The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 7, 1942, Page 1

BATAAN FIGHTING REPORTED FURIOUS ('Z\TI(URE 35100 = nY c l((:‘z.fimt‘-"”“ & TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9002. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1942 """"" 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Nippons LARGE JAP | CONVOY IS OFF AMOY | Thirteen Japfiese Trans- ports, Six Warships Reported Sighted o CHUNGKING, China, April 7.— Thirteen Japanese transports and six warships have been sighted off Amoy on the south coast of China, | a military spokesman declares, and three Japanese divisions are con- centrated on Formosa Island but their destination has not been as- certained. The spokesman said that Chinese forces in Burma engaged a Japan- | ese striking force south of Kyibuan- | gan in the Toungoo region, and added that the Japs were construct- ing defenses, not advancing. MAYOR AND MRS. 1. ), CONWAY HERE | FROM SITKA MON. Mayor J. J. Conway, of Sitka, and ! prominent business man of that city, accompanied by Mrs. Conway ar-| rived in Juneau late yesterday after- | noon by Alaska Coastal Airlines. ! Mayor Conway came to Juneau to attend the annual directors meeting of the Columbia Lumber Company | held last evening and they plan to | return to Sitka this afternoon in | time to cast their votes in the city election. Mayor Conway is not a| candidate for reelection. --e The Washinfiton; Merry - Go- Round' By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN maneuvers at Port Meade, Md. mount News. Fifth Freighter Announced Lost by Shipping Of- ficials of South RIO DE JANEIRO, April 7 The Brazilian government is ported to have decided to arm all merchant ships heavily in ordor that they may defend themselves against Axis submarines, after the disclosure of the loss of the fifth ship flying Brazil's flag. A high shipping source said the | merchant fleet aiso will sail blacked out during the nights. More than a hundred Brazil- ian lives have been lost by A | sub action so far. The foreign min- jistry has announced the disap- pearance of the 3500-ton Brazilian freighter Cabedello, which sailed | from Philadelphia on February 14 for Brazilandhas not been reported | since. re- ago Australian Minister Casey re-| ceived a cable from Melbourne | which read: | “Please arrange meetings for me B RA Z | l wlll with heads of AF of L and CIO.| Want no lahledah entertainment while I'm in Washington.” The instruction came from Case; ARM SHlppIN boss, Australian Minister of Ex- ternal Affairs Herbert V. Evatt. | Casey, extremely popular wm“AGAlNST AXIS Washington's social upper crust, had | to reply that he did not know any American labor leaders, could not arrange the introductions. Casey has since resigned as Australian Minister to enter the British cab- inet, but his chief, External Min- ister Evatt, is now in Washington and is the most invigordting visitor this country has seen since Winston | Churchill. | Reason Minister Evatt wanted to| meet U. S. labor leaders wes be- cause he is a member of one of| the few labor governments in the world, and because he is convinced that American labor could profit by some of the mistakes and les- sons of Australian labor. | “In Australia,” says Evatt, “we haven't had one strike. Labor has patched up all its differences for the duration. We have the same factions that you do—like your AF of L and CIO—but there’s no quer- rel between them now. The last thing they want is to row while the country’s in danger.” LABOR’S RESPONSIBILITY Minister Evatt also thinks that % R s labor has to assume more Tespon-| Some South American freighters sibility along with its gains. {have been running at night off “For year,” he says, “we had con- | the Atlantic coast illuminated, un- servative governments in Austraha,‘m the Chilean freighter Tolten, And now that the government's e've been turned over toA labor, w Bt STk G LD doaie Rob.f0. mpkes 840 9C 1k ! chile is protesting against the “And your labor people here have | ¥ g against the 3 | necessity of blacking out its ships £ot to make a g0 of it