The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 1, 1942, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE pedainanl ol VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8997. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NONSTOP SMASH CONTINUES ON JAPANESE Millions Line Up For Eastern Front Battle DRIVEBY HITLER IS INMAKING Million anmlf Men Re- | ported to Be Moving - | fo Baftle Sectors | GREAT OFFENSIVE NOW TAKING SHAPE Zero Hour WBe Near for | Action After Months | of Defense { (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Adolf Hitler kept his April Fool reputation unsmirched as reports arrived in this country today that he is moving a million and a half troops to the Eastern front, mul- tiplying signs that he is preparing to open the long-heralded spring offensive, which will form a cli tic struggle involving nearly twel million German and Russian sol- | diers. | Stockholm dispatches today say that 13,000 German troop trains have moved eastward in the last three months. (Continued on Puo Two) WASHINGTON — Listeners who heard War Production Chief Don- | ald Nelson's latest broadcast may | have wondered why he went to! such pains to defend his plan for | joint management-labor committees to increase production in war plants. There was a very good reascn. For several days before, Nelson was deluged with letters and long distance calls from business men expressing great concern that his| plan would “sovietize” U. S. in-| dustry. One of the telephoners, a na- tionally known auto manufacturer whom Nelsen has known for many years, approached the matter this way: “Of course, Don, I know there isn't anything to it, but the story is going around that this joint | committee plan of yours is for the purpcse of giving labor a voice in management and is a first step -to- ward ‘sovietizing’ industry. As I said, personally, I know that isn’t s0. But that’s what is being said and I thought you ought to know about it.” Not even remotely a leftist, Nel- son was dumbfounded. His nlan has nothing to do in any manner with plant management. Its sole purpose is to provide a handy channel for the consideration of suggestions to step up production Studying the letters and tele- phone calls, Nelson was struck by the similarity of their story. So he came to the conclusion that the rumors were being “planted” from one or more sources for the delib- erate purpose of discrediting his plan and forcing him to abandon it. Nelson called in government sleuths. Their investigation is still incomplete. But they have defin- itely located one source of this rumor-mongering. It is a former official of a big business organization now employed in the Naly Department as the aide of a former Wall Street bank- er with extensive industrial con- nections. Note: Secretly, Navy brasshats were vigorously opposed to Nel- son’s plan, insisted that the com- (Continved on Page Four) Air Heroes For hercism during the Japanese shortly after the cutbreak of host! awarded the l)n\lingui«hed Service Cross to two fliers. . Army Air Corps is decorated. Below: Captain Jesus Jack Dale, U. S, A. Villamor receives his medal. O(D Ampulallo Up Under Landis; Physical Fitness Is Coming fo Front 45,000 Nazis Killed, Fight AtSebastopol Spring Ofleme Units Are Hurled Info fray- Slaughtered MOSCOW, April 1.—The Germans have sacrificed 45,000 soldiers in peated efforts to capture Sebastopol in Crimea, now that the Russians have launched their own counter offensive there. Dispatches from Sebastopol, sent | v the Tass néws arencv said the “Germans hurled into the action units reservea -for their much ad- | vertised spring offensive and these units were ground into the dust by the Red Army forces.” NEW INDUCTION NEXT MAY, JUNE WASHINGTON, April ive Service headquarters an- nounced today that men who reg- istered on February 16 will be im- mediately classified and probably will be inducted into the rervlce in May or June, 1—Selec- | SOME | criticism. Decoraled ey STOP JAPS IN ADVANCE, Takes Place on Right Center of Line ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS SHOOT DOWN BOMBERS| Apology Is Formally Made for Bombing of Amer- ican Base Hosptial WASHINGTON, April 1. — The | War Department today reports that | the Japanese, in a heavy attack on the right center of Gen. Jonathan | Wainwright’s line on Batan Penin- suln captured some advanced posi- | | | hand-to-hand combat | reached the main American-Filipino | line. A number of minor air raids on | Corregidor 3esleldm but no damage was done. Anti-aircraft guns shot down two heavy Japanese bombers. It is officially announced that a formal apology has been received | mand in the Philippines for the re- cent bombing of a base hospital in | the Batan Peninsula area in which 1T)|e Japanese Army spokesman said in a radio broadcast that the bomb- | ing was unintentional - iwm HAVE " RAID DRILL TOMORROW ' Alert Is to Be Sounded at | 11:30AM-To Evacuate Schools Juneau will have another “alert” tomorrow morning at | 11:30 o’clock, the third practice | arill in as many weeks. Main | attacks on the Philippine Islands, ilities, General Douglas MacArthur | Top: Lieut. | ns I(eepmg purpose of this drill is to test the effectiveness of air raid preparedness in