The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9011. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME Al JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MARTHURIN FULL CHARGE OF FIGHTING A \ Given Supreme "S!rategic\ Direction” of War Effort | in Southwest Pacific | WASHINGTON, April 17—Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson to- day said Gen. Douglas MacArthur | has complete charge of the “strat- egic direction” of the United Na-| tions war effort in the Soulhwe.st‘ Coughlin's PETAIN HAS Reprisals Paper Goes Grand Jury IN (ONTROL Nazis Now National Justice Weekly New Vi(hy_(i})_\/ernmenl Is'RebeIIious?raithmen Are Barred from Mails, to | About Organized-Cab- ' Shot Down for Attacking Be Investigated | inet Still Incomplete Occupying Troops WASHINGTON, April 17—Attor- (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) VICHY, April 17—German au- ney General Francis Biddle an-| The Vichy Government of France thorities announced today that 35 nounced today that the Federal| has cleared the way for the as- hostages have been shot in Occu- Grand Jury of the District of Co-|sumption of power -by Pierre Laval pied France as reprisal for at- lumbia will investigate every by submitting the resignation of tacks against German occupying phase of “Social Justice,” the na- Chief of State Henri Philippe Pe- troops. >o Pacific. | tional weekly founded by the Rev. The War Secretary also said there | Charles Coughlin, which has been is a “practical coordination” cam- |temporarily barred from the mails paign in that area for the defeat for allegedly seditious statements of the Japanese invaders. Biddle added that the Govern- Stimson told the newsmen at the 'ment will take all necessary steps | conference that Gen. MacArthur's [to prevent distribution of the maga-| authority is fully agreed to by the zine outside of the mails, such as Australian and Dutch and the by express shipments. agreement embodying formal direc- - R - REPORTING Nalfijenls GotoPrison ~ ¢/jccrssEs LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, April 17 | —Pleading guilty of charges of e ; Moscow Radio Says Soviefs | not having registered as Nazi tain to retire. Vice Premier Admiral Jean Dar-‘ lan became Commander-in-Chief of the land, sea and air forces. A Berlin radio dispatch received today datelined Vichy said that Laval presented to Mashal Petain at noon an incomplete list of per- sons he intends to include in government For some unexplained reason, the dispatch from Berlin stressed the| fact that Petain rode by automo- | bile to today's cabinet session, while | the ministers came and left afoot. | Reuters of London heard Vichy | reports through Zurich suggest'ng! that Laval would like to maintain “friendly relations with the UmterI‘ States, as he realizes that a break with this country might have a disastrous effect on his control” | These Vichy-Zurich reports even| at the old Marshal's request iz LEAHY GETS ORDERS T0 COME HOME Ambassador fo Vichy Re- called fo Washington by Roosevelt WASHINGTON, April 17—Admir- al William Leahy, Ambassador to Vichy, was tcday recalled and in- structed to come to Washington QUITLAVAL =~ Starfed by ~ SELECTEES ARE LISTED 'Here Is How Juneau Men | Who Registered Feb. 16 Will Go The following list contains numbers which have been drawn out of the fish bowl in Washington. D. C, for those men between ages of 20 and 44 who registercd (for service with the Juneau Selec- |tive Service Board on February 16, 1942 Phese are the numbers which de- |termine in what order registrants will be asked to report for service. | The numbers begin with 10,001 and {80 up. The names are listed ai- | phabetically, not numerically: | 10001—Aase, Harold Kornelius | 10358—Agbunag, Nemisio Benny 10338—Alexander, William | ’ 10413—Anderson, Karl Niels agents, George Bodenschatz, 49, and his wife, Viola, 59, were sentenced in Federal Court here to five years' imprisonment and fined $3,000 each. Bodenschatz is a former Louis- ville manufacturer and is brother | suggested that Laval might try me-|for consultation. |diation to reestablish peace between| This announcement is made by Germany and the United States.