella, Juneau represen- tative of the Retail Clerks Union and Mrs, Chinella and their young daughter sailed south today to va- cation in the States for a month, They will visit Chinella’s father, ‘Razph Chinella, in Seattle, ; ¢ PRAuEION i hed in the Pan-American conference at Rio de Janeiro is being hauled “h_ore by workers alte_r it had crash h:rhar of Rio. The crash occurred on the‘tnke-of(. Senor Guinazu suffered mothing more serious than Singapore has apparently been a2 ducking. No one else was hurt, ; | frustrated as the holiday passed at | | midnight, Tokyo time, without any " flE ARING ON tified British city has surrendered. The great national holiday ob- |serves the anniversary of the leg- Empire in 660, B. C. Axis reports had previously said Japan’s invasion armies would make IS DELAYED :.ccomioes amem ; A Siugapore broadeast, shortly ceded the situation was “very seri- Re(eSS Of Two DaYS Grant' ous,” but said it has not “deterior- ed 'o A"Ow for Re' The bitter day long fighting was { followed by the statement from the }lmperlnl Headquarters in Tokyo SEATTLE, Feb. 11—A two-day |sred what was vaguely defined as recess has been ordered in theFed- the “city area of Singapore.” increases to Alaska at the request renders were apparently still hold- of the Alaska Steamship Company ing the Japanese at bay somewhere James Curtiss, representative of and reports reaching London to- the Office of Price Administrator, night said the defenders were stag- introduced tonnage revewue fig-|ing ga desperate eleventh hour company’s 1941 income was ade- 7 B Ut L e s I I quate and on food cargoes was too 3 B | The recess was asked for prepar-| APA PROF"S FOR e era u es og. Ie ation of rebuttal and was granted | lAS-I- YEAR BB' Sr., Solicitor General of the War-| time Commission who contended the recess was delaying the hear- | it A8 Ay SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 11 New Phase Is Revealed o s HART RESIGNSJH‘ g i The annual report shows a net profit of $977,066 as against $126,- RS B Wi L | about 24 hours béfore the first quotation of Alaska Juneau mine el stock today is 2%, American Can about flowers, the beautiful weather and points of interest around the Steel 59%, Commonwealth and islands. Now, not even the most H Southern ', Curtiss Wright 7%, '0 Su“eed Ame"(an International Harvester 49%, Ken- distance tolls for a discourse so H trivial as that. It probably was one O"Kerr Far Eas' | Northern Pacific 6, United States of the hundreds of conversations —_— Steel 50%, pound $4.04. wires, with nobody able to do any- Navy announced today that Ad-| rThe following are today’s Dow, thing about it. miral Thomas Hart has been re-'jones averages: industrials 10651, counter-esplonage activity that has of the Allied naval forces in the nothing to do with the communica- weciern Pacific and Viee Admiral known to be more than 200 Japanese o, dkalaiie s his SCess consular agents in Hawali and the Na,;iy d;;;:;ul;:‘: a “;‘::': ‘:"ffiss::"d Roberts ris report leaves no doubt that ., %)\ equested to be relieved of report also makes it clear that al- though other counter - espionage Put no information as to the na- agents wished to force these agents ture of his illness was given out. ? law passed for that very purpose, Hart formerly was commander 2. or arrest them, the Army command of the United States Asiatic Fleet. in Hawali objected for fear of an- Helfrich, 55, is a native of Java population in the islands and pre- lege at Den Helder, The Nether- cipitating trouble from Tokyo. lands. This then was the situation conclude in effect that if there were any military or naval se- crets in the islands that the use of in that vital zero hour on the morning of Dec. 7, it would be hard to discover what The plane which was to have carried Argentine Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu back from the |announcement that the great for- Rflif RAISE |endary founding of the Japanese i a determined attempt to capture |after 11 p.m. (Singapore time) con- ated in any way.” butfal Evidence " !that the Japanese troops had en- eral hearing on the shipping rate' rThe stout hearted British de- The request was granted after pear the ecity limits at nightfall ures to support his contention “’Elnlly. high, |over the objection of Paul Page, gents at Hawaiy; L 4 [ ing unnecessarily g had the best prefit in recent years AS (H'EF oF 144 the preceding year. NEW YORK, Feb. 11 — Closing bombs fell. The conversation was . . 62%, Anaconda 263%, Bethlehem Dutch Vice Admiral Named esthetic Japs would be paying long necott 33%, New York Central 8, that passed in code over public, WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 — The| DOW, JONES AVERAGES There is a third phase of this |jeved of his assignment as chief rails 27.19, utilities 13.85. tions act. That is that there were poieim of the Royal Netherlands these made up an army of spies. The SIIES Lo 1° the command because of his health, to register in compliance with the He is 64. tagonizing the civilian Japanese and a graduate of the naval col- which led the Roberts report to Japanese didn’t have and make (Continued on Page Five) i. ! ¢