The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1942, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY]| WASHIN : “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9021. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIED NATIONS PLAN NEW OFFENSIVE President Says Japs Are Ha DEMOCRATIC UNOFFICIAL RETURNS—CONTESTED OFFICES ONLY —FIRST DIVISION A'"' A(K ON U.S.TROOPS ABROAD IN BIG FORCES Report We're Ready fo! Smash Back from Aus- | fralian Bases 1 STRESSES IMPORT ? OF WAR PROGRAM Warns Amen(an People , Must Abandon Use | | of Luxuries WASHINGTON, April 29 — Re- vealing officially for the first time| that ‘“several hundred thousand” American fighting men already had | been sent to battle the Axis in| distant lands, President Roosevelt, | g in his talk to the nation last night, | ; expressed the view that the Jap—} anese southward drive in the Pa-| cific had been checked, and declared | that Australia, New Zealand and adjacent islands now are to become | bases for offensive action against| the invader. ; The President also warned the; pro-Axis Vichy government uu i, Prance that the United Nations wxll[ take any action deemed necessary ° to prevent the use of Prench fer-| ritory by Axis forces. (It was re- ported yesterday that American ' troops had taken over the island of New Caledonia, a French pos-| session.) (Continued on Paac Five) ! | | \ | \ | | \ | Chiang’s Kin in U. S. Pearl and Tsi Sun Grandchildren of Dr. Sun Yat- Sen, founder of the Chinese re- public, and niece and nephew of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, The Washmgton Merry-Go-Round | it it o i ley, Idaho. Their father is Dr. By DREW PEARSON—— | i Sun Fo, leader of the Chinese and ROBEHT S. ALLEN legislature. WASH'INGTON—One of the Mer- | ry-Go-Rounders recently has taken a quick look-see at a Cross section | of the U. S. A. from Kansas to! Wisconsin and from South Carolina | to New York. The net result of that survev is that, contrary to some accusations | made in Washington, we are con- vinced the American people are | not complacent, Most of them are quite the contrary. Unquestionably there are oases of | complacency, in some of the large cities, especially Chicago, Wwhere some of the people always have MINING BILL IS PASSED TO - WHITE HOUSE House completed legislative action late yesterday on the measure to been lulled into isolationist do-.guspend from June 30, 1941, until nothingism. In New York City also | jujy 1, 1943, the annual $100 as- there is some of the golden giUer, sessment on work for small, un- profiteering and the war-is- -like-a- | patented mining claims. football game attitude which feA-' The pil] has now been sent ‘o tured Paris before its fall | the White House for signature. The But in the rest of the country.|iouse accepted the Senate amend- so far as this observer could Se€.|ment removing restrictions on the this was not the case. The PeOPIC, numper of such claims held by one are alarmed, worried, ready to buy‘pemon bonds, economize on rubber, save| tin, knit, eat less, send their boys| away, and even be patient—which is the hardest thing of all to do.| pRESIDENT In fact they would like to have a Jot more to do. If anything, they| S GNS NE are impatient because they cannot | do more. But the one big thing they want WASHINGTON, April 20 — The President has signed a 19 billion- is to see a little more clearly what |dollar war appropriation bill which -ee is ahead for the country. Most of | them, even including stainch Dem-| ocrats, are considerably miffed with | Roosevelt, but most of them, evenj including staunch Republicans, are| willing to play along with Roose- velt during the war. _ |carries a rider i ting the re- SHOCKED AT WASHINGTON | negotiation of any war contracts They don't like his doddering | Which permit excessive profits cabinet. They are shocked at some The measure carried funds