The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9024. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS INVASION OF CHINA PLANNED FROM WEST Yanks, Aussies Keep Hammering At Enemy out of a possible 200 to top his company and qualify as “expert” in shooting for rifle qualification rec- ord Hec is stationed at Camp Rob- inson, where he has been receiving his basic military training. Pvt. Garner was inducted into Nippons Lose Two Fighter Juneau M an Planes in South .ge ; a ot Ranks ngh AUSTRALIA, May 2—Allied air- men, have successfully bombed Jap- anese airdrome installations at Gasmata on New Britain Island and planes that sought to intercept H oA ot el Private Lloyd P. Garner ‘The communique reports that an- otter 3up pone s arstoses wn 10ps Company at Camp it e Bt Robinson in Shooting -, — STOCK QUOTATIONS |ncoy >—rvt. Lioya P. Garmer, form- NEW YORK, May 2—Closing quo- crly of Juneau, recently scored 183 tation of American Can today at Stock Exchange is 54g, Anaconda; 24%, Bethlehem Steel 54%, Com-| monwealth and Southern 7/80, Cur- tiss Wright 6%, International Har- | Ketinecott 38%, Norf,hen‘xv Pacmcirived at Camp Robinson on Feb- 5%, United States Steel 46%, Pound | ryary 2. Prior to his induction, he 404 |lived in Juneau, where he was em- ployed by the Alaska-Juneau Gold The following are today’s Dow,| Garner was a member of the Al- Jones . averages: industrials 96.44,| aska civilian rifle team. In the rafls 2467, utilittes™11.85. ;Camp Perry, O. matches in the —_— | fall of 1940 he scored 259 of 4 pos- Closink quotation of Alaska Ju-‘Nauonal Individual match. Last neau mine stock Friday was 1%,;July 4 at Juneau in a match be- American Can 59%, Anaconda 24%,!tween the Alaska civilian and the Bethlehem Steel 55, Commonwealth | National Guard teams, Garner 6%, International Harvester 42%, 000 vards with the M-1 rifle at a Kennecott 28%, New York Central 20-inch bulls-eye. He has been 7%, Northern Pacific 5%, United shooting in competitions for about |“as soon as I was big enough to |raise it to my shoulder,” he said. | ———————— The Washington Merry - Go- Round ' | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN As"Expert” shot down one of seven Jap fighter Yoot g five enemy craft attacked Port CAMP ROBINSON, Arkansas, the, ghort session of the New York vester 41%, New York Central 7%, g0 army on February 23 and ar- DOW, JONES AVERAGES | Mining Company. 5 PRICES FRIDAY isible 300 to qualify as expert in the and Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright/scored 49 of a possible 50, shooting States Steel 46%, Pound $4.04. ‘thrce years. He began using a rifle, Civilian Defense Bible Is Issued; Many Topics | Taken Up for Discussion ATSALTLAKE BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 2—For my money, the bible of civilian defense is a book titled simply “Civilian Defense of the United States.” It is written by Col. R. Ernest Dupuy and Lieut. Hodding Carter. I met the colonel some years ago when he and Maj. George Fielding Eliot were harping on the then un- popular string of all-out national defense with a book called “If War Comes.” The colonel went on with the armed forces; the major con- tinued literary o The colonel, after an interlude as a West Peint brass hat, is now in Washington and in a position to be as authentic as a Bureau of Engraving $5 bill. The lieutenant likewise. Yet the frontispiece of their book on civilian defense carries the cau- tion: “Opinions expressed and con- clusions drawn in this book are those of the authors. They must not be construed as necessarily re- flecting the official opinion of the Office of Civilian Defense, of the War Department, or of the ser- vices in general.” I wouldn't mention this except that I don’t believe it. The ac- knowledgements give credit to al- most every person in Washington who has anything to do with eiv- ilian defense. The authors may have libeled somebody but they NOT only haven't been sued, they haven't even been shouted at. 17 KILLED IN PLANECRASH United Airlines Sleeper Plows Info Mountain | Ridge at Night SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 2 --A United Airlines sleeper trans- port last night plowed into a storm- lashed ridge within sight of the airport, Killing 14 passengers and the crew of three. Gecrge Gearhart, watchman for an inn about a mile below the site, was the first to reach the scene and said that one man lived for a few minutes. Scars on the