The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL, LIX., NO. 9032. ALLIED FLIERS TRACK DOWN HIDING 4 L4 14 4 JUNEAU, ALASKA, (4 (4 & 4 & 4 TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1942 4 & 4 4 (4 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS (4 4 JAPS 4 & Jap Invasion Forces Driven Back In Burma ( | CHINESE IN NEW ATTACK ON NIPPONS Enemy Column Is Forced Back to Frontier, Says Military Spokesman BRITISH GET BACK AT JAPS, ONE AREA Suddenly Turn Fury of As- sault on Remnants-RAF | Do Machine-gunning BULLETIN — Chungking, May 12—The Japanese have brought up reinforcements and are making a new attack on the Yunnan front in western China. This is announced in an offi- clal Chinese communique to- night. | | CHUNGKING, May 12—The main force of the Japanese invasion col- | umn that struck deep into China’s | Yunnan Province has been driven | back to the Burma frontier at Wanting but heavy fighting con- tinues with remnants of the shat- tered enemy in the Chefang-Mang- shih area, according to the Chinese military spokesman. If the fighting still continues T (Continued on Page Two) The Washington| Merry -@- Round| By DREW PEARSON— ;I:RAN(E MUST | U. S-Built Plancs Take Part in R. A. F. Raids | MAKE THREE | | < DECISIONS | ~ ; M ‘Break with United Stafes | shal PATRED WITH ROONEY ON SCREEN-Tina Thayer, 18 and red-headed, was announced as a new romance in Mickey Rooney's movie life. Of eourse, in real life Mickey's a happily married man, Miss Thayer was born in Worcester, Mass. | F | | To Shilf 12,000,000 To Army or War Work Leads to Important Questions for Vichy BERN, Switzerland, May 12 With French and German negoti- | ations reaching a state of urgeney, | Field Marshal Herman Goering may meet tomorrow with French Mar- Henri Petain and Chief of | State Pierre Laval to reach final| decisions, it has been reported byl foreign diplomatic quarters. These quarters predicted that the{ French will refuse to accept the| Martinique negotiations as one ot} the great decisions resulting from the break in relations with the| United States. | Martinique Questions French Ambassador Henry Haye is said to be conferring now with Secretary of State Cordell Hull on the Martinique and other French| Caribbean possessions. Vichy quar-| ters say that the United States has demanded the demobilization ! of the French fleet at Martinique, American garrisoning of the Island and turning over of tankers to this country. | Tcday's report from the diplo- matic quarters in Switzerland said that Otto Abetz, Hitler's represen- tative to Paris and Laval had met yesterday at Moulins, French de- markation line, to lay the ground work for the expected meeting with Goering. Laval is saia 10 have brought I Among the planes being flown in the Roya these Boston IIT type, U. S.-built planes. The Boston is a fast, powerfuliy-armed ship and has tremendous cari taken at an orerational station somewhere i ing’s Kin in British Army 1 wht ) . France to the brink of three great § decisions—rejection of the Ameni- can proposal to clarify the status of Martinique; the degree of mili-| tary collabcration which will be given to the Axis; and at least a 1 | Air Force's bombing offensive on key Axis targets are Distinguishing mark is the high, clear sweep of the tail. rying capacily. The piclure was sngland. n E NAZIPUSH "IN CRIMEA IS HALTED Germans Let Fight Die: Overnight - Red Army Pushes Attackers Back FLEET OF ENEMY IS SCATTERED 'Hiding Remnants of Nip- pon Armada Hunted Down in Coral Sea TWO MORE TRANSPORTS ARE REPORTED SMASHED Brings Tofal Losses fo Mikado's Forces fo 23 or 24 Ships ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May 12 — Japan is apparently still paying the disas- trous price of defeat in the Coral Sea, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters today announce that { Allied fliers are tracking down the scattered, hiding remnants of the great enemy invasion armada. Other units have damaged two lor possibly three more ships, rais- |Ing the count of Jap losses in the six day baftle in the sea gateway to northeast Australia and its se- quel of ceaseless aerial search of the Island hideaways, to 23 or 24 |ships. : In the eight days since. the start of the Coral Sea battle through | yesterday, nevertheless, Japan's |plans have only been delayed and I the threat still hangs over Aus- (tralia that she may try again to | smash southward. Alr Minister Drakeford warned that two or more enemy transports had been hit yesterday near the Solomon Islands. The communique said that the possible tweny-fourth Jap casualty is a large tanker »n |which air raiders have registered | and ROBERT S. ALLEN preliminary settlement over disput- ed points with Italy. These matters are of such “im- (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | tWo hits or near misses. The German offensive against ths| WASHINGTON — Benind the | President’s at-long-last announce- By 1943, Hers!lf[Says‘ ! Soviet positions blocking invasion | ment that he will coordinate the govenment's far-flung information agencies, is one of the worst ad- ministrative messes in Washington. The hodge-podge has needed clean- ing up for months. Here is the roll call of agencies which distribute news for the gov- ernment: OGR, or' Office of Government Reports. COI, or Office of the Co-Ordinator of Information, better known as the Donovan Committee. OFF, or Office of Facts and Fig- ures. The War Censorship Board. OCIA, or Office of the Co-Or- dinator of Inter-American Affairs, better known as the Rockefeller Committee. The huge, sprawling Press Division of the OEM (Office of Emergency Management.) Also the press bureaus of the War and Navy departments, the U. S Maritime Commission and practical- ly every other independent agency in the government. All these operate with little or no inter-relation; result, a bedlam of overlapping, working at cross pur- . bureaucratic jealousies, bung- ling and inefficiency. EXAMPLES For example: One of these pub- licity agencies obtained confidential information of the mistreatment of prisoners by the Japs. But another agency blocked publication of the report on the ground that it might “distress the sensibilities” of the American people. Another agency was informed that a file of critical editorial comments from U. S. newspapers is cabled daily to London, there turned over to Axis agents, who use the material for radio propaganda against this country in South America. Yet thic agency has been unable to obtain a report on this matter from the agency which has control over al cable messages. REAL REASON Real reason for Roosevelt’s long|pany's mine at Excelsior, 15 miles| delay in cleaning up this chaos has been his reluctance to rap certair high-placed knuckles and to step or certain eminent toes. Ever since it became apparent that something would have to be ~ Copiinued 97 ags Foun) DETROIT, ‘May 12 — Maj. Gen. Lewis Hershey, Natlonal Selective Service Director, declared today | that 12,000,000 men, nearly one- | tenth of the nation's population, will be shifted to new jobs either in the armed forces or on the war production front by Jan. 1, 1943. Said Hershey: “In 1942 we must triple the number of men who were working in war industries last Jan- uary. We must double the number |of men in the armed forces by the |end of the year. “That means only one thing — moving 12,000,000 individuals.” = 3 BRITISH * SHIPS HIT BY GERMANS New Destroyers Are Sunk in Mediterranean by Air Aftacks LONDON, May 12—The British admiralty announced today that | three of its destroyers have been sunk by German aircraft in the | Mediterranean.. | They include the Lively, the | Jackal, and the Kipling. More than | 500 officers and men of the three ;ahips have been saved from the| | complement, which are believed to total about 600. ; Miss Foreign Trade Pretty Lois James, chosen “Miss Foreign Trade,” will represent America’s sea-borne commerce in the coming celebration of Foreign Trade week. With wartime condi- | tions stressing the need of products brought from abroad, the impor- tance of foreign trade is being eme phasized especially this year. 5 KILLED, COAL MINE : Explosm“ Kt o o thp Htb s S FORT SMITH, Arkansas, May 12| fighters destroyed one Heinkel| _Five miners were killed and two bomber and damaged at least sev- sthers injured in an explosion last °n, the communique said. night at the Peerless Coal Com- P st M DIVORCES ASKED perious concern,” Vichy announced today, that Petain has cut short his rest at the Riviera to.rush back by special train sent by the Gov- ernment. e e,——— Juneau Residents To Get Tuberculin Tests Tomorrow An open clinic jor all Jupeau residents who wish to take tuber- culin tests will be held from 2 to /4 p. m. tomorrow in the Juneau | Public Health Center. The tests will be given free tc any person who wants them, alsc o Juneau Public School students who missed the Monday clinic at |the school, and to Parochial school | children. All children wishing to take the 'wsl.s must have permission slips {irom their parents. { Any person who previously has fshown positive to such a test should |not repeat it. | This is the only free clinic of its \kind which will be.given to Jun- residents. Any person who may have been in contact with active | tuberculosis cases should take this opportunity to be tested. ‘The tuberculin test is not an in- jection. The tuberculin liquid is | merely placed under the upper layer Iul skin and if the germs are present {in the body in sufficient number, the spot will show red and swollen| jwithin a few days. | This .positive reaction, however, )does not mean that an active case of tuberculosis is present. It merely means that the germs are present in greater numbers than the body can fight off. Persors showing positive reactions should have X- rays to determiné whether or not <hey have an active case of the lisease. Most persons have the germs in heir system, but the body is cap- able of fighting them off unless E Nephew of the British monarch, Lord Lascelles, 19, son of the Prin- cess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, is a private in the British Army., The youth has joined his father's old regiment, the Grena- dier Guards. Bills with Dynamite Ready for Aclion as FDR Blows Lid Off OPA CHIEF |ooiamer URGES MORE INCOME TAX spring luli on Capitol Hill is almost |to the Caucasus, died down over-| night, then quickly flared up again! lon the Kerch peninsula in the! |Crimea, the Russians disclosed in :th(-h' midday communique. | The dispatch said that nothing important occurred during the night, indicating that the Nazi push had ceased at least tempor- |arily. | Whether the resistance of the Red Army had halted the attacks or! the- Germans had reverted to their' ‘old tactics of fighting by day and iresting at night, could not be de- | termined. Battle In Full Swing However, in Berlin, the German command declared “On the Kerch: Peninsula, the German and H.us—} sian troops opened an attack on May 8, supported by strong forma- tions of the German air force. The !battle has been in full swing since' then.” | In Berlin, a military spokesman | declared, “Hell was let loose over| the Bolshevik positions on the Kerch Peninsula, where squndmn‘» after squadron of German plflnes‘ raced across the Bolshevik front and Junkers 87s carried out dive hombing attacks.” | INV |ing over. 5 The President practically put an MAY BE MAJOR DRIVE end to it the other day when he| LONDON, May 12—A British tossed in his message to Congress commentator in London today said outlining the administration’s ideas that the Russians have driven back of the legislative needs to prevent |the Germans after four days of that vicious spiral of prices and fierce fighting, which may be in- wages that is called inflation tended as a forerunner to a major The finishing touches on anything ‘ulfenslve of the Naazis, P | that faintly resembles Congressional | somnolence will come when the| chips are in with your reactions to | the President's fireside chat, ex-| fplaimng those administration ideas‘ Would Lower Personal Ex- emplions-Also Stab- “ile wages | to you and you. WABH]NGTO;L "Ma.y 12——Leon: renderson, Price Administrator, rongly recommended lower per- nal income tax exemptions to the | s | There is one peculiar thing about | this lull in the Capitol chambers and corridors, and that is that though it all Congress has been TWO SMALL U, § SHIPS TORPEDOED WASHINGTON, May 12 — Two medium sized American merchant vessels have been torpedoed and sunk off .the Atlantic Coast, the House Ways and Means Commit- sitting quietly on more dynamite southwest of here. e Two divorce suits were filed to-|they are present in unusually large day in U. S. District Court. Emil| numbers. China, and in the absence of gaso- | Patability. line, gas from heated charcoal asks a divorce from Nick Peterson serves as fuel, Old Ford motors are used for Lange asks legal separation from nower production in laboratories in Ethel Lange on grounds of incom- Mattie Irene Peterson { { on the same grounds. I LR D The American Rhodes Scholar- ships were suspended by the Rhodes trustees in 1939 .and no elections have been held since, ree and also advocated stabllzZation |y, Yyag peen seen around here in 1 wages to help combat the “high- |, vo, o more, This dynamite was explosive threat of inflation.’ \m theform of bills introduced, bills | Henderson endorsed Secretary of | i, committee, bills ready for debate | rreasury Morgenthau's proposal (0 and a vote—all of them dealing with cut single - person’s exemption to| <600 and married couples to $1209. (Continued from Page Two) Navy Department announces, add- |ing that survivors have been land- led at east coast ports. The Moslem University of Al- Azhar in Cairo, Egypt, was founded in 970. ASION FLEET MAY REASSEMBLE Australian mrvers Think Forces Still Well In- fact But Scattered MELBOURNE, Australia, May 12 —Observers here express the belief that the Japanese invasion forces are still fairly well intact despite the battering they have taken in the Battle of Coral Sea. The fleet is thought to be hid- in Islands directly north of Australia and the bulk of the Jap- anése Grand Fleet in Japanese mandated Islands a little farther north, The observers express the belief that the Japs have been forced to | postpone {and return to their Island hideouts, such as the Bismarck and Solomon Islands, pending reinforcements and aid from seaborne planes. The invasion fleet, though well | dispersed, probably can reassemble | quickly, the observers say. - — Dutch Ship Sent Down WASHINGTON, May 12 — The Navy Department announced today that a medium sized Dutch mer- chant vessel has been torpedoed off the Atlantic Coast and survivors have been landed at at east coast port. their intended invasion i ‘The Papuans, residents of Manus Island, until fecently cannibalistic, niow cultivate coconuts and pearl | fishing.