for of the scandals unearthed in Wash- [31.000 new army planes planes and ington. They think Roosevelt i/ large group of miscellancous too soft-hearted with his friends,| "€¢RCeS: : and if anyone is complacent they i i P C. OF C. TOMORROW the President himself By oRelics Juneau Chamber of Commerce for keeping so much deadwood heaped up in Washington when is time to get tough and use th pruning knife. the Gold ",‘erm of the Baranof Hotel for its | weekly meeting. A program is be- However, they are willing to goii“‘é arranged, according to Wilbur along with the President despite Woster, Seeretary i i ent—until| T “"s Ses Seflne Foan s Brazil furnis about 65 per (Cunl.ulurd on Pwu “Four) cent of all the coffec in the world. WASHINGTON, April 20 — The Typewriters Are Short in Natienal Capifal;Methods Used to Keep All Supplied FDR'S WORD BY .I.\(I( leN\IFTT WASHINGTON, April 29 — Back around 1800, with much creakir and groaning, something got under way that sociologists call the in- dustrial revolution. Some scholars view it as a mixed blessing. Their theory is that there are too many machines, that this makes unem- ployment and misery | Maybe so, but— | Don't go talking stenographers about too many chines! There is one machine there are far, far too few. common typewriter. ' to Washington ma- of which It is the The government has hired nearly 40,000 stenographers since Pearl Harbor. Although that's not a net | increase, since some of them were | replacements, there are enough new .girls to put quite a drain on the typewriter supply. i Especially is this true since the War Production Board ordered type- writer production slashed. Last year about 730,000 standard 530,000 portable machines were built. The government purchased 220,000 of them. The WPB order permits 325,000 standards and 75,000 por lables this year. The Army \ Navy standards and, 88 per cent of the portabies, buf both héve "mdleated that isn't enough and that they may appeal to WPB for more. To mect the shortage, WPB has authorized the Treasury's Procure- and ment Division to ration typewriters to all agencies. In addition to the War and Navy Departments, the Maritime Commission and Lend- Lease Administration are exempt. Procurement has abolished rule that government typewrite can be traded in after three years and has enlarged its repair shop Meanwhile, Procurement, Budget Bureau and WPB are taking a cen- sus of the machines and considering how to get more use out of them. They are at least three possibilities: 1. Typewriters (and other office m'\Lhmm)t may be put on a two- p2 (commued on Page Thrce) ARMY ASKS DEPENDENT PROVISION WASHINGTON, April 29 — 3pckesmen for the War Department and the Selective Service System tcday recommended that the Gov- ernment make financial provision for the dependents of the men in and | are to get 68 percent of the | 5 stabilizing WAR ! i ( Labor Com. Senator Representatives | { 3 {Jneau No. 1 120 | 211 || 241 8 || 138) 38 45/ 19 92 31 70| 175 201 39) 93 81| Followi ng Prefldem 5| Ancau No. 2 | 18 9% 67 1] 57 13| 14 16/ 68 25| 49| 60 82 25 52 24/ Defenders MaSS for Count- _ |Juncau No. 3 58 | 112 || 122 47 (| 80| 24 49 11| 47 12 51/ 85 71 21| 44 13 # Spee(h Maximum lev {Thane (Sheep Cr) 13 700 15 4| 13 1| 5 o 14 ol e A R el e | Action as JapS Pre- [Jhalpa il 2 5 TR R | T R R els Set to Start in May Mendenhall 14 2 10 7l 6 8 13] 2] 4/ 14| 1| 4] 2 21 pare for Onslaugh' {Lynn Canal | 13| = 6| 18] 7 18 3 9 18 3 5 0o 1 6 iSplmon Creek . | 17| 20 21 15| 19| &l 18 3 13 24| 4 15 6 12 RESTRI("O“S TO Rouglas { @) | 44 19 14/ 10/ 10 10 34 36| 8 23 14 8 16 NORTHERN ISI.ANDS Wacker 8| 8 5 T R el 12 sl 3 9| AFFECT EVERY"““GKu hikan 275| 339 (| 274 | 303 || 56| 61 35/ 19| 87| 165 16 444 333 137/ 303 | ARE BEING BOMBED [ N | Ward Cove 4| 1 9 i 4 6 8 o o o o o 14 3 7 4 9 e [ : [ Revilla 6| 15 7 1( 8 o 1 o o 4 2 7. 