The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9012. PRICE TEN CENTS PANTODAY 18, 1942 “MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'AIR RAID MADE ONJ LD ALL VESSELS rine Under Full Control | Government today took steps 10| are still held under private owner- volved. the use of or title to aproximately over through purchase, charter, or FRENCH SUB officials announce that the sub- world, is considered to be lost. | DURING wAR small seaplane. \ By DREW PEARSON | WASHINGTON, April 18—Because sleuths are probing a series of 'has restricted the mailing of par- agencies. | United States, Canada and Mexico. tain Wall Street traders have ob- sending a parcel if it exceeds 11 duction Board, the Office of Price| other restrictions which will be In one instance cotton brokers got any one week from the same per- was made public. This announce-' =, pineipa) articles which will ket operators not only learned fourth class mail. The WPB order banning all non- Departments have informed him tain members of the building trade. expeditious movement of vital war oils, and allowing an increase in lutely essential to the war effort the order was issued. lin the mails.” while not directly connected with business. friends. MAKES KETCHIKAN ISOLATIONIST POW-WOW commander of the embattled South-|Coastal Airlines yesterday after- cago. made the trip to Hocnah frum publisher of the rabidly isolation-‘moming were W. R. Case, C. D. cousin, Capt. Joseph Medill Pat-|morning, passengers were Jack bergh. | Ketchikan trips. then went to -the Chicago Club, 4 ' | g [ 1] of Shipping Board WASHINGTON, April 18 — The| take. control over all vessels of the| American Merchant Marine which| | ship. 23y Several hundred vessels are m-i Admiral Emory S. Land, War | Shipping Administrator, said that | 75 percent of the nation’s freighter | tonnage has previously been taken | requisition of the vessels. ———————— LONDON, April 18—Free French| RE TR‘I(TED marine Surcouf, a vessel of 2,800 tons, largest undersea craft in the| The French sea raider carried a normal crew of 150 and also a R | —_— ' The Washington Posimaster General Says Merry - Go Round Packages Outside Con- L1 o RQBERT g2 L |of “military necessity and the need WASHINGTON Government | for shipping space,” the postoffice mysterious leaks of important mar- |cels which require ocean transpor- ket information from key war | tation cutside the continental On several occasions recently cer- | Persons will be prohibited from .tained advance tips on important pounds and is more than 18 inches moves to be made by the War Pro- jn jength and girth combined. Administration and the Agricultur® jncjyged are that not more than Department. one package will be accepted in wind. of an.Agl‘icuxltu:e pz::yr anl; son or firm for the same address. nouncement 45 minutes before W po igapies will not be accepted. ment was supposed to be absolutely | 3 o cecret until publication. The mar- be affected are second, third and about it, but used the information| Postmaster General Frank Walk- for private profit. |er said that the War and Navy escential building construction alsa that such mailings are “seriously was tipped off in advance to cer- | interfering with an delaying the So, too( was the OPA’s action im- suppiies and that merchandise and posing a price ceiling on fats and printed matter which is not abso- wool prices. Word regarding this and was formerly transported by move leaked out two days before|other means is now being placed Under suspicion for these leaks L are certain dollar-a-year men, who, these matters, were in a position AMSKA COASIA to learn about them and to tip off On.the day that Gen. Douglas| ; % MacArthur was appointed supreme! Returning from Sitka by Alaska west Pacific, two very interestingnoon were Jack Molyneaux and secret meetings took place in Chi-| Waiter A. Soboleff. Patricia Kane The first was held in the private Juneau. office of Col. Robert McCormick, Leaving for Sitka with ACA this ist Chicago Tribune. Present in ad- |Davis, Rex Palmer an dG. G. Brown. dition to McCormick were his! On a flight to Ketchikan this terson, publisher of the New York|Molyneaux and Mable Morgan. Daily News, and ‘Col. Charles Lind-|Mail was carried on