|Under Secretary Sumner Welles {The communique from Vichy made Who also stated the action is be- {a point of identifying Admiral Day- cause cf information the new Vichy Attacking to-Break Leningrad Siege LONDON, April 17-—The MOSCOW an as the political heir desiznat: French Government will be domin- Anderson, Anderson, 10473—Anderson, 10151—Anderson, 10514—Anderson, Otto 10576—Andrews, James 10051—Andrews, Walter Harry 10140—Antie, George 10589—-Aquino, Julian Quevedo 10435—Arlowe, Herbert Hawley 10092—Ashby, Charles Thomas 10409—Ashenbrennen, Karl Eph- riam 10398—Bach, George Edward 10311--Bacon, Marcus Arradaza 10213-—Baggen, Jr., George 10381—Baker, Ralph Edgar 10305—Baker, Samuel Burrel Alvin Henry Henry Eugene Joseph Harold the |in the hands of the ! ( WASHINGTON, April 17 — The . INUMBERS OF 65,000 Troops, Civilians On Bataan Are Believed To Be (a_plives of Japs supply and other War Department today announced troops and some 25000 civilians than 65,000 | civilians, including 16 Genera have not been reported for than a week in the Bataan insula section and “presumably the enemy.” These figures given by the War Department include approximately 35,000 combat troops, about 5,000 | that more troops and more Pen- are RAFMAKES BURMAOIL - CEASELESS OFFENSIVE r i 'Wave Upon Wave Sweeps British Burn Yenang Yaung osenn Harold | (Oyer German Dominated | Field with Torches, Dyn- | -Sections of Cortinent , (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Clearing weather unleashed wave {upon wave of RAF planes in vir- |tually a ceaseless offensive against the German dominated continent Nazi bombers struck back sav- |agely at south coast towns, es- | pecially at Southampton. | Great forces of RAF swept over Inorthern France early today and returned across the strait preceded ’ NEW DELHI, April 17—The Brit- Lot The communique reported ng received but have been it is heavy have been lieved losses both sides. There were 68 Army nurses Bataan but all of them were evacu- ated to Co on troops. noncombatant | on April 9 along with a relatively small num- | 'k or wounded and a number of ber of l l US. ARMY NEARLY READY FOR OFFENSIVE l I CONFLICT TO TAKE IN GLOBE \Secretary Stimson Says ) | casunities during the st few dove| Préparations Long and be- Difficult Process MUST BE SURE OF ARMOR, KEY POINTS ‘Says Thing§ Are Beginning to Move in Right Di- rection Now WASHINGTON, April 17—Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that “so far as the Ar- my is concerned, we are getting pretty near the stage of being on the offensive however difficult it | may be.” In a review of American military | progr since the raid on Pearl | Harbor, given in general terms to newsmen today at a conference, Secretary Stimson said, “things are | beginning to move and move in the |right direction. I am now, more than ever, convinced we are going [to get on the offensive and will {do so at the earliest practicabla moment."” The War Secretary stressed, how- FIELD IS SACRIFICED amite as Japs Advance ish have sacrificed the rich, vast Burma cil field of Yenang Yaung to keep it out of the hands of the Japanese who unleashed the fiercest onslaught of the Burma campaign in a new effort to crack the center the allied line and split the Chinese Fifth and Sixth Armies The British were still fighting ever, that preparations for an of- fensive warfare and conflict in- |volve the catire globe and will be a long and difficult process. “Before we can lead this nation stubbornly in a holding actior. whiie in long sustained