The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1942, Page 1

CONGRESSION.\L LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D c THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL LVIIL, NO. ). 8968, - . JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” FEBRUARY 26, 1942 MLMBI;R AbSOClATED PRl:SS PRICE TEN (I‘N'* U. S. SUBS TORPEDO JAP INVASION UNITS Three Nazi Warships Are Put Out Of Action BATTLESHIPS, BIG CRUISER CLAIMED HIT Commons Hears First Lord of Admiralty Report | “on German Fleet , LONDON, Feb. 26—The 26,000~ ton battleship Scharnhorst and | Gneisenau and the 10,000-ton heavy | cruiser Prinz Eugen apparently have been knocked out of the war| for some time to come, according to a naval review presented to the House of Comunons today by First Lord of the Admiralty Alexander. Moreover, he said, submarine Trident sent a torpedo into the stern of a cruiser of the Prinz Eugen class, probably the Prinz herself. The Trident also may have hit an escorting destroyer. A simultaneous communique from the Admiralty said the ocean- going Rident, 20,000 tons, was dog- | ging Germany's Norwegian sea route | and jt'was there she nailed a heavy crujser on November 29. The Trident also was credited with successful attacks on seven | German transport and supply ships, | three of which were seen to sink| ang ‘four were so damaged their loss’ ws (considered. probable. The Gneisenau, Scharnfiorst and Prinz _Eugen escaped from Brest (Oontinued on Page Five) 60 the British | | “ Clark Griffith, left, owner of the Washington Nats, and Roger Peck- MARTHUR'S - MEN FORCE ~ JAPS BACK Talking About Night Ball Attack, Smash Invaders {NIPPONS FALL BACK IN BATAN FIGHTING - Filipino Guerilla U s | on Luzon Island trcops, in a surprise thrust,. have forced the Japanese back several the Philippines at 6:30 a.m. Pacific Wartime. Clark Griffith and Roger Peckinpaugh |vet been penetrated: Snapped in New York shortly before the major league meeting ended, | The report said the attack hrought the first substantial ad- zvanco for the American-Filipino de- | fenders since they were forced to' | withdraw to the narrow peninsula | nearly twe months ago. { eapwhile, small bodiés of | Am pricary “afid Philippine | groups 'wr‘re reported harassing the Jap- \aneae in guerilla fighting in central | Luzon, scoring ‘“considerable " suc- eSS Luzer. is the main Philip- Corsefs, Girdles Arefo BeRubberless;MenAre :-..nrznnte Also Hit by New Order i ot in delivering the communique to | reporters this morning, told them \ ‘make {and emphasizes that a reversal had your own interpretation,” \bcen inflicted on the Jap mvnders inpaugh, now vice president of the Cleveland Indians, talk as they eat. Griffith, seeking as many as 35 night games this year, had to be content with 21. Other major league clubs are permitted- 0 * have 14 night games. DIVORCED | WASHINGTON— Re Jresenzaiive | Lane Powers, Republican of NEW\ Jersey, launched a presmentml boom for General MacArthur on. Capitol Hill the other day, although | | it must be said he chose a strnnge place to do it—a closed-door meet- | ing of the House Appmpriauom Committee. | The Committee was considering the new $23-billion Army appropri- ation, to provide thousands of ad- ditional tanks and other equipment for the war against the Axis. One of the first topics of discussion hinged on how much of the huge | war fund would go for needed sup- plies in the Philippines. This was/| Powers’ cue. | “Thank you, gentlemen,” he said with-a .bow. subect, I wish my -candidate for the Presidency | in-144 is that great soldier, famous Américan and outstanding Republi- | cah, ‘General Douglas MacArthur. - unwcnflc committee members npfluwed as vociferously as the! Blicans. Later, Powers was why he picked a closed-door meetifig_to sound the keynote for MacAfthur. “Yhat's part of the strategy,” grifinéd the popular New Jersey- ite. “Do you think I want to jinx the man by coming out for him| publicly at this early date?” ! Note: Among the nation’s out- standing military heroes who have been elected president were: George| Washington, Andrew Jackson, Wil- liam Henry Harrison, Zachary Tay-| lor, Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt. On the other hand, General McClellan failed in his race; against Lincoln; General Leonard Wood failed after the World War; Admiral Dewey was talked about| but made no real attempt after the Spanish-American War; and General Winfield Scott was defeat- ed after the Mexican War of 1848, PARLOR PINK The press conference at which James M. Landis, executive direc- tor of the Office of Civilian De- fense, announced the appointment of Melvyn Douglas as head of an| OCD arts council, was informal to say the least. 