The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9057. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MERICAN SHIP SUNK BY SUB OFF COAST Japs ADMIT ONLY B. C. GIVEN House Okehs OLD RUBBER | Japs Strew Sea with Thousands in Flight From Midway Battle SEBASTOPOL ONE CARRIER ' RAID ALARM SUNKBYU.S. ON TUESDAY Tokyo Claims We Lost Two Unidentified Planes Cause Aircraft Vessels Danger Signal-Alert in Fight Is Soon Liffed (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | VICTORIA, B.C, June 10.—(Pass- Tokyo military headquarters are : seeking to minimize the gravity of ed by Censor)—Unidentified planes the Japanese naval disaster at Mid- approaching Prince Rupert caused way. but acknowledge that United |a sudden imminent danger alarm | Service Men (COLLECTIONS §50 Monthly WILL START WASHINGTON, June 10 The House of Representatives, by a vcte of 363 to 0, today passed and sent to the Senate compromise legislation fixing the minimum pay for service | men at $50 a month, with a | 20 percent increase for sea duty and foreign service. The Sen- ate is expected to approve the measure soon after it convenes President Asks for Volun- fary Scrap Drive fo Help Shorfage WASHINGTON, June 10. — The | President disclosed today that he lsl planning a nation wide campaign to collect all old scrap rubber in | | the country | | l | States forces have sunk an aircraft yesterday afternoon, but was lifted when the aircraft was identified as i 3 tr carrier, heavily damaged another FITF M carrier, and damaged a cruiser. Official United States reports list -ee 16 and possibly 18 Jap warships sunk or damaged before the enemy NAZIS w I pE fleet limped off in retreat. | Moreover, the eye witness ac- count of Ensign George Gay, Jr. [ 25, U. S. Navy flier, declared that | three of Japan's aircraft carriers All Men in Czech Town Are Shot for Heydrick t including two of the 26,000 ton Kaga Akagi class were seen by him | to burst into flames under the at-| tack of American torpedo planes. | Tokyo did not specify the class of the carrier admitted lost. Japanese however claim that two U. S. aircraft carriers and a large | transport were sunk and 13¢ U. S.| tomorrow. | ere UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AREIN DECLINE NOW, The amount of money paid for jobless insurance based on invol- untary employment for the month of May, 1942, was 50 per cent less than the payments issued dur- ing May, 1941, Executive Director Robert E. Sheldon announced to- day. It is especially interesting to note that the number of first pay- planes shot down. | Tokyo said that the aircraft car-| riers of the Enterprise and Hornet .types, each carrying a.complement of 2,072 men and about 100 planes, were sent to the bottom. WASHINGTON, sune 10—Mem- bers of the Pacific War Council met with President Roosevelt today | and left visibly elated over the ac- count of the Jap defeat ir the battle of Midway. British Ambassador Halifax said the President gave the Councii| what information he had aboui the engagement, but that hc was not at | liberty to disclose details to the press. | When asked what the Council's| reaction to the news was, Halifax | grinned broadly and replied: “You| can guess that.” The Council members represent the seven nations engaged in fight- ing in the Pacific. | The Washington Merry - G_o- Round | By DREW PEARSON-—— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON—Nobody planned it that way, but the British 1000- plane raid on Cologne was a pow- erful deterrent for pro-Nazi Pierre Laval of France. It didn't take him more than a split second to| figure what the British could do| to Paris if he should get loose-| fingered with the French fleet. { Meanwhile, few people realize | how much the French people— though they don't relish it—are contributing to the Nazi war ef- fort. Here is the latest survey of the situation taken from confiden- tial government reports: 1. 100,000 French workers now employed in war factories. 2. There is no French industry arz N ments, representing newly initiated K|"|ng claims, decreased some 72 percent i 1 N from the number of first payments LONDON, June 10—The Prague issued in May, 1941, and that 51 radio announces that all men liv- Pereent of the total payments were ing in a Czech village near Kladno made to individuals wio formerly have been shot by the German: '.w“orked in Alaska and are now re- on suspicion of harboring the sl :“g’t:g in the states, Mr ers of Reinhard Heydrich, assist- ~ # ant to Gestapo “The Butcher” Hein- rich Himmler. The women in the village it is said are to be deported to a con- centration camp and the children sent to “educational centers.” The village will later be razed, the radio said, the name removed along with ail official records. The number of men executed was PETAIN SAYS NAZICANNOT BE VICTORS Laval, Darlan Hold Op- posite Views Despite Terrific RAF Raids LONDON, June 10—Authoritative perience short periods of unem- ployment until a read‘ustment or reallocation of wprkers being successfully carried on by the U. S. Employment Service. service maintains five offices throughout the Territory. War Change Lag Mr. Sheldon stated further that those in charge of the United States Employment -Service are takiny in- itial steps against the post-war g in employment and the conve: from wartime to peacetime duction. The amount of jobless surance paid by the Unemploy Compensation Commission is closely correlated with the successful op- eration of the Employment Ser- vice. Claimants for Unemployment benefits are required to register for work before the imitial claim for Lenefits is accepted. This reg- istration includes a full des: tion of the worker's experience, training, and ability. The claim-| ant is also required to establish two week waiting period before benefits are payable, end must at| is pro- in- He told a press conference tha?,! one of the problems involved n the | gas and rubber situation is the fact | that there are no accurate estimates ! of how much scrap rubber is avail able. i The only way to find out, he said, is to go out and pick it up. He| said the collecting campaign will | be voluntary to this extent, if net ! entirely successful, it may become | compulsory. e MacArthur's Planes Gel 13 of Enemy IN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Douglas MacArthur’'s headquarters wmany fires at Lae and Salamaua. P Mrs. E. W. Payne and Son John Are Here On Way_t_ofiSeatIIe Mrs. E, W. Payne, who, with her . husband has taught in the Office of Indian Affairs at Wainwright, Kanakanak and other northern ent points for the last seventeen years, ants of yesteryear would wander in arrived in Juneau by plane on her way south. Mrs. Payne, is accompanied by her son John and will continue from here to Kent, Washington, where they will join Mr. Payne who preceded hem south last March. Mr. and Mrs. Payne arc taking a year'’s leave of absence from the Indian servivce, and will spend great part of it at their Kent home. Mrs. Payne is a cousin of the late John Wier Troy. D a reports reaching here from Vicay said two years of war, since Dun- kerque, has convinced Marshal Pe- tain the Axis cannot win. i The same reports said Laval and | Darlan still hold views to the con- trary, notwithstanding terrific damage wrought by the RAF on France, especially the army plants at Paris, and other occupied sec- tions as well as the Ruhr Valley. | all times be able and availabl> for| work, it was explained Build Up Fund The Alaska Unemployment Ccm- pensation is endeavoring to build up a sufficient reserve fund to take care of the potential benefit rights acquired by the unprecedented num.- ber of workers now employed with- in the Territory. Employers covered undey the Alaska Unemployment Compensation Law are renuired to [FIFTEEN ARRIVE - HERE FROM WES! | . Arrivals here from the Westwad | | today were Willlam R. Alsup, Jr Ralph A. Beaz, Mrs. James Carlson, | | Nathanial Comden, Gladys Com- | stock, Donald C. Hayes, H. A. Mar- | | shall, John E. Nelson, James Rine icontribute 2.7 percent of the first Mrs. James Rine, Richard Harris |have been opened BULLETIN — PEARL HAR- BOR, Honolulu—Thousands of Japs perished in last week's batdle off Midway Island. This is indicated in incom- plete returns of enemy’ ship losses as revealed this after- noon by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who said that the enemy casualty list will be large, al- though as yet not determined. According to these returns, it is revealed that the enemy was pressed so hard by American forces in the fast moving action that the enemy didn’t stop to pick up survivors strewn over the sea from sinking vessels. More than 30 Jap ships com- prised the invasion fleet at Midway and Hawaii, a ing to reports received by Ad- miral Nimitz. Information so far discloses, Nimitz indicated, that probably half of the main Jap force became casualties in the first three days of fighting. More battle reports are yet to be received, Nimitz said, and added that there is no indica- tion as to when the final ac- counting or even an estimate will be available, due to the distant pursuit of the retreat- ing enemy force, Néiional (apita Months After World War (First Of A Series) BY JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, June 10 — Six months after the United States en= tered World War II. the face of the national capital looks as if it had been operated on by a plastic Sheldon AUSTRALIA, June 10. — General surgeon who missed his calling. The Union Station, nortr t of The fact that a numbe: of work-|announced that 13 Jap fighter planes the Capitol, was once editorially ers unemployed at the present time were destroyed or damaged in com- and verbally derided as a too-vast due to curtailment of iijjustry not pat yesterday over New Gumnea by building to which the District of essential to war production will ex-' Allled bombers which also started Columbia could never grow up. Now, its spacious lobby is a clutter of em: ergency ticket booths; its entrance and exit gates give a good imitation of the subway at Times Square dur- ing rush hour; and its taxi loading ianes, at peak periods, leave a| thousand or so travellers shifting | from one foot to another between | curses at the long delays. From there on north and west | through the government office and residential sections, Washington is a maze through which the inhabit- ccmplete confusion. The Mall —that broad beautiful vista that stretches from the Capi- tol's backdoor to beyond the Lin coln Memorial—is almost solidly lined with “temporary” buildings. M. P. MUNTER (0. OPENS OFFICES IN KRAFFT BLDG. Offices for the M P. Munter Ccmpany, eeneral contractors for improvement work on the Glacier Highway from Juneau to mile nine, in the Krafft Manufacturing building on Second and Franklin Streets. Work on the highway improve- ment, which is to consist of straight- ening, widening and surfacing of the road, has been going on for the last two weeks under the direc- | | spaces |, Just Six U. § Entered I, Has Changed These are two-story barns, so hastily constructed that the wiring and plumbing frequently line the exter- iors. There was no time even to give them names, and the administration with its passion for alphabetizing has merely designed them “Tempor- ary Building A, B, C, etc.” The White House has even changed. Once its grounds were as accessible as any public park. but now its iron-spiked fence is circled with sentry boxes and the between are patrolled day and night by helmeted soldiers. Its four main gates are held by the police. And for all the lights that shine there nights, it might be a deserted villa, It isn't only the original govern- ment area that has changed face either. Officlal Washington has burst its bounds and spread into the suburbs. The shadows }! the tombstones in Arlington, the most beautiful cemetery in this land, at least, reach to the vast new Army | building which, in its way, is as M8 staggering in proportions, as Rock- efeller Center. Suitland, Md., is rapidly becoming a government center. (Continued from Page Two) 'So Glad fo Be Home Is Comment of Mrs. ~ | “increased ’ “I am surely glad to get home,” was the heartfelt comment Mrs. John B. Halm made this morning! upon her arrival from Seattle where she has spent the last three weeks visiting her family and friends. “Everyone aboard the ship seemed to be in the same frame of mind Just delighted, as I was, that we were getting back to Juneau, the one place we wanted to be more than Mrs. Halm REDS, NAZIS "FIGHT FOR iFortifications Stormed But Soviets Claim No Ground Lost (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler's Headquarters asserted to- day German troops have stormed deeper into the fortifications at Sebastopol the last Soviet strong- Seeking To Minimize Midway Losses CRAFT IS | SENT DOWN INACTION | ‘Enemy Vessel Reported Off Washington Coast . Near Neah Bay 'TWO SEAMEN DEAD IN " DISASTER AT SEA held in Crimea while the Russians | said they have littered the battle- | | field with 2,500 Nazi dead in yes-| !terday’s battle alone. ! Soviet dispatches said the Red| Armies have ylelded “not a single | |line” although fighting is growing | hourly more intense, the Nazis in- cessantly attacking by land and air. | The Red Star, official newspaper, | | conceded German infantry has | | penetrated the hilly region where | |the “enemy is attempting to cap-| ture two strategic heights,” but de-| |clares the battle generally rages {at the approaches of the city with- |out any major change. | > Remainder of Crew of 60 Reach Safety Aboard Two Life Rafts WASHINGTON, June 10 — The Navy officially announced today that a United States merchant ship has been sunk by enemy sub- marine action off the Pacific Coast. One seaman died from exposuce in a lifeboat and two men are ‘n serious condition. One was crushed in his bunk about 50 feet from where the torpedo hit and another suffered from oil in his lungs. The rest of the crew of 60 reached blue-uniformed White House | | | safety aboard two life rafts lashed | together for 38 hours. '! Washington's Senator Homer T. | U. 5. TANKS e P | | Bone sald that ‘the freighter was | sunk Sunday night off Neah Bay IN A( T | 0 N |and that the information had been approved by the Navy. | Neah Bay Is at the entrance of | the Strait of Juan de Fuca be- ! IN AFRI(A‘tween Vancouver Island and the ! strait section of the State of Wash- | | ington. [British U;n_g American/ War Equipment fo | Beat Enemy TO COMBAT MENACE WASHINGTON, June 10—Secre- tary of Navy Frank Knox gave | Senators a confidential outline of |plans for combatting the submarine |menace off the coasts. The infor- (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) mation was given at a closed ses- On the North African Front to- sion of the Sub-committee of the day both German and Italian Special Senate Committee investi- communiques acknowledged Lieut. gating National Defense. Gen. Neil Ritchie’s armies, support- MR o o d ed by American made tanks and planes, are heavily counter attack- WEATHER Royal Air Force Held Down During Night Along British Headquarters said ‘the eleventh Axis Assault on Bir- Hachiem, the southern anchor of the 50-mile British defense line has 'been driven off despite the fact that Gen. Rommel's army threw .n numbers of tanks, dive bombers, infantry and artillery.” The British mobile columns are| reported hacking away steadily at! Rommel's vital supply lines west of the main battle sector around John B. Halm Today ™ - -~ DUGOUT OPEN THIS WEEK TO ENLISTED ME The American Legion Dugout, as. usual, will be open each nignt this week for the entertainment of ser- vice men during the evening. English Channel ONDON, June 10—On the Eng- |lish Channel front bad weather 'kept the Royal Air Force from taking the offensive against Ger- many and occupied German ter- ritory. tory. Last night the raiding force was grounded for the third night this | month. anywhere else,” tion of James Doyle, Superintend- Y which does not contribute, to a substantial degree, to the supply| | of the military or civil departments | FR oM WEST of the Reich. This is done under German contracts, on generous; A“D ouT IODAY terms of payment. But the money | paid by the Germanswithonehand |, iya)y in Juneau on the Star is taken from the French with the ;. 1jnes plane from Anchorage late other, in war indemnity. yesterday were Alonzo Douglas, 3. The French industries which|cariton Douglas, J. R. Hirst, Mrs. are “favored” with German orders|Evelyn W. Payne, John Payne, Mrs, are making substantial profits, but|Jjames McGinty and daughter, J their deliveries are draining the|A. Pardo and W. C. Logus. | substance of France. | The plane left early this morn-| 4. The textile industry—one of thn}ing for the return flight to Anchor- largest in France — recently com-|age with the following outgoing | pleted delivery of 1,150,000 metres ]passengers, Mrs. H. L. Price and of army cloth to Germany. The/son, Mrs. T. F. Henshaw, Major price is reported to be 130 francs|Logie, Carl E. Anderson, Mr:. B.| per metre, compared with a price| H. Stock and son, Mr. and Mrs. of only 90 francs paid by French|Walker, and Fay Stoddard. | The plane was piloted by Joe ies 1i e unocc! :::y Syifiosiiien, B 2 0 umedfMorrts and Ted Pollard was co- 5. Another major French industry, | P10t automobile manufacturing, is de-! voted almost entirely to contracts for the “occupation authorities.” In- | —_— e — — | VAN MAVERN TO SKAGWAY | A. Van Mavern, well known mer- | (Continued on Page Four) business trip to Skagway. 1 posited in the Alaska Unemploy-| ment Compensation Trust Fund to! be used for benefit payments only,| the entire administrative costs of | the Commission being financed| through grants allotted by ilw Fed- | eral Social Security Boud, Mr. Sheldon concluded. { CORNWALLLOSES IN SIXTH ROUND SEATTLE BOUT SEATTLE, June 10. — Tommy | Cornwall, former Alaska fighter, dropped a six-round decision here | last night to Jack Huber. { - eee DAIGLER TO SKAGWAY CIliff Daigler, manager of the 20th | Century Theatre, left this morning | Gross chain of theatres, SIAR plA“E I“ {83000 wages payable dnnivg the | Phillip Joseph, Ellis E. Lier, George |calendar year. Contributions are de- H. West, and M. R. Wylie. AR R S PRINCE RUPERT HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, June 10.—One hundred and twenty-one thousand pounds of halibut were sold here today for 16 to 16.20 and 14 cents a pound. oot ON i Mr. and Mrs. Donald Andrev became the parents of a daughte! at 12:50 o'clock this morning in St Ann's Hospital. The baby weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Trucano becalne the parents of a daughter at 8:05 a. m. on Tuesday in St. Ann's Hos- | pital, the baby weighing 6 pounds. H. Bert Hutchinson, Placer Lakes miner from Alaska Wind chandise broker, left today for a for Skagway in the interest of the ham Bay, has entered St. Ann's Hospital for medical care, ent of Construction anc by W. J.| Manthey, sub-contractor. Akout| twenty men are now workiuz or| clearing and straightening thc high- | way according to Charles Whyte. | time-keeper and pay roll clerk. who' has charge of the office in town. Highway work will proceed as rapidly as necessary material, ar- rives, Mr. Manthey said today. e GEORGE ALEXANDER HOME FROM SCHOOL George Alexander, son of Judge and Mrs. G. F. Alexander, arrived in Juneau today for a summer vis- st with his family. He has been attending the University of Wash- ington in Seattle and his plans for | the summer are as yet uncertain. e S HALIBUT VESSEL ARDEN SELLS TODAY | Only halibut vessel to sell in port | today was the Arden, Capt. Olaf Larsen, 14,000 pounds which sold | said. Mrs. Halm resigned her position with the Shattuck Insurance Agency prior to leaving for what was to be a month's vacation. She went south by plane and at the end of three weeks decided that she would finish her vacation in Ju- neau, where her husband is ass clated with the Columbia Lumber Company. > oo FAY STODDARD GOES TO ANCHORAGE TODAY Fay Stoddard left this morning by Star Airlines for Anchorage, he: family home, for an indefinite stay She is on leave from the Depart- ment of Unemployment Compen- sation. -+ FIREMEN PUT OUT MINOR ROOF FIRE Members of Juneau Volunteer Fire Department put out a minor roof fire in the South Willoughby American Legion Auxiliary mem- bers will act as hostesses all this week through Sunday. Tonight, however, a special party is being given at the Catholic Parish and Sunday a special party and picnic is being planned by the Chapeladies on the Highway. The Dugout be open these two evenings, how ever, > STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 10. Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 24, American Can 68's, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel 51%, Commohwealth and Southern 3/16, Curtiss Wright 6%, International Harvester 46, Kenne- cott 277%, New York Central 7': Northern Pacific 5%, United States Steel 46%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAG The following are today's Dow. to Booth Fisheries for 13.10 and|Avenue district during the noon | yones averages: Industrials, 104.19; 1110 c¢ents, hour, The damage was slight, "rails, 23.57; utilities, 12.21, 'B. Rice, HALLIE RICE HOME . FOR VISIT BEFORE GOING TO ANNAPOLIS Rice, son of Mrs. George arrived in Juneau today to spend a week or ten days at home before he reports to Annap- olis, to which he received an ap- pointment recently He has not yet received a definite date for reporting te the Uniled States Naval school, ou. was told it would be about the last ol June, after graduation there. He has just complec -’ his first year at Reed College in Oregon. - RAY PETERMAN RETURNS FROM BUSINESS TRIP Ray Peterman, Sitka contractor, _ returned today from a business trin to Seattle. He expects to continu= to his Sitka headquarters tomor- row and while in the city is stay- ing at the Gastineau Hotel, Hallie