the schools. i When the 1-2 alarm ‘sounds, BEANNETY | school children will evacuate the buildings and seek shelter in their homes. Pupils who live out of town will take shel- ter in Juneau homes. It previously had been decid- ed that planes would fly over Juneau during the alert, but Director Frank Metcalf has an- nounced that no definite ar- rangements have been made for thi t. ians are to clear the streets and take shelter indoors or in the air raid shelters. Motorists must park their autos By JACK WASHINGTON, April 1 — The| amputations at the Office of Civ-| ilian Defense continue. Critics a few weeks ago were calling it a| boondoggling centipede with scores | 1of extraneous legs, but it’s beinz! rapidly pared down to a four-legged war deg with the single objective of guarding the welfare of the| \cml population under any warum“‘ catastrophe.” What has happened and is hap- pening to OCD is another example of how democracy works when it gets its dander ap and how the | “voice of the pecple” can get a| and seek shelter. Only au- job done effectively. | thorized members of the Civ- | | ilian Defense United and offi- cial vehicles will be allowed on the streets. Persons violating the city ordinance by refusing to clear the streets will be liable to arrest. All businesses are required to cease operations and workers should seek shelter. Air raid wardens should report to their posts along with members of the auxiliary police division and all other members of the Civ- ilian Defense Unit, There were only rumblings when | the OCD was coasting along un- | der the direction of New York's | Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. It was apparent that the little dy- | namo ¢f N. Y. City Hall had spread | his tremendous energies too thin,| | but nobody togk it very seriousls |until Dancer MaMyris Chane\s twinkling toes booted the whole business into the critical limelight. The flood of objections that rolled up against making a sociological | enterprise out of what was purely — e a civilian defense effort not only swept Miss Chaney out of her job.l (AGER 'S (op but also washed out Mayor La- Guardia, Mrs. Roosevelt, and a —_— Chicago, April 1 Joe Com- insky, DePaul University cager, is a house detective for a local hotel after school hours. -e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | score of lesser OCD officials. Dean James M. Landis, of Harvard, tovk over. But that didri't stop the L (contixiue‘d on Page T‘;VO) BATAN AREA Hand to Hand Combat| | tipns but were then halted in fierce | before they | Fortresg occurred late | from the Japanese Imperial Com- | a number of casualties was caused. | @), llflnx the Mandalay rnllwny line. | BIG HALIBUT CATCH WILL BE ALLOWED Largest Quota in History Is Announced by Fish Commission SEATTLE, April 1.—The Pacific halibut catch for this summer will be 49,500,000 pounds, permitted under new quota limitations set by the International Fisheries Commis- sion, the largest in history, accord- ing to waterfront circles here. The commission has raised the permitted catch in Area Three, the Gulf of Alaska, a half a million pounds to 26,800,000 pounds | Area Two, Willapa Harbor and Cape Spencer, remains unchanged at 22,700,000 pounds No catch limit has been set for Area One, south of -the Willapa district, or in Area Four, the Ber- ing Sea. The season will be allowed to open at midnight, April 15, and con- 'tinue until the total poundage is | taken. | A fleet of 150 vessels, manned by 1,200 men, rxsh out nm-n BIG ALLIED CONVOY AT ~ MURMANSK 1Ameri(afi War Supplies Reach Russian Pori-At- tacks Are Beaten Off LONDON, April 1.—A great Allied convoy has reached Murmansk after beating off a powerful German naval assault in the Arctic waters enroute to that Russian port. This is &c- cording to a dispatch received here from Stockholm. | The majority of the ships in the | convoy carried war supplies from the |United States and British ships (& Jomlng the fleet also had munitions for the conflict. the gateway to the rich oil fields. Sleamshm Companies in ~ Alaska Service Ordered To Reduce Tariff Rales for in the new tax bill Burma Battle Increases in Infensity | TOUNGOO) The Japanese stepped up their attack in Burma by bombing a “coastal town,” believed to have been Akyab (1), while putting more pressure on the British Imperial Forces at Paungde, about 30 miles south of Prome The battle for Toungoo entered a critical stage with the Japs burling more troops against the trapped Chinese forces as they fought between Toungoo and Yedashe (3), WASHINGTON, April 1. — The United States Maritime Commission has announced an order which re- quires the Alaska Steamship Com- pany and the Northland Transpor= tation Company to reduce basic rates by May 1 to a fair rate not exceeding 6 percent. The Marillue Commission’s order also substituted a 20 percent surcharge for Southeast Alaska, effective April 6, to replace the existing 45 percent increase. Previously, the commissiorf had set | 7.5 percent to be the fair rate of veturn on the value of the com- panies’ properties used and uwluh in the Alaska trade. The commission reported it had | found the Alaska Steamship Com- | pany had made a return of 11.5 per- cent- for 1941, and the Northland Company, 