The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8974. ““ ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN1S JAVA DOOMED; JAPANESE Blow Struck At Invaders By | THOUSANDS OF NIPPONS LOSE LIVES Japanese Transports Sunk in Surprise Raid on Subic Bay WASHINGTON, March 5 — The; War Department communique this| morning says Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur’s headquaters in the Philip- pines report a heavy blow has been struck at Japan’s armies in Japanese Island Raided; Tokyo Radio Broadcast Says 30 Planes in Atfack NEW YORK, March 5—The Co- lumbia Broadcasting System has ing was fired and eight casualties suffered in the raid which “wus |30 planes of unspecified nationality heard a Tokyo radio broadcast that repulsed.” Seven of the planes were claimed to have been shot down. | attacked the Japanese island of The island is 1,000 miles north-| CHURCHILL 10 BE OUT 1S REPORT 'Reliable London Source | . Says Cripps o Re- place Him Minamitori Shima, of the Bonin group, 3,000 miles west of Hono- lulu. The report said that one build- west of Wake Island and is the easternmost isle in the Bonin | group, 1,200 miles southeast of | Tokyo. 56 PERSONS the attempted conquest in the Ls-I lands. i The report from: Gen. MacArthur said thousands of Japanese troops| are believed to have been drowned | in the surprise raid earlier in this| week by his little Air Force on| Subic Bay, north of Batan Pen-| insula. | On this fighting front, big troop laden transports were bombed and | senl to the bottom and for the first time, Gen. MacArthur reports the American planes met no aerial opposition. Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- son was guarded in his comment about Gen. MacArthur’s Air Force inflicting heavy losses on the Jap- anese raid on Subic Bay, declining also to state the strength of the Air Force. <The "GO~ WASHINGTON—When you get them out of official earshot, exiled members of the old French cab- inet now in Washington, are very suspicious of what the Vichy Gov- SAIL SOUTH ON STEAMER Fifty-six persons left Juneau this week on the Princess Norah for southern ports. Going to Prince Rupert were}bloody reverses to Hitler's battered| Mrs. M. Hamlin, Mrs. D. Hamlin 'and Richard Hamlin. Vancouver passengers were Mrs. Joseph Bird and F. Sayer. Ticketed to Seattle were Alice Miss D. Plumm Cox, Mr. land Mrs. J. Riedi, Mr. and Mrs. [P. 5. Killeen, Mrs. M. Whiteley, }Mrs. G. Gallagher, Mrs. A. Blake, |Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Sonner, E. R. Conboy, George W. Kelly, Jr, Charles Kelly, George W. and Mrs. | George W. Kelly, |Miss S. Pappy. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. DeLong, Dav- id DeLong, Mrs. V. Brinkley, Mrs. S. W. Lathrop, George Lathrop, Miss S. Lathrop, Mrs. H. Jarvis, H. J. Halistron, M. Grefnes, L. Morrison, Z. Harris, C. Clark, C. L. Matson, W. C. Coughlin, P. Miller, V. Vierra, O. Ried, T. Trengrove, A. C. Whitney. E. W. Buttke, A. G. Hall, A. H. Brunson, R. Harney, S. Stassi, A. M. Gallanatti, W. Kendzerro, H. Protzman, A. Gelman, J. W. John- son, A. Nickila, E. Delahenty. | 1 Baker, i 1 . | 'MR. AND MRS. S. DELONG 36,000 NALI TROOPS DIE INRED MOVE (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Soviet front line dispatches to- day reported a series of grim and armies, declaring the Russians killed 36,000 Nazis in |in Staraya Russia and “now are | destroying” the remnants of the trapped invaders. | Nazi prisoners captured in the Staraya. Russia sector, where the 16th German Army of 96,000 troops is encircled, were quoted as saying they had gone without food for six days. Stockholm dispatches said 24,000 Mrs. R. Pappy, Gérman troops in Orel, Nazi-held | likewise had been | railroad center, going without food while fighting off isclated Red army attacks, but | the Russian demand for surrender was rejected by the Garrison com- mander, Col. Gen. Guderian. - — POST ANNOUNCES PRICE INCREASE MADE APRIL 11 Liberty Publishers Also Raise - Collier's Has LONDON, March 5—An extreme- Ily