The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8982. MEMBER ASSOCIATED FRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1942 MACHINE GUNS USED IN JAP ATTACKS Dutch Continuing Fighting Island Invaders Three Months Afler_‘ Pearl Harbor AIIaMcWIS DEFENDERS ININDIES | RESISTING Large Scale Encounfers Re- ported-Japanese Re- ports Are Denied MELBOURNE, Australia, March! 14—Lieut. Gov. Hubertus Van Mook | today said Dutch troops are still | staging large scale fights against the Japanese invaders on the is- lands of Java, Sumatra and Celebes. Van Mook said this resistence might continue indefinitely. “We are still in radio contact with Sumatra and hope to estab- lish additional communication with| Java,” Van Mook said. “The Jap-| anese claims of capturing our en- tire forces are absolutely false. Our men are fighting in the hills now.” ——-vo——— f ‘I”-Ie Got Six Jap o PROMINENT MINING MAN | RETURNS TO INTERIOR | Atriving on the Princess Norah from the south, Gustavus Uotila, | prominent mining man from the Ophir district, is in Juneau waiting | transportation to the Interior. | Upbtila, who is part owner of sev- eral producing mines in the Ophir district, has been in the south since | seagonal operations closed down last | fall. Lieut. Jdwai Six Japanese planes in ————— | IRVING W. KRAUSE HERE ON WAY TO ANCHORAGE TO ENLIST IN U. 8. ARMY Irving W. Krause, son of Mr and | Mrs. Emil Krause of Juneau, re- turned home on the Princess Norah from a month’s vacation in Cali- fornia and Washington. He will | Jeave Juneau on the first transpor- | tation for Anchorage where he will enlist in the United States Army. | - > | | operations west of other ships escaped planes, Lieut. is a graduate of the { WRITES TO GOVERNORS Asks Cooperation in Con- WASHINGTON — Plans are; quietly under way for a consolida- | tion of the various government war information agencies into a single body similar to the British Ministry of Information. The agencies to be affected are the Office of Facts and Figures, one day! established by Lieut. (junior grade) Edward H. O'Hare of St. Louis, above, who shot down six of 18 enemy aircraft carrier and other warships “in the course of recent naval f the Gilbert islands.” ing planes escaped, 16 being shot down while the carrier and the without & scratch. By shooting down the six O'Hare became an Ace in one Alaska’s Governor Wanfs Offensive on Japan lo Be Launched from Terrifory Planes in Day! ‘ csin Dayl | DETAILS OF N NAVYBATILE N MADEPUBLIC Furious Sea—Engagement‘ Off Java Between Allied | Nations and Japanese WASHINGTON, March 14 — The Navy Department disclosed today | | that the United Nations lost twelve warships in the furious sea battle off Java last month. Against superior enemy sea forces |the United Nations took toll of eight Japanese warships. Losses announced include Dutch, | British, . Australian and United | States cruisers and destroyers which | attempted on February 28 to block landing on Java of Japanese troop ships and convoys. The action occurred between Ba- | wean Island and Soerabaja. A thirteenth warship listed as | “presumed to be lost” is reported | beached. Allied Losses i The Allies’ losses were made pub- | lic by a joint announcement of | the British Admiralty and United | States Navy Department in & com- | munique which -listed allied losses |as: rd H. O'Hare That's the remarkable record jsh cruiser Exeter; Australian | | Perth; Dutch, Java and DeRuyter. Destroyers: United States, Pope; | | British, Electra, Jupiter, Encounter and Stronghold; Dutch, Electra. | Also listed as lost was the Aus-| | tralian sloop Yarda. | | The British destroyer Evertsen planes which attacked a U. S. Only two of the 18 attack- afternoon. O'Hare, 28, U. S. Naval academy. (Continued on Page Six) AXIS RUMOR CIRCULATED | FROM ROME BY FRANK I WELLER Writer for Wide World Claims Queen Mary Has Been Torpedoed and Badly Damaged i ed territory as a possible bridge-| ROME, March 14. — The Italian ‘head against the western hemi- | radio broadcast today quotes Ar- sphere—but Gruening is determined | gentine maritime circles as saying to be ready instead for an Ameri- | the British liner Queen Mary was can attack on Japan. | torpedoed and badly damaged sev- The 55-year-old New Yorker, who | eral days ago shortly after leaving WASHINGTON — Maybe all the !Amencas are lucky that Ernest | Gruening is Governor of Alaska. ‘ President Roosevelt says Japan | may try to capture islands and | harbors of the vast, thinly populal- | b ('Iruhers: U. 8. 8. Houston; Brit- |/ Here are new pictures ¢f Uncle Sam’s air force bomber coy nd in Hawaii against which the Japanesc launch their disastrous surprise attack December 7. Top: Three formidable-looking B-17 heavy bombers rumble around in the sunny Hawalian sky. Note the camouflage. Bel pound bombs into a heavy army bomber. REDS STILL PUSH NAZI FOES BACK 14,000 More Germans Die. in Northwestern MOSCOW, March 14.—A special Russian announcement listed 14,000 | shot t Germans killed on the Northwestern Frent in the last 15 days, making the | their 2 WORKERS AREINJURED BY SENTRIES i | Men, Abseni Mindendly Drive Through Barri- | SEATTLE, Mar: h 14 Sentries | wo Boeing airplane workers they absent mindedly drove auto through the barricades | when grand total of Nazis officially re- at Plant No. 2 at 3:30 o'clock this ported slain between Leningrad and morning. Moscow within a month, 63,700. Meanwhile, London sources re- headed by brilliant Librarian of ! Congress Archibald MacLeish; Of- fice of the Co-ordinator of Infor-/ mation, headed by hard-hitting Colonel “Wild Bill” Donovhn; the| Office of Government Reports,| servation of Aufo Rubber talks straight out about things, has | just left Washington for Juneau| after a trip here for assurance that Alaska will get adequate defense| if not actual offense, bases and | Rio de Janeiro with 10,000 North American soldiers aboard the vessel “attempting to each the British base on the Falkland Islands.” WASHINGTON, March 14.—The WASHINGTON, March 14—Pres- headed by lackadaisical White|igont Roosevelt has written to all | S House Secretary Lowell Mellett; ;10 governors, asRing them to aid a;‘e‘i‘l se;vel“:al hrn::ches of the ROCK-in conserving rubber by limiting the :"c:'s ommittee on Latin Am-|m,yimum speed of all motor ve- 'I'he press bureaus of the War and mc‘fx o Ahemiles 80 Ross A0 Navy Departments and the War issuing regulations requiring as fre. Production Board will remain in- dependent, but would be required | tb work in close cooperation with | the new central information agency. No name has yet been decided upon; also the director is still un- der discussion. Most favored for the job is Mac- Leish, who has made strenuous efforts to eliminate the overlap- | ping and cross-purposing of the | existing patchwork set-up. Under a/ recent White House order,’ all speeches and other pronouncements quotation of American Can today is by cabinet members and war chiefs | 58, Anaconda 257, Bethlehem Steel must clear first through him. |59, Commonwealth and Southern Very hot after the proposed new | 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, post is Mellett—despite the fact|tional Harvesier 45%, Kennecott that his record as Government Re- | ports boss is one of the sourest| Pacific 5%, United States $teel 50. in the Administration. Mellett’s|Pound $4.04. method of coping with a pmblemi is to hold long conferences and| _ DPOW, JONES AVERAGES then do nothing. | The following are today's Dow, NOTE: Government authorities| Jones averages: Industrials, 99.64; are greatly concerned over the re- |Tails, 26; utilities, 11.98. vival of facist propaganda in re- By ;f:rw_ee‘k:l;s:orfl:m:fif: ::'l”z:;:g While Mexir?o's area is. roughl‘,v but they are again becoming in- that of Texas, New Mexico, Ari creasingly vocal. Among the most (Continued op Page Four) for repair and retreading. The White House announced that identical letters had been sent to all governors and that the step | “constitutes another important means of Federal-State cooperation in the war effort.” e STOCK QUOTATIONS zona, California, and Utah com- bired, its population is 50 percent greater than that of those states. |quent checking of tires as possible! NEW YORK, March 14. — Closing | Interna- ' 31%, New York Central 8, Northern ' zarrisons and a brand new highway | from Seaitle up through Canada|tion on the report broadcast from Navy Department has no informa- | to Fairbanks to supply thenl. |Rome. Axis nations frequentiy “Defense is obsolete,” he says, broadcast calims of this nature in “let’s smash hell out of Japan. Of-|an attempt to obtain information. fense is the best defense, and what G SO WD T G |we need is some fast and furious Is Triple Threat 0 s ( loSES “Alaska is a triple threat to the L LR ] { Japs, for we can strike north, west 1 and south. We can put in bomber | | bases that would be nearer the en- Honolulu or Auckland, New Zea- land, We are a near and-natural To SIANFORD spearhead of aid to both* Russia | and China.” | Gruening is a White House po- . 2SS tuicat sppaintee and docs not pre-| Diyision Champs Battle for Navy high commands. . His vlews! coaS| Championship | are entirely civilian. ! Gruening is a fighter, and & per- | Crown sonal friend of every nation from | % PALO ALTO, Calif., March 14— Pole. He is devoted to Alaska :‘md :Stanlord's Sosthern Division Const | ito her future role of military im- oo cerence basketball champions | portance to the Pacific Coast. |swamped Oregon State College, He is a 1911 Harvard graduate Northern Division winners, 41 to 28 | | than practice in the celebrated foot- | pionship series for the Coast Cham- | steps of his father to go to bat as | pionship. a newsman on the Boston Ameri-| The Indians had four reserves on can. Subsequently he 1luurish«d‘I the floor when the final gun sound- | ed. The teams play again tonight, ) American-style war. emy (due to earth curvature) than i litical appointee and does not pre- Ithe Arctic Clrcle to the South| i in medicine, but he chose rather jast night in the first of the cham- as crusading editor of the Boston | - the winner of two out of three games ‘ taking the championship. ¥ ported that the neck of the sack the Russians are drawing around the Germans in the Rzhev Vyazma area on the Central Front between Mos- cow and Smolensk is growing stead- ly narrower. A military commentator said that an unofficial Stockholm report has it that the German areaway rein- forcement or retreat’has been cut to 20 miles at the peak. The German offensive last fall was estimated at between 600,000 and a million Ger- mans in the area. sl Vi P AQONippon Aliens in Detention 12 - Car Train Transports Party from Coast fo Santa Fe SANTA FE, New Mexico, March 14—More than 400 Japanese aliens arrived here this afternoon and were hustled off to a detention station at a CCC camp where they will be interned. The aliens were brought here on a 12-car train from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Jack Vandelaar, 42, of Woodin- ville, mechanic, and driver of the car, was shot in the neck, and George €mith, 25, laborer, was shot in the back of the head. Neither of the men are in a serious condition. S eee MUTINY OF NAZI UNITS LONDON, March 14.—Free French headquarters here said reports have been received of serigus mutinies in the German occupational troops at Chalon-Sursaone, Dijon, and Cosne in France. The reports claim that some Ger- man soldiers have shot their of- ficers. —— - COM. TATE, MAYOR CONWAY AND PARTY RETURN TO SITKA AFTER SHORT STAY Commander J. R. Tate, command- ant of the Citka Naval Air Station, Mayor J. J. Conway, of Sitka, and Lieut. Com. E. C. Renfro, returned to Sitka after a short stay in Juneau. Lt. jg R. E. Schoettler accom- panied the party to Sitka for a short visit on business. S eee It is a federal offense to re- move game or fur from one prov- ince intd another, or out of Can- ada, without authorization from the province in which the game was taken. . S ow: An ordnance crew loads 300- COLOGNEIS AIR RAIDED; FIRES RAGE Royal Air Force Drops High Explosives on Rhine- land City LONDON, March 14.