The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1942, Page 1

\ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIIL.. NO. 9005. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 10 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FATE OF BATAAN FORCE STILL IN DOUBT "U.S., Australia Take Offensive In Air Now 4 4 4 » AlllESTA KE Retreating Nazis Burn Her Home FIGHT RIGHT | - TO JAPANESE Two Nations Are Laying? Groundwork for Counter | Drives in South Pacific | [ ‘ | MELBOURNE, April 10 — Th(“ United States and Australia have taken the offensive in the air buf are yet unable to lay the ground- | work for a total counter drive, it| is stressed officially, while the Jap-| anese have consolidated further | gains on the arc of bases facing’ Australia. In actual warfare, seven Japan-| ese bombers escorted by fighters, | raided the strategic New Guinea harbor of Port Moresby for Lhei twenty-fifth time. It is believed the enemy lost one bomber, | PFirst reports regarding the 20 minute raid mentioned no damage and no casualties as the attackers | once more encountered Allied in- terceptor planes and the defending | airmen pitched savagely into re- sistance and successfully. Lieut. Gen. Brett, Air Chief and| Deputy Commander under Gen.| 7 3 ; Dozg];ls MacArthur, struck the According to a Russian source, this peasant woman is watching her > | home burn before starting on her trek to refuge. The house was set keynote when he sald: | afire by retreating Nazis on the Eastern Front. Latest reports indicate "We have taken the offensive| g, German demolition squads are blasting military stores of Khariov against the Japanese in the air in apparent preparation for a forced withdrawal. and we will continue to incresse' e ot | The Washingtonvommary Registration Merry - Go- Roundi By DREW PEARSON-— . 0' women (omln u L] !komali, British naval station [} ‘Ce_vlun. and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—That - shipbuild- ers are making enormous war profits is not news. Much sensational evi- dence on this has been revealed by several congressional commit- tees. But what is news is the fact that despite these huge profits—gross President Discloses Plan U. 5. TORPEDO CRAFT GETS | | Labsls | WASHINGTON, April 10—Presi-| dent Roosevelt has disclosed that| in connection with studies of mob- ilization of man power for war in-| dustries, the Government is con-| sidering the voluntary registration of all women from 18 to 65, prob-| ably within the week. ! The President indicated that some decision has now been reached and | that they are now going about | with the channeling of man power | WASHINGTON, April 10 — The 0 W0 (0 1, egitering wo- committee have begun quiet probes!Navy repcrted today that a torpedo | s hia ““Wleé in ag press‘oonfer- preliminary to drastic crack-downs. accidentally ~discharged from 8 Inberank e ol Evidence already in the hands of motor torpedo boat in Narraganseit o p’ers"ons who‘ o) Some Foaward| investigators shows that the worst By, struck the USS Capella, a oo o) creating mechanical diEIi~i otfendex;s “"eh m; old;establisih:: :,:)}SO ton naval cargo vessel Yester-| ;0. ‘He said that re-marking| companies, who ave een giv [ 3 s d | the bulk of the contracts by the The Navy's announcement on ;Zeap';?e’::;:‘:‘ sc’j:::: #ope WO"H‘. Maritime Commission on the ground : the mishap did not say whether or | that they had the “know-how” to|not the torpedo had exploded, but } | STATE OF SIEGE | build ships fast.and in large num- did note that the Capella was as- pers. Actually, production records|sisted by tugs and "ancpored in tell a different story. shoal waters in no immediate dan- | | ” The most efficient yards are the!ger. MAY BE DE(lARED | new ones, in many cases erected | i ' ON CITY OF BREST inefficiency, waste and even worse are rampant in many shipyards. NA Y v E In fact so serious has the situ- ation become that ship production has been gravely affected, and the| Justice Department and Truman BABERUTH, | WM OFR RE(OVERY: nvasion Aftem and operated by men without any previous shipbuilding experience. i For example: The ace plant mn| the country is the Portland (Ore.) Shipyard, one of the Henry Kaiser properties. Builder of Boulder Dam and other giant projects, Kaiser- had never made a ship un- til, as a war measure, he got into| business last year. Today he| i VICHY, April 10—The German| has a number of West Coast yards ¥ which are turning out ships by the | authorities today notified the popu- | lation at Brest to be ready for a S | el most advanced and efficient meth-| poprywoOD, April 10 — Babe roal ods on a continuous 24-hour, seven-‘Ru,_h. reported as being gravely m;prpf'lama:m:l that a ;ta'te z.)