The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIX., NO. 9038. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CE JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1942 __ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS GIVES FIRST DETAILS OF BOMBING JAPAN Japs Plan To Engulf All Of East CHINA FEARS | GRAVE NEW OFFENSIVE Enemy Massing in Burma for New Atfack on Tired Armies CHUNGKING HAS MAP SHOWING INTENTIONS Russian Sige_fia, Persian Gulf Boundaries on Nippons” List China today sounded a rare note of alarm in its dispatches, warn- ing that Chiang Kai Shek’s armies are facing “very grave” danger in the five year war with Japan, amid signs that a major Japanese of-| fensive against China is imminent.| In Burma. a Chinese government spokesman said that Jap reinforce- | ments are pouring into Burm4 and | that 500 planes are massed there| on a scale “out of proportion to| their land operations.” The spokesman said that the| Chungking Government has come | into possession of an officially ap-| proved Japanese map published n| Tokyo, showing Japan’s ‘“‘co-pros- perity sphere of Greater East Asia.” The map shows that Japan in-| tends to engulf China, India, Iran, all of Russian Siberia and pro-| jected spheres on the Western boundary, which he said ran up "hei Persian Gulf then to the Caspian| Sea in the Ural Mountains | With General Alexander’s frayed British forces still retreating from Burma into"India, Royal Air Force | warplanes again pounded the Bur-| mese port of Akyab and attacked Jap river craft in northwest Bur- ma. | Akyab is likely to be the sprina-’ board for Japanese invasion of In-| dia. It lies only 300 air miles| across the Bay of Bengal from the| great Indian city of Calcutta. ‘ The Washingion% Merry-Go- Round‘% By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTONvln the office of | Federal Trade Commissioner March | is a sign which reads: “WE ARE FIGHTING HITLER, NOT EACH OTHER.” That advice would be most bene- ficial, if heeded. in certain high of- fices vital to the war effort. | Before Pearl Harbor, the Ameri- | can public was sickened by the| jurisdictional fights between labor unions; the sight of vital defense projects stymied while a CIO union‘ fought an AFL union over who| should collect dues. ‘ Since Pearl Harbor labor rows| have dwindled. But behind me} scenes in Washington, jurisdiction- | al fights, just as bad as those be- tween rival labor unions, continue. And, as in the case of racketeering labor czars, prestige or personal vanity is often the sole issue be- tween rival bureaucrats. For instance, Army and Navy In- telligence fought Col. Donovan’s committee to the last ditch on counter-espionage. The head of| Military Intelligence, Gen. Sherman | Miles was transferred before full cooperation was created. Later the Donovan Committee ac- tually sent electricians over, to the| State Department and ripped out. the teletype machine by which the| State Department was receiving| news for its propaganda broadcasts| to occupied countries. This, the Donovan Committee contended, was' its job, not the State Department’s.| “KEEP OUT!” - Again when the Rockefeller Com- mittee was appointed to propngan-‘ dize in Latin America, the State, Department . fought. it tooth and nail. Latin American propaganda,| (Continued on Page Four) !explicit, Registr afion Tomorrow 0f Those Men, 45 fo 65' NEW ATTACK The fourth registration under the present Selective Service system takes place tomorrow The registration is known as for those men, 45 to 65, to be more men born between April 28, 1877 and February 16, 1897 The registration posts will be op- en from 8 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing until 8 o'clock tomorrow night. In Juneau the registration posts at the City Hall and the ot will be Weds Third Time—to Soldier American Legion Dugout Mrs. George Getchell will regis- ter men at Thane. Out on Glacier Highway, regis- tration posts are Lynch's and Mc- Loughlin's grocery store. In Douglas the registration at the City Hall Questionnaires will be mailed out soon after