The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8976. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U. S. TROOPS RUSHED TO SOUTH PACIFIC Alas HIGHWAYTO NORTHLAND | AUTHORIZED | Official Announcement Made that Recommen- | dations Approved PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA GIVES FACTS First Objection Is Made—l Roosevelt Asked fo | Make Changes i OTTAWA, March 7—Announcing | that the Canadian Cabinet has ap- proved recommendations of the United States and Canadian Joint Defense Board for completion o’: the projected overland route from| the United States to Alaska, Prime Minister Mackenzie King announces | that construction will start im- | mediately. | The Prime Minister said the | route will follow approximately the | new air route to Fort St. John| thence to Fairbanks and connect | with, the existing Canadian and | United States highways. The cost Contimfed on Page Three) CThe ~Go, WASHINGTON — Regardless of whether the U. 8. naval inquiry really gets to the bottom of what happened to the Normandie, it re- mains a fact that sabotage of Allied shipping in New York‘ Harbor has been rampant. In fact, operating under the very nose of the U. 8. Government and the police of the biggest city in the world, New York shipping has come to be one of the most ex- plosive war problems inside the United States. It hasn’t leaked out, but many times ships loaded with war sup- plies have left New York, only to put back into port because of faulty loading of cargo. Saboteurs achieve this objective in various ways. One is to open a hose or cock in the hold of a vessel carrying wheat (tons of wheat are being Sshipped to Britain). The wet wheat then swells and has been known to crack ' open the seams of the ship. | Another common form of sab-| otage is to drive two small holes in drums of ofl loaded on one' side of the bottom of the ship. One hole lets the air in, the other hole lets the oil out. After the oil has leaked out of the drums, they are crushed by the pressure of the full | drums. above. This shifts the en-| tire cargo and can cause the ship| to list. FRONT However, to get the inside story of what is going on, it is neces- sary to have the full picture. First, New York Harbor, including ad- jacent New Jersey and Long Island, | has 994 piers, of which about 93¢ are now in use, scattered over a total of 771 miles. WORLD’S BIGGEST WATER- } | | | This waterfront has been a hap- | py hunting ground for thugs and| hoodlums; a sort of “foreign le-| gion” for anyone who was in/ trouble in another city. If he pays| for it, he can always get a union| card and no questions asked. | The Brooklyn side of the water- font has been in the grip-of an Italian gang, while the'Mnnhauan1 front is ruled by the Irish. Never| have racket-busting Tom Dewey or| ¥ (Continued on Page Four) Manville 'and No. 6 to Be - —1I. 1. N. Phonephoto Madge Lowe and Tommy Manville For the ‘sixth time, 'ron;\my Manville, the playboy asbestos heir, pians to marry. ' The next Mrs. Manville will be Madge Lowe; 23- year-old Toronto girl, shown with h date is April 9, his 48th birthday. “will last.” im in New York, above. “And this one,” said Manville, His fifth marriage, to Bonita Edwards, hit the rocks after 17 days. The | Queen Without Ice Sonja Henie Queen of the ice, Sonja Henle, screen favorite and ice-skating star, is shown on the beach at Miam] Beach, Fla., enjoying a va- cation with her husband, Dan ‘ Topping, the well-known sports- man ——eto—— JAPS BREAK DEFENDERS JAVA LINES ;ReporI EnenTyT rcops Have Thrust Through Ban- doeng Defense | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) doeng’s northern defenses today e e— Jap troops broke through Ban-| 4 o ooo N A ll I and the situation in western Java grew critical. | ANETA, Dutch news agéncy, said 'the breach in the Allied defense Ilines” occurred yesterday on ! northern slope of the famous vol- The dis- !patch timed the break at 6:30 p.m., | cano, Tangkuban Prahu. Pacific War Time, Friday. the | The Columbia Broadcasting Sys- | tem has been advised by the Radio | Corporation of America that Ameri- |can telephone, telegraph, and all! | communications have been cut off | frem Java. BLREG 0 e War that | ians | The average production record in| ! the NEW ORDER " ISSUED BY WAR DEPT. ' No More Rad—ios or Phono-| graphs for Civilians After April 22 ) | WASHINGTON, March 7— The Department the manufacture - larger Hollywood today ordered of radios and phoncgraphs for use of civil- be discontinued by April 22. studios is 'ALLIES FALL Tokyo Broadcast Claims Bandoeng Almest Encircled COUNTER OFFENSIVE HEARTENS AUSTRALIA Report American Forces| | Readying for