The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 6, 1942, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9001. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1942 PRlCE TENCENTS 'BATAN DEFENDERS REPULSE ATTA U. S., Australian TWODAYSOF ELECTION RAID MADE RAIDS DOWN 18 JAP SHIPS Planes of Unlled Nations Also Damage Twenty Other Nippon Craft UNITED NATIONS HEAD- QUARTERS, Australia, April 6 American and Australian airmen, | smashing devastating blows into the Japanese bases on Australia’s outer islands, now occupied, are official- ly credited with destroying at least 18 Japanese planes and damaging 20 others in two days of fierce fighting in the air, ! Japanese bombers, escorted by fighters, also attacked Darwin for the 13th time and Port Moresby for the 22nd time. ‘The American and Australians attacked Koepang, on the Dutch Island of Timor, twice and also struck surprise blows on Lae on the northeast coast of New Guinea. - - | The United States grows about | three-fourths of the world’s corn. It | is grown in every State, about 100 | million acres being planted each year, FOR CITY TOMORROW Polls Open at 8 A. M- Close at 7 o'Clock at Night Juneau residents who are register- ed voters will go to the polls tomor- row to elect a Mayor, three Council- men for a two-year term, and a School Director. The following names will be on the ballot: For Mayor — incumbent Harry I. Lucas. For Councilmen incumbents Harry Lea, Ralph Beisttline and N Floyd Fagerson. For School Director—incumbent R. E. Robertson. The polls will open at 8 a.m. and will continue to remain,open until |7 o'clock in the evening . With only one ticket on the ballot, and only 1,236 persons registered to vote, indi- |cations were that the votfng would 'be light, but rumors flew thick and ‘fnst today, indicating that a “stick- er” candidate’s name might appear on some ballots. A light vote would lopen the door for a candidate of | this nature. Voters of Precinct No. 1 will cast their ballots at' the City Hall, Pre- !cinet No. 2 in the PAA Office at 135 South Franklin Street, and Pre- cinct No. 3 at 731 West Willoughby | Avenue. gencio and G. ‘ Following is a brief sketch of each | trip from Juneau to Tenakee .on of the candidates: | saturday. | Mayor Harry I. Lucas—resident of | On a round trip to Ketchikan, . | Juneau for 30 years, secretary of the | passengers from here were to Ores Peancs {board and one of the owners of the | wrangell, S. Vesith, to Petersburg, l - | Assembly Apartments, is completing | yrys ¢, R. Dell and to Ketchikan, his fourth term as Mayor, worked SR - N obert .h | 4 Michael Habiwara. Returning pas- S {for many years for the B. M | o o0 were, from Ketchikan, W | Behrends Bank and also started the |Juneau Motor Company. He has served as Territorial Bank Exam- | iner, ‘ Ralph Beistline — has served 12| WASHINGTON—The Washington | years on the Council, is outside con- | Merry-Go-Round wishes to correct | struction foreman for the Alaska' an earlier statement that John L. Juneau Mine. A Juneau property | Lewis had three relatives on union OWner, Beistline has lived here for BY ALLIES Large Jap;gl;se Vessels | "Hit in Harbor at Ra- baul, Also Gasmata SYDNEY, April 6.—Large Japan- ese vessels in the harbor at Rabaul were hit by United States and Aus- tralian bombers, the Sydney Herald, afternoon newspaper, reports. The raiders also damaged the air- dromes at Rabaul and Gasmata, both on New Britain Island. The Herald says the raids are de- | scribed as “among the heaviest yet made by the Allies.” PGS vt A ALASKA COASTAL | KEPT RUSHED ON WEEKEND TRIPS | | | Those who arrived in Juneau on Saturday from Sitka on Alaska Coastal Airlines were Charles E. Harper, Al Lubcke, Mr. and Mres. Duncan C. McKay, Bernice C. | Drews, Roy Wright, Olaf Gordon, George Miller and Mrs C. E. Wort- man. Leaving here for Sitka Saturday afternoon were O. F. Benecke, Mr. jand Mrs. Carl Rusher, Renald Rusher, Ruth B. Rock, Pete Tab- arnilla and Lois Hill. H. J. Olor | eaia, Sam Asp, B. Gome: 3 Fulgencio made the J. Hoke, Leo J. Jewelt, Sam Baker, Norma Kunesh and L. T. Old- J royd and Charles Goedde made the trip here from Petersburg. Sunday’s Trips On Sunday those leaving here on Alaska Coastal Airlines planes for Sitka were David K. Brown, O. y, Charles Goedde, Mrs. ayrolls whose salaries, plus his |Many vears. 