The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME ) VOL. LIX., NO. 9052. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1942 PRESS st 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED | PRICE TEN CENTS == DUTCH HARBOR ESCAPES 2ND BOMBING Allied Subs Sink Jap Ship With Troops 3 VESSELS SENTDOWN, 50. PACIFIC One Troop Craft Torpedoed ~Two Supply ShipsHit, | Destroyed at Sea ENEMY TRAFFIC LANES | SUCCESSFULLY RAIDED Four Midget Submarines Are Sunk in Sydney | Harbor Indicated | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ]N‘ AUSTRALIA, June 4—Alfied sub- marines have sunk an armed Jap- | anese transport with the “probable | loss of all troops aboard,” also sent | two heavily loaded supply ships to the bottom and damaged a third supply ship. | The communique said the ships| sunk totalled an estimated 22,000 | tons and it is also estimated ler.k | TContilnuiedr on Page Five) Mussolini May Review | Libya Men war Damage Insurance Planned; Privafe Firms LONDON, June 4 — A British Broadcasting Corporation report | from Africa quotes its own corres- pondent Richard Dimbpeby as re- porting from Libya that Benito Mussolini may appear on the Af- rican Front to review his troops. | The Washington Merry -Eg- Round| By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN (On the last day of the pres- ent Supreme Court term, Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen award the brass ring, good for ! one free ride on The Wash- | ington Merry-Go-Round, to | Justice Felix Frankfurter.) ) WASHINGTON—The entire Brit- | ish Empire was set just a bit agog last winter when the Australian Minister in Washington announced that Justice Felix Frankfurter had | advised him to take a post in the British cabinet. The Australian| Government was especially agog, and its prime minister said so pub- licly. | To a lot of other people also it | seemed queer that a justice of the U. S. Supreme Court should be dipping his fingers into vital af-| fairs of the British Empire. But to those behind-the-scenes in Washington this was no surprise at all. For now, as the Supreme Court winds up its current term, it is a fact that second only to the President himself, Justice Felix Frankfurter has more to do with guiding our destinies of war than anyone in Washington. ‘ He does this through having put| his own men in three key cabinet posts; through being on intimate terms with the British Ambassa-| dor Lord Halifax and the Chinese! Foreign Minister T. V. Soong; and | through having one of his old stu- dents, Dean Acheson, sit at the | right hand of Secretary of State, Hull. | Almost no move of major im-| portance is made these days wuhoull Frankfurter having his finger in it. If the President is sending at mission to India to help the Brit-| ish settle their independence prob-| lems, Justice Frankfurter sits in on, discussions. If an investization is| to be made of Pearl Harbor, Frank- | furter recommends his friend Jus-| IR S RS + (Continued on Page Four) Seeks to Join Women's Army Col. John F. Daye Manhasset, L. I, is shown hand and Mrs. Jayne House | ife of ing in her enlistment application to Col. John F. Daye, recruiting officer of the southern New Yoik dis- trict. Mrs. House is aclive in Red Cross and other defense aclivilics. |, ToHandle Govt. Policies WASHINGTON, June 4—Govern- ment Insurance for private prop- erty against damage by enemy {action is to be offered through local fire insurance agents beginning about June 20, under a plan worked out by the War Damage Corpora- tion. | The rates will range at about| | five cents a year per hundred dol- | |lars on crops and at 10 cents per! hundred on dwellings, up to 75 cents a hundred on yachts. Private fire insurance companies| |are participating in the plan and |will be the official agents for the ‘,gowrnmem in selling policies. -——— NEW POINT - UNDER FIRE LIBYA AREA Rommel At?efipis fo Seize Bir Hachem, Which