The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 21, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALA‘%KA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUP l)\\. APRII 14 __ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9014. b RAID ALARMS KEEPING JAPS AROUSED L. S. Warplanes Blast Axis On Many Fronts LOOK FOR ALASKA ROAD| DesiroyerLays i During Baltle ALERTS KEEP INVASION BE FINISHED - | NIPPONS IN . MOVE SOON IN ONE YEAR GREAT FEAR Stark Surprised - Britain to Combine All Fighting Services Fol- lowing Conference (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) United States warplanes are now | blasting the Axis on many fronts and are already being ferried to a British operational base to join the Royal Air Force in its great aerial offensive against the contin- ent, London sources reported today. At the same time, Anthony E. en, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, disclosed that Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill has approved a plan to organize a combined operations staff, which would link Britain's Army, Navy and Air Force into a single gigantic combat team Prelude to Invasion ‘The move would coordinate the Trucks, Tanks Could Use| Pioneer Road at Start, Report WASHINGTON, April 21—Com- missioner of Public Roads Thomas H. MacDonald has reported to the House Roads Committee that the army expects that the Alaska high- way will be completed this year. | Representative James W. Mott [said that the commissioner said that tanks and trucks could start over the pioneer road as soon as it |is completed. He said that a start | has ‘been made on the permanent {road but that the army was not able to maie exact estimates on the | cost However, he said, it would ;be estimated at more than $100,- 1000,000. The road starts at Fort St. John, | Assoviated Press Correspondent Preston Grover, wio tock this picture from a British cruiser during the Central Western Part of Imperial Nation Kept in Suspense (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) New air raid aiarms, ranging from one to seven hours, have kept central and western Japan aroused during today. Prolongkd alerts have been sounded over the sec- {tion containing the vital naval vases, ports and industrial cities. This afternoon the alarms were almost continuously sounded. Even while the anese broad- casts continued to minimize the effects of the alarms, stating that instead the Cabinet ministers were recelving reports that the Japan- ese life was affected only in a small degree and the postal ser- vice has been quickly resumed, the | continues to Fairbanks through| ‘epic Mediterranean sea battle with Italians March 22 deseribed it with the lines: “The destroyers raced Berlin radio broadcasts declare the British fighting service, perhaps as o e | Fort Nelson and Whlu’hms&‘ | back and forth laying smoking screens about the convoy, screens out of which they and the cruisers would (Contmued on Page Six) | 3 ek | In a surprise ceremony at the White House, President Roosevelt ‘vl(To RY IN | pinned a gold star on Admiral Harold R. Stark (right) immander of the U. 8. Naval forces in rurop(“ln _waters, in recognition of Stark’s as Chief of Naval Operations from : v. h j “excepticnal meritorious service” Ies’ I( y | 1929 until a few weeis ago. VICHY, April 21.—Mrs. w"“"""‘Ma(AmHUR HAS Leahy, wife of the United States | Ambassador to France, died today. | She underwent a major operation (OMPLETED NEw COMMAND STAFF Ambassador Leahy was last week First Communique Issued i ‘1 b i " 5 | by General Highlights The waShmgton} Philippine Actions condition of Mrs. Leahy was such MerrY Go Round‘ UNITED S’I‘ATI:ETSV ARMY HEAD- that his departure was delayed. B ‘ QUAR]ERS Australia, April 21 By DREW PEARSON»-— | Gen. Douglas MacArthur has and ROBERT S. ALLEN |nalized the establishment of his gt _ |new Southwestern Pacific Command WASHINGTON—One of the prin-|ang completion of his staff by is- cipal subjects discussed by HAITy|guing his first daily communique. Hopkins and Gen. Marshall in Lon- | The communique embraces oper- don was Russian involvement in the | otions in the Philippines, Dutch war in the Pacific. Allied chiefs|gag 1ngies and Australia. n are convinced that the question N0 | MacArthur's staff is composed longer is whether Russia and Japan |jqygaly of his aides who were in will fight, but when. | the Philippine: The answer to this question is| The communique highlighted the of greatest moment to both sides. gytention Gen. MacArthur is de- Russian participation in the Pa-|y,tino to the Philippine campaign cific would mean many vital strat- by announcing that Japanese ar~ egic advantages to the Uni'ed|¢inery firing upon Fortress Cor- States. The spectacular U. S. bomb- | regidor is abating. ing raid from Australia to Manila| Tpe communique also announces could be duplicated on Tokyo if g new raid yesterday on