The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 30, 1942, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY {INGTON, D. C THE DA VOL. LVIIL, NO. 9022. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” TUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942 ILY ALASKA EMPIRL MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH KEEP POUNDING GERMAN BASES our Navy Men Killed On Take-Off In A Sitka Vole DETAILSOF Evolufion of Weather | AIR CRASH NOT GIVEN Three Enlisfi Men Also Injured, But Not Seriously SEATTLE, April 30—Three of- licers and an enlisted man were| killed and three enlisted men in-| jured in a crash of a navy patrol| plane in a takeoff at an Alaska| air station, the Thirteenth Naval District announced here today. ik s 'English Coast Iowu Suffers Ensign Frederick Andrew Smith, ShOI" Rald bv German pilot commanding officer, | Ensign Glenn R. Van Bramer,| Planes Dunng nghI navigator, NORWI(H IS - SUBJECTED E{m.m.: ‘g’hncfl- _g“;‘rfi:{ "1?::"::1 NORWICH, England, April 30—| Army surgeons at every post and | ber of planes participating but at’ o s hi 'm, unmtg i aid | Several large stores of Norwich's fort were equipped with weather in- one time at one point vapor class machinist’s mate. struments. The observations were streaks extended dver an area of) The Injured: |shopping district lay in ruins as Alvin S. Zettel, radio third class,|@ result of last night’s short but Clifford A. King, seaman second | sharp German air raid. It was the second attack here in class, : Ralph Mitchell, radioman third|three nights. Apparently the Nazis class. |planned a longer raid but the Brit- The navy announcement did not|ish said they were cut short by i give the date nor location of the| crash, but said that none of the in- jured was in serious condition. The home addresses of the men were British night fighters and heavy- weight explosives hurled into the sky by anti-aircraft crews. During the half hour raid one; Bureau Written Up; Is Now Big Aviation Help AFTERNOON1 BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April. 30—Bazk | of those little columns of tempera- | tures and rainfall data in our daily paper iie some 128 years of fas- cinating history. It’s told in a neat | 222-page typewritten report with a | pretty discouraging title: “List of| AIR BATTLE RAGES THIS RAF, Nazis Flghhng It Oull Over Northern French | Coastat 25,000F. FOLKESTONE, England, April 30 —A gigantic air battle between ‘h; Very Light InPrimary SITKA, Alaska, April 30—Only 127 Democratic votes were cast here in Tuesday's prima The light vote is due to the polls closing be- fore the majority of the contrac- tor's employees were through work {and lack of competition between the Democrats and GOP. Delegate Dimond was given a Climatological Records in the Na-|RAF and Nazis is being fought ouf|complimentary vote of 125 and Ter- tional Archives.” | The first nation-wide weather re- porting system was set up by two Army dcctors, Surgeon-General ‘)U'i seph Lovell and Dr. James Tilton, in 1814. They wanted to find out/ whether climate influenced the health of soldiers! carried out faithfully as a whole, although Indian raids inlerlered‘ once in a while, “Owing to Lhe] threatened outbreak of the Walla-| pais,” read an early report, “the| rain gage was abandoned for sev- eral days and was only visited Lhe‘ second day after /the rains.” Meantime James P. Espy, of‘ Philadelphia, chairman of the Joint |across Dover this afternoon 25,000 feet over thé northern French coast. | Watchers on the cliffs of Folkes | stone followed the dogfights high above Cape Gris Nez and Boulogna| by the twisting threads of vapor trails. Heavy explosions echoed | Strait | It is impossible to count the num- several miles. 