The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1942 W MBE R AS\U( lATH) PRH VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9003. 7 JAPANESE FORCE BATAAN DEFENSE BACK May ARMY CHIEF OF STAFFIN LONDON NOW Flies Acro;s_—AtIamic in Bomber with Hopkins for Conference LONDON, April 8—Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the | United States Army, and Harry L. | Hopkins, Chairman of the British | and American Munitions Assign- | ment Board, have arrived in Lon- don for talks with Great Bl‘n‘dil\'h’; leaders on the grand strategy of the United Nations in the 1942 cam- paign. General Marshall’s arrival was | reminiscent of that when Gen. John J. Pershing reached London in June, 1917, two months after the | United States entered the first | World War. It is understood that Gen. Mar- | shall and Hopkins came here aboard a bomber. t Gen. Marshall’s arrival comes on | the heels of reports circulated here | that the bulk of the American Army is training for a mass invasien | of the continent. The purposes of the United swtes | forces in Europe is to “expand” said | Gen. Marshal and Hopkins sec- onded the general's thoughts. Production is not alone going to win the wary said. Hopkins, -but | “soldiers under Gen. Marshall and sailors under Admiral King” will be | the deciding factors. Gen. Marshall said he had been Pretty Frances Rafferty (above), latest ycung lady to crash the movies. studio commissary eating lunch with a friend, er s i e ot ¢ sary ealing lunch with a friend, and signed her (o e hatrs v e hatt - pobor ong-term contract at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. tunity came “this particular week, | " i, RESULTS OF TUESDAY'S ELECTION His mission, Gen. Marshall said, a native of Sioux City, Ia., is the Executives spotted her in a a is to “see development of the British forces here on the British Isles and talk things over in general with the British Chief of Staff.” ——————— Precinct Precinct Precinct The w aShin 1011 For Mayor? No. 1 2 No.3 Total g Harry L Lueas 312 164 629 MerrY e Go o Round For Councilmen: Ralph H. Beistline 298 148 161 607 By DREW PEARSON— N. Floyd Fagerson 301 149 158 608 and ROBERT S. ALLEN Harry Lea 315 149 162 626 | . S e aaseonalin || T School Director: brass ring and a free ride on | R. E. Robertson 298 146 155 599 Total Voted 323 157 172 652 the Washington Merry-Go- Round goes this week to Ez- equiel Padilla, Foreign Minister of Mexico, and one of the Gen- uine Good Neighbors of the United States.) WASHINGTTON—We have a lot to worry about in various parts of the world—India, Australia, the Near East. But, closer to home, the arrival of a distinguished foreign diplomat this week emphasized the fact that we have a lot to be thankful for among our neighbors. The visitor was the Mexican Min- ister of Foreign Affairs, Ezequiel Padilla, six feet, erect, bronzed and handsome, a man for whom the crowds in Rio de Janeiro last win- ter cheered themselves hoarse. In Washington, stoic Anglo-Sax- on crowds did not go wild. There LUCASMAKES NEW PLAN IT FIVE IN UNDERWAY IN INDIA Reports Suggesf Indlan Party Working Out Defense Setup NEW DELHI, April 8. SUCCESSION Unopposed Ticket Draws One of Lighest Votes Balloted — A new was no cheering when F'mhlla‘t I_'(’;“_'-" I “"0\_‘”"";"‘:;);‘“’; 7| formula for handling Indian De- passed down Pennsylvania Avenue.| J“” ‘.