The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 25 VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9018. PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH BOMBERS SMASH GERMAN BASES New Threat Is Made Against Burma Road MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JAPS NOW B | PRESS ON - MANDALAY Chinese in Imminent Dan- ger as Result of Fur- ious Onslaught NEW DELHI, India, April 25— Burma’'s defenders today faced a sudden new peril as the Japanese, | with also spendthrift use of man- | power, pushed swiftly forward o | within 100 miles of Mandalay in furious and confused fighting. | The communique indicates that | the Chinese left flank has either | been rolled back or is in imminent | danger of being turned back. The communique said over 6,000 | Japanese have been killed in the | fighting. | It is announced this afternoon in | a special communique that another | air raid has been made by the Jap- | anese on Mandalay. The capture{ of Mandalay would cut off the last Allied held link with the great Burma Road. | ——— .- —— E SHEPHARD NOW | WITH ALASKA DOCK ' b Louise Shepard, formerly with the Weather Bureau in Juneau, is now with the Alaska Dock and Storage | Company doing general office wor She has taken over the place re- | cently vacated by Mrs. Dwight I. Brown, who has gone to the States. | The Washington Merry - Eg -Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — There was a very good reason for the hot crack of Attorney General Francis Biddle that Martin Dies is a muddling “amateur” investigator. Biddle believes the Justice De-J partment has the Texas congres- sional sleuth over a barrel, and the surprise crack was the opening shot of a fusillade soon to be fired. In a long series of reports, Dies has charged that more than 1,200 Communists and fellow travellers have jobs in government agencies in Washington. Recently their names plus Dies' evidence were turned over to super sleuth J. Edgar Hoover for a further probe, be-| fore dismissing all those actually found to be Reds. The FBI in-| vestigation has now been completed and the report is in Biddle's hands. The report declares that Dies’ charges are unfounded in all but a few instances. And even most of | these are borderline. | But to remove all possibility of controversy, Biddle has taken still another precaution, by appointing Undersecretary of the Interior Dempsey, Undersecretary of Com- merce Taylor, and Assistant Secre- | tary of the Treasury Gaston to go over the FBI report and make a report on the report. ! 7 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Pacific EQUATOR CELEBES D% b‘END‘kI ", A A1 |MILES AT EQUATOR 8l DUM Thirteen American bombers, three four-motored Bli's and 10, B25's, smashed at Jap bases and shipping at Manila (1), Batangas (2), Cebu (3) and Dvao (4) in a flight from Australia to the Philippines (broken) lines.) They did heavy damage. - Time Out It was a 4,000-mile round trip. plane was lost, but the crew was saved. One for a Swim This small river, flowing near Hospital No. 2 on Bataan Peninsula, provided bathing and laundry facilities for the entire hospital staff. U. S. Army nurses are shown bathing in late afternoon. Hospital No. 2, hacked out of the jungle, was completely open air, with accommodations for more than 2,000. War Production Facis Are Handed fo Nelson Dailm Seleded Men By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 25 — On the third floor of the five-story ing in terms of what the bettlenecks |are—how are the components fit- ting into the picture, have all of the orders been placed? 'CHINA BASES AREBOMBED - BYJAPANESE Nippons Believe Raiding American Planes May Be Located TOKYO, April 25—Successive aer- | ial attacks dur the past three days on the Chinese bases nearest Japan reported today in .the Japanese Fleet communique from the China’ waters. The Naval and Army bombers have destroyed planes and hangars at Chuhsien, Lishui and Yushan bases, says the communique. These bases have been attacked edly since the Imperial Headquart- ers announced that it is believed that American bombing planes that raided Japan a week ago, continued on to China from their unknown take-off are NAB WOMAN GERMAN SPY IN MEXICO Discloses Cache of Gas for Submarines in Mex- ico Gulf MEXICO CITY, Mexico, April 25 —The newspaper Novedades reports that an attractive woman spy, ar; rested by Gen. Baptiste Merida, gave a clue to a cache of aviation gasoline for submarine fuel on the island of Mujeres off the tip of the Yucutan Peninsula. The woman was identified as a member of the German-American Bund in the United States. It is said that she was arrested on a tip from United States officials and has been returned to the States for further questioning. Mexican tankers were summoncd and the cache of gasoline has been pumped dry. - NEW DRAF CLASS NOW ANNOUNCED Classification 3-B Given to Men with Dependents in War Work CHICAGO, April 25—The Selec- tive Service System has set up a new draft classification for the last group which might be sought fo: military service among men who ||‘ 1t repeat-.| HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?_wilies, ros Given Crawford, Betty Cochran, Mary Feddersohn, Barbara Forbush at a fashionable fete in Pasadens 5 KILLED NEW MOVE Tiny Screw BY SOVIETS, ONE SECTOR Red Armymflaporied to Have Cut Orel-Kursk Railroad LONDON, April, 25 — A violent Russian thrust northeast of Kursk has cut the Orel-Kursk railroad at one point, a Reuters dispatch says, uoting Istanbul dispatchés to Vichy The Russians imnig to outflank the city apparently are the detenses of - UNDERCOVER ALLY WORK IN BELGIUM LONDON, April 25—The Germans are reported to be shooting from 20 to 25 Belgian patriots a month in a vain effort to stem the ris- Holding Up Production Businessmflwenlor Ac- cused of Withholding Vital Aircraft Part WASHINGTON, April 24—Assist- ant Attorney General Thurman Arnold told. the. Senate, Comnilte that the patent on a small screw or fastener about the size of a man’s little finger s seriously impeding production of military aiveraft atd are Aincld that “at 80 planes being delayed ot another the same thing happened 2 20 f ses. In still an- cther plant, utire assembly line has shut down for the lack of B nzle item. He said the pa is William Dzus, a small busir inventor who is trying to e; what he thinks are his legitimate rights and Arnold urged the com- mittee not to:be too d on him compared to big offenders. - ALERT DRILL IS one plant held by man 1 millimeter s and wistaria blessoms bloom atop AT DRILL 'RAFMAKES BIG ATTACK, DAY, NIGHT ' Aircraft Faclories Bombed, left in Ruins-Rostock Again Air Raided LONDON, April force of Royal Air Force fighters ever sent against a single objec- tive, escorted bombers attacking The Netherlands port of Flushing | in daylight following a predawn as- | sault on the Heinkel Aircraft fac- torles and the German Baltic port |of Rostock which the British Air Ministry said the massed bombers | loosed the greatest weight of bombs | tne history of the RAF. It is | believed the aircraft factory was left in a mass of ruins. Later today the Air Ministry is- sued a communique stating Rostock was battered fiercely overnight by the RAF's second 1,000 mile round | trip against the big war plant and | shipping center where the British |claim more than 400 tons of e plosives were dropped in two ats tacks and smashes. The raid surpassed anything the German alr force dealt eat Brit- Jain in one series of night opera- | tions, Squadrons again took the air at daylight today to strike bases across the English Channel. The docks of Dunguergue were | raided anew 25—The largest | GERMANS RETALIATE BERLIN, April 25—The German High Command announces that | Nazi bombers loosed heavy explos- ives on Devonshire, town in Exeter sector, England, as reprisal for re- peated attacks on German cities. The German communique admii the latest attacks on Rostock caused heavy casualties among the civilian population and also con- siderable property damage was done. ! The German statement says two Premature Explosion of Shell in Training Wounds Sixteen Other Soldiers LES, Calif., Five soldier were of a mortar jern California sector shell was being that it exploded cleared the gun's April 25 wounded in the premature explosion EAS'I‘ (OAST it shell near was announced today The Headquarters of had British bombers were shot down. ESCAPES IN BATILE OFF 16 South- said that the fired mortar during drill and before muzzle. - M'ARTHUR IN ASSUIE (EREMONY ) NorwegianAShrib,Damaged by Shell Fire of Sub, Makes Port WASHINGTON, April 25 — A small Norwegian ship, damaged by shell fire in a running battle with a submarine off the Atlantic Coast, has reached port safely under her own power. This is the announce- ment made here today by the Navy. -ee EUROPEANSTO ~ SETFOR MONDAY have dependents or are engaged in work essential to war production and the war effort. The information servi giving An air The new classification of 3-B also this report said that the workers held in |will be set for the men who have in one cartridge pactory left the acquired dependents since the na- powder out of a million and a half tion went to war, and who will not cartridges. be deferred because of them. The revision was announced by Col. Panl Armstrong, Selective vice Director, on