The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1942, Page 1

s TR PR THE DAILY ALASKA Lk VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8975. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS MPIRE PRICE TEN CENIA JAVA DEFENDERS FIGHT DESPERATELY Jap Push In — ATTACK AT ' SUBICBAY DISASTROUS Renewal of Offensive on’ MacArthur’s Forces Is Stalled | POPULAR UPRISING 1S BELIEVED FEARED T | | Occupation Forces Issue, New Orders on All | T Filipinos WASHINGTON, March 6 — The War Department today reports that | the success of the Subic Bay air attack by Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur's little air fleet, announced two days ago, is believed to have dislocated the Japanese plans for an immediate renewal of the of-| fensive against MacArthur’s forces.| An official report positively as- sérts that three Japanese trans- | ports were sunk in the Subic Bay attack and thousands of Japanese soldiers were drowned when the ships were sunk by the bombs. Today’s communique says en- emy activities during the past 24 hours have - been negligible. ‘ The communigue of the War De- partment also said a Japanese or- der has been issued directing the PFllipinos in the occupied areas to immediately surrender all guns, blades and .weapons of every de- seription. This is interpreted by | Gen. MacArthur as indicating the invaders are afraid of a popular uprising. ————————— ~ine NG, [ Drew Pearsos wd fobert S.Alles "GO~ (The authors of The Washing- ton Merry-Go-Round have sug- gested that inasmuch as Presi- dent Roosevelt once made a great national issue over keeping old- er men on the Supreme Court, he should be consistent in regard to age in important public office and accept the resignations of “The Four Old Men,” aged around 70, who hold war positions ‘in the’ Cabinet. Here is another article in the series. —Editor.) WASHINGTON—When the long- range history of Franklin Roose- velt is written he will be proved right on his vision, his advance war plans and his military strategy. But his greatest failing as an ex- ecutive will be shown to be too much of the milk o’ human kind- ness. The trouble with Roosevelt is that he hates ta fire anyone—especially one, who has been with him a long time and for whom he has personal affeotion. And if there is one great trouble with our national defense today it is that Roosevelt permitted a kind- 1y old gentleman (Claude Swan- son) to remain in the office of Secretary of the Navy until he died at the age of 78; and that he per- mitted the War Department to be bogged down by a midwest isola- tionist (Harry Wocdring) who did not believe in a strong military ma- chine. Modern armies and navies are not built up overnight—as Hitler has so amply demonstrated--and it was our failure of a half dozen years ago which hrings us such tragic losses now. Roosevelt, of course, kept his owil « eye on the Navy. But the Army he allowed to be pulled to pieces in a cat and dog fight between Assistant Secretary of War Louis Talbot County town that cuce nuiu- | England, South America or Aus- 3 (Consinved on Page Four) COY BOY_pPvt. Leonard changes a bashful word with Erna Rugge, hat check girl, at the Hollywbod Beaux Arts ball. Miss Rugge, who came to this country from Austria, once held the title of Miss San Francisco. RedTape Bobs Righ InWashington; Coinerof S Phrases Is Springing 'Em yoysE H PRODUCTION HAMPERED BY METAL LACKS Pre'siderit's-fiueprint for Victory Threatened, Says WPB Chief WASHINGTON, March 6—Short- ages of materials are threatening the nation’s chances of achieving the President’s “blueprint for vic- tory” goals, W. H. Harrison, War Production Director said today. In planes and shipbuilding, the major elements of the President’s program, a steel and aluminum shortage has cut output below Har- riscn’s hopes, he told his press conference, adding that some lag in shipbuilding might never be caught up. The President asked for the pro- duction of 60,000 war planes and eight million tons of shipping this year. OFF T0 THE CITY EASTUN, Md., Mar. 6—War work is creating new “deserted viliages.” Arly three men live now in a quiet prred 200 persons. The other men left to take defense jobs. AUSTRALIA GETS READY * FOR NIPPONS | Invasion Attempt Looming | —Military Service Ord- er Is Submitted SYDNEY, Australia, March 6.