The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1942, Page 1

HE D I.Y ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9047. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1942 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DECLARES U. S. ARMY TO INVADE FRANCE Says EXPERT OF NAVY MAKES BIG CLAIM Ultimate me Nearing But More Defensive Ships Needed WASHINGTON, May 29 — Des- pite heavy losses inflicted on Ameri- can Atlantic coastal shipping by submarines, naval experts said the | United States is slowly winning the main campaign in the battle of the Atlantic. It is emphasized however that only steadily increasing production of both war and merchant ships could clinch ultimate victory. The naval experts said the great- est need now is more defensive craft, subchasers, blimps, patrol| bombers all manned by experienced | personnel, | Barrymore's ‘Condition A Ghost i Completely deserted, this lation was evacuated to the i Ex-Consul a Raider? " ) -~ Very Grave | HOLLYWOOD, May 29 — The condition of actor John Barrymore, | who has been ill in a hospital here | for ten.days, is “very grave,” Dr. Hugo Kirsten, his physician, said‘ today. — o — Mexico War Move Still Hangs Fire MEXICO CITY, May 29 — The| four commitiees of the Chamber of Deputies who studied President Camacho’s proposal for a formal, declaration of war against the Ax- is, are reported to be unanimously‘ in favor of the proposal. No ac- tion has been taken yet. | The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON— | and ROBERT S. ALLEN | T | WASHINGTON Behind-the- scenes, there is a genuinely optim- istic feeling about the war picture. A lot of the old discouragement of i Pearl Harbor-Singapore-Java days, | then very pronounced backstage, has now evaporated. Production js ! proving an industrial miracle. More tanks were produced last month than during all of the last war. Plane production is now over 3,300 monthly. The army is becoming better equipped and better trained every day. However, coupled with this op- Baron von Spiegel Is Baron Edgar von Spiegel, World War I U-boat captain and former German consul-general for the entire Gulf coast of the U. S, now operating as a U-boat officer in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico? During World War I Von Spiegel never sank a ship with loss of life, thus earning the tifle of “Germany’s most chiv- alrous captain.” In the sinking of a ship in gulf waters recently, survivors told of the U-boat of- ficer, standing on the bridge of the Nazi sub, calling out to them, “Sorry we can't help you. Hope you get ashore O. K. Street in Australia street in Darwin, these days of almost all the thoroughfares in i within striking distance of Jap g nterior, once busy ghost town. AUSTRALIAN AIR FIGHTS CONTINUING IN‘tle is proceeding “in favor ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA, May 29—Gen. Doug- BOMBERS ~ OF TOKYO ININDIA Letter from Commander Informs Mother of - Son’s Whereabouts SAN DIEGO, May 20—A letter| [from Brig Gen. James Doolittle to = | Mrs. Wanda Stork Shuler of this| city informed her that her son, Lt. | J. Royden Stork one of the 79 men| who received the Distinguished Ser-| vice Cross for the bombing of Tok- | Yo, is “well and happy although a | bit homesick” in India. | The letter was dated May |in Washington, D. C | Doolittle also stated that Imen had been decorated by Chinese Government for their | ploit and said ‘he probably return some time in the not distant future.” BRITISH ARE PLANES HIT FAVORED IN U-BOATPACK 22 the | the! Australia is representative the bombed northern port Since the civilian popu- Darwin has become & ex- | willy planes. i ‘ too} merica Winning Atlantic Campaign The Mail Goes Through—the U.S. Censor’s Hand: 0FFENS|VE ~ ONGROUND }Gen. Marshall Makes First Official Statement Today WILL USE TROOPS - SENT T0 ENGLAND ‘Chief of Staff Speaks to West Point Graduat- ing Class a0 WEST POINT, N. Y., May 29 -~ | Y ¢ o : J |Invasion of the European contin- ent is promised by Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the | United States Army. | Gen. Marshall told the graduat- ing class of West Point today that American troops “landing in Eng- land will land in France.” | The Chief of Staff also said the |total men of the United States l‘Army will be nearly 4,500,000 by !the end of the year instead of the | previously anmounced estimate of 13,600,000, The forces have grown :durmg the past month by 300,000 LIBYA FIGHT OFF INDIES Destroyer Blakely Cover- Says Original Axis Plans ed by Air Aftack as ' Frustrated by Split- | | fing Troops Many Watch g | ST. LUCIA, British West