The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LVIIL,, NO. 8992. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1942 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AIR RAIDS MADE FROM ARCTIC TO SOUTH attle Of Burma Now At Critical Stage Admlral Gels Medal for Raid on Japs JAPAN NOW THREATENS | CALCUTTA Crippsin Effort fo Mobilize | India Forces for Allies (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Japan’s capture of the strategic Andaman Islands has sent a tongue of flame leaping into India, spur-| ring negotiations for the mobiliza- | tion of India’s millions of fight- | ing men on the side of the Allies. Meanwhile, the situation in the| Battle of Burma grew more criti-| cal. Burma is the eastern gateway to Indila. Attempting to relieve | the pressure on the Allied forces | in Burma, two strong Chinese col- | umns were reported to have invad- ‘ ed Japanese-occupied Thailand | where two points of Thailand ad- | join Northern Burma. | And at Tokyo, a broadcast em- phasized the importance of the An- | daman group as a naval and air base for attacks on the sea lanes which link India with Britain, in-| dicating the possibility of an at-| tempted blockade. | The Japs declared the seizure of | these islands put Japan “within dangerous striking distance” of the | vital British military bases of Cal- | cutta, Madras, the Ceylon Islands and the Bay of Bengal. The An- damans are 650 miles from Cal- | cutta, 850 from Madras, 800 from | Ceylon. | While Japan thus aimed a direct | threat at India, Sir Stafford Cripps | sped through a series of confer- haired screen beauty, announced this year. CThe it | WASHINGTON — One amazingi i incident of the Pearl Harbor at-| tack can now be told. Already an-| nounced in the Roberts Report was the fact that a small Japanese sub- marine was sunk off the entrance of Pearl Harbor at 6:33 A. M. about one hour before Jap a planes came over. | The submarine has since been raised, and its navigation chart log,| translated into English, showed a| remarkable voyage . The submarine had actually made | a complete tour inside this vital| naval base, had escaped unseen, and the captain had noted the lo- cation of each U. B. vessel together with the time he passed it. The chart showed the Jap sub had arrived off the entrance of | Pear] Harbor at 1:50 A. M., Dec. 7! —a few hours before the air attack. | It waited at the harbor's mouth | until 4:20 A. M., when the net was lowered to let a garbage scow out. Then the sub sneaked in. The commander noted the location of the battleships Utah and the West | Virginia—the former announced as sunk. He marked down the posi- tions of twelve destroyers, which | he said were huddled close to- gether: also three gunboats, and the cruiser Trenton. In another place he noted “large white mans house.” The chart showed that he passed out of the harbor unseen at 5:25 A. M. and apparently lay off the| harbor’s’ mouth for the next hour while he radioed the exact location | of each ship to the awaiting Jup‘ air carriers. About the only thing the Jap commander failed to put in his! log was that at 6:33 A. M. he was sunk. BOOM?_sir Staffora Cripps ' (above), former British ambas- sador to Moscow, is. mentioned as a possible successor to Wins- ton Churchill—if and when the latter loses premienhln. NO FOOLIN' SPRINGF‘IELD. Mo., March 25.— BIKE-GO-ROUND | April Fool's Day usually is a date for At a cocktail party the other tomfoolery and merrymaking at day, Leon Henderson and Senator‘Sprmgheld High School. But not Burnet Maybank of South Caro- ‘thls year. The senior class voted to linn demonstrated how to ride the | | forego fun and instead its members | will canvass the city for volunteer (Continued on Page Four) defense workers. Beauty fo Wed Aclor Hellywood's newest romance blessomed into an engagement when | George Montgomery, rising yourg They met several months ago on a badminton court. MacArtiur Gives Pledge | 0fNo Compromise; Says e Ultimate Victory Sure JOEE.BOWN, - MOVIE STAR, Ir | World Famous Comedian | Arrives During. After- Joe E. Brown, world famous |comedian and motion picture star | 'm—rived here from Sitka this after- Inoon at 2:30 o'clock, in a U, 8. an\\ plane and is at the Baranotfi 'Hnu'l during his stay here The famous star has been in :Ala.ska for the last month visiting | | various military posts throughout | i the Territory. He flew to Anchor- |age by way of Fairbanks and was ‘accompanied by Miss Edith Rich-| |ards, of Los Angeles, who made |the trip to visit her fiance, Lieut. | | Arthur E. Reichie. | | Lieut. Riechle, who is based at | Fort Richardson, knew Joe E.