The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI VOL. LIX., NO. 9034. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1D JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCTATED PRESS SOVIETS LAUNCH THREE BIG ATTACKS Allied Bombers Continue To Raid On Japs LARGE JAP SHIP SUNK; TWO FIRED Surprise Raid Is Also Made on Rabaul Base-Planes* Are Destroyed | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May 14—Allied bomb- ers, in one 300-mile round trip above Northern Australia, sank a 3,000 ton Japanese ship at the Jap- anese occupied Dutch Island of Am-| boina and set two otners afire, Gex. | MacArthur’'s headquarters an-! nounced today. | Other Allied air unis, ralling on a surprised base at Rabaul, New; Britain Island, dropped bombs un‘ 15 Japanese bombers drawn up| on the runway, blowing up three and severely damaging many ochen:,_‘ In the only reported Japanese counter action, a raid attempted on Port Moresby by six Japanese planes, two enemy craft were shot down and one damaged. 2 Vessels | WASHINGTON, May 14 — The| Navy announces that a medium sized American ship and a small Norwegian vessel have been tor-| pedoed. Survivors have been 1and-; ed at United States ports. | AT i Flocks of boobies hunting Iish‘ will dive in unison from a height of 70 feet and disappear in a flash. ———— The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON— | and ROBERT S. ALLEN | WASHINGTON — Blacked-out by | Corregidor-Burma headlines, three| bills have been introduced in Con-, gress recently which in normal times would have brought an army of lobbyists gnashing their teeth | to Washington. | These bills are calculated to make vital, basic changes in our economic system and head off the type of thing which helped bring war to Europe. They provide for: 1. Reforming the patent system so that companies like Standard Oil, General Electric and Alcoa would not be able to cooperate with Germany in hindering production of synthetic rubber, carbolide, and magnesium. | 2. Developing U. S. raw mater- | jals, such as aluminum clay, so! this country will not be caught short again; also so that lirtle com- panies will get a break in develop- ing them. ! 3. Registering corporations under‘ the federal government. This would mean that corporations no longer could register under the laws of the | state of Delaware which has the| most lax corporation regulations in| the Union. By requiring federal in- | corporation, the government could prevent child labor, set up various standards without going to each, state for constitutional amend- ments. Authors of these three bills are | Tea Time LY Sitting amid wreckage left by bom! tea after a recent German air raid s / After Blitz i bs, a British soldier drinks a cap of on Bath, England. Tea came from a mobile canteen sent to Britain by Vassar College students through the British Relief Society. The from London. C. . HEAD Eric A. Johnston (above), Spo- kane, Wash., business executive, was elected Presiident of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at the close of the organization’s annual meeting in Chicago. ATTACK ON SIBERIA 1S PREDICTED a trio of western senators who have | waged unceasing war against mon- opoly: Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming, Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin; and ‘Homer Bone of Washington. Work- ing with them behind the scenes js trust-busting: Thurman Arnold. WAR-BORN MONOPOLIES For months these three senators watched and helped Arnold expose the iron-clad cartels by which Am- erican big business joined the Nazi big business to throttle inventions, hold patents out of circulation, pre- vent the development of supplies absolutely vital to the U. 8. Army and Navy. This senatorial trio also has seen how Nazi cartels (monopolies), i (Continued on Page Four) Chinese Ne;s;aper Warns of Coordinated Attack by Japanese CHUNGKING, May 14—Chinese newspapers today expressed the be- |lief the German drive in Crimea is a prelude to a general Axis of- | fensive and warned of the possibil- ity of a coordinated Japanese at- tack on Siberia. The newspaper China Times savs |such a Japanese move is most ““highly probable.” e — BUY DEFENSE BONDS picture was radioed to New York SUBMARINE OF U. . IN BOLD MOVE Jap Merchant Ship Under Escort anese merchant vessel has been torpedoed and sunk in the eastern ipan of the South China Sea by {an enemy submarine but the under- sea beat itself is believed to have been sunk. This is the official statement nade today by the War and Navy Ministeries, also admitting in the | fficial statement that the tor- | pedoed vessel was under a naval iescort when attacked on May 8. ————— [New Freeze ~ Order Made WASHINGTON, May 14 — The War Production Board has applied |a 60-day freeze order on all sales land deliveries of soft wood con- struction lumber by large producers | except to fill orders of the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission. - ' INSURANCE ADJUSTOR SOUTHOUND AFTER FIRE INSPECTION Perry Huff, member of the firm of Parker and Huff, Seattle in- surance adjustors, s in Juneau from Anchorage awaiting plane passage south. Huff has spent several days in Anchorage in connection with the \fire there recently which involved |10sses of about $40,000. IN FROM TENAKEE Mr. and Mrs. B. 8. Wade, of Tenakee, are in Juneau for a visit and are staying at the Baranof Lllotel. TOKYO, May 14—A large Jap-| BIG ATTACK " IN MAKING ~ BYNIPPONS American Military Experts Express View as Tokyo Gets Extravagant WASHINGTON, May 14—Ameri- can military experts, intrigued by, Tokyo's solemn but hollow claims | | resounding about the victory in the | Coral Sea battle, conclude that such a bombast could only drive the Jap | Admirals to a grand scale assault |on the approaches to Australia in an effort to save their face in the |great claims that have become so| extravagant during the past few | These experts say the Japs may ! be compelled to try and make good |on the assertions of victory by a| new foray of a tremendous Iorc&,‘ hence military authorities believe another big battle is in the mak- ing in which ‘the enemy might| throw in some of the heaviest fleet units. Other elements state that the! strategic situation will also impel | the Japs toward a large scale naval attack as the Japanese Military | Headquarters claim the fleet's | stréength has not teen vitally im- pairsd by the Coral Sea engage- ment as disastrously as the Ameri- can’ report .- Everyone . - May Soon Pay Taxes genthau Suggests Min- imum Income Levy for All | WASHINGTON, May 14.—Secre- | tary of the Treasury Henry Morgen- thau today advocated a minimum tax of “several dollars” for everyone who files an income tax return. Under the existing laws, millions of persons whose personal exemp- tions and other deductions exceed their income pay no tax even though | they file the returns. Morgenthau said that his experts | were studying the constitutionality | of the proposal and if it were found to be legal he would ask Congress to enact it into law. Later, Randolph Paul, Treasury Department tax expert, sent word to the press that there is “no ques- | tion but what such a proposal is | constitutional.” Paul said the ques- :Mons of legality could be avoided by calling the special tax an “excise |instead of “income” tax. | e U.S. MERCHANT SHIP IS SUNK BY ENEMY SUB WASHINGTON, May 14 — The Navy announced this afternoon that |a medium sized American merchant vessel has been torpedoed and sunk {in the Gulf of Mexico. This s \ment said the survivors have land- |ed at a gulf port. B T TR STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 14 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 1%, American Can 61'2, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel . 52%, Commonwealth Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 6 International Harvester 42%, Ken Inecott 27%, New York Central 7 Northern' Pacific United Statt Steel 45%. Pound $4.04. Mor | | DOW, JONESE AVERAGES ‘The following are today’s Dow l.!ones averages: industrials 97.1° rails 24.07, utilities 11.88. How Japs Mi This map indicates the three main against the American supply line centratirg at the island of Jaluit, landed recently; Somoa, the U. S. supply route, the general di iol o The rampaging Purgato railicad bridge and left ma:n Cilerade and Sébolaqe of He Revealed; rinidad, rn trestl W Kindfl ' Many Fires th Damaging Production Navy Awards Honors fo Commander WASHINGTON, May 14 — The Navy announced today that a gold star, equivalent to the second Navy Cross, has been awarded to Lieut.- Cemm. Richard Ellington Hawes, for heroisms Comm. Hawes was in charge of | the minesweeper Pigeon during the Heavy Japanese bombing attacks on Cavite, Philippine naval base Ar albatross caught off Chile had been released near New Zea- land only eight days before. quods Sweep (olnrado e River, living up to its name, tore out this frike at U. §. Supply Line RED ARMIES - ADVANCING ATKHARKOV ght$ 1000 { Pacitic Ocean *MIDWAY \! !"°|’;’N *MARCUS "HAWAIIAN | B : ISLANDS e s . Wi “ . Ty [Russian Troops Massing fo B BARANAS: JOHNSON: | Open New Fronfs in % PHILIPPINE “GUAM \ Vital Sectors J o MARSHALL-® ¥, Bt codlp i R ) AT NAZI STRONGHOLD GILBERT . IS THREATENED 7 ls‘ 5 g EQuUATOR Sl Germans Ar_éibandoning Great Quantities of Materials on Front (BY ASSOCIAGED PRESS) * - .PHOENIX i 15. 4 1131 1S, CARDWELL '»“Q* o - NEW CALEDONIA *------ Russia declared today that her mies are storming the gates of Kharkov, the “Pittsburgh” of the Ukraine, and other Soviet offen- sives are reported to be rolling against the Germans in the vital sectors of Leningrad, Novgorod and Staraya. In the Crimean battlefront, the Russians acknowledge today they have been yielding some ground in the six-day battle on the Kerch Peninsula, but disputed the claim of the Hitler Command that it has seen “a decisive vietory, Hold New Line ‘The latest soviet dispuiches say n directio to Aus from which they might strike at New Caledonia, where American forces Naval Station; or the Hawaiian Islands. All of these bases protect the n of which is indicated by dotted arrow. AT AIRBASES IN FAR EAST that the Russians arc now helding a new line in good order and in- flicting heavy casualties on the Ger- mans, The Soviet radio reports that Marshal Timoshenko's Ukraine Ar- mies have smashed into the Ger- |C0n"nued Bombing Af-|man first line defenses before i Kharkov and are advancing on the tacks Made on Fields |citv itseir, imminently threatening the key Nazi stronghold. The Russians say that the massed Red Army Reserves have gone into action for the time against Kharkov and declared that “every- thing is being abandoned by the Germans, even great quantities of material in the field of action.” Attack Other Fronts Simultaneously, Vichy broadcast 1 report saying that the Russians wd' launched “massive attacks” aced by violent aerial bombing :gainst the German armies in Star- aya and Novgorod, about 120 miles south of Leningrad, Heavy fighting is also reported o be raging on the Leningrad iront, where the Germans are said to have thrown new six-inch anti- ank guns into action in a vain attempt to stop the monster Soviet Voroshilov tanks. - FRENCH WILL IMMOBOLIZE MARTINIQUE Warships af Caribbean Base fo Be Puf Qut of Commission WASHINGTON, May 14—French in Burma Sector NEW DELHI, May 14—While vet- eran Chinese troops fight desper- ately to check the Japanese forces ushil up the Burma Road into Yunnan Privince in China, Ameri- can pilots are reported to be whit- ling down the invader” r power by daring raids on their vital air sases in both Burma and Indo- China. suiking from secret airfields in India, big U. S. bombers made their ninth attack on the Burma theater, raiding the Jap airdrome at Myitkyina, in far northern Burma. The raid resulted in fires on many grounded planes. Maj. Gen. George Brereton's headquarters announce that RAF planes had made a successful bomb- mg and machine gun attack on paddle steamer barges in which the Japs are moving up the Chindwin River The announcement said that fur- ther details on the raid at the Ak- yab airdrome yesterday showed bomb hits on the runways among | dispersed Japanese planes. FLYING TIGERS BUSY CHUNGKING, May 14—The Fly- ing Tigers, American Volunteer Fly- ing Group in China, bombed the Japanese airdrome at Hanoi in Indo-China and destroyed five grounded planes. The AVG headquarters announced that at least five more Japanese planes had been damaged and that direct hits were scored on the Ad- ually isolated. This is the also were washed out. lo., vi e; cthers | BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 14 The! other day I ran across o ‘~l:lltln<'l)ii from the Nationdl Fire Protection) Association that during the first] three months of this year there Were | yiniseration Building. One Ameri-| warships at Martinique are being 20 fires in the United States that| .., piop j5 reported missing. immobilized, it was authoritatively each did more than $125,000 dam- e | disclosed today. age or over. There were only eight This news climaxes the week of during the same period last ycar{[ s jA( {notes and conferences carried on . Ju KSON BACK j»v.u\-m-n Vichy and Washington, in which Pierre Laval, conferring with | Nazi officials, has faced one of the and 42 during the whole year 1941, The same day I found a state- ment by J. Edgar Hoover, director FkoM KEI(H'M" of the FBL He sald: “There have | siroest questions of his new regime. been several acts of wiful dam-! E. 8. Jackson, Conciliator for the| The immobilization is being car- age, but during the first three |United States Department of Labor,vied on with the cooperation of months of America’s pirticipation| returned yesterday afternoon from|French and American and other in the war there have been no in-'Ketchikan where he has been for! officials who are on the spot hav- dications of any forelgn-dirccted [the last week getting prehmmary‘mg been conferring at Martinique sabotage."” material necessary for the settle-)during the week. ment of the dispute between the Other important details on the (cold storage workers and the cold comprehensive solution of the prob- :su)rum- operators and fish buyers,/lem of French possessions in the !for which he has been appointed! Caribbean are still being discussed. arbitrator |1t is said that the warships affected DR s o a2 5538 |include the aircraft carier Bearn, ‘The earth's axis continually points and the cruisers Emile Bertin and in the same direction. eramu! D'Arc. This scemed to me to bespeak a dangerous situation, so. I called on Dr. David J. Price of the De- partment of Agriculture’s Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and En—} o |Connnn;dm;(i Page 'h/olv