The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1942, Page 1

t —— VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8996. HE DAILY ALASKA E . JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1942 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BATAN HOSPITAL BOMBED BY JAPANESE New Advance On India Is Made By Nippons DRIVEIS BEGUN T0 OIL AREAS Traitorous Burmese Na-. tives Reported o Have | Aided Invaders . i JAPANESE NOW NEARING PROME, STRATEGIC BASE Situation Not So Bright on% Toungoo Front-Raids on Mandalay 1 (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Japan's drive on the oil fields ndrthwest of Burma, gateway to! India, took a menacing turn today | @& the British headquarters ac-| knowledged that the Japanese troops, supported by traitorous | Biirmese natives, have advanced to | within 10 miles of Prome, British nheld’ anchor of the right wing of | the ‘Allied defense line in central| Burina. Barrier to Oil Fields : Prome is strategically important 4§ a barrier to the rich Yenang | Ytang oil fields and also guards| (Continued on Page Six) | “The ~Go, { WASHINGTON — One of the! most significant political moves of the year took place very quietly in New York when 17 members of the Republican National Commit- tet sat down to discuss future pol- icy with Wendell Willkie The meeting represented a new move to (1) get away from the isolationist leadership of Chairman. Joe Martin, and (2) chart a fu- ture Republican program of 100 percent ‘- support for the war, coupled with fairminded -criticism of war inefficiency in Washing- ton. The meeting was not called by Willkie himself, but took place at the suggestion of various Republi- cah leaders. They reported to him that they were worried over the Republican party assuming an iso- lationist position; and that such u,!nrn number of Republicans in Congress had voted against every| defense measure before our en-| tm into the war. They also spid they wanted to make sure‘1 tHet “Republicans did not start a ient to do what the Republi- id to Woodrow Wilson’s peace | s ‘after the first World War. | ‘Pinally, these 17 GOP National Opmmifteemen reported to Willkie that they were pretty sure the Re- publicans would carry the House of Representatives next fall, but they were concerned lest it be| carried by Republican isolationists.| The last thing they wanted, they| said, was a House of Represent.a\-“ tives composed of Ham Fishes. i The New York meeting also ex- pressed dissatisfaction over Author Clarence Budington Kelland, now Republican publicity director, who,| as one GOP leader expressed it, “thinks he’s now chairman of the| Republican National Committee, bat actually is just a baby in Joe| Martin’s hands.” Chief strategy discussed at the New York meeting was how to re- vamp party leadership along non-; isolationist lines and the possibil-| ity of a new chairman when the National Committee meets in April. Note:— Wendell Willkie this week gives a bluntly frank magazine in- (Continued on Page Four) Agree on U. S.-Canada Road ] J. Pierrepont Moffat and W. L. Mackenzie King Agreement between the U. S, and Canada under which the United States will build a highway to Alaska from Fort St. John in British | Columbia has been reached. Above, the U. S. minister to Canada, J. Pierrepont Moffat, left, hands Premier W. L. Mackenzie King | of Canada a note containing terms of the agreement. | Government Tells War | News Policy; Will Tell All Fads, Good or Bad' RUSSIANS 55, MOVING UP, | War Information, the OFF, headed | by Archibald MacLeish, said that| LONDON, March 31—The Len-|casualty lists might henceforth bel e | WASHINGTON, Mar. 31—In a| statement which emphasized that “the people of a democracy are en-| titled to know the facts, whether| they are good or bad, cheerful ori depressing,” the Office of Facts| and Figures announces 2 policy of | releasing all war information which | will not give aid and comfort to| { Ukraine front and also far north | RED ARMIES TAKING UP OFFENSIVE Making Drive Amid Thaw- ; ing Snows, Battering | at Key Positions | SEVERE PRESSURE IS i EXERTED IN UKRAINE Germans Claim fo Have! Stopped Tank Move- ment with Stukas | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russia's armies are pressing re-| lentlessly in the spring