| | Brown when the former played | football for UCLA and later coached | for the same team. Brown, former- |ly a member of the New York| Yankees, is famed for his sporLsI ICominued on Page 8ix) | BOTTLENECK ONSYNTHETIC RUBBERTOLD actor, a.d Hedy Lamarr, dark- [ they would be married seme time Government Official Ex- plains Why There Is Shortage in U. S. SE5Ee ) | ‘L CANBERRA, Australia, March 26. | | | —Gen. Douglas MacArthur has giv- |en his pledge there “can be no | compromise. We shall win or we | | shall die. To this end I pledge you | full resources of an all-mighty pow- | WASHINGTON, Mar. 26—Thur-| | er of my country and all of the blood man Arnold, Assistant Attorney of my countrymen.” | General, testified today that the The pledge was given at the height Standard Oil Company of New of a historic dinner in the House of | Jersey developed synthetic rubber | cheaper, better and more plentiful than any the Nazis had and turned it over to German interests before |the United States entered the war. Arnold toid the Senate Defensc investigating Committee that until a consent decree was entered yes- terday, the Standard Oil Company | “held back even in this rubper shortage,” in making patents on ssoldier in a great crusade of per- synthetic product available to the sonal liberty as opposed to perpetual | American rubber companies. Islavery. My faith in our ultimate Arnold also testified that cartel victory is invincible" arrangemenw between the Stand- Parliament by the first American Commander to lead the united forces | of the United States and Australian troops. Gen. MacArthur declared his con- fidence in the ‘unbreakable faith of a free man” for ultimate victory. The American Commander further declared: “There is a link that binds | our countries together. I come asa | ard Oil Bl’ld I. G. Farben Industries | thetic rubber. CUTTERIS SENT‘SMAll FIRMS ' DOWN AT SEA GET HELP BY ORDEROFFDR President Authorizes FI-‘ nancing of Confracts Through Loans Shelled Presumably by En- } emy Submarine - All of | Crew of 55 Rescued | WASHINGTON, Mar. 26 — The Navy Department today announced that the Coast Guard Cutter Acacia was recently shelled and sunk in| the Caribbean Sea area presum-| wWASHINGTON, March 26—Pres- ably by an enemy submarine. lident Roosevelt today authorized | All of the 55 officers and men financing of war contracts to small aboard were rescued. | business through guaranteed loans The Acacia is described as a' ynder the Presidential Executive “small unarmed ship of the tender order, the War and Navy Depart- class used to provide services and ments and Maritime Commission aids to navigation” and was built!may guarantee or even make loans in 1919, displaced 1130 tons and|necessary for war production to |was 172 feet long. |stimulate participation by small i T RS 1 R !business firms. | These agencies may enter con- §POR AND: MRS, OBOUNERT |tracts through any Federal Reserve AP PAMILY 1N CITX |Bank, the Reconstruction Finance Mr. and Mfs. W. J. Grohnert and | their three children have arrived {Oaupoestion or- tAny Othes financ~ mg institution,” guaranteeing them here from Anchorage and are stay- | |against loss of principal or inter- ing at the Baranof Hotel whflele“ loan discounts or advances or awaiting transportation to Seattle.| commitments in connection with TR them for the financing of war out- | BUY DEFENSE.STAMPS |pyi, | ¢ IS IN JUNEAU noon from Sitka | “ At ceremonies aboard an aircraft carrier in Pearl Har o tinguished Service Medal on Vice Admiral W. F. Hal ~», Jr. Hawaii, bases on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, Qg?s Navy Cross Afier 34-Day Voyage Harold F. Dixen of Le Mesa, Chief of the Pacific Fleet, 2 companions (left to right), C for 84 days in the South Seas Blackout in Washmglon Good in One Resped: Is Fallure of Real Purpose Medal of Honor |Is Awarded Gen. MacAthur WASI"NGT()N March 26.— The War Department announces that President Roosevelt has awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor to Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in the Philip- pines. Roosvelt Will Register April 27 WASHINGTON, March 26.—Presi- dent Roosevelt is going to register, along with other Americans forty- five to sixty-four years old, inclusive, on April 27. Even though he is commander-in- chief of the armed forces and tech- nically not required to register, he told a press conference he intended to do so anyway. At sixty, he is well within the age limits. e e R S In early Rome the wedding ring was made of iron. By JACK STINNET'I WASHINGTON, March 26— The capital in wartime: The “District” and adjoining | counties in Maryland and Virginia had their first all-night blackout the other night, and officials said it was practically a 100 per cent suc- cess—if you can call row after row of darkened residence and business buildings a success. Fact is, the blackout failed two important respects: 1. Government buildings (ex- cept the White House!) were ablaze with light. 