3 | B. Godlrey, C i sw!;,m Save uf,, family Bnp annual | Harry Lea — is completing his|L. A. Young, Mrs. B. W. Parsons, 5 |third year on the Council, began!Mrs. Al Whitley, Selwyn P. Nock, “take” of $48500 from the collec- vby filling out an unexpired term tions of unien dues. land was re-elected two years ago. We regret to say that on further |Lea has lived in Juneau for 19 investigation we find we erred years, is an employee of the Re- grievously. We apologize to Mr. |liable Transfer Company. Lewis for underestimating his ca-| N. Floyd Fagerson—is completing pacities and print below the full his first term as Councilman, was |colm F. Lindsey, Major Ellis M. Alfather, Col. Mal- Mrs. F. Laison, Archie P. Holt, John R. Rice, Ver- non J. Christman, Lester Vaughan | land Jayson H. Anderson. A. S. Heydek made the trip from Ju- neau to Tenakee. Lewis family payroll showing that the miner czar has not three but nine relatives in cushy jobs and appointed to fill an unexpired term. Fagerson was born in Alaska, is President of the Concrete Products Company, is a member of the Ter- that the family “take” is not $48,- 500 but $70,500: John L. Lewis, president, United Mine Workers.... Kathryn Lewis, daughter, ritorial Highway Patrol. R. E. Robertson—Juneau lawyer, has served in various cit; sitions, $25,000 i | Defense Board, an oldtime resident sec.-treas, District 50, lof Juneau and a member of the UMW. % 5 7,500 } School Board since his term as May- Denny Lewis, brother, | or expired in 1923. head of United Construc- | e, e Wpikers - OTERLINDS 10,000 ;EASTER SUNDAY Committee ... ;i J. R. Bell, brother-in-law, CIO controller 6,000 | FINDS MANY A'I’ Orin Miller, brother-in- Law superintendent of the UM W office building in In- HOTEL To DlNE dianapolis, Ind. . 5,000 | 1 Dacnx: o‘l’lxlgn:;fl\:?ther -in-law, 3600 | Choosing a beautiful Easter Sun- | william Thomas, cousin, {day as the opportunity for small superintendent of UMW dinner parties in the Baranof Ho- building in Washington 5,000 tel were many Juneau residents Margaret Lindig, sister-in- |and the dining,rooms were crowd- law of Denny, UMW sten- |ed yesterday afternoon as the ographer 2,400 groups gathered for a gay time. Ann Miller, daughter of | Olaf Larson entertained at din- brother-in'-law Orin Mil- iner for eight guests and Jack ler, UMW stenographer 2,400 Haistinn. Hsl) :alx a.t his ‘party. San-lin-law of Floyd Bell, Ralph Vogel entertained a group Bartsdn Lawls Brotoag-in- of four, Jack Garrett a party of law, District 50 organizer .. 3,600 six. Judge and Mrs. George Al- exander were hosts a dinner party for four and George Simpkins en- is a member of the Juneau Civilian | Total Lewis family payroll $70,500 | (In addition to their big salaries,| Lewis, his daughter and brother . also have fat expense accounts. What they spend is their secret.| No figures have ever been revealed, even to union members.) AND STILL MORE Imposing as is this payroll list, it still does not tell the whole story. | There is one Lewis relative who is not on a union payroll but who garners a high-bracket income from: unions controlled by John L. e S (Continued on Page PFour) l tertained three guests. John Doyle Bishop also was seen in the dining room with a group jof four at his table, Four persons also were dining with Southall Pfund. ———— WORTMAN IS HERE FROM SITKA MRS. Mrs. Charles Wortman of Sil arrived in Juneau Saturday for a visit and is staying in the Gaslineau Hotel while here. BUY DEFENSE BONDS a | given four Passengers arriving here from Sitka on Sunday were C. T. Bostick, Mrs. L. N. Green and Robert Hart- ley. Monday ka today were Mobel L. Morgan, E. J. Blake, N. A. McEachran and Gertrude E. Naylor. Pai Sweeney, Harold Prentice, Walter Hellan, John L. Clarke and Charles Graham made the flight from here to Hoonah. Returning here from Sitka were Lois Hill, Ed Provost. John H, Brillhart, C. A. Garl, A. |Barclay