both Sitka and The three men were closeted to-| Kooty gether for several hours. They| where they were joined by Gen. (Continued on Page Four) = Three to five bee hives will keep a farm family supplied with honey. BUY DEFENSE BONDS U.S. TROOPERS IN THE defense positions. Trinidad is most soutberly of the British West Indies, kies off north co tinent Be Cut Down ] Fourth fieqisirafion of Men from 4510 65, April 11,1s O»nly Count of Nose_; By JACK STINNETT . WASHINGTON, April 18—Appar- ently the President’s announcement that men of 45 to 65 will be regist- red April 27 has given rise to a NAZIS REPORT ot of unanswered questions and u S (ARRIERE ome misunderstanding, with .smm'f - n sldsters thinking that registration| | vill mean immediate draft into the| Army or war industries. ‘SUNK BY JAPS‘ I have talked to national Selec- Service officials and to Con-| gressmen. The Fourth Registra- ion is a nose-counting registra- ion and nothing more. It could e done, but NOT as effectively,| by the Census Bureau. The Census | Jureau admittedly misses a certain sercentage of the population. If the | Jelective Service boards miss a few, | the FBI doesn't—not for long any-| way. ive Broadcast SEE Ship Sent Down Off Japan’s East Coast LONDON, April 18—DNB, man news agency, reported broadcast heard heve today that ccording to unconfirmed re- ports from Tokyo, an Americs ft carrier has been sunk off Ger- in a Besides, ‘the Fourth Revistration 1l make available detailed facts nd information that could not be htained any other way. Congress, the military forces, and the War Production Board will thén know T jexactly where we stand | ower is fitted for. It will be the '© | power, what that power is fitted | for. It will be the basis of planning | i for the future if the war drags on| for years. war drags on for years. ar report was heard from . which has been giving num- versions of the raids on i ital city. - e — LEADERS OF HOUSE SAY NEWS 600D WASHINGTON, April 18 |resentative Carl Vinson of Ge | chairman of the House Naval Com- | mittee was elated today by the re- Inort of the bombing of Tokyo, say- 10011Iinue<TB;‘Pagc Two) - ‘ i }im ‘It appears to me that the Allied Nations are beginning to take Dutch Women Refugees in e ortensve. Australia Say Conditions |or onucrs. ehaiman of the ML i y i Appalling on Islands tary Committee, said, “It is the Rep- |beginning of a general offensive X iWhile it is hard for me to believe MELBOURNE, April 18—Aneta, (?0¥thing thet Japan says, this the Dutch news agency, reported |bears out my prediction of ten days today that two Duteh women who 380 when ‘I said Tokyo would be |have reached here from the Fast|bombed shortly.” Indies, say that 300 Europeans are | Chairmuan of the House Appro- dying amid appalling conditions of | Priations Committee, Repres dysentery and fever in a concen- | ‘'iVe J. B. Snyder of Pennsylvani tration camp on the Japanese-cap- | “@id. “This will prove to be a gre tured Tsland of Ambon. site of a booster of morale not only at hom |destroyed Dutch naval base. J'vu[ espegially to Russia and China.’ % CARIBBEAN_No lagzards are here, among the American infantrymen hustling from dock site camp at Trinidad, o take up 5t of South.America. U.S. has defenses there, by arrcngement with Britain, Fly New RAF Plane Only two Americans of the RAF o ot mrecant flyine the new Whirl. wind fighter planes now in use by the British. The craft, which British claim e s with four cannons in its and a high tail. The Am I icans 0se. STOCK QUOTATIONS ‘W YORK, April uctation of Alask: stock at today’s short session i American 1 aconda { Bethlehem Steel 5 Common- wealth and Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7, International Harveste «, Kennecott 30, New ral 7%, Northern Pacific 5%, ed States Steel 47%, Pound $4.04 18-Closing 42 DOW, JONES AVERAG The follewing are today’s Jones averages: industrials rails 24,11, utililies, 1{0 817, Petersburg, and Pilot Officer N. V. Juneau mine | the famous Spitfire in speed also is armed a single-seater with two engines t. Pilot R. 1. Reed of St Crabtree of Worcester, Mass. 1. 5. PLANES HIT AT JAPS INRANGOON NEW DELHI, India, April 18—A United States Air Force communi- que reported today that a squadron of heavy bombers has raided Jap- anese-occupied Rangoon in Burma, hitting the docks and other harbor installations heavily. 