( .sl:‘ge‘ day operational basis. X with pneumonia several day: ago, | exists an ; hat no advance notice | The best of these yards is thelapparently has passed the cr and |Of the issuance of the proclama- Portland plant, managed by his|will recover, his physician said to- |!lon will be given. ; ¢ son Edger. He had never built aday. The proclamation, it is said, will ship before and only three of msl — - 'be issued because of the “existence ? i i i ild- lements which might, when xecutives had previous shipbuild- jof e | f.,g experience. pAlso only a frac- SIO(K 0“0"]'0“; | the moment appeared favorable, to! i b a 3 kei e r rmi S s to engage in| of the thousands of workeis| permit themselves | e L 10—Closing | manifestations that could have un-| in the yard are shipbuilders. { NEW YORK, April i i In contrast, is the Bethlehem | quotation cr‘Alnska Juneau mine | predictable repercussions.” Shipbuilding Co., one of the \argesv,;“m‘k today is®1%, American Can| The tenor of the German an- and oldest in the country, WhiCh:Gl’"" Anaconda 25, Bethlehem' nouncement indicates that > investigators report doesn't even Steel 58%, Commonwealth and'cern is felt over possible subversive | begin to approach the Kaiser yards soul.hen? 1/30, Curtiss Wright 7%,/ activities among the F’r‘ench‘ popu- | in efficiency. International Harvester 43'2, Ken-|lation rather than preparation for! & cott 31%, New York Central 7':,|meeting a sible invasion attempt | is ribed as being lecott i ! g .8 POops mgef_:lizi:: obs’:;:fe,. o tree. | Northern Pacific 5%, United States of the Allied forces. e e Tt Bas vigorously re.|Steel 49%, Pound $404 i e | | it e MISS McCLOSKEY ILL sisted this on the ground that it St s el o ; is impossible to obtain DOW, JONES AVERAGES Miss Nell McCloskey, Secretary | enough p . trained Supervisors 8% The following are today’s Dow, for the Territorial Department of | rails 2507, utilities 11.21. with a severe cold. 1 }British COlTnt;r-A"a(king Caucasus Threat Seenin Slfalegy SVERDLOVSK OMSK JAPS SINK - ONEMORE BRIT. SHIP 0ld Aircraft Carrier| Hermes s Torpedoed 0ff Ceylon Island 'NIPPON CLAIMS TWO CRUISERS SENT DOWN i i \ Latter Report Is Denied by | Admiralty - Fight for | india Keeps On i (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Great Britain’s first aircraft car- | rier, the 23-year-old Hermes, has | been sunk by Japan's unabated ef-] | fort to beat down the sea and air |shield against the invasion of In-| |dia, but the enemy's total claims -- |of victory are too extravagant, the | British Admiralty in London says. | The official British Admiralty’s | communique admits that Japanese planes, either bombers or torpedo |craft, sunk the 10,000 ton Hermes |off the island of Ceylon, pivot of the British strength at the tip of India on the western side of the broad Bay of Bengal, The Japanese however. claimed even greater successes. The Jap- anese communique says that be- sides the Hermes, a 9,100 ton cruis- er of the Birmingham class, ‘and a 7,500 ton cruiser of the Emerald cl were sunk yesterday off Trin- on g | PERM M L oscow 0\9d A OvVO- KUIBYSHEV N SIBIRSK L < , OREL * KIEV, R KHARKOV ! .AGNROG% y SOVI E;r RUSSIA RUMANIAB A2 i A 4 fi ToroL 3 Kk S ( | | | l | Lyuco. | *TEHRAN IRAN Renewed efforts of the Nazis to crack the front between Orel and Taganrog (1) and to take over Crimea —where Russians resisted bitterly at Sevastopol—were regarded as prelude to leng-heralded Nazi drive on the oil-rich Cau Axis claimed Red Army smash- at Kharkov (2) was repulsed. Axis troops are massed, also, on Thrace border (3), menacing Turkey, Cyprus and Egypt. Meeting in Iran would follow Nazi success and Jap push through India (4). Rescue—After 11 Days at Sea THRUST IN | VITEBSK White Russia Escape Cor-| ridor for Germans | Threatened (BY ASSOC KD PRESS) On the Soviet front today, Vichy 'radio reports coming through via! Steckholm said that Red Army troops have crossed the frontier | into White Russia, - continuing the | |advance drive against that sector! ! which the Soviet Republic said has taken place 75 miles northwest of Smolensk between Vitebsk and Nevel. | If there is a continued thrust, it is a serious threat against the important Vitebsk defense guard- ing the flank of the German “es- cape corridor” from Moscow on the old Napoleonic road to Smolensk. The Vichy radio, quoting Ger- man news agency dispatchgs, also reported mounting Soviet pressure in the Orel and Kharkov sectors south of Moscow around Sevasto- | pol. The bulletin from German head- quarters acknowledged heavy Red -| Army attacks in the Perch penin- sula district in Crimea but declared they were repulsed and that Naz gunners knecked 82 tanks out of action us. ‘The British Admiralty counters with the “Japanese claim that they sunk two cruisers off Trinkomali is known to be quite untrue.” DESERT IS SCENE OF BIG FIGHT fo Prevent Break- Through of Axis (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) British and Axis troops fought today with increasing violence in the North African desert, the Brit- ish desperately countering against an attempted break-through of the Axis troops into Egypt and toward the Suez, North Africa British headquarters reported that their troops have at- tacked two Axis columns in the renewed desert fighting in the Lib- yan sector, and have set enemy tanks afire. Italy’s command said that new clashes between British and Axis vanguards “resulted again to our complete advantage.” A German communique reported A sea saga ends for the crew of a small United Nations vessel after it was sent to the bottom by an enemy