The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8981. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942 s MEMBER ASSOCIATEL PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS .S. BOMBERS BAG 5 JAPANESE PLANE Stranded M’Kinley Abandoned to Salvagers STARTWORK Making of Bikes for Kids PASSENGERS, Labor Not fo Be Stripped MAIL TAKEN From Agricultural Regions; Shortages fo Be Prevented OFF STEAMER | By JACK STINNETT [ SEVEN ARE SENTENCED AS SPIES ONHIGHWAY T0 ALASKA WASHINGTON, March 13 — The Route Will Be Inland fo! War Production Board has ordered Halted; Material fo Go for Viclory Wheels for Adulls quantities for the time when auw tires fail. AMERICANS IN ATTACKS, NEW GUINEA Al Buildinga Nipponese Al But 15 Members of| Kurt Ludwig, Others Must It also announced the tenta- RAF BOMBS WASHINGTON, March 13—Se- Jective Service and the Department Serve Tofal of 117 Serve Nonhern |a halt on the manufacture of bi- cycles for children to conserve ma- tive stoppage of the manufacture Held Airdromes Are Crew Rescued —Repairs | of Agriculture are cooperating n | | terials to allow for the manufac-|of household washing machines by Made Before Floated SEATTLE, March 13—The Thir- teenth Naval District announced to- day that all passengers and mail and all but 15 members of the crew and the captain of the steam- ship Mount McKinley, aground in Alaska waters, have been removed by a Coast Guard cutter. There were no casualties. It is hoped, according to the re- lease to the newspapers, that the captain and others of the crew could be taken off within the next 12 hours. The announcement further states the Mount McKinley must be tem- porarily abandoned as the ship must be repaired by salvage crews be- fore hauled afloat. The time the Mount McKinley went aground and the location is not officially revealed. ——————— JUNEAU COUPLE WED Pete Terencio and Susan Gregor- ieff, hoth of Juneau, were married in Douglas yesterday by U. 5. Com- missioner Felix Gray. Witnesses were Phyllis D .Ridley and Brigido Gomez. “The s «d Robert . Alles BATTLESHIP GNEISENAU ‘Naval Installations Also | Reporfed Set Afire at Kiel Base LONDON, March 13—The Royal | Air Force last night bombed the | 26,000 ton German battleship Gneis- {enau and set naval installations lafire at the Kiel base. | The raid was ‘“continuation of | the great spring air offensive” be- |gun last weekend, the British Air | Ministry announced. 1 ——e———— | | | Wage Conirol ' Under Study - By Roosevelf iPresidenWakes An- nouncement During Newsmen Talk { WASHINGTON, March 13— The !question of wage control as a war | measure is under study. President | a thorough-going effort to prevent| a shortage of farm labor.. Although local selective service boards have had their instructions from time to time to try to pre- vent shortages of both farm and defense labor, this is the first time Selective Service has joined hands with another department in an effort to stem selection from any industry. The method by which it |is being *worked out is interest-| ing. The Department of Agriculture has state and county “War Boards” throughout the nation. These have been instructed to survey their own localities and to report to their re- { Years NEW YORK, March 13—New York Federal Judge Henry God- dard sentenced seven persons, de- fendants in the nation's first war spy trial, to a total of 117 years in prison for espionage and conspir- acy. Three, including Kurt Ludwig, 36, a native of Fremont, Ohlo, the “brains of the ring”, who was ar- rested in Cle Elum, Washington in a bus last summer after a Cross country chase, were given 20 years each. , Three others, including Mrs. Hel- en Mayer, 26, American born house- Air Bases WASHINGTON, March 13—A War | Department official said today that the need to supply a route to air| bases was the principal factor in| the decision to locate the Alaska Highway inland instead of near the coast When asked about the Alaska Highway Commission’s description of the route as “a tragic blunder”, he said “of course we don't think it's a tragic blunder. All factors were considered carefully before the choice was made.” A Missouri engineer with a dis- tinguished recorq in the United | ture of adult Victory bikes .in larger | | | japanese .Go‘ — WASHINGTON — Some time h: passed