The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1942, Page 1

N e e e o e . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9033. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER OPENS Allied Airmen On Alert For Next Jap Move INVASION ATTEMPT WATCHED Guarding Fleetof Australia Awaits Next Action on Coral Sea EADQUARTERS ALLIED H IN! AUSTRALIA, May 13—Resumption | of air battles on Australia’s outer island ramparts early today wer(‘; predicted by observers at the ad- vanced bases throughout the area. Allied airmen are on the alert to detect the first move of the Jap- anese Navy to renew the battle of Coral Sea which broke out last week. Remnants of the first Japanese| invasion fleet are believed hiding among the screened islands nw:nt-: ing reinforcements. | i | STOCK QUOTATIONS _NEW YORK, May 13 — Closing quotation of American Can today is 62%, Anaconda 24, Bethlehem Steel 52%, Commonwealth and Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 6%, International Harvester 41%, Ken- necott 27%, New York Central '1‘,,| Northern Pacific 5%, United States| Steel 45%, Pound $4.04. — DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 97.21, rails 24.17, utilities 11.55. | —l 1 Vehicles in public health and! security services are given hr.~t: preference in the rationing of Lin-.sl in Cuba, the Department of Com- | merce reports. | The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—Dynamic Assist- ant War Secretary John McCloy has just come back from an in-{ spection trip to Pearl Harbor where he reports that it still is absolutely essential to use Japanese labor to| help erect Hawaii's bristling de-| fenses. Just after Pearl Harbor, the War | Department issued an order remov- ing all Japanese from defense Work | in Hawaii. However, new com- mander Gen. Delos Emmons pro- tested: “You can’t do that. You don’t know how many 9lathes you | are stopping.” | In the end he proved to be right. The Japanese were found to be es- sential to defense work, and the order was rescinded. Japanese are now used in digging ditches to break up possible land- ing fields; building roads; and they even work in arsenals producing guns. Suspicious Japanese have been picked up. But it is impos- sible to test the loyalty of others. |} _ However, to get the vital defense work done in a hurry, the War Department is convinced there is no other out than to use Jap labor. Furthermore, the alternative of deporting Hawaii’'s huge Japanese population would be a tremendous job. They can’t be shipped to California. And they can’t be sent to a separate island, where they might establish a landing base for Japanese attack. So the present solution is to leave them where they are, carefully guarded. Meanwhile, Pearl Harbor is on the alert with more protective de- vices than ever before in history.; Every hour of the day and night patrol planes scour the air around | the islands. No fleet, either by! sea or air, could approach Hawaii undetected. TROUBLE AHEAD The day after Leon Henderson jssued his sweeping price freezing order, the President asked him, “How are you getting on?” “well, I'd put it this way,” said Henderson with a grin. “I feel like the boy who threw a rock through e (Continued on Page Four) SPRING DRIVE IN S0UTH Film Stars on Fund Tour More than two score Hollywood fil Caravan, have begun their cross S Im players, making up the Victory -country tour of 13 leading cities where they are staging shows to raise funds for Army and Navy relief. and Dancer Eleanor Powell In the photo above, Comedienne Charlotte Greenwood, left, are helped aboard the train. Quick Thiliking Army Sergeant Saves Many Lives Arrested by FBI % in Plane Crash JAPS OPEN NEWFRONT | IN BURMA Enemy Aflé&hg Through Thailand-China In- vaders Trapped CHUNGKING, May 13—Chinese | units are attacking the Japanesef supply lines in northern Burma and are disrupting the enemy's commuhications between Mandalay and Lashio area and Bhamo and) Myitkyina in the north, according; The dispatch reports that the | Chinese command says there is no change on the Yunnan front, re- ferring to the situation along the Burma Road, where the Jap forces have driven well into the south=- western part of China, Jap Units Trapped | Fierce fighting has been report-| ed in the last several days on this front where Japanese reinforce- ments have been drawing up to re- lieve trapped units in the Chefang' sector from Lashio. ing group was attacked from the: rear by one of Lieut.-Gen, Jn.wphl W. Stiiwell’s forces moving up from Maymyo | When the enemy's relief column sought to break into e Chinese ring yesterday, it was intercepted | (Continued on Page Two) JAPS SAY U.5.NOW | MILES CITY, Montana, May 13— | A quick thinking Army saved »f 10 others in a crash of a North- o west Airline transport which fatally injured three airline pilots. Sergeant Carl Dinius, of a passenger aboard the trans- ., battered through a window and aided the other passengers to ~ |escape from the burning ship. S i Leone Menier (above), former sec- retary to Robert Noble, accused by the FBI of sedition, is shown in cus- tody at Los Angeles. Police said she dyed her hair red. changed her name and wore colored glasses W disguise herself, g FIVE ARMY FLIERS ARE DEAD, CRASH EVERETT, Wash.,, May 13—Five Army fliers were killed yesterday in & crash of a two motored bomber in a wooded area just off the Paine Field airbase. The crash demolished the plane and the wreckage was burned. The bomber was on a routine training 1light at the time. The fatally injured airline pilots were Capt. Eugene Shank of Min- neapolis, Capt. R. K. Mariin of Seattle, and First Officer Harold Nygren of $t. Paul. Martin was an extra pilot. ' BOMBERS OF ARMY (RASH IN MIDAIR Four Fliersftflnd Dead in One Accidenf-Three Others Killed OAKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., May 13—Army training flights brought leath to seven pilots and injury-to two others in a series of widely eparated Oklahoma accidents. Two bombers from Wiil Rogers sirbase here, flying as part of a (formation of three bomters, col- |lided in midair and bvrst "into | flames as they fell. Four men died in the crash and |two others were slightly injured in parachuting to safety. Three other army fliers lost their |tives in separate crashes of two training planes at the Erid Flying | School. ; | e, i SIX MEN LEAVE ' TOMORROW FOR r MINE PROPER Carl Velvestad, on the Triton, will leave tomorrow with six men for the nickel group of claims on Sea Level, A camp will be erected and preliminary work will be started for more extensive development of the + property. Sergeant | his own life and the lives Miles 3RD RATE Foreign Office _Newspaper ' (laims Great Losses % in Coral Sea TOKYO, May 13—The Japanese Foreign Office newspape1, the Jap- an Times-Advertiser, today de- clared that as the result of the battle on Coral Sea the United States has been relegated to only a third-rate naval power. The newspaper says the United States “has now only half a dozen | serviceable | capital ships, hardly sufficient to guard her far-flung | coastline.” Thé official communique said that 163 Allied planes were downed or destroyed in Japanese raids on Port Moresby and Darwin in 19, days, from April 21 to May 10, while Jap losses totalled only 12 | planes. NEW SUB - BILL IS - SIGNED Calls for (ZTnstrucfion of | 200,000 Tons of ; Sea Raiders WASHINGTON, May 13 struction of 20000 tons more ¢ iumwd States submarines in the \move to beat the Axis at its own game is authorized in a bill signed {today by President Roosevelt. " Just how many more subs the |measure provides for is a militar, jsecret, but Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Committee, saic it would provide for “more th 1100.” Con- D e TEACHER VISITS HERE Norma Whittaker, teacher for the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs .t Elin, is visiting in Juneau on h.r way to Wrangell, to today’s communiques. & 1 pearl Protected by a heavy smoke screen, future Army Engineers tra barbed wire entanglements during This reinforc- | Charging Throug maneuvers, ng at Fort Belv All vear gas masks, carry full eqi Barbed Wire ¥, Va., charge through NAZIS HIT ' FROM{RIMEA - T0 CAUCASUS Battle of Ker(h Peninsula Puts Russians on Defensive GERMANS (LAIMING CAPTURE OF 40,000 Soviet Dis;;efic_hes Say No Major Gains on Either Side Yet (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler's field headquarters as< serted today that the critical five day old battle to break through on the Kerch Peninsula “the Cri- | mean gateway to the Caucasus oil treasures” has “decided” the an- jd [ nihilation of the Russians encircled Army Chief of.Staff Reviews A. E. E. in Ulstet —1. 1. N. Radioph oto General Géo ge C. Marshall, U. 8. Army chief of staff, is shown (wearing light trousers) inspecting troops of the A. B K. som field commander of the Americ wiiere in Northern Ireland san forces in Britain At the left is Maj. Gen General Marshall now is back in the United Russell P. Hartle, States. His confidential mission to London, where he remained 10 days, was widely associated with Allied plans for opening a second front in Europe. PLANS FUND President Regains His Good Spirifs; Cheerful | Mood IsNow Displayed AUTO TIRES BIG PUS BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 13— Get a crowd of Washington correspond-' ents together these days and almost certainly the conve jon will wing at some time to the change in President Roosevelt's mood in recent weeks. Almost every press conference jately has found him cheerful and in good spirits—a mood that has en almost totally lacking since wse gray days that jap attack on Hawaii It is almost a capital axiom that president Roosevelt wears best in dversity. When things are going crong, he shoulders the load and ems almost to relish the carrying { it. Certainly there has been no ar President who has borne up ) well as President Roosevelt since Harbor. But until recently omething was lacking. Press con- rences, even those in which the rare bits of good news were given ut. had an atmosphere of depres- ion. 1L was something that could not followed the s be entirely attributed to adverse v ports from the It omething that seemed to flow from war [ront the President himself It is true that he prodigiously, but the President has always done that without losing his buoyant spirit or his confidence in the future of the United Sta It is true that he was not always well, being twice threatened with innoying colds to which he is But sometime ago now, Rear Ross T. Melntire, the White House physician, persuaded him to drop some of the late night detail work which was t00 of a drain on evem the was working much | President’s | TOPURCHASE ment Buf No Deta WASHINGTON, May tary of Commerce Jesse 13 H ils Secre- Jones announces the creation of a $I50,- 000,000 fund to purchase new used tires now owned by con but omitting details of the plan The Commerce Secretury did further plans will be mad " Secrefary of Commerce Jones Makes Announce- wl ‘mers Ay later | there. | " The capture of 40,000 prisoners is announced and heavy fighting is | continuing, the dispatches indicated. | After breaching the Soviet lines |at the entrance to the Kerch Pen- insula, the Germans still have | nearly 50 miles to go to reach Kerch {City, just -acress the S-rile-wide | Kerch strait from the Caucasus. Recaptured Area This eastern Crimean region was recaptured from the Germans only (tive months ago by Russian ex- | peditionary forces from the Cau- | casus | "The battle of the Kereh Peninsula is regarded as a test phase of Hil- |ler’s long-h ded Spring offensive, having started PFriday along the 12-mile front of the Peninsula. Hitler's Spring offensive has long been expected to strike its first blow to the south, in the Crimea or | the Southern Ukraine and directed at the Caucasus oil fields. While the Germans have claimed ‘u smashing victory, the midday | communique of the Soviels reported |“no substantial changes overnight.” | This would indicate neither side | has scored any major gains. Bombers Cut Path The communiques from Russia in- |dicate the Soviet Lroops are on the |defensive for the first time since early last December, adding to the impression that this is actually the German offensive’s beginning. A Berlin radio last night broad- cast a German war correspondent’s description of the battle, in which he declared that “more than 2,000 Stuka bombers smashed the first Soviet lines and cut a path for the first infantry advance.” The Soviet dispatches however, said that the battle is developing steadily, but gave no hint of a major Nazi victory. Strongest Attack The dispatches from Russia say (Continued on Page Two) OF HITLER DISPUTED Nazi Commander Believed fo Have Marshalled Great Force LONDON, May 13—Adolf Hitler after being worked out by the Of-|}.¢ oathered perhaps two million {tice of Price | R C. OF great energies. Generally, his physi- | ellent Then suddenly, a week or ago, the President changed and the new mocd, or rather resumption of that old one which Washington news- paper men know so well, has been maintained. cal condition has been ex 50 There are quips again from the President’s desk — like hic solemn (Continued from Page Two) Juneau Chamber will meet tomorrow Gold Room of the of noon ine business will be discu | - -oo | BROKERS LEAVE Baranof Administration TUOMURKOW in Commerce the | counted of his best combat troops in the Ukraine and is also reported using 2,000 dive bombers to smash through the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea. But, informed quarters here dis- the German claims they Hotel have driven a breach into the Rus- for its regular weekly meeting. Rout- sian lines. ed. One informed source here said |the Kerch attack could be regard- ed as the opening of a three speared | H. B. Crewson and G. L. Rich, offensive against the Caucasus and | merchandise brokers, took passag: other drives may be expected on today fer Ketchikan, Taganrog and Kharkov,