The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9008. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CEBU Allied FLEET OF JAPANESE ATTACKED Thirteen Big Flying Boals Smashed in Bomb- ing Raid EIGHT HUNDRED MILE | ARC UNDER ASSAULT American Volunteer Group| Also Get Seven Air- craft of Nippons (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) According to a communique from | New Delhi, India, American andi British fliers have struck strong| blows in the defense of India and| have threatened a Japanese fleet| of three battleships, five aircrait| carriers and other warships in th,-i Bay of Bengal. The dispatch also claimed thnt 13 big flying boats were smashed among the Andaman Islands, n| an aftack on an airdrome. | From Burma, the report came that the Japanese had used’ these‘ 13 flying boats in a long range\ scouting patrol and that during the | bombing of the airdrome they werp[ sunk, set afire or damaged when| the RAF struck in an 800-mile arc| across® the Bay of Bengal and! foynd them anchored in the harbor | of Port Blair, which is the poten-| tial springboard in the Andaman‘ Islands for Indian invasion. | The British said that 1nokher communique reported that the Japs| lost seven aircraft when the in- domitable American Volunteer Group, the Flying Tigers, fiercely attacked Japanese who were raid-! ing an American Volunteer Group airdrome in the northern Shan states in Burma at a low level Fri- day. Three more Jap planes are said to have been destroyed by the Yanks Sunday at Toungoo. The Washington Merry -Go -Round{ By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—Joseph Patriu Kennedy, former U. S. Ambaisadm to the Court of St. James's, scarce- | ly has been on speaking terms with the President of the United States since he returned from London. . Once the two were great friends, but Kennedy differed radically with Roosevelt regarding the war, con< tended that the Presidnt was go- ing too far in aiding Britain. Most of last year, therefore, Joe sulk in the background, frequently re—l ferred to Roosevelt in derogatory language. ! The other day, however, the| President wrote Joe Kennedy a letter, making the amazing proposal that the ex-Ambassador take over the construction of all merchant ships for the war program. This!| is one of the most important jobs in the Government. Ex-Ambassador Kennedy did not accept with alacrity. He wrote back | a letter outlining the terms and| conditions under which he would take the job. HARRY HOPKINS' WHITE HOUSE Several Government officials were driving by the White House in a taxi. They looked out at the ex- cavation and building operations, only scar on one of the most beau- tiful gardens in the country. “Wonder what theyre adding to the White House now?” asked one official. | “Oh,” replied the taxi-driver, “they’re making more room for Har- ry Hopkins.” AIR CRASHES With the tremendous war ex- pansion of the Army and Navy air ' AR W 5 il SRR (Continued on Page Four) |attack wil come at a place where | dom .|and left for the banks on one of Ithe fishing fleet vessels this morn- EFENDERS RESIST JAP THRUSI Germans Get Jitters As Threat of Invasion 0f Europe Now Hinted LONDON, April 14 Ropmts} swered by bravado 1epox'~ from the reaching here from neutral capitals | Berlin correspondent of the Stock- indicate that the German High| Command is resigned to an im- | holm Democraten who declares the German High Command spokesman | pending invasion of Europe by the| | “We at any time We are ready.” A radio broadcast fom Rome, picked up here said Italy is already prepared for any move af invasion The neutral reports received here dclare that Canadian t(roops have been assigned to make the spear- head drive | are expecting on | Let them Allied Forces and are afraid Ihe it is not expected. It is said that the visit of Ameri- can Chief of Army Staff Gen. George C. Marshall and Harry L. Hopkins in London, which has been widely publicized, an advanced case of jitters, assertion of jitters however Bread for Japs has given Berlin This is an- | former “Although their own rations were short, American and Philippine de- fenders of Bataan Peninsula shared bread with captured Japanese soldiers 1fnrczroundy deep in the jungle behind the defense line. IRAN CUTS NavyNeeds No Lahor RELATIONS WITH JAPS Legislafion Asiatic Supply Center with- Secrefary Knox Tells Con- Allies-Sends All Axis gress 40-Hour Week Agents Home Means Confusion TEHERAN, April 14—Iran has WASHINGTON, April 14—Secre-' severed diplomatic relations with tary of the Navy Frank Knox told Japan, cutting off the fountainhead Congress today that suspension of of Axis propaganda to Islamic the 40-hour week law would result | neighbors, “only im cenfusion and delay.” This allied occupied Asiatic king- Knox opposed the flat percentage is on the supply route to limitation on war profit and urged Russia on the Eastern