Indies, | CAIgO. May 29—German Armor- | May 29—United States planes en- |ed forces in the desert of LibValgaged a pack of Axis submarines | have been repulsed after sUPPING 5 mile of Port Castries yesterday around the British positions as far|ypjje the Destroyer Blakeley limp-| as Sidirezegh, about five miles in- o4 into this port. . | side the British defensive system| pynqgreds of residents on shore |in the Libyan desert in one of the watcheq the battle and said that main battlefields of the Wwinter's ;¢ jeast one submarine must have | campaign. § {been sunk judging from the oil Heavy fighting almost entirely|foating on the surface after a 15- among tanks in a 50-mile belt| minyte bombing and depth charge between there and Ainelgazala re-|gptack. |gion of westerly British land pos No official al i | 2 nnouncement has tions marked the new campaign’s|peen made yet by Edward Kennedy { opening. lin charge of Amer rati The British said the original Axis|pere ° S fenions lattack plans begun several days ago by Italian tank squadrons, were to| sweep toward Tobruk. These plans |are now frustrated by the splitting A"red Lomen, Jr- up of their formations. | . ez 1 And Seattle Girl ITALY SAYS Wed in Oklahoma i i Miss Mary Elizabeth Shipman, of BIG DRIVE Seattle, and Lieutenant Alfred J i Lomen, Jr., were married in Tulsa, FomETy . | Mr. and Mrs, Eimer G. Shipman, Dedares leya Ofle“swe!or Seattle, accompanied their |daughter to Oklahoma and parents e at 1705 Fer- ‘ The communique said that since Ry o i SR | Wed! he bi - Sinsia moring e s | E, S, JACKSON LEAVES | Oklahoma on May 9, according lo | Resu"mg mn Favof {of the groom, Mr. and Mrs. Alfrecd started | the Seattle Times of May 17 which |carried a photograph of the you ‘cuuple and a description of the | wedding. p Lomen of Nome, Alaska and more Of Ax's recently of Seattle, were also pres- |ent for the ceremony. ROME, May 29—The Italian Lieutenant Lomen is stationed at Command today reported for u,cl‘!“on Sill, Oklahos and the couple first time the launching of a spring | Will make their h Axis offensive in Libya. |ris Street, Lawton, Oklahoma. troops.” The offensive y gty e : Wil . Significant Statement 4 P ; i i Gaining significance in view of | the current discussions among high |ranking Amercan and British of- ficers in London, Gen. Marshall's | assertion is the first definite state- ment- by any American official that (a ground offensive against the | Buropean continent is part of the American and British strategy. Further Confirmation P Yesterday in London, Lieut. Gen. Brehon C. Somervell, Commanding the United States Army Service of Top left, Lieut. Col. Compton; right, deciphering a letter; below, general view of censorship office, All incoming and outgoing forelgn mail s closely scrutinized by the office of postal censorship in New York City, shown at work above. If any code messages are among the letters, you can be sure these postal experts will decipher them. Lieut. Col, Harry O. Compton, district postal censor, heads the of- fice. He is shown at his desk above. Other pictures show a general view of the office and one of the censors deciphering a code message found in a letter. I Supply, asserted the United States stands ready to supply “both men RA ISE FOR |and materials on a large scale for |the European Battlefront.” ‘ This supply can be accomplished, | Somervell said, despite large com- K ment on Figure ! RUMORED IN HIGH SPOTS | WASHINGTON, May 20 — The joint conference committee has failed to agree Senate and House differences in the Military Pay Adjustment Bill, and Chairman b e Robert R. Reynolds sald today 1t vthM\B:L' ’:’:‘” ‘,9 o f*’;"mlr;f be “aoms tis%: Thetors ancy . . NS ISR PP i matic channels say that Hitler has pther P : imprisoned former food chief Senatcr Reynolds said that he wyjter Darre and General Walther i to accept the House-approved yon Brauchitsch, former Cerman amendment to raise the present aArmy Commander-in-Chie’ minimum pay of $21 to $60 a month Thirteen hight Nazi par'y officials but that the three other Senate are said to be involved in the purge. conferees refused to yield on.the|Darre was removed as food chief Senate figure of only $42 a month. by Hitler only a few days ago. Von - > | Brauschitsch was removed last De= Marines Learn Jap Language e . ; on might These U. 8. Marines are taking lessons in Japanese from Japanese instructor Sannosuke Yamamoto at Philadelphia, Pa, Those symbols on the blackboard add up to “Tokye, here we come,” The leathernecks absorbed in their latest assignment are, left to right: Sergeants Murray Marder, James Hackett, Gordon Ogilvie