The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MPIRE 1 VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9010. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1942 Ml MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ). PRICE TEN CLNT ] CORREGIDOR GUNS HITTING ENEMY HARD Fears Felt Hitler May Get . Address Vidory Rally NEW SETUP IN FRANCE IS GLOOMY Relations Between United| States and Vichy Ab- | solutely Strained AMERICANS URGED 10 LEAVE COUNTRY | Pierre Lavamain Confers with Pefain-New Cab- inet to Be Named WASHINGTON, April 16—French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye arranged this morning to call on the State Department this aiter- noon and immediately speculation | arose about the purpose of the vis- | it. It was though he might be taking a declaration from Vichy on French solidarity with Hitler's “new order.” i Already the United States relo- tions with Vichy appeared to be so ! strained that the point is near| breaking. American residents have already been urged to leave the unoccu- pied France. Members of Congress and hlgh‘ American officials express deep | concern that Hitler will now acquire | the PFrench fleet. “LEAVE” ORDERS GIVEN VICHY, April 16—All Americimg residents of Unoccupied France | were asked last night by the Unit- | ed States Consulates to leave for | the United States at the earliest | possible moment. i There are a number of Ameri-| cans on the Riviera and elsewiere in southern France. The letters did not connect the | request directly with Pierre La- | val’'s return to power. | CIO President Philip Murray (top) (bottom) address a joint AFL-CIO burgh, pledging their o:zanization ! | war. SUBSTITUTE The Washington| Merry -Eo_— Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN (Editor’s Note: The follow- ing is another article in the series on the crucial U. S. ship- ping situation.) (Continued on Page Six) e { WASHINGTON—One of the Chif’l‘i criticisms insiders make against the | Maritime Commission is its re-! sistance to independent initiative | and ideas. The Truman Commit-|| tee has a big stack of complaints!, from enterprising business men | eager to risk their own money to| build ships but unable to get a break from the Commission. A graphic illustration of the hide- bound attitude permeating the Cémmission is the case of the West Stanislaus County, Calif., bean growers. Military and civilian war chiefs consider it vital that every one on| the home front be made to feel that he is playing a direct and personal part in the war effort. Ev- ery ‘war agency spends much time | and effort devising ways of stimu- lating this spirit of patriotic par- ticipation. Without any spurring from Wash- ington, the patriotic bean growers of West Stanislaus County figured out a plan to make a personal con- tribution to the war production program. So they wrote a letter to the Maritime Commission saying: | “You need scrap steel for ships| and we farmers need an outlet for an overwhelming desire to help| our country. We don't want to sellly 4, work on the Pacific-Alaska our scrap to junk dealers. welngh\\fly are camped under can- don’t want to make any money on /vas on a plateau overlooking l]-u.x it. We want to give it to the 8OV~ v pon town, ernment. We are ready to make | a country-wide drive to collect | The United States scldiers, a good ! enough scrap to build a ship and many of whom are from the South,! we will deliver it to a mill and the 'got a taste of Northern Canadian winter the day after the arri\'.tli e oo (Continued on Page Four) of the first contingent. With rubber scarcity affecting the supply of garters and other such supports, Film Starlet Alma Ca:- roll shows how she kas turned w the tried-and-true method of us- ing a coin, such as a auarter, Lo held up her stockings in neat fashion. The only trick is to roll the smekings around the coin. U.S. Troops (amp Out at Whitehorse. WHITEHORSE, Y. T, April 16 —United States soldiers who will American Raid Squadron | | { i | and AFL President William G “United for Victory” rally at Pitis- to stand together to help win the RAF, NAZI FORCES IN AIR BATTLE n British Penefrate Agai Info Ruhr as Night Raids on England Occur LONDON, April 16—British and German fliers fought a bitter air battle high over France today &s the Royal Air Force was still hit- ting an around-the-clock schedule, smashing back in a daylight of- fensive following heavy attacks cn the Ruhr. The