The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 28, 1942, Page 1

VOIGEVIL NO 6998, - 0 0 - 8994. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE’ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jUNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1942, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ‘TWO RAIDS MADE ON JAPANESE FORCES Byritish Make Smash Raid On Nazi Sub Base U.S. Army Camp Sef Up for Alaska Road Job ARMY, NAVY AIR FORCES IN ATTACK Germans Claim Night As-| sault Repulsed-British fo Report Later | | | | | | | | | Underground Plane Pla ‘TWO PORTS - AREAGAIN AR RAIDED Australians Aftack Koe- pang - Japanese Soar Over Port Moreshy FILIPINO DEFENDERS IN ACTION ‘Successful Attacks on Ba- tan, Also at Zamboanga I —Bomber Shot Down | WASHINGTON, March 28, — Thy MELBOURNE, Australia, March (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | 28—The official Australian com- ! War Department today reports the A epectacular British sea-borne | munique today says the Japanesé | Philippine defenders have made attempt to wreck the port of St.| | seized pert of Koepang, Dutch:Is | successful raids on the Japanese y lon Batan Peninsula and also at Nazaire, French Coast key base for | the Nazi U-boat offensive in the| Atlantic, was declared by the Ger- man High Command to have been crushed with ‘“high, bloody losses” and 100, prisoners captured. A special German bulletin ack- nowledged that the British suc-| ceeded in landing troops for an; attack last night, but asserted the | Nazis had routed an attempt to\ storm the big St. Nazaire shipyard and penetrate the town itself. The communique said that a for-| mer American destroyer, laden with explosives, blew up under fire from shore batteries as the British | sought to ram it against the gates| of the harbor locks in an nn.empt.‘ to destroy them. Meanwhile, a British commufliun reported that units of the army, navy and air forces made “a smnll‘ raid” there and that a further re-| port would be issued “as soon asl (Continued on Page Five) “The Here are pictures of Britain’s underground factories which the 30 ernment has disclosed, are making airplanes and airplane parts for the Royal Air Force. Top: Clearing a tunnel in an abandoned guarry for conversion into a Ministry of Aircraft Production shop. Below: Women already at work at machines in one guarry shop, deep under- ground and safe from [allulg bombs, |land of Timor, has been bombed | for the second consecutive day and uno ship was set afire. | The communique also says the | Japanese today raided Port Mores- ‘bv New Guinea, 25 bombers taking | part in the twenty-fifth air attack of the presem war on the port. jAUSTRAlIA 'SURE 10 BE Refurning Commander of imperial Forces Gives His Impression | | MELBOURNE, Australia, March | {y ~ UNDER RAID R !28—Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, of | |the returning Australian Imperial | Forces, just arriving in the home- | Zamboanga, Mindanao, 500 miles | distant. In the latter raid, Filipino patrols | penetrated to within less than one mile of the city and attacked an outpost. | Japanese bombers again attacked Corregidor and anti-aircraft guns of the | fortress shot down a heavy | bomber in llumes SOME AUSSIE TROOPS MOVE T0 HOMELAND | ment, Army Chief Announces | CANBERRA, Australia, March 28. —Army Minister Francis Forde an- Drev B | AR Bl T - ; land, said all activities .now must nounced moraing that members {be based on the assumption the of the Australian Imperial force 4 Japanese will attempt an invasion A U. 8. Army camp (top) has been established seven miles from the end of the railway at Dawson Creek, |which returned here to aid the de- Nobert S Alles 5% hstialia. B. C., for the start of work on the highway to Alaska. Below U. S. soldiers, who will help build the high- 'fense of their country, brought full | e uav,‘hmc thzlr luggage piled high on the station plat form at Dawson Creek. One at left had a hasty snack. equipment. Details of their escape | A &5 3 e e from other battlefields are not made ‘G 4@ | public. ( H I N E S E The returning troops were those in it uspenslon | the first battles, toughened Imperial { Australian forces who were sent to This is the second in the series of Merry-Go-Round ar- ticles on the inside of the War iIN SHELTER Correspondent of the London Star, WAR I0NES GETBACK Assessment battle fronts ranging from sun- scorched Libya to the jungles of Malaya. il B . —Ed. Production onni 5 i The troops left nearly two years —: 5 5 wld 1 |ago and are now being reformed to WASHINGTON—One big ~ criti LONDON, March 28—The Sydney AIRPORI defend their own shores. cism of Donald Nelson's new War Production Board is that he has| 1 PhilippinesP_resideni Was in a dispatch received here, s Sworn in as Japs Work Asked ‘The troops comprise infantrymen, artillerymen and airmen but the | blanketed into his new set-up all American submarines sunk five| Bumber And idenmy is not disclosed. | the barnacles from the old, inclu.:-l H" Ma““a Japanese destroyers, one aircraft| NEW DELHI India, March 28- ing battalions of $l-a-year men.| carrier and about 30 transports|British Headquarters today declared Monfana Senator Pl'esems This includes many top-notche: but also many who seem to be rep- resenting the companies at home| which still pay them lush salaries during the past two or three weeks ‘around Australia.” The correspondent said five Japanese cruisers, another aircraft carrier and about 30 transports or UNITED STATES ARMY HEAD- } | QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 23 — President Manuel Quezon, of the Philippines, who has arrived in the situation on the Toungoo froat in Burma has improved following recapture of the Toungoo airport by reinforced Chinese forces fig Measure fo Eliminate Requirements NAVY SHIPS OF BRITISH ‘m»mmmr - Here, for instance, is one con- fifom A i ing to hold the eastern end of ti crete illustration of how the sys-|Australia, took his oath of office for | upply ships have been severely! Allied line. WASHINGTON, March 28—Sena- tem works. ‘hkf.‘s"’?""d ;‘"be l:;;zfce’;::frtgo damaged. This information he de-|” The communique says there s tor James E. Murray of Montana At Vinita, Okla., the Government ;n;;:ne’?e :mgpd Manila. él‘his wai' lares is received frein authoritative |little change on the opposite end has introduced a bill to suspend recently took over the Grand River disclosed here today. sources, of the front. annual assessment work as applies :ow:; p;l‘:i:ct pre(\;i:lubéy operl’i;;d Quezon and his cabinet members, b . € B Y to mining claims in the United y the e of lahoma. € and the President’s family, have States and Alaska for the current P ik - Government did this under special |arrived here after a perilous tup[ !OE E BROW“ DEAD”"E "EARI"G fiscal year ending June 30 R B d ' R ' war powers, which give it the right from the Philippines to join Gen. | to take over such plants; also be- Douglas MacArthur in the fight to| FOR REGISTRATION causé Governor “Red” Phillips was having labor troubles. Having taken over the project, it‘ would seem natural that the Gov-| ernment should supply its own pow- er to its own army cantonment at Cookson Hills, thus saving it- self some money. However, it now‘ turns eut that the Government re- 1 jected its own low bid of under 5! mills to supply electricity to Cook- | son Hills, and accepted the high" bid of the Oklahoma Gas and El- ectric Company, a subsidiary of | a big holding company, at 108 mills. Thus the Government, by refus- ing to buy power from itself, will lose for itself—and for the taxpay- er—around 5 to 6 mills per lulo-I watt hour. ARMY vs. FEDERAL WORKS Now let us see how this strange decision was arrived at. First, investigation reveals that| two branches of the Government were not cooperating, . When Judge Davidson, counsel for the Federal Works Administration in Oklahoma, went to see Col. H A. Montgom- ery, district Army engineer at Tul- | sa, Montgomery refused to show| him the power contract for Cook- son Hills cantonment. " (onttoued on Page Four) Further- |aska needs more funds regain their country. Details of the trip remain a secret for the time being. GOVERNOR Joe E. Brown, famous film com- edian, left Juneau for Hollywood this noon after spending a quiet two days in the Capitol. With the ~xception of giving Juneau school | tudents a thrill by appearing and talking at an assembly meeting| yesterday afternoon, Mr, Brown made no public appearances while in Juneau. He was accompanied to the school by Mayor H. I. Lucas| and introduced to the students by A. B. Phillips, Superintendent | Mr. Brown spent the greater part | | of vesterday with Mayor Lucas who ‘t"(‘k him to various places of in- | terest in the city. Among the people| |with whom he visited was Claude ‘M Hirst, General Superintendent . | Alaska Office of Indian Affairs WASHINGTON, March 28—Gov.