The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIREK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9053. JUNEAU, ALASKA . FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAVAL BATTLE NOW RAGING ON PACIFIC 4 4 ¢ Jap Attack On Midway Island SIX SUBS HIT NEAR | AUSTRALIA Allies Get Raiders Near Vital Supply Line, Sydnel Harbor Thousands of miies west of the other naval engagement being fought today near Midway Island, another naval action marked the growing struggle for control of the seas. General Douglas MacArthur’s | headquarters today announced that | Allied planes guarding the vital lanes through which U. S. war sup- plies are flowing to Australia, have sunk two more Jap subs and prob- ably a third off the East Coast| of Australia. The new successes make a total of six and possibly seven Japanese undersea raiders destroyed in the| Australian theatre in the last five | days. Four enemy submarines were sunk in the abortive raid on Sydney Harbor on Sunday. ————————— BOMBERS HIT AGAIN ATRABAUL Gen. Douglas MacAr'hur's1 Headquarters Tell of | New Pacific Raids | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 5—Allied bomb- | ers rained explosives on the Jap-| anese-held airdrome at Koepang yesterday and on docks at Rabaul,| New Britain, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur’s headquarters announced | today. | The communique says that direzt hits were scored on both target areas and fires were started and antiaircraft installations destroyed. | The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—For more than| two months the President has been | backing and filling on the ques-| tion of coordinating the numerous | government war information agen- | cles under a single head. Chief| reason for his long delay is the| problem of deciding on the Co-| ordinator. | More than a score of names have | _been considered. It's a White House secret, but the list finally has been sifted down to the fol-| lowing five— i William Bullitt, former U. S. Am“ bassador to France and years ago| a brilliant foreign correspondent. | Paul W. Garrett, vice president| in charge of public relations of General Motors. | Raymond Rubicam, head of Young & Rubicam, a leading advertising| agency. | Byron Price, War Censor and for-| mer Associated Press executive. Lowell Meilett, head of the Of-| fice ' of Government Reports and one-time newspaper editor. Of the five, Price and Mellett| have the most potent inner circle backing. Pressuring strongly for Price, is White House Secretary Steve Early, an old newspaper chum of Price and largely responsible for his ap- pointment as War Censor. | Mellett's principal backer is Judge Sam Rosenman, close per-| | | | | sonal adviser of the Presidént who asked him to look over the field|¥'® and recommend names for Infor- mation Co-ordinator. Mellett has told friends he didn’t want the job. (C&iu?ued onmhge l’ou;‘_ & 4 S & Sealtle Jittery; Gearing | Against Invasion; Drills Scheduled, Air Wardens BYNIPPONS & SEATTLE, June 5—This metrop- olis continues to gear itself in de- fense against invasion by the Jap- | anese. Alaska Way, the main waterfront thoroughfare, is virtually deserted of pedestrians and motor traffic following imposition of most drastic new naval waterfront e | strictions. Air Raid Wardens and other of- ficials have scheduled dozens of intensive drills and instruction per- iods. Stephen Chadwick, Past National Commander of the American Le- gion, today issued a statement Morale of War that morale is high but rumor monger: as Chairman the Civilian Comimission, Seattle's ing has increased after the atta on Dutch Harbor and consequent; radio broadcast silences of the past/ ytwo nizhts. Jews and Christians unite at 11 o'clock Sunday fore- noon at a mass meeting in Victory Square in a demonstration com- memorating the attack on Pearl Harbor six months ago. Mascot Spurs on War Workers | Little Mary Anne Mayers, selected by Goodye step up production. During the For gel Phonephoto ar aircraft workers in evacuation from Singapore, where Akron, Ohio, as their mascot, points to a sign she chnlk§d that should Mary’s father worked, the youngster was thrown into the sea and in- jured when the boat on which she was sailing was torpedoed. Government Publicity Agendies Are Blasted; Not All, But Majority BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 5—Of all the constant blasts that have blown on government agencies, the most constant has undoubtedly been against press agents, press relations, public relations and information services. In name they are one and the same. In performance, they are as varied as colors in the rainbow. Even within their own structures they are as different as fingerprints. The truth of it is that soge arc excellent, doing a real service for the government and the people; some are simply incompetents, |grinding axes for petty officials or | agencies. still, within these structural ex- |tremes are men and printed mat- ter who aren't tarred with the same stick as their bureaus. That is why, no matter how good or bad |they are, they are constantly open to triticism of a very damaging sort. And I think I can explain by cit- one example (which is not an isolated exception) why the govern- ment publicity bureaus are so vul- nerable. Out of the Office of Emergency Management public relations sec- tion the other aay came this little lulu, with a heading: “The follow- ing is a short fable for the use of feature editors. It is on inflation.” “Once upon a time,” it started, “there were two island countries.