7 (Continved op Page Pour) “While we're on this| to announce that| a month of indecision, the War | PRI o VO B Production Board has made up its! | that the use of rubber is prohibited | SovIET R l N G for women and garters and sus- penders for men. PROGRAM T0 BE | AT STARAYA MOSCOW, Feb. 26—The Rus- |feated reserves the Germans are All Juneau PhYSICIBHS Jo,nlhurlmv into the flaming battle of |a Soviet ring of destruction closed % A « | tighter on survivors of the smashed Immedla'e dlon : One reserve unit, they said, was beaten when it attempted to break al and Child Health and Crippled |1t was identified as the Fifty- Children’s Services of the Terri-|sixth Regiment of the .German practicing physicians in Juneau to-| Dispatches from the front said day joined a program aiming Bt}thab Russian fliers, aided by Red tion of all children over nine|attempts of the Germans to take months of age, against diphtheria, supplies to the Staraya area by immediate immunization of older children and adults against ty- | In anouncing this program, IMAN(HORAGE WASHINGTON, Feb 26. — After jon Batan Peninsula. | mind and today officially announced | in the making of corsets and girdles ‘ CONDUCTED HERE sians declared today they have de- | Staraya, the Russian area where in Recommending Nazi Sixteenth Army. e \ In cooperation with the Matern-|through to aid the trapped troops. torial Department of . Health, all|pifth Division. immediate 100 per cent immuniza- |anti-aircraft fire, were breaking up and smallpox, and in addition, the|transport plane. phoid fever. was stressed that all persons under 21 years of age are eligible for this| service without cost to the in- dividual. Those above that age,| should obtain the immunization | from their family physician.. The doctors are cooperating wnh;’ In the wake 01 tw. separations, a reconciliation and a chain of brok- en promises, he chose Christmas Eve to tell her he was leaving... ! Gallant Troops in Surpnse‘ | Bands Score Victories | | WASHINGTON, Feb, 26 — The | War Department today reported |that Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s kilometers on Batan Peninsula in! The communique said | the fighting is still in progress with ' | continued local successes, but that/ the main enemy positions had not AMERICAN - CRAFT GET ~ INACTION ‘Two Ene nmroopships, | Navy Auxiliary Freight- er Are Sent Down ' DIRECT HIT MADE ON JAP CRUISER, BELIEF Dutch For(es Keep Fighting | and Stalling Off At- | . fackon Java | BATAVIA, Feb, 26 — United | States submarines, carrying on. an |intensive Allled naval offensive fouched off by the Japanese’inva- |slon forces, are credited today with ;omcxmy torpedoing and sinking two enemy troopships, a naval aux- ‘llhry freighter and probably scor- ,ing a direct hit on a Japanese ;cruufl within the past two days. ) | Ome submarine attacked the Jap- """ |anese warship but was formed to l submerge before the commander jUNEAu w‘ll’wuld observe the effect of the focated of the efion is ot GET B]G "wasflqcmed in the officlal commu- nique regarding the fighting now 'prosuuln; in the Dutch East In- BOAT HARBOR . . Dufresne Reports $300, 000 Job Here Is Now | "Sure Thing” Are Norwegians Defying Nazis? Look Here! l |k | | Smuggled into England, this picture shows a German military band parading through the streets or Dobrak, Norway, with bystanders turning their backs in direct defiance of German orders for all in- A habitants to turn out and listen to the band. Another Waghip for U. > T 4 v oy Lnst night the Allied Command |issued a communique that Allied bemblng planes supk threes Japa< |nese transports in. the s off ' Macassar, southwest of the . Cele~ s Island and at the same time |said the Dutch defense forces in the outlying portions of the East Indies Archipelago were still fight- ing “vitally delaying actions of the expected ‘all out’ offensive of the Japanese against the Island of Java.” o Creation of a $300,000 boat har- bor in Juneau under the Fish and Wildlife Service is a “sure thing” for post war development, Frank Dufresne, executive officer of the Alaska Game Commission, told members of Juneau Chamber or {Commerce at their noon meetis |teday In the Baranof Hotel. Du- |fresne added that the commission ls trying to get the construction !started immediately. | Dufresne returned to Juneau yes- terday from Washington, where he With pretty Barbara Dean Barton christening ity the destroyer had been for six weeks in connec- U. S. S. Barton slides down the ways at the Fore River, Mass., ship- |tion with the drafting of a new yards, ready for service. The craft was named in honor of Miss fish and wildlife bill for Alnska Barton’s grandfather, the late Rear Admiral John Kennedy Barton. 'The act, as introduced recently by It was completed for Jaunching in eight months |Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- Transpertation Will {mond. would ibersilas the Jaa 1o Wage-Hour Law Giv- Soon Be Tough Issue; 'Viewed with Alarm en as One Reason year’s residence in the Territory. tank CHICHAGOF MINE STOPS . OPERATIQNS Big Industry#(fl;)ses Down- Barbara Dean Bartoa Destroyer Barton | To Limit Hunting J. D. Littlepage, Manager of the | Dufresne stated that hunting will Chichagof Mine, returned a few 'not be as free in the Territory this days ago from Seattle and cxpects {year as it has been in the past. t0 B0 over to Chichagof today by He said also that Army and Navy Plane. Mr. Littlepage reports that P¥ officials had agreed to make cer- |the operations of the company are tain restrictions regarding hunt. (3 Present ‘closed down. This 1s ing by service men. ,duc to two reasons; first, shortage | The game commission chief said {of 1abor, énd, sécond, LHCEXSIAE of the company's status under the Access to one of the larger he was disappointed In the 8tti- | waseHonr Law. By JACK STINNETT plants is ENTIRELY by passenger 1 « WASHINGTON, Feb, 26—While|cars. Here, 1,800 workers drive an tude of pessimism that he notleed| “ay. Littiepage says that the com- come folks are fiddling around Average of 20 miles a day now and among Juneauites upon returning.