The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9044. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY PRICE TEN CENTS AIR BLITZ ON AXIS EUR Vichy France Near Giving TURN OVER OF VESSELS INDICATED German Sailors Permitted fo Study Operations of Warships SECOND FRONT IN EUROPE DIS(USSED Britons Clamonng for Def— inite Action - Views of Hore-Belisha (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Vichy France has taken a defin- | ite step toward turning the French fleet over to Hitler, London advices | indicate today amid reports that new TItalian demands have been | made for prized French Territorial , including Tunisia, Nice, a. new agreement between it is said that By a Vichy and Berlin, German sailors are being permitted to “familiarize themselves with the operations ot French warships.” The move Nazi seizure of France’s still pow- erful naval forces. For Second Front Meanwhile, Britain’s former War Secretary, Leslie Hore-Belisha, de- clared today that the successful es- tablishment of the second front in Europe might end the war this year. While Britons continue to clamor for direct action, Hore-Bel- isha asserted “A stern struggle is in progress around Kharkov. We promised to intervene to relieve our Russian ally and the psychological moment may come soon beyond which we must not delay if our action is to turn the scale.” (Continued on_ i‘;ig'eisix) T The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — WAAGC, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, is too new to have many hard and fast rules, but here is one: Mem- bers cannot have a baby. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, able executive assistant and press rela- tions chief to “General” Oveta Culp Hobby, firmly declared that “acts of God” will not be recognized and pregnancy will automatically result in discharge from the Corps. WAAC is receiving hundreds of Jetters, telegrams and telephone calls from women desiring to en- list, but Mrs. Herrick emphnsxzed that no recruits will be enlisted un- | til 450 officers have been trained— probably in three months. Officers will be selected in the| various Army Corps areas. Any woman between the ages of 21 and | 45 may apply to an Army recruit- | ing station. The Army will select the officers. Most applicants so far are from' the higher income groups—Junior League, DAR, etc., but WAAC hopes to draw its personnel, both offi- cers and enlistees, from a wide so-| cial and economic range. BYRDLIKE ECONOMY For two days last week Senator Harry F. Byrd led a slashing Sen- ate attack to halve all funds for the Farm Security Administration, which aids tenants and little farm- ers. The bitter attack got nowhere. The Senate slapped Byrd down by the overwhelming vote of 48 to 16.| This was no new experience for the millionaire Virginia apple- grower. Although frequently re- buffed, Byfd continues to be the No. 1 Clamorer for Economy—ex- cept when it comes to certain per- sonal matters. For at the very time he was raising a great economy hulla- (Continued on Page Pour) seems to foreshadow | Stand Arm in Arm ! | e — oo mamsaRsa ¥ M. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek stands arm in arm between her husband, (he Generalissimo and U. S. General Joseph Stilwell (right), after their conference in Maymyo, April 7, when Chiang Kai-Shek told hi Chinese military leaders that the American general was to be their boss on the Burma front. This picture was taken by George Rosizer, m—— 1 BB ER 10 'BE SCARCER, Army fo Cut Down on Requirements WASHINGTON, May 26 — The | Senate Defense Investigation Com- mittee today criticized the Army and Navy for not paring rubber requirements, asserting that if the production of synthetics doesn't ! come up to schedule, the military forces “may find themselves with- out rubber at some future date.” | The 57-page report of the com- mittee said that national gasoline | rationing on a “sensible basis” and requisitioning of tires must be giv- en serious consideration. To conserve a million tons of rubber now on the wheels of motor vehicles, no new cr reclaimed rub- ber of all non-essential vehicles should be used within the next three ' years. the report said. Continuing, it predicted that the REHEARS ES_singing Star- | let Marie McDonald of Hollye wood rehearses for “victory cara- R e SR o "“that it supply military needs and | ossenlml civilian requirements, such ' ! 'n tires for cars transporting de- | | fense workers. | The resources of this hemisphere u{l‘cr little stantially to the United Nations’ | supplies of crude rubber, which son has testified will be exhausted est possible curtailment of civilian Big Future Here Commissioner John W. Stude- ! & s Nichols said that Alaska will|baker's Office of Education hi | [ ERPRRR . grow more and more dependent up- issued this pronouncement: “This OPA Cancels Proposed BB i e on air transportation after the SUmmMer comes not as a time for| i LEAVES FOR TRIP war, that the country which js vacation but as an opportunity for | 'Iomng as SUDD|IeS | TO YAKUTAT SUNDAY Meady to penctrate foreign markets (hESAEIA] i THNE 1D KL b | T with huge, fast cargo planes when | 65 ;‘?