offensives, we “#l3¢--Balog, Adam John 10226—Bail Robert Howard - e By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—It logks the President will have to give Post- United will be of the | 3 i by the angry sound of German the.destruction of .the oll fields by'mu” be ‘siine-nk 116 key Polnty . leted in Yi jand that our armor is safe as pos- 10164—Bailey, Roy Hutto | cupied mainland and coast. ipe ed in Yenang Yaung. . |sible,” said Secretary Sti bee 10279—Bareksten, Tomas Andrias| Spitfires blanketed a great area' The badly outnumbered Kings s 10,280—Barnesson, Chester Rich- |struction across the waters at 20,- back to the north Magwe Gate- ard g 1000 feet. |way of the oil fields, today's com- 10276—Bartlett, Edward Lewis %\and over France by a second hu\zcl A }au- W,a; :L::]el,;nt!rctr:] L.h; B‘\;rh‘ 10420—Bates, Forrest Walter force. |ma front added that other Britis Vichy 10397—Beard, Harvey Wliliam British planes were destroyed over in the Taungdwingyi area in the 10136—Beck, vCharles; Oscar the channel and south English Pecu Yoma foothills midway be- radio said today that in spite of | Petai h ke of th ;. ated by the Axis Collaborationist to Lieut.-Gen, Karl Bodenschatz of by Petain, who spoke of e grav ) : |fierce German resistance, the RUS- ity of the country's present Situs Picrre Laval * S s o4y ke T e g !sians are taking “one great fort-|agion. President Roosevelt has orders |antiatreraft barrages from the oc- torches and dynamite was com- i |ress after another” in the region of Leahy to return immediately, Wel | Demidovo, 18 miles northeast of| told the newsmen at a conference, B S | 1 ” The waShlngtO Smolensk. ‘Bi Air Irainln |because of events of the past few| 10014—Barmes, George Nicholas |3s. they continued shutles of de- [Own Yorkshire Light Infantry fell M err Go Roun | Heavy fighting also was reported | g g |days and Laval's emergency. How- Y- a8 |along the vital front between the {ever Mrs. Leahy is convalescing 3 : & | X i saliinisss Lakes of Imen and Ladoga below pfogfim Is plan ihom an operation and the actual. 10124—Baroumes, George Stephens| The first wave ws followed in-)munique sald. Leningrad. The Russians are des- !trip home will be deferred until perately trying to break the siege 0( u " d N “ |she can travel. . ‘Icf Lcningx'ni! seforg the thaw tums n e a ons ;he Counselor 10046—Bean, Roy The German command claims 11 |forces are still holding positions as if the roads into bogs and floods the | Shrer | States Embassy in river. WASHINGTON, April 17—Presi-|jeft in charge there. f | dent Roosevelt and Canadian Pflmni 5 10074—Becolad, Besilio | coast yesterday and also said sup-|tween the British Irrawaddy front — e —ee —— master General Frank Walker the same dose of personal prodding | that finally snapped Attorney Gen-| eral Francis Biddle out of his moon- gazing lethargy and started him cracking down on seditious operat- ors. A venemous flood of Axis propa- ganda is daily going through the| mails. It is no secret. Walker knows all about it. For weeks he has been| bombarded with complaints from| outraged citizens demanding that this subversive activity be stopped. The Postal Inspection Service knows all about it. The oldest and| one of the most efficient sleuthing agencies in the government, the Inspection Service, is itching to move in. But with one exception, Walker has done nothing. The excepuon} was The Galilean, a publication put| out by William Dudley Pelley, Sil- ver Shirt leader recently arrested by the FBI on charges of sedition. The paper finally was barred from | the mails, but only after strongj official pressure on Walker. | But the several hundred other| | Minister MacKenzle King disclosed | | today - that a conference will be, iheld in Ottawa early in May at| which representatives from all| | United Nations may attgpd in con- | nection with launching an