7 9 15 15 16| | Services, Rents, Wholesal- ¥o.ituin point ni e 7 il 8 4 8 1 4 4 1 aul 12 o0 ¢ w|AuUssies Wamed fo Expe(i [ ¢+ |Petersburg Q| e 62 | 10/ 107 15/ 4| 24| 30| 6 56 44 15 2 2 ers, Manufacturers e s s A B B B B Raids as Enemy Con- f | Ska rway b L 50 16 ¢ 11| 34/ 3 5 4| 33 1§ 100 13, Prices Under Plafl | Metlakatla 7] 4 32| 23 4 3| 5| 4 12| 14 o 6| 24 19 41 53] 46| centrates For(es | Wrangell 23| 36| 2 30, 4 23| 11| 2| 14 24| 23| 34| 19| 27 12| 2A| 41| o i Istikine 0 11 7 15 1 7 2 9 1 6 1 14 7 10 9 15 Y| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS I | 'WASHINGTON, April 20—With|anote Tsld L : 8 LIE] ) e N || "WASHINGION, #pril 23 SWIHEinetze Taland | W 5 2 3 3 1 1 11 2N 8 9 5 6 AUSTRALIA, April 29—More Ameri- fice of Price Administration today| — Totals 794 | 1041 || 1020 | 770 || 513| 332] 268| 114] 452| 831 127 818| 938 846 Ras |S20. 2 Wonpe:,; Aibong., 404 RS fixed war time maximum prices for| Missing. Y equipped, are arriving in Australia “yirtually everything that Ameri-'—= - - - TpANE L PRSP R for an offensive being prepared mn cans eat, wear or use,” at levels! | | the very face of an imminent Jap- {prevalent during the month ofl | |anese assault on the continent. iy | ouse roup ' | Prime Minister John Curtin an- P 4 g ! nounced while he was giving this After May 18, under the g‘"e"“i Inews to the House of Representa- maximum price regulation, no re- tailer may charge more for an ar Iticle than t which it sold PRICES he highest in March. price Apply To Services The same restrictions will upplv after May 11 to manufacturers’ “IH(! after July! # “Burma Road Yown Threat- wholesalers’ 1% to a long lishments such as laundries radio repair men auto rep: land so fofth. | simultaneously, " froze rents in war fixed etfort or they were March 1 this prices r shops, and Mst--of zervice estals the Price 302 centers of the production. at rents year. war paid Overall Plan The actions taken together s resented the President’s the inflationary, Along with these orders go pro- profits; stabilization of most wages to'their nt levels; taxation to hold in- " dividual net incomes to a maximum of $25,000 a year; the preventing | posed heavy pre; couragement |debt payment agement of credit and installment| buying and expenditures for essentials exempted from the ruling items to 40 percent of food usually pur- list of food chased. essential segment overall plan cost of living price for taxation on rationing and & of war bond buying and saving; discour non- representing ->eo ROSTOCK IN RUINS FROM RAF RAIDS Agency Mainly, on rep- of and rises. 25 25 T050 M FROMLASHIO On Army Pay ILES ened with Encircle- ment by En CHUNGKING, April 29 emy The | | Jdpanese spearhead which is thrust- ng northward from new reinforce- ments arriving in the gal is reported nuult(l within 50 n today Bay of B¢ to ha miles of the important railroad center of Lashio in Burma. The attack is being led by tanks' and supported by airplanes, Ancther Japanese ported to be striking ward. column is re- to the west- The Japs are racing the monsoon 1ins of northern Bu in 100 miles of Lask rma and are o on said to be also sweeping down mLh- that| (front, to trap the railroad city dmh \uxl the Burma road | The Chinese army is ing out essential threatened city. placed the Japs Mansam, which outh of Lashio. - 1t is 50 supplies Tods the alredy mov- in the| ay's town miles of ) BIG TORHADO HITS TEXAS - COUNTY SEAT reports | due| To A Sub-comniiifee Apprmes'flm?ewRafidéfiififasl 1 Doubling of Private’s | Wages-Passed Senate WASHINGTON, April 29 House milita yesterday ap doubling the privates from $21 other increases armed forces. commrttee and the The full the measure passed for Third Relu Terr.Primary . e In the Democratic nominations ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 29— ‘The volers in Anchorage €50 votes in Primary The Lak sharpe £enatol arles I)‘ n Drager lted In Pacific the le S eee cast following 2066, H. H. McCutcheon 205 For Representatives (Democ:! [tives, that a steadily increasing flow of planes, tanks and guns from fthe United States is coming to the ctToday SHARPEIN Australian allies, lEAD HERE Japanesé airmen, however, are | continuing an unending battle of bombs on the northern islands evi- dently preparing for a mass attack (500N, ™ The headquarters communique re< ports the destruction of a Japanese ammunition dump in Lae, New Guinea and the interception of a Jap raid on Port Moresby. Air Minister Drakeford warned for the three Juneau precincts yes- D¢ Australians to expect heavy Jap raids on the continent itself soon. terday was the lightest in many years as only 727 persons cast their Other sources confirmed the fact that the enemy is massing his ballots to nominate candidates for planes and equipment for a furious the general election which will be 4 held in September. Of this total, OPsiausht, possibly within the next fortnight. 672 persons voted the Democratic S eee - ticket, Republican—more than one Democral coming over from The results for Juneau: Walter P. Sharpe garnered 401 for the o entati ‘Artillery Fire from Manila ames » avis came out on Lo . {in Juneau with 431 votes; ury»ml;‘ Fons Smk Jap Vessel against 257 for Michael J. the three precinets of | g5 jenne was next witm 360; | ;. -Break Up Troops Votes in Territorial Primary Voting in the Territorial Primary The subcommittee late pproved the bill for basic pay of Army to $42 a month affecting ry will jact on today. The Senate gislation a week ago. 55 ‘\uu» Division rns from nl Labor, Democratic ticket. Allen Shattuck received 453 votes over Arthur P. Walker’s 200 in the| jrace for Divisional Senalor, Demo- u atic ticket. ‘l()l the House of Representatives, in the race for Commissioncr only tly over| e T 1 R. E. Hardcastle ran third with yosterday’s ‘Territarial |gay. old H. Bates came fourth it {with 275, Running in fifth place| WASHINGTON, April 20 — The is the result: was John L. Covich with 207 votes ymimissioner—Haas War Department’s communique re- | Juncau gave a complimentary ported that artillery fire from the s SO ;\,nl( to Alaska Delegate Anthony American forts of Manila Bay sank ¢ (Democratic tickeU |5 pimong of 629, highest individual 'an armed Japanese vessel in the Brownell 208, K ll bay and broke up troop concentra- tions on Cavite and Bataan shores. Reports received from Gen. Doug- vote here, and Oscar G. {ritcrial Treasurer, ratic) | Olson, Ter- received a com- plimentary vote of 591, second high- & | —Joseph B. Diamond 304, William e ; : the armed forces, thereby making est. las MacArthur's headquarters in e o e, oty ins | BallicGorman POTRBDON- | vuquom tocas 4ot 0 = A eR orb e b0 AT The 8 Aegubilians oo voted| Ausaly Indicetad (hat the S wise deferred for reasons of de- torn: ¥ W i | u did not vote their tick-|air attacks on Corregidor and the pendency, | “edLevéled, inFlames, |iormeasiwmion olowed 4 dor:)sic, suanley Mptukchont mo, Har’ other forts in the islands have been As witnesses, Major William| Afl F N h' every building in the West Texas| 7The 5 vae o e decreasing in intensity. Richards of the War Department | er rour Nighis | cotity Bt of. Orowell. last: righti| The voters gave a complimentary ; Mest raids in the last two days f General Staff and Major Fran i T ell. last night.ivote to Delegate Anthony J. Di-| prang 1, Garnick was high man|were carried out by dive bombe I Keesling of the Selective Service] LONDON, April 20—The center ng at least nine persons and|mond of 653 and Terxitorial Trea-| (o (no House of Representatives The Japanese artillery on Cavite : System testitied before the Semate|of the German’s Baltie port of|MJuring hundreds j surer Oscar G. Olson of 539, with 52 votes. Grant A. Baldwin end Bataan. however, continues to | Military sub committee hearings on | Rostock is an ash heap and fires| TOSPitals were filled with the in-{ The Republicans had no candida‘e | eceiveq 49, Ralph A. Bartholo- shell the forts heavily. The return legislation being set up for the|are stll smouldering, s the city Jufed: All communications in the(for the Semate and only two 10¢] new. 45, and Edmund J, Krause, fire is sald to have silenced some system of government allowances|is completely evacuated except for Vi were rendered —unusable.