‘5 Weg, A% 08 > | fense is reported to have been But to Latin-American diplomats Jubeau for the fifth conseculive|yorgeq out by the All India Con- and the State Department it was Year as residents cast one of the Party in a committee session " REDS SMASH | NAZI FORCE; © NEW GAINS Soviets Take Important| Position on Kharkov | Front Line MOSCOW, Russia, April 8—-S0-! viet troops, overcoming a fierce| | German counter attack, captured an | important place on the southwest- ern Kharkov Front, the Moscow | radio announced today b i The announcer said that the Ger- | mans made every effort to hold the place and to avoid encirclement, but that the Soviet forces wrested the initiative and with a Red tank at- tack, the Germans retreated in dis- order, Russian airmen destroyed 79 Ger- man planes yesterday, it was an- nounced, boosting the nine-day total to 494 as against 103 Russian losses in the air. MALTA IS ATTACKED AT NIGHT 35 romce Brifish Forfress Is Bombed | Furiously by Germans | MOVING To in Mass Raids . VALETTA, leund of Malta, April 8. — Great concussions shook this British fortress city last night as mass attacks by German bombers increased in fury and sent residents hurrying into the cavern shelters. Cries could be heard from the dark- ness, indicating that bombs crashed amid citizens before they could seek shelter. Two bombers and two fighter planes are known to have been shot down. [Huge Spring Drive in Libya Reported Under Way as Ports Bombed | LONDON, April 8. —Axis numbering about 125,000 desert-wise | troops, are reported to be in motion | across the Libyan desert against | British lines in what may be the opening of the spring drive toward | conquering Egypt and smashing ! through east of Suez towarc the | oil fields of the Caucasus and Rus- |sia’s southern flank. Action of last night, not yet told in detail, came first as the Geérman Air Force slashed with rising fu at Malta, the tiny island fortre which has already withstood some 2,000 raids during World War II Fire and explosive bombs were used against the fortress and later | against Egypt’s chief port, Alex- - e { Steamer Torpedoed, 1 Shelled WASHINGTON, April 8. — The Navy Department announces that an American merchant. vessel of medium size has been torpedoed Off | andria, base of the British Med the Atlantic coast and a small|ierranean fleet. Both these import- freighter was also shelled. Both| actions took place several days ago. (Continued on President Comes Out for ~ Dormitorieson Mall; 0ld Pace i) Brazil’s decree ordering the confiscation of part of the proj bringing that nation rapidly toward a d is ready for action, should war be declar tom) A general view of Brazilian fleet 2 Procdlamations Issued By President Roosevelt HIT EGYPT pooseveLr, forces, . , tin | Days, First War, Recalled | dent Roosevelt and his NELSON IN Brazil’s Navy Ready for Action perty and funds of Axis citizens and firms is eclaration of war against the Axis ed, (Top) A picture of the Brazilian battleship Sao Paulo. (Bot units in maneuvers off the long coast line. LABOR TIFF President, WPB Chief Dif- fer Qver War Bonus Question WASHINGTON, April 8.—Presi- ‘War Produc- tion Chief, Donald M. Nelson, Yered openly today over the wisdom of allowing wartime cash bonuses | SITKA MAYOR for workers to set a faster pace in vital arms industries. Nevertheless, numerous signs in the hotly debated controversy Over wag and hours indicated that things may be edging towards a solution despite the con- surface turmoil The President, while imimalmg that there might be an announce- ment on the wage question soon, told reporters at a conference yes- terday that he utterly opposed a wartime bonus plan because all men in a national emergency such as this ought to preduce all they can Mr. Roosevelt’s remarks ran counter to those of Nelson, who en- dorsed the bonus or “incentive pay” plan during his appearance before a Senate committee on March 20 Meanwhile, William Batt, Nelson’s right hand man, sounded a new dif- | Use U. S. Units To Invade Continent Latest fo Crash Filmdom AMERICANS, FILIPINOS WITHDRAW 'General Wainwright Goes | o New Lines fo Make His Stand 'NIPPONS HAMMERING ' FORCES CONTINUOUSLY :Break Expecied as Result | of Assault Which Start- | ed on Saturday WASHINGTON, April 8.