air tram-‘ Brifish Ship Is Torpedoed WASHINGTON, April 17 — A Naval communique today announced that a medium-sized British mer- chant vessel has been torpedoed in the Atlantic off the West Indies and that the survivors have been landed at a port in the Gulf of Mexico. ELKS’ BOWLERS WIN OVER ARMY A.R. Spaeth Passes Away AtKefchikan KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 17— | Funeral services will be held in the |Elks' Club here Sunday for Albert SI'O(K ouoTAllous |R. Spaeth, 75, pioneer resident who |came to Ketchikan in 1508 as book- keeper for Heckman's Store and NEW YORK, April 17—Closing|who was President when he died quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Survivors include his daughters, stock today is 1%, American Can Mrs. Howard Hughes of Fairbanks 59, Anaconda 24', Bethlehem Steel now in Ketchikan; Mrs. L. A. Bur- 'I‘H 54%, Commonwealth and Southern now of Ketchikan, his sons, Joe IEAM URSDAY 3/16, Curtiss Wright 6%, Interna- Spaeth, employed by Standard Oil G tional Harvester 42%, Kennecott 30, in Seattle, Robert R. and A. M An Elks' picked team won over!New York Central 7, Northern Pa-|Shaeth of Ketc<lkan; also a bro- an army, bowling team at the EIks'|cific 5%, United States Steel 47, ther in Kansas City and two ters Mrs. M. E. Carter and Miss E. S, ing program. | In a joint gtatement, this coun- | try and Canada have invited repre- | sentatives from other United Na- |tions to participate. The state-| | ment said the purpose of the meet- | ling lies along the lines of furthe united military efforts. - —— 10307—Benedict, Merton Freder-|PWY installations were attacksd were open for the first time for two| |days during which they had been| closed for work. With a total of 2631 pins thci Elks' team defeated the army men| who totalled 2305 for a three game| imatch. Outstanding bowling of the evening was done by Erv Hagerup| who made a total of 637 pins“ Closest runner-up was Carnegie| {with a total of 558. Hagerup made | la single game high of 245 and in| seditious publications continue to have free access to the U. S. mails to spread their vicious Axis lies and poison. Among the worst of them are a number of foreign language papers edited by alien Fascists, who are under investigation b ythe FBL If he needed any information on them, Walker could get it in a few minutes by a telephone call blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue alleys Thursday night. The alleys|Pound $4.04. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 96.05,| rails’ 23.92, utilities 10.82. | > ——— | FIRST FRESH HALIBUT OF SEASON ARRIVES| i First fresh halibut to arrive | Juneau this season was a small| paeth, both of Russell, Kansas. et W. LAWRENCE FREEBURN IN OVERNIGHT ON WAY TO SITKA BY PLANE W. Lawrence Freeburn, Vice- president and manager of the Pyramid Packing Company of Sit- ka, arrived in Juneau by ACA plane from Ketchikan late yesterday af- ternoon and continued to Sitka with |AcA this morning. from his huge, ornate office. But to date Walker hasn’t done a thing to halt this sinister flood of enemy propaganda. During the World War not only were such publications barred from ‘the mails but the Post Office De- partment. obtained the willing co- operation of express companies to refuse to carry any matter banned the first game rolled 201. Others|amount brought in this morning topping the 200 mark were Holm-|by the Ford, Capt. Ole Brensdal. quist, who rolled 212 in his third|The Ford brought 6,000 pounds of game and L. Dietmein, of the |sable fish which was bought for| army team, who made 205 in his|6 cents by E. E. Engstrom and alsot ing Machine representative, re- second game. {about 500 pounds of halibut that|turned to Juneau on ACA plane Scores Thursday night were as| was purchased by the Juneau Cold|from a business trip of a few days follows: | storage Company for the market. to Sitka. He is staying at the The Helen, Capt. John Willis,|Gastineau Hotel while in Juneau. 