and Ray Peterman. Enlistment in Class of Naval Reserve Changed . SEATTLE, Aprh 6 — ivaturalized irmzens are made eligible for officer training in Class V-7 Naval Reserve as result of a new order from the Bureau of Navigation received here |by Comdr. A. J. Byrholdt, director of naval officer procurement for the Thirteenth Naval District. Previously only native-born ericans were eligible for enlistment 1in Class V-7, but the new order ex- tends eligibility to all who have been naturalized for at least ten | vears. { Other requirements or appllcam.s lin this class are that ‘they be un- married, less than twenty-eight years of age, and that they either be college graduates or enrolled in aceredited colleges as juniors or seniors. Graduates who qualify will be months midshipman training, leading to commissions as Naval ensigns, while undergraduates will be permitted to finish school vefore receiving their midshipman training. Leaving Juneau by pane for Sit-| NAZI HOPE IN RUSSIA 15 GLOOMY New Sovie((;;ins Darken5 Lookout for Spring Offensive KUBYSHEV, Russia, April 6 — 'The Germans are reported to bé feeling out the Russian Front for ,a possible start of the expected spring offensive, but chances of an early launching of the massive at- ln(‘k grew dim today. New developments on the battle- field have the Soviets reporting a drastic weakening of the German spring reserves on the Southwest= ern Front, considered by informed Russian circles to be bound to bring changes in the Nazi strat- egy. In addition, the Red Army claims to have killed 40,000 Germans be- tween March 23 and April 3 on the Central Front, together with the recapture of 161 communities. It was felt that this alone would cause the Germans to remodify their plans. Large Number South Sunday south yesterday were V. More, Mrs. V. L. More, R. Merrill, Mrs. A. Arvidson, J. A. Williams, W. Saund- ers, T. W. Mack, Mrs. T. W. Mack Mrs. M. Robertson, Miss V. Robert son, R. Robertson, Mrs. L. Wilsen, E. F. James, Mrs. E. Rowe, G. Daniels, Miss B. L Shafer, Master E. Mohs, Miss S. Hostikka. Mrs. J. Homme, Mrs. K. Nelson, Miss P#Nelson, Miss | M. Lindsay, Mrs. J Cashill, Mr Hayes, Mrs. P. McCormick, Dr. M E. Corthall, G. C. Bassford, Miss 'J., Hansen, Mrs. H. Hansen, Mrs. S. Godfrey, Mrs. M. Clark, Mrs. C. Weidman, Carl Weidman, Miss C | Folta, Richard Folta, Mrs. George George | Folta. | J. Pregovich, W. Tymkin, R | Meadows, F. Hennessey, Mrs. F. Hennessey, J. R. Walton, H. A. Kool, Bertha Jensen, i H. Smith, H. Smith, Norman Wood, Mrs. W. H. Wood, T. Johansen, A Kupoff, C. Thomas, B. Houghen, | S. N. Hayes, Mrs. vick, George Povich, A. Vitkay, J Dreskovich, J. J. Hiebert, D. Bre- ault, R. J. Corrigan, S. Woima, C. C. Popovich, W. Dierks, F. Greger, /G samdruk, J. W. Peterson, O. Rydland, H. Clark and O. Zahard 3 LARGE SHIPS ESCAPE AT SEA FROM U-BOATS| WASHINGTON, April 6.—Three merchant ships put into port safely “following incidents with enemy submarines at sea,” the Navy De- partment announced this after- noon. The Navy identified the ships only as one large Panamanian vessel, a Ilarge American ship and a medium sized American ship. i STOCK QUCTATIONS NEW YORK, April 6 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today 1%, American Can 64, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 597%, Commenwealth and South- ern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7'%, Inter- national Harvester 442, 132%, New York Central 77, United States Steel 50'%, Pound $493%. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 102.50, rails 2550, utilities 11.58. - — ‘The musical pitch standard broad- cast by the Bureau of Standards is accurate to one part in ten million. Passengers leaving Juneau for the | ! ATTACKED BY | J. Robeson, B. Mukovich, M. Maro- i G. Bergen, P. Stewart, A. Hamblin, | Kennecolt | 27 JAPANESE PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN British Fliers Repulse At-| tempted Raid on ’ Ceylon Island 25 OTHER ENEMY ; (RAFT ARE DAMAGED Defenders Roar in Action Quickly-Anti-Aircraft Guns Are Effective E COLCMBO, I.sland of Ceylon, | April 6. — Twenty-seven Japanese planés, and probably five more, crashed in destruction Sunday from | the fiery back-lash of British aerial and anti-aircraft defense in Cey- lon's first raid of the war. Still another 25 enemy planv.