The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME il VOL. LIX., NO. 9050. JUNEAU, ALASKA ) . TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 194 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN C AF BOMBERS MAKE AIR RAID ON ESSEN Big Convoy Wins Five Day Running Battle AI_“ES—GET - Tank-Borne Troops Move Up on Russian From | AXIS Now | | \ | | | SUPPLIES T0 SOVIET PORT Score in Fight Against Ger- man Subs and 100 Nazi Planes LONDON, June 2.—A large United Nations convoy carrying American | and British war supplies to Russia | has reached a Russian port after a running battle of five days and nights against German subs and more than 100 Nazi planes, the ! British Admiralty announced today. It is almost constant daylight now in the far north waters, the Ad- | miralty said, and this is the most difficult time of the year to push convoys through that route. | But in spite of this condition, the | British indicated that only six or seven Allied ships were sunk in the battle, calling the German claim of bagging 18 ships “an exaggeration | of over 175 per cent.” | - | ALEX RUSSELL GOES '8 SOUTH FOR IIEALTIH Mr. and Mrs. Alex Russell left this | morning for Seattle, where Mr. Rus- sell expects to undergo an opera- tion. Mrs. Russell is on a short leave from the Territorial Depart- ment of Health. Mr. Russell is em- | ployed at the Alaska Juneau. e, MISS IRENE JONES TO [ VISIT IN PORTLAND | Miss Irene Jones, teacher in the | Juneau Grade School, took passage | for the south yesterday on her way | to Portland, Oregon, to spend the summer months with her family. | —————— i The Washington| Merry - Go- Round/ By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Wanted: A GOP money-raiser. National Chairman Joe Martin is| quietly hunting for someone to re- place steel magnate Ernest Weir as finance chairman of the Repub-| lican National Committee. It wasn't announced at the time,| but Weir formally quit at the re- cent National Committee meeting in Chicago. He gave as his excuse lack of time due to war work, but insiders say the real reason was personal dislike of Martin. It's no party secret that Weir and oilman Joe Pew, Pennsylvania ‘Republican boss, wanted to eliminate Martin as National Chairman. 1f personal dislike was the reason for Weir's resignation the feeling was mutual. 'On his part, Martin never was fond of the Pittsburgh steel mogul. However, in the inter- est of the party, Martin was willing to work with him, but if Weir didn’t want to play, that was okay with Martin. Up to last week, Martin thou_gh: he had found an ace money-Traiser in Colby Chester, 62-year-old board | chairman of General Foods Cor- poration. An admirer of Martin Chester tentatively agreed to take the job after a long talk between them. But last week he sent his regrets, saying that rationing price contorl, and loss of key assistants f.~ced hi mto devote all his time to his " giant company. General Foods' president Clare Francis and ad- vertising manager Charles Marti- mer are dollar-a-year WPB offi- cials. However, GOP insiders say there was another factor behind Chester’s | declination. | According to them, he put thel matter up to Mrs. Joseph Davies, wife of Rodsevelt’s friend, the form- er U. S. Ambassador to Russia, and to other big company stockholders. | They advised against taking the Republican post. DONE-AS-DONE-BY ’ DEPARTMENT Chalk up an Industrial Disting- uished Service situation for Amer- jea’s vast railroad shops and the (Continued on Page Four) i {of the former American In this radiophoto from Moscow, Red Army infantrymen are shown in marching had been unloaded from the tanks that carried them near the front line somewhere on the Rus Russians claim that these tanks have proved superior to the Nazi juggernauts that crashed front. formation after they ian their way through the low countries and France two years ago. NAZI TANKS ARE TRAPPED NEAR TOBRUK Germans Halt Libya Re- freat, Take Terrific Pounding CAIRO, Egypt, June 2.—A sudden shift in tactics by desert-wise Field | Marshal Erwin Rommel indicates | today that he might be gambling | 'on a desperate chance to keep the | Libyan offensive alive even at the risk of a shattering blow to the | backbone of his forces. : Latest advices from the north African front said Rommel called a halt to the flight of his two ar- mored divisions, grouping them, and tack. The Royal Air Force reported that the activity of British planes there has decreased on account of dust storms, but nevertheless, the RAF kept up its attacks on enemy air fields at Derna and other objectives including Tmimi, Bengasi and Mar- tuba. The Nazis have been caught be- hind the British lines southwest of Tcbruk since they skirted it last Saturday, and are struggling to hold open the two gaps through British mine fields in an attempt to extri- cate the trapped forces wwhich are taking a