The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 13, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1942 VOL. LIX., NO. 9060. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPS INVADE 2 ALASKA ISLES, REPORT [ 3 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OF | 'I'\ |Office of Price Administration has | Nippons Su?f_e; Heavily in Midway Battle-Other Craft Damaged i PEARL HARBOR, June 13— Japan’s attempt to invade Midway and Hawaii was broken by the fierce and skillful defense of the| fighting Americans and cost the‘ Japanese the tremendous price of three and possibly four aircraft car-| riers, hundreds of planes and prob- ably more than 10,000 men. The figures are unofficial but, are based on first hand reports of | the Midway sea battle by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. | The Admiral's communiques have | listed, besides the aircraft carriers, possibly three battleships, sunk or| damaged, eight to eleven other| warships known damaged. | Admiral Nimitz points out that| all reports are mnot in. | Commander Murr Arnold, of Kim-l berly, Idaho, leader of the carrier| borne squadrons, said the first at-| tack against a group of three air-| craft carriers was made on June 4.| “We attacked at 12 o'clock and| 10 minutes later the three carriers| were blazing from stem to stern.| These three never took part in any further air operations of the bat- tle and all were sunk within 24| hours.” ! It is estimated that two of the aircraft carriers were about 30,000 tons each and the other 20,000 tons. | " Commander Arnold “also said “Later the same day we attacked a fourth aircraft carrier and we Jeft it burning and the next morn-| ing we attacked it again. We are| pretty sure it never got back to; Japan. This 1’o.|‘|vrth carrier wa.s‘mw'J i ddstikged: I about 20,000 tons | It is said that German fighters day by ACA. . |pursued the bombers until they| Arriving JAPS BUY WAR BONDS HONOLULU—A war bond cam- paign among Japanese in Hnwniii has brought in $143,000. i — - i The Washingion! Merry - Go-Round DREW PEARSON— | ROBERT S. ALLEN | By and WASHINGTON — The President|Oregon football player and one of| office. has been given some blunt advice the survivors of the aircraft car-| Mps Nunan, whoaccompanied her to deliver a “fireside chat” to ex-|rier Lexington, said on his arrival puchand to Juneau, remaining | plain the much bemuddled mhbel'lhere that he spent one hour in the;m Juneau at the apartment they and gas situation. H The advice was given at a recent: White House conference by Donald | Nelson, Leon Henderson, Archie MacLeish and Undersecretary of War Patterson, all of whom agreed | that the people had been so con-| fused by conflicting official pro- nouncements, and that only the| President himself could clarify mat-| ters and explain why national ra-| tioning of gas is essential. | The answer to this is so simple per. That is the whole story in a ALASKA LUMBER PRICE CEILING IS LIFTED BY OP WASHINGTON, June 13 — The exempted Alaskan lumber from the universal price ceiling until Aug- just 10, Price Administrator Leon |Henderson announces, explaining !that Alaska’s lumber production is | seasonal. Said Henderson: “Under this sea- sonal pattern of production, the highest delivered prices of March, 1942, designated as the base for maximum prices in the general SPEARHEAD Siriking Power by Air, Sea| Shattered Is Belief of | U. S. Navy Men | WASHINGTON, June 13 — The Navy spckesman today suggested | that Admiral Yamamoto, Com-| WITH THE U. S. ARMY IN 'I'HE‘ the Japanese BRITISH ISLES, June 13—Thou- | his|sands of more soldiers with tanks | maximum price regulations, are not | mander-In-Chief of a satisfactory basis for maximum fleet, might have redeemed prices, and a temporary 60-day honor by committing hara Kkiri amendment will provide a means since the Emperor praised him for | THOUSANDS x OF JAPAN | OF YANKEES 15 BROKEN INENGLAND New American Forces Reach British Isles with Armored Equipment BY RICE YAHNER Associated Press Correspondent and other armored units have ar- rived ‘here escorted by United of keeping the supply of Alaskan | his great Coral Sea victory \\'hll‘hismles warships across the Atlantic lumber flowing while studies a new price ceiling on lum- ber from the Territol - —— U.S. Bombers Reporfed in Ankara Port™ """ - | Claim Mafi?]hey Have Been Attacking Axis Bases, Black Sea | the OPA failed to materialize ! Naval sources said the combined Midway and Coral Sea actions have cost the Japanese probably half of the best aircraft cafriers in service and this has broken the spearhead of the Japanese air and sea striking | power ’ The official score shows 51 Jap- anese ships have been sunk or damaged compared to four ton aircraft carrier Lexington, and