too. Other-| RV, 0 AHE I B whioh wise theyll lose all ey gain . azil, whic under Roosevelt.” | has lost the most by Axis sub ac- Minister Evatt hs ¢ active labor man & many years he wa Supreme Cowrt o parable to our More recently 1 from the bench coast guard patrol several weeks e o Nife r u(:e‘ EVERETT NOWELL BACK om-! FROM TRIP TO SITKA sourt,| [Everett Nowell, reresentative of o4 down | Blake, Moffitt and Towne, returncd the m‘,s,,‘sundny frem a ten day business prem o iake important pos: in ‘the ?bmet,\ml’ to Sitka. (Continued ou Page Four) ‘ BUY DEFEN STAMPS Colonel in Drink' vl Putting toe much weight on one side of his jeep car as it was heing heisted aeross a stream, Colonel Edgar DeMuth, commanding officer of the 629th anti-tank unit, toppled inlo the water during recemt Members of Congress Deluged with Mail as e Constifuents Gel Busy f \ SUBMARINES - SLACKS OFF Secrefary of Navy Saysi Protective Methods | May Be Effective | WASHINGTON, April 7. — Secre- | | tary of Navy Frank Knox reported | today that German submarine at- | tacks on shipping along the Atlantic | | Coast of the United States dropped | | off considerably last week. ' | The Secretary said the drop might | be due to protective methods re- cently enforced by the Navy. Discussing the submarine situa-, i tion at a conference with the news men, Secretary Knox said the Navy | experience with the U-boat raiders | throughout the North Atlantic have shown they operate in waves. _ | | The Secretary asked the newsmen “in preparing stories it is necessary | to keep that fact in mind because | | these waves may have been dealt | | severe blows or the decline in coast- | [al attacks of last week may be due | to some methods newly developed | by the Nav: . — | NEW ORDER ISGIVENFOR PRODUCTION Associated Press photo from Fara- able Goods Will Be | Stopped May 31 WASHINGTON, April 7.—Produc- tion of most of consumér durable ‘ goods will be stopped on May 31, / Donald M. Nelson disclosed today, declaring there will be a “drive to | WASHINGTON, April 7. — The curtail civilian industries and con- | By JACK STINNETT burst of economy sentiment in |vert them into war production.” | Congress is getting close to home in | Nelson said the high point of the |a way that is a little embarrassing , program was reached a few days ago | to some Senators. | with issuance of orders halting most | | Ever since the clamor about “frip- |of the private building construction | pery” and “coordinators of coordin- and prohibiting the use of iron and 1‘ ators” started echoing around Cap- |steel and hundreds of other items | | itol Hill, Senators and Congressmen |in a goal for “sound but lean civ- have. been making speeches about ! ilian economy.” | the mountains of protest mail they | Nelson added that “no one yet | have been receiving from the folks | knew how leam this economy will be at home. Ibut it will get leaner and leaner | | as the war program goes on it | - | PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC RUBBER UPPED Senator Tydings (D.-Md. saw | what was coming—a demand for moressecretarial help to take care | >f the mail. Last year it was pro- | | posed that each Senator be allowed | |an additional $4,500-a-year assist- | ant, but the bill was defeated after | sharp debate. L | As Chairman of the Legislative | Appropriations Subcommittee, which | {Commerce Secrefary Says |recommends how much should be spent for secretaries, Tydings made fMaking of Consumer Dur- b Phonephoto 1100ps of the United States Army Engineer Corps arrive at Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to begin work on the great defense highway to Alaska. The engineers are bringing their own mechanical equipment for the gigantic task which is being rushed as one of the “must” projects vital to the defense of the continent. Welcome Australian Minister RED ARMY B ADVANCING o Thirty Ger&ufla; Occupied Communities Fallen- New Nari Tactics [ KUIBYSHEV, April 7 o - Thirty | German occupied communities, in- ‘ luding a e central railway sta- den, have fallen before the fierce Red Army attacks during the past two days