The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 28, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “AIL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9046. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1942 “MEMBER ASSOCIATED PR PRICE TEN CENTS ORDERS DEPORTATION HARRY BRIDGES Americans Ready To Hit European Front SOLDIERS, SUPPLIES SETT0 GO Somervell S;y_s Both to Be ! Furnished on Large | Scale Soon May 28—Lieut. Gen.| Commanding | | | | LONDON, Brehon B. Somervell, Workers in Crifical War Indu siries Are Now fo Be "Frozen” WASHINGTON, May 28 — The War Manpower Commission has de- cided to “freeze” workers in critical war industries to their present jobs | to prevent “labor pirating” the| spokesman said. In the future an employe in such | a critical industry will be unable' the United States Army Service of |~ Supply, asserted here today the| | United States stands ready to sup-| ply both “men and materials on | a large scale for the European battlefront.” | This supply can be accomplished,} Somervell said, despite large com- mitments to Australia and India and despite the shipping shortage. } The Army officer arrived here yesterday to join other members of | fhe American Mission now here| conferring with British War chiefs | on the next step to be taken on | the European war front. | - | MANY CZECHS SUFFER FOR NAZI ATFACK More than 100 Already Arrested for Attempt on Heydrich | LONDON, May 28—The Germans | have subjected all of Bohemia- Moravia to a fine tooth combing hunt for the assailants of Reinhard i Heydrich, Number Two man of‘ the Nazi Gestapo. | The Gestapo has ordered every male over 15 to register with thoi police by midnight tomorrow. Czech sources here express the; belief that “more than 100 have| already been arrsted.” Mass round- | ups started yesterday following the attempted assassination. The Washi;gtoni Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON— DY 4 ROBERT S. ALLEN (The Washington Merry-Go- Round toduy awards its famous brass ring to Brig. Gen. Harold L. George, chief of the Ferry- ing Command and to all the men who are delivering U. S. planes across the seven seas.) | WASHINGTON—When you mention the ferrying command to Gen. H. A. «Happy” Arnold, his Irish face lights up. “There’s a real | story for you,” he says. What the Air Corps chief refers to is not only the efficient manner in which U. S. airplanes are being | rushed to the far-flung fighting| fronts, but to the pioneering pos- | sibilities for future peace. For out of the tragic destruction of war, | out of the tons of steel sent daily to the ocean’s bottom, out of the| cities wrecked and lives lost, will come a great forward thrus aviation — a network of airlines spanning the world like a spider- web. For today the Air Forces Air Ferrying Command (AFAFC) is conducting operations on a larger scale than all the civilian airlines of the United States put together.! And in a few months, when present | plans are completed, its operations will be ten times larger than all the civil airlines of the world before the war began. Headquarters of this giant net- work is a temporary wooden struc- ture near the Lincoln Memorial, with maps as big as a barn, hous- ing the offices of Brig. Gen. Harold | L. George, commander of Ferrying Command. “We are not only the arsenal” (Continued on*Page Four) Senate Passes Bill for | Senate has passed and sent to the ! handling insane residents of Alaska. 'pay the expenses for the transfer ¢ | transferred to a sanitarium only at take any pledges still out»mndmg,‘ s ,. [ *HEARTS DESIRE'_pa mires “Hearts Desire,” champion All-American rose for 1942. U S. Bomber Crew, Lost 46 Days in Back fo REVISE LAW FOR ALASKA | INSANE CARE Transfer of Patients fo States WASHINGTON, May 28. — The House a bill revising the laws for The new bill would permit the Secretary of the Treasury to trans- fer such patients from Alaska to sanitariums in the United States and authorizes the Government to of such patients found insane in any State to sanitariums. Heretofore, any resident of Alaska found insane in any State could be the expense of the State. The measure provides for the care of Alaska insane and granting leaves of absence for those suf- ficiently recovered. D WAR BONDS GROUP MEETS TOMORROW Members of the War Bond and Stamp Committies will hold a final meeting tomorrow to check cn pledges taken in the Voluntary Pledge Campaign last week, ac- cording to Mrs. John McCormick, chairman. The meeting will be held at 4 p. m. in the City Hall and Mrs. McCormick urges all members to to change jobs without the ap- proval of the United States Em- ployment Service. The policy will be effective as| soon as a proper directive is draft- | ed, the spokesman said. “Labor pirating” is most preval- ent in the aircraft industry. Norris of Pasadena, Calif., ad- | | | Wilds, Get Base, Grinning AN ALLIED OPERATIONAL: BASE IN AUSTRALIA, May 28— Tattered and shaggy, but grinning, the crew of a big American bomber returned today to this base after being forced down in the swampy wilds of New Guinea and lost from | their headquarters for a record span of 46 days. With them came an American fighter pilot who had been out 26 days. Several bomber crews have made | their way back to the base after being lost for many days among native tribes, but this outfit, headed | by Pilot Louis W. Ford, 22, of Los Angeles, set a record of nearly seven weeks in the bush. The entire crew is suffering from malarial and tropical ulcers, but said they found friends along the | way, generally in good shape. | Hero of the second homecomingi is fighter Arthur E. Andres, 23, of Newton, Mass. Out on his " first combat mission over Lae and Sala- maura, he was nipped by Japanese zero fighters and kept scrapping | along so long that he ran out of gas some distance from Lae. - Duich Ship Torpedeed, Caribbean | WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, May 28“ —Freighter Flora of the Royal| Dutch Netherlands Steamship Com- | pany has been torpedoed in the Caribbean, the Netherlands NewsE Agency Aneta says. | The Flora is the fourth ship of the company's fleet that has been sunk in recent weeks. — e Metal mining is conducted in| more than half the 29 counties of Utah. . 5. SUBS SINK THREE JAP SHIPS Undersea C_r—afi Smash at Enemy in Western | Pacific Waters NO RELATION T0 CORAL SEA FIGHT Heavy Jap Cruiser Is Also Damaged by Our Submersibles WASHINGTON, May 28 —The Navy Department announced today that U. S. submarines in the Western Pacific have sunk two Jap , probably sunk a third and damaged a fourth, the latter a heavy cruiser. The y Department said these sinkings have not been announced previously and are not related to the Coral Sea engagement. | The subs are said to have sunk one la auxiliary ship, ne medism-sized cargo vessef, severely damaged and probably Sunk another medinm-sized car- go ship, and put some bad dents in a Jap heavy w; p. This announcement raised the toll of Jap vessels sunk to date to 44, with 13 probably sunk and 12 damaged. B SAY BRAZIL SANK SUB OFF COAST Rio De Janeiro Source Claims Their Fliers Attacked U-boat | RIO DE JANEIRO, May 28»A‘ high Brazilian source said today that one of the Axis submarines| recently sent down off the B zilian coast, was attacked and sunlk | by a Brazilian plane piloted manned by a Brazilian crew. The source claims two North American fliers first sighted the Axis plane and made an attack, then called for assistance from the land bases. Brazilian planes arrived at the scene sfiortly after and attacked the submarine and sunk the craft Brazil is not at war with Ger-| many or Italy. | ——————— | ASKS MEXICO T0 DECLARE WARONAXIS i ‘ | ‘ | 1 | President Calls on Con- aress to Put Nation in. Fight MEXICO CITY, May 28—Presi- dent Camacho of Mexico has called upon the emergency session of Con- gress to declare Mexico at war with the Axis. ‘This will be the first declaration of war in Mexican history and will place the nation immediately upon a fighting footing. The Chamber of Deputies rang with cheers as President Camacho pledged all resources to ‘“saving America” following the recent sink- ing of two Mexican tankers. ) and This picture, one of the first pictures of U. S. troops in the interior of Australia, shows American soldiers getting acquainted with a group of Australian aborigines, as their Army car, part of a truck eonvoy, stops for a moment. The native tribes are extremely clannish and despite their clothes and appearance are comparatively untouched by the civilization brought to their continent by the white man. 7 ki i A ‘MOTHERS' SOLD I ERS_Rita Mayworth, named by Camp Cailan, Cazif., soldi “their-away-irom-home-mother.” Relief for Millions of g Smail iManufacurersls | Promised in Legislafion 'K STINNETT WASHINGTON, May tional De: " was a byword long before Pearl bor but only now a bill emerges from Congress (it has passed the Senate and probably will pass the House any day) de- igned to give relief to some 3,000,000 mall manufacturers and busine: firms in this country whose busi- n have been turned turvy by priorities, war contracts, ipping, price controls, and the w of labor into war industries. 28 Some political observers around are saying that this procras- nation will probably have more ffect on this year's elections than iy other factor and that the cssmen who have been worrking out other things are—much I vir amazement—rot coming back Washington, despite the fas their records on other defense malters are clean as a whistle The excuses for the delay have been many. The one that holds the most water is that Congress and government would have been tcolish NOT to gear big business to Le war effort first. According to Rep Wright Pul-‘ topsy- | to | man of Texkas, one of the author: | the small business bill, mittee that of the 184,000 | manufacturing pdnts in the | try, some 45,000 could be convert | to the war effort and that the | non-war producing plants repre almost 50 per cent of our % experts in- Ni-| formed the joint eongressional com small | coun- nt entire * ‘British Ship Barrdale Tor- pedoed, Not United States Battleship RECIFE, Biazil, May 28—The ar- riv ITALIANS GIVEN LIE