| The names of these countries were | Infla and Contro and their citizens were strong and fearless. | “Life was fairly simple in each country. There were plenty of| breadfruit, bananas, plantains and| cocoanuts and the sea abounded in| fish . The people of both countries | were democratic and ruled them- selves through councils. They es- tablished many cities and they car-| ried on much trade. Their mediur | of exchange was pearls. One hun-| dred seed pearls were reckoned to| be worth a pea pearl and twenty pea pearls were reckoned to be worth a butternut pearl. “One day Infla was attacked by the Jaxis. The Jaxi§ are a nasty| little people from across the tur-| bulent sea. They havé slant eyes, | protruding teeth, straight narrow moustaches and an unpleasant way‘{ of saying ‘Heil’ on every occasion, even when they belch . . . " If you haven’t had enough I have. That went on for three and a half| pages of single-space mimeographed (Continued on Page Six) 4 jschools at Fairbanks, Se S S POISON GAS BEING USED . 4 4 M U..S.: CO I President Roosevelf Issues[ Statement - Refalia- fion Promised WASHINGTON, June 5.— President Roosevelt declared to- day that authoritative informa- tion has been received that Jap- an is using poison gas in the war on China. Lt. Gen. Stilwell, § Ma The President promised the? | United States will “retaliate in kind and in full measure™ if Japan persists in this form of “inhuman warfare.” JAPS MAY 30 Brifish Admit Atfack - Say No Damage, However, | Donié to Shipping (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Tckyo asserted today that special Japanese submarines have tor- pedoed and seriously damaged a 30,000 ton British battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class and a Brit- ish light cruiser of the Arethusa clags in a surprise dawn attack on the Diego Suarez Naval Base on the Island of Madagascar. Tokyo's claim met a swift denial from the British Admiralty, which said that Jap submarines had at- tacked the British-occupied base on May 30, but added that “there were no casualties to His Majes- ty’s ships.” This is the first actual pews of the attack on the Madnga&t’ar base although yesterday the British an- nourlced the execution of two Jap Naval Officers, who, it was saic et evidently been assigned ! make plans for an attack on the fermer French Island, which the British took over early in May The British did not announce at that time, however, that Jap subs had attempted a recent raid on the naval base. Before the Brit- ish made their blitz on the Island, which would be a definite threat to supply routes to India, it wa thcught the Japanese were plan- ning to occupy it. AREORDERED OFF AIR ON PAC. COAST Broadcasting Stafions Si- lent for Many Hours During Two Nights SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 5— All Pacific Coast broadcasting sta- tions went off the air last night in accordance with orders issued y the Western Defense Comman.d and Fourth Army. Wednerday night a!l radio broarl- casting stations went off the for approximately eight and half hours. It is said an enemy can follow the wave of the voice from the stations in an attempted attack - JAMES C. RYAN RETURNS FROM Territorial Commissioner of E cation Dr. James C. Ryan has re- turned to Juneau by plane from Fairbanks after a week's trip 10 ward and i o one DR. du- Anchorage, Gen. MacArthur, Southwest Pacific MANDER Lt. Gen. Brett, Australia 4 L4 L4 | Eight generals, oneadmiral have top say-so on be- half of the U. S. at the far-flung bastions of Unit- ed Nations ac- tion in global struggle. They must coordinate strategy with other services, plan jointly with allies. ° | UNITED 13 STATES MEXICONZ/ B Admiral Nimitz, Pacific Area Popular Election of Terriforial Governors Urged, Also Statehood | MANY DEAD FROM MASS AIR RAIDS A Swiss telegraph from Berlin to- sald that Germany officially owledges 8000 persons Kkilled " the beginning of the air at- cks. The phrase is not explained, but is presumed that it refers to| the number of deaths since the| British mass attacks on Cologne and Essen. BERN, June 5 wgensy dispatch | ta it NEW YORK. June 5—A dispatch received Monday by the New York limes from private sources in Eur- pe, estimated the number of deaths in the Cclogne raid alone at 20,- 000 persons. e SEI PRI S MR. AND MRS. JERNBERG LEAVE FOR KETCHIKAN Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Jernberg left late yesterday afternoon for Ket- chikan on the Ellis Air Transport plane piloted by Bud Bodding. Mr. and Mrs. Jernberg arrived here this week from Sitka where Mr Jernberg had practiced law for nearly two years. They will make their home in| Ketchikan where Mr. Jernberg, re- | cently appointed Assistant United States Attorney, is to be headquart- ered. | While they were in Juneau they ) were entertained by a number of’| the many friends they made during their former ' residence here ., WASHINGTON, June 5—Popular lection of Governors in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico as a step sward local ~ self-government 13 irged by the Foreign Policy As- sociation, The announcement is made Charles F. Reid, staff member che private research which has been studying the ques- tion, Recommendation is made, and urged for legislation, that consid- eration should be given to statc- hood for these territories. LIEUT. R. C. TAYLO RECEIVES PROMOTION TO RANK OF CAPTAIN Ligutenant Robert C. Taylor, U. 8. Army, received official notice vesterday of his promotion to the rank of Captain. Captain Taylor has been on active duty in the Army since January 1941 Capt. Taylor is a resident New Britain, Connecticut, and is a graduate of Yale University. Before being called into active service he was with the Russell and Erwin Manufacturing Company, one of the largest manufacturers of hardware in the country. - PAPERS FILED FO PYRAMID SALMON (0. TO OPERATE, ALASKA The Pyramid Salmon Corporation of Seattle, has been authorized by Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boylc to do business in the Territory at Sitka with an authorized capitaliza- tion of $50,000. Agent and presient of the com- pany is W. L. Freeburn, of € Secretary is B. R. Dunn. .- by of BUY DEFENSE sTAMPS BUY DEFENSE BONDS S ON WORLD WAR Maj. Gen. Bonesteel Gen. Andrews, Caribbean organization 4 S FRON & 7 ¢ Maj. Gen. Hartle, | Iceland British Isles i | GREENLAND Maij. Gen. Maxwell, Middle East i 1 1 | A { 4 S L4 Is Repulsed HEAVY LOSS SUSTAINED BY NIPPONS | Surprise Raid Turned Info Staggering Defeat- Official Report BATTLESHIP, CARRIER REPORTED DAMAGED American fit;i Continues Chase Affer Enemy Forces (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) American battle forces are to- day reported slashing anew at a powerful Japanese naval squadron off Midway Island in the Pacific after beating off a dawn attack at 6:35 o'clock yesterday morning. Japanese battleships, aircraft carriers and cruisers have sus- tained heavy losses and “our attacks on the enemy con- tinue,” says a bulletin from the headquarters of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-In-Chief of the Pacific Fleet. The official. communigue of Admiral Nimitz further stated that only minor damages and no casualties were inflicted on the defenders of Midway Is- land, 1149 miles northwest of Hawaii and 2600 miles southwest of Tokyo. JAF PLANE LOSS Admiral Nimitz’s communique also declares that turning a surprise attack to a staggering defeat, the American fighters, including Marines, sea and air forces, are officially credited with damaging a Japanese bat- tleship, Japanese aircraft car- rier, and possibly damaging other warships as well as tak- ing a heavy toll of Japanese planes. Late yesterday afternoon, the Navy announced that Midway Isla was attacked by Japan- ese aircraft. WAS HEAVY RAID During the night, an official communique from Honolulu, Admiral Nimitz’s Headquarters, said that one battleship, and one Japanese aircraft carrier were damaged and possibly other war craft hit in the sixth and (Continued on Page Six) DECISIVE SEA FIGHT INDICATED Experts Believe Important Battle Engagement Taking Place 5 WASHINGTON, June — The !| American and Japanese fleet units {one of the greatest i o ORCHID QUEEN_Doris Webb, 22, of Jacksonville, Fla., displays an &rchid corsage of super de luxe proportions at the annual Florida State Florists’ ‘convention at Orlando, Fla. HOONAH COUPLE IS MARRIED IN JUNEAL Glenn Glover, and Pauline Mas tin, both of Hoonah, were married itka, in Juneau yesterday by U. S. Com Witness:s and Katie missioner were Alice M. Villoria Pelix Gray. Kadashan are apparently engaged today in battles of the result of the en- emy’s attempt yesterday to raid the strongly garrisoned United States outpest on Midway Island. Commenting on the communique issued at Pearl Harbor by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in- Chief of the Pacific Fleet, who said “attacks on the enemy are centinuing,” military experts said this seems to indicate the fight started at Midway Island and both American and enemy units are maneuvering for advantage in what may be a crucial engagement deter- mining the enemy’s ability to strike more vital points, including Pearl Harber, the west coast of the Unit- el States, Alaska and even the Pacific as the |Panama Ceanal,