2. Many people simply turned out their lights and went to bed in or the movies. Thus, while their homes were dark, they weren't doing what civilian defense offi- cials wanted them fo do, and that| was to make real preparations for a real black curtains and such. By and large, lights from homes were 50 scarce that they drew special comment from air raid wardens when a few did pierce the gloom. But Chairman McCarran of the Senate District Committee, on an inspection tour with James M. national director of Civillan Defense, Office ‘Comir.hedm&i ‘Paze Three) Admir: for the lat blackout—like putting up | of the | com- | al Chester W. Nimitz pinned a Dis- ter's successful raids on Japanese Calif., got a handshake from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in- d a Navy Cross during ceremenies at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Dixon and his two ne Aldrich of Sikeston, Mo., and Anthony Pastula of Youngstown, 0., drifted a rubber raft after their land p].ule came down at sea. ALASKAFISH REGULATIONS, 'MORE DETAILS Restrictions on Nefs Taking! of Shrimp and Crab Explained The Empire printed parts of the 1942 Alaska fishing regulations re-! lating chiefly to salmon and her- ring fishing on Tuesday, received from the Associated Press. A fur- ther report of the regulations were received here today from the Fish and Wildlife Service and include |the following additions to the reg- ulations. In the Southeast Alaska area, the Prince Willilam Sound area, the Alaska Peninsula between Castle Cape and Cape Pankof, the max- imum depth of salmon purse seines has been increased to 350 meshes. A minimum length of 50 fathoms | has been fixed for salmon gill nets in all sections of the Southeastern Alaska area except the Yakutat and Stikine districts. The size of the mesh of such nets has been fixed at not less than 5 and % inches. Wrangell Narrows, in the Sum- ner Strait district, will be closed to commercial fishing from August 22 to October 5. In the Southeast Alaska area, (Continued on Page Three) AERIALBLOWS STRUCK; WIDE SECTIONS HIT | Sixty-six Nazi Planes Af- tack Murmansk in North ~Eleven Shot Down INDUSTRIAL RUHR IS ALSO UNDER ASSAULT \Germans Roar Over Dover While RAF Smash at Industrial Paris (By Associated Press) Tempestuous aerial blows, raging from the Arctic port of Murmansk to Germany's industrial Ruhr and the White Cliffs of Dover are re- ported today in communiques from various battle sectors. On the Russian front, Soviet dis- patches tell the story of mounting German slaughter along the vast battle line while the bulletin from Hitler's headquarters acknowledges fresh waves of Red Army assaults. War Founderies Raided During the night Royal Air Force warplanes “very heavily bombed” German war founderies in the Ruhr, the London Air Ministry said, The waipianes also pounded the German U-boat base at St. Nazaire, on the Nazi-occupled French coast. The magnitude of the offensive is indi- cated by the Air Ministry's report that 11 bombers were lost. Paris Also Stormed A bulletin from Vichy reports that . Royal Alr Force planes stormed Paris for 90 minutes. Pamphlets were also dropped during the raid warning that the planes were re- turning to bomb French factories working on Hitler's military ma- nes. Dover Under Attack German night raiders attacked Dover's area on the southeast Eng- lish coast, “inflicting great damage,” according to the Berlin report. Mili- | tary installations were among those \damnged. the report states. | Raid on Arctic Circle | Soviet dispatches report that 66 | German planes raided the Arctic | Circle port of Murmansk, key Soviet base for war supplies from the United States. More than 100 planes . of raiders and defenders fought over | the city at one time, the Soviet re- | port, declares, further stating that {11 German planes were shot down, MANILA BAY FORTSUNDER ENEMY RAID Fifty-four H;g;y Japanese Bombers Make 6-Hour Attack Is Report WASHINGTON, March 26. — The War Department, in the daily com- munique issued this morning, reports that 54 heavy Japanese bombers participated in a six-hour attack on the island forts at the entrance of Manila Bay. The attack was concentrated on the fortress of Corregidor. Defending anti-aicraft batteries downed four planes of the enemy. Defending forces suffered few cas- ualties and damages to the fortifica- tions is reported slight. Skirmishes are also reported along the entire front on Batan Peninsula. NO INCOME TAX BUTTE, Mont., March 26. — miner sought the help of a deputy in the internal revenue bureau with his income tax. “You don't owe any tax,” the de- puty replied after a little figuring. “Well, that’s too bad,” replied the miner. “This is a pretty good coun- " try. So here's 20 bucks, a present for Uncle Sam.”