The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9058. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. NAVAL UNITS SENT TO AID BRITISH Two Jap Fleets Defeated In Midway Gas Masks for Defense Workers FLIERS GIVE DESCRIPTION OF BATTLE Flying Eortrges, Bomb- | ers Attack Transports and Armada JAPS GET BIGGEST DEFEAT IN HISTORY ”Greatersmthan World Series” Say Army Plane Pilots ( | | | | ] | | | | INATIS OPEN NEW SOVIET CAMPAIGNS - Start Threefl—shes at Ma- ' jor Points in Rus- ' sian Territory Hurl Powerful Forces Info Kharkov and Mur- mansk Sectors AGAINST SEBASTOPOL | PEARL HARBOR, June 11.— | Dramatic new accounts of the bat- | tle of Midway revealed today by - MOSCOW, June 11—Germany's army and air forge are increasing the pressure along the entire front, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz tell the story of how American Flying Fort- resses and other United States forces ‘ broke up two huge Japanese fleets | and beat off an attack by 180 | enemy planes, saving the Hawaiian Islands from invasion. | Admiral Nimitz said that perhaps | half of the enemy ships were sunk or damaged in the three-day battle. ‘ Japan suffered the greatest naval | disaster in history, Nimitz said. | Thousands of Japs must have per- ished, left to drown by their ship- mates, in flight before” the Amer- icans. | Lost Contact Saturday | The battle ended on Saturday and the Unted States forces lost contact | with the enemy in the darkness. | “It was a better show than the | (Contin ued on 'Puiger six) 7The>Wz;shingion; Merry - Go-Round e | By DREW PEARSON— and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — Thousands of determined women, eager to don the WAAC uniform, are driving WAAC officials wacky. The campaign for enlistments in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps has succeeded too well. ~Major Oveta Culp Hobby and her chief lieutenants, Mrs. Arthur Woods and Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, have a bear by the tail anpl they know it. Sad truth is that there cannot possibly be more than 500 WAAC officer-candidates taken in now. No “auxiliaries,” that isr non-offi- cer WAAC's, can be recruited un- til the officers have been trained, possibly around September 15. The greatest number of WAAC’s that can be taken in this, year is esti- mated at 25,000, and all of these will be subjected to a minimum cf four weeks’ training. This leaves some 275,000 disappointed would-be WAAC's out of an estimated reg-{ istration of 300,000 Toughest job of all falls upon the chief recruiting officers in the nine Army Corps areas. It is their job to sort out the WAAC registrants and select the !lucky women. ‘Those chosen then must face a series of very stiff aptitude tests and physi- cal examinations before they are finally inducted. CAPTURED JAP SWORD 1t looks as if the sulphuric per-| sonal relations between Philippine President Quezon and Philippine | High Commissioner Francis Sayre| will have to be toned down a bit for the sake of Philippine unity. TWENTYVEAR | YACHT HARBOR LOO takes her turn on the lookout tower to check fellow skippers of Santa Monica, Calif., Yacht club a: attacking at three major points. They are opening a new ing whole divisions against sieged Sebastopol and battering Murmansk from the air. Dispatches frem the battlefronts i KOU T—_Lovely Beverly Platt e are getting their summer campaign PACT AMONG ALLIES ASKED England and Russia Sign Agreement-Negoia- tionson in U. §. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russia and Britain have signed a 20-year mutual assistance treaty,( s they sail in the yacht harbor. $ md o g ¢ junder way, roliing into a larger e e —————— | ceale action after being held back in thrusis for almost six months, Mololov Ta: Russian News Agency, te- ported that at Sebastepol, the Ger- mans have attacki the last 24 hours, hurling power- ful for into the fight, but the | dispatch said that “despite the in- tensity and stubborness of the at- itackh, the enemy has failed to break |the resistance of the Sebastopol defenders.” e e —— SEBASTOPOL IS TAKEN BY ed repeatedly for CONFERS WITH FDR White House Reveals Im-| portant Conversation, Russiaand U.S. | WASHINGTON, June 11—Presi- dent Roosevelt and V. M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Affairs Minister push from Kharkov in the Ukraine, hurl- be- | suggest that the Germans at last| | | | shipment of masks arrived from the Office of Civilian Defense. gas masks from the OCD for firemen, police and air raid wardens. Break Jail af Anchordge; Modern Methods Used Many By Deputy in Recaplure ANCHORAGE. Alaska, June 11 Deputy U. 8. Marshal Oscar Olson announced today how he foilea with airplanes and autos the spec- tacular escape of two Federal prisoners from the Federal jail here The two are Richard Hoolman, held on a charge of rape, and Frank Gil- lette, convicted of bigamy and fac- ing a two year term at McNeil's Island, The prisoners tunneled through the jail floor and escaped a week ago, but the escape was kept secret Officers learned that the pair was accompanied by a 16-year-old girl 'd peaks toward Copper Center and the Richardson highway which| might