Salamd- U. S. planes could use VIadivostok |iaua, the Japanese foothold in New as a landing base. |Guinea, and that the Japanese For Hitler, a Jap attack on the|csdquarters buildings were Russian rear would offer the hope|cmashed along with some hangars of easing Russian pressure on m"land a fuel dump was destroyed. western front, where Nazi plans for| ¢ 5 announced that henceforth a spring offensive have been ser-|Gen MacArthur's communiques iously disrupted. For the Japs.lwm supplant those issued by the striking while the Red Army I5|ustralian Government which have straining every nerve to overcome| g4 of Allied Nation's attacks on the Nazis would offer the possi-|goepang, Dutch Timor, and on bility of crippling the Russians be-|papaul New Britain. fore they are in a position to throw S I their full weight against the Japs. Allied strategists believe that Jap | warlords now are weighing the| Federa' Employees on question of an early attack Russia. This belief is based on cer- | In An(horage May tain significant Intelligence infor-| ion, h 3 | g mation, such s ¢ we swou-. 0C1F Inf0 Politics pet government in Manchukuo wis| ferd summoned to Tokyo to make plans| WASHINGTON, April 21.—Alaska for raising new levies of namA Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has troops to reinforce the Jap army|introduced a bill to permit Federal on the Soviet border. Appaiently’ employces of the Alaska Railroad, Japan has no reserves to sena to residing in Anchorage, to participate Manchukuo, so she is taking a leaf | in all political campaigns involving from the Nazis and proposcs to use Anchorage anc in the political man- | vassal manpower for military oper-! | agement of the city. ations. Tl o 2. Berlin has been putting the INDPIAN OFFICIA heaviest pressure on the Japs to| attack Russia. The recent myster-| ious return to Tokyo of the Jap Ambassador to Germany is cred ited with being connected with this matter. Note:— U. 8. radio monitors re- port that Jap broadcasts of -the (Continued on Page Four) Raymond L. Wolf, Credit Agent, and Harvey W. Starling, Supervisor of Arts and Crafts for the Alaska | boat for Ketchikan last night where they will be engaged in official business in the First City and at other Southeast Alaska points. GO TO KETCHIKAN and farms and armed forces, es- lms 12,000 employees. RURMA WON fiolators, BY CHINESE Encircled Brifish Troops at| Priorities enang Yaung Saved Belflg Sued in Successful Drive | CHUNGKING, April 21.--Chinese | forces have recaptured the vital oil Two Sfee| Corporahgns center of Yenang Yaung and have | saved 7.000 encircled British troops | May Be Enjoined Under |and 100 supply trucks in the first | Allied victery in the battle of | W. P. D. Stafutes muma. | 3} An Army spokesman said that | " after rescuing the British troops, the WASHINGTON, April 21—AtOI- cpinese fought with their allies ney-General Francis D. Biddle an- ypqer British command and drove | nounced today that the Justice )Je- | {hyree miles south of Yenang Yaung | rtment has filed suit in Fed- through the rubble of the oil wells | eral District Court seeking to °n-'to which the encircled British had Jom ne Carnegie Iliinois Steel Cor- | touched the torch last week in an| poration and the Jones Laughlin effort to prevent their falling into | Steel Corporaticn from violating Jap hands if they should be vic- | priorities fixed by the War Pro- | torious duction Board. Severe fighting with the Japanese is still in progress, the communique said. The Chinese Commander, United States Lieut.-Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, moved the British s tion at the request of the Allied Hizh Command. | The communique added that one Chinese Battalion commander was killed in leading his troops to re- capture Yenang Yaung. ‘ The fury of the fighting in Burma ‘conunued unabated throughout last | week, but fiercer battles are expect- | ed, said the dispatches. The spokes- |man said that the morale of the Chinese, who have fought in Burma for the last month with a glaring ANNOUN(ED”’" of inferiority, is now very high McNutt Say? Nation May 'CAUSE OF FIRE Face Labor Short- ON NORMANDIE The suits involve more than one third of the total steel production of the nation and are tie first in- stituted under the Board’s prior- ities program. - - - WASH.INGTON, April 21-—Chair- man Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission, announcss| CO UT 1 OF Inquiry Charges ‘he will create a system of labor| 1 priorities designed to get needed workmen V'°|a'ed COm‘ men into the most important war he doesn't contemplate the “work T or fight” method of forcing men| WASHINGTON, April 21 — The into war production. Navy Department announces that | sponsibility of allocating man and | full responsibility for the fire on {woman power among the m,w”es‘lhe former French liner Normandie, last February 9 in New York Hai- |timated that 13,000,000 new recruits| bor, squarely on the employees cf ate needed in war plants this year \lh@ Robins Drydock and Repair land said “we may be confronted Company of Brooklyn. with an overall nation-wide lapor| The Court of Inquiry charged levent of a long war.” |tion of the rules of common sense i R by the company's workmen. New York City's fire department I it TR 1 BUY DEFENSE STAMPS 4 WASHINGTON, April 21A-Dm\-' i age in War ald Nelson'’s WPB and Leon Hei- i s IS “ow plACED derson’s OPA ate the sources of | | o n stories than you shake a wrench at. Just a culled from the crop of the last In a small town (pop.