offensive amid the thawing snows of win-' ter and are today reported batter- ing heavily at the key German bases along the entire front, while| the Nazis claimed aerial successes | in bombing and destroying 183 tanks between March 23 and March 0. | German headquarters acknow- | ledge severe pressure on the| @ asserted Nazi dive bombers have “frustrated” a tank led So-| viet attack in the critical battle ' around Lake Bilmen. " Soviet dispatches said Red Cav-| alrymen are attacking in the same | region and west of Moscow have beaten off another German attack, | forcing the Nazis to retreat and gaining possession of an import- ant populated place. ATTACK ON out o conquer the Southwest Pacific | e & | Top, Aussies marching in Melbourne, Vi in-chief of all United Nations forc Australia Now Big News Center in Pacific Ballarat, near Melbourne. It ce Admiral Leary; below, John Curtin ahd Aussie planes at Australia, known to the average American as the island-continent “down under” and especially as the habitat of the kangaroos, now is in the front page news daily as the British commonwealth rap- idly is being converted into a great fortress from which the Allies some day will spring forth to re- is the headquarters of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, new commander- east of Singapore. American forces and equipment are pouring into the big island and into the principal cities of Melbourne and Sydney, both of which have popu- lations in excess of 1,000,000. Assisting MacArthur are his first deputy, Lieut. Gen. George H. Brett, and Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary, who has been in command of the United Nations sea forces in the Australia-New Zealand zone. Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia has welcomed the appoint- ments of the American officers and has given his country two tasks, first to hold on, and second, to build up the position for a victorious Allied counteroffensive. CONVOY IS THAT AXIS ingrad radio reports that Russian troops have captured an important strategic point in the Leningrad sector and killed 50 Germans when they made a brief effort to retake the lost position FOREST SERVICE MOVES DIVISION Workmen today began moving the records and equipment of the Admiralty Division of the Forest Service from its quarters in the published locally but that no na-| tion-wide summaries of casualties could be printed or announced by | radio. | | As a general policy, however, it | iwas stated that “under no circum-! stances does the government with- | hold news from publication on the ground that the news is depress- ing.” | “Aid to Enemy” as the Test | “It is the poliey of this govern- ment,” the official statement said,| |“to make, public the maximum of information on military, naval, pro- duction and other matters concern- ing the war, which can be revealed ‘British and Russian Naval Shattuck Building to quarters now, occupied by the Forest Service in the Pederal and Territorial Euild-‘ ing. Harold Smith is the Super- visor of the Admiralty Division. The Forest Service’s present| quarters are being adjusted to ac- commodate the move within the gpace now occupied by the various Forest Service offices on the fourth flcor of the Federal and Territor- ial Building: ST. PAUL COMPANY WILL OPERATE AIR SERVICE IN NORTH Northwest Airlines, Inc, of St. Paul, Minnesota, has filed the nec- essary papers authorizing the con- cern to do business in Alaska, Ter- ritorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle re- ported today. The firm has an authorized capitalization of $900,000. Alaska agents for the company without giving aid to the enemy. “On the other hand, our people will willingly forego knowledge of | those facts whose revelation will help the enemy to harm us. “Where there is conflict between| considerations of public informa- | |tiof and of military security,| ‘every attempt is made to provide such form of publication as will inform the public while reducing the military risk to a minimum. “Under no circumstances does the (government withhold news from publication on the ground that the news is bad or depressing. When 'news is deliberately withheld, it i.s\ withheld for reasons of military| security.” The outline represented largely | a restatement