The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA [ NORRNTL N0 0909, . . o APS NOW FEAR A “ALL THE NEWS oo e JUNEA ALL THE TIME” UNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 23, I942 M[:MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ACK FROM ALASKA Mac Arthur’s Forces Strike Blows At Japs 23PLANES DESTROYED IN ATTACK American,miralian Air Forces Combine fo Hit at New Menace | Gen. |an Enemy Submarine Sunk by U.S.Plane Off East Coast; Four Depth Charges Used WITH LABOR NEW YORK, March 23—Lieut feut. ted the sea Taider from about two| SaYS Doub|e Pay Must Be. Hugh A. Drum, commanding | miles while the plane was home- the Eastern Army forces, announces enemy submarine in an un- disclosed area off the United States (BY ASSOC TED PRESS) i A combined American and Aus- ‘ tralian Air Force, warming up to work under the’ aggressive influence of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, struck | devastating new blows at the nor- thern arc of the Japanese air pow- | er on Sunday. Twenty-three planes of the Nippon forces were wrecked | in three attacks. | The attacks were made on the| Japanese right wing on Timor Is- | Jand where the wreckage of planes, | airport and hangars was left. i Despite the heavy losses which | are hard to replace, fighter planes | of the Japanese accompanied bomb- | ers in an attack against Port Moresby in retaliation. Australians admit the attack was the heaviest | so far on that city. | The Japanese also attacked Wyndham, western Australia. The attack on Port Moresby, showed the Japanese have retained | considerable striking power despite | the weekend losses. | No report of the damage at Port' Moresby has been received up to early afternoon today. | Sy | | | | The names of approximately 3,000 London streets have been changed since 1935. “The :\ WASHINGTON—Some very hero- | jc stories have appeared in the, newspapers recently telling how sailors have lived for days on rafts) after their ships were sunk by Nazi submarines. What these stories do not tel!,‘ however, is the growing unrest among seamen because of the tre- mendous loss of life from these sinkings. Not only are skilled sea- men likely to become scarce along | the Atlantic coast, but their lead- ers are warning that something| must be done to remedy the tragxm situation. The exact number of men lost with each ship is published by the| Navy daily. And all you have w‘ do is take a paper and pencil m figure the total losses. They are! terrific. From some ships only one| or two survivors have been picked| up, This is in contrast to rescues| from British ships of about 42| percent. | There are two reasons for this: | 1. U. S. vessels have been chiefly tankers, which spread oil on the water. This catches fire and burns‘ the men, or else the oil clings fo| them, weighing them down. 2. The Navy has not been doing a good job of patrolling the Ac— lantic Coast. The latter conclusion is now re- garded in Washington as inescap- able. Not only are we losing more | ships than ‘we are building, but| some steamer captains complain| that in a single day they have| sighted only one patrol plane. Biggest complaint, however, is that the Navy will not permit U. S. fishing vessels off the Atlantic coasts to cayry radio sending sets, U. 8. fishermen have volunteered, to help patrol the coasts, watch fol submarines, also pick up survivo However, without radio transmif- ters they ecannot report submar- ines if they should see one. British fishermen, equipped with (Continued on Page Four) | debris. | Eastern Coast. He said that destruction of the pilot, declared he could see the p.oquction Board Chief Donald M. submarine was complete and that ' conning tower in the clear water. ‘Nelson told CIO leaders today that he sea was covered with oil and He made four runs over the sub,| [labor must suspend for the dur- t It was improbable, he said, that there were any survivors. Four depth charges were dropped kane, an plane which s,po‘- on the plane. by the Ameri that an American bomber destroyed | ward bound from a photographic mission. Second Lieut.. E. H. Epperson Scott of Kansas City, the bomber droppmi. a depth charge each time. Corp. Clifton A. Cyr, of Spo- Washington, was a gunner GLAMOR FOR FLIERS—_Canada’s air vice marshal, L. S. Breadnor, meets lovely New Yorkers, glamorized in their finest evening creations, to honor recent visit of Canadian fliers. Girls are Mary Ellzabelh Tommers, Lynn Davis, An‘ell Green. Parasnes fo Be Ousled In Washington;Housing Wanted for War Workers ENTIRE CREW SUNKEN SHIP IS RESCUED (Drift 11 Dagon Ocean, Then Picked Up-Are "Happy as Hell” NEW YORK, March 23—The crew of 23 men and four officers who spent 11 days on the ocean in two rickety lifeboats after an enemy submarine had torpedoed their ship, has arrived in Brooklyn, safe and; well-fed, and as one weary sea- man said: “Happy as hell.” The 27 survivors are of a United Nation's merchant vessel which was shelled and machine gunned and sent to the bottom on March 5 off the Atlantic coast . All of the crew ' 'mémbers were picked up by a general cargo ship 1l.days after their own vessel was sent down. e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 23—The efforts to stem: the tide of hu- | manity moving toward Washington by warning parasites to get out |of town and moving a handful of gavernment agencies to other cities have proved about as effective as