The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL LVIIL, NO. 8971. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 2, I942 ALL THE TIME” MLMBLR AbS()LlA'fl:I) PRtbS PRICE TENCENLS APANESE HORDES LANDING ON JAVA Nazi-Marked Planes Bombing [sland Forces. Crosses On Wings Show | German Hand Strange Bombers Fail 1o Inflict Damage on Am- | ericans on Bafan | WASHINGTON, March 2 — The War Department reported that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Philip- pine forces have been bombed by enemy planes with unusual mark- ings and that they “may have been German-built.” The raids, made| behind the defenders’ lines on Bat- an Peninsula, were local and iuuedl to inflict much damage, the com- munique said. | The attacking warplanes were | said to Rave been two-engined with | black and white crosses painted on the wings. Ground operations were reported | to have dwindled to a virtual stand- | still in the past 24 hours. A ‘1osv.r battalion” of American and Fi pino troops, attacking Japanese holding forces on northern Luzon | Island, drove them out of a river| valley they had occupied, the War | Department reported yesterday. | This activity was the first instance | in which guerilla warfare was men- | tioned in an official communigue. ‘ | 1 el ey IS TO JOIN NAVY Elmer Copstead, with the Alaska Steamship Co., at Keu:hiksn i.s ‘going to take a vacation in south, then return north and 1um the navy. i — e “The "GO~ ' WABHINGTON—By all odds the l}&t important thing the Ameri. ciin people have got to understand abbut' this war—and understand it —is that the Axis is gnmb—‘ everything on 1942, while the‘ Uniited Nattons are talking about victory in 1944, ,And the danger—which few perate, ruthless dictators—willing to stake everything they have, in-| cluding long range submarine at-| tacks and landing forces 6,000 miles frem home, may conceivably be successful in 1942. ‘After 1042, Axis dictators know, the slow-moving, lumbering indus- trial giant of the United States will swing into action. After 1942, for the Axis, it will be too late. This realization is why some | ‘Washington executives now are ad: vocating more troop transports and merchant vessels which can be fin- ished this year, rather than battle- ships to be finished in three years. That is why an all-important back- stage debate now goes on between the Navy and Win-the-War-Now boys about switching turbines from | 1944 battleships to 1942 troopships. That is also why the WIN-THE- WAR-NOW boys favor a stiff of- fensive. As Secretary Stimson said last week, carrying the war to the enemy’s waters keeps their sub- marines out of ours. SECRET (?) MAP Joe Eastman, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, was hold- ing a hearing on construction of | % a_ badly-needed pipe-line for crude oil from Wichita Falls, Texas, Savannah, Ga. Vincent Shinkle, of Trans-Ameri- can Pipe-line, was holding forth. He produced maps showing the mid-continent field this pipe-line| would traverse: finally came to a map showing the "U. 8. naval and air bases in the Atlantic area which this pipe-line would supply. Suddenly, up jumped Brigadier General Walter Pyron, strode to péople seem to realize—is that des- | to] | Japs ~ JapsSeizedi in Roundup g ey ¥ m‘ ] Japanese aliens taken into custody by FBI agents in a surprise raid in the Santa Maria-Guadalupe area are unloaded from an Army truck al the courthouse at Santa Barbara, Calif., where they were breught for examination. More than 200 were taken in the roundup, and a score of army trucks were used to lrlnapnrt the prisoners. Japan Looks for Attack Now frem United Stales; Broadcasl Made at Tokyo FOR VICIORY TOKYO, March 2—For two days, broadeasts have been made by the Japanese newspaper Nighi Nichi 1 warning the Japanese of a pos- _ sibility the Uhited States may make an aftack upon Japan from the Aleutian Islands. The broad- - casts warns the Stpanese to be . dications as to when tae possxble attacks may be expected or wheth- er by sea Ol air. y VANDERBILT, INDUSTRIAL LEADER DIES 'Famous American Business Man Passes Away in Florida nelius Vanderbilt, 68, grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt, founder of one of America’s greatest industrial empires, passed away here Sunday. Given the choice of inheriting control of the “Vanderbilt empire” of railroads and other interests, or carving his own interest in life, Cornelius Vanderbilt, great-grand- son of the commodore and third to bear the name of the founder of the family fortune, chose to go his own way. He achieved success as an engin- . eer, inventor, soldier, business man 4 4 | and financier, devising improve- .