of. official views an-| nounced in the past, but it dde‘ broaden the government’'s war news pelicy in two respeets. It stated that from time to time| the Joint Chiefs of Staff would fur- nish “an authoritative general re- are R. E. Robertson, Juneau, and view of the military situation in| Maurice T. Johnson, Fairbanks, It|'210us theatres of wan” and it| is understood that ti af ‘\enoed the policy of not printing he firm wm‘cssualty lists, even by districts, | Sperite 5. lipe. fiam: B Paul 1ol Delay on Warship Sinkings | BEATENOFF * Gyy GREAT Forces Sink Nazi Destroy- | er — Damage Others LONDON, March 31—British and Russian naval forces sank a Ger- man destroyer and also beat off attacks of German surface crafts and U-boats on an escorted con- voy to Russia, the British Ad- miralty announced today. Generally Pull Off Some- thing on April First By HERMAN ALL Wide World Features Writer Three German submarines weie severely damaged “if not sunk e by the escorting vessels the com- APril Fool! Some joke! Haw- munique added, also stating that Daw! two British destroyers were dam- Adolf Hitler and his Axis pais aged in the engagement but both are usually just full of fun when returned safely to port April comes around. Maybe it's — o> —— just the sap stirring, maybe it's begause it’s easier to push a line 5 ooo jApS i of tanks around the country when the snow has melted. Anyway, as far back as 1932, the year Hitler ran against Von Hindenburg for president, he “ordered” his follow- ers to avoid trouble which migit postpone the election, then turned around and accused Von Hinden- burg's side of monopolizing the ‘ radio. Some Nifties Von Hindenburg won. Hitler Baflle S"" Raglflg ArOUnd }W_Bsn'l strong enough yet to stnnl but in 1933, as chancellor, Toungoo—Chinese Re- |be embarked on & ion string of . | April jokes. ha year he capture Airdrome P el hkes v and his boys pulled these nifties: Hitler said he stocd for “peace CHUNGKING, March 31— More with equality.” (But already his than 5.000 Japanese dead have been| propaganda machine was counted by the Chinése around|hate into German ears.) dinning said Whitehorse and Fairbanks via the | interior route. ———————— Jennie Jerome, mother of Wins- ton Churchill, was born in Brook- lyn, N. Y.; her father, with August Belmont, was co-father of Ameri- can racing. ——————— Lt. Col. Francis T. Evans of the U. S. Marines’ was the first aviator to loop the loop in a seaplanz. He accomplished this feat in 1917 The announcement stated that in |cases of action at sea the destruc- guon' of a warship would be pub- |lished’ only when such word was not of military value to the enemy. It said also that all announcements would be held up for forty-eight {hours so as to give prior notifica- ition to the kin of all casualties. Damage to American vessels, ‘the statement continued, would be re- | (Contingied on Page Three) iTounxoo up to March 29 and heavy| Von Papen and Goering | fighting is still raging according Germany and Austria would “co- |to an afternoon communique from operate with the same objectives.” |the Chinese Headquarters here, (Austria “cooperated” a few years The Japanese held airdrome at jatey) {Kyungon, 10 miles north of Toun-| Hitler denied he had offered dic- igahog has been recaptured by theliaiorship to the people, said a new Chinese and the entire Japanese German people must be created | 2 battalion annihilated. Large am- . pyenty thousand were being made jounts of war supplies were also | into new Germans in concentra- |seized. I & tion camps.) BUY DEFENSE BONDS 3 ‘C(;l;{u];led i on Paée‘ Threé) U.S. Flying Tigers Bag AS FOOLER BigBomber PASSES HERE Adolf Hifler and His Pals Enemy Craft Shot Down in| Much Loved Judge, in Ter- Attack on Point on Burma Supply Road CHUNGKING, China, March 31 —-It is reported today that a mem ber cf the Third Pursuit Squadron American Flying Tigers, shot down a twin-motored Japanese bomber Sunday when a number of planes attacked Lashio in upper Burma important point on the Burma sup ply road. e DALADIER EXPLODES ~ ATTRIAL RIOM, Unoccupied France, Mar. 31—Bull-necked former Premier Edouard Daladier, irritated by charges that France's tank force was inferior to Germany's, today shouted a prblic warning that the another war, “Never mind about who got