The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL R RER BRI THE TIME” CcMPIR MEMBER AS b()( l l‘ ‘D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIED FLIERS SMASH MORE JAP PLANES Russians Make Impetuous Thrust On Germans RED ARMY CLOSES IN ON KHARKOV Nazis HurI_T;nks, Para-| chutists in Attempt to Break Offensive | MOSCOW, May 18—With the Red Army closing in steadily on Khar- | kov, battlefront dispatches report| the Germans are hurling wedges of tanks and trailers carrying troops | and planting death traps on .he: Russian lines in a desperate at-| tempt to break up the offensive| now in its seventh day. | Pravda reports these Nazi coun- | ter attacks are made on wheels‘ and also that parachute troops are ! being dropped from large trans-| ports, sometimes as many as 120| soldiers being dropped but these| forces have been unable to check| the Russian advance, a most im-| petuous thrust, i Pravda claims the Russians have gained from 12 to 37 miles over | the bloodstained battlefields now littered with bodies of an estimated 12,000 German dead and wreckage of war materials hard to replace.| British military sources said Mar- | shal Timoshenkos has advanced | with his armies on a 100 mile arc| extending from Velchansk,-30 miles | northeast of Kharkov to Krasno- | grad, 60 miles southwest of Khar-| kov. These same advices said that! although the stiffened German re-| sistance undoubtedly has ;low:-d, the Russian push in some places, it | has not been pped anywhere. | e——— DIDN'T BOTHER HIM | MOSCOW, Ida., May 18 — Ray | Turner, Idaho cager who led the Pacific Coast League northern di- | vision in scoring this year, is nenr-{ sighted and wears glasses through- | out the game. o The Washlngton Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Secretary nf} State Hull, who has a mountain- eer’s long memory, keeps in thew drawer of his desk a clipping from the Russian newspaper Prnvda.‘ which about a year ago said some very uncomplimentary things about him. Secretary Hull sometimes takes the clipping out of the draw-/ er and shows it to friends. ! “Last June,” he says, “I asked Sumner Welles to see the Russian| Ambassador, Mr. Oumansky, to warn his government that Germany | was going to attack Russia. This was almost a month before the at- | tack, and we had very reliable in- | formation that Hitler was going tn‘ turn against his ally. “Several days afterward, this ap- peared in the paper.” Whereupon Mr. Hull éxhibits a translation of the Pravda article with the headline: “Senile Capital- ist Stirs Trouble between Russia and About three weeks later the Rus- sian-German war started. “Why didn’t you talk to Amb'is- eador Oumansky yourself?” mriend asked Mr. Hull. “I did not like that man” his prompt reply. Note: —Many others agreed wimi Secretary Hull about ex-Ambassa-| dor Oumansky, so much so that| Stalin recalled him. His successor. | Ambassador Litvinoff, is highly popular. | was CAPITAL CHAFF z | Governor Dan Moody of Texas| telephoned from Austin to a Roose-| velt cabinet member in Washing- ton asking whether Texas rumors were true that the Administration would support Judge Jimmy Allred for Governor against Senator “Pap- py” ODaniel. The cabinet mem- ber told Moody that officially the| White House would keep hands off,| but gave him a pointed hint that it would have been much better to have one candidate—Alired—in the fleld against O'Daniel, instead of (Continued on Page Four) | | strategic mineral CHOIC EST—Amaleur photographers at Long Beach, Calify conu <t picked Jeanne Crain, 17, as “Miss Camera Queen of 1942. Thousands of A Being Scord In Many PROSPECTORS' NEW CAREER IS SUGGESTED {Governor Speaks in An- chorage on Strategic Mefal Hunt ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 18— |{A new career for sourdoughs in hunting mercur tin and other , was outlined here by Gov. Ernest Gruening as the answer to the probiem of what will become of Alaska’s old timer | miners when gold mining comes to an expected virtual halt next yeax due to the War. The Governor, speaking here during his attendance at the Public Welfare Board meeting, said that the War Production Board is send ing a representative to Alaska un der a $500,000 , appropriation finance a strategic metal hunt. The Governor sald that he ha: suggested the money be used for the maintenance of the present prospectmg setups rather than te import new men to search for metal He said he thought it would be easier to train an old gold pros- pector to look for tin than to teact a tin expert how to hunt for an: metal in the wilds of the interior of Alaska. v Sprague Out As Governor For Oregon Rep‘ublicanfiass by In- cumbent in Recent Primary PORTLAND, Oregbn, May 18.—) In primary elecions held last week, | Oregon Republicans rejected Gov. Charles A. Sprague for renomina- tion, preferring vote-getting Secre- jcountering cres Are hed by Fire. Alaska Sedtions ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 18- W. J. McDonald, Director of Alaska Fire Control, said forest fires m Alaska interior are burning over thousands of acres and the fires are virtually unchecked. McDonald outlined specifically an unestimated blaze in the Clear Creek buttes south of the Tanana river and in the Wood river coun- try unreachable either by ferry or planes. McDonald also said there is a 1,000 acre blaze in the Steel creek | area, eight miles west of Fairbanks, | and a 10,000 acre blaze near E\ka close to Chichaloon, threatening coal mines. This latter hlazv is being fought by 50 men also num- | erous