= ments in locomotives, launching °| New York's first subway, serving | on the directorates of railroads, banks, insurance companies and ! other corporations, and winning | decorations and promotions in the ' " ! Worla War. He went to France Movie Starlet Alma Carroll dubs |35 commander of a regiment of en- this the “Victory Bathing Suit” I:gmeers and returned a brigadier because its design emphasizes igenera], conservation of material, | . Defies, Father, Marries { His independent course started when, while still a student at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, he de- fied his father and married. When Z. J. RYAN BACK J. J. Ryan, Assistant Director of the hearing desk, ripped the map from the book. . \Countinued on Page Mr) the parent died in 1899, the son was | | “cut off with 61,000,000.” The bulk ] " (Continu Civilian Deiense for the Terrlwry ! returned esterday from a trip to Anchorage and Fairbanks, on Page Three) ! i 5 & -HUGE WAR Senate OkR Huge Ap- |bemg informed by Gen. George C.| | NAZI SUBS preparetl but give no further in-| e o o 0o o o NOTICE L4 In cooperation, and acting on request of the military authorities in Juneau, The Daily Alaska Empire is print- ing nothing regarding mili- tary developments that may be of benefit to our enemies.The public knows the United States is at war and nothing of bene- fit to our enemies should ap- pear in print. e o 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 D e . ~ BILL GOES T0 HOUSE propriation After Gen- eral’s Lefter Read WASFHINGTON, March 2 — The Senate today passed and sent hoek | to the House the $32,762,000,000 : Military Appropriations Bill after Marshall that “we must proceed about the business of carrying the war to the enemy.” Approval of the measure on a voiCe vote came quickly siter Sen. Warren R. Austin (R.-Vt.) read the Senate a letter from Marshall ex- plaining that the Army must re- gard some pleas for soldiers to| guard continental installations be- | cause it could not “permit a great- er portion of our armed forces and our valuable materials to be im- mobilized within the United States.” Forecasting isolated air raids on this country, Marshall said such forays might constitute part of a plan to prevent American efforts| “to engage our planes and ground troops as far as practicable offen- sively in distant theatres.” ! e ) TAKE TOLL | OF CONVOY | Survivors, in Easf Canada, | Say Nine Vessels Torpedoed AN EAST CANADIAN PORT,| March 2—One hundred and eleven | seamen from four Allied ships sunk by U-boats in the Atlantic arrived here today on a rescue ship and reported possibilities that from six to nine ships in the convoy had been torpedoed. One survivor said he believed that | ‘ three of the stricken vessels had MIAMI, Florida, March 2—Cor-|made port safely. The ships lost were three tank- ers and one freighter in an attack which proceeded for three days. It was believed that four sub- marines participated in the at- ‘acks. Many seamen are missing. Wild Car Iur;ls In Fire Alarm DULUTH, Mlnn., March 2 — A runaway automobile racing down a slippery hill: Seriously damaged a ten-ton trol- ley bus. Crashed into a fire alarm box, turning in an alarm which sum- moned an assistant chief and six pieces of apparatus. The car wound up a mass of wreckage, against the corner of 2 building. The car started its run after :ts driver had freed it from entangle- ment with the bumper of a parked car, the result of a skid. Passen- |gers on the bus escaped injury, al- though the front end of the vehicle was stove in and its windows bro- ken, ‘—the specific complaints mcludel WhereSub Atfacked California Refinery BARBARA CLEMENTE This map locates Goleta, Calif., where an enemy submatine, believed to be Japancse, appeared and fired 25 five-inch shells at an cil refinery ¢ the shore. Thedmue was slight and there were no cu!llltlu. “ Oil Derrick Subifiaring Shell ‘qn i ny b Captain Barney Hagen, inspects dnmnn done to an oil well derrick at Goleta, Calif, near Santa Barbara, by a shell from an enemy submarine believed to be Japanese. A catwalk was splintered and parts of the iron sides of the well pumping plant were perforated. g I ALLIES ARE - (COUNTERING ONISLAND Hard Fightimrogressing on Land, Sea and in Air in East Indies MANY NIPPON SHIPS REPORTED SENT DOWN | Defending Forces Are Am- ericans, British, Austral- ians and Dutch BANDOENG (By Telephone