licked,” the irate defendant roared at General Keller who had just finished saying that the German tanks outnumbered the French | about two to one, “it will not always be the same ones who get licked.” Daladier is one of the defend- lants in the Vichy-charged war |guilt trials now being held here. e Special taxes on cigarettes in Chile will be applied to the pur- -hase of naval vessels, according l“’ the Department of Commerce, INSTITUTION IS SHELLED INDAYLIGHT | First Time Attack Has Been Made — Number of Casualties Result AERIAL BOMBARDMENTS " CONTINUE AT MANILA Shore Bafteries Open Fire | But Little Damage Is Reported Done WASHINGTON, March 31—The War Department today reported Ithat a base hospital on Batan | Peninsula was bombed by the Jap- anese at noon yesterday causing |2 number of casualties. The hospital was plainly marked, the communique says. Enemy bombers have carefully |avoided dropping any bombs on | the base hospital until yesterday. The War Department's com- munique says a heavy aerial bom- | bardment -of Manila Bay defenses, | accompanied by enemy fire from i’.shore batteries continues day and night but. jed to “ done 50 ‘far. | Battery firing from Fort Hughes |hit and ' destroyed an enemy launch in Manila Bay, the com- ! munique states. —————— KANSAS CITY NEWSPAPER - H.B.LEFEVRE, SHUTSDOWN 'DEANOFBAR, 5 KANSAS CITY, Missourl, March 31—The Kansas City Journal, after- Inoon dally newspaper with an an- | cestry dating back 88 years, has | announced suspension of pupli- | cation. | The newspaper employed approxi- | mately 350 persons on its editorial |staff and had been published by | Harry Newman and associates since October, 1941. It was sold by auc- tion to a third group of bond- ritory 47 Years, Dies at Age of 85 holders on March 3. sudge Henry Beitieid Lerevre, MANY MAKE FLIGHTS French may beat the Germans inj one of the most loved figures in the law profession of the Terri- tory, died early this morning in St. Ann's Hospital at the age of 85. The slight, stcoped figure of the Judge, always carrying his heavy prief-case, was a familiar sight in Juneau up until a year or so ago, when his. health began to fail. Dean of the law fraternity here, he had been President of the Bar Association for about 20 years, had ived in the Territory for about 47 years. The grandson of the Rev, Clem- ent Fall LeFevre, prominent in the history of the state of Wisconsin, the Judge was the son of George LeFevre and the former Emma Beal, daughter of the Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin in the 1850's. Henry Belfield LeFevre was born on April 8, 1857, in Mil- waukee, As a child, during the Franco- | Prussian war, he spent five yea 1in Europe with his mother, vaca- | tioning there for her health. At |that time, he learned to speak French and Spanish fluently, which . WITH A. C. A. TODAY | | Arriving in Juneau yesterday on |an Alaska Coastal Airlines plane from Sitka were Kathryn Cheney, |Richard T. Telo and George G. | Swanton. On the late afternoon trip to Sitka with airmail from the south yesterday Frank Grainger and J. L. Brown made the trip over and L. A. Gray returned to Juneau. Charles Burdick, the Rev. Zobo- loff, Dapny Hansen and T, Guert- in made the flight to Sitka with | Alaska Coastal Airlines this afte:- | noon. | On two flights today, one to Pet- |ersburg and one to Ketchikan pas- | sengers from here were, to Pet- |ersburg, George O. Hollingsworth and Magnheld Oygard and to Ket- chikan, Vergne L. Hoke, Leo Jew- ett, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sherman. - 'FIRST 1942 ROBINS STALKING WORMS IN B. D. STEWART LAWN Spring has been sprung on Ju- neau, sure enough. B. D. Stewart, Commissioner of the Ilater led many of his acquaintances | {in the Territory to believe he was| | Prench, although he was in reality| | English. | Territorial After the death of his father in 1871, Henry LePevre went from|DePartment of Mines, roparted fo+ | to Lone Rock in East-|day that he peeked out the window ‘Wisconsin tern Oregon, where he engaged in raising stock and served in several clerical capacities, There he al- 3 (Continued on ;nq; Five) |this morning and saw the first robins of the season out stalking |worms in the Sewart lawn. And ]you can’t fool a robin. Spring's lhere all right, e