5 Ll 4th Dlvmon Returns Give ritorial Treasurer Olson received 119 votes. (The vote for Senators and Representatives will be found elsewhere in the Empire in the tabulation.) The Republican vote for Repre- sentatives is as follows: Bartholo- mew 16, Garnick 14, Krause 15, Boldwin 15. > s ADM. STARK IN BRITAIN FOR DUTIES LASHIO FATE 'Army Officer 'UNKNOWNAS | Is Victim of FIRES RAGE; Plane Crash Japanese Invader Thought Brig. Gen George Killed iz fo Have Taken Town | Australia — Melville on Burma Road = Jacoby Also Dead HEADQUARTERS |the crash Brig. Gen. brilliart e |with Gen. Douglas MacArthur CHUNGKING, April 30—The fate the Philippines, of Lashio, head of the Burma Road Arthur on the epic flight from the and the most important back door l’l!lll])])uu‘\ to Australia last month. | to China, is unknown today, bul Jacoby also came to Australia last | the Japanese invader is thought to month with his wife after living be standing at its gates, menacing | with the beleaguered United States the whole of Burma defense. and Pilipino forces defending Ba- This newest development threat-|taan Peninsula against the Japan- ens another major reverse to the ese invaders, United Nations, with hardy Chinese The plane crash occurred last troops in Burma under American Monday but details were withheld Lieut.-Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell now |until proper announcement could Le outflanked around the Mandalay made to the War Department in district, bombing attacks continu- Washington. A posthumous award however. The loss of Lashio menaces the entire British-Chi- nese defense in Burma. George, 40, one of the| Staff Officers who served | in| accompanied Mac- | laska PARIS WAR PLANTS HIT EARLY TODAY 'Explosives Dropped Be- | fore Dawn-Many Per- ] sons Killed or Injured 'RAIDERS LEAVE GREAT FIRES OTHER SECTIONS 'Tronheim Bemg Evacuated —Rumors of Peace Pro- posals Circulated (BY z‘\hb()( lA’ll‘D PRESS) Great Britain's thundering aerial |offensive struck the German war | foundries in Paris before dawn to- day while London heard uncon- firmed reports that Germany has offered “Nazi peace” terms to Eng- land three times since mid-March. Simultanously, Tokyo broadcasts today quoted well informed circles in Berlin as saying that Hitler and Mussolini will meet in a few days, the purpose owever not being re- vealed. BULLETIN—Chungking, April | ALLIED IN| 30—Lashio, the Burmese back AUSTRALIA, April 30—Brig. Gen. door to China, has fallen to |Harold H. George, of the United the Japanese after a battle in |States Army Air Force, was killad | which both sides suffered heavy |in an airplane crash, and leulh-‘ | casualties. The battle in the |Jacoby, Time and Life Magazine vicinity of Lashio is continuing |correspondent, was also a victim of ing on the northeast Burma towns | of the Distinguished Service Medal Those Peace Terins not immediately available. o e and another fire burned two the- SHIP SURVIVORS REACH PORT 2U¢s. The Nazis hit two publ | shelters with bombs and seven per- sons were ki]led NEW YORK, April 30—-Twenty- five men from a torpedoed Ameri-| can freighter, whose sinking was an ' nounced today by the navy, lived| NAZIS ADMIT for eight days in an open boat‘ with only two hard biscuits and a cup of water per man each day as| lINE BREAK rations. The men disclosed this on arival here. Many suffered in- jm‘tés and exposure while at sea. — ee> - - The Washington rv - Go- dGerman Command Says, Mer Y Go-Roun | Russians Break Through EW PEARSO ond R i Positions Near City | and ROBERT S. ALLEN church was damaged by explosionfCommitlee On Meteorology of the American Philosophical Society and the. Benjamin Pranklin Iy |was developing a system of \voluntary observers. Seeing the need for a nation- |wide reporting system, Espy in 1842 began establishing himself in Wm;h»" mgtun as the “national meteorolo- gist.” A writer of the day recalls| that his salary was covered by ri ] ers to “one appropriation bill af- 1 ter another, Army, civil and dip- lomatic, naval, legislative, execuuve‘ and Jjudicial,” attached by friends in | When the Smithsonian Insutule was founded in 1846, Espy got a| real opportunity to put his idea to work, He and Joseph Henry, fll‘sl‘ | secretary of the Institution, devel—‘ oped a chain of observers reporting daily by telegraph. | WASHINGTON—One factor be- hind Roosevelt’s seizure of Nazi pat- ents was the fact that even since Pearl Harbor, the U. S. Patent Of-|“succeeded in breaking through our| fice has been granting patents to|positions” on the outskirts of a German companies. |“large locality” but were thrown ! Furthermore, some of these pat-|back in a counter attack. ents have been granted to the Ger-| ‘The city was not identified but man drug monopoly, I. G. Farben- might have been any one of a half industrie, whose gag-hold on the|dozen German garrisoned points American ¢hemical and pharmaceu- between Lake Ilmen and the Sea of tical