The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1942, Page 1

” HE DAILY ALASKA KMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” R JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 28 1942 \II,MI l l\ \ \()( I \l D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Burma Defenders Now Face Jap Entrapment NEW ENEMY | TROOPSMAY CUT OFF AID Sirong Reinforcements Ar- rive in Bay. of Bengal | fo Encirdle Fighters | THREATEN RAILROAD NORTH OF MANDALAY Supply; Hel—p~ Lines from | China fo India May Be Cut by Move CHUNGKING, April 28 — The Japanese appeared today to be on the point of slamming shut the Burma back-door to China and| pinching off the entire British- | Chinese defense forces, as strong reinforcements from Malaya came driving northeast through the Shan states to reach points only 60 miles from the Mandalay-Lashio rail- road. Informed sources in London smd] that large amounts of Japanese shipping have been sighted in the Bay of Bengal and that Allied reconnaissance planes reported the ships appeared to be moving rein- forcements of men and material to the battle of Burma. AVG Stops Raid The American Volunteer Group of Flying Tigers downed 11 Jap fighters without any loss to them- selves early this morning when 27 Jap bombers and 20 fighters at- (Coflé{n;led from f'@e Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW. PEARSON—— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Following his trip to England, Harry Hopkins is giving close friends a very Op- timistic picture about the war situ- ation. He is convinced that Hitler is really alarmed at the tough re- sistance of the Russians, the grow- ing war strength of the United States, and the fear of an invasion on the European continent. One of Hitler’s greatest weak- nesses, Hopkins believes, is man- power. German industry has done a great job hitherto. But now with an increasing drain on both indus- try and the German army, the tremendous losses at the Russian front are having a definite effect. To his close friends, Harry Hop- kins is known as one of the most optimistic men in the Administra- tion. But even discounting this/ natural optimism, other war chiefs in a position to know seem to have a fairly bright look in their eyes| recently.. It will be a long time before we can begin to do any real crowing, for the situation in the Near East is almost as sour as the very, very sour situation in India. It~ does look, however, as if the spring had ‘definitely brightened the war plc- ture. MUSSOLINI'S DOTAGE Inside word brought back from Italy by those in the know gives a desolate picture of Benito Mus- solini. He has been pretty well isolated from the war command and from direction of the govern- ment, both of which are dictated,| directly or indirectly, by Nazis. Mussolini has gone in for rem-| iniscing of his younger days when he was a militant young socialist, | part of the time exiled in Switzer-! land. | He has even sent for his old socialist friends, including some previously exiled to France. And they have sat around talking nbo‘:t[ the good old days when they werei young. Most significant is the fact that Admiral ArrivesinaBlimp 6 When the Navy took over Moffett Field near Sunnyvale, Greenslade, Commandaut cf the 12th Naval District, arrived for the ceremonie: fett Field, one-time home of the ill-fated Macon, past five years, and now will go back to the Below: Gmensladv( arrow) addresses the assembled Army .u\d Navy personnel. ter for the DER FUEHRER PULLS FIRST | Calif., from Nay; Qucen” Camera HOME 'BLITZ* Hitler Carries Ouf Threat of Speech, Dismisses Fin- nish Troop Leader LONDON, April 28. — Lieutenant- Gen. Engelbrecht, Commander of the German division which is fight- | ing in Finland, has been dismissed by Hitler and a reshuffle of the entire Nazi command in Finland is imminent, according to word re- ceived in Stockholm dispatches to- day. Thus the Fuehrer carried out the at in the speech in the Reichstag the first of the week, when he got confirmation of his absolute life and death power over every German. The communique from the Swed- ish city said that Hitler is said to be angry because of continued Red Army successes on the Finnish front. In the last few weeks, the Rus- sians have penetrated beyond the fmnlier lines of Finland’s defeats | of 1939. 