The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1942, Page 1

» THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VORILVHEL NOt8988. . f.. . o' 0 o J UNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, I947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ' JAPANESE HEAVY CRUISER I SENT DOWN azis Blitz Striking Power Lost Is Claim OFFENSIVE OF GERMANS WEAKENED Soviet Army Newspaper‘ Says More Pressure of t Red Army Available MOSCOW, March 21—The Red Star, official publication of the Soviet Army, said today that Ger- many’s Army has lost its blitz strik- ing power and is now unable to develop an offensive over the en- tire Russian front. The toll taken of the Germans in retreat has so weakened the Nazis that they will be unable to hurl force against the Red Army as done last summer, the newspaper also declares.. The Red Star admitted the Ger- mans can concentrate great forces on separate fronts but the Rus- sians will then put on more pres- sure like is being done on the trapped German 16th Army at Staraya. Reports from the front tell of the capture of important e Nazi defense centers and the| “ slaughter of hundreds of desperate Nazis trying by any means to| break out of the encirclement at Staraya. The report says German St b Guardian of the Caribbean An Americar soldier stands sentinel at Fort San Cristobal, San Juan, Puerto Rico,on the watch for any move against the vital Panama Canal defenses. Puerto Rico and other Caribbean outposts have been heavily ovnhvd and are cunstandy on the ulert against survrhe ntlack soldiers, with hands in the air, trudged toward the Russian lines to surrender but were shot in their backs by their own officers. — - —— Shoplifting has increased by 50 percent of what it was a year ago. | (CHURCHILL, CURTININ e = & Drew Peanas | ble Over Richard -d ’ ™ Sobert S Alles Casey’s Position CANBERRA, Australia, Mareh 21 —A long distance controversy be- tween Prime Minister Churchill and John Curtin, of Australia’s laborite government, WASHINGTON — Secretary Jesse Jones was very wise in insisting |over Australia’s minister to Wash-|ing agreement which expired on | ington, Richard Casey, in the mid-December 31. that he be heard behind closed | doors when he testified before the | Senate Banking committee on the» Murray bill to aid small business. | The RFC czar ran into some hot grilling that would have made front page stories had reporters been al- lowed ' in. Democratic Leader Alben Bark-| ley and Senators Robert Taft of | Ohio and James H. Hughes of Del- aware supplied most of the fire- works, with charges that the RFC was giving speedy clearance on loans to big war contractors, while small firms begging for sub-con- tracts were cold-shouldered. “The big fellow never has much trouble getting financing for a war| ment would be most difficult. order,” Taft asserted, “but you will| Churchill, according to the sum-| argue with the War or the Navy Department for a month about ex- tending a loan to a little business man.” “1 deny that, sir,” replied Jones indignantly. “We will argue about ten minutes.” “The RFC always is raising the argument that loans to small busi- | ness may not be repaid,” retorted| Taft. “Well, you make plenty of loans to big concerns with no more chance of repayment. I notice you loaned an airplane company $90,- 000,000. If the need for airplane engines should fall off, you will not get that back.” i “The government is protected,” parried Jones. “We will own the plant.” the New York Stock Exchange “Yes"”, shot back Taft. 'Thatsll'n, American Can 59, Anaconda the mnm thing you always Lhmk 26%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Com- about, making or losing money. If | monwealth and Southern 7/30, Cur- you aren’t aware of it, Mr. Jones. kuss Wright 7%, International Har- allow me to inform you that we are! vester 4214, Kennecott 32!, New beyond that point. The big question | York Central 8%, Northern Pacific that faces us now is winning the g United States Steel 50'%4, Pound war. That's the only thing that 1 $4.04, counts. |dle, is being aired. leaders, were issued of the White Paper, promised nex! Wednesday to contain the full doc- umentation of the argument over the best use for Casey. Churchill wanted him to be Mm- British War Cabinet, representing the United Kingdom there in all! but strictly military matters. Cur- tin wanted Casey to stay in Wash- ington where he said Casey's con-( tacts made him the most valuable ister aboard a train and January. ed to him or any other when asked by Churchill, | take the offer. S e STOCK QUCTATIONS NEW YORK, March 31—Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones hardly had time 10 re-|jones gverages: industrials 100.82, cover from this panning when| rails 26.05, utilities 11.90. Hughes and Barkley began work-| ing out on him. The Delaware Sen- ator bitterly criticized the ‘“run- (Continued on Page Four) THE RUN-AROUND lish, ! | I in advance i ister of State in the Middle East| { to Australia and said his replace- | | stock at today’s short session of| Flsh Trealy, Russo-Japan | Agreement Is Purely Commercial Pact WASHINGTON, March 21 — The | State Department officials said | Wmsv.ow‘there is no political importance in head the signing of the one