the registration to be followed by occupational question- naires is —1I.I. N. Phonephoto A wealthy Chicago sociante, Mrs. Elsa Kochs Atherton Voris, is shown with her third husband, Sergt. Victor T. Kirby, at Miami Beach, Fla., after their marriage, which was reported opposed by her parents, BIG FORCE, U.S.TROOPS IN IRELAND ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND, May 19 — | Shipload after shipload of American troops, equipped for offensive fight- ing, thousands of them with tanks and artillery, have arrived here fo | reinforce the already big United States Force, fit and eager for a scrap. These fighting men arrived =s public enthusiasm in Great Britain mounted for the second Irom {against Germany. The arrival of the remroxcements of the rapidly expanding American garrison was followed closely by the arrival of advance units of Can- adian flrmored divisions. IUBER(U[IN TESIS T0 BE GIVEN AGAIN Another tuberculin testing clinic will be offered the public tomorrow from 10 to 12 a. m. in the Juneau (Public Health Center, Room 108, Territorial Building. Anyone who previously has re- acted positively to the tuberculin test should not repeat the test as it will always be positive. Friday, May 22, at the same time and place, all persons who take the test tomorrow should return so 'that the results can be read by the physician, AdionIs Requested By Chaplin SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 19| through which the lava had —Germany could possibly feated before next Christmas “i get in there and Charlie Chaplin told a audience of 8,000 persons attending a Russian War Relief rally. The millionaire actor urged im- | mediate opening of a second front | in Europe. Chaplin began his speech by ad- dressing the audience as ‘comrades.” ——,e |ANGTHER CLINIC 15 SETFOR TOMORROW: Centinuing the clinics for immu- nization of infants and | | post Asia FIRST HAND ACCOUNTOF ~ RAID GIVEN Brig. Gen. James Doolittle | Leader of Attack on ‘ Enemy Land ALLIES MAKE Airborne (ydlsis Board Their "Plane S e g e . ON JAPANESE & Two Transfitfis Probably | Damaged - Raid Made on Port Moreshy SSOCIATED PRESS) 19—In the bat- AUSTRALIA, May tle of Australia, MacArthur's head- quarters reported today that Allied | fliers have probably destroyed two Japanese transports in an attack on shipping at Koepang, on Dutch | IS GIVEN MEDAL Says All Bombs Dropped Seemed fo Reach Timor Islana Enemy warplanes attacked the Allied base of Port Moresby in the Imended Targets i r | heaviest raid of three months. An armada of 34 Japanese bomb- ers and 15 fighters attacked ye: terday in the fifty-second raid since war began WASHIN(}T‘ON Md\ 19—Brig. | Gen. James Doolittle was revealed |today as the leader of the Ameri- |can air raid on Japan a few weeks the Meanwhile, Gen. Douglas Mac- ago. This was disclosed when the Arthur is conferring with Intelli- | flier, noted also for his pcz\cenn?e gence Officers and Chiefs of the | exploits, received from the Presi- Naval and Air Staffs on the part dent in person, the Congressional each force will play in the event Mv_(f:\l of inlnnor . of a new Japanese move in the In fuil pack, cyclists of the airborne infantry wheel up their vehicles aboard especially-built fuselage, called (“Jimmy” Doolittle was born in Southern Pacific. a “mock-up” which is used for training. The “mock-up” is an exact replica of their future guarters | Nome, Alaska, and is famed for Allied reconnaissance aircraft s aboard tranport planes. Job of the airborne infantry is to reinforce paratroops trying to hold an attained ""f‘“: daring flight accomplish- nts.) | constantly on guard over a wide sbjective. U. S, Army Signal Corps photo. ments. sea area watching for a concen- - i In the statement released from traticn of Japanese naval forces. |the White House, Doolittle de- scribed his historic mission QUIETED BY The lookeut has been intensified n the last few days. VOLCANO IS ‘Hard Slap Is Taken al e B i e | experienced in reaching his objec- tives or from Japanese planes on Kind Words Also Spoken MEXICO IS PREPARING FOR FIGHT | Yard south of Tokyo, “one salvo made a direct hit on a new cruis- er or battleship under construction nd left it in flames.” One bombardier, the General said, Torpedomg of Tanker By JACK STINNETT strewed incendiary bombs along a Arouses Congress-Can- | Paul Ward-Brody, former editor of | 01Y near Nagoya." E fi f M l_ . (el Some Va(ahons some faults to find with Washing- 0f American planes came in just l'up on o auna Loa In [ Now leAl poR ton women. He thinks they dress|Over the housetops and droppea Hawallan ISlafldS MEXICO CITY, May 19— Presi- *“’”P“V and are inclined to just let/bombs from 1500 feet. The low dent Avila Comacho has ordered themselves go. level of flying, he said, made it = % 4 S 2 Ward-Brody is now employed by difficult to observe the results of vacations of 60,000 Foderal em- 3 Reporied e L i o Tells Rofary ClubMembers « chemica company. He is making | the bombs, but he declared “it ap- ———— E ine. Thi , sapose survey the nation’s fire-fight-|peared that practically ; further notice. This move was taken . %, supyey ot peared to us that practically every HILO, Hawail, May 19—Mauna i g special meoting of the of Precautions Be- ing equipment and while doing 0 bomb reached the target for which Loa volcano has ended two weeks ,omanent Congressional Commis- ina Tak Has an opportunity. to, chassvRl the y: was pmtendees ‘of eruption during which time the on stressed Mexico's Willingne Ing laken e B 4t b Heard Radio Reports lava cast a bright glow over (; take up arms against the s ouiipe; | “We wouldhave liked to tarry blacked out Hawaii Island which (o avenge the torpedoing of th¢ Ensign John H. Lumpkin, Port, . ... them against his obser.| W04 Watch later developments of was subjected to aerial bombing to (anker Potero Del Llani. Captain, told members of Juneau| mm“‘” of womenkind as editor of N€ fires and explosions, but even halt the iava flow T A 5 Rotary Club today that Juneau is| o fachion magazine, he levels these S Were were fortunate to receive A lifting of army censorship per- rapidly becoming a vital port and|complaints against our “defense @ fairly detailed report from ex- ,mitted it to be disclosed today that that steps are being taken to in-|gjrls” (who, in keeping with the cited Japanese radio broadcasts. It the vol;mm began its g‘reute,\( ac- sure adequate protection of the|present trend, probably now ought took them several hours to calm tivity since 1881 on April 26. The waterfront |to be called ‘war effort ‘girls”) down to deception and accusation.” be de-|advancing from a vent in the moun- f we | tainside. help Russia,”|tinued to move for eleven days al- Cht’“"“flfler the vent had been closed. } | slow moving laval wall, 60 feet high He said that a water patrol now| 1. They allow their hair to go to Doolittle said that part of his and a half mile wide, finally came DED is i eration to inspect docks loose ends. party observed a ball game in prog- to a halt on May 13 after eating SOUN 7 regularly and check all fishing| 2. They have “telltale hands” ress at one point and that the up the forest to within a few miles boats and other small craft, and |from lack of lotion players and spectators didn't start of the Hilo water supply where it that attempts are being made to| 3. They let their lipstick peel, to run to cover until just as the shifted scuthward. NEW YORK clear the docks of all eivilians when |have “smudgy” makeup. field passed from view The lava was about 11 miles big steamers come fo port, as a] 4 They don't keep thelr malll 'goip yhe president and the War from the heart of the city when it precautionary ~ measure. Ensign | Pelish in repair. L |Department left unanswered the came to a stop after aerial bomb- Lumpkin reported that he stil is| o TI¢Y Weo PO e ted, MPOTtant question to which the on May 2 apparently caused A" Radio Stahons Ordered issuing dentitication cards to gu- "7 P o S Japs would like the solution, whe, [the collapse of the rock tube neau residents and that it would (Continued on Page Five) the raiding squadron was based. been 0" -A]f When Blue be a good idea