reliable and well-informéd po- litical source, commenting on the quiet the British public’s and par- liamentary criticism of the Govern- ment, said today there is every likelihood that Sir Stafford Cripps will replace Winston Churchill as Britain’s Prime Minister. This source even went so far as unsealed within three months, af- said, that while Churchill is vastly has steadily |the fall of Crete last June. |was pointed out. This fact was ‘recoqnlzed in his recent appoliic- {ment to the cabinet post of Lord | Privy Seal. 1 >ee 'SKIERS LEAVE CITY ON TRIP T0 VANCOUVER Albert Wood, Bert Richard- son Plan Long Trek - from Taku Lodge Two strapping, six-foot youths, summoned to Army service, left Juneau today with the announced intention of skiing “as far as the snow goes south” to report to their home draft boards in Pasadena, California. ‘The adventurous skiers, Albert |Wood and Bert Richardson, both failure of recent cabinet changes to to predict that Churchill will be ter a bitter debate in Parliament. It must be:emphasized, the source popular in the United States, he lost strength in his hold on the British masses since Cripps, on the other hand, has grown in stature as a result of his an 18-day battle| work as Ambassador to Russia, it! AUTO TIRE SITUATION DESPERATE Henderson Says Not One Pound of Rubber Avail- able for Civilians WASHINGTON, March 5—Leon Henderson today told the Senate Defense Investigation Committee that “not a single pound of crude rubber” is available for new tires or retreads for upwards of A 30, 000,000 passenger: cars now owned SWARM ISLAND Three Bombs Are Dropped On Honolulu; Enemy Plane Presumably Flying High BRITISHIN HONOLULU, March 5—Army of- ficials announce that three ex- plosions which aroused the resi- dents at 2 o'clock yesterday morn- ing were from three medium sized bombs. The announcement was RETREATIN BURMA FIGHT by the ordinary citizens of this country. The Director of Civilian Supplies testified that this “is the most significant single statistic” among the maze of details on the rubber situation which he will offer later before the Senate investigators. He estimated the United Na- tions’ requirement for the next twe years at about two million tons whereas “the most optimistic es timate” as to the supply from all sources is about 1,400,000 tons. Henderson said that at best it i believed only about 7,500,000 auio: of the present 30,000,000 can b kept in operation during the nex three years due to the wearing ou! of tires. e, — THREEPILOTS | - PUT IN BUSY WORK DAY Alaska Coastal Ailines put in a busy day today, utilizing every min- ute of flying time to transport sev- eral loads of passengers and mail to various ports. Shell Simmons hopped to Sitk: |in the first flight with mail anc Mrs. Lyle Niekells, Nelly Strand. | Mrs, William Shirk and Willis Stev- {ens, Returning passengers were | Ralph Green, Floyd Moorehow, W B. Mumson, Jerry Wood and Ari Lose Bank ngittany, Last Barrier Shielding Rangoon MANDALAY, March 5—The Brit- sh have acknowledged the loss of he west bank of the Sittany Riv- r near the mouth in the Gulf of Martaban. A report said the Japanese have veached the town of Waw, 6! miles from Rangoon by road. The « of the Sittany’s west bank de- rives the British of the last nat- ral barrier to the capital of Bur- which now lies down a good ond flanked with rice fields. ON ROAD TO MANDAL MANDAL Burma nese AY ch b forces today he lower re { the ny idver and headed iown the west ccast of the Gulf { Martaban, puiting behind them he last natural barrier on the oute to Rangoon. A terse communique admitted the iuvaders cracked the British de- enses along the Sittany, stretching he war to within 15 miles north- Ast of Pegu, way station on the ilway linking Rangoen and the jurma Road to China. A, paved, two-lane highway tra- erses the flat rice lands to Ran- oon, less than 60 miles to the outhwest. i invasion sned 5 RO O 5. 