miners. There is also a 4,000 acre fire in| | the Kings Lake region near Palmer which thus far has been confined to a triangle of roads. None of the blazes are control but thus far only one barn resulted ‘BATTlE IS |RAGING ON BURMAROAD Contradido;y_CIaims Come from China, Japan on Active Front (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Tangled advices reaching country on the Burma situation to- day include Chinese claims that | the enemy has been curbed on the China frontier region and a Tokyo' claim that on the other side of the Burma {ront, the Japanese forces are within four,mll&s of the India bordey. (Last weel the have penetrated Manipur State in India within 16 miles of Chittagong and were heading toward Calcutta.) | The Tokyo broadcast said that! the Japanese pursuit of British and Chinese forces still in Burma continuing relentlessly. The broad- cast did not refer at all to the! hard sledding the Japs are en-| in their drives China’s Yunnan province along the Burma Road. tary of State Earl Snell. The Republicans gave* Senator | Charles L. McNary a thumping vic- tory. Cancel Jap Threat Chinese reinforcements are said u.om.nued on Page Six) under has burned and no casualties have this | ps claimed to| into! RITISH ‘B TORPEDO man Naval Power by Attack (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Improving the United Nations position facing the German-dom- |inated continent, a heavy blow has been struck at German seapower ;b\' the aerial torpedoing of the 10,000 ton German cruiser Prinz | Eugen, off the southern tip of Nor- | way The warship |ing its way |in Germany” | RAF ye erday, the British said. Apparently the Prinz Eugen was gravely damaged, although the Brit- ish lacked a complete report. The German cruiser had taken refuge in the harbor of Trondheim in Norway after a dash in Febru- |ary through the English channel in the company of the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The vessel had already been dam- aged by British submarines. The Germans, however, that the attack was “ineffecti and credited the cruiser's escert with duwning seven fightars and 32 bombers, or moere than half of the ultacking formatic The Germans ¢ the British had lost 52 planes in | yesterday night's actions | German naval forces in other cupied territories. - - “evidently was mak- back to a dockyard id further GAS DEALERS WATCHFOR 'BOOTLEGGERS wEaslern States Group Will| Police Own Ranks Dur- ' ing Oil Rationing (By Associated Press) agreed to police their own ranks to | make gas rationing workable, as | representatives from 15 States and | the District of Columbia were di- | rected by the Eastern States Gas ! Dealers’ Conference to report any- one found guilty of bootlegging. Over the weekend, the once jam- ymed highways had only a trickle of travelers. | Many motorists traded in unlim- ited or high allotment ration cards land took smaller allowances after Price Administrator Leon Hender- | sen decreed publicity for all cards. | From Malne to Florida, Mr. Citi- | zen either walked, stayed at home |or used street cars and busses ;church attendance showed a big {drop. The usual jammed parking lot‘ were vacnnt B STOCK OUOIATIONS NEW YORK, May 18. — Closing quotation of American Can today is |62'2, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Sieel 53%, Commonw(‘nlih and Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 62, ! International Harvester 43';, Ken- {necott 27%, New York Central 7, INurthern Pacific 5%, United States | Steel 46%, Pound $4.04. DOwW, .‘ONE& AVERAG! The following are toda; Jones averages: Industrials, | rails, 24.25; utilities, 11.88. LA P [ :5; MISS METCALFE WILL WORK FOR BA Sexie Metcalfe, bockkeeper for the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs, has | resigned her position to accept em- !ploymen'. with the Baranof Hotel | Miss Metcalfe just returned from a lvflcanon trip to Bellingham, Wash. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS CRUISER 'Heavy Blow Struck af Ger-| when attacked by thef declare | that | against | oc- | Gas dealers in the East have Dow, | 98.65 m— be a Jap corps or a work truck as it Tags tor School Children Margaret Bower. (left) shows her new identification tag to Dolores Johansen, her classmate in a New York public school. Eventually, every school child in Greater New York will have an identification dise. Hitler Made Big Blunder ByDedaring Waron{.5.; italians Welcome Invasion BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER Associated Press Correspendent LISBON, May 18—I am now en- route home, in exchange after beins on the German front for months,| mostly in Berlin. 1 will say this—Hitler (*ummn.u-d the greatest blunder of his career | |when he took upon oimself lhe cdium of declaring war upon lhe | United States. That is the opinion held by most ' | d in Germany lof us who have live wnd I believe we understand psy- 2 % |ehology. . The ruehrer compierels | Make Claims as fo Sink- flabbergasted the German people . ¥ l & by his dectaration of war on the| ings of Allied Ships in United States. Richard Massock, former Asso- American Waters ciated Pr Italian Correspondent |said Premier E n:;() “!\Iu: uulm :‘ BERLIN, May 16~ B L o lcading a hungry disillusioned ar ‘\mmd. reporiig ‘on the U-boat apathetic Ttaly in an unpopular war | aararaleh: iadkd. hkgions. off ' i azainst the United States. In fact | st (‘“i\i s m(.l”mm’ S ome say that half of the Ttalian!