The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOLLLDGONOESUG>: 0 . oo S SMASHING SEA BATTLE IS Australian Mainland Shelled KALININIS U.S.Fleet Unit Engaged In Fight with Japanese In Duich Harbor Region FIRST BIG ATTACK ON CONTINENT Undersea Craft Slip In-| shore Under Cover of Darkness ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 8—Large Jap- anese submarines slipping inshore “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Army’s Heavy Hitters Lined Up at Fort Bragg - S . w“”"z. i | MOST ACTIVE RED FRONT large Local Atfack Made by Germans Over Weekend BY HENRY CASSIDY Associated Press Correspondent KALININ, June 8—The Russian under the cover of darkness,| shelled Sydney and Newcastle last| night in the first seaborne attack | on the Australia mainland since| the start of the war, except for lhe‘ abortive small sub attacks on s_\'d-i ney harbor a week ago last Sunday. The official announcement says that the shelling caused no mm- tary damage. The only casualty reported is Ed- ward Hirsch, 40, a refugee who ' left Germany five years ago. He| suffered a broken leg in Sydney | when the shells slightly dsmag°d’ a block of flats. In Newcastle, little damage was reported except broken windows. | A blackout covering the coastall areas, in some cases as far as 100 miles inland, has been ordered ef-| fective tonight in New South Wales. [ CREW OF ILL-FATED STAR PLANE LEAVE | FOR ANCHORAGE | Chet Brown, pilot of the ill-fated Star Air Lines plane that burned a week ago at Takla Lake, Canada, prior to its take-off for Alaska, left yesterday morning on a Wxx)dley‘ Airways plane for his Anchorage headquarters. Mrs. Brown and their young son, who came to Juneau two weeks| ago to wait here for Mr. Brown, re- turned to Anchorage thh him yes-‘ terday. Other members of the crew of} the burned plane, Jack Grissom,| First officer and Art Dewey and! Don Hillginger, flight mechanics| left with Star Air Lines plane to-| day for Anchorage. - The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON— | and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Not all tax dodgers are those who cheat the government of revenue. On Capitol | Hill there is another form of tax dodging which, while violating no law, is euchring the government out of more money. This form of tax dodging con-| sists of congressmen playing the sordid old game of politics-as-usual | with legislation vital to the na-| tion. Early in March the Treasury sub- mitted to the House Ways and| Means committee the 1942 tax bill. Prepared after weeks of careful| study, the measurs was largely the| work of Randolph Paul, tlon’s outstanding tax authority, who patriotically gave up a lucra- tive corporation practice to serve| his country. All tax legislation is highly con- troversial, but one thing can be said categorically about the Treasury's bill. It was a carefully balanced program designed to distribute the burden of the prcposed heavy tax increases equitably on all classes according to their ability to pay. SECRET HATCHETING For three months the 15 Demo-: cratic and 10 Republican members of the Ways and Means committee, citting in closely guarded secrecy, have been ripping the Treasury’s bill to pieces with the end still not in sight. It probably will be an- other month before the hatcheting is finally concluded. Meanwhile this is what these poli- tics-as-usual masterminds have ac- complished so far— 1. Completely smashed the Trea- sury’s carefully balanced program (Goptinued on Page Four) |accept the House Amendments. | LA s holding its spearhead thrust .dPep into Germany's side on. the | Kalinin front, northwest of Mos- cow | | This explains why the Germans are making repeated reconnaissance | raids and desperately resisting the | Russian attacks here, a Red Army officer told me on a visit to this | base, one of the most active along the entire 2000-mile Russian front. The Germans fear the Russian threat from the salient which stretches farther west in the Smo- lensk area, and are making every effort to find out the Soviet | strength there, They are trying to| keep a meticulous check on troop | mcvements, | The latest attack reported over the weekend was a reconnaissance in force and one of the largest local engagements of recent weeks in |which the Russians repulsed an as- | sault made by a full infantry bat- | talion, supported by .artillery -and tanks. - That head above may be a bit misleading for we're not talking about the Army's baseball team. The . heavy hitters are 155-mm. guns lined up at Fort Bragg, N. C, for inspection by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, a recent visitor to the base. PR e v e i : | OVERTIME FOR MEN == ONSALARY conTINUE DAYLIGHT RAF RAIDS Hit Channel_%ris Follow-‘ ing Heavy Bombing | Drive in Night Juneau Walerlronl Closed At Night Except fo Those With Special Authorization SENATE OK'S $50 MONTH ARMY PAY Milifary Allotment Adjust- ment Bill Gefs An- other Boost WASHINGTON, June 8 — The Senate voted today to increase the minimum pay in the Armed forces | to $50 monthly and to raie that of First Class Privates and cor-| | responding naval ratings to $54, making all pay increases vr(ecuvtl June 1. This action came on the motion of Senator Bob LaFollette on his return from a conference on the Military Pay Adjustment bill to Only authorized persons will be allowed access to the docks along the Juneau waterfront from 6 p. m. at night until 6 a. m. the fol- lowing morning according to an official announcement. Later, it is likely, more stringent regulations will be enforced. | WASHINGTON, June 8 — In a 1t was announced that hereafter decision affecting several million no authorized individuals will be| “white collar” workers, the Supreme allowed on the docks when ships Court today upheld the Govern- |are in port. | ment’s contention that additional Small craft will be prohibited compensation for overtime must, in cruising in the vicinity of the docks | the absence of a contract for a spe- or underneath the docks. This is|cific hourly wage, be paid em- not Intended as a prohibition ag-|icves even though they receive a ainst authorized fishing vessels| fiyeq weekly salary above the am- from entering their usual mooring ount required by the Wage and places or departing therefrom. The Hour T purpose of the rullng is Simply 10| Two decisions ‘were delivered by aimless cruising about the docks. | the Sourh'n Ehie NNstN. Guards from the Army and the ‘To Pay Overtime In the one decision delivered by Coast Guard are now on hand at! the docks to enforce these orders. Justice Stanley F. Reed, the'Tribun- al asserted that the Wage and Hour Act “is designed to require payment for overtime at time and |a half of regular pay where they DEFERMENT This 8 to 1 decision applies to the confinent kept the RAF from fci- OVP""'gm Motor ~ Transportation |owing up the Saturday night at- pay above the minimum as well as | Company of Baltimore on a suit {0 ack on Emden with another massed |extra compensation sought by & i@id on Germany. | ;roxmer employe, — e o—— — 1 Supreme C&H Says White Collar Workers Get Extra Pay LONDON, June 8—Hundreds of fighting planes, fighters and bomb- ers from scores of airfields in Grea! Britain, swept out in a series of thrusts today on Hitler's channel ports continuing the regular day- light offensive following the RAF’s heavy bombing drive Zuring toe night. The British warpiants atacked targets in Northern #rence and Holland last night and also dam- aged a German ship ofi the Fris- ian Islands. The British Air Minist an- nounced that bad weather over the Senator Warren R. Austin of der the compromise, it will be pos-| Vermont told the Senate that un- sible for Army buck privates sent overseas to draw $60.20 a month. | He pointed out that the bill car-| | where regular pay is at the mini- Radio Workers Case !mum.” \ In a 5-4 decision delivered by U- 8. BUREAU OF MINES the na- | ‘ned a provision boosting the basic pay 20 percent for service outside the continental United States. He said also that soldiers could receive up to 85 additional pay monthiy | |for prize marksmanship, BOMBS ARE SHOWERED ON RABAUL AUSTRALIA. June 8—Warehouses, docks and coaling jetty of the Jap occupied Raubaul, night by Allied war planes. e STANLEY WARBURTON HERE FROM PELICAN Stanley Warburton, who is as- sociated with the Cold Storage plant at Pelican City, arrived in Juneau on business and is staying at the Gastineau Hotel while in the city. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS !N’ New Guinea, ! were bombed again last Saturday | Justice James F. Byrnes, the Court OFFICIAL IN JUNEAU {held that the A. H. Belo Corpor- | ation, publisher of the Dallas, Tex- as, Morning News, and owner of | Radio Station WFAR is within its | rights in basing overtime compen- sation on an hourly wage fixed con- Tydings Bnngs Up Federal Employee Army Questicn WASHINGTON, June 8—Chair- {man’ Millard E. Tydings, Maryland | mfl,re!, | Democrat, of a special Senate com- | — mmee investigating draft questions, i ‘has recommended that the Selecuve Robert Sanford, who is in charge of United States Bureau of Mines exploration for strategic minerals in Alaska, arrived in Juneau last evening from Yakobi where work is now going on in connection with an exploratory project. ‘Servlce System check up on draft | llbera"on o' Fran(e Is dolermellLa being given thousandsl 3 0 young male employees of the | e e | So0n fo Begin;Stalement Is Broadcast by British ‘ermg holding open hearings on the question of draft deferment because |of Federal employment, —— v — LONDON, June 8—The British N'T:i] :’?:KA'JJ““Q ; — Closing |radio today broadcast instructions quotatio aska Juneau mine to the French people to evacuate | STOCK QUOTATIONS {stock today is 2%, American Oan|iy.‘vong coastal area in the Bel- 68%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem 4 Steel 53, Commonwealth and South- | glan-Spanish border strip which |the Germans have designated as a ern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 6%, In-| ternational Harvester 47, Kennecott | Prohibited military zone. The British bulletin told the 27%, New Ycrk Central 7%, North- | French people that “operations of interpret the bulletin, that it would ern Pacific 5., United States Steel !41‘/., Pound $4.04, ‘capital importance” to the libera- have to stand by itself, i and, the broadcast added: been shown on several occasions that the presence of a civilian pop- ulation in the scene of active op- erations hinders the action of troops, particularly friendly troops.” British sources said they couldn’t WON BY U.S. SHINGTON, June 8—Ad- miral Ernest King, Fleet Com- mander-In-Chief, reports that a unit of the United States fleet is engaging the Japanese also in the North Pacific in the Dutch Harbor region. Admiral King says the situ- ation around Dutch Harbor is Wlth U S. Atlantlc Fleet Axis' craft beware! The U. S. Atlantic fleet prowls the broad ocean, keeping the sea lanes open for Aupplies, serving as a constant reminder of enemy craft to keep away. Daniels Is Still "Chief’ with Incident Is Revealed POSTPONE FISH TRAP HEARINGS DisputesOverAlaskaWat- ers fo Be Seftled After War SEATTLE, June &—Hearings on Alaskan fishing rights disputes be- tween Indians and white operators will be postponed for the duraticn f the war, Senator Mon C. Wall- nsed today. Wallgren madi from Secretury Harold Ickes gren disc Senator communication the Interior said the of view of setting hearings on L]ulms (by Indians to trap e5 Now tilized by non-Indians), on which. exbednou, settlements will be best times and places equelly conven- ient to claimants and opponents. “War conditions, however have made it impossible to schedule such hearings, and Indians and claim- ants have been advised tinat hear- ings requested by tiem cernot be lContmurd on Pl” Two) By Enemy Subs DESPERATE JAPEFFORT IS FAILURE ‘Enemy Ap;i;r}enily Must Go on Defensive-Is Opinion of Experts (NIPPONS ARE DRAWN INTO TRAP AT MIDWAY Extent of D;nfiges Inflict- ed Depends on Future Course, Says King obscure, explaining that weath- er has been bad for several days and officers in the field are re- quired to give cnly minimum in- fecrmation to Washington, “What we have done is none too clear a picture about what is going on but it is going on,” declared Admiral King. ; WASHINGTON, June 8 — After | desperate new Jap efforts to break “the growing might of Americans’ |air and sea power in the Pacific, it is predicted in informed quarters that the only course now left to the enemy is clearly defensive. This startling prediction is based on a smashing United States vic- tory in the giant sea battle which started last week with the repulse of the huge Jap attacking force on Midway Island. Informed authorities said that the Japs must either initiate new operations along sweeping defense lines which run all the way from Alaska to Australia, or else by the inactivity of the Jap forces, admit eventual complete defeat, even be- fore the grand offensive of the United Natlons starts rolling in the Pacific arena of war, Meanwhile, the enemy armada of battleships, aircraft carriers and cruisers, which steamed into what appeared to be a trap at Midway Island., apparently has withdrawn Admiral Ernest King, Command- jer-in-Chief of the U. S. fleets, de- clared that the battle just ending might decide the course of the war in the Pacific, depending, he said, cn the extent of the damages in- flicted on the enemy. According to latest reports, these damages are. rxlremely heuvy JAPPLANS . SHATTERED IN PACIFIC {Nippon Fle;fieeing with American Sea Forces in Pursuit safe passage of vital shipments of Big Roosevelt: ‘ BY JACK INNETT | WASHINGTON, June 8—Joseph- ‘n.~ Daniels at the age of eighty suc- mvdml his son as editor of his Ral- righ N. C., newspaper. That along| HML}: being se tary of the Navy ’|m eight years, ambassador to| | Mexico and a number of other| things should be enough for any | one man’s claim to fame in a life- time, but it isn't The elder Daniels holds one more PEARL HARBOR, Honolulu, June 8—The Japanese plan for occupa- tion of the Hawailian Islands and | gistinetion which no other man /does (and probably none ever will be able to) lay claim to. It hap- pened this way: | Back in pre-World War I days, | Daniels got a telegram from the| |newly elected President Woodrow | Wilson. The President asked if he would accept the post of secretary! of the Navy. Daniels hesitated. Hc took the telegram home and discus- sed it with his wife, If he accepted, he specalated, how about his assistant secretary? would he do? Mrs.| osevelt, How teptance personally to Mr. Wilson How about young “Frank” Roose- {velt for assistant secretary? Mr Wilson thought he was a splendid tion of France are due to start soon, Sérved by having trial examinations young man. $o Franklin D. Roose- “It has and to hold hearings in Alaska at velt became Worldh War I a. tant | secretary of the Navy. | Many years later, Josephus Dan- iels attended the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Presldem‘ of the United States. When PresiGe:al wosevelt saw him, 1 he said: “Hello Chief.” (Continued from Page Two) the capture of Midway Island has been shattered with the American forces in relentless pursuit of the crippled remnants of the enemy fleet according to an official state- ment of Admiral Chester W. Nim-~ itz, Commander-In-Chief of the Pacific Fleet. The Japanese appeared to be withdrawing and last night coi- tact was lost with the enemy but “this does not mean pursuit has been abandoned,” says Nimitz. Japanese Losses Two and perhaps three Japanese ic a|There was young Franklin D. Ru-‘ah-crarl carriers and one Japanese destroyer have been sunk and dam- which | Daniels thought he was a splendid | age has been mflicted on 13 other “this department has taken young man. Daniels carried his ac- enemy warships. All airplanes were lost on the calriers that were sunk. Besides the aircraft carriers, oth- er Jepanese losses include three battleships damaged., one heavily; four cruisers damaged, two badly, and three transports damaged. American Losses The American warship losses «s reported is one destroyer, said. to have been torpedoed by a submar- ine, but with nearly all personncl Continued on Page Five)