The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIRE VOLEVIL NO.6986. « - o h 8986. JAPS STARTING TO UNEAU, ALASKA, J SDAY, MARCH 19, 1942 M EMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE, TEN CENTS AST AT AUSTRALIA Outlines Strategy In Southwest Pacific Area M'ARTHUR NOW PLANS OFFENSIVE To Build Up_Fo—rce fo Smash | at Japanese, Relieve | Philippine Troops | MELBOURNE, Australia, March/ 19—Gen. Douglas MacArthur has made it plain that his paramount purpose as Supreme Commander in the Southwest Pacific is to build up as rapidly as possible an or-; fensive force to smash Japan, and | at the same time to relieve his| beleaguered troops in the Philip- | pines. . | He has outlined his purpose to an old friend and former War De-| partment associate, Brig. Gen. Pat | Hurley, now United States Minis- ter to New Zealand. The minister told a press con-| ference “the General breathes the very spirit of victory. He has spe-| cifically stated that he still is in command of the Philippine situa- tion and has the utmost confidence | that he will again return to E‘ih-} pino soil.” | Hurley said that health is excellent. ———————— KETCHIKAN “BOMBED” MacArthur’ | Ketchikan had its first daylight air raid alarm the other day and | during the practice Bob Ellis flew | over the city and dropped 25\ “bombs"—small, fragile sacks of flour which burst upon landing. The practice was to see how| quickly buildings could be empti=d | of occupants and wardens and oth-| ers take their positions. ——o——— Curling, a national Scottish game, was introduced in the 16th cen-| tury from the low countries. WASHINGTON — Plain-talking | Price Administrator Leon Hender- | son has long wanted to clamp down a ceiling on farm prices and wages as the surest way to forestall a disastrous runaway inflation. He tried to get authority to do this in his price-control bill, but a log roll- ing coalition of farm lobbyists and unionists balked that. But while he was licked among the political minded “statesmen” on Capitol Hill, Henderson is still de- terminedly pressing his plan. Sev- eral weeks ago he sent the President, a confidential memorandum bluntly opposing the increased wage demand of CIO’s Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee in the so-called “Little Steel” plants. The other day, at a luncheon con- ference with the President, Hender- son returned to this attack with a | double-barrelled proposal. He urged that the President— 1. Direct the Wage Labor Board NOT to grant an increase in steel wages. 3 2. Authorize the Office of Price Administration, headed by Henderson, to announce that henceforth wage increases will not be considered a basis for seeking raises in prices from OPA. In other words, Henderson pro- posed to the President that the price | control powers of the recently en- acted law be used to accomplish what was thwarted by the farm- labor lobby—a freezing of wages. The President listened very at- tentively while his ace Price Con-| troller explained his plan and then with a smile remarked, “That’s quite a load of dymamite you've just out~ lined, Leon. Ithought Phil Murray would have a stroke when he read your memorandum. But he'll have to K okl G Al R NG R LR (Continued on Page Four) MUM'S THE WORD-a slip of a girl, one Elaine Morey of the movie lots in California, gives what she can to promote Uncle Sam’s ulcme h-r safely campaign. Her arm band points Housmg Ior Workers on Defense Graver than All Named for ‘Oscar’ : Bette Davis Twice the winner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences statuette for the best performance of an actress, Bette Davis has been nominated for a third “Oscar” for het work in 1941 PRECEDENT IS SET BY BRIT. GOVT. LONDON, March 19—Great Brit- ain has smashed all precedent by | choosing Richard Casey, Australian Minister to Washington, to repre-) sent the Middle East on the Brit- ish War Council. The announcement was made to- day by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the House of Com- mons. It is the first time in the his- tory of the British Empire that a Dominion statesman has become a member of the Home Government and entrusted to a vital post. No explanation is made regard-| ing the appointment but sections of the British newspapers have ex- pressed alarm. over Australia’s re- cent tendency to carry troubles to Washington rather than London. | - .