The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8959. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1942 ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGAPORE FALLS; JAPS MOVING ON JAVA Nine Million Men Registering For MEN fil oM | fl{{elief From Those War Photos *7’] HRST I_AND New Battle C riser Commissioned by U. S. Service NIPPONS IN 'BIG THRUST ~ ATTACK ON ON SUMATRA Ready for P?FssibIe Duty in Constantly Growing Armed Forces (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The bulk of 9,000,000 men be- tween the ages of 20 and 44, many of them fathers of sons, filed through registration places across the nation today to enroll for pos- sible duty in the constantly grow- ing armed forces of the United States. “This and other registrations will be required to insure victory, final and complete, over enemies of the United States,” President Roose- velt said in setting this day as the first registration day since Ameri-| ca entered the war. Both previous registrations were held in peace time. The next registration will be held in the late spring when those be- ~ HEMISPHERE ' Enemy Sub Shells Oil Rex finery on U. S. Troop Guarded Island THREE TANKERS ARE TORPEDOED, SENT DOWN Fourth Tanker s Damaged But Remains Afloat in Dutch West Indies WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Dutch West Indies, Feb. 16—In the first land attack of the war on the Western Hemisphere, an enemy [ | i | | i | | | | | submarine shelled the ofl installa- | tions on the United States garri- soned Dutch West Indies island Aruba, | Panama Canal, and torpedoed three about 700 miles from the | Enemy Pafing Heavy Toll as Result of Bombing by United Nations Above is the new type streamlined U. S. S. Juneau, which was placed in commission last Saturday at the New York Navy Yard. The $13,000,000, 6,000-ton cruiser was launched October 25 at the Federal Shipbuild- ing and Drydock Company’s plant in Kearny. New Tersey, and Mrs. Harry I Lucas, wife of Juneau’s ahead of scheduled time. sented to the Navy at the time of the launching. Mayor, christened the craft ts it slid. down the -way:. The siiver service, wiici The Juneau went into commission four months und was raised by the citizens of Juneau, was pre- The suncau is a sister ship of the Atlanta which went intg commission last December 25. Both cruisers have 12 and 5-inch guns and are expected to do 43 knots an hour. Commander of the Juneau is Capt. L. W. Swenson, of Prove, Utah. His last tour of duty was TWO CRUISERS, FIVE " TRANSPORTS ARE HIT :Greal RefiruTrl_iCenler De- stroyed by Dutch-Policy of “Scorched Earth” (By Associated Press) The Japanese forces, already vie- tors at Singapore, gained another stepping stone in the southward offensive by reaching Palembank, southern Sumatra, but the United | Nations are exacting a frightful price for this gain in the approach on the island of Java. tween the ages of 18 and 20 and 45 and 65 will sign up. The total United States, Dutch and British planes are furrowing Bangka Strait tankers off its coast. A fourth tanker was badly dam- attached to tke Atlantic fleet. Executive Officer is Comdr. W. E. sel's distinctions is that there are five brothers of the Sulivan family commander of a division of destroyes Moore of Los Angeles. One of the ve - registrations will number approxi- mately 15,500,000 in all. MRS. M. K. CAUTHORNE RETURNS FROM TRIP T0 SOUTHEAST TOWNS Mrs. Mary K. Cauthorne, Advis- ory Maternal and Child Health Nurse for the Territorial Depart- ment of Health, returned during the weekend from a ten-day trip HIN i 5 v From Long Beach, Cal, comes this attractive picture of new swim fashions, worn by three Long Beach girls. At the left is an imported | English suit. #tyle swim suit. Center is a Swiss importation and right, a Frenche Owing to scarcity of dyes, most of the new swim suits tend to be almost flesh tone in color, "MA" HUSON C.H. Flory & aged near the harbor of Willem- stad, 75 miles east of Aruba, butj} the vessel did not sink. Both islands are the sites of the largest and second largest oil re- finéries in the world and &ré guarded by American troops coop- erating with the Dutch in their | defense. Only slight damage was done to the refinery of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the tar- get of the sub’s shells on Aruba Island, and there were no casu- alties. of Waterloo, Towa, George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert, and four brothers of the Roberts family of n Bridgeport, Co ,» Joseph, Patrick, Louis and James, in the crew. i{; VS«tillr fiasn’t Enough 1 fl: u STR Al_IAA MOBILIZE EVERYTHING and their bombs have scored direct hits on two Japanese cruisers and five crowded transports. One of the cruisers hit was set afire. A The ' United Nations' command from its Java headquarters, an- nounced that fighting planes and bombers caused “great destruction” among the Japanese moving om Palembank. The smoke of the Dutch ‘“scorched earth” policy hangs over the great oil refining center with damage estimated at $100,000,000, said to be the greatest piece of deliberate destruction by man of his to ' Ketchikan, Wrangell and Pet- 1 £ s ersburg where she visited the pASSES AwAY; passes Awa : P”me MmEe—r Says Ihey own prapel:.t:;. P nin mlth centers and discussed pro- | | Bl cé iy r"m & SEEETUNTACOMA I Seattle o c ‘ - BIG BRITISH : The | { MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 16. (HUR(Hlll . | Prime Minister Curtin of Aus- She Was Alaska Pioneer|Former Well Knqwn Ju-| (ONVOY H" i today called for mobiliation . . | | of “everything we have.” He said 5 and Former Juneau | neau Resident Dies After | ‘ e Commonwettn v o T S AYS I:IGH'I' s Resident Iliness of One Week | W | prodly chled the Britsh Bmpires u.s‘m { il Combined Axis Thrust| | Gibraltar of the Orient, has been | SEATTLE, Feb. 16—Funeral ser-| -SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 16 —| | reduced to shell ruins, a prison for f the Empire’s troops who survived the M M "GO~ WASHINGTON—The House For- eign Affairs Committee heard some glowing reports of the bravery and tough fighting qualities of Chinese troops when Secretary of War Stim- son and other cabinet officers tes- titied behind closed doors on the $500,000,000 loan to China. However, the committee also got some information about internal affairs in China which wasn't so heartening. Secretary Morgenthau warned that the morale of the Chinese ci- vilian population was not the best. Initial Jap successes in the Pacific Southwest had something to do with this, he said, but the chief vices were held in Seattle this afternoon for Mrs. William Huson. 81, one of Alaska's most beloved sioneers. Mrs. Huson died Thursday in Tacoma. Her home was in Sum- ner, Wash. She was known in the days of| the Klondike rush as the “Sweet-| heart of the Yukon,” and later as| “Ma” Huson. She was widely| known among the oldtime sour- doughs. Mr. and Mrs. Huson entered the hotel business in Juneau in 1894 and joined the Klondike rush in 1897. They took the first piano| into Dawson, moving it in sections over Chilkoot Pass. She staked out a number of gold claims and later operated restaurants in Daw-: son and Nome, returning to the States in 1909. In addition to her husband, she| is survived by a sister, Mrs. Rose Charles H. Flory, 62, Supervisor of the Mount Baker National Forest, died here Saturday after an ill- ness of one week. He had been in the Forestry service 35 years and was Regional Forester in Alaska, with headquarters at Juneau, for 18 years. He was to retire from the service this year. For years Mr. Flory was one of | the highly respected residents of | Juneau and resided on Sixth Street, opposite St. Ann’s Hospital. The home is now rented and occupied by Capt. B. R. Aiken. Mr. Flory and Mrs. Flory were lovers of flowers and their garden was one of the show places of Juneau. | When the Florys left Juneau sev- | eral years ago, his headquarters were in Bellingham, H Wrecks English Destroy- er and Merchantmen ROME, Feb. 16.—A British: de- | stroyer, patrol boat and seven mer- | chantmen in a big convoy bound | from Alexandria to Malta have been | sunk in the past three days by a | combined Axis air and sea assault, | the Italian command said today. | The TItalians declared eight more | cargo vessels, five cruisers and two destroyers were damaged, other | ships in the convoy turned back and | two planes destroyed in the action, | which was called “a brilliant suc- cess achieved by Axis air and naval forces which acted in close collab- oration from different bases on the Mediterranean.” SINGAPORE'S He was blaste Dover. He w blown from the rescue ship, bullets. was rejected hera ew Sources for Raw And_ yet Marcel Lenthreau, wanted to join the navy, and appli o he is not a cilizen, Marcel Lenthreau and Lieut. Commander E. D. Leete in a submarine to the bottom of the Straits of bombed from a destroyer. wounded by shrapnel and machine gun Rescued, he was then left, wants more action! He 1 in New York, above, but he Marcel now is applying for Materials Coming Up ill-starred fight. Arm;a;als | Bomber With - Sub Victor | | | | | NEW YORK, Feb. 16 — The Army Air Force today disclosed “the probable destruction” of an enemy submarine off the East Coast by an Army bomber. Four bombs were dropped near the undersea raider as it attempted a crash dive after attacking an Prime Minister Predicts Great Victory with - American Aid LONDON, Feb. 16—Prime Min~ ister Winston Churchill last night grimly announced the fall of Singa- pore and frankly acknowledged the surrender of the British Far East bastion as a “heavy and far-reach- ing military defeat.” - In his stirring plea for the very life of his government, he declared pointedly that now with the United States in the war, Great Britain is no longer alone. As a means of answering the ris- ing clamor against his regime, he issued a declaration with policies ’;’:"“ i:’“dj;‘:_‘e‘: n:dh ‘l’:‘:‘”“h‘:g Decker of Oneida, N. Y., a brother,| Survivors are the widow, daugh- : Americen tanker. The disclosure pased on the United States entry srowme flati et et George Ross of Los Angeles, anditer and stepson. or u Ies or was made when six members of into the conflict. “It is something brought inflation and widespread|several nephews and nieces in this|* » " the plane’s crew were awarded let- — ; = ik starvation. “We must take steps without de- lay to stabilize Chinese currency,” Morgenthau held. “That’s just as imp::mm if not more so, at the SIO(K ouo‘A"o"s | ill war-wind that doesn’t blow up| thetic laboratory substitutes up dropped from an altitude of 1,000 TUDA y,s 8‘0 moment, 'thn arms shipments.” | ol { a lot of mew sources for raw ma- |- fo such a level that no more feet. One of them exploded near W : terials. from the Indies will ever be the hull of the U-boat and oil The situation has been greatly aggravated recently, the committee state. —— NEW YORK, Feb. 16 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 'HUNDREDS OF J haadic v K ] EVACUATED |Japanese Pressure May DEFEAT HITS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—It's an The story of rubber has stretched | so thin that it won't stand repeat-| for the cure of malaria—but by that time might pull its syn- needed, What I mean is that no di ters of commendation by the Army. The Army said the bombs were slick, 50 feet in diameter, appeared on the surface. This was followed «‘Con'trxniuéd o; ; Page Five) *frr LIBERTY, was told, by intensive fifth column . 4 activities to spread dissension in sslte‘el Afi“;“f“dzomz’;‘;‘.‘wenfit‘:flehexgl | ’ ng. The same holds true for tin. |sion of new raw material sources ¥ @ second siick a few minutes the Chinese army and distrust of | gouimern 15, Gurtiss W:lah& ;x‘] wGOVer"men' Cleal’S 0u| 69 NOW Be Iaken Agalns' 1 could write a ream about what|ever can be complete, but aside later. the United States among civilans.| gennecott 34, New York Central) A . i Gy is happening to peanuts The|from those products mentioned ST o S In this connection, Assistant Sec-|g.. Northern Pacific 6' Um{"d" Resfflded lones in 1 Phlllppme FOI’[eS goober vrop in 1942 is going to be | there are some sources being dis- Al Ml"ARD HERE- retary of State Breckinridge I,ongism“,s Steel 51%, pound "“AM P | s . | staggering and all because the oilicuvered in South America that ’ i made some eye-opening disclosures : i) camorma WASHINGTON, Feb, 16. — The |that presses out of peanuts is be-|may change the economy of the 10 ARRANGE FOR [E i- B - ; o v - | 3 Western pre. FRE b Pl et B Bt voroe A L | ety a¢ Sorpuges o, | PRI, SO g ‘ CANNERY OPENING . | e are s W, i . ¥ | 1 fimfigi The cmna.xe wa':“,ones averages: industrials 107.31.| SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Ft.’h. 16.[pressur‘e against Gen. Douglas Mac- | | "0 oy thic column with | For ins e 15 “Manila T R fi’ ejected these over-| . i1c 2760, utilities 13.90 —Hundreds of enemy aliens, the | Arthur’s fighting men on Batan| 4 | b tance, z %! A1 Minard, suberintendent of the tures, Long declared, but Quisling : : vanguard of many fhousands yet to | Peninsula, according to today's war |Preity exciting yam sbout quinine.| rope,” which Goges from “Manila . (! 2 g .- — Ninety percent of the world’s sup- | hemp,” which isn't hemp at alf, but Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery || Rhane TR be moved, were cleared from Cali- | communique, It reported “heavy Rere.mch cxperts sy Bt b isorblat key mrgnary and industrial | enemy agullery fire p:n Batan for /Y comes from the sides its value as a food, wheat!gyeas over the weekend. | the last 24 hours” and intermit- dies. can be utflized in 20 industries. Those cleared were residents of | tent infantry fighting in several sec-| If this is finally cut off, the pines and until that source was | e {69 restricted zones which the gov- | tors. United States will have on hand shut off, supplied the world’s A guest at the Baranof Hotel, | The frst electrically cooked meal’ ernment set for evacuation, the dead a two- to five-year supply, de- | __ Minard went to the cannery today was prepared in England in 1895, line set for last midhight, J pending on wartime demands | on an inspection trip. at Taku Harbor, arrived in Juneau' % yesterday to direct preparations for | It i 342 s 16 s SN ¥ the Thllip the opening of the fishing season.| elements in China were continuing their intrigues among both troops and civilians. ‘These traitorous forces are led (Continued on Page Four) Dutch East In-|abaca, a fibrous plant. Pass up telephone gossiping during an emergency. —— ., — BUY DEFENSE BONDS " (Continued on Page Two)