night attack on the Ruhr is the second large scale penetra-| tion into Germany in as many| nights. The German air force struck back in a night raid on a town in Northeast England, killing at least 125 babies. Among those killed were 23 mothers, whose children also were ]n%l Plumbing Stock Is Frozen jHeaIing, Oti; Equipment {0 Be Routed for Defense | andMilitary Consfruction SHINGTON. Aprfl 16 — The War Production Board froze stocks | 'today on new plumbing and heat- ing equipment, excluding those whose retail sale price is $5 or less and military priority orders. The action is for the purpose of | conserving materials needed for de- ifense housing and military con- struction. The order does not cov- er used equipment. -ee BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | portéd AIRMENBACK FROMATTACK ONISLANDS from Australia Returns wth U. S. Officers | ONE BOMBER LOST IN DARING FORAY | Smash on Japanese in Philippines Carried Out from Hidden Base UNITED STATES HEADQUAR- TERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 16— | Brigadier-Gen. Ralph Royce, volun- teer leader of a bomber squadron which delivered the first United States long-distance smash on the Philippines, disclosed that the raid- | ers used a base of hidden islands which have been protected by fight- er planes and provisioned for fu- ture use Twelve planes out of the 13 whlch for two days wrought and dismy amcng the enemy at the be: g of the week, ferried 14 passenge cn the return to Australia. aese includediten crewnitn from: the bomber lost the fertress and 34 Army men and civilians from Bataan, Corregidor and other Island points. Most of the evacuees were airmen, ing that while the Americans still have fighting planes in the islands, as Royce said, they have a surfeit of men to fly them. Royce said also that the morale of the men left behind is excellent, especially now that they have plen- | ty of food. American fighter planes cooper- ated with the Australia-based bombers in shooting down two Jap- anese planes which tried to attack the bomber squadron. Included among those brought back were important Army and Air Corps officers, a high Chinese liaison officer, correspondents and the American air crewmen, 0CD SETUPIS CHANGED BY PRESIDENT ' James land_i; glill Director —Advisory Civilian De- fense Board Created WASHINGTON, April 16—Presi- dent Roosevelt has reorganized the Office of Civilian Defense, retain- ing James Landis as Director, creating a Civilian Defense Board to advise and assist him, it is re- today. The War and Navy Departments have been given representation’on the new advisory board. The Presidential executive or- der said that the Director shall carry out the functions of his of- fice with the advice and assistance of this board. The White House statement said that the reorganization is designed to integrate activities of the OCD “more closely than those of other war agencies and to gear its pro- gram for the war effort.” SPAETH TAKES PLANE TO KETCHIKAN Mrs. R. R. Spaeth, of Ketchikan left Juneau by plane this morning to return to her hcme after spend- ing the last two days visiting here. Mrs. Spaeth came to Juneau by |plane on Tuesday to visit her sis- ter, Mrs. Stella Young and to wish happiness to her niece, Mrs. Eugene T. Yarbrough and Lieut. Yarbrough who were married on Monday eve- ning. MRS. indicat- | but | rench Amphibian (arrier Given esl; | | destruction | trip in the foray on| Now undergoing severe tests at Fort Knox, Ky, by the armored force board is this amphibian personnel carrier. Lightly armored the carrvier will hold eight men. It has been driven 60 miles an hour on a highway and is also speedy a(lcat. Upper photo the carrier is under way on the highway. Below it is coming cut of the water after a dash across a river, Australlam on Alert for Enemy RUSSIANS g g IN NORTH, Red Army Knifes Through | . NaziLines in Bryansk Sector KUIBYSHEV, Apxll 16 - Army units today have through the first line of Nazi fort- ifications in the ments abandoned by the Germans, official communiques said. 60 miles [rom the borders of White Russia ccape ritory. ‘The determined thrust through the Bryansk lines has been under way all this week, the attackers beating through the first and sec- ond lines of defense yesterday to get to the fortifications in a white- hot battle today. The report from the central front cuid that the Germans are steadily |increasing troop constantly sparring against the Red Army. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK April corridor through that ter- With the Japs concentrated on New Gainea bases, only 400 miles the Australian mainland, the continent “down under” is making fev ish preparations for the coming struggle with the enemy, particular attention being given to anti-aircraft defenses. Hundreds of posts, like this one outside Melbourne, are springing up everywhere. Governmentfo Revamp Filing Sysiem; Records in attacks 16—Closing Are fo Be Micro- Filmed |5t e |stock today is 1%, American Can |60%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 56, Commonwealth and South- | By JACK STINNETT valuable ern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 7, Inter- WASHINGTON, April 16—One | photographs on a reel of film was | national Harvester 42%, Kennecoit thing that this war is doing to na- What they had |30%, New York Central 7!, Nortn tional government is to revamp | 3 | ern Pacific 5%, United States Ste its filing system. On the surface,| 47%, Pound $4.04 this may seem insignificant, but| in the long run it will ropresem!pau rolls of film set space-cramped savings of hundreds of millions of | nd record deluged officials in de- doliars. and war agencies thinking. Under the new system, practically every record that possibly can will be micro-filmed. When the war broke cut, the on- agency which was using this of reduc- ing records to miniature National Archives, ccomplished in the way of reduc- ng tons cf paper records to com- DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials K 97.87, rails 24.23, utilities 10.95. - D ense Besides, the British government, 5T turing the months of blitz on Lon- jon, had discovered that micro- The colorful climbing shrub, bou- ganvillea, was named in honor of a French navigator, Louis Antoine iy l De Bougainville. method (to any extent) l(,ununu\.d uu Puge me: Red| knifed | Bryansk sector | southwest of Moscow and have ad-| vanced to occupy a dozen settle-! Bryansk is the key Nazi base only | and guards the German’s| reinforcements | Fleet JAPANESE - CASUALTIES ~ ARE HEAVY Troop Concentrations and Truck Columns on Bataan Shelled FIVE ATTEMPTED RAIDS MADE ON FORTRESS Fierce Figtm Reported Confinuing on Cebu WASHINGTON, April 16 — The War Department today reported that Corregidor’s guns have scored hits on troop concentrations and truck columns along Bataan Pen- insula and that enemy ammunition dumps have been hit and blown up. Japanese casualties are believed to be numerous. The communique said that fierce fighting continued on the Island of Cebu, more than 300 miles south, where the Japanese last week landed an invasion force | estimated at about 12,000 support- led by dive bombers and tanks and under gun fire of warships. Corregidor was raided five times - yesterday, the communique said, | but the defenders’ anti-aircraft ar- | tillery forced Japanese planes to |fly so high that bombing was in- | effective. Major Gen. Jonathan M. Wain- wright reporting for the week end- |ing with April 9 said that the fortress island was raided 65 times, |but the War Department said in its communique, “despite almost | constant bombing, damage on mili- lary installations has been rela- tively slight and the morale of the troops is unimpaired.” — JAPS RUSH BIG FORCE INTO BURMA Estimated R?ififorcemenis Will Put 150,000 on Front CHUNGKING, April 16 — The Japanese are reported pouring five and one half fresh divisions into the Burma campaign and two of these divisions have already landed at Rangoon where 40 Japanese transports have been sighted by British scouting fliers. The Chinese military spokesman said earlier ‘estimates placed the strength of the Japanese forces al- ‘veady engaged in the Burma cam- paign at about three divisions and the reinforcements will total per- haps 150,000 men. The military spokesman disclosed that the position of the Chinese forces now battling desperately ‘uuiullsl the Japanese below Man- |dalay is still more difficult on ac- |count of the British retreat from the Trrawaddy River sector to the west and dangerously exposing the Chinese right flank. - - American Party fo Quit ltaly April 20 BERLIN (From German Broad- cast), April 16—The Italians ans nounced in Rome today that de- parture of United States diplomats and newspaper men is now scheds uled for April 30. T E ST G L Immigration to Canada in 1941 was the lowest it has been since 1860.