The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942 VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8991. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U. 5. NAVY RAIDS JAP HELD ISLANDS Port Moresby Under 3rd Attack By Nippons WEAK RAID JAPS BOMB | TWO PACIFIC IS MADE BY MANILABAY, ISLANDS ARE JAP BOMBERS BATAN ARE_A; UNDER ATTACK Australian Prime Minister Local Skirmishes by Phil- & _ A v A _ ! Wake, Marcus Assaulfed- Says Allied Defenses ippine Troops | & pogEe e e : &= * | Much Destruction Strengthened Successful | B o < ' ; | Reported MELBOURNE, March 25—Rising SHINGTON. Maret (B Sk | ere. SR ey wirak e oo |ans atrie: Boetasdinsis TEUMRE |SHOCK CAUSES TOKYO 10 UNDERGO BLACKOUTS secutive blow at Port Moresby, al- |bor defenses at Manila Bay and Several Nlppons Are Tak- though the raid was the weakest |the American-Filipino postions on 5 Ko L S - _ i caglt ; A 1 | of the three. | Batan Peninsula were resumed to-| ’ y ; : | It is the belief here the Japan- day. The War Department re- \ ese regard that the south coast; | ported continued enemy ground ac- | New Guinea port must be forced Batan, which indicated | | en Pnsoners ) P|(ked Up from Wreckage WASHXVG’ION Mmch 25—The | Navy told today of highly success- |ful ralds on the Japanese-held Jeep in lendon Town Town Wrecked in lllinois Tornado | { | | | ‘r tivity on open for the invasion of Northern Australia. In contrast to the mass attack| of Japanese bombers yesterday and | Monday, only three bombers were| seen in the attack today. the arrival of Japanese reinforce- | " | \ ments. i 4 % &A% > 3 f At ok ,’; A 3 l ‘ The bombing attack wés carried ; SN 3 | | out with 27 bombers and some | smaller planes, the War Depart- | )mem said, but there was no report Australian Prime Minister John| Curtin voiced confidence that the| steadily strengthening but from it could hit back hard at the far-stretched Japanese as-| sault front area. — e, — VISIT FROM WESTWARD Recent arrivals from the West- ward who are staying at the Bar- anof Hotel in Junieau include Mrs.| of Bethel and| George W. Dana, Mrs, William Carr and her daugh- ter, Jacqueline, from Anchorage. e The United States Army has be- come the largest single cxhlhlwr of movies in the country. - et ~The [ Orew Dearscn =4 Acbert S Alles 60 WASHINGTON — Ever since he| flew the Atlantic one fateful day in | 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh has been looking for privacy and solitude. For years he has complained about the, crowds that turned to look at him in| the streets, the stenographers that thronged Government office cor-' ridors when he passed, the auto- | graph hunters that surrounded him when he made a speech. For years also he went to more extreme lengths than any other! celebrity—even Greta Garbo—to be alone. He fled to England, took a house on an island in the English Channel, was a virtual exile in Europe. But this week in Washington a Allied de-| fense would not only hold the port | in the New Guinea | later | | Y ‘ : | k| I | - | \ | | I : | —one of Uncle Sam’s “jeeps.” Note how they are overshadowed by the hmilar Lenden double-decked bus. Workmg War Prisoners Now Suggested as Help, Present Labor Shorfage By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 25 — A speaker at a recent session of the Northeastern Dairy Conference sug- | zested that conscientious objectors | and prisoners of war, if any are ever sent here—be put to work on ! Z | farms and thus help relieve the| hreatened shortage of agricultural labor. As things stand, right now, this| gentleman probably would find it easier to gear alien prisoners than American conscientious objemnn to this part of our war productim\ machinery. That is, if the objec- | | p tors didn’t want to do it H The reason is that the so call2 | ’ “Geneva Convention” of 1929 clea: | # |'v states that “Belligerents may { utilize the labor of able prisoners of war” (except officers), whereas [ he Selective Service Act narrows | | Four American doughboys ride down a London street inw-of all things ‘ NEW MAYOR OF SEATTLE ‘on the results. jand at Mindanao. SITUATION | ports 'ese soldiers have captured the air- Lecal skirmishes by Philippine troops were reported to have been successful in the vicinity of Digos on the west shore of Davao Gul!r Illinois counties struck it. building. 1 SERIOUS [N o BURMA AREA ‘ Heavy Ba"le Reported in Progress Between Chinese, Japs NEW DELHI, India, March 25— & Chinese Headquarters in Burma re- | that a force of 1,000 Japan- | i drome north of Toungoo, the key point of Allied resistance yester- day. The communique admits the situ- ation on the Toungoo front is “serious”. | Chinese forces have been sent to dislodge the Japanese, the com- munique says, and a heavy battie was in progress this morning. | i i I Jonathan M. . | senior of - Major General Wainwright (above), ficer remzining in Batan, has I S l A N DS direct command of the U. S. forces in the Philippines v that Gen. Dovzlas MacArthur tralia. { - This is all that was left of “Main Street” in Alvin, Til, The toll of dead in the State mounted to 18, with about 170 others injured and mere than $500,000 in property damage estimated. 