year exten- sicn of the Russian-Japanese fish-| The agreement per- mits Japanese fishing off the coast Crisp exchanges between the two ©f Siberia. The officials said the agreement s merely commerclaj routine. LABORIS CRITICISED BYARNOLD WASHINGTOV March He said that farmers, consumers jand businessmen are “at its mercy,” Curtin said Casey never intimat- | |and flatly told a House Judiciary minister 'Committee that a measure to re- |that he was ready for the shift, and | quite a Government registration of did not | & 1l unions and tradé associations “doesn’t go far enough” to protect| the public against the practices of | organized labor. Bl R 6 L GALA EVENING ON PROGRAM FOR ELKS FROM KETCHIKAN At 7:30 o'clock tonight the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel will present a festive air when the| visiting Ketchikan men’s and wom- en’s bowling teams and rooters will{ be the honor guests at a banquet to be given by the Juneau Elks. Reservations had been made for nearly seventy shortly after noon |today and plans are complete for an enjoyable time. An informal The official language of Liberia, program will take place with Leon- mdependem Negro republic, is Eng- ard Holmquist as toastmaster for the occasion. | 21 — As- mary, said he first learned that!gistant Attorney General Thurman Casey was eager to change when | Arnold today accused organized la- | he spent’a night with the min-!bor of “injuring and destroying” in- | on his visit |dependent business. lo the United States in December; 'MacARTHUR ARRIVES IN MELBOURNE | American Commander s Confident of Ultimate Success Against Japs ]! MELBOURNE, Australia, March | 21—Gen. Douglas MacArthur ar-| rived here today and was enthusi- |which was thrilled by him at his promise that the Allied defense will give way to an offense to drive the Japanese out of the Philip~ |to be in immediate cooperation with the Australian soldier. The American General said he knew the Australian soldier well from the first world war days, admires him |greatly and “I have every confi dence in the ultimate success of our joint cause.” { General MacArthur also said: “Success in modern war requires something more than courage and willingness to die. It requires care- | ful preparation, furnishing of suf- | ficient troops and material to meet the known strength of the poten- | tial enemy. No General can make | something frem nothing. My sue- i“ss or failure depends primarily iasucally greeted by a large crowd|: |pines and to crush Japan. | { Gen. MgeArthur said he was glad| {upon the resources the respective i {My faith in them is complete. . in |any event I shall do my best and shall keep the soldiers’ faith.” - ARGUMENT Ummporlanl\BRlTlSH IN “ane Ministers in Squab- Slate Department Says| NEW GAIN |N BURMA FIGHT | Japs Occupy Key De- fense Poinis :‘ British headquarters in Burma ;Lcda\y reported troops, fighting on the Irrawaddy River front, drove oon. o | tradicted this statement, saying |that Jap troops have occupied the British defense positions there. ANNOUNCE DATES FOR - RATIONING Consumers Must Register | in States to Conserve | Supply of Sugar CHICAGO, March 21— National sugar rationing dates have been fixed by the Office of Price Ad- ministration as April 28 and 29, and IMay 4, 5, 6 and 7. | The announcement was made at a meeting of the rationing admin- istrators of all states. Individual j consumers will register on the May |dates, and public schools, and in- dustrial consumers will sign up on the other dates. It is understood that the ration- ing plans will not affect Alaska since the OPA previously announced that there will be no rationing of sugar in the Territory for the time being. } - .- With imports cut off from France and Italy, Bermuda may become the big supplier of perfume in this hemisphere. Governments place at my disposal,' Tokyo, However, Reports (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) ‘ |the Japs from Letpadan, key rail junction 150 miles north of Ran-| | A Tokyo broadcast, however, cou- | “mosquito fleet” which made a dar bay at night and blasted a 5,000-t fire of shore batteries. The small inch torpedo tubes and four machir Civil Air Patrol Fundioning; Ready for Here is the type of motor torpedo boat of the U. S. 40 knots, or 46 miles per hour, made the daring raid into Binanga bay, inside the entrance to Subic bay, and opposite side of the Bataan peninsula from Manila bay. The small boat is armed with four 18- [talian Subs Raiding Off Atlantic Coast An [Italian submarine First indication that Italian submarines, as well as German U-boats, are opera coast of the U. S, comes with an Italian announcement in Rome claiming credit for the sinking of 27,224 tons of United Nations' shipping off the Atlantic coast | k| | navy's 4 ing raid into a western Philippine on Japanese vessel in the face of boat, capable of speed of at least e guns in power-operated turrets. is Now i | | | | | Instani Callfo Emergency JACK STINN WASHINGTON, March 21—With all the controversy and criticism cver dancers, movie actors, unnec- essary frills and what-not in the Office of Civilian Defense, very little has been written about the Civil Air Patrol, but it's at least one division of OCD that is sailing along toward effective