2,500FR0M made 12 hours after the bombing, following discovery of craters. ‘The Army officials further state the bombs were dropped presum- ably by an enemy airplane flying at a great height, possibly from a cruiser or carrier. There were no casualties and the only damage was broken win- dows as the bombs landed on the outskirts of the city. The air raid alarm was the first given here sincé December 7. .- Alaska Road Is to Be Built Says Stimson Joint American, Canadian Board Finally Ap- proves Project WASHINGTON, March 5 — The long projected . Alaska Highway, Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- son said today, has been approved by the joint American and Can- adian Board. T War Secretary indicated con- ction will be started soon ns gincers and ave been ssigned to makc survey 1 It cut the ploneer road. Secretary Stimsou made the| statement at today’'s conference with the reporters but he did not rou'e the highway details. 0] as % y the nor other ANNOUNCE ti wil MATANUSKA ke !natives of Pasadena, came here No Sta'emeni | from the Westward two weeks ago. 7’I‘hey'lmfl been working on defense | projects in Seward and Anchorage.|of the day to Skagway, taking Tom PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 5| They plan to strike out from|Dyer to the Gateway City and re- —The price of the Saturday Eve-|Mary Joyce's lodge on Taku River turning with Cliff Jarl and Charli ning Post will be increased to 10|and follow fozen rivers and moun- Barkley. —Simmons made ferry cents effective with the issue of |tain trails to Telegraph Creek, then|flights to Tulsequah, B. C. later April 11. This is the announce-|verge over to the east and take in the day with mail and miners ment made today by the Curtis|advantage of prevailing snow con-|for the Taku-Polaris Mining Com- Publishing Company, | Gitions, expecting 1o wind up pany, while Dean Goodwin hopped eventually in Jasper National Park,|to Taku Lodge with Albert Wood | Peterson. Alex Holden made his first fligh SINGAPORE REACHPORT HOMESTEAD o - FEUD ENDS 12 - Passenger Freighter ‘School Lands, Seffled by, T ANots o Mistake, Granted to ernment is doing in Martinique| and Guadeloupe. A"D So"’ DAVID, lflVE Guadeloupe is a less publicized | French island near Martinique, and fOR ponm"n, OREGON certain coded messages have been| s T intercepted indicating pro-German| Mr. and Mrs. Spencer DeLong activitles on both islands. Sus-|and their son, David, left Juneau picion is strong that Guadeloupe is by steamer this week on their way being used as a submarine refuel-|to Portland, Oregon to make their ing base for Nazi submarines op-ifuture home. . erating in the Caribbean. Mr. DeLong has been on the me- But when the State Department |chanical staff of the Empire for a officially denied this recently, French ex-cabinet exiles remarked: “Your State Department is still playing the gentlemen’s game of diplomacy. You bow graciously and believe what is told you. gentlemen do not know how to deal with gangsters.” Prench friends warn that the French Navy is fascist-minded, that Admiral Robert, commanding Vichy Martinique is pro-German; that there will be sabotage against French ships in Martinique harbor if they should be threatened with seizure by the Allies. These same | sources suggest that there be quiet encouragement of pro-Ally groups in the French islands who could easily take them over. McNARY FEEDS HIPPO In the “elephant house” at the ‘Washington 200, onlookers noticed a distinguished gentleman trying to arouse the sleeping hippopotamus by poking him with a walking stick. 