— | Prime Minister John Curtin today submitted a proclamation to the | Parliament at Canberra making all | Australian men up to the age of 60 | years liable to military service. Major General John Bennett, who | commanded the Australian Imperial | forces in the Malaya fighting, de- clared that an invasion attempt | against Australia is only a matter | of weeks. | “We must move swiftly and must | smash into the menace . I have no | doubt whatever that we will be able | | to destroy any Japanese forces in | attempts to land,” declared Bennett. ROOSEVELT " SIGNS BIG WARBILL i 'More than 32 Billions Ap-| | propriated in Single Arms Measure WASHINGTON, March 6 — The $32,762,000,000 War Appropriations | Bill, the largest in history, was !signed by President Roosevelt today to provide vast additional sums for the Army, Lend-Lease and the Maritime Commission. The new allotments brought to more than $142,000,000,000 the total thus far appropriated for defense and war for the years 1941, 1942 and 1943. It included close to $23,000,000,000 in an Army clause permitting the diversion of approximately half the material from that amount to pro- vide to allied nations in the form of Lease-Lend aid. Sellers, from Wichita, Kas., ex- Wp BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 6 — The capital in war time: There’s no end to the red tape stories told around here now, but I like the one that happened to me the other day. I had called one of Leon Henderson’s bright bovs to ask a simple: question. He re- ferred me to one of his co-workers. “You can get him,” he said, “by calling Republic 7500 and asking for extensicn 6702, 6753, or 6724 ov 4382 or—oh, well, he has two or three more, but you should be able to get him on one of those if you'll just be patient.” REPORT FROM SIGNAL CORPS Alaska Communications . System Enlarged-Lieut. Col. Lawton Testifies WASHINGTON, March 6—Emer- gency has necessitated the installa- tion of many new and purely mili- tary communications in Alaska, a world-wide reputation for being Cfmgress was informed today by more talkative, in a friendly wav, Lisut., Qol, J.2R TAWIon of the than the proverbial barbers, but Army Signal Corps. there is a motorman on one Penn- His statement was contained in sylvania avenue trolley that is steai- | '°5timony before the House Ap- ing their stuff, propriations Committee on the War Coming down the other morn-, Departments civil functions ap- ing, he sang out merrily: “Twelih propriation bill for the fiscal year street and the avenue. The In-|of 1943. The testimony was in- ternal Revenue department, Pay! foduced into the House record of your income tax.” the hearings and made public at 3 the same time. Archibald MacLeish, the poet Lawton said additional installa- who heads the office of facts and 'ions have been manned by mili- figures, is earning a reputation as tary personnel to handle military a phrase-coiner, His latest: “The business. The stations are designat- Borgia Bund’—a description of en- 4 85 “the Alaska Communication emy radio propagandists who seck System.” to poison the minds of the United| ~The system handles all com- WNations against one another. Mac- mercial traffic in addition to such Leish says the technique is as oid Military and other government traf- Washington taxi cab drivers have as Satan, One minute, the ethcr fiC 8s practicable,” Lawton said. | Borgias are on the air whispering i R P e lies to the United States about! If the' world were considered to be just a year old, man would have been in existence for oniy the last six hours, wonunued on Fage Infeer A. E. E. on the J... veleased by the navy, this photo shows a few of the U. 8. soldiers and nurses of the American Expeditionary Force which landed in Northern Ireland several weeks ago, as they appeared while at The belts can be inflated by merely pressing sea en route. Note the new-type lifebelts worn by all. \J e Ovét to Northern Ireland at a certain point, thereby releasing compressed air from tiny cylinders. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 6—Death has taken Tom Mooney, after cnly three years of free- dcm from his prison sentence, He died in a local hospital following an operation for stomach ulcers, the fourth operation in three years. His sister Anna and brother John were at ‘the bedside. Mochey and an associate, Warren K. Billimgs, were convicted of bombing the San Francisco “pre- paredri¢ss day” parade of July 22, 1616. . Ten persons were killed out- right.and 440 injured. Mooney was sentenced to death; Billings to life imprisonment. Their conviction became a “cause celebre” of the working classes. At the repeated urging of President Woodrow Wilson, California’s gov- ernor,. William D. Stephens, com- muted Mooney's sentence to life im- prisonment. For more than 22 y labor groups around the world echoed the Mooney-Billings cries of “frame- up” and “perjury,” until a self- tyled “progressive” California gov- ernor, Culbert L. Olson, in 1939 pardoned Mooney and