The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9025. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1942 MEMBER Ab‘s()( l \H D l Rl Sb> PRICE TEN CENTS RITISH ARE HAMMERING AT NAZI BASES Japs Force Battered Troops Back In Burma NEW THREAT Court Holds Invalid OFINVASION ' (auble’s Appointment j IS SEEN NOW By Governor Gruenmg N|ppons Mak'ng wed g e KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 4.— | Hardcastle is mvn";‘e op:fi;;;xsv\)(\)x\: ‘ | Federal Judge George F. Alexander | wonder whether Se arahng A"'ed De- |has handed down an opinion de- |mean that the Governor's two later | p ]cl'\xlng the Alaskan Unemployment | appointees, Mildred Hfirmf\nn, Ju- | 'enses n va"ey | Compensation Commission seat held | neau, and Harry Phillips, Fairbanks, | | by Richard E. Hardcastle of K(‘I-Mnol(l office illegally, because the | chikan now is vacant and has been | opinion held. that the Territorial HEAVIESI ASS‘U“ vacant since Hardcastle’s term ex- | Legislature’s intention was to re- ‘pn red a year ago in February. ‘qunc appointments to be “confirmed | IS REPORTED IODAY J\ldge Alexander held that Gov.|by the Legislature before they l?e- nest Gruening's appointment of | come valid.‘: and the statute forbids the Rev. John L. Cauble to succeed | recess appointments. Thrust Expeded on China ion‘o s DIRECTHITS Brazil Loses! from East o won v ARE SCORED Sixth Vessel The Jap cnmpawn in Burma is| developing swiftly into a stark in- vasion threat to China from the Ines South and India from the East, as| o u mar ‘ the enemy pushes China’s Expedi-| ‘ tionary Army to within 30 miles [ e hte i Ei‘icf{;‘é":(li’i v Allied Forces Defending Freighter Torpedoed Sunk| thin 10 i om the mensut Ausiralia Make Success- Near Trinidad - 44 border and with the fire-blackene Me“ MISSlng ok i ruins of Mandalay as the center, the | ful Dnves on weekend Japanese wedge runs up the broad! Irrawaddy Valley, separating the| ;i HEADQUARTERS IN| RIO DE JANEIRO. May 4—The| Allied Defense forces and the Brit-| yyerpay 1A, May 4—1In fierce new Brazilian freighter Parnahyba ish military. | fighting over New Britain and New |torpedoed and sunk near the Islar Heaviest Assault | Guinea over the weekend, Allied (of Trinidad and a Spanish lincr Commentators describe the Jap- hianes are reported to have scored |picked up onme lifeboat with 23 sur- anese thrust up e severed BUrMa | girect hits on several Japanese ! vivors, it was announced. olficially Road toward Chungking, 799 miles’ prapsport and downed at least six | today. to the northeast, as the heaviest | Jap planes. ‘y The Parnahyba is the sixth ve assault of the campaign. { Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head- |lost by Brazil, apparently due m Communiques said e sOWINg | quarters announced that Allied | Axis actions in three months. [ g | fighters shot down three Japanese K Two lifeboats with 44 men are ‘C°““““"" on Page Six) | bombers and one fighter on Sunday | missing {rom the 6600 ton ship, —— | over Port Moresby in New Guinea. ;sunk May 1 bound for New Yolk.l The communique also said that| The Spanish vessel, the Capo De The washlngton |two enemy trensports were badly | Hornos, searched the vicinity fruit-| damaged at Rabaul in New Bnlam‘le\sly for the missing men. i on Salurdm nnd that another en- Merry - Go-Round . s l"ss sovsamie in lhe solomou Islands on Sundav b | An earlier communique listed six‘ By DREW PEARSON- Now and ROBERT S. ALLEN | Japanese planes destroyed over | Britain and New Guinea and six ‘ WASHINGTON—One subject very !more damaged in the weekend | IN I S lA N Ds IS | much on the tongues of Republican | action. | leaders at the National Committee e meeting in Chicago was Gen. Doug- | las MacArthur. ‘ The hotel lobbies, corridors and | cocktail lounges buzzed with discus- sion of his possibilities as the GOP | ; ; i Stenggnany in o, e bileest | SP E ARHEADS First. Lieut. Robert Augur significance seemed to be