The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1942, Page 1

A e T HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIR - —~ —_— VOL. LIX., NO. 9031. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS oA PRICE TEN CENTS 21 JAP SHIPS ARE '@ L4 INVADING TRAPPED Chungking Says Reinforce- | ments fo Enemy Cut Off at Chefang CHUNGKINK, May 11—Jap rein- | forcements rushing to the aid of the trapped column of their comrades in the Western Yunnan province have been intercepted at Cherang,} 25 miles inside the Chinese border on the Burma Road and heavy‘ fighting has been precipitated, ac- cording to today's communique. The Chinese dispatches say that the original Japanese invasion force of which the Chinese previously re-| ported, 4500 were Kkilled, is still sur- rounded by the Chinese Army. The communique confirmed the Jap report of the fall of Bhamo. the alternate terminal of the Bur-| ma Road, 170 miles northeast of | Mandalay, and Mytikyina, 250/ miles north of Mandalay. l The Japs are said to be attack- ing Bast Loiem, 125 miles southeast | of Mandalay and are striking at Kungshin. Japanese Destroyer Torpedoed WASHINGTON, May 11 — The| Navy announced this afternoon that United States submarines in the western Pacific have sunk one Jap- anese destroyer and two cargo shi) one of them a naval auxiliary. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Assistant Sec-| -/ retary of War John McCloy leaned across the dinner table to vivacious'| Mrs. William Denman, wife of San| Francisco’s distinguished federal| judge, and said banteringly: ! “You're going to be bombed.” | “And you think we Californians! don't know it?” shot back Mrs. i Denman. “That's why we're here.” What Mrs. Denman meant was that her husband had been pound-, ing on Capital doors for three weeks trying to get better protection for. the Pacific Coast. In fact, what- ever protection the West Coast gets added to that of the Army and Navy, will be due in a large meas- ure to the efforts of Judge Denman, plus Chester Rowell of the San Prancisco Chronicle, and, behind the scenes, another judge—dJustice| Douglas of the Supreme Court, who comes from Washington State. Reason for Judge Denman's worry s that every year from May | to July a bank of fog covers a strip of the Pacific about forty miles wide from San Prancisco to Los Angeles. ! “This strip of fog,” Denman has hammered home to War and Navy| officials, “is just what the Japanese need to screen their airplane car-|| riers, They know all about Lhisl foghank, have studied it for years. |] And if they sacrifice the planes— as we know they have been willing | to do—they could dump tons of| incendiary bombs on San Francisco,| which, by the way, is rated by in- surance companies next to Tokyo| as the second greatest fire risk in! the World.” | | PARACHUTISTS ALONG | PACIFIC? | Judge Denman also has pounded | @ 4 PN @ @ L4 &) No longer will it be a tale’of woe for the fisherman te catch an old tire or a rubber boot instead of a trout. i sportsmen may purposely catch tires and figh for ber shortage, For, with the present rub- boots 'this spring. One Washington fisherman called WPB hcad- quarters to tell officials he had counted 30 or 40 old the mud of Washington’s Potomac river. tires lodged in Another, Capt. Ray Walker, above, fished out one he threw in Jast year. - - . Plans Air-Condifioning Of Entire Nation; Great Scheme Being "TASTIEST” Film Actress Evelyn Keyes (above) was chosen by the Na- tional Restaurant Association, in convention at Hollywood, as “the tastiest dish for 1942.” Ac- cording to President Sidney Hoedemaker, the qualities that won for Miss Keyes were appe- tizing appearance, perfection of ingredients and streamlined for modern taste. home to War and Navy something| else which the Japanese know about ! —that protection of vital public| utilities on the West Coast is com- | tions. For instance, T (Gontinyed gu Page Four) the water - works ] MISS ADSIT LEAVES Fand® Agnes Adsit, of the Territorial plicated by overlapping jurisdic- |\ 4ipors Office, left this morning 'on a two-weeks' vacation trip to Petersburg, friends, where she will visit| \ Unfolde BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 11—Robert H. Hinckley is tackling the biggest air-conditioning job in history. He wants to “air-condition” the whole country. Lest that raise a picture of a vast sealed dome stretching from Seattle to Miami and Boston to San Diego, with filters going full blast day and night, let me hasten to make clear what Hinckley means. Hinckley is assistant secretary of commerce for air. enough that America be “air-mind- “This and succeeding @ (4 Iternate Burma Road Is Capture POISON GAS | [ UNITED NATIONS- WARFARE IS THREATENED ¢ Churchill Warns Hitler Not to Use lllegal Tac- fics on Russia LONDON, May 11-—-In a grim, fighting speech last night, Prime| Minister Winston Churchi'l warned Hitler that Britain will carry poison gas warfare far and wide over Ger- many if the Nazis dare use it ag- ainst Russia. Churchill forecast for sure a mighty British and American bomb- 05T IN SEA BATTLE FIGHTING FORCES IN THE WAR OF SURVIVAL AXIS— BETWEEN 11,950,000 AND 14,350,000 @ @ L4 @ L4 L4 BETWEEN 11,600,000 AND 18,100,000 ing offensive against Germany. He in his slaughter” predictions of for Ger- was grim “misery and many. Nevertheless, Churchill was con- fident and optimistic and brought what he said was a “message of good cheer’ for Britain and allies, declaring that the “awful balances” finally have turned to the United Nations favor. He predicted that American seapower will grip and hold the Japanes and their over- whelming air power eventually will bring her low. S e ee WAR QUIET ON FRONT IN RUSSIA Still Wait for Offensive as Gas Warfare Started by Germans (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) In Europe, the war at the begin- ning of the week still lay largely in the psychological realm of nerves, fears, expectations and threats. The Russian front is still quies- cent compared to the fury which prevailed in the German offensivi last Summer, and the Russian counter-offensives of the winter months. Winter is having its final fling in the northern and central sectors while the world waits the fury of “British and To him it's N0t the preak either there or in some other potential battle zone in Eu- rope. The Russians in advance were genera- given the point of Churchill's threat tions,” he explains, “must become | Vesterday of using retaliatory gas what T call ‘air-conditioned’ if the|Warfare on behalf of the Sovie is to be United States nation | Union, which reported officially on on wings, which it is surcly going Saturday that the Germans werc to be. “When rean that we must become condi- tioned to the air and the machines of the air in just the same way that we are conditioned to the greund and the machines of the croand. Today | | ) we pilot an automobiic | pjy along the ground as easily as We shot down on the testing new gas technique on the 1 say air-conditioned 1/Crimean front, using small mine to dispel a disabling vapor. The German command admitted localized attacks yesterdav on the Russian front but declared that Red Army thrusts either collapsed | or were repulsed. The Germans claimed that the Force score of Russian planes far northern walk, with as little conscious front is now 271, listing 20 British thought or effort. We must learn | hurricanes among the Russian to pilot an airplane throuzh the, losses. air with the same sure, almost automatic respopses.’’ The announcement that aero- nautics is to be taught in the na- tion’s high schools was a big slap on the back for genial, bald-headed Bob Hinckley. The Civil Aeronaut- ics Administration, under Hinckley, and the Office of Education, backed this country catch up with Nazi | Germany, where such training was begun back in the middle '30s. | | | | | |by the Army and Navy, are diving| linto plans that they hope will let| o Garst Comes ToNorthland To Aid Mines WASHINGTON, May 11— Jona Hitler Youth were building mod- | than Garst, Regional Director of el planes in the primary schools the San Francisco Agriculture Mar- in those days, and older boys were keting Association, has been loaned skimming the landscape in gliders to the War Production Board { A few years later represent the WPBS Materials Di they were dive-bombing London and vision in Alaska. and sailplanes. Crete. to Garst’s duties will be to cooperate CAA launghed a test progrumlwim the current extensive survey involving 317 students in 113 col- | in Alaska of mineral deposits as leges and universities in 1939. After #rance fell Congress authorized a (Continued on Page Five) assist in getting new mines in pro- duction to expedite shipment o crditical ores to smelters in tx United States, her | Wide World Features The nations at war have a total of 20 to 30 million men under arms. Maximum strength of the United Nations, not including the