The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8983. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIA READY FOR JAPANESE ATTACK Americans LONE PLANE MAKES RAID ON AIRDROME Crew of 4-Motored Bomb- er Destroys Enemy Craft and Damages Runway WASHINGTON, March 16 — The Wwar Department today reported that an American manned 4-mo- tored bomber attacked the Japan- ése held airport on the island of New Britain last Friday and de- stroyed at least two enemy planes on the ground and also damaged the runway. The communique said the single American plane was on reconnais- ance patrol when the attack was made cn the Vukanay airdrome at Rabaul. Several bombs were dropped or the runways and a direct hit scored on parked air- craft. WASHINGTON, March 16 — The War Department announced this morning there was nothing to re- port concerning the Philippine war- fare. The last report was given out Saturday when Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur said both air and ground activity on Batan Peninsula was in a lull BELLS HUSHED WESTMINSTER, Md.,, Mar. 16 — For the duration, church bells here will not sound a call to prayer nor toll a mournful requiem. At the request of the county civilian de- fense couneil, the bells will ring out only as air raid alarm signals. CThe WASHINGTON—It hasn't leaked out yet, but Secretary of War Stim- son has sent a letter to Attorney General Biddle virtually requesting that the Justice Department refrain from further prosecution of anti- trust suits until the end of the war. Secretary Stimson's letter is couched in very general and polite language. But its effect comes close to a demand that the Sherman an- ti-trust act be put on the shelf until the end of hostilities. Behind this is the fact that var- ious. big companies have been com- plaining to the War Department that they cannot push their war contracts if they are constantly harassed by the Justice Department bringing them before grand juries. The Justice Department has prose- cutions under way against the Aluminum Company of America, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and Bosch and Lomb on charges of con- spiring with German firms to re- strict such vital war products as| magnesium, optical instruments, and synthetic rubber. Standard Oil officials have been weeping on War Department should- | ers that they suffer such mental anguish over these prosecutions that they cannot concentrate on war jobs for the Government. However, the Justice Department for a long time has contended that if it had not been for these mon- opolies, the United States would not | Juneau Be In Big Way Production, United States - POSTPONED | ake Attack, Jap Held Airport y Makes Good in Aircraft CHARLES W. PERELLE The ‘story of a Juneau boy who {has made his name in the aircraft ghop experience in ¥veting, metal| production in the United States |is told in the issue of Vultair, of- | ficial organ of the Vultee Aircraft, |Inc., at Vultee Field, California, issue of March 13. The subject of the sketch, whose picture appears |above, is Charles W. Perelle, who {in his youth was at various times a carrier on the Kmnjtre and |also the Daily Dispatch, which was ja morning newspaper of Juneau Perelle was known as “Chuck”, In- Boeing plant at Seattle, he gained fitting and machine shop opera- tion. Turning to tool design on the original Army Flying Fortress and the first Boeing Clippers, hi ability was recognized and he w appointed Superintendent of the Boeing Canadian plant until 1938. Returning to Boeing as Produc- tion Manager, he held that position until he came to Vultee Field in 1940 as Superintendent, followed by the position as Works Manager, and DRIVE BY HITLER IS [ | | i Spring Offensive Delayed | ' —German People GivenWarning BERLIN, March 16—Hitler sol- emnly warned the German people | Sunday that a hard struggle lies | before them, and tacitly admitted in {an unhéralded speech that the| Nazi drive for the anmihilation of | Russia will be postponed until sum- | | mer g | Until yesterday, Hitler and other speakers for the German propa- ganda office spoke menacingly of a drive against the Reds in the spring, but now he shuns all ref- erence to the spring season offen- sive and spoke of thaws and para- lyzing mud. “Only today,” alize the full extent of preparations by our enemies. Whatever fate may have in store for us, it cam only be less onerous than that | which lies behind us. RED ARMY CINSMASH ON NAZIS :German Forfifications Al- tacked-Recapture of | Kharkov Imminent MOSCOW, March 16—Soviet 5| forces have smashed through Ger- man fortifications on the Kharkov-' _ Kursk-Orel front below Moscow, and recaptured numerous villages. The Soviet forces are on the approaches of Kharkov itself, the Pittsburgh |of the Ukraine. | The Russian Command reports | cidentally, the editor of Vultair, isishortly after as General Manager. that indications are the recapture |a former kellknown newspaper man, {Ed C. Russell, who was publisher |of the Daily Dispatch years ago 1in Juneau. The plant cf the Con- | solidated Aircraft Company, to | which Perelle has been elected as Vice President, is located at San Diego, California, and produces vast | quantities, of the larger type of bombers, etc. At present about 35,- 000 persons are employed and this | will probably be increased to 50,- 000 by the end of 1942, Perelle is perhaps one of the outstanding fig- ures in aircraft production in the | nation. | | The article appearing in Vultair, | |is as. follows: | | The election of Charles W. Per- elle, General Manager of Vultee! ‘}Field, as Vice President of the; | Consolidated Aireraft Company in| | charge of Production, did not come‘ ias a surprise among Vultee em- ployees, and the announcement from the office of President Millar was generally considered recognition of | the results obtained at Vultee Field |under the management of Pereile and staff, | Charles W. Perelle came to Vul- |tee less than two years ago from | the Boeing factory at Seattle. Hisi organization at Vultee Field soon gained world recognition, and is one |of the outstanding industrial man- | |agements in American industry. | During the past year many manu- facturers of naticnal reputation Charles W. Perelle’s father was foreman at the Chichagof mines in Alaska, where Charles Junior spent his school and college vacations working as a miner. Accompanied by Mrs. Perelle and baby, Mr. Perelle -left Vultee Field last week for San Diego. His last day at the plant was an Ovation, as high officials as well as men and women frem the plant personally expressed to him their best wishes for continued success. 13KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE Five Americans Among Those Dead in Accident to Chinese Transport CHUNGKING, March' 16—Five Americans, including a member of the United States Military Mission to China, and a United States economic adviser, together with the Chief of the British Military Mis- of Kharkov is imminent. | Furious battles are flaming in the . Ukraine and Donets River Basin where numerous Germans have been captured and many hundreds killed. | Many Junior German officers are said to have surrendered. R 'FOUR HUNDRED AMERICANS ARE - TAKENPRISONER jDomei News Dispatch | Claims Captures Made | | by Japanese on Java | TOKYO, March 16—Four hun- |dred Americans were captured by | the Japanese at Bandoeng, Central| Java, and 100 more were taken | prisoners in eastern Java, accord- ing to a Domeij dispatch today. The dispatch also said that when the Americans were taken prxsoners‘ the following war material was |seized: 93 autos, 8 field guns, 19' | machine guns, 390 automatic regu-| lar rifles and 80,000 rounds of am-{ imunmon. | — - he said, “do we ve-|, i “But lige island has tlis drawback: Neither Diego-Suarez, one of the world’s best natural harbors, nor Tulear ‘|sold here for seven cents a pound. Ocear-Going Submarines Can Strike Shipping Routes Wide World Features Diplomatic discussions between the United Nations and Vichy France first turn te disposition of the French fleet and second to Madagascar, great wild island 240 miles off the East African Coast in the Indlan Ocean. Nearly 1,000 miles long and 360 miles across at the widest point (about the size of England with less than 4,000,000 population, all but 40,000 of it native), in Axis hands Madagascar could block all United Nations ship routes around Cape of Good Hope and fill the entire Indian Ocean with submarines. With the Medi- terranean passage too dangerous for slow convoys, supplies for Egypt have been making the long swing saround