| whith whom he discussed his trip Ernest Gruening testified befere 'to St. Lawrence Island and the fine the House Appropriations Commit- | hospitality of the Eskimos. tee hearings on the sixth supple- Also leaving today are Major M. mental national defense appropri- R. Marston and Lieut. Natzel, who ation bill that the Territory of Al- accompanied Mr. Brown on his | to meet 8000 mile air trip to military out- WAR FUNDS Terrifory Needs Larger De- fense Appropriation, Gruening Says expenses caused by the war pro- posts throughout the Territory, to! gram. Iput on an entertainment program Delegate Anthony J. Dimond for enlisted men. - backed up Gruening’s statement. g P Motion pictures furnish regular - BUY VEFENSE STAMPS | !'sons, ' LEAVES TODAY FOR HOLLYWOOD jemplcyment to nearly 200,000 per- | FOR CITY ELECTION Juneau residents have only until the end of next week to register to vote in the city election’ which will be held April 7. To'date only 951 perscns have registered. Ac- cording to a city ordinance, no one may vote, regardless of previous |and has registered this year. To be eligible to register a per: son must have lived in the Terri- |tory for one year and been a resi- |dent of Juneau for 30 days prior to April 7.. The registration books (will close at noon on Saturday, April 4 | Deadline for filing for any of| the five- offices on the ballot is Wednesday, April 1. The following offices are open: Mayor for a one-year term, three councilmen for two-year terms and school board director for one- !year term. To date, the only filings have |been by incumbents. Mayor Harry |I. Lucas, - Councilmen N. Floyd Fagerson, Harry Lea and Ralph Beistline, and School Board Direc- tor R. E. Robertson all have filed for re-election. | PP S BONDS i / BUY DEFE registration, unless’ he is qualifiea ° SEWARD DAY WILL - | BE OBSERVED IN | JUNEAU ON MONDAY‘ i THE B UM F—Snowfall helped break the fall of tnis rara- $ki soldier who used his emergency chute after seam on his regu- lar chnte tore, in jump training at Alta, LIAIl. Monday, Seward Day, will be a| Territorial holiday in Alaska. All| - Territorial offices and public| . . schocls will be closed but banks, Blg Snltker IS (realed Juneau will remain open Seward Day is observed in com- memoration of the signing of the | treaty for the purchase of Alaska which was on March 30, 1867 - STOCK OUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 28 quotation of Alaska Juneau stores and other business houses mi | | | | | | — Closing mine avalalle that probably would ply. By JACK STINNETT Pay fo W. Disney for Film ap- Large Force on Way to Indian Ocean LONDON, March 28—Reuters re- ! ports hearing a Rome radio broad- cast that says the “major British | Naval force has passed Cape Good Hope, southernmost Africa, on the way to the Indian Ocean.” The broadcast also said the force included two large battleships, two aircraft carriers, several cruisers He Tned Them AII And Landed in Army IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, March 28 stock today is 17, American Can ~WASHINGTON, March 28—The = proo that Disney isn't worrying —John Ferebauer, attorney, an ad- 577, Anaconda 25'%, Commonwealth | fact that Congress refused to pay js that he already is at work on viser to Selective Service recruits, and Southern %, Curtiss Wright Walt Disney $80,000 for the Trea- another Treasury Department short 3ot some publicity a few days ago 7%. International Harvester 43%,|sury Department short, “Donald ._this time, I believe, with Don-|for his “Do as I say, not as I do,” Kennecott 32, New York Central 7%, Duck Pays His Income Tax” is @ ald going all out for the purchase suggestion. He left to join the Northern Pacific 5%, United States -igger snicker ‘than any in the of war savings stamps and bonds. | Marines Steel 50, Pound $4.03%. amusing little picture. it But Ferebauer has changed it If some are feeling sorry for The ‘snicker in the whole busi- ilow to “Do as I do.‘: explaining: DOW, JONES AVERAGES Walt, they can save their sym- dop by e ‘The Marines wquldnt have me, y ; s i S8R0 siaht. DoS-15 Soad Congross e SHE 3 the Navy wouldn't have me, and The following are today's Dow, Pathies. FHe will get pa 80U | peen appropriating funds which all right—even if it has to come Jones averages: Industrials, 100; de it possible for Uncle Sam 10| rails, 25.04; utilities. 11.53. out of the President’s private war M2d¢ 11 ey chest, though it probably won't have ‘ BUY DEFENSE STAMPS The Treasury has other funds 4c<munuefl on Page Two) to. ) the Coast Guard wouldn't have me, |all because my eyes aren't good | become the biggest producer ”I]enough——so 1 enlisted in the “Ar- my,"