® o ates, i 4 . [ the Caribbean and Guif of Mexico, n people now would welcome Amer- ican and British invasion of Europe |has netted destruction of 17 or a possible means of ing them | more American or Allied ships with {rom the humiliating griv held upon | an estimated total tonnage of 105 | 000 tons, 'm by the Germans. | -os - VIVIAN | TRADING POST OPERATOR JUNEAU | HIFRE ON WAY TO TELLER —_— way to her home at| Vivian Wren, secretary for the north of Nome, Mrs. T. A. welfare Division of the Alaska Of- | Peterson arrived in neau by fice of Indian Affairs, has notified | sieamer Saturday and is taking a M General Superintendent Claude Hirst of her resignation. Miss W has been in Anchorage on her tion and will remain there with her parents. plane north today, Mrs. Peterson, who operates the | Teller Trading Compary in the far north community, has been spend- |ing the winter in Caltfornia. —— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS BUY DEFENSE BON| | months, Mrs Webber has been liv- One of Uncle Sam’s 60-Ton Tanks Has Workout -+ It’s advisable that everybody and everything steer clear of America’s heavy, sixty-ton tanks—whether it n the photo above—when these new steel behemoths go on the loose. This demonstration, in which the truck was smashed like papier mache, was held at the Baldwin works in Philadelphia where the giant land ships are bemk turned out. PRICES ARE HALTED AT Retail Regulations Go Info Effect on All Con- \ | | ! | ‘ sumer Goods 1 WASHINGTON, May 18 — The |clock of rising prices has been |moved back to March and halted | there. | From now on, no retail mer- chant may charge more for con- |sumer products than the highest | price charged in March. While the price control order is I not expected to result in any start- ling reductions, economists figured {an average drop in the cost of liv- ing of about 1'% percent. | As a guide to the nearly two | million American retailers affected, |the OPA has begun to distribute {to shopkeepers a bible entitled, | “What Every Retailer Should Know | About, the General Maximum Price | Rl';;\llnuun ¢ - GLOBAL WAR . ADVICES AR COMPLICATED Russlans Have Cut German Communcations in South -Other Reports Made (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A new and decisive stage has been reached in the global war as indi- cated in early morning. advices that the expanding Russian of- fensive has cut the German com- munications in Southern Russia,} hints that the British are prepar- ing to open a second European front and claim by Japan that the invaders have reached within four miles of India’s frontier. The Chinese deny the Japanese claim asserting the advance has been curbed. The most active theatre of the war today seems however to oe| in the Far Pacific, according 0 early advices B MRS. WEBRER, IMPROVED IN HEALTH, RETURNS TO JU AU Much improved in health, Mrs, Lydin Webber returned to Juneau Saturday by steamer and is at her home on the Glacier Highway While away for the last seven ing at Chehalis, Washington. ‘MARCHLEVEL between | old contract. | fective as of May 1. | pany, | the ¢ AUSTRALIAN " AIR FORCES ' KEEP ALERT \Make Successful Afacks on Islands Northeast of Little Continent BIG NAVAL BATILE IN CORAL SEA INDICATED Japanese lg;;med Mov- ing New Fleet Info South Pacific (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Allied Nations were on the alert over the weekend guarding against any possible invasion of Australia land the Air Forces in attacks re- « |port the destruction of 10 Japam- (ese planes off New Guinea and the neighboring, Louisiade Islands. Prospects of another naval battle |in the Coral Sea is indicated as ireports are received that the Jap- |anese are moving a new fleet to- ward the Antipodes and the Al- lied Nations are also concentrating sea forces, especially northeast of Australia, Sir Keith Murdock, Managing Director of the Melbourne Herald, newspaper, declared the Allies are unduly optimistic over the situation in the southwest Pacific and said Australia must Impress Washing- ton for the need of more ships. Australia’s Prime Minister John Curtin observed however “that help we asked for had come and is still coming and we must not save our- selves by throwing someone elses to the wolves.” A-J WORKERS 'GET 8 CENTS HOUR RAISE Williams Says Increase Necessary fo Keep Plant Open a new agreement signed the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company and members of Local 203 of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union, employees have been granted a substantial |general increase in the wage scale ammmunz to 8 cents an hour on rate, J. A. Williams, Gen- mal Superintvudvnt of the com- pany, announced today. He said that with normal overtime the in- crease amounts to approximately 70 cents a day. Otherwise, the new agreement has few changes over the The agreement is efs Under Said Williams: “This is an in- 'ase that the company can ill afford to pay, but in order to keep the plant cpen it becomes neces- sary.” Operation Vital Williams pointed out that there many reasons why the plant be kept operating at this He gave the following as the important: ‘The importance of the oper- should \time. most 1 | ation to Hw eccnomy of both Gas- tineau nnel and the Territory of Alaska. 2. For the treatment of a large tonnage of chromite ore from much-needed chrome for which the war production is derived, the | treatment of which requires the op- eration of the Alaska Juneau as a whole. 3. To prevent a shutdown, bring- ing about a disorganization of the operating personnel of the com- which would seriously affect n.openmg of a pmpeny as