\‘i were damaged. Twenty-five enemy planes were first met by the British fighter | {planes that roared into action and | 25 Japanese pilots were shot down. | Two other planes were shot down | by anti-aircraft gunners when they j$wooped low and attempted ma- | ¢hine gun firing Twenty-five planes were also dam- | ed in the raid and as all enemy | planes were operating from an air- | t carrier, it is doubtful if any | t back to the ship. - R RANGOON IS U.S. BOMBERS Three Largfires Started | Says Official Brit- ish Report | LONDON, Apnl 6~Hmvy Ameri- | |can bombers attacked the docks ol’ag(-d near the East Indies Island of | fected totals 56 warships and 76 | (Japanese held Rangoon last Fri-| |day night and started three large fires. This announcement is made | by the British Admiralty. All of the American bombers returned safely d | | their personnel | their bases. - R.F. LEWIS OKHIS | WAY SOUTH FROM ANRUAL VISIT ) | R. F. Lewis, owner of e Juneau | wWater Company. left yesterday to |return to his home in Piedmont, | california, after making his an- nual trip to Juneau to inspect the company properties. He arrived |here on March 23. While he was here he conferred with John Reck. Manager, and Minard Mill, Super- intendent of the company. | Among the improvements to the company properties that he in- spected while in Juneau was the| construetion of a chlorinization plant which is being added to the company building on the Seventh Street hill. Construction on this | concrete addition is now underway and it is expected that the plant will have arrived and be installed | within a month. The plant is being| installed only for emergency use| and is never needed in Juneau ex-| cept for short periods in the winter when it is necessary to augment |the water supply with surface water. | Another improvement to the Jun-| cau Water Company property which | has recently been completed is the |construetion of a new pipeline bridge over Gold Creek. This work 'has been done by the regular force| of the water company. ——————— The Pacific end of the Panama | Canal is 27 miles farther east than is the Atlantic end. Airmen Smash Jap ases SPRING TONI C._( ‘omes the spring and the annual daffodl ficlds at Puyallup, Wash., and youll | fesilval at the great “daff” find this dancer expressing he flowers st On Japanese Sea Force;Navy Announceslusl Whatls Done | island fortifications nearest to the WASHINGTON, April 6. — Sub- marines sunk or damaged four Jap- | anese warships in recent actions lnI the Java Sea or Indian Ocean, the | Navy Department announces. One light cruiser is reported to have been sunk in the vicinity of Chrisimas Island, south of Java, and another was damuged b\ Lwo tor- submarine whlch tmfled it llll(mgh the waters off Christmas Island. Two seaplane tenders were dam- Bali aml in nddmnn one Japanese "Don IPuI MacArthur on The Spof” Is Now Heard; General in Tough Position WAR CARRIED Submarines Inflic losses | transport, and one unidéntified ship | were dumaged by torpedo hits. | Japanese vessels of all types a Zancsv sea forces since TO INDIA IS REPORT NOW | Japanese _ébrnbers Raid Two Towns on Coast- Mandalay Attacked NEW DELHI, India, April 6 Japanese bombers today carried the war to India proper by raids on two coastal eities, the British Headquarters announces. Planes believed operating from an aircraft carrier in the Bay of Bengal, raided Nizampatam, with a population of 5,000, and twice at- tacked Concanda, a town of 40~ 000 population. Nizampatam is situated at the mouth of the Kistna River and |Concanda is on the coast. Both |attacked places lie between Madras and Calcutta ¥ |(,ununued on Page Two) % 3 il Acres and acves of the yellow s many miles. | | Batan | other JAP FORCES BEATEN OFf - 2 ATTEMPTS {Heavy Assault on Right Center Line Frustrated [ No Gams Made 'NIPPONS UNABLE 10 MAKE BEACH LANDING (Tanks, Arti_ll_e?y and Dive | Bombers Engaged in Action on