attached to the fact that Pat Hurley, Secre- Showed Heroism on tary of War in Hoover’s Cabinet who NORTH WEST i is now U. S. Minister to New Zea- | i land, is in close contact with Mac- [ | correg|dor Arthur. ! However, there was one point on | S | WASHINGTON, May 4 — The which the GOP chiefs were very ireli fWar Department has anncunced much in doubt—MacArthur’s party | En("dmg Move Goes 0" .the award of the Distinguished Ser- label, whether he is a Republican or xvlce Cross to First Lieut. Robert Democrat. No one appeared to know from Rumed Ma"dalay 'F. Augur of Portland, Oregon. definitely in which camp to place | The award was made, it was said, him. But one story that went the io Indla and Chma |for the showing of extraordinary rounds did give MacArthur a GOP | heroism last weéek during heavy “slant.” LONDON, May 4.—The ashes of [bombardment on the Island fort- According to this report, he sent |devastated Mandalay are held by |resses of Manila Bay. several friends to the 1920 conven- |the onrushing Japanese today as' The communique said Maj. Gen. tion in Chicago, which after a bitter | their mechanized spearheads push |Jonathan Wainwright set the cita- fight finally nominated Warren G.|north toward China and west toward tion for the decoration, reporting Harding, and instructed them to|India in a great encircling move | that. Augur rescued several wounded submit his name to the delegates in |of annihilation against the weary, men and extinguished some fires the event any interest developed in | outnumbered Chinese and@ British | Bmldst the bombardment. a World War hero. defenders of Burma. MacArthur was then in his early The American Volunteer Group, 40’s and commandant of West Point. | Flying Tigers, struck back heavllleoE (ROSSON IS He had made an outstanding record |at the Japanese captured city of (Rl'l(Allv as the front-line commander of the | Lashio near the Chinese border, famous Rainbow Division and was a | bombing grounded planes and blow- | very popular figure, particularly |ing up a large fuel dump. i # F among veterans of the AEF. ——===—— |Alaska Flier Receiving| However, no-interest developed at | i cncago sna' e name. neve <ot (WA ARMD AM IN Treatment in Seattle into the headlines. A NOTE: Gen. MacArthur wasn't | HOSpItflI the only presidential possibility dis- cussed at the recent National Com- N E ‘ SEATTLE, May 4—Joe Crosson, mifese mnetis: TUREP pleo was some General Manager of Pan American talk of a 1944 ticket made up of Airways, Alaska Division, is critical- Tom Dewey of New York and isola- |)y ill in Columbus Hospital where tionist Senator “Curley” Brooks, who he has been confined for two weeks had just won the Illinois renomina- for treatment of a disease described tion. Dewey, who had been on both as “impaired arterial function: sides of the isolationist issue, is pre- e | Until Saturday night, Mr. Crosson paring for another try at the New | BERKELEY, Calif., May 4.—Cor-|paq been showing improvement,. York governorship as the spring- | nelius Warmerdam, a new American | One of the early Alaska fliers, board to the-White, House two years |eagle, soared to a new world record | My, Crosson is famous for mans" hence. Brooks is the Chicago Tri- | again Saturday in the pole vault.|mercy flights and is a pioneer ah-‘ bune’s white hope—provided he is|The Piedmont professor skimmed |man in the Territory. He joined reelected in November. over the crossbar at 15 feet, six and | the PAA cempany when it first | seven-eighths inches, crashing all | | began Alaska operations. i SILENT WHITE HOUSE existing outdoor records. MAKES STRONG RALLY — o | | aska Legislative Reapportionment (Signed) ‘B|l| which passed the House and —HARRY I LUCAS, was amended in the Senate to go| Mayor of Juneau. -|opposed by Alaska Delegate An: (g0 into effect immediately, thus LEGISLATIVE Proclamalion Alaska, I hereby request that all business - houses in Juneau | close Wednesday afternoon