The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9030. JAP BATTLE FLEET DEFE & 4 SEA FIGHTIN OUR FAVOR, MacARTHUR Reports Clear Cuf Victory in Huge Naval | Engagement ; BY C. YATES McDANIEL | Associated Press Writer jeally the basic outline of a clear| cut United Nations' naval victory in the greatest sea fight of the war, Gen. Douglas MacArthur declared today that American losses in re- | pulsing the proud Jap invasion Ar—\ mada in the Coral Sea are relatively | light. In successive communiques, period between Monday, May lli“‘““k" after being fired from stem Gen. MacArthur declared: 1. “The great battle tempornrny; has ceased. | 2. “Our navy forces fought With jones, with a manager for each,|of Japanese destroyers to save their |y JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS (4 4 WILL START BIG BOND CAMPAIGN HERE ON MONDAY Voluntary mdge Drive Will Continue for | Two Weeks ‘ One dollar in every ten for the| purchase of War Savings Bonds| and Stamps is the goal of the United States Treasury Department in its current drive for voluntary| | pledges by the public hhroughnut[clmms that only one aircraft car- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus-|the nation for regular and system-|rier converted from a tanker has tralia, May 9—Announcing categot- (atic bond purchases for the War's|peen sunk in the Coral Sea naval duration. The Voluntary Pledge campaign| will get under way locally during| the next two weeks when the Gas- tineau Channel War Savings Com- wittee launches a concerted drive to secure the pledge of every wage- earner in the area. To this end ,the | and May 25 has been designated as, War Savings Pledge Weeks. Thei entire area has been divided into| [ S 4 S L4 'ASK RUBBER Smash Two FOR SALVAGE Jap Plane Carriers Losses Heavy as Crews: Should Be Taken fo Depot Soon Collection of used rubber in the scrap drive will be a vital aid Desert Ships fo Es- | (ape Hames toward keeping rubber-reclaiming | plants operating on the scale need- LONDON, May 9—Despite Jap e¢q The WPB has reported: “We are now confronted with a scrap rubber shortage. It is essential that the public concentrate its most intensive efforts at this time on salvaging every possible pound of battle, a Reuters dispatch from Sydney says that two Jap aircraft| carriers have been sent to the bot-{glq rybber. OId tires and inner tom. tubes, hot water bottles, rubber The dispatch says that one air-ipath mats, old raincoats, rubber jar craft carrier was sunk by divelyings these and any similar items bombers and a second actually|made of rubber can be found in nearly every home.” to stern in the big battle off New; The Salvage Depot in the Old Guinea. | Occidental Hotel Annex is the place It was reported that later effor's|to deliver discarded rubber scrap Juneau. When considerable admirable courage and tenacity. The |an da thorough canvass will be huge plane carriers failed, and that|quantities are accumulated here the enemy has been repulsed. 3. “Qur attacks will continue. 4. “The enemy's version of the patleline is entirely ficional and| has no semblance of a true com- munique. 5. “Jap claims of damage flicted on our naval forces are fan- tastic. 6. “Our losses, enemy’s, are relatively light. onily reason they are not published at the present time is because they | would reveal to the Japs informa- tion of value.” —l ! ADDED GLAMOR | HOLLYWOOD, Calif—Ben Hog“ an, Texas golf star, has passed a | movie test and soon will be featured ‘ in a full-length film. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON— | aod ROBERT S. ALLEN | in- compared to the The | ! i WASHINGTON — Here is one/ inside reason why Roosevelt leans toward labor. Basically, the Presi dent always has been pro-labor, and | continues to be, even though he has become fed up with some labor | activities in the past year. But in addition, U. 8. war strate-/ gists are convinced that the chief| hope of revolution in Europe comes from labor. And most of the psy- chology warfare strategy being de- vised here is aimed at influencing | jabor in Germany, Czechoslovakia, | Austria and the occupied countries. | Although not generally known, | the nucleus of the old Social Dem- “ocratic Party which tried to crea_r.e: a real Republic in Germany is smlI intact. When Hitler came into power, they moved to Czechoslo- vakia. After the Sudetenland seiz- | ure, they moved to Paris. After the| downfall of Paris, they moved to| the U. 8. A. i | Fifty Social Democrats from the old Reichstag are now in this country cooperating with U. S. of- ficials. | Furthermore, it is labor in the; European occupied countries wh_ich is able to assemble or make