Big Pacific Push (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A Tokyo broadcast asserted to= |day that Bandoeng, Allied - military’ | headquarters on Java, are within “a few kilometers of encirclement,” |and that the collapse of the entire| | Java defense is a matter of a few: idays. | Al |Japan said that the Jap' troops have advanced to within a little more than three miles of Band- ‘(veng and that Jap forces also are | closely besieging the big naval base | |at Soerabaja. Reports from Tokyo broadcast |over the German radio, however, |said that the Jap troops secking |the capture of Soeabaja have run 1 sl \into heavy Allied tank forces mas- !, sed in the immediate vicinity. | The invaders mnow are reported ) cverrunning almost the entire 620 miles of the northern coastal p]anefi,‘ |driving deep into the interior as the battle-stained Dutch, British, and American troops, outnumbered |five to one, fell back into the { mountains | Facing this grim picture, heart- ening information reached the Aus- tralian government from Washing- ton and London of activities for the assembling of maximum Allied strength in the Pacific for a big ! counter-offensive to be carried out as soon as pgssible. Australian Supply Minister John |Beasley, speaking from Sydney, {said “within the past week the |complete organization for Allied |strategy in the Pacific has been |worked out. Time is the only factor we have to deal with. Given time, we can drive the enemy back to ‘Tokyo and Yokhama.” SOLDIERS ARE KILLED, FRONT lsoviets Claim Wholesale Slaughter on Central Fighting Sector MOSCOW, March 7—The Rus- sian Army Kkilled 40,000 Germans |on the Central Front west of Mcs- | cow between February 6 and March 5 a special Soviet Communique says this morning. The Red Army is also reported pursuing two Nazi Divisions, rem- nants of the big Third Army, and claims recapture of Kukhnov, a major blow aimed at disrupting the German time table for the spring offensive. STOCK QUOTATIONS | . NEW YORK, March 7 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session is 2, American Can 60%, Anaconda 26'4, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Common- {wealth and Southern ', Curtiss | Wright 7%, International Harvester 451/2, Kennecott 32'¢, New York |Central 8%, Northern Pacific 6, | United States Steel 50's, Pound |54.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, There are no snakes or toads on three minutes of finished film in an|Jones averages: Industrials 10231, lthe Isle of, Man in the Irish Sea. eight hour day. rails 26.35, utilities 1235, BACKASJAP| ' TROOPSGAIN . . dispatches broadcast fr om 4 First Unite W d States Troops in Canada * American troops crossed the border into Canada for the first time since U. S. entered the war when these troops visited Ottawa, Ont. They a Mackenzie King. The occasion coin | Wants to Enlist—C'gty_S_ays No! Frederick Donnatelli, of Revere, Mass., shown with his wife and four children, wanted to enlist in the army so badly he wrote President Roosevelt about it. The city's welfare commissioner has fought the enlistment on grounds the family would become dependents of the city re pictured on Parliament Hill, where they were inspected by Premier cided with Canada’s new victory loan campaign. FIVEDIE, ~ 100HURT IN BLAST i LHeavy Loaded Ammuni- | tion Truck Explodes | After Fire ¢ SMITHFIELD, North Carolina, March 7—At least five persons were killed and more than 100 linjured here today in a delayed | explosion of a fire-ridden ammuni- | tion truck. The blast was heard | within a 50-mile radius in the east- ern part of the state. | A hotel, filling station and tav- ern were leveled to the ground iWhen the vehicle's huge load of explosives blew up. The casual- ties were bystanders who watched i the truck burn for almost two hours | before the explosion. CARRIER i | | RIERS if he succeeds. Mrs. Donnatelli and the draft board have signed waivers. Bdfllenecks Are Broken By Nelson in System of Getfing War Production NNETT By JACK ¢ WASHINGTON, March 7 — In spite of all the complaints and calumny, heaped on the head of the American business man for | our halting, jerky progress military preparation, some pretty astute ob-| servers here are already beginning| to say that he probably will em-| |erge as one of the war's real heroes.