'BURR MANTOSH, ACTOR, AUTHOR, DIES SUDDENLY Noted ledu_re r, Former War Correspondent, Stricken on Bus HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,, April 28— Burr Melntosh, 79, was stricken fatally with an attack of the heart lon a bus enroute to his office this forencon. Burr McIntosh never made the ; ; i fortune with which he was going to found an expansively-described col- | ony on the Pncmc coast devoted to Mussolini lets his mind wander \bunt.lflued on Page Four) <Cuminued on Pn;;e “Three) | first “blitz” on his own Army hinted | Jeanne Crain Meet Jeanne ‘Crain of Los Ange- les, who has been chosen by ama- teur cameramen as “Miss Camera Queen of 1942” in a contest held annually at Long Beach, Cal. WPB 10 LIMIT " COFFEE USE BY ~ 25PERCENT CUT | WASHINGTON, Apr:l 28. — The War Production Board today ordeved | “A 25 percent cut in coffee consump- \ tion because of “uncertainties about Jthe future supply.” has been used b ythe Army A a base for lighter-than-air patrol craft. the Army, Rear Admiral John W. a Navy blimp (top). Mof- Corps as a ir: g cen- President Goes on Air . Tonight WASHINGTON, April 28— President Roofevelt will discuss in a radio address tonight at 7 o'clock, Pacific war time, 2 plan to control the cost of 1i - REDS FLANK LAKE ILMEN NAZI TROOPS Capture of Railroad Town of Borok Gives Russians Upper Hand in District LONDON, April 28~-The Russians almost the entire region around Lake Ilmen in the northwest front with the exception of the German pockets of Novgorod, Staraya and Rusa, as the Russians captured the town of Borok, a key rail peint in the district, according to an an- nouncement of victory received to- day from the Moscow radio, con- firming earlier Stockholm reports. Military experts here said that the advance flanked the German pasitions north and south of the big lake, which is 120 miles below Leningrad.. The German efforts to hammer a wedge into "the Russian lines on the Smolensk front was said in fhe | broadcast to have been repulsed, | with thousands of Nazi casualtics | announced. ‘The Soviets confirmed the Sto holm reports that Hitler had cash iered Engelbrecht, commandant the 163rd German Division, cause of Red Army gains on Finnish front. The broadcast also said that Hitler is forcing still more {labor to Nazi farms and factorie War dispatches indicated a coin- | cident development of a Soviet counter-offensive the s frozen fronts of Lapland .md Kar- of be- the oSS clia, O SENDING OF TROOPS Plebiscite Favors Overseas Expedition-Only French (anadians Dissent OTTAWA, April 28.—The Canad- ian Government is given a free hand by the people in sending conscripted sol outside the Dominion into battle anywhere in the world, as the plebiscite yestere rase the Government from previous commit ments was overwhelmingly favor- | able | | Only the predominantly French- { Canadian Quebee Province dissented | in the pebiscite vote. Tallies from 28,000 out of the 31.- 1000 polls in this morning braught | the count to 2,580,000 “Yes" and 1,- | 474,000 “No. -ee LABORBILL DROPPED BY appeared to have won control of U.S.SENATE Seizure Proposal Affer Roosevelt Expression WASHINGTON, sideration of labor | postponed indefinitely ate as Senator Tom Connally of 1y withdrew the motion y up the War Plant Bill, saying that he didn't o press the matter | Connally said the continuing of the bill would be “an apparent {controversy with the President of the United States.” Assertir that Connally’s action would “mean the death of the Con- nally Bill and perhaps any other labor legislation” Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia sought unsuccess- fully to cbtain an agreement to de- [lay the consideration only one day ;m' at the most a week THOUSAhD& HOMELES IN RS 0(% Four Raids of Brih RAF on German Baltic Base w Is Disastrous STOCKHOLM, April thousand families in Rostock, the German base in the Baltic, e homeless as the result of four raids of the British RAF, the Berlin cor respondent of Dag Nyheters, reports. The correspondent at Rostock is worse Lubeck, previously heavily by the British Air Force. - AP ATTACK DARWIN WITH ‘HEAVY LOSS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS | AUSTRALIA, April 28 e |anese bombers and four fighter | were destroyed out of a force of 17 {hombers and nine fighters which | raided Darwin Monday, the official communique said today. i | ! April 28—Con- legislation is by the Sen- ure desire 28 — Ten 15 says the dam than at bombed age IN Jap i CANADIANS Hundred Persons Perish Tornado Rips Through il Boom Town This Aflernoon BULLETI April 28—A sudden savage nado ripped the main str the war boom tewn to and the State Patrol estimates that at t 100 persons have perished and ! This town of 5,000, next door