470 | brought in 7,000 pounds of sable - eee — e —— BURROUGHS’ MAN HERE W. F. Burgeson, Burroughs’ Add- ARMY TEAM 133 185 100 150 D. Hansen Hart 152— 104— by the Department. Walker is one of the most genial A officials in Washington. But he is|L. Dictmeir 151 205 175— 531 not noted for either initiative or(F- Fershing 178 150 168— 496 forcefulness. He never does any- } thing that might disturb the peace| Totals 709 847 7492305 of his easy-going daily routine of ELKS' PICKED TEAM running a government department Carnegie 178 197 183— that runs itself. Hagerup 201 191 245— Holmquist 135 192 212— 539 Simmons 144 105 144— 393 Jobnson 165 194 145— 504 Arndt 147 157 150— 454{ L. L. L. P 5591 637 ROOSEVELT'S MEMORY In past years when the President received the first poppy from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, opening (Continued on Page Four) Totals 823 879 931—2631 —————— BUY DEFENSE BOND: - RETURN TO SITKA Grant Logan and Eing Mack, of | for 6 cents a pound. “ | ternoon after visiting on the Chan-| nel for a few days. S e GIL RICH ARRIVES | Gil Rich, merchandise broker, ar-| rived in Juneau on ACA plane rmm( Petersburg late yesterday after- | noon and is spending some time here on business.. J 354| fish which E. E. Engstrom bought MR. AND MRS. GOUDIE AND INFANT RETURN TO CHICHAGOF FRIDAY Mr. and Mrs. J. M.. Goudie and their infant daughter left Junean {Douglas. returned to Sitka this af-|Priday for Chichagof by Alaska Coastal Airlines plane. L R R MAKES SITKA TRIP J. Adron Troxell, of the Siems- Drake Spokane Company, arrived in Juneau today and continued by plane to Sitka. - ,ee — BUY DEFENSE BONDS ick 10031—Bennes, Anders 10570—Bensen, Sid , 10318—Berg, Barney 10343—Besancon, Henry Lawrence 10138—Biggs, William Howard 10342—Birkeland, Hans 10353—Blake, Paul Wilbur 10520—Bland, Charles Willilam 10056—Blanton, William Preston 10430—Bobner, Frank 10267—Bocatch, Michael Ivan 10547—Booth, Willis Roberts 10144—Berbridge, Johns 10007—Bosley, Wendell Wayne 10224—Botelho, Emmett Manuel 10012—Bowling, William 10094—Brady, Joseph 10455—Brambo, Sigurd Konradson 10543—Brandall, Martin 10460—Brandvik, John 10255—Bringdale, Arthur 10037—Brown, Austin Harding 10067—Brown, David 10487—Brown, William Adalphus 1053¢—Brumann, Frank 10529—Bucher, Alfred Peter 10332—Bulger, Erwin Francis 10125—Burford, Jack Blaisdell 10131—Burford, Wilbur Keller 10281—Burke, Martin Stephen 10087—Burnett, David Senior 10415—Burrell, Clifford 10579—Butts, Eugene Edward 10327—Cain, Charles N. 10554—Callow, Herbert Vaughn 10382—Cameron, Farlin Francis 10191—Campbell, Frank George 10253—Carl, Glen Vincent 10229—Carl, Walter Ralph 10521—Carlson, Arthur Carl 10536—Carlson, Walter John 10288—Caro, Jules Bertrand 10099—Carrigan, LeRoy 10492—Carrillo, Cipriano Kimpo 10,123—Carteeti, George 10351—Carter, Cassius Cleo 10057—Case, Harvey Ernest 10299—Cashen, Lawrence J 10200—Cawthon, Walter Columbus | ©f 8ames played in the two major 10426—Chadwick, Thomas Elmer 10066—Chambers, Harold Lee 10539—Chase, Archie Marsh 10143—Chase, Eugene Sylvester 10456—Christensen, Jorgen Peter 10040—Clark, Frank Alexander 10319—Clark, George France 10219—Clements, Leray Frances 10085—Cochran, Hugh Lewis 10217—Colvey, Ogust 10077—Comer, John Stanton |Cny{il}\|i?fl on Page “with good results” and high ex-| plosives and incendiary hombs weve | dropped on Southampton. | MANY FLY WITH " ALASKA COASTAL | Passengers arriving here from| |Sitka yesterday afternoon were L.| F. Blake, Robert Dannard, Frank M. Owens, M. F. Coons, W. F. Burg- | eson, H. B Foss, Stanley Grum- mett, Donald Murphy, Bob Mc- Manvy. Leaving for Sitka, were Sam Bakke, J. C. Gilky, Wesley C. Overby, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Jor-! dan On the return flight from Ketchi- kan, passengers for Juneau with ACA were from Ketchikan, F. Martencon, Mrs. L. DeLuca and W, La: nee Freeburn; from Peters- burg, G. L. Rich and from Wrangell, Austin Brown. A. Goetz made the| trip from Ketchikan to Petersburg.