1t proved to be Senator Charles McNary of Oregon, entertaining his little adopted daughter. “Come on, wake up, Rhino,” said the distinguished Senator. It wasn’t a rhinocercs, but the name was effective, for the hippo raised its head out of the water, opened its mammoth jaws and begged for food. The little girl threw a peanut, but it hit the hippo's teeth and kounced off. So Senator McNary (Continued on Page Four) But | number of years and both he and Mrs. DeLong, an active club wom- jan, made many friends during their |years of residence in town. David, a talented violinist, pursue his musical education Portland. | ARREST KETCHIKAN | MAN ON CHARGE OF will in Arrested on a warrant issued by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray, Alvin G. Hall has been taken into custody at Ketchikan on a charge of issuing a check without funds, the U. S. Marshal's office an- ncunced here today. Hall will be brought to Juneau for trial. He is charged with writ- ling a check under ghe name of |Sam Paul in the amount of $25. CITY COUNCIL T0 CONVENE TOMORROW ‘The City Council will hold its regular semi-monthly meeting to- morrow night in the City Hall. The question of greater recrea- tional facilities for Juneau will be ness. e Ten American towns are named Rome, WRITING BAD CHECK discussed along with routine busi-: .1 LIBERTY GOES UP NEW YORK, March 5—Publish- ers of Liberty announced here to- day the price of the magazine will go to 10 cents a copy, the increase being effective with the issue of April 18. Publishers of Colliers said there is no statement to make yet. - e - OFFICERS TO BE NOMINATED AT FIRE HALL Annual Elections Coming— Monthly Meeting to Be Held This Evening .\ Members of the Juneau Volun- | teer Fire Department will nomin- ate officers for the ensuing year at their monthly meeting at 3 o'clock tonight in the Fire Hall, Chief V. W. Mulvihill said today. Elections will be held at the April meeting. Officers to be put up for election are chief, assistant chief, secretary, two foremen and a trustee. Following the business session, the usual social meeting and lunch- eon will be held, e BUY DEFEn»sz BONDS Alberta. From there they will en-_‘und Bert Richardson. On his re- |train for their homes. | They expected to report to the Telegraph Creek. | The skiers travelled comparatively |light, taking feather down sleeping condensed foods to last them on the trail for several weeks. “I offered to let them change their minds and come back with me to Juneau,” Goodwin said, af- ter he returned from Taku Lodge, “But the boys: just laughed and said they'd see me in two or three months. If they're rejected by the Army they plan to return to Al- aska to make their homes.” The skiers carried both rifles and revolvers in case they need to live off the land. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 5—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2, American Can 61, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Commonwealth and South- ern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, Inter- national Harvester 46', Kennecoft 32%, New York Central 8%, Nor- thern Pacific 6'4, United States Steel 50%, Pound $4.04. DOW JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 104.55, rails 26.79, utilities 12.74. Canadian Immigration Service ai| bags, hatchets, knives and enough| turn, Goodwin was scheduled fo | make two trips to Hoonah with Elmer Glasburn, Peter Peterson |and Bernie Rosenberg, Icy Straits {Packing Company employes, and equiment for the cannery. Pollowing the Skagway flight, Holden went to Sitka with Bert | Sherwood, B. Travis, E. R. Mc- Causland, K. Sampson and W. Ber- lin, returned from the defense cl;d with five other’ passenges and Wi to top off a long day's work by taking Mrs. Jack Littlepage tc Chichagof and Ray Tucker, O. Hartz and Mrs, E. Smythe to Sitka Simmons’ last trip of the day also was to Sitka with Mrs. R. E Starboard and children and Mr Jemes Ladely and children as pas Sengers, LSRN G. Tulintseff and Pefer Tulintseff Leave for South Gecrge Tulintseff and Peter Tul- intseff left Juneau this week to join Mrs. Tulintseff and others of| the family who left for Seattle; some time ago. They expect 10 make their home in the vicinity of Seattle. ————— There are four towns named Kan- sas in the United States. |and 17 years of age, Australia MELBOURNE, March 5—A Brit-| ish freighter with accommodations for only 12 passengers arrived in an Australian port today bringing 2,500 soldiers, women and children [rom Singapore after weathering a prolonged series of attacks by 90 Jap planes, during