ground indicated the huge plane had hit near the summit of the ridge. The pilot was Capt. Donald Brown, San Fraa- cisco. Victims included Navy Command- er John Burrow, Navy Lieut. J. G. | Claire Tucker, Army Lieut. Herman | Frankenburg, three women includ-| ‘mg the stewardess and a year-old | infant. | e ST Army Bomber Hits Peak in - Severe Storm Their book covers everything that | has anything to do with civilian protection of the nation. It stars with such simple definitions as “The civilian's defense (against modern enemies) is orgflnlzation‘ for his own protection. His couni-| erattack is production and the maintenance of a national morale | that will outlast the enemy i The book is matter-of-fact. In| spots it's even dull, But the au-| thers have not gone about their business without imagination. For | instance there is that preface to| Chapter XII, “Women In Defense”, which starts off with a mention that Helen of Troy never rolled a} bandage or drove an ambulance; Penelope never knit a sweater; and Florence Nightingale had to break down a door to get medical sup-| plies because the soldier men of | (Continued on Page Five) %U. S. Troops | In New Zone CAIRO, May 2—Major General Russell Maxwell, Chief of the Unit- ed States-North African Mission, at | .a press conference today, confirmed reports that a limited force of United States troops is now in the | | | | Eastern Mediterranean war theatre. TR & A5 Tkl 'DENMARK PRIME Crew of SeTé}l Members Killed in Crash in New Mexico CIMARRON, New Mexico, May 2 |—A cowboy reports that the seven crew members of a 4-motored Ar- my bcmber were killed when the plane crashed atop of the 10,000 foot Trail Peak southwest of here during a severe storm nine days ago. STARK SAYS ALLIES WILL BEAT AXIS American Naval Com- { mander in Europe Ex- presses Confidence LONDON, May 2.—Admiral Har- | old Stark, Commander of the United | States Naval Forces .in European | waters, expressed confidence today in his first press conference, that Allied naval strength will rise stead- ily despite its losses, and will over- whelm the Axis. Drafted British Girls Report to the A.T.S. Army t Carrying their duffiebags, British women are shown reporting to an Auxi]iu_ry_’l‘crritorml Srrvi'ce center in southeast Engiand, This group is the first to be drafted for army work. Britain plans to conscript 18,000 women monthly for the A.T.S. Soldiering the Hard Way e ONENENANA MANDALAY 1§ TAKEN, SAYS JAP REPORT 'British Withdrawing fo North, Destroying Bridges, Railroad NEW DELHI, May 2--Battered |by a big Japanese thrust, the Brit- |ish are withdrawing north of the big bend of the Irrawaddy River, virtually on the outskirts of Man- dalay As they withdraw, they announce the destroying of important rail lines and highway bridges ten miles south of the former capital of the | Burma kings, | Tokyo imperial headquarters an- |nounce that Jap forces yesterday captured Mandalay on the now closed Burma Read to China and I(E WINNER [that the city’s military establish- imem.s have now been destroyed. | Reports, however, from China in- idicatr that the Japanese capture | Mandalay are not |of Lashio and 50 important because the Burma Warren Locke fo Stay Right at His Work on Job at Kodiak KODIAK, Alaska, May 2—War- (ren K. Locke, one of the winners | of the Nenana ice guessing contes |is a single man about 30 and his ! home town is Wenatchee, Wash. He | has been in Alaska two years and | |came here from Fairbanks. | Locke started working here last February. | Locke was arrested on a fake | warrant, handcuffed and mugged i | by Deputy Marshal Paul Herring ) then informed of his luck in having a share in the N na award, . H2 was then relieved of suspense over his arrest and then said: “I | am going to stay right here until the job is finished Warren Pershing, son of Gen. John J. Pershing, boss of thg flrgt AEF in World W:1 I, pilots a wheelbarrow around at Fort Bqlvo!r. Virginia, where he's leaining the trade of his dad. Warren's doing it the hard way. He's a buck private. NAZIS KILL | 30 FRENCH | START BIG - .- 17 HORSES ENLISTMENT, U. 5. YOUTHS CALLED Now Manpower Demands Calls for Joining of Those | Not Under Draft WASHINGTON, May 2 FOR ESCAPE RACE TODAY Officers Fxecuted as Ac- Kentucky DeTby Has larg- complices for Aid- est Field Since 1937 ing Giraud Contest Growing MOSCOW, Russia, M Thirty UISVILLE. Kentucky, May 3|MAnPOWer requirements for the French officers have been exceuted LCUISVIL ‘|“;””‘“ o onal Atmy today led to a call for en-| in i@eima: . suspended accom- Seventcen ho 6 colts and one | 000 by youths in the 19 year gelding—enter today’s sixty-eighth| scape of Gen. plices in the Henri old e group, not subje to call Honore Giraud, a dispatch from runving iIn the Kentucky Derby, mde the Seclective Service Law Stoekholm reports. America’s foremost horse racing ... ... 1o the enlistment will be! The Moscow radio said that a Nazi classic. made later | commission headed by Gestapo Heading the field are Mrs 11.-,\“\]- Also the first order has been put Chief Heinrich Himler, has arrived Whitney’s ove, two threats, Devil|, i, qryft men whose minor physi- at Dresden to inquire into the cir- Driver and Shut Out, and Texas| ., joiects bar them {rom front cumstances of Giraud’s escape. The Ben Whitaker's Requested. Back of |y, g, French general last was reported to them in the odds come Alsab, With| |Road no longer runs in that direc- |tion. Tt was reported that when | Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek re- cently visited in Burma, he had |the terminus of the link between |China and India moved to an un- disclosed point. ACCUSE JAPANESE The official communique of New | Delhi said that the retreating troops blew up a series of bridges below Mandalay, including two spans of the famous Ava Bridge, ten miles south, . | Dispatches also officially accused the Japs of systematic and indis- |criminate bombing and setting afire of towns, inflicting a terrible toil of casualties. Stilwell In Danger Even more critical than the loss 'of Mandalay is the situation con- frenting American General Joseph W. Stilwell's Chinese Army on the Lashio front, 150 miles to the northeast of Mandalay, where tank !led Jap columns of great force are reported to have pushed within 45 !miles of the Chinese frontier. It seems evident that Japan is intent on invading China from its “back door” instead of driving westward, ¥ headquarters .communique from the Honan Province battlefront savs that 1,000 Japanese ave been slain in an attempted drive by the in- vader northwestward from Sinyang. An entire Japanese force, report- ed to number 6,000, was trapped near Minkong and forced into dis- ordered retreat, the reports said. e s n PR JAPS REPORT U.5.SUBIS IN LOCALITY “This will be a tighy year,” he pe in Vichy Regards, Won Again, Apache, Vald- ' By DREW PEARSON— i and ROBERT S. ALLEN | WASHINGTON — AFL and CIO chiefs, sometimes called the Presi- dent’s “labor cabinet,” tried to pu: the heat on him at the Whi Z House last week to stave off the, - ban on wage boosts. But they nev- o 1 . b L Vi ‘Haas Gains Along with The President pulled a charm; filibuster on them—a favorite RoGs- Wa|ker as More Re. evelt tactic when he wants to avoid talking about something. turns come In Apparently the President figured e i Returns received toda rom the libor ilepders MOy JnAce ";:cven more precincts in !hi ;‘irst final -gttempt to block the I’”_Dlvmon shortened the race, but freeze. So he launched his fillbust-{yy jiphe for the Commissioner of er s soon as CIO president Philip yg46r and Divisional Senator con- Murray walked in, by previous &r-|iest walter P. Sharpe now leads rangements 10 minutes ahead of the| Michael J. Haas in this division other members of the joint com-|with 1185 to 960 votes. Allen Shat- mittee. .Whatever Murray intended tuck has 1139 votes to Arthur P. to say, he never had the remotest|Walker's 964. chance. | The seven latest precincts to re- The President immediately started | port are Point Agassiz, West Peters- talking about New York politics,| burg, Hyder, Kake, Windham, Myers and what he described as the “col-(Chuck and Baranof. orful career” of Lieut. Gov. Charles| Returns from these precincts now Poletti. show contestants in the Democratic This took up nine of the 10 min- | ¥ace for Representative positions as utes ‘allotted to Murray. Then, béfore he could break in, the Pre: dent said, “Well, Phil, T guess it's| time to call in the other boys. know you don't want to keep Lhemf waiting.” | That ended that. So Round 1‘ went to the President by a big| margin, { —— | ROUND TWO | Roosevelt took Round II by the| same filibustering tactics and by| the same wide margin. { Again, after the laborite had| been seated and amenities had} been exchanged, he launched im- mediately into a discussion of pol-| itics and politicians and kept this| up in his most entertaining vein| for mest of the hour allotted to, the conference. ! | ‘Then he pointedly ended the| meeting by remarking, “Well. boys, | 1 guess it's time for lunch.” The disconcerted laborites had| . (Continued on Page Four) E. Hardcastle, tollows: ! Snow Jenne, 997; Andy Gundersen, | James V. Davis, 959; W. C.