The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 25, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CHINA UNDER ATTACK FROM BOTH SIDE Reds, Nazz CONFLICTING REPORTS ON GREAT FRONT Germans Claim Encircle- ment of Soviet Forces Near City RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ROLLING ONCE MORE Fourteenth—D;y of Battle on Important Sector Described (By Associated Press) Russia’s Kharkov offensive, major | factor in the strategical planning of both sides in the world conflict, is rolling forward again according to today’s dispatches from the Red Army. The communique says that the Russians have wiped .out the best the Germans have to offer in the way of a flank division and that a wedge which the Germans had driv- en into the Russian salient curving past Kharkov on the south has been shattered “with enormous losses to | the enemy.” | Consolidate New Ground According to the Moscow dlspawh today, the Russians have drlven what the boys call their ado ‘PERFECT’—“Four 0" in the navy means perfection. That's pted sweetheart, Renee Haal, ahead once more after cmsondal-: ing newly won ground. This is the fourteenth day of the battle on the Kharkov front, which is perhaps the most valuable of all the German positions in the in- (Continued on Page Five) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON— (md ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — St'renge as it may seem, the Russians, even to- day, will not -permit the delivery of planes from the United States by way of Alaska and the Bering ? Straits to Siberia. i The trouble is not in the route 1t is no secret that on the American side, bases are ready or nearly | ready. There are no long hops in- volved—no over-water hops at all, except the Bering Sea, which is § very narrow at the Straits. The Army Air Force Ferrying Command is ready to do the job—as soon as the Russians will permit. But the Russians, dire as is their need for equipment, regard the danger from Japan as more acute. If they permitted the United States to make such deliveries, this would constitute a new U. 8.-Soviet part- nership for war, and would breach the agreement between the Soviets and the Japs regarding the Pacific. Not long ago the U. S. Army pro- posed to send about thirty experts, not in uniform, to inspect the run-| ways and installations to make sure that U. S. types of planes were equipped to operate on Siberian air- ports. But the Russians said no. U. S. REACTION | U. S. reaction to this is pmny impatience, partly sympathy. we! are anxious to get the planes to Russia the short way, rather than over the long, irksome, dangerous route via the North Atlantic and Murmansk. However, Roosevelt and Hull also understand the Russian point that they have taken a lot of | troops out of Siberia and can't efford to fight on two fronts. 1 1 The Russians definitely want a| Ha“kan second front. But they want it in| - Europe, where somebody else will] TOKYO, May 25—The sinking oI divert Nazi troops from the Cau-|the fast Jap liner Nagasaki Maru, casus. They don’t want it in their|which helped in the seizure of the own backyard where they will have U, §. liner President Harrison at to divert their own troops. | the outbreak of the Pacific War, Two possible developments may gng the death of her captain by alter this stand: 1, attack by Jap-|narg kiri was announced hefe to- an; 2, severance of the two other ;.. supply routes namely via Murmansk . pig 5200-ton vessel went At grcl};zngel $OGN, P Fer ‘down May 13 near Nagasaki after o g | hitting a Jap mine. Thirteen were 1OKES. vh WINRARD. |killed and 26 are missing. Capt. The 70 guests at the testimonial|Gensapuro Suga committed suicide. dinner for popular Representative (alled In Dec [ MEXICO CITY, May 25—Presi- ‘(lem Manuel Avila Camacho today | formally called the Mexican Con- | gress to meet in an extraordinary session to decl war on the Axis Powers and to approve of emergency | measures to defend the nation against totalitarian aggression. | President Camacho moved to place Mexico in the war against Germany, Italy and Japan just 11 days after the first of two torpedo sinkings cf Mexican vessels was officially reported, and subsequent COMM AN D ER—Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, Jr., com- mands U.S. troops in New Cale- donia in southwest Pacific. ———eee —— JAP MINE SENDS OWN Nagasaki Maru Fast Lin- er, Sunk-Capfain in - SHIP DOWN ‘Mexican Congress |s fo Session; laration of War Axis rejection of the government’s n. survivors response to inquiries of ife. demand for ‘omp]ele satisfaction.” ENEMY SUBS ARE ACTIVE IN ATLANTIC Officially Credlted with! Sinking 18 Ships Last Week NEW YORK, May: 25 — On a prowl of the North Atlantic mgm from the Caribbean ibmarines are credited o! ast week to have sunk 18 merican or allied merchantmen m Western Atlantic. The Navy Department placed th(‘ lties for the week in the ~ea fare at more than 185 dead, 100 | water: enemy 'l’ ially \hu ing and 425 seamen and pass-| |engers l'cerufld -o——— F. A. FORTIER DIES HERE TODAY Ferdinand A. P’cmer. 84, died this afternoon in St. Ann’s Hospital, where