The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1942, Page 1

DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIl TH VOL. LVIiL, NO. 9016. “YOUTH RESERVES C | Chinese In Burma Mop Up On Jap Sector LINES OF RAF. KEEPS INVASION OF 23, 1942 Filipino Infaniry Bafialion Grganizing Japs fo Release Him INVADERS STORMED CHUNGKING, April 23—Chinese troops are mopping up the last Japanese forces clinging to the vil- lages immediately down the river | of the Irrawaddy front from the city of Yenang Yaung, important oil center which was recaptured | early in the week by Chinese gn-; ing to the rescue of encircled Brit- | ish troops. The fiercely battling Chinese have | pushed the invader’s lines b‘u_k‘} three or four miles south of the West Burma town, through (]w‘ ruins of oil wells which were | scorched by the trapped British last week to prevent their falling | into the enemy'’s hands. | On the Eastern Burma froni, | however, according to an official Army spokesman, General Joseph Stilwell's Chinese forces have fallen l back under intensive pressure along the Salween River and up the road ! toward Mandalay. | Fierce fighting continues along | the Eastern front, however, as the well-seasoned troops under the United States commander bitterly resist the Nlpponese advances. ! - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 23—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 1%, American Can | 55'%, Commonwealth and Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 7, Interna- | tional Harvester 40%, Kennecott 294, New York Central 7, Northern Pacific 5%, United States 46, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 94.98, rails 24.03, utilities 10.70. | The Washington Merry-Eg— Round Western Wa_shingion Fair Tokyo New_s;;per Claims By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—Several days ago/| Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of the Bureau of Naviga- tion, vigorously urged the House Naval Affairs Committee to ap- prove a bill to create a Women's Auxiliary Reserve in order to re- lease much needed men for com-| bat duty. The Navy, the Admiral| gravely warned, is facing a serious shortage of seagoing officers and sailors to man its rapidly expand- ing fleets. Jacobs' testimony was extraordin- | ary in the light of what other Navy brasshats are doing on this problem of seagoing personnel. | It may sound unbelievable but xt‘ is an absolute fact that these brasshats are preparing to place on the retired list on June 30 hun- dreds of experienced regular Navy, and Marine Corps officers with from 10 to 25 years of active ser- | vice. On that day the Navy careers of | these officers are slated to came to an end. Because of the great| war need, actually they won't be ! let out. What will happen is th.s-. They- will be placed on the letueu list and simultaneously recalled active duty. But as far as chances‘ for promotion or a Navy future is concerned, they are all washed up. When the war is over they will re- vert to retired status and be; dropped. ¥ This is nothing new. It has been going on for years. Selection| Boards, made up of brasshats, have “passed over’ thousands of omj cers often because of some personal| pique against them or their wives or because, as happened several years ago in the case of a group of world-famous pilots, they were not Annapolis graduates. These officers entered the Navy’s fledgling air branch during the | World War. They became the backbone of this service, pioneer- ing many developments and set- ting many world records. But be- boadac ilista Ramaiinl 0 2L I it IO (Continued on Page Four) | ) | Admiral “Emory | Defense Investigating Mrs. Martin T. Scott of Seattle is pictured fondly 57%, Anaconda 24, Bevhieheém Steel" "o her husband, the United Siafes Treasury Departi HITTING AT NAZIS AREAS English Planes Celebrafe’ Patron Saint Day by More Assaults (By Associated Press) British Royal Air Force planes celebrated the feast day of St. | George, the patron saint of England, | by a smashinz new assault on Gel man industrial centers in the Rhine- land and the docks at LeHavre du ing the night. The big guns on the coast of the | English Channel also boomed across | Dover Strait during the night and continued firing for about 30 min- utes. The Nazis acknowledged casualties” and material damage in Western Germany, but declared that ¢ German night raiders struck, back in an attack on the English south coast, saying that they hit a muni- | (tions factory and caused “violent explosions.” | The Germans said that five RAF | bombers were shot down and the British admnled four missing. “some | are the first arrivals at Camp San Luis Obispo, € They've at Camp San Luis Obispo (o get into fighting trim tq n the Japanese. Gun Carriers Protect Austrqln s