“fi"d! orpn L’}"““ "‘(’L' g jcctives highlighted by the needs Improve n WeSf On a nur: supervision trip w““e war is over will be the first fo, “ep t e forces aud of war| | the Office of Indian Affairs staff, |office of Price Administration has cancelled plans for card rationing |of gasoline in Oregon and Wash- ington - beginning June 1. The OPA said the marked im- provement in gasoline supplies in | |the last few days was the reason| |for the cancellation. ——————— The =:2cpest oil weil In the world headqualtens within a few days. e, HARRY R. LAWTON IS eries, Inc., extends less than three miles down- ward. J attle. | best that can be expected of a suc—l van” show in Washington, D.C. | | cessful synthetic rubber program is' Alnaks Yo seewhat sort of & job BIG BATTLE | | Chekiang Province ~ SAYS REPORT ‘Senafe Commmee Warns. NI(HO[S PAINTS hope of adding sub-| Price Administrator Leon Hender- lcounu.l | | by May of 1943 with even the great- | Norip Dakota. | Yakutat, Miss Mable L. Morgan, of | ‘come back.” WASHINGTON, May 26 — Thei .o o0y plane Sunday. She is airlines form a vital part in the | to the war effort without being un- |, IN CITY ON BUSINESS der contract. Harry R. Lawton, Columbia Brew- | planes to come that will dwarf the Inc., arrived in Juneau from largest now available. a business trip to the Westward s California plant is working on Sunday and left yesterday for Se- — | supplies by plane PE PREDICTED - CHINA COAST Japanese Conquesi of | DEVELOPS ON Seems Near (BY A\\()( IA ED PRESS) China’s grim battle to stave off | the Japanese conquest of Chekiang | Province on the East Coast of the continent, springboard for a po- tential Allied offensive against | | Japan suffered new reverses today, | according to dispatches from head- | { quarters | On the far Western front, the |last British defenders of Burma | X lare reported to have withdrawn | {into India. Close To Capital Chinese headquarters acknow-| | ledged today that Jap troops, es-| timated at 100,000, have advanced | within two miles of Kinwha, pro- visional capital of Chekiang i The Chinese dispatches said that |the Jap assault on Kinwha has \\nun thrown back with heavy cas- | | ualties, but acknowledged that the “situation is still very grave and \nw coming week will witness even | | tiercer battles.” | Holding Pirm i | Officiak Clu,ngkmg dispatehes, say_ that the Japs have lost 4,000 men trucks flows steadily through Per Great Britain for the Red Beauties Vie in an atiempt to storm Kinhwa 1 three sides. The reports said | t Chinese troops have routed {Jap forces which captured Waulipao, | {two miles south of Kinhwa. | For the moment at least, the | Chinese appeared to be holding firm | de~pue handicaps. Once more, the Chinese spoke man indicated that Japanese | ial superiority is playing havoe, de- \clmmg “the enemy is continually ‘bombmg us in relay ,ee '~ ROSY FUTURE FOR AR TRANSPORT Congressm;n-i peaks fo Members of Juneau Rofary Club ‘ Representative Jack Nichols, of Oklahoma, now in Juneau on his way from the Interior on an in- Opening a series of pulchritudinous cont ities aman. these lovely Los Angeles b and then posed for the came Montez, film actr spection trip of commercial airlines under contract to the army, told members of Juneau Rotary Club Army. Kharkov sector, Alerican tauks are alicady in actions Fleet To Nazis This photo, radioed from Cairo to London and cabled from London to New York, with vit he current battlos un the R sia on the way to Ruscia In th w Title for FTWFGTORY HOUSE ests for the title Miss Victory, paraded before the victory house In the center of the photo is Marie . with whom the winner will appear in a picture, today that they would be amazed — to see what the “planes on the boards” of American aircraft fac- tories will be able to do in the |future and that he believed that |air transport is going to do a big job for Alaska in the future. Nichols said that he is visiting the commercial airlines are doing| in Alaska in contracts with the | military in carrying soldiers and Also guests al the luncheon meeting in Percy's 3 X Cafe were William Stern, of North (Biest, of. o, GLioigm | Dakota, Northwest Airlines director, By JACK STINNETT and Francis Butler, NWA legal, WASHINGTON, May 26 “Yoo-~ Stern also is a Republi- | hoo, Skinnay- chool’s out” used to e the June cry of American youth, but it won't be this year. can National Committeeman for roduction.” Right now, he said, commercial " s | As President Roosevelt once | pointed out, "~ the educators just expected to return to her Juneau hation’s defense and in the War , .. i5 say it the hard way. |effort. Some, he said, are under contract to the military, and oth- ers are devoting their organizations ,, .y \Il that means is that any school t doesn’t keep open this sum- and contribute its plant and sonnel in some way to the war rfort is skipping its opportunity The Congressman spoke of big 1o be of important use to the