|ine House of Representatives. [46. There were no Republican can- |Japanese batteries in addition to and mandatory pey allgbments for|firemen and & few military forces|320T8¢ Belf, Red Oross chairman| — | iitie for Ghs Benale ae 16 el Breaking. up. the' traop. AdaneREN i the dependents of service men. |after four nights of heavy British 'F Crowell, said that thousands| yarppz, Alaska, April 28 BRI oo G el gt o i s ey e : ; | bombing. :::‘d";’g:“ing"“"""“ emergency id| gy pemocrats and two Republicans| sheep Creek Precinet (Thane)| On I of Panay. delial AlASKA (OASIAI‘ | Reports reaching London said & | cast their votes here yesterday in|nad three Republicans who voted |ing troops are continu their re- that photographs show the damage e the Territorial Primary, tabulated|; gtraight, two Republicans at|sistar to the Japs near the Ali- i MAKES S"KA 'Rlp!“’ ke:the mogy: iisnsive 1n. any {as follows: | Jualpa voted it straight, and four buanan central sector, and also at ! Arriving hers’ fsbm Bitka with RAF offensive flgdHN a single For Democratic Territorial Labor|ay Mendenhall voted it straight. [San Remigio near San Jose on the ’ Anivibe (b8 N MORa - WHN | 4oyt | Commissioner—Haas 29, Sharpe .| Here is how the three Juneai|west coast Alaska Coastal Afrlines yesterday| e photos were taken from Brit- 2 ! For Democratic Senator—Brown- | precincts voted >-oe - : afternoon were Mis. Josephinely, yompers after the second night's ell Drager' 1, MoCutoheoss 36, Stias Breotudt Goenett and Russell Clithero. £ y hat | Por Democratic Representativi | 296 pIONEER pASSES asengers for the Island city this raid, showed fires so bright tha 'or Democratie presentatives = Democrats 336 | anpIere planes could be seen on the air- Diamond 15, Egan 179, Hatton 7 G 2 nlorning with ACA were Janet Nel-| 2 ; 4 Republic 24 \ IN s"“ HOME <on. Philip Johnson, W, H. Nieder- |drome tield i ; X [num‘n-y 15, Kehoe 42, McCutcheon Beonna Pimatuics l hauser and George Jorgenson. For| A later picture taken the same NOME, Alaska, April 20—1In yes- Smith 22, Democrats 162 % Hoonah, passengers were Frank night shows the entire town en-|lerday’s primary eleetion there were he complimentary vole Republicans 13 ! Clark B. Kennedy, 84, passed Wright and George O. Hollings-|gulfed in flames and smoke {only 177 votes cast. Walter Sharpe Delegate Dimond 72 and Tr | hird Precinet away recently in the Alaska Pion- worth. . —— cceived 59 votes for Territorial Olson 57. 1 Democrats 174 eers’ Home, according to word Returning from Sitka this after- BERLIN, April 29 — Correspon- ! Ccmmissioner of Labor and Michael| The two Republican candidate Republicans 18 |reaching Juneau today. Kennedy roon were, Scott Jurry, Wes Overby, |dents of Swedish papers, reported Haas was given 36 votes for the House, Moritz A. Andresen! >o "‘nni been living in the home since B. E. Stewart, Gordon Wingarner, here that the Baltic base and air - - - {and Almer J. Peterson, received two 9. He was a trapper. Allert Savikko and M. G. Swartz. plane manufacturing center of Ros-! The actual number of languages | votes éach 5 The vanilla plant is a member| A resident of Alaska since 1903, Air mail was carried both to and tock is virtually leveled and unin- | computed by the French Academy __lof the orchid family native to Kennedy lived for a time at Hot | from habitable. is put at 2,796. } «Continued on Page Three) }M‘-"l'w Springs, and later, al Rampart. \