ALASKA COASTAL TAKES PASSENGERS, | MAIL ON FLIGHTS Passengers returning from Sitka vesterday with Alaska Coastdl Air- LONDON, June 13—Reuters cor-!lines were Ross Hall, D. H. Dawson, | respondent in Ankara, Sea. The bombers are also believed to|with ACA from Sitka were Homer have attacked Odessa. None of the bombers appear boat opened fire. - SURVIVOR OF LEXINGTON AT SEATTLE HOME SEATTLE, June 13—Ensign Hy-| man Harris, former University of; water and was then rescued by a| destroyer. ! Shortly after being taken aboard| the destroyer, “a Iight bulb above% my head broke loose and fell on| the deck and I nearly jumped back| overboard. I thougint sure the Japs| had come back,” said Harris. —e- | SIXTY - EIGHT LEAVE ON WAY Turkish | Gus Jurgeleit, Capital City, reports tonight as man, Charles H. Johnstene, Co having seen three, United States G. F. Tinkler, Ted Johnston, T"m" Consolidated four engined bombers|ple Ginfereria, Emett Connor, Bert jon the Ankara air port after bomb- | Flotre, N. A. McEachran and Miles !ing raids on Axis bases on the Black | Price. to!and James L. Hirst, | turned back when a Turkish patrol|Capt. D. O. l William B. Sicar-| apt Others making the trip to Juneau Layton, Dick Hogg, Mrs. L. Kelly Air mail was carried both to and from Sitka Fri- | | here with ACA from| ‘reached Turkish waters and then Ketchikan were J. P. Doyle and Given. | MR. AND MRS. H. NUNAN HERE FROM KETCHIKAN H. C. Nunan, Alaska manager | for the New England Fish Com- | pany, fresh and frozen depart- ments, arrived in Juneau from his | Ketchikan headquarters this week on business for his company and left yesterday to call at the Sitka have taken at the Baranof Hotel| while Mr. Nunan is in Sitka. ARG e | PRINCE RUPERT | HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, June 13—One| hundred and nineteen thousand pounds of halibut were sold here| without incident The men are from New Jersey, Penuisylvania, Maryland, Georgia, Illincis, West. Virginia, Kentucky, California and Indiana | Twenty eight ton tanks were swung out from the holds of the transport The bands accompanying the sol- U. s.|diers blared out popular tunes as| Ships sunk, including the 33,000 the troops marched down the gang planks. First Sergeant Wallace Jennings of St. Louis and Lieut. Robert Gib- son of Charleston, West Virginia, led the men ashore. NAZIS USE RUMANIANS AS FODDER Soviets Claim 200 Killed in Futile Atfacks.in Crimea MOSCOW, June i3—Soviet troops are reported to have counter- at- tacked in the Kharkov sector after being on the defensive for 48 hours They also have levied a heavy toll of German manpower and material in the battle of Sabastopol, according to the Soviet Information Bureau. The communique said that the tremendous losses in the new Cri- mean campaign have led the Ger- mans to make “increasing use of the Rumanians as cannon fodder” and that 200 of them were Killed in four futile “psychological” attacks yesterday. Fifty Nazi tanks were destroyed and 12 damaged before Sebastopol in the attacks, according to the Russian report. Ten artillery mortar batteries also were put out of action, it says. However on neither sector did the Russians claim to have the upper hand. \ The Berlin High Command an- nounced that numerous dugouts and ortifications in the defense system| of “Sebastopol have been captured in heavy attacks and that 3600 prisoners have been taken in the last five days. | | | | | This official British photo made from an RAF reconnaissance plane shows part of the blasted business area of Cologne adjacent to the old Cathedral (upper right) after more than a thousand pl: | 3,000 tons of bombs on the old city o os* ARwini Coral : Sea LW A NEW AUSTRALI SYDNEY ~ (ologne After T ¥ TMARSHALL 15 ¥ n the Rhine. Running diagonally f Hohestrasse, described in Baedeker’s gunde book as Colegne’s busicst street. ALASKA KODIAK 15 \d ‘0 MIDWAY ... HAWAIIAN HONOLULU 3 CALEDONIA The Jap attack on Micway (bent arrow) Earlier Jap attacks—to the south in the Jap ships sank or damaged. has been smashed with many Coral Sea and te¢ the north on Dutch Harbor (broken arrows)—failed to produce (he apparenily JapAnese-desired result of pulling U. S. housqn_d - Plang Rld ATTU, KISKA TAKEN OVER BY NIPPONS Our Forces Bombing En- | f emy landing Parties, | Navy Dept. Says 'INDIAN AFFAIRS | TEACHERS THERE ;Invaders Gain Little in Oc- cupying Rocky Moun- tain Tops BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, June 13.