6.87 percent. The com- nission decided that for the future, | any surcharge would be unreason- | able to the extent that it exceeds r may exceed 20 percent. The commission asserted that con- iitions have changed since the 45 »ercent’ surcharge was imposed and 1ted its conclusion without pre- | judice to any of the revisions in the light of ghanged conditions. The revisea rate order (ollowed hearings held in tue nation’s capital and in Seattle after vizorous pro- | ests were voiced from Alaska | 1zainst the 45 percent surcharge. The commission held that special rates charged the Navy Department | and navy centractors by the Alaska Steamship Company to be unduly prejudicial and preferential, and to | be unreasonable practice in view of war conditions. Such special rates are ordered to be cancelled by April 6. RETAIL SALES TAX PROPOSED OF 5 PERCENT WASHINGTON, April 1 — The American Retail Federation has proposed to Congress a five per cent retail sales tax to raise three bislion dollars of the seven billion dollars President Roosevelt has asked Earl Puckett, representing the Federation advanced the retail sales tax plan as a substitute for the Treasury recommendations for in- creased corporation taxes and new excise levies. — > - Nicotinic acid, an important member of vitamin B complex— and not nicotine, has a new name, Niacin,” chosen by National Re- search Council, 1 ARRESTED AIR FORCES MAKE THREE DAY ATTACK ' American a;d Australian Fliers Hammer af In- vasion Island Fringe THIRTEEN NIPPON - " PLANES DESTROVED Aerial Offensive Is Made Through Tropical Storm ~Planes Safe | 'MELBOURNE, April 1-—American |and Australian fliers, mashing vir- :lually nonstop at Japan's invasion fringe of islands above Australia, again hammered today on Sala- maua, New Guinea, in what is de- scribed as a strong attack. The American and Australian fliers flew their planes through a tropical storm to reach their ob- jective and score direct hits on the airdrome and also runway at Sala- maug, then returned safely to their bases without a loss. The attack was a continuation |of the aerial offensive by Aus- tralia’s defenders and followed two days during whigh blows havq been struck. Prime Minister John Curtin an- | nounces that in today's attack, thir- ‘u-en enemy planes were destroyed ) CHIENGMALI [ THAILAND DIMOND ASKS land others probably damaged. Wams Profection Provis- " e e g four flying boats, were machine |0n "‘ case Of En' |gunned in an attack on Timor Is- |land late yesterday. emy A"a(k | All attacks made in the past « [ three days have been without loss WASHINGTON, April 1—Alaska to the United Nations air forces. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond told the House Ways and Means Com- mittee that the Territory of Alaska INVADERS _is a potential battlefield and lll“,&'fl the committee to write into the um tax bill a clause to protect Alaskans from tax penalties, in the event of | British and Indian Units Break from Wedge After Battle enemy action Delegate Dimond suggested the | NEW DELHI, India, April 1 — The British and Indian detach- drafting of a provision allowing the‘ 'llcnsun Department to defer Lhe R E | {ments, cut off at Prome by the ‘anunese wedge across the road at | filing of income tax returns by Al-| Shwedaung, have battled their way askans and to suspend the 6 percent | back to the main British line after Leaders of Isolationist Or-| interest penalty charge, in the event of hardships arising from mvasmn] a two day fight that left the Jap- | anese invaders badly mauled. ganization Taken in | Custody by FBI or aerial nufuk The communique today declared however that the Japanese are still massed in strength at Shwedaung ou the road to Prome and astride the Prome-Rangoon rail line north of Paungdi. s Doggedly, the British have still LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 1.— |barred the way to Prome, gateway Robert Noble and Ellis O. Jones, two | to the west Burman oilfields. leaders of an isolationis{ organiza-| From the eastern flank of the tion, have been arrested by FBI|Allied Défense line comes word that agents and booked here on charges | the outnumbered Chinese forces of sedition. held out for five days in a ter- e g rific air bombardment around DRUNKE" DRW'“G | Toungoo, then broke through the |Japanese lines and have fallen ‘b‘uk on the bitterly contested road |to Mandalay CHARGES ARE FILED AGA'NSI Two ME" ‘The British communique states | the Japanese planes have complete er, | Roy Lund and Charles Bottinger,| = . "0 e 2ir over the battl 1— have been charged in U. S. Com- | missioner’s Court with alleged dn\-\’ ront, cating liquor on the Glacier High- 4H d Fkhe ' oward Fisher, 0 Territor- | ial Highway Patrolmen Dan Ralston F B’ IM and N. Floyd Fagerson | amous o rs' NAPERVILLE, Ill—In the mid-| Bl dle of the indoor track season,| pETROIT, Michigan, April tral State Teachers discovered he|the seven Pisher brothers of Fisher had scheduled two meets on the|Bodies and automobile fame, died |ing under the influence of intoxi-| Arresting officers were i et { . | SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSING | passes a' De"on Coach Gordon Fisher of North Cen-|goward A. Fisher, 40, youngest of |same day. here late yesterday.