The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 6, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9054. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAP FLEET DEFEATED IN SEA BATTLE & (4 ¢ Enemy Here Are the WAAC Uniforms B R | '|' I S H RAF KEEPS BATTERING DAY, NIGHT Ruhr Valley Raided Last Night by Large Force of Bombers GREAT ATTACK ON COAST LINE IS MADE Daylight Afih, Starting| at Dawn Today, Is Re- | port from London LONDON, June 6.—The Royal Air Forces topped off the week, wmchY has seen the opening of the greatest | air offensive in history, by a third | battering night assault on the Ruhr | Valley. | Observers called last night’s nttacl§ | also the "blgg'es& sweep of the week, against the occupied coastline. Three hundred bombers, carrying | heavy loads, were engaged in the | attacks last night but today, at the break of dawn, more than .1.01_10 | fighter and bomber planes hit in | daylight raids. The Air Ministry that eight square miles of Cologne | were devastated in the 1,000-bomber | raid of the present’ week and the | “greater part of the old town ‘of.‘ Cologne has been finished and is in disclosed today I (4 4 These are the uniforms that are to be worn by members of the newly- Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Left to right: Gloria Pickett, wearing an officer’s winter uniform; Betty Jane Greer, in an officer’s summer uniform; Inga Rundvold, in a private’s winter uviform. formed U. ruins.” i NINETY-FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS HALIBUT souw * Ninety-five hundred pounds qf halibut was sold in Juneau this | morning. Vessels selling were Lhe‘ Ida II, Capt. John Sonderland, 7_.500‘ pounds, sold to Alaska Coast Ffish-} eries for 12.80 and 10.65 cents and | the Tennessee, Capt. William Marks, | also sold to Alaska Coast Fisheries | | ° for the same prices. I The Washingioni Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON— | and ROBERT S. ALLEN | WASHINGTON—Tt has been ob scuded b ythe battles of Kharkov.| : Burma and Kinhwa, but bemnd;‘ the scenes, a baftle just as im-| portant domestically has been rag-| ing between Secretary of War Stim- | son and trust-busting Thurman | Arnold over whether the big cor- porations which monopolized war materials with Germany should be punished, or permitted to continue their monopolies. Secretary Stimson doesn't want these big firms bothered with anti- trust suits, and some weeks ago wrote a letter to the Whie House, demanded that they be stopped. Thurman Arnold, he said, was play- ing into Hitler’s hands by nagging the big companies while they were filling war orders. Roosevelt, grinning, gave the let- ter to Attorney General Biddle. Biddle, also grinning, gave it to Arnold. And Arnold wrote Stimson a letter which nearly raised the roof of the War Department. He pointed out that there was no use fighting Hitler if U. S. industry was going to practice the same kind of monopolistic, cut-throat tactics as Nazi business. Temporarily, however, the War Department won out. The Justice Department finally agreed to hold up prosecution of certain cases, among them General Electric's| monopoly of fluorescent lamps, onl| the ground that General Electric| officials were so busy with war pro-| duction they did not have: timelw.ioo bt the survivors say they the General Staff of the Britisn to appear in court. | THEY FOUND TIME | But suddenly Thurman Arnold | learned that although ' General| Electric did not have time to be| prosecuted, they dig bave time to p;":”:u 1;“11 tg:dc‘);"l“::":n;fl;_.rumers. have become a source for presence of the American off ompany. € Y b, 19 |fats and qfls used in soap com- actually makes it an Inter-Allied lpou.nds manufactured in Kansas. Combined Staff. (Continued on Page Four) i : battle around the Western Chek- SALVAGED SUIT_june Sitarr of Seaside Heights, N. J., wears a swim suit made of dis- carded muslin shower curtain. The occasion was the opening Ocean county bathing season. AUSTRALIAN SHIP SUNK OFF COAST Atack Is Made Near New South Wales-Believe Hit by Submarine MELBOURNE, June 6—An Aus- tralian merchant ship has been sunk off the coast of New South believe that the Jap sub was sunk by an Allied plane a few minutes later. Pive of the ship’s survivors have been landed here. s . c—— Jackrabbits, considered a pest by (4 (4 S (4 ( | | - HAVEEDGE INLIBYA Pounding TfiSpearhea’d ; Back Toward Gap in English Lines LONDON, June 6—The British now have armored superiority in | the Libyan action and are pound- | ing Field Marshal Erwin anmel‘s{ | battling tank spearhead back toward | a gap in British lines, according | to a military commentator here. The reporter said that Lt. Gen. Neil Ritchie retains the initiative | | after driving the Germans out of | Tamar in a West Kingbridze at- | tack which started two nights ago |and apy to have developed inte | a three-sided onslaught. | e AVG FORCE - KILLS 200 ~ JAPANESE L4 é Germans use a 37MM anti-t building. Report of May Adivities' of Flying Tigers Favorable CHUNGKING, June 6—The Fly- ing Tigers, American Volunteer Group, killed more than 200 Jap soldiers yesterday along the West Bank of the Salween River along the Burma Road, it has been of- ficially announced. CHEKIANG BATTLE IS CHANGING Chinese Announce Many Vital Area is shot down 24 enemy pursuit planes, destroyed 35 on the ground and CHUNKING, Jume 6—The Chin-|lost six planes, with five pilots ese Command announced today that killed. | about 8,000 Japanese have been | killed or wounded around Chuh-| — oo | sien, important railroad center in| Western Chekiang province. | This would increase the number of Japanese casualties in two daysl | fighting to 10,000 i Observers here say that the| | Chinese announcement might in- | 'dicate a decisive turn in the fierce SAYS HOUSE Ways, Means Committee Said fo Have Nofified Administration WASHINGTON, June 6 — The iang air base area from which Japan might be bombed. Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek is said to have prepared many air- fields in the Chekiang province area, from which the Island ot Formosa could be bombed every day. Evidently fearing that U. S. airplanes might begin to arrive in that area for this purpose, the Japanese started the invasion last it e N “PLATO'S REPUBLIC e &g The New York W 4 (4 S 4 o William Pause, with this note: “A German broadcast, describing the bembing of Tokye ried out the a k a which was nct otherwise described , reports that Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle, ‘car- ainst Japan from the air base Shangri-La, by Roosevelt.’ We are pleased to @disclose this interesting spot and adjacent areas.” Patron Saint for WAA( week. The Chekiang Province also would be an effective base from which to cut off Japanese supply routes to troops in the Malay and Burma districts. U. S. MEN ON STAFF OF BRITAIN Lord Mountbaten Saysi Commandos Inter- Allied Force WASHINGTON, June 6—Ame:i- can Army officers are serving on Cemmandos Commander, Vice Ad- miral Lord Louis Mountbatten told reporters today. i He said that colorful opel’ntlons‘x of the men will result in “cor bined operations” with Brit fighting services and that 5| Allentown and Lancaster House Ways and Means Commillee is reported to have put the admin- istration on notice formally thal the tax goal of $8,700,000,000 can not be achieved without a Federal Sales Tax. Informed sources say that Chair- man Robert L. Doughton and other leaders have told Morgenthau that they can not write that big a bill without overriding his opposition to some form of consumption tax. DUFRESNE, DARNELL, RENSHAW RETURN FROM TRIP SOUTI Frank Dufresne, Executive Offi- cer of the Alaska Game Commis sion, and Rod Darnell, Wildlile Agent, returned to Juneau yester- day from Ketchikan in a plane piloted by Ray Renshaw, flying Wildlife Agent. Renshaw has been in the Stale having the Game Commission plane overhauled. TWAS ALL OFF ALLENTOWN, Pa., June 6 — A scheduled baseball game between in 1885 was postponed when no spectators showed up. Suggesied; Incident Is Brought Up BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 6-—If the WAAC ever adopts a patron saint, it shonld be Dehorah Sampson. Why? Because aside from the Army nurses, who are “in the Ar- my” as a matter of convenient bookkeeping, discipline and per- nnel, the Women's Auxiliary Ar- my Corps brings women into the Army for the first time in history of the’ nation. AND, more than 200 years ago, Deborah Sampson was the first women ever to serve with the United States armed forces; and according to the official record, the only one who ever did until Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby took oath of office the other day as chief of the WAAC. Of course, Deborah stole a march on her 20th century sisters by sub- terfuge. Instead of telling her re- cruiting officer in Massachusetts that she was just plain l)vbomh; Sampson, she told him she was Robert Shurtleff. The recruiting officer took her word jor it, because with evidently | Historical no more [, than that, Deborah was musteréd into the Contineni- al army. That was April of 1781 Shurtleff proved a stout soldier too. Nobody ever gWestioned his courage or his ability to swing one of those weighty cld muzzle loaders down on the Red Coats. He was so well thought of by his comrades thdt when he caught a chunk of British lead al the battle of Tar- rytown, they puiled him off the field of battle and rushed him to a dressing station behind the lines. The record here is a little ob- scure, How Deborah managed to keep her secret isn't made clear ‘n the otherwise meticulous report. But she kept it sufficiently to rejoin her regiment, still as Robert Shurt- letf, and she was shouldering a musket a few yards away when Lord Cornwallis su dered to Gen George Washington If you are thinking by now that Deborah Sampson was one of na- ture's freaks, skip the thought, Hor orably discharged from the Army in (Continued on Page Five) ik guns supported by a small infantry detachment sheltered in a blitzed REJECTED BY HOUSE Conservalic;r‘imforps fo Be Abolished for Duration WASHINGTON, June 6 — Sup- { |porting the recommendation of its Appropriations Committee, the | House refused to vote to keep the depression-born Civilian Conserva-| tion Corps going on its reduced basis during the War. | By a vote of 158 to 121, the House | rejected the amendment of Rep-! M. C. Tarver of Georgia which| would have added a $75 million al- |lotment to the CCC in the supply | bill for the Labor Department, So- | efal Security Board and kindred fed- | eral agencies. e e AMERICANS SENTENCED, JAP SPIES Two San Francisco Men,] Nippon C. of C. Head, | Get Terms “ WASHINGTON, June 6 — Two| Americans and one Japanese' have been sentenced to prison for viola ing the Foreign Agents Registr: tion Law in the first case of kind tried thus far. The Jap agents involved Frederick | Vincent Williams and David War-| ren Ryder, both of San Francisco, sentenced to from 16 months to four | years, Tsutomu Obana Secretary of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce for San Francisco, was sentenced to from two to six months e — GOV. GRUENING ON ‘ TRIP TO KETCHIKAN Gov. Ernest Gruening left by plane today for Ketchikan on an official business trip. He plans to return to Juneau next Wednesday, the Governor's Office said today. 4 (4 4 Limping Away, Now Chased By U. S. ATTACK ON NIPPONS IS ~ CONTINUING | Damaging Blows Believed | Inflicted in Fight in Midway Area | AMERICANS STILL IN (ONTROL MID-PACIFIC ;TorpedoesAUséd by De- | fenders on Carries, War- .ships—Also Transports BULLETIN—Honolulu, June 6 —On the basis of reports re- ceived by Admiral Nimitz, eight Japanese warships and trans- ports have been damaged ex- tensively in the Midway sea battle and several other ships in the other classes have also been damaged. HONOLULU, June 6 — The crushing defeat of the big Jap- anese fleet which attempted to seize Midway Island in the Pa- cific in a desperate bid to con- trel the mid-Pacific, grew to- day in proportions as the Unit- ed States forces pressed home new attacks on the enemy which appears to be limping away. The apparent victory possibly presages an American victory greater than that of the U. 8. Forces in the Coral Sea fight. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in an official report says Jap- anese aircraft carriers, battle- shipk, cruisers and transports have been dealt damaging blows and “while it is too early to m a major disaster to the se flect, it may be con- servatively stated the United States remains in firm con- trol of the Midway area.” ENEMY WITHDRAWING The Pacific Commander-in- Chief, in a communique issued during the night, said the “en- emy appears to be withdrawing but we are continuing the battle.” No ‘mctual sinkings are listed in the cryptic accounts of the battle which the Japanese op- ened by an attack by planes on Thursday after a possible feint- ing attack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, but Admiral Nimitz said a Japanese aircraft car- rier was hit by the aerial de- fenders in the first stages of the fighting but later the car- rier was struck by three tor- pedoes, HEAVY DAMAGE “As more reports come in it appears the enemy damage is very heavy indeed involving several ships in each Japanese aircraft carrier, battleship, cruiser and transport classes,” an official subsequent com- munique states. This is the first mention of transports, lending support to the belief huge Japanese forces were risking much in an assault far from the home bases, and had as an actual goal, the con- | quest of Midway. In desperation of the impend- ing defeat, the Japanese are re- ported to have machine gunned United States fliers who were forced to bail out during dog- fights and were adrift in rub- ber boats. CHUHSIEN 0CCUPIED | TOKYO, June 6—-The Japanese |Cummund in Central China an- nounces that Chuhsien, in Chek- iang Province, was occupied at 6 o'clock tonight. Domei reports the city the key rail point of China's east Coast.