from | % to 3 oclock when the last || rites of John W. Troy will be s observed. Dimond Opposes Amend- If possible, I will deem great respect if the Territo ment in Reappor- | and Federal Offices in Juneau, : | as far as possible, wi tionment Act ‘ e e the one ho il 3 of the last s WASHINGTON, May 4—The Al-| our beloved former citizen. into effect immediately, has been thony J. Dimond and other Territor- FRIENDS pAY al officials and will go to a con-, ference between House and Senate| members before being sent to the | TRIBUIE To President for approval, it is an-| nounced. | jOHNw "‘ROY No date has been set for the; . conference as yet. The bill would/ |Increase the size of the Teriitorial “The passing of John Troy is a House of Representatives from 16|gincere shock to our entire com- to 24 members, and the Senate from munity, He was one of the finest, to 16 members. It further woufd )ovable characters that T ever hope provide for representation on the tg meet. Mrs. Lucas and myself basis of population rather than on wij miss him because we loved him Judicial Divisions as now is the'tgov cajq Harry L. Lucas, Mayor, case. i ; p in commenting on the death of It is opposed in -that it would jop, w Troy last Saturday after- for all practical purposes, nullify- "o “I hav John for 30 years. | |ing the effect of the Primary Elecs|s. g "“"(:":"f“. R e tion here, since the additional ¢ WAs the greats A aska membres would e chosen at thelBs had or ever will have. Further General Territorial Election in the{Words fail in appre fall, aecording to law, l‘lfid friend of this great Nmth-‘ Whd,” 3.9, eumuns. Collector. of| ES CAPED 207 a=s PASSES AWAY Amunv. others whu .wn(, word of sympathy were Delegate to Con- N A l gress and Mrs. Antnony J. Dimond who wired in part, “we have lost ‘\ | steadfast and loyal friend and Al- Mr. Troy wired, “John was one of |ernor of Alaska, and owner and T the finest characters I've ever|editor of the Dally Alaska Empire, German Pilot Who Fled known, toving nis friends and be- |died at 1:15 oclock lnst Saturday i“' umunm.m in St. Ann's Hospital. Canada Is Caught N leiee be| His death closed a long new . | replaced.” { paper career which began when he San An'omo Judge George F. Alexander, of | became reporter on the Port Town- the United States District Court of [send, Wash., Argus, in 1886, wired “T grieve|as Publisher and Editor of the Weckly Democrat Leader, Port Ar | geles, Wash., 1891-97, Editor of the {loved by them. A great mind a Governor, he cannot SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 4. the First Division, |Lieut. Hans Peter Krug, 22, Nazi With thousands of friends over the bomber pilot who escaped from a | passing of your distinguished fath- Cana.dlan concentration camp, and er. Gov. Troy was one of the whose trail was picked up in De- |grandest characters and best friends 1899-1907, troit recently, has been captured I_have ever known and his demise canpot attend the funeral’” in April, 1933. Foster L. McGovern, of the Se-! Surviving are Mrs. Troy, who lives attle Chamber of Commerce, stat-|in Hollywood, California, his daugh- | SHU'I' ou"‘ WI“S ed, “John was a wonderful father, Mrs. Alf N. Monsen and Mrs.| sincere friend, great Governor, lov- George A. Lingo; his granddaughter | clerk, suspicious, turned him in. re from Capt. A. E. Lathrep |of Long Beach, California. | wn’H AR(ARO ON sald in part, “He was a wonderful| The funeral will be Wednesday | inan and my dear friend”, and from afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Elks| Skinner “Alaska | Hall, the ritual being spoken by|* correspondent Mr, and Mrs. G. 3o off AISab IS Se(ond by PhO'O : A: its best and mos: respected :‘)llhf‘Hl(c)h; o Finish Over Va|dina ‘A]i:lj(::m L. Bartlett, Secretary of irhe eulogy. Interment will be in I‘\u[,xm‘n‘ 0l’phan | “The memory of John W. Troy | Gemetery in the Elks' plot will live long in the memories oxi Born In Washington | Alaskans, He left his mark for john Weir Trey was born on a good on this Territory in a man-|garm in Clallam County near D ner which will never be forgotten. geness, Washington Territory, 16 other entrants to walk away with || 40 DOt suppose that any man ev-|toher 31, 1868, the son of Smith approximately $75,000 prize money | lived who was more beloved bY |Troy and Laura Bass Weir Troy in the Kentucky Derby Saturday as ¢!l Who kncw him. His keen in-| gmiin Troy, his father, serve thousands of racing fans turned out | lelligence and his wisdom made him {jn poth the Territorial Legislature for the classic run off under a clear @n outstanding newspaper editor|i, washington and the first State blue sky. wnd publisher and, public officer falature. . PARTIE yahrs: ho ' 'wi Alsab, another favored entrant, first as Collector of Customs, and|ciqllam County School Superinten cers. Dean C. E. Rice|® nity Cathedral will give| - LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, May 4 —Shut Out, favorite owned by Mrs. | Payne Whitney, showed his heels to came in second but only by a nose | then as Governor of Alaska. His| jeyt He also served as County| in a tight photo finish. Valdina Or- | friendship and loyalty and goodnéss | Auditor and County Commissioner phan was breathing down his neck. made him an outstanding man, a 'y, clajlam County Smith Troy | | It was the biggest field since 1938, 5004 neighbor and an Unswervios|was g npative of Pennsylvania, of () When Eddle Arcaro, who rode Shut| (riend, John W. Troy was a Chris-|yirginia and Maryland ancestry. 21“:" t:n "lifxfi’n ““[‘im‘;‘:fvulf:(')‘”;‘:l‘: tian gentleman in the truest mean-\ My Troy's mother, Laura: Bass | the Derby last ;lear oty Whi‘x’hw’n ing of that term. Alaska can Nl|wajr Troy, was born in Texas, & o pare him. Alaska will' not forget!where her father, a native of Mis- for an all-time record. e — ARRESTED IN SITKA nim.” souri, was with the American Ar- “The passing of John W. Troy is |y jn the Mexican War. Her f Alaskn. He was & man amon: | prom Alabama and South Carolina, men and he will always be re-|yus born in Texas also. ! membered by his many friends, Pioneer Family safd Oscar G. Olson, llln(un-l‘ The Welrs were pioneers of Mary Martin were arrested April 29 by Deputy United States Mar shal Kenneth Sampson in Sitka on a charge of disorderly conduct the Marshal's office announced to-| Ireasurer. | Washington Territory. Mr. Troy's | day. - N A, > uncle, Allen Weir, was a member Both women were accused of be- W George O Marshal ;4,1 the Constitutional convention| i The White House is dead. It could Ch I g 0 e e o' ; v hardly be deader if it had been f iyg.| < BRA B MAT AR petia 4. The wind b 1t Admiral Adolphus Andrews, U. nounced this morning that Joe bombe: e windows are hung With g N was once an aide to Presi- |Crosson rallied strongly over the kv sl SRR i e (Continued on Page Four) dent Theodore Roosevelt, ‘I weekend, S or Washington State and was | Washington’s first Secretary of ing drunk and using obscene lan:-| .hiof of staff of the United State: uage on the streets of Sitka. TheV | Apmy, is not a West Pointer. H were fined $100 each and given six was graduated from Virginia Mil- | State. months cuspended sentences. J tary Institute. | Mr. Troy's brothers, Preston M.‘ | John ¥. Troy Passes On JOHN WEIR TROY ation of know-| Troy and David S iing him as a real, personal friend| \ ing Democrats mvl knowing him as a-true and| wm,;,,,,fl“.,‘ n,nm,num , was a former the Wi\alli!x4|ul) State | Claim Croisef Sunk e s a scientific dairy- served in both houses of the | Washington State |aska fts first citizen.” ‘J‘““\”" Thomas Ripgs, former (‘m\'ernm" 'of Alaska, and longtime friend of| John Weir Troy, 73, former Gov- |- of R(‘LLP]H\ of the years was a member Wu\hmfunn § -|in the attac |than one convoy, according to their | vei attended the coun- | schools of Clallam County, , the | German destroyer in its flotilla had Port Townsend College for one year | {orce of enemy destroyers” and was | damaged seriously. then | high school at Port and was tutored by had his first Skagway, Alaska, Daily Alaskan, lut Port, Townsend undér his uncl le, | Editor of the Daily Al-{Allen Weir, editor and pllbhslu'l of |aska Empire in 1913 and owner|the Port Townsend Argus here. marks the passing of one of the!since 1914. He did not m“nqmfih‘:xl)pnvmtul l)l"pll!