The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 12, 1942, Page 1

/ THE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1942 VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8956. HEARING IS UNDERWAY IN WASHINGTON House Committee Told of Obstacles Confront- ing Cannerymen VARIOUS PROBLEMS STATED POINTEDLY Delegate Dimond, P. E.| Harris, A. W. Shiels Express Views - WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — The House Merchant Marine and Fish- eries Committee today heard the Salmon Industry is being called on to step up production and at the same time confronted insuper- able difficulties, even for normal ‘operations, as the result of Qxe war. P. E. Harris, of Seattle, repre- senting cannery operators, told the committee members “we are being called upon to can everything we can catch with head and tail on it,” but at the same time could ol:l-I (Continued on Page Two) "GO~ RIO DE JANEIRO—There is a potent lesson for the United States in the experience of the American delegation with Argentine censor- ship The Argentine Government had imposed a strict censorship on all newspapers and radio stations re- LULLTODAY, FIGHTING IN PHILIPPINES 'Believed En@mx Reorgan- izing Forces Before Taking Offensive |ISLAND OF MASBATE Japanese Appealing to Farmers as "Dear Breth- ren’’ Go Back to Work WASHINGTON. Feb. 12—A lull /in Philippine fighting was report- |ed today by the War Department, iwhk:h said the enemy evidently is | reorganizing his forces and await- |ing reinforcements before resum- /ing the offensive on the Batan | Peninsula front. The invaders meanwhile have {occupied the island of Masbate, (near the center of the Philippine | archipelago, the communique said, | indicating the first recent exten- |sicn of Japanese occupation of the J islands. Larry Allen (right), Associated Press war correspondent who has sail- ed nearly 100,000 miles with the British Navy in Mediterranean battles, returned to New York by plane—after hitch-hiking a ride most of the way on a bember—and reported to his boss, Kent Cooper, General Manager of the Associated Press. Alaska Miners Assn. Adopts Resolufion on Unfairness, Labor Ad = = =" " to!ven,” and wging them to return its' to thelr farms to resume work on Ithe sugar and other crops. ! Reports reaching Gen. Douglas At a special meeting of the di- then made by Alaska industry rectors and members of the Alaska|bring about. an -appreciation dt Miners Association held at Seattle situation, and lon January 19, the following reso-' wHEREAS, after the enactment | lution was unanimougly adopted: its administrators frequently in- | MacArthur's headquarters indicat- | That WHEREAS, the Association | dicated that the Act had little ap- €d the farmers have been evicted has had under consideration for| plication to conditions obtaining in|by the Invaders from crowded Ma- the past several weeks certain the Territory and no- efforts were|nila or have hidden in the moun- phases of the “Fair Labor Stand-|thereafter made untll quite re- tains to escape harsh treatment. ards Act of 1938” and certain pract- | cently to acquaint Alaska industry|As a result, there is a shortage of ices and policies of those admin- | with changes of policy as the Act | laborers and food supplies are be- istering it as the same affect the affected their interests, and coming scarce, Alaska mining industry, and | WHEREAS, this Association feels Soatien o . Sty WHEREAS, it appeaws to Lhis: that owing to the peculiar and dif-! Astociation that representatives of | ficult position of the Alaska mln-lso SORRYI i 1 | the Administrator have assumed ing industry and the importance in an extremely technical position as|the present emergency of the con- {to its interpretation and have at-|tinuance of full operations, t,hc‘ tempted to give it a practical ap-|Association now directs the atten-| Ho" K Alo L] in the Territory R v A ' REPORTED OCCUPIED garding news of what actually took| E | | place among the Pan-American for- resenting a great majority of thejyhich generally represent those | eign ministers trying to break Axis mine operators of the Territory.|prevailing in a frontier section| relations at Rio. This censorship deems that this policy on the part|have recognized relatively longi required that Argentine newspapers of the representatives of the Ad-|hours of labor both for the con- | print only facts—no comment, no|Ministrator is'highly detrimental|yenience of the operator and the| criticism of Argentine policy. {to the Alaska mining industry and|yorkers and because of the general | In fact the general censotship threatens its dislocation, and that|pelier that the Act had no ap- was so forbidding that, in report-|the attention of the Administrator |plication to them by reason of the ing victories of the Russian Army,|and the proper committees of COn- fact that wages paid were in all newspapers were forbidden to pub-|8ress should be directed thereto|instances far above the minimums lish news of a military advance un- With a request that means be taken | equired which belief was concurred | less ®he editor was in o position to|for rectification, and in by those earlier entrusted with | prove personally the number of WHEREAS, the Alaska mining‘me administration of the Act, the miles gained.” | | industry, while not actually en-|inqustry did not apprise itself of | Opposed to this censorship were|82ged in the production of guns, the various regulations, interpreta- | the U. S. delegation, the Brazilian ai'planes or other materials useditive bulletins and opinlons pro-| plication to the Alaska mining in-ition of Congress and the Admin- PIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U. S. and British Asiatic fleets. BRITISHERS BLAST AXIS . TANK FORCE North African Imperial Ar-/ fillery Scatters Invaders (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | After two months of steady re |treat on the North African front,| | artillery fire scattered <a strong, tank-supported Axis force in the "dcsert near El Mechili. | | British mobile units “contmued‘ aggressive activities” in the main | battle zone 40 miles west of To-| bruk. | |dustry which it is believed islistrator to the following practices contrary to the tfue intent and|and policies which vitally affect Japanese Ambassador fo! | France Plunges fo meaning of the Act. and {its membership: Death in Paris ; | | WHEREAS, the Association, rep-| (1) Ccnditions 12—Sotomatus Katce, PARIS, Feb. Japanese Ambassador to France and former Minister to Canada, was injured fatally last night when he| fell from a window of the Embassy | Building. | He was seized with a shortage of | Jap Cruisers Strike Mines - 0ff Amboina Sinking of Submarine, De- BLOODY FIGHTING RAGES AT SINGAPORE Salmon Industry Wants Action On’42 Allen Home for Rest RA L7 AIRBA CA=S = =i GAPOR FORT LI e SIN "MISS LEGS” | the British today reported Imperial © G @A [< delegation, in fact about 19 Pan- American foreign ministers: who wanted the Argentine people to know the real truth about anti- Axis and anti-Argentine sentimenf at Rio. Also opposed to the Ar- gentine censorship were a young army of Buenos Aires newsmen and a majority of the Argentine dele- gation. All of the above figured that the more the Argentine people knew about the attempt to isolate the ‘Western Hemisphere from the Axis, the tougher it would be for the isolationist semi-dictatorship of Ar- gentine’s President Castillo to resist! breaking relations, In other words, the U. S. State Department and 90 per cent of the other Pan-American foreign min- isters were rooting for the basic principles of democracy—believeing that if the people knew the truth, the people’s reaction would be so| right and so overwhelming that President Castillo's government could not stand out against them. | directly in warfare, is neverthe- less playing an extremely important part in the defense of States for the reason that this industry, and this industry alone, has distributed throughout the re- {mote reaches of the Territory a eers who are engaged in maintain- ling roads, trails, airports and other communications, and that these op- erators also maintain radio and telephone stations with which they lare in contact with government authorities, and also in many in- |stances maintain branch weather reporting stations for the service jof the government, and WHEREAS, these enterprises, which are now facing disruption through the arbitrary rulings and actions of the administrators, have heretofore been the only instru- yments for the exploration