for all to get these - cards Donald 8. Hartzell, representative Alarm Given 'of the Defense, Health and Welfare NEW YORK, May 19—Maj. Gen. Service of the Fedral Securily The molten rock con- CHURCHILL CANADA LINE During the period of eruption. pradley, commanding the Head- Agency for Alaska, also addressed |enemy planes could have easily guarters Air Force, Eastern Defense the meeting at noon in Percy’s IS ATIA KED bombed the island due to the be- Command, announced that a blue Cafe. Mr. Hartzell arrived here | traying glow caused by the volcano’s alarm sounded over the New York last weekend from Washington, D. flclivi(y, and the island’s defenders .rea at 11:06 o'clock this forenoon|c« and is here to work with ti - 1:25 o'clock. All radio SWaUons|eq) gigeases. Mr, Hartzell will work were ordered off the air dwringly, cooneration with Hugh Wade, pRIN(E RUPERT the practice alert, Territorial Administrator for the| yovpaN Mav 19 Yohirebs preschool | 19—Three hundred and seventy- children of Juneau against d)ph-}eighl thousand pounds of halibut Commenting on the alarm, Mayor “we Federal Security Administration. A guest at the meeting was Lt. members of the House of Commons have demanded that Prime Minister said: were ready LaGuardia this nme and we will be ready at Announce Empress of Asia ~ HALIBUT PRICES g Commander J. J. “Tony” Greytak winston Churchill appear before Sunk in A|r A"a(k R ” Unnrd States Navy |the House to answer charges of H - L4 PRINCE RUPERT, B C. May o — slackness in the war effort af Smgapm’e hed into ate by The insurgents sm: even tenor of war de sTOCK ouounous OSARG. OSONTO OTTAWA, Cumdn May 19—The theria, smallpox, whoo;_)ing ('nugh‘wcl‘e sold here Monday for 1250 to jid eriticism against the op>nin |and typhoid, fanolher clinic will be;13.50 and 11 cents a pound NEW YORK, May 19 — Closing vA(A"oN '" Soul"' fhent of Dominions Secrets At- loss ‘n( the IQ.UOO -ton liner, the held tomorrow morning in the Ju- gy otation of Alaska Juneau mine| |tlee when he told the House that Empress of Asia, was announced neau Public Health Center, from MR. AND MRS. MILT ODOM tock today is 1%, American Can " ‘lhe possibility of opening a West-|t0day by the owners, the Canadian 9 until 10 a. m. A LEAVE FOR INTERIOR , . onqa 23 Bethlehem Steel 5272 Oscar G Olson, Territorial Treas- ern Pront against Germany is “in Pacific. The big liner had been All infants and preschool child-| Mr. aud Mrs. Milt Odom, both (;mmonwealth and Southern 3/16,|urer, left md-fw for the south on o.. minds but every move on tne in the war service for some time. ren who have not yei completed of whom have extensive business in- curtiss Wright 6. International vacation trip. : board s conditioned by transport| The announcement said: “The the immunizations, “_Vnh;gh are TEC-|terests in the Territory, left this jiurvester 43%, Kennecoit 21° New ‘M. Olson will join Mrs. Olson| popieme » Admiralty has granted permission ommended by the President of the morning for Pairbanks on their vork Central 7, Northern Paciflc 5%, and their daughters who are visit-| gy o yonn Dabies, Laborite, and'to announce that the Empress of United States and all physicians as gt ) 0 IR hey make United States Steel 45'4, Pound ing in Napa, Idaho, and expects 10 gi johy wardlaw Milne, Conserva- Asia has been sunk in an air at- zi;:”ns O}S e]l:jm'hm‘::gu l}‘:"iorc"ur their home. Mrs. Odom arrived in £4.04 be away from the city a month or| pengent Laborite and even mild|tack in the Far East while engaged mcr‘::vs‘msort::ling'& i]mic.sfl " Juneau several days ago from the e six weeks, W Al mannered Oliver Staniey, former jn transporting troops at Singapore.” B south and was joined here by her ~General Yamashita, of Japan, . | Secretary of State and War, joined The Jiner had served as a trans- nqueror of Singapore, studied| Branches of the Chinese gov- the clamor against the war policy | BUY DEFENSE BONDS ) husband who had spent some tim- in Southeast Alaska on business, Jernment are called yuans. (Gontinued on Puge Three) military tactics in Germany ior Churchill’s government,