—A gens eral withdrawal of American and Filipino forces on Bataan to new defensive positions, because of @ Japanese penetration of their lines, is announced by the War Depart-~ ment | The announcement mld the troops lwnhdrew “to previously prepared ‘ld('h‘nslve positions” in order to rec- |tify the penetrated line. The War Department said there is | no immediate indication as to the |extent of the withdrawal, but that it apparently was accomplished in an orderly fashion The Japanese, with greatly super- jor forces numerically, have been hammering congtantly at the de- ! fending fine since Saturday, sup- ported by tanks and heavy artillery fire, and with aerial bombardment and strafing of the defending zroops being carried out The break through the line wn.s expected by officials here ever since A The Brazilian army and navy WASHINGTON, April 8 |the major Jap assault started five President Roosevelt, by a proc- days ago. But today’s report indi- lamation issued today, desig- |cates that Gen. Jonathan M. wain- wright had prepared a new line be- fore concentrated assaults by the enemy could be converted to break |out in a disastrous rout of the de- Xl nders of Bataan. - ————— SOVIETS IN - SMASH OVER W.R. HANLON NEw SECTOR E l E ( T E D A s: ArmyCross;s_Dnieper Riv- er in Furious Drive to Pinch Nazis L()NDON, April 8.—Soviet forces ' Williams Named Mayor @t ave smashed across the upper Wrangell-Voting Light, Taegar Ko 8 Do SO Skagway, Petersburg Moscow, according to Soviet dis- nated Sunday May 17 as “I am an Ameiican”, day and urged that the day be observed in a manner to impress all citizens duties and opportuni- citizenship in special es of (he Nation at u-spolhlb War.” Another proclamation today set Sunday, May Mother’s I)uy issued 10, as patches relayed via Stockholm. The Soviet forces made the cross- | ing between Dorogdbuznh and Dur- ovo in a striking achievement. The dispatch said that since SITKA, Alaska, April 8—W. R. Hanlon, former mayor and prop-| erty owner, who represented the the Germans established vast for- labor ticket, was elected Mayor yes- | tifications along the river, the Red teday with 249 votes. A. B. Holt | Army appeared intent upon using the brief period remaining before was secoud in the mayoralty contest | pring thaw to crush the Nazi with 213 votes and Art Silverman the came in third with 16 ballots cast |armi within the Central Front, for him prepared to meet the German of- fensives from the direction of Smol- was the highest a remarkable occasion. For this is the first time in anyone’s memory that .a Mexican Foreign Minister _ has visited Washington. f In 1927, Frank B. Kellogg, Secre-| tary of State under Coolidge, sent a telegram to Mexico warning that it was “on trial” before the world.| And in the last war, Mexico lis-| tened - sympathetically to German plots against the United States. NO 5TH COLUMN But under Foreign Minister Pa- dilla and his friendly government it is different. Facing a battery of newsmen after his arrival, Padilla; was asked: “How many Japanese do you| have?” i “About five thousand,” said Pa- dilla. Then he smiled. “If you; want the precise ciphers—4,860." Padilla knew precisely, for he h rounded up every one of the Axi oA Sl L R L (Qgntinued on Page Four) i \ lighest votes in history. Of the 1,236 persons who had registered o vote, only 652 took the trouble. The 584 who failed to cast their bal- lots forfeited their registration. Re-elected as councilmen for a two-year term were Harry Lea, who inext to Lucas polled the most votes; N. Floyd Fagerson and Ralph Beist- line, R. E. Robertson was chosen again as school board director for a three-year term. Mayor Lucas cast his vote early lin the morning, receiving ballot number 13 in his precinct. “Always has been my lucky number,” he said last night. The Mayor re- ceived 629 votes. Lea had 626 cast for him, Juneau’s City Council will meet at a canvassing board to canvass votes cast in yesterday’s election declare the high men for each of- fice officially elected. A special meeting of the council will be held Friday "evening for i 4:30 o'clock this