The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1942, Page 1

e HE DAILY ALA_SKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9041. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 22. ME! MBLR AbS()(,IAIl I) l’Rl, Sv PRICE TEN CENTS JAPANESE CRUISER SUNK BY ALLIED SUBS German Reserves Are Repulsed By Russians REDS CHECK NAZI FORCE AT KHARKOV Soviet Afiy Smashes Through German Front Lines, Is Report HEAVY FIGHTING IN LAKE ILMEN SECTOR Break Herewauld Imperil Whole of Hitler's Left Flank [ Queen Runner-Up (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | 3 The masses of German reserves, which were flung into action after the Nazi tank assaults on the Rus-| & sian front failed, appeared to be checked today by Russia’s offensive as the eleven-day battle of Khar-| kov continued. | Although the Red Armies repoxL- ed in one sector that they have smashed a counter attack “on the| heels of the enemy and have brok-| en into a populated place,” the Ger- man High Command asserted that | the Soviet attack on Kharkov has been thrown back, and that Hitler’s | armies have seized the initiative. Reds Confident Dispatches from Red Star, Soviet army paper, said “the enemy is making furious efforts to take the initiative out of our hands. But| this is not last year. The relation of the opposing forces is quite dif-! ferent now.” A German London, meanwhile, broadcast heard in acknowledged | i (Oom,mucd on Pa.,e Five) The Washington Merry - Go-Round | By DHEW PEARSON— cmd ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—Original reason for Price Administrator Leon Hen- derson’s secret testimony before the House Appropriations Commmen was to report on future rationing prospects and the administrative| machinery needed to handle the vast rationing program. | However, the meeting almost broke up in a row before Hender- son was able to complete his re- port. Two members went round- and-round with him over gas ra- tioning and price controls on crude oil. { Henderson gave the committee a secret list of 15 new commodities which may have to be rationed but he cautioned that the list, which included coffee, tea, clothing and certain dairy products, was only, tentative and may be changed. | “I cannot predict with any cer- tainty just what additional com- modities will have to be rationed, and how soon,” Henderson said ‘n effect. of factors—the trend of the war, shipping losses, this year’s crops| and other things. We might have| to begin rationing certain food products and clothing, needed by our allies, within a month. Also, it is possible that within a year, virtually every major consumer ccmmodity may have to be ra- tioned.” But it was when Henderson re- vealed that gasoline rationing soon may be extended to the entire coun- | try that the fireworks started. i ANGRY JOHNSONS “Well, if you administer other rationing as "you have gasoline <o far, the country will be in a terrible | mess,” snapped Representative, George W. Johnson of West er-‘ ginia. “West Virginia should nev- er have been forced to ration gas. My State produces more gasoline! than it needs for its own use.” | “We haven't discriminated against | any state,” retorted Henderson. “W*‘ are trying to act in the interest ot C (Continued on Page }wr) Pretty Patricia Jones, 16, who entered as Miss Dallas won the title of National Queen of the Ice at a Los Angeles contest. 18, (left), as Miss Los Angeles was Jeanne Sook, second place winner. Tinkham fo Refire Affer 26 Years in House; Never (ampaigned, Wenf Hunting SALVAGEIS STARTED ON NORMANDIE —_ " { Will Cost Many Millions of |5 ep: George Hogen Tinknam. | Dollars fo Raise | Big Ship | b1 | WASHINGTON, May 22 — The| Navy Department announced toda \" that preliminary work has slalled‘ on the multi-million dollar job of | raising the burned and capsized‘ liner Normandie, a task unprece- |s maritime history. | Frank Knox told Presi- dented in U. S. Secretar: Rechristened the Lafayette when! she was taken over to be remodeled as a troop transport, the liner still is lying keeled over on her side at 'a New York pier, having been jgutted by severa! fires since the big one that caused her collapse sev- cral months ago. > — MR AND MRS. H. FOSS AND CHILDREN ARE BACK FROM KETCHIKAN Mr, and Mrs. Harold Foss and their two children, Angus and Judy, arrived in Juneau late yesterday af- ternoon from Ketchikan, making the trip with Bud Bodding of the Ellis Air Transport. Mrs. Foss and the children left here on May 8 to spend Mother's Day with Mr. Foss's mother, Mrs. . J. Foss of Ketchikan. Mr, Foss Jotned them last week for a short visit, | Borah, | back By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 22.—In re. cent years, death, defeat or retire- | ment has taken a staggering toll of colorful figures in Congress. Gone from Capitol Hill now are Senators Pittman and Ashurst and Congressman J. Ham Lewis, to men- tion only a few. But of the men who have made colorful copy — reams of it- lately will have left any greater gap | his retirement in llw who has announced after 28 consecutive years House. Only two senators and six r('!u-m‘ sentatives have held their seats in Congress longer than Tinkham and none of them has done ‘it with so little campaigning. A veteran traveler since his days at Harvard when he junketed to such far places as the Greek islands in the Aegean and the windswept wastes of Iceland ‘and Spitzbergen “It depends on a number|dent Roosevelt yesterday that lh(. Tinkham has always managed to be ‘blg ship could be salvaged. off on one of his world jaunts '»\mle other congressmen were cam- paigning their heads off for re-elec- tion and he always has been voted to his seat by substantial majorities. One year it was a 43,000-mile Iswing in 220 days to the islands of the South Pacific and the lands of the China Sea. Another year, he was hanging up a record for leopard shooting in British East Africa. He came back that time with the story that his bag of six leopards would have been one greater had not his native guide restrained him from going into the brush after a wound- ed cat. Tinkham had asked the guide “Why should I lose a beau- tiful skin like that?” The guide answered “To save your own beau- tiful skin.” Tinkham’s apartment in the Old Arlington Hotel is a veritable mu- seum of skins, stuffed heads, ele- phants' tusks, art and curios col- lected on these expeditions between congressional sessions. His 28-year tenure of that apartment is one of (Continued on Page Four) none | - age operators and fish buyers PRESIDENT | GIVES TALK, WAGE ISSUE Government fo Prevent Unwarranted Pay Increases WASHINGTON, May 22 — Presi-| dent Roosevelt declared today the| Government will do everything to| prevent what he termed \n\wm-r.ml»‘ ed pay increases in private plants. Half a dozen steps mav be taken, the President said, but he did net enumerate any of them at a con-| ference today with the newsmen. President Roosevelt reiterated ' |again that the war will be a long| one and he cautioned against over optimism one week and over pes- simism the next week. As the war news goes up and down, so does public opinion, the President said Things appear big at one moment, |and down the next, so “our chief aim should be for a real war effort and diSregard the fluctuations which cause a tendency of over-| statements on the part of the Am- | erican p('npl(' ! HUSH TAlK U.S. TROOPS OVERSEAS WASHINGTON, May 22 — With |the United States Army now circ- |ling the earth, the War Depart- I ment today warned its civilian em- | ployees returning from overseas as- | signments not to talk about where | they have been or what they have | seen. | American troops on land and in ‘the air hold advanced positions in | more than a score of spots on all quarters of the globe, and some already are trading blows with the enemy while others guard the ap- | proaches to our own shores, all gathering strength for an eventual onslaught against the Axis, Secre tary of War Henry L. Stimson dis- closed. He reminded civilian employees in their 'lhat military observations abroad | should not be discussed by anyone but authorized military officials | He pointed out 2 subjects on which silence should be observed. Among them are ports of embarkation ype of overseas activity, routes of convoys and the names of ships. D departments with | Malenals for | War Roll from . Prison Machines SAN QUENTIN, Calif., May 22— | The California state prison, largest in the count has set a patriotic pace by devoting about 10,000 man | hours a day to war production. Prin- i cipal producer is the big jute mill. which turns out gunnysacks for sandbag barricades and strip burlap for camouflaging. Convict shops also produce siren stirrup pumps and first and mater- ials. A description of San Quentin’s program has been forwarded to Don- ald M. Nelson as a suggestion for salvaging the labor of an estimated 200,000 men in the country’s prisons. .- 'EDWARD 5. JACKSON RETURNS FROM SITKA Edward 8. Jackson, conciliator with the United States Department |of Labor, returned to Juneau from Sitka where he has been for the last week. Mr. Jackson was recently ap- | pointed arbitrator to act in the |dispute pending between the cold storage workers and the cold stor- Southeast Alaska, U S Soldiers in Auslralla Gef Mail from Home| A jmuu\ group of U. S. soldiers at Darwin, Australia, wade through the first mail from home after four Men Irom 18 fo 20 Are SAYSU-BOAT TIPPED OFF | To Register on June 30; Nation’s 5th Draft Call IN SINKING 2 | WASHINGTON, May 22 — Presi dent Rocsevelt today set June 30 as the registration day for men| between 18 and 20. This com- pletes the present registration of the Nation’s manpower both for fighting and non-combatant war Huto NEW ORL This is the fifth registration for CAPtain expr the United States under the ex- that the ntink. sy {his medium-sized' cargo ship in 90 Men of 18 and 19 who register seconds were fired by a sub crew June 30 between 7 am. and 9 p.m, Which had been tipped off in ad- are not subject to military draft VANce of the vessel's movements tntil they vesal the ses of 3. At least 21 members of the crew Approximately 40,000,000 between 8nd gun crew were carried to their the age of 20 and 65 have regis- deaths in the amazingly swift sink- tered in the four previous drafts. iDg which occurred in the Guif of President Rocsevelt also called Mexico on May 16 for the registration on June 30 for plain» Henry ‘' Rows - attached possible military service of all men Sébificance the fact that the who reached 20 after December 31, Submarine only sttacked his 41 and on or before June 30 next |boat without warning, but didn't who have not heretofore registered, COme to the surface after the sink- - e - ing to ascertain facts about its vic- May Call In IREASON ~ Some Aufos CHARGE Cars Might ' Be Needed as, ORDERED Transportation for War Workers Man Who Aided German WASHINGTON .