comparatively small armies of the British dominions and The Netherlands, is approximately 18 million; of the Axis, 12' million, not including the small Balkan countries and Fin- land, whose forces number about 1. million. Biggest question mark in a comparison of troop strength is the Chinese army, variously estimated at 2 to 6 million warriors. Packers Oppose Bill (GOVERNMENT Of Ancestral Fishing ~ CONFIRMING “Rights, Natives Here JAPA_! RAID SEATTLE, May 11—Alarmed OVer'| iy g value on it and pay the same. the first move of Alaska Indians mpnis is not strictly a field of fu- to. estdblish ancestral fishing rights | e condemnation proceedings; but in Alaska under the 1942 fishing| ;.10 or public taking resulting regulations issued by Secretary Of |y pgiang lose of use s covered ;_“; I,HT.”,;”‘ ?‘“:’_‘fld g I‘;k"":‘ i:'“_":: by the 1935 Claims Act, as well as AHDE SRNCRIE S0 PLDST TS 0I5 46 covered by a multitude of civil Alaska packers in opposing the new |’ { sl 4 | actions accounting and ejec regulations. | Under the new rules, Alaska In-’ ment. dians may apply to Ickes for a hear-| 4+ A traveling administrative com- Discloses U. S. Bombers Made During Attack- No Defails Given WASHINGTON, May 11—United States Army bombers made a sensa- |tional raid on Japan on Apri] 18, the War Department discloses, con- for ing to establish ancestral or in-|Missioner with clerical. asslstance. |y what millions of Americans herited fishing rights with a prior- with counsel from the Attorney |y 4 hoped was true after the hys- it was learned that a petition for ment approved contract for prose- Thundering low and fast in such a hearing had been filed cution, is the best method to de-|hroad daylight, the mighty bombers, aska Native Brotherhood. This peti- military targets near Tokyo, Yoko- tion asks the removal bf the Colpoys hama, Nagoka and other cities, the by Pacific American Fisheries on As to whether the planes took behalf of the Tee Hit Ton tribe. off from a carrier at sea in a joint International Fishermen’s and Al- GET AwARDS' a land base somewhere, as to the lied Workers' Union said that while niumber of planes taking part in | cided on yet, a special meeting of! |the Japanese have been desperately the union’s executive board will 5 Iguessing, the communique said only representative to go to Washington, —_— ;gu\‘v no further details. D. C. “It is obvious that we can - BILL PROPOSED H | winitroreer o fory from Terminus — PARIS RADIO | nest Gruening Saturday in which WASHINGTON, May 11 El | he proposes act s e SR it proposes dn act of Congress ;... Ty have been awarded the t 5 J - :’:}s;;“”?\“_"‘(l‘ n:;u::;”o.f. ?'}d dcx"m_ inew Alaska highway, Senator Clyde ¥ PR L9, M1 es of Andisns.|y Herring of Iowa has announced retary Harold L. Ickes set up pro-|the Jowa State Highway engineer, cedure for the settlement of such pred White, that the awards went Rest i“ S' fi S d lations, no administrative official ‘Company of Sioux City, and to the eslauran o/ alion al had provided for any such settle-|Greene Construction Company of Blown UD—SGVOTGI Said Paul: “Clarification of land| Under the contracts they will| :nd water titles by present lcgflpbulld the Alaska section of the road B 78 NEW YORK, May 11—Dynamit- | e — to create a highly chaotic situa- in Paris and the famous Parisian tion.” e ‘"Ew PAIRO[MA", |restaurant, Marguergs, according to reads as fol-| ows: ’ (HIEF oF po”([ |sociated Press in Europe. | The dispatch said that the extent ccupant: Whites’ improvements 7 B. H. Manery, Juneau’s new chle{‘lkm?d in the restaurant [ an A British radio broadecast heard | 2 ; Broadcasting System said that the )aid by the Federal government. |in today by the city clerk. M‘""mam broadcasting station of the hould be made public domain|weeks ago when Emmett Botelho| 1t said the station was blown up fisheries, timber, mines), present announced his resignation. land the aerial downed. The same 0ss of title. | was appointed to the post of patrol- ing the killing of two German sail- 3. Past loss of use: At the aamcim;m today. |ors. Five other hostages are to ity over white operators’ rights. | General's office for defense, and gerica) stories of Tokyo correspond- The action was decided on when counsel under the Interior Depart- ents over the radio after the raid. with Ickes by Willlam Lewis Paul, termine the facts of each case. |loaded both with demolition and of Petersburg, attorney for the Al- Do o 0 o - incendiary bombs, blasted