The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIBRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LiX., NO. 9026. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. MAY 5, 1942 PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH IN BLITZ ON MADAGASCAR | Japanese Invade Yunnan FDR Registers for Draff ENEMY IS - MARCHING | FROMBURMA United States Bombers Carry Off Successful Attack on Base ‘ BRERETON'S FLIERS | HIT NIPPON BASE Major hirfield Subjectedj to Heavy Fire by Am- erican Craft ‘; NEW DELHI, May 5—Huge Unit-, ed States bombers drove through a| heavy thunderstorm early today to attack a major Japanese air base| just north of Rangoon, where 70 enemy aircraft were sighted. 1 The great multi-motored craft| under the command of U. 8. Major- | Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, dodged 2 concentration of searchlights and| ground fire to drop 255 hundred- pound bombs. | The attackers caused many fires| and large explosions at the Mingal- | adon airdrome, according to the of-| ficial communique received. But meanwhile, the communique from Chungking said Japanese troops are invading China’s Yun-| nan Province, after a drive up the Burma Road, and are crossing the shallow Wanting River 670 miles from Chungking. £ The military spokesman in the capital said that bitter fighting stiil is in progress in the area around the border towns. The Chinese section of the Burma Road winds through sheer moun- # tains and gaping gorges. It is ngt yet necessary, but the Chinese wil carry out their scorched earth pol- icy if necessary. The Washington Merry - Go- Round DREW PEARSON— ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Inside intelli- gence information is that Japanese propaganda agents are now mar- shalling their forces for a concerted attack against the United Su_at.es in Latin America, with Argentina, Brazil, and Chile as focal points. Japan will resort to a number of typical Axis methods to sway neutral countries away from col- Jaboration with the United States, including the Axis-worn tactics of | making overtures and giving assur- A specially designed red, w tered under the selective service final draft registration. Board No. 9. Bonds for Sale By and Uncle Sam’s bond sales are on the issued some 13,000,000 other Americans in the 45-65 age class. photo above shows the President enrolling in the nation’s fourth and Standing is James D. Hayes, World War infantry officer and chairman of District of Columbia Registration As Commander-in- regard the President as already “in the st ances that she has no meermlxsuc‘ aims toward these countries. On the other hand, the Japanese will em- phasize that the United States has| rise and pretty Jetsy Pnrlfer. of | Pasadena, Cal., has a good bit to do | with the*upward trend. She’s head- ing a group of movie beauties on a been greedy in her international| .oiniry.wide selling tour, She poses trade relations and has imperial-| g4 Migg Liberty, a role she enacted istic designs on Central and South| America. In launching this propaganda at: tack Japan has instructed her agents to do everything possible to solicit the good-will of Spanish and Portuguese representatives in| Latin American countries. In addition to propaganda agents and diplomatic representatives, Japan has recruited agents in com-| " FOR WORK mercial firms throughout both Eu- rope and the American countries to propagandize persons of Latin cul- ture and Catholic ccnnection, plans have been made to go even so far as to try to ex- ploit His Holiness, The Pope. Already $50,000 has been forward- ed to Japanese representatives in Chile to be used in attempting to bribe government officials. One of the most audacious phases of the Japanese plan is the one that calls for an attempt to induce a revolution i nthe United States by |the war and for greater difficulties | settlement locations in Alaska, he cooperation with factional groups within the country, and creating dissension among the people by sniping at the Roosevelt Administra- tion. REPUBLICAN HARMONY Except for a brief, iy L i e R S (Continued on Page Four) faith. In this| in the last Tournament of Roses in ~ _her home town. CHINA IS MOBILIZED National Production Act in | Hfect Today—General- issimo Asks Help | 5 | CHUNGKING, May 5. — Chiang Kai Shek told