he has been_since he left Sitka last February. Mr. ter, Mrs. Marie Aubain of Mont- real, Quebec. He was born in that province of Canada, but has resid- Fortier is survived by a sis-| AALLIES MAKE BIG RAID ON NEW BRITAIN \Enemy Bon;bwe?Crashes on| Allied Ship - Sets Vessel Afire ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN s Announce Gains In Kharkov Area | AUSTRALIA, May 25—Allied bomb- | ers have inflicted new heavy losses | on a New Britain airdrome. bombs were cropped on one group of 20 enemy’ aircraft at Rabaul and all landed in the target area. airdrome building was left ablaze One Allied from the raid. Meanwhile, an Allied ship, un- der the attack of Jap planes seve eral hundred miles off Australia, caught fire when an enemy aircraft crashed amidships. An Allied warship rescued survivors and many injured. tically all on ceck received injuries iand many below suffered |scalds and burns The planes attacked from three sides machine gunning the decks getting in three bomb hits before a bcmber struck the ship’s funnel. ine Jap planes were downed by antiaircraft fire from the vessel. 1.8 SEAMEN ARERESCUED ~ OFF BRALZIL 100 the vessel [May Be Survivors from Battleship Sunk by Italian Sub BUENOS AIRES, May 25 A state merchant fleet office said to- day that the small Argentine steam- er Rio Iguazu has picked up 53 persons at sea, Newspaper reports declared that the rescued were sur- vivors from a United States warship of unstated size The merchant fleet office told of after the Italians had renewed claims of having sunk a battle- ship with a submarine in the Af- lantic off Brazil. The Italians had announced Fri- day the sinking of an American battleship of the Maryland class by !the submarine Barbarigo. RESCUE IS CONFIRMED BUENOS AIRES, May 25.—Rear Admiral Fincati, Minister of Navy confirms the announcement of the Memhanl Fleet Office that the Ar- | gentine freighter Rio Iguazu has rescued survivors of an unidentified { vessel at sea but he said he was unable te confirm the Rome report | the rescued men are part of the crew of a U. S. battleship of the | has been sunk bv one ot their subs Delay Any Action On ~ Income Tax WASHINGTON, May 25 — The House Ways and Means Commit- |tee today voted to temporarily de- fer action on Secretary Henry Mor- genthau’s request for permission to withhold the source 10 percent in- | dividual's income tax liability Chairman Robert L. Doughton |said - the committee tentatively adopted a motion that the policy be “deferred for further considera- [ Japanese planes grounded at | Twenty | steam | ed in the Territory for the last 40 tion” and will start an immediate years or more. | discussion on inheritance tax rates aoe R BUY DEFENSE STAMPS BUY DEFENSE BONDS Charles H. Leavy of Washington, who will soon retire to become Idaho comes from the Indian “edah hoe” meaning “light on the mountains.” " (Continued on Page Four) | The |, plane failed to return}?® 15 & 05 | Prac-| simultaneously, ! and | f R, Tt Official U. 8. Navy Photo These photos were made when unites of the Ttalian Fleet engngzed a British convoy escort on their way from Alexandria to the Island of Malta. The photo at top shows an Italian torpedo bomber plane attempting to escape shell fire from a British destroyer. cruizar throws a simoke screen to shield the convoy as another er shell the Italian Fleet. Home Life Is Revealed In Washingfon as Work Demanded on Sundays BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 26 — Take scme thousands of people, set Uu-m\ down in Washington, far from their | homes, and you might expect Lhem to lose track of their former wuy[ Put the habits of a lifetime don't | quickly. Here’s a story that! folks remain pretty much| folks, even in a Imrly-l 3 aught city like this: About a momh ago. the Rvsrne‘ Division of the adjutant-general | ice in the war department was put on a seven-day week. This wi a blow to those scheduled to work on Sunday. Many them were steady church-goers , It happens that the office of the| Chief of Chaplains is right in the| ame building, die proves ¥ same employes | one of the new tem-| the continued participation Labor Pariy Wins Fight Later, the plane crashed into the sea. er elevates her ottom, a British light orward guns ready to i DOOLITTLE PROMISES MORE RAIDS Says American Planes Are Best in World-Out- class Japs SAN DIEGO, Calif., May Americans can expect with confid- 25. in England \Proposal fo Discontinue fs Participation Is Voted Down LONDON, May 25—Advocates for of the porary structures along the grassyj Labor Party in Churchill's gove bank of the Potomac. The employes sent one of their number upstairs to chief, Gen. William R. Arnold, who | | Maryland class, the Italians assert happens to be a Roman Catholic chaplain is Kept on|japors yole in the government was priest. One duty in the office every Sunddy‘ ind the delegate asked Gen. Arnold | { this chaplain couldn't take time | to conduct a brief service during lunch hour. Gen. Arnold passed | » idea on to Chaplain Glenn J. "\ itherspoon, a Congregationalist 10 was to be on duty the following | nday. ‘Continued n};P.z;;é ;IT))réeb