Billings' sentence to time served. A Socialist Mooney started his career as an job ! iron moulder, wandering from to job and acquiring an interest n urt. He went to Europe in 1807 and was converted to socialism The ‘*class problem” ( commuted | finally ab- to ‘mrbed him, He became a peddler brief business trip to Wrangell | e —I. I. N. Cablephoto A cablephoto from Britain, this picture shows U. 8. troops, part of the thousands making up the firs# | of socialist liter: gene V. Debs dential cainpaign In Stockton, Calif, he met Mrs. Will Hermann, a music teacher. She divorced her husband and married Mooney. Mooney became a crusading left- | MOSCOW, March planes raided this city winger, known to police as a dan-| gerous “direct actior World | War days found him in the mids! train. cant damage.” of a bitter San Francisco indus- trial dispute, organizing street ca: f('u the nrstlumn since. December workers. Like Debs, .other s cial |28 and previous to that Hme it ists were resisting the drift “”h'ad been many weeks . before any America toward war. Mooney wvni(’”"“‘“ planes had- appeared one of these. iy SORLICE There were anonymous warnir It. Js apld sk Wae SPi - SRO B Warts llarge German bombers participat- that the “preparedness day” parac “ing in last night's “scare.” would be bombed. The deadly blast ¥ G 23 sent police straightaway on a hunt for Mooney and Billings. They protested their innocence. KODIAK GU!DE Several witnesses identified thom a sbeing at or near the explosion scene five or ten minutes befoi the bombing. Billings was quickly convicted but because he was only 22 his life was spared, but Mooney |game was convicted and sentenced to Visited death, this latter commuted to life | route imprisonment from which he was the pardoned. guide of Kodiak in Juneau to his hqme after Alaska subsequently e T Madsen, one of the Territo most experienced hunte has| WINN RETURNS guided many parties on expedilions Grover C. Winn, Juneau attorney |seeking the famed Kodiak grizzly| returned | bears. after and municipal magistrate, his home here today a — e A. B %, & Europe in World War II, marching to their barracks after landing in Northern Ireland. om Mooney Passes Aawy | . MOSCOW IS EARS i Hospital;Was Convicied, AIR RAIDED, Sensafional Bombing _(a_sgu NIGHT TIME Two German Bombers Ap- pear Over City-Dam- age Insignificant 6 — German last night “at random and inflicting insignifi- The air raid alarm was sounded ON WAY HOME ; Charles Madsen, veteran big Island, | today while attending | Game Commission | meeting in Washington, D. C BUY DEFENSE STAMPS en Philippines Is Suddenly Stopped SITUATION IS TENSE ON ISLAND Dutch Comnique Says Situation Most Serious | But Not Hopeless I . ' ADMITTED ALLIES " ARE FALLING BACK 'Tokyo Broadcast Claims | Batavia Has Fallen- | Battle at Bandoeng BULLETIN —London, March 6 —The Dutch forces, in a fer- rific frontal attack, have driven | the Japanese from sectiong of | the plains of Bandoeng which the invaders occupied yester- | day. This is according to a Reuters dispatch from Ban- doeng, The dispatch also said heavy artillery firing in the mountain defenses, north of Bandoeng, are heard in the Capital City. (BY A¥SOCIATED PRESS) | The Duteh Military Headquarters acknowledged today the crisis Js mbounting In the six day battle for the Island of Java as the Allied . troops are being worn down by the | greatly superior Japanese invasion | forces. | The Tokyo radio station early to- |day broadcast the report that Bat- avia, the earth scorched Capital | City of the Dutch East Indies, has fallen. The Netherlands news agency an- |nounced that practically all of wes- tern Java is overrun by the in- vaders and the’ Dutch, American, | British and Australian troops - have fallen back to new position: The news agency admits the cap- |ture of Jogjakarta City, with a | population of 140,000. The Japanese thrust is knifing |almost all of the south coast, thus !the 622 miles long island is cut-in |twe central sections. The Dutch communique declared the situation is most serious bui still not hopeless, | The communique said fierce bat- |tles are rgeing throughout the island but the Allied Nation forces are offering desperate resistance. Dutch troops are said to have recaptured one point. The thunder of artillery fire is heard in Bandoeng itself as the Japanese forces are reported less than 25 miles away. LS T SRR Five Sons Serve Mrs. Mary A. Arnott | Mrs. yary A. Arnott, above, of | Jamaica Plains, Mass,, has five sons in the U. S. armed services. Three sons are in the navy and two in the army. All wera vois unteers. Mrs. Arnott holds a flag l wgnifying she is a fve-star m ooty