Africa. Nazi medium-light bombers based on Madagascar's four airports (including the Paris- ' Madagascar plane terminal) could shut the inside passage up the East African ccast while short and long range submarines blasted Allied shipping from Good Hope to Australia, from Rangoon to thé Persian Guif. and Tamatave, other important ports, have facilities for ship repair or refueling. All gasoline and oll must be imported, as must skilled workmen, steel, everything but coffee, vanilla, tapioca, meats, agricultural | JAPANESE United States Not All-Out | ~ IN ATTACK - ONDARWIN For WarBut Gelfing There; Busy Scenes Are Reported GErRs | 'Assault Made on United Nations Naval Base, Northern Australia that. But we are coming along, (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) In the ‘Pennsylvarda station in| Japanese bombers today struck | New York City the other day, it at Darwin, the strategic port in the looked like the subway at “quittin’|vast northern territory of Australia time,” except that the subways and potentially one of the few re- opmen' o' Fofests never saw the day when any sta- maining Naval strong ports of the . e a5 tion lobbies were cluttered with|United Nations in the Southwest n F"S' D|V|S|0n i temporary ticket booths. Pacific. | On the Jersey Flats, a score of The attack was evidently but Edward A, Stamm and Axel amateur and professional junk men apother of the assaults in an at-| Brandstrom, logging engineers from Were picking over the rusty bones|tempt to wipe out the station from| the Pacific Northwest, are now in cf the city dumps and hauling out|which warships and planes oper- juneau accompanied by James W. everything that looked like salvage|ate to oppose the threatened in- Gerard, Chief Logging Engineer for metal. | vasion lunge of the Japanese from the Forest Service in Washington, It was a cloudy, soggy day and|the north. D. C. g thick smoke hung over the indus-| The radio broacast from Sydney Previously engaged in stdying trial cities north and south of | caid only slight damage was done tre possivilities for developing the Newark. Iby the raiders at Darwin and few logging of spruce in the Pacific, ope of the nation’s largest radi-|casualties resulted. gx:h::::;herx:lsnux]alteh;m:l;i ator ru?leaunzv co‘mpames Was go-| The threat of an invasion and ooa Il 'of Wales TlARA. || | 1Tk Sl ApOUsAON "f‘:?;" an L?xfjfe;ml‘\:’:g x:e,l:dt:;‘: B:‘:j: i A 5 g - ng was toda; . r ml’:‘:w;e);fic!d:(;mre;l;ir;:: ;’::::: ; (Continued on Page Two) | General Bennett who headed the ring with Forest Service officials Australian Imperial forces in the here on the subject of production | Malaya campaign and escaped from of spruce lumber in Alaska. | Singapere just previous to the fall of the fortress. TIMBER MEN ARE INVESTIGATING " ALASKA SPRUC Visit Hints Possible Devel- By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 16 — Ts the United States all-out for war? The answer is an emphatic “NO”.| The most enthusiastic optimists around these parts will tell you Deadline | e, o eaaiine is He declared in a speech at Syd- NI"E“ 'HOUSA“D | M'd H hI' ney that every man in the Aus- | 4 1 ] is POUNDS SABLE FISH | IARIGRTION s o o o | 1th. IS SOLD IN JUNEAU Tax Relums‘mm "is o veport in_Austrais | that an air and sea offensive Is Ninety thousand pounds of sable '. ito be by United Nauon's bombs | fish wag brought into Juneau Fri- — land subs on Japanese positions at Boats arrwing with their indi- Myst File=Also Thou- |ihe announcement of the arrival at| NAVALBASES ARE MANNED INSIBERIA ' Baftle Orders Issued-Can Be Put Into Instant Operation LONDON, March 16 — Russia's well-armed Siberian forces are manning naval bases, ready for in- stant action against a Japanese at- tack, which Chungking advices in- dicate might be launched in the near future. British reports said that a dis- patch from Stockholm in the Daily Mail said the Soviets “have issued battle orders which can be put in- to instant operation.” These Siberian naval stations are at Vladivostok, across the sea from Japan and Nikolaevsk, about 1,200 miles up the Russian cost at the mouth of the Amur River, opposite the northern Russian-owned half of Sakhalin Island. The Daily Mail quoted the Swed- ish press as saying that the Jap- anese army in Manchukuo has been increased to more than a million troops, and said that Soviet au- thorities in the Swedish capital “laugh at even a million Japanese constituting a serious menace when the independent Far Eastern Soviet army numbers-a. million and a half normally.” P D INVESTIGAT RESIGNATION OF GUTHRIE Nelson Char;s Personal Conflicts Impede War Effort WASHINGTON, March 16—War Production Board Chairman Don- ald Nelson sald today that “per- sonal conflicts” between Robert Guthrie and members of Guthrie's staff of the Textiles Division “im- peded that part of the war produc- tion effort.” In a letter to Chairman Harry S. Truman, heading a Senate in- vestigating committee, Nelson asked facts surrounding Guthrie's resig- nation from the War Production Board. According to Guthrie’s subsequent statement, “indecision, resistance and caution” of the other repre- sentatives of the industry working within the WPB led him to re- sign. Truman read a portion of the letter after Senator John H. Bank- head told the Senate that if results couldn’t be obtained otherwise, the Government ought to draft man- power, take over industrial plants and bring about round-the-clock war production. BUSINESS 600D IN. FAIRBANKS, CHAS. WAYNOR REPORTS Business is good in Fairbanks and residents of the Interior City are expecting an excellent season this year, according to Charles the committee to inquire into the : »” today be short of such vital WA |,... yisieq Vultee Field, attracted > —— | ROY CAV GH LEAVES | nesium and aluminum. Furthermore, | :’:me;hiy r;:;:;:&:l:d lreisult;” .Oh" f a large Chinese transport plane.\ T Alaska Coast Fisheries; Oceanic, San s orpora I0nS | rampage through Indonesian, Phil- :Jl:::‘:; ?rl‘x;:n?“:bl:onk:ecenuy PR it is not generally known that vlr-‘sm“ his efficient| = ;1 ong the dead are Lieutenant RE URN APR“. 18,000 pounds, sold to E. E. Eng- ippine and Malayan waters leav-| npr waynor spent S week iin tually all of the German chemical | g | Colonel “Otto C. George, Dr. Feni- |strom; Fern 11. 19,000 pounds, sold WASHINGTON, March 16 — Al 0 op gyerage destruction of 1,000 Fairbanks i patents which the United States| Charles W. Perelle was born at pmore B. Lynch, Lieutenant Frank| Actin Ito W. C. Carlson for the New Eng- Most every American adult witn|, ..~ S "airbanks on- business in connec- 3 ¢ ' A y | g Governor E. L. Bartlett tons daily of Japanese shipping in|ijon with the credit bureau. seized during the last war, got right | Juneau, Alaska, where he graduat-|y goner pilot; Emil S. Scott, co- |sald today that Ernest Gruening's land Fish Company; Arden, 15,000 the exception of Gen. Douglas Mac- ;. waye " back into German hands (through led from the high school which ac-| oot ooty ™ conon) L.:;nce-ipresent lyanx all for his return to POUNds, sold to Alaska Goast Fish- Arthur and his men must file their| g BEGITHE oo i B conspiracy with American firms) |credited him to the University of | L. Deonr Lomn of ihe London|uneau areund. Apri 1. The Gove | €ries; Louhelen, 9,000 pounds sold Federal income tax return by mid- MR. AND MRS, SNOW AND after the war was over. | Washington. Following graduation | yilitary Mission, phici > sy Washington in|t© E- E. Engstrom; Avona, 15000 night tonight, making the day the| DAUGHTER ON WAY SOUTH So the Justice Department claims a5 an engineer, he took a course AR Sl connection with bills affecting the POUnds, not yet sold. * greatest tax paying date in Ameri- Mr. and Mrs. Joe Snow and their that this monopolistic practice "‘““’m Business Administration at Bos- ~ MAKES KETCHIKAN TRIP |Territory and also participated in ———.———— can history. Altogether about 22, Roy Cavanaugh, traveling man,|small daughter, Miss Sharon Lee M;flhfixaflfiwl “me'n | ton College. | N. A. McEachran, traveling man, |the recent Alaska rate hearings. Splinters of wooa, dipped in tal- million individuals and thousands left today for the south and will!Snow left Juneau yesterday for Se- Do ~| Starting his aircraft career in|left Juneau yesterday for Ketchi- ——,,—— low, were used as candles in Eng- of corporations must meet the dead- | stop over at Ketchikan on his way attle where they expect to make (Continued op Page Four) 11930 as a paint shop helper in melkan on business, BUY DEFENSE STAMPS land in the eleventh century. line, to Seattle, their home,