| " Stump, 712, and J. F. Krause, 101 |, S1OCKHOLM, May 3—A dispatch | fry hagen said Prime Min- Meanwhile, latest reports from’.nom Popen the Third Division show 37 out of ister Thovald Stauning of Denmark 58 precincts in with the f\:llowlng;‘s sinking rapidly and death {5 ex- 1041; Crystal MINISTER DYIN results: |pected at any time. Haas, 1_7‘83; Sharpe, 847 for Labor: — e —— S FISHING SEASON Don ¢. Brownell, 680; H. H. Mc-| Cutcheon, 624; Karl Drager, 572 for' Divisional Senator. | e — NIKULA FUNERAL SET NEXT TUESDAY FOR |opened to fishing yesterday, Frank Funeral services for Paw Nikuw,'Dufresne, Executive Officer of the who died yesterday in the small Alaska Game Commission said to- boat harbor while working on a day, Limit is 20 fish not to exceed OPENED FRIDAY Salmon Creek near Juneau, and 'Dewey Creek near Skagway were | said, “but there will come a time | when we will be in a position to strike and we will carry through no | matter what losses we suffer.” - e 'MAY DAY PARTY HELD AT CHURCH The May Day Breakfast held yes- terday in the parlors of the Metho- dist Clwrch was declared a great success by the many guests and the committee members. About 100 persons enjoyed the ;brenklast. served in the attractively | decorated dining hall, where spring flowers and greens abounded. boat, will be held at 2 o'clock Tues- |15 pounds total weight. day afternoon in Charles W. par—‘ -l ter's Chapel. Interment will follow | MRS. ELKINS HERE in the Evergreen Cemetery. The Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman will give the service. Mrs. Lester E. Elkins, of Peters- ter, both of Juneau, Mrs. W. W, Council, Mrs. James Boyle, Mrs. Ray Day |Mrs. George Oswald and Mrs | D. Reckin were on the kitchen com- | mittee and serving in the dining room were Mrs. W. D. Matheny, acted as hostess, - K. ROOSEVELT IN INSTITUTE FOUR MONTHS Son of Former President to Undergo Treatment- Own Agreement HARTFORD, Conn., May 2 Kermit Roosevelt, 52, son of the late president Theodore Roosevelt, has ' entered a neuro phychiatric insti- tute here for a four month treat- ment, under a voluntary agreement ith the Probate Court Kermit’s brother Archibald sought Mr. Nikula 15’burg, has arrived here for a visit Mrs. R. E. McCully and Mrs. Wil- ||, have him committed a vear ago. |survived by his widow and a daugi- of several weeks with her sister, lam O'Dell. Mrs. W. H. Matthews ———— BUY DEFENSE BONDS i L ina Orphan, The Imported, Holly- | : : . H wood, Swecp Swinger, Dogpatcn GRUENING |S iRadlo Claims Allies Sink Call, Fairy, Manah, Sir War and H Fist Pddle, | Russian Merchan}- Two rank outsiders from Calff-| | a Prize make up, the list. Sweep| | - Swinger is the lone gelding. | | TOKYO, May 2.-—The radio here This tield is the biggest since| declared this morning that the 4.- War Admiral whipped 19 others ln‘ 1937. If all 17 of the entrants go to| the post, the winner will get $68,000 | T e o sart i a:30, GOvernor Makes Trip fo Puyallup While Wait- Pacific War Time. | ing Transportation A hot sun beat down here today ' Gov. Er on the setting for the $75,000 classic of the country’s foremost sporting ! pectacle. The race is one mile and | one quarter | Col. Matt Winn predicted dream has finally come true and| Assembly Camp here yesterday and PUYALLUP, Wn, May 2 there will be a crowd of at least|expressed pleasure at the treat- 100,000 spectators. {ment of Alaska and Washington R e | interness and at their happy frame Eighteen destroyers and 13 sub-' marines were launched by the Navy ‘dunng 1941, of ‘mind He was unable to find two Jap- anese families he knew | his,| nest Gruening visited the Japanese 600-ton Russian merchantship An- gristroi was torpedoed last night by |a United States submarine or one |of the other Allies and left sinking | off the southwest coast of Kyushu, )’mn- of the southernmost of the main | Jap islands The report said that the 2,500-ton Jap steamer Calcutta Maru was also sunk by a sub yesterday in nearby waters The Japanese claimed that the torpedoing of the Russian vessel was disclosed by a Jap merchant ship which rescued 50 members of the crew ported .on the radio has come from any other source,