and de- |velopment of the interior and re- mote portions of Alaska, the result of which disruption would be the elimination of many of these val- United | group of hardy, experienced pion-| |mulgated purporting to provide| |means of practically applying the Act and which were in themselves contradictory and did not in many; instances alter their method of conducting operations. | Now, notwithstanding that sit-| uation and notwithstanding that no labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of a fair standard of living or threatening the wellnre| of labor or competitive commerce exist within the Alaska mining in- |dustry, and notwithstanding that no surplus of employables exeept| |seasonal has ever prevailed, and| notwithstanding the existence of a| very high standard of labor wel- fare, in the facé of previous assur- | | ances, representatives of the Ad-| {ministrator, wholly unacquainted {with the territory and of condi-| |tions there have recently traveled {through our country promising dire| jconsequences to almost all opera-| (tors if their dictates are not con-| jcurred in and restitution retroac- |tively made for alleged violations breath while opening the window and fell into the embassy yard. He died shortly after being moved to a hospital. THREE SHIPS FOR NAVY IN Two Desiroy?s and One Cruiser Launched Without Pomp PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 12 Three new fighting ships were to- SLIDESTODAY stroyer Also Confirm- ed af Bafavia 1 | BATAVIA, Feb, 12 — A naval| commander today anhounced the recent sinking of two Japanese cruisers, one destroyer and one sub- they struck mines. The report was based on evidence confirming some previously were reported as sible sinkings. new which pos- BOMBERIN CRASH: FIVE MEN KILLED marine. off Amboina, mostly when | | Todt, Theresa Goll of Chicago displays the charms which won for her the title of “Miss Legs” at a con- test in which pretty professional models vied. The competition was sponsored by the Art Di- rectors’ Club of Chicago. STATEFUNERAL | HELD FOR TODT, NAZI BUILDER Hifler Gives Self Pat on Back in General's Eulogy Today BERLIN, Feb, 12—Maj Hitler's munitions Gen minister iuable defense facilities, and, WHEREAS, during consideration jand debate by Congress pret:edlngt the enactment, it was contended | of the Act in which wages are, got by the censors to the Argentine :(}),ui;st ’:V":”m": "‘“{‘ the bill only gefined to include board, lodging people. Various attempts were gd,“ emedy for sweat-shop ang other facilities furnished conditions and unemployment,|py the employer at such reason- made to give Buenos Aires the e truth. NBC’s competsnt Buck Canel,i"em"’r o | which °°ndm°m'°b‘|able cost to the employer as| ‘”imay be determined by the Admin- speaking in Spanish, broadcast the’ '2ied in Alaska, nor in many news by shortwave every night from the Western States constituting our istrator, many operators, owing to American frontier, the result of | (Continued op Page Four) which was that no efforts were{ of the overtime and hour provi- sions of the Act. (2) Referring to Section 3(m) SHORT WAVE BOTTLED However, very little of what really happened at Rio de Janeiro (Continued on 7P-¢e Five) day added to Uncle Sam’s rapidl expanding Navy by the launch- ing of two destroyers at the Phila- delphia Navy Yard and a cruiser across the Delaware River at Cam- den, N, J. The launching of the destroyers Butler and Gherardi and cruiser Montpelier was without any pomp. The ships moved down the ways' within 15-minute periods, it |and No. 1 builder, was eulogized by | WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. Feb.|Hitler today as “one of my truest | 12—Army officlals of Bradley Field'colleagues and friends, the great- announced this morning that a est road builder the world has multi-motored bomber crashed late ever known.” | yesterday. . Speaking at the state funeral for Lieut. Walter C. Boyle and four the famed Nazi engineer, Hitler | enlisted men were killed and one said Todt, “like myself, was not | man is missing. ashamed to work for his simple R bread and was never happier than BUY DEFENSE BONDS 'lwhen covered with cement dust.” SINGAPORE --- THE GREAT BRITISH BASE i1 SE 6 / GAPORE=—— .F THE DAYS ARE RUNNING OUT and the world soon will know whether Singapore will be another Tobruk, helding out against a devastating sea, air and land siege; another Dunkirk with a bitter withdrawal fight- ing and possible collapse of United Nations principal defenses in the Far East, or a turning point—with Singapore’s defense finally turning into an offense that may restore the. great naval base to the use of OF TIN CANS - INNEW LAW War Production Board Rules Hit Many Big Food lfems A WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — The Wgr Production Board today or- dered drastic reductions in the manufacture and use of tin cans, , prohibiting the canning of beer,! | dog food, pork and beans, tobacco,| ‘oll, baking powder, cereals, spag- | hetti, flour, spices and condiments. | The order also restricted to the 11940 total use figures, tin cans for | apples, peaches, pineapples, prunes| land similar items, eliminating | small-size cans in many other prin- !cipal food items. 'NewsWriIe[ ' Strikes Blow At Pessimism Allan Faith Tells Chamber Business Thriving in Juneau Business in Juneau is good and, food and rent rates are lower than n Seattle, Allan Faith, corres-| pondent for The Chicago Sun, told {the Chamber of Commerce today. Addresing the weekly chamber lunclteon at the Baranof Hotel, Faith declared the pessimism voiced by most Juneau residents is entire. ly unjustified, both from econ- omic and military standpoints, “I have talked to 400 persons, ranging from Acting Governor E. L. Bartlett to a drunken Indian in the few days I have been in Jun- ' he declared. “Most of these ecople seem to think Juneau is slow’ but that is not correct. For ne thing, local merchants report that business showed an increase last month as compared with a year ago.” Faith, former Cordova news- {paperman, who has been employed |y various newspapers in the States for the past 10 years, urged the chamber to foster faith and be- lief in Juneau and its future. | Frying Pan Into Fire “These people who are fleeing to the States are fleeing into cities Season DEFENDERS REFUSE TO SURRENDER Reject Demands by Count- er Affacking Invad- ers on Islands EVACUATION SHIPS STRAFED BY DIVERS Tokyo Repofis—%rilish War- ships Are Tonight in Action (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Bloody fighting rages today nearer the smoke-shrouded streets of Singapore as the British forces, scorning. the demand of the Japa- nese commander to surrender, fell back after bitter counter attacks during the night while Japanese planes smashed at a fleet of 25 evacuation ships in Singapore har- bor. Premature Broadcast A Rome radio, whose reports are generally premature, broadcast this morning a report from Tokyo claiming the Japanese flag was flying at Raffles Square in the center of Singapore. Simultaneously, a Tokyo broad- cast said Japanese troops on the northwest outskirts of Singapore have launched an attack to drive out the British “remnants.” Offensive Halted The Tokyo report implied the offensive had been temporarily halted and while the British had rejected the demand for capitula- tion, the battle for the city has not yet been won. C. Yates McDaniels, of the As- sociated Press, the last correspon- dent remaining in Singapore, said the infantry charged the Japanese and drove them back at several points, Ships Are Strafed McDanlels’ dispatch was filed from a ship lying off shore and under repeated attacks of the Ris- ing Sun dive bombers. McDaniels said, however, that beefore he left Singapcre, battle lines were moving closer to the city. “We have been dive-bombed half (Continued on Page Two) ACA PLANES BUSY ON SITKA SHUTTLE On Alaska Coastal Airlines flights to Sitka today, Pilot Alex Holden took James Hill, Zeb Harris, Earl Miller, John Jones and John Carnellia, returning with Mrs. F. Schrey, Clara Tucker, R. Elkins, Lyle Hebert and John Ryno, On a second flight to Sitka, Holden’s passengers were Ann Hamby, George Myers, Jim Segsey, Levi Persson and P. H. Prouty. Pilot Dean Goodwin also hopped to Sitka with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hagen and daughter. Pilot Shel- don Simmons flew to Tulsequah, B. C., with mail and express. TODAY'S BLOW *f. LIBERTY, Save household and sports rub- " (Continued on Page Stx) ber goods, handle carefully,