since the President finauy;d'fiy. centralized U 8. war industry in| The President declined to go in- | Roosevelt made this statement at as | & conference with the newsmen to- a single executive, but the problem |to the question of putting a ceiling | cn wages as an anti-inflation step. wife who was accused of mailing letters in secret writing to German agents transmitting military infor- mation, were given 15 years each. i YT PAER SO PUBLIC INVITED 10 OPEN HOUSE ATGOV. MANSION An informal open house will be In other words in the “necessary held tomorrow night from 8 o'clock crop” areas (dairy and poultry,|until 11 o'clock at the Governor's sugar, etc.) draft officlals will dojMansion with Acting Governor and all they can to see that the farm-|Mrs. E. L. Bartlett as hosts. The ers are not stripped of labor; whllvinmnr is being given for officer in surplus crop areas and those personnel and the public is invited in which farm labor is sufficient or| to attend. . obtainable from other sources, de-| Assisting will be Mayor and Mrs. ferment of farm workers will not| H. I. Lucas, Judge and Mrs. George spective selective service boards conditions there regarding all phases of the “necessary crops” {and labor conditions. They are| NOT to concern themselves with individual cases, but to provide se- lective service with the overall pic- ture of conditions as they exist in| that section, county or state.. On the other hand, Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey has instructed | his boards to give full considera- |tion to these reports in determin- jing their deferment policies. | be considered so important, | At the same time, General Her-|Council, Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Carter, |shey and Agriculture both are mak- Judge and Mrs, Frank A. Boyle ing appeals to the farmers to lim- and Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Stewart. it all requests for occupational de-| Those who will pour during the ferment to those cases where men evening are, Mrs. Alex Holden, Mrs. | are absolutely necessary to produc- A. N. Monsen, Mrs. Courtney Smnh,} tion of essential products and who Mrs. I. P. Taylor, Mrs. Catherine | cannot be replaced at the time of{Gregory, Mrs. Helen Cass, Mrs. R. classification. | E. Robertson, Mrs. G. E. Cleveland, There isn't going to be any over-|Mrs. W. A. Holzheimer, Mrs. J. | | P. Alexander, Dr. and Mrs. W. W.| States Army, Col. William M. Hoge will boss the construction. Army engineers said that troopsi under him already have arrived at | Dawson Creek and have estab- | lished the first main base to buiid a pioneer road that will be finished | by the Public Roads Administra- | Is Guilty tion which will bulld a crushed rock | motor highway 24 feet wide. | L roeaet rm;TsuiomoObana EntersPlea ‘ j | of Violating Regis- wiil be passable but not much else.; It is essential, however, to make| . fration Act possible the movement of heavy | equipment needed in the construc-| tion of the highway.” | WASHINGTON, March 13—Tsut- Col. Hoge proved his ability in omo Obana, Secretary of the, Jap- the Meuse Argonne offensive in the anese Chamber of Commerce in World War after personally recon- san Francisco, today entered a plea noitering the site of a pontoon of guiity in the District Court to bridge in daylight and under shell| the charge of violating the Foreign fire. He ordered a train of wagons Agents Registration, Act in omit- moved to the site, erected a bridge| yng material facts in the registra- and won the Distinguished Service tion, Cross for it. Obana is liable to a maximum He was graduated from West penalty of two years imprisonment Point in 1916, and has been execu-|on each of four counts. This is the first such case i | tive officer in the Engineer Re-| of- placement Training Center at Fort| ficially disposed of. Belvoir, Virginia. was District Engineer Previously in Omaha and has spent two years in the he| > Philippines as commander of the | Fourteenth Engineers. ——————————— 'BROTHERS ARE of war labor administration is still| an unsolved mess. One great trouble is that super-| vision of this vital field is divided | among a number of officials, each | e i TWO DESERTERS jealous of the others and all] scrambling to be top dog. Chief scramblers are Secretary Frances