Beaches . PORT RABAUL Japan, on learning he is coming home in an exchange of diplomats of the warring nations. “*ALASKA JAP 'Say Panay EVACUEESGO Resistance TOPUYALLUP Center Will Be Assembly Place for Internees SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 200 Japanese who are now being evacuated from Alaska are to be brought to a newly constructed As- sembly Center in Puyallup, Wash- ington. The Wartime Civil Control Ad- ministration announces that the Al- askan Japanese will be accorded the same privileges granted those who have resided in the United States and their property and other effects will be stored or otherwise dlspmed of by the Army. The time of arrival and the port of disembarkation has not been a nounced because of military neces- | | sity. LAND ASKS STABILIZING LABOR NOW U.S. Maritime Commission Head Says Sh|pbmldmg Would Increase 25% WASHINGTON, April 23—Rear S. Land declarsd today that the Government ought - to stabilize labor and manageme: relations in the ship building in- dustry to end “agitation” which he said is going on about the closed shop and other gquestions. Land is the chairman of the United States Maritime Commission and made the statement while pre- dicting in testimony to the Senate Committee that the production of the nation's shipyards could be increased 12'% percent this year and 25 percent next year with the improvement of morale: ‘The 1830. ) ONCE AGAIN Docks, Shore Structures Are Bombed-Fighting Continues on Timor ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 23—Australlan and Dutch forces are still fighting lin the interior of the half Dutch, Collapses a half Portuguese Island of Timor, some 400 miles off the northwest Only Small Force Is [t o Austratia accoraing to tne Fighting Invaders |this morning. —_— | The Allied communique also an- TOKYO, April 23—From 500 to nounced that Allied aircraft mad are holding the jungles on the Japanese base at Rabaul, bombing slopes around the 1730 foot Mount docks and shore structures. Baloy, the highest peak on Panay - > anese newspaper Asahi reporis. F R E N ( I l E The newspaper also says that' aside from this force in th2 central nas collapsed. OVER SHIPS Madagascar r Gels Vichy .l.o .l AP ANESE Orders-free French | T | | LONDON, April 23.—Madagascar, the strategic French island lying H 1 | Hope route to the Indian Ocean and plng Sald '0 Have Bee“ | ports in the Middle East, is reported H H {to be undergoing a reign of terror Taken in Indo-China . orders. LONDON, April 23—A British of-| Free French sympathizers are re- ported to be imprisoned, according has now been reported that 50,000 tons of French shipping has been | from Tananarive. \ taken over by Japan “almost cer-| The dispatch said that orders from | Pierre Laval were leading to ter- sels.” « The spokesman also said it “would | Pondent declared the great island not be to the public interest” o would be a prize for the first comer to take. saped 0;““’;’:“&“2'1:;‘: present sitl-| yoONAH NATIVE DIES | N SPITAL A Free Prench authority said that | T SRy HOSEL had turned over a nu}x‘nbea of slu'u; native from Hoonah, in Indo-China {0 the atps al] day afternoon in the Government that the Japs were negotiating for| | Hospital from a chronic disease. ients in Hoonah and the body is at The first cooking stoves in the|Charles W. Carter’s Mortuary. Fun-| United States were marketed in|eral arrangements are pending in- |official communique issued here 600 American and Filipino troops another attack yesterday on the Island, in the Philippines, the Jap- part of the island, all resistance (OMES UNDER e,———— i 50'000 TOHS Fl'en(h Shlp-‘athwnn the Allies' Cape of Good under the enforcement of new Vi ficial spokesman said today thatit| to a dispatch to the Daily Express tainly including ocean going ves-| ‘rmhsuc practices and the corres- isclose what information is pos- S P R O he heard the Vichy Government| yoi.n carteeti R Word has been sent to the par- [suumons from the parents, - e = 1S POUNDED WEST EUROPE - NOW FEARED Germans Make Prepara- { tions for Offensive- ! Also for Profection (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Adolf Hitler, who is believed to be trying to fulfill the long her- |alded spring offensive, has called lup a total of 1,900,000 fresh re- | serves, a Lozovsky Russian official- | spokesman said today. | - Meanwhile Stockholm dispatches ;u‘puru-d increasing German ner- ‘| Vbusness over the prospect of an | Allied invasion of Europe. The spokesman in Stockholm said that |the Nazi reserves include 900,000 | youths, 17 and 18 years old, in two new military classes. The dispatches from the Swedish center said that German expec- |lancy of an Allied invasion of West- jern Europe has increased consid- erably and that the Nazis are tak- |ing