| pany has never at any time claimed : @ midsummer 3,500 additional He¢ said there is more pessimism|that the Wage-Hour law was mot by workers will be employed At one of the navy yards, 3,000 any workers travel more than 60 miles “Ame making jokes about tire and auto- mobile rationing and the prospec- | tive shortage of motor fuel along the northeastern seaboard, a lot of federal officials and leaders in the transportation industries are real- here regarding the war than injgpplicable to gold mining in Al- part of the United States.|aska, but under the conflicting and ica is much " nearer being, changing interpretations of the vars round trip daily to get to and from ready for everything than most ious Wage-Hour Administrators, of work. persons think,” he said. “Many!whom there have been four since that and other examples of his alleged cruelty were recited by petite Nancy Kelly, 20, (above), copper-haired film actress, when the judge granted her a default divorce from Edmund O’Brien, also of the screen. Mozeels (onfirmed WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — The Senate has- confirmed the renom- ' ination of Benjamin B. Mozee to be United States Marshal of the Sec- ond Division of Alaska with his headquarters at Nome, the Territorial Health Departmenu in this program and immumzauon clinics for children will be con- Aucted, the dates of which will be announced in the near future. Those who signed an agreement recommending this immediate im- munization are, Dr. W. W. Coun-| cil, Dr. William P. Blanton, Dr. C.| C. Carter, Dr. Alan Rowland, Dr.| W. M. Whitehead, Wr. L. P. Dawes, | Dr. J. O. Rude and Dr. M. E.| Corthell. | The agreement recommending the | immediate immunization against | disease gives the following 1easons| for its urgency: “The last year | has brought about marked dmo-- cations and new concentrations ofl population in Alaska. Hazards Lm our health, especially to the health ; ‘(}omln\wl on !"ene Three) IS SUICIDE Alex Simpson Leaps to His Death from Window of Seaftle Hotel SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—Alex Simp- son, merchant at Anchorage, Alaska, is dead as the result of a plunge from the ninth story window of a | hotel here. Coroner Mittelstadt called the in- cident a case of suicide. In Simpson’s room in the hotel,| the police found a note addressed to his wife explaining that he dis- liked Anchorage and did not want to | return there. The note stated that | he wished to be buried beside his children in Reno, Nevada. ly “viewing with alarm.” There are, they say, scveral phases of national defense that the priorities: boys seemed to have ov- erlooked when they knocked auto production down to zero and made tires more precious than diamonds. It’s only a question of days when retreads and recaps will also drop into the ration box, and it’s only a question of months before these shortages are going to be ham- mered home with a vengeance. What is going to happen then in some vital defense centers is not pure conjecture, but a matter of facts. and figures that on the sur- face seem almost undeniable. For example, a preliminary sur- 'vey by one national orgammnom discloses that; is typical. At one of the largest aircraft things are being accomplished that the Act went into effect, it is im- engine plants, 84 per cent of em-' are not mentioned in the news- | pessible to know just where an em- ployees commute by automobile and papers. The real outlook should be | r-m‘t'r stands. The law appears under no circumstances could more very optimistic.” fairly simple, but the Administrat- or has built up such a systom of than half of these get there by Waste Drive other means, B. Frank Heintzleman, Regional lmgrpret:\liuns. re-interpretations, This same survey reports that' Forester and chairman of the 'eVised and amended interpreta- there are 2,320 cities and towns in Chamber of Commerce Juneau HoRS that one does not know just what contingent liability he might be piling up under some of these interpretations, at least until the Supreme Court passes upon all mat- ters involved. Bad Interpretation Mr. Littlepage said the trouble was not with the law, but with its administyation and interpretation. the country, with 12,500,000 persons waste Salvage Project, reported on without any form of mass trans-|arrangements for the drive and portation and solely depgpdent up-|gugoested that an advisory commit- on passenger automobiles: for xel-;[“_, be formed to work in con- ting about. ) . corvieeq | JUnction with the Salvation Army As for defense plants S“‘med‘and Adjutant Stanley Jackson. Rep- by buses, one that now is recelv-|, ....i.cives on the advisory board 23 t :’;«icii:lu:\eeim:{ ::;k l;:i:r:n;“g,g would come from all Juneau ser- 3 '|vice agencies. Jackson said that|He referred to a recent circular he is now conducting a survey nnd‘ubucd by the Bureau of National To go Mto the vast increases {n| will announce the materials mmumrs which is the publisher of! truck and trailer uses because opme to be collected as soon as pofi-‘the textbooks on the Wage-] l-lour (Continued on Page Sl‘() (Continued on Page Five) I <Connnued on Page Two) i ¥