submarine. Two small lifeboats left the stricken shiip and eleven days of privation followed. Finally, a friendly cargo vessel approached and picked up the survivors. These photographs were made, somewhere at sea, from the rescue ship. Tribute Is 'Paidfilo Bélaan Defendersby MacArthur; eveerr swimi now PANT JUNEAU MANAGER OF o Kepton Fighting fo E“d: EMPLOYMENT OFFICE tured in the deser rfal - b7 ol | Everett Smith, who has been sen- LONDON, April 10—British sub-| marines, in one case defying a con- voy's escort of destroyers, have sunk four more Axis ships—two schoon- ers and two supply vessels—in the Mediterranean, the Admiralty an- ey il MELBOURNE, ¢ April 10—Gen. Douglas ALASKA COAS]’AL lior interviewer in the office of the Arthur today said of the de- S United States Employment Office FOUR MORE " in Anchorage, was recently trans- . AIRLINES MAKE e "“'f‘hw"““,‘":"f‘ "‘w":""" ‘ SKAGWAY S"K Mr. and Mrs. Smith formerly bt ol g, Sir i 4 \made their home in Juneau and end in its flickering forlorn | o uiad are happy to be back in the Capitol Airlines plane making the trip to before becoming connected with the its dead, I only say that the the Lynn Canal port this morning.. Employment department. Mrs. sacrifice and halo of Jesus of Passengers leaving here for Sitka! Smith is the former Irene Burke, Nazareth had descended upon A LI R C. Obmart, J. McCarrey and Mr. Anchorage last Sunday and are » and Mrs. Duncan McKay | making their home at the Fosbee nounced today. ASKS NAME CHANGE 48 AR | Apartments. fenders of Bataan Peninsula: : | fe to Juneau where he is now hope. | B G. Pairburst, Alice E. Smith|City. He was contractor in the Al- by Alaska Coastal Airlines planes of Juneau, and before her marriage their sons and He had taken One of the schooners was laden ~Norman Ashley has petitioned U e e PENINSULA DEFENDERS STOPFIGHT [ War Depafir_n—t;,nl Issues Communique - Japan Says Conflict Continues FLAG STILL FLYING OVER BAY FORTRESS American Torpedo Boats Reported fo Have Sunk Nippon Cruiser BULLETIN ‘Washington, April 10—Most of the estimat- ed 3500 marines and bluejackets of the original forces on Ba- taan are presumed to have been evacuated to Corregidor, the Navy announced tonight, re- porting they were removed in the darkness when the collapse of the Peninsula defenses ap- peared imminent, The Navy report also says three ships, 5900 ton Canopus, submarine tender; 840 ton mine sweeper Bittern and 845 ton tug Napa were destroyed to prevent being used by the enemy. The famous Dewey drydeck, which like the ships had been damaged in early Jap bombings, was also destroyed. BULLETIN — 'Tokyo, April 10—Japanese troops are mov- ing along the east coast of Ba- taan and have occupied the town of Cabcaben, the last set- tlement before the outpost of Maravales at the extreme tip of the besieged peninsula. Air- dromes and other military in- stallations have been destroyed by the retreating American and Filipino forces and “everywhere on the south coast of Balaan a huge column of smoke is seen.” WASHINGTON, April 10—Lieut. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, com- mander of the United States forces in the Philippines, sent a report to President Roosevelt today from Corregidor Island, American bastion blocking the mouth of Manila Bay. It said in part: “Our flag still flies on this beleaguered island fortress!” Shertly before, however, the War Department reported that fighting on Bataan peninsula apparently had ceased, that Jap troops had broken through the lines of the weary de- fenders. The President, conference, said, talking in a press “Of course we all feel badly about Bataan,” but that no further news had been received on conditions existing on the pen- insula except what he called a “(Continued on Page Six) CUBE CUTS RADIO OFF IN MORNING Philippine Island Base Where Transports, War- ships Gathered Silent SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 Wireless communication from the Island of Cebu, United States base off the Philippines, where Japanese forces are gathering, was suspend- ed at 8:50 am. today, Radio Cor- poration of America officials an- nounced today. A fleet of ten transports and a supposed number of five warships are off the Island of Cebu, the War Department said. This is the first time since the “Ni i do s I e WilL. ever. 4F %0 {office manager for the U. 8. Em- “Nothing became it more than | .14 Ted Reynolds were passengers aska-Juneau Mining Company and | | its last hour of trial and agony. today were Al Lubcke, W. F. Burg-| was on the staff of the U. 8. Forest them unto Himself.” with sugar and other stores bound S. District Court to change his much with so little. The Ba- ployment Office. for Skagway on the Alaska Coastal|also trolled for a couple of seasons “To the weeping mothers of eson, Mrs. Wesley Wright, Mrs, B.| Service. They arrived here from for Tripoli. 'name to Lester Louis Linehan. It is illegal in Cuba to refuse to |accept U. 8. currency. | STAMPS BUY DEFENSE in- Hethiebarh |Jones averages: industrials 99.74, Labor, is confined to her home (Continued on Page Four) start of the war that the station there could not work.