com- munity and the nation He said thal Just 50 those opportunities won't overlooked, the Office of Edu- cullon’s wartime commission has (Continued on Page Six) Summer Shiffs for U. §. Schiools; Program Given For Purposes of Defense outiined them and they are worth repeating. For example, schools which heretofore have gathered nothing but dust and broken win ows through the summer heat, can| | touch off a littie T.N.T. under the| enemy this year (s0 the commission ys) by offering their buildings and staffs for- (1) Ceurses in mathematics, Eng- lish, social studies and science (2) Aviation education from maodel ding on up. (3) Tramming of womens and girls for all trade and clerical occupa- tions. | (4) Courses in nursing, nutrition, first aid. | (5 Intensive physical fitness courses for lads and lassies who will be up for military training or war work within the next theee years. (6) Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) courses for air raid ward- | ens, auxiliary fire and police ward- ens and other OCD jobs as may be needed in those ar ‘(,ununutd un Puue Three) Supphes Go Through for Russia’s War Machme GREAT Blow IS PLANNED - ON GERMANY American War Mission Flies Over Atlantic to Confer with British (ONFEREN(E SESSIONS - ARE QUICKLY ARRANGED ‘Head of Army Air Force, Chief of Naval Aero- nautics in London LONDON, May 26—A States War Mission, headed by |Army and Navy chiefs, called one 1of the most important yet sent to Great Britain, has arrived hero and gone into action with no losy of time. It was disclosed today that two of the leaders are Lieut.-Gen. H. H. Arnold, head of the Army Air and Rear Admiral John H. Chief of Naval Aeronautics. The purposes of the conference with the British are believed to be to talk over plans designed to co- ordinate the strategy of the two nations for a master blow against | Germany., Within two hours after stepping off the train which brought them { he from the landing place of the {plane in which they flew across the WPB Orders Holding of United Kadiophoto shows how a stream of upplies from the United States and {ront, in the Crimea and in the 1942 HSH Atlantic, Arnold had arranged | meetings with the chiefs of Great Canned Goods for Britain’s fighting forces and had assumed personal charge of the Govt. Use !United States alr operations plans. Sh | The typical unofficial British re- WASHINGTON, May 26 The action is that the mission fore- War Production Board today or- shadows a supreme air offensive against the Axis in Europe. . e e - DIMOND dered canners to set aside the en- tire 1942 pack of salmon, s.ll(“ll(‘\' mackerel and Atlantic herring to| fill the needs of the lrlntd ser- | vices and the Lend-Lease program.| Officials emphasized however, Lhat‘ he order doesn't necessarily mean | hat none "of 1942 pack will be | available to civilians. | Lawrence Hockinson, in charge of Fishery Products, for WPB, said that “because of uncertainty as to PURCHASE the supply and demand, it was thought best to require that the | entire pack of these fish be set sy wside, then if the full supply is not S needed for military or lend lease AIaSka Delega'e ln'ro ff:;ltl.l.;:xn;;::l”u can be released for| uces Bill F|x|ng Price of Metal in Govt. Buying It is estimated that of the 1942 pack of 5,400,000 cases, about 2% million will be required by the gov-| tyASHINGTON, May 26—Al }““t’""“lv Delegate Anthony J. Dimond ha: | Canners must set aside any pack hresented a bill to Congress direct- processed from l\«surch 1 thmuuh‘mg the Metals Reserve Company February 8, 1943. Each canner must |ty purchase for the Government all make weekly reports to WPB as t0!tin produced in the United States | the quantity of fish canned and if | yntil three years after the war. the pack thus set aside is not pur-| pjn made in the country or Ter- | chased by the (“vuVfl'Hfl\rflL within ritories would be purchased at $1 {80 days after filing the report, the per poind, or at market price it |canner may notify WPB that the that is mmm m,m a dollar, i red by the report will be| |teleased on the civilian market uu- less ‘ s bought by the (mvnnnwnL b | | - Same Prices | THREE MER(HANI 188 As Last Year SHIPS TORPEDOED | [N CARIBBEAN SEA ‘Navy Department Says OPA Puts Pnce Ceiling on Womens and Child- ren’s Clothing sh co | One Was Large Amer- _ican Vessel The WASHINGTON, May 26 — VVAHHNUI‘ON. May 26 — The Navy Department announces the Office of Price Administration ruled torpedoing and sinking of three today that 1942 Pall styles in wom- merchant vessels veral wee en’s and children’s coats, suits, ago in the Caribbean” and surviv- dresses, blouses and many other ors have landed at east coast ports.'outerwear garments may not be sold One of the ships, the Navy says, at prices higher than those charged was a large American vessel and last year. the others are described as medium e |sized, one a Dutch ship and the C. A. SCHONACKER HERE other flying the Norwegian flag. | C. A. :honacker, merchandise aad broker, arrived in Juneau yesterday } BUY DE! from a business lrip lo Sitka,