radios. German labor listens to the radio far more than other clasces. Some labor groups even have published very small “underground” news- papers on hand presses and these are distributed by hand. German labor resents the long hours in munitions factories. the| small pay and the lack of food,| more than any other group. Also labor is about the only group which! was not taken over completely by Hitler. The Communists, his chief | opponents, now have long been | underground, but secretly active. To European labor Rocsevelt al- ways has been one of the world’s greatest leaders. And one though* in the minds of war strategists is to show Europe that the rights of labor here will not be thrown com- pletely overboard during war. CAPITAL STAFF Here is how bitter Premier Laval is' toward the British. When he| called on U. S. Ambassador Leahy | to express his condolences on Mrs. |War Savings Bonds and Stamps. |and cents standpoint. made of all persons employed in have an opportunity of signing the | pledge. | Schedule Rally Here On Saturday night, May 16, monster rally will be held in the| Twentieth Century Theatre, to| which the public is invited free of charge. A full program of enter- tainment, patriotic music and speakers will comjprise the rally which, in addition to its entertain- ment values, has been arranged to bring' home to Gastineau Channel- ites the urgent necessity for com- plete community support of the War Savings drive. . “One fundamental purpose of this drive is to impress upon people the irrevocable fact that this war is, or should be, as much a part of our daily lives as it is for the men in our fighting forces,” Mrs. John L. McCormick, chairman of the Gas-| tineau Channel War Savings Com- | mittee, said today. “The people at home must get into this war and| fight by the only methods which are| available to us: by taking active part in civilian defense; by doing| Red Cross and First Aid work, and above all, by regular purchases of | ® Serious Problem “I think the people of Alaska| have not yet realized fully just how serious a problem the financing of the war has become. This drive is intended to insure that they tind out—and in no uncertain terms, They can rest assured that if the voluntary plan for the selling of these securities does not meet all expectations, the Treasury will find other means of putting over its program.” The Voluntary Pledge Campaign will begin on Monday morning. Tomorrow afternoon, Sunday, Fred- erick W. Ayer, Deputy Administra- tor of War Savings for Alaska, will speak to the residents of Gastineau Channel over station KINY at 5:15 o'clock. He will explain the finan- cial objectives of the Treasury's program, and will inform his local audience of exactly what is ex- pected from them from a dollars/ The program for the rally—which all are urged to attend—will be printed in the Empire next week. — JOINT INSTALLATIONS . RAINBOW GIRLS,0RDER OF DEMOLAY TONIGHT At 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Scottish Rite Temple, joint instal- lation ceremonies will be held for the Order of Rainbow for girls and the Order of DeMolay, to be followed by a dance for the mem- bers and their invited guests. Miss Betty Rice, retiring Worthy Advisor, and Griffith Nordling, Master Couneillor, will be the in- stalling officers for the new lead- ers of the groups, Miss Anna Lois Davis, Worthy Advisor and Harry| Sperling, Jr., Master Councillor. Miss Irene Williams, Misses Erna Meier, Doris Meittinan and Winona Monroe are on the committee for | Coast Guard. the crews had to dive overboard material is sipped south by the {those zones in order that each may|amid the smoke and flames of the|gglyation Army and placed in the stricken ships. !usual channels of trade. Authorities disclosed that !ossvsl GRS T of Jap personnel in the mammoth | sea fight may run into thousands.‘ The battle has ceased momentarily but Allied ships and U. S. boats| and planes will continue to carry MAYORSISSUE . INFLAMES PROCLAMATION | FORWARBOND;%ROYM Air Force Raids | Warnemuende, Ros- eau, and Erwin Hachmeister, of X Douglas, designates the weeks from LONDON, May 9—Big British {bombers pressed home attacks on May 11 to May 25 as War Savings |Nazi territory from 400 to 800-foot Weeks and reads as follows: “In order that the citizens of levels last night and left the Ger- Juneau and Douglas and the entire [ man aircraft works at Warnemu- Gastineau Channel district may be aiven the opportunity of participat- ing to the fullest extent in the Government's War Savings Pro-|(the British 19 planes, the Air Min- gram; and |istry reported, and said that a sea- “In view of the fact that all