business has been exposed by‘Az.ov. It probably would b¢ Kursk, Orel or Kharkov on the southern the Justice Department and thew‘ 1 A ront, along the ‘objectives of Rus- Truman Committee. latar Atives To be sure, the Germans, after| q, command said the Russians receiving American patents, as-|paye peen using strong tank forces signed the rights to American af-|iy fighting around Orel and have filiates, but they are not obliged heen concentrating attacks for sev- to do so. . The Germans still can|cral days in the area northeast of | get a valid patent in the United Orel. States, war or no war, in fact are protected by U. S. law. High Command’s communique said ‘The Patent Office contends that the law makes it necessary to grant patents to anyone who fulfills the requirements—which is true. How-| ever, it is equally true that the| moribund Patent Office and its super-conservative Patent Commis- sioner Conway Coe have leaned over backward against liberalizing the law in recent years. Note:— Chiefly responsible for, the current Senate investigation of | Patents are Senator O'Mahoney of | Wyoming and Thurman Arnold. GOOD NEIGHBOR DRINKS One of South America’s brilliant ambassadors in Washington has found the cure for the proverbial hangover. the Good lator of the Conciliation Division of ithe U. S. Department of Labor, JACKSON APPOINTED ARBITRATOR IN (OLD STORAGE DISPUTE! Federal E. 8. Jackson, Concili- has been appointed to act as ar- bitrator in the dispute between the cold storage workers and the fish buyérs and cold storage operators, according to word received by Mr. Jackson last night from the Chief Conciliator in Washington. Mr. Jackson will begin at once on the preliminary work necessary and hearings will be started at the earliest possible date, he said to- day. But the need got beyond the department or the Smithscnian In- | mand led to the setting up of a fed- eral weather service. Col. Albert| J. Myer, political-wise chief signnl: officer of the Army, saw an op-| (Continued on Page Three) | ALASKA COASTAL MAKES FLIGHTS T0 SITKA TODAY, Leaving Juneau for Sitka this| morning on the first mail and pas- senger trip of the Alaska Coastal Airlines were Russell Clithero, John Lawrence and L. J. Gerlach. On the return flight to Juneau passengers were, R. J. Balius, Nellie Balius, Lynn L. Crosby, Mrs. Lynn| L. Crosby, Harold Finch and Frank Signorelli. Taking passage on the second flight to Sitka today with ACA were Warren B. Haines, Cameron Terry, and Mrs. Madge Sharc!nnew Air mail and express were carried | on both flights. e e DART REPORTED SAFE IN PORT AFTER MISHAP | Burovich, Sharpe Lead”" Scattering Iiéfirns 12 0ut‘ of 72 Precincts—Gordon | leads "Alabam” FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 30— Slowly accumulating returns from | 12 of the 72 widely scattered vot- |ing precincts of the Fourth Divis- Congl‘e.ss -mn including Fairbanks, in the Ter- terial Primary of last Tuesday | gives the following totals: | Democratic Ticket For Delegate to Congress—An- thony J. Dimond 845. For Territorial Treasurer—Oscar G. Olson 624. For Territorial Commissioner of | Labor—Michael J. Haas 354, Walter BERLIN, April 30—The Germanjmeans of either the Army medical P, Sharpe 407. For Senator--Frank Gordon 600, today that the Soviet troops had stitution, and in 1869 popular de-|“Alabam” La Boyteaux 249. For Representatives—Harry Bad- ger 297, Herbert Fink 287, Paul! Glasgow 95, Hugh Henton 347, Jesse Lander (incumbent) 426, Al-' aska Stewart Linck 397, Bob Mc- |Combe 245, John O'Shea, Jr. 507, Earl Pilgrim 296, Leo Rogge cumbent) 409. Republican Ticket Senator—und\ ntested—John Jr, W ] For Replcaenlatives~uncontv~lvd —Jacob Drablos 153, Robert Ilsles (in- For 159, Henry Karstens 152, Inmt McK. Reed 150. B S, PR Will Assume Command of American Naval Opera- tions, European Area LONDON, April 30—Admiral Har- old R. Stark has arrived ‘in London by plane to ime his duties as ccmmander of the American Naval | Operations in European waters. He was accompanied here Ambassador John G. Winant. Ad- miral Stark is the highest ran%- ing United States Naval officer to assume a post in Britain since 1917. The arrival of Stark followed the oy | ;PresiUEnt's disclosure on his broad- cast last Tuesday night that Unit- ed States naval units are operat ing in the Atlantic and Ar | Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. It gave added emphasis to steadily increasing part American forces are taking in the Europeau theatre. -, STAR AIRWAYS HAS REGULAR ANCHORAGE RUN On its weekly scheduled flight to Juneau from Anchorage, motor Ford of the Star Airways arrived in town last evening and left this morning on the return flight to Anchorage. Star Airways will have a weskly schedule to Juneau from Anchorage, | arriving Tuesday and returning the | | the tri-| and fire raging as the situation be- to Brig. Gen. George, is also an- SOMEs graver: Ty g i Inommeed fram Washington, No word has been n-r.mvwl direct- > o ly from the forces defending Bur-| ma, but it is reported that fires are raging in Lashio. This leads observers to believe penetrated the town or its outlying tions or the Allies themselves re giving it up as lost and putting the place to the torch or at least [ pe ON SCHEDULE enéd by truck transport and in the confusion of the evacuation it is not known for sure whether or not Lashio is being destroyed by the | énemy Confers with Stalin, Molotoff in Moscow KUIBYSHEV, Ru: , April 30 — liam H. Standley declared today that the flow of U. S. war supplies to Russia are up to commitments and further stated that Josef Stalin expressed satisfaction at the deliv- eries Admiral Standley, during a con- ference with newspaper correspon- AIR RA I D E D dents, said he conferred with Stal- in and Maxim Molotoff for half lan hour in Moscow. During this time the conversation was concerning the Americdn supply of r material for the armies in Rus- NEW GUINEA Allied Aitac_k_s-tm Invasion Preparation Points Con- tinue-Japanese Raid ALLIED HEADQU/\RTERS IN | AUSTRALIA, April 30 — Allied planes destrcyed or badly damaged 20 Japanese planes on the ground The Admiral said Stalin had no ies. Interment of a crew of an Am- erican bomber that beria after air raids on Japan, re- ported cn April 18, was also dis. | | that either the Burmese Fifth col- | umn incendiarists have risen in Lashio, the Japanese may have burning up the Lend-Lease sup- plies. { ¥ P | The Burma roads are overburd- American Am bassador American Ambassador Admiral Wil- | mostiy | complaints to make on the deliver- | landed in Si-| | The News Agency AFI, affiliated {with fhe De Guaillé; Pree Prench pvernment, says the German pen(é nflor is based on a nine page mem- |orandum by Goering to give the Third Reich undisputed mastery of |continental Europe. A Vichy broadcast this forenoon said 52 persons were killed and over 100 injured in one section alone as the result of the British Royal Air Force heavy assault before dawn today on Paris. It was the fifth lattack on Paris in less than two months. A large number reported to have been destroyed, according to the Vichy broadcast. | Eighth Night Raid It was the eighth consecutive |night in the RAF raids against the | continent, | striking in bright moonlight, the British bombardiers rained their ex- plosives chiefly the Gnone- Rhone at Gennevil- of “house are on Aero Works, liers on the Seine River, ten miles from the heart of Paris. The British described this as a | plant producing warplane engines for Germany. Nazis Admit Damage London reports termed the as- ault “extremely hea and the German Command admitted “con- siderable damage” infiicted on the buildings of Gennevilliers. | The official Royal Air Force com- ‘mumqu(‘ said that the raiders left lgreat fires blazing both at the Gnone-Rhone factory and the ad- | joining Goodrich Rubber Works. ‘ Trondheim Evacuated Meanwhile, dispatches from Stockholm said that the RAF's mashing raids on Monday and |flights and that of this week Is the fifth on the passe! L. E. Flahart is pilot. of the big| Ford and Joe E. Morris is co-pilot. Passengers arriving late yesterday \ are Ross Vicks, Mrs. T. Irwin and Ison, D. H. King, Mrs. D. H. Kmu Paul Taggart, E. Alexander, L. Gellson, Bud Johnson and C. E.