The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR,E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL LVIIL.. NO. 9006. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIl FIGHTERS, NURSES ESCAPE FROM BATAAN 1942 German Ruhr Valley Is Hit By Heavy Blows BRITISH IN Broadside for | ampswnWakelsland PENINSULA Singing Brothers Join Navy ] { NIGHTRAID, WARWORKS Hundreds of Tons of Two Kinds of Bombs Are | Dropped, Is Report LONDON, “April 11.—With hun- dreds of tons of heavy caliber bombs and “countless” incendiary bombs, | British planes spread destruction | | again through the Ruhr Valley last | night, the Air Ministry announced | this forenoon. | The great Krupp armament works was the principal target. It is admitted 13 planes were lost . in the night raid. Returning pilots report many | fires were seen raging and property damage must have been heavy. - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 11. — Closing quotation of American Can today is 61%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 57%, Commonwealth and Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, Intérnational Harvester 43%, Ken- necott 31%, New York Central 7', Northern Pacific 57%, United States Steel 49, Pound $4.04. —Official U, 8. Navy Four brothers, who make up the nationaily-known Whittenburg male quartet of Denver, Colo., have joined thé Navy together. Tha brethers, left to rigit, Dale. Forrest, Wallace and Floyd, are &! 1 at the San Dlego, Cal, naval training station. FPho. o DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow. Jones averages: Industrials 99.45; Flylng rails, 25.11; utilities, 11.20. Hero Klllcd') Herbert Hoover smrt(‘d a stamp 4 collection when he was in China. The Washington | Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Deadliest festi- mony against the Vinson-: -Smith bill to repeal the 40-hour week did not come from WPB Chief Donald Nel- son or labor leaders Bill Green and Phil Murray, though the trio got | the headlines. ‘It came from one of the most militant advocates of | § the measure. He was Mervyn K. Hart, of the New York State Economic| Council, who appeared as 2 Wllne%x\ for the legislation. But his testi- | mony quickly turned into a sting- ing boomerang when Representative Miker Bradley of Pennsylvania started grilling Hart about hns; background. ‘ Among other things, Hart ad-| mitted: } (1) That he had been an active foe of the Lend-Lease program; (2) that he had been a member of the| America First Committee; (3) that| he atended the anti-Roosevelt rally | in Madison Square Garden, at which Fritz Kuhn and other Bund- ists were present; and (4) that his organization adyocated disfranchis- ing relief workers. While admitting that his organ- jzation had ‘“participated” in the New York meeting, Hart vehement- ly denied any relations with the Bund. “Fritz Kuhn w: declared. “He just. show up.” “Has your organization ever ad- | vocated disfranchising WPA workers and other people on relief?” asked Bradley. “Yes, we believe that such pcople shouldn't have the right to vote.” There were two very red faces in the committee room when Hart concluded his damaging testimony. They belonged to Representatives Carl Vinson of Georgia and Howard Smith of Virginia, co-authors of the repeal bill. asn't invited,” Hart | happened to | BOOMERANG Federal Housing Commissioner Abner Ferguson prepared a speech for delivery before the American Bankers Association in New York City and in accmdsnce with regu- lations submitted the manuscript to ‘the Office of Facts and Figures for ‘approval, The speech came back wlth a head | ¢ (Continued on Page Four) Pilot Newkirk According to a report from Kum- ming, China, flyers of the Ameri- can Volunteer Group smashed 40 Japanese planes at the Thailand airport of Chiengmai in a dawn attack but apparently have lost their squadron leader, Jack New- kirk, shown above. Newkirk, who eaylier had received the Distin- guished Service Medal for his dar- ing exploits over Burma, was be- lieved killed when his plane crashed near the Japanese a field at the end of a low dive. i mates believed Japanese maching zun bullets got him. 40PERCENT DROP NOTED IN AUTO USE Gas Consumption by Priv- ate Cars Also Below Normal WASHINGTON, April 11 .—Lmlg- trip travel of passengers by auto in | the United States already has drop- ped almost 40 percent due to the nation-wide tire rationing and gaso- line restrictions in the East and Northwest. The American Automobile Asso- ciation reported it is estimated that | gasoline consumption by private No Trulh fo Gruening's " Replacement Story in Anhorage Times that Governor fo Leave Is Not Substantfiated | L | WASHINGTON, April 11—Offic- ial Washington failed last night to yield any information that would substantiate the Anchorage Times story that Gov. Ernest Gruening is !to be replaced as Alaska's Chief Executive. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said | | today that he had investigated sim- | | ilar reports two weeks ago and | found them without substantiation. He said that he doubted them be- cause Gov. Gruaning’s appoint- ment was a personal appointment of President Roosevelt. Gov. Gruening declined to com- | ment,. The Governor said that he is leav- | ing Washington next week after sev- eral weeks in the capital working on mining, freight rates and other matters. | “We fear that before long gold; mining will be suspended largely in | | the hope of transferring operations to obtaining strategic minerals,” Gov. Gruening said. Delegate Dimond and Gov. Gruen- ing are seeking to obtain priorities | for the placer mining industry ———————— FREIGHTER - SUNK OFF - EASTCOAST Navy Announces Loss of Small Ship Two Weeks Ago-37 Are Missing | ‘ CAPE MAY, N. J., April 11 ‘small American helghtfl was tor- pedced and sunk off the Atlantic | Coast about a week ago, the Fourth Naval District has announced. | A possible loss of 37 of its com-| {(HINA AVG DOWNS 11 '~ JAP PLANES American Fliers Have Smashing Victory in Battles Over Burma | CHUNGKING, April 11.—The re- | doubtable American Volunteer group | won its second smashing success in two days when they announced that | probably 11 out of 20 Japanese navy | | zero-planes were shot down over | | northern Burma today. | | Seven planes were shot down for certain, and four probables were | claimed by the American Volunteer ‘group_ all returning undamaged. | The attack came after anese radio had repeatedly threat- ened to blast the Americans from the sky. On Wednesday, the Am- the Jap- | ericans intercepted 20 planes and | shot down 10. U.5.5UB LOSTIN PACIFIC Navy Dept.' Announces Perch Long Overdue- | U.S. Losses Now 26 | WASHINGTON, April 11 — The submarine Perch has been overdue a month, and presumably has been lost in the Western Pacific, the Navy has announced. The Perch was commissioned six years ago and was last reported to be operating in the Java Sea under Lieutenant Commander Da- vid Albert Hurt, 38, of Pounding Mill, Virginia. | The Perch is the fourth sub- marne lost or missing and has brought to 26 the number of naval vessels announced lest since December 7 REJECTION OF INDIA OFFERTOLD Hindu,MosfiHParties Re- fuse o Consider Britain’s ' Offer of Independence 1 { NEW DELHI, April 11.—The dom- inant Hindu and Moslem parties of | India have flatly rejected Britain's offer of dominion status after the war, blasting all hopes that the set- tlement of the national issue might | be reached through the intervention lof America’s special envoy, Louis Johnson, Sir Stafford Cripps, special Brit- lish emissary who has been trying to {work out an agreement with the | Indians wheréby Britain might hnndlr its defense until after the 1 war, when dominion status would be | granted, has announced that the proposal has been withdrawn and he | will leave for home tomorrow. Presumably, the present British ‘adminiauaucn of the counn\ will | continue. B B \Al ICE SMITH LEAVES i FOR INTERIOR VISIT w\ Aliee Smith, lof Unemployment Compensation, | has taken a two weeks' leave of | absence and will spend them in Skagway visiting her parents . She left yesterday for the North. e, 1 All bats don‘t look alike. Some cars now is 20 percent below the plement of 53 crew members and;hnve faces resembling those of fox- igure set by April last year, ) passengers. was indicated, es, others appear like small bulldogs, / of the Department ' The m. Just in battery of a ounced by the U burning Japanese patrol boat. at left are frem burning sections of a Japanese four-motored seaplane. S. Navy. RUSSIA IS PLACEFOR U.S.AID General Marshall, Harry Hopkins Said fo Be Plan- ning Reinforcements LONDON, April 11 — Reliable sources here say that General George C. Marshall and Harry Hopkins are cohvinced that Russia is the decisive battlefield of Europe. The twp American envoys to Britain, conferring on Allied plans, are said to be discussing with the United Nations front the most effective way to aid the Red Armies. Aid is said to be almost certain to include a United States air force for reinforcement of the Royal Air Force in bombing Germany. British and United States fleets are so busy convoying supplies to Russia and the Russian shipping situation is so -acute that it prob- the ably will be some time before these will be transports available to ef- fect a continental invasion > (HINESE SEAMAN SHOT IN MUTINY ON BRITISH SHIP Crew Riolsfi When Shore Leave Denied in .New York NEW YORK, April 11.