trying to bail out the ocean with| a sieve. The federal powers-that- | be are now preparing to ACT, The President has ordered a re-| survey of personnel requirements tor the balance of this fiscal year and the fiscal year 1942-43, on thf‘ basis of the new 44-hour work week, He says specificially that| every man and woman not abso- lutely needed must be released for war work. He further has ordered that the Bureau of the Budget resurvey the entire government per- sonnel set-up, here and in the field, to determine the relationship of nppropnauons to necessary man- homs of work. Government surveys are a dime a dozen. Under ordinary circum- stances, there would be no reason to believe that either of the two mentioned would result in action But there are important force: bearing down on the present situa- tion. In the first place, there are many indieations that the people of the United States—the voters— are fed up with governmental dal- \Eonimuea o}x Pag‘c Six) NELSON HAS CONFERENCE Suspended - Senate | Debate Gets Hot | 23—War } WASHINGTON, March atmn of the war the * | receiving double pay for | Sundays and holidays. | Said Nelson: “We are moving as fast as we can toward a seven- \day, three-shift operation in our} |basic war industries on the prin- ;(‘lple that a man should regulariy |have the seventh day off and | should receive overtime pay if an emergency forces him to work that seventh day. 1 | “That is perfectly sound, but | where the seventh day doesn’t fall on a Sunday or holiday, I don't | think that to work on a Sunday | or holiday deserves extra pay.” Leaders of CIO unions through- out the nation have been called to- gether by their president, Phillip Murray, to organize a campaign | against the adoption by Congress | !of the pending legislation sus-| pending the 40-hour week and elim- |inating overtime payments for they | duration. { As Nelson talked to the union- | |ists, the Senate appeared to be| . nearing a showdown on the bill and a strongly supported movement to force some of the pending legis- lation out of committee to floor debate was noted. It was reports ed that Administration leaders, | guided by indications that the President is not prepared to recom- | mend enactment of the restrictive measures, are battling an incipient rebellion in their own ranks. RAF Fighters Roar Out fo Make Patrol Planes Been Grounded for | Several Days Account of Heavy Fog SOUTHEAST COAST OF ENG- LAND, March 23—RAF fighters jroared swiftly out across the Enz- llish Channel toward occupied |France in a series of offensive ipa«rolb after sunshine dispelled the heavy thick fog which has grouni- ed aircraft for several days. | German aircraft approached the southeast of England twice this afternoon but none are reported to have crosfied the coast. | INCOME TAX RETURNS AT . NEWRECORD WASHINGTON, March 23—The Treasury Department said a pre- liminary survey shows income and excess profits tax collections for the first 20 days of March totalled two | billion five hundred and seventy two million dollars. i It is announced that this is more than double the one billion one’ hundred and fifty million dollars collected during a similar period last year, and means the final March collections will set an ali- time record. | el 1 Over half of the world’s supply of asphalt comes from the asphalt lake at Trinidad. ‘privilege” of work on Jap Invasion Force in the Philippines ] Helmeted Jap soldiers lie on the on Luzon. A shell from Gen, MacArthur’s defending forces can be seen exploding U. $. Gunboat Asheville Is Presumed fo Bg Lost Wiih 185 Officers, Men CRIPPS IN INDIA ON BIG TASK will A"empi to Pacify Dis- | gruntled Millions— Burma Campaign NEW DELHI, India, March 23— Sir Stafford Cripps, British Emis- sary, has arrived by plane to begin the formidable task of pacifying India’s politically disgruntled mil- lions so a united front may be | made against the Axis The British Emissary reported he is a bearer from i'e British Gov- ernment of a plan to raise India to the status of a Dominion after the war and grant her people con- siderable powers of self-government during the transitory stage. “There is no time to be A the Emissalv said, “in long discus sions.” He told the newsmen he |intended to remain in the Indian Capital City only two weeks because many urgent matters are to be cleared up in England Sir Stafford Cripps came here at the request of Gandhi who has |denied the appeal of a scorched eurth pelicy if India is invaded. BATTLE IN AIR LONDON, March 23—The battle for Burma, gateway to India, 15 largely becoming a contest for air supremacy, the Japapnese appar- ently having found that American and British fliers are too great threat on their land forces. Weil linformed sources here said this is indicated as heavy plane reinforce- ments are being rushed to Buima front by the Japanese. - e MRS. TED REYNOLDS HERE Mrs. Ted Reynolds arrived hes to join her early is from Petersburg Sunda husband who arrived week, Mr. Reynolds his brother, Percy R s in the management of Percy wile the latter is Jaid up with a broken ankle, last bt ik The German army had 791,000 horses in active duly in 1940 " pedo sinking of a Honduran pas- June, ¢ WASHINGTON, March 23—The | Navy announced Saturday night that the 1,270 ton gunboat Ashe- ville is presumed to have been lost | in enemy action south of Java. The Asheville's commander was Capt. Kenueth Mortimore Hoeffel, | of Oconto, Wisconsin. There is no word of the per-| onnel of the ship and all are pre- sumed lost, believed to be 185 of- jlicers and men. - -> - Honduran Passenger | Liner Sunk ‘ Torpedoing_@porled Off| New Jersey Coast with Loss of 44 Lives ' NEW YORK, March 23—The tor- senger liner March 17 off the New Jersey coast with the probable loss| of 44 lives is disclosed by the Third Naval District. 