organization. More than 24,000 Dpilots, from students who hug the wheel of a flying jalopy on up to graybeards who got their start in the old crates of pre-Wogld War I glays and now can walk a four-motored trans- vort through a hurricane, have en- listed in CAP. Nearly 17.500 have been certified by Washington and now are active in this service which includes everything from disaster relief to-patrol and messenger duties for the armed forces The Texas wing of CAP has a flying. ambulance. In Seattle, one nlistee is a parachute surgeon who can land with a folding operating table and all the necessary surgical | |instruments for emergency opera- |tions. He has two trained assistant who can hit the ground just as quickly as he does. One recent step taken by the na- tional organization is the installa- tion of punch-card index system and a “mechanical brain”. Previous- ly, demands on the CAP were suffi- ciently | localized that wing and group commanders could fill re- quests from personal knowledge of the abilities of pilots under . their direction. Now, the organization and services it performs have outgrown that system. Suppose there was a hurry-up call for a man who could pilot a two-motored plane, fly blind over coastal areas, speak Dutch and manipulate an arial camera. CAP officials here would feed the per- sonal cards into the “mechanical brain” which sorts them at the rate of 400 a minute. In no time at all, they would have a handfu! of cards for the plluts' with the (Continued on Paz,e Three) | ) An It | dered seizure of the Toledo, Peoria EWL‘SLEHP Railroad for operation by | the | of | flaming wreckage. ting off the Atlantic alian submarine is pictured above. - SEIZED BY PRESIDENT Governmenl Takes Control of Short Line System Around Chicago WASHINGTON, March 21—Presi- dent Roosevelt this morning or- “interest of the Government in the successful prosecution war. The President acted after a long series of unsuccessful efforts to get| George McNear, Jr., President of| the 230 mile road which trunk lines use around Chicago, to ar- bitrate the smkc of 104 workers. FIVE KILLED IN CRASH OF ARMY PLANE MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 21—At| |least five men were killed when a 2-motored bomber crashed and burned near the Municipal airport early this afternoon. Two men were pulled from the None of the five killed has been immediately identified. e e S FOUR MAKE SITKA TRIP, SIX RETURN ON ALASKA COASTAL Alaska Coastal Airlines made a round trip flight to Sitka late yes- terday afternoon taking from here, Catherine Hill, Mrs. Annie Klaney, Mrs, William 8. Wanamaker and {and GATHENEMY WARSHIP IS DESTROYED Bombers of United Nations Make Another Raid at Rabaul Port MELBOURNE, Australia, March 21—United Nations’ airmen are of- ficially credited with sinking an- other Japanese heavy cruiser in a daylight raid early today. The raid was made on Rabaul, New Britain. Bombs were dropped and the raiders soared away betore Japanese pursuit planes could rise in defense. Prime Minister John Curtin said the cruiser was the sixty-fourth en- emy warship sent down in flames w badly damaged beyond quick re- pair in the past two weeks. Curtain said most of the attacks on the Japanese warships and troop hips have been in daylight. Curtin also announced two en- cmy cruisers were damaged in the raild at Rabaul. The Prime Minister late today cald Japs struck during this after- noon at two places on the west coast of Australia, bombing and machine gunning at Brooke and Derby but results are not learned. WARSHIPS NEAR COAST LONDON, March 2I—An- Axis re- vert relayed by the Vichy radio and picked ‘up here sald a Japanese naval squadron which has previous- ly been observed in the waters west of Australia is only one day’s voy- {rom the coast. SAPANESE PINCER IS ASSERTED Shack Troofieported fo Have Reached Gulf of Papua, New Guinea LONDON, March 21—An Ex- change Telegraph News Agency dis- | patch reports hearing a Tokyo dis- patch broadcast over the Geérman radio asserting Jap shock troops have reached the Gulf of Papua, on |the southern side of New Guinea thus “the last decisive at- tack for complete occupation” of the country beyond has begun. The repert said the movement of syn- chronized forces are advancing from the north in a pincer move- ment against Port Moresby. NEW ACTION 1S SEEN IN PHILIPPINES American-Filipino Troops Inflict Casualties Against Japs (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A War Department bulletin an- nounced today that American and “ilipino troops, in a surprise attack nge Steve Tus. Those returning hera on ‘the! plane were Lewis Brock, William Jenkins, George Jenkins, .Fred Sanders, Gilbert Richman and Rob- | ert A. Paul. Mail was carried by the plane both to and from sitka‘ ‘There were 50,000 workers em- ployed in the aircraft industry Jan. 1, 1940; by January, 1941, the number had increased to 125,000. n Jap forces near Zamboanga on Mindinao Island 600 miles south of Batan, inflicted heavy losses against the invader. It also was announced that Jap irtillery, including eight-inch guns, subjected Manila Harbor defenses ro “extremely heavy” shelling, but that little military damage was done. 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