—The Navy Department | announces that the Japanese have landed on Attu Island in the Aleutians and have put ships into Kiska Harbor, but have been repelled from populated areas by Army and Navy air- craft. The announcement said: “In- formation has just been received by the Navy Department to the effect that the Japanese have made landings on a small scale at Attu Island at the extremc tip of the Aleutian archipelagé, and Japanese ships have been reported in the harbor at Kiska in the Rat Islands group. “Japanese operations in the Aleutian area are still in prog- ress, according to information we have reteived, but continuing United States Army and Navy nes dropped rom left to top of picture is the | The famed Cathedral—the shadow of its upper stucture shows on the ground—appears to have escaped all but superficial damage, the British said. Most buildings at lower center and on right are roofless, gutted by fire. Japs Smashed af Midway LEXINGTON TORPEDOED, { regions in the islands. | American Craff Is Sunk by i iy area sre continaing ve- Own For(es '0 Pl'evenf tion against these operations, Great Loss of Life Weather conditions in the area around these outlying islands prevented air search operations SAN DIEGO, Calif’, June 13—The | United States aircraft carrier Lex- | until within the last 24 hours.” The landing on Attu followed ington was sunk by American to pedoes to prevent greater loss of | by about a week, apparently, the Japanese air raid on Dutch life after fires and internal ex- Barbor S Jungss, Rxiapvin plosions were started by the Japan- ese aftack in the Coral Sea battie reconnaissance flight a few which raged for seven and one half | hours after the first attack, Dutch Harbor, as far as is | hours. Lieut. in an interview here. | BOMBED; Comdr. Weldon L. Hamil- ton, chief of the ship’s dive bomb- | ‘lng squadron, made this statement He said: "We MANY DIE known, has not been molested further. EARLY REPORT After more than a week's silence ‘Hnuli_v had to put the Lexington on the activity of the enemy in junder by our own torpedoes. At Alaskan waters since the June 3 |least 92 percent of the personnel attack on Dutch Harbor, the Navy |was saved.” Department announced last night - - - that the Japanese have occupied { Attu and Kisza Tslands, but gave i no derails of the size of the Jap forces in occupation. 3 Just what the Japs had gained | in the way of a military nature is not clear. Attu, the western- | most bead on the Aleutian Islanas string is approximately 700 square miles in area, It has one good harbor—Chichigof where the In- that it seems fantastic that it :;::fdy SRR 12 el g a3 R forces away from the Mid-Pacific when the attack came there. Also | dian- village 6 JoRaen. - AR s hasn't been got over to the public 'l' FR'D AY foefata 5 VS SR on the above map is Attu and Kiska Islands of the Aleutians reported | s 2 . { counb thiste aeere. 46 palines: WA Tece & Dk °fie“in‘"n§f s‘ins— Sou H i B R I I I S H occupied by the Japs. Attu is under the letters E-U in the word Aleu- | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) : M,"Afifldk igih F;)m' fonees ""i‘ —e):?mbufl:::l e H.AG DAY IS Io BE Yt a1 lak I ander s Je{foRSFTT I thie ORISR, Thetwo | The Lialian HiEh OOmmnd says] s ares bt i Aris o ?:: lsThe desperfite shortage of rub-| Passengers leaving Juneau for 2 islands are about 800 miles from Dutch Harbor and 700 miles from Royal Air Force bombers have A(ri the little v‘xllage's affaira. ke ithe south late yesterday afternoon HAll NEw Japanese islands. caused great damages at PIraeus| ;... yauoht at the schooi. M. nutshell. Every responsible official in Washington, including the Presi- dent, knows this. Yet a multitude of conflicting statements have be- fuddled the public and played di- rectly into the hands of certain selfish oil interests opposed to gas rationing. This fact was politely but blunt- ly impressed on the President at the White House conference. Actually, he himself was guilty of one of the worst bemuddling state- ments—his press conference remark; that the rubber situation was be- ing exaggerated, because some sub- stitute for tires undoubtedly would be invented. This cheerio observa- tion was made exactly two days after Donald Nelson and his rub- ber experts told the press that no substitute for rubber was in sight. TELLING THE PRESIDENT The White House conferees spoke plainly, particularly Leon Henderson who has been getting most of the brickbats on gas ra- tioning. “I'm taking the rap, Mr. Presi- dent,” he said, “and personally, I Paicenld sodiiieomadh N AL SRR _ (Continyed on Page Four) were Mrs. L. Reed, Mrs. D. Reed J. Covich, F. Marshall, Harry Claw-| son, Berda Clawson, Mrs. K. Clawson | F. W. Buhrman, Miss H. Williams, Mrs. R. McGee, Kenneth McGee, B. J. Stanley, Mrs. 1. Blowers, H. G. Fairhurst, Miss M. Fair. J. S. Barnett, Everett Nowell, il E. Jones, J. Barber, Florence Maky, | J. J. Connors, Jr., Mrs. J. J. Con- nors, Jr., Jimmy Connors, Miss P.| Connors, Miss C. Nelson, F. E. Cald- | well, Miss E. Harpole, Mrs. M./ Lundquist, Miss K. Lundquist, R.