props from under the week old Ital- ian claim that an Ttalian submar- ine torpedoed and sunk a United States battleship. Rome has been broadcasting the statement of the torpedoing for several days and it has also been stated that survivors were picked up. The survivors here have been positively identified by the Mari- time Police Inspector as Britishers from the torpedoed British | Barrdale. AXIS NEAR STRONGHOLD OF TOBRUK Desert Figfifig Is Fierce Near British Defensive Zone in Libya of offe ON SINKING al of the Argentine steamer Rio ship | CAIRO, May 26—A sudden Axis| sive Bastward in the Libyan| (OMMUNIST ACTIVITIES Be Arrested-Probably Released on Bail WASHINGTON, May 28—Attor- ney General Francis Biddle today ordered the deportation of Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen leader The Attorney General’s decision reversed that of the Board of Im- migration Appeals which had can- celled proceedings on January 3, and ruled on two major points 1. That the Communist Party ad- vocates overthrow of the Govern- ment by force and violence. 2. That Bridges is a member of such an organization. Biddle upheld the proposed find- ings by Charles Sears, retired judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who presided at the ten-day hear- ing in San Francisco this year. The Attorney General ordered Bridges to be sent to his native Australia at the expense of the Government, Bridges now is free 4(:!1 a $3,000 bond and will be picked up on a warrant under today's or- der, - Presumably the labor leader will be rel dix‘d_v; a_new bond Hfilfinfirml ] s through the courts COL. BAISH IS PROMOTED T0 FULL COLONEL Commandinij Officer in Ju- Tzuala with 52 survivors of the terpedoed British ship Barrdale, N [knocked out one of the principal| NeaU Has ustrious Military Background Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Baish, Commanding Officer of U. S. Proops in Juneau, has received official information of his promo- tion to the rank of Colonel in the Corps of Engineers, effective date of rank, February 1, 1942 Col. Baish has a long and dis- tinguished career to support his pro- motion to his new rank and comes from a family prominent in military circles. Born January 29, 1897, Colonel Baish has served in various capacities in the Army since he first entered upon his career in 1915 when he entered the U. 8. Military Academy at West Point He was graduated from West Point with the class of June 12, 1918 and at this phase of his Army career, when he was only 21 years of age, an unusual feature occurred. The Army was expanding rapidly due to the World War and Cadet Baish was directly affected by this expansibn when he was appointed Second Lieutenant, to First Lieu- tenant and then to Captain in the | Engineer Corps, all appointments cffective the date he was graduat- | Commands Company Two montns after his graduation woductive potentialities. If t is| Desert has driven within 15 miles|) =~ .00 0d to West Point as an | true, then the productive efforts of jof the key British defensive strong- |, .. ..tor of mathematics, a po- this country haven't really been hold of Tobruk, according to to- sition he held until 1920, at which apped, in spite of all the glowing day’s dispatches. Ltinie e sntered Masssahoseste Bhe | acounts of progress that have come| Despite being repulsed on both| it o mechnology. He was | frem lllw War ll’n»d\umm B201d| flanks, the communique disclosed, |, oo of o FUTRL Gith a B ind other official sonrces indicate advance 30| ? e = N . o it lludlun.:d“uuB‘u:v‘:m; ubo\dll lJU 8. C. E. degree, class of 1931, Im~ | e POose ( ay ¢ lmiles pasf 1e British forward de- | Py “ e 5 | different in its final form) pro- | fense Mne. mediately following his graduation (Continued bn Page Six) Lund, Donald Pegus and Walfred Martinson. i , Donald Stroup he assumed command of a Com- wn_;\qd(-x‘ broadly for two things: (1| Ap guthoritative British state- i T b Bl i acs | iaiIe | A small business division in WPB|ment however, said that the en- o , [that will expedite contracts and|emes presence was not of great| ., Pr. Riag, Toxas. 1 whidh Goe ubcontracts to small manufacturers|gon ® R Yo T T an | PAcity he served until 1924 {ana: other ‘Widh': bBUROD TP Blibcers Woalans since. 1. deesytl,, LEDATOrEpdit figm. Fws -Rite o seeing that their productive po -n.l] Ertis l‘}‘: o0 ‘l s ling|the drd Engineers in Hawali In | tialities are used, and (2) the es.| ShUng there Is ho defense TNC| 1994 Captain Baish served as Regis [tablishment of & - Smaller Wap(' he usual sensc mental Adjutant until 1927 when | Plants Corporation, with $100,000,000 et he went to Fort Belvoir, Va., as to start, which would have conver-| AVE FOR INTERIOR Secretary of the Engineer School. sion and financing on war con-| o7 PR In 1930 he attended the Engin- i | Men of Juneau who I»rlkllu,x wv;k B i) At et mael - for the ior to work for the This proposed SWPC would also ::::m:;“l :::W:h‘:\ };Tp» u‘\n John (; member of the Student Company | have the authority o take contracts * . syt ‘|Officer’s course, from which he (Continued on Page Five) |