give them access to the in- terior, | Olson chartered a plane to Dry Sreek, then took an auto north and salmly waited on the Richardson nighway at a point where he was sure they would emerge. t When the trio appeared, their s torn, swollen from mosquito tired and hungry from the trip, they didn't resist oites, 114-mile arrest. Olson took them to the jail al! Valdez and then flew home. The| it was revealed today, and the|and Vice Premier, according to a news that Russia’s Foreign Mims.EWhile House announcement, have“ ter V. M, Molotov has come to the reached a “full understanding” in U. S. after negotiations in London |conversations in regard to the ur- AXIS, CLAIM |1led to the speculation that he might |be arranging a similar pact with the United States. | | capt. Anthony Eden said today| |that the pact was signed on May | 26, He said the pact is directed | |against “Hitlerite Germany” and |that the - signatory powers have | | pledged themselves to rebuild Post| War Europe on the designs of the| famous Atlantic Charter signed by Rocsevelt and Churchill. | The pact provides for “common| action to preserve the peace and | resist aggression in the Post War| period.” | ! It pledges the naticns not to en—!’ |ter into any negotiations with the| | Hitler regime or any German gov- ernment which fails to renounce | aggression. | Japan is not | treaty. | Eden’s disclosure that Molotov) | has been in Washington is accom- | panied by the comment that the| | Soviet Commissar has held “mpost| | useful and satisfactory talks with| |the President of the United States.” | — .- — mentioned in the . STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, June 11 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 2%, American Can| 68%, Anaconda 237, Bethlehem Commonwealth Trouble between them started the!steel 517%, and | day President Quezon landed in San | outhern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 6, In- Francisco, at which time he tele- ternational Harvester 46%, Kennz- phoned long distance to a former | cott 277%, New York Central 7i, Governor General of the Philippines Northern Pacific 5, United States now in Washington. isteel 467, Pound $4.04. “Governor,” said Quezon, | sword, my sword!” | «What sword?” was the puzzled “my | DOW, JONES AVERAGES E The following are today’s Dow, industrials 104.50, | qguery. | Jones averages: wThat Japanese sword the High rails 2341, utilities 12.23. | Commissioner gave to President ——————————— Roosevelt, He said it was from| Each year a selected group of cArthur, but it was fron | Gl M g, Qe 15 % younger officers of the U. S. Navy me. One of our Philippine officers took it from a dead Japanese, and :t (Continued Oll_ P;QE Four) MITOURHOUL re ordered to post graduate work, leading engineering schools; | Lue couulry. | National gent task of creating a second front | German Armles Reponed in Europe in 1942. 1 H The White House disclosed that tOBIHaI:escapfiuredl E.OVIe' Molotov has visited this country. | adi | The statement from the White| ea ava ase House gives no additional details| BERI s or] of the second front nor says de“n_lMxlitar’;‘NvH‘i:geu;:Lers Th:n;fi::“h-l: itely whether a second front will| o 4 |that the German armies have be opened immediately or not. 2 5 k 3 | pressed a violent assault on the The President and Molotov, the goyjet key Black Sea naval bas: White H,”me sltsl.en}cnt flu‘lht'l"a! Sebastopol and later announce said, reached unity views ‘on two | the capture of the strategic post other vital questions pertaining to| mne Nazi headquarters also an- var efforts and “measures of in-|younce success in the north Afri- creasing and speeding up supplies,| oan campaign planes and tanks and other kinds ey of war materials from the United | DENIAL BY RUSSIA States to Russia, Plans for settling| MOSCOW, June 11—It is admit- fundament:’ problems and »_also €0-|ted the Germans have made re- cperation of (o 'S(met, Union a““?peat,ed attacks on Sebastopol dur- U. 8 in 5“[95“"“““’ psace and jng the past 24 hours hurling pow- security of freedon: loving pPeoples|erful forces on the naval base but after the war, were made. e — of the attacks, the enemy failed to break the resistance Five Spies s Indidedby CIGARETTE Grand Jury TAXRAISE German - A“m—erican Bund| IN OFH“G Leader, Russian Fascist Included in Group ixWays and Means Commit- | fee Suggest Seven HARTFORD, Conn., June 11 —| Cent Levy The Federal Grand Jury sitting' here has indicted Gerhard Kunze,! WASHINGTON, June 11 — The German-American Bund House Ways and Means Committee leader; Anastase Vonsiatsky, head has decided to increase the Federal of the All-Russian Fascist party,!Tax on cigarettes from six to seven and three others for conspiracy to cents a package in order to raise violate the espionage act and fur- another $65,000,000. nishing military and defense in-' P formation to Germany and Japan, BUY DEFENSE STAMPS {“despite intensity and stubbornness! that they hitchhiked to Palmer, then hiked up the dusty mountain highway to Chickaloon, thence tak- ing off through the mosquito infest- :apture was a contrast, to the oldi Alaska police method involving the | use of Indian trackers and some- | times, dog teams and long hikes.