Perkins, whose record is one of the sourest botches in the Administration and whose reten- | tion in the cabinet is one of the; greatest mysteries of Washington; Federal Security Administrator Paul McNutt, restless and ambitious for a big-place war job; Sidney Hill- man, ex-OPM boss and head of the labor division of the War Produc- tion Board. Also in ‘the tangled picture Is War Production Chief Donald Nel- son, who insists that war labor ad- ministration be under his control. And then there are the AFL and CIO, who want to get their hands on control, so they have cooked up the strategy of demanding that war labor be put in the Labor De- partment where they rule the roost. However, Nelson and Hillman, who see eye-to-eye, plan to estab- lish a Man Power agency under Nelson, which would have super- vision over all problems of labor relating to war production except the settlement of industrial dis- putes. This is being, handled by the War Labor Board. This plan, approved at a closed-door session of the War Production Board last week, is being formally submitted to the President now. . This will put squarely up to him the choice between Nelson-Hillman and the political scheme demanded by the AFL-CIO with the secret backing of Miss Perkins. AFL-CIO POLITICS On the surface, AFL-CIO moguls are -united in advocating that war labor administration be placed in the Labor Department—from which it was once taken because of Miss (Continued on Page Four) CAPTURED AFTER WILD GUN FIGHT Runaway Soldiers Killed FBI Agent, Wound- ed Another ABINGDON, Virginia, March 13— Two army desérters who shot and killed an FBI agent and wounded another seriously, were captured in an abandoned house on the out- skirts of this town this afternoon. More than 100 Federal, state and ilocal officers surrounded the house and exchanged shots with fugitives, then used tear gas. Agent Hubert Treacy, Jr., 28, was killed, and Charles Tignor, 29, was shot five times when they at- tempted to arrest Charles Lovett, 21, and.James Testerman, 22, Fort Oglethorpe soldiers. ———— — STOCK QUOTATIONS NEEW EYORK, March 13—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2, American Can 58'%, Anaconda 257%, Bethle- hem Steel 59%, Commonwealth and | Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, International Harvester 44%, Ken- necott 32, New York Central 8%, Northern Pacific 5%, United States Seel 50, Pound $4.04. | | . DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 99.73, |rails 26.15, utilities 11.95. B g — The Pacific ecean is 9,300 miles | long and 10,000 miles wide at the | equator. lall deferment of farm workers but|T. Thomas, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. | |the decline in farm labor (28 per-| W. S. Pullen. cent to 8665000 in the last six' Co-hostesses will include, Mrs. | months—some of which is seasonal) | Florine Housel, Alice Coughlin, has been sufficient to cause alarm)Mrs. Kaser Metzgar, Miss Elizabeth and the adoption of this national| Kaser, Mrs. Gertrude Naylor, Miss scheme to prevent further drastic|Jane Hibbard, Miss Estella Drap- impairment of the food p)'oduction‘er, Miss Bobby Dooley, Mrs. Etta program. . Mae DuckWorth, Miss Elaine Hous- el, Miss Jane Alexander, Ms - EXECUTED FOR HOLDUP DEATHS WALL STREET GIVEN SHOC William and Anthony Es- | posito Pay Penalty the | The government has just organ-| ized its biggest hunting expedition. The hunters (75 of them) are tech-| nical experts and scientists. The {hunting grounds: Brazil, Columbin.} Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Central America. The game: rubber, met-| als, drugs, essential oils and fibers.| The scientists and technicians are being sent out by Nelson A.! Rockefeller’s Office of Inter-Ameri- can Affairs, but their object isn't so much to aid the Latin Americas | as it is to ferret out natural re- sources which will make up for the; loss of those in the South Pacific and supply the greater demands resulting from the war. The interesting thing is that as .a result of their discoveries and| | reports, Japan and the south Pa- cific may never be as important to this hemisphere, after the war as before—may even lose those |great margins of trade advantage |in certain products that have giv- en them their place in the sun of | world commerce. Anti-Nazi Riols (onligu_e‘in Brazil! RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, March ‘ls—Police riot squads have been re- 'quired to fire shots in the air to disperse crowds in five extensive |anti-Nazi disorders following the | Governmental decree for confisca- tion of all party, property and | | George A. Lingo, and Miss Doris Freeburger. Those who will serve’ are Misses | NEW YORK, March 13—An anti- iuircrafl gun crew stationed near |the Metropolitan area is reported | for Crimes OSSING, New York, March 13— william Esposito, 30, who played Betty Sharpe, Dorothy Lewis, Mary |by the police to have accidentally dead on a midtown New York street Jean McNaughton, Jean Taylor,| carol Robertson and Kay Ken- nedy. IR S | SAFE ICE SKATING ON MENDENHALL AND AUK LAKES REPORTED Mendenhall Lake is safe for ice| skating in front of the skate cabin, though the ice is slightly rough, it was announced today by the Admiralty Division of the U. 8. Forest Service. Auk Lake is also safe for skating| on the side of the lake nearest to town, though the ice here, also, is slightly rough. It is expected thntl a number of skaters will take ad-| vantage of the weekend to enjoy the ice on both lakes. » The public is urged fo refrain from throwing or dropping bottles| on the ice as the broken glass is| a menace to the public safety in| case of persons falling, the Ad-! miralty Division stated. The case! of a small child who was cut by broken glass when he fell on the ice recently, was cited | ————-- RACE TRACK TAKEN OVER LOS ANGELES—Hollywood Park, | one of the west coast's popular race tracks, has been occupied by the ! U. S. Army. | e |funds of Axis citizeps and firms ‘m Brazil and blacklisting of firms. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS !this afternoon, Pacific Wartime, in {mail and two trips to Sitka on fired eéight shells at 12:40 o'clock b i gaoda b 14 months ago after a holdup kill- ing and then arose and shot and the St of [ |kilied Patrolman Al in Sing o e i e e o pios b CECHEL R RN TE R coping dropped from the ledge be-| \gijam paid the penalty five tween the 37th and 38th floors °‘:mlnm¢s after his brother Anthony, the 40-story Equitable Building. [aged 37, had been executed for a No one is reported to have been yilling in the same holdup. injured. Both men were taken to the death Lieut. James Pyke, in charge of chamber in wheel chairs. For 10 Wall Street the Police Bomb Squad, reported months they had been lying in bed | he found 4 or 5 pieces of steel|abstaining from all food except fragments about 2 inches long. what was fed to them forcibly .They Building officials said the investi- | had reduced themselves to skin and gation indicated a projectile of |bones. Both refused spiritual solace. some kind hit the building. Sev- S v b S eral occupants heard an explosion. | e ot | ALASKA COASTAL S Bood ' PulpTaken Over Government today is to take con- “ F trol of the Nation’s entire supply I der a War Production Board. It Alaska Opgstal lanes were kept is assumed the order will give pow- Ketchikan, two trips to Tulsequah | produced and imported wood pulp bringing in mining personnel and to paper mills and other users. plA“ES M A KE WASHINGTON, March 13 — The of wood pulp, effective May 1, un- busy today with a round trip 10/, "¢, giiocate hoth domestically i s e schedule, with passengers and mail. | Returning from Ketchikan s Charles G. Burdick, Assistant Re- | gional Forester and four other pas-| U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray sengers. Those booking passage to has issued a marriage license to Sitka from Juneau are Vesta Webb,|Ira B. Stevenson and Bertha F. Steve McCutcheon, Mr. and Mrs. Garn, both of Sitka. They planned C. W. McKown. "to be married in Sitka. GET MARRIAGE LICENSE Edward Maher,| May 15 Daring American Sub Goes Deep Info Japanese Waters, Iorpedoes Ihree Big Ships | WASHINGTON, March 13 — The Navy announces that an American submarine, venturing deep into | Japanese waters, has sunk three big | freighters and also a largé pas- | senger cargo ship. | These four sinkings raise to 149 the total number of vessels damaged or totally destroyed by the United States navy ships in the western Pacific. The Navy also announces that two Japanese 4-motored seaplanes were intercepted