his people today “we must prepare for a prolongation of |in the future.” China’s National Mobilization Act comes into effect today and the Generalissimo asked the Chinese people to restrict consumption in- tensively. of labor, skill and knowledge at the disposal of the nation. Everyone is asked to help wi(h‘ isolationist ' Production and place all resources | hite and blue cover encloses the buff colored card President Roesevelt will carry henceforth to show that he regis- act. His card is similar to those Sound- Chief of the Armed Forces, many vice.” NEW ORDER ON TRAP FISHING N ALASKAN WATERS {Unions Voice Concern Over Reguiations - Labor Leaders’ Views | SEATTLE, May 5. — Leaders of | Alaska fishing unions have spoken | out in apprehension of the effect of ithe new Department of Interior ‘regulmmns favoring Indians in trap fishing in the Territory, which lead- ers of the salmon industry have icondemned as threatening the in- | dustry’s extinction, | William Hecker, Business Agent of ! (the Alaska Fishermen's Union and Joseph F. Jurich, President of the | International Fishermen's and Al- TOMORROW ¢ In memory of the late pub- lisher of The Empire, John W. Troy, who died on Satur- day afternoon, and whose funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon at the Elks' hall, there will be no publication of The Empire tomorrow, Wednes- day, May 6 e e e e 000 00 00 D JOHN W. TROY ~ FUNERAL WILL BETOMORROW |Service Will Be Held in | Elks’ Hall - Stores fo Close | Funeral services | Gov. John Weir Troy, |last Saturday afternoon | Ani 's Hospital after a | illr will be held starting at 'two o'clock tomorrow afternoon in {the Elks' Hall. The ritual of .ne Benevolent ana 2rotective Order |of Elks will be spoken by the lodge lofficers. Dean C. E. Rice, of Holy for | Trinity Cathedral, will deliver the | eulogy. Lola Mae Alexander will |sing “In The Garden,” and “in The Sweet Bye and Bye. | Interment will be in the Elks' in the Evergreen Cemetery. Ac- ive pallbearers will be the follow- ;ing members of the staff of The ‘*l)uily Alaska Empire: Elmer A. Friend, Alfred Zenger, R. L. Bern-| ¢, vames Primavera, Artnur Bring- dale and J. E. Neate. Pallbearers Honorary pailbearers will be: | Oscar G. Olson, William A. Holz- | William A. Mahoney, Allen Shat- |tuck, Dr. W. W. Council, George Parks, James V. Davis, Gov. Ernest Gruening, Dr. E. H. Kaser, Mayor Harry I. Lucas, Ike P. Taylor, John W. Jones, Russell Maynard, H. L. VanderLeest, B. Frank Heintzle- {man, Henry Roden and William A, | Hesse. The casket will not be opened Friends, however, may call at the tween the hours of 7 and 9 o'clock this evening. Guard Of Honor lied Workers Union, both declared | the regulation, in their opinion, can | have the effect of wiping out au? labor’s gain in the industry, though | Jurich qualified this by opining that | the effect would be that bad only if | Indians farm out their rights in- | stead of exploiting them themselves. | Can File Claims ‘The new regulation ,issued by Sec- | retary of the Interior Harold Ickes |on the basis of a legal opinion from | | Nathan R. Margold, the Interior De- partment’s solicitor, is interpreted hy the industry as giving the Indians the right to file claims on virtuaily every salmon fishing site now oper- ated by white individuals or cor- | porations. Declared Hecker: D “The regulation is absolutely ridi- 'culous and I don’t think they can |enforce it It's going to raise heck with a lot of people who have moved (up there and create a great deal of hardship. It will make a lot of peo- !ple move out who have made their |hemes there. I don't believe that imost of the men who live up there have yet realized what's about to | happen to them. “The regulation isn't yet printad, fand most of the people of Alaska don't know about it. Others don't realize what it means, and won't until some Indian smarter than the irest comes along and tries to take away some individual's fish traps.” | 5,200 Members i | There are individually owned fish | lLraps. though most are company jowned, Hecker declared. It would af- i fect members of the union now in declared, depriving them of their | livelihood. The union has 5,200 meni- | bers, although only 3,000 are to go | North this year because there is no | shipping to transport them to the | Bristol Bay fishing district. Declared Jurich: “If the regulation means what T (Continued on Page Five) i Arrangements now are be'i ng made for the participation of the U. S. Army Guard of Honor at the ceremony. Mrs. John W. Troy arrived in Ju- neau this afternoon by plane from ollywood, California, to attend the funeral service. Practically all business houses and offices in Juneau will be closed during the hours of the funeral, between 2 and 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Many Federal and Terri- torial offices also will be closed seme of them for the entire after- noon. There will be no publication of The Empire tomorrow. Bishop Crimont To Celebrate Mass For John W. Troy A solemn requiem Pontifical Mass will be celebrated at 8 o'clock Thursday morning in the Church of the Nativity by His Excellency Most Reverend J. R. Crimont, S J. D. D, for the repose of the soul of his friend of many years, Hon- orable John Weir Troy, former Governor of Alaska. A warm friendship existed between the Gov- ernor and Bishop Crimont.. Rev. Wm. G. LeVasseur, S. J. will be deacon; Rev. Edward C. Budde 8. J., sub-deacon, Kenneth Thibo- deau, master of ceremonies, and George Shaw and Francis Smith acolytes. All friends of the deceased cordially invited, R MRS. BLOMGREN RETURNS Mrs. E. L. Blomgren, who went south several weeks ago, returned to Juneau today. are former | who died} in St | wrolonged | | heimer, James J. Connors, H. L.| | Faulkner, J. F. Mullen, R. E. Rob- estson, John Reck, J. J. Meherin, |W. B. Kirk, Grover G. Winn, | Charles Goldstein, Frank A. Boyle, | jduring the service in the Elks Hall. | | Charles W. Carter Mortuary be- | | | | | Hero 0'Hare Waves fo Admirers Licut. Comdr, Edd 2 % . William J. Jones (kneeling, background) maintenance foreman in the Seattle fire department, demonstrates the portable pump he invented, which may be adopted as part, of the city's air raid defense system. The family car is used to provide power, the rear wheels jacked onto the mechanism, which revolve, forcing water through the hoses. Model Airplanes Soughi By Governmeni; Navy ~ Army Making Demands By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 5.—Answer- ing the mail A. E. K., Bremerton, Wash.; E. H. Topeka, Kan., and others — I have had so many requests for additional information as to what individuals can do to aid in the airplane model building program (in which more than 500,000 scale models are to be built for the American armed forces to study in preliminary training) I can do NO more than outline the answers There are more than 50 different types of fighting planes and the Navy alone needs at least 10,000 models of each for aireraft recogni- tion training and gunnery sighting practice. Since these models must be accurate to the thirty-secondth of an inch (the scale is one to 72 o that a model seen at 35 feet is identical with a real plane seen at just under half a mile), the Navy 1as not seen fit to turn this over 1o the general public, unsupervised. The cost of inspection and rejection, in such case, probably would be more than the cost of letting con- racts to private finns. O'Hare, ace of the fight, waves to admirers in his native O'Hare; en the right, Mrs Eddie O'H. Home Pump for Air Raid v Navy, who sho t down five Jap planes and disabled a sixth in one ty of St. Lou is during a parade. At left is his mother, Mrs. Selma al guar d of henor flanks the automobile. Fires RAF SWEEPS | Faclories in Southern | Germany, Vichy LONDON, May Carrying out |a sweeping attack over the inland factories of German occupied ter- | vitory, the British war planes heav- ily bombed the great Skoda arma- ment works at Pilsen in German- {oceupicd former Czechoslovakia be fore dawn tcday Flares and leaflets were dropped over Vichy and the Royal Air Force attac big war foundries at Stuttgart in southwest Germany, which has @ reported population of half a million Other attacks were made on headquarters of the Bosch elec 5 ¥ he ical works, the Daimer Benz airplane engine factories and other vital military fargets. - " ALLIESAGAIN Widespread Attack Hits Province Of China ALLIES BEAT * AXIS FORCES INBIG COUP : Surprise lafidifig Reported | on Strategic French Possession * BITTER BATILE IS | ALREADY REPORTED iVichy Government Orders Resistance-U. S. Pre- pared for Action (By Associated Press) | . Bitter fighting is reported raging on the north end of the 1,000-mile long French Island of Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, which lies off the southeast coast of Africa. British -borne forces have attacked toward Diego Suarez, Madagascar naval base, after a sur- | prise landing. | | Meanwhile, France's 86-year-old |Chief of State Henri Petain, and {Admiral Jean Darlan, anti-British chief of the French armed forces, are reported to have sent a message to (he commander-in-chief of Mada~ ar urging the French troops to the attack and defend the Louor of the French flag” ‘ Surprise Move Military quarters in London said the British are striking to forestall a threatened Axis attempt to seize the strategic territory,. and have captured a French battery on the lisland. A Berlin broadcast, meanwhile, reported there had been French casualties in the fighting which has continued for more than 36 hours after British troops landed early vesterday in Courier Bay, 10 miles across” the isthmus from Diego Suarez. The broadeast said it is not known yet whether the British land- ing operations had succeeded, and added significantly: “The French government may be expected to re- act most sharply. 1ts military effect probably will become manifest dur- ing the course of the day.” Japs Are Near There is no immediate indication of whether Jap naval units, the nearest Axis striking force, are en- route to dispute the British coup. A Jap armada consisting of three battleships, five aircraft carriers and flotillas of destroy as well as cruisers, has been reported operating (Continued on Page Three) VICHY SAYS HITAT JAP FORCES WILL ISLAND BASE DEFEND ISLE | to the Office of Education and Com- Secertary of Colonies Makes First Official Statement ds Exchanged North of Australia at New Guinea Outposts Therefore, Secretary of the Navy Ra| Knox has turned his demands over missioner John W. Studebaker al- ready has it well under way. Work- VICHY, May Jules Brevie, Sec- ing with state departments of ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN retary of State for colonies under education, he has placed the re- hing the Laval government, declared to- AUSTRALIA, May ‘The Allied ual training students. The reason air forces again smashed forcefully for this is two-fold: (1) The Navy &t the Japanese Isiand bases above needs half a million models im- |Australia and beat off another sponsibility cn the high school man- * day that Vichy forces in Madagas- car to defend the is- land against the British occupation expedition are resolved en- mediately and there probably is no | €my raid on Port Moreshy, today’s Brevie saliited the “valiant ‘tbone other established set-up through jcommunique says atinrdiig " the “Hakior. of 2t diRee which it can get them so quickly; The announcement listed five thiare (2) these are solid wood. non-flying | Japanese planes hit by the Allied Hix shatosiis the ‘#iret: ar. models and require delicate lathe | fighters defending the United Na- P pipns Bl i - oo work, planing and carving that the (¢ions outpost on New Guinea |ficial Vichy reaction to the British and American announcements that the ave model airplane enthusiast | ggainst a raiding air squadron is not equipped to turn out. Nine heavy bombers escorted the Britizh forces had landed on the at French African Island which However, the Navy’s demands are ten zero naval fighters of which small compared to what will be|iour were hit :"“:":»~ the vital supply route to v when civilian defense 2 ors and raiders aimed ndia 5 ita drive toAeach nie TOL| puar s ntooes ot and e | S Pinkney Tuck, the United spotters the silhouettes, altitudes, | o "o rrein saiq the communique. |States Charge D'Affaires, had a 15- flying speeds, ete., of every fighting e £ SRREAG !minute interview with Pierre Laval plane. Therefore, it is probable that | CAGERS MARRIED |this morning and with Japanese thousands of manual training teach- | prOVO, Utah—Three of Brigham | Admiral Nomura Abe, who had been | ers will follow the Iyd some already | ¢oino ca have taken in soliciting the aid “r‘tl"l'unk Pulline conferring here with the Jap am- bassador to Viehy, and later left by plane for Berln. Dwané Esplin, and Bob Orr—are | (Continued from Page Two) married