The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1942, Page 1

VOL. LIX., NO. 9045. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY , MAY 27, 1942 2 "MEMBER PRICE TEN CENTS JAP PREMIER THREATENS AUSTRALIA Red Army Claims Advances Kharkov Front IMPORTANT SECTOR IS UNDER FIRE Soviets 'CaMe Vanfagei Point in lzyum-Bar- venkova Fighting TANK BATTLES ARE FLARING IN SOUTH Russians Ho—M_ing Off Vio- lent German Assaults _on Flank (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Soviet front line dispatches to- day report that Marshal Timo- shenko’s armies have smothered part of the German offensive 80 miles below Kharkov, while the German command today that the resistance of 2 troops encircled in the same criti- cal sector has “been broken.” The Russians declared that their armies are slashing through the flank of the German wedge and have brought the Nazi offensive in the Izyum-Barvenkova sector to a standstill. Capture Hill This is a most jmportant zone in the battle of Kharkov, says the Red Star, Soviet Army newspaper. The newspaper said that tank-led Russian infantry, attacking under cover of artillery barrage, captured the slope of a hill dominating the battle zone. The story further claimed that the Soviets are mnow fighting at the gates of a village several miles from their starting point. | The Red Star said that two Nazi counter thrusts had failed to halt (Conunl};d D;l' l";ge' Five) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Hollywood trying to hush it up, but two of the biggest moguls of the movie world recently staged a battle over Henry Ford. And it wasn't a screen fight either. The two battlers were: In one corner, Louis B. Mayer, czar of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, former Re- publican National Committeeman, and close friend of Herbert Hoover; in the other corner, Harry Warner, energetic spark-plug of Warner Brothers and an ardent admirer of President Roosevelt. The argument occurred at a meeting of top movie moguls called to discuss future production sched- ules. Louis Mayer revealed plans 0 picturize the life of Henry Ford. Discussion uncovered the fact that the picture was to be a glamorous portrayal of the motor magnate's career with no reference to various activities which for, many years have been the subject of widespread denunciation. “In other words, you are going to put out a whitewash,” Warner remarked, according to friends. “Henry Ford represents the wheels of ~ civilization,” Mayer. “And you have got yourself caught under those wheels!” shouted War- 8.1, Whereupon Mayer called Warner a fighting name. Warner retali- ated with a swing to the jaw. Then they were separated. GASOLINE MIRACLE Today, with gascline scarce along the Atlantic coast, certain U. 8. naval officers remember with re- gret a mysterious inventor who turned up during the last war and said he was able to make gasoline out of water. The story seems like a myth, but it is recorded in the U. 8. Naval| “(Continued on Page Four) is| retorted | umb—but Two-!"" “‘One Jap,He D Larry Moore and Kenneth Sanger Back in the United States after serving with the “Flying Tigers,” ‘American Volunteer Group, in China, Larry Moore, left, and Ken- | neth Sanger told interviewers in Los Angeles that “there’s nothing i dQumber than one Japanese and nothing smarter than two.” The two i been trained to act as a group, but when the said the Japs have “Tigers” break up a plane formation, the Japs are just dead ducks. The Japs just can’t seem to think for themselves, according to Moore and Sanger, who plan to enter the U. 8. Army. Keep Em Bing MAKES TRY 10 MURDER NAZI CHIEF Life of Ading Reich Pro- tector, Bohemia-Mora- via, Is Threatened BERLIN, May 27—Reinhard Hey- | drich, Acting Reich Protector in Bohemia-Moravia, has been wound- ed in an attempt to take his life. This is according to a DNB re- port from Prague. The DNB said Heydrich’s wounds are not expected to prove fatal. | The report does not state when the attack occurred but added that a “reward of 10,000,000 crowns will be paid for capture of the culprit.” S AMERICAN Here are two of many thousands of members of U. S. Army ground crews, They are training at Max- well Field, Ala. Although Pvt. Vir- gil C. Jackson, b feet 1 inch, can stand erect under the wing of his plane, his buddy, Pvt. Henry P. Schackelford, 6 feet 7 inches, can' . DESTROYER Ship Is Dan?ged in Mar- tinique French Territor- ial Waters, Is Report ST. LOUIS, British Wcesy Indirs, {May 27—A torpedo fired within the territorial waters of the French is- = land of Martinique damaged the o eglans U. S. destroyer Blakeley, but the | | warship reached port under its own | | power, it is officially reported. Ten Thousand Authorized It Bikeley was pucomve e for Reserve Midship_ gotiationg are