per-|pjane base also was dttacked at sons in all parts of the United|wgarnemuende, just north of Ros- S‘lat,e:h ‘:"e bemi’ called upon 1 ook which already lies in ruins elve their financial support to the|,eie; continuous bombing raids by oo in flames. The heavy night operations cost nation’s war effort through the Vol-| untary Pledge Campaign for Warl"‘hE Royal. alnclens, Bonds and Stamps; and, | “Because Alaska and all the com- | munities therein have made an en-‘pE""v DRIVE viable record to date in respect of | per capita purchases of these se-| curities and the residents of these| GOING l"To localities should be given further| opportunity to expand their effort SE(O"D WEEK in the financing of the war e!lort:] . now, | et it THEREFORE I, HARRY 1.| The annual Orthopedic Penny LUCAS, MAYOR OF THE CITY|Drive is on its second and last OF JUNEAU, and I, ERWIN HACH- | week. MEISTER, MAYOR OF THE CITY| Juneau residents who have re- OF DOUGLAS do hereby designate|ceived the familiar envelopes with the period between May 11th, 1942 the heart are urged to place their and May 25th to be devoted to the [pennies in the slot and save them Gastineau Channel Pledge Cam-!for the assistance of the Ortho- paign effort. asking the complete|pedic Hospital in Seattle. The en- cooperation of all citizens in ‘h‘slvelopes are to be collected again ca\;sle. whicth i:h of sl;eh vital IM-lon May 15 and the receipts will ?gm:l’;fity ‘;n 4 :urw:ofx‘:;'y of Our|pe sent to the charity hospital for i | children where the donations of |Juneau residents will help in pay- !ing for the care of Alaska children Mrs_ Ja(k Hussey |who need Orthopedic assistance. | The hospital every year takes cave Re'urns 'o A“in:ci many childen from the Terri- |tory who have suffered abnormali- Y ities of many kinds, are crippled, Mrs. Jack Hussey has returned 'diseased, or malformed for various temporarily to her home in Atlin, |reasons. B. C. and hopes to come back to| Donations for the care of these Junéau by way of Whitehorse soon | children is one way in which ev- to take out citizenship papers. ery Alaska resident can help ‘o Mrs, Hussey, the former Florence build a better world for the future Durie, was married here on April . Chairman of the Penny Drive is 23. Mr. Hussey, who has beén with |[Mrs. A. B. Phillips. a construction company in Juneau, A vt Emmmed plans to rejoin the United States BINGHAM AT GASTINI Vance Bingham, who arrived by plane yesterday from Fairbanks, is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. R CHARLES BYRAM HERE Charles Byram, Alaska represen- tative of Schawabacher-Frey Com- — .- — RAPUZZI TO SKAGWAY Louis Rapuzzi, U. 8. Deputy Mar- shall of Skagway, left Juneau today to return to Skagway after a trip here on official business. refreshments at the dance. R (Continued on Page Four) BUY DEFENSE STAMPS - e — BUY DEFENSE BONDS pany of ‘San Francisco, arrived in iJlmelu last night. While here he is at the Baranof Hotel, ende, Baltic Sea port for Rostock, | - - v S 4 L Vice-President Wallace Mine Will Resume Opera- | Makes Prediction - Pa- | fion as Soon as Supplies [ cificN. W. in Danger and Labor Available i NEW YORK, May 9—Henry A.‘ Difficulties of shipping, the im- | Wailace, Vice-President of the|possibility of securing of supplies ;Unitvd States, predicting the Axis and lack of labor is causing the clos- |will strike a “last desperate blow"!ing of mining operations at the | this summer, said last night this Polaris-Taku mine for the duration might include a Japanese attack of the war, Frank H. McPherson, on Alaska and the northwest Unit- £eneral manager announced in Jun- ed States coast, with a simultan-|€iu today. eous German uprising in Latin OPerations this summer will con- America. sist of moving out the 8,000 tons of “We may be sure Hitler and concentrates that have accumu- Japan will cooperate to do the un- latedsover the winter. | With a skeleton crew of about iexpected, perhaps an attack by twenty men, McPherson will Japan ainst Alaska and OUr ,.in ‘ot the mine during the sum- notthwest coast at a time when mer getting out concentrates and | Gérman transport planes will be preparing the mine for closing down shuttled across from Dakar to fur-|quring the war. nish leadership and stiffening to| “The Polaris-Taku is in good a German uprising in Latin Amer- | shape, and we will leave it in con- ca.” dition so that we may resume op- The Vice-President predicted the crations just as soon as the war is | worst kind of Fifth Column activi-|over and supplies and labor are | ties in Latin America. |available again,” McPherson said. RO B, | 1Ice is out of the Taku river so stage : Miss GeOrgia