4 TOKYO,YOKOHAMA, KOBE, NAGOYA UNDER ATTACK, INDUSTRIAL CENTERS OF NIPPON NATION RAIDED (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) From Japanese broadcasts, the Japanese Imperial Com- mand at Tokyo anncunces that hostile airplanes bombed Tekvo, Yokohama, Nagoyva and Kdbe and caused air raid :,\lurms to be sounded through three of the main islands of Japan. Observers in Tokyo said the raiders over Tokyo bore the linsignia of the United States Air Force. The Tokyo broadcast says these are the first air raids in Japan's history. TREMENDOUS SWEEP (Thus, in one tremendous sweep, the attackers, in what appears to have been the mest daring assault in history, struck at the heart of the Japanese Empire, Tokyo, the Capital City with a population of seven million, the world’s largest eity: Nagoya, with a million four hundred thousand, the center of the aircraft industry; Kobe, with a million two hundred thousand, chief port of the Empire, shipping front supplying the Japanese armed forces in the southwest Pa- cifie; Yokohama, with a population of nine hundred thousand.) AIR RAIDS ARE SOUNDED r raid alarms were in force for varying periods from the northern tip of Hokkaido to Sikoku in the south, includ- ing most of the main island of Honshu, a stretch of more than 1,000 miles. The Imperial Headquarters announced the raiders which “anproached frem several different directions,” came over Tokyo and Yokchama areas, half an hcour after noon today. Two hours later, two planes raided Nagoya and a single raider dropped incendiary hombs on Kobe, 370 miles west of Tokyo. Official anncuncements said: “It is confirmed thus far that nine enemy planes were shot down. In all cases the damage was slight.” (The claim that nine raiders were destroyed suggests the raid was made by many times that number of planes.) TOKYO, April 18—The official Japanese news agency Nomei reverts no damage done in the immediate neighbor- hood of the Imperial Paiace or quarter where the Embassies, Legations and Government buildings are situated. “The Imperial Family is safe.” Domei insists that only schools, hospitais and residen- tial sections were hit hut the damage is slight. No bombs fell in Tokyo but two theatres cancelled their matinees this afternoon. Domei says one high Japanese official h: populace not to become panicky. Demei says four pound incendiary bombs were dropped in the raids which began at 12:30 o'clock urday after- noon, Tekve time, and the all clear signal was scunded 3 hours and 20 minutes later. NOT BASED IN CHINA CHUNGKING, April 18—It is learned from a reliable autherity tonight that the air raiders on Japan were not based in China. Last night from San Francisco it was reported that a st from Japanese headquarters, heard in the United ynfirmed the Tokvo raid, saying that hostile planes struck at the Jap capital from several directions. The Jap anncuncer claimed that three of the raiding planes were shot down. However, San Francisco listening posts reported hearing another Jap broadeast which claimed that nine of the bombers were downed. ATTACK YOKOHAMA A Berlin broadcast, meanwhile, said that Yekohama had heen attacked as well as Tekyo, but that enly slight damage resulted, and that Japanese antiaireraft batteries and fighter planes were sent into action. Another Berlin broadeast said that 400 heuses were burned in an unexplained fire at Oguni in Northern Japan. sarlier in the evening, a dispatch from San Francsico reported that a CBS listening station there had picked up the following report broadcast from Tokyo, the first indi- cation of the raid: s warned the FIRST REPORT “Enemy bombers appeared over Tokyo for the first time in the current war today. They inflicted damages on schools and hespitals. The raid eccurred shortly past noon on Sat- urday (Tokyo time). The invading planes failed to cause any damage to military establishments althcugh they in- flicted essualties on schocls and hospitals. “This inhuman attack on these cultura! establishments and residential districts is causing widespread indignation |among the populace,” the broadcast concluded.