which the ves-, sel was hit three times by bombs.! Twelve persons were killed and 25 wounded in the Jap assaults on he ship, the last vessel to clear Singapore before the surrender. — e - BRITAIN IS EXPANDING HER FORCES LONDON, March 5—Britain ac-| celerated mobilization of her man- power and womanpower today by! extending service registrations of both men and women. Men within the ages of 41 to 45 Alaska Farmers WASHINGTON, March 5 — The Senate tcday passed and sent to the White House a bill to validate claims for homesteads on two sec- tions of school land in the Matan- uska Eettlement. Alaska settlers developed the lands, not knowing the areas had been withdrawn from public use for school purposes. The bill gives the Territory oth- er lands in place of those awarded to the settlers. The report by the Senate Com- mittee on Public Lands Surveys said the settlers developed the lands in good faith and at considerable| expense. S GAS PRIC RISE ASKED FOR STATES WASHINGTON, March 5 — The MacArthur NIPPONS IN BIG ADVANCE ALL SECTORS Six Key Towns Reported : Captured-Batavia, Ban- doeng Threatened FIERCE BATTLES RAGE AS HORDES MARCH ON Bombers Afipfing to Cut Off Reinforcements— Also Any Escape BULLETIN—Bandoeng, Mar. 5—Holding out hope that “at any moment an attack on the enemy will be launched from another side” by the Allied Nations, . Governor General Dr. Hubertus Van Mock of the Dutch East Indies, tomight, in a broadcast, urged Java's in- habitants te continue their stout resistance and emulate, Gen. MacArthur's stand in the Philippines and concentrate on defense “in certain areas where nature gives us an eppariunily to resist superior forces.” BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) I'he 1ich and populous Island of | uve appears docomed in the pres- {ent conquest as the Japanese in- sion hordes have captured at i six key towns, immediately threatened the old Capital Cily of Batavia and also the Allied head- juarters of Bandoeng. The Japanese have also bombed the last possible harbor through h the United Nations might I ecinforcements or | whieh they might eScape. Enemy Advancing Starkly summarizing the crisis, | the Dutchs bulletin acknowledges Lthe enemy is “advancing continual- Iy and battles now raging all over the island. The Dutch communique also said Rising Sun bombers are also ai- tempting to knock out the port of ‘Tjilatjap, on the Java south coast, to prevent any landing of rejn- torcements or even to let the de- fenders of the island escape. Overrunning Island Against this grim backdrop trag- edy, the fall and capture of Jeva is an apparent sequel to the fall of Hongkong, Malaya and Singa~ pore. Later today a Netherlands East Indies Headquarters bulletin indi- cated the Japanese invaders were virtually over-running the 622 mile long island of Java and advancing in many sectors despite the ‘“he- roic and courageous resistance” of the American, British, Australian and Dutch soldiers. AIR AID HAS BEEN SENT 10 DUTCHALLIES WASHINGTON, March 5—Secre- |tary of War Henry L. Stimson tated at a conference with news- men tcday that “material air re- inforcements” ' had been sent to 4‘ 'ava during the past week. | The War Secretary also said the |shift of Gen. Archibald P. Wavell {from the Southwest Pacific Com- |mand to India has not altered in way the American and Brit- isi atititude in the ntense pert of the Dutch the 0k |battle and we have increased in the past week our air support material- 1 thiough flerce are | | i ! sup- | pres were made liable for military ser-| Petroleum Industry War Council ly.” vice and the registration of wumen" was broadened to take in girls 16 i for training. - o BUY DEFENSE STAMPS has recommended higher prices for gasvline in the eastern United to be listed | States and the closing of statlons ment was established in throughout the nation at night end on Sundays to aid operators to stay in business. - The first state highway depart- oW Jer- previous to that iocal cmmunities had carried the bur- den_of road costs.