terrific pounding from British tanks, guns and planes. —————— Windsors Here from Bermudas {Duke, Ducfie—ss Luncheon' ‘Guests of Roosevells at White House WASHINGTON, June 2 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were luncheon guests yesterday of Pres- ident and Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House. The Windsors arrived early in the morning accompanied by Lady Hal- ifax, wife of the British Ambassa- dor. Late yesterday afternoon the Duke held a conference with Brit- ish officials and the Duchess had tea with Mrs. Joseph Davies, wi'e Ambass dor to Belgium and Russia. { | thus leaving them open to air at- BONDS FOR ‘ASHCANS’_Astride a depth charge, Actress Jane Russell talks to sailors while selling bonds. 8500 LISTED 'BY NAVY AS CASUALTIES Brazil Ship ~ Torpedoed | Near Haii HAS ONE MORE FOE {Mexico Fofinélly Declares | War on Germany, Italy, Japan | (MEXICO CITY, June 2—Presi- |dent Manuel Avila Camacho has signed a declaration putiting Mexico |ab war iinst Germany, Italy and Japan | "The only remaining the publication of the tion in the official gazette Tie nation to the south of the United States reached this decision after more than a week of delibera- | tion, started when Axis subs began sinking Mexican ships in the Gulf jand the Caribbean. Even after the Mexican Cabinet assembled for dis- ! cussion on the problem, news came {to the Mexican capital of the sink- |ing of a Mexican tanker off Florida, The Mexican government announc- ed then that a declaration of war was on the way. R WEST COAST - READYFOR - ANY ATTACK Gas Masks, Helmets, Bar- rage Balloons Are Common Sights SAN FRANCISCO, June 2—Gas macks, steel helmets and barrage ballcons, all of them for an enemy attack which officials in Washington think may come at any time, are commonplace sights along the Pacific Coast. A survey disclosed countless ball- cons, probably surpassing even Britain's balloon barrage, now pro- tecting every strategic military point long the West Coast From San Diego to Seattle, cap- tive gas bags are there for one main purpose — to keep enemy high enough to impair the bombard- ier's aims and to help anti-air- craft gunners. Policemen, firemen wardens have been i and policeman also have been in- truted to carry them on duty Steel helmets also have heen passed out, and San Diego police gone on a 12-hour shift wilh days off e U.S. PLANES formality is deciara- air raid sas masks and *d have no fFourth Accounting of War Ifalian Sub Officers Laugh' R AID jApS Raises Tofal Dead, Wounded, Missing WASHINGTON, June 2 y Department today announced the fourth casualty list of the war, raising the total dead. wounded and missing to more than 8500 office and men | The new list covers th~ period from April 16 to May 10, inclusive. It added the names of 64 dead 54 wounded and 2193 missing. The |latest accounting included names of some previously reported !wounded as missing or dead. | e — GOES TO SITKA | Mrs. Mary ‘B. Pool, publisher of | The Alaska Woman, monthly maga- zine, has left by plane on a business trip to Sitka. e | JOINS S. S. OFFICE Miss Pauline Petrich, who was graduated from the Juneau High School this year, has joined the staff of the Selective Service office | Affairs, being employed as a here as clerk-stenographer. e BUY DEFENSE BONDS | 2 i The | the | | asMembers of Crew | Drown KEY WEST, Florida, June 2 Four officers of a submarine lieved to be Italians, laughed from | the conning tower of their vessel a they watched the members of the crew of a torpedoed Brazilian mer- chantman struggle in the water near their blazing craft, according to the report of survivors who have just | reached land. Two torpedoes thundered in rap:di succesion against the ship on May |24 near Haiti. Six men are dead | two killed by the explosion and four |in the rough seas as they attempted | to reach lifeboats. | The 45 survivors reached land after 29 hours in lifeboats and have been brought to Key West e - be- | WILL WORK FOR ! INDIAN AFFAIRS OFFICY | Mary E. Shaw has gone to work | for the Alaska Office of Indian teno- grapher in the education division | General Superintendent Claude I Hirst announces. J IN BURMA Three Successive Attacks on Porfs, Airfields Are Made WASHINGTON, June 1 War Department today reporfed {hat American heavy bombers in the India command of General Hugh Brereton conducted three successive rvaids over Japanese positions in Burma last weekend — The The communique said the raiders ik an enemy tanker ther vessels and scored hits on unways at an airport, inflicting ome damage on parked planes. All the American planes returned mdamaged. — e MAKE SITKA TRIP Miss Jeanette Ringstad, Miss Ger- aldine Ringstad and Miss K. Har- quail made a weekend trip to Sitka, Miss Harquail preceding the Ring- stad girls on Friday. They returned together Sunday night. damaging 20,000 Lives Wiped Out in British Mass Air Raid on (ologne NEW YORK, June 2—The New York Times, quoting private advices from competent neutral observers n Berlin, reports that the mass British air raids on Cologne killed in the neighborhood of 20,000 per- ons and injured another 54,000 Special detachments of sanitary forces of the German Army have been sent to Cologne to aid muni- cipal officials in the de- preventing d clares The pread of disease, the Times weather is warm there, and three-fifths the City's 800,000 residents being evacuated to Mumich where emer- gency barracks have been erected in tr last 24 pproximately of hours. | Best Glamor Picture of Year! preparations | . i 1 ] BIG WORKS - OF KRUPPS ATTACKED Over One Thousand Planes Strike Nazi Arsenal During Night MILITARY STRENGTH OF HITLER GETS BLOW Prime Minister Promises Greater Severity with U. S. Forces 2 LONDON, June -One thousand and thirty-six Royal Air Force planes were turned loose on Ger- many last night and almost all of them hit the Nazi arsenal at the City of Essen and thesurr ounding territory. Prime Minister Winston Church- ill announced the second crushing rald of the RAF against the sources of Hitler’s military strength in three days, struck home at the huge Krupp Munitions works, Churchill promised more and even greater severity will follow when we are joined, as we soon shall be, lby the air forces of the United | In the opinion of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this is the best glamor picture of the year. Called “Sophisticate” by the cameraman, Scotty Welbourne, the subject is Brenda Marshall, screen actress. stardom via the Miss Marshall, born in the Philippines, has risen to Federal theater, Wreckage of Two Midgel Subs Atfacking Sydney | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | AUSTRALIA, June Three Jap- {anese midget submarines which at- tacked S8ydney Harbor last Sunday | night, were destroyed by shellfire and.depth bombs, The wrecks of two of the midgets have been recovered | Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s quarters announce that all the tackers accomplished was the sink- ling of an old steamer used as a | terry | Nine Japanese planes, hombers and two fighters, |1l1 ked Port Moresby, New Guir were shot down by the Allied de fenders according to the | announcement Hear- at- seven - MISS JANE ENGLISH JOINS STAFF OF U. §. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE Miss Jane English, who was re- cently graduated with honors from the Juneau High School, has joined the staff of the United States Em- ployment Office as clerk-typist. Miss English has completed a two year course in stenographic work and previous to her present employ- went had done part-time work for the Office of Indian Affairs. Sqnday N_righl Recovered which official | Famous =~ Surgeon Is Dead Dr. Finney Isasses Away in Baltimore After Re- markable Career BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 2., Dr. John M. T. Finney, world famous American surgeon, is dead here after a brief illness One of a group of physicians and surgeons who made the Johns Hop- kins Medical School known over the world, Dr. Finney, surgeon, gained recognition also in other fields, not- ably education In 1912 he declined a proffer of the presidency of Princeton Univer- | sity, his alma mater, to succeed Woodrow Wilson, when the latter was elected President of the United | States. Wedded to his career at Baltimore, he likewise declined ov- (Continued on Page Six) { States.” The Essen raid came after a pause of but one night when bad weather air armada was grounded after the held the RAF's greal bomb carrying mammouth attack on Cologne. Churchill said 35 bombers failed to return from last night's raid. R REDS HOLD NALZIS BACK IN NORTH No Essential Changes in Position Report- ed Today MOSCOW, June 2. — The Red Army is jabbing strongly at German lines in two points northwesy of Moscow, in conformity with the So- viet tactics of keeping the enemy back on his heels and preventing him from undertaking his own of- fensive, according to today's front line reports. The dispatches said that Russian attacks are being made both in the Kalinin sector and in another northwest area, improving their positions and drawing the Germans into counter-attacks. No essential changes in position are reported, however. . GERMANS SQUAKING ON RAIDS Claim Air Atfacks for Ter- ror Against Civilian Population BERLIN, June 2.—British bomb- ers last night attacked several local- ities in western Germany, including Duisberg and Oberhauson. Pifty- nine enemy planes were downed, the German Command asserts ‘The raids, the communique states, centered on “residential quarters, terror attacks directly solely against civilian population.” B LEAVE FOR SEATTLE Miss Espe Gillespie, who has been with the Bayanof Beauty Salon for the last several months, has left for Seattle to make her home.