- seaman, Ling Young Chai. 20, was shot to death by Captain Milton Rowe as he and 11 shipmates riot- ed aboard a British merchantman in an attempt to obtain shore leave in Brooklyn. Police said that ship’s officers and A Chinese | white seamen quelled the mutiny. ooy BUY DEFENSE § . cruiser (top), lets zo at Japanese Navy. es and numercus shore installations ¢n Wake force left these burning smudges on the sea off Wake 1 White splashes are from a salve from 8 & EVACUATION UNDER WAY Defeafed Defenders Make | Way fo Safety on Cor- regidor Forfress (By Associated Press) The following message, dated April | 9, after being delayed for more than | two days, arrived today at The Asso- | clated Press New York office: CORREGIDOR - (Delayed)—All night long last night, nurses, dazed with fatigue, and war weary fight- ers braved Japanese bombers and | the shark-infested waters to escape | from stricken Bataan for compara- tive safety on Corregidor Island, Manila Bay fortress, still in the hands of United States forces. (This is the first cabled news dispatch to reach The Associated Press directly from Corregidor since the fall of Bataan.) { ‘The Associated Press dispatch was sent by Dean Schedler, who said some swam’and others rowed piti- | fully small boats through the bombs land vicious machine gun blasts of enemy planes, Those who swam were picked up in mid-channel by other*small crafi. Nurses, fatigued by days and nights |of service in Bataan's hospitals under constant fire, stumbled ashore |so weary they could sacrcely walk. “T questioned soldiers who had | gone night aftér night without | sleep, who had eaten but little dur- ing those final days when they were | faced with overwhelming odds. They had stood and fought and then re- i treated to stand and fight again. | But while they tried to be obliging |and tell about Bataan’s last hours, |they wanted only one thihg now— | sleep. “They were gripped by the desire m sleep. Their memory of exper- s 1s not clear to them. “Duxmg the night, we looked across the channel toward Bataan |and heard the bombing explosions, | saw many colored by fires as the | defenders’ last defiant action de- stroyed the munition dumps, fuel .md anything which might be val- e to the ever-pressing enemy. ‘Wc heard over the short wave radio secret station in the hills of the fall of Bataan. The soldiers here, veterans of scores of pound- ing bombing raids, wept unashamed at the announcer’s words, ‘Bataan | has fallen.'” JAPS CLAIM cecupicd Wake Island in the recent attae task force, destroyed Below Kk smudge Jdestroyer. The attack, by a N vd Marcus islands. nemy small boats, s from a Navy task right is from a Tiwo dark smudges Asspciated Press; Photos from U. CEBU IS INVADED, REPORTED Small Phlhppme Island Forces Are Said to Be Holding Japs Back WASHINGTON, April 11 — Tln'! War Department has reported that a small American and Filipino force defending Cebu in the Philippines has inflicted heavy casualties on a Japanese invasion force estimated | to number about 12,000. The force was able nevertheless| to effect a landing, according to| reports. The invaders are sll])pl)ll- ed by a fleet of four warships nnd 10 transports. Dive bombers and tanks are mmL : ::‘.‘;\;"li):l:hxl able to advance only | Domel Sflys A" ou' 0“0“' | sive for Annihilafion of Wainwright Forces On ¥ Al TOKYO, April 11.—Domei, the Japanese news agency, said today that survivors of Bataan are at- l!‘mulu*g to find refuge among the xsldu(u declaring that “large num- bers of boats filled with Filipino and American troops are fleeing ‘I’ulmm and that Corregidor and CubAlIn are facing annihilation.” The dispatch also $aid that Jap warships and bombing planes com- bined are making “deyastating at- tacks” against Corregidor in an “all- out offensive to exterminate Lieu- tenant-Gen. Jonathan M. Wain- | wright's beleaguered forces.” It is asserted that Maj. Gen. E. B. King, described as the commander of the American forces on Bataan, approached the Jap lines in a small open car displaying the white flag | on the morning of April 9, “and subsequently produced a written formal surrender.” American wpmls have not scribed such a surrender New Pack Here lu the new pack designed by | Quartermaster officers of the U. S, Marine Corpn An all-purpose car- rier, it is easily adaptable to vary- mu wmhuons ashore or afloat and TWO SHIPS riDEics | OFF COAST s (rews Reboard Torpedoed OF BIG SEA ond susmorine Vessls FIGHT SEEN1 —Return Atlantic Port NORFOLK, April 11.—Members of | the ¢ s of two American merchant ships, one torpedoed and the other British news agency, r Vichy. Franee, that the British cruiser Hermicne has arrived attacked by submarine shellfire off Gibraltar, damaged and with many he Atlantic Coast abandoned their vessels and later reboarded. the wounded aboard. It is believed the cruiser has been engaged in a big craft and brought them safely to port. the Navy Department has dis- air and sea battle near Malta ' e Reuters, ports from closed. ! A, Two me llll)l‘l\. of lllu crew were killed by the shells and | seven members are mL - When the Spaniards invaded | South America, they found many The average anuual rainfall in the varieties of potatoes under cultiva- Umua States is about 29 inches. ) tion. Muskrats are used for food by | many persons. In some city markets the meat {5 sold as marsh rabbit,