| This morning passengers from | Juneau to Chichagof were Mr. and! {Mrs. J. M. Goudie and to Sitka,| |Capt. M. W. MelInnis, Lt. Col. Fred P. Andrews, Mrs. F. Darlin and L. | Freeburn, Those arriving here on the re- turn fiight from Sitka were, Everett E. Riggs. J. P. Chase, Ross Peterson, | Eliza Williams and Dewey Gibbon Leaving this afternoon for Sitka were J. Adron Troxell, Stanley Au- bert, Grant Logan, Eing Mack and a F. C. Mortenson. Sitka flights i\)oth ways. (GAMES TODAY carried air leagues this afternoon as received up to press time: National League New York 3; Boston 4. i St. Louis 2; Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 1; Brooklyn 7 | American League | Boston 0; New York 1. | Philadelphia 5; Washington 4. Some 40,000 American trucks were mail | 4 scores | ployees for SUSPENDED and the Chinese Sittang river front | to the east. e JAPANESE BATTERIES SILENCED BULLE' ‘Washington, Apr. 17—The guns of Manila Bay forts have silenced three Jap- anese artillery batteries during the past 24 hours the War De- partment reported late this af- ternoon adding that an enemy bomber is also belicved to have crashed. The special communique also said that on the island of Panay fierce fighting is believed in progress between the defend- House Committee Refuses | Month’s Wait - Vote After Next Week WASHINGTON, April 17 — The House Naval Committee refused by a 9-9 vote to suspend action for a month on the legislation to lim- |it war profits ‘and to regulate lab- jor in war industries. | By a later agreement, however, | the committee decided against vot- |ing on the measure or amendments until after next week. ALASKA SMALL FARM . OPERATORS MAY GET " GOVERNMENT LOANS | Word has been received here by | Regional Forester B. Frank Heint- | | | Ifalian Transport |zleman that Charles M. Ross, of the regional office of the Farm [Secum.y Administration in Portland, |Oregon, is on his way to Alaska where he will study the needs of small farm operators in the Mat- anuska and Tanana Valleys and Homer with regard to making small |loans for seed, equipment, repairs and other services. Ross will confer with Heintzleman on the situation, then will go to ing troops and the enemy in- vasion force that has effected landings at Iloilo and Capiz. Sunkly Brit. Su LONDON, April 17 — A British submarine has torpedoed and sunk | large Italian transport convoy, ording to a communique re- ceived today from the British Ad- miralty Office. - D - COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT meet to- city em- be ap- The City Council will night at 8 o'clock and the year will | Anchorage where he will set up an office. This move is in line with the government’s policy to stim- ulate food production during the emergency. - ., — KETCHIKAN VISITORS TAKE PLANE TODAY Mrs. Ralph Bartholomew, Dr. and Mrs. R. M. MacKenzie and Miss Juanita Crowther, who came to proved. Juneau by plane this week to visit Mrs, Stella Young and Lieut. and Mrs. E. T. Yarbrough, left for the First City in an Ellis Air Trans- port plane this morning. The plane, piloted by Bud Bodding also took Robert Dennard to Ketchikan as a passenger. - > - HAROLD FOSS RETURNS FROM TRIP TO SITKA Harold Foss, Juneau architect, re- turned Thursday afternoon from a business trip o a few days to Sitka - eee Sausages were mentioned | cooking book in the year 228. - CONTRACTOR HERE M. F. Coons, of the Eliot Con- Tt struction Company, of Seattle ar- The saxaphene takes its name rived in Juneau from Sitka by plane in a sent overseas during the first World War, 33,000 going to France. lxrum its inventor, Adolphe Sax. yesterday afternoon,