| Jackson, Miss K. Carlson, Mrs. W. Glafke, Billy Glafke, G. T. Gentle, Mrs. G. T. Gentle. Leonard Berlin, Miss I. Sutton, Sister Mary Florence, B. B. Sher- man, Miss S. N. Horn, E. Cowling, H. Stabler, E. Nelson, Major W. R. Mulvihill, A. J. Hildebrand, J.| F. Johnson, Mrs. T. L. Badden,! Mrs. E. E. Ninnis, Ross Hall, J. R.| Clark, Oscar Clawson, W. McGee, G. West, L. Wande, G. Hitchens, R. Murphy, H. Wiseman, J. Cliv- ish, C. Rossier, M. G. Fallow, G. Kogstadius, R. Truitt, R. H. Clark, Miss M. Grafke, E. Harren, L. Major, William Sperman and T. H. Edward. ¥ —— - BUY DEFENSE BOND! ! i l routes. OBSERVED BY ELKS Flag Day will be observed by the Elks tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock | in the Elks Auditorium and the public is invited, The Elks ritual will be used and Col. C. F.-Baish | will give the address. | —oo——— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 13. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 68'., Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem | Steel 52!, Commonwealth and Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 6, In- | ternational Harvester 46%, Kenne- | cott 27%, New York Central 7‘/;..} Northern Pacific 5%, United States Stecl 46%, Pound $4.04. . DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, lM.Os;! rails, 2345; utilities, 12.15. | e | Public vehicles in Panama are| not permitted to operate after 11‘ o'clock p.m. without special per-| mit and then only on specified i AEF FORCE { American Forces Cross At- lantic Under Great- est of Convoys LONDON, June 13—Great Britain today hailed the arrival of the owerful i x 43 i | | LA new AEF contingent o muct pe hardly a war industrial | Appropriations and authorizations| the British Isles. The British broadcast said the contingent came with the “greatest American convoy which ever crossed the Atlantic.” The broadcast mentioned par- ticularly the armored units and al- so used the phrase “western front” \for the first time in commenting on the arrival of the AEF. — e ONE HOUR OF GRACE HONOLULU—Honolulu folk can stay out an hour later. Curfew for pedestrians has been changed from 9 to 10 p.m, What's Becom e of Defense Housing? Question Is Now Answered: BY JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, June or military center in the country | that isn't asking where is that de- | fense housing we have heard so much about? Certainly the question is being | asked here in Washington which, in spite of its staggering expan-} sion, hasn’t mushroomed like some | of the villages which have become | cities overnight. Defense housing|has been SINCE that time that alli have has been one of the chief topics | of discussion here for well over a| year, but you'll wear out good1 shoeleather trying to find any of | it. . . | The answer is simple enough. It Is Priorifies lDetense housing is caught in that 13—There |ol' debbil log jam called priorities.| for defense housing started shortly | after the same tor guns, tanks and| too! |armored forces are reported to have| more than nine | made a thrust on Acroma 10 miles| except perhaps for one or two In- the British com-|dians acting as caretakers for a “how- fox farm there. remain por, vlanes. then it was late. It is only a little But by months ago that the old OPM is- d its first authorization for 300,- sue 000 defense housing units. And it the shortages in materials become critical. According to Sullivan W. Jones chief of WPB housing prioriti (Comlnu’od on Ps;ge Three) and 36 persoms were killed and 28 Jones was the assistant tescher and injuned, operated the Indian Affairs racdc | ,me“n authoritatively repor ation as well as being the offl- that RAF reconnaissance Pplanes| ..., weather reporter for the far- ‘v|-rupped bombs on several points in flung outpost. Germany at daylight yesterday. | Attu Is Rocky | A o 4 Y0 Attu, like most of the Aleutian Islands has a rocky volcanic ter- ‘ram. It has no trees, no bushes-— | . only grass and dwarf shrubs as | vegetation. There is no wildlife | ofher than a iew blue fox and inii- { wARFARE IS lions of sea birds that nest in the 1mck)' coast. A few sea lions, sea otters haunt the island’s shores, CAIRO, June ~Gen. west of Tobruk munnique says this morning . aver all of our positions {intact.” - . WEATHER REPORT e Temperature. Friday, June 12 e Maximum 58, Minimum 50 KEEPING UP Rommel’s| from Attu to Dutch Haroor. but great schools of fish—codfish and Atka mackerel, provide plenty of food for the inhabitants, It is approximately 1,000 miles Kiska has no native population It has a fine har- Bad Weather It is believed that-the Jap forces have been in occupation of the ® lislands for several days, but poor ® | weather, the Navy reported, kept _'<Comlm;d‘our P;g; Three)