Ba" | where operation of the Taku Chief - Visiting Here on to the mine at Tulsequah is pos- sible. Capi.” A" J. Currie. will leave | within a day or so for the mine and will operate the river boat and i Re'urn 'o South six barges during the summer i McPherson plans to remain north et [until’ next October. While in Jun- eau from the mine, anof Hotel, he is at the G . R | | Miss Georgia Ball, Medical Workes |of the United States Children’s | companying six Alaska children to |day on her way south after ac-! | Bureau, was visiting in Juneau to- their nomes aiter they hud neen o HOWARD LYNG HERE leased from’ the Orthopedic Hospital | 0" WAY Io NORI" in Seattle. | Miss Ball, whose headquarters are in San Franc| ed her- | 0, exp! self as thrilled on her tend 0 e to the Territory. She visited in| Howard Lyng, chairman of the Cordova, Chitina, Seldovia, Hope,|Aln‘ka Democratic Central Com- Anchorage and Tolovana and en- mittee and candidate for the Ter- joyed the air trips in the interior ritcrial Senate from the Second Di- and from Anchorage back to Jun-yision, arrived in Juneau late yes- eau, expresing wonderment at the terday on his way Lo Anchorage to skill of Alaska pilots. |attend the annual conference of She will return to the south by (he Puklic Welfare Board. boat after a short visit here. Miss| Mr. Lyng, former member of the Ball spent this forenoon in con-| Territorial House of Representa- ferring with Dr. W. S. Ramsey of tives, is a member of the Public the Crippled Children’s Service, Dr.| Welfare Board from the Second W. W. Council and Dr. Courtney|Division. He intends to leave for M. Smith, commissioners of Health.|Anchorage Sunday. '5C0UT COUNCIL TO FISH BROUGHT IN, SOLD HERE TODAY MEET MONDAY NIGHT Ceuncil will meet Monday evening which was sold to the Booth Fish- 3t 8 o'clock in Percy’s Cafe for the eries for 10.5 and 8.5 purpose of replacing the district King salmon was brought in by Chairmanship vacated By Dr. Wil- the Mable C., Capt. Ernest Rude, lam Whitehead. with ‘10,000 pounds selling for 15-= The nominating committee, con- 10-8 to E. E. Engstrom and 10,000;5isung of Wellman Holbrook, M. S, pounds from the Oulu, Capt. John |Whittier and George Parks, is ex- Ronkamen, sold at the same prices |pected to report. There will be brief to Juneau Cold Storage. |reports from chairmen of various Fish brought in to Juneau tcdnv‘ included on the 31-B-455, Capt. Karl | Westby, 3,300 pounds of halibut, | o '_‘ 4‘ > |committees on activities of the Boy SIX PASSENGERS HERE | Scouts in recent months and a| FROM W 'WARD PORTS schedule for future activities will be outlined. Six passengers who arrived in Ju- neau from the Westward on a recent | steamer are Pauline Nygard, Wesley > - cwis .| luncheon Party BUREAU OF MINES MAN IN FROM YAKOBI ISLAND | In accordance with long-standing custom, Territorial Department of Health employes were entertained at lunch today by Miss Jane Hib- |bard, Public Health Nurse, whose | birthday it was. Hospim"‘OIEs : Lunch was served in the Public Health Center. | e ————— i s eamens, CHANNEL NURSES TO Ann's Hospital, was discharged yosterday. Robert S. Sanford, Bureau of Mines, is in Juneau from Yakobi Island on a short business trip. He at the Gastineau. Mrs .George Baroumes and her ~ Gastineau Channel Nurses As- by son have gone home from Scciation will meet at 8 p. m. on Ann's Hospital. Monday in the Juneau Public |Health Center. Plans will be made A son was born on Wednesday for the unnual picnie and all nurses Mrs. Vincent Yakopatz in St (0D the channel are requested to Aun's Hospital, attend. re-| MEET HERE MONDAY | ATED; IS ON RUN & 4 S & L4 S. Air, Sea Forces Smash Nippon Hard INIPPONS MAY Polaris-Taku JAPS ADMIT orive nere MAKE ATTACK, ClosesDown, CARRIER IS Discarded Scrap in Juneat| N o R T H lA N D wal' Dl.ll'afion‘ ENEMY IS - CAUGHT IN ~ SENTDOWN NEW MOVE Claim, However, Allied Was Apparently Moving | Destroyer, 89 Planes | for Attempted Invas- Are Lost | ion of Australia TOKYO, May 9—Imperial Head- | |quarters announced today that a “small-sized Jap aircraft carrier converted from a tanker” has been sunk in the Coral Sea battle, and acknowledged the loss of 31 planes. The communique said, however, that the Jap forces had sunk an Allied destroyer and heavily dam- aged a United Nations cruiser. Tbelqunrlers here. (Japs claimed also that 89 enemy | The report announced the cessation |planes had been shot down. of the terrific battle, coming on the sixth day after Allied air and {naval forces had gone out to meet |the Japanese fleet which was bear- |ing down toward the Australian | mainland, & Pointed To Southwest ‘The communique said that the action represented the “continued effort of the Japanese to extend 2 their aggressive conquests towards |losses have no foundation in truth. (he south and Southwest." | z o G s I | It was pointed out that the Jap- | |anese have been building up their 1 forces with the emphasis on naval i | transport, elements for a coordin- AUSTRALIA, May 9—The Japanese | battle fleet has been repulsed in the Coral Sea, and the greatest air and sea battle in which an Ameri- can fleet ' has ever engaged has temporarily ceased, according to |the communique issued today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head- NO CLEAR VERSION ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus- tralia, May 9—Gen, Douglas Mac- Arthur, Commander of the United | Nations forces in the Pacific, said jmdu_v that the Japs as yet have no |clear version of the huge naval engagement in the Coral Sea and that Japanese reports of Allied | This attack was “initiated several 1 ‘While cautiously saying only that - o | WHERE IS JOHN COLEMAN? AVERAG DOW, JO! The following are today's | Jones averages: industrials Dow, | 98.7, | the battle had ceased “temporar- | |ily," MacArthur’s headquarters I BAv‘noverthulum said flatly that the . ‘annvw had been repulsed. | The British Reuter’s News Agen- s T |cy says that the Japanese have lost ‘Dlmofld Says Fuel, Food‘vlwn more sifnps than Washington . . claims thus far. { Bemg Shipped North Reuters, in a dispatch from Syd- . ney late last night, said that the 4 for Operation {vast” Janalobdi reaaior) Stieoks it | - | Northeastern 'Australia had been WASHINGTON, May 9—Alaska smashed and that the remnants of Delegate Anthony J. Dimond an-|it were on the run. Reuters nounced today that he has been in-|claimed that the toll of Japanese {formed by Chairman Emory 8. sea losses had risen to 18 ships |Land of the War Shipping Board sunk, four damaged, including the | that canneries in Bristol Bay should | certain destruction of two aireraft |be arranged to operate this year|carriers, one cruiser, six or seven i\'{l“l as much native labor as posf-‘destmyfls and other vessels. |sible. He said that fuel and food is| oniy four hours before the cheer- ‘hr-lng shipped nm'i_h for the OPera- o news had been received from ;licn of 1._)1@ L""’":": o ’Auszralm, the Navy Department in | Washington had said the “issue is {SPECIAL SERVICE, [l 1o it | | The Navy claims only 11 or more . LUTHERAN CHURCH, | svanese warshipe sun, and six 1 0] I't . [ ON MOTHERS 'DAY | Presumably with these losses ; Y }hlmng heavily and thousands of its | A cordial invitation is extended|finest warriors at the bottom of [to the public to attend the special|the Coral Sea, the battered® Jap- {11 oclcck worship service to be|anese enemy is reported to be limp- [held at the Lutheran Church, cor-|ing northward with United States [ner of Main and Third Streets, to- |and British Imperial units in hot {morrow on the occasion of Moth- |Pursuit. ipmv Day. | ‘The Allied communique said that The pastor'’s sermon, “Momer:i‘" the sixth day of the epic en- |A Messenger for God., and the|8agement: “Our attacks will cons choir anthem, “A Mother’s Love" | tinue.” ; by V. Holt, will express the theme of the day Sk' R iers Will Have - Anxious to get in touch with John | 2 P. Coleman, or Jack Coleman, Horace Banquet Tonlght | Adams, Al::;k(:h.‘!:en‘r:lshlplcampngy | ’ dagent, asks af e call at the| f - In Percy’s Cafe Adams also asks that anyone —— knowing of Coleman’s whereabouts| Skiers of the Gastineau Channel | please inform him. | territory will get together for a -~ |little lodge skiing tomight at the S"MK OUOIAIIONS |annual banquet of the Juneau Ski IClub, to be held in the banquet - |rocm of Percy's Cafe at 8 o'clock. NEW YORK, May 9—Closing quo-| A} interested skiers are invited tation of American Can today is|(, (he dinner, where excellent mo= |64'2, Anaconda 24'i, Bethleem|ion pictures of Sun Valley will be |Steel 54%, Commonwealth and|shown during the evening's pro- | Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 6%, oram Dancing will follow. International Harvester 43'¢, Ken- {necott 28%, New York Central 7', | Northern Pacific 5', United States M Wh-' h d . |Steel 467, Pound $4.04 IS. lienea ~ Hostess Today Irails 2452, utilities 1172 | Mrs. W. M. Whitehead is enter- | - - o [taining &t a tea this afternoon in Raymond Johns has been dis-/her home on Sixth and Harris charged from the Government Hos- Streets in honor of her mother, |pital after receiving medical care Mrs. M. O. Johnson, who is visit- there. l‘ing here from Wrangell, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN { ated attack of the combined.foreem. »a s i