\va 22—Rubber After ES(ape from Can- Newhan vt adian Camp to Get His rnment might itos in the e to WASHINGTON, May plants in torney General Biddle are the United States Attorney s troit: to seek an indictment for treason against Max Stephan for Newhall reporters in a allegedly aiding Peter Krug, Ger- press conference that he man Air Fcrce Lieutenant, after chief ,told the Senate Appropria- saw no need for requisitioning tires the latter’s from a prison tions Committee in a hearing today | this year or in 1943, and said that camp in Canada. that the Commerce Department ap- | in any case they would not be tak- = This is the first propriation bill for the total cost of |[en and ground up into reclaimed present war prosecution has been the Weather Bureau service in Al-|rubber, but oniy as a means of soly- crdered on a treason charge. The aska under war conditions is ap-|ing the transportation problem. | penalty, if convicted, carries sentence proximytely #190.000, -e ranging to years imprisonment, formation to the army. Reichel- RETUBN, FROM SIYEA: Krug wes dorfer said that no air flights take Thomas A.Morgan, president of |agents at San Ax-umlu‘ off in Alaska without using Weather the Columbia ZLumber Company by them returned to Canada. Bureau information. He said v)..:"‘“" Mrs.” Morgan returned with - there are stations set up in 20 to 25| Alaska Coastal Airlines yesterday = The University of air fields in the Territory that work | from Sitka where they had spent Azhar founded on an around the clock basis, ]heveml days. 970 in 90 Seconds in Mexico Gulf ANS, May sed belief here 22 A sea today to not W CANDY KID_Alexis § of the movies wears a new middy top dress with a candy flavor— the stripes coming up in cha treuse and navy on a white back- :mund Slurl. |s knife .pleated. coordinator Arthur A l A s K A l S led today that (ke gov |have to requisition @ E x p E N S I v E various industrial states workers to and from war 22 — At- has ordered areas where other facilities at De- acking, if the nation's tire resourc Y tare wasted assured however, WASHINGTON Reicheldorfer, Weather Bureau May 22.—Francis escape time during the five or recaptured by FBI Texas, and Mosle:r Al- in Cairo was Sub Sinks U. . Cargo Ship| two torpedoes which sank | in 1,100-TON NAVY SHIP SENT DOWN | Two Nippor?argo Vessels - Also Reported fo Have | Been Torpedoed 'SUCCESSFUL RAIDS ARE MADE, INVASION BASES [Many Plam;s_fieslroyed or | Damaged Is Official Information [ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | AUSTRALIA, May 22. Allied sub- | marines have sunk a 7,100-ton Jap- | anese cruiser of the Kato type and also two Japanese cargo ships of 6,000 and 9,000 tons respectively. | The announcement is officially | made by Gen. Douglas MacArthur'y | headquarters. The announcement further said |14 Japanese planes were destroyed or damaged in air raids on Japanese invasion bases in New Guinea and Timor. | | There are four ships of the Kate Llfi.fl“- and cnch carries 604 men4 WAR MOVE BY MEXICO INDICATED Enemy He;da:ariers Re- fuse to Receive Protest on Ship Torpedoing MEXICO CITY, May 22—There are strong indications that the !Mexican Government will quickfy declare war on the Axis powers. This was revealed today when it was announced that enemy head- quarters refused to even re- ceive Mexico's protest to the sinking of her first ship during the present war. The Mexican Foreign Office is al- investigating reports that two more Mexican vessels have been sunk by torpedoes off the Brazil- ian coast during the past 24 hours. U.S. Warship Is Sunk by Sub, Repori Italian Commun!que Claims Torpedoing Bat- tleship, Maryland Class ROME, May 22—The Italian Com~ mand, in a special communique, says the Italian submarine Barbar- igo has sunk an American battle- ship of the Maryland class, with two torpedo hits The torpedoing took place the Brazilian coast yesterday. The special communique further states the escorting vessels of the American formation did not reply to the attack. The time of the asserted attack is given as 2:50 a.m., Rome time, and the place 100 miles west of the Brazilian Island of Fernando Nor- onha, 125 miles off the easternmost extremity of Brazil There is no confirmation of the above report from any other source, e New Hampshire has two square miles of inland water area, 50 off