word received from Washington. ing tide of pro-British effort of the Belgian Government in exile. | War Production Board building, half ROOSEVELT AND WALLACE |way down the main corridor, is a When Biddle got the FBI repoct mogest two-room office housing he showed it to the Presidem and‘flgm or 10 executives and a like remarked: “I've really got Dies 0D nymper of secretaries. the run this time.” | Here all t i 5 a he imporiant things To which the T:‘_de“‘ I Ye|iiat the War Production Board ported to have replied: knows are brought together, shaken “You mean he had you on the 4 up and then passed on to the hoss run until Henry kicked him m""himselrfDonal A Nelon' your corner.” It is the Office of Progress Re- The President’s reference was to St o Wallace': athing denunci- By G s One of the biggest criticisms of ation of Dies when Dies claimed| 35 employes of the Board of Econ- the old OPM was that nobody ever knew just how much the arsenal of omic Warfare are leftists 3 democracy was producing, where it was falling down and why. ‘ “In other words, do we have guns for the tanks, are they meeting to- gether, will they come out together and be an efficient tank as 1t comes off the line?” The Office of Progress Reports was assigned to Stacy May To hulking Robert Nathan, a black-browed young man who smokes a corn cob pipe, may be | assigned the jcb of keeping tab on armaments W1 producton tals down o+ AMERICAN LEGION HIP SOLDIERS - i " (OMMANDER HERE SHIP SOLDIERS ;- an long to find out about it “We're digesters for Mr. Nelson,” Nathan explains. “He's the man - Pl There is a bitter personal hatred & J. C. Morris, between Laval and sziral Darlan.| When Nelson set up the WPB | who should know more about €v- mander of Some Frenchmen hope this will re- |1ast January 20, one of the first|erything in war production than with his headquarters in Anchor- tard Darlan’s handing over of the | things he told reporters was this: |anybody else in Washington—and age, is visiting in Juneau on his “This agency (Office of Progress|at the same time he should know way to the states. This noon a no- Fleet. Probably wishful thinking.| i 4 In the first World War, Reports) will view production not|the least. 'host luncheon was given the visitor “We get all by American Legionnaries, the £ m the statistical point of | was a pacifist; he went to|alone from U . i Laval P —_|view, but from the point of view | gathering taking place in the Iris Room at the Baranof Hotel, R (Continued on Page Four) jof projecting into the future, think- ! Allied Officers Decorat ; Auar;fi?a'?,, v|«§r‘°” " PREPARE FOR vy GREAT BATTLE “alert” drill will b Monday after- an announce Civilian De Althougl for raid Juneau on noon, according to ment by Director of Frank A. Metcalf no definite time bhas been irill, residents and member Lhe °d to cooperate when the alarm Defense Unit are to seek oon as the alarm sounds. top and drivers shelter inside. This drill will silent hcma during the busy afternoon on shopping hours, Mr. Metcalf said. public in answer to requests to determine Arthu how fast the streets can be cleared during such hours, It is expected that the drill will last approximately 15 minutes - - more than 5000 miles New York City. MELBOURNE, Australia Gen, .Douglas ed a procession of Shrine 1 ceremony American April 25 MacArthur today Allied officers of Remembrance n marking the first participation in Anzac of Australia’s Memorial Day sveral thousand persons watched ilence as the general and his stood with bowed heads in and placed a wreatn British radio’s mysterious Colonel the first such Britton told his V for Victory army ince Gen. Mac-'in German-occupied Europe to areival I Australis make ready for large scale sabotage il secause “within six weeks from now, here may open what may prove to Most fish are either dead or dy- be the greatest battle in the history ing when found on their back:; the of the world." catfish of the African swamps is an exception as it will swim upside down fense - - set Colonel Britfon Suggests Conquered Residents Do Sabotage Work NEW YORK, April 25 — The to the members helter A Traffic, n also must “taff OTTAWA, April 25—Prime Minis- ter MacKenzie 'King, warning that only total effort will bring victor urged Canadians last night to vote “Yes” on the plebiscite Monday on releasing the government from pre- vious commltments not to draft men for overseas service - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS jof ) the memorial in HORS D’OEUVRES Appearance Department- Com- the American Legion -——— Surveying is believed to have or- iginated in ancient Egypt. the reports here There are (Continued on Page Two) streets in