The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9042. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 23 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALLIES BOMB JAPANESE INVASION BASES Fierce Battle Continues In Kharkov Sector Bullets Fed fo Northwest Patrol Plane REDS CLAIM NEWPOINTS | FORTIFIED Germans Reporf Russian| Attacks Coliapse Near | Occupied City MOSCOW, May 23. — Marshal Timoshenko's shock troops are re- ported today to be fighting from a newly fortified, newly won position before Kharkov, German-occupied “Pittsburgh of the Ukraine.” Timoshenko’s troops and the Ger- mans are said to be having “alter- | nate succes: in the flanking counter-attacks to the south. the | Germans despite a loss of 15,000 killed in three days, according to the Soviet information bureau. The dispatches from Timoshen- ko's troops say “our units have dis- lodged the enemy from a powerfully fortified position.” The Germans are said to have hurled three groups of tanks into one narrow sector where Soviet troops destroyed 39 of them. GERMAN REPORT | BERLIN, May 23.—The German High Command today announced that the Russian’s mass attack on Kharkov had collapsed completely. German military quarters added that German troops had shifted to the offensive in the gigantic battle for a Russian city on-the north- | western front. The High Command added that the Russians are continuing their attacks southeast of Lake Ilmen without success. The communique said that the Nazis had destroyed 452 planes in a sweep with the Germans losing only 45. ————— NEW ORDER T0 CONTROL SHIPPING (RNl i | = | | | Regulate %;ement of| Goods in U. S. Ports | After June 1 WASHINGTON, May 23. — The Office of Defene Transportation to- day prohibited the movement of all | United States and Canadian export goods in port areas of this country after June 1 without approval of as a special Transportation Control Hoogmitice. Adrian Boudreau of Medford, Joseph B. Ea_stman‘ transporta- Mass., thinking of his girl at tion director, said that the purpose | home while on his way to Aus- of the order, which already is par- tralia, wrote a song he called tially in effect, is to prevent a re- | “This Is No Time for Tears.” currence of port congestion and the | ——m o BRRS dp ek delays of the first World War. Under the regulations, carriers | may not bring shipments into ports | for transportation on vessels until the shipping space actually is | available. Shipments by government agencies will be licensed. \ R e ALASKA COASTAL s' E' pA(IH( 'To Protect Waters Off Passengers from Sitka to Juneau with Alaska Coastal Airlines yes-| We“ern coas' Of terday afternoon were Myrna Sav- H age, Phillip Johnson, Lois Hill, South America Charles W. Carr, Lt. John R.| Roberts and H. C. Manze, Jack| S . Beolger, Roy N. Moore, Mrs. Will- WAFHINGTON‘, MY A iam J. Beach, Mel Shupe and Steve | Admiral John Shafroth, 51, I Mccuu:heonl |been appointed commander of the R. R. Miller was 8 passenger|United States Naval Forces in the yesterday from Juneau to Sitka w“h‘southea.st Pacific, it is announced| ACA and O. Bergseth from Chatham | e 4 H t L to Juneau. The a'slgnmen apparen(}) Leaving here this morning rorlmakes him responsible primarily sitka with ACA were Mis. E. Grat-'mr the protection of the waters ton. D. Gratton, Wilfred Carriv-|off the Western Coast of South cau‘ He.len nevcl’ o S B [Amenca. He was formerly assistant i . - 7 27 Lchief of the Bureau of Nayigation. Historical material relating to, i Alaska is being assembled by tihe| Lightning flashes over the earth University of Alaska through a:conunuou y ing on the aver- grant from the Rockefeller Foun- age of 50 times a second, or 2 bil- dation, lion times a year, | SWEETHEART OF THE MARINES _Marian Hall, daughter of Lt. Col. George Thomas Hall of U.S. Marines, spent most. of her life near Marine barracks. Unofficial sweetheart of Marines, she’s also a University of Washington graduate cum laude. 'MEXICO IS ' TODECLARE WAR, AXIS | Declaration fo Fight Will Come at Special Ses- sion of Congress MEXICO CITY, May 23 — The Mexican Cabinet decided late last night to call a special session of | Congress to declare war on the Axis as a reprisal measure for the | sinking of two Mexican ships. The announcement yesterday that| a second Mexican tanker had been | sent down by an Axis sub off Cuba with the loss of 10 lives served to| heighten the indignation that was| aroused throughout Mexico at the| sinking of the first ship earlier in| the week. | Yesterday, the Mexican govern- | ment was undecided as to whether to declare war outright or state that a national emergency existed. | Either course spoke ill for the Axis | since the latter would have meant drastic measures of goyernment | control over all Axis properties. Commanders of military zones and state governors came to the Mexi- |can capital yesterday for confer- ences and received word from Mexican Consul Salvador Aguayol| at Miami, Florida, that the Mexican tanker Fajadecro had been.fired on. by 4 U-Boat off the coast of Cuba and sent to the bottom After deliberating this latest blow, the Mexican Cabinet decided that it could take no other course but to call a special session to declare war on the Axis powers. ks o PRI SR B | TRAPPER IS JAPS MARCH RESCUEHERO ~ ON IN CHINA INCANADA OFFENSIVE Story of Bra_vgry in U. S.