| | Wolf. NGITOW Mafgln vo'e Se's On the return flight to Anchorage | today were, C. P. Rore, Jay Hour- Aside Limitations Meas- |ion.” sajor 1a Dewus.” mas v ( Vitham, A. Bergman, Gus Bermess ure on Unions | €. Witham, Mrs. M. Stout, R. M | Bond, W. H. Bond and A. L. Felt- mer. Gas fflr];ifiéfi TABLED BY COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, April 30—By a margin of only one vote, the House Naval Affairs Committee tabled the measure to limit war profits, to lift | | Wednesday, weather permitting. Af- ag Str . IlABoR Blll |ter three survey flights over the 2 ) 3 ! |route, Star began making passenger | .,y gtarted large fires in an at- |tack yesterday on the enemy air nger schedule. | cussed. Admiral Standley said there tleship hideout in Trondheim caused was nothing new disclosed beyond]’l‘uesday against the German bat- the fact the airmen are all right/a mass exodus of the city’s inhabi- |base at Lae in New Guinea, ac- | cording to today's official com- and receiving treatment :u'x,unlmg!mms. These reports said that | munique. to International Law. | evacuation was so great that Ger- The dispatch also reported that - - man authorities posted notices for- | Japanese planes attacked Port | bidding the workers of many in- | Moreshy three times yesterday bul. dustries to leave under any circum- had done only minor damage. stances. Thousands of workers are report- The Allied planes also made u relatively light raid on the .lnp:m- ese base of Koepang, capital of the uuupml l)nl(h Island of Timor. ‘GOVERNOR 5 ' EXPECTED HERE ~ ON SATURDAY, {ed to be toiling feverishly to de- |velop a big naval base at Trond- luml where the 35000 ton battle- ship Tirpitz and other powerful (u'l man fleet units have luken shel- (ter, (REW HITS AXIS SUB | WASHINGTON, April 30 — The FREN(H NEws |gun crew of a sma all United States “The American people are ed adjournment and request that going to have something to an arbitrator be appointed. Mr. Jackson has been in Juneau on temporary assignment from his headquarters in Seattle for several weeks and is expecting to return to the Puget Sound city within a way ports to Petersburg. Further short time, ldetaus are lacking. reported safe in Port Walter, al- though partially submerged. The Dart is captained by Einar suffer even more if I drink whis- key.” The specialist pinched and pound- ed the diplomat, and poured pink and purple fluids into him. After tests that cost a total of $150, the say | possibility that curtailment in gas about this racketeering in war|consumption in the Pacific North- Haugen, is €5 feet iong, carries 12 plants and labor unions in every| west may be eased or lifted al- passengers. It has been engaged in | Congressional district in the nation together is seen in oil circles as thel carrying mail between Juneau andiat the November elections.” | Petroleum Coorcination’s office re- o }pfll(?d a substantial improvement BUY DEFENSE STAMPS in that area in motor fuel stocks. ——— (Continued on Page Four) mc:f.“b‘f."’:ouc‘: nti‘::: after night| Conciliation hearings between the| ..o dine (o information l,each_*the statutory work week limit from| . |frefghter in the Atantic, the navy this diplomat went to Johns Hop-|Cold storage workers and fish buy- |, rye Empire this afternoon, the 40 to 48 hours and to freeze the| Ma Be Eased in s | reported today, recently fired on BUREAU SAYS £655 knedicos ‘for advice. ers and cold' storage operators took | yolcol Dart, of the Haugen Trans- status quo of closed and open shu]) | y A radiogram received by the Gov- | parently damaged x:n .Au,: “When I drink,” he said, “I feel|Place last Thursday, Friday and|poriation Company of Juneau, is for the duration of the war. p tifi h [ernoa’ Offic" hinh ‘Goveecnps. Br- 4 “,m.,l, was maneuvering bad. ‘Even if 1 merely drink wine,|Saturday. When they broke down|reported to have met with trouble| T vote of 13 to 12 came after (] (“0" WGSLW Gruening reports that the Gov-| ‘o W6 S L e I suffer from heartburn. And I|Saturday, Mr. Jackson recommend-|on jts last trip south and now is Chairman Charles Vinson told the e chiadte e Tatrine " a1 uly one shot was .”(( -):1 o members, WASHINGTON, April 30 — The | crew, the navy statement said, but Saturday. the “ship personnel felt the trem- | The radiogram was sent {rom|op of a heavy explosion and sighted| [LONDON, April 30.—AFT, an in- |San Francisco, but it is believed 4 great upheaval of water [ol-| gependent French news agency, re- jGovernor Grugning now is in Sc-/lowed by heavy, bluck oil on the ported without qualification tonight | that Germany had made three peace I propesals to Britain within the last six weeks, attle. | surface.” — - .o - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS - eee BUY DEFENSE BONDS