8ix battered sur—' vivors have reached here. ! NEUTRALITYOF | FRENCH FLEETIS | PROMISED NOW Agreement Is Re po rted Reached Between U.S., Vichy Governments LONDON, March 23—The Lon- don Daily Mail today said a Madrid dispatch from French Vice Premier Darlan announced full agreement between the Vichy Government and the United States, pledging, among other things, neutrality of the French fleet, The Daily Mail said this has caused great anger among the Axis nations. >-oo Marineland, Fla., a community of 26 voters, is the smallest and new- t incorporated municipality in Florida. i ‘ } | \ deck of an invasion barge that carries them to shore during the attack near the motorboat which seems to be mwmx the barge. Sent from l.ondun this picture was copied from a German publluunl. ~AIR RAID ON BATAN REPORTED Enemy Craft Makes Affack on American, Fili- pino Defenders (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) “Serfous raids”, his new command in the South- west Pacific and pledged to con- tinue to fight in the Philippines “with the same zeal and devotion manifested” under his personal dir- ection.. The War Department in Wash- ‘ingwn, in the communique issued early today, reported no land ac- tion in the Philippines but did state there were slight attacks by en- emy aircraft. A report from Tokyo, via Ber- lin, declared sula defense line and isolated sev- :ral American units, .o - 'ORDER ALL JAPS FROM BASE AREA Nippons MMeave Island | Near Bremerton by March 30 SAN FRANCISCO, 'March 23— \ forcible evacuation of all Japanese from Bainbridge Island, in Puget Sound opposite the Bremerton Navy ar¢ | Yard, has been ordered by army to be effective March 30. The order was signed by Lieut. bolstered by en- emy air force is admitted in the | Philippines as the United States and Filipino troops sent greetings to Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the Japanese have broken through the Batan Penin-| the 'WARNING IS BROADCAST TO NIPPONS :Iold Indications Probable that U. S. Planes May Make Raids TOKYO, March 23—(From Jap- |anese Broadcast)—The Japanese | were told today of the prospects of United States planes raiding | Japan, either from the Aleutian | Islands or Chinese bases, or both. Lieut. Gen, Kobayashi, command-~ er of the Japanese home defenses, urged the people, in a radio ad- dress, to maintain the greatest watchfulness and warned that | weather conditions in Alaska and the bow-like chain of Aleutian Is- lands will soon permit raids on Japan and “the enemy is working " out plans for an attack in the North | Pacific.” He pointed out that the United States effort to reinforce Gen. Chi- ang Kal-shek’s air forces might result in attempts of an attack on Japan from bases in unoccu- (pled China. REPORT JAPS MAY ADVANCE INTO SOVIET China Newsp—aper Charges Troofis Readying for Big Offense CHUNGKING, China, March 23 -~Large scale Japanese preparations for an attack on Soviet Russia “as soon as conditions are favorable” were reported by the Northwest China Daily News, organ of the Chinese Communists, supporting the | Chinese Government’s contention ;that Japanese assaults on Russia ‘are coming soon. The Communist paper said that in addition to the regular armies {in Manchukuo and Inner Mongolia, | Japan is mustering 10,000,000 men from her home islands. | 10,000,000 TROOPS IMPROBABLE FORT MOZA, Korea—(Occupied China)—March 23—Reports circu- lating here tend to discount the claim that Japan is mustering 10,~ 000,000 troops for a Russia offen- sive. The best estimates of Japan's manpower put the number of Jap- |anese under arms in all areas at about 5,000,000 in addition to those |she has recruited from “puppet” armies in Manchukuo in Occupied ‘cmm. and the laiter would total not more than 300,000 of such doubtful quality that they could hardly be used in a major cam- paign, It is reported that the Japs also are recruiting “volunteers” from the Formosa area, but there is noth- ing to indicate that more than a few thousand have been raised in this way. Japanese regulars in Manchukuo are estimated at between 500,000 nd 600,000 men. It is said that the Japanese also enrclling more than 100,000 anti-Soviet White Russians, but this however, is more than the total »f White Russians of all ages and Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commander Doth sexes in the Far East. of the Western Defense Command and the Fourth Army. This is the first compulsory ex- the West lusion taken against Coast Japanese by the army. o — LIE NANT NANCE - MAHONEY HOME FROM TRIP Mrs. William T. Mahoney, wife of U. 8. Marshal Mahoney, te- turned to her home in Juneau by steamer after a four month vae MRS, W. T. VISITS ON SUNDAY cation in Southern California. Mrs, Mabel honoring her son, was her house guest for the day. Nance entertained yesterday at dinner for ten guests, Second Lieut. Donald Nance of Anchorage, who ¢ S eee DIVORCE GRANTED A divorce has been granted in United States District Court in the of Lola C. Williams versus Hany V., Williams.