—Royal Air Force bombers dropped a “great weight” of high explosives on the Rhineland City of Cologne last night in continuation of the pre-spring aerial offensive ,according to an an- nouncement today by the British Air Ministry. Many large fires were started in the center of the city, which is a maze of water, highway and rail lines, 40 miles from the Belgian border. Four British bombers failed to re- LERO UNITS IN ASSAULT, PT.MORESBY Nippon Planes Also in Ac- tion Along Coast of New Guinea Island SYDNEY, March 14 — Japanese zero fighters attacked. Port Mor- csby, New Guinea, with machine zuns today, according to the cor- respondent of the Sydney Herald. Japanese planes also attacked at a point 60 miles west along the coast near Yule Island Mission. It is reported that one member of the RAF was wounded during the attack. The attack is believed another move toward possible invasion of Australia, NS D G AUSTRALIA ISLASTLINE OF DEFENSE Prime Minister Curfin Says His Land Between Japs, U.§. CANBERRA, Australia, March 14. Prime Minister John Curtin today | warned the United States in a broad- cast that “Australia is the last bastion between the west coast of America and the Japanese. If Aus- tralia goes, the Americas are wide open to attack.” Stressing that attack is the best defense, Curtis asserted “I say to vou: saving Australia is saving the America’s west coast. If you believe anything to the contrary you are deluding yourselves. “The tide of war flows madly for you in America. For us in Australia it is flowing badly. Let me address you as comrades. It is.to the people of America T now am speaking.” Curtin also announced that it is presumed the cruiser Perth and the sloop Yarra have been lost with 833 lives. He gave no further par- ticulars. QI ORI Vot S50 B. (. CAN'T CONNECTTO turn to their bases. -oo —— Defense Stamps to Be Bought at Tea Patriotic in its motif, the Ju- neau Woman's Club will sponsor a Defense Stamp Tea on St. Pat- rick’s Day, next Tuesday, to be given in the home of Mrs. Ray Day 5:30 o'clock. Defense Savings Stamps in 25 cent amounts will be purchased by those attending the tea, accordini to Mrs. Ruth Noble, chairman. A St. Patrick’s Day decoration eme is being planned by mem-| bers of the committee including Mrs. Raymond Wolfe, Mrs. Ray Day and Mrs, William Cooper. > DOROTHY FORS' RETURNS TO TAKE POSITION HERE Dorothy Fors, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fors, returned on the Princess Norah from Seattle where she has been attending business college since last July. Miss Fors, who is a graduate of the Juneau High School, has ac- cepted a position in the Governor's office here. during the hours of 2:30 to| ALASKA ROAD Works Ministers Says Can- adian Province Lacks Necessary Funds VICTORIA, B. C, March 14 —° Public Works Minister Brubn told a Seattle Chamber of Commerce ielezation that the Provineial Gov- ‘r‘mment lacks funds with which to build a road which would link the |Provincial road system with the (.\Iu.—kez highway. He estimated the cost at approximately $3,000,000. The Seattle organization had * vone on record as opposing the con- truction of the highway via the |inland route instead of the coast, | becanse most of the Alaska populae |tion is concentrated in the South- | ast Alaska section. Work was begun on the highway |early this week, however, for the inland route. Reason given was {that it would serve its military pur- | pose of supplying northern airfields. -, — DIVORCE ASKED | | Suit has been filed in the United | States District Court by Cathryn Wilson, who asks legal separation from her husband, Oren Wilson, on the grounds of non-support. Both are Sitka residents. .