'ANOTHER ALERT [ Practice Drill Will Follow {not to announce a after one of two tornadoes that ripped across six In the foreground is debris of the former post office Ameman Flqu Tlgers Strafe Nippon Airdrome, | Wreck Planes, Kill Pilols KUNMING, March 25--The Fly-| ing Tigers, pilots of the American Volunteer Group, smashed 40 planes | at the Thailand airport of Chieng-| | mai in dawn attacks. They caught! WILL BE HELD | | lthe Japanese in a surprise ac- HElD IoMoRRow | cording to the announcement made | | here, Dropping down from the sky, the| United States airmen caught the Japanese pilots as they were run- {ning to the cockpits of their planes. The American volunteers pumped 3500 rounds of ammunition into both the grounded planes and the| personnel. Seven Japanese planes were seen" to burst into flames and the re- mainder of the planes were riddled with machine gun bursts. Most of the Japanese pilots are| reported to have been killed. The enthusiasm of the return-| ing pilots over the successes were dampened by the death of squad- ron leader Jack Newkirk. .- Same Line as Last Week Juneau will have raid practice drill “alert” tomor- ow evening “sometime between 6 and 7:30 o'clock.” It was decided y definite time for the drill in order to have the members of the Civilian Defense Units assume their posts without ny previous warningz The drill will follow the same ine as last Thursday's alert and + is expected that difficulties ex- perienced last week will have been ironed out, Civilian defense insignias have another air Wake and Marcus Islands, which s0 disturbed Japan, according to reports from Pearl Harbor, that Tokyo's lights were blacked out for several nights, Enemy small boats, seaplanes and numerous shore installations were destroyed, the Navy said, on both strategic Pacific islands, the at- tacking forces meeting “little op- position.” The United States lost one pllnn at each island, but no United | Etates ships ‘were damaged: Marcus Island is only 950 miles from Tokyo. 8o far as it is known, the attack there was the closest that United States naval forces have carried the war to Japan, aside from sub attacks made in the Tokyo Bay section. Several prisoners were taken at Wake Island, picked up off float~ |ing debris after two Japanese pa- trol boats had been bombed and sunk. SOVIET SAY SAYS HITLER HAS NEW TROOPS German Eefiforcemenls Number 600,000 Say Front Dispatches (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Frontline dispatches from the Soviet declare that Hitler's in- vasion armies are reported to have been reinforced by 600,000 troops. “Going through the meat-grinder Russian attacks cost the Germans 140,000 men killed alone since Feb- ruary 5 on the Kalinin front be- tween Leningrad and Moscow where !been made for all vehicles which Big Ifalian | will take part in the drill. remarkable thing happened. In the | lobby of the Hotel Carlton, one ofl the most popular hotels in Washing- | 3 ton, sat Charles A. Lindbergh. F‘or\- panese Forces Take Over Strategic Points in ithat down to “work of national Ja importance” in the case of coa- scientious objectors. . TWO DESTROYERS a time he sat on a sofa, then paced up and down the lobby floor. But though people obviously recog- nized him, no one stopped to talk, no one asked for an autograph, no one even spoke to him. For almost the first time since 1927, Lindbergh was in public, but very much alone. NAZI NEWS FROM WASHINGTON | Here is how rapidly news is get- | ting back to Berlin from the very capital of the United States. A week or so ago Washington had a blackout; and a few days be- fore a group of air wardens squab- | bled with Civil Defense and re- signed. Six hours after this happened. the | Berlin radio was broadcasting the | news as an indication of confusion among the American people and lack of defense in the heart of their | capital. The FBI has been working on these leaks for some time. Suspect- ed are certain foreign legations friendly to the Axis. NOTE: There is good reason to believe that Axis agents have re- ceived special instructions to report | —in addition to outright military information—anything which indi- cates disunity inside the United States and the weakening of the (Continued on Page Four) So far, “work of national im-/ portance” has been interpreted to| mean large-scale conservation and| land reclamation jobs—"just abouu the same work the CCC does,” os cne Selective Service official ex- \17lamed it to me, Seattle’s Police Judge William F. Devin, elected Mayor of Seattle in a landslide election, is pic- tured at his headquarters as he | | and Mrs. Devin received precinct by precinct reports of his selec- tion by the electorate. ‘Mrs. A. J. F|cken Leaves to Visit In Northwest Mrs. A. J. Ficken left for Seattle ‘today and will spend the next! month or twd visiting her son, Ar-)only ccuntry holding any American thur Ficken, Jr., who is with the|prisoners (e distinguished from; St. Regis Kraft Paper Company in | interned ans).. Japan is not {Tacoma and whom she has not|among the 47 nations that ratified seen for two years. the Geneva Convention, but Tokyo While she is away, Mrs. Ficken| 12s notified this country through, will also visit her family in Port-|the International Red Cross, which Jand, Oregon and friends in Se-|:pcnscred the Convention, that it attle. vill live up to it—and it's a pretty afe bet it will, because 1f it vi That kind of work is done with | the government as employer. The Geneva Convention allows prisoners ‘o be farmed out to private em-| ployers. Right now the agencies, concerned are scanning the idea of putting conscientious objectors kc‘ work on private farms, but it’s not quite clear what can be done. It | may take new legislation. Even so, there are only about/2,300 objectors in the 25 government camps at| this time, and that wouldn’t be much help in case of a real farm labor shortage. As far as is known, Japan is the - BUY DEFENSE BONDS " (Continued on Page Three) | Bay of Bengal BELIEVED LOST | IN JAVA BATILE Craft Mlssmg Since Early in! March-Next of Kin | Notified | NEW DELHI, March 25—Japanese forces have completed, unopposed, the cccupation of the strategic An-| Bay routes | of Benga] to Calcutta. This is the first seizure of In- dian Territory, the communique isays, and further stated the occu- pation of Andaman Islands was| | made on March 23, The communique further said: on the supply WASHINGTON, March 25—The Navy Department reported last | night that the United States de-) “Our forces on the islands were stroyers Pillsbury and Edsall have] withdrawn some days previous t0| pbeen missing since early in March March 23, It was found possible|in the waters around Java and| to evacuate a considerable portion | must be presumed to be lost and/ of the population including women |the next of kin have been notified.! and children and a number ofl Each destroyer had normal | convicts.” { complement of 145 officers and a i men. MRS. T. E. TAYLOR SOUTH | 'Tpe pillsbury is believed to have Mrs. T. E. Taylor left for the|met the end in the vicinity of| south today for an indefinite 5a¥.| Bali Stratt between the islands of| ;v;f T:’Klm left S?VC‘“:rd“yl; "g:’ 0| java and Bali after the great nav: n the navy for the duralio.|engggement on February 27 ! ;l;:elysl;::dem;h:;r ;:";';r ;’;b ?;‘:r‘;'i The last report received from the| o s i | Ecantl glaphe (her’ t, the _waters| | south of Java. | Mining Company. W g The coastline of Borneo is about| The area of the Duich East In-| as long as the distance from Sanld"fl’ is about one quarter of U‘L’l Francisco to New York, ‘area of continental United States. 1 1o | the alert in the Grade School audi- |to attend | International Harvester 42'%, Drivers | . should obtain one of these cards Bal'leshl from the office of Prank Metcalf, p | Director. | It was announced today that ser-| geants of air raid wardens are to| appoint the first two men to ap-| pear after the alert sounds to go| Two Cruisers Also Dam-| ed by British in Three- | Day Running Fight | 1 to their nearest First Aid station | act as stretcher bearers | LONDON, March 25.—Light Brit- ish forces set fire to an Italian bat- All air raid men are urged | The movies were sent | here from the headquarters of the! torium. |the German Sixteenth Army was trapped for weeks,” the dispatches said. The invaders are said to have suffered more than 61,000 caualties up to March 21, The Moscow radio reported that ((}unlmued on Page SLb GRUENING Metcalf announced today that) motion pictures of incendiary bombs will be shown immediately following | tleship of the 35000-ton Littorio {class and rammed her with a tor- pedo amidships, also damaged two | {other Italian cruisers in a three-day | running fight in the Mediterran- ean, the Admiralty announces. The Admiralty acknowledges that one British cruiser and three de- stroyers were damaged with some casualties among the crew. Ken.| One hundred and fifty Axis bomb- | necott 33%. New York Central 8, ¢S attacked the British convoy but Northern Pacific 8, United States Were beaten off. _ | Steel 50%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The {ollowing are today’s Dow, Jones' averages: industrials 101.48, rails 25.44, utilities 11.84. e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Office of Civlian Defense.. -> oo STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 25—Closing quotation of American Can today is 607, Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Commonwealth and Southern, 7/30, Qurtiss Wright 7%, MRS. HICKEY GOES SOUTH Mrs. J. V. Higkey has left for the south today and will visit rela- tives in Salem, Oregon, for several months. - BUY VEFENSE STAMPS b TESTIFIES ON RATES Governor Sa? Surcharge Will Drive Alaskans fo States WASHINGTON, March 25—Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska repeated befere the House Appropriations Committee hearings on the 1943 Interior Department appropriations (Continued on Page Three)