|Reported Near Kinghwa Engineers” Mishap Where Missionaries Is Now Told Forced fo Flee VANCOUVER, B. C., May 23 CHUNGKING, China, May 23— From the British Columbia wilder-!American and other missionaries ness country came the story today have left Kinghwa as the Japanese of how Gus Hedin, a trapper, saved army’s sweeping offensive draws the lives of five United States Ar- nearer to that strategic city, pro- my Engineers after their ponton Visional capital of Chakiang Prov- boat had overturned and twelve ince and railway gateway to Ki- companions drowned in the rough angsi in Central China. waters of an isolated lake on May; The main Jap column yesterday 14. | was reportedl] driving down the Cha- kiang-Kiangsi railway, near King The dispatch to Vancuu\‘m" Prov- hwa, where they were smashing ince from Fort St. John said tha’ heavily at Chinese defense lir Hedin twice braved t}w choppy wat- | with airplane suport. Dispatche: er in a leaky 14-foot rowboat Witn|said the column had made It a cracked oar, to pick up the five| headway after a temporary check | yesterday, but the exa position Le|of the invaders is not stated - soldiers, the whitecaps. tossed him by the trapper. AMUSEMENT he could see nothing at first, then| creation Projects fand similar projects costing more sighted a Frenc? naval formation of SO He saw two others sink as tried to reach them and one died| when he lost his grip on the rope| Hedin said he observed the scow- like beoat crossing the lake while he was making breakfast and when | he looked in a few minutes later | B u I l D l N G made out the heads bobbing among | | | sy | WASHINGTON, May 23 — The | construction of amusement parks | racetracks, theaters, baseball parks BERLIN, May 23 — DNB, Nazi than $5,000 must be stopped before news ncy, reports from Alge-|June 6, regardless of how much ciras, Spain, that a British destroy- work has been completed, the War er which left Gibraltar yesterday Production Board ordered today a battleship, two cruisers and six RA T TP destroyers in the Meditercanean and SRR SouTa put back to pi’i‘ov_'__ Ray Peterman, contractor of Sit- ka, left for the south today for )short business trip to Seattle, a BUY DEFENSE STAMPS i S Photo shows the loading of machine guns in the no se of a fast fighter of the Interceptor Command, based somewhere in the guns must be checked cific Northwest. nd rechecked at frequent in tervals, be She is be ing fed a seemirg use st ly endless belt of cartridges. The oppage might spell the difference between viclory and death if enemy planes attempted an attack on Seattle or any point in the Pacific Nerthwest., MACARTHUR IN NEE DLEPOINT—_jyulia Svir- sky-Smith, Russian-born sculptor and artist living in the United States, created this original needlepoint design forming the image of General Douglas MacArthur, America’s No. 1 military hero. Weekends Are Funny in Washinalon * Thousands Leave (ity; Others Come FIVE YOUNG MEN OF JUREAU LEAVE FOR INTERIOR TO WORK Bound for the Interior to work juring the summer months for the Alaska Road Commission were the ollewing young men of Juneau; Jobn Bavard, Donald Murphy, Rudy Notar, Harvey McNulty and Robert MeManus. The five young men left today for Fairbanks to begin the season’s work for the ARC. - STOCK QUCTATIONS FRIDAY PRICES Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock Friday was 2, Am- erican Can 63':;, Anaconda 23%, pethlehem Steel 51'¢, Common- ealth and Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 6, International Harvester 4%, Kennecott 27, New York Cen- al 7, Northern Pacific 5%, United tates Steel 45'i, Pound $4.04 S AVERAGES Jones 99.18, DOW, JONI The following were Dow wverages Friday; industrials rails 24,07, utilitles 11,70, BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 23—Week- cnds are nny in Washington. For the thousands of civilian govern- ment work quitting time Sat- urday is the signal to get out of town. Trains and bu s for Balti- more, Philadelphia and New York are jammed. But for the soldiers at Ft voir and Ft. Meyer in Virginia Ft. Meade in Maryland, and for the sailors at Norfolk, Va., and the marines at Quantico, the week- end is the time to come to Wash- ington, They pour out