under way between men Training |U. 8. and French High Commis- WASHINGTON, May 27 — The Bureau of Naval Personnel today authorized the enlistment of 10,000 additional college juniors, seniors and college graduates for reserve midshipmen training. R IAWKES ARRIVES FROM MINE PROPERTY | cerning the military status of Mart- ‘inique, when the destroyer was tor- | pedoed. The identity cf the sub that at- | tacked the Blakeley was not learned immediately, although it has been known for several weks that Ger- man and TItalian undersea craft JOHN ¥ for some time. ,———— — WHITEHEAD IS IN CITY John Hawkes, of the Kuiu Zinc Mine, located on Kuiu Island, ar- rived in Juneau last night from his property and is staying at the Baranof Hotel while in the city. et BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Ernest Whitehead, Northern Com- mercial Company representative for the Caterpillar Tractor Company, arrived in Jureau from the In- terior this week. |sioner Admiral Georges Robert, con- | |have been active in the Caribbean | SECONDSUB - SENT DOWN ~ OFF BRAZIL | {Sea Raidefi’resumablyf " Sunk by U. S. Bomber | in Same Waters | | FORT ALEZA, Brazl, May 21— § A high source here reported today ! | that another enemy sub has been | sunk off Recife by a “B-18" pre- | sumably an American bombe: ‘ | Douglas twii-motored nmlium; | bembers known as “B" bombers are | {used by the U. 8. Army. { This is the second enemy sub | sinking by U. S. planes reported in| | these waters in the last two days. Yesterday, the sinking of a Ger-¢ man sub was confirmed. The Nazi sub was said to have been sunk! by U. S. patrol planes in the wat-' ers 85 miles east of Fort Aleza. Nationality of the second enemy | | undersea raider to go down is not |given in today's report. | UNDERSEA ATTACKER | ATTACKED i Enemy Sub Béiieved Sent . Down by U. S. Forces | —Is Third Strike | | RIO DE JANEIRO, May 27—An lunconfirmed report received here |said U. 8. .Warships, answering |call for help cn May 18 sent out |by the Brazilian {freighter Com- | mandante Lyra, chased an under- | sea attacker and is believed to hav: 'sunk it.. This is the third enemy | sub reported sunk off the Brazilian jcoast within nine days. | The Brazilian newspapers con- 'tinue to attack Germany for the assaults on Brazilian ships and |urged the Government to begin ac- tive defense with planes and war- |ships but the Government has per- Imllted no word to be published of !the sinkings of subs off the coast ‘:by the United States forces. B | 3 VESSELS SENT DOWK ~ BYENEMY One Craft Sunk by Shell- fire from Sub-Sur- vivors Landed ‘WASHINGTON, May 27 — The Navy announces the torpedoing of a medium sized British merchant vessel, a small Greek merchantman in fhe Atlantic and also the sink- ing by shellfire of an American trawler. The shellfire came from an enemy sub. Survivors of all three craft have |been landed at an east coast port — e DEFENSE RENTA AREA EXTENDED 10 ALASKA NOW WASHINGTON, May 27 — The Government has designated 18 ad- !dmonnl communities and the en- tire Territory of Alaska as “defense ;rental areas” and ordered rents, af- | fecting some million persons, cut back to March 1 levels. ! The OPA announced the new areas will be given the usual 6) a days to meet the recommendations. OCD, Selective Service, unnunocl:t_v‘ Air Forc © over AN-Out Wartim For Summer Sciools Gives Every Sec! (Second of two articles.) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 27. — Al- though each city or county schoc board will have (o solve its own problem in meeting the all-out war time summer school program, rt ommended by the U. 8. Office of Education, it'’s a safe bet that neve; before will the nat 's schools have been such a center of community war activity during vacation as thi s Even those communities where the school systems are on a deac center financially or can't get Fed- eral aid for a summer program of wartime education, the schools can according to U. 8. Education Com- missloner John W. Studebaker” wartime ecommission, do more than a bit in an extra-curricular way In other words, no school should closed this summer unless som¢ ich better meeting house is w.vail able to the neighborhood The schools, says the commission ould offer their plants ANI) per- sonnel to the war services for: (1) Information oifices for the Australia” a squadron of TROUBLE FOR JAPS_This is Asamayama, largest vol- eano in Japan, as it appeared in 1931, New eruptions were reporied. e Wings Over Ausiralia . £ Foree P-40 pursuit ships takes to the air in its job of jsfifispflnmfi ling and carrying the fight to the Japs. FOR THRUST ON EUROPE U. S Suppl} Chief Arrives ' in England for Big Conference | LONDON, May B. Somervell has round out the United tary Mission conf British War Chiefs. Lendon commentators express the ! bellef a united air assault is planned to blast the way for a future Allied |landing on the German occupied ! continental coast. Gen B arrived here to States Mili- 'ring with the i Lieut. Gen. Somervell is com- | manding General of the United | States Army’s Service of Supplies, |charged with the handling | thousands of tons of food, clothing | and munitions needed to keep any 1 ; ; 48 |majcr expeditionary force in the . field. ! - D ERumanians - Gel Tasfe of Nazi Laws e Program ion Plan fo Ad rationing (the sugar rationing pro- gram is an example of how import ant the schools can be alo k iine, and other government agencies | having to do with the war and de- | fense. | Hard Labor in Prison- Set Fires Is Charge NDON, May 27--The British (2) The salvage and conservation ' B lcasting Station reports that programs. 1132 persons have been sentenced (3) The sale of war savings o hard labor and prison terms stamps and bonds. {in Bucharest in connection with 10 Riseony oty Kinder e recent man-set fires, e tens and playgrounds for the ch dren of mothers in war industry. (5) Entertainment men and war workers. | (6) Housing of service men, in- NEW YORK, May 27—Closing {ustrial and agriculiural workers, quotation of the Alaska Juneau (1) Red Cross, OCD and other mine stock today is 2, American training centers. Can 64%, Anaconda 24, Bethlehem and STOCK QUOTATIONS of service (8) Recreation and health train- Steel 52', Commonwealth ing headquarters. ';Souuwm 3/16, Curtiss Wright 6%, (9) Transportation by school | International Harv r 44'%, Ken- York Central 7%, y Inited States buses of war workers where regula- |, tions permit. | obt 274, New jorthern Pacific 5 (10) Victory garden organiza- giee] 46', Pound $4.04 tions, | b t (11) Canning and preserving in! DOW, JON AVERA Ragorr k'whe“‘} ton and reere.| The following are today’s Dow, (2) War information and recre- | ;one; guerages: industrials. 101.09, | mfilg‘,“l '\;(:cd,.l:finfi “2:7&,,1“(.?' "‘;m. {vails 24.26, utilities 1151, i PO ] BUY DEFENSE BONDS (Continued on Page Three) Over 100 Are Senfenced fo| RENEWS VOW OF SUPPORT T0 GERMANY Tries fo Di;&i, However, Idea of Atfack on ; Russia as Aid DECLARES NIPPONS, SOVIETS FRIENDLY | Warns India that British, | American Troops There Must Go (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Japan’s Premier Tojo sounded o new threat today to Australia, as- serting boastfully that the “naval | | | | | | | | | forces in defense of Australia have disappeared and nothing is stand- ing now to defend that country be- fore the onslaught of the Imperial | Japanese Forces.” (Evidentally a “fishing expedi~ tion” was sent in quest of informa- tion, resulting in Tojo's repetition |of Japan’s claim of victory in the Coral Sea Battle, a claim discred~ |ited by Allied accounts.) | Renews Pledges | 'Tojo accompanied his threat with | rencwed pledges of Japanese sups. |port to the Axis. ’ “Japan will do her utmost to con- | tribute her share as a partner of | Germany and Italy”, he told the Jap parliament in the presence of Emperor Hirohito. But as if to dispel the idea that {Japan may help Germany by at- tacking Russia the Foreign Min- |ister carefully explained that “re- viet Union have ‘undergone 10 change, even after the outbreak of war in Greater East Asia.” | No Break With Russia | “The enemy countries will, T pre- cume, intensify efforts to alienate |Japan from the Soviet Union, but |there is no chance that such in- | trigues will bear fruit so long as the | lati between Japan and the (Soviet Union maintains the atti- | tude mentioned.” ;‘ In addition to his threat against | Australia, Tojo warned India that ‘as long as British and American troops remain in India, Japan is inflexibly determined to annihilate them.” ons - e, NAZI TANKS START PUSH, - LIBYA FIGHT 'May Be Start of Pincer Movement Toward Mediterranean CAIRO, Egypt, May 27 — The fight for positions in the Libyan No Man’s Land burst today with a |sudden Axis bid for the initiative with strong armored forces sweep- ing deep around the British posi- tions to Bir Hacheim, 40 miles south of Ain El Gazala where they joined |in battle with British tank forces. | London military commentators, meanwhile, said that Field Marshal “rwin Rommel's cinforced Nazi de army has started “an offen- ive for some sort,” but added that 1|v is too ecarly to judge the size f There is a chance, however, that this is the opening thrust of a Nazi pincer move toward the eastern Mediterranean and it is being watched closely. The first indication of the Axis push was contained in the usual communique from British head- |auarters which said columns “in- | cluding tanks of some strength” ad- |vanced eastward yesterday. .- { i Of the total world production of |mica in 1938 -9.016 tons—6,334 tons came from India.