in one sector on the western frent, il is officially stated | In_military dispatches | With the land combats continu- |ing in various regions, the Com- !munh( Party newspaper Pravda Phonephoto | cited as evidence that the Ger- are now prematurely tapping | their springtime reserves and are | using tanks painted khaki rather | than in winter white for the Nazi counter attacks. | D - Smilfng broadly, Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles extends his hand in greeting to Dr, Herbert Vere Evatt, Australian Mirister for External Affairs, as he arrived in Washington on a special mission. NORMAL SPRING DAID MA WEATHER T0 CUT R()[\Nia(')thE?BEY British in FUEL CONSUMPTION " Fall Badk in administrator Ickes Calls |§ FAILURE! Burma Area for Curfailment on | B Industry at Once Several Japanees Bomb- A Several Japanese Bomh- I | WASHINGTON, April 7 The e ot et oF st Australians Said fo Have Been sil for heating and for hot water ; bout 25 percent in 17 of the eas; ~MELBOURNE, A states, the District of Colum- —Several Japanese bombers were | bia and also in the states of Wash- damaged vesierday in attacking ington and Oregen on the Pacific PO Moresby, New Guinea. Coast. Two defending Australian planes | alia, April 7 ‘I Demolished NEW DELHI, India, April 7— British forces defending the rich oil fields of Western Burma have 0il, Cement Installations| Making New Move In Orient Now A'"A(KS BY U.s. Engineers Ready to Build Road to Alaska '[NV ADERS IN NEW ATTACKS ON PENINSULA %Make Rep;;f;d Assaulls | on Center Line of De- ‘ fending Forces \HEAVY CASUALTIES CLAIM, BOTH SIDES | Aerial Bom'ti)in;; Reported, Also Shell Hurling by Shore Batteries | WASHINGTON, April T — The |War Department reports heavy | casualties on both sides in fur- |ious fighting along the Batan Pen- insula front in the Philippines with the enemy continuing to score “some success” and "hurling re- peated heavy attacks against the | | defenders’ center line. | The communique said that aer- ial bombing on the rear areas on the south coast of Batan was par- | ticularly severe yesterday, but that | anti-aireraft batteries destroyed a {Japanese amphibian plane, sending [it sizzling into the waters of Man- iln Bay,. b R I" WA two-hour enemy horizontal fire lof an artillery barrage pounded away at Corregidor Hughes, hurling the shells from the Cavite shore, but no damage or | casualties are reported. The big guns from the American forts laid down a counter battery fire. | B 'CONCESSIONS 'BEING MADE BY BRITISH |Agrees to m;)inlmem of | Indian as Defense Leader, New Delhi ! NEW DELHI, India, April 7 — Great Britain has agreed to ap- point an Indian as Defense Min- | ister, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, presi- |dent of the Moslem League, said today The concession was made by the | British war cabinet as its reply |4c Indian criticism against the or- | iginal British proposal of India’s post war indepsncence, as a last stand to save the proposal from | failure. Britain is offering post war dominion status to India, but | many groups are rejecting the and Fort Petroleum Administrator Harold were lost, the official communique [ fallen back to new positions With-| proposal because they say India up a table showing how many let- Iters each Senator received from ! January 8 to February 28, inclusive |—51 days. He inserted the table | into the Congressional Record. | His object, he drily informed the Senate, was to “show what Senators | claim they are receiving in the way Output Can Be 700,- 000 Tons Annually WASHINGTON, April 7.