OLDTIMER OF JUNEAU | the | | PASSES AWAY, SITKA | Charles M. Handley, Juneau, passed away suddenly at the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka accord- ing to advices received by H. R vanderLeest. Handley had only re- ently been admitted to the Home. - e ® 00000000000 . WEATHER REPORT . o Temperature Sunday, May 24 ® ¢ Maximun 65, Minimum 48 e s e 00 00000000 oldtimer of | | 1 | ment won an easy victory today in | the first test over sentiment favor- talk to the|ing the hdrawal course suggest- ed earlier by Lord Strabolgi The amendment condemning defeated by a vote of 2,319,000 at Party's annual conference, The propcsed amendment was attached to a resolution which offered | by Clement Attiee, Dominions Sec- retar calling for continuance in | the war until victory has been | achieved. - MARY JOY(E 10 SPEND SUMMER AT TAKU LODGE Mary Joyce, owner of the Taku Lodge, who is in Juneau as stew- ardess with the Northwest Airlines DC-3 plane which arrived last night, expects to return to Alaska within a short time. Miss Joyce will spend the sum- mer at her lodge on the Taku River which she will operate as usual, she said today - — BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ence that Brig. Gen. James Doo- little’s April 18 air attack on Japan will not remain an isolated incident, but will be amplified by repeatedly vigorous assaulls on the very hearts of the s countries This rance came today di- rectly from Gen. Doolittle who is visiting here on an inspection trip with Gen. George C. Marshall and other military leaders Gen. Doolittle spoke yesterday on the radio and later enlarged his atements in an interview, saying: Our ships are the best in the world. Jap pursuit ships came up after but they never had a uumcu' D JAPAN CLAIMS U. S. CRUISER IS SUNK SEA BATTLE Military Command Also Asserts Battleship Also Damaged TOKYO, May 25—The Japanese Impeuul Milttary Command an- {nounces that a 35,000 ton American battleship of the North Carolina type was damaged and a cruiser of the Portland ¢ sunk in the recent battle in Coral Sea, in addi- ition to other losses previously re- ported inflicted on the Allied Fleet 38 was There is no indication from any authoritative source that either sis- iter ships of the North Carolina or! ]Pm-unnd have been sunk, As British Keep Mediterranean Life Line Open JAPS TRYING ‘BIG VICTORY BLOW INEAST {Invasions from Burma in Southwest, from Sea on East Coast (CLAIM ADVANCES IN } YUNNAN PROVINCE Nippons Hit Chekiang Province in Southeast Area of Continent | (By Associted Press) | Japanese dispatches today claim important successes in southeastern and southwestern China areas, 1,500 | miles apart, which have become the most crucial sectors of the war in the far Pacific. Japan is evidently trying a last great blow to knock China out of the war and leave the Nippon hordes free to swarm into |an attack on Australia. In the southwestern province of | Yunnan, which Japs invaded after their conquest of the border towns | in Burma, the enemy claims to have sent forces surging across the upper | Salween River in the face of flerce | Chinese firing from the hills which shield the brideghead along the | Burma Road. Burma Important The Japanese say these forces |have advanced along this road fto Paosan, 55 miles beyond the border, Meanwhile, Burma still plays an important part in the war in the Far East, despite the fighting re- treats of British and Chinese armies there, for despite the handicaps of the rainy season, Burma is generally counted on to forestall any major offensive against India until at least the Indians have ample opportunity to prepare their defenses. The Japanese conquerors of Bur- ma are still a sharp threat to West- ern China and even the capital at Chungking, although terrific odds in the way of bad terrain and large forces lie between them .and Kun- ming, the Eastern terminus of the Burma Road, which lies 375 miles from the Salween foothold. On Eastern Front ‘The other front where the enemy is perhaps in a more decisive posi- tion to gain a major victory lies in Chekiang Province across China from Yunnan and just north of Fukien Province, where last week the Japanese invaded the port of Foochow. . Furthering the successes in Pukien Province of last week in the face of Chinese resistance, the Japs have carried the fight in Chekiang Prov- ince dangerously near to the im- portant communications center and the provincial capital Kinkwa, in the interior of the province and only a little more than 100 miles south of Hangchow. e e——— SUB SUNK BY PLANES OFF BRAZIL Identity of Attackers, U- Boat Nof Told in An- nouncement FORTALEZA, Brazil, May 25. Authorized sources announced to- day that an unknown submarine has been sunk by patrol planes patrolling Brazil's northeastern coast A plane, whose nationality is not identified in the announcement, dis- covered and attacked the submarine on the afternoon of May 23. The sub, attempting to submerge, fired guns and machine guns before the plane unloaded all its bombs on the U-boat’ and called the assistance of three other patrol pianes which ar- rived shortly,