\ County He was apprehended in a small |gplest and best beloved characters the Editorship of the Empire until|of Clallam County hotel and is said to have been head- i, Alaskan history. I regret that I|he was inaugurated as (,”V”“m.‘v\lmu he | ed for the Mexican border. The hotel | served two ye »le)xhlu d the Port Ange able character whose life was full|Joan, now in school in Seattle, and | KENIU(KY DERBY of constructive accomplishment.” his sister, Mrs, Seymour 1. Stone, for « A w { Alaska with |call these as repr ., 1897, and was Seattle and New ke rush wore off, im erator over the White Pa Weorked For ) of Government «d an interest, | He then returned to Seattle where | me associated with the AM | organization W organization T " came editor Mrs. Elizabeth Lindquist and Mis. TUly @ great loss to the Territory | mother, whose parents came west|y,, Alaska Yukon | Yukon Te As Secretary assisted in conducting (Continued on HAMBURG IS ATTACKED ON NIGHT RAIDS Docks, Shipyards Are Re- ported Ablaze-U-Boat " Nest Is Bombed | g EGERMAN AIRDROMES ‘ IN TWO AREAS HIT Berlm Communlque De- clares Reprisals Are Taken Extensively (BY ASSO D PRESS) In a battering exchange of blows |at Nazi seapower, the British com- munique said the Royal Air Force last night left the docks and ship- Iyards of Hamburg ablaze and |pounded the Nazi U-boat nest at ;SL Nazaire. The Germans said in exchange that their air force had raided Alexandria, the British Eastern Mediterranean's fleet base. The German communique said that in other operations off Europe's far |northern coast, German warships, |subs and planes fought a running battle for “day: on end in storms, of [high sea and ice” against strongly x.lmule'd Allied convoys along the {supply line to Russia. With the Allied account of the Attorney-General of |5¢4 battle yet to be told, the Ger- {mans hurried in first with their |version to eclaim that during the attacks a 10,000 ton British cruiser was sunk by a submarine and that {six of the nine convoyed ships |totaling 37000 tons, had been sent . [to the bottom. The Germans also ate el aim that several destroyers and four supply ships had been damaged which involved more jon. The Nazis also reported that one “accepted battle with a superior RAF Hits Airdromes The Royal Air Force is continuing |day and night attacks as Spring | permits more night flying and | struck back over the English chan- _|nel on the heels of last night's raids l':‘;un St. Nazaire and Hamburg to €1 he nd was appointed ammer at the Nazi used airdromes of Northern France and the low | countries. About 30 German night bombers concentrated on the southeastérn | English cathedral town of Exeter *s Weekly | tor the second time since the start > was editor | of the raids, The Berlin communique flatly isal bombings. The British said that five raiders were shot down and two others knocked out of the sky over north- | fern France. - RED FLEET SINKS NAZI TRANSPORT Brings Tofal Sent Down by Russians fo 448 in War KUIBYSHEV, Rumm May 4.— club| The Red Navy's Baltic fleet has sunk its 115th Axis transport, a 9,000-ton » | German ships claimed to have been tion Bureau reports. This brings the total number of German ships calimed to have been ent dewn by the Russians to 448. Ihe Ballic fleet was reported to have sunk a Nazi battleship last Saturday. - D BASEBALL BEGINNING All Juneau baseball players are |asked to report tonight at 6 o'clock lin the Ball Park, weather permit- ting, for practice for the Juneau City League team,