| man who read the gas meters in check of the tires stored in base- meter man grinned suid he already had and that | o o of jail had counted 186 tires hidden| .i.i ine other day by the informed | cording to a German notice issued McNutt, charged with the re- the Court of Inquiry has placed g that probably was less than half the hoarding going on in p "oy et her |Office of Indian Affairs, left' by shortage which is likely 1 the “gross carelessness and utter viola- ,eqs —or one tire for every five and if his community were | .. o jyiile legal . then there are about 26- tires hoarded in the e and then return out of sight,” ,* wrete AP Correspondent Preston Grover, firing feray and made a sharp turn behind the screen. inchers right in our old course.’ ¢ ahcad and parked a paid of 15 Hoarding, Ulaer Schemes Are Revealed Over Aulo Tire Situation in Nalion BY JACK STINNETT basements and s tires was a for many years | ous customers of He called in the asked him to make| ., == y.4 for village. The mayor If there were, he tires in this town house full of ti Connecuicut; ‘The ¢ pens to a tire dealer ity here. He had been in busines: upplied some of them on the mayor was curious 10|y OpaA found many of his neighbors| | Tl Lo any an't even buy a wholesale Washington, D. C fence, but had been unable the flagrant dealer in stolen prop- niece. Her uncle, him, had died in She offered to give the law a set. her, refused, and free (Continued on Page Three) Two ltalian 15-Inchers that Missed Brit. Cruiser ™ shed back into the smoke after one The HMalian batileship gunner assumed we had 30 FRENCH SENTENCED FOR ATTACK v Germans Order Execution for Wrecking of Troop | Train Near Rouen VICHY. April 21—-German occu- pation authorities in Rouen have ordered the execution of 30 French hosta, who are accused of bomb- ing a C man troop train in which a e number” of Nazi soldier | were killed. The communique officially an- to keep mnounced that 80 more host will be shot if those guilty of attack ing the train are not twned over for punishment by April 30, a in the district. .- —— Department of Commerce says there are 2400000 business estab- lishments in the United States, more than 29 percent of whi e small businesses. Japanese in the air raid alarm dis- tricts are almost in a panic and the greatest of excitement prevails. ent On Cause Neither the Tokyo nor Berlin broadcasts make any mention of type of planes causing the alarms nor of any bombs being dropped. One broadeast picked up in San Prancisco-indieated the alarms nmy merely be a symptom of Japanese fears of an air attack since the Japanese High Command .reported the raids of last Saturday on Tok- y0, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya. Intense ¢. M. Alarm A Tokyo broadcast says a most intense air raid alarm was sound- ed this afternoon betw 1 4 and 5 o'clock over the greater section of Japan but gave no reason nor was any further mention made Broadeasts picked up state that bombs dropped in Saturday's raid n the industrial cer of Japan » of a type which Japan fears | mest—incendis bombs, which are most effective against her wood and paper-built cities. Damage Repaired Broadcasts are quoted as saying: “Thanks to the activity of the auxiliary and antiaircraft units, combined with the calm of the population, the damage was limited to a minimum Except for a very few bombs, the enemy dropped mainly incen- diaries weighing only twelve pounds which did not cause any great damage.” (Continued on Page Two) CHRISTIAN JAPS PRAY FOR PEACE lPropagandva Broadeast In- timates Beginning of | Peace Offensive TOKYO, April 21—In a ‘radio broadeast today, a Domei dispateh was read quoting Toyohiko Kagawa, he mest famous of Japanese Chri: tian leaders, in which he asserted that among Japanese Christians, “Prayers are being said for an ear- ly conclusion of war and restoration |of peace throughout the world.” The purpese of this broadeast by the Government-controlled radio is obscure, but it might be the be- ginning of a Japanese “peace of- fensive.” apanese leaders may be count- ng on Kagawa's reputation in the rited States, where he has lec- tured widely and his books in translation have had considerable circulation, to gain attention for the suggestion that the Japanese Christians, at least, want peace,