to New York) March 2—The Allied jon’s counter stroke delivered inst Japanese invasion forces ;ing into Java today is de- (red officially to have ‘“developed satisfadtorily,” but all detalls of the hard fighting by the defense torces are kept secret. The official war report ac- knowledged flatly that “the situa- tiom in some parts of Java ob- viously is ecritical,” but adds the invaders are “receiving blows, ham- mer and tongs. Up to now, no in- /ifth- column actlvities. Everywhere our troops are going to meet thq Japanese.” The United Nations claimed 27 Jap ships, including 10 warships, h neen sunk or damaged. The inese claim five Allied cruisers and 12 destroyers have been sunk. DESTROY INSTALLATIONS BULLETIN—Batavia, March 2— Destruction of all vital installations this Capital City of The Neth- ands East Indles has started as 1 nrecautionary measure. Ulere s, however, “no question”, of sny immediate threat to the city. BATTLE IN FURL SWING BANDOENG, Island of Java, Viarch 2—One of the greatest tles of the East' Fhdies series is In full swing today, raging by air, »a and land. Officlal Sunday dispatches from Batavia said the Japanese invasion iordes, running the gauntlet of the Allied Nations’ Southwest Pacific ttle fleet and Air Corps, landed Iate Saturday night and early Sun- lay on the western and middle ireas of Java, the last island bas- ion of the Dutch East Indies. Im- mediately the landing forces came o battle with the defending Ameri- 'an, Dutch and Australian forces, Landing Is Made Before the landing of the Jap- nese force>- a 2-day battle raged n the Sea of Java, between the Japlnels invasion forces and the woriean, British and Dutuh navy and air forces. ' Unofficial sources claim 10 Jap- nese war craft. cruisers and de- stroyers, were either sunk or put out of commission as well as 40 Japanese transports. The Allied (Continued on Page Three) 'Federal Girls Are Having Hard Time in Washington TROOPSHELD In Securing Living Rooms INREDTOWN that they, “take too much time in! | the bath, wash hose and things in Brmsh P'anes P|I0ted b\ Russians, Are Adive By JACK S’l‘ll\'il"l'l WASHINGTON, March 2 — The | capitol in Wartime: the lavatory, stay home nights and |use up electricity, entertain their| boy friends ir® the family living JAPS MASS FOR ATTACK ONRANGOON The federal girls are having a .00, » ¥ . hard time of it. Fit there was | Against Germans Rep. Earl (Early-to-Bed) Wilson, % o the one-time Indiana high school Umofficlal epiners are now say-| 6500w, March 2—The Red principal, who wanted them to heed Ing that the office space situalion army today was reported within| a 10 pm. curfew on work nights. |here will be under control by mid- sight of a key northwestern city,| Now c¢ome the landlords and .ymmer, thanks to the big new Staraya, Russia, where 90,000 Ger- ladies to say it doesn’t make 2ny war Department building abutting mans were said to be trapped with difference to them whether the| srlington cemetery and the alpha- dwindling food supplies, while girls heed a curfew or don't just petical temporaries. (They are des- | further south the Russians pushed ignated Temporary A, B, C, eic, toward Smolensk from Dnieperope- so they do it elsewhere than in the rocms they have for rent. ’ The Defense Housing Registry says that although 80 per cent of the new workers pouring inlo. What really has the officials go- Washington are girls, 70 per cent ing in circles Is the housing situa- of the householders listing rooms iion. That was what primarily was with the registry say “"Only Men| hehind the government's moving Wanted.” The generul complaint ggencies to other cities and behind is that the girls are “more trouble” | — (Continued on Page Three) :nd if you think they aren’t needles in the Wcshington haystack, try and find them.) trovsk against fierce German re- sistance Hundreds of Britain’s 12-gun Hurricanes are fighting daily on the Russian front, piloted by Red Air Force fliers, the London Dally News disclosed today on the return of two R.AF. wing squadrons from Russia. ¥ British Ambush Two Fn- emy Parties - Kill or Capture Every Man RANGOON, March 2—The Brit- ish Command today indicated its lines are helding unchanged along the Sittang River and facing grow- ing numbers of Jap troops which apparently are preparing for a new assault on Rangoon and Pegu. Earlier communiques reported British patrols ambushed two par- ties of Japanese north of Pesu. killing most of them and takihg the remainder prisoners. ‘formation has been received about