|of the day, “progress” sheets on Putting the United States in-| dustrial machine into high gear is like trying to get an elephant away from the barrier in time. to keep up with the field at the Ken- tucky Derby. The point is that the only jockey that could ride hero on brute at all is that afore-mentioned American business man. What brought all this on was that wandering around the marble halls of the War Production Board building recently, I got a look-see into Chairman Donald M. Nelson’s system of breaking bottle necks. Just who is the real author of the system, nobody seems to-know, but it's a beautiful example of how| ~ HIT, JAPS ANNOUNCE Two Aircraft Vessels Struck by Nipponese Bombs, Tokyo Says TOKYO, March 17 Imperial headquarters today claimed naval planes score six direct hits op a “specially converted” enemy air- craft carrier before the Java sea battle this month. Thirty aircraft aboard the car- »d were destroyed and the vessel was seriously crippled and later seen listing to starboard. The communique said aerial pho- tographs also confirmed the sinking of a medium sized enemy aircraft carrier in waters northwest of New Guinea. puct Lol A AR e "60ODBYE" NEW YORK, March 7.—A message received this afternoon from the Netherlands News Agency officially says the Java Radio Service at Bandoeng is going off the air. “We are now snutting down. Goodbye until better times. Long live the Queen.” that A.B.M. is keepingz tlie derm on the track. It’'s what is known as the Prog- ress Reporting Division. I° <ounds dull. Most of the work in 1t But the results obtained aren't The PRD has a list of more than 300 principal military items now in production. Almost ¢ y minute pachy- IS each one of those items drops on the desk of one of PRD's officials It shows to the day, almost to the hour, exactly what the pro- duction status of that article is and the minute a lag shows up, the Division reports to the proper WPB executive who takes steps L pick up the slack. For example there are dozens of units that go into a tank. There are tank bulls, motors, transmis- neck in any one of these will stop sions, guns, treads, etc. A bottle one whole section of the entire tank program. Almost as soon as there is ivinued on Page Three) ka Road Route Announced; Work Starts AMERICANS BEING SENT FIGHT SCENE Soldiers, l;if&is, Planes, Tanks, Guns Heading for Offensive CONCENTRATED HITTING POWER ON HIGH SEAS Naval, Air Battles Said fo Be Developing in New Movement LONDON, March 7—Walter Farr, iLondon Daily Mail correspondent, assigned to the United States Pa- cific Fleet, said in a dispatch, date- lined at sea Friday, that great convoys of ships carrying American | troops, “pilots, planes, tanks and guns are heading through the Southwest Pacific. He saild that “naval and air battles without parallel are develop- ing. These forces will not only help defend Augl.rnlll but are tak- ing large quantities of materials to be used in building foundations for a great offensive against the Jap- nese. B “Every ship in the convoy Iis loaded with concentrated hitting i power, is carrying hundreds of the | finest American pilots. ‘America can’ ! produce, powerful traffed units to be used in landing. fons, and hardy Infantry from thehAmerican plains, S e . “You will not hear the immediate | details of some of these engage- "ments,” he said, “because to an: nounce them would help the enenly. |1t 'is a ‘strange kind of war in | which the superiority of American | cruisers, destroyers, aircraft car- | riers and personnel are slowly be- ginning to tell. | “When the war began, the enemy sent many of its best submarines into the area through which we are moving. They failed to cut the Pacific lifeline.” | ——— P (ITY MOVES - T0 PROVIDE RECREATION | Council Votes fo Aid Serv- | ice Men, Provide Building The City Council last night threw its support behind the Juneau Ser- |vice League’s efforts to secure ad- equate recreational facilities for cervice men and authorized Mayor Harry Lucas and City Attorney Grover C. Winn to take preliminary |steps in securing a recreation cen- |ter for Juneau. In the meantime, it was sug- gested that the city provide funds for the expansion of facilities for service men in the Salvation Army's Red Shield Reading Room. The Finance Committee will consider B this request and report back at a special meeting next Tuesday evening It was decided that the city would apply for a $75,000 appro- Ipriation under the Community Fa- cilities Act for the construction of a recreation building. Under this plan, the city would be required to furnish a site for the structure before making application to Wash- |ington. Mayor Lucas and Mr. Winn were given authority to prepare the #pplication and take options on any lot which might be considered suit- able for the purpose. They will re- port back at the meeting Tuesday night. Representatives of the Juneau Service League who spoke on behalf of the plan were Joe Flakne, Ro- tary Club representative and Harry (Continued on Puge Three)