—Secre- tary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones asserted there has been no delay in about 65 miles of the main oil rea at Minbu, after successfully said, but pilots re saved. L. Ickes called for a curtailment saldi bub POt e SN 2 % ¥ The raid was an absolute failure, | effective immediately in the petrol- o communique says. i | |should have control over her own | defense during the war. | told to darken by a United States| n‘unn.s. is preparing for protection. | | |of mail and what they have actually ireceived.” He hoped to “evolve a system which will be fair to all and | which will bring the greatest amount |of relief to those who have been | overburdened with mail.” | Tydings granted that Senatorial I mailbags have been bulkier since | voters really warmed up to the sub- | Invesigating Committee and further | jects of labor, war effort and econ- | declared that the rate of production lomy, but he suggested that even so I could readily be increased if neces- some of his colleAgues may have |sary but “even with this production | been letting their imaginations run. | civilians must conserve tires and | | rubber to meet our military needs.” Bank Statements Are Called For in the development of synthetic rub- | | ber by the government, adding that | {now domestic manufacturing facil- | |ities are sufficient to produce more than 700,000 tons of synthetic rub- ber annually. | The Secretary of Commerce tes- ified before the Senate Defense | What did the table show? well, |here are the first ten (not neces- |sarily the ones who have been do- | {ing the most talking): | 1. Senator Brooks (R.-TIL) av- | erage 401 letters a day. 2. Senator Mead (D.-N.Y. 260. | 3. Senator Connally (D.-Tex.) | 219, WASHINGTON, April 7. — The | 4. Senator O'Daniel (D.-Tex) |Comptroller of Currency has issued | 204. . a call for a statement of conditions I 5. Semator Walsh (D.-Mass) |Of all National Banks at the close 184, of business on April 4. b s S BUY DEFENSE BONDS (Continued on Page Two) thought it was the air raid alarm He immediately doused all of the lights in town. Then the woman in charge of the air raid alarm saw the lights go out and thought the Japs were coming. 30 she sounded the air raid alarm The night watchman at the power plant heard this and thought it was the all-clear signal. He turned all of the lights back on. | While all of this was going on the house which was on fire when the fire alarm was sounded. burned to the ground. R W T President Teddy Roosevelt gath- ered stamps for young friends who for failure to register for selective were collectors, the Navy Depart- No additional de- normal cruise, ment announces. Lails are given -, ARREST HOONAH MAN BECAUSE HE FAILED 10 SIGN FOR DRAFT U. 8. Deputy Marshal Walter Hel- lan yesterday flow to Hoonah and back to arrest Frank McKinley on a warrant issued by U. S. Commis- sioney Felix Gray. McKinley, a native, was arrested service. The case is pending. i eum industry’s marketing district. -~ oo lemolishing oil and cement instal-| Degpite the conciliatory offer and | ~ > lations at Thayetmyo and Allan- i renewed efforts by President Roose~ Y | Thayetmo is about 40 miles north | scn, sent to help with negotiations, ‘Alafming lOS'I' OVERBOARD {trom the Irrawaddy Rivey up which |ihe Hindu All-Indian Congress g |the Japanese are pressing, and iS|party is expressing objections to In Sk.gway “.2'.!.‘; miles from the nearest point|other phases of the program. £ | g Bay of Bengal [plan will probably fail of getting nl(fi'y"“hnm to Juneau tells this| o o0l on o0 il 1 - Reat | ,re ‘f,e,xf”allf':i::) ;c‘:fm:",c,;". ,n :M Seversl weeks ago, the fire alarm | AdmIZAL J. WWilcox, Jr., of At- : S bk’ 5t .IO ‘;Ol;‘ l:s‘ sounded in Skagway. The night lAnta, Georgia, was lost overboard | a n I ng o | Beeit': \H‘H"’_ l{:_l h - wil e watchman at the power plant at sea in heavy weather during a '?',1'0“1[():"(' Heouse regarding the con- ~ Air Raiders sioxx avoramons i | NEW YORK, April 7 — Closing I‘:(uotauon of Alaska Juneau mine | oun e u stock today is 1%, American Can | ., Commonwealth and South- ern '4, Bethlehem Steel 507, Cur- had ‘(iss wright 7'%, International Har- but|yester 43%, Kennecott 32, New the | york Central 7%, Northern Pacific MADRAS, April 7-—This port its first air raid warning today no bombs were dropped and all clear signal was sounded onelg United States Steel 50%, Pound hour later. No planes however ap-| g4 3% peared over the great East Indian DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 101.39, - .o BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ixmlh 25,60, utilities 11.60. ‘ . port 3