to the multi-million dollar Ok- lahoma Ordnance Works has been immediately placed under martial law by Gov. Leon C. Phillips with Safety ( sioner Johnson in command of —Pryor, Okiahoma,, tor et of ruins mmis- the Hundreds of workers and ma- the Ords state relief agencies. chinery from Waorks, damage, Giant at which escaped serious have been rushed he builldozers and work on the shovels are wreckage in s ch for vicf The tornadoe o'clock this afternoon of the six blocks of ness distriet have rubble, ms. struck at 4:45 and most the busi- been reduced to Correspond Five Years, Meet Shirley Steffrey and Dan Stuckey “For Ave years a Chicago girl, shxmy Steffrey, ing with a radioman in the British The British sailor, Dan § other looked like. has been rr»rreqpand- either knew what the Navy. ickey, finally came to New York. Miss Steffrey was on hand to meet him and the happy couple is shown above. " Now Serving Nearly 100,000 Meals Every Day; Non - Profit Organization Us. COMMANDER TAKES OVER ALL ICELAND TROOPS The WASHINGTON, April 28 War Department anngunced rodaj that or Gen. Charles H. Bone teel, Commander of the American troops in Iceland, has taken over the command of all the forces of the United Nations there from British Ma 'n. Henry Curtls There is no indication whether British troops are being withdrawn - the A. GERSTMAN HERE H. A. Gerstman, broker, Westward and Interior ing the Gastineau 'he the and is s Hotel tay- at is In BUY DEFENSE merchandise arrived in Juneau from the while g | | | | { and | should hold us By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, wriving businesse jumerous as lobbyist fown but a non-profit or- the colossus April 28. — W are almost as oomina ganization is probably of ‘em all It’s the ceiat Welfare and Recreation which feeds a rapidly- work association operate: ht lunch counter oda stands. Tt is at the most ion multitude of Fede The rowing here cafeteri \ flock ng meal 900 mo wch we rate of 2,500 100,000 on king ¢ grocer- of that which cafeterias he would omething like f a housewife were buyin; government rkday for a cr the noon 161 ea order “Send over 15,000 more eggs; that for today.” year the largest eating added to the cafeteria Late this place will be chain upon completion of the world’s (Continued on Page Three) BRITISHIN HUGE RAIDS ON GERMANS Flight ForceACovering Square Mile of Sky Off Today TARGETS ARE STRUCK FOR 5 DAYS RUNNING Nazis Airdromés Machine- Gunned - Mines Are Laid Off France LONDON, April 7—Heavy British bombers, maintaining desi\ructive attacks on German targets for the fifth day running, last night raid- ed the Norwegian port of Trond- heim where the Germans are build- |ing an Atlantic battle fieet base. | The Air Ministry said that sim- | ultanecusly, other squadrons at- tacked Rhineland objectives, in- cluding Cologne, The report said that the RAF planes bombed the focks at Dun que, laid mines in the waters off France and Bel- | glum, and machine-gunned German airdromes. Eighteen British planes |@are reported lost. A new bomber and fighter attack- Lof sky, described as “the' largest ing force, covering a square mile single unit ever to attack occupied France,” swept out toward Calais today E Smaller flights had already re- turned from earlier raids which be- gan at dawn, ALASKA MAY GET FUNDS FOR FIELDS Senate Is As—kai to Appro- priate Money for Civil Aviation WASHINGTON, April 28 The Senate has received a request from o for $203,000,000 to be appropriated for a huge civilian aviation improvement program, in- cluding construction and repairs on hundreds of public airports through- ! out the country, including Alaska. Expendit s contemplated in- clude money for radio sound and weather observation stations and extension and improvement of in- termediate landing fields in Alaska as follows Extension and improvement of in- termediate landing fields in the Ter- ritory, $2.875,000; expansion of Weather Bureau activities in Alaska, $2.875,000; expansion of Weather Bureau facilities in Alaska, includ- ing rendering of meteorological in- formation to Army and Navy forces, $317,000. - ee———— WPA HEAD QUITS JOB;: NOREASON WASHINGTON, April 28.—F. H. Dryden, Deputy Commissioner of the Works Projects Administration, today became acting head of the WPA and will ser such until President Roosevelt names a succes- sor. Commissioner Howard O. Hunter announced his resignation from New Orleans but gave no reason for quit- ting the post riesiaent in this mush- | - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS