The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \OL. LIX., NO. 9036. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANS BOMB JAP AIRFIELD IN PACIFIC MacAnhur';fianes Leave New Guinea Base in Flames ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus- tralia, May 16—Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur’s headquarters announce that Allled planes bombed an air- field runway and buildings at a Japanese base at Lae on New Guinea yesterday in a surprise at- tack. The Allied raiders left large fires blazing in their wake. - McNARY IN VICTORY IN OREGON TRAGICRAID | More Verbal Venom s PORTLAND, Oregon, May 16— Voters yesterday gave an apparent victory to Senator Charles L Mc- Nary, Senate Republican leader, in the primary election over M. Geary. e — STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 16 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 1%, American Can 62', Anaconda 237, Bethlehem Steel 53%, Commonwealth and Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 6%, International Harvester 43%, Ken- necott 27%, New York Central 7, Northern Pacific 5%, United States Steel 46%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow Jones averages: industrials 98.63, rails 24. 19 utilities 11.80. The Washington, Arthur | *MISS TIMES SQ hotel, New York City. S IS MADE BY AXIS U-BOAT | large Cargo_VesseI Tor- Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON—- and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—During the pub- lic hearings' on the reason for the delay in quantity production of synthetiz rubber in the United States, Committee held a secret session at which officials of Standard Oil cf New Jersey were closely questioned. the Truman Investigating| In the course of this secret in-| terrogation, W. S. Farish, President of the corporation, declared that plans for the production of syn- thetic rubber “were held in a state of suspended animation” for sev- eral montns by the Reconstrum:m‘ Finance Corporation. pedoed, Fired in Gulf of Mexico - 27 Killed NEW ORLEANS, La., May One of the boldest attacks yet made by Axis submarines along the United States or Gulf Coasts was the destruction by torp=does of a large cargo vessel a short distance off the mouth River, announces the Navy Depart- ment. Twenty seven of the 41 members lof the crew were killed by the ex- plosion and fire that followed the torpedoing. * The attack was one of the worst marine tragedies in the history of the Guif of Mexico. The remainder of the crew was critically or dangerously burned without a single exception. U.S.BOMBS DESTROY 15 JAP PLANES LONDON, May 16—United States The' following - are extracts of | {Army bombers destroyed 15 Japan- Parish’s heretofore undisclosed testi- ese planes in a Thursday attack on mony taken from the official tran- | , script of the cecret session: Mr. Farish: “In June, October, 1940, a committee of the| Advisory Committee and the Coun-! cil of National Defense were the government agency to consider and| Transporlation Company This neau, who has been in Ketchikan promote synthetic rubber. northern Burma airdrome at Myitkyina, Reuters said in a dis-, 1940 toipatch hom New Delhi. - KIMBALL RETURNS Orin Kimbali, of the Northland in committee soon found that it could for a brief time, has returned to make only suggestions which 10 this city. one was authorized to carry out, s0 in the fall of 1940 the responsi- bility was turned over to the RFC. e MISS BLOMGREN HOME Miss Jane Blomgren has re- “This agency worked upon the turned to her Juneau home after rubber plans with Standard and | spending several weeks in the south. other companies, which led to ‘the completion of a definite program in January, 1941. These plans called for 75 percent of the capital come from the government and 25 percent from industry. They were held in a state of suspended ani- mation by the RFC for several months, due possibly, to a desire|InC: to save taxpayers money. Finally, on June 22, 1941, Standard was authorized to go ahead with its part of a new and larger program financed largely by Defense Plant Corporation.” Mr. Howard (another Standard official) : “Our attitude is perhaps| best shown on this matter of plnns‘ in this way; in July, 1941, we were asked by RFC to prepare plans for (Continued on Puge Foun) \ | | | | e VACATIONS IN SITKA Ed Garnick left yesterday for| 1o Sitka where he will take a vaca- i tion for about two weeks. TVETE IN TOWN E. Tvete, with the Trading Union, at Petersburg, has arrived in Juneau for a brief visit. ——————— GOES TO WESTWARD Lincoln Turner has left for Sew- ard on his way to Anchorage where he will be employed. B MR. AND MRS. MARIN RETURN FROM STATES Mr. and Mrs. John Marin, of the Douglas Inn, returned to Juneau | today by boat after a visit in the| States, 16— | of the Mississippi | Ju-! SUFFER DEFEAT AT KHARKOV Allies Make Successful Raid, Nippon Base U AR E’—Hilda Taylor was named “Miss Times Squar, he'll compete in city for right to ente Being Toss By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 16 — The Capital in Wartime: It probably has no significance whatever so far as major strategy |in this war is concerned. but un- official Washington is tossing a !lot more verbal venom at the Japs these days than at any other of our enemies. Typical is the story that came out of the District of Columbia dog-bite investigator's office the | other day. All dog bites, like traf- fic accidents, are supposed to be reported. Also, all rodent bites are supposed to he renorted; but since the latter are so few, thef reports are made on dog-bite forms. | This one had to do with a rat| bite. The victim came to that spot in the questionnaire where he was asked: “Owner of the dog.” He rimply scratched out “dog,” wrote ‘rat™ in its place and answered the question: “Admiral Tojo, Tokyo, Japan.” you think that the war and its prominence in world affairs is causing Washington to outgrow its knee-pants, the nation’s capital kicks off its bootees and (2oes wading in a purely Main Street controversy. For example, the District Phys- ical Education association had as| {a guest speaker a Columbia Teach- ers college professor of health ed- ucation. In the course of her ad- dress, the CTC professor depluled; that there “is a lot of dunkmg going on in Washington.” An official of the district school |system countered with: “I am. dis-| turbed to have any one from' New York come down here #nd tell us| |we drink.” 5 | | The last word in that argument| probably hasn't peen thought of yet. It’s only in its infancy.} The controversy that really has qotten under way — with readers | | belting the newspapers with letters 0 the editors, and Department of | Agriculture officials being called lupon to dodge the issue as best they can is whether pressure | cookers destroy or preserve to the nth degree the vitamins in vege-| 1mblcsv Just when 1 Misdemeanors and traffic viola-| !tions certainly are keeping pace, Ision. The police courts are proud to report that this year they are going to do better than a $1,000,000 business in fines collecied—almost $200.000 more than that boom year tof 1941. There has been a lot of talk tand I've contributed my share) | ington daily, but hardly any one jever mentions the equally stagger-' |ing labor supply that seems to be | (Continued on Paqe Two) | American Fisheries, one of the with Washington's wartime expan-| ‘about the staggering volume of new‘ employes that are flocking to Wash- | in a contcst at Dixie r Atlantic City page: it. ed fo Japs Than Any Other Enemy Aaording fo Map Missourians Eat COLUMBIA, Mo., May 16—Mis- souri eating habits are geographical. The University of Missouri, study- |ing the food that's set upon 50,000 farm tables, found The meat eaters live in the north- { west, although chicken and beef | consumption is highest in the north- east, Pork, including side meat, spare | ribs and country ham, is a favorite lin the cotton-picking boot heel country, in the southeast Folks of the Ozark country are tomato eaters. -~ MRS. GALLEMORE HERE ON WAY TO ANCHORAGE Mrs. Willard Gallemore returned to Juneau today after a visit of several months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Seggie in Na- naimo, B. C. Mrs. Gallemore is on her way to Anchorage where she will join her husband who is an engineer with the CAA in An- chorage. — e SHIELS HERE FROM SOUTH Among the arrivals to Juneau | from the South by boat today were mr. and Mrs. Archie W. Shiels. He general manager of Pacilic larg- est salmon canning concerns in thé world. ——— OVER HUNDRED ARRIVE HERE FROM THE SOUTH Over one hundred passengers ar- Many Olhel‘.s way to! and er from the south today. were returning vacationists. were in Juneau on their hcmes in the Interior Westward. - ROEHMS BACK FROM STATES Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Roehm and Iamfly returned to Juneau from the States today by boat. Mr. Roehm is with the U. S. Bureau of Mines, MILT ODOM HERE Milt Odom arrived today Ketchikan and joins Mrs. from Odom {here on their way to Anchorage They are at the Baranof. e ——— AT GASTINEAU Les Florence, of the Pacific Mar- is at the Gastineau | (ine Supply, \Hot,el STEWART NORTHBOUND A, C. Stewart, mining man from the Seward Peninsula, is at the ‘Gasuneau on his way north. .- WALLIS GEORGE BALK Wallis George, of the Juneau Cold Storage, returned to Juneau 1by boat today. Mr. George has | been on a business trip to the South and East, |rived in Juneau aboard a steam- the| lVI(HY WiLL NOT ACCEPT U.S. TERMS ‘Washmgion Says Laval | Has No Concern in MarhmqueProblem VICHY, Ma 16 Pierre Laval, Chief of the V\ch,\ Government, | announced today that Vichy has linfcrmed Washington officially that it could not .accept the United States' conditions on the status nf Martinque ' Laval rold correspondents that the note sent to Washington de- !elared the conditions were “a great !blow to French sovereignty over {the West Indies’ possessions of | France.” | France will not relinquish any |of her rights over Martinique no ymatter what happens, he continued { (Washington maintains that La- lval's government is not concerned in the negotiations being conducted "wuh Admiral Georges Robert, French High Commissioner. An authoritative source said two days ‘ago that an agreement had been, eached immobilizing an aArcran ‘canler and two cruisers there.) ' £ORD NOW PRODUCING " FOR ARMY Big Bombe?s_Being Turn-| ed Out at Willow Run Plant WASHINGTON, May 16. Department officials said today that Henry Ford’s big Willow Run plant - War of f has started actual production Army bombers. The construction of the racwry begun 13 monlhs ago. - 35 ARRIVE FROM SOUTH THIS MORNING Arriving eaxx lln.\ morning in Juneau were from Ketchikan, Henna Anderson, Orrin Kimball, John H. Newman, Milt Odom, Miles | Price and C. A. Schonacker. Coming in from Wrangell were Mrs. M. T. Pederson, and M. A. Martin. Arrivals from Petersburg included Mrs. Lydia Fobn Hansen, Georgine swendsen, E. Tvete and John De Witt, Capt. John M. Clark and| Capt. John Newmarker. Seattle passengers coming to| Junean were Dan Acti, Fmil Beck,| Jane Blomgren, Ivan Darnell, Mrs.| a Darnell, LeRoy Darnell, Wil- |bur Irving, Mrs. E. Johnson, H. D. Medford, Robert Nichols Robert | |T. Pierson. A. A. Schuler, A. C. stewart, Glen Timpke, Earl C.| sassford, Esala Lozzi, iak and Anton Vickosav. Passengers leaving Juneau today for the westward included Mre, Frank Neeley, Mr. Frank Neeley, A. L. Goodlute, W. R. Taylor, Frank viviano, R., N. Ralston. Lincoln Turner, Mrs. Mary Coulton, Mrs. Jennie Nelson, Elizabeth Livra, Frank Signorelli, Wace Lacey, Marcelo Quinto, Mrs. M. Quinto, Glen I. Tinzcki, Thomas Cooney,| W. C. Jackson, M. A. Wilson. Others are E. Isaacson, Mike Gemoff, Frank Moring, Luciano Cabigas, Santy Johnson, Paul Bier- cly, Pete Bierely, George Odnas, Knute Transtad, J. E. Paterson, william Gordon, L. P. Tyres, Ed- vard Radde, E. A. Shepherd, W. H Roberts, E. T. Brinkley, Douglas Neely, D. A. Stickney, R. S. Burch- tield, L. J. Nickell, John Murdock. Conrad Anderson. e The population of India is about’ the same as Europe, not including Russia, ) . lother theatres have cancelled their | «Passenger and airmail trips were Paul Nestor- | | Travel fo Alaska by NAZI CRIMEA Private (ifizens Is CAMPAIGN IS Virtually Forbidden THREATENED NI(TORY FOR raden by the Ay nd Navy hm;esntfi:tléo}{,sflepgom BY CHURCHILL Front Lines (lall)hp('l'lxc(?l)l\ h:;:l:ih'\ «u\d de{- iite g ivoed © - INVADERS NEARER British Prime Minister De- clares Great Ridge Is The statement of policy travel was issue by the head- : SR RICH OIL FIELDS Claim Occupation of Kerch, Now in Sight LEEDS, England, May 16.—Brit- quarters of the Western Gateway fo Cau- ish Prime Minister Winston Chur- SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.. May Travel by private citizens to Al- aska, particularly dependent wo- men and children, is virtually for-| | Command and Fourth Avmy The policy was announced be- cause of the increasing number of | applications of private citizens for| | permission to go to Alaska. | ! Wives and dependents of the o | military personnel, including civil- | casus Wells | ian workers employed on military TaBlls! | projects are forbidden to return to (By Associated Press) | Alaska Late dispatches today from Hit- Permission is being granted to ler's Field Headquarters asserted chill today told 25000 cheering travel to a few persons, actual bona!that German troops have occupied workers that an Allied victory is fide and longtime residents of Al-|the Crimean town of Kerch, gate- 'now in sight. aska. |way to the Caucasus oil fields. But “It would be premature to say the greater prize, the big Ukraine | we have topped the udge but we | city of Kharkov, appeared to be see the ridge ahead now,” said the AlASKA AIR falling within the grasp of Red Prime mester armies. Unconfirmed reports said that | Marshal Timoshenko's troops al- ' | the northeast suburbs of Kharkov | IARIS A"‘ , zo and are fighting hand to hand with { S ‘Germans on the streets. ¥ u RIA IlED‘ At the same time, a dispatch sent o (lotl IONIGHT | from Stockholm in Sweden said that |the Russians are flanking Kharkov | on the south and have breached the | Residents of the Glstlneau Chan- e report says the drive cut the Nazi communications for the entire Order Doesn ' App'y }southem front at that point, A to Th‘s ROUte | peril the big hydroelectric city of | Dnieperopetrovsk and threaten the SEATTLE, Mm 16—Robert O. whole German campaign in Crimea ways, said today that his com-| Dispatches from Azov, meanwhile, pany’s service to Alaska would not said that the Germans are paying come under the program an- A terrific toll in the big battle for drafting air lines for wartime use. (0 the rich Caucasus oil fields for Bulwinkel said that since the PAA | W0 months last year without risk- service to Alaska is operated under| NS the thrust across Kerch Strait, v N o Viet Black Sea fleet, in an attempt E;C":""m dloes; nek ftect: RanioeEd | oo secuite the mieh nesdsd the much needed oil. President Has Commutted Sentence of Commun- WASHINGTON, May 16-—Presi- dent Roosevet has commuted the Browder, Com- 45l S | approximately 14 months of his |ACA took Willis Davidson, Byram I,!',"'""’l services were held Thurs-| "o Dasenort fraud sentence. day afternoon in Bellingham. | G. Cowles, John McCormick, Lester B Browder will be released from At- | Elkins and Mr. and Mrs. 1. M. Dahl Inel will have a chance to get out 1and show their country that they'se really behind the war effort to-| I night by attending the huge free‘ War Bond Rally which starts at \920 o'clock on the stage of the | 20th Century Theatre ! There will be plenty of entertain- | ment, including numbers by the Juneau High School Band, soldiers |and scores of other entertainer Rainbow Girls will act as usher: To =nable a record attendance, second shows for this evening. To- night’s rally is the climax of the first big week in the current Vol- untary Pledge Campaign to secure systematic purchases of War Bonds. The many posters and banners which have been placed through- out Juneau in line with the cam- paign have been donated by Lu Listen, Juneau artist and photo- grapher. R P. A. F. FOUNDER PASSES AWAY IN BELLINGHAM Word has l)(’(‘ll received here u[ the death of Everett Brainerd Deming, founder of the Pacific > ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES made to Sitka late yesterday after- noon by the Alaska Coastal Air- 3 " ‘ iinas: American Fisheries, who passed To Sitka were Mrs. Earl Miller, jiiv .}"‘:""‘""‘;;".“’w:‘m“:f ’f“’"; = Garnick, Harry and John Van Er-| o, l‘lx'"e«’: s“llmm‘l «.-L:mnl:: e 3 man, Ed Jurgeleit and F. G. Man- G5, AEREm IS i oghe kic terprises, and during the last World Returning from Sitka were Wlem-‘wal was administrator of canned salmen in the United States in er Werner, C. Hendrickson, Royal A-| 416, to holding the Job of Smith, Joe H. Sogla, Garry Turn-| 3 er, W. F. Reynolds, W. J. Walke directing the construction of wood-| 4 y | sentence of Earl |en steamships at tl i~ Rod Darnell, Albert Withey ikl 'zh‘:v:fi‘:mc Amerl- | unist Party leader, To Petersburg this morning the Bk e . . | G def PAA Oflltlal Says Army erman defenses at Lozovaya. The | successful lunge there would im- Bulwinkel, of Pan American Air- along the Black Sea. sounced yesterday of the army Kerch. The Germans held the door & “forelgn air mafl conteact, the| VIS ISINASE tHE SUD uf (DK S6 ist Party Leader who has served | |lanta Penitentiary as soon as ar- | rangements may be made. He paid RETURN FROM WRAN(;ELL‘Hnea amounting to $2,000 when sentenced March 27 last year. Captains John M. Clark and John' The White House statement said Newmarker, of the Bureau of Ma-the sentence was longer than usual- rine Inspection and Navigation, re-ly 1mvw~d for such an offense. rned to Juneau by boat today| M 50\ Bl D |after a short inspection trip to Beaverbrook Says U. 5. Is New Leader LONDON, May 16—~Lord Beaver- brook, in the Daily Express, said ble €ditorially today that indications were ‘that America is assumdng leadership of the United Nations.” Beaverbrook recently called for an opening of a second front im 1+ Europe. On a mail and passenger flight' STEAMBOAT INSPECTORS to Wrangell and Ketchikan were Jim Boyle, J. W. Payne and Har- leld B. Foss, Ketehikan passengers - FECOOL ON RETURN TO SKAGWAY Mrs. Virginia Suffecool of Skag- way, passed through Juneau today | on her way home after having been |in the States for the last five | months. Mrs. Suffecool is not opening her | famous White House for tourists | this season, and says she probably !will be growing vegetables in her flower garden. - - MRS. HAWKESWORTH HERE Mrs. Ruth Hawkesworth has ar- rived in Juneau for a visit. She is a guest at the Baranof - ROY RUTHERFORD BACK Roy Rutherford, of the Juneau Lumber Mill, returned to Juneau by boat today after spending sev- eral weeks in the States. JRARRESS 1 S BUY DEFENSE STAMPS MRS. § - o FALSE I'IRE ALARM AWAKENS RESIDENTS Members of Juncau Volunteer | Pire Department answered a call in the wee small hours this morn- ing but failed to find the fire. It |is believed the false alarm was, {turned in by an intoxicated prank- |ster. Residents were awakened by the alarm 2-3 around 3 a.m. - LICENSES READY Bicycle licenses are now availal at the City Clerk’s Office. All bi- cycles being used must bear 1942 plates. -B. H. MANERY, Chief of Police B BUY DEFENSE BOND§ e BUY DEFENSE BONDS