- The Declaration of Independence ! was first published July 6, 1776,! in the Philadelphia Evening Post.; | Agency and the | cies |any wonder | Columbia. |levels of last Friday, March 13. Popgunning of Enemy Subs By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 19 — Among the long-standing misman- | agements of national defense, place a double check beside housing for defense and war workers. The other day, the President es- tablished the National Housing secret was out. Until then there had been 16 (six- teen) separate and unrelated agen- and bureaus of the govern- ment dealing with housing. Is it they spent most of their time stepping on each other’s toes? John B. Blandford, Jr., who has had nothing to do with any of these agencies but has been as- sistant director of the budget, head of the new set-up. Charles F. Palmer, who has been coordin- ator of defense housing (but as such has had his hands tied with 16 knots and no cooperation from congress) is geing to Englang to study war housing there. What happens now remains to be seen, but behind all of this is an amazing muddle, especially as re- gards your national capital, where housing is one of the worst of all possible messes and is likely to get @ lconunued on Page Six) FREEZE GAS PRICES IN 18 STATES { Motor Fuelafiings Set as of Last Friday's Market WASHINGTON, March 19—Price Administrator Leon Henderson last night froze the price of gasoline in 18 states and the District of Prices are frozen to the The states in which the price is frozen include Washington and Oregon, . ) SAYRE URGES [ ' AGGRESSIVE U. 5. ATTAC {Philippine " Commission ] Says Plans, Money ‘ Not Enough | SAN FRANCISCO, Maich 19— |Only an aggressive and furious at- tack will win the war, was the message Francis Sayre, High Cou- missioner of the ‘Philippines, gave when he arrived here today.-. ! Said Sayre: “The’ soldiers and sailors over there are going through |the tortures of hell for us in \Ameuca They cannot possibly continue to hold the line unless we get ships, plane< and supplla to them in time.." Sayre added that gigantic plan-~ ning and huge outlays of money 'are not sufficient to win the war in themselves DETAILS OF M'ARTHUR'S - FLIGHT OUT Traveled in Fast Mofor Tor- pedo Boafs to Plane Rendezvous i NEW YORK, March Gen. Douglas MacArthur, wife, son and small group of aides on the perilous first leg of the journey to Australia, a Melbourne dispatch |says that is published in today's Herald-Tribune. Correspondent Allen R.aymu'ul said it is learned that the Arthur party left Batan Pemnsula on the night of March 11 and| traveled south along the coast or islands for two nights, hiding in| bayous during the daylight hours. The party then reached the rendez- | vous of big planes that calrled 'hr group to Auxstralia PLAN HEAVY RAF ATTACKS ONGERMANY Lord HalifaTS‘ays Brifain fo Infensify Air Bombings WASHINGTON, March 19—Lord Halifax, in a radio talk, predicted intensified RAF attacks on Ger- many, especially industrial sections. \ “Germany is now beginning to learn what heavy air attacks can mean to great centers of war pro- duction and there are more com- ing,” concluded Lord Halifax. TANKER HIT TWO TIMES . BY U-BOAT Florida, March 19.—Thir- 1 | MIAMI, Nassau, Bahamas, and left shortly afterward for New York. The men said a sub sent two tor- pedoes crashing into the ship's side and one map was killed by the ex- plosion. The Axis raider then shell- ed the tanker, killing another man. | 19—Smail but fast motor torpedo boats carried | ty-four members of a sunken Nor- | wegian tanker landed here from | Wide World Features C APT. ARTHUR W. WERMUTH has struck is Van Dyke-bearded chin into Japanese territory on Batan Peninsula more times than he can count and more times, probably, than the invaders care to remember. Compan- ions say he has killed 116 Japanese and cs tured more with his 45 tommy gun and Garand rifle. He's a 190-pound Chicagoan. “LIKE DUCKS at 2 Coney Island shooting gallery,” is Wermuth’s | own description of how, on lone patrol, he discovered a hmg line of Japanese and “worked them over with my tommy gun.” 5(hinese fo Be Lead by U.S. Officer Lieut. Gen. Stilwell Placed in Command of Arm- ies in Burma 1,000 MEN QUIT JOBS, SHIPYARD Walkoul Started by False Rumor-Condemned | by Union Heads RICHMOND, California, March 19 ~WASHINGTON, March 19—The| | —Approximately 1000 men quit War Department announced today! their jobs todgy at the California- that Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, of | Rizhmond Shipbuilding | Corfora- the United Btates Army, has been tion. Company officials said that put in command of the Fifth and they believed the men were lured €ixth Chinese Armies operating away by prospects of more money with the British forces in defend- |in ten-hour shifts falsely rumored ing Burma against the Japanese. [to be in operation in competing! The action was taken by Chiang! | shipyards. Kai Shek, who made the official | Union and Federal officials said announcement, according to advices {the rumors of longer shifts might received heére. ‘lnve been started by subversive| e H l,roups seeking to hamper war pro- l | ! 0“ STERN OF RESTRICTIONS | “aamsp | AP CRUISER I IN REICHLAND United Nations' Bombers 'Further Rationing of Fafs,] Make Raid on Rabaul | Bread and Meat Ef- | Againsf Nippons | 'fedive Aprll 6 | CANBERRA, Australia, March 19 b 5 —Prime ‘Minister John Curtin an-| BERLIN, March 19, — Germany bounced today that United Na- today ordered, effective April 6, new | ton’s bombers, making a raid on| ationing restrictions on breads, fats Rabaul, hit the stern of a heavy| |and meat, Japanese cruiser and the ‘“strike”| The allowance of bread is cut for was followed by a rising column each normal customer from 5 pounds of smoke. |to 4% pounds a week, fats from 9'% | ———————— lounces to 7 ounces, and meat from 3 BUY DEFENSE STAMPS wrd’w and wnunuml until night. .o 14 ounces to about 10 ounces. ONE-MAN ARMY ON BATAN KNOWN AT SCHOOL in Ge- neva, Wis., as a fearless grid- der, Wermuth fights same way. AN ENEMY-HELD 'I'OWN wu burned by Wermuth, who crept in at night, spread gasoline. AN UNEXPECTED THRILL was tumbling into rice field ditch atop three enemy wire-tappers. HITLER CALLS BACK ALL HIS OLD GENERALS Admifs Disas?t;us Retreat | Says Produdion Can Baln: ~Now Wants Aid for Spring Offensive (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Climaxing three months of bloody retreat, Hitler has abandoned his lone wolf rcle of guiding the des- tiny of the German Army, and has called back his Generals to help | plan the Nazi spring offensive, the Berlin correspondent of the Buen National Zeitung says. Hitler, according to the corres- pondent of the Zeitung, has sum- moned all German officers, includ-| 1c:munuLfi on Pauo Two) 25 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed American Fliers and Brifish| Pilots Raid Jap-held Burma Airdromes 2 ATTACKS ARE MADE BY NIPPONS { Determined Efforts Being Made to Obtain For- ward Footholds PORT MORESBY, DARWIN AIR RAIDED BY BOMBERS Forces Ad;a?cing Over- land in New Guinea to Establish Bases MELBOURNE, Australia, March 19.—As if determined to blast open- ings in forward footholds for the invasion of Australia, Japanese heavy bombers struck at Port Mores- by, on the island of New Guines, and Darwin, on the northern Aus- tralian mainland. Results of the raids are officially minimized. There are no reports of new action today by or against the Japanese war vessels and transports and it is assumed Japan’s invasion fleets are reorganizing after the recent disastrous attack by American and Australian bombers and the reported crippling: of ‘e large Japanese war vessel by a direct hit in a second raid at Rabaul, New Britain. A dispatch to the Sydney Sun from its correspondent at Port: Moresby said a considerable force of Japanese is advancing overland toward Port Moresby over difficult terrain from Lae. The Sun’s correspondent said the Japanese goal is the flat country just north of Port Moresby which the enemy might use to establish air bases. Legislafion On War Labor creased Without Use of Force | WASHINGTON, March 19.—Don- {ald M. Nelson, War Production Ad- | ministrator, took the stand today that new wnr labor legislation is not needed. Nelson said: “We can get increased | production without using force.” This view, expressed before a Sen- jate subcommittee, contrasted with that of Representative Francis R. Smith of Pennsylvania, who is urg- ing the House Naval Committee for |approval of his bill to limit profits |and abolish extra pay for overtime. | Smith says that members of Con- gress are “feeling the lash,” that constituents are clamoring for this legislation. “I want to see labor and manage- ment given a chance to carry out their promises,” Nelson told report- ers after a two-hour appearance be- |fore the Senate group considering | demanfis for labor law changes. - e SEWARD NEWS IS PUBLISHED The first issue of the Seward ‘News, successor to the three times ja week Seward Gateway, which |plant was destroyed in the fire of ‘\eve'a\ months ago, has been re- \(exved Lester Busey is Editor and NEW DELHI, India, March 19—ipypiisher, as he was on the Gate- The American Volunteer group of way., The News is & weekly and fliers and British pilots possibly |, i1 it has its own plant, is being | destroyed 25 enemy planes in “"1prmted through the cooperatio tacks on Japanese held airdromes the anchorage Times. Publication in Southern Burma yesterday. This gate js Thursdays. is a statement made in a com-| munique from the American Group headquarters. - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS