The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1942, Page 1

| ALLIES, JAPS BATTLE IN BIG SE L i ® o ool | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1942 VOL. LIX., NO. 9029. MEM BER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS L4 SIBERIA T0 BE ATTACKED BY JAPANESE Nippons Rushing Troops to Manchoukuo, Declares Reuters Dispatch LONDON, May 8—A Reuters dis- patch from Chungking reports the Japanese are rushing troops to Manchukuo and reported to be pre- paring for an attack on Russian Siberia some time next month. TROOPS ARE LANDED -ON CEYLON ISLE British Plag?i easoned Veferans in Position fo Help India (leanupOn French Isle Is Forecas! United Nations Heighten: Attacks in Indian | ‘ Ocean Area LONDON, May 8—The prospect of a swift cleanup of the French| resistance on Madagascar Island, ordered by Vichy, heightened today with the announced arrival of strong Imperial reinforcements at | Ceylon. This move put the United Na- ltions in a better position for the rapidly nearing test with the Jap- |anese for the Indian Ocean supply lanes to India, China and Russia, as weary British land forces In Western Bumma held back the in- | | vaders who already are close to ithe Bengal border. | Meanwhile, long-range United States bombers lashed out anew this morning at Rangoon, Jap-won stepping stone in the western drive. |Maj. Gen. Lewis Brererton's big | warbirds plunged through Jap fight- | |er plane opposition for their eighth lattack on the port and returned ‘safely to their bases in India. | A New Delhi, India, report said | the Americans had made their third 4 aval Enga 4 4 S 4 JapsExecute NAZIS TRY China Youths = FRONTIER ServingThem OFFENSIVE Civilians, Pmel LoyalislséSpring AitacTAHempis, Smash Into Karelia Adtivities at Three Points CHUNGKING, May 8—Scores of, MOSCOW, May 8—A German Chinese soldiers who have been Spring offensive, intended to smash serving the Japanese puppet regime across the Soviet's Karelian fron- in Nanking and many civilians as tier to Finland at three points, has well, have been executed by Jap- been repulsed, according to battle- anese firing squads in several East-|front dispatches. ern provinces for suspected com- It is reported in the dispatches plicity in widespread guerilla activi-|to Pravda that “from the state bor- ties. der” it is said the Germans with- More than 100 Chinese youths, drew into Russian territory with including many girls, were shot inlheavy lo: Canton alone after a paradej This is the seccnd enemy attempt through the streets. ‘u) drive into this sector of Kar- e lelia. In the first attempt, near the | outbreak of the war, a Finnish bat- talion of 1200 men supported two Killed for Guerilla German companies and crossed the |but were driven back into Fin- ;lamd by a Russian counter attack. — e — | LONDON, May*8=With the bai-|attack on Rangoon in four davs;~§ome Eas'e—nr Motorists 10: Fn ‘E E Z E tle in Burma virtually ended, it s officially disclosed here today that reinforcements have been landed on the island of Ceylon at the tip of the invasion threatened India. The communique says the troops landed are “seasoned fighters”, vet- ‘erans of the 1940 and 1941 Ethi- opian campaign. The Washingtion Merry -EE- Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Privately, Ad- ministration leaders on Capitol Hill| expect plenty of trouble enacting the two features of the present an-| ti-inflation program that require legislation—the $25,000 income ceil- ing and reducing the 110 percent farm parity figure. The leaders are acutely aware that a lot of congressmen and senators, loud in lip service to patriotism, will play petty, undercover politics on these two issues. Toughest battle will be over the farm parity question, thanks (o the powerful and well-heeled farin lobby, one of the most potent nnd‘ grabbiest in Washington. | Within a few hours after the re-| lease of the President’s message, C- Berg, Mis. C. Berg, George An- Those leaving here on a late after- the farm lobby was actively waging war against it. Secret strategical pow-wows were called hurriedly. Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the powerful Appropri-! ations Committee, and a farm bloc| leader, sounded the tocsin of battle on the House floor. While the fighting in that cham- ber will be hot, the decisive strug- gle will take place in the Sen-‘ ate, where the lobby has its chief| strength. It was in the Senate that the Administration lost its fight to keep the 110 percent parity figure | out of the Price Control Bill. This defeat was what forced the Presi-| dent to tangle with the lobby again. On the $25,000 income issue, Con- gressional insiders anticipate a com- | promise. A private poll of the House Ways and Means Committee several days ago showed a decisive majority against it. Most of the committeemen favored boosting the maximum to around $50,000. How- ever, because only a relatively smal number of people are affected by the $25,000 proposal, and this is a campaign year, Roosevelt may be| able to bludgeon it through if he bears down strong enough. Insiders predict that a lot of! members will back him on the $25.- 000 income limit in order to cover their opposition to redueing the _ (Continyed on Page Four) i | pressing the attacks on the im- | mediate information of the extent of the resistance on Madagascar, lafter the collapse yesterday of the {main French forces. e, NORWAY' -~ MINISTERS " INPOLAND LONDON, May 8—Doctor Dirik Arup Seip, the 60-year-old rector of Oslo University, and other prom- inent Norwegians recently deported from Norway for opposition to the Nazi-sponsored Quisling regime, have been sent to Poland, accord- ing to the Swedish newspaper, Af- ton Tidningen. FIFTY-SEVEN LEAVE JUNEAU, SOUTHBOUND Leaving Juneau yesterday morn- ing for Ketchikan were L. F. Blake, W. F. Buralson, Mrs. R. E. Starr and L. A. Buttke. For Prince Rupert, E. R. Hedin, derson, L. Anders, U. Kelly and N. A. Harrison. For Vancouver, P. Felley, Vic An- derson, D. Yorkston, J. H. Thorn- croft, Mrs. J. H. Thorncroft, E. O. Lindborg, N. P. Townsend, Mrs. N. P. Townsend, I. V. Phipps, T. Skomedal, Mrs. T. Skomedal, M. Sauri, H. :Brocklehurst and R. Reeves, For Victoria, Mother Mary Mil- dred. For Seattle, W. E. James, G. B. Heitsch, T. Feore, Mrs. D. Rowan, E. Ridgeway, W. Kane, Mrs. W. Kane, J. Miskel, Mrs. G. 8. North, Gerald North, B. H. Parson, Mrs. B. H. Parson, F. McNeill, P. Bettle- dorf, Miss M. Guppan, J. Wolf, G. Mugliure, Miss F. Tucker, Miss D. Smith, Mrs. W. Westef, Miss J. Jennison, J. Alves, Mrs. J. lves, Mrs.. P. Morgan. Mrs. C. F. Perter, O. W. Holla- way, Mrs. 'O. W. Hollaway, K. J. Gregerson, James Gregerson, Mrs. E. R. Gregerson and Mrs, James Primavera. -— GETES 50 DAYS | Daisy David, charged with petty | larceny, pleaded guilty in U. .s.q Commissioner Felix Gray’s Court, today and was sentenced to serve, 50 days in jail. 0 BUY DEFENSE BONDS Get Three Gallons Weekly ; WASHINGTON, May 8 — Price Administrator Leon Henderson said today that motorists of the Eastern scaboard using cars non-essential to driving could expect no more| than three gallons of gas a week under the government rationing system. : G s Said Henderson: “I'm going w‘bufldmg pmgnfm. The order would ., inot apply to retail sales. say, with no prospects of getting it| EATE R LUMBER WASHINGTON, May 8 — The |War Production Board reported to- day the contemplated freezing of all manufacturers’ sales of soft wood for construction lumber except to government buyers to conserve sup- plies for the army and navy ship frontier in the same general region, | & (4 (4 ONE COLUMN OF NIPPONS ~ WIPED OUl [Chinese Crushingly Defeat i Another Force in Bur- ma Road Area | CHUNGKING, May 8-—Japanese celumns trying to advance along the Burma road northeast of Che- (fang have been routed by a Chin- |ese counter attack and one collimn of Nippon forces of 1,000 men has been “wiped out” and another col- umn crushingly defeated. This is according to an official Chinese communique. -Ser—bs‘fif Many Slain ByHungary LONDON, May 8—The Yugoslavian Government has issued a statement charging that during the last year Hungarian troops have slain 100,- 0 ‘Serbs and committed atroeitiys past the comprehension of the hu- man mind, 'EARL D. MGINTY ASSUMES HEAD ~ OFF. W, AGENCY Earl D. McGinty, | this week to Juneau after an ab- |sence of nearly five months, has |assumed his new duties as Prin- cipal Engineer for Fedemal Works | Agency in Alaska to which he was transferred from the Interior De- who returned above three gallons.” He told new.,-fl men that this order would apply to| approximately one-third ‘“of the| partment on March 21 i i 4 Mr. McGinty was formerly Sup- A(‘ M‘KES S“‘K‘ | ervising Construction Engineer for [ Now In u s | the Office of Indian Affairs in Al-, L] ® aska and went to Washington on ! carried on all Sitka flights. \ipowd. ; } FLIGHTS WITH MAIL ' AND PASSE"GERS SAN FRANCISCO. Calif. May 8— The Army announces that Presi- Passengers arriving here yester- /dent Quezon of the Philippines has day afternoon on Alaska Conslal;“”“_’e" here accompanied by his Airlines planes from Sitka were John ' family and Executive Staff. After Heath, Francis T. Guertin, W. E. resting here the party will proceed Kersterman, Joyce Carroll, Ken Ed- t0 Washington where Quezon will wards, Emmet Connor, Gregorio Meet President Roosevelt. e ke da Runquist, Mrs. William Ott and |’ rs . Thomas L. Glaherty. M W Ib W 1 A. N. Dunlap, of the Continental | 5 I ur es er to Hoonah and Hans Floe returned; And Daughter Afe to Hawk Inlet yesterday afternoon. | .I. v. ,' s S Ih Farley, Lt. Col. John Harry, Secundi Lieut. Anthony J. Giadina and Per-| Mrs. Wilbur Wester and her cy J. Shanks. }daughter. Miss Joy Jennison, took to Sitka today were J. C. Gilker,|their way to Portland, Oregon Robert Anderson, Howard Middles- |Where they will visit Mrs. Wester's worth, Lee Jimmies and Bill Holt | parents. were Vincent Yakapatz, Lyle Per- rigani, Carl Vevelstad and N. A. Mc- Eachran. Air mail and express was Maglenti, George S. Wood, Mrs. Hil- 3 Can Company made a charter rligm| noon flight to Sitka were Col. J. L. | Those making the trip with ACA |Passage for the south yesterday on and on the return flight to Juneau they will be in the south they also | expect to visit in California. HUGH DOOGAN IS HURT IN TUMBLE Hugh Doogan, seller for the Em- pire, is resting in St. Ann's Hospital after suffering bruises and a head cut from a fall on Wednesday after- Two Ships Torpedoed = | Hugh was playing behind the WASHINGTON, May 8 — TWO Federal Jail when he slipped and medium sized American merchant|fel about 10 feet on the rocks, He vessels have been torpedoed in lhe‘[probably will leave the hospital this Caribbean Sea area; the Navy an-|yeekend and stay at home for an- nounces, and survivors have been| v . landed -at an east coast port. :;::; ma:e R B0 Mok of Mrs i i i PRINCE RUPERT | _ ED ARNELL BACK | Ed Arnell, Administrative Assist- HALIBUT PRICES |snt with the Alaska Game com- i mission, returned to Juneau today PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May 8. |3fter a month’s trip into the In- —Eighty-four thousand pounds of | terior’ where he visited outlying ibut were osld here today for'stations of the commission, mo to 13.60 and eleven cents a! Tt BUY DEFENSE BONDS A\ ¢ § During the month or six weeks| | December 12 on temporary detail | n the Indian Affairs office in the Capitol. His transfer to the Federal Works | Agency was in accordance with the | policy now in effect of transferring ! men to departments where they are | required in war work for the dur- | ation, Purpose of the Federal Works | Agency is to aid communities in | providing public works and servi-ss uade necessary by the expansion |of war industries and increased ac- tivity of the navy and the army, ncluding the construction of chools, hospitals, recreation cen- ters, water and sewer systems, Mr. McGinty said. | Fifty Two Applications | Since the program got underway in Alaska last summer fifty-two applications for projects have been | received of which about twenty- tive have been approved, Mr. Mc- Ginty said Approximate cost of the approved projects in the Terri- tory will be $1500,000, he stated. In addition to those approved, an- ther thirteen applications have been put in Class 1-A and are now being considered in the Wash- ington office of FWA. The cost of these thirteen projects, if approved, will be an additional $1,000,000. Money for projects constructed un- der FWA is made available under the Communities’ Facilities Act, al- 50 known as the Lanham Act. Took Leave While Mr. McGinty was away from Alaska he took his annual lcave and, with Mrs. McGinty, vis- ited her parents in Minnesota and his family in California. Just prior to returning north, Mr. McGinty spent some time in the Seattle office of the Federal Works Agency on temporary duty. S 50,000 WAR BABIES MANCHESTER — About 50.000‘ (4 & Juneau De RESISTANCE 'ENDING ON MADAGASCAR Most of Irc;p; on Island Reported in Defense of Diego Suarez | | | LONDON, May 8—Unconfirmed | |reports were heard in London to- day of the surrender terms of | Diego Suarez, which was captured | Thursday night by the British after a 48-hour attack. { It was said in the reports circu- lating in London that the naval base on the northern tip of Mad- |agascar had surrendered to terms {including the order to “cease fire.” | All the French forces on the |Island, more than half of them 'estimated at 15,000 French Colonial | Troops, are reported to have taken part in the defense of the big Diego Suarez base, which means that | there is little chance of any real resistance elsewhere on the thous- and mile long island. R =3 'NO ASSESSMENT WORK BILL IS SIGNED BY FOR WASHINGTON, May 8—Repre- sentative James F. O'Connor of Montana said today the President has signed the bill suspending the annual = assessment work on un- patented mining claims from July 1, 1942 to July 1, 1943. - - SAWYERS GOING 10 WRANGELL, THEN 10| START MAIL ROUTE J. W. Sawyer, accompinied by, Mrs. Sawyer, is leaving today for Wrangell to take temporary charge of the mess house of the Farwest Fisheries company. Mr. Saw. expects tc return to Juneau about June 15 and will then get ready for opervating on the Juneau-Port Alegander and wayport mail route for which he has a one year contract, using the Dart in the service. | - eee ,(orps- for Women Is Being Boosted WASHINGTON, May 8 The Senate Military Committee has ap- proved of the House bill to establish a uniformed Womens' Auxiliary Corps to operate as non-combat- |ants in the War service under di- |rection of the Army. Women from 21 to 45 could enlist. e MRS. HAROLD FOSS AND CHILDREN LEAVE FOR KETCHIKAN TO VISIT Mrs. Harold Foss and her two children, Angus and Judy, left today by Ketchian Air Transport plane (for the First City where they will spend Mother’s Day with Mrs. C. J. | Foss. They will be away for about ten days or two weeks. } Bud Bodding arrived with the Ketchikan plane from the Pirst City this afternoon. } '3 - MRS. CARNES TAKES POSITION AT AGENCY | Mrs. Bonita Carnes, who has been 4 oo licatessen In Labor Union Case KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 8 — Federal District Judge George F. Alexander yesterday afternoon handed down a decision upholding the Retail Clerks’ of Juneau peace- ful picketing of the Spruce Delicat- essen, operated by Albert Glover and Margaret Whiteley, the two owners, and which did not employ |any clerks but stayed open nmlns! while unionized stores closed at five o'clock. The decision said that the union was within its legal rights in picket- ing the store and taking newspaper advertisements listing the store as unfair, The decision was made in the owners’ $10,000 suit against the union UPHOLDS COMMISSION KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 8 Federal Judge George F. Alexander anded down a decision late yes- terday afternoon upholding the Al aska Unemployment Compensation Commission which refused unem- ployment benefits to members of | the Alaska Cannery Workers' Union, Jjobless during the 1940 season when Local 5, San Francisco, who were certain canneries in Alaska did (not operate because of the lack of an agreement and the union. - The suit was brought by Frank Aragon and other unionists and in- volved an estimated $600,000. Named with the commission in the case were the Alaska Packers' Asso- ciation which didn't operate, the Chugnik and Karluk canneries, the Red Salmon Canning Company and between operators ;lhe Alaska Salmon Company which | didn’t operate Bristol Bay plants. The union asked the court to review the commission’s decision in overruling the referee’'s findings which said that the Bristol Bay workers, only, were entitled to com- pensation. Previously the commis- sion had examined the case and found that none was entitled to benefits ————— WE'LL HAV PLENTY OF ALUMINUM Jones Says Government's Plan Expansion Pro- gram Is Cause WASHINGTON, May 8 — Secre- tary of Commerce Jesse Jones told 4 Senate Banking Committee today looks like we're going to have aluminum,” as a result of government’s plant expansion program. Jones testimony to increase the borrowing authority of the Reconstruction Finance Cor 1o oration by five billion dollars to a total of fourteen billion, one hund- red and thirty million, —,o— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 8. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17%, American Can 63'i, Anaconda 24!, Bethlehem Steel 54, Commonwealth and Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 6%, International Harvester 42%, Ken- necott 28%, New York Central 7%, Northern Pacific 5%, United States Steel 47, Pound $4.04. gy ample the made the statement in DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 97.91; rails, 24.66; utilities, 11.70. D MACKINNON LT. com. IN JUNEAU TODAY| Lt. Commander J. 8. MacKinnon, babies have been born in Britain’s in the Unemployment Compensa- U- S. Navy, visited briefly with his | tion Commission, has taken a m‘,‘lnmuy in Junéau today while here'ends as only brief flashes are be- 117 emergency maternity homes in reception centers since war started. lpocmun with the Shattuck Agency.| on business, on behalf of legislation | A FIGHT L4 4 (4 gement Raging In South Pacific Court Rules Against 9 NIPPON " WARSHIPS ARE SUNK Other EnerF Naval Craft " Reported to Be Bad- ‘ ly Damaged TOKYO CLAIMS U. S. VESSELS AMONG LOSS Admiral Nimifz with Fleet | May Be Among Chal- | lengers in South | | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | { Allied and Japanese warships are fighting to the death today in a mammoth five-day-old battle in the | Coral Sea northeast of Australia. | American, British and Australian |gunners have already sunk or crip- |pled at least 13 enemy warships. Headgquarters of the United Na- | tions announced that nine Jap warships have been sunk, including an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, | two destroyers and four gunboats ‘and four other enemy warships have |been badly damaged; a non-combat |vessel has: been sunk and two oth- (ers damaged in the fateful struggle. The epic fight, still raging, ap- |pears from all accounts to be the | greatest naval battle in this World |War and also the biggest naval en- gagement in all American history. Rivals Jutland It is thought it rivals the mag- | nitude of the historic battle of Jut- |land which was fought on May 31, 1916 between the British and German Grand Fleets. Tokyo Imperial Headquarters |claim a toll of five United Nations’ | warships, Including the sinking of la United States battleship of the 132,000 ten California class, the 33,- 1000 ton California class, the 33,000 1000 ton aircraft carrier Saratoga and |the 19,000 ton carrier Yorktown. | Admiralty Denies | In addition, Tokyo asserted that | the Oritis, a battleship of the 30,- 1000 ton Warspite type has been | heavily damaged and perhaps sunk (and an Australian cruiser of the 110,000 ton Canberra type has been damaged, and may have gone down. In London, the Admiralty quickly 1demcd that the Warspite or any |other British battleship has been |sunk or damaged in the Coral Sea (Continued from Page Two) | AUSTRALIA WAITS FOR GREAT NEWS Fate of Commonwealth May Hinge on Allied Victory or Defeat MELBOURNE, Australia, May 4 -All Australia today waited tense- ly for news to be flashed as to the outcome of the great naval battle now being fought, realizing that | the fate of the Commonwealth may |hinge on an Allied victory or de- feat. Australia’s Prime Minister John Curtin declared gravely that the resent action is of crucial import- ince to the whole conduct of the var in the Far Pacific Zone. Curtin left it clear that an Allied fefeat might lead to a Japanese | nvasion of Australia. Ccmmander Douglas MacArthur said: “Nobody can tell what the esult of the sea engagement is at this moment.” It is believed that little news will se received until the engagement ing received from the fleet. s T I