of the busses like peas out of a pod. Bel and the story nation’s room for of the The sad part that Washington ital, doesn't have to sleep. The lucky ones get the YM.C.A. or one of the service men’s clubs. But Saturday night always finds the uncomfortable benches of Union Station lined with woe-begone younz men in khaki blue or marine corps green. Not that service authorities and private agencies aren’t aware of the problem. You don't have to be much of a newspaper reader to know that room of any kind is al- most impossible to find in Wash- them in at (Continued on Page Three) MAKE PLANS IN CASE OF U.5. BOMBING Roosevelt S?ys Agencies Ready fo Aid Civilians If Necessary WASHINGTON, May 23— Presi- dent Roosevelt announced today "that the Federal Security Agency, {the Office of Civilian Defense and the American Red Cross have made plans to aid civilian victims in case any enemy attacks might be made on the United States. The immediate responsibility for any persons injured in bombing or shelling, he said, falls on the shoulders of the Emergency Medical Service. The President said that this service would not be duplic in its work and that the federal government would furnish nurses, aides etcher teams and am- bulances and other supplementary aquipment - JAMES (. RETTIE IS BACK FROM TRIP James C. Rettie, National Resources Plinning Board for this ion, arrived in Juneau by plane today after spend- ing three and a half months in the States on official, business. Mr. Rettie visited Portland and Wash- ington, D. C., during his trip. - HALIBUT, SALMON SOLD HERE TODAY Nineteen Counselor for thousand pounds halibut were sold in Juneau today for 1245 and 11 cents to the Al- aska Coast Fisheries Company. The halibut was brought in on the Ad- lington, Capt. Olaf Westiby The Northlight, Capt A. Stev- ens, brought in 4500 pounds of King salmon which was purchased by E. E. Engstrom for 16 and 10 cents. WIFE OF STAR PILOT HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Mrs. Chet Brown, wife of a Star Air Lines pilot, and her young son, arrived here on the Star plane from Anchorage this week and are stay- ing at the Baranof Hotel Mrs. Brown is waiting in Juneau for the arrival of her husband who 1s on hkis way west from New York |with the new 28-pasenger plane that Star is adding to its fleet for | the Juneau-Anchorage service, l SUCCESSFUL - RAIDS MADE BY BOMBERS Nippon Sh?[)s—Damaged— Seven Planes Destroyed and Others Damaged ALLIED HEADQUARTEDS IN AUSTRALIA, May 23 Allied bombers crippled two Japanese ships, destroyed seven planes and | badly damaged six other bombers in two swift strokes against the Japanese invasion bases at Ra- baul, New Britain, and Lae, New Guinea, This is according to the }mn('lul communique. In the attack at Rabaul, a large | Japanese transport was left in a | crippled condition in the harbor |and six heavy Japanese bombers were heavily damaged at the air- drome. The communique says the | “interception was ineffective.” A tanker was severely damaged at Lae and two Japanese bombers and five fighters were destroyed. Scouting planes far out around |the islands report an apparent massing of Japanese warships and troop ships, probably waiting for I the great moment for an attempted invasion of Australia. - e CHINESE REPULSE ~ JAPANESE Invasion Fd@on Min Riv- er Parfially Wiped Out —Remnants Fleeing CHUNGKING, May 23 — More than one half of the Japanese in- |vasion force which gained a foot- hold on Chuanshih Island at the mouth of the Min River in Fukien Province has been wiped out and the survivors have fled to the ships, abandoning large quantities of equipment, the Chinese military announced this morning. The officlal communique was lollowed swiftly by another report- ing that the Japanese have been repulsed in an atempt to land, un- der guns of warships, on the north bank of the Min river, east of Foo- chow, Capital City of the Province and chief seaport. There is no official statement as to the number of Japs engaged but unofficial statements assert 2,000 Nippons are attempting to land, backed by the guns of ten warships. CONGRESSMEN MAY TRAVEL 10 ENGLAND Would Seridufen Men to Talk Over War with British Parliament WASHINGTON, May 23 — Con- gressional leaders .are reported to be divided on the question of vhether to send ten Senators and Representatives from beth parties to England for talks with Parlia- ment on war problems and peace aims. A tentative invitation was laid before a group of House and Sen- ate leaders by an unnamed British pokesman in a secret conference | yesterday. The Democrats, it is reported, gave the idea general approval, while |Senate Republican leader Charles |L. McNary, and House Republican \leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr. were skeptical,