west of Midway them was downed. It is admitted that one United States fighter plane was damaged and the pilot wound- ed but he returned to his bas: | safely. RUSSIANS CONTINUE ' ONSLAUGHT Red Army Wields Big Force in Pre - Spring Offensive LONDON, March 13 — Marshal Timoshenko's terrific Southern front onslaught, involving perhaps 90 Red Army divisions, is reported to have beaten the Germans to the punch in a pre-spring offensive for con- trol of the Donets Basin road Yo the Caucasus Mountains. | A German communique acknow- {lcdged Nazi troops were on the de- | fensive and were counter attacking | against “strong enemy forces.” | London sources sald that Timo- | shenko's goal is Dneiper Bend.. | Meanwhile, Russian guerilla units | were reported in a Stockholm dis- patch to have penetrated into heav- ily fortified Smolensk, Germany's central citadel on the Kussian| Pront, 230 miles west of Moscow,| and burned down five big ware-| houses containing quantities ol‘ food, cléthing and ammunition. While the Russians continued their advances, a Berlin dispatch| printed in Stockholm said that the| German spring offensive could not | begin until the end of April or| the beginning of May. The dispatch said that snowstorms were raging in the Kerch and Don-| lets districts to the south, but that the thaw had commenced in cer- tain other areas. - M'ARTHUR TALE FOND DU LAC, Wis., March 13—/ Several members of the 32nd Divi- sion recall this World World I story | about Gen. Douglas MacArthur: | Then a colonel and division chief of staff, MacArthur approached Mess Sergeant Ted Vogt about food, and was directed to a short distance away where other officers were eat- ing. MacArthur told him: “I'll eat here with the men—I can eat with officers any day.” R BUY DEFENSE BONDS | Island last Tuesday and one of|: | given egical | of Australia.” DesIroyi in Raid WASHINGTON, March 13 — The War Department reports today that five heavy American bombers de- stroyed five enemy planes in @& raid on the Japanese held air- dromes at the New Guinea ports of Salamaua and Lae. The War Department’s com= munique says all buildings of the airdromes were destroyed and heavy damage inflicted on the runways. Several direct hits were made on the pier at Lae. The American bombers escaped damage in the fighting with Jap- anese pursuit planes, five of which were downed. ‘The American pilots in the bomb- ing raid said the attack was a sur- prise and the bombs were dropped and the return flight to a base was underway before the pursuit planes took to the air. The Ameri- can bombers then counter attacked, sending the five pursuit planes down. No large Japanese bombers were sighted. s e A INVADERS DRIVE AT SOLOMONS Japs Now flfrr?Spearhead Toward Islands to Eastward MELBOURNE, Australia, March 13 — Japan’s farthest advanced spearhead, apparently blunted mo- mentarily on the northeast New Guinea coast, is reported officially to have stabbed off at a tangent into the Solomon Islands, forming a new threat to the supply lines of the United States over the island bridge toward New Zealand. An Australian air force com- munique said that a Jap naval force was seen three days ago off Kessa on tiny Buka Island, one of the Solomon groups and a stepping stone from New Britain to these islands. The communique also stated that the Royal Air Force had yester- day bombed an airfield being used by the Japs at Gasmata on New Britain’s south coast. BLOCK JAP ATTEMPTS MELBOURNE, March 13—Aus- irallan bombers, continuing efiorts to block Japanese attempts to es- tablish plane bases within the reach of the Australian mainland, bombed the airdrome at Gasmata, on the south coast of New Britain and set a number of fires. This is the announcement made in an _official Australian communique late this af- ternoon. JAPS MAKE CLAIMS TOKYO, March 13—A Japanese broadcast from a “certain base” claims that the landing at Sala- maua, island of New Guinea, has the Japanese the “last strat- point off the northern part ————————— LABOR DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL LEAVESE TODAY FOR SITKA Steve McCutcheon, Supervisor for the Territorial Department of Labor is, leaving today for Sitka on of- ficial business and expects to be away for several days. - Eight American towns are named Scotland.