and Bud Barol. Prof. Yama- moto has been in the U. S. since since 1905. The Nipponese instructor has a daughter at the University of Pennsylvania. Deceniralization of | cember when Hitler himself took A GEIS {over the Army Command Hitler is reported to have re- turned to Berlin suddenly from the Eastern front a few days ago, when the purge is understood to have been carried out. There have been persistent rumors that food condi~ tions in Germany are growing worse. - JAP CITIES FOR SEATTLE TODAY timism is some very realistic think- | las MacArthur’s air forces havel Tuesday afternoon. ing which, while iv can't be labelled ' destroyed four Japanese planes and | The report said “numerous pris- o 4 i " i E. 8. Jackson, Conciliator with -1 5 {oners and considerable booty” have| X discouraging, nevertheless gives def-' damaged more than five others in| y {the U. 8. Department of Labor, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK. May 29—Closing Government Business inite cause for pause before shout-|attacks or Rabaul, New Britain and been taken. ing any victory hurrahs. This realistic thinking is con-| cerned with the great difficulty of | creating a second front against }m-‘ ler in Europe. Here are some of the cold, inescapable facts we are up against. First, it is estimated that Hitler has an army of around 4,000,000, Russia has 6,000,000 men, but they | are not so well trained and equipped as the Germans. Yet Hitler, despite | fluenza with which he had been; his heme for sevcrdl; NEW YORK, May 29—The Brit- < the power of his army, has been extremely careful not to get in-| volved on two fronts at once. He has picked each objective coldly, (Comfiméd on i’-;_!';ur) | Lae, New Guinea, according to to-| day's communique. During a sharp sky fight over Port Moreshy, two Allied planes were lost in dogfighting. — - STEVE MCCUTCHEON RECOVERS FROM FLU Steve McCutcheon, Assistant Ter- ritorial Commissioner of Labor, has recovered from an attack of in- confined to days. — e, United States Marines introdu- |ced the western art'or boxing to|chief for Hitler, the Chinese, iwho has been in Juneau for sev- |eral weeks in connection with hear- |ings between the cold storage work- lers and cold storage operators and | fish buyers of Southeast Alaska, left for the south this morning to re- turn to his Seattle headquarters No. 2 Gestapo Head Rumored} When hearings broke down and © |an arbitrator was requested by both ‘T H Dl d‘parnes to the dispute, Mr. Jack 0 nave viea |trator. He returned his award in |the case a few days ago. -eo | | | J { - e ——— ish radio heard here reports that| The average amount of electri- frumurs are being circulated that)city in a lightning flash—about 30 |Reinhard Heydrich, No.. 2 Gestapo' toulombs—is far less than the | died in Prague,/amount that can be charged into }"but these are not confirmed.” Ja storage battery. son was appointed to act as arbi- Adually Going Ahead BY JACK ST WASHINGTON May 29 The vernment is really in earnest bout this decentralization busi- The first big exodus ot non-war sencies is about completed It noved some 13,000 persons, includ- ng government employes and their families, out to such cities as St. Louis, Kansas City, Columbus and Richmond—anywhere that suitable oifice space could be found. ET Troyble was that only about 60 per cent of the employes of the 13 agencies moved with The rest simply quit their jobs and got new ones in other gc nment offices. And you can't criticize them in many cases Many were longstime government workers who had established homes here and had children in school Now plans are under way to transplanted their desk: 4nyxxnlfx\1cd on Page Five) i High Command Announces Recapture of Sev- eral Points CHUNGKING May Chinese High Command nounced that ten more the outskirts of Ichang, Japanese held Yangtze River stronghold above Hankow, have fallen to Chin- ese forces in concerted attacks rted three days ago. The communique announced that Kinhwa, the besieged capital of Chekiang Province, is “still in our 29 — The today an- points on hands despite enemy attacks of the, previous night.” quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today Is 2's, American Can 64, Anaconda 23';, Bethlehem Steel Commonwealth and Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 6's, Interna- tional Harvester 44%, Kennecott 26%, New York Central 7, North- ern Pacific 54\ United States Steel 45':, Pound $4.04 AVERAGES Dow, 100.38. JONES The following are today's Jones averages: industrials rails 23.88, utilities 11.50. Secretary of War Stimson was Governor-General of the Phillp- pines in 1927-29, Dow,