Peninsula WASHINGTON, April 6. — The War Department announces that the American and Filipino forees on Peninsula have repulsed an- heavy attack on the right center of their line and also frus- trated a new attempt of the Jap- anese to land troops on the east coast of the peninsula under cover of darkness. The assault against the right center line was made with greab force, the communique said, and was supported by tanks, artillery and dive bombers but the defenders stopped it after hard fighting and the Japanese were unable to extend the slight gains made the day be- fore and suffered heavy losses, in- cluding two dive bombers that were downed by anti-aircraft and artil- lery fire, ‘The landing on the east coast of Batan Peninsula was halted by light artillery fire and beach defenses. Corregidor Fortress has been free rom hostfle air raids for the past 26 hours but Japanese dive bombers navy .um:lv ship was damaged near Lombox TIsland. | | In the vicinity of Bali, | a barge, The actions brought a total of 48 | sunk or put out of action by submarines. | The Navy Department also says | the losses now inflicted on the Jap- | the Pearl| Harbor raid by all naval forces af- | ! combatant ships. attacked Forts Frank and Drum, Cavite shcre on Manila Bay, but without inflicting either damage or casualties. ALASKA S. S. 0. REDUCES RATES TODAY | | SurchargesB?Freighl and Passenger Traffic Now 20 and 25 Percent | Effective today, April 6, emer- gency surcharges on all freight and passenger traffic between Seattle and all ports in Southeast Alaska, as well as locally between ports in | Southeast Alaska, on Alaska Steam- ship Company vessels, is reduced |to twenty percent it was announced By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 6. — from a capital cuff: Notes | " You can't credit it to the admin- ;::‘:’; ,::’ ;e gmp:‘:::,"h Junsey istration, the Army. the Navy orj "o har : anybody, but one of the frequently mergency” suroharge on . Al heard phrases around here these freight and passenger charges be- days fs; “Don’t put MacArthur on|'Ween Seattle and all other ports the spot.” What is meant by this in Alaska, as well as locally between is simply, don't expect the miracle |POrts in Southeast Alaska and ports | man of Batan to turn the tide of |[West of Cape Spencer, is reduced | battle in the southwest Pacific. |to twenty five percent, Mr.. Adams [ Given an army, an air force and (also announced. naval support, General MacArthur| These reductions in the emer- } served laurels he has earned so far | | were based on just the opposite.|order issued by the U. S. Maritime might be able to take the offensive | gency surcharges from 45 percent from Australia. But the well de-{to 20 and 25 percent respectively, are made in accordance with the W:}“:‘nd“f“‘) é““‘""z: 'l'l“ "‘“."b“'*"Cu.mummn on April 1 substitut- | BT ree, practically no alr sub- | ;g the 20 percent surcharge for p‘;" at all. and nothing in the Way | g, ipeast Alaska to replace the 45 of a navy, he fought a great de- e fensive action. Australia’s vast area “,I_‘:lm0:1::”{0:;;:::’“5;"“::?“’?)" 3 1€ S dwarfs the Philippines, but its total population is only 7,000,000 persons; our reinforcements there may be considerable, but still far short of the necessary Army to take the of- fensive apan now has bases nearby | and unbroken supply lines to the home front. Anything that Mac- Arthur can do more than beating the Japs off the vital beach-heads of Australia will be as great a miracle as he performed on Batan. | Not since the Supreme Court re- | organization fight have Congre s.s-\ | | men received so much irate mail as | | S — '(‘umlnu«l on Puxe 8ix) rate charges held both in Wash- ingten, D) C., and Seattle and con- tained the statement that condi- tions that maintained at the time the 45 percent surcharge was in- stituted, no longer existed. The Maritime Commission had previously authorized the institution of the 456 percent surcharge on all freight and passenger rates omn vessels opera!mu to Alaska. e The electric eel, found in the rivers of Brazil, attains a length of isix feet. A g RS A AR ARG 6 i 5 e, i