| ChangeslisFace, Facesin | Washinglon Also Change (Second In A Series) BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jun2 11--Consld- |ering the days since Pearl Harbor (one is tempted to make a phrase ADVENTISTS T0 GET LAND AT and s: “Just as Washington ha ' "‘ |changed its face in the last six | montbs, so has it changed its i | faces.” . . o | That is superficial observaton. It Presldent SIgnS BI" Auih- is true that nearly 120000 new workers have come to the capital Ofiling Sale ai $1,25 lsincv Deceraber 7—(and what may Per A(fe | be startling news, more than 50,000 |of these have gone home again) (But it is also true that few of e \ these, high or low, nave made any WASHINGTON, June 11 — The|jasting impression so far on the President has signed a bill author-|war effort. izing the Department of the In- terior to sell 40 acres of land in the Bristol Bay section to the North Pacific Union Conference of the As- sociation of Seventh Day Adven- With exception of Donald Nelson, chief of the War Production Board,! and Joseph B. Eastman, coordina-| tor of transportation, most of the Several hundred defense workers try on gas masks usder instruction of Army officers at Seattle, after a West Coast cities have received :‘V” Fleet Button President Roosevelt Introduced by President Roose- velt on the eve of Maritime Day, the Victory Fleet button, shown on his coat lapel, becomes an offi- cial badge of more than 1,500,000 shipyard and factory workers who are helping build vitally-needed cargo ships. The badge features a silver eagle perched on a blue anchor against a red background. BIR-HACHEIM CAPTURED BY AXIS FORCES Hitler's Cofiand Makes Announcement-British Statement Issued (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Fight BIG FORCE T0 HELP IN BLOCKADES Join Engl?s“h_ to Protect Russia’s Arctic Sup- ply Routes WILL KEEP NAZI SHIPS IN PORT Strength of Fleet Is Not Known Yet-Can Cope with Hitler's Best BULLETIN—Lendon, June 11 —Powerful United States Naval have joined the British home fieet in the task of block- ading the Germans, protecting the vital Allied shipping lanes and preventing Hitler's might- iest warships from joining the battle of the Atlantic. The American Naval forces, whose arrival was announced today, apparently are sufficient- ly strong to cope with the Ger- man super-battleship Tirpitz and the cruiser Admiral Hip- per and other lesser craft, should they venture forth from the Norwegian bases where for weeks they have constituted potential threats to Russia's Arctic supply line. TOKYOADMITS TWOCARRIERS LOST IN FIGHT i i ‘ | | [Naval Expe?tflaims Great | Success in Pacific Battle TOKYO, June 1l1-—Japan's lead- ing civillan naval expert, Masanori Ito, said today “In view of the great success” of the Japanese battle in the Pacific, “we shouldn’t be dis- appointed at the loss of two air- craft carriers. “The gain is far greater than their loss.” This is the first authorititative sug- | gestion from Tokyo that two Navy carriers as officially claimed by the U. 'S. have been lost. It represented |@ shift from the Tokyo former ad- mission that one was gunk and an- other seriously damaged. .. Australians Warned of New Atfack Army Minister Tells Coun- try Japan Will Strike Back Soon ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 1l1—Australian units ings Bonds and Stamps. ) prominent workers in the war vine- vard have been carrying the hod around here for a good many years. Nelsoni certainly is the No. 1 “new face” in Washington. Since Pearl Harbor, the staggering bur-| den of the entire production pro-; gram has been on the husky shoulders of the genial former mail order house executive and although there is plenty of bluster and blame tists at $1.25 an acre. - e GOVERNOR 1S BACK FROM TRIP SOUTH Gov. Ernest Gruening returned to Juneau last night after a flying trip to several cities in Southeast Al- aska on official business. about details in the program, very ——————— | little of it has been aimed at Nel-| |son and that has been far out- Don't play into the hands of the enemy by wasteful spending. Put every penny you can into War Sav- | weighed by the credit for general iw“m% and accomplishments | lcdntlnbéd.bh Page Six) \ | On the African front, Hitler's ang allied airmen iisted a Jap sub command asserts that Axis troobs anq a numbeér of grounded planes have captured Bir-Hacheim, the as fresh victims in the southwest southern anchor of the 50-mile de-|pgaifie operations, but Australians fense line. |are being warned that another at- The British declared in an Of'\lack is probable, ficial statement the Free French| aymy Minister Forde expressed defenders have beaten off a new p. belief that “we must be even serles of German attacks on Key!sponoer defensively. He said “No outposts. one knowing Japan's military - lstre:w(h would be fooled into be= . The Bureau of Yards and Docks|lieving that she will accept the is charged with all that relates tn;Corfll Sea and Midway reverses thie design, construction and main-|Wwithout hitting back. tenance of the U. S. Navy's public| - works. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS D