The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8963. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY NIPPONS PLAN BIG THRUST ON AUSTRALIA Russians Check; Crushing Nazi Offensive GUNFIRE AT WOTJE RED ARMY TEARING IN ONGERMANS Bloody los—s;; Reporied—; Predict Spring Cam- | paign Collapses (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Russia today declared her great winter cffensive is rolling on un- checked and crushing German counter-attacks with bloody losses. The Soviet army newspaper Red Star confidently predicted defeat for Hitler's spring campaign and the collapse of his armies this the fighting year, asserting that \ coalition of the United States,i Britain and Russia far surpass | Germany in both resources, man- | power and reserves. Economic resources mean the final decision,” Red Star declared. “The help we are receiving from our allies is growing continuously.” Red Star added that Hitler al-| ready suffered the loss of 6,000,000 | men in Russia and can not replen- | ish his manpower. A bulletin from Hitler’s head- quarters acknowledged the Russians are on the offensive but reiterat- ed its unsubstantiated claim 'that Red forces on the Moscow front | have been encircled. Cu the North African front, the Germans reported, bad weather has brought a lull in the desert battle. | | 60 WASHINGTON—One week after | Pearl Harbor, Wendell Willkie was | invited to lunch at the White House. During his visit Willkie gave this friendly, frank advice to| the President: | “You have come through this| (Pear] Harbor) in very good shape.| The American people are solidly hehind you. They realize it wasn't your fault. But the thing you've got to guard against is another mis- take. If there should be another| great catastrophe the reaction will| be different.” Fortunately, the downfall o Singapore, catastrophic as it is, is not regarded as Roosevelt's fault. However, some of the resentment of which Wendefl Willkie warned is beginning to creep into the press, the letters to Congress and the gen- eral - neighborhood conversation. Very definitely, a feeling of less- confidence is beginning to permeate the country. The public feels less confidence in the Navy—which the American people had considered the finest and most powerful in the world. And there is less confidence in the Roosevelt Administration and the general way things are being run in Washington. Nobody knows better than the President himself what a tragedy this is. For the one great thing which resulted from Pearl Harbor, and which almost made up for our \ losses, was an_absolutely unified nation. PEARL HARBOR MYSTERY That unity is slowly evaporating,| first because too great a feeling of optimism was radiated from high places immediately after Pearl Har-| bor and since; second, because tl)e} public, not even today, has been giv en any real idea of how dl"Vflhldl-’ ing were the losses at Pearl Har- bor. 3 Because the public never was| told the blunt, sickening truth re-| garding these losses, it does not now realize why the U. S. Navy, was not able to help Singaporg, why we were not even able to send u‘l rescue fleet to the beleuguvred‘ Marines at Wake Island. And because people still do not know the full losses of Pearl Har-| bor, they are inclined to think that (Continued on Page Four) Smoke Rises lrom Wolje ——————— » A view from a U. S. cruiser of smoke ruins from Wotje Island, where naval and air bembardment fired hangars, fuel stores, a munitions dump and destroyed several ships. (Pathe News pk‘ture) ‘ARMYPLANE PRESIDENI CRASHES, 2 TO DISCUSS LOSE LIVES WAR MONDAY Air Corps Bomber Strikes Early Says Roosevelf Will Earth South of | Point Qut Fallacy of TACOMA, Feb. 20—Two AMY WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — The | airmen were kllh‘(l and three in- ,qqress President Roosevelt will '-“"ed today when an Air c‘uxp- make to the nation Monday night, bomber from McChord Field pe white House said today, may crashed 15 ‘miles south of FOrt!y, ., a¢ strategy but more prob- Lewis. McChoed. Fleld da;just soubhedst a presentation of the world at war, of here. (as Roosevelt sees it. The President’s pres Stephen Early, told reporters: “I think when he has finished the speech it will be made WAGE-HOUR s secretary, | | v ARMY ALASKA ROAD GROUP N EDMONTON\ W|II Study and Report on Route for Highway to North from South EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada, Feb. 20—A United States army com- mission, headed by Col. W. H. Hoge of the U. S. Army Engineers, ar- rived here today on a trip to study »«d route of the inland [the pro highway to Alaska. | Col. Hoge said, “the commission | is here to study the route from Ed- monton via Grand Prairie, Fort |St. John, Fort Nelson and White- {horse into Alaska.” | He said that his recommendations will be sent to Washington. Other members of the commission are Lt. {Col. R. D. Ingalls, Army Engineers; Lt. Col. E. A. Mueller, Quarter- masters Corps, |civilian senior highway engineer of |the United States Pacific Roads | Admmim'uuun FIRSTLADY QUITS POST. ~ WITHGOVT. Resigns as Assmam Di- rector of 0CD-Gives Reasons WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — Mrs. | Roosevelt today resigned her post as Assistant Director of Civilian | Defense. Defense Director James Landis accepted the resignation in a let- ter voicing gratitude for her “vis- but saying he |ion and energy,” ably will be directed principally at|could not ask her to continue “to o other categories are either de- jgive s0 greatly of your time and |your gallantry.” Mrs. Roosevelt recently made |known her intention to resign as |soon as her Division was function- ing efficiently. coast lines are no longer the |saving or protection to the coun- try which they were said to be by some persons not so long ago.” Roosevelt cancelled his press con- ference today because of a head cold. | our RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED Juneau ChaTnEer of Com-| mtuer MARS IN ATTACK A resolution urging the officials of the Wage-Hour Division to in- —p———— terpret and enforce the . | Hour Law with fairness, justice | and common sense, and with con-| Acoafirin.edfl on PQgP’ Two) The passes are issued at Coast Guard headquarters at the end of Lhe Government Dock. Three pass- | port photographs are required for of the law, was adopted by the resolution closely follows the onej a“d planes DeSfl’OY- |in Seattle on January 19 which .hkw The complete resolution as adop- Admiralty and Air Ministry today - {damaged when they staged an un- 700 PASSES ISSUED | Two™Nazi submarines were sunk in n the merchant ships in the con- dents have recelved Coast Guard reported. Lieut. Col. Swan. Dahlberg, Army 'each pass. | construction contractor, left Ju- sideration of the spirit amd intent Juneau Chamber of Commerce at 2 the regular meeting yesterday. The| Speedboa'sr Su b marines unanimously adopted by the Alasl Miners Association ats the meeting ed by Brifish |velief from the law as relates Lu‘ Alaska mining. LONDON, Feb. 20—The British tad by the Chamber of Commerce, announced enemy speedboats and and officially signed by Acting|planes were destroyed and others isuccessful attack on a British con- |voy last night. the all-night battle, but no cas- Io ju"EAu (“IIE" ualties or damage were inflicted Approximately 700 Juneay ' resi- voy, its warship escort or protect- waterfront passes so far, Lieut. Matt ing British planes; the communique !Ryan, Juneau Port Captain, said Ll i SWAN DAHLBERG LEAVES Quartermaster Corps officer and 'former Washington and Alaska |neau by airplane for the States | today. - BUY DEFEN>E BONDS clear that the oceans on each of | “This pow is accomplished,” she said today. “By remaining, I would only make it possible for those who wish to attack me because of -my beliefs to attack the agency. I consider it can prove its usefulness |so completely to the people that it should be free of attack in or- |der to render its maximum sel |fee.” Girl Fler Is Imprisoned As"Agent’ Laura Ingafl;Noted Av- iatrix, Sentenced for i Aiding Reich WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Justice James Morris today sentenced Laura Ingalls, one time noted avia- trix, to serve from eight months to two years in prison for failing to register as a paid agent of the German Reich. She made a brief, dramatic state- ment to the court before sentence was imposed, repeating her con- tention, made before and during the trial, that in accepting the money from German embassy offi- cials to make isolationist speeches throughout the country, she was acting as a self-appointed counter- espionage agent for the United States. - e BUY DEFENSE BONDS and C. F. Capes,l " who have “lived in Washington all. | | AUS ‘"Paraslles" Toldfo Gef Out of Washingion Now; FDR Kicks Lid Off Agam —— s | | FIGHTING - KEEPS UP ONBATAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—-The War Department this morning re- ports fighting at fixed positions continues in all secticns of the Batan Peninsula front Enemy airplanes have dropped a By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Presi- dent Roosevelt has kicked the lid off again and not in some time as he uncovered so much contro- versy in Wdshington, D. C., as when he suggested that all the parasites” get out of town to make way for war workers. Insurance salesmen, grocery clerks, society leaders, dollar vear men, and members of a doz- | | | fending themselves or asking their best friends: “Am I a Parasite?” And even their BEST friends will tell them “yes” or “no.” Because there's hardly a living soul in the nations c'apital that hasn't a defin- number of incemxdiary bc ¥ e diary bombs at in- | ite idea as to whether his best friend )1 iiong pehind the defending | is a leech, a politician, a hanger- e yne War Department (,om- on, an opportunist, all of those munique also says. things—or just a conscientious work- er trying to get ahead and do his job as he sees it. I think it is rather amusing that the biggest protest to the Presi- dont’s suggestion came from people - o WES OVERBY BACK | IN OFFICE; LEAVES FOR SITKA SUNDAY our lives.” These people don't have 'a vote in local or mational affairs, Tivir representation in government | mployment is negligible .Yet they Internal Revenue, is back in his '(brive as the capital thrives. Their office in the Federal Building after |business booms as government's field trip to Wrangell and Pet- {booms. Their big booms in two, ersburg. He will leave again Sun- ‘genereuons have been during wmd.duy for Sitka and will not be back {War I and World War IL Thc&*unm after March 1, he said to- |are the real estate dealers, the|gqy The office will be closed while 'store owners, the utility and trans- he isgone. portatlon operators, the other doz- }a big city alive, ‘Tlf:\ishaw hem-(OAST GUARD VESSEI. MAKES MERCY TRIP ’the first to scream that the Presi- !dent was directing his barbs at} Mrs. William Munz, whose hus- ~and .operates the Munz Airways. at Nome, was rushed to Juneau this morning on a U. 8. Coast Guard vessel, for an emergency appendec- tomy, which was performed at noon REACH CANADA | , AFTER ATTACK *SireMine ana e iwo s | children were removed from a pas- | senger vessel. The two childrren, one nine months old and the other twenty-one months, are being cared for at the hospital tempc ————— e ¥Z4 n SURVIVORS i (Conunued on Page Five) | ‘Two Lifeboats from Tor- pedoed Ship Still Miss- 'ngr Repor' SBYS | Housewives and other purchasers of focds are again reminded tha AN EAST COAST CANADIAN siores will be closed on Monday PORT, Feb. 20—Twenty-two sur- ilie observance of Washington's vivors of a ship torpedoed in the irtbday. Extra orders may be giv- western Atlantic were landed here en early tomorrow to last over i today. | hioliday. ‘Two other lifeboats from the ship | i | still are ‘unreported, it was an-| Fo®s are almest constant on the Aleutian Islands. i nounced. . cruiser’s anti-aircraft guns in action off Wo tje atoll during the naval raid on the Marshall and (.llbert Islands. Note a mmpanlnn \essel to the cruiser in the background. (Pathe News Picture). Brifish Are Countering, Bilin River F:erce Fighting Continues - | 24 Hours on West Bank ~Army Reports RANGOON, Feb, 20—Britisi; and Indian defense forces are counte attacking repeatedly in attempis hold their hard-pressed line on . we‘st bank of the Bilin River, army communique sald today. The war bulletin said “fierce fighting continued during the past 24 hours behind the Bilin River.” PR A R NoPensions 'Be Allowed - (ongressme an Wes Overby, Deputy Collector of S€Nate Scraps aps One Part of « Program of Proposed Legislation WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—The Senate has voted 75 to 5 to scrap pensicns for Congressmen. The pension program for the members of the lower House aroused a nationwide protest. The repealed measurc now goes to the House where quick passage is predicted. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 20 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2, American Can 60, Commonwealth and Southern 9/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, Interna- tional Harvester 48':, Kennecott 34, New 'York Central 9%, Northern Pezcific 62, United States Steel 50%, pound $4.04, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 597%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are todays Dow, Jones averages: industrials rails 27.56, utilities 13.54. >-oe Amazon River, § eam | (G navigable 2,300 miles. Abbreviations were commonly used among the ancient writers. 105.10," " TAPS STEER AROUND JAVA 10 HIT BALI | Fierce Battle Rages on [ Idyllic South Sea ’ Island (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) With the Jap invasion of the idyllic islands of Bali and Timor, according to claims from Tokyo, the invaders are attempting to isolate the United Nations forces at Java and by-pass that stronghold for a | direct " attack on Australia. Pre- vious indications were that the Japs would have to take Java before at- | tempting an invasion of Britain's huge sea continent below it. | But the waters around Bali were | threshed today with exploding tor- | pedoes, bombs and shells from war- ;smps and bombing planes as the United Nations closed with the Japs in an apparently unsuccessful battle (against a strong, sea-borne invasion il’urce on the gleaming beaches of | Bali. Defenders were again exacting a heavy price in the Japanese at- ‘Lmk but evidently not heavy ‘nough. Nipponese landing parties | ‘warmed from transports and cut through the white surf in landing barges, despite counter blows dealt |by Allied war planes, surface craft |and submarines. The defenders scored direct bomb hits on one or more Japarese cruis- ers and three transports, and eight near misses on destroyers. According to an early com- munique from Un'ted Nations head- quarters, four Jap fighting planes were shot down in flames and the |defending air lorce returned to its ¢ mtnct J MR ST AIR RAIDERS AGAIN STRIKE PORT DARWIN Japanese Claim Extensive Damage Done fo Aus- fralian Fleet | TOKYO, Feb. 20—The Japanese | Military Headquarters today declare | that Japanese naval planes sank a 16000-ton Australian cruiser, two | destroyers, one subchaser and nine transports in air raids yesterday (on Port Darwin, on the north cout {of Australia. ' In addition, the military head- uarters declare anothier destroyer | was heavily damaged, 26 Australian planes were downed or destroyed /on the ground, three hangars, two |barracks and other establishments, including the naval headquarters, piers and government offices were blasted or set afire. o i S FLYING SOUTH Ben Crawford, Mrs. Elma. Roger and Harry Martin were among pas- sengers legving Juneau by air for Seattle today. TODAY'S BLOW *for LIBERTY, Take turns minding tots so neighbors can do community work.