Mediter- cessation of the industrial disputes ranean. over the closed shop issue. . The Iranian government notified He said there is no need for the Japanese minister, Ichikawa, labor legislation as far as the Navy that he must leave within the week is concerned, and hinted that the| along with his six diplomatic mili- President soon might lay down a tary attaches. national labor policy, saying he The rupture followed the removal “wouldn't be surprised” at such ac-, of six major Axis agents in a -e- tion, mote section of Southwest Iran. A| The Secretary advocated the stream of Axis propaganda has freezing of present union status :n been traced to the Jap legations af- | industry for the duration of th ter Iran broke relations with Ger- war, but argued that this should many and Italy and became an ally | be done by volunfary agreements of Great Britain and Russia in and that Congress should wait at August. least 30 or 60 days before taking! legislative ion to that end. —— e — | ING STROMBERGS RETURN | Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Stmmberg‘ have returned from the south where | have been for several weeks. They | have taken up their residence at| their home on the Glacier High-| way. David Simonson, resident of the Glacier Highway, has become a member of the halibut fleet force ing. I WARGUILT DIPLOMATIC DEFEAT | France will pass completely into the Fliers Hit Blows, India’s Defense TRIALS ARE SET ASIDE Pefain Bov?lo Hitler-| Forms New Collabor- ation Cabinet FOR UNITED NATIONS Pro-Axis Government May Give Germany Use of French Ships (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) From Vichy it was announced to- day that Marshal Henri Petain's government, which once ousted Vice-Premier Pierre Laval, has made a place for the return of Prance’s leading exponent of collaboration and at the same time has suspended the Riom war guilt trials of France’s Republican lead- ers—trials to which Hitler, himself, had objected. Met Today Petain, it was announced, has decided to form a new government with Laval and Admiral Jean Dar-| land, who has besn Vice-Premier ¢ince Laval's custer from that po- sition” on- December 13,71840. The [ anncuncement said that the three! icaders met today and decided on “a constitutional government cs- | tablished on new foundations.” | The next meeting is set | Thursday, when presumably the | places of Laval and Darlan will be | allotted on the new cabinet. This | is on the day that the Riom trials | were to have resumed after the Easter recess. Trial Junked A special law decreed the indefin- | ite suspension of the trial to per-. mit the broadening of its scope to include political as well as military “mistakes which led to defeat in| the war.” A third Republic special law signed by Petain, based on a re- port by Darlan and Minister of Justice Bartelemy, said in part| “responsibilities which are incurred from the fact that inadequacies :n" our national political as well as| mlitary mistakes which led to de- feat in the war are indivisible be- Bataan Peninsula and its lofty Mariveles mountain (hackgrcund) invaders, American soldiers are making their last stand from this pines eut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright reportec (o ient Ro Cerregidor.” Clark Lee, Associated Press reporter, made this pixlur( bomb-wrecked roofs to Bata: for | !cause they contributed to the same disaster.” London Comment Immediate reaction to these fcontinue;x on Page Six) Japanesé prisoners are led bli ing days when American and Fil presumed tc be deac or captu Lee, Associated Press reporter os were taking prisoncrs on LAVAL RUNS NEW FRENCH Sniping (ongressman Is GOVERNMENT _ Going After Non-essential and released by the War Department. Move Hints Break in Rela- tions with United ly method that could be used trying to cut the $16,000.000 block in half by chipping off a few thou- sands here, a few there. Each stroke on the chisel requires a spe cial amendment. There would have to be more than 40 of For example, one of the ments would cut the for travel expense from $573,000 563,100, a saving of only $9,900. When Monroney started bring his | amepdments to e floor, the Houe howed a marked lack of interest, so much so that it was difficult for him to get more than a 5- They said, Department of A¢-| 00 debate at the start. Con- that under the present plans for unnecessary “PUMan |, ooi0001 Jeaders were so disinter- the prospective reorganization, department OIficals ooy that some left the floor. who do a lot of train i e, the vote was taken and Mon- roney’'s first amendment lost by fonly six vol administration lead- By JACK STINNETT Sta'es WASHINGTON, April 14 young Democratic congressman BERN, Switzerland, April 14 — pro; Oklahoma who has strung Marshal Henrl Petain has agreed,|;jong with the administration on under German pressure, t0 r€- o6 matters but has been sniping organize hls: Vichy gover‘nmenL UD-laway at non-essential government der pro-Axis, former Vice-Premier| penging for the three years that Plerre Laval for renewed collabor-|pne pag peen in office, has finally jation with the Nazs, and this may .t pymself a cause that is mak- z;aduww: sc:;;:lomfm tu:;ak1 With {0 talk on the Hill and may even ® e Uni es, foreign diplomat- ic sources said today. These sources said that Laval ! will return to the French Cabinet | Thursday under the new title of P2 “Chief of Government.” doscrirfeag \e them amend- to set results, Rep. A. S. Mike waging an almost one-man gn to do away with what he Monroney is cam- | riculture’s car farmers and emp! Axis sphere.. aveling. Aged Marshal Petain, although —— H remaining “Chief of State” in the| His goal is io cut the depaft- |ers sat up and took notice. new government, will become only|ment’s $16,000000 travel and per| he fight has just started, Mon- a figurehead. Vice-Premier Jean!diem allowance appropriation in yeney says. If the trend continues Darlan will retain only his title as|half for the next fiscal year. His £ Foreign~ Minister, nuunud is tedious—but its the on- (Continued on Page Five) new nd fortress in defense of the Philip- d in the drive that cracked their defense. Government Spending NoWj He's service | Stars and Siripes Still Fly Here in the hands of the Japanese velt the “Flag was still flying sking north from Corregi on T ACross 1§ leadiap Prisoners | Peadquarlers dfolded to headquarters of Brig. Gen. Clinton A, Pierce for questioning dur- Bataan, Teday man Americans were This picture was made by Clark RED ARMY - (UTS INTO NAZI LINES Deep Breach—For(ed North of Steel Producing City of Kharkov LONDON, April 14—A Stockholm radio broadcast picked up | said that Russian forces in south of Russia under Gen. Timo- shenkos have forced a “deep ! breach” in German lines 26 miles north of the great steel production city of Kharkov The troops are said to be sweep- ing through the breach which reported below Belzorod, a strate town north of Kharkov - is ic ST JUNEAU MAN Lionel Ex Hibler, Juneau been arrested and charged with disturbing the peace, the U, 8. Mar- Office reported today. - DEFENSE BONDS ARRE shal’s BUY here the has! ONE NIPPON CRUISER IS SENT DOWN { Craft Supporting Island In- vasion Sunk by U. S. Torpedo Mldget (ENEMY IS UNABLE 10 ADVMKE INLAND ‘Crushmg Force of Tanks, | Dive Bombers Face Am- | ericans and Filipinos t uUid | WASHINGTON, April 14—Pight- {ing against huge odds, the be- ‘h-aguered force of American and | Filipino troops are reported holding |the Japanese at bay at the south- central island of Cebu despite the | weight of numbers and the crush- ing force of tanks and dive bomb- ers supporting the drive. ! The Japanese apparently are un- able to push their way inland from | the coastal area where they have | landed at several ports. | Communications Broken The fate of the Cebu defenders |is a matter of gloomy speculation {since communications between the fl»land and Corregidor Fortress were | disrupted for more than three days. | Reestablishment of cemmunications learly today however gives the re- invaders. {port of stubborn resistance to the } This morning’s War Department | communique disclosed that accord- {ing to the reports, the enemy force thrusting on Cebu, 300 miles south * of Corregidor, is estimated at 12,- 000, and they reached the shores |of the island under a covering fire from Japanese warships, one of |which was a large cruiser and | which was sunk by a small Ameri- |can torpedo boat of the defending | force. Manila Bay Under Fire Corregidor and other fortified is- |lands in Manila Bay are continus 1ing to be under fire of enemy Dal~ | teries from both sides of the bay |but the forts are still replying ! with a ccunter fire. Japanese bombers made four raids ccording to late afternoon received by the War De- partment from Corregidor, and some casualties resulted. >-ee .IAPS MAKE - BI16 CLAIMS OVER BATAAN Assert 40,050_Soldiers, In- cluding 14 Generals, Taken as Prisoners | St | TOKYO, April 14—The Japanese Imperial headquarters communique declared today that Jap forces cap- | tured 40,000 prisoners, including 15 |generals from the beginning of the | Bataan offensive up to last Sun- day report said that of these, 6,700 were United States troops as distinguished from native Filipino fighters. Among the Generals mentioned are Edward P. King, Jr., identified as the Commander of the United States forces on the peninsula; Al- bert Jones, designated as the Com- mander of the First Army Corps; George Parker, Jr, of the Second Army Corps and Gen. Filipi Fran- | cisco, the Commander of the Fili- pino forces. | Among the booty listed is 198 {guns, including heavy artillery, 320 imuchme guns, 500 automatic rifles, 110,000 rifles, 124 tanks and ar- ! mored cars, 220 cars and other arms ‘and munitions.