afternoon as| and | Semi-official sources declared the way might be cleared for settlement under which India will attain na- tional government and still take up its full part -in the war. | The informant intimated that Louis Johnson, fermer Assistant Secretary of War, who came here as Roosevelt’s personal emissary to | assist in the proceedings, has played a prominent part as a mediator in averting a deadlock on Britair offer to the Indians. . GOES BACK TO MINE | Jack Littlepage, General Man- ager of the Chighagof Mining Com- pany, left this morning to return; to the mine after spending a brief time in Juneau on business. in the purpose of swearing the legally elected officers, L o4 BUY DEFENSE SiAM note in an urgeney speech he de-| Willlam Beach ensk, 50 miles west of the point and was elected By JACK STINNETT | tional shrines behind tempo 3:::((;1 l’;;n"‘:fi:‘x,'mj';l,‘;:::“(‘::'f’“fl;}n.‘\:"l’ll"f"|,“:‘(‘“’:F:““J'(:‘h“ Honywoo re. | where the Dnieper has been crossed. WASHINGTON, April 8 — This | buildings, if it will help us get the "y ic" Jonger in any mood to “tol- | eived 278; Harry Hagen, 248 votes, — war isn't, like the last. Nobody | job done. erate further indecision and delay-|ieq with John Loldhammer who {Who ek been ot WL cven | T ing by management, labor or gov- ul\;; received 248. Others running argue this point. But in some re-| But when the President expresses ernment” in prosecuting the war |, = “"md; “‘,.,.,, ‘,,..MI McGra\: ar on s spects history does repeat. personal interest In temporary program. | ~ha " , Por examuie: ' Preaifient Roose- | housinig for ‘war workers and sug- Prog Edward Wildt and Charles Wort- velt has come out for federal dor- gests just how the architects should g f e {mitories on the Mall. The Mall lay them out and where they should OUAKE IS ““",““.“"‘;"Tl“_“ lljlll(‘llifi“:u”\\'l“l‘(‘ n amps |is the most picturesque strip of be placed, it's hard to keep from ‘r‘;’l::‘“’h\ ('ll'lu-r»‘(lx:)rl: Kvlllle\(;n <ith harking back to 1918. President Wilson took a personal interest in the temporary eormi 168 votes and Harold Schaeffer with |government land in the nation. It | 160 ballots cast for him. stretches from the Lincoln Memor- New Name 'ial and the Reflecting Pool to the Mrs. C. G. Stuart was elected | backdoor of the Capitol. In its tories for war workes, particularly T (i ae path are the Washington Monu- | women, He drove around the capi K s % AR ment, practieally all of the mod-| tal, he picked out a site—on the| PASADENA Calif, Aprll 8 — A1 oy yoyg FLRCEED MAYOR | JRASEIBLEEGH, Apti 8- Refuree {ern government butidings, the fa- | Capitol. Plaso, He made architectural: Quske, desecIbad as “yery sever NEANGELL Algkks, Aprl § - SEAmpE A1 Kot itse NOE BE0IIE {mous old Smithsonian Institution, suggestions. i . August, 1918, has Lboe-?"rcc rfledd by ;m.(‘(‘“:““; A Wx]lmmx‘ e yd “:e e (\)'!\l;:::lly “war sayings bonds and | el riceless @ ‘ ments ol ne Pasadena Institute ol ) S/ 1".:‘:&::::“ Gallery of priceless art t:]:mfi:;"“w'rm were under CON- maihnology, and selsmologists said | ell Sentinel, weekly newspaper, Was, Persistent. suggestions that the | No person seriously interested in : . it began at 8:54 o'clock this morn- | elected Mayor of Wrangell at the change be made have been received N e e | T8 tieis. wers nine-by-11 fect., ing and continued in intensity for | town election held yesterday by the Treasury Department ever e s (President - Roosevelt suggests sim- an hour later | George Gunderson, Jorgen Ron- since Pearl Harbor was raiddd but this was delayed until all printed material bearing the old name was used. The distance of the quake is|ning and Dr. E. J ‘Wheeler were . | estimated at 7,500 miles in an un- (Continued on Page Three) Idrtrlmmtd direction. plain about disfigurement of the Mall. This is war. We can well afford to hide a few of the na-‘ it ilar rooms, with the only impo (Continued on Page Six) | i