Is Key Position CAIRO, June 5—Bri Armored Forces are reported to have routed Axis soldiers from their d ert stronghold in a fierce engage- ment, while Free French Allies held - (ompanies : | wi First woman in the New York aea to volunteer for the Women's: | ihrough moenlit ekies Army Auxiliary Corps, Mrs. Jayne House, 31-year-old hou: : | center. RAF RAIDS NAZI PORT LASTNIGHT Heavy Blasts at Bremeni Carried Out by Big Forces (OMMANDOS SCOUT | COASTAL DEFENSES Sirike at Shipyfirds, Subs, Docks, Railways, Steel Works LONDON, June 4—British bomb- | rs heavily blasted at Bremen, Ger-| m; Second largest seaport, as British commandos fruitfully| scouted in the Boulogne-Letouquet | area of Hitler's French coastal de-| fenses over night. [ rnment agencies unnmumufl today that the Bremen raid is the ninety-fourth of the war and was linked with an attack on the Dieppe ! Docks. | The Air Ministry announced that 10 bombers and iwo fighters missing after the night operations, ¢ n a strony RAF force, flew [t to strike at | Premen targets such as shipbuild-'| ing, sub yards, docks, rail s, steel works, oil refining installations and ircraft factory. This is a follow-up of the mass raids on Cologne and Essen of the last week. Only Hamburg Bremen as a G are ahead of | maritime ranks rman commandos escorted hips protected the RAF fighters who strait after Black-faced by Navy wa withdrawal of tabbed across Dover midnight. A reconnaissance raid was clared to have produced nformation.” Casualties were clared slight. -, HANGMAN OF EUROPE DIES TODAY (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Reinhard Heydrich, 38, Reich “rotector in Bohemia-Moravia, and No. 2 Gestapo Chief, died this norning in Prague from wounds uffered on the attempt to take his ife on May 27. This is the official anouncement from Berlin. The assassination of the man known among millions of Europe's de- uable de- | I i i i These converted fishing vessels and other sea-going craft are shown just before leaving a west coast port for inshore patrel of the U. guard duty against prowling Axis submarines, Their peaceful fishing pursuits are ended for the duration. Kept Fighting With One Arm In aerial combat near Midway island, March 10, U. 8. Marine Gun- ner Robert L. Dickey had one arm rendered useless by Japanese Despite his wounds, Dickey continued to fight and his heroic action contributed to the final destruction of a four- wrage under fire, Dickey, now in the sco, Naval hospital, has received his Dis- It was presented by Rear Admiral W. L. ¥riedell, right, commandant of the Mare Island Navy yard. OFFICERS AXIS GETS - BACK FROM machine gun fire. engined Jap bomber. For I Mare Island, San Franci tinguished Flying Cross. 'Splinter Fleet’ Helps Guard the West Coast’ Robert L. Dicl Paci C(ONFERENCE WASHINGTON, June 4 — The y and Rear Admiral Friedell i fast against the efforts of Field | Marshal Erwin Rommel to seize the | key position of Bir Hacham. } The Middle Fast Command’s| Indicted communique today says that British | forces in an attack on June 2 drove, PHILARELPHLA June '5"E' I the enemy out of Tamar, 21 m'xlos\P“P"“L De Nc)nopxs Compans: and | southwest of Tobruk and six mile,s\f“’e other explosive manufacturers west of Knightsbridge, the c(\,m,,-[lmvu been indicted by the F‘edex“ul around which most of the fighting|Grand Jury on charges of conspir- is occurring in this latest Libym,‘;ing to fix prices in violation of the campaign. | Anti-trust Act Rommel apparently desires to! The indictment also named the capture Bir Hachem at the south- | Hercules Powder Company, Atlas ern end of the severed line which|Powder Company, Austin Company, once extended to Ain El Gazala, in|Illinois Powder Manufacturing Com- order to make it impossible for the|pany and King Powder Company. British to counter-attack that tiny| ‘The indictment. contended in ef- oasis about 50 miles southwest of|fect that there was an alleged con- ‘Tobruk. |spiracy to “maintain prices of com- {mercial explosives and = blasting supplies to all classes of consum- Ma'an“ska Ge's ers at high, arbitrary, and artificial More (ash for A Elediric Syslemi levels.” WASHINGTON, June 4 — The| | T gt . U.S. fo Fight Three . i More Nations Now Rural Electrification Administra-| tion has allotted $26,000¢ to the| | | WASHINGTON, June 4 — Con- gress today formally declared war g s - against Bulgaria, Hungary and Ru-| th he T e Matanuska Electric Association.| % | weather on the trip up the Insid This is the &nnouncement made M2Did. the Senate unanimously ap- | Passage and enoyed the scencry here today. ——————— oppressed peoples as “Der Henker the Hangman of Europe is expected o bring about the shooting of hund- reds of hostages in addition to the 163 Czechs already slain in swift reprisals. Czech circles in London aserted today that automatic rifles used by two men who shot Heydrich were from the ordnance of the disbanded Czech Army and possibly were dropped from a parachute all Czechs have been disarmed. HEALTH DEPARTME HAS NEW EMPLOYEE Miss Ada L. Burt arrived in Ju- neau this morning to join the staff of the Territorial Department ol |Héalth. She came from Washington |D, C., and has been loaned by the United States Public Health Service to the Department here for service Miss Burt, whose home formerly was in Salt Lake City, will be em- ployed in Juneau until further as- signment from the Department. She was thrilled on her as first proving the resolutions and passed|She is temporarily at home in the them without dissent or balloting, Baranof Hotel. :ompleting the needed ,legislation | ———-o—— in 32 minutes. BUY DEFENSE BONDS ) BUY DEFENSE STAMPS I visit to the Territory with beautiful i war Department announced today that three of its top ranking officers, Lt.-Gen. H. H. Arnold, Maj. Gen, Clark, have returned to this country from London, where they were en- gaged in staff discussions with British military leaders last week. -ee- - — TWENTY - NINE ARRIVE FROM SOUTH TODAY Passengers arriving in Juneau his morning from the south were C. C. Axelson, Arnold J. Bailey, conard Brant, Ada L. Burt, Carl Carlson, Ralph Chadwick, Gerald Clark, Dalgety Clark, Bud Dagle, jerrel Dagle, William H. Draheim, william L. Freeburn, L. T. Oldroyd, <aarlo W. Nasi, C. L. Nayes and willlam 8. Waldrop. From Ketchikan, passengers were B. Cain, Robert Coughlin and F. 8t. Germain; from Wrangell, ). J. Chisholm, William Gilman, Melin, David Morgan, Mrs. David Morgan, and Alice Osborne; from burg, Fred Hagen, Mrs. Fred fagen, William Paul and Claude rile. A T e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS NO ATTACK * SINCE NOON YESTERDAY ;Morning Raid Followed ' Only by Jap Recon- naissance Ships 'LITTLE DAMAGE IS " DONEBY ATTACKERS Navy Says Fh;s Set in In- | itial Assault Quick- i ly Put Out Japanese warplanes attacked Dutch Harbor two times yesterday. The first group of enemy aircraft swept over the eastern Alaska de- | fense base at 6 o'clock in the | | morning. Four bombers and 15 | fighter planes attacked the post [for 15 minutes, and then retired, | setting fire to a few warehouses |and inflicting a few casualties. SHORIAGE | 8ix hours later, at noon, Dutch Harbor time, mo Jap panes ap- | | peared. This second wave of en- . (CUTS STEEL | emy planes, the Navy Department Expansion Program Dow T T— — fic coast. The boats are part of a vast fleet of wooden ships that do vital | | | ] " | |reports in an Associated Press dis- n naissance work. The communique relating the news of the second en- 30 Percent Because |counter reached The Empire at 7 lo'clock yesterdsy evening. Situation Quiet |steel expansion program is fo be that the “situation at Dutch Har- cut 30 to 35 per cent, two top war bor is quiet at present.” The dis- production officials announced to- patch declared that the total dam- day, giving the reason as material age to the military base is not ex- | shortages. tensive, and that the fires set dur- |to keep existing equipment work-| while the source from which the |ing, said William Batt at a press|jap planes attacked Dutch Har- C”]’;f”“"""_' e bor has not been definitely deter- = ’ pressed belief that the planes weve ; v | The Navy Department has an- ‘SURVIVOR nounced, “There is nothing to re- el port from other Alaska bases.” ! | Secretary of War Henry Stimson, | meanwhile, predicted from Wash- T E l ls o F |ington, D. C., that yesterday's at- j | tacks were “not the only and last & to comment on, or to predict where FOUR DAY 20 Sh. S further attacks might be expected, 1ps saying that he didn't “care to %o |into that phase of the Japanese |minds.” Secretary Stimson similar- by Japs ; patch received by The Empire, 0‘ FaFk A Navy Department communique | American industry in general ing the initial raid were quickly ex- Ing shortages in steel, copper and|g 4 japanese aircraft carrier. raids” that may be expected on unk in Bay o failed to drop any bombs and prob- ably were engaged only in recon- WASHINGTON, June 4 The received by The Empire through | previously planned 10,000,000 ton 'Associated Press at noon today said | Imust prepare “to patch and pl'uy”‘“,,g",hh(.d_ other war materials e Evidently there have Meen no at- tacks on any other Alaska base. r !Americ;m territory. | < No Comment | The Secretary of War declined i . A8 | Bengal in One Day menf of New Merchant Losses in Atlantic (Continued on Page Three) RED CROSS WILL AID CIVILIANS ATDUTCHHARBOR Field Director There Auth- orized fo Extend Help as Needed The American Red Cross has |authorized its Dutch Harbor field |director to extend Red Cross as- sistance to civilians as needed in that area, as an aftermath of the Japanese attack, it is announced today. A radiogram sent to Gov. Ernest {Gruening from Alfred Schaefer, Red Cross regional director at San Francisco, reads as follows: 'ON, June 4—A com- “With reference to the Dutch morrow evening in the Council|™!nigue issued by the Navy this Harbor incident, I have authorized Chambe at’ & alodsok “to .AMCiNS afternoon announces the loss of Oliver Warwick. Red Oross field routine affairs of city administra- the U. 8. 8. Cythera, a small Naval director at Dutch Harbor, to extend tion, Mayor Harty 1. Lucas _|patrol vessel in the Atlantic ure:x.‘Red Cross assistance to civilians nounced today, The communique gives no fur-| as needed. i |ther details but says the next cf “I also have requested Warwick |kin of the personnel aboard the'to advise us if additional supplies converted yacht have been notified. are needed for civilians.” NORFOLK, Va. June 4—Corner-| ing six Allied nations cargo ships| in a porf of the Bay of Bengal on| April 6, three Japanese cruisers submarines are in helled the entire group to the attacks in the At-|bottom in 40 minutes and sank an-| and have |other nearby, Capt. Eklund, master bot-'of one of the vessels, told news- an- men on his arrival in Norfolk. of The seven sinkings are confirmed twelve losses, five comparatively an_announcement by the Navy. small. “The Japs sank 18 or 20 ships Only 41 seamen are listed as dead that day in the Bay of Bengal and or missing. Nine sinkings were re- cleared out every ship in the Bay,” ported Tuesday and with the Navy's said Eklund. He was master of the announcement today three addi- lone American freighter in the tional torpeodings were disclosed. |group of six. All but 83 crewmen and eight o passengers escaped death when tor- pedoe: ink a medium sized U merchant vessel and a large British hip in the Cavibbean Sea early in May. Prowling Axis tensifying thel lantic and Carik sent three more ves 6 the tom of the bringing an nounced total in four days n sea seq, n R SMALL PATROL SHIP OF NAVY IS SENT DOW City Council will meet to-| WASHINC e l.||'N|-I\l' CITY COUN The BUY DEFENSE BONDS ‘ 13