feverish precautions along the |entire front from the north of Nor- |way to the south of France. The Berlin correspondent for the | Stockholm paper, Dagens Nyheter, |reported that ‘“certain optimists are convinced that the British will come on May 1.” on quarters said that this leeler i3 so. ebvious. that anxiety | must dietate it i -ee - NAZIS TURN - TO DEFENSE IN RUSSIA 'Red Army Dispaches Say Germans Abandoning Counfer-Attacks » help take. back the Philippines With the threat of a Japanese invasion growing stronger every day, Australia is carrying out extensive drills to meet any invader. These soldicrs are patrolling a stretch of Similar carriers have proven their wouilh o the kughish fighting in the Libyan campaign. Amatzing Journalistic (oincidence Revealed In Big News of Today $1,089,000 LEFT wrckpy | INWILL OF MRS. SARA ROOSEVELT Bulk of Estate Goes fo President-Also Hyde Park land POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, April 23—Mrs, Sara Delano Roose- velt,; late mother of the President, left a net estate estimated at £1,089,000, a New York state trans- fer tax appraisal shows Under the will, which was probat- ed earlier, the President receives nine tenths of the entire esiate and his mother’s Hyde Park property - WASHINGTON, - April colfee and doughnits in restaurant the other d; a group | of Washington newsmen hashed over an amazing journalistic co- incidence, . The of Washington and per- haps the whole world that day were turned to New Delhi, India, where sir Stafford Cripps, No. 2 man in | the British War Cabinet, was hold- ing a two-hour session Ove: ‘ 1e Senate with a | serawny little man in a loin cloth Mahatma Gandhi. On that session depended much, perhaps the future of India and the tide of the war for months or maybe years to come. And in Ventura, Calif.. James A Mills, one of The Associated Press’ greatest foreign correspondent died. These seemingly unrelated penings had a very definite rela- tionship for it was Jim Mills who | years ago “discovered” Gandhi for the world outside of India | hap- S0 Sugar Rafioning | one v coveonicns e | To Begm May 5 cloth was considered no more than | a fanatical leader of one of India’s l many factions, when Mills met, him WASHINGTON Apnl 23 — OPA | sensed the potential appeal to the officials today said retail sugar sales | Hindu ma will be halted as originally planned ”""""““‘ b 16 for April 27. . | All l’(‘tail stocks will remain frozen | “Jim's dispatches years ago intro- y tuced (:mvm.'m the world,” said until consumer rationing begins on |May 5 asses in his philosophy and he was becoming in his 5. ACumumed on Page Three) N PRISON SHIP | hip. sandy beach in Bren gun carriers, | KUIBYSHEV, April 23—Battered heavily by Soviet divisions in re- cent weeks, the German armies of !the southern front are reported to {have abandoned their counter-at- tacks and changed their tactics to |defense of the fortified positions still remaining to them, lANDS NAZ'S | A frontline dispatch to the Rus- sian Army newspaper, the Red Star, said “only in a few sectors do the Fascist troops make futile at- tempts to strike our units.” |Germans Spend Unevent- ful Trip Making Tools for Escape The communique also reported the partial annihilation and rout lof a strong Italian detachment which was cut off by Soviet pin- cers after attempting to outflank the Russian positions. ‘The Pravda correspondents said that at Yukhnov, thousands of Nazi SR 23 ! bodies were found when melting AN EASTERN CANADIAN snows uncovered a huge pit in the PORT, April A contingent of central square of the town. Tt is hundreds of German prisoners of|believed the men were victims of war, including captured U-boat per- |Starvation or were frozen to death. onnel, merchant seamen and a few | Nazi airmen, has arrived in Canada after an orderly trans-Atlantic voy- age on which many spent most of their time secretly devising tools for escape Their singularly to the quiet application to their TR G plans for breaking out of the in- walled-in for the duration. A captain in the provos s they ho searched the caplive sreac o 00 o ormacerad | Sall PR Passes Gibral- tar Going Into Medi- ferranean Sea number of escape tools aboard LONDON, Apll] ’J - A Reuters dispatch says the Vichy radio re- ports from Morocco that a British, naval force of two battleships and six destroyers have passed Gibraltar and steamed into the Mediterranean Sea. guards attributed their good behavior en route Edtape Tools amazing he said chaps can make nothing at ‘all’ On every ship we find the Germans made jimmies, screw drivers daggers out of flattened spoons and plates.” The hundreds were landed a boisterous spring day e those “what out o prison have and nails, here on ana e et o “(Continued on - Page Three) BUY DEFENSE STAMPS