selected Point fish trap, owned and operated |OWA Fl RMS War Department communique said Joseph J. Jurich, president of the Army and Navy operation or from no definite action has been de- the raid and other details at which be called immediately to selext a they will have to keep on guessing, o sitime o e o i To Build Section in Terri- | the Alaska Native Brotherhood, sub- mitted a memorandum to Gov. Er- vhich wi set up . would set up procedure for| g conspyction contracts for the| Paul pointed out that until Sec-| ye gaid he has been informed by DYNAMITED claims in the recent fishery regu- to the C. F. Lytle Construction ment before. | Des Moines. b Persons Killed means at this late date in the de-|*o™ l}*{‘e l_Jlorder :’Z lw’ Alu.:krih;rm-‘ clopment of the Territory will tend [ "U% “:l ng oo RS, Y-l ors have damaged the radio station His proposed act | trustworthy advices from the As- 1. Where conflict is with private | | lof the damage is not fully known, SWORN IN TODAY ot e 5" v nay be set off against Indian own- | several persons are reported s value of loss of use and title,| if any deficiency exists inof police, and Wayne Graham, new-|, = "/ e cefbirndy avor of the Indian he may be|ly appointed patrolman, were sworn' B WieSing atafion of Colupiyia ‘2. dIn the p‘ubh.; domxah;; In tm:‘m-v rvcf-wed 'hlfx :\ppmmmentv {rorn radio in Paris is located 130 miles roader areas where Indian title'the post of assistant chief several/souih of the Capital at Bourges. ondemnation will necessarily be| Graham, tormerly a truck driver|sources said that 20 more hostages ccompanied by compensation for for the D. B. Femmer Company, have been shot near Rouen follow- ime some arrangement should »e| - ————— | tace the firing squad at Saint Au- ‘.mde to ascertain the loss of use,J BUY DEFENSE STAMPS lben @ (4 L4 Now WARCRAFT DAMAGED OR ~CRIPPLED Meagre Defails Given Out Concerning Engage- | ment Off Australia AERIAL SEQUEL TAKES PLACE DURING WEEKEND 'Bomb Hifs Scored on Subs, } Seaplane Tender and ; Tanker on Sunday (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The grand total of Japanese ships |sunk or crippled in the six day battle in Coral Sea and its aerial |sequel, mounted today to 21. | Bomb hits were scored over the ‘weekrnd on two submarines, a sea- plane tender and tanker in con- |tinuance of the victory over the Japanese sea power on the north- eastern flank of the Australian sup- ply line of that continent and base of the United Nations. The victory has strengthened the belief that all of Australiu can be held as a | concentration point for an even- tual counter offensive against Japan, Although the danger has not yet passed, competent observers in the Allied Headquarters in Australia are stressing conservatism but ex- |press belief that the Washington summary of the sea battle, when it is issued, might include addi- tional Japanese transport losses and sinking of “two transports or sup- ply ships” and damaging of two others not listed in two com- muniques. Reuters still claims that in the running battle of five days in the Coral Sea the Japanese sea losses 18 ships sunk, four damaged. This includes certain destruction of two aircraft carriers, one cruis- er, six or seven destroyers and other vessels, The Navy, in the last com- munique, claims only 11 or more Japanese warships sunk, and six or more damaged. Interpreting the battle on Coral Sea, Sir Keith Murdock, of the Melbourne Daily Herald, who is one of Australia’s most eminent public figures, said the engagement was with a “comparatively light Japanese naval force and not against the main Japanese fleet. The small fleet undoubtedly, it must be realized, composed just a part of the large Japanese expedition that is beginning to be formed.” JAPAN SAYS 'MINDANAO SURRENDERS TOKYO, May 11 — Domei, the Japanese News Agency, declared today in a French language broad- [cast that the “conquest of the Is- !lands of the Philippines by Jap- anese forces has now been complete- ly achieved.” Quoting a dispatch from Mind- anao, Domei said that Major-Gen. William Sharp, described as com- mander in chief of the American land Filipino forces in the Mindanao region had surrendered uncondi- tionally last night. FINAL CURTAIN FOR JOE WEBER HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 11— Death has claimed Joe Weber, 74, |of the famous stage comedy team lof Weber and Field. He died yester- day after an illness of several months. Lew Fields died lastJuly.